this may be heavy for survivors
Diocese spends $2m in claims By Associated Press, 11/17/2002 MANCHESTER, N.H. - In the past 30 years, the Diocese of Manchester has spent nearly $2 million in settling sexual abuse claims against clergy, a church official says. Almost half the money, $950,000, came in settlements last month that the diocese agreed to pay to 16 men who were sexually abused by eight priests, the Rev. Edward Arsenault said....The diocese now is talking with 65 men and women, who claim in civil suits that they were also sexually abused by clerics. Another 56 who sued the diocese have broken off settlement talks." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/321/metro/Diocese_spends_2m_in_claims+.shtml
Remote control brain sensor 11/17/02 "Scientists have developed a sensor that can record brainwaves without the need for electrodes to be inserted into the brain or even placed on the scalp. They believe the new sensor will lead to major advances in the collection and display of electrical information from the brain - and could even be used to control machines in a more effective way than is currently possible." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2361987.stm
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/home-n18.shtml
Bush Homeland Security bill nears passage by US Congress Police-state measure threatens democratic rights By the Editorial Board 18 November 2002
US House of Representatives voted November 13 to establish a new federal Department of Homeland Security along the lines laid down by the Bush administration. The Senate, still under Democratic Party control in the lame-duck session, began considering the bill Friday, under an expedited procedure that limits debate to 30 hours and insures a final vote by November 20. The Homeland Security bill represents a frontal assault on democratic rights, both in its provisions establishing, for the first time in US history, a centralized federal internal security agency, and in its consequences for workers in the new department, who are being deprived of civil service protection and union rights. On the issue of workers' rights in the new department, which deadlocked congressional passage for the past three months, the House bill represents a complete victory for the White House, allowing the president to abolish collective bargaining and hire and fire workers at will. The vote was a top-heavy 299-121, with nearly half of the Democrats joining with all but a few Republicans to endorse the measure. Among those voting for the bill was Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat who is succeeding Richard Gephardt as house minority leader. Pelosi's elevation has come under fire from sections of the Democratic Party, who consider her too "liberal."....
There are sweeping new restrictions on the application of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), whose operation has already been virtually suspended by the Bush administration since the September 11 terrorist attacks. The White House has the legal power to exempt the internal functioning and intelligence-gathering of the new department from FOIA disclosure requests, by citing "national security." Similar restrictions already apply to the Pentagon, CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and other military and intelligence bodies.
The new law goes beyond this, extending the exemption from the Freedom of Information Act to information voluntarily supplied to the Department of Homeland Security by private companies. If companies request in writing that the information be kept confidential, officials who make disclosures to the press or the public could be fined, fired, or jailed up to one year. A company that has dumped hazardous waste into a river, for instance, could supply information about its operations to the Department of Homeland Security, have the data declared "critical infrastructure information," and thereby criminalize any attempt to uncover the environmental or public health consequences of its actions....
Daschle and the Democratic leadership, however, have made it clear that they will not conduct any struggle against the bill, and Daschle himself said he might vote for it. The Democrats' complicity underscores the fact that there is no significant constituency for the defense of democratic rights against the power of the state in either party.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/national/19COUR.html
Court Overturns Limits on Wiretaps to Combat Terror By NEIL A. LEWIS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 — A special federal appeals court ruled today that the Justice Department has broad new powers under the antiterrorism bill enacted last year to use wiretaps obtained for intelligence operations to prosecute terrorists.
The immediate effect of the ruling by the three-member panel is that criminal prosecutors may now take an active role in deciding how to use wiretaps authorized by a special intelligence court and should have greater access to information obtained from them. For more than 20 years, prosecutors have been prohibited from making decisions on which intelligence wiretaps to apply for because the standards of proof are widely believed to be lower than for regular criminal wiretaps.
But the judges today said that the passage of the legislation, the USA Patriot Act, ensured that there is no wall between officials from the intelligence and criminal arms of the Justice Department. In fact, the judges asserted that the 20-year-old practice of keeping the two largely separate was never required and was never intended by Congress.
http://www.EcoTalk.org/MidtermElections2002.htm
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2002 Elections: Republican Voting Machines, Election Irregularities, and "Way-Off" Polling Results
By Lynn Landes 11/8/02
"The Republicans will never give up their voting machines," said a top Republican party official to Charlie Matulka, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska. This statement was in response to Charlie's very public protest against the conflict-of-interest inherent in the candidacy of Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE). Hagel has held top executive positions (and still has investments) in companies that owned the machines that counted the vote in Nebraska this election and last.
Republicans dominate the voting machine business. So, I expected the Republicans to take back the Senate... amid reports of voting machine "irregularities" in several states and polling results that didn't come close to election outcomes....This year might instead be a repeat of the 2000 presidential election, when the polls accurately predicted the winner (Gore), but the voting system in Florida collapsed under the weight of voting machine failure, election day chicanery, and outright disenfranchisement of thousands of black voters by Republican state officials.
And for those who believed that the new election reform law does anything to protect the security of your vote...think again. The federal standards to be developed and implemented as a result of the new law will be VOLUNTARY. What Congress really did was to throw $2.65 billion dollars at the states, so that they could lavish it on a handful of private companies that are controlled by ultra-conservative Republicans, foreigners, and felons.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,56099,00.html
Forced Vaccines Haunt Gulf Vets By Elliot Borin
"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential," Wilson wrote, ordering that such consent be given in writing before at least one witness. Wilson also banned use of "force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion" in obtaining consent.
Did the Pentagon obey this directive during the Gulf War?
According to Dr. Jane M. Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, it did not. The administration of experimental drugs without consent was, Orient said, "the first instance in which an official government agency officially sanctioned the direct violation of the Nuremberg Code."
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