NYTimes.com Article: U.S. Companies File in Bermuda to Slash Tax Bills

2002-02-17 Thread mean-green

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Some in fact engage in "buy-back" transactions but they must be very careful at tax 
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U.S. Companies File in Bermuda to Slash Tax Bills

February 18, 2002 

By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON


A growing number of American companies are incorporating in
Bermuda to lower their taxes sharply without giving up the
benefits of doing business in the United States.

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Re: Encrypted file system for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread zem

On 17 Feb 2002, Dr. Evil wrote:

> > Is there any way to encrypt the swap partition?   Passwords and other
> > sensitive data can sometimes linger there.
>
> OpenBSD can encrypt the swap.  It can't encrypt any other part of the
> disk, though.  D'ohh!  "OpenBSD: Crypto everywhere... except for your
> files."

OpenBSD can encrypt any disk via loopback - the same mechanism used to
encrypt swap.  Use vnconfig's "-k" option:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vnconfig

FreeBSD's vnconfig doesn't seem to have that option.

Swap encryption is off by default.  To turn it on use "sysctl -w
vm.swapencrypt.enable=1" or add "vm.swapencrypt.enable=1" to
/etc/sysctl.conf.

And just for the record, OpenBSD has never claimed to have "crypto
everywhere."


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US Pat. No. 6,219,185: Large aperture diffractive space telescope (was: physics of spy satellites)

2002-02-17 Thread Steve Schear

[Intended for astronomical and continuous sub-meter earth surveillance.]

A large (10's of meters) aperture space telescope including two separate 
spacecraft--an optical primary objective lens functioning as a magnifying 
glass and an optical secondary functioning as an eyepiece. The spacecraft 
are spaced up to several kilometers apart with the eyepiece directly behind 
the magnifying glass "aiming" at an intended target with their relative 
orientation determining the optical axis of the telescope and hence the 
targets being observed. The objective lens includes a very large-aperture, 
very-thin-membrane, diffractive lens, e.g., a Fresnel lens, which 
intercepts incoming light over its full aperture and focuses it towards the 
eyepiece. The eyepiece has a much smaller, meter-scale aperture and is 
designed to move along the focal surface of the objective lens, gathering 
up the incoming light and converting it to high quality images. The 
positions of the two space craft are controlled both to maintain a good 
optical focus and to point at desired targets !
which may be either earth bound or celestial.




French nazis bust seller of Osama T-shirts

2002-02-17 Thread Khoder bin Hakkin

Bin Laden T-shirt seller in terror rap
http://www.expatica.com/france.asp?pad=278,313,&item_id=19472

 PARIS, Feb 8 (AFP) - A 25 year-old Frenchman who was caught trying
 to import 40 Osama Bin Laden T-shirts via Paris's Charles-De-Gaulle
 airport could face terrorism-related charges, police said Friday.

 The man, who has not been named, was stopped on Tuesday after
 getting off a flight from Thailand.

 He told customs officials he intended to sell the T-shirts around his
home
 in the western Paris suburb of Cergy.

 On Wednesday the man was taken before a
 judge, who is to decide whether to place
 him under formal investigation on a charge
 of "justifying terrorism," police said.

 Bin Laden, the head of the extremist Islamic
 group al-Qaeda, has been widely blamed
 for the attacks which killed over 3,000
 people in the United States on 11 September last year.




http://www.jail4judges.org/ --AP for pacifists

2002-02-17 Thread Khoder bin Hakkin

Executive Summary

J.A.I.L. is a proposed amendment to the California Constitution as a
check against judicial misconduct and abuse of power.

The initiative creates three statewide Special Grand Juries in
California for the sole purpose of investigating complaints against
judges.

The Special Grand Juries will have the power to sanction judges by
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The Special Grand Juries will also have the power to indict judges and
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Bamford report

2002-02-17 Thread D. A. Honig

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/bamfordreport.html

Report on a  James Bamford Talk at Berkeley

James Bamford is the author of The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, books
about the National Security Agency. He is visiting Berkeley in the School
of Public
Policy, and gave a talk entitled "Intelligence Failures that Led to the
September
11th Attacks."




authenticating (?) a computer diary to bust a judge

2002-02-17 Thread proffr11

 >>"We authenticated the diary before we acted on it," said Irvine police 
Sgt. Tom Little.

