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AFP stooge justifying brutal pre dawn attack by riot P.I.G.S on an indigenous embassy. Police defend Aboriginal tent embassy raid Police have defended their actions at the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra this morning where two people were arrested after police were asked to remove an illegal structure. Seventy police officers were involved in the pre-dawn raid at the tent embassy where a six-metre high A-frame was dismantled. Police say they were there to support heavy machinery and keep the peace. Some officers wore riot gear but superintendent Charmaine Quade says that was necessary. It wasn't until issues had escalated - for example,one of our police vehicles windows had been smashed, there was threat with spears, there was also bushes that were set alight and waved in members faces, superintendent Quade said. But five members were deployed with gear to try and contain that. Two people were arrested - one for breaching the peace and another for possession of a dangerous weapon, a spear. The latter will appear in court later today. http://abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-19feb2003-51.htm THIS MEANS WAR.
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The explosive growth of three private water utility companies in the last 10 years raises fears that mankind may be losing control of its most vital resource to a handful of monopolistic corporations. In Europe and North America, analysts predict that within the next 15 years these companies will control 65 percent to 75 percent of what are now public waterworks. The companies have worked closely with the World Bank and other international financial institutions to gain a foothold on every continent. They aggressively lobby for legislation and trade laws to force cities to privatize their water and set the agenda for debate on solutions to the world's increasing water scarcity. The companies argue they are more efficient and cheaper than public utilities. Critics say they are predatory capitalists that ultimately plan to control the world's water resources and drive up prices even as the gap between rich and poor widens. The fear is that accountability will vanish, and the world will lose control of its source of life. http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/water/
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From: Ross Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Yet another failure of commercial cryptographic equipment Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:52:13 + I gave a talk at Cambridge yesterday in which I described a new and interesting family of attacks on cryptographic equipment. These attacks defeat machines such as the Racal RG7000 and the IBM 4758/CCA which are commonly used to protect the PINs and keys used in automatic teller machines. The paper is available online at: http://research.microsoft.com/~aherbert/volume63.pdf [4.8MB] as pages 27-30 in the PDF. [HTML below] I got a fax yesterday informing me that an application is to be brought in the High Court, it seems by Citibank, on Thursday 20th February for `relief in relation to the protection of information which they accept as being confidential and which ought not to be in the public domain.' I hope that no English court would go so far as to censor already published material. However, one just can't tell these days ... MORE ON... http://cryptome.org/pacc.htm
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Every now and again, the nations political spotlight shines upon the sleepy state of New Hampshire. Our first in the nation primary status assures that it happens at least every four years, as it did just this past year when we clocked in with eighty percent voter turnout in order to send the message that John McCain was best equipped to lead our country, and not the eminently less qualified man who eventually landed the job. In recent weeks, reportage of the comments of one of New Hampshires state representatives, one Tom Alciere, has again earned national attention for the Live Free or Die state. As was predictable, local and national pundits alike have preferred that Alciere be afforded the latter of these two options. Ironic, isnt it? Police chiefs and other government mouthpieces have gone on record with comments like He should be thrown in jail for talking like that. Well guess what? That kind of rhetoric serves to make Alcieres point precisely. Chicken-hearted reporters within and without New Hampshire have elected to interpret Alciere out of context with simplistic statements like Alciere advocates the killing of police officers, and Alciere believes that shooting police officers is good for society, rather than actually examining the role of law enforcement in America in the context of Alcieres statements. The Rodney King case, the Amadou Diallo case, the Avner Luima case and many other similar such instances clearly beg the question of whether or not there exists within this country a measurable percentage of maverick cops with personal agendas who are willing to abuse their authority. These are men armed not only with guns but also with statutes that permit their incursion into the private lives of ordinary citizens. The responsibility assigned to police officers is an awesome one, and one that I believe is impossible to argue that they handle adequately across the board. The vast majority of police officers have selected their professions as a result of an altruistic desire to defend the helpless from societys many predators. They seek to employ their intelligence, imagination, and yes, physical force to ensure that American citizens are able to earn their keep and keep what they earn. They seek to come to the aid of exploited children, abused women, and unfairly treated citizens across the age, race, gender and economic spectrum. But there is without much doubt an element of the police force that oversteps its authority in order to further either a personal agenda, or to satisfy a demented thirst for dominion over others. As far as the media goes, it is so much easier to resort to hyperbole than actually address the question of police brutality and invasion of privacy within this country, that who could expect them to respond to Alciere other than as they have? It makes for better headlines, so thats the way it gets covered. The great shame is that the real question is being passed over in favor of hand wringing about this dangerous man somehow vested with legislative influence. The vilification of Alciere, a man of truly puny intellect, whose own hyper-libertarian views are so poorly thought out as to hardly be worth addressing, is feelgood journalism at its worst. He has become an icon of the pitfalls of liberalism, a right wing effigiation, a piñata suspended over blindfolded Republicans heads as they wildly swing the stick. Its a shame that so inadequate a person as Alciere has become the fulcrum of so critical a debate. People who prefer black and white to shades of gray are pleased to have Tom Alciere to clarify for them the issue of police malfeasance. Americas great unwashed dont want to use their heads, they only want to know where they should hang their hats. In the end run, Alciere is the best thing that could happen for the American police state he alleges, at whatever level it actually exists. The sound byte journalism coverage of the Alciere flap has served to increase the flock of those with blind faith in the judgement of law enforcement bodies and individual officers. Here in Portsmouth, the cops on the beat deployed so much pepper spray last year that I wouldnt be surprised if France were to declare a cayenne famine. Were some instances of use warranted? Undoubtedly. Were some unwarranted? Equally undoubtedly. We havent seen much of the old Dale Daigle thump and dump strategy lately, but given the finer points of the Truax/Johnson lawsuit, news photos of a sixty-year old woman in a moomoo crumpled onto the sidewalk rubbing mace from her eyes, and various other instances of dubious use of authority, it is hard to say that it doesnt happen here. http://www.thumpcity.com/Elliott/Alciere.htm
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Pair get 8 years for serving beer at party A judge sentenced a husband and wife to eight years in jail for serving alcohol to teenagers at a birthday party for their son. -- Washington Times Appeals court upholds ban on protest A federal appeals court agreed that New York City did not violate the First Amendment when it banned anti-war demonstrators from marching near the United Nations. -- Buffalo News Broad antiwar coalition emerges Opposition to a war in Iraq is forging cooperation between leftists, traditional conservatives and libertarians. -- Pacific News Campaign finance 'reform' opposed Ed Thompson, the Libertarian Party candidate for governor last fall, the American Civil Liberties Union and Wisconsin Manufacturers Commerce joined forces to oppose restrictions on political speech. -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Random vehicle searches for explosives begin at airport Vehicles on roads within the Pittsburgh International Airport complex will be subjected to random stops and searches, the Allegheny County Airport Authority announced. -- Pittsburgh Post Gazette Technology that sees through walls gets OK Technology that can see through walls to help police search homes and businesses and aid firefighters searching for victims received a boost from federal regulators. -- San Jose Mercury News House passes new welfare reforms Keeping a pledge to require more work from welfare recipients, House Republicans passed a plan that would also give hundreds of millions of dollars to programs promoting marriage. -- Fox News Nanny state Maine targets obesity A bill in Maine's state legislature would require nutrition labeling on menus in restaurants, ban soft drinks and junk food in schools, promote transportation policies that encourage walking and create a commission to study the causes of obesity. -- Washington Times New gun makes their day at show Forget about anti-gun nuts. Smith Wesson just rolled out a .50 caliber magnum revolver with nearly three times the muzzle energy of the .44 Magnum. -- Washington Times Bloated appropriations bill approved The House and Senate hastily approved a 3,000-page, $397.4 billion spending package, the largest appropriations bill ever, loaded with money for special-interest projects covering everything from shiitake mushrooms to beaver management. -- Washington Post In local governments, opposition to Iraq War rises Divisions over President Bush's policy toward Iraq are far from over and appear to be growing in cities and towns in many parts of the country. -- Washington Post Death toll mounts in Bolivia tax revolt Tanks formed an iron curtain in front of Bolivia's presidential palace as a second day of violent anti-tax protests swept the Andean nation and calls grew for President Gonzalo Snchez de Lozada to resign. -- Seattle Times http://civilliberty.about.com/library/blnews.htm
