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Contents:
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--Anarchists ask for accuracy
--Note to protesters: It's too soon to give up
--DOD database to fight cybercrime
--Arms Trade Ups and Downs
--Campaign Against Bioterrorism: Dangerous To Your Health
--Sad Revelation About Modern American Medicine
Linked stories:
*Drug Checkpoints Continue, Despite Court Ruling
*IRS considers regulating Web speech
*Serious concerns remain over FBI's Carnivore system
*FBI surveillance tactics questioned
*Presidential gridlock cheers U.S. secessionists
*Hobbled president may be less imperial
*Masculinity as a Foreign Policy Issue
*Ritalin Becomes Drug of Choice for Schoolchildren
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Anarchists ask for accuracy
Not all anarchists fit the stereotype, and many have an
alternative approach to the controversial philosophy
By Sarah Thompson
Oregon Daily Emerald
September 18, 2000
Angry young protesters clad in black. Yelling in the
streets. Breaking windows. Chaos.
Recent mainstream media coverage of events, such as the June
18 protests in Eugene and the World Trade Organization
protest in Seattle, has added to the stereotype of
anarchists as violent trouble-makers. However, the reality
of the anarchist movement in Eugene is quite different than
what the stereotype would lead a person to believe.
"Primarily, I think the media looks for the stereotypical
anarchist to interview," said Audrey Vanderford, a
self-proclaimed anarchist living in Eugene and a University
graduate student in the folklore department. Her focus is on
political pranks, with a specific interest in street
performances at large protests, such as action at the World
Trade Organization situation in Seattle. "Black-clad, young,
white, male, angry, ungrammatical, spewing violent talk. It
fits into the larger message that the mainstream media will
always give, which is anarchist equals terrorist."
While some anarchists do fit the stereotype and do believe
in violent tactics, they definitely do not represent the
majority of the Eugene anarchist community.
Some are young, and some are old. Some dress in black and
have body piercings; some don't. Some have attended the
protests and riots and have interacted with the police, but
many haven't.
The truth is that anarchists are a very diverse group of
people with different beliefs.
Shelley Cater is a 35-year-old anarchist and forest
activist. She is also mother to two children and works on
the crew of Cascadia Alive!, a public-access television show
in Eugene/Springfield produced by anarchists.
"The textbook definition of anarchism, without rule, without
rulers, is something I guess anybody who calls themselves
anarchists would have to hold as a basic tenet," Cater said.
"As far as the finer points about how to bring it about, how
to produce a paradigm that doesn't exist inside the paradigm
of destruction and greed, that's a tougher one. Everybody
has different views about tactics."
Cascadia Alive! is the anarchist media outlet. Cater helps
produce the public access show, which is aired live on cable
channel 97 at 9 p.m. on Wednesday nights.
"Every week we allow other people to have their voices
heard, and we do a very minimal amount of controlling what
goes on the show," Cater said. "Sometimes that results in a
really boring show or a really controversial show or a
really informative show. It just always comes out the way it
comes out."
Vanderford defines anarchism as "the rejection of domination
in all its forms -- sexism, racism, capitalism, homophobia,
nationalism and environmental destruction." She said that
anarchists believe that humans are inherently good and that
they don't need institutions, such as the government, police
and religion to protect them from each other.
"Anarchists believe in 'mutual aid'," she said. "The idea of
building an alternative community that provides and assists
each member in a non-hierarchical, non-exploitative manner."
Mutual aid is, in fact, a large part of what the Eugene
anarchist community is about. However, nobody is sure of
exactly how large that group is.
The number of people who actually consider themselves
anarchists is pretty small, said Lucy Humus, a Eugene
resident and part of the anarchist community.
"Then there's this huge community of anywhere from 200 to
800 people who interact in a mutual aid-type way," Humus
said.
While the national media has recently been portraying Eugene
as a hotbed for anarchy, Cater says that this is a false
notion.
"I know anarchists in every city I ever visit in this
country," she said, "and some of those communities are way
more together than we are."
However, because of all of the media attention Eugene has
been getting, Cater said that a lot more anarchists are
coming to check out the scene for themselves.
"There's anarchists all over the world," she said. "It's a
very powerful movement. It's a movement with a lot of
history."
A history that is filled, at least one anarchist said, with
misrepresentations.
"The media's interpretation of the anarchists is exactly
what police feed them," Steve Heslin said. "It's the same
misrepresentation that was started in 1886 with the Hay
Market anarchists."
