September 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

Fwd: Blofeld found near Corralito's stop licensed to kill stop eyes only stop
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

> >Subject: Blofeld found near Corralito's stop licensed to kill stop eyes >only stop >Backgound for Infiltration purposes. >Adventures of Fluffy, American Dissident Cat; >(September 9) It's started again. Early in the morning some idiot starts >ringing my doorbell. It was ringing and ringing and ringing, and I knew >right away it was one of the Geriatric Gestapo of the Neighborhood Watch >Association. They're the only ones that would do it - ring five or six >times in a row like that. And sure enough it was - complaining about the >Fluffster. Anyway Fluffy the cat was over at the golf club parking lot, >where he likes to hang out with all the Cadillacs and their American flags >that the Geriatric Gestapo like to put on their cars. The Fluffster has >gotten into the habit of tearing the flags off of them. > >To him, it's just something to play with. The flags are blowing in the >breeze, and the cat gets on top of the cars. He takes his paws and grabs >at the flag and his claws get stuck in the flag. Then in order to get his >claws out, he will literally tear the flag right off the little wooden >pole. His claws get stuck in there because they're all cheap little >seventy-nine cent American flags - made in China, of course. They're just >stapled on to the wood. So the Fluffster, in order to get his claws out, >has to tear the flag off the pole. And people are thinking he's doing it >on purpose. These oldsters are convinced that I've trained him to do it on >purpose because I told them so. I've told them that the Fluffster is a >duly enlightened cat, and he's doing his part to prevent the spread of >"Dangerous Blind Patriotism." > >I put his little army helmet on today and he's all set. He's got a >miniature army helmet I bought him through this cat mail order place. They >sell all sorts of stuff for cats. The Fluffster actually seems to like it. >It's a little green plastic helmet with webbing over it and it looks >exactly like a World War II helmet and it has places for his ears. It says >the Big Red One on it and it has a little elastic that goes under his >chin. It doesn't seem to bother him and he doesn't try to pull it off, but >then, of course, he's half stoned all the time. > >He eats catnip incessantly. He'll go through a bag of it in no time. I >used to give him just a teaspoon of organically grown fresh catnip a day. >It's good for the cat's bowels and urinary tract. It evidently keeps them >regular like bran flakes for people. I kept giving him more and more and >then I thought I'll just give him the whole bag. He's an All American Cat. >He's stoned all day on catnip. His eyes are always glazed over and he's >having a hell of a time. > >Catnip is to Cats what Jack Daniels and Prozac is to the Bush Family. > >So he's out there this morning with his little helmet on, tearing the >flags off the Geriatrics' Cadillacs. The old people actually believe me >when I tell them that I've trained him to do this and that the Fluffster >is doing his part so the Geriatric Gestapo don't succumb to "Dangerous >Blind Patriotism." And, of course, none of them want to hear that. > >So now I've been told that for every seventy-nine cent American flag "Made >in China" that he pulls down, we'll get fined five dollars. They're just >fine happy and they just love it because the fines go into the clubhouse >fund to support the geriatric exercise room where they're now learning the >goose-step. Instead of aerobics, they have Goose Stepping 101. You don't >know how wild the Neighborhood Watch Association seniors can get. (See >previous story on "Close Encounters With Neighborhood Watch") > >Their biggest problem is that their brittle belief systems, from the time >when they were young, are all calcified -- and they're collapsing all >around them. Since their minds have long since atrophied, they go into >this numb way of living, so they're just numb to everything. It's like >All-Natural Prozac, and they all hang out with each other because they're >all equally naïve and provincial. They all take the senior citizen shuttle >bus to Wal-Mart for the Thursday double discount seniors' day. Loaded with >their trading stamp booklets and every discount card in the world, they go >driving around in their electric three wheelers. They bang into each other >and their false teeth come out. More of them have lost their false teeth >at Wal-Mart banging into each other than you can imagine. It's like >Dodge-Em Cars or Bumper Cars in this place. And that's what it looks like >because none of them can half see anymore. Their eye-hand coordination is >pretty well gone. You go into the Wal-Mart and it looks like a bunch of >oldsters playing Bumper Cars and then when one of them drives onto the >other, they yell and cry out, "Whiplash" and "I'm going to get my lawyer." > >And they actually have ads on the back of the bus benches in front of the >place from every ambulance-chasing lawyer in town. The one I love is >called Rosenberg Rosenthal Rosencrantz and Rosenwitz. That's the name of >the law firm. They have the most prominent ad and it shows a picture of >two oldsters banging into each other in the dodge em cars. One of them has >whiplash and a neck brace and the other one has lost his false teeth and >his hearing aid has popped out and got run over. And another oldster in >back is saying, "If you've suffered an injury in the dodge em cars, call >the attorneys at Rosenberg Rosenthal Rosencrantz and Rosenwitz. We have a >combined hundred years experience in ambulance chasing." > >This is just the latest episode in the ongoing adventures of the >Almeister, the machinations of Fluffster and Company and the >Goose-Stepping Geriatric Gestapo Neighborhood Watch Asssociation. It >almost sounds like a TV show. > >MORE ON >www.almartinraw.com COMING SOON: An actual unretouched photograph of the Fluffster complete with his Commie red collar and his Chinese Commie green ID tag.

