December 2001 - cypherpunks-legacy

Outbreak on Clavius.Complete news Blackout.H.Floyd to investigate and report.
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Subject: quarantine on Clavius and corralitos. During a health emergency, health officials would be able immediately to take over any materials or facilities "as may be reasonable and necessary" for emergency response -- including the management of a health care facility and the rationing of medicine and other supplies if a shortage develops. They could compel a person to submit to a physical exam or test without a court order or be charged with a misdemeanor offense and face the possibility of forced isolation. Physicians and other health workers could be forced to do the testing or face criminal liability. Court orders would be required for quarantining someone, but faced with an immediate threat, officials could quarantine first and go to court afterward. The law sets forth a procedure for contesting court orders and for hearings on the need for continued isolation. Officials could compel people to be vaccinated or treated for infectious diseases, though not those likely to suffer serious harm from a vaccination. The law would shield officials and their agents from civil liability, except in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct. [George] Annas, the Boston University critic, says that the law's major problem is that it gives "tremendous powers to unnamed and unaccountable public health officials to order people examined, treated, vaccinated or quarantined and do it with immunity unless acting with willful malice. Mousepox that was converted to a selective strain that infects white men only with 100% fatality rates is suspected.It is believed a professor R ,a molecular biologist accidently released the virus on a recent trip to sacramento.

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Death to Capitalism.
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

the most stupefying characteristic of todays society is its ability to make daily comfort exist a hands breadth away from catastrophe. In the middle of October, 2000 in eastern Kentucky, a coal mine pond gave way, releasing 200 million gallons of sludge into streams, killing fish, washing away roads and bridges and fouling the water supply. The tar-like sludge spread into the Ohio River. But such disasters are not so uncommon. One need only consider the cyanide spill that happened in Romania at the end of January spreading as far as Yugoslavia and leaving a few hundred tons of dead fish (not to mention birds, otters and other creatures) in its wake, or the spillage of radio-active material at Tokaimura, Japan that caused major environmental damage for a radius of several miles around it in October of 1999. And of course, we cannot forget Bhopal or Chernobyl. But these are the most spectacular disasters, the ones that could not be made invisible (though even disasters of this sort may, in time, become so common that they cease to be newsconsider that there 45 coal mine ponds that were said to be at higher risk of failure than the one that collapsed in October). Disaster is, in fact an ongoing aspect of our present existence. The estuary at the mouth of the Colorado River is quickly dying, most likely due to the effects of hydro-electric dams. Chemical pollution has spread death from the mouth of the Mississippi River well into the Gulf of Mexico. The ozone layer disappears along with the forests and the plankton that feed it. And the melting of the polar ice caps has forced scientists to admit to the reality of global warming. When one adds to this the more blatantly intentional disasters caused by the attempts of the great powers to teach the lesser powers the meaning of democracy by bombing the shit out of the powerless, it is clear that life in the present is always lived on the edge of disaster. When the litany of disasters that surrounds us is sung, it is easy to feel that we are dealing with the inevitable, with an unavoidable fate. But this is not the case. Every one of the disasters described above can be traced to the functioning of specific social institutions and the decisions of the people who hold power in them. As has been said many times, there are people who make these decisions and they have names and addresses. They also share a particular social position. As the rulers of this social order, they benefit from it in terms of power and economic wealth. (That they do so at the expense of their individuality and any real enjoyment of life does not decrease their responsibility for the present existence.) While some of the disastrous effects of their decisions may have taken them by surprise, it cannot be honestly said that they acted blindly. After all, these are the same people who had no problem with showering a small predominately agricultural country with herbicide in an attempt to destroy its economy. The environment is not their concern; power and economic expansion are. When capitalism developed the technological system ideal for its expansion, the industrial system that began in the shipping industries which then provided the resources for developing the manufacturing industries, the door was opened to a world of daily misery and ongoing disaster. Whether it be the genocide against indigenous people who did not adapt quickly enough to their enslavement to the needs of capital, the illnesses and injuries that the regime of work imposes on workers, the increasing precariousness that faces everyone who is not of the ruling class, misery is the order of the day in this society. To fully understand why this is, it is necessary to realize that capitalism thrives on crisis. Its order is an order of crisis management. For the rulers of the social order this is not a problem. They are well protected from the consequences of the crises that they sometimes quite intentionally induce. Those at the bottom, those who have been excluded from any real control over the circumstances in which they live, suffer the consequences of this system. The industrial system, which is so necessary to the expansion of capital, has been an environmental disaster from the beginning, offering William Blake some of his most frightening poetic images. The famous London fog of the 19th century was, in fact, industrial smog which accompanied high rates of tuberculosis among the poorer classes. Today, the toxification of the environment combines with the stress of daily survival to create cancer, heart disease, immune system breakdown and increasing levels of mental distress and disorder from which those in power seek to protect themselves with medical care that most of us could never affordand which plays its own role in the toxification of this world. Capitalism will not provide a solution for the disasters it causes. It is a system of stop-gap measures, and, increasingly, as the new technologies come to the fore, a system of tinkering with ever tinier atomized bits. Unfortunately, in the face of economic precariousness and environmental disaster, survival tends to take precedence over life and joy. And in this way, the rule of capital penetrates even into our minds, as we find ourselves succumbing to the use of stop-gap measures, of the methods of crisis management, in an attempt to guarantee ourand the earthssurvival. Thus, the strange phenomenon some of those who call themselves anarchists using litigation, petition, even the electoral process in the attempt to save a patch of forest, stop a particular development or prevent the destruction of an indigenous culture. The problem is not that people struggle for these specific aims, but that in desperation they lay aside their ideals, their desires and their dreams, and use methods of struggle that only reinforce the economy of disaster that rules existence today. The struggle against this present existence in which misery and disaster are the norm must, in order to have a chance, base itself in our desire to live full, passionate lives, on the joyful intensity we create in our lives in spite of the existence imposed on us. Only then can our struggle move beyond the careful measurements of crisis management, beyond the stop-gap measures for guaranteeing survival at the expense of life that merely aid capitalism in maintaining and expanding its rule, instead embracing those methods of struggle that move toward insurrection, toward revolution, toward the unknown. Our present existence is a toxic prison. There is no way to know what lies beyond the walls. But here we know we are being killed and this can only end when our love of life moves us to tear down the walls. Link: http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/ProjectPl/willfuldisobedience/

