-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 80 October, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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QUOTE:
"There is...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies
and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and
military
cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of
these countries
and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the
Third World
were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the
"enforcers"
of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with
machine guns
and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives."
--Edward Herman, economist and media analyst
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Contents:
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--LA Police Protesters Arrested
--Study: globalization bad news for work-related depression
--Why all is not well with globalization
--When Might Makes Wrong
--Mideast Leads Global Weapons Purchases
--Phantom Voters
--Cloning teams cross pig and human DNA
Linked stories:
*Fear of a Genetic Underclass
*Rhetoric Reigns at Net Crime Meet
*Documents reveal plan to develop Enhanced Carnivore
*Judge: Cops can seize bookstore records
*Lobbyists attempt to smother micro-broadcasting
*Voteauction.com reaps cynical voters
*He Who Pays The Piper Calls The Tune
*Agreement to Clone First Extinct Animal
*Nanogen Enters Agreement With US Army-Biological Warfare Research
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LA Police Protesters Arrested
<http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/laprotest001023.html>
By Leon Drouin Keith
Associated Press Writer
Monday, Oct. 23, 2000
LOS ANGELES �� Three people were arrested and rubber bullets were fired
when hundreds of black-clad marchers protesting police brutality clashed
with police officers.
Protesters who rallied at police headquarters Sunday said officers fired at
them as they attempted to walk around Parker Center before beginning the
rally.
Police Capt. Jim Rubert said the conflict began after about 700 protesters
gathered outside the designated rally site. Officers fired rubber bullets
when protesters threw gallon-sized jars and broken glass at them, he said.
Officer Don Cox said police arrested three people for investigation of
assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon. Several protesters showed
reporters welts left by rubber bullets, but Cox said no injuries were
reported.
More than 200 police officers � some in riot gear, some on horseback �
later surrounded about 1,500 people who shouted at them and raised their
fists while listening to speakers whose loved ones were killed or injured
in police conflicts.
"You all are the worst police force in the U.S. history. You all have
disgraced this country," said Brian Smith, who said his brother Danny Ray
Smith died of asphyxiation in police custody two years ago.
Alleged corruption at LAPD's Rampart station was a key topic at the
demonstration, part of a national protest scheduled for more than 50
cities. But speakers also criticized out-of-town police actions, including
the New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, and the Pennsylvania
death-penalty case of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Study: globalization bad news for work-related depression
By GEIR MOULSON
Associated Press Writer
October 10, 2000
GENEVA (AP) _ Stress related to jobs and the loss of them is an
increasingly recognized problem as globalization threatens job
security and makes ever-growing demands to improve results,
according to a United Nations study released Tuesday.
One in 10 adults in the United States suffers from a depressive
disorder every year, a problem that ``significantly impacts the
bottom line'' of business, the International Labor Organization
study said.
Treatment of depression is estimated to cost the country between
dlrs 30 billion and dlrs 44 billion annually, while the problem
accounts for some 200 million lost work days.
``The incidence of mental health problems and the costs related
to them have risen during the past decade,'' said the 235-page
report, titled ``Mental Health in the Workplace'' and comprising
separate studies on the United States, Britain, Germany, Finland
and Poland.
Although the studies gave no overall comparison to back up its
assertion that the percentage of affected workers is growing, they
did note how different countries were increasingly recognizing the
problem.
``As the United States evolves toward a more information-based
economy, increased pressure is placed on a company's employees to
supply a competitive edge,'' the report said. But, it added,
employers of all sizes are improving their approach as they realize
the importance of the problem.
The World Health Organization, which worked with the ILO on the
study, called for greater efforts to removed the stigma from
work-related depression, noting that only half of those who suffer
from it are believed to seek help.
``The key problem is not absenteeism,'' insisted Benedetto
Saraceno, WHO's director of mental health. When people with
depression or other mental problems go to work, ``they require much
more effort to function as required,'' he said.
Bill Wilkerson of the World Federation for Mental Health said he
favors globalization for economic reasons, but ``I don't believe in
it from a health point of view.''
``We've got to deliver our work force from enslavement by
e-mail,'' Wilkerson said.
American workers' counterparts in Europe faced more direct
threats from unemployment _ above all those in Poland, where the
transition to a market economy turned many out of work, but also in
Germany and Finland, hit by recession in the 1990s.
