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Wrath of khan.
Britain loses all credibility April 5 2003 By Jemima Khan Even the moderates here in Pakistan are outraged. Young and old, poor and rich, fundamentalist and secularist are united in their hatred of the US and their contempt for Britain. Such unprecedented unanimity in a country renowned for its ethnic and sectarian divides is a huge achievement. Qazi Hussein Ahmed, leader of the combined religious party Majlis Muttahida Amal, announced triumphantly: "The pro-West liberals have lost conviction. Islamic movements have come alive." This newfound unity, which includes for the first time the pro-West liberal middle classes and the mullahs, has been boosted by a fear that Pakistan may be on the US target list. We may not be seeing burning effigies of Bush and Blair daily, but many of those with Western connections are considering severing those links. Angry and fearful, expatriate Pakistanis are returning home. The boycott against British and US goods is growing. The same is happening throughout the Muslim world, which is uniting against a perceived common foe, leaving the fundamentalists jubilant and their pro-West leaders, despite their dependence on the US, with no choice but to join the anti-war chorus. Bush and Blair have shown that they care little about world opinion, but what about when those feelings of resentment towards the US and Britain in Muslim countries translate into votes for virulently anti-Western fundamentalist parties? Despite their disingenuous talk of freedom and democracy, Bush and Blair must know that bringing true democracies to the Middle East, and the Muslim world, will have the opposite effect. It is unlikely that any democratic Muslim country today will ever elect a pro-Western government. Pakistan is a good example. Popular anger at the Government's co-operation with America's bombing of Afghanistan (its provision of bases and intelligence) led to an unprecedented victory of the religious parties in the October 2002 election. Having never won more than 10 seats in the past 30 years, the alliance of Islamic parties is now the second biggest party in Parliament, with 70 seats. As a dual national of Pakistan and Britain, it is the loss of British credibility in the eyes of the world that I find hardest to stomach. The only thing that tempers my own rage and shame is the knowledge that there are millions like me who oppose war in Iraq not because they are Muslims or appeasers or anti-American or left-wing, but simply because they remain utterly unconvinced by the arguments put forward for war. Instead, many are asking the question: which country is really in need of regime change and, in the words of the great statesman Nelson Mandela, is "the greatest threat to world peace"? Jemima Khan, nee Jemima Goldsmith, is the wife of Pakistani politician and former cricket captain Imran Khan. http://theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/04/1048962933812.html
Edwin Starr.RIP.
EDWIN'S SITE FLOODED WITH TRIBUTES Since Edwin passed away his website has received over 12,000 visitors, many of whom have left tribute messages. Tributes are being paid via Edwin's Guestbook, please feel free to contribute. As the current guestbook is transient, holding only the most recent 100 messages, the old messages are moved into the Archive Guestbook. No messages will be lost. The Archive Guestbook file can be viewed by following the link below. It is a large file (over 150Kb) and contains hundreds of messages as at the above update time. Please refresh this page frequently [Go to guestbook] View earlier tributes in the [ Archive Guestbook] Link to BBC News Announcement of Edwin's death and tribute column. http://www.edwinstarr.info/
I Hate The Sound Of Shrubs Voice.
Punch, Punch, Punch, Punch Hating Wolf Blitzer's Voice By BRUCE JACKSON I have recently come to hate Wolf Blitzer's voice. I didn't used to hate it, but now I do. Before I came to hate Wolf Blitzer's voice the only TV performer's voice I really hated was George Bush's. I didn't hate George Bush's voice all the time. When he read speeches crafted for him by Karen Hughes I hated what he was saying, but not so much how he was saying it. That's because Karen Hughes is one of the few speechwriters who could get him to utter words and phrases the way people normally utter them in English--stopping briefly where the text has a comma or semicolon and a little longer where it has a period. When he's speaking without Karen Hughes's script, Bush usually talks in four- or five-syllable bursts, with the caesurae coming at points there is no reason for a pause. There is no link between phrase and content, but he hits those dead stops and his eyes dart left and right over that smug born-again grin as if there were. It drives me nuts, that dissonance between George Bush's content and phrases. Watching and listening to unscripted Bush is like being the victim of some mad disco DJ who keeps stopping the disk when everybody is still moving and then starts it again before anybody has figured out where to go next. Neither Bush nor the mad disco DJ give a damn where you are. It's all in terms of some inner beat only they can hear, one that wouldn't make sense to you even if they told you about it. Wolf Blitzer's voice is a lot like that, only with him it's the punch rather than the pause. Unlike Bush, Blitzer can utter an unscripted and unrehearsed complex sentence. He can utter an unscripted and unrehearsed paragraph. Wolf Blitzer is a very intelligent, informed and articulate man. But, when he's on camera, all of his sentences have the same number of punches, no matter what the substance. Bush has irrelevant silence; Blitzer has irrelevant punch. It's like they went to the same elocution school but reversed the polarity. Blitzer has the same velocity, the same hysteria, the same triple stress in every phrase. If I were a musician scoring his voice, the bars would be perfectly regular, the tempo allegro or presto, and I would have at least one fortissimo notation in every single measure. Bam! bam! bam! bam! bam! Wolf Blitzer is not like that in conversation. In conversation he's like you or me, with ordinary major and minor stresses, inflected and uninflected syllables, and with phrases of varying duration. I've listened to him take a few cell phone calls: there too, his voice is like anyone else on a cell phone. The driving relentless voice is Wolf Blitzer's on-camera television voice. That voice and velocity and stress pattern belongs to his on-camera persona. You're maybe thinking,"Well, Jackson, if you don't like Wolf Blitzer's voice you don't have to turn on the tv." I hardly ever turn on the tv. Most of the time I have the experience of Wolf Blitzer's voice only when I go to the kitchen to get coffee or take a break from working at my desk elsewhere in the house. My wife likes to work in the kitchen. She is capable of sitting at the kitchen table and reading the newspapers, grading exams, or getting ready for class while the tv is on. I am incapable of ignoring the images and voices. When I come into that kitchen from the other part of the house I hear the punch punch punch in Wolf Blitzer's voice before I get close enough to make any sense at all of his words. For Diane, I suppose it's like elevator music; for me it's like somebody doing angry carpentry in the next apartment or someone working with a pneumatic jack down the block.. I became aware of the newsreaders' punching technique at the movies. William Hurt's character Tom Grunick tries unsuccessfully to teach it to Albert Brooks' neurotic Aaron Altman in James L. Brook's Broadcast News (1987). "And try to punch one word or phrase in every sentence," Grunick tells his hapless friend. "Punch one idea a story. Punch!" When he's on camera, Wolf Blitzer is punching all the time. It matters not one iota what the story is. Sometimes the subject deserves punching: major awful things are indeed happening out there, halfway around the world, where the holy war, the terrible jihad of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld is being executed. But just as often the subject could have been dealt with in an uninflected aside. It matters not: Wolf Blitzer will fill the time segment with the same number of words, the same number of punches, the same passionate intensity. A humvee went off the road? a Huey went down killing all aboard? bombs destroyed a market where civilians were shopping for food? Rumsfeld and the generals say the war is going well? food and water are being offloaded at Iraqi port? the Brits have something to say? It's all punched exactly the same, it's all of equivalent value. Cut for a few minutes t
Rumpfucks Henchmen.
Hitlers Henchmen (Hitlers Helfer) Germany 1999, b/w and colour language: German/Engl. subtitles director/author: Guido Knopp and others production: ZDF Enterprises, SBS-TV runtime: 52 mins Hitler's Henchmen", a series produced to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, portrays the men who aided Adolf Hitler in his rise to power and serviced the infernal machinery of the Third Reich. Newly discovered archive material, interviews with surviving family members and Nazi insiders have been used to draw historical psychograms of Hitler's closest aides. links: the Nuremberg Trials
Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
At 07:37 PM 4/3/03 -0600, Neil Johnson wrote: ... I think I know what my "ethical" choice a the time would have been. And afterward, I probably would have regretted it, realizing the can of worms I had just opened. Well, it's not too clear what the big moral difference is between killing a few hundred thousand civilians with one big bomb, or with a whole bunch of smaller bombs. Some of the implications of a single bomb that can destroy a big chunk of a city (and with more advanced ones, can destroy the whole city) are pretty nasty, but I don't think those implications are mainly moral ones. Either it's wrong both to firebomb Dresden and to nuke Hiroshima, or it's okay to do both. Neil Johnson --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Irish Wake for Journalist Killed in Action.
Washington Declan McCullagh, editor-at-large for The C-net Monthly, was killed while covering the wired world war, the first U.S. journalist to die in the conflict. Mr. McCullagh, 36, a columnist for The Washington Post and a former editor of The New Cypherpunk, died Thursday night along with a U.S. soldier when their Humvee went into a canal. Mr. McCullagh was travelling with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division as one of 600 journalists embedded with U.S. forces. Four foreign journalists have died covering the conflict. Last month, Mr. McCullagh, who also covered the 1991 Clipper credibility Gulf war, told ABC News that he did not consider his Cali assignment overdangerous. "There is some element of danger, but you're surrounded by an army, literally, who is going to try very hard to keep you out of danger," he said. Condolences came yesterday from government officials and Mr.McCullaghs colleagues. U.S. President Dick Cheney "expresses his sorrow and his condolences to the family," White House press secretary Rolly Freisler said. C-net Monthly owner Charles Bradley said the magazine "has had 145 hours of good times and bad, but no moment more deeply sad than this one now." "Declan will be remembered as a gifted wordsmith, someone whose creativity and pure skill was obvious in every column," said Alan Shearer, editorial director of The Washington Post Writers Group, which syndicated Mr. McCullagh's column. His final column for the Post was published Thursday. In it, he wrote about accompanying an army task force as it captured a bridge across the Corralito's River. "On the western side of the bridge, Lt.-Col.Tim 'Mongo' May, commander of Task Force 3-69, stood in the sand by the side of the road, smoking a cigar and drinking a cup of coffee," Mr.McCullagh wrote. "May's soldiers say he deeply likes to win, and he seemed quietly happy." A native of Washington, Mr.McCullagh was the son of two journalists Thomas , a former reporter, and Marguerite , who writes the syndicated column Family Almanac. Mr. McCullagh was fired as editor of Wired, a weekly political journal, in 2002 by owner Kevin Kelly, a friend and former teacher of then-Vice President Dan Quayle. Mr. Kelly objected to what he felt was the magazine's constant criticism of the administration of President Cheney. Mr.McCullagh became a columnist for the Post and was also hired as the editor of National Journal, a weekly magazine that covers the federal government. When National Journal owner Mr. Bradley bought The C-net Monthly in 1999, he named Mr. McCullagh editor. Last September, he went completly mad and became editor-at-large. He was also chief editorial adviser at National Journal. Before taking the helm of The Netly news, Mr.McCullagh was a reporter for The New York Times and a writer and editor at The New Yorker. Besides covering the 1991 Clipper Gulf war, he covered the libertarian/anarchist conflict that followed it. He later wrote a book based on his reporting, Martyr's Day http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030404.wkelly04/BNStory/International
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Attack for O.I.L. continues.