It's true that the anarchy movement is nothing new, and in
Eugene, anarchists have been working to achieve their goal
for a long time through various projects. Community gardens,
such as the one at Scobert Park in the Whiteaker
neighborhood, have sprung up in different locations around
the city. Here, anarchists and activists work together
planting and maintaining organic gardens that provide food
for those who need it and a beautiful place to visit for
others.
There are also housing co-ops, education and day care
programs and, of course, political activism. Protesting and
rallying are the activities that receive the most attention
from both the media and the Eugene Police Department.
Cater and Humus both said that they choose not to
participate in the protests and riots, and that sentiment is
shared by many anarchists.
Food Not Bombs is another project run primarily by the
anarchist community. It provides free meals to those who
need it weekly at Scobert Park. Humus said that Food Not
Bombs has at least 400 chapters around the world.
"They're all getting food from their local community,
cooking it and serving it hot for free in a public place,"
Humus said. "It's a perfect example of shared leadership and
cooperation."
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Note to protesters: It's too soon to give up
by MADELAINE DROHAN
Friday, October 27, 2000
The Globe and Mail
MONTREAL -- You wouldn't know it from much of the media
commentary, but the number of protesters showing up to
demonstrate at international gatherings has been dropping
like a stone.
Where an estimated 50,000 marched through the streets of
Seattle last December to protest against the World Trade
Organization, there were only about 500 in Montreal this
week for the meeting of the Group of 20.
The turnout at meetings between these two never even came
close to Seattle, which was billed as the beginning of a
mounting wave of protest. About 10,000 showed up in
Washington for the spring meetings of the International
Monetary Fund and World Bank. The Organization of American
States meeting in Windsor in June drew about 3,000. And
Prague, where the IMF and World Bank held their fall
meetings, managed to attract only about 5,000, despite the
much larger population base in the area.
The trend line is decidedly down. The protests appear to be
running out of steam, just as globalization is building
momentum. What's going on? And why did the protesters give
Montreal a miss? If any group could be considered at the
very centre of globalization, it is the finance ministers
and central bankers from the Group of 20 countries.
A number of explanations suggest themselves, although none
is entirely satisfying.
Organized labour has not engaged in any meaningful way in
these protests since Seattle, where they were out in force.
By some estimates, unionists accounted for 40,000 of the
50,000 demonstrators at the WTO meeting. It was the union
turnout that made a large demonstration massive.
There was a reason for that. The focus of the meeting was on
freer trade, which the unions fear will lead to increased
job losses in North America. As well, they were guaranteed
the attention of President Clinton, who was playing host to
the international gathering.
So the unions largely gave the meetings since Seattle a pass
although they are organizing now for the Summit of the
Americas in Quebec next April where 34 countries will
discuss freer trade. It could also be that the unions are
preoccupied with election campaigns on both sides of the
border.
But what of the other protesters -- the development and
human rights groups, the environmentalists and the
anarchists? Why have their numbers been falling too?
Some may have been put off by the violence of earlier
demonstrations -- although it is never as bad on the ground
as it appears on television. Still, most people don't like
the idea of being tear-gassed, bopped on the head by a baton
or charged by mounted police. They would prefer to make
their mark in some other way.
Trade could again provide some of the answer. It is one of
the simpler aspects of globalization to grasp. You can
easily visualize not only its spread but also its effect in
certain countries. Seattle was the only purely trade meeting
so far. Worthy as the global financial architecture may be,
it is such a nebulous area that most people would be
hard-pressed to describe what it is, let alone why they
should protest against it.
That might explain why the protest chants have changed from
pithy slogans such as "Life is not a commodity!" in Seattle
and "Smash the IMF!" in Prague to the rather plaintive "We
want to know!" in Montreal. That was what a small band of
youths were shouting as they marched against the traffic on
Ste-Catherine Street.
But if the protesters were as informed as some of their
number have claimed in interviews, you'd think they would
realize that members of the Group of 20 were the perfect
target audience for their concerns. The group cuts across
developed and developing countries and is the only broad
international gathering looking into the impact of
globalization.
Better yet, they have professed their willingness to look
into the social side-effects of globalization and have
instructed their officials to investigate and report back.
This is fine as far as it goes. But the protesters should be
aware that unless they keep the non-violent pressure on,
work to address their concerns could be quietly shelved. It
is much too soon for them to declare victory.