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Secret Service in crisis.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020909/usnews/9service.htm On a warm summer night last year, a 19-year-old woman sat in a crowded bar, engaged in a rite of passage familiar to countless college-age teens: persuading a bartender to break the law and sell her a drink. This was no ordinary teenager, though. She was Jenna Bush, the daughter of President George W. and first lady Laura Bush. The bartender was amenable to serving the young womanuntil he spotted two agents from her Secret Service detail. Nervous, he approached the agents and asked what he should do. Use your best judgment, the agents shrugged. The bartender promptly asked Jenna Bush to leave. She was furious. A Secret Service agent familiar with the incident told U.S. News that Jenna berated her agents, then fled the bar into a dark alley. Sources say one of the agents chased Jenna, and she taunted him. "You know if anything happens to me," she said, "my dad would have your ass." Not quite. After she called her father to complain about the incident, which is still widely recounted among agents, President Bush declined to side with Jenna. Laura Bush, however, was concerned about what Jenna and her twin sister, Barbara, view as repeated intrusions into their privacy. As a result, sources say, agents assigned to the protective details of the Bush twins have been ordered to pull back from traditional methods of coverage. Many agents say they regard this as a serious security risk. "They have no concept," says one source who has protected members of the Bush family. ". . . They act like they don't have any concept of world events and how vulnerable they are or can be." Protecting the lives of families of top government officials has never been easy. By the same token, living under the controlling, intrusive, often overbearing, and seemingly omnipotent presence of agents can be stifling for political leaders and their families, especially for children. Presidents do what they can to strike a balance between protecting themselves and their families by acceding to the demands of agents, at the same time fighting for the right to have some semblance of a normal life. Some family members unused to the constant presence of armed law enforcement officers seek restrictions on agents' activities and guarantees of privacy. Others, more hostile, rebel and try to give their minders the slip, as Jenna's sister, Barbara, has done. Last April, Barbara's agents were lampooned by the Yale University magazine Rumpus after the car she was in sped through an E-ZPass lane as Barbara and her friends drove from New Haven, Conn., to a World Wrestling Federation match in New York. Members of her security detail had to wait in the toll lane on a bridge into Manhattan, then weave through traffic at high speeds to catch up. In Texas, Jenna evaded her Secret Service agents following class last fall, after the September 11 attacks, sources say. When she finally surfaced after several hours, a supervisor on her protective detail lectured the young woman and warned against repeating such behavior. The Bush twins aren't alone. Secret Service sources tell U.S. News that shortly after 9/11, President Bush sought expanded coverage for other Bush family members through an executive order. But this June, President Bush changed his mind and ordered the Secret Service to discontinue the security details he had authorized for several family members. "They are dictating coverage," says a Secret Service agent. "And what's worse is we're letting them." "Protective methodology." After September 11, Secret Service executives made significant additions to President Bush's security arrangements. But some agents worry that Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, with its vast, open spaces, poses serious staffing and logistical challenges, difficulties that give pause to even the toughest military-trained tactical teams in the service. Providing security for its protectees in remote locations like the president's ranch is regarded as among the most difficult challenges by Secret Service executives, agents, and officers. How to best guarantee the safety of the president, the vice president, and their families is just one element of a larger debate among line agents, uniformed officers, and Secret Service executives about the agency's changing role and responsibilities. In the past year, Director Brian Stafford has implemented a broad new security theory known as "protective methodology." Many agents and officers say this plan goes against the grain of time-tested Secret Service methods and practices and could expose protectees and their bodyguards to possible attack by reducing customary layers of protective "insulation." The changes include cutting the number of posts where agents and officers stand guard, eliminating some technical assets like magnetometers, ballistic glass, and armored plating, and withdrawing Counter Sniper, Counter Surveillance, Counter Assault, and other tactical teams. "Basically, what we are doing now and what we were trained to do are at different ends of the spectrum," says a veteran agent. "It doesn't make sense." Director Stafford declined to respond to an interview request. Paul Irving, who heads the Office of Government Liaison and Public Affairs, also failed to reply to a detailed list of questions for this article. A senior White House official who works closely with the Secret Service said he believes the service is doing a "terrific" job protecting President Bush and other top government officials and their families. Scott McClellan, a White House spokesman, also declined to respond to specific questions, saying, "We do not discuss security issues. The president and Mrs. Bush are grateful and appreciative for the outstanding job the Secret Service does in protecting the first family and others." Traditionally, the Secret Service has relied on a guarantee of 360-degree coverage of its protectees. The approach calls for a team of agents enveloping the person under protection in a kind of moving box, covering him or her from all angles. The new protective methodology, by contrast, is based on an evaluation of "threat assessments," calculating different levels of risk confronting protectees like the vice president, his wife, and their children, the president's children, and the first lady. Using current intelligence information and historic precedents like past assassination attempts, Secret Service executives determine how many agents and what kinds of special teams and capabilities to assign individual protectees. For instance, vice presidents have been considered a relatively low assassination risk. Vice President Cheney, as a result, under the protective methodology approach, like other VPs, has received fewer assets and tactical support teams than the president. Some Secret Service agents say that a protective theory based so heavily on intelligence analysis may be dangerously flawed, especially in light of the intelligence failures that occurred prior to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. These individuals say that Secret Service executives have sometimes ignored or discounted security recommendations more heavily weighted to intelligence analysis, despite the fact that such analysis has been so heavily emphasized by Director Stafford and other proponents of the protective-methodology theory. Shortly after September 11, Cheney's security was beefed up. Then in December, Stafford and his deputy, Danny Spriggs, met with Secret Service agents and Uniformed Division officers at the Naval Observatory, Cheney's official residence. Sources say the meeting was intended as a morale booster. Stafford told the agents and officers that though they were not assigned to the elite presidential protective detail, they were doing a vitally important job. Intelligence analysts rated Cheney as a higher security risk than President Bush, Stafford continued, because of his having served as the first President Bush's secretary of defense during the Persian Gulf War a decade ago. The war, and the presence of thousands of American troops in Saudi Arabia before, during and after it, have been cited as a principal source of grievance by Osama bin Laden and others in his al Qaeda terrorist organization. Shortly after the meeting, however, several sources tell U.S. News, Secret Service executives reduced the level of Cheney's protection. "You say this guy is the biggest threat? They started cutting," says one former officer. "They were short of manpower