-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 71 - October, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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QUOTE:
"... the establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations
that make ...
countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged,
including denial
of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide
favorable climates
of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the]
standard of service to the transnational corporation..."
--Edward Herman, economist and media analyst
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Contents:
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--Radio Wars
--A World Banker's Account of Prague
--Anarchists Still Held in Prague
--Hunters and the Hunted at US-Mexico Border
--Seoul braces for protests at Asia-Europe summit
Linked stories:
*U.S. elections need international observers
*Hacker targets Antiwar.com
*Congress passes bill to punish those who leak classified information
*USDOJ anoounces $38.9 million grant for COPS program
*Chicago to Sue Vote Auctioneers
*Drug Use Booming Among High-Tech Workers
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Begin stories:
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Radio Wars
[This article was supposed to run in the Illinois Times, but got
scratched at the last minute.]
RADIO WARS: The United States of America Versus Mbanna Kantako
by Sheila Nopper
A preliminary injunction was issued to Mbanna Kantako at a
Federal Court hearing on October 4th ordering him to "cease and desist"
the micropower station, Human Rights Radio; whether a permanent injunction
will be granted will depend on it being proven beyond a reasonable doubt
that the source of the interference with air traffic communications at the
Springfield Airport between September 22-25 was attributable to Kantako's
106.5 FM broadcasts. So far, no date has been set for the upcoming trial.
Yet related issues that were raised--and absent---during the court
proceedings, reveal certain ambiguities and irregularities about the case.
Williford Gray, an electronics engineer from the FCC's Chicago
office, testified that he had issued Kantako orders to stop broadcasting
on several occasions during the 12 years that Human Rights Radio has been
on the air. No planes have ever fallen out of the sky during that time.
However, the FCC alleges that they monitored four days of potentially
dangerous interference beginning this year on September 22 during which
time Human Rights Radio was deemed by Gray to pose a "safety of life
issue" that required an "immediate response." This latest FCC action came
exactly one week after the FCC announced the names of Springfield area
applicants for legalized Low Power FM licenses.
In building her case, prosecuting attorney, Elizabeth Collins, used
the FCC proposal for legalized LPFM to attempt to discredit Kantako's
right to communicate via his radio station. Yet Kantako himself would not
qualify for such a license given the lack of amnesty provisions for
formerly illegal broadcasters in the FCC rules even if he wanted to, which
he emphatically does not. Kantako, who is blind, said he "does not
recognize the authority of the FCC or the authority of the United States
government." He described himself as "an African P.O.W." with the "human
responsibility to share information with my people and to defend ourselves
against genocide."
Ironically, it was Mbanna Kantako, who pioneered the micropower
radio movement on whose coattails current LPFM applicants have ridden.
Having grown into a nationwide grassroots civil disobedience campaign
against corporate control of the airwaves, micropower broadcasting is
arguably the catalyst which forced the FCC to develop the LPFM initiative
in the first place in order to re-establish their regulatory control of
the airwaves and, in so doing, create a Trojan Horse to divide the
movement. Nevertheless, because of his prominence in the movement,
Kantako's case sparked a successful international email campaign on his
behalf aimed at getting the State Journal Register (SJR) to cover the
story. The campaign was orchestrated by the IndyMediaCenter (a global
network of activists who utilize media production and distribution as
tools for promoting social and economic justice), which originated with
the Seattle protests against the WTO in 1999.
The SJR finally did publish a story on Kantako's case the morning of
his court hearing---five days after the multi-jurisdictional police raid
of his station led by Federal Marshals who surrounded his home and
confiscated his transmitter, broadcast equipment and computer. However,
none of the 13 local organizations who recently applied for these LPFM
licenses sent in emails to support Kantako. Nor were these prospective
licensees among the ten people--which did include some members of the
Springfield-based Media Activist Coalition---present at the court hearing
to support Kantako. If their silence was predictably due to their fear of
jeopardizing their chances of being granted an LPFM license because of
challenging the FCC, then the agency's claim that the LPFM proposal was
designed to "give a voice to the previously voiceless" on the radio
spectrum rings rather hollow.
