[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 12:34:36 PDT

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    Here are some more URL's.  Thanks to everyone who contributed.
    
    RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html
    
    
    war 
    
    Al Qaeda: One Year On
    http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jid/jid020905_1_n.shtml
    
    Why We Fight America
    (al-Qaeda spokesman)
    http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=SP38802
    
    interviews with people who knew Mohammad Atta
    http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/atta/interviews/
    
    "why do they hate us?"
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,788470,00.html
    
    How the US Helped Osama's Family Leave the Country After 9/11
    http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york091102.asp
    
    another enterprising 9/11 conspiracy site
    http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0208/S00068.htm
    
    Islamists in Morocco
    http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jiaa/jiaa020906_1_n.shtml
    
    War Without Evidence
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59592-2002Sep9?language=printer
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10645-2002Sep12?language=printer
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/international/middleeast/11IRAQ.html?pagewanted=print
    
    an argument from actual evidence that Iraq war talk is political
    (presumably it has several motivations)
    http://www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?custid=67&catid=1104
    
    more on the administration's claims of self-defense against Iraq
    http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020910_fletcher.html
    
    Iraq War Hawks Have Plans to Reshape Entire Mideast
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/253/nation/Iraq_war_hawks_have_plans_to_reshape_entire_MideastP.shtml
    
    US Labeling of Group in China as Terrorist Is Criticized
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/13/international/asia/13CHIN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Chemical Weapons Program Could Be Improved and Expanded
    http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02890.pdf
    
    The War on Terror on Earth, in Orbit and in the Future
    http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/911_space_war_020911.html
    
    No Northern Command Without the National Guard, New Chief Says
    http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2002/n09102002_200209102.html
    
    The Day of the Attack
    http://www.time.com/time/world/printout/0,8816,174655,00.html
    
    what happened to the businesses in the World Trade Center
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/nationchallenged/11TOWE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    issues uninvestigated from the 1993 WTC attack, and from 2001
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/nationchallenged/11CRIT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    kindness from our friends in Britain
    http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/001943.html#001943
    
    conservatives and liberals fighting uselessly about patriotism at Berkeley
    (from reading these two pieces it's impossible to tell what the facts are)
    http://www.calpatriot.org/issueupdate/911.html
    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/living/education/4015313.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    
    civil security and liberties
    
    Reexamining Civil Liberties Since September 11th
    http://www.lchr.org/aftersept/loss/report.htm
    
    Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms
    http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020923&s=cole
    
    The USA Patriot Act in Practice: Shedding Light on the FISA Process
    http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/
    
    complete set of FISA Annual Reports since 1979
    http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/index.html#rept
    
    postal service trying to secure against bioterrorism
    (tracking individual letters)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/10/science/10POST.html?pagewanted=print
    
    "facial recognition technology's troubled past -- and troubling future"
    http://www.reason.com/0210/fe.dk.face.shtml
    
    Radar Flashlight for Through-the-Wall Detection of Humans
    http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/res-news/SPFlash.htm
    
    administration preparing a "national strategy" on cyber security
    http://www.gcn.com/research_results/cybersecurity1.html
    
    "a centralized source for reviewing e-mail relating to cyber security"
    http://ecommerce.internet.com/how/tk/print/0,,10366_1451481,00.html
    
    more funding for security-related computing applications after September 11th
    http://gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcn2&story.id=19923
    
    Microsoft Windows XP Help Center Request Wipes Your Hard Drive
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27074.html
    
    Customers Blame Spam on Filched Lists
    (it's time to take the worst-offending countries offline, starting with Korea)
    http://news.com.com/2102-1023-957567.html
    
    "drive-by spamming" article is not true
    (it could happen, but nobody's claiming it has)
    http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2002/09/05#1031251800
    http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2002/09/06#1031359200
    
    US Agency Seeks to Keep Energy Plant Info Secret
    http://www.planetark.org/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=17675
    http://www.ferc.gov/news/pressreleases/sept5critical.pdf
    
    Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute
    http://www.cbaci.org/
    
    Aerogels Could Make Buildings Stronger
    http://ens-news.com/ens/sep2002/2002-09-11-09.asp#anchor5
    
    September 11th Pushes Firms to Suburbs
    http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/after_sept11/
    
    Critics: INS Roundup Targeted Immigrants, Not Terrorists
    (whatever the merits, it's an example of their thoroughness)
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1572878
    
    little progress on standardization of radio for emergency workers
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62641-2002Sep10?language=printer
    
    Court Allows Greek Gamers to Play On
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2249656.stm
    
    
    corruption
    
    legal actions against former Tyco executives
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/tyco/tycokozlowski91202cmp.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/tyco/nykozlowski91202ind.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/sec/uskozlowski91202cmp.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/tyco/nybelnick61202ind.pdf
    http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1030821213567
    
    indictments of three British bankers involved with an Enron off-shore entity
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/enron/usbrmnghm91202ind.pdf
    
    Probe of Enron Internet Division Deepens
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1573012
    
    Ex-CEO's Well Paid for "Consulting"
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/807472.asp
    
    Employment and Post-Retirement Consulting Agreement Between GE and Jack Welch
    http://contracts.corporate.findlaw.com/agreements/ge/welch.emp.1996.12.20.html
    