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DOD database to fight cybercrime
<http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/1030/web-data-11-02-00.asp>
BY George I. Seffers
11/02/2000
The Defense Department is on the verge of completing a common database
to aid the defense and intelligence communities in battling
cybercrime, according to the new commander of the Pentagons Joint Task
Force for Computer Network Defense.
The database will enable those involved in computer emergency response
across DOD, the intelligence agencies and the FBI to share information
critical to protecting their networks against intruders.
The database is in the final stages of development and likely will be
"an operational reality" in early 2001, said Maj. Gen. James Bryan,
who commands the JTF-CND.
"Having the ability to create a common database and to share that
database allows us to take advantage of modern Web techniques in
regard to management, reporting and alerting," said Bryan, who also
serves as the vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
One of the main benefits, according to Bryan, is that the department
will be able to collect data on cyberattacks or attempted attacks,
categorize them and better understand them.
"Storing them in a database that can be shared means we can profile
the threats so that we can see patterns of activity that will allow us
to do a much better job of understanding and describing what's going on
and taking the proper actions to counter it," Bryan said.
"Also, I think a shared database allows people to do what humans do
best, and that is to share ideas," he said. "The really qualified
people in this computer network warfare business are a fairly small
community of experts, and this database will provide them a forum and
opportunity not only to share data but to share ideas as well."
The database is only one of several initiatives the task force is
undertaking to build its arsenal of cyberwarfare weaponry. Others
include developing automated technologies for monitoring the network,
reporting intrusion events and improving response time.
"Weve got to develop more real-time intrusion detection and ways of
reporting without becoming intrusive ourselves," Bryan said. "Were
developing technology that will allow us to automatically sense
whether our firewalls have the right configuration within them or
whether the antivirus updates are in fact up to date."
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Arms Trade Ups and Downs
by Rachel Stohl, Senior Analyst, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Center for Defense Information
The Weekly Defense Monitor
November 2, 2000
As conflict rattles various corners of the globe, the force of today's
sophisticated (and not so sophisticated ) weaponry is in full display.
While stones and primitive grenades are thrown throughout the Middle East,
high-tech helicopters fly overhead firing machine guns and missiles.
While the world seems at times to be embroiled in war, a new report reveals
that the global trade in arms actually decreased in 1999.
"The Military Balance 2000-2001," an annual publication of the
International Institute for Security Studies (IISS), covers armed conflict,
the international arms trade, military budgets, and other security issues
for countries around the world. The current edition reports that while
the world arms trade fell in 1999, the United States still far outweighed
all other suppliers in terms of the value and quantity of arms sales.
What's more, IISS stresses that current U.S. policies will have the United
States continuing to export huge quantities of weapons around the world
for years to come.
"The Military Balance" pegged global arms deliveries at $53.4 billion in
1999, down from $58 billion in 1998. The Middle East remained the number
one destination for weapons. Saudi Arabia was the biggest recipient of
weapons, receiving $6.1 billion in deliveries in 1999. However, Saudi
imports were down as well from $10.8 billion in 1998. East Asia and
Australasia were the second biggest region for arms deliveries in 1999,
with Taiwan the leading importer with arms deliveries worth $2.6 billion.
As already noted, the United States remained the world's largest arms
exporter, with 49.1% of market share in 1999, up from 47.6% in 1998. The
UK ranked second with 18.7%, and France was third with12.4%. Russia's
value of arms transfers actually increased in 1999, up to 6.6% in 1999
from 4.6% in 1998.
Although the value of arms deliveries in 1999 decreased, IISS analysts
believe this does not represent a trend. According to the report, "global
military expenditure overall in 1999 was, at $809 billion, much the same
as in 1998 and available budgets for 2000 and beyond do not indicate a
decline." Further, "arms procurement usually accounts for 20-30% of the
military budgets of the larger arms-purchasing countries, while the
largest portion is normally spent on operations, maintenance, and
personnel." The report notes that, other than Western Europe, military
budgets do not appear to be falling, indicating that the percentage of
defense budgets spent on weapons is remaining constant.
In the United States, the ability to export more weapons more easily is
growing. In mid-2000, the Clinton Administration announced its new
Defense Security Trade Initiative (DTSI). DTSI is "intended to expedite
the export licensing process to improve industrial competitiveness" (for
more information on DTSI see "U.S. Changes Arms Export Policy," Weekly
Defense Monitor, June 1, 2000, at:
<http://www.cdi.org/weekly/2000/issue22.html#2>.