Moreover, neither in the court proceedings nor in the SJR's coverage
was there any mention of Senate bill 3020, the Radio Preservation Act of
2000, and the increasingly successful lobbying efforts on its behalf by
the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and National Public Radio
(NPR) to essentially prevent even legalized micropower broadcasts from
ever happening or, if so, only in the most restrictive and token of
fashions. To buttress their case, they claimed that LPFM would cause
interference with not only their big megawatt stations, but air traffic
signals, thus endangering human life.
Yet, elsewhere in the country, a prominent national activist on
behalf of LPFM, Stephen Proviser, who founded Allston-Brighton Free Radio
and Citizens' Media Corps in the Boston area, did not hesitate to come to
the defense of Kantako. He has referred to him publicly as "someone in
the forefront of the struggle for direct citizen participation in media."
Proviser, who has become increasingly dismayed at the NAB/NPR onslaught on
LPFM, also pointed out, "There are thousands of translator stations across
the country which are technically identical to the proposed LPFMs."
Translators are, in effect, low power stations that are approved by the
FCC in order to extend the coverage of full power radio licensees. "The
actual transmitters that translators and LPFMs will use are the same," he
explained, "and low power translators are acknowledged by the radio
industry to cause minimal interference." The NAB's hypocritical double
standard in relation to LPFM is something that really galls LPFM activists
like Proviser. He explained, "When NAB-affiliated stations were being
re-evaluated [in 1996], the NAB considered their [i.e. translators]
potential for causing interference acceptable--even when far less
stringent protection requirements were being discussed. They now say that
the FCC's proposed LPFM licensing policy, which has even more strict
protection requirements against interference, would throw the FM band into
chaos."
In this regard, the FCC recently attempted to appease NAB/NPR's
opposition to its proposal with their "Reconsideration Order for Low Power
FM Service" in which they stated, among other revisions, that the FCC was
"committed to protect translator service in a manner compatible with the
LPFM service." Yet even non-profit NPR has flatly refused to compromise
and continues to support the Radio Preservation Act. Consequently, in an
October 2nd press release, FCC Chairman William Kennard stated: "I had
hoped that NPR would see that their overriding mission to bring
noncommercial radio service to the public is furthered by the
establishment of new LPFM radio service that would serve small communities
and niche markets. It is a sad day when National Public Radio advocates a
policy that would deny the public new radio service."
Williford Gray suggested in court that the air traffic interference
alleged to have been caused by Human Rights Radio may have resulted from a
defective transmitter. When questioned by Kantako, who was acting as his
own attorney, Gray confessed that he hadn't done a bench examination of
Kantako's transmitter because it was still in the possession of the U.S.
Marshall. Meanwhile, Kantako claimed that he used a professional,
government-certified transmitter that does not "spur" or cause "harmonics"
that could create such interference. Bret Thomas, a federal airway
transportation specialist, who amazingly claimed in court that during his
investigation, he heard radio interference coming from the long demolished
Hay Homes, also testified that interference with air traffic
communications is a "common" occurrence that is frequently attributed to
atmospheric conditions, and has even been known to be caused by the
airport's own frequencies. Upon learning of Gray's testimony at the
hearing, the founder of Free Radio Berkeley, Stephen Dunifer, who has an
engineering background, countered FCC accusations when he claimed that
"the ground to air transceivers (transmitters/receivers) used at airports
function on the AM band and Human Rights Radio is a low watt FM broadcast.
So," he concluded, "even if Mbanna's transmitter was defective, it would
still not interfere."
Undaunted and unbowed, Kantako insisted, "I have a human right to
communicate with my people by any means necessary." He has repeatedly
stated that he will resume broadcasting as soon as possible. Given the
national attention this case has already garnered, the upcoming trial will
no doubt place Springfield's dirty laundry once again into the unwelcome
glare of the media spotlight just recently vacated by Peter Fitzgerald.
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A World Banker's Account of Prague
<http://www.focusweb.org/focus/pd/apec/fot/fot55.html#world>
A World Bank Staffer's Odyssey in Kafka's Prague
(The following is an insider's blow-by-blow account of the World
Bank-IMF Annual Meeting in Prague on Oct. 26-28, 2000. The
author, a senior World Bank staff member who is a long-time
contact of Focus on the Global South, requested anonymity for
obvious reasons.)