for the Olympics. They cut posts everywhere." By Christmas, several Secret Service officials say, the special Counter Assault, Counter Sniper, and Emergency Response teams assigned to Cheney immediately after September 11 were phased out. For months, the Secret Service also rejected recommendations for magnetometers, or X-ray machines, to screen attendees at public events where Cheney appeared. These same sources say the service began assigning more Mag officers, as they are called, to Cheney's detail after U.S. News reported (June 17, 2002) on the agency's recent cost-cutting measures and personnel difficulties. The Treasury Department's inspector general initiated an investigation of each of the allegations cited in the magazine's earlier story. That inquiry is continuing, sources say. The department's top law enforcement official, Under Secretary for Law Enforcement Jimmy Gurulé, sources say, has also begun interviewing officers to gauge the extent of problems documented by the magazine in the Secret Service's Uniformed Division. "Brokenhearted." The agents who spoke to U.S. News for this account are all currently employed by the Secret Service and have held a variety of high-profile assignments, including protecting the president and vice president, the first lady, Lynne Cheney, and other members of the Bush and Cheney families. They spoke on condition of strict anonymity. In addition, U.S. News spoke to many former Uniformed Division officers who have guarded the White House complex and foreign embassies in and around Washington, D.C. The agents and officers declined to discuss sensitive protective techniques and methods so as not to compromise protectees' safety or the security of the White House complex. Many of the agents and officers told the magazine that they decided to come forward after the earlier U.S. News article because of growing concerns about their ability to ensure the safety of some protecteesfamily members who typically receive little or no protective coverage. More than a dozen agents who have served on protective details for a particular family member at various times over the past year have expressed concern that security measures the Secret Service has implemented on that individual's behalf were dangerously inadequate. U.S. News has refrained from publishing certain security information obtained during the reporting and research for this article and is withholding the name, location, and other details about the individual cited by these agents for security reasons. "If something happens to this protectee," says one agent, "it would cause great embarrassment. Not to mention the family; they would be brokenhearted." In addition to the merits of the new protective-methodology plan, some agents question the timing of its implementation. The Secret Service budget has increased 75 percent since 1999, to $1.05 billion today. At the same time, though, the service has suffered a debilitating loss of manpower while the scope of its protective and investigative missions has increased significantly. After the September 11 attacks, President Bush increased the number of protectees from 17 to 38. The number is now down to 22, but that's still a significant increase for a relatively small force of nearly 3,000 agents and roughly 1,000 Uniformed Division officers. The service has butted heads with other agencies like the FBI as it has sought to expand the original mission for which it was createdcombating counterfeitingto take on new responsibilities like investigating cybercrimes and international financial crimes. The service has also been given primary responsibility for providing security at what it calls national security special events like the Super Bowl and the recent Winter Olympics Games in Salt Lake City. The new missions come at the same time the departures of agents and officers are accelerating. In the past year, more than 100 plainclothes agents have retired, quit, or taken jobs with the newly created Transportation Security Administration, internal Secret Service records show. In the past two months alone, the service has lost special agents-in-charge of its field offices in Cincinnati, Oklahoma City, Orlando, St. Louis, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Kansas City, Mo. Many agents say they are leaving because they are fed up and want better pay and more humane working conditions, including less travel. These agents are averaging 81 hours overtime per month. A unique Secret Service pension plan allows retirement-age agents to rejoin the federal government at other agencies at elevated pay grades. Even elite Counter Sniper technicians from the Uniformed Division, who fill some of the most-sought-after and prestigious positions in the service, are leaving. CS marksmen guard the roof of the White House and travel on presidential and vice presidential advance trips to identify and assess possible security risks. Sometimes, Secret Service executives have had so few CS technicians that they have been forced to resort to what one source describes as "pseudo protection," for presidential or vice presidential events, shining powerful floodlights, hanging huge drapes, or erecting special barriers in lieu of posting Counter Snipers at vulnerable location. In recent months, the shortage of CS technicians has been so acute that on several occasions, only one officer has been assigned to plan advance security for an event involving the president or vice president. "They were cutting down power to do basic assessments," says a veteran Secret Service official. "CS advance is very difficult. You could see [the technician] running around like a madman." Double standard. Morale in the service is plummeting, many agents say, in part because of a widely perceived double standard. Agents who enjoy close relationships with Secret Service executives in Washington are given more favorable assignments and other treatment than those who don't, many in the service say. In the sometimes arcane parlance of the Secret Service, these agents have what is known as a "hook" with headquarters. The Secret Service has also had long-standing management difficulties with its Uniformed Division, the officers and technicians who are at the front line of defense at the White House and at foreign missions. They include members of the elite Counter Sniper teams, the Emergency Response Team, and the K-9 bomb squad units. Many of these officers complain of being treated as second-class citizens. Plainclothes agents sometimes refer to uniformed officers as "box creatures," because they stand watch in the little white booths around the White House grounds. Sources say that some officers who transferred and became plainclothes agents found anonymous notes soon after taking up their new duties saying, "once a guard, always a guard." Many of the uniformed officers are overworked, with even supervisors forced to put in an enormous amount of overtime. Since last October, the Secret Service has lost more than 256 Uniformed Division officers, according to internal statistics provided to U.S. News; if current trends continue, the total could rise as high as 400 by year's end, nearly a third of the Uniformed Division's workforce. The personnel drain throughout the service has led to a decrease in the number of officers and agents available to protect the White House. "They cut posts around the White House before 9/11," says one source. Secret Service executives have had to shift officers who train cadets at the Beltsville, Md., academy to the White House complex. Officers assigned to guard foreign missions around Washington have also been shifted to stand post at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Valued members of the Secret Service's technical staff are also departing in significant numbers, including telephone and computer experts and highly trained encryption specialists. Pressure cooker. The numbers alone are alarming, many inside the Secret Service say, but they also translate into a worrisome loss of experience among those who remain. When veteran trainers and supervisors leave, they take with them years of institutional knowledge and practical, hands-on experience that often cannot be taught by less experienced personnel. Agents and former Uniformed Division officers tell U.S. News that they fear that the enormous pressure to quickly hire and train new agents, combined with the lower hiring standards that were implemented in recent years, may further compromise security, if the wrong people are brought on board. In the past, Secret Service job applicants who had used any drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, and heroin, were automatically disqualified and sent on their way. But now, sources say, an applicant who has stayed clear of marijuana for just 36 months and smoked it only 10 times can still qualify. And the Secret Service will consider candidates with cocaine or heroin useas long as it was before their 21st birthday. The service now classifies such activity as a "youthful indiscretion." In meetings with members of Congress, Treasury Department overseers, and White House officials, Secret Service executives have sought to downplay the extent of personnel problems. But they have also had little to say publicly about their new approach to guarding high government officials and their families. Director Stafford and his deputies have committed very little information about the new protective-methology procedures to paper, several agents say. These agents worry that there has not been the kind of rigorous training, testing, and lesson planning based on the new protective theory, as has been the case with traditional protective methods. Agents and officers interviewed for this article expressed concern that if something goes wrong, there is so little on paper about the protective-methodology procedures that line agents and officers may be held accountable for decisions made by higher-ups. "Congress," says one veteran agent, "is going to grill our behinds, barbecue our backsides when, not if, but whensomething happens." Adds another agent: "All you're doing is counting the days and hours you've been lucky." Some key causes of concern: The Secret Service is so hard pressed to find trained Mag officers to screen people attending public functions with the president, vice president, and other top officials that it has had to reduce the number of such officers at some events. When heads of Secret Service details request Mag officers, they are often told that none is available; when they turn in security advance plans to headquarters, approved plans often come back with the number of Mag officers reduced, even for the president's detail, sources say. Detail heads have been forced on some occasions to pull agents from other posts to fill in near X-ray machines to scan crowds or even to use hand-held devices to screen attendees. One source says agents assigned to Cheney always make sure they are "vested up," have their bulletproof vests on, when they don't get magnetometer support and worry that a terrorist or a deranged person might sneak a gun into an event. Because of concerns in part over excessive cost, Secret Service officials have declined to install ballistic glass in front of windows of hotels or other venues where key protectees have been scheduled to appear. "They won't put up ballistic glass," says an agent, "because they have to pay money to bring in a truck with a hydraulic lift to roll the glass in." Supervisors also frequently nix requests from agents for camouflaged armored sheets of steel used at outdoor events or in hotels to guard against sniper fire. Agents say the Secret Service has failed to adjust its post-9/11 security procedures to address the potential threat of an aerial attack. The service, sources say, must demand more aggressive vetting of small aircraft by local police and other government agencies in advance of public events involving the president and vice president. Agents say they are especially worried about charter planes, because they receive virtually no security screening and their flight paths are typically not monitored. "It raises concerns," says one agent, "about how to reassure those who are under our protection about their safety, when really, we can't." Security precautions taken for the first lady, some agents say, are often dangerously inadequate. In Washington, Laura Bush's motorcade does not even get the benefit of "intersection control"coordinated traffic lights, a basic security measure accorded many high-risk visiting foreign dignitaries. And agents say they are concerned about the security of the vice president's wife, Lynne. When her father was president, Chelsea Clinton was regularly assigned a two-man Counter Assault Team, in addition to her regular detail, after she received threats when she was a Stanford University student. The Bush daughters briefly were assigned similar teams after September 11, sources say, but they have since been pulled back. Added to the loss of experienced agents and officers, many in the Secret Service believe executives remain skeptical of the value of some elite special units like Counter Assault, Counter Surveillance, and Emergency Response teamsthe Pentagon-trained Uniformed Division officers who protect the White House. These sources say that many senior supervisory agents in the field and officials at headquarters are philosophically at odds with using these techniques. "They think we are cowboys," says a former veteran Emergency Response Team member, "and that it's overkill." This former officer and other sources say there's a kind of generation gap, due in part to the fact that many senior officials never went through the specialized training now required of the Secret Service's most elite units. Training is a key measurement. Many agents and officers describe the training of new recruits as excellent, but others say the Secret Service is behind the curve. "These guys think old school," says one former officer who came to the Secret Service from the military. The specialized teams train to respond to multiple threats, like the September 11 attacks, and to rocket, chemical, and biological assaults. But most officers not on the elite teams and nonspecial team agents are still trained on a "single cycle" threat, such as that posed by a lone gunman. Some of these agents believe that after 9/11, the service should have modified its training curriculum to focus more on responding to multipronged attacks. "Standing down." Paramount among the Secret Service's high-priority protective missions, of course, is the White House and its inhabitants. Despite the agency's ability to scramble and redeploy agents and officers from other responsibilities over the past year, the challenge is only likely to grow, agents and officers say. More than five years ago, special operations experts from the elite military counterterrorism unit Delta Force conducted a threat assessment of the White House and found numerous vulnerabilities. Secret Service executives have implemented only a few minor changes since that study, sources say. The threats are varied and not easy, in some cases, to counter. Veteran Secret Service officers worry, for example, about the long-standing custom of "standing down" when members of Congress come to call at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. One former officer says he requested a congressman's voting card to double-check the member's identification and was "reamed out" by his supervisor after the congressman complained. Officers who spoke with U.S. News for this article say they have been forced time and again to allow members of Congress to enter the White House complex without identification because they have complained loudly when challenged. The worries, these sources say, are not misplaced. In April 1994, at the funeral reception for former President Richard Nixon at his library in Yorba Linda, Calif., a middle-aged man using fake identification papers sauntered through the VIP-congressional area and approached then President Clinton and former President George Bush. He attempted to engage them in conversation before he was finally detained, arrested, and charged with trespassing. "There's no way we can know even a quarter of these people," says one officer. "Yet we are supposed to allow them onto the ground without a picture ID. You can buy congressional pins or congressional license plates off eBay." The Secret Service has a long and proud history of meeting difficult challenges and beating them. Many agents and officers, still intensely loyal to the agency, say they believe that with the right leadership and an influx of new blood, the service can handle whatever new demands it is required to meet. But others worry that the double whammy of personnel losses and increased responsibilities may be impeding the ability of the agency to function at the high levels expected of it. For some in the Secret Service, that challenge comes down to a decidedly personal level. "I hate to say this, but I couldn't have cared less," says one officer who has left the service. "If someone tried something, I probably would have missed it, because I just did not care."