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...fly in circles? Anti-War Conservatives Bash Hawks on Iraq News Analysis, Rene P. Ciria-Cruz, Pacific News Service, Feb 12, 2003 Opposition to war in Iraq comes from the Right, too. In fact, writes PNS contributor Rene P. Ciria-Cruz, unlikely Left-Right alliances and fiery denunciations of war in paleocon and libertarian media could further fracture the American Right. Evil though they may be, Islamic killers are over here because we are over there, booms the essay, Terror on American soil is the price of American empire. Another anti-war liberal waxing rhetorical? No, it's former presidential hopeful Patrick Buchanan, editor of The American Conservative, bashing President Bush's Mideast military buildup. There are indeed anti-war conservatives. Moreover, these big-government-hating, tax-loathing right-wingers reserve their sharpest barbs for the neoconservative hawks in the Bush administration. Some even predict that war in Iraq will widen fissures within the Right and cost the Republican Party in the voting booth. Realists like Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser to the first President Bush, Lawrence Eagleburger, former secretary of state, and business leaders who ran A Republican Dissent on Iraq in the Wall Street Journal this January, drew attention with their warning that a hasty war could set the entire region on fire. Less well known are objections from conservatives driven by a strict reading of the Constitution and distaste for the welfare-warfare state. Opposition to an unjust war is a conservative tradition, insists Jon B. Utley, the Robert A. Taft fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala. War of conquest encourages the growth of state power and burdensome taxation. With war in Iraq, Utley fears that America is forging a world alliance against itself. We'll all be soft targets. Utley wants conservatives to join protests organized by left-liberal coalitions. Although he's uneasy seeing far-out socialists condemning free markets, theirs is usually the only game in town. Besides, he says, this is not a Left-Right battle. The Antiwar.com site in Sunnyvale, Calif., gets 2 million page views a month, 35 percent from visitors outside the United States, according to webmaster Eric Garris, a Republican and small 'l' libertarian. At peace coalition meetings in San Francisco, Antiwar.com staffers get some static from old-style Stalinists, but otherwise feel welcome, Garris says. He laments that conservative speakers have yet to be invited to the big national protests. Buchanan and columnists like Robert Novak, Charley Reese, Paul Craig Roberts and Georgie Anne Geyer regularly skewer Bush on Iraq. So do Right mainstays like Lew Rockwell Jr., Alan Reynolds, Joe Sobran and Justin Raimondo, whose opinions appear on Townhall.com, Worldnetdaily.com, The American Conservative, the Chronicles, Americans Against World Empire, and in publications by the Cato and von Mises institutes. Saddam Hussein is no Hitler; George Bush is no Winston Churchill. And this war will definitely not be our finest hour, Reese wrote. Bush, wrote Geyer, has a religiously inspired grandiosity of character which leads him to believe he has been called to a religious duty in the Middle East to rid the world of Saddam Hussein! Congress has right-wing doves too. In the House, three GOP conservatives and three centrists voted against giving Bush authorization to use military force against Iraq. Ron Paul (R-Tex.), known for his dislike of the income tax, the Federal Reserve and the United Nations, called the undeclared war unconstitutional, costly and morally unjustifiable. Warned John Hostettler (R-Ind.), Don't fire unless fired upon. He said the notion is at least as old as St. Augustine's Just War Thesis, and it finds agreement with the Minutemen and framers of the Constitution. The split on Iraq pits traditional conservatives (paleocons) and libertarians on one side against neoconservatives (neocons) and the Christian Right on the other. Paleocons and libertarians disagree on moral issues such as abortion and drug use, but they both oppose large-scale state social programs and, like the isolationist America First movement of the 1930s, U.S. intervention abroad. When the Right closed ranks during the Cold War, the paleocons muted their isolationism but revived it with the demise of the Soviet bloc. Neocons are former liberals who moved to the Right after being mugged by reality, as neocon patriarch Irving Kristol famously quipped. They oppose affirmative action and Great Society-type programs, but not the entire legacy of the New Deal. Former Cold Warriors, they want the United States to boldly wield its clout as the only military superpower in the world. The neocon-Christian Right alliance rose to power during the Reagan presidency and now claims hegemony over the conservative movement. It wields much influence through the Heritage
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ARLINGTON, VA January 27 2003: Metal Storm Limited (ASX Code: MST and NASDAQ ticker symbol: MTSX), announced today that it has signed a teaming agreement with VISTA Controls, Inc., a Curtiss-Wright company (NYSE: CW, CW.B), for research, development, construction and demonstration of the Metal Storm Repeatable Access Denial System (RADS). Under this agreement, a Metal Storm stacked round RADS system will be combined with VISTAs stabilised weapons platform, acquisition sensor, integrating software and fully integrated user console. Metal Storm and VISTA will conduct system performance studies and functional capability assessments of this weapon system to produce a fully integrated RADS demonstrator. The RADS system is intended to be used for very close-in defence and can be utilised against small, lethal, rapidly moving hostile threats, either on land or at sea. It also incorporates Metal Storms new generation firing system, announced in a release by the company on 23 September 2002, which substantially reduces the complexity of the ballistic component of the weapon. Mike ODwyer, President and Chief Executive Officer of Metal Storm said, This agreement is an excellent example of how our company is now attracting prominent and highly capable US defence companies to join with us in advancing our proprietary electronic ballistic technology. VISTA Controls is a leader in designing and producing world class fire control sub-systems and related software, as evidenced by their product placement into key defence programs such as the Abrams main battle tank, the Bradley fighting vehicle, Global Hawk and the Space Shuttle upgrade program. We believe that combining our RADS technology, across a range or combination of calibres, with VISTAs systems will provide Metal Storm with an enhanced performance capability. Our goal in 2003 is to demonstrate this fully integrated weapon system to defence agencies with a view to achieving production contracts. Mr. Darwin Beckel, President of VISTA Controls added, We are very pleased to be teamed with Metal Storm in taking the unique capability of their new and versatile RADS system to the next level of development. Our company continually looks for new technologies that, when integrated into a network centric architecture, provide a powerful combination of firepower and information. We know of many customers that will be pleased to witness the demonstration we will be offering with the RADS product. About Metal Storm Metal Storm Limited is a research and development company based in Brisbane, Australia. The company is capturing attention from defence organisations worldwide with its revolutionary 100% electronic ballistics technology, which has no known conventional equivalent. Metal Storm currently has approximately US$50 million in research and development funding in place to develop its technology from leading government defence-related agencies in Australia and the United States. Additionally, the company is well positioned to support the U.S. government's more urgent homeland defence needs. Recently, the U.S. Department of Defense has accelerated the programs under development as it strengthens its counter-terrorism capabilities. About Curtiss-Wright and VISTA Controls: Curtiss-Wright: Curtiss-Wright Corporation has a long history with its roots dating back to the Wright brothers' first flight in 1903. They have taken their engineering strengths to several markets in which they have established three business segments: Controls, Flow Control and Metal Treatment. The Controls business segment designs, engineers and manufactures actuation components and systems used for leading and trailing edges wing flaps on commercial and military aircraft; systems for opening and closing weapons bay doors on fighter aircraft, suspension systems and turret stabilising and aiming systems for armored vehicles, integrated mission management and flight control computers, ammunition handling and fire control systems, and perimeter intrusion detection systems. Through the recent acquisition of Lau Defense Systems (LDS) and VISTA Controls, Curtiss-Wright is now a leading provider of turn-key mission critical military electronics systems, providing design, development, documentation, and support services. In addition to its core business of providing electronics systems to the U.S. military, Curtiss-Wright also offers perimeter intrusion detection security systems and has a licensing agreement for facial recognition products for certain U.S. Government and industrial markets. www.curtisswright.com VISTA Controls Corp. (VISTA): VISTA Controls, with operations in Santa Clarita, Calif., and Littleton, Mass., designs and develops a wide variety of leading-edge defence electronics systems and board-level items including SBCs, graphics, high-speed data fabrics, I/O, memory, chassis and security sensor products. The company
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Exclusive: By Neil Mackay, Home Affairs Editor IN the murky, brutal world of the intelligence war in Northern Ireland there is one rule the British military never breaks: if one of its agents inside the IRA is unmasked then the army will save their life at all costs. But it seems this was a rule Brigadier Gordon Kerr was not inclined to obey. Kerr, an Aberdonian who began his military career as an officer in the Gordon Highlanders, is today one of the most powerful men in British military intelligence. But according to soldiers who served under him, Kerr is also a man who sacrificed the lives of British agents working inside the IRA. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kerr was commanding officer of the Force Research Unit (FRU) -- a top-secret arm of the British army's Intelligence Corps, which ran some of the most highly-placed agents in the IRA and loyalist paramilitary groups. Investigations by the Sunday Herald have already uncovered how Kerr and the FRU used some agents as 'proxy assassins' for the British state. Military handlers would pass to agents inside loyalist paramilitary organisations documents -- such as photographs and address details -- on Sinn Fein activists, republican sympathisers, IRA men and sometimes just innocent Catholics. The agents would then give these details to loyalist gunmen who would use them to plan assassinations. At least 14 people died as a result including the Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, who represented a number of people accused of IRA crimes. For more than a decade, Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has investigated alleged collusion between Kerr's FRU and loyalist paramilitaries. On Thursday, Stevens confirmed his team was preparing to send papers on Kerr -- now the British military attach in Beijing -- to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Kerr has been questioned by Stevens, and 20 other files on other members of the security forces are also to be sent to the DPP before the end of March. Stevens's inquiries are still ongoing. With Kerr facing possible criminal charges for collusion, former FRU officers who once served under him have made new revelations about their commanding officer -- a man once referred to as the 'archetypal spy'. These intelligence officers say Kerr allowed FRU agents -- informers within the IRA who were loyal to Britain -- to die. The story that follows shows a staggering disregard for human life. It concerns the deaths of four people: Margaret Perry, a civilian Catholic; her lover Gregory Burns, who worked inside the IRA for the British, and his friends Aidan Starrs and Johnny Dignam -- also agents and informers for the FRU. The Sunday Herald has spoken to three former FRU officers who say these four would still be alive today if it wasn't for Kerr. It begins with the recruitment of Gregory Burns, a 34-year-old Catholic from Lurgan, by the FRU. Burns, who was identified for recruitment when he applied to join the army, happily agreed to work for the FRU as an agent gathering information on IRA activities in Co Armagh. Two of his friends, Aidan Starrs and Johnny Dignam, were recruited along with him. Burns quickly gained the trust of those in the upper echelons of the republican movement. He became an assistant to Owen Carron, a former republican MP, who in 1981 worked as the election agent for Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker. Burns's links to the Provos ran deep. His brother Sean had been killed by a special RUC team, along with two other members of an IRA active service unit, in 1982. In the late 1980s, Burns's contact with the IRA was at an all time high. Burns, Starrs and Dignam were now well-placed inside the Provos, securing their positions as key FRU informers. But there was a problem: Burns was something of a 'ladies' man'. Though he had a long-term relationship, he had also secretly begun an affair with a 26-year-old called Margaret Perry, whose family had republican connections. 'Burns didn't keep his mouth shut and she found out he was working for British intelligence,' one FRU officer said. 'He tried to convince her he was a double-agent the IRA had planted within the army -- but she didn't buy it.' Just prior to Kerr stepping down as head of the FRU in late 1990, one FRU officers recalls: 'Burns contacted us and told us the game was up. He said he'd been compromised and he, Starrs and Dignam wanted out.' The three expected the FRU to set up a resettlement package -- a new home, a new identity, a new job and a sizeable pay-off. 'Burns's handlers went to Kerr and said they needed to get the three of them out quickly,' one of the FRU officers added. 'Resettling agents is part of the deal. Who on earth would agree to work as an agent for the Brits inside the IRA if they knew that if they were rumbled we'd abandon them and let them die? 'But Kerr wasn't having any of it. He said it was all Burns's own fault and he should get out of the mess himself. He said he should silence Perry.