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Kill the president
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Waco president arbusto e nuemann today let on he was pissed that the secret way he wants his death squads to operate leaked(see below for background) He was also said to be put off his banana's and peanuts by the suspicion directed toward an arab-american oberstumtrooper of the SS.The SS are my ubermench gibbered the loopy ruprecht.(see below,below.) Subject: hoover fine example of seppo hero Nazi Tribunal Is Model of Deception Commentary. Ann Woolner is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own. By Ann Woolner Atlanta, Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush cites the 1942 military tribunal convened to prosecute eight Nazis plotting attacks on U.S. soil to show how he wants to prosecute present-day terrorists. It's a model, all right. It's a model of a powerful government official using the secrecy of a military tribunal to deceive the public, falsely embellish his reputation, break promises to a whistleblower and sit by while a 30-year prison sentence is given to the man who thwarted the Nazi sabotage, a man to whom the agency had promised a presidential pardon. That official was Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover. His aim was glory for cracking this hugely important case. The problem was that it took no detective work whatsoever to crack the case. All it took was for FBI agents to believe a man, George Dasch, who twice called and then walked into FBI headquarters to tell them about the plot. Dasch told them that Nazi submarines had deposited him and seven other Germans at U.S. shores in New York and Florida in recent days. Supplied with explosives and timing devices, their mission was to blow up certain U.S. military equipment factories, transportation structures and Jewish-owned department stores. Dasch, aided by another would-be saboteur, Ernst Burger, led the FBI to the other six Germans, 14 American collaborators, $174,588 and a cache of explosives. Pardon Promised In return, FBI agents promised Dasch that if he pleaded guilty to his role in the plot, he'd get a prison sentence of no more than six months followed by a presidential pardon. It didn't turn out that way. During the 18-day trial, held in an FBI training room at the Justice Department building, agents played down Dasch's and Burger's cooperation, although one agent acknowledged Dasch had been promised the pardon. This was not reported, since no journalists were allowed to cover the trial. Secrecy was necessary, Attorney General Francis Biddle explained beforehand, to prevent America's enemies from learning ``how our intelligence services are equipped to work against them.'' All eight Germans were convicted and six were executed, less than two months after Dasch arrived by submarine. Burger got a life sentence; Dasch got 30 years. Hoover Censors Report Even after the war ended and a new attorney general, Tom Clark, wanted to disclose what had happened at the trial, Hoover intervened. He censored the report the Justice Department produced, cutting out information that could ``discredit or embarrass the bureau,'' Hoover wrote in a memo. Left out was any mention of the pardon promise and the fact that Dasch's own confession sparked the investigation. Decades passed and Hoover died before the full story came out. Through Freedom of Information Act requests, Atlanta Constitution reporter Seth Kantor obtained the trial transcript, FBI reports and other documents and wrote a series of stories in 1980. Those stories, on which this account is based, were recounted in an article this week by Cox News Service. Prison Riot As for Dasch, he'd been sent to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary where his presence prompted a prison riot in 1944. Dasch, whom inmates threatened to throw off a five-story building, had been the principal target of the rioting prisoners, according to Biddle. He survived and was transferred to Leavenworth prison in Kansas. With pressure from new lawyers to release Dasch and Burger, President Harry Truman in 1948 ordered them deported to West Germany where they'd eventually be free. The White House statement continued the deception in explaining Truman's generosity toward these infamous Nazis: ``After their arrest, Burger and Dasch gave full and complete identities of all connected with the sabotage plot.'' This implied it was only after the FBI had tracked them down that they confessed. Nor did this version help Dasch in post-war Germany. Nazi sympathizers threatened to avenge the executions of the other six saboteurs and the thwarting of Hitler's sabotage plans, prompting Dasch to move from city to city, job to job. By 1980, his trail had vanished, Kantor wrote. He has since died, according to news reports. `Museum Piece' Bush has ordered the creation of military commissions to conduct tribunals for the prosecution of non-U.S. citizens accused of terrorism against the United States. The speed of such tribunals, their portability, the availability of the death penalty and their looser rules make them a good option, in Bush's view. But looser rules also mean a greater likelihood that the innocent would be convicted and the system manipulated by officials. Secrecy would mean no public scrutiny. ``To do this in a healthy fashion, one has to make trials as open as possible,'' says Ruth Wedgwood, a Yale law professor teaching international law and criminal procedure. Bush's order describes ``a pre-1950 format'' for military tribunals, says Eugene Fidell, a Washington lawyer and president of the National Institute of Military Justice. ``This is a museum piece that's being trotted out,'' says Fidell. ``The question is whether it's being properly brought back.'' Presscott's Reincarnation gets what PR wants. A Durham student activist gets a visit from the Secret Service B Y J O N E L L I S T O N A.J. Brown, a 19-year-old freshman at Durham Tech, was thanking God it was Friday. It was 5 p.m., the school week was over, and in an hour she'd be meeting her boyfriend to unwind. November 21, 2001 T R I A N G L E S Then: Knock, knock ... unexpected guests at Brown's Duke Manor apartment. Opening the door, she found a casually dressed man, and a man and woman in what appeared to be business attire. Her first thought, she says, was, "Are these people going to sell me something?" Photo By Alex Maness Threat or dissent? A.J. Brown and her anti-Bush poster -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But then the man in the suit introduced himself and the woman as agents from the Raleigh office of the U.S. Secret Service. The other man was an investigator from the Durham Police Department. "Ma'am, we've gotten a report that you have anti-American material," the male agent said, according to Brown. Could they come in to have a look around? "Do you have a warrant?" Brown asked. They did not. "Then you're not coming in my apartment," she said. And indeed, they stayed outside her doorway. But they stayed a while--40 minutes, Brown estimates--and gave her a taste of how dissenters can come under scrutiny in wartime. And all because of a poster on her wall. Though she's still a teenager, Brown is already more informed about political repression than most Americans. She's been politically aware and involved since grade school. "In second grade, I saw the Gulf War on television, and seeing those bombs drop, it did something to me," she says. "I knew from