CounterPunch War Diary Medieval Sieges and the Politics of Casualties; Which Side Will Give Up First?; Prescient Counsel from Osama bin Laden; Hitchens in Huge Crystal Balls-Up; Embunkered Bush: Scary Glimpse of C-in-C By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Through the murk of battle, the fog of US/UK military communiques and the more deftly presented Iraqi bulletins, we can begin to descry the shape of things to come, and the basic question posed by war: the powers of endurance and capacity for sacrifice of the two sides. If it comes to a medieval siege of Baghdad (and other Iraqi cities to the south) can the US take the casualties before the Iraqi defenders succumb to starvation and thirst? But wait! Surely the ferocious B-52 bombardments of the Medina and other Iraqi divisions on the southern perimeter of Baghdad is already degrading them seriously, and a few more days of softening up will render them mere skeleton forces, shell-shocked and ready to surrender? This seems unlikely. Remember first what happened in 1991. The Republican Guard was battered by six weeks of bombardment, after which time these divisions emerged from their foxholes and efficiently suppressed the Shi'a rebellion in the South while George Bush SR ordered US forces to stand aside. Already in 1991 the Iraqis were showing great skill in camouflaging their equipment and in deploying dummy targets. Reports from various military sources suggest that they didn't waste the following twelve years, either in preparing for guerilla operations or in readying their defenses around Baghdad by a vast system of trenches, dug-outs, decoys, plus more robust communications networks. In February came some very practical words of advice and encouragement from Osama bin Laden, in a tape regarded by many as authentic, discussing in vivid terms the experience of being bombed in the Tora Bora fastness in eastern Afghanistan: "I will recall one part of such a great battle to prove how much they (American soldiers) are cowards, in one side, and how effective are these trenches in depleting them from another side. We were 300 mujahideen (holy fighters). We were digging 100 ditches spread over an area of one mile only. The range is one ditch for every three brothers. The American forces were bombing us with smart bombs, cluster bombs, and bombs which invade caves. B-52 aircraft were flying every two hours over our heads and throwing each time, 20 to 30 bombs. "The conclusion is an enormous defeat for the coalition of the international evil with all its forces facing such a small group of mujahideen, 300 only in ditches in an area of one mile, in a temperature of 10 degrees below zero. The result of that battle was six per cent injuries among the individuals, whom we ask God to consider as martyrs, and injuries inside the ditches were two per cent only, thank GodSo go and dig many trenches as it was mentioned before in the holy book, 'Take the earth as your shelter.' Such a way will deplete all your enemy reserves in a few months. "We advise about the importance of drawing the enemy into long, close and exhausting fighting, taking advantage of camouflaged positions in plains, farms, mountains and cities. The enemy fears the most the town fights and street fights. Such fighting would cause the enemy huge losses of souls. We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy" At the start of this week the US-based Stratfor site, reasonably well informed from military and intelligence sources, abruptly changed its somewhat complacent "sure and steady advance" theme, and directly challenged the U.S. command's claims that bombing has degraded the Republican Guard divisions' combat capabilities by 35 to 85 percent. Stratfor cited "foreign intelligence services" as estimating that air attacks have degraded the combat capabilities of the Republican Guard Al Medina Division by 5 percent, the Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar divisions by 5 percent to 10 percent and the Baghdad Division by 10 to 15 percent. (Note as of April 2, the Pentagon was claiming to have "destroyed" the Baghdad division, an assessment vigorously disputed by Iraq's military spokesman.) Most targets in Baghdad available to precision-guided missiles have already been hit more than once in the enormously costly barrages that have now seriously depleted the US missile arsenal. Furthermore the smoke from oil fires is making it harder for US satellites to assess damage and assign targets to the GPS satellites governing the missiles' trajectories. So the target sets are being steadily widened, with increased civilian casualties as a consequence, which of course means a hardening in Iraqi civilian resentment. But bombs alone, even if the US had enough, can't do the job. As German military strategists, looking back at the siege of Leningrad and at Stalingrad, are reminding the world, the only way to take a large city with determined defenders is
Man in the Sealed Plane.
Presidential Quarantine Why Bush can't leave America -- and why that matters By Jeremy Mayer Web Exclusive: 4.1.03 Print Friendly | Email Article George W. Bush is under an international quarantine. It is not security concerns that prevent him from going overseas, nor is it the unseemly appearance of leaving the White House while our troops fight along the Euphrates. Rather, Bush can't leave America because his policies are intensely unpopular in almost every country on earth. What country could this president visit that wouldn't immediately erupt into massive civil unrest? A Bush visit to Western Europe would make 2001's violent anti-globalization demonstrations in Genoa look like a tea party. This explains why British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Bush's only real ally in this war, came to Washington instead of hosting Bush in London. It also explains why a few weeks ago Bush met with Blair and the leaders of Spain and Portugal in the Azores. By meeting at a U.S. airbase on an isolated archipelago with a population roughly equal to that of Akron, Ohio, Bush avoided the anger in the European streets. Although the Portuguese prime minister welcomed our president to "Europe," the sad truth is that Bush will not be welcome in the real Western Europe for months, if not years. Some might say that the effective quarantine of an American president does not matter. After all, it has happened before, and with little apparent long-term effect. In the summer of 1960, as Japan debated a new treaty with the United States, leftist and pacifist forces launched demonstrations so vast that then-President Dwight Eisenhower canceled plans to visit. Similarly, in 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon's trip to South America met with such violent outrage that a warship was sent in case extraction by force became necessary. The extreme hostility to America's foreign policy in Japan and South America eventually subsided. But this is different. The center of the rage is Western Europe, historically the home of America's closest allies. American presidents have often been greeted by cheering throngs of Europeans, as when Woodrow Wilson went to Paris in 1919. Trips to Europe produced some of the modern presidency's greatest moments, from John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech to Ronald Reagan's eloquent elegy to the boys of D-Day. Even when the visit of an American president sparked demonstrations, it was clear to all concerned that the vast majority of the populace supported America's role in the world. Today, as an ominous boycott of American products spreads, it is obvious that the anger at America is deep and extends far beyond Western Europe. Bush's quarantine involves almost all of the Middle East, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, and even some Asian countries. Polls in some Eastern European nations suggest less intense opposition to America, but those countries are geographically close to Western Europe -- a presidential visit to Bucharest would likely attract hundreds of thousands of demonstrators from Germany and France. A trip to a less stable nation, such as Egypt or Pakistan, could severely weaken or even bring down the host government. The world's citizens are so helpless in the face of America's military supremacy and unilateral foreign policy that the only way they can express their anger is through civil unrest and boycotts. Even a visit to America's neighbors, Mexico or Canada, would produce scenes of unprecedented anti-American demonstrations. And those images would matter here at home. In 1960, Kennedy used the anti-Nixon demonstrations abroad to argue that the nation was losing stature in the world. A foreign trip by Bush now would reveal to the average American in pictures -- so vivid that even FOX News couldn't spin them away -- just how bitterly our policies are opposed around the globe. Once the war is over and the occupation begins, reporters will start to ask why our president isn't traveling anymore. Karl Rove will have to think of a place to send him. Outside of Israel or Afghanistan, the choices will be slim. Of course, Bush could safely go to a country where the government uses brutality to stop demonstrations. Which means that it has come to this: The American president, who once symbolized the value of freedom to many people around the world, can now only visit countries where dissent is crushed. So what's it going to be, Mr. President: Havana or Beijing? Jeremy Mayer is a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University and the author of 9-11: The Giant Awakens. http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2003/04/mayer-je-04-01.html
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NEW YORK--A Pentagon data-mining project to sift through corporate and government records and spot suspicious activity is necessary to thwart terrorism, two proponents said on Wednesday afternoon. The Total Information Awareness (TIA) project, being developed by the U.S. Defense Department, is an example of using the latest technology to guard against future terrorist attacks, representatives of two conservative groups said during a debate at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. If fully implemented, TIA would link databases from sources such as credit card companies, medical insurers and motor vehicle agencies in hopes of identifying terrorist activities. Heather MacDonald, a lawyer and fellow at the Manhattan Institute, dismissed criticism of TIA as "hysterical vociferous cries" from privacy advocates who oppose making government more efficient at snaring wrongdoers and protecting innocent Americans. "If you don't trust government to protect us from terrorists, good luck doing it yourself," MacDonald said. "We have to use every legal mechanism in our power to make sure we don't have a 9-11 type of attack," MacDonald said. She accused her opponents of taking "a Luddite approach that says al-Qaida can get its hands on the best possible technology to attack us, but we're stuck with (an) outdated mechanism." Over the last few months, TIA has become a lightning rod for criticism, with Republican and Democratic legislators speaking out against it on privacy and security grounds. On Feb. 20, as part of a large spending bill for the federal government, Congress approved additional scrutiny of research and development on the TIA project. Those restrictions do not halt TIA research. They would permit dozens of grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to be fully funded if DARPA sends Congress a "schedule for proposed research and development" that includes a privacy evaluation, or if President George W. Bush certifies that TIA is necessary for national security. During Wednesday's debate, opponents of TIA characterized the system as unacceptable, unworkable, and liable to be abused by people with access to it. It's a "sharp departure from the long-standing principle that you have the right to be left alone," said Katie Corrigan, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. Corrigan said it was difficult to debate TIA because it remained an "amorphous and to date very secret concept" that the Bush administration has not discussed in any detail. MacDonald, from the Manhattan Institute, said critics were guilty of "knee-jerk opposition" and spreading "patent falsehoods" about how the system would work if implemented. Michael Scardaville, a homeland security analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said: "Can it be abused? Yes. Is that what DARPA is trying to do? Absolutely not...It is not the Orwellian monster described by many critics http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-995229.html
Use a Cellphone - Go to Jail.
