CAPPS II in the news - Business case has CAPPS at risk
Government already has too many watch lists, eh? http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0324/web-capps-03-25-03.asp Business case has CAPPS at risk BY Diane Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] March 25, 2003 Money is far from certain for the Transportation Security Administration's proposed system to screen airline passengers, said Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget's associate director for information technology and e-government. The business case for the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II is one of hundreds on OMB's at risk list for fiscal 2004, meaning that OMB can and will hold money for the system until the business case has met investment planning requirements, Forman said March 25. ...snip... One of the main issues with the business case is that OMB is looking for a risk-based approach to screening passengers rather than another version of a watch list, Forman said. Government already has too many watch lists, and there has to be a more effective way for TSA to determine which passengers truly pose a risk, Forman said ...snip... -
Re: Things are looking better all the time
At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym and not Britain's Royal Air Force? :-) (Besides, I thought assassinations were usually an SAS (Special Air Service, not Scandinavian Airlines) thing...)
Re: faking WMD evidence
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 04:51 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: Yeah, like that'll not only get lots of cooperation out of all the spooks, but I'm sure it'll also result in the FBI being highly motivated to probe deeply and tell Congress everything it finds out... At least when the KGB investigated other parts of the KGB, they could find out who lied, who knew they lied, and shoot them all to cover up their tracks. When the KGB or GRU discovered such behavior, the M.O. was to strap the offender onto a plank and then slowly push him feet first into an incinerator. I would recommend the same thing for the FBI, CIA, DIA, ONI, and NSA directors, except they all have earned such treatment. Why doesn't a freedom fighter do something bold like fly a loaded jetliner into the Pentagon? Oh, you mean someone tried that? --Tim May The Constitution is a radical document...it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights. --President William J. Clinton
Re: Boycotting the Unwilling
At 07:12 PM 3/25/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: Granted, neither you nor I will be jailed for refusing to buy Matzah balls made in the Zionist Entity, but the point is that the law says we _could_ be jailed for boycotting. Naturally, the law is applied to those most visible. What use is a victimless-crime law if you can't use it to harass? Try using both voice and action (long time readers know the hazards of mixing these) ---e.g., actively publicize a boycott on .il items, get a Mom Pop grocery to go along, and see how much freedom we have here. Extra points if you dress as Amerinds (or US Military :-) and dump a few boxes of Manichewitz into Boston Harbor. --- Sacred COWs marching down well-trodden corridors into the valley of steel Hilal slaughter
Re: Things are looking better all the time
Steve Schear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seem to recall that with sufficient knowledge and commonly available detonators shaped explosive charges can be configured to hurl heavy explosive payloads, much like a mortar, with fair accuracy, great distance or very high velocity. I can't seem to find the reference on-line but I vaguely recall that a 50kg payload could be accelerated to multi-mach speeds with a device that could be placed in a car trunk. A poor man's howitzer. It sounds like you're talking about explosively formed projectiles (EFPs), which are a means of creating high-velocity (several km/s) light projectiles, chiefly useful for armour penetration. Because of the way it works, it can't hurl heavy explosive payloads (neither heavy, not explosive). It's been around for awhile, but the first technology demonstrators didn't surface until the 1980s (Germany and France), and it's only starting to be adopted now (very tricky technology to get right). The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank (it's typically reported as being a car bomb, but was actually done by parking a pushbike with a small bag on the back next to the road where the car was to pass. The projectile punched through the side of his armoured limo and killed him, but left everyone else alive. This is one of those feats which, if you had asked experts in 1989, would have told you was impossible to do). Peter.
RE: Things are looking better all the time
At 04:37 AM 3/25/03 +0100, Lucky Green wrote: ... If any terrorists had nukes, why have they not used them so far? Suppose you only have one, it was really hard to get, and you're not sure how much of your US network has been turned, or at least placed under heavy surveilance? Maybe you wait until you are really sure you can succeed before you use it. Alternatively, we have no way of knowing how often terrorists have tried to use nukes, but been stopped one way or another. Maybe the Russians sold them very convincing duds. Maybe the FBI caught them and disarmed the bombs before they went off. And for a third alternative, it's quite possible (I don't know how likely) that one or more groups have smuggled nukes into the US, planted them in US cities, and offered proof to the US government, as a way of establishing a nuclear deterrent. (C.f. Ross Anderson's Guy Fawkes Protocol.) There are pretty obvious reasons why the US government might not announce either of the last two cases, and why the terrorist group of your choice wouldn't announce we have a bomb until they had the thing planted where they wanted it. --Lucky --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: US may fabricate discovery of WMD
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 11:10 AM, stuart wrote: From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: ...AS OTHERS LAUNCH PREEMPTIVE INFORMATION STRIKE AGAINST U.S. The United States might fabricate the discovery of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or create evidence that Baghdad has been operating prohibited weapons programs, an unidentified Russian military expert was quoted by RIA-Novosti as saying on 24 March. Academician Yevgenii Velikhov, director of the Kurchatov Nuclear Center, told strana.ru on 24 March that if the United States finds no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, it is possible they will drum up proof of their existence. Velikhov noted that it is very difficult to determine the origin of some nuclear-weapons components such as uranium-235, particularly because they are prepared under the supervision of the security services. VY http://www.rferl.org/newsline/fulltext.asp Funny, we just mentioned that. Not just this, as it's a point obvious to a lot of people (*), but we can quite easily use Pu-239 and other radioisotopes that are unambiguously traceable to a French nuclear reactor, thus killing two birds with one stone. (* Anyone who knows about flaps and seals (cr. Kahn's The Codebreakers and Bamford's The Puzzle Palace) knows that all major intelligence agencies have entire departments devoted to forging documents, faking evidence, creating false legends, and spreading disinformation. The American CIA, DIA, FBI, ONI, and other groups are quite capable of producing fake cargo manifest, fake credentials, fakes of all other kinds, and of planting faked evidence. For those who don't read, the television show The Agency has the generation of faked evidence as a plot element almost every week, and the CIA has endorsed the show as being helpful to the Coalition of the Willing cause.) --Tim May Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat. --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11
RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
Sarad AV[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and kicking and the camera's are rolling. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in vehicles and aircraft. the existance of such a bomb was on indian news papers a week ago. Regards Sarath. It was also in Newsweek. It's existence is well known. What is not is it's construction, size, or effectiveness. Peter
Re: CDR: Boycotting the Unwilling
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US will happily throw Americans in prison for refusing to do business with Israel, because Congress has made it illegal to support any boycott of the Beanie-Headed Land Grabbers. Hrmmm.. Got a citation for this one? As far out in the land of the clueless Shrub may in fact be, I have yet to see anything that declares Israel a protected class. Of course, I could have missed it... I'd really like to see a citation if you can find one. Seems like a bit of a double standard to me. This is the U.S.: we live and die by the double standard. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
Has anyone ever heard of that carbon filament soft bomb that's designed to spread wispy carbon filaments over power plants? I've even seen a photo of the aftermath of one of these things... From: Trei, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Sarad AV' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:40:00 -0500 Sarad AV[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and kicking and the camera's are rolling. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in vehicles and aircraft. the existance of such a bomb was on indian news papers a week ago. Regards Sarath. It was also in Newsweek. It's existence is well known. What is not is it's construction, size, or effectiveness. Peter _
Re: US may fabricate discovery of WMD
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: In the unlikely event that the North Koreans wanted to send a nuke to the USA, they might not need an ICBM. Just bribe or otherwise subvert a It would be a shipment running some risk of detection, especially given a hot warhead, which is difficult to shield. IIRC there's been recently some false alarm raised by a contaminated scrap metal shipment in the US (scrap metal is usually contaminated by medical and industrial Co 60 sources processed by mistake, this batch must have been particularly hot). few shipping clerks in South Korea or China and get them shipped over in a container of tractor parts. (Or as Tim said a few months ago, send them with the regular shipments of cocaine - though that would involve first getting them from North Korea to somewhere that actually has an agriculture)
Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
At 10:41 PM 3/25/03 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote: ...from the Leg-HERFing department... Cheers, RAH Who expects it was just a bomb-bomb, Jim. They came back with a bigger one, just now. Yep. The COW needs the TVs to broadcast our message. Also we don't trust the infiltrated spec-ops radios not to get toasted. And the cell phones are useful too. --- Ballet is not Lorentz invariant. It is choreographed so that dancers make simultaneous movements in the frame of the audience -Jack Wisdom Swimming in Spacetime _Science_ 21 Mar 03
Re: US may fabricate discovery of WMD
Tim May wrote: [...] The American CIA, DIA, FBI, ONI, and other groups are quite capable of producing fake cargo manifest, fake credentials, fakes of all other kinds, and of planting faked evidence. The kind of people who sell foreign foods to corner shops and ethnic restaurants are capable of faking most of that. I have it on reliable authority (from people who have used the service) that at least one well-known Japanese shipping company you'll probably have heard of will fake bills of lading for 25 dollars. The people I met who used this service also (quite legally) faked EU origin for goods of axis-of-evil origin for import into the USA by landing them in Britain or Holland, and repacking in a new container. So that explains why so much Asian-style food seems to come from the Netherlands - and there I was thinking it was down to the Dutch skill at high-tech intensive agriculture :-) I'd guess that a few transactions like that in series could hide pretty well anything in a sort of real-world mixmaster. It would be traceable by a determined effort, but probably not by the effort most journalists, or even small-country police forces would be able to put in, especially if the the paper trail or the real route went through some pairs of states that don't want to be seen talking to each other in public. In the unlikely event that the North Koreans wanted to send a nuke to the USA, they might not need an ICBM. Just bribe or otherwise subvert a few shipping clerks in South Korea or China and get them shipped over in a container of tractor parts. (Or as Tim said a few months ago, send them with the regular shipments of cocaine - though that would involve first getting them from North Korea to somewhere that actually has an agriculture)
Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
It's now been changed to the following. Did you manage to save a copy you can forward back to the list? :) Baghdad Targets Under Fire March 26, 2003 Coalition forces struck Baghdad again Wednesday, hitting targets associated with Iraq's intelligence service and state television . and killing 14 people in a residential area, Iraq claimed. U.S. Central Command said it had no information on the Iraqi claim, but asserted again that it was using precision weapons aimed only at regime targets. We have a very, very deliberate process for targets. It takes into account all science. It takes into account all possibilities, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said at a press conference at Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar. We only target things that have military significance. Meanwhile, some intelligence sources said a large contingent of Iraq's elite Republican Guard, including 1,000 vehicles, was headed toward U.S. troops in central Iraq. But U.S. Central Command denied any movement was seen. The area in question already has seen the heaviest fighting of the war. U.S. officials say American troops with the 7th Cavalry killed up to 500 Iraqi fighters Tuesday and Wednesday in fighting around the central Iraq city of Najaf. ...from the Leg-HERFing department... Cheers, RAH Who expects it was just a bomb-bomb, Jim. They came back with a bigger one, just now. --- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/printable541815.shtml CBSNews.com: Print This Story U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV March 25, 2003 The U.S. Air Force has hit Iraqi TV with an experimental electronmagetic pulse device called the E-Bomb in an attempt to knock it off the air and shut down Saddam Hussein's propaganda machine, CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in vehicles and aircraft. Iraqi satellite TV, which broadcasts 24 hours a day outside Iraq, went off the air around 4:30 a.m. local time (8:30 p.m. ET Tuesday). Iraq's domestic television service was not broadcasting at the time. Officially, the Pentagon does not acknowledge the weapon's existence. Asked about it at a March 5 news conference at the Pentagon, Gen. Tommy Franks said: 3I can't talk to you about that because I don't know anything about it.2 The use of the secret weapon came on a day that saw intense action on the battlefield. The Pentagon said the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed between 150 and 500 Iraqis after being attacked by rocket-propelled grenades near An Najaf in central Iraq. There are no reported American casualties. In other major developments: snip... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
