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"We're living in rad times!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to assist RadTimes--> (See ** at end.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: --Soros, Sweeney Join Criticism of Davos Protest Clampdown --US groups object to Qatar as host for WTO talks --Protesters invade anti-Davos forum in Brazil --U.S. Air Force Prepares Itself to Do Battle in Outer Space --Mounting social costs of prisons --Farmers Destroy Monsanto Lab (Brazil) --DOJ New Search and Seizure Manual --Consumer confidence plunges to lowest level in four years --World Forum Protest Cleanup Begins --The myth of monogamy =================================================================== Soros, Sweeney Join Criticism of Davos Protest Clampdown By Adrian Croft DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Billionaire financier George Soros, environmentalists and union leaders added their voices on Monday to a swelling chorus of criticism of police handling of protests against the World Economic Forum summit. Swiss authorities mounted an unprecedented show of force at the weekend to thwart a demonstration by anti-globalization activists opposed to the annual gathering of top business and political leaders at the ritzy Swiss ski resort of Davos. Police stopped many demonstrators from traveling to Davos on Saturday and officials turned back more than 100 suspected demonstrators at the Swiss border. Hundreds of demonstrators who were turned back ran riot on Saturday evening in Zurich, where police fired rubber pellets, teargas and water cannon to disperse protesters who hurled stones at police, set fire to cars and smashed windows. About 100 demonstrators were detained and three police injured. The Swiss protests are the latest in a series of sometimes violent protests against globalization that have become a feature of international meetings from Seattle to Prague. Soros, speaking at a press conference at the World Economic Forum on Monday, said the Swiss authorities' ``excessive precautions were a victory for those who wanted to disrupt Davos...The way it was handled was not a good one.'' Banning the demonstration was probably a mistake, he said, although he said he was not so sure about that ``as the demonstrators were bent on creating trouble.'' Soros said he opposed the methods of the protesters but added: ``I do think they have something to protest about. The global capital system creates a very uneven playing field.'' Union Protest Nine union leaders attending the forum said they had protested to WEF founder Klaus Schwab at ``over-the-top policing that has kept away even peaceful protesters.'' ``We believe in the widest dialogue but what message does the forum send out when it is ringed by armed police, water cannons, security helicopters and wire barricades?'' they said in a statement. The union leaders include Bill Jordan, general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, John Sweeney, president of the U.S. AFL-CIO, and others from Australia, Zambia, Canada, India and Germany. Noel Howell, a spokesman for the union leaders, said the forum had become gradually more inclusive over the last few years but they wanted to see the process go further. ``We've got 12 months with the forum to work out a more inclusive basis for next year which would allow for peaceful protests and dialogue.'' An alliance of environmental and human rights organizations which organized an alternative conference to the WEF in Davos pledged on Sunday to take legal action against Swiss authorities over their handling of the planned protest. Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger has defended the authorities and Schwab has praised the police response. The anti-WEF demonstrators accuse the business and political elite of meeting behind closed doors in Davos to plot a global future that increases the power of multinational corporations at the expense of ordinary people. Organizers reject the accusations and have tried to broaden the scope of the meeting by inviting 36 grassroots organizations to take part this year. =================================================================== US groups object to Qatar as host for WTO talks <http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=9648> January 29, 2001 WASHINGTON - American labor, environmental and family farm groups have urged the US government to oppose the selection of the Gulf state of Qatar to host the next World Trade Organization meeting because of that country's limits on political expression. In a joint statement, the United Steelworkers of America, Friends of the Earth, Public Citizen and other critics of the WTO accused the organization of trying to quash protests that marked the Seattle ministerial meeting in December 1999. "The WTO's choice of Qatar demonstrates the fallacy that the WTO is committed to transparency," Brent Blackwelder, President of Friends of the Earth, said in a statement. "We have to ask what the WTO's real agenda is when it meets in a nation that prohibits peaceful demonstrations and hinders freedom of the press." Earlier this week the WTO's General Council selected Qatar to host the next ministerial meeting on