The proposals will
streamline the export licensing process and reduce the time necessary for
industry to obtain permission to export U.S. weaponry abroad. Although
language in this year's Security Assistance Act attempted to standardize
the license exemption process and make requirements for exemption as
strict as possible, there is no indication that U.S. weapons will end up
more secure than they are under the current system. The real
beneficiaries of DTSI are the defense industry and those eager and able
to buy U.S.-manufactured weapons.
The U.S. is in no danger of losing its tremendous lead as the world's
largest exporter. Still, the United States looks for every possible angle
through which to retain its advantage. Whether through DTSI reforms or
restrictive resolutions killed in the Congress, the U.S. seems loathe to
risk its potential to make the next big sale.
In October House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) protected a $4 billion
contract for Bell Textron's KingCobra Helicopters when he blocked House
consideration of a sense-of-the-House resolution recalling the genocidal
deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey from 1915-1923. Turkey, which
adamantly denies the charge of genocide, had threatened to restrict U.S.
use of the Incirlik airbase, impose sanctions against the United States,
and withdraw defense projects from U.S. industry if the resolution went
forward.
Even in the face of war, the U.S. is arranging arms transfers. The U.S.
has over $1 billion in sales of Apache and Blackhawk helicopters to Israel
pending -- paid for with U.S. funds -- even though there is clear and
convincing evidence that the Israeli Defense Forces are using similar
helicopters to attack civilians. The United States need not cancel these
contracts but should at least suspend the sale until the renewed fighting
in the Middle East ceases and assurances can be made that the helicopters
will not be used against civilians.
Because the U.S. will dominate the arms trade for the foreseeable future,
it should set an example by weighing human rights concerns, the regional
security balance, and the danger of retransfer when negotiating an arms
trade. Being the world's largest exporters must bring some
responsibilities. The United States ought to begin to live up to them.
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Campaign Against Bioterrorism: Dangerous To Your Health
By Hillel Cohen
Nov. 2, 2000
Workers World newspaper
The campaign and initiatives currently underway against
"bioterrorism" may be more dangerous to the health of the
people of this country than the very unlikely threat of a
bioterrorist incident.
The bioterrorism program puts the Pentagon, the FBI and
other police agencies in a leadership role in the making of
major public health policy decisions. These agencies have a
long and bloody record of working against the interests of
the people. Putting them in charge of health planning will
be a disaster for public health.
Some in the public health field are of course hoping that
the bioterrorism campaigns will provide some trickle-down
money for desperately needed public health infrastructure.
But instead the distorted priorities may wipe out any gains
in that regard. Every dollar spent on bioterrorism
preparedness is a potential health dollar wasted.
Health providers also risk losing all credibility in the
oppressed and working class communities that need health
services the most.
There are other, very real dangers from bioterrorism
"defense" initiatives.
UNSAFE VACCINES
Right now, U.S. GIs are being forced to take anthrax
vaccines. Anthrax has been considered a potential biological
warfare agent for almost a hundred years. A U.S. biological
warfare program in the 1940s developed and manufactured tons
of anthrax spores. Other countries followed suit. Yet,
despite all the talk about anthrax, it has never been used--
either by terrorists or in warfare.
A vaccine for anthrax has been used by veterinarians and
animal hide workers for years to protect against contracting
the disease through the skin. However, the weaponized form
of anthrax is transmitted as spores through the air. No
vaccine has ever been shown to be effective in humans for
this variety.
Also, the side-effects of the vaccine are not known. Some
soldiers have reported getting ill soon after getting the
vaccination, and other soldiers have risked court-martial
for refusing to take it.
Anthrax vaccine was given to Gulf War troops along with
pyridostigmine bromide, an experimental antidote for a nerve
gas that has never been used in war. It is possible that
these agents, along with depleted uranium, may be among
several possible contributors to Gulf War Syndrome, the
general name for serious illnesses that have affected tens
of thousands of veterans.
Although the anthrax vaccination program may be stopped soon
due to protests, the Pentagon has announced it is beginning
a similar program with smallpox vaccine.
ACCIDENTS AT RESEARCH AND STORAGE SITES
Research and development of biological and chemical weapons
agents leave plenty of room for accidents at research and
storage centers. Anthrax was accidentally released at a
Russian facility during the Cold War, and nerve gas was
accidentally released at a U.S. facility.