some news reports that there were innocent people dying." In middle school, Brown became interested in environmentalism and civil liberties. She made the shift to full-fledged activist at Jordan High School when she became involved with Youth Voice Radio, a media collective with a leftist bent. Most recently, she's been involved with the movement against the war in Afghanistan. Brown and fellow activists often discuss government encroachments on free speech and political organizing, she says, as do some of her favorite hip-hop artists. She loves her music--and that may have been what sparked the turn of events that brought the Secret Service to her door. Brown suspects it began with the noise complaints. On Oct. 22, a Monday evening, she stayed up late playing some new CDs for her boyfriend. By her own admission, she was playing them too loud. Around midnight, a Durham police officer came by to tell her to turn it down, and she obliged. Two nights later, someone from Duke Manor called in another noise complaint, and again a police officer came to Brown's door. This time, she says, her music wasn't playing at an offensive volume. The police officer speculated that the call may have been about someone else's stereo. During this visit, and unlike the first, the officer had a full view of the wall that faces Brown's front doorway, a detail that would become relevant two days later: On that wall hung The Poster. Brown got it at an "anti-inauguration" protest in Washington, D.C. Distributed to hundreds of activists, it depicts George W. Bush holding a length of rope against a backdrop of lynching victims, and reads: "We hang on your every word. George Bush: Wanted, 152 Dead"--a reference to the number of people executed by the state of Texas while Bush was governor. Brown believes that the message caused the Durham policeman who paid the second visit to her apartment to recommend a third. On Friday, Oct. 26, two Secret Service agents, along with Durham police investigator Rex Godley, came to Brown's apartment. Special Agent Paul Lalley, who did most of the talking, spoke first. "Ma'am, we've gotten a report that you have anti-American material, or something like that, in your apartment," he said, according to Brown. Then the female agent asked if they could come inside. When Brown pressed them for a warrant and refused to allow them in, she says, "They started to talk to me about how, 'We're not here to take you away or put you in jail.' They were like, 'We need to follow up on every report we get.' I said, 'That's understandable, but how would you even know what's in my apartment?' "They just said they had gotten information from some place," she says. She speculates that it was from the police officer who visited for the second noise complaint. Godley, the Durham police investigator, won't say where the authorities got their tip about Brown's poster. "The only thing I can tell you is that we were assisting the Secret Service on one of their cases," he says. Lalley referred questions about the visit to Special Agent Craig Ulmer, who heads the Secret Service office in Raleigh. "We went in the first place because we received a tip about a threat against the president," Ulmer says. He refuses to identify the source of the tip, except to say that it was a "concerned citizen" and not a law enforcement officer. It's Secret Service policy to keep such sources confidential. "We can't discuss who gives us information like that, because we want people to bring us information," Ulmer says. "If we burn our bridges, so to speak, we're not going to get help from the public." Ulmer added that the poster "was in plain view, even from the window, so anyone could have tipped us off." The agents persisted in their effort to get a peek inside the apartment. "They were being friendly, trying to get me to let them in," Brown says. After a while, Brown called her mother, an IBM employee who is in the Army Reserve. "She said to absolutely not let them in," Brown says. Not sure what else to do, Brown passed the phone--with her mother still on the line--to one of the agents. The standoff continued, and eventually the agents explained why they had come by: "We already know what it is; it's a target of Bush," one of them said, according to Brown--apparently a reference to the poster. She informed them it was no such thing. They then said, "Well, it's Bush hanging himself." Nope, she told them. Finally, Brown relented a bit, agreeing to open the door and show them her poster wall. "They looked in, and the lady was like, 'Ohhhh, that's not that bad.'" The male agent added, "We've seen worse." Still, Brown's brush with the authorities wasn't over. "Since they were just gawking at my wall, I decided to explain it." The wall features Brown's favorite art and mementos: a high-school photo project showing the perils of smoking cigarettes; a Pink Floyd poster ("It has that phrase, 'Mother should I trust the government,' so I had to get it"); posters for two Japanese cartoon shows; several pictures she took at protests and rallies; and a headband with "Democracy" on it. And, of course, the Bush-as-hangman poster. Having seen the poster, Brown says, the agents questioned her further, asking: "Do you have any Afghanistan stuff in your apartment, or anything pertaining to that? Any pro-Taliban stuff?" "I kept saying no," Brown says, "and I was like, personally, I think the Taliban are a bunch of assholes." With that, the investigator and the agents bid her adieu. Brown was temporarily rattled by the visit from the Secret Service, she says, but the poster's still up, and she's still committed to her activism. "I'm definitely going to be vocal," she says. "If things get really hairy and they decide to come after activists, then I'd have to just grit my teeth and go through it." Ulmer rejects the notion that Brown was targeted because of her politics, and he insists that the Secret Service would have checked this tip out even if it had come in before the events of Sept. 11. "We were doing our job in this particular case," he says, "and I don't think we could have done it any better." "The Secret Service takes all threats against the president seriously, and we go out to check on every one. A citizen thought that there was a threat, and we went and talked to Ms. Brown and we found that there was not a threat." The poster, he says, was "misconstrued" by the tipster. "So it's not a big issue. The issue is that someone misinterpreted some writing." But when "some writing" on a poster is investigated by federal authorities, constitutional issues come into play. Some legal analysts are warning that the new national security vigilance, and new laws passed to counter terrorism, might impinge on free speech in big and small ways. "A poster of Bush, even if he's in a noose, is protected speech during wartime or peacetime," notes Alex Charns, a Durham attorney who specializes in civil rights. Such speech is all the more protected, he points out, when it's displayed within a person's home. "If a trained police officer doesn't know the difference between political speech and a threat to the president, then we're all in trouble," Charns says. "If the Secret Service has nothing better to do than check on political posters, that's a bad sign." The Web sites of the American Civil Liberties Union (www.aclu.org) and the National Lawyers Guild (www.nlg.org) offer analysis of the changing legal climate and advice for what to do if local or federal authorities come knocking.