Nov. 5-9. The Gulf state was the only country that made a formal offer to host the meeting. The General Council will meet again on Jan. 30 to formally select the host city for the talks, the groups said in their statement asking the US government to oppose Qatar's bid. =================================================================== Protesters invade "anti-Davos" forum in Brazil <http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=9645> January 29, 2001 PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - The "anti-Davos" forum in southern Brazil got a taste of its own medicine on Sunday when protesters stormed a press conference to denounce racism and demand greater participation for blacks. "Brazil, Africa and Central America, the fight for black rights is international!" dozens of protesters shouted as they interrupted the conference hosted by organizers of the World Social Forum, a 10,000-strong meeting called to challenge to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "We are more than 50 percent of the population in Brazil, but at the World Social Forum we only get one hour of a five-day meeting to express our views!" Vanda Gomes Pinedo of the Unified Black Movement shouted at one of the organizers. The protesters, many wearing African-style gowns, demanded more space in the hundreds of workshops and panels and a bigger voice in a final poetic text that is being prepared. The experimental forum of environmentalists, left-wing intellectuals and the same anti-globalization activists who stormed elite business meetings from Seattle to Prague took the criticism in stride. "I hope we can incorporate their complaints since nothing is a done deal yet. We don't want the forum to get bogged down in logistic problems," Maria Luiza Mendonca said. The World Social Forum has united people from 120 countries and 1,000 organizations in Porto Alegre, Brazil's southernmost state, in order discuss alternative social and economic proposals rather than just protesting those in place. Organizers do not expect to come up with a single, unifying manifesto at the end of the five-day conference, which began on Thursday, but will debate proposals and seek consensus. DAVOS VS PORTO ALEGRE By Sunday afternoon, the World Social Forum was already taking a more united stance as members faced off with participants of the Davos forum. In a videoconference aired on local television, "prominent personalities" from the WEF, including financier George Soros, were pitted against key figures at the rival social forum for a virtual debate that rarely rose above mudslinging. While independent French media group Article Z had intended the debate to "promote dialogue" and organizers in Porto Alegre said they would use the opportunity to share their alternative proposals, insults and slogans abounded. In one corner there was Soros, Swedish businessman Bjorg Edlud and two representatives from United Nations including chief adviser to the secretary general, John Ruggie. In Porto Alegre, the founders of the forum, Brazilian activist Oded Grajew and editor in chief of France's Le Monde Diplomatique Bernard Cassen, were joined by at least 10 activists who threw the first blows in an event that what was expected to lend legitimacy to the experimental forum. "The best thing that could happen to those thousands of businessmen in Davos is for you to be loaded into a space ship and for that space ship to take off," Philippine activist Walden Bello said at the start of the debate. Soros started off on a conciliatory note saying he wanted to share ideas on how to address poverty but after Hebe de Bonafini, a militant Argentine human rights activist, accused him of being a "monster and hypocrite," the Hungarian born financier suggested cutting the exchange short. "I am looking at your face and all I can do is smile, you have broken off all dialogue," he said. In the end, the debate lasted the full hour with the Porto Alegre participants winning backing from Soros on a global tax on speculative capital flows, known as the Tobin Tax, but the mood did not improve. The debate will later be carried on the site (http://www.madmundo.com). Story by Shasta Darlington =================================================================== U.S. Air Force Prepares Itself to Do Battle in Outer Space <http://www.iht.com/articles/9116.htm> Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Service Tuesday, January 30, 2001 SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colorado - Last week, the possibility of war in space moved from pure science fiction to realistic planning done here by the U.S. Air Force. Spurred by the increased reliance of the U.S. military and the U.S. economy on satellites, and facing a new secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who is more focused on space than his predecessors were, the Space Warfare Center here staged the military's first major war game to focus on space as the primary theater of operations, rather than just a supporting arena for combat on earth. The scenario was growing tension between the United States and China in 2017. "We never really play space," Major General William Looney III said. "The purpose of this game was to focus