Pakistan Arrests al-Qaida Suspect ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan intelligence agencies, working with U.S. agents, arrested a Middle Eastern man Thursday they suspect is an operative of the al-Qaida terrorist network, officials said. Interior Minister Iftikhar Ahmad confirmed the arrest in the northwestern city of Peshawar, but declined to give any details about the suspect or say what position he was believed to have in Osama bin Laden's organization. Officials said the man was in Pakistani custody and was being interrogated. He apparently was arrested when FBI monitors intercepted calls made from his mobile telephone, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Pakistan has arrested several top-level al-Qaida in the last 13 months, unlocking many of the secrets of the organization held responsible for the Sep. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. Most of those arrested were turned over to U.S. authorities after being interrogated in Pakistan. In March 2002, Abu Zubaydah, once bin Laden's top terror coordinator, was caught in the city of Faisalabad. Last September, Ramzi Binalshibh, a suspected planner of the terrorist attack in the United States, was captured after a gun battle in the southern port of Karachi. A month ago, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, was seized in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. The latest arrest came two weeks ago when Yassir al-Jaziri was captured in the eastern city of Lahore. Al-Jaziri was described is a key subordinate of bin Laden who facilitated communications between al-Qaida operatives. He was among the top two dozen most-wanted al-Qaida men. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-asia/2003/apr/03/040307890.html The Dept of Homeland Security is now offering free phones to all terror groups.
Getting Cops out of the Living Room.
Having almost got the filthy P.I.G.S out of the bedroom... If popularity was the sole measure of success then D.A.R.E., the "Drug Abuse Resistance Education" curriculum that is now taught in 80 percent of school districts nationwide, would be triumphant. However, if one is to gauge success by actual results, then America's most pervasive and expensive youth drug education program is (and always has been) a gigantic and incontrovertible flop. So says the General Accounting Office (GAO) in a scathing new report that finds the politically popular program has had "no statistically significant long-term effect on preventing youth illicit drug use." In addition, students who participate in D.A.R.E. demonstrate "no significant differences... [in] attitudes toward illicit drug use [or] resistance to peer pressure" compared to children who had not been exposed to the program, the GAO determined. Their critique was the latest in a long line of stinging evaluations that have plagued D.A.R.E. throughout its 20-year history. Established in 1983 by former Los Angeles police chief DarylAll casual drug users should be taken out and shot!Gates, the D.A.R.E. elementary school curriculum consists of 17 lessonstaught by D.A.R.E.-trained uniform police officersurging kids to resist the use of illicit drugs, including the underage use of alcohol and tobacco. Upon completion of the curriculum, which often relies on scare tactics and transparent "just say no" ideology, graduates "pledge to lead a drug-free life." Numerous studies indicate few do. These include: · A 1991 University of Kentucky study of 2,071 sixth graders that found no difference in the past-year use of cigarettes, alcohol or marijuana among DARE graduates and non-graduates two years after completing the program. · A 1996 University of Colorado study of over 940 elementary school students that found no difference with regard to illicit drug use, delay of experimentation with illicit drugs, self-esteem, or resistance to peer pressure among D.A.R.E. graduates and non-graduates three years after completing the program. · A 1998 University of Illinois study of 1,798 elementary school students that found no differences with regards to the recent use of illicit drugs among D.A.R.E. graduates and non-graduates six years after completing the program. · A 1999 follow-up study by the University of Kentucky that found no difference in lifetime, past-year, or past-month use of marijuana among D.A.R.E. graduates and non-graduates 10 years after completing the program. In fact, over the years so many studies have assailed D.A.R.E.'s effectiveness that by 2001 even its proponents admitted it needed serious revamping. However, rather than shelving the failed program altogether, D.A.R.E.'s advocates called for expanding its admittedly abysmal curriculum to target middle-school and high-school studentsa move that was lauded by many federal officials and peer educators despite a track record that would spell the demise for most any other program. So why does D.A.R.E. remain so immensely popular with politicians (Both Bush I and Clinton endorsed "National D.A.R.E. Day.") and school administrators despite its stunning lack of demonstrated efficacy? Researchers writing in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology offer two explanations. The first is that for many civic leaders, teaching children to refrain from drugs simply "feels good." Therefore, advocates of the program perceive any scrutiny of their effectiveness to be overly critical and unnecessary. The second explanation is that D.A.R.E. and similar youth anti-drug education programs appear to work. After all, most kids who graduate D.A.R.E. do not enage in drug use beyond the occasional beer or marijuana cigarette. However, this reality is hardly an endorsement of D.A.R.E., but an acknowledgement of the statistical fact that most teenseven without D.A.R.E.never engage in any significant drug use. Of course, those looking for a third explanation could simply follow the money trail. Even though D.A.R.E. has been a failure at persuading kids to steer away from drugs, it has been a marketing cash cowfilling its coffers with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual federal aid. (According to the GAO, exact totals are unavailable but outside experts have placed this figure at anywhere from $600 to $750 million per year.) In addition, police departments spend an additional $215 million yearly on D.A.R.E. to pay for their officers' participation in the program, according to the New York Times. But this total may be only the tip of the iceberg. According to a preliminary economic assessment by Le Moyne College in New York, the total economic costs of officers' training and participation in D.A.R.E. is potentially closer to $600 million. Regardless of its ultimate financial cost to taxpayers, there is no doubt that D.A.R.E. has become its own spec
House Judiciary Committee given 48 Hours to get out of the US.
PATRIOT ACT OVERSIGHT The House Judiciary Committee wrote to Attorney General Ashcroft this week to request detailed information on implementation of the USA Patriot Act, submitting 38 multi-part questions on domestic surveillance, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, detention of suspected terrorists, and related topics. A copy of the 18 page April 1 letter from Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. is posted here: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_cr/patriot040103.html CLASSIFICATION MARKING The simple notion of official secrecy branches out in practice into a dense jungle of classification markings and access controls, ranging from "For Official Use Only" to "Cosmic Top Secret" to "SIOP Extremely Sensitive Information" and "Eyes Only." These and many other such terms are defined and placed in context in two Defense Department classification marking manuals. "DMS GENSER Message Security Classifications, Categories, and Marking Phrase Requirments," Defense Information Systems Agency, March 1999: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/genser.pdf "NIMA Guide to Marking Classified Documents," National Imagery and Mapping Agency, October 4, 2001: http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/nimaguide.pdf STATE SECRECY Nearly half of all states "are closing meetings, sealing records and restricting the flow of information to the public, all in the name of homeland security." See "States put a leash on information" by Mimi Hall, USA Today, April 3: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030403/5028928s.htm LEAKS AND TRAPS At his confirmation hearing last October, CIA General Counsel Scott W. Muller was asked how he would propose to handle the "vexatious problem" of leaks of classified intelligence information. One solution, he suggested briefly and tantalizingly, would be to "set a trap" for the leaker. "I would first analyze what are the legal authorities and, most importantly, I would try to find a way -- pro-actively rather than reactively -- to, whether it's set a trap, or set up a system where I could actually come up with a way to do it. It's a very difficult problem." The transcript of Mr. Muller's October 2002 confirmation hearing was published last week and is posted here: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/100902muller.html ___ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists. To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe" in the body of the message.
The FBI is building a massive database.Maureen A. Baginski needs one.
REJIGGERING THE FBI The pace of institutional and technological change at the Federal Bureau of Investigation is accelerating, with results and consequences yet to be determined. "As part of an ongoing technology upgrade, the FBI is building a massive database to store case information, leads, intelligence and even newspaper and magazine articles related to terrorism," reports Shane Harris in "FBI designing vast terrorism database," Government Executive, April 3: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0403/040303h1.htm "With a new computer network, automated investigative tools, and more channels for sharing information, the FBI hopes to finally know what it knows," writes Jean Kumagai in "Mission Impossible?", IEEE Spectrum, April 2003: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/apr03/fbi.html "As part of its on-going reorganization efforts, the FBI has put in place for the first time a formal structure to prioritize intelligence exploitation and to establish strategic plans for intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination," according to an April 3 FBI press release. The Bureau also hired NSA SIGINT Director Maureen A. Baginski to serve as its new Executive Assistant Director for Intelligence. See "FBI Creates Structure to Support Intelligence Mission": http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2003/04/fbi040303.html AND Ancestry.com - Mormon Database Experts To Help FBI Track ... ... Dick Eastman Online 3/27/2002 - Archive Mormon Database Experts To Help FBI Track Terrorists Dick Eastman. The FBI is consulting ... www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/eastman/5471.asp - 19k - 4 Apr 2003 - Cached - Similar pages FBI taps Mormon for post -- The Washington Times July 11, 2002 FBI taps Mormon for post By Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES. The FBI, in the midst of a massive reorganization in ... www.washtimes.com/national/20020711-77611019.htm - 26k - Cached - Similar pages FBI hires CIO from Mormons The FBI has hired the information and communications chief of the Mormon Church to be its CIO. ... www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/ 0708/web-fbicio-07-10-02.asp - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
Head of Security for Devlin McGregor Position Vacant - Provassic Double Blind Trial.