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Rushkoff and buy this free market special.
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

When I was a kid, we lived in a relatively modest neighborhood and shared one barbecue pit at the end of the block. Every weekend, anyone could go down there and make some hotdogs. Parents would even cook for one another's kids. When we got a bit wealthier, we moved out to the suburbs. There, each family had its own barbecue in the backyard. Instead of barbecuing with the neighbors, we competed with them. "The Jones's have sirloin, so we better get filet mignon!" Sure, in the suburban sprawl schema, the Weber Grill company gets to sell a whole lot more barbecues, but our experience of community is surrendered to the needs of the marketplace. I've been making this argument for the past couple of years in articles and speeches around the US. Then, just last month, a libertarian magazine made a fascinating critique of my work that they believed neutralized such anti-corporate sentiments: those of us taking a stand against the marketplace as the dominant social paradigm are only doing so in order to make money! That's right the whole 'lefty' thing is a disingenuous scam to sell books, posters, and magazines like this one. We're actually in it for the profit. What makes this argument particularly perplexing is that, if it were true, shouldn't the libertarians praise us? We would be adhering, after all, to the very principles they espouse! We are simply providing a product that meets consumer demand, and because we don't really believe the rhetoric we spew we are doing so without prejudice or forethought. We are as blameless as corporations selflessly catering to the will of the all-powerful consumer. Just like global conglomerates, we the merchants of Marx are simply appealing to a target market. In our case, we sell a hip, anti-consumerist aesthetic to people who fall into the Seattle Demonstrator psychographic. This kind of circular, self-perpetuating analysis is symptomatic of a society getting itself into some serious ideological trouble. We are so inundated by the free market's rhetorical whitewash that we are fast approaching what can only be labeled "market fascism": a social contract that can no longer tolerate any opinion or event that doesn't serve the speculative economy. Its adherents can't understand motivation in any other terms than profit-mindedness; they can't imagine alternatives to the logic of capitalism. Those who can conceive of counter-currents become the latest-variety "enemy of the state." The state itself, of course, is to be reduced to the barest regulation required for the free flow of capital and protection of property. Market opponents must be eliminated or, better, assimilated. The bottom line really does become the bottom line. Currently, trillions of dollars and man-hours are being spent to lock down just such a reality template. Through intimidation, reward, and an odd scheme of justifications, the market is yearning towards the status of sacred doctrine. While it's still permitted, let's deconstruct some of its sacred cows before they become our only source of milk. The first faulty premise of market fascism is that consumption invariably leads to an expression of democratic will that we vote with our dollars. In this sense, corporations conduct focus groups, polling, and other forms of cultural anthropology, and justify this information gathering as an effort to get to the heart of what people really want. In reality, the results of such studies are divided into two categories: desires that can be monetized, and those that can't. If focus groups conducted by the music industry, for example, determine that kids want to hear songs made by their own neighbors, record labels do not rush to market songs by anon-ymous teens. Instead, they use this information to construct publicity campaigns for the groups they have already decided to back. No, the reduction of the role of citizens to that of consumers does not translate into cash-register democracy. It means that the scope of our influence has been reduced to very limited conversation with our marketers. Market fascists dismiss such arguments, claiming that we are paranoid leftists, imagining a conspiracy between a group of fictitious marketers and corporate chiefs that such people do not really exist. In a sense, they are right. In the corporate reality, no one is in charge. When you walk into the gap, a young clerk will initiate a well-researched sales technique called gapact (Greet Approach Provide Add-on Close Thank). Should we be mad at her? Of course not. She's just doing what her manager has told her to do. If she doesn't end the day with a certain quota of multiple-item sales, she'll get in trouble. So do we blame her manager? No. He's got to meet a quota, too, set