on how we really would act in space." The game, involving 250 participants playing for five days on an isolated, supersecure base on the high plains east of Colorado Springs, was the most visible manifestation of a little-noticed but major shift in the armed forces over the last decade. The Gulf War showed the U.S. military for the first time how important space could be to its combat operations - for communications, for the transmission of imagery and even for using global positioning satellites to tell ground troops where they are. The end of the Cold War allowed many satellites to be shifted from being used primarily for monitoring Soviet nuclear facilities to supporting the field operations of the U.S. military. But military thinkers began to worry that this new reliance on space was creating new vulnerabilities. Suddenly, one of the best ways to disrupt a U.S. offensive against Iraq, for example, appeared to be jamming the satellites on which the Americans relied or blowing up the ground station back in the United States that controlled the satellites transmitting targeting data. In response, the air force over the last year focused more on space - not just how to operate there, but how to protect operations and attack others in space. It established a new "space operations directorate" at air force headquarters, started a new Space Warfare School and activated two new units: the 76th Space Control Squadron, whose name is really a euphemism for fighting in space, and the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron, whose mission is to probe the U.S. military for new vulnerabilities. All those steps come as Mr. Rumsfeld, who just finished leading a congressional commission on space and national security issues, takes over the top job at the Pentagon. Among other things, his commission's report hinted that if the air force doesn't get more serious about space, the Pentagon should consider establishing a new "Space Corps." So, perhaps to show that it is giving space its due, the air force held its first space war game here, and even invited reporters inside for a few hours. The players worked in a huge building behind two sets of security checkpoints, the second of which features two motion detectors, four surveillance cameras and a double-fenced gate with a "vehicle entrapment area." Yet officials were notably jumpy about discussing specifics with the reporters they brought in. "We're doing something a little unprecedented, bringing press into the middle of a classified war game," said Colonel Robert Ryals, deputy commander of the Space Warfare Center here. The U.S. military has a long tradition of conducting war games, not so much to predict whether a war will occur, but to figure out how to use new weapons, how to best organize the military and how political considerations might shape the conduct of war. Last week's space war game was set in 2017, with country "Red" massing its forces for a possible attack on its small neighbor, "Brown," which then asked "Blue" for help. Officials described "Red" only as a "near-peer competitor," but participants said Red was China and Blue was the United States. When asked directly about this, Lieutenant Colonel Donald Miles, an air force spokesman, said, "We don't talk about countries." Going with the conventional wisdom in the U.S. military, the game assumed that the heavens will be full of weapons by 2017. Both Red and Blue possessed microsatellites that can maneuver against other satellites, blocking their view, jamming their transmissions or even frying their electronics with radiation. Both also had ground-based lasers that could temporarily dazzle or permanently blind the optics of satellites. The Blue side also had a national missile defense system, as well as reusable space planes that could be launched to quickly place new satellites in orbit or repair and refuel ones already there. Veiled comments made by some participants indicated that both sides also possessed the ability to attack each others' computers - in military parlance, "offensive information warfare capabilities" - but no one would discuss those. On Monday, Jan. 22, as the game began, no conflict had occurred - or was even inevitable. As Red threatened its neighbor Brown, the first major question that Blue faced was whether to stage a "show of force" in space, akin to sending aircraft carriers to the waters off a regional hot spot. On Day 2 of the game, Blue decided to show force by launching more surveillance and communications satellites, making it harder for Red to stage an early knockout attack. Space gives the United States "more opportunities to demonstrate resolve" without using force, said Major General Lance Smith, who played the role of commander of a Blue military task force. Asked whether that included taking over Red's broadcast satellites, he said, "Those are the kind of options." On Day 3 of the game, privately owned foreign satellites became a key issue. The Blue side asked the foreign firms not to provide services to Red. In response, Red tried to buy up all available services to constrain the U.S. military, which relies heavily on commercial satellites for many of its communications. Red offered to pay far more