Self Managed Repression.
Following on from the post and forfeit fiasco... You Asked for It! The Privilege of Being Regulated by Russell Madden At last! The veil parts. The beam falls from my eye. The fog clears. How could I have been so blind? Man-oh-man-oh-man, I have wasted my life, plugging along, trying to make money and eke out a modest living by offering my meager services to various employers. All those years toiling in menial jobs. All that aggravation in dealing with surly students. All that frustration in attempting to interest uncaring publishers in my books and short stories. What a waste of valuable time and energy when I could have been pulling in the dough so much more easily. The wonderful lads in Washington, D. C., have shown the way, illuminating the path for slow-to-catch-on types such as I. Here and all, I thought the best way to earn dollars was to exchange a desired service or product produced by yours truly for the voluntarily surrendered money of those desirous of my talents and effort. A recent story from The Wall Street Journal, however, has provided me the key to unlimited wealth. In between all their dedicated and wondrous efforts to oust Saddam Hussein and to free the long-suffering Iraqi people from their dirty ol' homes and lives, the ingenious worker-bees in the current presidential administration have creatively devised a method to increase their budgets. (Oooo! I tingle all over pondering the titillating possibilities inherent in the principle these lads and lasses have uncovered.) The fun folks at such what-would-we-do-without-them organizations as the Department of Agriculture (the clever people who bring us all higher food prices to subsidize the lifestyles of a small group of the richest farmers), the Federal Communication Commission (the farsighted dreamers who want to outlaw analog television reception in a few years and whose policies have slowed broadband and retarded the tech sector), and the Food and Drug Administration (the compassionate souls who have helped end prematurely the lives of millions of Americans by delaying approval of drugs and medical devices, and who contributed to the skyrocketing costs of the drugs they do approve by endless paperwork and delays), these chuckle-chums and others have been informed by the prez's people to charge the people they regulate for the privilege of being regulated. Brilliant! Delightful! Bodacious! More precisely, these modern magicians are supposed to increase the user fees they already collect from various businesses. Those evil corporations paid only $170 billion in such fees last year. By golly, the prez has our best interests at heart and wants these rich SOB's to fork over another two billion or so this year. Consider the genius of this plan: 1. Pass a bunch of laws and regulations that control what various businesses may or may not do, i.e., force them to do what you want them to do. 2. Set yourself up as the body charged with ensuring that those involuntary actions are done according to your own specifications. 3. Claim you are forcing these companies to adhere to standards (set by you) in order to protect the public from the nasty things the businesses would do or not do if you weren't there to keep an eagle eye on them. 4. Make the companies pay user fees because they use your time and resources when you force them to do what you want. 5. Force the companies to cough up even more money later so you can increase your own salary and staff. Wow. I take off my hat to the pushers of this cunning and masterful scam. Maybe I can force college-age students to go to college because it would be good for them to learn more. Then I'll make them take my classes. Next, I'll charge them for the privilege of using my services. Plus, I'll make it illegal for any of the students not to take my classes and forbid anyone from dropping the classes. Then, when I decide I need more money, I'll raise their user fees so I can finally buy that plasma-screen television I've coveted. Better yet, they don't actually have to benefit from my teaching. Indeed, if they get more educationally confused and end up worse off than they were before, I'll use their failure as an excuse to demand even more money from them! What a wonderful spiral: miss a lot of classes; grade only cursorily; ignore the outcomes; get paid by the students for forcing them to do what I tell them to do. Do it all again. And guess what! No more idiotic student evaluations. If they don't like what I force them to do, who cares? I'll fine them even more or maybe just throw them in jail. Sweet! Hmm... 'Course, now that I think on this a mite, I'm beginning to wonder how original this scheme truly is. After all, I am forced to pay for the privilege of adhering to gun control laws such as purchase permits I don't want but that are supposed to keep me safe. I am forced to pay for my own good for a State-mandated
Re: School of the future
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Harmon Seaver wrote: The real school of the future won't have classrooms at all, and no teachers as we now know them. Instead there will be workstations with VR helmets and a number of software gurus in the machine tailoring themselves to the individual students needs and personality. The machine will never be tired or grumpy or just having a bad day or serious personality problems like human teachers. The software will have the same entrancing allure of good computer games with the addition of sounds and light patterns of our present day mind machines to adjust brain waves to optimal receptivity and retainment, and function in the well-proven pattern of learning by feeding information, testing, feeding more info or reviewing areas as needed, and just as fast, or as slow, as each student requires. There will be no inattentive students, time on the machine will be the highlight of their week, and they'll probably be able to get more actual learning done in 4-5 hours as they now do in a week. And we could have these schools in place today with today's hardware -- all we need is someone to write the software. This reminds me of the mind link hardware I suggested to Tim Leary when he came to Chicago a decade back. Let's keep the classroom, just spread it out over the net. Grumpyness isn't always a bad thing, it seems to create a lot of entertainment on this list anyway :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
Is DoS is Good.
Homeland defense drives citizens to Web By Stefanie Olsen Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 19, 2003, 1:31 PM PT The Bush administration unveiled Ready.gov on Wednesday as a touchstone for a massive public-awareness campaign to prepare Americans for a potential terrorist attack. The Department of Homeland Defense kicked off a $100 million campaign in the form of print, radio, direct mail and outdoor advertisements that will feature the Web site. The site, whose motto is Don't be afraid. Be ready, offers information, tutorials and checklists on how to protect oneself in the event of biological, chemical or nuclear threats. The campaign was launched in response to the Department of Homeland Security's growing, perceived threat of terrorism in the United States. In the last two weeks, the department put the nation on high alert against potential warfare for the second time since the suicide bombings of Sept. 11, driving many people to hardware stores to buy duct tape and water. While this department and organizations around the country work hard every day to prevent terrorist attacks and strengthen our national protection, individual citizens can help too, Tom Ridge, U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary, said in a statement. He introduced the campaign and Web site Wednesday morning at the Cincinnati American Red Cross. Security is also a big issue in operating the Web site. Ruder Finn Interactive, which developed the site in partnership with the Advertising Council, teamed up with security firm International Networking Services (INS) to ensure that the site would be safe against potential hackers or a cyberterrorism attack. INS has a team overseeing the site's security at all times, according to Steve Bergman, program manager for INS. He said it was built using National Security Alliance guidelines. Producers for the site said they built it with the knowledge that many people flock to the Web in a crisis. They evaluated traffic levels for some of the highest profile sites during the Sept. 11 attacks and the recent NASA flight explosion, including CNN.com and NASA.org, to model the site's performance capabilities. It was designed to perform well at the highest expectation of Web sites, said Brad McCormick, product manager at Ruder Finn. He said the site was build in about three months. The organizations plan to update the site in coming months with local information such as evacuation plans in the top U.S. cities in the case of an attack. They also plan to create versions of it in other languages including Arabic. As part of the campaign, the U.S. Postal Service will send out brochures to every American. All of the ads will direct people to call 1-800-BE-READY to access a free brochure or visit the Web site. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-985170.html?tag=fd_top
X-box on Linux.
