-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 114 November, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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QUOTE:
"Government cannot exist without the tacit consent of the populace. This
consent is maintained by keeping people in ignorance of their real power.
Voting is not an expression of power, but an admission of powerlessness,
since it cannot do otherwise than reaffirm the government's supposed
legitimacy."
--Fred Woodworth, 'Anarchism'
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Contents:
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--VoteScam editor speaks
--Bush campaign makes appeal to military and extreme right
--Crowd's Roar Dulls Rights [GOP goon squad]
--The Electoral Stalemate: Not The End of The World
Linked stories:
*DOE Site For Victims Of Human Radiation Experiments
*Shaking Things Up: Progressive And Radical Librarians
*Drug Czar Predicts Colombia Fight
*'Cyber-Terrorist' Jailed Again
*Is a perfect economic storm brewing?
*Trade gap soars to record
*Election turmoil sends stocks lower
*Damaged Cable Causes Internet Chaos
*Between Theory and Practice: Surveillance Camera Players
*Bush running mate in hospital
*Cops Like Bigger Busts
*Emusic Tracks Napster Naughties
*Underage Unions
*Democrats bow to bullying from the Republican right
*Gore Camp Shaken as Voting Officials Abandon Recount in Biggest County
*Counters Exhausted and Frustrated
*E-Mail: Your Eyes Only?
*Undersea Cable Break Shows Internet Vulnerability
*Florida's High Court Rejects Gore Call for Miami Recount
*Election battle goes to the top
*'Sensory' marketers reach shoppers through the nose
*The Secret Life of AAA: Environmental Foes
*Survey: Teens Using Less Marijuana, More Ecstasy
*A Nation Divided: The Call to Arms
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VoteScam editor speaks
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
19 Nov 2000
We here at Victoria House Press would like to thank everyone who has
contacted us in the past week (keeping us well on our toes!) with book and
video orders, news releases, insider information, and general support and
encouragement. Most importantly, this message is directed to the thousands
of people who are waking up right now to the dark reality of American
elections, and are faced with the anger, fear, and confusion that the rest
of us have long become accustomed to. Now you know why we've been fighting!
The 2000 election has sounded an alarm for many people who have been
asleep, who have trusted the media network's vote "projections" and who
have never questioned how their votes are counted. A rude awakening, no
doubt, but we are all happy for the new numbers in our ranks, already tens
of thousands strong. The army is growing, folks. And we've got to turn our
sights to the future.
What will come of the 2000 election? Only one thing is certain. A
media-supported movement to standardize a computerized vote count, nation
wide. The system, already in place in some counties, will be accessible by
satellite, and cell phone, with absolutely no ballot-- no paper trail. We
are being told that the current scandal in Florida is the result of "human
error" and that only the computer can ensure easy, accurate elections.
Oddly enough, the media is not informing the public that only the computer
can ensure fast, unverifiable vote rigging as well!
The only hope we have to save our system from falling completely out of our
control, necessitating an actual violent revolution (and none of us want
that, obviously) is to begin a massive campaign to educate our fellow
Americans about the threat that is facing us. We need a system that offers
us the best of both worlds: A computerized voting machine that gives a
receipt in the form of a duplicate ballot. One for the voter, and another,
in a different color but with corresponding serial number, for the ballot
box at the precinct, where the ballot MUST BE COUNTED IN THE TRADITIONAL
WAY. With strict citizen oversight! The results must then be posted on the
precinct wall so that the vote can be verified at the local level. This
would immediately neutralize any attempt by the Networks to manipulate our
numbers. If we only have the computer, with no ballot, well . . .forget it,
folks. We are checkmated. Plans are currently underway to find a
manufacturer who will produce this kind of a machine, and it is up to us to
demand it of our Secretary of State, and to let our Board of Election
members know ahead of time that we will not accept the new computer system,
so don't even try it.
Always remember that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and that
our system has only become so corrupt due to our own negligence. Please
begin by educating your friends and family. Visit the activist page on our
website, <http://www.votescam.com/activist.html>, and also
<www.votefraud.org>, (the website of Citizens for a Fair Vote Count), for
support in taking back the system.