Coming into Prague was impressive because they had the
system all set up. Right at the airport you were accredited. As
soon as you stepped out of the plane, you were fast- tracked out
of customs. Everything was so systematic. Everybody got into
fast track. And you got escorts. As you know, they closed all
universities that week. And one reason was to get students to
act as escorts and guides to delegates. For the whole week.
Very good looking escorts. Extremely good looking. In fact, I
dated one of them later.
Deceptive Calm
I have to say that my impression was there was no inkling at
least among the people I was in touch with of what was going to
come. In fact, the dominant reaction from IMF-WB delegates
was that the police were overreacting. I got there Saturday the
23rd,. On the 24th and 25th, nothing was happening. Lots of
activities but everybody still felt nothing would happen. I think
among the delegates and among the private bankers no one was
really expecting anything to happen that coming Tuesday. The
debate between [James] Wolfensohn, [Horst] Koehler, and the
NGO's that President [Vaclav] Havel organized on the 23rd was
not well publicized. People I was with had not heard about it.
There was a daily schedule called "Emerging Markets," and it
was listed there, but it wasn't played up. Only those like me, who
had been tipped off before coming to Prague, understood its
significance. I told my boss I wanted to attend, but he said there
were more urgent things to pay attention to. Anyway, Saturday
and Sunday were so uneventful that everybody felt it would stay
this way throughout. Really calm.
A Kafkaesque Tuesday
Then all of a sudden you had this very dramatic turn of events on
Tuesday. Tuesday was the opening day. On Monday, the
security system warned that something might happen the
following day. But even when the security system started issuing
flyers to the delegation rooms, no one believed it. We were
warned by the flyers that if we were going to the Congress
Center on Tuesday, we would have to be prepared to stay there
for a while because a protest could lock in delegates at the
Center. But even then I had the sense that no one took that
seriously. And I believe that because everybody came to the
opening ceremonies the next day. Had it been taken seriously,
some people would probably not have shown up. I saw ex-World
Bank presidents there coming in with their spouses and big time
private bankers, and nobody it seems had taken these warnings
seriously.
Then close to noon, all of a sudden you had this announcement
that the transport system was shutting down. Usually you had
these shuttle services between the Congress Center to the
hotels every 15 minutes, but all of a sudden these services were
shut down. The bridge leading to the main entrance was blocked,
and the two other entrances to the Congress Center were also
blocked by riot police, who were now very visibly at the center.
But the action was still taking place at quite a distance from the
Center. In any case, we couldn't leave. One incident was
reported. A young delegate from the Japanese government
wanted to go out and he just stepped out and tried to go through
one of the side openings. They said he was beaten up and sent
to the hospital. All of us were warned not to transit in and out,
not to even attempt to walk out.
There was no clear sign or indication of what would happen next.
I saw ex-World Bank presidents walking around not knowing
what to do. I asked one former president how he was doing, and
he told me that his wife had managed to skip coming to the
Center by joining the Prague tour but he was left behind. He
didn't know what was happening. When I told him about the
protests, he became totally disoriented.
In any event what was happening was everyone was waiting to
get out. They had long run out of numbers in the program. At
around 7:30 p.m., there was a sudden oral announcement.
Everybody should go straight to the metro. The metro had been
stopped all day. Now, they told us that the metro had been
opened and we all had to go, quickly. What happened was they
got this special train to get the delegates to the very last station
on the line, where buses were waiting to take the delegates to
the reception at the exhibition hall. We were brought in to this big
exhibition hall--I don't know what you call it. But when we got
there, we were surprised to see that the protesters were already
there. This big exhibition hall was supposed to be secure but to
our great surprise the protesters had beaten us to the place. And
the authorities had not planned for this. When the reception was
over, they just wanted to disperse all the delegates, so they
ended up bussing us to different parts of Prague, where we
were left to our own devices. Many of the people with me were
really, really worried, but I was having fun. We finally got to our
hotels around 12 midnight. But we still had not known the extent
of the protests, and of course once everyone got to the hotel,
everyone tuned into CNN and that's when we learned about
McDonald's being trashed.
Pleasure or Pain?