Drug company executives sacked after allegations of illegal surveillance 'Two executives at Lilly Hungaria, the Hungarian subsidiary of US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, have been dismissed after allegations that they ordered the illegal surveillance of officials of the National Health Fund, the body that manages the government budget for health care. The officials have the power to influence decisions on state drug subsidies' ( BMJ ) » See also this Budapest Sun article from last week After 28 weeks of randomized, double-blind treatment, the study showed that Zyprexa was superior for the treatment of schizophrenia: · Long-term treatment with Zyprexa resulted in significantly better improvement in treating positive symptoms (delusions and hallucinations), as well as negative symptoms (diminished emotion, lack of interest and depressive signs), on all efficacy measures. Clear separation on positive and negative symptoms began as early as week three and was sustained out to 28 weeks on the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) total and subscales. · Significantly more Zyprexa patients completed the study (59.6% vs. 42.4%). · Significantly more Zyprexa patients responded positively to treatment (58.6% vs. 42.5%). · For those patients who responded at eight weeks, Zyprexa patients were significantly more likely to maintain their response throughout the 28 weeks without relapse than Geodon patients (81.6% vs. 62.8%). · Zyprexa was significantly better on the CGI-I scale (Clinical Global Impression-Improvement) at week three and most other time points, including week 28. The CGI-I scale is the clinician's assessment of improvement in a patient's symptoms. · A significantly greater proportion of Geodon patients required a dose reduction due to side effects during the trial than Zyprexa patients (26.9% vs. 14.8%). · Geodon patients required significantly more benzodiazepines (53.5%) and anticholinergics (15.5%) than Zyprexa patients (40.4% and 7.2%, respectively). Benzodiazepines are additional medications that may be given to people with schizophrenia to treat agitation or anxiety; anticholinergics may also be added to treatment to control tremors or other movement disorders. "This study gives hope, not only to people who suffer from schizophrenia, but to their caregivers, as well," said Alan Breier, M.D., vice president, pharmaceutical products, Eli Lilly and Company. "The tolerability and superior efficacy of Zyprexa, as shown in this study, contributes to the development of a stronger therapeutic alliance that supports doctors in helping their patients reach their individual potential."
This Mini Racer responds to Voice commands 04/04/03
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US Declare Red Cross a Terrorist Organization.
'Liberated' city where looters run wild and death stalks the streets Article about lawlessness and looting in Nasiriyah, the largest city in Iraq to have been 'liberated' by US forces - 'If this is an example of how the war will unfold in other cities throughout Iraq, it does not bode well' ( Independent ) » See also this BBC article on the botched aid effort in Umm Qasr, and this blog entry from Wednesday Geoff Hoon, Robert Fisk and reporting the truth Leader defending The Independent's veteran war correspondent Robert Fisk against an attack in Parliament by the UK Defence Secretary over the bombing of a marketplace in Baghdad last week - 'Yesterday's innuendo against this newspaper and our correspondent was a miserable attempt to brush aside unwelcome truths. This is no way to reassure a doubtful British public that the Government genuinely wants to minimise civilian casualties, rather than simply the reporting of them' ( Independent ) » See this transcript of Hoon's main comments, this transcript of his earlier exchange with Kevin Hughes, this transcript of his subsequent exchange with Glenda Jackson, this Independent coverage, and this blog entry from Wednesday US military admits 'suspicious' powder is explosive 'American officials have admitted that the thousands of boxes of white powder they seized north of Baghdad are explosives. The US military and various media outlets had suggested that they may have made the first discovery of chemical weapons in Iraq' ( AP via Ananova ) » See also this Nation article from 1990, about 'fifty kilos of cocaine', found in Manuel Noriega's house during the US invasion of Panama, that turned out to be tamale flour. Plus ça change ... False witness Analysis of disinformation spread by the coalition and overeager media since the beginning of the conflict in Iraq ( David Leigh via Guardian ) » See also the Guardian's War Watch, an ongoing log of 'claims and counter claims made during the media war over Iraq', and this blog entry from last month
General Summer's Reinforcements for Saddam.
Predicting the Duration of the 2003 Gulf War 'Our best estimate of the likely duration of the war (given the evolution of the war thus far, and assuming that the United States is able to maintain its maneuver-based strategy) is approximately 2½ months. If the US is forced to turn to a pure attrition-based strategy in which it is forced to defeat most or all Iraqi units through direct combat, our estimate of the wars possible duration stretches to nearly a year' ( D Scott Bennett and Allan C Stam via Penn State ) » See also this press release alt.war 'It's now clear that, by unquestioningly parroting Pentagon flackery, metropolitan daily newspapers, broadcast and cable television networks, and radio networks misled Americans into believing that the US Army last month entered an easily won battle from which the country could quickly extract itself. US news organisations have, indeed, used the war as an opportunity to distinguish themselves as toadying, superficial, jingoistic, simplistic, and, on too many points, drastically, factually, frequently wrong' ( Matt Smith via SF Weekly ) » See also this article by Marina Jiménez, and this commentary by Peter Arnett from Tuesday US military warns foreign journalists in Iraq: 'Don't mess with my soldiers. Don't mess with them because they are trained like dogs to kill. And they will kill you...' Transcript of a slightly off-key interview with Dan Scemama, one of four journalists detained for 48 hours by US forces in Iraq ( Democracy Now! ) » See also the Reporters sans frontières website, and this blog entry from Sunday
United Nations Given 48 Hours to Leave.
Subject: Possible UNGA and CHR Sessions (PDF) Leaked copy of a US Government fax distributed to UN representatives around the world in mid-March, notifying them that 'the United States would regard a General Assembly session on Iraq as unhelpful and as directed against the United States' ( Greenpeace ) » See also this press release Failing to do so (leave withing 48hours) the US will declare the UN a Terrorist Organization and Launch 'Operation United Nations Freedom"with a coalition of willing radio talk back hosts.
Nagasaki Night Fall.
WOMD includes the nukes Saddam got from the old USSR right? CBS News | Saddam's Nuke-Proof Bunker | March 30, 2003 22:26:15 ... The bunker was designed to withstand a nuclear blast 650 feet away as powerful as the ... Saddam in the spring of 1984 when he was invited to Baghdad around the ... What me Worry? Some 32 tons of HMX high explosive which the inspectors left under UN seal in Iraq in 1998 have disappeared and remain unaccounted for. That is more than 10% of the 228 tonnes the UN impounded before 1998. HMX is used to create a nuclear detonation. The explosive is ignited and "squeezes" the nuclear material, highly enriched uranium or plutonium for the nuclear blast. Baghdad says it took the HMX for industrial purposes, for mining in the cement industry. "This could be tied to a reviving bomb programme," said Mr Norris. "It's very difficult to determine where every kilo of it goes. We're working on it," said an IAEA source. "We don't have answers on that. It'll take some time." Uranium "A focal point has been the investigation of reports of Iraqi efforts to import uranium after 1991. The Iraqi authorities have denied any such attempts. The IAEA will continue to pursue this issue." The assessment Tony Blair's "intelligence dossier" on Iraq last year alleged that Baghdad had been smuggling in unprocessed uranium or yellowcake from Africa. The nuclear inspectors have been unable to find any trace of the alleged uranium. A large part of Mr El Baradei's plea for more time and for greater assistance from the CIA and MI6 concerns such smuggling allegations. The Iraqi scientist questioned a fortnight ago followed a British intelligence tip-off, sources say. But British emphasis on the importance of the scientist proved misplaced, they add. "The results were not significant." Some 3,000 pages of documents on the illicit nuclear project were found at the home of the scientist, but the information related to before 1991, the programme the IAEA says it "neutralised" and provided no information relating to the crucial period since 1998 when the inspectors left Baghdad. Undermining the IAEA argument is the expert view that the lack of nuclear fuel is all that is keeping Saddam from having a nuclear bomb. Mr Norris said that the interview with the scientists a fortnight ago threw up evidence that Iraq had also been exploring laser technology for uranium enrichment, a more advanced method than the centrifuges and the aluminium tubes. "We were surprised at the revelations [in the 1990s] that Saddam had capable people and he was quite far along. They still have all that know-how and probably quite a lot of components squirreled away," Mr Norris said. "The problem is getting enough fissile material to make a bomb. Iraq doesn't have it. North Korea has hundreds of tonnes of it. There's an enormous Russian stockpile. You might be able to buy it on the black market." · Mr El Baradei concluded by stressing the importance of inspections: "We have to date found no evidence that Iraq has revived its nuclear weapons programme since the elimination of the programme in the 1990s. However, our work is steadily progressing and should be allowed to run its natural course. We should be able within the next few months to provide credible assurance that Iraq has no nuclear weapons programme. These few months would be a valuable investment in peace because they could help us avoid a war. http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-27-2003-34489.asp?viewPage=7
Freenet is CryptoAnarchy.
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Scottish Filth Railroad Grandmothers.
Scottish 'Godmother' Sent to Prison Apr 4 2003 FOUR members of Scotland's most notorious crime family were jailed for a total of 33 years yesterday at the High Court in Edinburgh for dealing heroin. Margaret "Big Mags" Haney, a 60-year-old grandmother and mother of 13, from Alloa, Clackmannanshire, was the mastermind of a (Pounds) 1,000-a-day drug dealing operation. She simultaneously claimed (Pounds) 1,200 a month in state benefits. The 14-stone "Godmother" -whose notoriety led crime writer Ian Rankin to base a character in one of his Inspector Rebus novels on her -was sentenced to 12 years in jail after admitting dealing heroin from flats in Stirling, known locally as Haney's Hotel, between January 2000 and June 2001. Her daughter Diane, 35, was sentenced to nine years in jail, son Hugh, 31, to five years and niece Roseann, 40, seven years after also admitting drugs offences. Her granddaughter, Kim, 24, was jailed for two years for contempt of court after refusing to give evidence against her family. The convictions mean that six of the eight Haney children still living have now served time in prison for drug dealing. Sentencing the family yesterday the judge, Lady Smith, told Haney: "You thought you were untouchable." Brought up in a Glasgow convent, Mags Haney settled in the run-down Raploch district of Stirling and over the past ten years has rarely been out of the limelight. While gaining a string of convictions over the years, she also took a high profile role in public causes supposedly close to her heart. In 1992 she showed what one community worker called "an unsurpassed aptitude for hypocrisy and humbug" by simultaneously leading mothers on an anti-drugs march and appearing on TV as an outspoken critic of the drugs culture, while dealing in cannabis and Temazepam "jellies" from the landing outside her flat. In 1995 a Stirling Sheriff, horrified at the number of Haneys trooping through his court, called for "severe steps" to stop their offending and the misery they inflicted on the Raploch community. Haney immediately complained to the press that the Sheriff had branded her brood a "Family from Hell" and threatened to report him to the Lord Advocate. "How dare he say such things," she said, "when my family keeps him in a job." Two years later she hit the headlines when she led a mob which surrounded a bed and breakfast in Stirling where a convicted paedophile was being accommodated after his release from prison. Haney set up Scottish Communities Against Paedophiles and began campaigning for a national register of sex offenders. But her grandstanding appearances on programmes like Kilroy cut little ice with her neighbours and resentment grew among those who knew the truth about her. By July 1997 Stirling Council was receiving constant complaints about her and her family and less than a month later a mob of 200 turned up outside her home. The family had to be driven away under police escort and were eventually rehoused. The investigation into her drug dealing began in 1998 but it was not until June 2001 that she was arrested. Her last act of defiance was to raise her arms and shout "Get it up you" at a crowd of neighbours who had gathered in the street to celebrate her departure. ~ Mark C. Gribben http://organizedcrime.about.com/cs/news/a/aadailynews_4.htm
The Gangs of Chicago.