than is customary. Blue then said it would top Red's offer. The eight people playing the foreign firms responded that they would honor their contracts, which left Blue worried and unhappy. Robert Hegstrom, the game's director, concluded that "dealing with third party commercial providers is going to be a priority for CincSpace," the U.S. commander for space operations. Another lesson of the early friction between Blue and Red was that the Pentagon should prepare plans for what to do if it picks up indications that an adversary is getting ready to shoot blinding laser beams at commercial satellites operated by U.S. firms. Among other things, one official said, the government could tell the American companies to close the "shutters" over the optics on those satellites. For four days, the two sides tiptoed up to the edge of war, but never actually fired a shot. They did come close: At one point, the Red military prepared a plan to fire dozens of nonnuclear missiles at U.S. military installations in Hawaii and Alaska. They calculated that those missiles would use up all the shots the United States had in its missile defense arsenal and thereby leave the U.S. homeland open to being hit by subsequent missiles. But the players found that "theater missile defense" - that is, coverage of a region, usually by U.S. navy warships - bolstered deterrence in two ways, by making it harder for Red to attack deployed U.S. forces, and by encouraging U.S. allies to stay in the coalition, which would keep them under the protective umbrella of those ships. Red also launched cyberattacks on U.S. computers, said Colonel Miles, the Air Force spokesman, who declined to provide details. Officials were unusually tight-lipped about what actually happened in the game but were willing to describe some of their conclusions. Not surprisingly, they found that many of the weapons on the air force's drawing boards - missile defenses, anti-satellite lasers and "reusable space planes" - could have a useful role in deterring future wars by discouraging adversaries from thinking they can preemptively knock out the United States. "With a robust force, we can absorb some losses before the situation‚ becomes critical," said Mr. Hegstrom, the game director. But, he said, with the "thin" space presence the United States will have in 2017 if current trends continue, "it becomes critical to respond almost immediately." Thus a future president might be backed into escalating quickly, launching preemptive strikes against enemy weapons that could attack key U.S. satellites. =================================================================== Mounting social costs of prisons By Alan Elsner, National Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The United States is beginning to discover that its huge prison population of more than 2 million -- one quarter of all the world's prisoners -- is spawning a wide array of difficult social problems. In the past 20 years, the number of Americans incarcerated has risen by almost 400 percent, costing the country an estimated $41 billion annually. The growth has been a result of "get tough on crime policies"and has disproportionately affected the country's black male population. According to Department of Justice statistics for 1999, blacks accounted for 46 percent of all inmates serving a year or more; whites were 33 percent of the total and Hispanics 18 percent. A 1995 study by the Sentencing Project, a Washington advocacy group, found that almost one in three black males in their twenties was under some form of criminal supervision on any given day. A black boy born in 1991 stood a 29 percent chance of being imprisoned at some point in his life, compared to a 16 percent chance for a Hispanic and a 4 percent chance for a white boy. "Black kids have gotten the idea that going to prison is a normal part of growing up," said Jenni Gainsborough of the Sentencing Project. "You have so many children growing up without fathers and disintegrating families at the heart of our cities," she said. In the 10 years from 1985, federal and state authorities opened a new prison at a rate of one a week to cope with the influx of inmates. California now spends more on corrections than on higher education. It opened 21 new prisons in the past 20 years and only one new state college. Psychiatrist Terry Kupers, author of "Prison Madness -- the Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars," estimates that 10 percent to 20 percent of inmates suffer from grave mental illness; AIDS, hepatitis and drugs-resistant tuberculosis are rife, and often go untreated. In New York City, 80 percent of the drugs-resistantTB that began appearing in the late 1980s was traced to people who had contracted the disease in jail. UNITED STATES SECOND TO RWANDA The United States now locks up 690 people per 100,000 of its population, surpassing Russia to take second place in the world behind Rwanda. The rate for neighboring Canada in 1995 was 115 per 100,000; for Germany and Italy, it was 85. Many Americans are unconcerned and even satisfied with a situation that they believe has contributed to a dramatic decline in crime rates that began in the early 1990s. In the seven years between 