Re: Things are looking better all the time
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 03:30 AM, Ken Brown wrote: Declan McCullagh wrote: Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying bomb or delivery system for something quite noxious. These planes can be rented by the hour at hundreds of small to medium sized airports around the U.S. Though I don't know if the autopilot is configurable enough to let an attacker program it to head to a certain altitude at a certain location and then bail out via parachute. Another novel that came out with the idea - and the first one to explicitly mention GPS AFAIR - was The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury from 1987 (incorporating parts from stories in Analog back in the 1970s) which has an Afghan refugee studying aero engineering in the US and setting up light planes to autopilot an attack on the Kremlin. (To be honest when I first heard the news about 9/11 that's what I thought might have happened - until I saw a TV screen I didn't realise they were passenger planes) And of course it was in 1987 that the German teenager Matthias Rust flew a Cessna over the border into the USSR and buzzed Red Square, so it's not clear who had the idea first. (I remember the name but not the year, so I used Google to find it.) The general idea of using asymmetric warfare, via RC planes, bombs, etc., is really not very new. Torching an enemy's village in the middle of the night is a time-honored form of asymmetric warfare, though the War Lawyers have been trying to force armies to wear Official Uniforms and march in Official Patterns. --Tim May That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. --Samuel Adams
Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
hi, it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and kicking and the camera's are rolling. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in vehicles and aircraft. the existance of such a bomb was on indian news papers a week ago. Regards Sarath. --- R. A. Hettinga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...from the Leg-HERFing department... Cheers, RAH Who expects it was just a bomb-bomb, Jim. They came back with a bigger one, just now. --- http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/printable541815.shtml CBSNews.com: Print This Story U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV March 25, 2003 The U.S. Air Force has hit Iraqi TV with an experimental electronmagetic pulse device called the E-Bomb in an attempt to knock it off the air and shut down Saddam Hussein's propaganda machine, CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in vehicles and aircraft. Iraqi satellite TV, which broadcasts 24 hours a day outside Iraq, went off the air around 4:30 a.m. local time (8:30 p.m. ET Tuesday). Iraq's domestic television service was not broadcasting at the time. Officially, the Pentagon does not acknowledge the weapon's existence. Asked about it at a March 5 news conference at the Pentagon, Gen. Tommy Franks said: 3I can't talk to you about that because I don't know anything about it.2 The use of the secret weapon came on a day that saw intense action on the battlefield. The Pentagon said the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed between 150 and 500 Iraqis after being attacked by rocket-propelled grenades near An Najaf in central Iraq. There are no reported American casualties. In other major developments: snip... -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
Re: Things are looking better all the time
hi, They are not working very well or US since the iraqi's are using gps jammers and US are already in a row with russians claiming that they sold it to iraq. Regards Sarath. --- Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 03:30 AM, Ken Brown wrote: Declan McCullagh wrote: Or perhaps we'll see someone take a GPS-controlled small plane, which can carry 1,000 lbs, and turn it into a flying bomb or delivery system for something quite noxious. These planes can be rented by the hour at hundreds of small to medium sized airports around the U.S. Though I don't know if the autopilot is configurable enough to let an attacker program it to head to a certain altitude at a certain location and then bail out via parachute. Another novel that came out with the idea - and the first one to explicitly mention GPS AFAIR - was The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury from 1987 (incorporating parts from stories in Analog back in the 1970s) which has an Afghan refugee studying aero engineering in the US and setting up light planes to autopilot an attack on the Kremlin. (To be honest when I first heard the news about 9/11 that's what I thought might have happened - until I saw a TV screen I didn't realise they were passenger planes) And of course it was in 1987 that the German teenager Matthias Rust flew a Cessna over the border into the USSR and buzzed Red Square, so it's not clear who had the idea first. (I remember the name but not the year, so I used Google to find it.) The general idea of using asymmetric warfare, via RC planes, bombs, etc., is really not very new. Torching an enemy's village in the middle of the night is a time-honored form of asymmetric warfare, though the War Lawyers have been trying to force armies to wear Official Uniforms and march in Official Patterns. --Tim May That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. --Samuel Adams __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
Re: Things are looking better all the time
Bill Stewart wrote: At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym and not Britain's Royal Air Force? :-) (Besides, I thought assassinations were usually an SAS (Special Air Service, not Scandinavian Airlines) thing...) Red Army Fraction (As Germans I suppose it would be something like Rote Armee Fraktion?) Most people called them faction in English but they preferred fraction as it was meant to imply that they were only a small part of a vast army of workers et.c They weren't, of course. Bloody heck, they even have a web site: http://www.rafinfo.de/ More often called Baader Meinhof Gang presumably because Ulrike Meinbhof looked sexier than most terrorists. And yes, http://www.baader-meinhof.com/ exists - though it seems to be a fan site. So now we have assasination groupies.