Thank you, Victoria Collier
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Bush campaign makes appeal to military and extreme right
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/nov2000/bush-n20.shtml>
By Patrick Martin
20 November 2000
Less than 24 hours after a Florida Supreme Court decision temporarily
halted plans by the Republican-controlled state government to declare
George W. Bush the winner of the presidential election, the Bush campaign
returned to the attack in a press conference Saturday afternoon. Spokesmen
for the Texas governor combined a denunciation of the manual recount in
three south Florida counties with the allegation that the Gore campaign and
the Florida Democratic Party were seeking to exclude absentee ballots cast
by military personnel from the statewide tally.
Both the tone and the content of the statements by Bush spokeswoman Karen
Hughes and Montana Governor Marc Racicot, a Bush confidant, were
extraordinary, even by the debased standards of contemporary American politics.
Hughes declared, "We are concerned that a targeted effort by the Democratic
Party sought to throw out as many as a third of the overseas absentee
ballots received since Election Day. No one who aspires to commander in
chief should seek to unfairly deny the votes of the men and women he would
seek to command."
Racicot came close to inciting insubordination in the military, declaring,
"Last night we learned how far the vice president's campaign will go to win
this election. And I am very sorry to say but the vice president's lawyers
have gone to war, in my judgment, against the men and women who serve in
our armed forces."
The Bush campaign also released a statement from retired General Norman
Schwarzkopf, commander of US forces in the Persian Gulf War and a fervent
Bush supporter, regretting that military personnel were finding that
"because of some technicality out of their control they are denied the
right to vote for the president of the United States, who will be their
commander in chief."
The Bush campaign has shown no compunction about using technicalities to
exclude tens of thousands of potentially valid votes which punch-card
machines failed to read. In fact, Bush's entire claim to victory rests on a
technicality: the claim by Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris
that state law bars including recount totals which are submitted later than
Tuesday, November 14.
The Republicans sought to waive just such a deadline for absentee ballots,
which must be postmarked by Election Day according to state law. The
postmark requirement is not merely a technicality, however, since it is the
only indication that the ballot was actually sent from overseas.
The political significance of the military ballots goes well beyond the
relatively small number of votes, which is unlikely to affect the outcome
in Florida. Raising the issue is, on the part of the Bush campaign, a clear
attempt to foment military opposition to the Democrats and to sound out
sections of the military brass on their attitude toward a possible election
stalemate.
It is worth recalling that soon after the Clinton-Gore administration took
office, Republican Senator Jesse Helms warned the new president not to come
to military bases in his home state of North Carolina because he was so
unpopular that he would be in physical danger. During the 2000 campaign
there was an unprecedented mobilization of retired military brass behind
the Bush-Cheney campaign, including some top officers who had left active
service only days before issuing their endorsement of the Republican ticket.
The manual recount
The Republican attack on the manual recount in three south Florida counties
also had a definite political audience in mind. The Bush campaign has taken
up the claim, up to now limited to extreme right circles, that the manual
recount is a crude exercise in vote-stealing by the Gore campaign.
The factual substance of the claims about the manual recount can be
disposed of briefly. The Republicans have taken a handful of incidents,
largely innocuous or deliberately distorted, and sought to manufacture a
case that large-scale vote fraud is being carried out in Palm Beach and
Broward counties. (Miami-Dade does not begin its recount until Monday
morning, at which point fraud charges will undoubtedly be leveled there as
well.)
While Hughes and Racicot claimed there was overwhelming evidence of fraud,
none of the affidavits collected by the Republican Party have been
submitted to election officials either in the three counties concerned or
in the Republican-controlled state government. Thus, their goal in raising
the issue is not to expose or prevent real vote-stealing, but to poison
public opinion against the recount with unfounded charges, even before any
totals are announced.
The method of the Bush campaign is a further elaboration of the Big Lie
technique in which they have engaged since the election. Judge Charles
Burton, supervisor of the Palm Beach County recount, analyzed one piece of
"evidence," the presence of scotch tape on a half-dozen ballots, in some
cases taping the "chad" back over the hole indicating a vote for Bush.