by corporate headquarters. Do we blame the marketing department? Well, they're just taking their orders from the ceo. And he's just taking his from the Board of Directors. And they're just listening to their shareholders. And those shareholders, well, they're some of the same people walking in the door as customers, who happen to have gap stock in the mutual funds of their retirement plans. The whole thing is on automatic. Although corporations may have the legal rights of human beings, they aren't human at all. A corporation is just a set of code like a computer program a recipe for making money. The human beings enacting the code, from executives to customers to marketers, become part of the machine. Worse still, today we are empowering our corporations with the most advanced techniques of persuasion known to science. I'm not talking about discredited notions like subliminal advertising, but much more pernicious forms of influence, like neurolinguistic programming, regression and transference, pacing and leading, and other forms of hypnosis. Sure, marketers and advertisers have always used versions of these techniques, but never have we extended and automated them through computers and onto the Internet. The Internet gives the formerly abstract corporate entity its eyes and ears. Consumer feedback is instantaneously recorded, compiled, shared, and acted upon. There is no need for human intervention, or, of course, the conscience or ethical considerations that might slow any of this down. Sell more stuff in less time with higher profit is the only corporate command set. Like most Adbusters readers, I've spent a good deal of time examining how these techniques work. Suffice to say, the way to make people buy things they don't really want is by making them tense. In order to sell unnecessary goods, you must convince people they are unhappy so that they yearn to make their lives better to fill in that sad vacuum. The plain truth is rarely put this plainly: a marketer's job is to make people unhappy. And that gets us back to the oldest trick in the book for keeping people in line: take intimacy away from them. If a teenage boy is sitting on the couch next to his girlfriend, he's less likely to be persuaded to buy those jeans in the TV commercial. He's already getting laid! So what are the marketer's alternatives? Get the girl to worry about how her boyfriend's clothes reflect on her, or, better, find a way to keep the kids from having sex at all. This all became stridently clear to me a few months ago, when I was asked to appear in a debate on cnn about censorship online. They had me up against a "family values" advocate. I was supposed to argue that the right to free speech outweighed the concerns of parents about what sorts of pornography their kids might stumble upon while surfing the web. As the debate went on, I realized we were all accepting the premise that kids should be protected from sexual imagery. What studies have ever been done to prove it's dangerous for kids to see pictures of people having sex? We let kids watch sitcoms in which parents regularly lie to one another but we fear what will happen if they see people making love? My point is not that kids should be exposed to porn. Rather, it is that the sacred truths we hold as self-evident are, in fact, blasphemous distortions of social reality intended to reduce thinking human beings into compliant consumers. This, combined with marketing techniques designed to limit human agency to impulsive Pavlovian responses, leads to an unthinking, unquestioning, and absolutely unfulfilled population, ripe for market fascism. The irony here is that religion might actually serve as a last line of defense against this branded cultural imperialism. Adbusters' annual "Buy Nothing Day" used to occur once a week as a long-forgotten ritual called "Sabbath." Once every seven days, the Judeo-Christian founders concluded a few millennia ago, people should take a break from the cycle of consumption and production. Imagine trying to practice Sabbath today. What's left to do that doesn't involve paying for admission? Are there any public spaces left other than the mall? Though the Sabbath was widely celebrated even 10 years ago, it now falls outside the imaginable for the market fascists: wouldn't it throw the economy into a recession? Perhaps, but it would also give us 24 hours each week to restore a bit of autonomy into our own affairs. The hard right has claimed the spiritual high ground (as a way of promoting market values) but it may actually belong to us. It's our way of disengaging from the corporate machine, unplugging from the matrix, and considering whether we would rather have a communal barbecue pit at the end of the block. It's not time off; it's time "on." It's a sacred space for the living. We might even use it to have sex. www.rushkoff.com

