-Caveat Lector- [radtimes] # 186 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send $$ to RadTimes!! --> (See ** at end.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: --U.S. in 1990s: Land of the unequal, home of the poor --Protesters, police prepare for ADB meeting --Field Guide to the FTAA Protest in Quebec City --Secret Service breaks up CD piracy venture --A Message to White America: "It's Time We Woke Up" --U.S. Continues to Dominate World Military Expenditures --Lawyers: Inaugural Protesters Abused --Hackers hit Sandia =================================================================== U.S. in 1990s: Land of the unequal, home of the poor By Peter Cook The Globe and Mail (Toronto) March 12, 2001 BRUSSELS -- Foreign critics of the United States are starting to question just exactly what the world was supposed to admire in the once- unassailable, now-fragile, U.S. economy. As ever, the genesis of such thinking is Europe -- which, outside Britain, has never really been a fan. When the United States possessed the world's first self-styled recession-proof economy, the Germans, French and others stayed mute. Now that it is the home of haunted stock markets and craven consumers, Europe's economists are delving into the record books to discover what a decade of New Economy triumphalism has meant in real terms. Their first answer: Not very much. Yes, the United States acquired a lead in advanced technologies that others will have to copy. But catching up on invented technology is a process that is often easier and more rewarding because it generates fewer mistakes. Beyond that, if you look at the past 10 years of economic progress in the three areas that advance living standards most -- growth in output, gains in productivity and job creation -- there has actually been little to choose between the United States, Japan and Germany. There is some irony in this. When the 1990s opened, a humbled United States was worried that it was losing out on managerial and marketing supremacy to the Japanese, and on long-term investment to the Germans. A brash presidential candidate, Bill Clinton, exploited both these alleged faults to get elected. Since then, and certainly since U.S. consumers started out on history's biggest spending binge, we have not heard much about foreign economies. Instead, the story has been the amazing performance of the United States. Study the numbers closely, however, and no gap has opened up. Figures put out by Eurostat and the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) show the U.S. economy did better than the rest after 1992. But that discounts an earlier U.S. slowdown while counting several years of near-stagnation in Germany and Japan. Go back 10 years instead and both German and U.S. growth are the same, at an average annual 2.5 per cent, while Japan is not far behind at 2 per cent. This is a surprising figure because the increase in the U.S. population (and therefore in the economy's potential to grow) was much greater over the period. In terms of growth per capita, Germany outgrew the United States -- though this was a reflection of a political event, German unification, which overnight endowed former east Germans with the blessings of living in a German-mark economy. Anyway, if Americans think they got richer faster in terms of GDP (gross domestic product) in the past decade, they haven't. Both the Germans and the French did better. The same is true of productivity. Yes, the Americans remained ahead during the 1990s. But, contrary to the view that their technology revolution has greatly enhanced productivity, the U.S. lead over others has not widened at all. True, U.S. productivity gains in services may be understated. But even that does not explain why, in 1990-99, multi-factor productivity rose an average of 1.4 per cent in Germany, 1.6 in Japan and just 1 per cent in the United States. The one clear advantage Americans have enjoyed is in job creation. Their unemployment rate stands at an unbeatable 4.2 per cent, compared with 9.3 per cent in Germany. So, if the 1990s boom was a success, it was chiefly for reducing the jobless rate painlessly and without any rebound in inflation. But the critical thing to look at is not a long, stable economic expansion but at just who, beyond dot-com millionaires, benefited. A study done by three U.S. economists, Timothy Smeeding, Lee Rainwater and Gary Burtless, and reported on by BusinessWeek magazine, looks at levels of pay inequality and absolute poverty. On both counts, it has not been a good decade for the United States. Using an after-tax income measure of poverty that includes cash and near-cash welfare payments, they found the United States ranked seventh out of 10 rich nations in the mid-1990s (below Canada, Sweden and Germany, and above only Britain and Australia). Using a second measure that defines poverty in terms of having an income that is 40 per cent below the median income, they found only one country in the 10 had a double-digit poverty rate (at 10.7 per cent in 1997) -- the United States. =================================================================== Thursday, March 15, 2001 Protesters, police prepare for ADB meeting <http://starbulletin.com/2001/03/15/news/story9.html> Some say they are going too far By Nelson Daranciang Honolulu Star-Bulletin Groups planning peaceful demonstrations during the Asian Development Bank meeting in May say Honolulu police are going too far to prevent violent protests. Police are questioning people on the street and even stopped a motorist who had a "Shut Down ADB" bumper sticker on his car, said Carolyn Hatfield of ADBwatch, a local network of organizations and individuals concerned with the ADB's free-trade goals and Third World developmental projects. "It's creating a real bad climate," she said. The May 7-11 meeting at the Hawaii Convention Center is expected to attract 3,000 attendees and, according to ADBwatch, between 5,000 and 7,000 protesters opposed to the ADB's policies Assistant Police Chief Boisse