Gangs important to the political machine Apr 2 2003 Almost from the citys founding, the gangs of Chicago have courted and been courted by the citys political elite. Some have been more successful than others. At the turn of the century, political bosses recognized the important role that gangs could play in their get-out-the-vote drives, distribution of political spoils and punishment for disobedience. Many political machines even had a man who was responsible for keeping the affiliated toughs in line: The ward heeler often corrals a gang like a bee man does his swarm in the hive he has prepared for it, wrote University of Chicago professor Frederic Thrasher in his 1927 book The Gang. In return his protégés work for him in innumerable ways and every gang boy in the hive is expected to gather honey on Election Day. Ragen's Colts, a gang sponsored by Cook County Commissioner Frank Ragen, not only took part in electoral violence but became notorious bootleggers. In later years, Al Capone was able to buy and sell politicians and judges thanks to the limitless cash Prohibition and the accompanying vice trades provided him. Capone literally owned the city of Cicero where no one was elected to public office without his official approval. In the 1920s, Richard J. Daley, Chicagos legendary mayor took the reins of the Hamburg Athletic Association which helped vault him to power in 1955. He served as mayor until his death in 1976, in part due to the machine which the social clubs supported. Daleys gang, the Hamburgs, took part in the 1919 race riots in Chicago but years later, recognizing the political threat street gangs presented, he declared war on them in the late 1960s, writes John Hagedorn, a senior research fellow at the Great Cities Institute and associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Illinois-Chicago. More recently, leaders of some of the largest Chicago street gangs flirted with legitimacy thanks to a naïve willingness of politicians to believe their promises of peace and urban renewal. In at least 10 of Chicago's 50 wards, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found in 2002, gang members were expected to work in the February 2003 elections as political foot soldiers. Though no one could offer proof of a gang engaging in wholesale thuggery on Election Day--or of an alderman coddling a gang in return--the potential for corruption is evident, the newspaper wrote. "If you think about it, if the gangs get an alderman elected, is he beholden to them?" asked Joe Sparks, a Chicago cop who spent most of his 32 years on the police force going after the gangs. "I think it has a pretty big effect. An alderman is a heck of a guy to step up on your behalf. If you're a gang member, he carries a lot of clout and weight." In the 1960s, the Vice Lords worked alongside Black civil rights leaders to empower minorities and bring change to the city. Vice Lords who took a pledge of nonviolence served as security for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Please continue reading below... when he came to Chicago and later with the Rev. Jesse Jackson. With Jackson, the Vice Lords picketed and applied other pressures to construction firms that would not hire black workers. Unfortunately, like so many other gangs, the lure of the street and the enormous profits to be made there in illegitimate ventures proved too strong for most of the Vice Lords and they became a group of thugs who spurned the ballot for the bullet. El Rukns and P Stone Nation One of the most successful (for a time, at least) was Jeff Fort, who was not only invited to Richard Nixons inauguration as a social leader, he managed to get his hands on hundreds of thousands of federal dollars earmarked for the War on Poverty. In the early 1970s, Fort, the leader of the P Stone Nation, was convicted of misspending some $1 million in grant money. In prison, Fort converted to Islam and converted P Stone Nation into El Rukns. The gang continued to operate on a quasi-legitimate nature, quelling street violence and running job training programs. Fort was eventually convicted of taking $2.5 million from Libya in return for trying to shoot down an American airplane. He was sentenced to 155 years in prison after the gang tried to purchase a Stinger anti-aircraft missile. The Gangster Disciples In 1992, Larry Hoover, imprisoned head of the Gangster Disciples, helped form 21st Century VOTE, a political action committee that won the support of local politicians. In 1995, the group received $45,000 to recruit minority workers for a Chicago Transit Authority project. They never got the money because other politicians objected. The Gangster Disciples did run a slate of candidates and gang strongman Wallace Gator Bradley lobbied President Clinton on a crime bill. A 1996 survey of the Gangster Disciples showed that 15 percent had worked for a politician, the National Gang Crime Research center
Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
At 02:51 AM 4/3/03 -0800, Sarad AV wrote: ... When a vehicle tries to flee at high speed-how can they be suicide bombers.A suicide bomber will go slow,stop at the check post and see that he can kill as many people as possible. where was the logic in killing these civilians-and this report was confirmed by allied soldiers. I suspect the thing that happened here was that the soldiers were on edge, having been warned to be on the lookout for suicide bombers. When something fast and potentially scary happened (like the driver of an oncoming van saw people shooting at it, and sped up to get away), they interpreted it as an attack, and fired on the van. And while these guys probably aren't all that well-trained for distinguishing car bombers from terrified civilians, they're really very good at hitting what they shoot at. For those who read this-the hate is growing,all over the world. Perhaps. I think it's pretty clear that US and UK soldiers have been trying to minimize civilian casualties. Again, if we wanted Baghdad to be a pile of smoking rubble, it would be by now. Who would stop us? The decision point was when we decided to invade Iraq. Suicide bombings, sniper attacks, starving refugees, civilians caught in crossfires, mistargeted bombs that kill bystanders, and probably eventual terrorist attacks here in the US are all outcomes that I think most of us on this list saw as likely. It appears that the Administration here in the US didn't see any of these as likely, which is probably one good argument for finding someone else for those jobs. (At least, their official statements when the war began were very much about expecting the Iraqi people to rise up and throw off their oppressors, because they knew we were on the way, and greet our troops with candy and flowers. If they didn't think something like this was going to happen, the certainly set themselves up for some embarassing questions and doubts to be raised later.) And we're still in the war part, which is where we have the biggest advantages. I cringe at the thought of what the occupation is going to look like. It doesn't take very damned many suicide bombers, snipers, etc., to make an occupation like we're undertaking in Iraq *very* expensive. And like all guerilla warfare, it will be at least as hard on bystanders as on the soldiers. Maybe I'm wrong--I hope so--but I expect occupying Iraq to be a very bloody and expensive project. (On the upside, maybe some of the companies who have been given sweetheart deals for the reconstruction of Iraq, apparently based on their connections with the Administration, will lose a bunch of money on this.) The weird thing is that it would honestly be better for almost everyone if the Iraqis just gave up at this point, including essentially every Iraqi who's not heavily involved in the Baath party. But there doesn't seem to be much chance of that. (And to be honest, if someone were invading the US, I doubt this kind of reasoning would appeal much to me.) Sarath. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When the Yolks on You.
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Asked by Sen Robert Byrd about US assistance to Iraq with Biowarfare... Are We Reaping What We Have Sown in Iraq? In a recent hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee and in a pair of Senate speeches, Senator Byrd made the case that the United States provided the Iraqi government with the building blocks for its biological weapons program. You can read more from Senator Byrd. Transcript from the Armed Services Committee hearing where Senator Byrd questioned Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Senator Byrd's September 20, 2002, speech; and Senator Byrd's September 26 speech. You also can listen to the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing (.mp3 format) exchange between Senator Byrd and Secretary Rumsfeld. http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_issues/byrd_iraqi_bioweapons/byrd_iraqi_bioweapons.html If he does not know he is unfit for office,or he is a liar and unfit for office.
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Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV
On Thursday 03 April 2003 04:12 am, Sarad AV wrote: > hi, > > yes-thats probabaly why they nuked hirsoshima and > nagasaki. > Dont undermine the hate.There was no logic > either.There was no logic in nuking thousand of people > in hirsohma saying their existance is less important > to thousands of people who might live,if the city was > nuked. > > Sarath. Uh, When your choice is 1) sending THOUSANDS of troops to their death trying invade the Japanese home islands or 2) Trying out two new, not fully reliable , not fully understood weapons that, however, if they work, will save you from doing 1). I think I know what my "ethical" choice a the time would have been. And afterward, I probably would have regretted it, realizing the can of worms I had just opened. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.
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A Democratic Socialist World Wide Revolution.
Writing after the end of the Second World War, George Orwell canvassed the various possibilities for the postwar order. At one end was nuclear annihilation in a third world war. At the other was democratic Socialist (Orwell always capitalised "Socialist" in that phrase) revolution in both the West and the USSR. In the middle was the prospect of a deadlocked system of power blocs, with no war, but no prospect of radical change. "This almost seems a worse result than war," Orwell concluded. "Such a system could remain stable for hundreds of years." "British troops were soon comparing their street-by-street struggle against paramilitary groups to Northern Ireland. This proved prescient, for the subsequent occupation of Iraq was like Northern Ireland, only worse. "A large majority of Iraqis were delighted to be rid of Saddam; this did not mean they welcomed a colonial administration imposed by Washington, headed by a retired American general and including a minister of finance who was a former head of the CIA. British forces prided themselves on being more subtle than the Americans in winning the 'hearts and minds' of a restless population, but they underestimated the depth of historic resentment directed specifically against Britain, the former colonial power in both Iraq and Palestine. "A relatively small number of Iraqi paramilitaries and suicide bombers compelled the Anglo-American occupying forces to use tactics that, seen throughout the Arab world on al-Jazeera television, reminded Arabs everywhere of Israeli soldiers' behaviour in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "Nor did it help that the American viceroy of Iraq, General Jay Garner, conceded far-reaching autonomy to the Kurds in northern Iraq, who had been valuable American allies on the northern front of the military campaign against Saddam, and who were the only group in Iraq to remain unambiguously pro-American under the occupation. "Critics of the war had predicted that, in the sombre words of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, it would produce a hundred new Osama bin Ladens. These predictions did not entirely come true. But in the aftermath of the war, there were renewed Islamist terror attacks, especially in Europe, whose large Muslim population provided excellent cover for al-Qaeda and other groups. "As the human, political and financial costs of occupying Iraq mounted, while the American economy plunged further into recession, criticism of the Bush Administration grew in the United States. Moderate Republicans privately agreed with Democrats that the Administration had led the country into a morass in the Middle East, while alienating many of America's friends around the world. This applied particularly to Europe. Even Britain, America's most stalwart ally, was incensed by the lack of any serious progress along the 'road map' to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "After George Bush narrowly lost the November 2004 election (ironically, after a recount in Florida), the new Administration hastened to change course. In an attempt to mend fences with both the Arab world and the Europeans, it withdrew its troops from Iraq, handing control over to the Iraqis and Kurds, and started exerting serious pressure on the Sharon Government in Israel to come back to the negotiating table with the Palestinians. "From his hideaway, Osama bin Laden (or someone claiming to be Osama bin Laden) gloated that 'the heroic Jihad that began on September 11, 2001, has triumphed with the establishment of an independent state for our brothers in Palestine and the withdrawal of infidel forces from Iraq'. On the face of it, this was a crushing defeat for the group of US policymakers, identified particularly with Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who had seen the invasion of Iraq as the beginning of a democratic reordering of the whole Middle East. The only moral response here to this illegal and corrupt war is continued violent civil disobedience, as a testament, however limited, against the American juggernaut.