I was staying at the Renaissance near the Old Town. I had this
friend who was staying at the Hilton about 10 minutes away who
was still with me, and I just wanted to make sure he got to his
hotel safely. So I took off my suit and got into my jeans and
more comfortable wear. But he was still in this suit and had this
bag with a big IMF logo. While we were walking to his hotel
which was 10 minutes away, we met a group of French
protesters who started harassing us. Actually if I was actually
threatened with physical harm, I would have called out your
name and screamed I'm a friend of one of your leaders. I was
ready to do that.. The guy I was with comes from a Third World
country, but I told him that saying that you're Third World
wouldn't work, not with your IMF badge. Fortunately, there was
a restaurant nearby and I shoved him inside. We had a couple of
beers and waited till the French protesters went away and we
snuck out.
On the way back from his hotel, I ran into another problem. Two
prostitutes sidled up to me, and the one to the right of me
started rubbing my buttocks. I guess they knew I was a
delegate. I don't think they were Czechs. They looked like
Italians. Maybe they came in with the Italian protesters, since we
heard that the Czech security had driven most of the regular
prostitutes out of the city. So that evening, it was a question of
who got to the delegates first, the prostitutes or the protesters.
If you were lucky, you got pleasure. If you were unlucky, you got
pain. In any case, we never got to the price. I ran away: who
knows, they might have been protesters in disguise!
Whose Side Are You on?
The following day, very few people went to the Congress Center.
Most stayed away. They just stayed in their hotel rooms. They
didn't even want to go out. But those who did still went out in
their suits. I couldn't figure that out. Those of us who were brave
enough to go to the Center had to go by a completely different
route. Our bus stayed at the back of a tram and it followed this
all the way. This was fine with me because I hadn't seen the
sites of Prague, and the city was beautiful. At the conference
center, I got to talking to the student guides. They really didn't
know what was happening. These kids actually didn't know who
to side with - the protesters or the delegates? They just wished
the whole thing would end. By the way, I noted this attitude even
with the police. Whenever I asked the police for directions, they
very seldom answered me. I had a sense that they were just as
wary of the delegates as they were of the protesters. I think one
personal dilemma that both the students and the police had was
that they were too young to have experienced the protests of
late eighties and didn't know what to do about it.
As you know, the meeting got cut by a day. During the press
conference the next day, they denied that the protests were the
reason. They actually said the reason was that things had run so
efficiently that they were able to compress everything into two
days. The press laughed at this.
End of the Affair
The real conclusion was the press conference the following day,
the 28th. At this press conference, both Wolfensohn and Koehler
were there to field questions and answers. There was a corps of
press reporters keen to pounce on them. The questions from the
first were quite pointed. Ranging from very specific to very basic.
For instance one reporter from India asked Wolfensohn and
Koehler that they had been accused of causing so much misery
in the Third World and what did they have to say about that.
Wolfensohn said, I don't think I am responsible for all that, and if
you think so, you're misinformed. But the whole conference was
dominated by questions about the protest and not issues. Which
means, at least from my perspective, that the objective of the
protests had been achieved. They had really distracted the
proceedings.
A number of the press people said the annual meeting was
obsolete and out of control and what did the IMF and WB want
to do about this. Wolfensohn responded that although they could
have virtual meetings, the personal interaction was still quite
important. So that the Bank would actually continue to have
annual meetings. Wolfensohn and Koehler insisted that they had
"gotten through" to the NGO's and pictured the Saturday debate
at Prague Castle as a big success for them. On the other hand,
from my experience watching Wolfensohn for several years, he
appeared to be very tired. It seems he had run out of things to
say and even his statements to the press were very uninspired.
He didn't look like the "Elvis" Bono described him to be. He
appeared to be much less enthusiastic. He was repeating many
of the old formulas. Maybe the futility of it all had finally gotten to
him. As for Koehler, he was upbeat and very light. No, light is not
the word. He appeared to be very na?ve, that's what I want to
say. I don't think it's just his lack of mastery of English. He was
talking like a college student about the issues, repeating the
same line about him not being a banker but somebody with a
heart. Both of them said that the violence had come from a very,
very small minority, and that the majority of the protesters were
really there because they had something to say. And there were
a lot of legitimate arguments being made by them. And that the
WB and the IMF would now pay greater focus to their concerns.
