[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 14:13:16 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
    
    the case for war with Iraq
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/books/review/20MATLOCT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    poll claiming to show that propaganda shapes public opinion on Iraq
    http://www.retropoll.org/pressrelease.html
    
    article about TV news coverage of Iraq debate
    http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/20/gitlin-t.html
    
    brief survey of religious and intellectual opposition to Bush's Iraq policy
    http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,815413,00.html
    
    Bush and Iraq
    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15790
    
    Bush hid North Korea's nukes from Senators until after the Iraq vote
    (a longstanding pattern of deception)
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/823175.asp
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A49857-2002Oct18?language=printer
    
    Proliferation, Not Iraq, Is the Issue
    (they both are)
    http://www.newsday.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=ny%2Dvphar182969280oct18§ion=%2Fnews%2Fopinion
    
    Precision Warfare
    http://www.msnbc.com/news/822429.asp
    
    
    war
    
    "al Qaeda's principal financial backers, most of them wealthy Saudis"
    (I have to say I'm sympathetic to right-wingers' campaign against Saudi Arabia)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43643-2002Oct17?language=printer
    
    Report: Terror Funds Flow Through Saudi Arabia
    (does anyone have a URL for this?)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36948-2002Oct16?language=printer
    
    Afghan Warlords Receive US Weapons
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=516&ncid=516&e=2&u=/ap/20021016/ap_on_re_as/afghan_arms_4
    
    more from the Congressional investigation of 9/11 intelligence failures
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/sscihill101702stmnt.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/sscitenet101702stmnt.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/sscimueller101702stmnt.pdf
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/sscihayden101702stmnt.pdf
    
    environmental contamination from the World Trade Center attack
    http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/19/garrett-l.html
    
    the Navy discovers that it's running 100,000 different applications
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37882-2002Oct17?language=printer
    
    on the FBI computer security expert that the sniper killed
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27701.html
    
    Ex-Provo Says Adams Will Disband IRA
    (about time -- now, are the unionists capable of disbanding their gangs?)
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Northern_Ireland/Story/0,2763,815181,00.html
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    Obscure '96 Law Now Cornerstone in War on Terror
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/20/MN163553.DTL&type=printable
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/19/opinion/19COLE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    more on the Canadian citizen that the US deported to Syria
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?L1B252132
    http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20021018/USYRIAH
    http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/printarticle/gam/20021015/UDEPON
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?I29231132
    http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/291/nation/Mystery_surrounds_US_deportation_of_CanadianP.shtml
    
    city attorney releases a list of the Denver Stasi's spying targets
    http://www.denverpost.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,36%257E53%257E932313,00.html
    
    NRA's stunningly illogical statement against firearms fingerprinting
    (e.g., confusion between "often" and "always")
    http://www.nraila.org/NewsCenter.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=2053
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec02/ballistics_10-18.html
    
    Little Progress in Making Trucks Safe From Terror
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/national/20TRUC.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Statement on Science and Security in an Age of Terrorism
    http://www4.nationalacademies.org/news.nsf/(ByDocID)/64FA661785EED14785256C56005D0AD6?OpenDocument
    
    virus scanners letting files go through if they can't manage to scan them
    http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2894850-92,00.html
    
    18 Vote Machines Missing From Broward Elections Office
    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=orl%2Dloccvote17101702oct17
    
    
    politics
    
    Republicans Planning for Full Control of Congress
    (there's plenty of material for last-minute campaign ads in here)
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A53394-2002Oct19?language=printer
    
    "voter fraud" stories are often fraudulent, as for example in South Dakota
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/oct0203.html#101802241am
    
    jargon watch: theocratic judge tries to stick the "Taliban" label on the ACLU
    (to take people's minds, pretend that reason is an arbitrary authority)
    http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1032128787990
    
    jargon watch: "that was how Adolf Hitler got to the top"
    (Grassley is asserting that the German who said this speaks for US liberals)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/18/opinion/18KRUG.html?pagewanted=print
    
    article about growing inequality
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/magazine/20INEQUALITY.html?pagewanted=print
    
    article about Karl Rove
    ("the White House asserts its own curious reality")
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/20/magazine/20ROVE.html?pagewanted=print
    
    
    everything else
    
    school charging students a fee to check books out of the library
    http://www.greeleytrib.com/article.php?sid=11054
    
    Missouri Welfare Hot Line Calls Go to India
    http://newstribune.com/stories/101602/sta_1016020924.asp
    
    more on Microsoft's fake "switch" ad
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/technology/circuits/17POGUE-EMAIL.html?pagewanted=print
    
    more on copyright extensions
    http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/eldredTranscript
    http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig/blog/archives/2002_10.shtml#000531
    http://www.law.asu.edu/HomePages/Karjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/
    
    astronomers make movies (not animations) of a star orbiting a black hole
    http://skyandtelescope.com/printable/news/current/article_769.asp
    http://www.mpe.mpg.de/www_ir/GC/
    
    stange clock
    http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html
    
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