They are probably "authenticating" my dell to find 2 "e-mails" that were 
left on a site "where anyone can post anything."
Wonder how Sherman Austin's computers are being 'authenticated.'
When I applied for the return of the dell,the computer dick said that 
merely booting up the computer alters thousands of files.Proving someone 
may have accessed the computer in storage could be a winner for OJ level 
lawyers.
It all brings encrypted everything closer.Kill little Tom and the 
president,"I'd buy that for a dollar."

"We declared jihad against the US government, because the US government is 
unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely 
unjust, hideous and criminal whether directly or through its support of the 
Israeli occupation."




Thinking is not a crime in this country

2002-02-17 Thread Major Variola (ret)

There is no indication that these thoughts were ever communicated to
anyone," Meyer said. "The publication of these private thoughts serves
no purpose except to embarrass the judge. Thinking is not a crime in
this country."

The writings were initially stolen from Kline's computer by a hacker,
then passed to anti-pedophile groups before being turned over to police.
A copy of the document also was e-mailed to a Register reporter.

But the intimate writings - interspersed with references to court cases,
analyses of literary works and memoirs of daily life - appear to
describe Kline's emotional struggle over his fascination with the bodies
of young Orange County boys, many of whom are mentioned by name. The
document also describes the author's hesitancy to act on those feelings.
In portions of the diary, the author describes frequent stints working
as an umpire or just hanging around south Orange County Little League
baseball games.

The author of the diary describes himself as an Orange County judge and
Little League umpire who owns a Porsche sports car, all traits that also
describe Kline. Some of the accounts in the diary have been
independently corroborated.

http://ocregister.com/news/kline00217cci4.shtml




authenticating (?) a computer diary to bust a judge

2002-02-17 Thread Major Variola (ret)

Interesting comment: "We authenticated the diary before we acted on it,"
said Irvine police Sgt. Tom Little.


http://ocregister.com/news/kline00217cci4.shtml

Police analyze diary from judge's computer

February 17, 2002

By BILL RAMS and
ALDRIN BROWN
The Orange County Register

Police investigators are analyzing a document written in diary form that
suggests a local judge accused of child molestation may have used his
position as a Little League umpire to ogle dozens of underage boys and
to get close to one boy to whom he was attracted.

The document, recovered by police from the computer of Orange County
Superior Court Judge Ronald C. Kline, contains no mention of sexual
contact with the underage boys.

But detectives are scouring the document's seemingly detailed accounts
of meetings and conversations with boys for evidence of potential
crimes.

"We authenticated the diary before we acted on it," said Irvine police
Sgt. Tom Little. "We made sure it wasn't authored by somebody out to
discredit the judge."

Kline, 61, is under house arrest awaiting trial on federal charges of
possessing child pornography and on state charges of allegedly molesting
a boy nearly 25 years ago, before he was a judge.





Being sued for not offering features

2002-02-17 Thread Major Variola (ret)

Excerpt from Popular New Pedal Adjusters Could Create Legal Troubles

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAXGHZ6TXC.html

>But a lawsuit against Ford contends the adjusters are not just for
comfort - they can save shorter drivers from injuries in a crash by
keeping them farther back from the steering wheel air bag, which can
inflate at speeds of up to 200 mph.

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Re: Inferno: Con-Sim Suggested Reading,

2002-02-17 Thread proffr11


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Intellibridge:Selling Enron short.