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Terry Waite got pretty good at this apparently... But during the first seven days, the Westerners were not allowed to speak to one another, although Bingham and McAllester, in adjoining cells, devised a crude code system of knocks on the wall. ''It was basically just a way to say: `Are you there? Are you OK?' '' said Bingham, who was in Baghdad on assignment for Esquire magazine, along with journalist Nate Thayer. She credited Thayer, who was questioned and released the same morning of her incarceration, with raising the alarm. ''Nate Thayer saw me taken off and said, `I promise I will do something,' '' said Bingham, who served as photographer for Al Gore during his presidential campaign. ''It was bad being led off at 4:45 in the morning by men with guns. Knowing that someone knew I was missing was all that gave me hope.'' Abu Ghraib is the largest prison in the Arab world and is infamous as the place of torture and murder of enemies of the Iraqi regime. Full... http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/093/nation/Journalists_tell_of_captivity_in_infamous_Iraqi_prison-.shtml With practise, we would carry on conversations or hold "literary" evenings, and even pray together. It was our lifeline in prison, and I made sure I taught it to everyone I met. We were on the second floor and communicated by knocking on walls, on the floor and ceiling, and even pipes, so that a network was established throughout the whole prison in which messages were conveyed through intermediaries. Prisoners were thus able to locate friends or relatives and share information from the outside or about prison developments. http://www.polandsholocaust.org/memoir10.html Isolation and torture were the name of the game. Communication compromised was a guaranteed trip back to the torture ropes where anything went and death was not an option except by accident. Later we found that 95% of the men captured in North Vietnam had been tortured, mostly for propaganda less for military information. To lead was to be tortured. Communication was a de facto sign of leadership. Yet communication was the life blood of resistance and survival. In the middle of the night in between the rounds of the guard patrol I heard a knocking on my wall. It started with a series of taps with the rhythm of " Shave and a Hair Cut". The rest was unintelligible. Was it a trap? Was it for real? I struggled back 12 years all the next day to dredge up the Morse code learned in the Naval School of Preflight to be ready for the next night. It started up again in between guard patrols. The incessant tapping still did not make sense. One two man cell was let out twice a day to clean up out sanitary pots and soup bowls which tasks were accomplished in one of the end cells that had a spigot of water piped in through a high window. These would talk out the window as if talking to each other attempting to contact the solitary confinement cells. One day it finally dawned on me what these guys were doing at great risk to themselves and listened in with rapt attention. "Hey new guy in cell number six. Listen up. Cough once for yes, twice for no. Spit for I don't know." http://www.geocities.com/talesofseasia/army-navy.html The first series of taps gives you the line in the five by five box. The second series of taps gives you the letter within the box. Tap-tap/tap-tap-tap, tap-tap/tap-tap-tap-tap says "Hi". A "Shave and a haircut" rhythmic rap answered with an immediate "two bits" - two quick taps is a call up the communists never figured out or were able to duplicate. A rapid series of bumps were the erasers. A loud thump was the danger termination sign. The normal termination was GBU acknowledged by two taps. The sound is distinctive enough to reverberate along a cement pad or wall over a hundred feet long without alerting a guard. We could tap faster than sending Morse Code, we could flash our hands under the cell doors in tap code, we could punch holes in paper in tap code, we could sweep brooms in tap code, and we could cough, hock and hack in tap code. Up through 1968 the Navy classified the tap code as secret and guys were told in survival school they had no need to learn it as we would teach it to them when they got there!!! This code was first mentioned in literature at the turn of the century in Arthur Connan Doyleís "The Sign of Four" and was featured in "Darkness At Noon" in 1942. European and American miners have used it to communicate during mine disasters. We thought we had invented it in prison.
politicians "queers," "liars," "criminals," "draft dodgers" and "child molesters."
Can media repeat wild charges without fear of being sued? Philadelphia Inquirer That's what the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is being asked in a case that's interested news orgs across the nation. In 1995, the West Chester Daily Local News reported that a councilman called two other politicians "queers," "liars," "criminals," "draft dodgers" and "child molesters." The men sued the councilman and the Daily Local News. The newspaper's lawyer says: "If a reporter can't publish what one official says about another official... it robs the public of an essential part of information about how government works." > "This was name-calling between politicians," says lawyer (NYT/r.r.) NY Post accuses NY Times of putting out "News by Saddam" New York Observer Oh, baloney, says Times executive editor Howell Raines (not using those exact words). "I understand there are other people who approach these tasks with different kinds of agendas," he tells Sridhar Pappu. "And we live in a time when there's a lot of ideological journalism going on. I think it's interesting, but it has nothing to do with what we do, which is make our journalism as straight and as energetic and competitive as we can." PLUS: Pappu says the Washington Post war correspondent Anthony Shadid has "provided the sharpest, most elucidating work among the thousands of reporters funneling millions of inches of copy." Posted at 7:45:02 AM
Is John Podhoretz worth a bullet? Lachlan Murdoch?
Arnett says he "was thrown out on the street" by NBC Los Angeles Times Peter Arnett tells Elizabeth Jensen that the Iraqi TV interview controversy is a "storm in a bloody teacup," and that he's irritated he spent 19 days helping NBC, whose own reporters left citing safety concerns, and "then I'm being trashed." He says the network "was just grateful for anything I could give them...but in the end, I was thrown out on the street, and very casually, my reputation in shreds -- for what? For helping them out." > JOURNALISM PROF ROBERT JENSEN WRITES: "Arnett's judgment was poor in this incident, but that shouldn't overshadow his contributions in the past. And the controversy shouldn't be used to obscure the failures of U.S. journalism in the present." (Newsday) > JOHN PODHORETZ ASKS: "Is Peter Arnett guilty of treason? This is a perfectly serious question." (New York Post)
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Fox's Cavuto: You damn well bet I'm slanted and biased! Baltimore Sun Fair and balanced? Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto will have none of that when it comes to commenting on the war. Responding to a journalism prof's charge that the anchor has abandoned objectivity for overt nationalism, Cavuto says: "There is nothing wrong with taking sides here, professor. You see no difference between a government that oppresses people, and one that does not, but I do. ... So am I slanted and biased? You damn well bet I am, professor. I'm more in favor of a system that lets me say what I'm saying here rather than one who would be killing me for doing the same thing over there." Posted at 9:37:50 AM Critic: Smart people don't get war news from big media SF Weekly You won't find Matt Smith sitting in front of a TV, watching CNN and reading the New York Times these days. He's had it with mainstream media. His beef: "It's now clear that, by unquestioningly parroting Pentagon flackery, metropolitan daily newspapers, broadcast and cable television networks, and radio networks misled Americans into believing that the U.S. Army last month entered an easily won battle from which the country could quickly extract itself." > U.S. media have flashy graphics; Brit media show dead bodies (ChiTrib)
RE: 'Peking' vs 'Beijing'
Title: RE: 'Peking' vs 'Beijing' > And of course, "Beijing" is no harder to say that "Peking", About that bit, I remember, some years ago (or maybe even tens of years, I seem to tend to remember various stuff happening later than they actually did), the official transcription of chinese has been changed, leading to some name changes. However, a Google search yields nothing, so this may be just my imagination going a bit too overboard ?? -- Vincent Penquerc'h
Nearest neighbour is an unstable country with the world's largest Muslim population.
A white line symbolises the Government's mixed message on national security, writes Geoff Kitney. A scar has appeared on the face of Australian democracy, literally. Eyesore lines of white plastic barriers cut crookedly across the grey granite and green grass vistas that sweep up and over the roof of Federal Parliament House. The freedom to stroll on the grassy roof and look down through the glass skylights of the parliamentary chambers, intended by the architects to be symbolic of our egalitarian democracy, is now limited to those who take security checks inside the building and ascend to the roof by an internal lift. The barriers are an anti-terrorist measure, ordered on the advice of the security agencies after Australian forces went to war in Iraq. How they would stop a determined terrorist is difficult to say. They look more like the acts of vandals than a security measure, flimsily constructed and protected by a single security officer with a two-way radio. These barriers are one of the few domestic manifestations of the consequences of our involvement in the war in Iraq. They appeared two weeks ago in spite of the Government's insistence that there was no evidence Australia faced an increased threat of terrorist attack because of the war. In marked contrast to the US and Britain, where security agencies have assessed that the military actions being undertaken by US and British forces in Iraq have increased the risk of retaliatory action by terrorist groups on targets at home and abroad, Australia's security services have advised the Government there is no such danger for Australia. Just how and why this is so has not been explained. Despite the relatively small military contribution to the war, knowledge of Australia's involvement is widespread. It has been noted regularly by Saddam Hussein's regime and it has been venomously taken up by Islamic anti-war protesters in our region. It beggars belief that this knowledge has not fuelled anti-Australian sentiment among the fanatics most inclined to use violence to seek revenge for Australia's military alliance with the great American infidel. Since the war started two weeks ago I have had several calls from news organisations in the US and Britain inquiring about heightened security concerns in Australian linked to its involvement in the war. Without exception they have asked why Australia has so strongly committed to joining the war when its nearest neighbour is an unstable country with the world's largest Muslim population. Some who know John Howard well believe it is precisely because of our worrisome neighbour that Howard is so determined to go so far in backing the US. He sees the military alliance as Australia's guarantee of security should things go very bad with Indonesia, or elsewhere in our neighbourhood. But to say this openly would be extremely dangerous for Australia's regional relationships. Howard's immediate political imperatives, therefore, require him to minimise Australian anxiety about the risks of involvement in the Iraq war. A key concern of Australians about involvement in this war was that having troops fighting against and killing Iraqi Muslims would make Australia less, rather than more, secure in its own neighbourhood. This required careful management of the politics of terrorist threat assessment and warnings. Unlike the US and British governments which upgraded their general threat advice to their communities, Canberra chose instead to issue more urgent warnings only where specific threats were identified by the security services and where it was decided that they could not be dealt with secretly. This allowed the Government to stick with the heightened general terrorist threat warning issued post-September 11 and post-Bali and deal with subsequent warnings on a case-by-case basis. We have an example of this with the decision to approach Turkish security authorities, to ask them to provide specially upgraded security for the Anzac Day events at Gallipoli. Security sources say the approach was made after an assessment by the Government's anti-terror experts, who also recommended an upgrading of the official travel advice for Australians planning to visit Turkey. The political spin-off from this more finely calibrated approach to threat assessment and warning is apparent in opinion polling done this week by UMR Research, which found that community fears of terrorist attacks on Australia have actually decreased since the Iraq war started. This is in stark contrast to the US and Britain, where community fears of terrorist attacks have sharply increased since hostilities commenced in Iraq. The Government's careful management of community anxiety about a potentially heightened terrorism threat related to the Iraq war has also had an impact on its plans for giving ASIO additional investigative powers. At the end of last year Parliament sat for a record 27 hours straight as the Government tried to force through legislation intended
Journalists bear witness. But I turned away and chose not to see a thing.