It was very difficult for me to distinguish between reality and
rhetoric because all the time Wolfensohn was playing with his
watch. From my vantage point, in the end, the agenda had been
taken over by the protesters. I think Prague created quite an
impression with the World Bank-IMF bureaucracy, although this
is a much more entrenched bureaucracy than the WTO. I sensed
that after Prague, the words of civil society will be taken much
more seriously, but whether this will mean real dialogue we still
have to find out.
The Desert Beckons
The next two annual meetings will be in Washington and the third
one will be in Dubai. And the head of the Dubai organizing
committee said that the temperature would be higher in Dubai
than in Prague! He was saying basically that prior to the Prague
proceedings, he didn't foresee problems in Dubai, but after this,
there has to be some rethinking. So it's three years away but the
impact is already there. I have a feeling that when the WB-IMF
bureaucracy assesses Prague they will wind down the annual
meetings. Because their only function is for governors to deliver
their speeches, and more and more governors now simply
submit written speeches. So I think more and more they will turn
it into a virtual meeting.
And they will probably try to separate the unofficial events from
the official meeting. Because what is most significant about these
meetings are the informal business parties. There were at least
15 lavish parties given by the commercial banks for the
delegates. Very, very lavish. For many delegates, those were
the prime events of the conference. The actual official functions
were just pro forma. If I were a protester, by the way, I would
have gone to these venues because they were not secured at all.
These were the events that everyone went to in the evenings.
These were very open venues. And they were listed in the
schedule. Now, that would really have stopped the real business
of the conference.
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Anarchists Still Held in Prague
As we all should know by now, thanks to the
spectacular recuperation made by the globalized
mass-media, the S26 protests in Prague against the IMF
and World Bank were a success. Our European comrades
succeeded in seriously disturbing the meeting of the
lackey of international capitalism. In the process,
the Prague police force completely lost control of the
situation and were totally humiliated in the face of
millions of viewers world-wide.
As a result, they arrested some 950+ protesters (or
individuals who looked like protesters) in the
downtown area, beating many in the process (up to 60%
according to INPEG, the protest organizer, survey).
Most of the arrested people lost all rights --such as
a phone call, legal representation, food, water and
even sleep, and many were reportedly tortured at the
hands of the police. We won't repeat the whole story
here, people can judge by themselves by reading
available material at <www.prague.indymedia.org> and
<www.ainfos.ca>.
As of today (October 9th), thanks to a massive
international campaign, all but 16 protesters were
released. The fact that only 25 will be prosecuted
shows in itself that all of the police repression and
violence was baseless and that most people were
arrested only because they dared to demonstrate their
opposition to global capitalism.
That said, even if the release of the vast majority of
the prisoners is in itself a victory, there are still
16 comrades in jail. Among them are 8
anarchist-communists from Budapest, Hungary, who have
been charged with 'an attack against a public
official' (in this case policemen). According to
unofficial information our Czech comrades gave us, the
police have no evidence against them. All have a
State-appointed lawyer, but because such lawyers have
proved inadequate in representing activists in the
past, the Czech anarchists have found a new lawyer for
them. He will take this case and his work will cost
less than is normal, however they will still need
money for the defense costs.
Since these comrades are anarchists, and so suspected
of being dangerous trouble-makers (rioters!), we don't
expect much support. That is why the Northeastern
Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC) will collect
funds to help free these comrades. If we anarchists do
not show some basic solidarity, no one else will.
In the USA, please send funds to:
Sabate Anarchist Collective
NEFAC International Secretariat
PO Box 230685
Boston, MA 02123
[Check must be earmarked " S26 Solidarity "]
In Canada, please send funds to :
Secrétariat francophone de la NEFAC
Groupe anarchiste Emile-Henry
C.P. 55051, 138 St-Vallier Ouest
Québec, Québec
G1K 1J0
Canada
[Check must be made to " Groupe Emile-Henry " and
earmarked " S26 Solidarity "]
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Hunters and the Hunted at US-Mexico Border
(10-13-00) From the High Country News
Full story here:
<http://www.hcn.org/2000/oct09/dir/Feature_The_hunter.html>
Crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has always been a risky proposition.
But these days, it can be deadly, as illegal immigrants are forced into
the desert, where they face dehydration, gun-toting ranchers and lawless
guides. Human rights activists are crying for change.