Illegal to refuse to sell to Israel (was Re: Boycotting the Unwilling)
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Neil Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2003 08:36 pm, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US will happily throw Americans in prison for refusing to do business with Israel, because Congress has made it illegal to support any boycott of the Beanie-Headed Land Grabbers. Hrmmm.. Got a citation for this one? As far out in the land of the clueless Shrub may in fact be, I have yet to see anything that declares Israel a protected class. Of course, I could have missed it... I'd really like to see a citation if you can find one. Seems like a bit of a double standard to me. This is the U.S.: we live and die by the double standard. A Google search turns up this straight from our crypto export control friends: http://www.bxa.doc.gov/AntiboycottCompliance/OACRequirements.html First, thank you for this link. Second, I am *dumbfounded*, even as a known cynic, that this law could have survived a court challenge, or, even have made it onto the books! I mean, hell, I'm speechless: which is a big thing for someone with a mouth as big as mine... And to think, all these years I've been in non-compliance, and didn't even know it. Bah! Had I known, I could have worn it as a badge of honor! -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boycotting the Unwilling
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 06:36 PM, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US will happily throw Americans in prison for refusing to do business with Israel, because Congress has made it illegal to support any boycott of the Beanie-Headed Land Grabbers. Hrmmm.. Got a citation for this one? As far out in the land of the clueless Shrub may in fact be, I have yet to see anything that declares Israel a protected class. Of course, I could have missed it... I'd really like to see a citation if you can find one. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2403303.stm ...amongst many other items reporting on the Arab boycott of Israel. The United States has threatened to fine US companies that take part in an Arab lead economic boycott of Israel. The US government is strongly opposed to restrictive trade practices or boycotts targeted at Israel, said Undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Kenneth Juster. ... US laws ban the participation by US nationals and companies in unsanctioned foreign government trade boycotts, especially the Arab League's boycott of Israel. This has been common knowledge for a long time. Note the bans the participation by US nationals point. Granted, neither you nor I will be jailed for refusing to buy Matzah balls made in the Zionist Entity, but the point is that the law says we _could_ be jailed for boycotting. Naturally, the law is applied to those most visible. Time for the Zionist Entity to go. I hope they can swim, and keep swimming. Disposing of five million corpses is a big effort to expect from Palestinians trying to get back to their farms and shops and homes taken by the European and American Jews who invaded. --Tim May He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -- Nietzsche
Re: Boycotting the Unwilling
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 08:36 pm, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Eric Cordian wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US will happily throw Americans in prison for refusing to do business with Israel, because Congress has made it illegal to support any boycott of the Beanie-Headed Land Grabbers. Hrmmm.. Got a citation for this one? As far out in the land of the clueless Shrub may in fact be, I have yet to see anything that declares Israel a protected class. Of course, I could have missed it... I'd really like to see a citation if you can find one. Seems like a bit of a double standard to me. This is the U.S.: we live and die by the double standard. A Google search turns up this straight from our crypto export control friends: http://www.bxa.doc.gov/AntiboycottCompliance/OACRequirements.html -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.
Re: CDR: Boycotting the Unwilling
J.A. Terranson wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the US will happily throw Americans in prison for refusing to do business with Israel, because Congress has made it illegal to support any boycott of the Beanie-Headed Land Grabbers. Hrmmm.. Got a citation for this one? As far out in the land of the clueless Shrub may in fact be, I have yet to see anything that declares Israel a protected class. Of course, I could have missed it... I'd really like to see a citation if you can find one. Not only is there legislation against US companies boycotting Israel, but apparently, the Jews even have their own Office of Anti-Boycott Compliance (OAC) within the US Department of Commerce. Here are the results of some Googling. - COMPANY : L'OREAL After being fined $1.4 million by the US in 1995 for writing a letter to the Arab League claiming that they had stopped production in Israel, they have been engaged in actively courting Israel with investments and large-scale commerce. The American Jewish Congress has expressed keen satisfaction that L'Oreal has become a warm friend of Israel [Or at the very least, they are toadying lest another $1.4 million be picked from their pockets. -emc] - In 1977, Congress prohibited U.S. companies from cooperating with the Arab boycott. When President Carter signed the law, he said the issue goes to the very heart of free trade among nations and that it was designed to end the divisive effects on American life of foreign boycotts aimed at Jewish members of our society. - http://www.bxa.doc.gov/AntiboycottCompliance/OACRequirements.html What do the Laws Prohibit? Conduct that may be penalized under the TRA and/or prohibited under the EAR includes: * Agreements to refuse or actual refusal to do business with or in Israel or with blacklisted companies. * Agreements to discriminate or actual discrimination against other persons based on race, religion, sex, national origin or nationality. * Agreements to furnish or actual furnishing of information about business relationships with or in Israel or with blacklisted companies. * Agreements to furnish or actual furnishing of information about the race, religion, sex, or national origin of another person. * Implementing letters of credit containing prohibited boycott terms or conditions. The TRA does not prohibit conduct, but denies tax benefits (penalizes) for certain types of boycott-related agreements. What Must Be Reported? The EAR requires U.S. persons to report quarterly requests they have received to take certain actions to comply with, further, or support an unsanctioned foreign boycott. The TRA requires taxpayers to report operations in, with, or related to a boycotting country or its nationals and requests received to participate in or cooperate with an international boycott. The Treasury Department publishes a quarterly list of boycotting countries. How To Report: EAR reports are filed quarterly on form BIS 621-P for single requests or BIS 6051-P for multiple requests available from the Department of Commerces Office of Antiboycott Compliance (OAC) in Washington, D.C. To obtain these forms, telephone OACs Reports Processing Unit at (202) 482-2448. TRA reports are filed with tax returns on IRS Form 5713. This form is available from local IRS offices. Penalties: The EAR prescribe the penalties for violations of the Antiboycott Regulations as well as export control violations. These can include: Criminal: * The penalties imposed for each knowing violation can be a fine of up to $50,000 or five times the value of the exports involved, whichever is greater, and imprisonment of up to five years. During periods when the EAR are continued in effect by an Executive Order issued pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the criminal penalties for each willful violation can be a fine of up to $50,000 and imprisonment for up to ten years. Administrative: For each violation of the EAR any or all of the following may be imposed: * General denial of export privileges; * The imposition of fines of up to $12,000 See Footnote Below [INS: :INS] per violation; and/or * Exclusion from practice. Boycott agreements under the TRA involve the denial of all or part of the foreign tax benefits discussed above. Footnote from Imposition of Fines