More than half the Finnish work force experiences stress-related
symptoms ranging from physical pain to sleep disorders, the study
found. It added that 7 percent of the country's workers suffer from
``severe burnout.''
Three out of 10 British employees suffer mental health problems
each year, while at any given time one in 20 working-age Britons
suffers major depression, the report said.
In Germany, depressive disorders account for nearly 7 percent of
premature retirements, while absenteeism related to mental health
problems accounts for more than 5 billion marks (dlrs 2.2 billion)
in lost production every year.
Public health statistics show growing numbers of people
receiving mental health care in Poland, a trend related to
increased unemployment and declining living standards since the end
of communism.
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Why all is not well with globalization
The Vancouver Sun
Thursday 5 October 2000
Its architects did not understand where the new world trade
order would lead. Or how to fix it later.
by Daphne Bramham
National boundaries are blurring, yet nationalism is rising.
Worldwide trade is exploding and so is worldwide crime. States and
their politicians are letting power seep away not only to transnational
corporations, but also to multinational institutions and non-governmental
organizations.
The per-capita incomes of more than 80 countries are lower now than
a decade ago, yet they have increased in developed countries. The
fifth of the world's people who live in the richest countries now
have 74 times the income of the fifth who live in the poorest
countries. In 1960, that ratio was 30 to one. In 1990, it was 60
to one.
AIDS and malaria have proven that infectious diseases are also
transnationals. And global warming has reminded us that environmental
concerns transcend boundaries.
People say they feel increasingly powerless, alienated and overwhelmed.
Yet protests at last week's Prague meeting of the World Bank and
last year's riots at the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle
attest that never before have we been so plugged in. Never before
has there been so much information so readily available, or a tool
as powerful as the Internet to disseminate it.
All of this is generically called globalization -- set in motion
by intellectuals, unelected advisers and political leaders who
devised a new world trade order. And some of them now admit they
didn't fully appreciated where it might lead.
Sylvia Ostry, who was Canada's ambassador for multilateral trade
from 1985 to 1988, is one of them.
"We in the developed countries did not fully understand the
implications of the new trade system," she says "But if we didn't
understand all of the implications, the developing countries did
not understand the implications at all."
Ostry says she thought of it as "the north-south grand bargain:
The north opened its markets, the south improved its trade systems
to fit with that."
But what happened was quite different. Rather than simply making
it easier for goods and people to move across national borders,
Ostry says what was created was "a system of enormous intrusiveness
into our domestic system."
This is not to say that removing trade barriers was the sole element.
If anything, it was just one piece of a puzzle that has put us at
"the hinge of history" -- the evocative phrase Ivan Head, a former
policy adviser to Pierre Trudeau and founding director of the Liu
Centre on Global Issues, uses to describe our place in time.
While trade barriers fell and countries were aligning their systems
to quick passage of goods through their borders, the Cold War ended.
The European Union grew into a monetary, social and political unit.
The Internet exploded. Asia rose and then fell back. Scientists
began to notice that the polar ice caps are melting.
The architects of globalization can be forgiven for not having
predicted all of that. But what is troubling is that few, if any,
have clear ideas of how to fix things now.
"We are in the very difficult situation of deepening globalization
and the fragmentation of nation states," Ostry said at the recent
opening of the Liu Centre. "There is a real erosion of the nation
state and I'm not sure what the replacement is."
It's put another way by Gordon Smith -- a former deputy minister
of foreign affairs, former Canadian ambassador to NATO, who is now
chair of the International Development Research Centre and the
Canadian Institute for Climate Change and head of the University
of Victoria's Centre for Global Studies.
"What the present globalization has introduced, along with its
wealth of opportunity, is a . . . new intrusiveness -- and a new
destructiveness -- in the harm done."
In fact, in the book Altered States: Globalization, Sovereignty
and Governance that formed part of the discussion at last month's
United Nations' Millennium Assembly of world leaders, Smith and
co-author Moises Naim (Venezuela's former trade minister and a
former senior adviser to the president of the World Bank) raise
questions that sound surprisingly like those asked by protesters
on the streets.
"After surviving the long progress to democratic government, men
and women have won a disturbingly ambiguous prize: responsible
government, yes, but responsible for what? Capable of what? If
there is a power shift that now disfavours the state, what is the
remaining significance of democratic government? Can states any
longer govern? Can globalization be democratized?"
They list institutions with a "democracy deficit" and include not
just the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the International
Monetary Fund and the UN Security Council, but also Greenpeace,
Amnesty International, CNN, Microsoft and Reebok.