Correa, who is in charge of HPD's security plan for the meeting, said he did not know of any circumstances of police approaching people on the street about the meeting. In fact, he said, officers were instructed not to approach anyone. Still, to monitor protest groups entering the state, police will be checking airline manifests. Neither police nor the airlines would comment on when those checks would start or if they have already started. Local and federal law enforcement officers also are surfing the Internet to find out which national and international groups plan to protest in Honolulu and are checking with Hawaii-based organizations on whether they will be partnering with any of those groups. At a Honolulu City Council meeting last month, Correa said he hopes for peaceful demonstrations from protesters, but still has to plan for the "worst-case scenario." Correa also has asked the council for $750,000 to purchase anti-riot and other security gear and says officers have been undergoing civil disobedience training since last summer. The police measures are designed to prevent a replay of the violence by both police and protesters during 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle which caused $3 million in damage. Sydney Hayakawa, the state's security plan coordinator for the ADB meeting, said, "We're learning from the experiences on the mainland. (The protesters) come out with new techniques. They train, we train." "It'll come down to who is more proactive," said Hayakawa, the State Department of Public Safety's deputy director for Law Enforcement. ADBwatch said it is conducting its own training to prevent another WTO fiasco. Police are trying to identify groups opposed to the ADB so law enforcement hopefully can reach agreements with them for peaceful protests, Correa said. He attended the 1999 WTO meeting and witnessed some of the tactics some groups used to protest the talks. In Seattle, security zones police set up collapsed because protesters violated their agreements, said Capt. Ron Griffin of the King County Sheriff Department. Demonstrators chained themselves to cars, poles and buildings to block the flow of traffic to and from the meeting and to try to divert police from other protesters, Griffin said. When police tried to remove the chains, they were confronted by lawyers and video cameras, he said. Griffin recommends police form teams to remove obstructions as quickly as possible and have a fallback position beyond which no protests or demonstrations would be allowed. Meanwhile, ADBwatch has invited the attorney who trained the Seattle protesters to train legal observers here. ADBwatch is coordinating educational forums and demonstrations for local groups like the indigenous rights organization KAHEA and outside groups like International Forum on Globalization. It is securing the permits for a march from the convention center to a rally at Kapiolani Park on May 9. The permit application is for a crowd of between 5,000 and 7,000 but at this time no one is sure just how many people are going to take part. Robert Fishman, executive director of the Hawaii Tourism Authority, said if the world sees that Hawaii can allow for peaceful protest and successfully host the ADB, the islands can become a hub for similar international events. ------ See also: Many feel protests will be peaceful <http://starbulletin.com/2001/03/15/news/story9.html#jump> Council drops arrest measure <http://starbulletin.com/2001/03/15/news/story9.html#jump2> =================================================================== Field Guide to the FTAA Protest in Quebec City The Field Guide to the FTAA Protest in Quebec City (see Index below) is now online: <http://www.soaw-ne.org/FTAAGuide.html> INDEX 1) Disclaimer 2) Introduction 3) The Police Operation 4) The Activist Operation 5) Languages in Quebec City 6) Housing 7) Maps 8) Getting to Quebec City 9) Driving in the Province of Quebec 10) Food 11) Border Crossing 12) Border Actions 13) Teach-ins on FTAA 14) E-mail Lists 15) Direct Actions 16) Events 17) Legal Information 18) Weather 19) Dealing with Journalists 20) Independent Media Center 21) Health Issues 22) Exchange Rates 23) Taxes 24) Other Practical Information 25) Electronic Mail 26) Tourist Information =================================================================== Secret Service breaks up CD piracy venture by Greg Farrell USA TODAY March 15, 2001 NEW YORK -- The Secret Service has broken up one of the biggest U.S. manufacturing operations of bootleg CDs ever uncovered. The Treasury Department agency, best known for nabbing counterfeiters and protecting the president, shut down a factory here that had the capacity to produce 3 million high-quality pirate CDs a year, complete with counterfeit labels and shrink-wrapped CD "jewel box" cases. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) estimates that the bootleg CDs would have cost record labels $ 47 million in annual sales. The crackdown began when Secret Service agents descended on a garage in Queens on March 8 that was rigged up as a pirate's paradise. The agents found 90 CD burners, 16 cases of counterfeit CDs, a shrink-wrap machine, blank CDs and CD jewel boxes. In a later raid in Manhattan, agents recovered more than 17,000 counterfeit CDs ready for sale on the street. In record stores, the real CDs sell for about $ 15 or more each. A partial list of the CDs shows that the bootleggers' taste ran toward urban and Latino music, with a sprinkling of pop. Included: Tito Puente, Jay-Z, Julio Iglesias, Santana, Jennifer Lopez and The Beatles. The RIAA described the business as a "massive counterfeit music operation." Says Bruce Townsend, who heads the Secret Service's financial crimes division: "Any time you're talking about a $ 50 million loss to an industry, that's significant." Two men, Richard Certuche and Patrice Benon, have been arrested so far. Although Townsend said he could not comment, it is believed that the investigation is continuing to identify other associates involved in