Re: Things are looking better all the time
On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 09:22 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym and not Britain's Royal Air Force? :-) (Besides, I thought assassinations were usually an SAS (Special Air Service, not Scandinavian Airlines) thing...) Red Army Faction. --Tim May
Re: The Highway of Death II
-- On 25 Mar 2003 at 9:40, Tim May wrote: * As for the war, I'm not a military buff, but this 400-km convoy snaking across the desert looks to be a classical logistical nightmare. The obvious tactic for the Iraqis is to disperse to move around, and to concentrate to attack particular convoys. They have tried this tactic, and so far been annihilated when they concentrated. Were such a tactic to succeed, it would result in very high US casualties, but so far it is failing cataclysmically. In East Timor, the australians were successful because when the enemy dispersed, the locals would arrest them, or kill them, and when they concentrated, the Australians would kill them. The plan was for this to happen in Iraq, but so far it is not happening. Needs political work, perhaps a great deal of political work. So the US cannot destroy Iraqi forces as they expected, nor can Iraqi forces destroy US forces as they expected. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG FtNSFBPae6z59xAyY2exgmtSHovSXjkTMnfI4IMO 4558v5+aYMDuew4RXyfpUVz6CiEXUkoxp2eWVN5JB
Re: faking WMD evidence
At 11:59 AM 03/25/2003 -0800, Eric Murray wrote: Apparently the CIA and MI6 have been faking WMD evidence for quite a while: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030331fa_fact1 That's why Friends of Bush like Richard Perle refer to Seymour Hersch, the author, as Hersch is the closest thing to a terrorist that the USA has. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/18/1047749768373.html And the problem isn't just that the evidence is faked, or faked spectacularly badly, or that they've been using it to lie to people who can then tell what they might perceive as the truth to other people (like Congress or Bush), it's that they've apparently lost track of who's lying to whom, like the OLD Reagan/Bush administration occasionally did. It's one thing for Dubya to lie to the US public on purpose, but it's really tacky for his henchpersons to forget whether they're asking him to lie or not. From Hersch's article: One senior I.A.E.A. official went further. He told me, 'These documents are so bad that I cannot imagine that they came from a serious intelligence agency. It depresses me, given the low quality of the documents, that it was not stopped. At the level it reached, I would have expected more checking.' ... On March 14th, Senator Jay Rockefeller, of West Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, formally asked Robert Mueller, the F.B.I. director, to investigate the forged documents. Yeah, like that'll not only get lots of cooperation out of all the spooks, but I'm sure it'll also result in the FBI being highly motivated to probe deeply and tell Congress everything it finds out... At least when the KGB investigated other parts of the KGB, they could find out who lied, who knew they lied, and shoot them all to cover up their tracks.
Re: Things are looking better all the time
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 04:14 PM 03/26/2003 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: The RAF used an EFP in 1989 to assassinate the chairman of Deutsche Bank I assume that's some Italian or German group's acronym and not Britain's Royal Air Force? :-) Red Army Faction, a German terrorist group active mostly in the 1970s, now disbanded. Peter.
Re: US may fabricate discovery of WMD
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 05:08 AM, Ken Brown wrote: In the unlikely event that the North Koreans wanted to send a nuke to the USA, they might not need an ICBM. Just bribe or otherwise subvert a few shipping clerks in South Korea or China and get them shipped over in a container of tractor parts. (Or as Tim said a few months ago, send them with the regular shipments of cocaine - though that would involve first getting them from North Korea to somewhere that actually has an agriculture) I no doubt said this, but so have many others. I remember hearing many years ago that if hundreds of tons of marijuana cross U.S. borders each year undetected, how can software and crypto be blocked? The entry of nukes through shipping ports is a well-known threat, and is a place where supposedly gamma ray spectrometers are placed to look for signatures of fissionables. BTW, a small nuke detonated just offshore from Kuwait City would do a real number both on Kuwait, on the world oil price, and on resupply lines for COW forces in Iraq. --Tim May As my father told me long ago, the objective is not to convince someone with your arguments but to provide the arguments with which he later convinces himself. -- David Friedman
Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:24:01AM -0800, Sarad AV wrote: it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and kicking and the camera's are rolling. Yesterday morning I could get to english.aljazeera.net. As of yesterday afternoon, it has become unavailable. Supposedly they are victims of hackers but yesterday a traceroute from california stopped somewhere in Sprints' network in the US. This morning I can't even resolve their name. None of their listed nameservers will respond. Eric
Russian opposition to Iraq war not all altrustic
According to: http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2002/1004privatiz.htm We have interests in the oil sector of the Iraqi economy, said Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the international affairs committee of Russia's Federation Council, or upper house. When I say interests, I do not mean only honoring the current contracts which exist, but also an opportunity for equal, fruitful cooperation between the international oil companies and the Russian oil companies in future, especially in the privatization of the Iraqi oil sector, he added. Margelov, on a visit to Washington where he met members of Congress, said Moscow was also concerned about Iraqi debt to Russia, estimated between $7 billion and $12 billion. http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0225/p03s01-woiq.htm But France also has economic interests that would be more lucrative if Saddam Hussein stays in power. Iraq France's TotalFinaElf has contracts with Iraq to develop the Majnoon and Bin Umar fields, once sanctions are lifted. In addition, Iraq owes France billions in foreign debt accrued from arms sales in the 1970s and '80s, which experts say could be virtually uncollectible in the case of war. Also: http://www.gazeta.ru/2003/03/26/NohopeforRus.shtml -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.