This public soul-searching, the admission that not all is well with
globalization and that not all may be quickly resolvable, has sent
some staunch free-marketers into paroxysms.
The Economist recently chided world leaders to "defend globalization
boldly on its merits as a truly moral cause against a mere rabble
of exuberant irrationalists on the street and in the face of mild
public skepticism that is open to persuasion."
Would that it could be so easy.
Last week, World Bank president James Wolfensohn talked publicly
about "sharing the emotions and the concerns" of the protesters on
Prague's streets, then went behind closed doors and raged against
the mob.
We came to this pass because we trusted the globe-erati -- the
unelected technocrats like Wolfensohn who flit about the world
pretending to know all the answers. But these elites prefer to deal
behind the closed doors of five-star hotels, and until they realize
that globalization also means democratization, there's no reason
to trust them or their moral cause any more than the motley crew
of protesters who turn up dressed either for war or outfitted as
endangered turtles.
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When Might Makes Wrong
The San Francisco Chronicle
October 8, 2000
Americans Are Bold. We Are Brash.
And To The Rest Of The World, We Are Clueless
by Chalmers Johnson
The American people believe that their role in the world is virtuous
-- that their actions have been for the good of others as well as
themselves.
And they insist that even when their country's actions have led to
disaster (as in Vietnam) its motives were still honorable.
But evidence is building that in the past decade, the United States
has seriously misread the nature of the world and its role in it.
As the lone surviving superpower, it might have led through diplomacy,
judiciously distributed foreign aid and the formation of coalitions
among like-minded countries. Instead, it has resorted most of the
time to bluster, military force and financial manipulation.
Throughout the world in the wake of the Cold War, official and
unofficial U.S. representatives have acted, often in covert ways,
to prop up repressive regimes or their militaries and police forces.
Such policies are setting the stage for ``blowback'' -- CIA jargon
for retaliation against the United States for its clandestine
operations in other people's countries.
Every now and then, America's imperial policies come briefly into
public view. One such moment occurred on July 17, 1998, in Rome,
when, by a margin of 120 to 7, delegates from virtually all the
nations of the world voted to establish an international criminal
court to bring to justice soldiers and political leaders charged
with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Differing
from the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which can
only settle disputes only among nations, the new court will have
jurisdiction over individuals. As a result, efforts like those to
bring Bosnian and Rwandan war criminals to justice, which today
requires specially constituted U.N. tribunals, will become far
easier. The new court will try individuals who commit or order
atrocities comparable to those of the Nazis during World War II,
Pol Pot in Cambodia, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the Serbs in Bosnia
and Kosovo, the Hutus in Rwanda, or military governments, most of
them American-trained and endorsed, like those of El Salvador,
Argentina, Chile, Honduras, Guatemala, Burma and Indonesia in the
1980s and 1990s.
Leading democracies of the world, including Britain, Canada, Holland,
France, Japan and Germany, all supported the treaty. Only Algeria,
China, Israel, Libya, Qatar, Yemen and the United States voted
against it.
American officials claim that they must protect their 200,000 troops
permanently deployed in 40 other countries from ``politically
motivated charges.'' They maintain that, due to America's ``special
global responsibilities,'' no proceedings can be permitted against
its own soldiers or clandestine agents unless the United States
itself agrees.
Evidently, American leaders believe that they are above the very
concept of international law -- unless defined and controlled by
them. They do not deal with the question of whether war-crimes
charges against Americans might on some occasions be warranted,
nor do they consider the possibility that if this country intervened
less often in the affairs of other states, particularly where none
of its vital interests were involved, it might avoid the possibility
of even a capricious indictment.
Only seven months before the Rome vote, there was another moment
when the nature of America's stealth imperialism stood revealed.
In December 1997, in Ottawa, 123 nations pledged to ban the use,
production or shipment of anti-personnel land mines. Retired American
military leaders like Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the
allied forces in the Gulf War, have endorsed the ban, arguing that these
primitive but lethal weapons have no role in modern warfare.
The Clinton administration, however, bowed to military vested interests
desperate to retain land mines in the American arsenal. Among other
things, it insisted that they were needed to protect South Korea against
the ``North's overwhelming military advantage'' -- itself a myth, exposed
by the June 2000 meeting of the leaders of North and South Korea in
which they declared the threat of war on the Korean peninsula to be over.