2002-02-17 Thread proffr11

Enron hired Intellibridge, based in the Georgetown section of Washington, 
D.C., to serve as its independent “propaganda” arm by creating a news Web 
site and organizing conferences that would bring regulatory, political, 
media and business leaders together to discuss the merits of a more 
competitive energy market.
In compiling a story on alleged conflicts of interest, it would seem that 
the Post would have wanted to reveal that Rothkopf was founder and chief 
executive officer of a company that served as a consultant for Enron, 
instead of framing Rothkopf’s comments as those from a somewhat 
disinterested third party who worked in the Clinton administration.
Immediately prior to forming Intellibridge, Rothkopf served for two years 
as managing director of Kissinger Associates, Inc., the geo-political 
consulting group chaired by the former U.S. secretary of state. After his 
stint at Kissinger Associates, Rothkopf founded Intellibridge—originally 
called the Newmarket Company—with the support of several former government 
officials, including former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake and 
former Central Intelligence Agency director John Deutch, who was accused in 
2000 of mishandling sensitive data while serving at the CIA and previously 
as an under-secretary at the Defense Department.
As part of the contract with Enron, Intellibridge had the mandate to help 
stop the spread of the energy industry’s equivalent of the “rotten apple 
syndrome” through a public image enhancement campaign. Enron wanted to make 
sure negative perceptions about the company did not spread to segments of 
the American public that would hear about the company only in terms of the 
California energy crisis.
After awarding the contract, Enron alerted Intellibridge about who its 
friends were—certain conservative economists, the Wall Street Journal 
editorial page and large industrial companies—and who its enemies were—New 
York Times columnist Paul Krugman, then-New York Times editorial page 
editor Howell Raines, who late last summer moved into the top editorial 
position at the paper, and consumer advocacy groups.
Enron also wanted Intellibridge to create an advisory committee to help 
guide the public image campaign. Candidates for the committee included 
Cambridge Energy Research Associates Chairman Daniel Yergin, New York Times 
columnist Thomas Friedman, Economist magazine energy and environmental 
reporter Vijay Vaitheeswaran and Wall Street Journal columnist Rebecca Smith.
Intellibridge unveiled its news Web site for Enron at an Enron-sponsored 
conference early last October at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Arlington, Va. 
Attending the conference were business leaders, politicians and regulators 
from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, excluding former FERC 
Chairman Curt Hebert, who had left FERC in August 2001 after learning the 
Bush administration had consulted with Enron in choosing Pat Wood to take 
over as FERC chairman.
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Organizacion Socialista Libertaria (OSL),

2002-02-17 Thread proffr11

(Longish)en) From Riot to Revolution
From "anarcho"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:12:25 -0500 (EST)


 
  A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V
I C E
   
http://www.ainfos.ca/
 

"We have seen how the Revolution began
with popular risings ever since the first
months of 1789. To make a revolution it is
not, however, enough that there should be
such risings -- more or less successful.
It is necessary that after the risings
there should be left something new in the
institutions, would permit new forms of
life to be elaborated and established."
Kropotkin, The Great French Revolution

Anarchism is often portrayed by historians and
others as somewhat utopian, having no real idea of
how to get from capitalism to a free society.
Lenin, for example, asserted that anarchists "while
advocating the destruction of the state machine,
have absolutely no idea of what the proletariat
will put in its place." The truth is, of course,
different.  Anarchists see the initial framework of
an anarchist society as being created under statism
and capitalism when working class people organise
themselves to resist oppression and exploitation.
In summary, the very process of collective class
struggle would create the basis of anarchism.

Therefore, anarchists do not abstractly compare a
free society with the current one. Rather, we see
an organic connection between what is and what
could be. An anarchist society would be based on
the working class's own combat organisations, as
created in their struggles within, but against,
capitalism and the state.

In this sense, anarchy is not some distant goal but
rather an aspect of current struggles against
domination, oppression and exploitation (i.e. the
class struggle). Anarchism draws upon the
autonomous self-activity and spontaneity of working
class people in struggle to inform both its
political theory and its vision of a free society.
The struggle against hierarchy teaches us not only
how to be anarchists but also gives us a glimpse of
what an anarchist society would be like, what its
initial framework could be and the experience of
managing our own activities which is required for
such a society to function successfully.

Anarchy in Action?