Re: World Book Encyclopedia, 2004 Edition: Iraq
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 03:20 PM, Steve Schear wrote: Iraq, the proud new 51st state of the USA, was once a seething hive of freedom-hating terrorists linked to international terrorism. American-led nation building projects begun after the 2003 War of Liberation have transformed a population of terrorized victims into members of an open society that values individuality, international copyright laws and human rights http://www.exile.ru/162/16202.html Hilarious. Weirdly, the author of the article also uses COW, for Coalition of the Willing, as the name of the U.S. forces. I've been using this for several days now, so either the author anticipated my use, or vice versa, or it was independent evolutionary development. I have to say that this is really turning into the clusterfuck I was anticipating! I'm chortling. Orwell would be proud to see Torrie Clark, Defensebimbo, whining about how snipers attacking refueling tankers along the Highway of Death II are violating the Geneva Convention, and how those dressed in civilian clothes are not allowed to fight to defend their country against invaders. As Secretary of Stupid Comments Anne Coulter tells us, We just ought to occupy their country and convert them all to Christianity. (I've been sending her exact quote to various Arabic sites. Increases the merriment. Osama may nuke Washington yet! One must remain hopeful. Fuck the millions in Washington dead.) --Tim May
World Book Encyclopedia, 2004 Edition: Iraq
Iraq, the proud new 51st state of the USA, was once a seething hive of freedom-hating terrorists linked to international terrorism. American-led nation building projects begun after the 2003 War of Liberation have transformed a population of terrorized victims into members of an open society that values individuality, international copyright laws and human rights http://www.exile.ru/162/16202.html War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933
Re: US may fabricate discovery of WMD
At 09:01 AM 3/26/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: I no doubt said this, but so have many others. I remember hearing many years ago that if hundreds of tons of marijuana cross U.S. borders each year undetected, how can software and crypto be blocked? Even post 911 you can fly a copter from Quebec and drop 200 lb bales into Vermont: http://www.cannabisclub.ca/Montreal_Gazette_030503.html If you can't find a tunnel from Mexico, that is. Vulnerable giants should be humble.
The other white meat (was Re: The Highway of Death II)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 7:42 AM -0800 on 3/26/03, James A. Donald wrote: On 25 Mar 2003 at 9:40, Tim May wrote: * As for the war, I'm not a military buff, but this 400-km convoy snaking across the desert looks to be a classical logistical nightmare. The obvious tactic for the Iraqis is to disperse to move around, and to concentrate to attack particular convoys. Speaking of same, it looks like the *Iraqis* are running their own large (apparently unarmored) convoys north and south out of B-Town to shore up their by-now nonexistent stuff. Kewl. Fire up the Warthogs and Longbows. Ymmm. Cheers, RAH Too bad the MOABs aren't ready yet... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPoIdUcPxH8jf3ohaEQI/xQCfU/eZjQgmot8atk/mEH+nlUeX6d0AoL1e X0srMoK+i6HkAiQr9gfaiIKO =snfv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA ... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience. -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
Here's a diagram and after-use photos of the carbon filament bomb, as used in the 1999 FYU live weapons test: http://cryptome.org/blu114-yu.htm The e-bomb has been extensively covered since Australian Carlo Kopp published his description (invention?) of it: http://cryptome.org/ebomb.htm Whether either of these work as bragged or are psyop mirages is worth betting an WMD Indian nickle on. Not many US weapons can survive stripping away manufacturers' promo shielding, except by additional $75 billion add-ons. Don't tell that to the Marines or Al-Jezeera will not be able to e-bomb a Chuckie. What are those mad Englishman contraptions that hurl cows and pianos across the bog? Load up the $10,000 a pop dead bodies with American Type Culture Collection-bred biologicals and slingshot them to, Umm, humanitarian debarkation, MRE.
Re: Boycotting the Unwilling
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 07:56:04AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Try using both voice and action (long time readers know the hazards of mixing these) ---e.g., actively publicize a boycott on .il items, get a Mom Pop grocery to go along, and see how much I've always liked this: http://mccullagh.org/image/d30-32/jews-against-military-aid-to-israel.html A carefully-worded demand, that. As if dollars weren't a fungible quantity, and as if billions of dollars in nonmilitary aid would somehow not free up billions of dollars (that would be otherwise unavailable) to be spent on military purchases... -Declan
Re: US may fabricate discovery of WMD
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 05:46 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Ken Brown wrote: In the unlikely event that the North Koreans wanted to send a nuke to the USA, they might not need an ICBM. Just bribe or otherwise subvert a It would be a shipment running some risk of detection, especially given a hot warhead, which is difficult to shield. IIRC there's been recently some false alarm raised by a contaminated scrap metal shipment in the US (scrap metal is usually contaminated by medical and industrial Co 60 sources processed by mistake, this batch must have been particularly hot). Seems dubious to me. A gamma ray spectrometer is neeeded anyway, to pull a very weak signal out of background, so the GRS would very clearly be able to distinguish between gammas from Pu-239 and other bomb radioisotopes and gammas from medical and industrial products. Several weeks ago I speculated on misc.survivalism that the light planes being seen circling slowly and repeatedly over several U.S. cities, especially some near universities, were N.E.S.T. (Nuclear Emergency Search Team) planes using gamma ray spectrometers to look for radioisotopes. Possibly mapping known locations (*) in university and industrial labs, so that differences in locations could later be spotted. (GPS plus GRS makes for nice Pete Shipley-style nuke driving mapper.) --Tim May To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists. --John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General
Enraptured in Babylon