the operation. The case grew out of a tip from the RIAA to the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force, a 200-member group that consists of several levels of law enforcement as well as private industry groups and representatives of academia. Because of its expertise in comparable counterfeit activity, the Secret Service coordinated the task force's efforts to shut down the music production facility. "(The operation) is an interesting blend of the Secret Service's historic expertise in forged documents merged with our current expertise in computer technology," Townsend says. "The Secret Service regularly investigates high-technology and computer crimes. It's now part of our investigative mission. "When new agents finish training, they get a gun, a badge and a laptop computer." =================================================================== A Message to White America: "It's Time We Woke Up" By Heather Gray Producer "Just Peace" WRFG-Atlanta 89.3 FM (404) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am of European descent and, while I prefer to be called European American, given the American practice of classifying people by their race, I need to state unequivocally that I am "white". And it is of this "whiteness", it's repercussions and responsibilities that I write. All of my adult life I have been a political activist. For more than 30 years I have participated in virtually all the major movements for justice in this country encompassing civil rights, anti-war, anti-apartheid, anti-nuclear, anti-corporate, anti-death penalty, on and on. Throughout this vast experience invariably racism and class oppression raise their ugly heads. For me, however, the most compelling and disturbing of these is racism and its companion white supremacy. The brilliant and profound scholar W.E.B Dubois warned us that the issue of race would define the 20th century which indeed it has. And because America has been so lax in adequately addressing this disease of racism and all it's augmented problems, race will likely define the 21st century as well. Racism in America is of epidemic proportions and whoever denies this must be a fool or blind. It surrounds is in our economic strata, in our prison system, in our schools, in our political infrastructures, in our foreign policy, in our health system, in our housing, in our banking to name only a few! It is not a problem only in white conservative circles where most activists would expect it to be lodged, but in the so-called liberal and progressive circles as well. All will attempt to state otherwise. Conservatives might claim some of their best friends are Black. Liberals might state that they are working for changes of some policies which will "make life better for Blacks". Progressives in various organizations might say that they are working under the leadership of Blacks so they must be doing something right. None of this is ever enough and it is literally and figuratively "white wash". It is true that historically there have always been whites who have taken a stand against racism but the numbers have been far too limited given the enormity of the problem. This has frustrated me to the point that a few years ago I wrote a lengthy poem entitled "Being White and Angry" in which I delineated what some have described as an epistle of "white" ancestral and present day immoral, disgraceful and tragic exploits from slavery to the Gulf War. The dreadful realities of racism and white supremacy have always teetered on the walls of decay because the foundation is built on lies and deception. No one has gained from racism despite claims to the contrary. If anything, we as whites have diminished our souls through racist practices and any economic gains are tainted - I refer to such gains as blood money. We as whites will rarely claim responsibility for our creation of racism and white supremacy (they are ours after all) in spite of the fact that we demand recognition for virtually all other inventions - when it suits us and when we can benefit from it we'll claim it! It has been said that often the most important things in life are not discussed or written about and whites are definitely selective on not speaking out on the above issues. Could this suggest the importance of the issue to whites? I think so because it requires us to look deep into our souls and admit we are and always have been wrong about our entrenched present and past racism. This is seemingly an impossible task for most whites. Most of us have a shell that's almost impenetrable. While everyone else rails against us whites for our racist attitudes and policies we are largely and despicably silent on the issue. Why are we like this? Do many of us who are white want to maintain the present racist system? Yes, beyond doubt! While rarely are we now wearing sheets over our heads, we are instead sitting in board rooms where we implement racist policies. But in today's climate it is not appropriate to state without reserve that we are racist. Instead everyone skirts around the issue. This false impression by other whites drives me nuts. Are some of us nervous about reactions from other whites if we take up the call against racism? For some, this is likely true. Are we ignorant of racism? No, but nevertheless it seems the majority of whites claim ignorance. Are we apathetic? Yes. Do some of us feel guilt? Probably. Would we prefer to pass the buck? Always. Strangely, we prefer to blame those who are the victims of our prevailing racism as if they were architects of their own victimization and not us. The insanity and hypocrisy of this is mind boggling. Throughout the years, whenever I've attended panels or conferences on racism organized by whites, invariably Blacks will be invited to participate. This is important because we as whites always need to be educated about the devastating impact of our actions and attitudes. But where, I've always asked, are the masses of whites who need to take up the mantle with other whites on this issue. Why