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R.A.T.M.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

http://www.ratm.com/ Rage against the machine reformation rumours. http://www.musicfanclubs.org/rage/ Renegades of funk. The revolutionary band Rage Against the Machine has announced today that they would be uniting again after the band disbanded to pursue separate careers over a year ago. "We've been re-called by the Sony corporation to sell products to the masses." Said lead singer Zach de la Rocha at a press conference last Thursday. The band also announced that because they have re-united they are making some new changes to their old records. In this article they have asked me to include the new lyric sheets for some of the new songs and to name-drop their major brand name corporation, Sony. Who are now using the once revolutionary song Killing In The Name Of, to pimp the world the Sony corporation's video game machine, Playstation. The re-naming of their songs has spawned from this new revolutionary co-opt. "The first song we want to change is Guerilla Radio. We decided to change it to 'Sony Playstation'. We were gonna change it to 'Sony Radio' but decided to go with 'Sony Playstation' as we thought this might be better to pimp Playstations" said lead singer Zach de la Rocha. Their new lyrics have been dubbed by Maximum Rock and Roll as "The most revolutionary new mantra the sony corporation has ever owned." The new lyrics are as follow: Guerilla playstation! "Transmission third world war third round. Play Colin Mcrae Rally for full surround sound No shelter if your looking for shade, most of our games come from Accolade. As the polls close like I casket, all truth devoured You'll see our ads in the shadow of power. A spectacle monopolized, buy Sony II there's no choice disguised. Is it Crash Bandicoot for those who burn and toil? Or free toasters for the thirst for blood and oil A spectacle monopolized we hold the reigns now close your eyes For the fist-a-gon and Sony corporation Who stuff the banks and staff the party ranks Exports? Or housing for the poor. None of the above fuck it plug in the chord Lights out, Sony Playstation Turn that shit on Lights out Sony Playstation. Turn that shit on! Contact I hijacked the TV screen Selling you Playstation and our CDs Way past the days of protesting DC Sound off. Now you'll never be free. Who got 'em yo check the federal file. All you Rage fans see they sold out in style The army of pigs smiles then bins your file Cause your on the idiot box and the radio dial Lights out Sony Playstation. Turn that shit on. Lights out Sony Playstation. Turn that shit on" With smashing lyrics like that they sell playstatoins to the poorest most oppressed RATM fans. They have also announced that their song that was almost number one around the world was also going to be changed. Killing in the Name Of which was a major success world wide, is now being changed to Sellin' Sony Playstation the lyrics are as follows: So I know that market forces. Call for big corporate mergers The call for big corporate mergers Are because of market forces Selling Sony Playstation Selling Sony Playstation MORE ON http://www.raisethefist.com/news.cgi?artical=wire/----9858853t4a.article

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Presidential guards murder detail.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Guatemala Tries 3 Officers, Saying They Instigated '90 Killing After years of delays and intimidation, three high-ranking officers who once commanded a presidential security and intelligence unit are being tried on charges that they masterminded the killing of a vocal critic of the military in 1990.....( New York Times, 9 Sep 02) Trial alleges Guatemalan guard's deadly role Myrna Mack knew the death squads were after her. The 39-year-old anthropologist asked neighbors to watch for intruders outside her home, began varying her travel habits and told a priest she feared for her life. They got her anyway.....( AP, 8 Sep 02) Guatamala used PROMIS stolen Inslaw software to track and trace dissidents.The AFP still use it even though it's said to have a CIA backdoor. The reminders of Canada's role in an espionage scandal in Israel have distant echoes of 40 years ago when Canada was researching North Vietnam for the UN and leaking information to the CIA through ASIS.Page 85.'Oyster' by Brian Toohey.