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End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?
by Trei, Peter 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Are there any existing, available US type GSM cell phones which provide good end-to-end voice encryption (ie, something better than the broken GSM crypto). thanks, Peter Trei ============================================================================ ================ This e-mail, its content and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and are PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. Access by any other party is unauthorized without the express prior written permission of the sender. If you have received this e-mail in error you may not copy, disclose to any third party or use the contents, attachments or information in any way, Please delete all copies of the e-mail and the attachment(s), if any and notify the sender. Thank You. ============================================================================ ================

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Re: End-to-end encrypting US GSM phones?
by Peter Kuhm 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

At 16:01 28.12.01 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: >Are there any existing, available US type >GSM cell phones which provide good >end-to-end voice encryption (ie, something >better than the broken GSM crypto). don't know, but you may have a look at <http://crypto.mchh.siemens.de/produkte/hardware/topsecgsm/topsecgsm.asp?lan…> Rohde & Schwarz <http://www.rohde-schwarz.com/> upgrades a standard SIEMENS S35i with a cryptochip. According to a article in German language it costs appr. EUR 2,300.-- and they should have sold already 500 pcs to governments. <http://news.zdnet.de/zdnetde/news/story/0,,t390-s2097404,00.html> Peter

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Faustines anal urges
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Subject: Faustines anal urges,your yukon donkeys calling,fau baby. >>bringing up the idea of simultaneous detonation of suitcase nukes in multiple metropolitan areas. << Innerestin you bring that up Justine,zat wots worryn them down at NSA central? Why not simple OK Ryders with added homer Simpson fuel rods on top? Id love to slide one of those up your cute little sewer rats ass BTW. Any thoughts on A DC net with envelopes containing pledges all snail,all meatspace,all APster,all the time? I am waiting for my case to come up & I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder & I am waiting for someone to really discover America Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind

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Because it's a Lie
by Steve Schear 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Because it's a Lie http://annoy.com/covers/doc.html?DocumentID=100027 Sung to the tune of 'Because I Got High' by Afroman Osama bin Laden's friends dropped by to say hi By taking a few little airplanes outa the sky (La da da da da da) They totaled the twin towers and I don't know why - Saw people die [repeat 3X] George W. Bush spent the day in the sky Nowhere in sight, you coulda searched low and high (La da da da da da) Karl Rove covered the coward's tracks by telling a lie - Fucking nice try [repeat 3X] Condoleeza called the press, a tear in her eye Bin Laden is sending secrets on video she said with a sigh (La da da da da da) Don't bother with the truth when it's surely better to lie - Don't ask why [repeat 3X] The networks never stopped to really ask why They wanted blood - to make sure Afghanis would fry (La da da da da da) Now they find themselves gorging on humble pie - Selling a lie [repeat 3X] The President could no longer stand it, wanted to cry Congressmen were leaking and even though his ratings were high (La da da da da da) Ari Fleischer warned the media to watch it or bullets would fly - Don't even try [repeat 3X] Rumsfeld was overseas selling pie in the sky Back in the homeland Tommy Thompson didn't know why (La da da da da da) Anthrax was sorted while congress homeward did fly - Letting them die [repeat 3X] Attorney General Ashcroft ever cunning and sly After losing elections to opponents who die (La da da da da da) Wants to eavesdrop, snoop and detain and lie - Fuck off and die [repeat 3X] Bush signed his name to it and then he got high Cheney photographed while congress idly stood by (La da da da da da) The next election we shall bid all of them bye - Eye for an eye [repeat 3X] Confusion everywhere you look as accusations fly Tom Ridge finally hired but he doesn't know why (La da da da da da) It's amusing just sitting watching him try Reign in the FBI [repeat 3X] September 11 saw towers rising up high Attacked from jet planes hijacked out of the sky (La da da da da da) October twenty six a date forever we'll cry - Because it's a Lie [repeat 3X]

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BURGLAR WATCH-A STATE OF WIDESPREAD STINK, OPPORTUNISTIC & RAMPANT THIEVERY, PLAQUE, CHAOS, BARBARISM AND LAWLESS-A GLOBAL REPORT OF BREAK & ENTER, THEFT, TREPASS, FRAUD, FABRICATION AND COLLUSION CONSPIRED BY VANCOUVER POLICE
by postautumn＠yahoo.com 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