1991-98, violent crime dropped by 25 percent. "If we were still imprisoning people at the rate we were in the early 1980s, there would be 1.3 million people on the street today committing crimes who are now locked up," said Charles Murray, an expert on social policy with the conservative American Enterprise Institute. But criminologist Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh said a detailed analysis concluded that the growth in the prison population was responsible for only around 25 percent of the drop in the crime rate. The rest was due to a change in the crack cocaine markets, greater efforts by police to get guns off the streets and the strength of the economy. In any case, even in the stricter sentencing environment of the United States, most prisoners eventually get out. An estimated 600,000 prisoners will be freed on parole every year for the next several years and authorities are beginning to worry about where they will go and what they will do. Typically unprepared for life outside, often functionally illiterate, physically sick and mentally disturbed, many will head straight back to a life of crime. "We've given up on rehabilitation in the prison system and forgotten the simple fact that the more people we send to prison, the more will eventually come out," said James Allen Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston. "Americans have been lulled into a false sense of complacency by eight years of falling crime rates but the other shoe may be about to drop. Already, the decline has plateaued out in cities like New York, Boston and Los Angeles and is showing signs of edging up again," Fox said. CONDITIONS DESCRIBED AS OUTRAGE The United States not only locks up people for non- violent offenses that in other countries would not merit prison terms, it locks them up for much longer, often in conditions that organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have described as a serious human rights outrage. "Contemporary corrections officials have at their disposal such high-tech weaponry as electronic stunning devices, some of which are capable of delivering 50,000 volts," said Steve Martin, former general counsel to the Texas Department of Corrections. "Corrections officials also have sting shot rubber bullets, stun guns, canvas bags filled with lead shot, tear gas canisters, pepper spray and a variety of restraint devices such as the restraint chair," he said. Still, some prisons are effectively controlled by gangs that terrorize fellow inmates, subjecting them to rape and physical abuse. For the most violent and disturbed, there are a growing number of "supermaximum security" facilities, the latest trend in prison construction. More than 20,000 people are held in these "supermax" prisons, where they spend all their time locked alone in small, sometimes windowless cells under constant fluorescent lighting and 24-hour video surveillance. Even some conservatives like Murray, who believe the explosion in prisons has benefited the country on balance, sees a serious downside. "A free society should not have to lock up a large number of its people. It puts itself at risk because authoritarian solutions get a good name," he said. =================================================================== From: 'Weekly News Update on the Americas', Issue No. 574, 28 January 2001. BRAZIL: FARMERS DESTROY MONSANTO LAB On the evening of Jan. 25 some 1,200 Brazilian farmers and their supporters protested the use of genetically modified (GM) crops by occupying a biotech research center belonging to the US-based Monsanto corporation in Nao Me Toque ("Don't Touch Me") municipality in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. Hundreds of campesino families moved into the center's buildings, hanging hammocks, writing slogans on the walls and promising to stay "indefinitely." The next morning the protesters uprooted the center's soy and corn crops, burned soy that had been stored in warehouses, and held a burial ceremony for a coffin marked "Monsanto" and covered with a US flag. Monsanto is the leading international producer and promoter of GM seeds. Many Brazilian growers oppose the use of GM crops, and Brazil is the only country in the Western Hemisphere that bans their commercial use, although it allows research. Rio Grande do Sul, governed by the leftist Workers Party (PT), is a center of opposition to GM crops, but laboratory tests indicate that 30% of the soy grown commercially in the state is GM, from seeds smuggled in from Argentina, where Monsanto is the source of 70% of GM soy. Participants in the protest came from the Movement of People Harmed by Dams, the Small Growers Movement, the Women Workers Movement, the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and the Rural Youth Ministry. A busload of supporters came from the World Social Forum, in session 300 km away in the state capital, Porto Alegre; they included Jose Bove, a leader of the French peasant movement, and the Honduran Rafael Alegria, president of Via Campesina, which claims 40 million members on five continents. "The people occupying [GM] factories are not ecologists; they are farmers," noted MST leader Joao Pedro Stedile. "It is not enough to have