Enron: Washington's Number One Behind-the-Scenes GATS
Negotiator
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/wto/featured/2001/tclarke.html
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:29:28 -0400
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FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet
All Internet Traffic Would Be Routed Through Central,
Government
Servers
10/26/01 3:29:28 PM
Associated Press
Washington, DC -- FBI Seeking to Wiretap Internet
AP
Friday, October 26, 2001
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is
seeking to broaden considerably its ability to tap
into Internet traffic in its quest to root out
terrorists, going beyond even the new measures
afforded in anti-terror legislation passed by the
House today, according to lawyers familiar with the
FBI’s plans.
Stewart Baker, an attorney at the Washington
D.C.-based Steptoe & Johnson and a former general
consul to National Security Agency, said the FBI has
plans to
change the architecture of the Internet and route
traffic through central servers that it would be able
to monitor e-mail more easily.
The plans goes well beyond the Carnivore
e-mail-sniffing system which allows the FBI to search
for and extract specific e-mails off the Internet and
generated so much controversy among privacy advocates
and civil libertarians before the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks.
“From the work I’ve been doing, I’ve seen the efforts
the FBI has been making and it suggests that they are
going to unveil this in the next few months,” Baker
said of the plan.
FBI Spokesman Paul Bresson said he was unaware of any
development in the e-mail surveillance arena that
would require major architectural changes in the
Internet, but acknowledged that such a plan is
possible.
Any new efforts would “would be in compliance with
wiretapping statutes,” Bresson said. “We would be
remiss if we didn’t.”
Such a move might have been unthinkable before Sept.
11.
Last year, privacy groups and civil libertarians
howled in protest when the FBI trotted out plans to
start using the Carnivore system. The Electronic
Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington was
ready to go full rounds with the government in court
over Carnivore, and House Majority Leader Dick Armey,
R-Texas, asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to take
another look at its constitutionality.
Now, though, the country is asking for more, not less,
law enforcement on the Internet, and even those who
once complained are coming around.
“I have two minds on this,” says Fred Peterson, vice
president of government affairs for the Xybernaut
Corporation, which manufactures computer technology
for military and law enforcement. The past six weeks
have left little doubt in most peoples’ mind, he said,
that new measures must be taken.
“I think that the threat has increased and while (FBI)
demands were unreasonable at a time when the threat
was less immediate and less fatal – it’s just not the
same story anymore,” he said.
Others are still skeptical, though not as much.
“I don’t think (FBI) motives are bad, but I do think
they’re using people’ s current state of mind –
they’re using it to their advantage,” said Mikal
Condon, staff attorney for EPIC.
The new FBI plans would give the agency a technical
backdoor to the networks of Internet service
providers’ like AOL and Earthlink and Web hosting
companies, Baker said. It would concentrate Internet
traffic in several central locations where e-mail and
other web activity could be wiretapped.
Baker said he expects the agency will approach the
Internet companies on an individual basis to ask for
their help in the endeavor.
But Jim Harper, staff counsel for privacy advocate
Privacilla.org said the FBI may have a hard time
convincing some companies to redesign the Internet
on its behalf. “It’s not really surprising, but I
would be shocked to see if it gets done,” he said.
“Restructuring the Internet? I don’t think so.”
Others say the Internet companies will not put up much
of a fight.
Sue Ashdown, executive director of the
Washington-based American ISP Association, an Internet
company trade group, said most Internet companies
aren’t healthy enough financially to take on the
government in court to protect their subscribers’
privacy rights. And no one, she says, wants to appear
hostile to law enforcement right now.
“I know there are a lot of members in the association
with feelings on both sides,” said Ashdown.
“In the current patriotic climate, enterprises of all
types will likely play along with the FBI in order to
avoid a public relations disaster,” said Gene
Riccoboni, an Internet attorney with the Stamford,
Connecticut-based Grimes & Battersby.
Libertarian Socialist News
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Silver Spring, MD 20908
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Israelis Arrested For Terrorism To Be Sent Home
Saudis Still Being Held (And Note These Five Were
*Not* "Israeli Arabs")
10/26/01 2:49:11 PM
Jerusalem Post
New York, NY -- Israelis mistaken for terrorists may
be home soon
By Melissa Radler
NEW YORK (October 26) - Five Israeli men detained in
New Jersey with box-cutters, multiple passports, and
$4,000 cash on September 11, the day of the attacks on
the World Trade Center and Pentagon, may be deported
back to Israel for immigration violations as early as
next week, according to the Israeli consulate in New
York.
Consul for Media and Public Affairs Ido Aharoni said
the deportation order was issued by the US Immigration
and Naturalization Service, and it must be approved by
the Justice Department.