http://www.premodded.com/ This month our Workshop section introduces the LinuXbox. APC shows you how to boost the power of your Xbox by installing Linux on it to play games, DVDs, DivXmovies or serve files. The buzz around Linux is reminiscent of the stirrings surrounding the Internet before the dot com crash. In fact, many of the concepts that fascinated people about the Net also applied to the operating system: both began as academic projects, neither were owned by a specific organisation, and they were largely free for anyone to access and contribute to. These factors meant that activity snowballed, building up from simple projects into a global phenomenon with great promise. And in both cases, it was also predicted that they'd quietly go away in favour of proprietary alternatives once the hype died down. There's no arguing that some of the heat has gone out of the Linux market. Companies that had jumped onto the bandwagon, like Caldera and Corel, stepped away from the platform. Others, such as Linux desktop company Eazel, disappeared entirely. But Linux, like the Internet, isn't about to go away any time soon. And the serious players in the Linux industry are doing quite well. Red Hat is profitable and still expanding; IBM has recouped its billion dollars worth of Linux investment sooner than expected, and research firm IDC estimates that spending on Linux will increase from $80 million in 2001 to $280 million by 2006. The platform and its open source philosophy is no longer a left-of-field concept to the business world. Linux has become part, and in some cases the whole, of the IT infrastructure of many Australian businesses, earning a reputation for providing inexpensive and reliable file and print, email, Web and network infrastructure services. More recently, with IT budgets feeling the strain of Microsoft's expensive new licensing model, businesses are looking closely at Linux. IDC reports that some 15% of Microsoft's customers are examining alternative technologies such as Linux following the introduction of Microsoft's Licensing 6 scheme. Open source licensing of the OS and many applications delivers significant cost savings, and allows staff to replicate their work environment on their home machines for free. It also avoids licence audits and the cost of staff borrowing expensive software. But Linux is also getting attention in its own right. Stuart Guthrie, from NSW systems integrator Eureka IT, says that his customers are seriously looking at Linux -- not just trying to arm-bend Microsoft [into a better licensing deal]. While best known as a back office platform, for Linux the desktop is now the most promising frontier as well as being its biggest challenge. Only a short while ago, a Linux desktop looked like a mishmash of inconsistent applications which performed every task under the sun except what most desktop users need: a Web browser capable of displaying most Web pages; a good email client and contact manager; and an office suite which can work reliably with Microsoft Office files. That situation changed once mainstream Linux distributions began to direct their efforts towards Microsoft's heartland. In common with many competitors, Linux market leader Red Hat once focused purely on servers. However, with its 8.0 release, the company aimed to deliver a polished, consistent desktop that anyone could use (whether it succeeded is another question -- see our Workshop article entitled: You can leave your Hat on, page 136). The United Linux consortium (a group consisting of Caldera, SuSE, Turbolinux and Conectiva) has also announced an upcoming release with a clear desktop focus. Switchers and stayers Although Linux isn't yet up to the ease of use of Windows, it's getting there. Furthermore, as a desktop platform Linux offers a variety of advantages over Windows, particularly in terms of installation and maintenance. The tight set of default permissions is appreciated by administrators seeking locked down, tamper-proof desktops, which eases the maintenance burden and reduces the effects of malicious users and software. Another frequently cited business benefit of Linux is the ability to easily produce a standardised roaming user environment. Kim Perkins, Information Systems Manager at Melbourne private school Strathcona Baptist Girls' College, explains that by using LDAP for authentication and the Network File System (NFS) to share users' home directories, staff and students can sit down on any machine and get their own environment, which they can customise without harming the underlying OS. Users have remarked that it's like having their own machine, says Perkins. While his team looked at doing the same for its Windows desktops using profiles and the policy editor, the process was much more difficult and would have taken more time. Strathcona has converted 90 student and staff desktops -- half of its total fleet -- to Linux, and
Return to Sender.
As part of the campaign, the U.S. Postal Service will send out brochures to every American. Return to sender and vote against waste and fear and warmongering,leave no chad unturned! http://news.com.com/2100-1023-985170.html?tag=fd_top
Data Protection under the microscope.
Does London mayor's 'ring of steel' breach UK Data Act? By John Lettice Posted: 19/02/2003 at 15:16 GMT London mayor Ken Livingstone's claims earlier this week that the capital's new charge zone cameras had a security aspect raised numerous questionmarks, not least of them being the one over Transport for London's registration under the Data Protection Act. Livingstone in the past few days has performed something of a somersault, to the extent that he now thinks the terrorist-stopping powers of the zone cameras are so great that they should and would be retained even if the original road-charging purpose turned out to be a complete failure. It was an intriguing revelation because - presuming Ken isn't just making it up as he goes along - it means that a central London security monitoring zone has been introduced not by the police, not by the government, but by a local authority, without any prior consultation at all. And perhaps not even by a local authority - it is unclear to us whether any security purpose has been discussed at the Greater London Authority itself. The consultation that went out in the run-up to the scheme's adoption meanwhile makes no mention of security zones, focussing entirely on the relief of traffic congestion and the improvement of London's transportation systems. Local authorities in the UK do of course introduce CCTV security systems without widespread 'do you want a ring of steel' consultation, but there is just the teensiest of differences here. Purpose is important as far as the Data Protection Act is concerned, schemes specifically designed as CCTV security (or indeed other) systems will have clearly defined and documented purposes, and at least ought to comply with the Data Protection Commissioner's CCTV guidelines, which are available here. Traffic management and monitoring systems however are not necessarily CCTV surveillance systems, and are frequently designed not to function in this way - if they are simply snapping number plates, then they're not identifying individuals. So the UK's speed cameras snap the rear of the car, which is only going to get somebody's face in rather esoteric circumstances, and the congestion charge scheme itself is designed to snap number plates, not people. So, when Ken talks merrily of cameras being panned, zoomed and being used to identify drivers, we have clear purpose-drift and the probable need for whole new categories of registration for TfL under the data protection act. TfL's own data protection registration is substantial, and the paranoid might care to be worried about how many of the individual categories are tagged Transfer: Worldwide. Purpose 7 covers CCTV and traffic management (and makes chilling reading in its own right - Political opinions? Religious beliefs? Sexual life? On a bus?) but it's Purpose 28 that concerns us here. Note that among the data subjects listed are those buying permits, offenders and suspected offenders, those incurring penalty charges and evaders. But there is no reference to the cameras being used to identify individuals, and plenty of individuals not covered (car passengers, pedestrians, cyclists) could be identified by them. Note also: Images of vehicles entering the charging zone; registration marks of these vehicles will be matched with keeper details held by the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) if a valid charge payment, exemption or discount is not held, so that a penalty charge notice may be issued. That's pretty clear, isn't it? Identification of the vehicle owner will take place in the event of suspected evasion, and will be done via DVLA records. It doesn't say anything about more general vehicle identification or zooming in on faces, so if it's doing that TfL is in breach of the 1998 Data Protection Act. If it is doing that, incidentally, it should also have a code of conduct governing how and when it should be done. And we suspect demoing the zooming in on faces to the mayor might at the very least be deemed not to be good practice. Bodies listed for disclosure are sufficiently wide to cover all of the security services, but again the lack of a stated security purpose and of a reference to direct identification via the cameras means Ken's claims aren't covered. As an aside, if you're one of the ones who thought foreign plates would be a good gag, you'll see you're probably going to be disappointed. We know we were. Distribution for both the CCTV and the congestion charge registrations is listed as being worldwide, but this is likely to be simply because of the companies involved in the implementation and management of the systems, rather than because its all being sent over to the CIA. It would however be nice to know what, why and to whom. But you could try to find out. There's a FAQ on obtaining information on what's held on you here. Note that Data controllers may ask for the information they reasonably need
Xinux on L-box.
Xbox Linux group seeks Microsoft seal By David Becker Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 19, 2003, 12:01 PM PT The group of programmers working to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video game console is seeking the software giant's seal of approval. In an open letter sent to Microsoft, the organizers of the Xbox Linux Project requested that the software giant sign its Xbox version of the open-source operating sytem. Microsoft's electronic signature would allow the software to run on an unmodified Xbox. Currently, an Xbox must be outfitted with a mod chip--a gray-market add-on that overrides security features in the console--to run Linux or any other unapproved software. Microsoft has pursued a variety of legal and technical means to thwart mod chips, on the grounds that the devices aid software piracy. We would strongly prefer that our users did not have this extra complex step of opening their Xbox and fitting extra circuitry before they can run Linux or other programs, the letter says. Because of Microsoft's deliberate design choices in terms of restricting the software that may run on an unmodified Xbox to 'Microsoft approved only,' coming to ask Microsoft, and presumably paying Microsoft, is currently the only way we can get our port of the GNU/Linux OS to interoperate with an unmodified box, the letter says. Unkind people might characterize this as a second deliberate monopoly created by Microsoft even as they were being found guilty of creating an illegal monopoly in operating systems software. A Microsoft representative said that the security features and specialized operating system used in the Xbox were necessary to protect against software piracy. It's designed the way it is to protect the (intellectual property) of our game developers and our partners, the representative said. Hackers have been tinkering with the Xbox since the day it went on the market, inspired by the PC-based design of the console, which uses a standard Intel Pentium processor and other common PC components. Programmers have developed media players, software emulators and other unauthorized programs for the console, along with several versions of Linux and affiliated open-source software. Michael Robertson, founder of Linux company Lindows, is sponsoring a $200,000 contest to bring Linux to the console. The first half of the contest has already been won, but the second part of the challenge--running Linux on an unmodified Xbox--is still up for grabs. The Xbox Linux Project letter notes that Microsoft could score some extra cash by signing the group's software. You may not be aware that Project B of the Xbox Linux prize includes up to $100,000 for a person or company which allows Xbox Linux to boot on an unmodded box, the letter says. Microsoft will be eligible to apply for an award under this scheme if they approve Xbox Linux as a normal Xbox program. British programmer Andy Green, one of the organizers of the Xbox Linux Project, said the letter is a sincere attempt to sway Microsoft. The letter is a genuine request for Microsoft to consider allowing Xbox Linux to run on the Xbox without discriminatory extra effort needed on the part of the user, he said in an e-mail interview. We decided to actually ask Microsoft because up until now we have had zero contact with them, despite trying to reach out once before, as we describe in the letter, Green said. We can see from feedback that it is being widely seen as a brave attempt at a lost cause, but we're not so sure. Nobody knows for sure what Microsoft's response to us and our concept of a Microsoft-approved Linux will be until we ask and get a reply. Green said he and other project participants hope Microsoft may become a little more obliging in light of recent antitrust actions. Xbox Linux's situation is plenty more discriminated against than Netscape with their Navigator browser and Sun's Java, he said. These guys could at least run their stuff on the PCs without us having to reverse-engineer their cryptographic locks and the user having to fit new equipment to it. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-985154.html From last year... http://slashdot.org/articles/02/07/26/123220.shtml?tid=123
Better tax evasion through bankruptcy.
