Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: William Parker Trio, And William Danced Iraq war authority votes http://www.senate.gov/legislative/vote1072/vote_00237.html http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2002&rollnumber=455 Quietly, US Adds Thousands of Forces to Gulf in Case Bush Decides on War http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20021014-1107-us-gulfbuildup.html Divergent Views on Military Action http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14392.pdf http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14391.pdf http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14389.pdf http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/14390.pdf analysis of Canadian policy on Iraq http://makeashorterlink.com/?M1A625912 more on the oil connection http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021007&s=klare Film Probes German-Iraq Nuclear Link http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021014/D7MLEG9G3.html The Cheney Plan for Iraq: Chop It Up and Give Away the Pieces (I have *no* idea of the reliability of this -- it's just interesting) http://onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Conover100302/conover100302.html German analysis of the US war "debate" http://www.spiegel.de/politik/debatte/0,1518,217953,00.html GOP Candidate's Antiwar Vote Proves Popular (unilaterialism, like impeachment, is press and politicians versus the people) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/politics/campaigns/13DIST.html?pagewanted=print Support for Attacking Iraq Begins to Wane Across the US http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/war_opposition021014.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=676&ncid=716&e=21&u=/usatoday/20021014/ts_usatoday/4531507 Why Liberals Should Support the War http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021021&s=chait102102 Conservative Christians Biggest Backers of Iraq War (is there a poll of how many think the Iraq war will bring on Armageddon?) http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1010-02.htm Rush Limbaugh once again broadcasts pure speculation about an opponent (easily found to be without value by anyone who cared about truth) http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_10_13_archive.html#85562226 Slate "journalist" runs a false attack memo (and when it's pointed out, slimes the people who were right) http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh101702.shtml new depths of illogic among the warlike http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh101502.shtml war Civilian Sales of Military Sniper Rifles http://www.vpc.org/graphics/snipcov2.pdf http://talkingpointsmemo.com/oct0202.html#101202500pm Ari Fleischer blames liberals for the Washington sniper http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37795-2002Oct16?language=printer Time to Take On America's Haters http://www.msnbc.com/news/820736.asp Rumsfeld's Style Roils Pentagon http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=73985 Pentagon infighting over air support for ground troops http://www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0210130421oct13 GAO: Commercial Satellite Security Should Be More Fully Addressed http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02781.pdf How the War on Terrorism Is Shrinking Congressional Powers http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/dean/20021011.html Pakistan's Elite Gravitate Toward Islamic Religious Parties (you'll recall that pundits mocked those who predicted this) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/international/asia/13STAN.html?pagewanted=print http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1015/p06s01-wosc.htm Plastic Explosive Clue in Bali Bombing http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2329189.stm Australian newspaper's articles about the bombing in Bali http://www.smh.com.au/specials/Bali/ Green Berets Move Into Colombia's Oil Fields http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/12/wcolom12.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/10/12/ixworld.html more details on US biological weapons tests in the 1960's http://starbulletin.com/2002/10/09/news/story1.html http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Oct/10/ln/ln04a.html/?print=on http://dod.gov/news/Oct2002/t10092002_t1009ha.html Agribusiness, Biotechnology and War http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6390/view/print laser weapons http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/24/news1.shtml http://www.airbornelaser.com/ Polish Generals Discuss Warsaw Pact Secrets http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/news/pressrelease020918.htm timeline of wars throughout history http://www.warscholar.com/timeline.html civil liberties and security US deports Canadian citizen to Syria http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20021014/UDEPON more on the third circuit's media blackout on certain immigration proceedings http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/hilden/20021015.html http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128730174 civil liberties brief to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/fisa/FISCR_amicus_brief.pdf how votes don't get counted in Ohio http://www.citybeat.com/2002-10-17/printable/cover.html news from US state governments, e.g., about voting rights http://www.statesnews.org/ politics With Few Jobs Being Created, Pain Is Felt Far and Wide (we're still recovering from the appalling distortions of the "new economy") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/business/13JOB.html?pagewanted=print jargon watch: "get the few liberals out" http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/11/elec02.christian.coalition.ap/ jargon watch: "I'm serving to make a difference, and some people don't like that" ("make a difference" defocuses the issue, and "some people" makes it deniable) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=710&e=1&cid=710&u=/usatoday/20021011/pl_usatoday/4527856 jargon watch: "a standard on paper will not solve a problem simply because it exists" (he's mechanically breaking an association, but does he know what he's saying?) http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021015/D7MLMOE80.html US political campaigns feature less and less campaigning (the column's title is not accurate) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dna%2Doutlook14oct14§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection entertaining articles about the candidates for governor of Florida http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32140-2002Oct15?language=printer http://www.sptimes.com/State/92098/Make_The_Money_and_Ru.html markets work great for some things, but medical care isn't one of them ("free market economics" is really just a rhetoric for obscuring such facts) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/opinion/13ANGE.html?pagewanted=print Center on Religion and Democracy at the University of Virginia (includes a good collection of online texts) http://religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu/ intellectual property Understanding, Averting and Surviving the Software Audit (open source open source open source) http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128711116 depths of absurdity in the ElcomSoft/Sklyarov copyright case http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2400 online collection of 19th century sheet music http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/ news from Planet Microsoft Microsoft Offers, Then Pulls, Its Own Mac-to-Windows Switcher Story (pretty sad) http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/14.14.shtml Ballmer: "any code of significant scope and power will have bugs in it" (utterly standard PR strategy: defocusing the issue, breaking the link to MS) http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.29.html#subj4 implementation of the FTC's Microsoft consent order http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/microsoft/ordercomments.html more on the pathetic life of a Microsoft customer http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/02_42/b3804074.htm everything else Korea Telecom originates a staggering amount of spam (the backbone providers know this, but they carry the traffic anyway) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A33231-2002Oct16?language=printer secrecy of proceedings under international trade treaties http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/4271738.htm/ Hierarchical Tendencies and Regional Patterns in the World City Network http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb88.html Rem Koolhaas' New Logo for the EU http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb86.html "how a record store in Paris became a center of African music" http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/021014fa_fact2 some interesting results on automated playing of combinatorial games like Go http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/021016-ee380-100.asx remember when CD's were new? publicists exclaimed how perfect they sounded (Neil Young was one lonely voice noting how cold they are) http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/10/13/nextphase.audio.ap/ Specialized Search Engine FAQ's http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct02/price.htm The Journalist's Toolbox http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/ EE Times special issue on future technologies http://www.eet.com/reshaping/ Seismo-Surfing the Internet http://www.geophys.washington.edu/seismosurfing.html Microbes May Have Carved Caves http://apnews.excite.com/article/20021014/D7MLCIB00.html Greenland's Glaciers Crumble http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A18559-2002Oct12?language=printer "abrupt climate change" http://www.whoi.edu/home/about/whatsnew_abruptclimate.html http://www.nap.edu/books/0309074347/html/ end
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