The holdouts against the land mine agreement were Afghanistan,
China, Russia (which later reversed its position), Vietnam -- and
the United States.
Jody Williams of Vermont went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for
her efforts in organizing the movement that resulted in the treaty.
The Clinton administration was so embarrassed by its vote that in
May 1998 it convened its own Conference on Global Humanitarian
De-mining at the State Department in a public relations attempt to
improve its image. Only 21 countries attended.
America's imperial role in East Asia today is as fragile as the
former Soviet Union's was in 1989 in Eastern Europe, when East
Germans unexpectedly tore down the Berlin Wall. Despite the fact
that the leaders of South and North Korea met last June for the
first time and pledged to end the division of their country, the
U.S. military has responded in a surly manner. The Pentagon has
said that it does not trust these agreements and intends to keep
U.S. troops in Korea, even if it is reunited.
As a result of continuous U.S. scare propaganda about the threat
of a North Korean missile, Japan has committed itself to supporting
the United States' nonexistent ``theater missile defense'' and to
building its own very expensive military reconnaissance satellites.
But on July 8, the U.S.
military's test of its so-called National Missile Defense system
abjectly failed. The United States fired a missile from Vandenberg
Air Force Base, which released a mock nuclear warhead over the
Pacific Ocean. Another missile launched from Meck Island in Kwajalein
Atoll attempted -- and failed --to shoot the warhead from the sky.
A similar test in January 2000 also failed. Given the billions of
dollars already wasted on it, the whole American star wars operation
begins to look like one huge con game.
In July, Japan hosted the annual summit meeting of the leaders of
the seven major democratic nations plus Russia (G8). The late
Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi decided to hold it in Okinawa,
an island prefecture of Japan that is also the site of 39 American
military bases. Anti-American revolt has been endemic there ever
since Okinawa's reversion to Japanese sovereignty in 1972, which
produced no change in the American presence.
The Okinawans blame both the Americans and the Japanese. They are
continuously exposed to the rape of Okinawan women and teenagers
by American Marines and sailors, environmental pollution, noise
pollution and the Pentagon's arrogant presumption that people it
has colonized and victimized for the past 55 years welcome its
presence. They blame the Japanese for collaborating with the
Americans to keep these troops on their small island.
On the eve of the summit, the U.S. military in Okinawa once again
demonstrated that it simply cannot control its own men. Early in
the morning of July 3, a drunken Marine broke into a private home
and groped a 14-year-old girl as she was sleeping. Only a few days
earlier a group of drunken Marines got into a fight with a taxi
driver as a ploy to help one of their mates avoid paying him. And
on July 10, a drunken airman ran a red light, hit an Okinawan
pedestrian and sped from the scene.
To mark President Clinton's arrival, 25,000 Okinawans joined hands
to form a human chain around the United States' Kadena Air Force
Base. On signal, they all held up red cards, the final sanction in
soccer. When a soccer referee holds up a red card, it means that
a player has so violated the spirit of the game he must get off
the field at once. That's what the Okinawans want the Americans to
do -- get their bases out now.
What I fear is that when it comes to issues like land mines or
troop deployments, a civilian president -- even one with better
military credentials than Clinton's -- can no longer tell his
military leaders what to do (or not to do). George Washington's
Farewell Address, in which he counseled Americans to ``avoid the
necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which under
any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are
to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican liberty,''
now reads more like a diagnosis than a warning. Both American
political parties enthusiastically endorse the United States'
``overgrown military establishment'' and are deaf to criticism of
America's imperial role. History suggests that this country is
riding for a big fall.
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Mideast Leads Global Weapons Purchases
Defense News This Week: 30 October 2000
<http://www.defensenews.com>
International trade in weapons in 1999 fell to $53.4 billion in
deliveries, compared with $58 billion for 1998, according to "The
Military Balance 2000-2001," released Oct. 19 by the International
Institute for Strategic Studies.
The decline does not reflect a trend, but "reflects the peaks and
troughs of delivery programs," the report said.
The report ranks the Middle East as the world's largest buyer of
weapons, with Saudi Arabia receiving deliveries worth $6.1 billion in
1999, more than any other country.
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Phantom Voters
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=65000456>
Ballot-box fraud may have real impact at the polls
Monday, October 23, 2000
The audience laughed at the end of the third debate when George W. Bush
closed by thanking his supporters and saying "for those of you for my
opponent, please vote only once." It was a joke, but one with serious
overtones.