The events in Argentina speak for themselves.
Popular risings there have been in abundance. After
two-and-half-decades of IMF-backed free-market
reforms, more than 40% of the 38m population live
below the poverty line and 100 children die daily
from hunger and disease. People have had enough.
Millions of people have challenged the state of
siege. People are fighting on the streets, standing
up to those who express and exploit them. In
Cordoba, a car-making centre north-west of Buenos
Aires, workers protesting at government plans to
reduce wages and apply other austerity measures,
occupied the town hall, and then set fire to it.

Various governments have collapsed but in the lives
of the working class, nothing changed -- except for
feelings of victory. In the streets the
confrontations continued. The power they express,
the power of mass direct action, inspires and will
not be easily forgotten.

The question is, what comes next? Will riot become
revolution? The answer to this question depends on
what forms of popular self-organisation are being
created. Luckily, such forms of working class power
are being created.

The most exciting thing is the largely spontaneous
appearance of "popular assemblies" after the
insurrection last year. These self-managed
assemblies are neighbourhood based on and run by
huge mass meetings of thousands. There are
currently 30 assemblies in Buenos Aires and many
others all over the country. In the French
Revolution, the people of Paris formed the directly
democratic community assemblies called "sections."
Kropotkin pointed to these as examples of both the
popular institutions required to make a revolution
("the districts of Paris laid the foundations of a
new, free, social organisation") and "the
principles of anarchism." It was by means of these
popular assemblies that "the masses, accustoming
themselves to act without receiving orders from the
national representatives, were practising what was
to be described later as Direct Self-Government." A
similar process is at work in Argentina. As one
assembly moderator put it, "here, no one is in
charge, we are going to take turns."

Other forms of popular power are developing. The
unemployed workers movement has played a key role
in many of the revolts. It has been building for
the last five years and in the last year it has
helped force the government to introduce policies
to aid the unemployed. Its tactics are to paralyse
transportation by blocking off major highways in
order to make their demands. They are called
piqueteros ("the picketers"). Any agreements made
are discussed by the participants directly. They do
not delegate leaders to negotiate with the
gove

Aberdeen Anarchist Resistance

2002-02-17 Thread proffr11

Aberdeen Anarchist Resistance is a local broad based anarchist group
active in various struggles in and around the Aberdeen area. We believe
that people are able to self-organise without the need of any kind of
authority. We call for everyone to take their lives into their own hands
and not to depend on any state, any god or generally any kind of
"the man" who's gonna solve our problems. They need us and not
vice versa! We have set up a literature table in the the city centre, on
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http://geocities.com/resistanceab/
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"We fight neither for replacing today's exploiters and oppressors, nor for the triumph of an abstract idea... We want everyone to be happy, without any discrimination. We want every person to be free to evolve and live as happy as possible. And we believe that this happiness can't be "donated" to the people neither by political parties, nor by individuals; we believe that all persons have to find the appropriate conditions by themselves, which would lead them to happiness, and fight for them. Because only the full function of the value of solidarity could put an end to the conflicts, the coercion and the exploitation..."
E. Malatesta


DID YOU GET YOUR CHECK

2002-02-17 Thread karol877220

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Investment in technology that will make you money.
=
 
AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV:
 
Making over half million dollars every 4 to 5 months from your home? A one time
investment of only $25 U.S. Dollars let's get you on the road to financial success.
 
ALL THANKS TO THE COMPUTER AGE AND THE INTERNET !
===
BE A MILLIONAIRE LIKE OTHERS WITHIN A YEAR!!!
 
Before you say ''Bull'', please read the following. This is the letter you have been
hearing about on the news lately. Due to the popularity of this letter on the 
Internet,
a national weekly news program recently devoted an entire show to the investigation
of this program described below, to see if it really can make people money. The
show also investigated whether or not the program was legal.
 
Their findings proved once and for all that there are ''absolutely NO Laws prohibiting
the participation in the program and if people can follow the simple instructions,
they are bound to make some mega bucks with only$25 out of pocket cost''.
DUE TO THE RECENT INCREASE OF POPULARITY & RESPECT THIS
PROGRAM HAS ATTAINED, IT IS CURRENTLY WORKING BETTER THAN EVER.
 