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San Diego secrets a go go.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20020907-9999_2m7computer.html Sailor gets 7 months in theft of secret Navy property Petty officer took hard drives, data By James W. Crawley UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER September 7, 2002 In a case interlaced with theft, potential espionage and the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, a Navy submariner pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he improperly possessed defense secrets and stole and sold government-owned computer hard drives. Petty Officer 1st Class Bryan Moody was sentenced by a military judge to seven months in the brig, loss of pay and was reduced to seaman recruit. Moody, an electrician's mate, formerly assigned to the submarine Helena at Point Loma Naval Base, likely will be dismissed from the Navy after he completes his sentence. Despite describing the case as "extremely troubling," Navy prosecutors agreed to lesser charges to keep classified information from being divulged during the court-martial and for Moody's cooperation in determining whether military secrets were compromised. "The primary importance in these cases is the damage assessment," said Lt. Cmdr. Shannon Kopplin. "There is a competing government concern that's of equal or greater importance than confining someone (in jail)." As part of the plea bargain, the most serious charge, possession of classified information, was dropped in favor of a lesser count of possessing national defense documents. Moody could have been sentenced to more than 18 years on all the charges. Navy investigators found dozens of computer diskettes, a secret Navy chart and three pictures that officials said were classified "secret" at Moody's San Diego home and at his former wife's residence in San Diego, after she called authorities. The diskettes reportedly contained classified tests and exam questions about the nuclear reactors and submarine operations, both closely held naval secrets. The chart, sources familiar with the case said, included information about efforts to track a Russian submarine off the West Coast several years ago. Navy officials, citing security concerns, refused to comment. The pictures showed Moody and another sailor inside the Helena's top-secret reactor compartment, sources said. Between 1996 and June 2001, Moody stole from the Helena at least five computer hard drives, which the Navy was trading in for new equipment. Moody sold three of the five drives on E-Bay to people in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida. Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents tracked down two drives, but one sold to a man in Florida was resold to a Texas used-parts distributor, which sold it to a firm in the Dominican Republic. None of the hard drives seized by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service contained classified information, and there was no evidence Moody had passed secrets to foreign agents, testified special agent Krista Pixley. The Sept. 11 attack put an interesting spin on the case. The chart had been sent to the Pentagon for review by Navy intelligence officers last summer. It was destroyed when the hijacked jetliner crashed into the building. Moody argued that a lax attitude aboard the Helena allowed him to take the hard drives out of recycling bins and casually remove secret information. "I never viewed my actions as aberrant at the time," he said during his sentencing. But, now, Moody said, "I've harmed the U.S. Navy with my actions."

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Busy week in counterintelligence.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Petty officer took hard drives, data In a case interlaced with theft, potential espionage and the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, a Navy submariner pleaded guilty yesterday to charges he improperly possessed defense secrets and stole and sold government-owned computer hard drives......( Union-Tribune, 7 Sep 02) Sailor possessed military secrets Navy submariner pleaded guilty to charges he improperly possessed defense secrets and stole government-owned computer hard drives, which he later sold on the Internet.....( AP, 7 Sep 02) Little Change in a System That Failed The Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have proven remarkably resilient in defense of their own turf.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) When Playing the Field, the Game Gets Rough THE conventional wisdom about what is troubling American intelligence, particularly human intelligence the stuff spies do is that the system is broken; that on Sept. 11 the Central Intelligence Agency just did not have enough language-qualified spy handlers on the ground around the world to do the job.....( New York Times op-ed by Milt Bearden, 8 Sep 02) Spy History 101: America's Intelligence Quotient MOST of America's best-known spies from Nathan Hale to Francis Gary Powers and from the Rosenbergs to Aldrich H. Ames are remembered because they got caught or because they spied against their country.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Getting the Intelligence Services a Vulnerable Nation Needs If anything changed after Sept. 11, it was America's sense of invulnerability. Suddenly, this became a nation under threat, a nation without security. What needs to be done, what can be done short and long term by the intelligence services to protect the United States against future attack?.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Eyes in the Sky, Ears to the Wall, and Still Wanting ....For more than 50 years, providing the country with early warning of a nuclear missile attack from Russia has been the first priority of the American intelligence community. The system has worked well, thanks largely to billions of dollars worth of technical intelligence.....( New York Times op-ed by James Bamford, 8 Sep 02) Learning to Spy With Allies What will Al Qaeda do next? One big problem in figuring it out has been that, in important ways, the terrorist network is more effectively globalized than the modern intelligence organizations that try to penetrate it....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Bin Laden's Guys Have Cloaks and Daggers, Too FOR all the resources American agents are devoting to watching the myriad tentacles of Al Qaeda, one of the things they have been forced to consider is that Al Qaeda may be watching them.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Pearl Harbor as Prologue Why does intelligence fail? Remember Pearl Harbor....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Trust No One: In New York, Everyone Is Suspect now thinks we ought to keep an eye out for suspicious behavior and bring it to the attention of the experts who keep files on suspiciousness.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Face It: Your Looks Are Revealing In the last year, intelligence agents have been showing more interest in the work of the California psychologist Paul Ekman than ever before.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) The Real Me: The Online Version It is no secret that the Internet offers a wealth of information. It's even known that much of what we used to call "intelligence" is freely available online. I decided to find out what I could learn about myself just by consulting Internet-based resources....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) Book Contends Chief of A-Bomb Team Was Once a Communist Adding a startling chapter to the long historical debate over the secret laboratory that developed the atom bomb in World War II, a new book concludes that its leader, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, belonged to the American Communist Party in the late 1930's and early 40's.....( New York Times, 8 Sep 02) [Read review of book by CI Centre Professor Nigel West] Trial alleges Guatemalan guard's deadly role Myrna Mack knew the death squads were after her. The 39-year-old anthropologist asked neighbors to watch for intruders outside her home, began varying her travel habits and told a priest she feared for her life. They got her anyway.....( AP, 8 Sep 02) The US is expanding its Echelon spy network THE DEFENSE MINISTRY SAYS THAT BUILDING AN AMERICAN RADAR STATION IN LATVIA COULD ENDANGER THE SECURITY OF NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE. RUSSIAN STRATEGISTS ARE ALREADY REGRETTING SHUTTING DOWN THE RADIO INTELLIGENCE STATION AT LOURDES, CUBA, AND ARE ACCUSING THE US OF INCONSISTENCY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS.....( Russia Weekly, 8 Sep 02) http://www.cicentre.com/