Burton explained that all these ballots had been mailed in by absentee
voters who had likely punched the wrong number, then sought to rectify
their error with scotch tape. Each of these ballots had been reviewed and
then counted with the agreement of Republican and Democratic observers.
As an effort to sway the public, the claim of fraud is a futile exercise,
since it requires the American people to disbelieve the evidence of their
own senses. Television cameras have been trained on the recount since it
began, and every person involved is being watched, not only by observers
from the Democrats, Republicans and in some cases Greens, but by a
nationwide and worldwide audience. As one network commentator noted after
the Republican press conference, if there were any substance to the
charges, there would be videotape to prove it. None has been presented.
The mentality of the ultra-right
But the Bush campaign is not really targeting the public as a
whole. Rather, it is deliberately identifying itself with the most extreme
right elements, seeking to feed their frenzy against anyone who opposes the
Republican hijacking of the presidency. An entire layer of ultra-right
political operatives, right-wing talk show hosts and columnists is seeking
to whip up a lynch mob atmosphere over the Florida recount. In their
paranoid vision, the Clinton-Gore administration, the most conservative
Democratic administration in a century, is a left-wing criminal conspiracy.
The mentality of this layer is expressed in the latest outpouring from
syndicated conservative columnist Paul Craig Roberts. Under the headline,
"Stop, Thief," Roberts rants that "more than an election is being stolen.
Our country is being stolen."
According to this deranged analyst, the Democratic Party, one of the two
major capitalist parties in America, "is a revolutionary party, committed
to overthrowing the 'hegemonic power' of traditional American morality,
principles, institutions and people."
Roberts cites the geographical pattern of the vote, with Gore carrying most
of his states by relatively narrow margins, thanks to a heavy turnout in
cities and among minority voters. He writes:
"Democrats favor open borders because the millions of Third World
immigrants pouring into the United States have no tradition of
constitutional government and a rule of law. They come from lands where
control over government means enrichment and privilege, and that is what
the Democrats offer them.
"Republicans will never get this hardened bloc vote. Blacks voted 90 to 93
percent for Gore, and Hispanics gave Gore between two-thirds and
three-fourths of their vote. The longer the borders stay open, the sooner
the country will be lost."
This racist vomit was not written by David Duke or Timothy McVeigh, but by
a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration,
a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal, well-known in conservative
circles.
It demonstrates the violent hostility to democracy and the fear of the
working class and especially its poorest and most oppressed layers, which
lies just underneath the surface of right-wing politics in the United States.
It underscores the fundamental issues of democratic rights that are at
stake in the right-wing attempt to rig the Florida election result and
install an administration in Washington which will seek to carry out the
most sweeping attacks on working people in US history.
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Crowd's Roar Dulls Rights
<http://www.newsday.com/columnists/stories/tuesday/nd6805.htm>
by Dennis Duggan
11/28/00
When former Queens Congressman Thomas Manton was a policeman walking a
Harlem beat in the 1950s, the brass carefully explained his Election Day
duties, he recalls.
"We were to report to the precinct by 4 a.m., then to the polling site to
make sure the polls opened at 6 a.m.," he said. "We were told that
disruption of any kind near the voting booth would not be tolerated and
that all day long we would be visited by our captains and deputy inspectors
to make sure no one was bothering the voters." Manton worked out of the
28th Precinct in Harlem and guarded the school on 106th Street, where the
voters marked their ballots in secrecy and in silence.
"I had to make sure there was no loud arguments, no drunkenness and no
electioneering," said Manton, who went on to serve in Congress from 1985 to
1998 and is now chairman of the Queens County Democratic Organization.
So what he saw on his television the night before Thanksgiving shocked him.
A crowd of Bush supporters in Miami-Dade County were shouting and shaking
their fists at election officials, yelling, "Voter fraud!" and "The fix is
in!" For 45 minutes the angry crowd pounded on glass windows and tried to
force its way past uniformed guards into a counting room.
It was a shocking scene indeed, and one that was flashed around the world.