Remember what we were talking about a few days ago, about Bush maybe seeing himself as the key actor in a Christian fundamentalist millenialist Left Behind Rapture sequence? Remember what I said about Babylon, the Antichrist, JC's reign for a thousand years? The Washington Post ran an article several weeks ago, March 8, reporting the same thing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp- dyn?pagename=articlenode=contentId=A58894-2003Mar7notFound=true I just saw it today, referenced by someone on one of the newsgroups. Here are several paragraphs, under Fair Use. Read the full article. --excerpt-- Direst of Predictions For War in Iraq End-Time Interpreters See Biblical Prophecies Being Fulfilled Will Invasion of Iraq Beget Armageddon? By Bill Broadway Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 8, 2003; Page B09 In recent weeks, the prophetic interpreters have been citing a new reason they believe the end is coming: the impending U.S. war with Iraq. Anxious discussions have arisen on prophecy Web sites, in Bible study groups and churches, and at such gatherings as last month's 20th International Prophecy Conference in Tampa. Its title: Shaking of Nations: Living in Perilous Times. ... The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East, writes John, possibly the apostle, of a container of God's anger emptied on the ancient land of Babylon, now Iraq. The kings will move their armies through the Euphrates valley en route to Har Megiddo (Armageddon) in northern Israel. ... Then comes the clincher. In Chapter 9, Verse 11 -- yes, that's 9:11 -- John says the leader of an army of locusts released to fight humankind is named Abaddon in Hebrew, Apollyon in Greek. Both words mean Destroyer, one of several meanings for the name Saddam. ... He said he and other pre-trib guys, those who believe Jesus will rapture believers before the Great Tribulation, are convinced that the Antichrist will rule the world from a restored Babylon. That's why Hitchcock, too, thinks an invasion of Iraq will be a catalyst for end-time events. ... Once the U.S. gets Saddam out of the way, sanctions will be lifted, oil wells will flow again at full capacity and Iraq (Babylon) will regain its power, allowing the Antichrist to mount an army for an assault on Israel, he said. The stage is thus set for the Rapture, Armageddon, the Glorious Appearing and the other stages. --end excerpt--
RE: Things are looking better all the time [TERROR ALERT: Cerenkov Blue]
At 06:12 PM 3/25/03 -0500, John Kelsey wrote: At 04:37 AM 3/25/03 +0100, Lucky Green wrote: ... If any terrorists had nukes, why have they not used them so far? Suppose you only have one, it was really hard to get, and you're not sure how much of your US network has been turned, or at least placed under heavy surveilance? Maybe you wait until you are really sure you can succeed before you use it. You're not even sure whether it works well, either. (Note that even a completely subcritical dud will still be a dispersal device unless they seriously overbuild a U gun-type device.) Alternatively, we have no way of knowing how often terrorists have tried to use nukes, but been stopped one way or another. Maybe the Russians sold them very convincing duds. Um, several times, in fact. Look Abdul, it clicks! Must be fissile.. There's a technically incompetent but well financed jihadist born every minute. (Its the competent ones you want to worry about.) Maybe the FBI caught them and disarmed the bombs before they went off. And they didn't claim any credit? This doesn't jibe with the puffery one observes. And for a third alternative, it's quite possible (I don't know how likely) that one or more groups have smuggled nukes into the US, planted them in US cities, and offered proof to the US government, as a way of establishing a nuclear deterrent. (C.f. Ross Anderson's Guy Fawkes Protocol.) But they've *already* declared their goals in numerous fatwas by now, what do you want, a UN resolution? And deterrent type solutions haven't worked. The US probably increased its presence in the land of Mecca since the first WTC attack. Al Q's m.o. is simply to make the expected future cost of empire too high. This future expectation is produced by current actions. So, its preferable that Americans think they had one, they can get another (while viewing the Detroit Crater from the observation platform), instead of supposedly (according to some idiot official who says we're on code Cerenkov Blue) there's a nuculear geezmo in some city. Besides, if you announce, you are toast. There are pretty obvious reasons why the US government might not announce either of the last two cases, and why the terrorist group of your choice wouldn't announce we have a bomb until they had the thing planted where they wanted it. Again, the operational risks with extortion, traced communications, the faith-based motivations and psyop saavy of Al Q indicate Use It or Lose It. If you've got 'em, smoke 'em as they say. --- He listened patiently to my explanation of how I now believed a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, but he seemed unenthusiastic about what I had to say and preoccupied with other thoughts. After I left his office, I found to my considerable dismay that the fly to my trousers had been unzipped. E. Teller p 317 Memoirs
Off-topic: Feds tout highway pork as creating jobs
Off-topic, but so economically naive I felt compelled to share... --Declan --- Contact: Steve Hansen (Republican Director of Communications) (202) 225-7749 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Justin Harclerode (Republican Deputy Director of Communications) (202) 226-8767 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Berard (Democratic Director of Communications) (202) 225-6260 To: National Desk/Transportation Reporter March 26, 2003 1.3 Million New American Jobs Will Be Created Under New Bipartisan Highway Investment Proposal; Plan Would Substantially Increase Funding For Highway Transit Programs Washington, D.C. - A new bipartisan proposal to substantially increase the federal investment in America's highway and transit programs would provide a major boost to the nation's economy by creating more than 1.3 million new jobs throughout the United States over the six-year plan. (**See Pages 2 3 for a state-by-state analysis of how each state will benefit under the proposal.**) The bipartisan proposal from the leadership of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee would increase the federal government's funding for highway and transit programs to $375 billion from Fiscal Years 2004 through 2009. The $375 billion is the funding level projected by the Administration as necessary to maintain and begin to improve the nation's growing surface transportation needs through 2009. This is a substantial increase over the $218 billion that was authorized in the previous six-year highway and transit legislation (1998-2003). Proposal Will Result In Safer Roads, Less Congestion Provide A Significant Boost To Nation's Economy Today, the single largest obstacle to increased transportation and economic efficiency is congestion, said U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), the Chairman of the Transportation Committee. We are truly in a congestion crisis. Traffic congestion costs the United States more than $67 billion annually - more than 3.6 billion hours in delays and 5.7 billion gallons of excess fuel wasted in traffic jams. The average cost of congestion for commuters is $1,160 a year and drivers now waste an average of 62 hours per year stuck in traffic jams. The significant results of our proposal will be safer roads, less congestion and waste of fuel, better air quality, and it will provide for an important long-term stimulus for our nation's economy. For every $1 billion invested in federal highway and transit infrastructure, 47,500 jobs are created and $6.2 billion in economic activity is generated. Our legislation would create more than 1.3 million new jobs throughout all 50 states over the next six-year reauthorization. This will play a vital role in our efforts to improve the economy of our nation in the coming years. Every State In The Union Will Benefit This investment in highway and transit infrastructure will help create