Sydney barrister Stephen Archer could not afford to pay his tax debt of $3.1 million but he could still manage to buy $14,000 worth of wine in a year and give his wife $1.2million, a Mercedes-Benz and holidays with their children. Mr Archer, 55, bankrupted three times since 1991, was on the other side of the bar table yesterday as he was grilled for three hours in the Federal Court on why his wife owns everything, and how he managed to live the good life while escaping his tax obligations. The trustees were seeking to recover his latest debt of $765,000 owed to creditors. The biggest creditor, the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, only recovered 2.6cents in the dollar from Mr Archer's previous two bankruptcies, which totalled $3.1million, the trustee, Max Donnelly, said outside court. During some volatile exchanges yesterday, Mr Archer, who represented himself from the witness box, said it was disgraceful to suggest his actions were designed to put him out of reach of the taxman. He did, however, admit that paying tax was a last priority. He said by the time he paid his monthly wine account, amounting to as much as $5364, his chamber fees, and maintenance to his wife to whom he has been married for 30 years, there was not a cent left for income tax. Mr Archer, whose annual income in 1989 was $1.4million, became the first barrister to lose his practising certificate following new legislation prompted by the Herald's exposure of several barristers who had been exploiting the system. Mr Archer - famous for defending Laurie Connell on fraud charges in the early 1990s - handed over all his worldly goods to his wife in March 1988, a separation agreement under the Family Law Act in which he had to pay her $5500 a month. Counsel for the trustee, Brian Skinner, suggested the amounts were much higher than that, up to $473,000 in 1989, but Mr Archer labelled the claim ridiculous. The couple's properties in Perth and their Paddington terrace, valued at $1.4million (and since sold), were in his wife's name. Having quit the profession after being exposed, Mr Archer lives in Nelson Bay with his wife, and said yesterday he was entirely dependent on my wife's support. If I need money for a train fare to come to Sydney my wife gives me the money, he said. He disagreed her money was his. He said he paid his wife the monthly maintenance in preference to the Tax Office because he felt it was a legal obligation he had entered into, unlike the obligation to pay the Tax Office. He rejected that he put his tax obligations to the bottom of the pile, although it was noted he spent $14,000 on wine between 1999 and 2000. During an outburst at the end of his examination Mr Archer said he strongly objected to the questioning, labelling it a media stunt. He said as a result of the Herald's article a lot of people's positions have been destroyed, including mine. He said the Tax Office was the loser because he no longer earned an income and therefore did not pay tax. It's failed because I've simply disappeared from the Tax Office records. They drove me out of my legal position ... as a result they have suffered the consequences - one less taxpayer. said Mr Archer, who was convicted 22 times for not filing a return. When it was suggested outside court that he did not pay his taxes, Mr Archer responded: I've paid thousands. http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/19/1045638361018.html
LETTER OF INTENT
From the Desk of: MR. AHMED ABDUL. ACCOUNT DEPARTMENT UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC. MARINA- BRANCH, LAGOS. DEAR SIR/MADAM RE:TRANSFER OF THE SUM OF US$30.5M DOLLARS INTO YOUR ACCOUNT FIRST,I MUST SOLICIT YOUR CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION.THIS IS BY VIRTUE OF IT'S NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET.THOUGH I KNOW THAT A TRANSACTION OF THIS MAGNITUDE WILL MAKE ANYONE APPREHENSIVE AND WORRIED.BUT IAM ASSURING YOU THAT ALL WILL BE WELL AT THE END OF THE DAY.WE HAVE DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU THROUGH THIS MEDIUM DUE TO THE URGENCY OF THIS TRANSACTION AS WE HAVE BEEN RELIABLY INFORMED OF YOUR DISCRETENESS AND ABILITY. LET ME START BY INTRODUCING MYSELF TO YOU. IAM MR. AHMED ABDUL,AN ACCOUNTANT WITH THE UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC BRANCH OFFICE LAGOS.I CAME TO KNOW ABOUT YOU IN MY PRIVATE SEARCH FOR A RELIABLE AND REPUTABLE PERSON TO HANDLE THIS CONFIDENTIAL TRANSACTION AS WE ARE STILL IN ACTIVE SERVICE. THE PROPOSITION. AN AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL,LATE ENGINEER BUTCH .R.MIGUEL,AN OIL MERCHANT/CONTRACTOR WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA,UNTIL HIS DEATH THREE YEARS AGO IN A GHASTLY AIR CRASH IN AN EGYPT AIR, FLIGHT 990 WHICH OCCURED ON 2ND NOVEMBER 1999,BANKED WITH US HERE AT UNION BANK OF NIGERIA . MARINA BRANCH LAGOS,AND HAD A CLOSSING BALANCE OF US$30.5M(THIRTY MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)IN A FIXED DEPOSIT ACCOUNT,WHICH THE BANK UNQUESTIONABLY EXPECTS IT TO BE CLAIMED BY ANY AVAILABLE FOREIGN NEXT-OF-KIN TO THE LATE BENEFICIARY OR ALTERNATIVELY BE DONATED TO A DISCREDITED TRUST FUND FOR THE PURCHASE OF ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS AT THE MILITARY WAR COLLEGE IN KADUNA STATE HERE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA. SEQUEL TO THIS,FERVENT VALUABLE EFFORTS WERE MADE BY UNION BANK OF NIGERIA TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ANY OF THE MIGUEL'S FAMILY OR RELATIVES BUT PROVED TO NO AVAIL.IT IS BECAUSE OF THE PERCEIVED POSIBILITY OF NOT BEING ABLE TO LOCATE ANY OF THE LATE ENGR.BUTCH R. MIGUEL'S NEXT-OF-KIN(HE HAD NO KNOWN WIFE AND CHILDREN) THAT THE MANAGEMENT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF OUR HONOURABLE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,MAJOR-GENERAL KALU UKE KALU(Rtd), THAT AN ARRANGEMENT BE MADE FOR THE FUND TO BE DECLAREDUN-CLAIMABLE AND SUBSIQUENTLY BE DONATED TO THE TRUST FUND FOR THE PURCHASE OF ARMS AND AMMUNITON TO FURTHER ENHANCE THE COURSE OF WAR IN AFRICA AND THE WORLD IN GENERAL.IN ORDER TO AVERT THIS CRUDE AND NEGATIVE DEVELOPMENT,SOME OF MY TRUSTED COLLEAGUES AND I NOW SEEK YOUR PERMISSION TO HAVE YOU STAND AS THE NEXT-OF-KIN TO LATE ENGR. BUTCH R.MIGUEL, SO THAT THE FUND US$30.5M WOULD BE RELEASED AND PAID INTO YOUR ACCOUNT AS THE BENEFICIARY'S NEXT-OF KIN.ALL DOCUMENTS AND PROVES TO ENABLE YOU RECIEVE THIS FUND WILL BE CAREFULLY WORKED OUT AND MORESO AS PROFESSIONAL BANKERS, WE ARE ASSURING YOU OF 100% RISK-FREE INVOLVEMENT. YOUR SHARE STAYS WHILE THE REST WILL BE FOR MYSELF AND MY COLLEAGUES FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES IN YOUR COUNTRY. NOTE THAT THIS TRANSACTION WILL STRICTLY BE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS I HAVE STATED BELOW, AS WE HAVE HEARD CONFIRMED CASES OF BUSINESS ASSOCIATES RUNNING AWAY WITH FUNDS KEPT IN THEIR CUSTODY WHEN IT IS FINALLY REMITTED INTO THIER BANK ACCOUNTS.A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE IS THE ONE OF MR. PETER HOPWOOD,THE PRESIDENT OF MILEAGE TRADING AND INVESTMENT COMPANY AT NUMBER 121, WEST 55TH STREET,21st FLOOR,NEW YORK 10022, AND THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF OMPADEC(MR PATRICK OPIA)WHOM WE WERE RELIABLY INFORMED THAT AFTER THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN BOTH PARTNERS IN WHICH HE WAS TO TAKE 15% OF THE MONEY WHILE THE REMAINING 85% FOR THE NIGERIAN OFFICIALS. WITH ALL THE REMAINING DOCUMENTS SIGNED,THE MONEY WAS DULY TRANSFERED INTO MR HOPWOOD'S ACCOUNT, ONLY TO BE DISAPPOINTED ON THEIR ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK AND WERE INFORMED THAT MR PETER HOPWOOD WAS NO LONGER ON THAT ADDRESS,WHILE HIS TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS HAD BEEN RE-ALLOCATED TO SOME BODY ELSE. THIS WAS HOW THEY LOST US$18.5M TO MR HOPWOOD.THIS IS A VERY RECENT STORY HERE IN MY COUNTRY AND EVERYBODY IS AWARE OF THIS.SOME OF THE OFFICIALS DECIDED TO CRY OUT AND FACE THE LAW,BECAUSE THEY FELT THEY HAD LOST SO MUCH TO A STRANGER,WHILE THE CHAIRMAN OF OMPADEC(MR PATRICK OPIA)IS NOW HIDDING IN A FORIEGN COUNTRY.SO RIGHT NOW, I AM TAKING ALL PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES TO GUARD AGAINST RE-OCCURENCE OF SUCH ACT IN OUR CASE.THIS IS WHY WE HAVE DECIDED THAT THIS TRANSACTION WILL BE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING:- (a) OUR CONVICTION OF YOUR TRANSPARENCY, HONESTY AND DILIGENCE. (b) THAT YOU WILL TREAT THIS TRANSACTION WITH UTMOST SECRECY AND CONFIDENTIALITY. (c) YOU MUST BE READY TO PRODUCE US WITH ENOUGH INFORMATION ABOUT YOURSELF TO PUT OUR MINDS AT REST. (d) THAT UPON RECIEPT OF THE FUND,YOU WILL PROMPTLY RELEASE OUR SHARE ON DEMAND AFTER YOU HAVE DEDUCTED YOUR 20%. YOUR URGENCY WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED AS WE ARE ALREADY BEHIND SCHEDULE FOR THIS FINANCIAL QUATER. IF THIS PROPOSAL IS ALRIGHT BY YOU,THEN KINDLY
The Agee era in au.