Toxic residues from old facilities in the U.S. have been
found seeping from the land and into water supplies. Just
recently a Canadian facility announced that untreated waste
had been accidentally released. A technician at Fort
Detrick, Md., a U.S. Army biological and chemical warfare
center, came down with a case of glanders--a disease common
in horses, not people, that is considered a potential
biological warfare agent.
Accidents at nuclear plants like Three Mile Island and
Chernobyl and just recently in Japan also show that
supposedly "fail-safe" precautions can fail big-time.
A NEW ARMS RACE
Research on biological and chemical agents in the name of
defense against bioterrorism also sets the stage for a new
arms race in these agents. Like National Missile Defense--
formerly known as the Strategic Defense Initiative or Star
Wars--a defense program can be part of an offensive
strategy. Other countries may not accept the Pentagon
assurances that such programs are for defense only, and may
start work on their own programs as a deterrent.
The history of the nuclear arms race has shown that the
development of newer and bigger nuclear weapons didn't make
the world safer-it just made more possible the world-wide
destruction of a nuclear winter. A complete ban on storage,
production and research would make everyone safer.
One thing that makes the threat of bioterrorism seem so real
is the actual danger of natural outbreaks of infection as
well as accidental food and environmental poisoning. Tens of
thousands of cases of serious food poisoning happen every
year.
Outbreaks like the West Nile virus in New York can happen
suddenly. There has been speculation, but no evidence, that
the virus may have escaped from the nearby Plum Island Level
3 biological agent defense research center.
Toxic waste, corporate pollution and unsafe additives to
food and commercial products happen every day. The need for
more effective public health prevention, protection and
response capability is desperately needed. But instead, the
money is being wasted on chasing bioterrorism phantoms.
HOAXES AND FALSE ALARMS
Before the bioterrorism scare campaign, there was no such
thing as an anthrax hoax. Since the bioterrorism campaign,
there have been hundreds of anthrax hoaxes, costing many
millions of dollars and creating lots of fear.
Right-wing, so-called "right-to-life" elements have used
anthrax hoaxes to disrupt family planning and abortion
clinics. A false fire-alarm or phony bomb threat might
disrupt a center for less than an hour. A phony anthrax
threat can cause a disruption for days, since the non-
anthrax is harder to detect than the non-bomb. The hype
about bioterrorism has made such hoaxes credible.
EXCUSE FOR WITCH HUNTS AND POLITICAL REPRESSION
Fanatical anti-terrorism can create a climate of witch-
hunting against immigrants and political dissidents. The
anti-communism frenzy of the 1950s led to the McCarthy witch-
hunt which did terrible damage to civil liberties, union
organizing and political expression.
Already, in the name of anti-terrorism, immigrants have been
locked away in jail for years without charges or evidence.
The case of Wen Ho Lee, like the case of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg 50 years ago, shows how easily the government can
manipulate the public's poor understanding of scientific
issues.
The Wen Ho Lee case fell apart only when an FBI agent
admitted lying on the stand. It's not hard to imagine the
FBI using a two-week-old, moldy turkey salad sandwich in the
back of someone's refrigerator as "evidence" to frame up a
political opponent as an alleged bioterrorist.
While medical treatment--drugs, operations and medical
services--are a huge part of the economy, very little money
is spent on preventive medicine and public health.
Some public health departments don't even have ordinary
desktop computers for their surveillance and monitoring
systems. The government employs far too few food and water
safety inspectors relative to the need.
The West Nile virus frenzy in New York is not an example, as
one senator claimed, of lack of preparedness for
bioterrorism. Rather it demonstrated the low level of
preparedness for ordinary natural disease outbreaks and for
emergencies that might be caused by corporate negligence in
the pursuit of profit.
In a children's fable, Chicken Little got hit on the head
with an acorn and thought "the sky is falling." In a panic,
she gathered her feathered friends to get help. Foxy Loxy
kindly invited the frightened fowl into his den for
protection, and they were never seen again.
When the Foxy Loxys at the Pentagon tell us of the terrible
dangers of bioterrorism, seeking their kind protection may
be very dangerous indeed.
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Sad Revelation About Modern American Medicine
<http://medicaltruth.com/FDA-AMA/story2.html>
10-26-00
It has come to light that the FDA and the Pharmaceutical Advertising Counsel
("PAC"), which represents some 35 major drug companies, have formed and
co-funded a corporation under a joint letterhead, calling itself the National
Council Against Health Fraud ("NCAHF"). Under this questionable aegis,
William Jarvis, MD, and Stephen Barrett, MD, and others, are paid to publicly
discredit as unscientific or unknown any or all viable herbs, vitamins,
homeopathic remedies or non-allopathic therapies, particularly those that are
proven to have the most promise and present the greatest threat to the PAC
members.
