[RRE]pointers

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 12:11:39 PST

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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 strange story of Iraq's weapons dossier
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2567139.stm
    
    "concerns that the Iraq dossier is mostly previously discredited reports"
    http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfg%2Diraq12dec12001437§ion=%2Fnews%2Fprintedition%2Fasection
    
    US Pressuring UN Inspectors to Abduct Iraqi Researchers
    http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20021209/07
    
    
    war
    
    The New National Security Strategy and Preemption
    http://www.brook.edu/comm/policybriefs/pb113.pdf
    
    US public-relations authorities remove the politics from Radio Free Iran
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59781-2002Dec15?language=printer
    
    Pentagon Debates Propaganda Push in Allied Nations
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/16/international/16MILI.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Washinton Times fabrication influences Canada to list group as terrorist
    http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1213/dailyUpdate.html
    
    Washington Is Ready to Use A-Arms in a Biowar
    http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=80020&owner=(The%20Washington%20Post)&date=20021213131954
    
    Investigators Probing Towers' Collapse Seek Maintenance Logs, Design Documents
    http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/special_reports/terrorism/story/667712p-4990436c.html
    
    Secret State Department Memo on Kissinger's Meeting with Pinochet
    http://www.progressive.org/kissingermemo9905.htm
    
    
    civil liberties and security
    
    War on Terror Alters Privacy Assumptions
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/12/12/MN198205.DTL&type=printable
    
    okay, we're up to 70 critical Microsoft security vulnerabilities for the year
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/28552.html
    
    Net Probe Reveals Overwhelming Difficulty of Patching All Security Bugs
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99993090
    
    Computer Break-Ins: Your Right to Know
    http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/nov2002/tc20021111_2402.htm?tc
    
    
    Trent Lott uses the wrong code words
    
    Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) 100th Birthday Celebration
    (complete one-hour video from C-SPAN)
    http://makeashorterlink.com/?A13351AC2
    
    a newsreel about Strom Thurmond's 1948 campaign
    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/strom1.html
    http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=865900
    
    Trent Lott's amicus brief defending tax exemption for schools that discriminate
    ("racial discrimination does not always violate public policy")
    http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/lott.bju.amicus.brief.doc
    http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=461&invol=574
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=716&e=6&u=/ap/20021212/ap_on_go_co/lott_blacks
    
    then there's his long association with the white supremacist establishment
    http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/lott.sp.1.html
    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dec0202.html#121202110am
    http://www.ferris.edu/isar/Institut/CCC/disavow.htm
    http://www.salon.com/politics/conason/2002/12/12/lott/print.html
    http://www.militia-watchdog.org/ccc.htm
    http://www.cofcc.org/amicus.htm
    
    In Lott's Life, Long Shadows of Segregation
    (people are acting like they're surprised about this)
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/national/15LOTT.html?pagewanted=print
    
    Trent Lott's Segregationist College Days
    http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,399310,00.html
    
    and, c'mon, it's not just Trent Lott
    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/13/opinion/13CRES.html?pagewanted=print
    http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,399921,00.html
    http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1039523657287&p=1012571727088
    http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/ashcroft.sp.1.html
    
    minority voter suppression is back, for example, in a big way
    http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/23/mcdonald-l.html
    
    
    everything else
    
    "Bush administration refining arguments to shift tax load onto the poor"
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59577-2002Dec15?language=printer
    
    "yet another phony businessman, this time as treasury secretary"
    http://slate.msn.com/?id=2075270
    
    media concentration in France
    http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/12/01press
    
    Broadband Group Urges FCC to Ensure Consumer Freedom on the Internet
    (preserving the end-to-end principle)
    http://www.mediaaccess.org/programs/broadband/Broadbandcoalitionfinalpress.pdf
    http://www.mediaaccess.org/programs/broadband/CBUIfinalletter.pdf
    
    FCC Working Paper Series
    http://www.fcc.gov/opp/workingp.html
    
    Economic and Social Implications of IT, Washington, 27-28 January 2003
    http://transformingenterprise.com/
    
    Gateway Launches Grid Computing Service
    http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Dec/gee20021210017704.htm
    
    more on Lee Felsenstein's computing project in Laos
    http://www.jhai.org/
    
    The 20th Anniversary of the Internet
    (two weeks from now)
    http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200212/msg00058.html
    
    Does Moore's Law Still Hold True?
    http://www.business2.com/articles/web/print/0,1650,45941,00.html
    
    Fire Guts Edinburgh's AI Library
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28531.html
    
    Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Virtual Tours
    http://www.ecs.umass.edu/hpl/BigDigVideos.htm
    
    World Weather Information Service
    http://www.worldweather.org/
    
    Record Ice Loss in Arctic
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2558319.stm
    
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