Manton was astounded. "That would never be allowed to happen in New York,"
he said, "because it strikes at the very heart of a voter's sacred right to
vote." Sometime today, Miami Congressman and Broward County Democrat Peter
Deutsch said he will sit down with Justice Department officials to push for
an investigation into whether members of that angry group were guilty of
violating rights of voters as outlined in the Voting Rights Act passed in
the 1960s.
Republicans argue that it was a crowd of civilians and not a mob that
gathered at the canvassing office. "Look, no one was arrested and no one
called the police for help," said Larry Mandelker, lawyer for the New York
State Republican Committee.
"All they were shouting was, 'Let the people in!'" said Mandelker, onetime
counsel to former Mayor Edward Koch. "If they had been shouting 'Stop the
count,' that would have been disturbing." Mandelker argued that a crowd
showed up after election officials moved the counting operation to another
floor. "That was like waving a red flag in front of a bull," he said.
I talked yesterday to Stanley Schlein, an election law expert and counsel
to the New York State Assembly Election Law Committee. He was still angry
over what he calls a "mob action" staged by Republicans on Thanksgiving eve.
"I don't think it has registered with many people yet because what happened
that night was totally out of any frame of reference for an American election.
"Imagine what Mayor Giuliani would have done if a similar mob stormed a
government agency in this city," he said.
Schlein calls the chilling events of that night "mind-boggling" and
"clearly a violation of the federal Voting Rights Act." "No, it wasn't
something done to prevent people from voting, but a recount is a
continuation of the voting privilege," he added.
Democratic Congressman Jerrold Nadler, just back from a weekend trip to
Florida, said yesterday, "There's a whiff of fascism in the air there,"
referring to the crowd that Palm Beach Post staff reporter Paul Lomartire
described as a "raucous crowd of screaming Republicans." Nadler is one of
Vice President Al Gore's point men in this post-election campaign. "It
makes me sick to hear Republicans say that their crowd was no different
than the one Jesse Jackson led, but Jackson's people protested peacefully
outside a building, not inside it." At the end of the day, the Miami-Dade
canvassers decided not to proceed with a recount that evening, delivering a
body blow to Gore's hopes of winning Florida's electoral votes and the
presidency.
Now the question to be asked is whether a mob influenced the choice of a
president by intimidating election officials to call off a recount that had
already given Gore 157 votes in just a handful of the precincts being
recounted.
There has been plenty of name-calling, demonizing and partisan to-and-fro.
Fair game. But what I and Manton and millions of Americans saw on
television was the dark side of the American face.
It wasn't a pretty sight.
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The Electoral Stalemate: Not The End of The World
reflections on the election mess
Nov 16, 2000
by David McReynolds
This was a fight out of which I thought I would stay. But
watching the flow of impassioned emails crossing my modem,
maybe it would be worth weighing in. I have a small supply
of pomposity left over from my recent campaign - let me put
it to use.
First, this election is the most remarkable I've ever seen.
I'm old enough to remember the 1948 election when, as a 17
year old youth, I was working in Finney County Kansas,
organizing for the Prohibition Party. It took me days to
recover from the impossibility of Trumans' victory. (There
was a lesson buried in that election, which Al Gore
remembered - fight until the last instant. Bush's handlers
are angry that, unlike Gore, Bush rested on his laurels,
coasting to what he thought would be a clear victory).
Yes, we are all caught up in something historic and of
course we want to talk about it. But a good deal of what
I've read is irrelevant There was no conspiracy in the
Florida voting - if anything Bush was hurt by the early
call, giving the State to Gore - it demoralized his own
voters in the far West. Those in charge of the now infamous
ballots in Palm Beach (where Mary Cal Hollis and I - and
the Socialist Party - have gotten more media coverage
after the campaign was over than at any time during it!)
were Democrats, not Bushites. They were trying to simplify
things and failed.
Second, the media is in deep shit. To call a state wrong
twice in the same night, and then to award the Presidency
before all the votes had been counted - it will be many
years before the media or the pollsters will be trusted
again. The media should not "call" an election. Express an
opinion, sure. But "call a state", let alone an election,
is something they will want to stay away from. Far away.