The FDA regularly approves dangerous, often lethal pharmaceuticals. Most of
the time, the side effects of these drugs can only be fully discovered by
wide-spread use. This is despite the average $250-500,000,000 and 15 years to
bring these drugs to market, including phase trial tests, trying to prove the
elusive "efficacy" requirement of the F.D.&C. Act.
Typically, after one of these highly publicized "wonder" drugs fails, causes
death or serious side effects, no FDA official nor PAC member company
president, research assistant, corporate official, company doctor nor testing
lab will be subjected to raid, investigation, indictment or jail term as
often happens to "alternative" practitioners.
Chemotherapy and radiation, though known to be a total failure in the
so-called war against cancer, remain as the only therapies which enjoy
federal mandate. These therapies are repeatedly reintroduced as new, or new
approaches, promising that sometime in the unknowable future, maybe we will
have a cure for cancer. Yet the so-called alternative healing arts are
consistently accused of offering false hope.
The current and long-standing 3% long-term survival rate of cancer patients
using orthodox therapies remains abysmal and the statistical reportage is
obfuscated. Refer to : New England Journal of Medicine, "Progress Against
Cancer," May 8, 1986 by John C. Bailar, III and Elaine M. Smith, and a
ten-year follow-up "The War on Cancer" which appeared in Lancet, May 18th,
1996, by Michael B. Spoorn.
In HEALTH UNITED STATES, an annual publication by the federal government, our
national death rate from cancer is approximately 2,500,000 people per year
and the rate is rising. In addition to the trauma and suffering to the
patients and their families and the productive work force, it comes with a
hefty price tag. Assuming a cost of $80,000 to $160,000 per person over the
last 20 years, that figure represents $200,000,000 to $370,000,000 per year
and 50,000,000 lives, or $4 TRILLION to $7.5 TRILLION dollars funneled from
our collective economy into the hands of the medical/pharmaceutical cartel.
Is it any wonder, then, why we cannot find a cure?
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Linked stories:
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Drug Checkpoints Continue, Despite Court Ruling
<http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=265283>
The Phelps County Sheriff's Department in Rolla, Mo., plans
to proceed with drug checkpoints even though the U.S.
Supreme Court last week prohibited such roadblocks.
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IRS considers regulating Web speech
<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20001206_xex_irs_consider.shtml>
The Internal Revenue Service is considering regulations
on Web sites run by charities, think tanks and educational
organizations. Proposed rules may even restrict hyperlinks
on organizations' Web sites. The public comment period closes
February 13, 2001. (12/6/00)
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Serious concerns remain over FBI's Carnivore system
<http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/12/05/carnivore.critics/index.html>
A prominent group of computer experts have publicly critiqued an
allegedly independent review of the FBI's Internet surveillance
system, suggesting that it just didn't go far enough and leaves
serious questions unanswered. (12/6/00)
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FBI surveillance tactics questioned
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,40541,00.html>
A federal case against an accused mobster, now awaiting trial, has
raised eyebrows over the FBI's aggressive tactics. Agents broke
into an office and installed a keyboard-sniffing device to
record the target's encryption password when he typed it in.
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Presidential gridlock cheers U.S. secessionists
<http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20001204/392588.html>
Supporters of a reborn Confederacy are taking heart in the
presidential election fiasco and calling on southern
legislatures to convene secession conventions. (12/6/00)
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Hobbled president may be less imperial
<http://antiwar.com/bock/b120600.html>
The new president, hobbled by a squeaker of an election and
questions of legitimacy, may not have the leeway to engage in
overseas military adventures. (12/6/00)
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Masculinity as a Foreign Policy Issue
<http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol5/v5n36masculinity.html>
Foreign Policy In Focus has initiated a series of policy briefs that
examine gender issues in foreign policy. A new analysis addresses
the question about the degree to which U.S. foreign policy, particularly
security policy, is shaped by notions of manliness.
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Ritalin Becomes Drug of Choice for Schoolchildren
<http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=264945>
Ritalin is becoming the top-selling drug at schools
throughout the country, with thousands of students using it
to get high.
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"Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. It means out of 'their' control."
-Jim Dodge
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"Communications without intelligence is noise;
intelligence without communications is irrelevant."
-Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC
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