This is what one had to say: ''Thanks to this profitable opportunity. I was approached
many times before but each time I passed on it. I am so glad I finally joined just to 
see
what one could expect in return for the minimal effort and money required. To my
astonishment, I received a total of $610,470.00 in 21 weeks, with money still coming 
in.
"Pam Hedland, Fort Lee, New Jersey.

 
Here is another testimonial: "This program has been around for a long time but I never
believed in it. But one day when I received this again in the mail I decided to gamble
my $25 on it. I followed the simple instructions and voila . 3 weeks later the 
money
started to come in. First month I only made $240.00 but the next 2 months after that
I made a total of $290,000.00. So far, in the past 8 months by re-entering the 
program,
I have made over $710,000.00 and I am playing it again. The key to success in this
program is to follow the simple steps and NOT change anything.''
More testimonials later but first,
 
=PRINT THIS NOW FOR YOUR FUTURE REFERENCE=
 
$
If you would like to make at least $500,000 every 4 to 5 months easily and 
comfortably,
please read the following.THEN READ IT AGAIN and AGAIN!!!
$
 
FOLLOW THE SIMPLE INSTRUCTION BELOW AND YOUR FINANCIAL DREAMS
WILL COME TRUE, GUARANTEED! INSTRUCTIONS:
 
=Order all 5 reports shown on the list below =
 
For each report, send $5 CASH, THE NAME & NUMBER OF THE REPORT YOU
ARE ORDERING and YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS to the person whose name appears
ON THAT LIST next to the report. MAKE SURE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS IS ON
YOUR ENVELOPE TOP LEFT CORNER in case of any mail problems.
 
=== When you place your order, make sure you order each of the 5 reports. You will
need all 5 reports so that you can save them on your computer and resell them.
YOUR TOTAL COST $5 X 5=$25.00.
 
Within a few days you will receive, vie e-mail, each of the 5 reports from these 5 
different
individuals. Save them on your computer so they will be accessible for you to send to
the 1,000's of people who will order them from you. Also make a floppy of these 
reports
and keep them on your desk in case something happens to your computer.
 
IMPORTANT - DO NOT alter the names of the people who are listed next to each report,
or their sequence on the list, in any way other than what is instructed below in step
'' 1 through 6 '' or you will loose out on majority of your profits. Once you 
understand the way
this works, you will also see how it does not work if you change it. Remember, this 
method
has been tested, and if you alter, it will NOT work !!! People have tried to put their
friends/relatives names on all five thinking they could get all the money. But it does 
not work
this way. Believe us, we all have tried to be greedy and then nothing happened. So Do 
Not
try to change anything other than what is instructed. Because if you do, it will not 
work for you.
 
Remember, honesty reaps the reward!!!
 
1 After you have ordered all 5 reports, take this advertisement and REMOVE the
   name & address of the person in REPORT # 5. This person has made it through
   the cycle and is no doubt counting their fortune.
2 Move the name & address in REPORT # 4 down TO REPORT # 5.
3 Move the name & address in REPORT # 3 down TO REPORT # 4.
4 Move the name & address in REPORT # 2 down TO REPORT # 3.
5 Move the name & address in REPORT # 1 down TO REPORT # 2
6 Insert YOUR name & address in the REPORT # 1 Pos

RE: "the cancer stage of capitalism"

2002-02-17 Thread Blanc

>From We-Know-Who, in his Russky disguise:

: capitalism as a cancerous growth... would
: be interested to hear any reactions...
: maybe this is the wrong crowd :p
:
: http://www.gaialounge.com/cancerstage.html
..


The author at the above link states:

"Society's real system of self-defence, its public health process, is in
this way deprived of its proper resources and functions."

The way he phrases himself right from the beginning, is all I need to read
to know that he identifies himself, and everyone he can imagine, as
"Society" and expects that what anyone achieves or produces belongs to
everyone by default.  There is no "I" or "you", there is only "us" and "we",
for we are all one, and your resources are my resources, su casa mi casa,
deliver my daily bread or I'll send the gendarmes over to torture or kill
you for not sharing your stuff when I need it.

Consequentially, all your base, too, are belong to us.

  ..
Blanc