are we, in vast numbers, not also on those panels and in the streets demanding change. Indeed, it is this lack of attention to racism on the part of whites with other whites that, in my opinion, has always been the missing equation in addressing the morass of the tragic effects of racism and white supremacy. The problem of racism rests with those of us who are white - we are the racists, we are the architects of this dreadful disease, we are the supremacists, and, guided by our Black sisters and brothers, we need to begin being accountable, speaking out and taking action. We need to plant the seed and let it grow deliberately and exponentially....individual to individual, community to community, city to city, nation to nation. A few weeks ago while having dinner with a Black friend the discussion veered toward an update of racism in America. Citing the diminishing of affirmative action programs across the country and other telling signs, he said "I think white America is getting tired of everything being blamed on racism." I said "So what! White America needs to be badgered every minute of every day about our racist attitudes and actions."In fact, I still rankle over the "angry white male" contention in the early 90's stating that because of policies to reverse the preeminent white access to virtually all privileges in this country at the expense of everyone else, they felt they were being discriminated against. The gall of white males expressing anger over anything after hundreds of years of ancestral privilege astounds me...leaves me breathless. To be perfectly frank, I remain an "angry white female" expressing indignation at "angry white males" for this insult. Upon reflection, I realized that my friend's comment was but an ancient response from Blacks who try to appease whites to prevent repercussions - a tragic defensive legacy of America's racist paternalistic society. Upon further reflection, however, I realized that whites react similarly with other whites. Invariably whites will attempt to make other whites feel comfortable with their racism or will be deplorably apathetic. We as whites need to stop this nonsense. It is my hope that in the 21st century, America's white community will finally come to its senses. Bill Clinton thankfully began this dialogue with his Commission on Race. But this was just a start and we know not to expect anything of integrity along this line from the Bush administration. But in communities throughout the country we white Americans can take a stand now, this very minute, and always should have been acting on or own and with other whites and Blacks. We can first educate ourselves about racism and address our own racist attitudes which should start with the basic premise that if you are white and born in America you are a racist. Don't think otherwise because it will not be true. We can learn from Blacks and other whites how to get beyond our racist background, how to be watchful of our own actions and attitudes and change them. Secondly, never let other whites get away with their racist attitudes and actions. Stop them immediately. Don't excuse them or attempt to make them feel comfortable. Thirdly, study the history of white and Black resistance to racism and injustice. This is not something you will learn in public schools, which would view white resistance, in particular, as traitorous to the racist American system. After all, it is traitoress to the system as well it should be. Fourthly, and most importantly, seek advice from Blacks on what we as whites should do to adequately and aggressively address racist problems in our communities, in the nation, in the world. Don't ever think for one minute that we as whites have the answers because we don't. Finally, after centuries of "white" deceit, be mindful that pathetically we as whites still want to control everything and usually think we know everything. We need to recognize that we should never pursue any struggle against racism or for justice alone - or any other struggle for that matter. With whites leading the way we have experienced untold disasters for centur ies. Forbid we should revisit such devastating consequences and pain. Actually this is rather a non-issue. Our deceit and lies are now out there for everyone to see, we could never get away with leading the way even if we tried. Let's admit our ignorance and false vacuous, hopeless pride. It's time we started to learn and do something worthwhile. We are centuries too late, but now is as good a time as any to start! ---------------- Note: For 10 years Ms. Gray has produced this Atlanta radio program addressing local, regional, national and international issues on racism and justice. The opinions expressed in the article do not necessarily reflect those of Radio Free Geogia Foundation Incorporated, it's staff or volunteers. =================================================================== The Center for Defense Information The Weekly Defense Monitor 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW * Washington, DC 20036 (202)332-0600 * Fax (202)462-4559 * www.cdi.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- VOLUME 5, ISSUE #11 March 15, 2001 U.S. Continues to Dominate World Military Expenditures by Christopher Hellman, Senior Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bush Administration's recently released Fiscal Year 2002 budget blueprint includes a $324.8 billion request for the Pentagon. This is $14.2 billion more than this year, or 4.6 percent above current levels. As the world's lone super power, it is not surprising that the United States spends more on its military than any other nation. What is surprising is just how large the U.S. share of world military spending actually is, and the fact that while defense budgets are shrinking worldwide, U.S. military spending continues to grow. Consider the following. Russia, which has the second largest military budget in the world, will spend roughly one-sixth what the United States will, assuming its economy can afford