Many experts think this election could be as close as the one in 1960, when
John F. Kennedy won by less than one vote per precinct. If so, this year's
election could include similar allegations of vote fraud. "Just as in 1960,
the temptation to steal votes in key swing states will be enormous," says
political scientist Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia. "Complacency
is so great and enforcement so lax that the odds are we'll never know how
much fraud was committed."
Kennedy supporters used local political bosses in Chicago and Texas to pad
vote totals. Vote fraud today is more sophisticated but may be just as
pervasive. "We have the modern world's sloppiest election systems," says
University of Texas political scientist Walter Dean Burnham.
Indeed, voter fraud has become a bigger problem since the 1993 federal Motor
Voter law required states to allow people to register to vote when they get
a driver's license; 47 states don't require any proof of U.S. residence for
enrollment. Motor Voter has added some eight million people to the rolls,
but the bipartisan polling team of Ed Goeas and Celinda Lake estimates that
less than 5% of "motor voters" normally go to the polls. The Justice
Department has often blocked states from weeding out people who have died or
changed addresses.
That's important because in most states you don't have to show photo
identification to vote, making it quite easy for someone to vote in someone
else's name. It also makes it easier to manipulate the growing number of
absentee ballots. In 1998, more than 40% of ballots cast in Washington,
Oregon and Nevada were absentee votes. Another 13 states saw between 20% and
40% of their votes cast absentee.
In 1998, the mayoral election in Miami was thrown out after it was learned
"vote brokers" had signed hundreds of phony absentee ballots. That same
year, former Democratic Rep. Austin Murphy of Pennsylvania was convicted of
absentee voter fraud. "In this area there's a pattern of nursing-home
administrators frequently forging ballots under residents' names," says Sean
Cavanagh, a Democratic county supervisor who uncovered the scandal. He
believes law enforcement turns a blind eye to voter fraud in many other
places.
A number of hotly contested races this year could hinge on voter fraud. Rep.
James Rogan (R., Calif.), a House impeachment manager, says that in this
year's primary his sister-in-law accidentally discovered someone had cast an
absentee ballot in her name. "The system is ripe for abuse," says Mr. Rogan,
a former municipal judge.
Mr. Rogan's biggest complaint is that California and many other states don't
require voters to show any identification at the polls. This continues at a
time when you have to show photo ID to cash a check, board an airplane or
even get a library card. Those under age 27 now have to show ID to buy
cigarettes, but not to vote. Four attempts to pass a photo ID requirement in
California have died in the legislature.
Some politicians try to make the current system even more susceptible to
fraud. Vice President Gore's office took the lead in convincing the
Immigration and Naturalization Service to waive "stupid rules" on background
checks so that hundreds of thousands of people awaiting citizenship would be
"processed in time" for the 1996 election. It was later learned that 75,000
new citizens had arrest records when they applied. A spot check of 100
random new citizens by the House Judiciary Committee found that 20% of the
sample had been arrested for serious crimes after they were given
citizenship.
What can be done about voter fraud? This year, Virginia will require voters
to show ID or sign a sworn statement of their identity. The Voting Integrity
Project, a national watchdog group, is helping local governments clean up
their voter rolls. Mike Rogers, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation
agent who is running for Congress in Michigan, says one precinct in his
district has had a 109% voter turnout; he plans to employ off-duty policemen
to check up on polling places.
But anyone who combats vote fraud comes in for abuse. The Justice Department
has become expert at raising cries of "voter intimidation" at any attempt to
monitor polling places. Last week Justice dispatched investigators to Fort
Worth, Texas, merely because a political activist there distributed leaflets
alleging Democrats were casting absentee ballots on behalf of shut-in
voters. When the Miami Herald won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the
fraud in that city's mayoral election, the Pulitzer jury noted it had been
subject to "a public campaign accusing the paper of ethnic bias and
attempted intimidation." Local officials who've tried to purge voter rolls
of felons and noncitizens have been hit with nuisance lawsuits alleging
civil-rights abuse.
Nonsense. A generation ago, the existence of insidious poll taxes and other
forms of voter intimidation represented a real threat to local democracy.
But those problems have receded, only to be replaced by old-fashioned ballot
rigging. This year saw teams of election observers in Peru, Zimbabwe and
Yugoslavia, countries where fraud has been rampant. Perhaps it's time for
some election observers in our own backyard. Surely the right to vote
includes an equal right not to have that ballot diluted by phantom or
manipulated voters, especially when the stakes are nothing less than the
presidency.