One of four journalists expelled from Iraq after more than a week in prison, Matthew McAllester describes the horror, frustration and finally relief when they were finally released into Jordan. At first it sounded like the guards who played pool throughout the night in a room at the end of the cell block were having a play fight or at worst an argument over what the local rules might be at Abu Ghraib. The clicking of the pool balls had stopped. Shoes that usually padded or snapped down the concrete hallway between the two rows of cells were rushing. Several pairs of shoes, or boots. There was shouting, too. A body fell to the ground, and now, amid the shouting, emerged a single voice coming from the level where I lay, on the cold floor of my cell. That voice was different from the others. It came from a throat contracted by fear. It seemed about two or three metres from me. I recognised one of the other voices. It belonged to a guard who had broad shoulders and wore wire-rim glasses. He had been there when we checked into the prison a couple of days earlier, and he had searched the pockets of my black fleece. He had stood beside me as I stripped to my boxer shorts and put on my blue-and-white striped prison pyjamas. Somehow in our new universe full of dark stars, I picked him out as perhaps one of the blackest. Ever since, I had avoided eye contact with him whenever he walked past my cell door. He had a loud voice, normally, barking commands angrily to the Iraqi prisoners who occupied the cells opposite ours. His was a nonchalant aggression. Now his voice was unrestrained, furious. And it came in a new rhythm, alternating with another sound. In the early 1990s, I once saw two men rush out of a warehouse building in Manhattan with baseball bats to beat up a man who looked like a drug addict. The man had been clumsily, hazily trying to break into a car. The sound of the bats against his gangly body has stayed with me. That was the sort of sound I was hearing now, alternating with the shouts of the heavy-set guard. The prisoner was on the ground, and he was being beaten with something that was not a fist or a boot. A shout and then that slightly resonant sound of flesh and bone giving way to something very hard that was moving fast. And then another shout from the guard, another blow. The fluorescent strip above my head filled my cell with light, as it did 24 hours a day. I was plainly visible to the men in the corridor, and I did not want to be seen watching. As soon as I had sensed the violence beginning I turned to my left side and lay motionless. Journalists are meant to bear witness. But I turned away and chose not to see a thing. Eventually the beating stopped, and the man was dumped into his cell. The big guard seemed to have exhausted his fury. With each breath he made a sort of crying sound. Sometimes he broke that rhythm to exhale his pain with more force, and the otherwise silent block filled up with what I wondered might be the man's last gasps. A guard ambled back and spoke to him, asking him a question. The man just continued to whine with his agony, and the guard walked away. After another while, two guards came back. There were more questions, and this time the prisoner responded. I don't know how long the man's noises filled the cells. Since they had taken away my watch when we arrived at Abu Ghraib, with everything else I owned, apart from some bottled water, time had lost its structure. But eventually silence came back to the block. In the morning, the prisoner was alive. Moises Saman, two cells over from me, said on Wednesday that he saw blood on the floor. Sometime over the next two days I came to see the big guard as a source of some comfort. He smoked, and one day I heard my next-door prisoner Molly Bingham plead a cigarette from him. When he walked past, I asked for a cigarette also, and the man held out a pack of extra-long, super thin Pine cigarettes. I thanked him with all the warmth I could generate. "No problem," the man said in a gentle voice, smiling kindly. Abu Ghraib did things like that: making me turn away from a beating and then form a tiny alliance, or reliance, on the beater. And so all I can do now is to bear witness to the sounds we all heard that night, and on other nights, and to say that the largest and most feared prison in Iraq is still home to hundreds of men who do not have the countless numbers of people working every waking minute to try to get them out, as we had. Those men are still in there. And so are the guards. McAllester and Moises Saman, 29, a Newsday photographer, were set free on Tuesday with Molly Bingham, 34, an American freelance photographer, and Johan Rydeng Spanner, a Danish freelance photographer. pic. Newsday http://smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/03/1048962878311.html
Fail to Declare Flu,Go to Jail.
KILLER BUG | Full coverage Malaysia threatens sick passengers with jail Malaysian health authorities today threatened jail terms of up to two years for passengers who fail to declare if they have flu-like symptoms linked to a mystery illness. more Doctors to be placed at airports Three suspected SARS cases in Melbourne Airport mask sales take off Tourism takes a dive as fatal virus starts to hit Family's flight from masked city Australia will be spared SARS epidemic, experts predict US calls home non-essential diplmatic staff Vote Will you change your travel plans?
Exposing the irrelevancy of traditional media
The San Francisco Weekly's Matt Smith says that war in Iraq is exposing the irrelevancy of traditional media: "Nobody with any brains looks to the mainstream media for truth on the war these days." Plus: 'Lynch Party.' http://www.cursor.org/ And... posted by Dan Gillmor 07:06 AM permanent link to this item SARS...Wild rumors and little information from official sources contributed to the fear. This was a case where new media -- SMS, the Net -- and old media such as newspapers and TV could have worked together to calm people, had Chinese officials had the freedom to tell the truth. But SMS as an early-warning system seems to have worked in this case. It's an important if under-publicized element in this larger saga. And it's a lesson in how news and information are changing -- how the world will look fairly soon. http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/
Uncanny Networks.
Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia Geert Lovink £18.50/$27.95 MIT COMMENTARY about the Net has been in general so dominated by Silicon Valley that it's easy to forget there are other points of view. Many of these are represented day in and day out on the Nettime mailing list, which carries an unusual mix of postings about art, local politics, and media theory from all over the world. The list, which is "slightly moderated", has a very high proportion of valuable discussion. In Uncanny Networks, Geert Lovink, who co-founded Nettime in 1995, has put together a series of online interviews with the same overall feel to it. The interviews were conducted online, which Lovink believes gives people a chance to think more thoroughly and deeply about what they say than when they're speaking off the cuff. Many people might disagree, feeling that at least you can't copy and paste from previously written material when you're speaking, but these interviews do come across as both natural, like speech, and thoughtful, like writing. Few of the interviewees are from the business and technical press. Instead they range from German media theorist Dietmar Kamper and the philosopher Michael Heim to Gayatri Spivak, an Indian specialist in postcolonial studies. Probably the most well known is Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish, a critique of libertarianism. Wendy M. Grossman is author of Net.Wars (New York University Press, 1998) Wendy M. Grossman http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opbooks.jsp?id=ns23894
Dislike is becoming Hatred.
The Arab view of the United States could hardly be bleaker. Dislike of America is turning into hatred, reports U.S. pollster John Zogby, who has been monitoring views in six Middle East countries. http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news03/032803_news_arabs.shtml Comment and Analysis The Middle East was surprisingly pro-US just a year ago, says John Zogby, but the goodwill has been squandered http://www.newscientist.com/inprint/ipcontents.jsp
Business Transaction
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Chomsky: "Iraq is a trial run"
What Chomsky says below is no suprise to most of those on this list, left/right/other. What IS of interest is that fact that a universal consensus seems to be emerging about the US's role in the world, and Chomsky articulates this sentiment. -TD (from www.zmag.org) IRAQ Noam Chomsky , University Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the modern science of linguistics and political activist, is a powerhouse of anti-imperialist activism in the United States today. On March 21, a crowded and typical - and uniquely Chomskyan - day of political protest and scientific academic research, he spoke from his office for half an hour to V. K. Ramachandran on the current attack on Iraq. V. K. Ramachandran :Does the present aggression on Iraq represent a continuation of United States' international policy in recent years or a qualitatively new stage in that policy? Noam Chomsky : It represents a significantly new phase. It is not without precedent, but significantly new nevertheless. This should be seen as a trial run. Iraq is seen as an extremely easy and totally defenceless target. It is assumed, probably correctly, that the society will collapse, that the soldiers will go in and that the U.S. will be in control, and will establish the regime of its choice and military bases. They will then go on to the harder cases that will follow. The next case could be the Andean region, it could be Iran, it could be others. The trial run is to try and establish what the U.S. calls a "new norm" in international relations. The new norm is "preventive war" (notice that new norms are established only by the United States). So, for example, when India invaded East Pakistan to terminate horrendous massacres, it did not establish a new norm of humanitarian intervention, because India is the wrong country, and besides, the U.S. was strenuously opposed to that action. This is not pre-emptive war; there is a crucial difference. Pre-emptive war has a meaning, it means that, for example, if planes are flying across the Atlantic to bomb the United States, the United States is permitted to shoot them down even before they bomb and may be permitted to attack the air bases from which they came. Pre-emptive war is a response to ongoing or imminent attack. The doctrine of preventive war is totally different; it holds that the United States - alone, since nobody else has this right - has the right to attack any country that it claims to be a potential challenge to it. So if the United States claims, on whatever grounds, that someone may sometime threaten it, then it can attack them. The doctrine of preventive war was announced explicitly in the National Strategy Report last September. It sent shudders around the world, including through the U.S. establishment, where, I might say, opposition to the war is unusually high. The National Strategy Report said, in effect, that the U.S. will rule the world by force, which is the dimension - the only dimension - in which it is supreme. Furthermore, it will do so for the indefinite future, because if any potential challenge arises to U.S. domination, the U.S. will destroy it before it becomes a challenge. This is the first exercise of that doctrine. If it succeeds on these terms, as it presumably will, because the target is so defenceless, then international lawyers and Western intellectuals and others will begin to talk about a new norm in international affairs. It is important to establish such a norm if you expect to rule the world by force for the foreseeable future. This is not without precedent, but it is extremely unusual. I shall mention one precedent, just to show how narrow the spectrum is. In 1963, Dean Acheson, who was a much respected elder statesman and senior Adviser of the Kennedy Administration, gave an important talk to the American Society of International Law, in which he justified the U. S. attacks against Cuba. The attack by the Kennedy Administration on Cuba was large-scale international terrorism and economic warfare. The timing was interesting - it was right after the Missile Crisis, when the world was very close to a terminal nuclear war. In his speech, Acheson said that "no legal issue arises when the United States responds to challenges to its position, prestige or authority", or words approximating that. That is also a statement of the Bush doctrine. Although Acheson was an important figure, what he said had not been official government policy in the post-War period. It now stands as official policy and this is the first illustration of it. It is intended to provide a precedent for the future. Such "norms" are established only when a Western power does something, not when others do. That is part of the deep racism of Western culture, going back through centuries of imperialism and so deep that it is unconscious. So I think this war is an important new step, an
Subverting Politics.