To All Cybercitizens, The official launching date for our global broadcast: 1 November, 2000 is supposed to be a celebration marking the completion of Global Media Network. But as you're well aware, the reported break and enter, theft and other crimes committed by the City of Vancouver police which, if unchecked, have the potential to destroy human civilization. We offer our service as an impartial, fair, unbiased media. Our media network possess the power to illuminate the far corners of the globe, not for higher profits, but for higher understanding between the people of this great planet. We are proud that our media network, as its name implies, has the ability to reach every corner of the earth. We offer our declaration of principles to the men and the women, to our every brothers and sisters in the planet whom we humbly serve. We promise to report the news without fear or favor, to be a force for good in this world, fighting injustice, crushing intolerance, battling inhumanity, striking a blow for freedom at every turn. These are the goals of Global Media Network. Join us and visit our official web site at http://www.geocities.com/movehand44 Global Media Network proudly presents REVIEW OF ONE OF THE TOP NEWS OF THIS MILLENNIUM:- BURGLAR WATCH-A STATE OF WIDESPREAD STINK, OPPORTUNISTIC & RAMPANT THIEVERY, PLAQUE, CHAOS, BARBARISM AND LAWLESS-A GLOBAL REPORT OF BREAK & ENTER, THEFT, TREPASS, FRAUD, FABRICATION AND COLLUSION CONSPIRED BY VANCOUVER POLICE ENACTMENT OF THE INCIDENTS [DETAILS PROVIDED BY THE VICTIM]: On 6 June, 94. the victim went out at 2:30 p.m. from his apartment. When he gone back at 2:37 p.m. he discovered that both his apartment and his bedroom were broken and entered. He discovered that his newly bought hi-fi components (bought at A & B Sound) and forty CDs (costed CAD$2,000) were stolen from his bedroom. When he reported the crimes to the police woman badge # 9082, who admitted the fact of surveillance two years afterwards in 1996, she behaved very arrogant. She purposely hanged up the phone several times in order to aggravate him. Being alerted of constant harassment, out of suspicion, in 21 September, 96, at 6:00 p.m., the victim confirmed with the same police woman badge # 9082 via 911 that the Vancouver police had placed the audio and video surveillance devices inside his apartment. She refused to remove them and asked him to remove them. The Vancouver police were very familiar with the environment inside the apartment. In other words, the Vancouver police specificially targeted at the victim's properties that were located at his bedroom and knew exactly when the residents inside left the apartment. When the residents left the apartment on 6 June 1994, at 2:30 p.m., the Vancouver police sneaked into his apartment, stolen his properties and left within a minutes. In July, 96, he called the Vancouver police in 320 Main Street, Vancouver, a male police who had sneaky remarks (about twenty something years old, caucasian) lied that the former chief constable Ray Canuel was in Atlanta, Georgia so that he could not handle the complaint. Afterwards, he sent a letter to Ray Canuel (deceased of cancer) in the same month without hearing any response. He then presented the complaint in person directly to the assistant to Ray Canuel. The assistant deceived him that the Vancouver police wouldl respond to his complaint three weeks later. The complaint aroused the police's revenge. Two polices without search and arrest warrant trespassed his apartment in Feb., 97. One caucasian police opened his complaint letter which was originally sealed without his consent and he was falsely arrested by the two polices. One of the police were a Chinese who were about 5"6, 160 lb., black and short hair. Another police were a caucasian who were about 6"2, gray and long hair whir covered his trim, gray-blue eyes, about 220 lb.. Both polices were thirty something years old. The latter one misrepresented and called himself as former Chief Constable Ray Canuel (deceased). The two polices committed trespass and false arrest. The fact that Vancouver police are morally corruptive makes no difference to his efforts. When the victim filed the complaint through other formal channels three years afterward, i.e. 1999, he received a fabricated letter from Sergeant Mike Bernard, Office of the Chief Constable, Internal Investigation Section, Vancouver Police Department dated 20 May, 99, falsifyinging that police badge #581 Dave Turpin, Tony Zanatta had conducted the investigations. Indeed, they never contacted him nor take any report. Given the Vancouver police are coercive that they collude with every party the victim seeks help from or affiliates with. When the victim booked an appointment with a security company, APC Security in Burnaby, B.C., to do a further sweep on his apartment, the Vancouver police colluded with the company not to show up at the appointment on 26 July, 99. Similar circumstances happened for Brian Brown & Associates INC, owner: Brian; operator: Laurie. Ph. (604) 2912121. The Vancouver police colluded with Brian and solicited him to defraud the victim debugging fees. During the appointment, Brian pretended in front of the victim that he was an outsider. Brian spent most of the time looking at the manuel. Most of all, Brian failed to provide a receipt upon request. Besides, on 6 Aug., 99, the Vancouver police called the property manager of Crosby Property Management Ltd. to follow him when he walked to the garden. The property manager purposely aggravated him and tried to fight with him. The property manager asked him to complain to the management (instead of the police complaint authorities) so that they can cover up the conspiracies.... Extreme and harsh measures must be deployed to curb these police crimes, brutalities and abuse. Getting the attention of legistative representatives is the first powerful step. The existing Canadian civil rights are not extensive enough to protect law abiding elements of the society. Additional chapters must be provided that detailly outlines whatever civil and criminal penalties that would incur to police(s) who commits crimes/ infringes rights of legal abiding citizens. Who could ask for more?! It is amazing what Vancouver tax payers will patronize. Vancouver polices are not what "civilians" meant to be. It is terribly sad to see that these people are called "law enforcement officials." The law of Canada is well established. It is, when really enforced, great! Bluntly, Vancouver polices were not even qualified as "servants", regarding them as "dogs" was done just as a courtesy. They are what can be found in garbage depot, sorry excuse for these people who are calling themselves "civil servants"! In contrast, there are several cities in North America, e.g. New York (during the 11th Sept. horror attacks), where good examples of the real "civilians" can be found. Any feedback can be addressed to Chief Constable Terry Blythe of Vancouver Police Department at vpdlmail(a)vpd.city.vancouver.bc.ca. By the way, please join our global action together with ALL media and ALL political leaders ALL over the world that have received our attention. Global Media Network 1448 Fir White Rock, V4B 4B4 info(a)globalmedianetwork.org