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Cloning teams cross pig and human DNA
<http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/10/08/stifgnaus01001.html>
SCIENTISTS have successfully produced an embryonic pig-human
hybrid. Human DNA was inserted into pig cells which became tiny
embryos, write Jonathan Leake and Nick Fielding.
The researchers have not revealed what happened to them, but
suggest they could have been grown further by being implanted
into a womb - and that either a pig or a human mother would have
been suitable.
The intentions of the researchers are not made clear in an
application they have submitted to the European Patent Office.
However, such embryos would be ideal for research into
therapeutic cloning, when cells are cloned, grown into tissues
such as nerve cells and then used to treat a patient.
The researchers, from Stem Cell Sciences in Australia and
Biotransplant in America, both big players in the biotechnology
industry, took a cell from a human foetus, extracted the nucleus
and then inserted it into a pig's egg cell. Two embryos were
grown to the 32-cell stage, which took a week.
Experts in medical ethics are deeply concerned about the patent
application, which has a strong chance of being granted. They say
the research exploits loopholes in European law. It is not
illegal because the embryo is not technically human.
Dr Richard Nicholson, editor of the Bulletin of Medical Ethics,
said: "This kind of research depends on devaluing human beings."
Nobody knows whether the hybrid embryos could have be-come living
beings. They would be much more human than pig because about 97%
of DNA is in the nucleus, which was human. There would, however,
be some effect from the 3% of DNA from the pig.
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Fear of a Genetic Underclass
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39502,00.html?tw=wn20001024>
As more genetic tests that can predict disease become available,
patients worry about the financial repercussions when health insurers
get the results. Some experts say the fear is unfounded.
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Rhetoric Reigns at Net Crime Meet
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39642,00.html?tw=wn20001024>
Lots of statistics and warnings on the growing cybercrime threat are
thrown about at an international meeting of Internet experts. But
solutions? Nope, no solutions yet.
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Documents reveal plan to develop Enhanced Carnivore
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/23/carnivore.continues.idg/index.html>
According to documents obtained through a freedom of information
request, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is developing
a more powerful version of its Carnivore Internet surveillance
tool, which may be able to intercept Net phone calls.
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Judge: Cops can seize bookstore records
<http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1021b.htm>
A Denver judge raised widespread concern with a ruling that police
will be allowed to search customer purchase records at a local
book store as part of a narcotics case.
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Lobbyists attempt to smother micro-broadcasting
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58803-2000Oct22.html>
William Kennard, Chairman of the FCC, takes the broadcast industry
to task for using political muscle in an effort to smother
upstart radio stations.
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Voteauction.com reaps cynical voters
<http://www.pacificresearch.org/oped/101800jm.html>
"What Internet critics don't recognize is that sites like
Voteauction are reflecting, not dictating, cultural attitudes.
When hundreds of GenXers flout the law by putting their votes
up for auction, they are opting out of the entire American
political system."
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He Who Pays The Piper Calls The Tune
<http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue406/item10450.asp>
Jim Geraghty explains why both parties love Big Business in an election
year.
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Agreement to Clone First Extinct Animal
<http://www.friendsofliberty.com/October/pr8100900.htm>
(FLI Newswire-October 8, 2000-Worcester, MA) � Advanced Cell Technology,
Inc. announced today that it has reached an agreement with the Spanish
Government to clone the extinct bucardo mountain goat. In January 2000,
gamekeepers at the Spanish Ordesa National Park found the last bucardo
mountain goat dead - killed by a falling tree. The Spanish government has
agreed to Advanced Cell Technology (ACT)'s offer to use interspecies nuclear
transfer cloning technology in collaboration with other scientific partners
to clone the bucardo from tissue retrieved and preserved before the last
animal was killed.
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Nanogen Enters Agreement With US Army-Biological Warfare Research
<http://www.friendsofliberty.com/October/pr5100900.htm>
The objective of the USAMRRA agreement is to develop an arrayable electronic
system for the identification of biological warfare or infectious disease
agents. The research will be supervised by the U.S. Army Medical Research
Institute of Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Nanogen intends
to complete and deliver devices and protocols for performing a nucleic acid
amplification and hybridization approach for detection of four biological
agents. One of the devices will be a miniaturized system.
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"Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. It means out of 'their' control."
-Jim Dodge
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