But the lawyer for the men, Steven Gordon, said the
group is still waiting for the INS to sign the
deportation order.
Gordon said the plight of the five, who were almost
immediately cleared by authorities but subsequently
held on relatively minor immigration violations,
including overstaying a tourist visa by nine days and
working illegally on a tourist visa, serves as a
warning to anyone concerned with civil liberties in
the wake of September 11.
"However, after ascertaining almost immediately that
they had no involvement, it is just unconscionable
that they have been denied bail and the government is
deporting them," he said.
The consulate has visited the men twice, said Aharoni,
the first time two weeks ago. Consul-General Alon
Pinkas plans to visit them Monday.
Gordon said they have continuously requested, and not
yet received, kosher food.
Trouble began for Sivan Kurzberg, his brother Paul
Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Gavriel
Marmari, all in their twenties and workers at a New
Jersey-based moving company, on September 11 when they
were picked up in a during the heightened security
sweep following the attacks on New York and
Washington.
A series of coincidences brought the police and FBI in
hot pursuit of the men, said Gordon. After the two
terrorist airplanes hit the World Trade Center, the
men went to the rooftop of their workplace, and the
rooftop of their moving van, and began taking pictures
of the burning buildings, some with themselves in the
foreground smiling.
In each location, the men, described in press reports
as rugged and Middle Eastern-looking, evoked the ire
of neighbors, who called the police to report
suspicious activity.
Hours later, the men, who were driving back to their
home in Brooklyn, were pulled over based on the
description of the van given to police. With their
box-
cutters and cash seen as hijacker's weapons rather
than tools of the moving trade, they were taken to
Meadowlands police station, forced to lie down for
1.5 hours in a grassy area, then questioned by the FBI
for 12-16 hours. They were not given food for the
duration of the interrogation, said Gordon.
After determining the men were not connected to the
attacks, they were turned over to INS custody and
detained on immigration violations. A new round
of interrogations began after the FBI developed their
film, which, according to their lawyer, showed them
posing on the rooftop and van as the World Trade
Center collapsed behind them.
All five were held in solitary confinement until last
week.
When asked if they had complained of being mistreated,
Aharoni said, "All the reports that we received said
they're in a maximum security facility. How well
can you be treated in such a facility?"
Libertarian Socialist News
Post Office Box 12244
Silver Spring, MD 20908
Taliban win support of Konar tribes
http://www.megastories.com/attack/aip/01oct22/wahdat011022c.shtml
Iran's former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani here
Friday urged an immediate halt to the U.S.-led attacks
on Afghanistan and said that as a "well-wisher to the
Americans, I advise the White House masters to halt
their adventurism in that poor country and not to go
ahead with their attacks".
http://www.iran-press-service.com/articles_2001/oct_2001/rafsanjani_afqanestan-warning-261001.htm
Iran to mark US embassy seizure in Tehran amid growing
anti-US sentiment
http://www.iranexpert.com/embassy27october.htm
A U.S. bomb crashed through a flimsy mud-brick home in
the Kabul Sunday blowing apart seven children as they
ate breakfast with their father, the mother said.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011028/ts/attack_afghan_family_dc_1.html
Five young Israelis are "on the verge of collapse,"
according to family members, as their incarceration in
New York on charges relating to the Bin Laden attacks
continues. They were arrested on Sept. 11, only hours
after the World Trade Center attack, on charges of
"plotting to blow up" a New York bridge.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=11837&PHPSESSID=19ad824ee8930c2d1f082035b47ec9c8
Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the
streets of Karachi in Pakistan in support of Osama Bin
Laden and Afghanistan's ruling Taleban.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1621000/1621932.stm
$100m fraud probe linked to terror attack
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,581255,00.html
From: "Mark Graffis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Published on Sunday, October 28, 2001 in the Boulder
Daily Camera
by Clay Evans
A friend recently went to a movie at the Westminster
Enormo-Plex on a cool night. While she stood in line,
glowing heaters cascaded warmth over the heads of
waiting patrons. How much energy do those things use,
she wondered.
More than the meager flames used to heat an entire
Afghan village for a night? This is a good time to
start examining our propensity, not just for
consumption, but for resource gluttony. My
line-drying,
small-car-driving friend wishes everyone could cut
consumption by half. Me, too. But it's complicated. If
they did, the economy would collapse as dramatically
as did the World Trade Center towers. This isn't World
War II, when Americans sacrificed, because a "war
economy" - i.e. shipbuilding - took up the slack.
Now we're inseparable from our consumption. Maybe it's
time to question whether our "American way of life" is
a just a goad to poor people around the world, maybe
even immoral. (To be clear: The U.S. is not "to blame"
for Sept. 11; I support a targeted war on terrorism.)