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Ratbags with matches light a fire under the Bushes.
by mattd 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

"Every year we get some ratbags who get their kicks out of this. We can't be everywhere. People should be very careful and vigilant for people acting suspiciously. "We don't care if it's someone doing something legitimate -- let us investigate that." Vehicle descriptions, registration numbers or descriptions of people acting suspiciously could be invaluable in arson investigations, Det-Insp Cooney said. An arsonist was responsible for the deadly Dandenong Ranges blazes of 1997, which claimed three lives and destroyed 41 homes. The killer has not been caught but Det-Insp Cooney said that crime might have been solved with the kind of scraps of information witnesses may have thought insignificant. Firebugs start hundreds of blazes throughout the state each summer but charges are only laid over a small fraction. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,3449387%255E1702,… Former police jailed for perjury From AAP 17dec01 TWO former NSW police officers have been jailed for lying over an incident where a group of young men were forced to run a gauntlet of police batons. Christine Gay Fish, 36, was found guilty by a jury of one count of perjury and John Gordon Swan, 52, of two counts in October after a trial in the NSW District Court. Today acting Judge Donald Stewart condemned the pair, saying that a policeman or woman committing perjury "strikes at the very heart of justice". "If this is police culture, it's disgusting and wrong and the sooner this message goes out the better," he said. "Police should not be allowed to think perjury is a minor peccadillo." Judge Stewart jailed Fish for 20 months, with a non-parole period of 12 months. Swan also was jailed for 20 months, with a non-parole period of 12 months, on each count to be served cumulatively. The court was told the charges related to court appearances involving one of a group of nine young men who in 1990 were forced to run a gauntlet of batons at Kings Cross police station following "near riot" at nearby Darlinghurst Road. The incident emerged at the royal commission into police corruption. Judge Stewart said the men were "severely assaulted in a cowardly and reprehensible manner". He said police executed "severe and summary punishment" against the men for vengeance. Swan and Fish then lied in court to protect their mates over the incident. Another officer involved in the incident, David John Langton, pleaded guilty to perjury and assault charges. He was sentenced last month to two years' jail on two perjury counts, to be served cumulatively. 16dec01 THE ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission has revealed details of an investigation into theft and drug dealing by a group of WA police officers. The case is one of a number highlighted in the ACC's annual report, released this week. It involved three detectives accused of stealing about 1000 morphine tablets from a Kalgoorlie disabled pensioner in 1998 and trying to sell the drugs. The officers had heard about the stockpile of narcotics through an informant and went to the pensioner's home. "Searching the house, the officers found the narcotics, counted them, took some and departed," the ACC report said. When the pensioner reported the theft two constables went to his home to investigate. Soon after, two of the accused detectives arrived. "They then took over, sent the constables away and kept the incomplete offence report that one of the constables had begun preparing," the ACC found. The ACC searched houses and businesses linked to the officers in several WA locations and found "unexplained sums of money, both in cash and deposited in bank accounts . . . in the possession of the officers." The ACC supplied an informant with $18,000 to buy the drugs from the allegedly corrupt police officers, but the sting operation fell apart when the informant stole most of the "buy" money. The informant was charged and received a suspended jail sentence in October last year. A brief was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, but no charges have been laid against the officers. However, Police Commissioner Barry Matthews decided to sack the detectives, saying he had lost confidence in them. Police Union president Mike Dean said the three officers maintained their innocence and were awaiting the outcome of an Industrial Relations Commission appeal against their sackings. A separate case investigated by the ACC last year involved allegations that WA police officers were involved in two murders and had been compromised by a bikie gang which had videotaped officers using drugs and having sex. The man making the allegations was registered as an informant and located to a "safe house". He signed a 22-page statement, then refused to co-operate any further and the ACC concluded that the allegations could not be substantiated. -- Subject: Arson around Police car hit in fire attack By CAMERON SMITH 29dec01 A POLICE car was damaged after it was torched in Melton early yesterday. At 2.15am, a watch-house keeper noticed an unusual glow outside of the building on one of the station's security cameras. Sgt Simon Payne said officers went outside to investigate and found one of their marked sedans engulfed in flames. "The flames on the bonnet were 2m high," he said. "Three members came out with fire extinguishers and were able to put the fire out." Police found a bucket by the car, which is thought to have contained fuel for the fire. Police are expected to view video tapes from a nearby service station in the search for clues. The police car will also undergo forensic testing.Professor rat,who lives less than an hour away on motorbike was asked to comment and denied any link to that..."exceptional piece of work"

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