land; it also needs to be healthy land that will endure." Stedile said the protests against Monsanto will continue until "we put the company's directors in an airplane and send them back to the US." [Servicio Informativo "Alai-amlatina" (Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion) 1/25/01, 1/28/01; CNN 1/26/00; CNN en Espanol 1/26/00 with info from Reuters; La Jornada (Mexico) 1/27/01; Financial Times (London) 1/27/01] =================================================================== DOJ New Search and Seizure Manual January 2001 http://www.cybercrime.gov/searchmanual.htm Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations =================================================================== Consumer confidence plunges to lowest level in four years Consumer confidence fell sharply to its lowest level in four years in January, driven down by growing fears of a recession, an industry group said Tuesday. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeatBIZ1.asp?/news/523695.asp =================================================================== World Forum Protest Cleanup Begins January 28, 2001 by ONNA CORAY, Associated Press Writer ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) - Switzerland counted the cost Sunday of mayhem unleashed by anti-globalization protesters outraged at being the target of the country's biggest security operation since World War II. As political controversy mounted over whether police themselves were to blame for Saturday night's violence, newspaper commentaries likened Switzerland to a dictatorship. Demonstrators gathered Sunday afternoon in Zurich - the scene of pitched battles late Saturday between riot police firing tear gas and water cannons and demonstrators prevented from reaching the World Economic Forum meeting in the Alpine resort of Davos, about 90 miles away. Police arrested 121 people - mostly Swiss and German - from a mob of 1,000 militants "intent on violence," Esther Maurer, president of the Zurich police department, told a news conference. She said the level of violence had rarely been witnessed in the Swiss financial capital. Two policemen were injured by stones and one soldiers was trampled to the ground and his weapons stolen. Maurer said the fact that all police were clad in full riot gear prevented a higher casualty toll. Authorities said the damage ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hundreds of passengers were trapped in Zurich's main railway station - many of them feeling the effects of tear gas aimed at demonstrators. Prevented from occupying the station and reaching the nearby Bahnhofstrasse - one of the world's most exclusive shopping streets - protesters then went on a rampage in downtown Zurich. They set fire to cars, smashed windows and spray-painted buildings. However, Swiss newspapers Sunday were virtually unanimous in putting the blame on authorities. "Police methods just like a dictatorship," headlined the tabloid SonntagsBlick. An editorial said that the "police coup" had inflicted more damage on the World Economic Forum and its professed goals of dialogue than demonstrators ever could have. "The Davos opponents won. Despite the police," commented the French-language Dimanche.ch. "The spirit of Davos suffocated in tear gas," said the respected SonntagsZeitung, in reference to the Alpine meeting's atmosphere credited with forging groundbreaking political accords and multibillion economic deals over the years. Peter Bosshard, of the Declaration of Bern, a Swiss group taking part in a parallel conference in Davos of non-governmental critics of globalization, said that the police behavior was "totally out of proportion." He said the ban on demonstrations fueled the violence. The Socialist party - of which Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger is a member - condemned the ban as a violation of free speech. The Swiss Trade Union Federation accused authorities of "violating basic principles of democracy." However, center and right-wing parties defended the massive security operation as necessary to protect the world's elite and to ensure that Switzerland hosts the prestigious Davos conference in years to come. "The freedom of the demonstrators stops when they endanger the freedom of other people," said Peter Aliesch, a local government leader in the state of Graubuenden that ordered the ban on demonstrations. John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, umbrella organization for U.S. labor unions, urged forum leaders to listen to nonviolent critics such as workers, environmentalists and religious leaders rather than "the few who are violent." South African President Thabo Mbeki gave similar advice but he urged the forum participants to face up to the shortcomings of globalization. The world needs "a new internationalism" that bridges the divide between rich and poor, Mbeki said. "The problems of the poor are also the problems of the rich." =================================================================== The myth of monogamy: According to studies of the animal world, most of us are naturally inclined to "cheat" or at least have more than one mate in a lifetime. 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