Never have so many talking heads been so covered, head to
toe, in egg.
Third, there is no constitutional crisis. We don't have a
conflict between a party of the far right and the far left
- even though many of the folks whose posts I've read are
treating it this way. There were no major divisions during
the election.
Let's assume Gore wins (I won't deny I'm uneasy about
George W. sitting in the Oval Office - he is not a moron,
but he is incredibly ill-cast for the office of President).
Executions will still go on throughout the nation. Many
thousands of children and the elderly will continue to die
in Iraq because of our sanctions. The economic situation in
Cuba will remain serious because of the sanctions there.
Military spending will increase. If Gore wins, we are more
likely to have an interventionist foreign policy than if
George W. wins. (The daily death toll in the Occupied
Territories of Palestine will be more likely to rise with
Gore - since the Democrats are more deeply indebted to
the Jewish vote than the GOP).
Let's look back to 1952, when many on the Left felt that if
Eisenhower was elected we would have a quasi-military
dictatorship, a terrible supreme court, and the triumph of
McCarthyism. In fact, Eisenhower ended the Korean War,
pulled the rug from under McCarthy, and appointed Earl
Warren as Chief Justice.
With the exception of Bush and Reagan, both of them bloody
minded in their foreign policies, the Democrats have
historically been more likely to send our youth to war.
(Have we forgotten Vietnam? Kennedy and Johnson?). The much
hated Nixon presided over the end of the Vietnam War, he
didn't start it. (And on the domestic front, Nixon was to
the left of Bill Clinton).
Regardless of who finally wins this weird contest, they
will have little power. The media has been telling us how
effectively Kennedy governed despite his narrow (and
possibly illegitimate) victory. But he DIDN'T govern
effectively. He was a weak president who left the CIA and
the FBI untouched, who authorized the Bay of Pigs, set us
on the path to intervention in Vietnam - with bi-partisan
support. Only his murder has caused his history to be
re-written.
At this point it honestly doesn't matter who wins. If Bush
wins, he won't dare submit bad supreme court nominations -
the Senate won't confirm. (Remember Nixon lost two fights
over weak nominations). There will be so much anger about
whoever wins, that there will be a sense of illegitimate
rule. Congress will either find a way to get along, or we
will have a stalemate. But it is certain Bush can't ram
things through - nor, if he wins, could Gore.
If we are radicals, and this writer is, then it is fun to
watch the fuss, but we don't have much stake in it and
should not spend too much time on it. Nothing much will
change. The political framework is too evenly balanced.
Yes, if Gore had won a clear victory, things might have
been better for labor and minority groups. (But then again,
look at Clinton's record on welfare reform). The left is
behaving as if Al Gore was really their candidate - he
wasn't. If the Left had a candidate it was Ralph Nader, who
is currently "everyone's favorite enemy" for costing poor
Al Gore the election.
A more careful observation suggests that Nader might have
pushed the political framework a tiny bit to the Left. Yes,
I know that organized labor had a stake in Gore's victory -
and I do understand angry Democrats who say that "voting
one's conscience is fine if you are white and middle class
- but what about working folks?". This suggests a couple of
things the Left should be careful to avoid. One is the
assumption working folks and communities of color don't
have a conscience, only economic interests. That sells them
short. In the long run do American workers want to increase
their share of the pie if it means more dead kids in
Baghdad? Do they want to turn away from the murderous
military actions of the Barak government?
In any case all of this is moot. The fury of Florida, the
butterfly ballots of Palm Beach, the battalions of lawyers
being air dropped into Miami by both parties - all are fun
to watch but anyone who thinks this will make much
difference in how the country is run has a different view
of reality than I do. (Yes, if Bush had won an overwhelming
vote, then his hidden right wing agenda would have gone
public, but he didn't, and it can't. And yes, if Al Gore
had won a resounding victory we might have somewhat better
judges appointed. But he didn't. What we have is a standoff
and to our immediate interests, moral or economic, the
results aren't that important.