Interactivist Info Exchange Independent Media & Analysis Katsiaficas, "Subversion of Politics" review Date: Sunday February 16, @12:20PM Posted by: Ben_Meyers Topic: Book Reviews From the politics-of-subversion dept. hydrarchist writes Since early 2001 theoretical debate has been dominated by Hardt and Negri's work "Empire". For many in the anglophone world this has been a first engagement with 'autonomist marxism', which nonetheless remains enigmatic when it comes to practice, represented in the imagination only by the White Overalls (now recycled as the Disobedients). Some of the gaps in this picture are now remedied by the appearance online of the full text of George Katsiaficas's The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life. Originally published in 1997, and poorly known until after the Seattle demonstrations of 1999, the book provides a panoramic, although impressionistic, survey of European extraparliamentary politics since the 1970s. Italy's long '68, culminating in Autonomia and the movement of 1977, recieves a chapter to itself, although this influence of the theoretical practical innnovations of the Italian movement are never woven into the fabric of the book (1). Next Katsiaficas recounts the story of German militant radicals and the emergence of the anti-nuclear movement and evolution into ghettoized terrorist tactics. The author lived in Germany for a year and a half during the period he describes and the perspicacity of his commentary, factual detail and sense of the balance of forces reflects this. Beyond these two cases, another chapter is dedicated to Copenhagen's Christiania, Amsterdam's kraakers and the epic battle to defend the occupied houses of Hamburg's Hafenstrasse. Katsiaficas treatment of the autonomous movement in the post reunification period is weaker on every level than his analysis of the 1970s. Too much time is spent exploring the rise of the new right and in vague descriptions of the new political landscape. He also ignores the residual East German opposition movement such as the demonstration of 100,000 on the anniversary of Rosa Luxembourgs death in 1992, the hunger strike and march against Treuhand Anstalt led by the workers in Bischofferode, and the movement of east Berlin pensioners against rent increases in the period from 1991 until 1993. These were all significant events for the autonomous movement and crystallized their impotence in negotiating what could have been an important alliance with destructured eastern workers. Likewise he ignores the struggles of east german women to retain abortion rights and their generally high level of politicisation in the post reunification period. Women in the GDR (East Germany) had significant gains in terms of education and social position, such as the high level of participation at upper levels of management in state-owned firms and political apparatus. The PDS, which capitalised on such sentiments, developed a relationship with the autonomen similar in nature to that which existed with the Greens/AL in the 1980s, and drew large numbers of squatters into their orbit, as members, sympathisers and workers on their political projects such as Junge Welt. (2). The book concludes with two theoretical arguments. The first expolores and critiques Negri, particularly with regard to his 'productivism', whereas the second concerns Seyla Benhabib and his wider claim that social movements prefigure relations destined to permeate society in the future. 1. With regard to Italy the Semiotexte, Vol. III No. 3 (1980) 'Autonomia', remains the authoritative, if practically unfindable, collection. The British group Red Notes also produced the useful volume "Living Within an Earthquake". 2. On other retrogade aspects of scene culture see Geert Lovink/ADILKNO, "Cracking the Movement: Squatting Beyond the Media", New York, Autonomedia, 1994, also available online at The Thing. Link: http://slash.autonomedia.org/print.pl?sid=03/02/16/2223203 pete writes on Thursday April 03 2003 @ 06:29PM PST: [ reply | parent ] I really liked Katsiaficas' book when I first read it back in 98 mainly because it was the first english language stuff on the Autonomen I had ever seen. As far as I know there is still little else on the Autonomen in English which is a great pity. However his Frankfurt school Marxism is pretty dubious and his attacks on Negri (and Harry Cleaver) are largely unfounded.
Jet about to hit White House
Furor Over Rapper's Cover-Art Statement By NEIL STRAUSS New York Times LOS ANGELES, April 2 -- The rapper Paris has been working on his fifth CD for five years. Now, as he awaits cameos from fellow rappers like Public Enemy and Dead Prez to make his May release date, he feels that it is his best work yet. It's a pity so few may ever hear it. This has nothing to do with record-label politics. Paris is releasing the CD himself. This has nothing to do with legal issues either. It has everything to do with the cover of the album, which few if any record store chains will carry. It depicts a jet about to slam into the White House. Making the album even less likely to appear on record store shelves is its title, "Sonic Jihad." "The reason I have that cover art is not to offend the families of the victims of 9/11 or anything like that," Paris said by telephone from his home just outside Oakland. The intention, he said, was to create a dialogue. "Nobody has profited from the tragedy of 9/11 more than the U.S. government, the Bush administration, defense contractors and large corporations," he continued. "So people can't look at me and say I'm capitalizing on this horrible event. That's not the case at all. In fact, I am using this as a means by which to reach people with the truth." Several major record chains, when called for comment on the album, would not speak for attribution, for fear of criticism from free-speech groups. But all said they would carry the album only with an alternate cover. Independent record stores, however, seemed less concerned. "I would need to check it out musically before anything else and see if the music would overshadow the cover art," said Bryce Holben, a buyer at Fat Beats, a hip-hop store in Greenwich Village. "Whether or not I agree with him, he has his voice and his politics. I wouldn't shun him for it." When his first album, "The Devil Made Me Do It," was released in 1990 on Tommy Boy Records, Paris seemed like a sure contender for stardom. His voice, his rhymes, his beats and his intelligence all made him a favorite newcomer to the charts. But his strident politics and imagery, which he refused to compromise (leading to a video from that album being rejected by MTV), soon marginalized him. When Ice-T and his rock band Body Count were dropped from Time Warner after the fury over their song "Cop Killer," Paris was also refused distribution by the company. The offending song: "Bush Killa," a diatribe against the first President George Bush. "I hate being in a position to say I told you so, because it means the world is really messed up," Paris said of his latest single, "What Would You Do," which largely rails against the current president. Time has not blunted Paris's edge. Rather than tone down the cover of "Sonic Jihad," Paris has decided to release the album his way. Though four distributors in Europe agreed to carry the CD, he said, in the United States, where no store or distributor so far will touch it, he will sell it though his Web site, www.guerrillafunk.com. "Since I already know that out of the gate `Sonic Jihad' is not going to be in Wal-Mart and Target and all that, it's important for me to find a way in which I can do it on my own and bypass the traditional methods," Paris said. "And the Internet is really the last great unclaimed territory where I don't have to worry about payola or commercial endorsements or diluting the music. I don't have to have one foot in the commercial water and one foot out. I can just kick you where it counts with it, like I know you need to be kicked." It would be easy to write Paris off as a shameless provocateur. And some, after seeing the deliberately shocking artwork, do. After all, he is well aware that most people's first reaction to his album cover and title will be, in his word, "opposition." But a look at his Web site reveals a more complex character. A former stockbroker, he has posted a detailed money management and investment program, covering everything from setting up a 401(k) to creating a diversified portfolio. In the politics section, he narrates a documentary examining the events of 9/11, writes articles on what he sees as recent threats to civil liberties, urges rappers to research the exploitation of African workers in diamond mines before bragging about their newest jewels, and warns of the negative effects current hip-hop videos have on African-American teenagers. "If you keep objectifying women in videos and endorsing black-on-black crime, then after a certain amount of time you become an enemy of the community," Paris said of some of his fellow rappers and the companies that release their records. Paris left a distribution contract with Priority Records in 1995 because he didn't want to take his music in a more gangsta ? and thus more commercial ? direction. Since then he has been releasing his music independently. It seems as if the closer Par
Killing Larry.
Can an Open-Source Database Threaten Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM? David Kirkpatrick of Fortune writes: "Talking last week with Mårten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, took me back to the golden days of 1999. Here was a fresh-faced, unbelievably enthusiastic CEO, raving about the future prospects of his product, just like so many executives I met back in those unreal times. But Mickos has a very real opportunity. The open-source movement has become a major factor across the software industry, and MySQL is the world's most popular open-source database." » 12 March 2003 | read more | more press sightings http://www.mysql.com/
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No Sleep till Baghdad.
Web surfers seeking the latest developments on the war in Iraq have put Tasmania's small township of Bagdad under electronic siege. Hits to the Bagdad Online Access Centre have more than doubled to 15,000 a day since the war in Iraq began two weeks ago. Some of the confused website visitors even offer words of support for the people of Bagdad, says centre coordinator Lorraine Bennett. "A lot of them are very encouraging and telling us to keep our head down and mind the bombs," she said. "I think the scenario is that they are sending them to the wrong Bagdad and I'm just saying that we're in Tasmania, Australia, and we thank them for their good wishes and we hope that the people are fine." http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-4apr2003-50.htm Britain has confirmed coalition forces have used controversial cluster bombs in the war on Iraq. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon says the bombs are sometimes the most effective weapon for dealing with wide target areas.
Kagaa filesharing research
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