Newly released documents reveal that in the 1960s the United States kept close tabs on the Australian labour movement and its leaders, writes David McKnight. Advertisement... CIA Diary: Inside the Company by Philip Agee excerpts from the book. CIA Diary. Inside the Company. by Philip Agee. Penguin Books, 1975. p37. ... what the Agency [CIA] does is ordered ... www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_Diary_Agee.html - 64k - Cached - Similar pages Cont... The recent reprimand delivered to the Labor leadership over the outspoken comments of some MPs about President George Bush and US policy towards Iraq, has brought to light an intriguing aspect of US diplomacy in Australia. Since the Second World War, US embassies have included a special kind of diplomat, the labour attache. The labour attache, like the defence attache and cultural attache, promotes US interests in countries where the trade union movement and labour parties are strong. These have effectively been the Quiet Americans, holding private powwows with MPs and union leaders, handing out trips to the US and reporting all their observations to the State Department. During the Cold War, they worked covertly with anti-communist forces in actions that constitute interference in Australia's internal political life. As well, there are good reasons to believe that labour attaches may have, in the past, been closely linked with US intelligence agencies. Much of the work of labour attaches is now visible in recently released American archives obtained by this writer. They offer a fascinating insight into internal Labor politics, as well as the machinations of US diplomats. A key figure in these documents is Bob Hawke, originally an ACTU advocate, then ACTU president and later prime minister. Hawke was of interest to labour attaches, such as Bob Walkinshaw and Emil Lindahl, because they closely watched the political struggle within the ACTU. By the mid to late-1960s they were aware that the existing president, Albert Monk, was ill and a political struggle over his succession had broken out. Bob Hawke was one of a number of contenders for Monk's job and a bitter battle ensued over it. Hawke, said a US official in 1966, is regarded as brilliant and by some people even as a possible future prime minister of Australia. One US official, Doyle Martin, added that Hawke personally cultivates trade union leaders and is a competent performer at the saloon, as well as the forensic, bar. Two of their most sympathetic sources for interpreting the ACTU were anti-communist forces, such as B.A. Santamaria's National Civic Council, and Tom Doherty of the right-wing Australian Workers Union. At one stage, Bob Walkinshaw, the labour attache, sent the State Department copies of the NCC's analysis of the Australian communist movement, and commented that Santamaria is generally known as an authority on communism and has been a reliable source of information to the reporting officer on this question. He added: Although it can be presumed that Santamaria would obviously be somewhat prejudiced, the contents of this pamphlet can be taken as reflecting a fairly accurate and objective analysis. Such comments indicate just how wildly distorted was the vision through American eyes. Several of the US labour attaches cultivated Hawke and had many long private conversations with him, all of which were written up and relayed to the State Department, and are now available for public scrutiny. An intriguing picture emerges of the young Hawke in his late 30s dealing with US diplomats. The labour attaches were unnerved by his militant aspirations and his association with communists. But on the other hand, they began to see that he was a charismatic and ambitious man with aspirations beyond the union movement. In 1969 the dynamic Hawke moved to take the leadership of the ACTU from its plodding officers. The labour attache, Emil Lindahl, watched these developments carefully and noted that while he was brilliant and effective, his enemies feel he is subject to flights of irresponsibility, including drunkenness, playing around with women, and brawling. After intimately discussing the contest between Hawke and his rival, the ACTU president Harold Souter, the report concluded: Both Souter and Hawke can be considered friends of the US. The reason for this can be seen in Hawke's own astute judgement of the labour attaches. In December 1969, Lindahl attended a church meeting where Hawke spoke passionately about the holocaust in Vietnam. Afterwards, Lindahl reported, Hawke came and sat with him, and asked, Did I hit you too hard on Vietnam? Lindahl replied, I know you can hit harder. After a beer and more discussion together, Lindahl reported: (Hawke) puffed on his newly acquired cigar with a great deal of self-satisfaction. This very confident young man appears to be the master of his own destiny. Lindahl was puzzled by Hawke's public vehemence on Vietnam and his private warmth. He had found this also when
My life as a blog.
Dan Gillmor: Disk-drive capacity continues to grow By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist The cost of disk-drive capacity has dropped below a buck a gigabyte. The news was anticlimactic in a sense, because it was predictable in a time of constant technological progress. It was one of those milestones that still means something -- not just a testament to the storage industry's achievements, but also a reminder of how the seemingly most prosaic of information technologies may have turned out to be the most disruptive. Like others of my generation, I can remember my first computer with a hard disk, which I bought in the mid-1980s after years of personal computing with floppy disks and, before that, cassette storage. I wondered how I'd ever fill the 10 megabytes on the IBM PC, given that an entire novel's worth of text takes up less than 1 megabyte, or 1/60,000 of the space on today's typical 60-gigabyte hard drive. I soon found out. In a Digital Age corollary to Parkinson's Law, data expanded to fit the available space. I learned this repeatedly as the types of data changed. Text was efficient. Graphics took up more space. Microsoft created file formats for its Office software that took up even more. Silicon Valley's disk-drive innovators kept pace. Then came multimedia, especially MP3s, the music format that routinely uses a couple of megabytes a song. My Apple iPod MP3 player will fill up one of these days. But the iPod has a measly (!) 10 gigabytes. By this time next year we'll see tiny media players with 40 or 60 gigabytes of storage. Ah, but what about video? That's the ultimate space hog, right? Yes, for now. My hard-disk video recorder at home has what today is a laughably small capacity, 40 gigabytes, but it holds more than 30 hours of video I record from the satellite, ensuring that there's usually something I want to watch when I get home. The kinds of files we store keep getting bulkier, but the disk-drive wizards are moving fast enough to stay ahead. In the next few years, given their continuing innovation, they're likely to do something I didn't imagine possible until recently -- give us so much storage at such a low cost that we genuinely don't know how to use it all. But in the short term, disk space still will be somewhat constrained. Here's one example of how we'll use it: I just installed the 2003 Encyclopedia Britannica on my laptop computer. It came on a DVD disk and took up about 2.4 gigabytes of space. This is the same encyclopedia, with multimedia additions, that used to take up a huge bookshelf. Now I carry it around. The immense storage capabilities of computer disk drives also make me wonder whether applications we once assumed should reside on central servers might migrate back down to the desktop. Corporations could install employee Web sites on laptop computers, for example. I'd also like to have a home server that stored everything -- music, movies, reference materials, software, you name it -- for easy access by devices I use around the house. Of course, I'd want a backup of everything. But the huge capacities of drives for desktops and servers remind us of another aspect of the industry's progress. Disk drives are getting smaller, too. We'll soon embed huge amounts of storage into small devices. Digital movie cameras are starting to be equipped with hard disks, a natural step. Soon enough, though, all kinds of other things we use every day will make a record of what they're doing. That will raise some new questions. For example, what are the privacy implications of our automobiles keeping track of where we drive and at what speed, as the car makers, insurance industry and government snoops will surely wish? In the medium term, we could fill up disks at the edge of networks in order to help spread multimedia content to people who want to use it. This will be necessary given the near-zero probability that the telecommunications industry will give us sufficient bandwidth -- the speed of network data connections -- for centralized multimedia delivery. The furor over digital copying is a direct outgrowth of storage improvements. Not until large numbers of songs and videos could be easily stored on personal hard disks did the music and movie industries get seriously worried about the networks that began to connect those disks. Without mass storage, Napster would have been much less relevant. The expanding capacity of portable drives opens a new front in the entertainment cartel's war with its customers. Song traders don't need to use the Internet anymore. They can hold parties in friends' homes, swapping songs from disk to disk. Soon it will be movies. I rely on futurists to help me understand what we'll store on disks or other storage memory, such as flash memory, in the long term. Gordon Bell, a computer industry legend, imagines wearable devices that hold everything we've ever seen, heard and said.
Player Piano.