How can we justify movie-line heaters or lighting
up empty skyscrapers at 3 a.m. when some people burn
camel dung for warmth? We panic when a few Americans
are tragically infected with anthrax but couldn't care
less about millions of Africans dying from AIDS. We
know nothing about Islam, and too much about Mariah
Carey and Gary Condit. But raise such questions, and
some people scream that you are "unpatriotic." Just
the opposite, if you ask me. Jeff Milchen is a Boulder
organizer who works in the democracy (not
anti-globalization) movement, and he thinks about this
stuff. He knows how deeply enmeshed we are in a
growth-consumption-profits economic model. It's not
true, Milchen argues, that capitalism doesn't work
unless profits grow continually. He believes a market
economy is the best model we have, but also that only
publicly held companies in thrall to the shareholders
(who provide only a fraction of capital compared to
most companies' sales of products and services) must
perpetually grow. Even Adam Smith, father of
capitalism, believed that the system would work only
when businesses were small, accountable and invested
in
communities (i.e. not Wal-Mart). "We have a
fundamentally broken system," Milchen says. We must
radically reform or abolish the publicly held
corporation, so companies stop abusing workers, Third
World nations and the environment just to keep a few
elite shareholders in cigars. We also need radical
electoral reform to reduce the influence of money. The
media, Milchen believes, is armpit-deep in
perpetuating myths of corporatism. Why, for example,
has the mainstream media ignored such galling stories
as the attempt by the Bechtel Corp. to privatize water
in Bolivia? Some portray capitalist reformers like
Milchen as idiots in search of a protest, and they
don't even want you to even consider whether our gross
consumptionism is a fair, responsible global model.
Before buying their lines, take time to read the
thinking of people like former Harvard Business School
faculty member David C. Korten ("When Corporations
Rule the World"), to see if Wall Street's buy-buy
propaganda is so great. We may well choose, by
default, to continue our blind stumble into the morass
of privileged consumerism. But with each step, more of
"them" - not the Taliban, but the world's poor and
disenfranchised - will hate us ...
even more.
Copyright 2001 The Daily Camera
Copyrighted 1997-2001 www.commondreams.org A
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Plan Colombia Targets Oil, Not Drugs
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11242
The human rights record of Colombia's army has
improved somewhat in recent years. In part this is
because its abuses have been privatized --
paramilitary groups with close links to many members
of the armed forces are now committing the bulk of the
murders of civilians.
http://www.globalexchange.org/colombia/nyt071001.html
Toxic Drift: Monsanto and the Drug War in Colombia
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/military/featured/2001/monsanto.html
DynCorp From Kosovo to Peru
http://www.narconews.com/rarey1.html
IQUITOS, PERU-Though the stated objectives of Plan
Colombia are to end the 30-plus year old civil war
that has cost the lives of more than 35,000 Colombians
and to end the production of cocaine and heroin, there
may be a simpler reality: oil.
http://www.narconews.com/gorman3.html
remember Occidental Petroleum?
Even as the new administration of US President George
W. Bush repeated in public that it had no plans to
destabilize Venezuela's democratically elected
government, behind the scenes a more nefarious
strategy was already underway.
http://www.narconews.com/rangel1.html
Army Fires Colonel Who Laundered Drug Money
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=world/americas&contentId=A27810-2000Nov6
just another fall guy?
U.S. armed forces, withdrawn from El Salvador under
the 1992 Peace Accords, are active again in that
country unders a controversial agreement that
opponents say violates the peace accord..
http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/101300/101300e.htm
Former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos Torres has asked
court officials in Peru to interrogate two officials
of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as part
of his defense against charges that he helped smuggle
at least 10,000 AK-47 assault rifles to the leftist
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20010819_exspy_chief_stresses_cia_role.asp
Amazon Watch has just released a new Mega-project
report entitled: "New Pipelines Threaten Intact Amazon
Rainforest in Brazil". The 12-page report examines
plans to construct two new pipelines to expand oil and
gas production from the Urucu and Jurua gas fields in
the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. The report details
the detrimental social and environmental consequences
of the $1.7 billion gas project which is part of
President Cardoso's $45 billion economic development
program Avança Brasil (Advance Brazil).
