[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 09:34:01 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
    
    
    Iraq
    
    Bush speech
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html
    
    Detailed Analysis of October 7th Speech by Bush on Iraq
    http://www.accuracy.org/bush/
    
    Doubt Among US Officials: Some Say Administration Is Exaggerating Threat
    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/4236333.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    Iraq War Crimes Dossiers in Works
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Dwarcrimes6oct06004454§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection
    
    "why America's intelligence agencies just can't seem to get along"
    (the bigger conflict is between the intelligence agencies and the party line)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/817647.asp
    
    interview with a German expert on human rights in Iraq
    http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=215930
    
    quotes from J. William Fulbright on the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
    http://www.presentdanger.org/commentary/2002/0209arrogance.html
    
    US Misuse of the United Nations
    http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=19185
    
    Iraqi letter to the UN claiming to oppose terrorism
    http://daccess-ods.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N02/586/28/PDF/N0258628.pdf?OpenElement
    
    information on Iraq
    http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/iraq.htm
    
    more bias at the Washington Post
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45771-2002Oct4?language=printer
    
    newspaper's readers want more war debate
    http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/columns/ombudsman/story/4687326p-5704731c.html
    
    armies of pundits attacking Gore for his Iraq dissent
    (which would be fine (a) if they made sense, and (b) Gore had pundit defenders)
    http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/100802a.html
    http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh100802.shtml
    
    liberals will keep losing until they answer some basic questions
    (such as: what is conservatism, and what is wrong with it?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/opinion/06FRIE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    war
    
    "research and facts about biological weapons and biotechnology"
    http://www.sunshine-project.org/
    
    review of a book on the decline of Islamism
    http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n14/print/hard01_.html
    
    article about outbreaks of smallpox
    http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n17/print/penn01_.html
    
    US "Has Nuclear Hit List"
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/americas/1864173.stm
    
    US Solidiers Get Talking Translators
    http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Northeast/10/06/handheld.translator.ap/
    
    The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/1006/cuba.htm
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    study the "evidence" presented for denouncing a college student as a terrorist
    (and then jumping immediately to vast, ugly generalizations about campuses)
    http://www.campus-watch.org/pf.php?id=195
    
    protesters in Oregon kept behind a fence as Bush spoke to supporters
    http://www.buckleyforcongress.com/News.asp?NewsID=16
    
    mass arrest of innocent people at American political demonstrations
    (this same tactic has become routine throughout the country)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42867-2002Oct4?language=printer
    
    Armey Seeks Provision in Bill to Punish Hometown Paper
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56456-2002Oct7?language=printer
    
    article about abuse of automatic toll collection records
    (this is the first such article I've seen)
    http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-toll07.html
    
    more on the fingerprinting of shoppers in Colorado
    http://www.thedenverchannel.com/den/news/stories/news-169808620021002-081058.html
    
    similar program in Texas
    http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/3976347.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
    
    details on the Belgian ID card
    (important because of the precedent it would set across Europe)
    http://www.ubizen.com/c_about_us/2_public_relations/2002/020927_e.html
    http://www.rijksregister.fgov.be/rrn_fr/cccie/CDCFABRICATIONCID__def_F100402.pdf
    
    testimony against the Consumer Privacy Protection Act of 2002, HR 4678
    (it doesn't protect consumer privacy at all)
    http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/hr4678testimony_92402.html
    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.4678:
    
    Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors
    http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html
    
    United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
    http://www.uscirf.gov/prPages/pr0137.php3?scale=1024&SID=5417c52cc1981eff191b80659cec5c59
    
    Nigerian Militias Wield Power Through Intimidation
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/06/international/africa/06NIGE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    US Trails Virginia Muslim Money, Ties
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52054-2002Oct6?language=printer
    
    Report Calls for Plan of Sharing Data to Prevent Terror
    (sharing data is harder than it sounds -- does anyone have a URL for this?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/national/07HOME.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Law Bars a National System for Tracing Bullets and Shells
    (bullets have more rights than people)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/national/07GUNS.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Microsoft: Users Must Pay for Security
    (I'm sorry I called them despicable -- I couldn't think of a stronger word)
    http://news.zdnet.co.uk/cgi-bin/uk/printerfriendly.cgi?id=2123526&tid=269
    
    
    politics
    
    hilarious development in the New Jersey ballot controversy
    (read this, then pity the people who are raging as the radio tells them to)
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/oct0201.html#100602137am
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/oct0201.html#1004021236am
    
    Republican brief to the Supreme Court in the New Jersey ballot dispute
    (the Supreme Court declined to hear it without comment)
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/torricelli/frstrnjusct100302rq.pdf
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128695126
    
    Governor Jeb Plays Rough
    http://www.sptimes.com/2002/10/06/news_pf/Columns/The_governor_plays_ro.shtml
    http://www.floridacapitalnews.com/campaign/stories/1003classsize.htm
    
    WSJ mocks the Wash. Post for mentioning the diversity of the sniper's victims
    (notice the headline on the piece, falsely insinuating anti-white male bias)
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110002386
    
    Massive Salmon Kill Stokes Water-Management Conflict in California
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51795-2002Oct6?language=printer
    
    
    corruption
    
    Ex-Official of WorldCom Pleads Guilty to Fraud
    ("following orders that originated 'at the highest levels' of the company")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/business/08TELE.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128699990
    
    shut WorldCom down
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/opinion/08SIDA.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Financial Oversight of Enron
    http://news.findlaw.com/wsj/docs/enron/senenron100702rpt.pdf
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/front/1606260
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51753-2002Oct6?language=printer
    
    investigating Enron's bankers
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128692481
    
    accounting industry trying to undermine new accounting standards board
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/opinion/08KRUG.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/01/business/01ACCO.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/04/business/04ACCO.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/08/business/08SEC.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    intellectual property
    
    papers relating to open source software
    (in legal, organizational, and economic directions, respectively)
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/shah.pdf
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/neff-stark.pdf
    http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/osorio.pdf
    
    more on shrinkwrap licenses to prevent reverse engineering of software
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128694823
    
    documentary about Linux
    http://www.revolution-os.com/
    
    full set of documents in the Eldred copyright-extension case
    (scroll down)
    http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/docket/2002/october.html
    
    Alternative Weeklies Divide Turf
    (how is this market-dividing deal legal?)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/business/media/07PAPE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    everything else
    
    some media are calling the west coast dock lockout a "strike"
    http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/business/1605458
    
    Report: Doctors Must Advise Automakers on Emergency Response Systems
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=562&u=/ap/20021007/ap_on_hi_te/emergency_technologies_1&printer=1
    
    Global Crash Fears as German Bank Sinks
    (uh, what's going on with this?)
    http://www.observer.co.uk/economy/story/0,1598,805683,00.html
    
    Man Leads Machine in Chess Duel
    (first I'd heard of this -- does anyone have details?)
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992892
    
    radio stories about the search for the origin of the burrito (1998)
    (search for "burrito" in each page to find the audio clip)
    http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980702.atc.html
    http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980717.atc.html
    http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980903.atc.html
    http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980731.atc.html
    http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/980812.atc.html
    
    "wassup with CNN putting hip-hop phrases into its on-screen graphics?"
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/07/business/media/07CNN.html?pagewanted=print
    
    what happens when you throw a big chunk of sodium into a lake
    (don't try this at home)
    http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Stories/011.2/
    
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