Finding the key to life February 20 2003 Roman Polanski's latest film, The Pianist, is one of many in a century of movie history where the piano - and its player - take centre stage. Philip Kennicott reports. The credits at the end of Roman Polanski's The Pianist could have included this disclaimer: No actual pianos were harmed in the making of this film. The movie (which last week received an Academy Award nomination for best picture) about a Jewish pianist struggling to survive the predations of Nazi-occupied Warsaw, shows the world shattered and in flames, but it treats pianos with a distant, unsentimental respect. They are sold for food, and as shell-pocked houses become permeable to the elements, they suffer some inevitable weather damage. But even as Warsaw is transformed from a cosmopolitan cultural capital into a charnel house, pianos are given some measure of protection. That makes The Pianist better than most piano movies - and the piano movie is definitely a genre unto itself, with some distinguished exemplars: Casablanca and Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, to name two familiar ones. Polanski avoids almost a century of piano cliches. Indeed, one way to read this film is as his studious, methodical effort to avoid making a piano movie. The pianist is usually a hero or a neurotic, and occasionally both (as in 1996's Shine, in which the heroic pianist battles his inner demons); the piano is his religion; his perfect spouse; he cannot live without his piano; the piano stands for all of civilisation. The equating of the piano with civilisation - sometimes with its attributes of culture and learning, and sometimes, as in Jane Campion's The Piano (1993), with its repressive, colonialist shadow - has led to the orgy of piano wreckage in cinema. Pianos are burned, smashed, crushed, dropped and thrown overboard in movies. In Campion's film, a piano is dropped into the ocean; a piano goes down with the ship in James Cameron's Titanic (1997); an almost ruined piano figures prominently in The English Patient (1996). Furniture removers dangling a piano high above urban streets like the sword of Damocles are, in television advertising, a standard representation of fate and its quirks. Laurel and Hardy mined all the lowbrow comic possibilities of piano destruction in 1932's The Music Box, while, in 1928, Luis Bunuel created an image in Un Chien Andalou that remains one of the most recognisable moments in all of avant-garde film: Two grand pianos, their lids open, each one filled with a dead donkey. The pianos in Bunuel's surrealist fantasy are Bechsteins, a lovely German instrument. The protagonist in The Pianist, Wladislaw Szpilman (played by American actor Adrian Brody), ownes a Bechstein. It sits in his family's Warsaw apartment until keeping it any longer becomes an unjustifiable luxury. Szpilman's brother opposes selling it for an insulting price to an oily war profiteer; Szpilman waves him off and takes the money. Polanski's pianist is a sensible man. In that, he stands apart from the long tradition of the pianist as a romantic hero, perhaps best represented by a film so bad it's good, A Song to Remember (1945). By converting Chopin from a foppish consumptive to a butch exponent of truth, justice and the American way, it takes more liberties than an Oliver Stone film. Worse, it equates artistic effort with political courage. The pianist makes music for his people; he contributes muscle in the struggle for freedom (in this case, Polish freedom from Russian hegemony) by making muscular music. He sets aside the trifles of salon music, the waltzes and short ditties, to write a grand heroic polonaise and thus creates a universal music that inspires a transcendent struggle for self-determination. It's pure codswallop. But after long and gruelling years of world war, it was influential codswallop, and a certifiable hit with multiple Academy Award nominations. It also helped bring Chopin's music to a wide audience (and boosted the career of pianist Jose Iturbi, who played on the soundtrack). It cemented, in the popular imagination, the connection between Chopin, Poland and the struggle against tyranny. The romanticisation by moviemakers of the piano, as opposed to, say, the bassoon or kettledrums, is fascinating. In the era of black-and-white films, there was a certain built-in visual richness to the piano; its ebony bulk is imposing and its black-and-white keyboard creates an instant rhythm of sharp contrasts on-screen. And the piano doesn't distort the face of the instrumentalist; clarinetists, no matter how hard they try, always look as if some rigid serpent has a death lock on their mouths. The pianist can be a composed and regal figure (though many directors insist on making the pianist sway and grimace and stare rapturously at the heavens). But the piano may also appeal to filmmakers because it is a machine. Moviemaking is the most
T-shirt banners need shooting.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - School officials ordered a 16-year-old student to either take off a T-shirt emblazoned with the words ``International Terrorist'' and a picture of President Bush or go home, saying they worried it would inflame passions at the school where a majority of students are Arab-American. The student, Bretton Barber, chose to go home. He said he wore the shirt Monday to express his anti-war position and for a class assignment in which he wrote a compare-contrast essay on Bush and Iraq President Saddam Hussein. Schools spokesman Dave Mustonen said students have the right to freedom of expression, but educators are sensitive to tensions caused by the conflict with Iraq. ``It was felt that emotions are running very high,'' Mustonen said. Dearborn is the center of an Arab-American community of about 300,000 in southeastern Michigan. About 55 percent of the district's 17,600 students are Arab-American. --- On the Net: Dearborn Public Schools, http://www.dearbornschools.org/ American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee,
Special Projects.
A Project Of Liberation by Insurgent-S Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness. The Art of War has to deal with living and with moral forces, the consequence of which is that it can never attain the absolute and positive courage and self-reliance are principles quite essential to war; consequently, theory must only set up such rules as allow ample scope for all degrees and varieties of these necessary and noblest of military virtues. In daring there may still be wisdom, and prudence as well, only they are estimated by a different standard of value. - Clausewitz, On War In all the history of the class struggle the exploited have always resisted their oppression. Often in individual and isolated ways, and sometimes in social movements leading to mass insurrections. Throughout the history of the class war innumerable theories, organizations, and movements have developed in opposition to capitalism, and insurrectionary anarchism, being one tendency among many, should be clarified as having many real and significant differences from all the others. In the history of the clash between classes anarchists have defined themselves as a conscious minority within the movement of the exploited, a group that moves with the current of the social struggle against capitalism and the State. Insurrectionary anarchists do not act as a minority outside the movement, attempting to organize, manage and control the mass of the exploited, to subject the oppressed to the discipline of a single organization, trade union or political party, but instead act as accomplices to all exploited people on principles of solidarity and mutual aid. Anarchists identify their enemies as the dominant class and the institutions of oppression and they do not hesitate to attack their enemies. They do not wait for orders from on high, or for permission to act against oppression, but instead analyze the reality of the social clash which they find themselves in, combine with comrades on the basis of affinity, and then immediately set out to assault all the structures of domination. Insurrectionary anarchists see the struggle in qualitative rather than quantitative terms and understand that every small, destructive action taken against capitalism is a contribution to the overall social clash. A revolution is undoubtedly the act of a mass of exploited people rising in rebellion, but it is not through recruitment and discipline under a single organization that such an outburst comes to be. It should be obvious that it is useful for anarchists to clarify their ideas and to present them to the mass of the exploited, but it is not propaganda alone that will overturn existing conditions. Anarchists should be distinguished from other revolutionaries because they act for themselves, against their own oppression, and in solidarity with all the oppressed people of the world. They do not seek to control or direct the social war, and instead intervene in the movement of the exploited through direct action and participation is mass organizations that are based on principles of self-management of the struggle and uncompromising conflict with the class enemy. Anarchists fight to awaken a spirit of revolt across all of society, to completely destroy the economy of exploitation. Insurrectionary anarchists have ideas and methods of action that can be of great importance to the oppressed. A clear rejection of dominant class morality and law, a willingness to engage in direct action, a commitment to permanent struggle, and a passion for freedom, all can contribute to a revolutionary movement to overturn the present order. The importance of the insurrectionary anarchist minority to the mass of the exploited is not in the anarchists quality of leadership or advancement in class consciousness. It is in anarchist action, in attacks on capitalist institutions, and acts of solidarity with those suffering oppression. Any exploited person can contribute to the struggle to overthrow the exploiters. Insurrectionary anarchists merely demonstrate useful tools in the social war, and by striking the enemy in simple and direct ways provide points of reference that can be put to use by all. Passivity, resignation and doubt can easily give way to determination and defiance. A strategy of waiting can be thrown aside in favour of a strategy of attack. Small affinity groups can immediately begin to organize direct actions against specific institutions of capitalism; schools, workplaces, businesses, and all the other prisons. Anarchists can participate in base structures, mass organizations that are not vehicles for anarchist ideology, but are instead tools with which to dismantle specific repressive structures of the capitalist State. Bosses, landlords, politicians, and all the other cops can be identified and attacked. Capital can be destroyed to make room for life. Insurgent-S Insurrectionary
Post capitalism part 1.
LONGISH... Towards Another Anarchism by Andrej Grubacic; February 07, 2003 * Rough transcript of a talk given by Andrej Grubacic as part of the Life After Capitalism forum (WSF3, Porto Alegre, 2003.) * --- A friend of mine has written recently that: no one needs another -ism from the 19th century, another word which imprisons and fixes meaning, another word that seduces a number of people into the clarity and comfort of a sectarian box and leads others in front of the firing squad or a show trial. Labels lead so easily to fundamentalism, brands inevitably breed intolerance, delineating doctrines, defining dogma, and limiting the possibility of change. It is really difficult not to agree with this attitude. However, today it is exactly my pleasant duty to present an -ism, and that is the -ism which is the dominant perspective of today's post-Marxist global social movement. It is anarchism. This idea, the idea of anarchism, has coloured the sensibility of the movement of movements of which we are the participants, and has stamped it with a essential inscription. Anarchism, its ethical paradigm, represents today the basic inspiration of our movement, which is less about seizing state power than about exposing, de-legitimising and dismantling mechanisms of rule while winning ever-larger spaces of autonomy from it. It is my intention, in this couple of minutes that I have at my disposal, to present to you in short the history of anarchism, in order to be able to subsequently suggest a model of modern anarchism and strategic implications which follow from accepting of such a model. I am inclined to agree with those who see anarchism as a tendency in the history of human thought and practice, a tendency which cannot be encompassed by a general theory of ideology, that strives to identify compulsory and authoritarian hierarchical social structures, by posing a question of their legitimacy: if they cannot answer to this challenge, which is most often the case, then anarchism becomes the effort to limit their power and to widen the scope of liberty. Anarchism is, therefore, is a social phenomenon and its contents as well as manifestations in political activity change with time. One thing that is special about anarchism is that, unlike all major ideologies , it could never have had a stable and continuous existence on the ground through being in government or a part of a party system. Its history and contemporary characteristics are therefore determined by another factor - cycles of political struggle. As a result, anarchism has a 'generational' tendency in the sense that you can identify pretty discreet phases of its history according to the period of struggle in which they were shaped. . Naturally, as any other attempt at conceptualisation, this one is also doomed to be simplified. I hope that, regardless of this, it will be useful for the understanding of this social phenomenon. Historically, the first phase was shaped by late 19th century class struggles in Europe and is exemplified both theoretically and practically by the Bakuninist faction in the 1st international. It starts in the run-up to 1848, peaks with the Paris Commune (1871) and dwindles through the 80's. It is quite an embryonic form of anarchism, mixing together anti-state tendencies, anti-capitalism and atheism while retaining an essential dependence on the skilled urban proletariat as a revolutionary agent. Bakunin, that magnificent dreamer, that dynamite, not a man, who, in 1848, shouted that Beethoven's Ninth symphony should be saved from the coming fires of the world revolution at the price of giving up one's life, has bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful and perhaps the most precise descriptions of a single leading idea within the anarchist tradition: I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow; not the purely formal liberty conceded, measured out and regulated by the State, an eternal lie which in reality represents nothing more than the privilege of some founded on the slavery of the rest; not the individualistic, egoistic, shabby, and fictitious liberty extolled by the School of J.-J. Rousseau and other schools of bourgeois liberalism, which considers the would-be rights of all men, represented by the State which limits the rights of each -- an idea that leads inevitably to the reduction of the rights of each to zero. No, I mean the only kind of liberty that is worthy of the name, liberty that consists in the full development of all the material, intellectual and moral powers that are latent in each person; liberty that recognizes no restrictions other than those determined by the laws of our own individual nature, which cannot properly be regarded as restrictions since these laws are not imposed by any outside legislator beside or above us, but
Post Capitalism part 2.