    Congress referring the Martha Stewart case to the Justice Department
    (holding hearings on this was silly)
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/mstewart/encmrc91002dojltr.pdf
    
    one of Bill Simon's ethical problems has disappeared
    (I carried it, so I guess I should carry its somewhat odd overturning)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10533-2002Sep12?language=printer
    
    IRS Sets Secret Trap to Catch Fat Cats Who Cheat on Taxes
    (forgetting all about the fraudulent House hearings on the IRS in Fall 1997)
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/13/MN169009.DTL&type=printable
    
    
    politics
    
    voting problems in Florida an old story: buy hardware, ignore everything else
    (Jeb: "What is it with Democrats having a hard time voting -- I don't know")
    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=sfl%2D910problemcounties
    http://www.sptimes.com/2002/09/11/news_pf/State/What_a_mess.shtml
    http://www.naplesnews.com/02/09/florida/d827770a.htm
    http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/news/local/4054538.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/politics/11FLOR.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62468-2002Sep10?language=printer
    
    good discussion of the Florida problems by Rebecca Mercuri
    http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.24.html#subj1
    http://www.ecotalk.org/Dr.RebeccaMercuriComputerVoting.htm
    
    Florida Vote Foul-Up Puts Reform Onus on Congress
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Dvote12sep12005037
    
    more on Katherine Harris' removal of innocent citizens from the FL voting rolls
    http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=167&row=0
    
    Voter Anger Places Incumbents at Risk
    http://www.thehill.com/issues/091102/voter.shtm
    
    more on the Orwellian campaign to erase the concept of "privatization"
    (a strategy of blurring issues to place them beyond rational thought)
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0202.html#0912021005pm
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10524-2002Sep12?language=printer
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A10534-2002Sep12?language=printer
    
    anti-Social Security propaganda reaches new depths
    http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/09/tapped-s-09-09.html#1230pmbias
    
    jargon watch: study the bizarre "evidence" in this attack on John Kerry
    (you know what's happening: he's trying new attack messages, facts to follow)
    http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020603&s=crowley060302
    
    as the smears propagate, they are continually revised and expanded
    (until, facts or no, they fit with the approved partisan "strategies")
    http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_09_08_archive.html#85434019
    
    sanitizing White House transcripts
    http://ajr.org/article_printable.asp?id=2620
    
    
    conferences
    
    Media, Technology, and Social Change, Boston, 20-21 September 2002
    http://www.ltc.org/gbbn/techconf/
    
    Open Source Content Management, Berkeley, 25-27 September 2002
    http://www.oscom.org/conferences/berkeley2002/
    
    LaborTech, New York, 26-28 September 2002
    http://www.laborsvoiceslabortech.org/
    
    Media Arts and Culture, Seattle, 2-5 October 2002
    http://www.pullfocus.org/
    
    Infopolitics, Electronic Media and Democracy, Vienna, 3-4 October 2002
    http://darkmarkets.t0.or.at/
    
    Autonomous Media, Tucson, 3-6 October 2002
    http://www.consensus.net/autonomousmedia.html
    
    Developing Country Access to Online Scientific Publishing, Trieste, 4-5 October 2002
    http://www.ictp.trieste.it/ejournals/meeting2002/
    
    Rural Telecommunications Congress, Des Moines, 6-9 October 2002
    http://ruraltelecon.org/RTC02/
    
    Race and New Media Technologies, Los Angeles, 11-13 October 2002
    http://www.annenberg.edu/race/
    
    Advancing the Research Agenda on Open Source, Brussels, 14 October 2002
    http://merit0227ts49.unimaas.nl/FLOSS/workshop/
    
    Africa in the Information and Technology Age, Washington, 5-8 December 2002
    http://www.africanstudies.org/asa_papercalltheme.html
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    P2P Swamps Broadband Networks
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/27092.html
    
    Motions Filed in Morpheus Peer-to-Peer Case
    http://www.eff.org/effector/HTML/effect15.28.html
    
    analysis of the music industry and music downloads
    http://www.bricklin.com/recordsales.htm
    
    more on content control built into Intel devices
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27065.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    claims about environmental dangers of nanotech
    (I have no idea)
    http://www.rafi.org/documents/Comm_NanoMat_July02.pdf
    
    US Study Says All Clones Genetically Abnormal
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&u=/nm/20020911/sc_nm/science_clones_dc&printer=1
    
    financial services firms trying to force instant messaging standards
    http://news.com.com/2102-1023-957787.html
    
    researcher discovers first known "smiley" -- arrest warrant issued
    http://news.com.com/2102-1023-957817.html
    http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html
    
    the FBI's files on MAD Magazine
    ("the entire magazine is 'too cleverly' filled with Communistic intent")
    http://www.collectmad.com/fbi/FBI-MAD-Bufiles.htm
    
    archaeologists mystified at ancient hominids who discarded their tools
    (as opposed to us, who have evolved far beyond primitive disposable culture)
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2002/leicester_2002/2254139.stm
    
    What Can Economists Learn From Happiness Research?
    (no, really)
    http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/law_econ/workingpapers/PDFpapers/Frey&Stutzer.pdf
    http://www.iew.unizh.ch/wp/iewwp015.pdf
    
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