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Secret Service crisis 2.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

First Lady cancels USN&WR interview over Secret Service cover story President Bush and his wife are steaming over U.S. News & World Report's story about Secret Service protection for their twin daughters. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer calls the article "a disappointing departure from the media's traditional role of respecting the privacy of the president's family," but editor Brian Duffy tells Howard Kurtz the magazine performed "the usual balancing act between privacy concerns and whether the measures being taken are adequate to ensure (the twins') safety." (Washington Post) http://www.poynter.org/medianews/

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09 Sep '02

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Dermot Avon,a liar,an incompetent buffoon and Vic policeman.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Dermot Avon Fuckwit of the week. by profrv(a)(nospam)fuckmicrosoft.com 8:51pm Mon Sep 9 '02 article#33272 Dermot Avon enjoys lying,he told me he was from my ISP with a sickly smirk,then his little weasel mate,Conte told me they were Persons Impersonating Govt.servants or P.I.Gs. http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/gabdallah.htm "The Deputy Ombudsman began an inquiry into the circumstances of the shooting of Gary Abdallah and after an eight-month investigation suggested that the two detectives at the fatal shooting appeared to have agreed to corroborate each other's false accounts (The Herald, 22 December 1989)." FROM Gary Abdallah Abdallah was wanted for arson in connection with a $300,000 fire at Simons Disco in Northcote. He grew up as a young armed robber in the Flemington area and a member of a well known criminal gang which resided in his suburb and its neighbour, Ascot Vale. Other members of the crew included Mark and Jason Moran, Graham Jensen, Frank Valastro, Mark Militano, Jedd Houghton, Victor Pierce, Peter McKevoy and Santo Mercuri. Houghton, like Abdallah, was killed by police during investigations into the 1988 Walsh St police shootings. On March 31, 1988, a bank robbery occurred at a State Bank branch in Oak Park. The armed robbers left empty handed but shots were fired. Forensic records showed the gun used was definitely the same one used in the Walsh Street shootings. This robbery was linked to four unsolved recent hold-ups, police dubbing the perpetrators as the Flemington Crew. The gun used was retrieved next to tram tracks in Parkville's Royal Park Golf Course in 1990. In late 1988, the TyEyre Taskforce into Walsh Street undertook a series of dawn raids on drug dealers, armed robbers and other known criminals in some way connected with the police shootings. Abdallah was one of the men at the top of the list of people police wanted to speak with. Abdallah became a Walsh Street suspect on the evidence of the prosecution's key witness, Jason Ryan, whose statement was changed four times and finally thrown out by the court. Ryan, part of Richmond's feared crime family, the Pettingill's, claimed that Abdallah's part in the killings was to provide and drive the getaway car which the alleged killers had sought from his Carlton commission flat. The evidence was collected in an interview with Ryan conducted by Det John Noonan. He had taken Ryan on a trip out of the city, to Mansfield in the states north-east. It was there Ryan was interrogated and from his ever changing information and statements, Noonan initiated a case against his uncle, Victor Pierce, friend, Anthony Farrell, associate, Peter McEvoy and uncle, Trevor Pettingill. Abdallah feared for his life after he heard rumours that the police were out to kill him. He had good reason to be fearful: Jedd Houghton was shot dead by police in a Bendigo caravan park in November 1988. For two months Abdallah eluded the police. Raids were made on all known associates including his girlfriends family and the family of Jedd Houghton. News filtered back to Abdallah that police intended to kill him if they got to him first. He kept away from them until visiting Detective John Noonan at St Kilda Rd Police HQ on February 22, 1989 when he arranged a meeting with the task force head and his lawyer. Noonan told him that he was not wanted for the shooting, and Abdallah said he hadn't come in earlier "because people were telling me I was going to be knocked [killed]". Leo Musgrave, a Melbourne justice of the peace who knew Abdallah and Houghton as young criminals in the inner western suburb of Flemington, was also anxious about the atmosphere after he saw Abdallah's name on police bulletin boards. According to Roma Carew, the mother of Stephen Carew, a close friend of Abdallah, Musgrave warned her in December 1988 that if the police got to Abdallah first "the bastards will kill him". Stephen Carew said Musgrave approached him twice and urged that Abdallah give himself up to police, promising to ensure that Abdallah got the warning. Det. John Noonan (left) Jason Ryan and Victor Pierce (right) Noonan assured Abdallah that he was not wanted in any relation to the case. Abdallah's car, suspected of being used in the getaway, had been sold before the murders. It was later obtained by police although their tests proved nothing. He claimed not to have heard of the murders until the following day in the newspaper. Abdallah also said he never used telephones throwing police accusations that he'd phoned fellow suspects McKevoy and Pettingill out the window. Abdallah told Noonan that he didn't believe his friend Jed Houghton would ever have anything to do with Jason Ryan. Abdallah thought that Houghton couldn't stand him thinking that he was untrustworthy with a big mouth. Noonan sent Abdallah to arson over the Simons Nightclub incident. He was then bailed. Although Noonan assured him of his presumed innocence, Abdallah was immediately trailed. The police then planted a listening device in Abdallah's flat in Drummond Street, Carlton, and set up a permanent surveillance position in the building opposite. Abdallah's lease ended on Sunday April 9, 1989. Police surveillance was also about to end. He left his flat momentarily, was trailed by police who intercepted him and returned him home. Police claim he was being arrested for the attempted murder of a policeman's son several weeks before. It was there that Abdallah allegedly pulled an imitation pistol on detectives Cliff Lockwood and Dermot Avon from City West CIB. Lockwood fired six shots from his gun and then let off another one from his partners weapon. Abdallah was critically wounded