HALLMARKS: * 1) We are anarchists because we believe that human freedom and happiness would be best guaranteed by a society based on principles of self-organization, voluntary association, and mutual aid, and because we reject all forms of social relations based on systemic violence, such as the state or capitalism. 2) We are, however, profoundly anti-sectarian, by which we mean two things: a) we do not attempt to enforce any particular form of anarchism on one other: Platformist, Syndicalist, Primitivist, Insurrectionist or any other. Neither do we wish to exclude anyone on this basis - we value diversity as a principle in itself, limited only by our common rejection of structures of domination such as racism, sexism, fundamentalism, etc. b) since we see anarchism not as a doctrine so much as a process of movement towards a free, just, and sustainable, society, we believe anarchists should not limit themselves to cooperating with those who self-identify as anarchists, but should actively seek to cooperate with anyone who are working to create a world based on those same broad liberatory principles, and, in fact, to learn from them. One of the purposes of the International is to facilitate this: both to make it easier for us to bring some of those millions around the world who are, effectively, anarchists without knowing it, into touch with the thoughts of others who have worked in that same tradition, and, at the same time, to enrich the anarchist tradition itself through contact with their experiences 3) We reject all forms of vanguardism and believe that the proper role of the anarchist intellectual (a role that should be open to everyone) is to take part in an ongoing dialogue: to learn from the experience of popular community-building and struggle and offer back the fruits of reflection on that experience not in the spirit of the dictat, but of the gift 4) Anyone who accepts these principles is a member of the Anarchist International and everyone who is a member of the Anarchist International is empowered to act as a spokesperson if they so desire. Because we value diversity, we do not expect uniformity of views other than acceptance of the principles themselves (and, of course, acknowledgement that such diversity exists) 5) Organization is neither a value in itself nor an evil in itself;the level of organizational structure appropriate to any given project or task can never be dictated in advance but can only be determined by those actually engaged in it. So with any project initiated within the International: it should be up to those undertaking it to determine the form and level of organization appropriate for that project. At this point, there is no need for a decision-making structure for the International itself but if in the future members feel there should be, it shall be up to the group itself to determine how that process should work, provided only that it be within the broad spirit of decentralization and direct democracy. Furthermore, anarchism must turn to the experiences of other social movements. It must be included in the courses of progressive social science. It must be in collusion with ideas that come from the circles close to anarchism. Let's take for example the idea of participatory economy, which represents an anarchist economist vision par excellence and which supplements and rectifies anarchist economic tradition. It would also be wise to listen to those voices that warn of the existence three major classes in advanced capitalism, not just two. There is also another class of people, branded coordinator class by these theoreticians. Their role is that of controlling the labour of the working class. This is the class that includes the management hierarchy and the professional consultants and advisors central to their system of control - as lawyers, key engineers and accountants, and so on. They have their class position because of their relative monopolization over knowledge, skills, and connections. This is what enables them to gain access to the positions they occupy in the corporate and government hierarchies. Another thing to note about the coordinator class is that it is capable of being a ruling class. This is in fact the true historical meaning of the Soviet Union and the other so called Communist countries. They are in fact systems that empower the coordinator class. Finally, I believe that modern anarchism has to turn to envisioning of political vision. This is not to say that various schools of anarchism did not advocate very specific forms of social organization, albeit often markedly at variance with one another. Essentially, however, anarchism as a whole advanced what liberals are calling 'negative freedom,' that is to say, a formal 'freedom from,' rather than a substantive 'freedom to.' Indeed, anarchism often celebrated its commitment to negative freedom as evidence of its
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beware! news below is from the corporate media! --- KOMO TV (website) COVERAGE here's the short blurb that links to the longer story: TOP STORY Protesters Shut Down 520 Bridge SEATTLE - A small group opposed to a possible war with Iraq created a headache for Tuesday morning commuters. here's the full story: February 18, 2003 By KOMO Staff News Services SEATTLE - About half a dozen people apparently protesting a possible war with Iraq blocked Highway 520 in Seattle near the University of Washington. They erected three poles in a structure that blocked eastbound traffic at Montlake for about 20 minutes before police and State Troopers moved in and cleared the busy highway. The surprise demonstration slowed the flow of traffic across the Highway 520 floating bridge and also affected traffic back on I-5. No word yet on arrests or possible charges. --- KIRO TV (website) COVERAGE: Protest Blocks Lanes On SR 520 POSTED: 8:51 a.m. PST February 18, 2003 UPDATED: 9:20 a.m. PST February 18, 2003 SEATTLE -- Anti-war protesters blocked lanes on State Route 520 in Seattle during the morning commute Tuesday. State troopers arrested several people and have cleared the scene. Protesters set up a pyramid structure with three poles in the eastbound lanes of 520 at Montlake and appeared to be trying to put up a banner on the structure before it was taken down by troopers. Troopers made five arrests, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. Officers removed the pole-structure, banner and towed away a car to get traffic moving again. The incident slowed the flow of traffic across the Highway 520 floating bridge during the latter part of the morning commute, on the day following a three-day weekend for many workers. A group of three or four dozen other demonstrators watched the demonstration and shouted anti-war slogans. Traffic in the westbound lanes of 520 was slowed for a time after someone apparently stopped to videotape the arrests. -- KING 5 (website) COVERAGE 02/18/2003 KING5.com SEATTLE Anti-war demonstrators blocked the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge in the middle of the morning commute Tuesday, bringing eastbound traffic to a complete stop for about 20 minutes. Early reports suggested as many as five protestors were arrested. At least that many could be seen waving signs in front of stopped cars when the protest began around 8:45 a.m. Witnesses said they saw the protestors jump out of two cars before setting up signs and a teepee-like structure of poles spanning the lanes. While we respect their right to protest, we can't have them doing it on the highway because it infringes on other people's rights, Washington State Patrol spokeswoman Monica Hunter said. Hunter said police had no advance warning about the protest. Traffic began moving again shortly after 9 a.m. after some 11 police and Washington State Patrol officers converged on the seen to dismantle the structure on the highway and move the protesters. Related Stories: Seattle rally draws 20,000 [link] Millions protest worldwide [link] Bush: I won't be deterred [link] Westbound traffic was also affected, and traffic on Interstate 5 was also backed up. The incident came just days after a crowd of about 20,000 braved a rainy Saturday to march between the Seattle Center, the Federal Building and the Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center in protest of an impending war. The number of anti-war protestors across the globe over the weekend was estimated to be in the millions. -- analysis: The KIRO story minimizes the turnout and the story as whole, the essential message being -- an insignificant group of people caused a nuisance on 520 this morning: a small group created a headache... The KOMO story not only gives more details about what happened (protestors trying to raise the banner, how many were arrested), but gave more weight to the event by mentioning that three or four dozen other demonstrators were standing nearby in support. The KING story is the longest and most detailed of the three. It includes a quote -- from an 'official' source (police), not from from the protestors themselves. Although the bulk of the story leans towards the inconvenience and potential dangers of the action, the KING story does give more weight to the event by linking it to related antiwar stories -- the tens of thousands in Seattle, and the millions around the world, who protested war in Seattle on Saturday. All three stories seem geared to an audience of commuters -- seeing the protest as they might, a hindrance to getting to work. The terms direct action or civil disobedience are not included in these stories. Not seeking quotes from the protestors, in affect, silences their voices and minimizes their significance. Link:
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At 03:00 PM 2/19/2003 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: Steve Schear and Tim May mention some interesting incidents. In Steve Schear's case, there's a mysterious absence of response: No one asked me about him, I never saw him again and none of the students said a word. Several days later three of his friends tried to jump me I never saw them again either, nor was I ever questioned about them by school administrators. Well, obviously my following points will probably be met with scepticism (to say the least), but here goes. If those same incidents had occurred in an all-white environment, most of the time there'd be hell to pay. People would freak out, and students expelled. In THESE cases, however, there's the tolerance and even expectation of bad behavior on the part of black students. While teaching in Brooklyn, I saw the same thing again and again: You can't change them, that's the way they are. Even here, officials fail to respond for fear of political reprisals, while negative behavior is expected. Of course, expectations don't FORCE a group to meet those expectations. So I'm not saying people have no responsibility for their actions. But I AM pointing out that the non-response (of which the NYC High Schools are merely a giant example) is tainted with racism, and this racism gets magnified via the projecting lens (perhaps a camera lumina?) of institutions. So it basically takes whatever's already messed up and excacerbates the problem. Not too sure. I noticed a similar lack of involvement interest when school yard fights broke out between pink students. Once word spread that some bussed in trouble makers had been dealt with the level of problems appeared to abate (at least until I graduated). It was reckless for the teachers and administrators to take no obvious actions and I probably should have been expelled. I was careful not to mention these incidents to my friends or family until I graduated. BTW, there were quite a few local brown/black students who attended Hami. I saw few if any hanging out with those bussed in. It seemed they also wished not to associate with trouble makers. steve
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