What will happen is that the key forces behind the scenes
will compel a fairly early end of this mess. It isn't good
for the stock market. It isn't good for the US image
abroad. My hunch is that since November 8th some phone
lines of people whose names we barely know have been
humming with working out the agreement they will then
impose on both Bush and Gore.
We are better advised to find ways of bringing pressure to
bear on whoever becomes president on issues ranging from
Star Wars to the Middle East, from the drug wars to capital
punishment, from decent health care to a rising minimum
wage - all things where we found ourselves, all during the
campaign, in opposition to BOTH "major" parties.
----
David McReynolds was the
Socialist Party candidate for President - who has conceded
and is not demanding a recount /web site: <www.votesocialist.org>
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Linked stories:
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DOE Site For Victims Of Human Radiation Experiments
<http://tis.eh.doe.gov/ohre/>
The Office of Human Radiation Experiments, established in March 1994, leads
the Department of Energy's efforts to tell the agency's Cold War story of
radiation research using human subjects. We have undertaken an intensive
effort to identify and catalog relevant historical documents from DOE's 3.2
million cubic feet of records scattered across the country. Internet access
to these resources is a key part of making DOE more open and responsive to
the American public.
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Shaking Things Up: Progressive And Radical Librarians
<http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib77.html>
-- Marylaine Block, a librarian from Davenport Iowa, dispels the myth that
all bookies are stodgy. To illustrate the point, she interviews the
self-proclaimed anarchist librarian Jessamyn West.
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Drug Czar Predicts Colombia Fight
<http://news.findlaw.com/ap/i/1102/11-21-2000/20001121123550310.html>
White House drug czar Barry McCaffrey on Monday predicted heavy fighting
in an approaching U.S.-backed anti-drug offensive and warned that there
would be repercussions for Colombia's neighbors. But with ``vital''
U.S. interests at stake, and insurgents growing stronger through
deepening ties to the drug trade, McCaffrey said he saw no alternative
to the $1.3 billion effort set to get under way in January.
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'Cyber-Terrorist' Jailed Again
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40300,00.html?tw=wn20001121>
Jim Bell, whose 'Assassination Politics' scheme enraged law
enforcement officials, is back in jail seven months after being freed.
The charge: allegedly threatening the feds.
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Is a perfect economic storm brewing?
<http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/493184.asp>
With the Nasdaq retreating, corporate profit growth slowing and the
election in limbo, the mighty U.S. economy is in trouble.
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Trade gap soars to record
<http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/493037.asp>
The U.S. trade deficit surged to a record $34.3 billion in September
as Americans' appetite for cars, clothes and other foreign goods hit
an all-time high while exports shrank slightly.
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Election turmoil sends stocks lower
<http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/158521.asp>
Stocks dropped Wednesday as the Florida Supreme Court ruling
allowing manual recounts in the presidential vote and persistent
worries about slowing profit growth pressured the market.
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Damaged Cable Causes Internet Chaos
<http://tm0.com/IHT/sbct.cgi?s=80180978&i=279888&d=646706>
SYDNEY - Telecommunications authorities were rushing to repair a
damaged undersea cable Tuesday that caused connection chaos for
millions of Internet users in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United
States.
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Between Theory and Practice: Surveillance Camera Players
<http://monkeyfist.com/Talk/SCP/#start>
The Surveillance Camera Players, a group of
anarchists and Situationist activists, explore
the erosion of privacy and free speech in the
streets, on the Web and in the workplace.
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Bush running mate in hospital
<http://itn.co.uk/news/20001122/world/08uselection_reaction.shtml>
Republican George W Bush's running mate Dick Cheney has been
taken to hospital in Washington with chest pains.
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Cops Like Bigger Busts
<http://news.findlaw.com/ap/i/1102/11-22-2000/20001122004726160.html>
Smashing cocaine laboratories and burning marijuana fields, police in 32
countries and territories have arrested thousands of suspects and seized
tons of drugs in three weeks of U.S.-orchestrated raids, officials said
Tuesday. Police arrested 2,876 people and seized more than 20 tons of
cocaine during the operation, said Michael Vigil, Caribbean director of
the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which coordinated the raids.