millions of badly needed, family-wage jobs and generate billions of dollars in economic activity, said U.S. Rep. James Oberstar (D-MN), the Ranking Democrat on the Transportation Committee. Each $1 billion of Federal funds creates 47,500 jobs and $6.1 billion of economic activity. In addition, this investment will increase business productivity by reducing the costs of producing and transporting goods in virtually all industrial sectors of the economy. Every state in the Union will benefit. State-By-State Analysis Of Increased Funding New Jobs Created Under Bipartisan Proposal - First column Additional Funds FY 04-09 Under Bipartisan TI Committee Proposal vs. Status Quo Funding: This is the amount of increased highway funding each state would receive throughout the six-year proposal when compared to a six-year program that keep highway funding at the current $31.8 billion levels. - Second column Total Federal Highway Funding FY 04-09 Under Bipartisan House TI Committee Proposal: This represents the total amount of highway funding each state would receive under the six-year $375 billion bipartisan House Transportation Infrastructure Committee leadership proposal. - Third column Total New Jobs Created Between 2003 and 2009: This represents to number of new jobs created under the six-year proposal. This does not include the existing jobs that will be sustained by the proposals - only the new jobs created by the bipartisan plan. Estimated State Funding Job Creation Impacts of Federal Highway Program that Ramps up from $40 Billion in FY 2004 to $60 Billion in FY 2009 State Additional Funds FY04-09 Under Bipartisan TI Committee Proposal vs. Status Quo Funding Total Federal Highway Funds FY04-09 Under Bipartisan TI Committee ProposalTotal New Jobs Created Between 2003 and 2009 Alabama $1,950,040,923 $5,357,255,283 23,920 Alaska 1,077,468,663 2,960,078,745 13,217 Arizona 1,643,704,007 4,515,670,349 20,162 Arkansas 1,275,514,395
RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
Why not load a POW or dead body with biologicals and return them to the UN for handing over to the US for return to a heroe's welcome, or to a hospital in Germany, emitting toxics to every caretaker, then on to a recruitment parade down Broadway and photo op at the Whitge House and the Pentagon to be bemedaled and hugged by Bush and Rummy and loving families and licking babes and backpatted by yellow-ribboned adorants, each of which then becomes a distributor of a weapon of mass infection. Manchurian Candidate, Typhoid Mary, Homeland Patriotism, sickening chickens sent home to roost and waft the good stuff, kiss me, I'm a Raqi vet. Or will every shrivelled dick and wrong turn pussy become a pariah, feared by homeland fat fucks as if a contaminated Nam Vet, Gulf War Syndromed to why you complaining asshole homeland unwelcome, hey, you miserable unlucky shit, here's a global map of Leper colonies, soft-called in the old days VA die-die hotels, depositories of wasted, homicidal soldiers, out of sight out of Wall Street, out of media ads. Outside of DC recently we saw a busload of angry, amputeed vets being bussed to a Civil War battlefield. Inside a patent-leathered naval officer was delivering a patriotic dog and pony about the glory of warfare, our valiant warriors overcoming the enemy. The officer and gentleman was being crooned over by whalebutts until the vets were wheelchaired in by their armless buddies, some sightless, some with faces you'd never kiss with pleasure. The spitshiner was left alone in splendid blues when the crowd turned attention to the savaged geeks. Mercilessly, the wretched vets made no response to the tut-tutters, scratched their nuts, spat on the carpet, blew farts, made attacking wheelies at the little ones. Fuck you all, one barked, and out they went, back onto a blue VA bus, helping each other abandone the cornpone battlefield, back to the VA living dead cemetaries which never makes the ad-pumped evening news. Fuck the military, fuck the asshole patriots, fuck the war-loving media, fuck memorials to fallen warriors, the battlefields of tourism grotesque. Up the murderous anger against those who've never seen combat: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, Rowe, Bush, Allen Keys, David and Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, Spencer Abraham, Elliot Abrams, Andrew Card, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ashcroft, Ted Olsen, Anthony Scalia, Ken Starr, Clarence Thomas, Lamar Alexander, Bob Barr, Gary Bauer, Jeb Bush, Tom Delay, Newt Gringrich, Rudy Guiliani, Phil Graham, Dennis Hastert, Jack Kemp, Joe Lieberman, Trent Lott, Dan Quail, Roger Ailes, Bob Bartley, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Clancy, Steve Forbes, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, George Will, Bill Bennett, Jerry Falwell, on and on, the pantheon of chickenhearted righteous motherfuckers, agents of evil empires.
I did my part in the war effort...
This is sure to piss off true-believing, knee-jerk subscribing feds on our list (though I consider it possible that some such feds are as pissed off as many of us right now)... Landed in an airport this afternoon, and had to take a piss. Went into a stall and there was some debris around the toilet, consisting of a starbucks cup and suprise! A little tiny American flag on a stick... -TD _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: Things are looking better all the time
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 05:26 am, Sarad AV wrote: hi, They are not working very well or US since the iraqi's are using gps jammers and US are already in a row with russians claiming that they sold it to iraq. In a news conference on Tuesday, some general claimed they had located and taken out six sites where GPS jammers were being used. He claimed one site had been taken out with a GPS guided weapon. Kind of Ironic I beleive he said. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.
RE: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
At 09:40 AM 3/26/2003 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Sarad AV[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and kicking and the camera's are rolling. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in vehicles and aircraft. the existance of such a bomb was on indian news papers a week ago. Regards Sarath. It was also in Newsweek. It's existence is well known. What is not is it's construction, size, or effectiveness. A good place to start is here http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/kopp/apjemp.html Carlo is one of the few truly knowledgeable people who's published much detail. Here's some other Carlo referenced material http://f-111.net/CarloKopp/ A few years back he and I discussed an idea I had for an inexpensive terrorist version of an EMP device. Instead of using explosives, the pulse compressor-microwave generator are powered via lightening. A radio storm detector combined with a ground-cloud charge detector control the launch of a large model rockets, which trail a wire spool, into the cloud above. If a discharge is initiated its channeled into the EMP HW. A system holding several rockets could easily fit in a 3ft cubed box and placed on a tall building or other location near a target which is sufficiently frequented by lightening storms. Carlo thought the idea technically practical but not too useful for terrorists who wish to control the timing of their events. steve