http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/newsreleases01/aug1001_br.html
his past March, the Zapatista National Liberation Army
(EZLN) made history with a march on Mexico City from
its jungle stronghold in the poor southern state of
Chiapas, demanding acceptance of its peace plan, the
San Andrés Accords [see Al Giordano, "Zapatistas on
the March," April 9]. But within six weeks, the
accords--constitutional amendments recognizing the
autonomy of Mexico's indigenous peoples--were gutted
by federal legislators, causing the rebels once again
to break off dialogue.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010820&s=weinberg
Ecuador's Environment Minister has joined native
groups and environmentalists in speaking out against
the irreparable ecological damage they say would be
caused by a 500-km oil pipeline slated to cross 11
nature and indigenous reserves.
http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/may01/02_03_006.html
A breeding population of about 530 endangered sperm
whales in the Gulf of Mexico may be feeling the
effects of an increase this year in deepwater oil and
gas drilling.
http://www.oneworld.net/anydoc2.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fens%2Elycos%2Ecom%2Fens%2Fmay2001%2F2001L%2D05%2D24%2D01%2Ehtml
A farmer from western Saskatchewan, Canada plans to
continue fighting the giant biotechnology company
Monsanto for the right of farmers worldwide to save
seed for next year's crops.
http://ens.lycos.com/ens/apr2001/2001L-04-03-01.html
In the wake of the recent oil spill in the Galapagos
Islands, WWF, the conservation organization urged the
Ecuadorian government to urgently approve and apply a
series of regulations that would ensure effective
implementation of the Special Conservation Law for the
archipelago.
http://www.panda.org/news/press/news.cfm?id=2187
Deep beneath the cloud forests of Colombia's
northeastern highlands lie 1.4 billion barrels of
crude oil, and Occidental Oil is poised to make a
killing off of it.
http://www.amazonwatch.org/newsroom/newsreleases01/feb0701uwa_int.html
"Fourteen years ago, the company OXY [Occidental
Petroleum] entered the Cano Limon region. The sector
of Cano Limon at the time of the entrance of OXY was
part of the Laguna de Lipa forest reserve. Seismic
prospecting was conducted in the entire area of the
reserve, without legal permission from the government.
What they always asserted was that the permission or
the license was in transaction.
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/6_01/diary.html
Nine women environmentalists were violently assaulted
on August 30 when they attempted a peaceful protest at
the Quito offices of OCP Ecuador S.A., an
international consortium set to begin construction on
a new oil pipeline that will transport heavy crude
from the Ecuadoran Amazon to a refinery in Esmeraldas,
on the Pacific Coast. Security guards for the
consortium assaulted the activists and three
journalists, seizing and destroying photographic
equipment and reportedly beating and detaining one of
the journalists, Gustavo Abad of the national daily El
Universo.
http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20010902_crackdown_on_pipeline_protest.asp
Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) has stopped drilling at the
Siriri field in Colombia (formerly called the Samoré
bloc) after finding gas and condensates but no oil, a
company official said on July 27. Occidental still
considers it “possible” that oil may be discovered at
the Siriri site, a spokesperson said, but drilling
will not resume for at least a year. More seismic
studies will probably be needed and the company will
have to consider security concerns and the site’s
highly complicated geological structure.
http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20010729_oxy_finds_no_oil_under_uwa.asp
According to press reports on June 14 and 15,
Colombian authorities have subpoenaed three U.S.
pilots to testify in hearings into a December 1998
incident in which Colombian air force helicopters used
machine-gun fire, air-to-surface rockets and cluster
bombs against residents of the village of Santo
Domingo de Tame, in Arauca Province, near the
Venezuelan border. Nineteen civilians, including nine
children, were killed in the attack, and more than 30
others were injured.....Colombian air force pilots on
trial for the bombing told a military court that three
privately contracted U.S. pilots passed on coordinates
for the attack.
http://www.americas.org/news/nir/20010617_u_s_pilots_accused_of_bombing.asp
"'Here's a guy born with credit cards in his cradle,
enough to take him anywhere in the world, first class,
who nevertheless pointedly refused to go. Even kids
without any money manage to scrape up a few bucks and
go see the world, but not young George, who satiated
his curiosity about foreign lands with a few beer
busts down in Mexico.'
"Scheer's ostensible point here is that Bush
'never seemed to think that there was a world out
there worth visiting, let alone saving,' as if a
vacation in Europe would necessarily make him more
competent in foreign policy.
http://www.washtimes.com/culture/20011025-32817214.htm
"Patriotism" and "Treason": A New Trend in
Irresponsible Wartime Rhetoric
http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20011029.html
The majority of Egyptians continue to be outraged by
the US-British strikes against Afghanistan.
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/557/eg3.htm
10,000 Pakistani tribesmen head for Afghanistan to
join anti-US war
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011027/1/1lbao.html
Oil Wars: The Balkans
http://www.endgame.org/oilwars-balkans.html
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIA_ThirdWorld.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIAdrug_fallout.html
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