See also:
Border Lures the Young
<http://www.hcn.org/2000/oct09/dir/Sidebar_Border_lur.html>
A Sympathetic Landowner
<http://www.hcn.org/2000/oct09/dir/Sidebar_A_sympathe.html>
Sanctuary Movement Revived
<http://www.hcn.org/2000/oct09/dir/Sidebar_Sanctuary.html>
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Seoul braces for protests at Asia-Europe summit
SEOUL, Oct 11 (AFP) -
South Korean police on Wednesday announced massive security
precautions in a bid to stop a summit of Asian and European leaders
next week becoming the next battleground for anti-globalization protesters.
The National Police Agency (NPA) said 29,500 officers, or 20 percent
of the country's police force, would be put on alert from Saturday in Seoul,
the venue for the third Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit on October
20-21.
"Security is our prime concern as 25 leaders from Asia and Europe will
take part in the summit," Lee Byong-Gon, an NPA director, said.
The authorities are concerned that Seoul could see protests like those
which erupted at the World Trade Organisation conference in Seattle last
November and the World Bank/International Monetary Fund meetings in
Prague last month.
Police are ready to stop any protests near the ASEM Convention Center
in Seoul, which will be guarded by 180 heavily armed commandos, 15
helicopters and armored vehicles, Lee said.
Thousands of riot police will be deployed round-the-clock next week within
a two kilometer (1.2 mile) radius around the ASEM conference hall to
stop protests by non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
South Korean NGOs, unions, civic groups and students have formed an
alliance led by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a
militant union organization, to stage "anti-globalization" demonstrations.
"The alliance, ASEM 2000 Seoul Action against Liberalism, was made up
of 180 groups, which support the anti-globalization movement by
international NGOs," KCTU spokesman Park Hwa-Soon, told AFP.
"We cannot ensure there will be no violence as police rejected our
request to allow peaceful rallies at designated places," he said.
On Sunday, some 40,000 union activists held a rally near parliament,
blasting what they called "neo-liberalist policies" being pushed by
President Kim Dae-Jung.
Kim has been hailed for his efforts to pull South Korea out of a severe
economic crisis that hit Asia in 1997 and forced the country to get a
58-billion-dollar bailout arranged by the International Monetary Fund
(IMF).
But his economic reform drive sparked violent labor protests and the
anti-ASEM alliance has invited foreign activists who were involved in
the street protests in Seattle and Prague.
NGOs contend the lending policies of international financial institutions
impoverish poor nations further with harsh repayment obligations.
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Linked stories:
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U.S. elections need international observers
<http://www.motherjones.com/reality_check/observers.html>
With third-party candidates barred from crucial media events,
prevented by police from attending a debate, and discriminated
against on ballots, not to mention the massive disenfranchisement
of minority voters, this commentator says the U.S. clearly needs
help with its democracy in this year's election (10/12/00)
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Hacker targets Antiwar.com
<http://www.denverpost.com/business/biz1012d.htm>
Eagle Network, a Nederland, Colorado-based ISP, was knocked offline
for 11 days by a hacker who wanted to disable Antiwar.com, a
Freedom Network partner that advocates a non-interventionist
foreign policy. (10/13/00)
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Congress passes bill to punish those who leak classified information
<http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64327-2000Oct12.html>
Congress approved a measure that would make it easier to bring
criminal charges against people who leak classified information
to the press and public. Critics say the move threatens to choke
off whistleblowers, and that it is dangerous to "give the
executive branch a blank check in this important area."
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USDOJ anoounces $38.9 million grant for COPS program
<http://www.friendsofliberty.com/October/pr6101300.htm>
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANNOUNCES $38.9 MILLION IN GRANTS TO RE-DEPLOY
1,580 LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
(FLI Newswire-October 13, 2000-Washington, D.C.) 623 Local Agencies to
Receive Grants Nationwide WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) today announced grants
totaling $38.9 million to hire civilians in order to re-deploy more police
to the beat.
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Chicago to Sue Vote Auctioneers
< http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39431,00.html?tw=wn20001013>
Election officials in Chicago are expected to file suit after finding
more than 1,000 Illinois residents have signed up to auction off their
presidential votes. By Mark K. Anderson.
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Drug Use Booming Among High-Tech Workers
<http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=264754>
Illicit drug use has taken hold in the high-tech world.
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directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
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