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Emusic Tracks Napster Naughties
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,40316,00.html?tw=wn20001122>
Digital music retailer Emusic develops a tracking system to find --
and ferret out -- users trading unauthorized tracks on the file-sharing
network.
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Underage Unions
<http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/ND00/underage.html>
From the latest issue: Across the world, child
laborers are banding together to demand "work with dignity." But
international labor organizations say they won't support child-worker
unions -- because kids shouldn't be working, period.
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Democrats bow to bullying from the Republican right
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/nov2000/elec-n23.shtml>
Capitulating to the threat of violence from right-wing elements backing
Republican candidate George W. Bush, the election board of
Miami-Dade County voted Wednesday to call off its recount of the
presidential vote and submit an admittedly inaccurate machine count as its
official tally. The action means that the votes of more than 10,000 Miami
residents will be excluded.
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Gore Camp Shaken as Voting Officials Abandon Recount in Biggest County
<http://tm0.com/IHT/sbct.cgi?s=80180978&i=280197&d=651916>
WASHINGTON - The Gore campaign was stunned Wednesday when election
officials in the most populous Florida county, Miami-Dade, reversed
themselves and canceled all recounts - an action that came less than a
day after the Florida Supreme Court had ordered the state to accept
vote recounts from three strongly disputed counties.
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Counters Exhausted and Frustrated
<http://tm0.com/IHT/sbct.cgi?s=80180978&i=280197&d=651918>
MIAMI - Exhausted and frustrated by a new deadline, the Miami-Dade
election canvassing board dropped its manual recount Wednesday, just
hours after it voted to count only unrecorded, disputed ballots to
save time.
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E-Mail: Your Eyes Only?
<http://tm0.com/IHT/sbct.cgi?s=80180978&i=280197&d=651920>
NEW YORK - Marketing companies now regularly keep tabs on which
prospective customers open their e-mail solicitations, and at what
time of day, arguing that consumers benefit because the information
is used to devise more personalized promotions. Individuals who have
used e-mail tracking services say they feel entitled to monitor their
own correspondence in a medium where it is so easily passed along or
ignored.
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Undersea Cable Break Shows Internet Vulnerability
<http://tm0.com/IHT/sbct.cgi?s=80180978&i=280197&d=651921>
The break in a key undersea cable link between Australia and Singapore
this week underlines the vulnerability of global telecommunication
networks and the need for access to alternatives in case of
emergencies, executives said Wednesday.
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Florida's High Court Rejects Gore Call for Miami Recount
<http://tm0.com/sbct.cgi?s=80180978&i=280333&d=653700>
Vice President Al Gore's efforts to win the presidency suffered
another setback Thursday afternoon when the Supreme Court of Florida
denied his campaign's appeal to force Miami-Dade County to resume its
manual recount.
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Election battle goes to the top
<http://itn.co.uk/news/20001124/world/04us.shtml>
The legal wrangling over the extraordinary US presidential election is
going to the very top. Both Al Gore and George W Bush's campaign teams have
now appealed to the US Supreme Court over hand recounts.
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'Sensory' marketers reach shoppers through the nose
<http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ.asp?/news/494193.asp>
Marketers are finding that a better way for retailers to reach the
hearts of new shoppers and steady customers is through their noses.
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The Secret Life of AAA: Environmental Foes
<http://www.nrdc.org/amicus/01win/aaa/aaa.asp>
-- Besides the maps, the insurance, and the late-night tows, your friendly
all-American auto club, a model of consumer advocacy, has a political
agenda. And it's no good for the environment. The American Automobile
Association consistently opposes laws that would lead to cleaner air and a
healthier environment, reports Michael A. Rivlin of Amicus Journal.
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Survey: Teens Using Less Marijuana, More Ecstasy
<http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=265208>
A newly released survey says that U.S. teens are smoking
less marijuana, but are more likely to use ecstasy.
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A Nation Divided: The Call to Arms
<http://www.sierratimes.com/edjj111800.htm>
"America, we've used the ballot box. We've used the jury box. But our opponents
wish to wage a political war. Our statement to them must be: "What took you so
long?" A black christian republican speaks.
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