it. China, which has the third largest military budget, recently announced that it would increase its military spending by almost eighteen percent. Yet the United States spends seven times what China spends. A word here about China's military budget, which has seen modest increases over the past several years. Last year, due to a slowing economy, it appeared that these increases might be plateauing, although some analysts warned that major increases might occur. Then, two weeks ago, citing "drastic" changes in the world military situation, China announced plans to raise defense spending by 17.7 percent this year, to roughly $17 billion. It is widely accepted that China's official defense budget significantly underestimates actual military spending - some analysts estimate by 60 percent or more - and that actual military spending is roughly $45 billion. In this context, the announced eighteen percent increase is actually a six percent increase. Further, given that in 1998 the Chinese government ordered the Peoples' Liberation Army to halt its commercial activities - a major source of the military's funding - the projected increase likely only shifts the source of funding to the central government and does not actually represent a significant spending increase. Some facts about U.S. military spending: World military spending, which was $1.2 trillion in 1985, stood at $809 billion in 1999. During that period, the U.S. share of global military spending continued to increase, going from 30% in 1985 to 36% in 1999. The U.S. military budget is more than twenty-two times as large as the combined spending of the seven countries traditionally identified by the Pentagon as our most likely adversaries - Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria - which together spend just over $14 billion annually. The United States and its close allies - the NATO nations, South Korea, and Japan - spend more than the rest of the world combined. Together they spend thirty-seven times more than the seven rogue states. The seven rogue nations, along with Russia and China, together spend $116 billion, less than one-half the U.S. military budget. The United States alone spends more than the combined spending of next twelve nations. =================================================================== Friday, March 16, 2001 Lawyers: Inaugural Protesters Abused <http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/3-16-2001/20010316081501380.html> WASHINGTON (AP) _ Civil rights lawyers say local and federal law enforcement agencies violated the rights of Inauguration Day demonstrators. Lawyers from the Partnership for Civil Justice and the National Lawyers Guild charged that members of the private Presidential Inaugural Committee, which coordinated the festivities, improperly took control of a security checkpoint to delay protesters from approaching Freedom Plaza, where they had a permit to rally. The lawyers also said local and federal police detained hundreds of people before they reached the parade route and used "agents provocateurs" to disrupt protests. The allegations were added Thursday to a federal lawsuit that was originally filed before the Jan. 20 inauguration. A police spokesman referred inquiries to the office of the District of Columbia's corporation counsel, which declined to comment because lawyers there had not seen the amended complaint. A representative of the inaugural committee said the group was unaware of the lawsuit. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office, which is defending federal agencies in the case, said there would be no comment until lawyers reviewed the complaint. The complaint says the police corralled peaceful demonstrators who had not violated any laws and were not charged. They were allowed to proceed after about an hour, lawyers said. "Agents provocateurs" were seen by witnesses and captured on demonstrators' video cameras operating near the Navy Memorial, the lawyers said. One allegedly punched a protester and more than one allegedly fired pepper spray at close range in the faces of peaceful demonstrators. =================================================================== Hackers hit Sandia http://www.gertzfile.com/InsidetheRing.html By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough March 16, 2001 The U.S. intelligence community is conducting a damage assessment of a major hacker incident involving Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico. "It's big," said an official familiar with the incident. Few details could be learned, however. According to U.S. intelligence officials, hackers suspected of having links to a foreign government successfully broke into Sandia's computer system and were able to access sensitive classified information. The incident took place in the past several weeks. The suspected governments, according to the officials, include Russia, China, Iraq or North Korea all nations thought to have well-developed information-warfare capabilities. "It's an ongoing effort to figure the origin of these kinds of attacks," said another intelligence official. Sandia is one of three Energy Department laboratories that are major targets of foreign intelligence services, according to intelligence reports. Sandia is operated for the department by Lockheed Martin Co. and builds all non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons, including high explosives used to trigger nuclear blasts. It also works on developing nuclear monitoring and has an international center that has numerous foreign visitors. In 1999, all classified computers at Sandia and two other Energy Department laboratories were shut down for a security review aimed at improving cyber-security. Spokesmen for Sandia, the CIA and Energy Department declined to comment on the incident, citing policies of not discussing intelligence matters. =================================================================== "Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. 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