and died after 40 days in a coma from complications arising from a bullet wound to the back of the head. When Gary Abdallah was shot and eventually died there was a large amount of media attention paid to the circumstances of his shooting. The Abdallah family and their solicitor were vocal in questioning the police version of events and demanding an independent public inquiry. Other influential groups and individuals also publicly questioned the shootings. The fact that Gary Abdallah was shot at seven times and had a bullet wound in the back of his head were not matters that could be readily explained. It was announced that there would be a special series of coronial inquiries into the shootings. The inquest has examined the circumstances of the shootings in a way that has never been done previously. The Deputy Ombudsman began an inquiry into the circumstances of the shooting of Gary Abdallah and after an eight-month investigation suggested that the two detectives at the fatal shooting appeared to have agreed to corroborate each other's false accounts (The Herald, 22 December 1989). One level of criticism against police suggested that in the wake of the killing of the two police officers revenge overcame reason in the police force. A lawyer representing a man charged in relation to the 'Walsh Street' killings said in court, while objecting to his client being held in custody, 'he is probably safer in Pentridge than on the streets where he could be subjected to a bullet in the back of his head' (The Sun, 13 September 1990). The coroner was told that 'After the two young policemen were killed, it was if the police had some kind of vendetta' (The Age, 13 September 1990). Mrs Carew, a local resident, told the coroner that a local Justice of the Peace, who she had known for many years, came to her house and asked her to get her sons to tell Abdallah, who at the time police wanted to question about 'Walsh Street' to come to his home and he would make sure that Abdallah 'got to the police station all right'. She said the Justice of the Peace told her: 'If they get to him first, the bastards will kill him'. In 1989, the Victorian government appointed state coroner Hal Hallenstein to conduct an inquiry into police killings following the shooting of Abdallah. Abdallah's family asked the deputy ombudsman, Dr Barry Perry, to investigate the shooting. His 329-page report was completed shortly before Christmas 1989. It said that "the evidence seems to provide some basis for believing that there was criminal conduct" in the police shooting. During the inquest, the Abdallah family lawyer expressed a more direct view: the pistol was a plant and Abdallah was on his knees, his hands behind his head, when he was shot like a dog on a short lead. In Victoria there were eleven fatal shootings by police in the two year period up to April 1989. This compares to only ten fatal shootings by police in the previous thirteen years. The number of fatal shootings by police had increased from only two in 1985 and one in 1986 to five in 1987 and five in 1988. The fatal shooting of Abdallah led to growing demands for a judicial inquiry into the shootings. Those calling for such an inquiry included families of some of the deceased, the Federation of Community Legal Centres, the Victorian Council of Civil Liberties, Member of Parliament Mr Neil Cole, Pentridge prison chaplain, Father Peter Norden, and the Bar Association. These demands were based on the growing number of shootings, the circumstances surrounding some of the shootings and the belief that the usual investigation by the Homicide Squad overseen by the police Internal Investigation Department and an inquiry by the coroner would not be sufficient to uncover any wrongdoing by police involved. The shootings became the subject of growing media attention and a public meeting was organised by the families of the deceased and the Flemington Legal Service. Hundreds of people attended the public meeting and passed a motion calling on the government to set up a judicial inquiry into the shootings and police accountability. There may be something wrong with Avons left eye,one time he faced me and his wandering eye was moving around the ceiling in the corner.If I was partnering this dingbat I would carry a knife as well nic.(should regulations allow of course.) See you weds,suckers.Get your stories straight.

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Capita Punishment UK Stasi.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Two in five face job vetting in drive to detect offenders 'The new Criminal Records Bureau predicts that within three years it will be making more than 11 million checks on past offenders, out of a working-age population of 29 million [in the UK]. The police previously made about one million criminal record checks a year ... The government drive means that a Criminal Record Certificate could soon become as essential for a job interview as a curriculum vitae and a suit ... Of the 11,627,595 checks predicted to be made each year from 2005, only 3.2 million will be on those who work with children. The other eight million or so certificates will be requested by people seeking to apply for work in a wide variety of other roles and professions. To reach these targets - which the bureau must hit if it is to become a self-funding body - employers will have to be encouraged to demand the £12 certificates from applicants' ( Independent ) The CRB has received a great deal of coverage in the UK media over the last two weeks, after it failed to clear a huge backlog of checks on school staff in time for the start of term. As the CRB is nominally a Home Office agency, the public has been given the impression that this was a civil service cock-up. In fact, the work of the CRB is performed by Capita, a private firm with a long record of botching government contracts See also this Telegraph article, and this Guardian article Capita punishment 'New Labour can't master the "ever-faster waves of technology". All it can do is produce needless suffering and throw public money at bungling and rapacious corporations. In all the coverage of the Criminal Records Bureau fiasco, few journalists have noticed the boldness of the Home Office's ambition. At the moment, Capita, the out-sourcing company whose failure to deliver benefits or stop fraud has made it an old friend of this column, can't check the criminal records of teachers. Children are probably dying on the roads because Ministers are too scared of the post-Soham tabloids to allow them into the safety of the classrooms. Today's scandal, however, could well be dwarfed in the spring ...' ( Nick Cohen via Observer ) See also this article by Michael Mandel from 1997, this Observer report quoting Scotland Yard sources as saying that CRB checks are likely to be virtually useless in any case, as the police database against which the checks are made is riddled with errors.LINKS? http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm

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Saxotoxin sprinkled pretzels.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Who will risk experimenting with SAXITOXIN? It is 1000 times more toxic >than a typical synthetic nerve gas such as sarin. It was used by CIA in >1950's as a suicide capsule. President Nixon ordered entire stock of of >SAXOTOXIN to be destroyed. > There are plus point to SAXOTOXIN, it has been used in medical research. > Checking on the structure of Saxitoxin in the Merck Index reveals that it >> has a most interesting architecture. Three terminal NH2 groups, an ether >> linkage and a ketone. Its stable in acid solution but decomposes rapidly in >> alkaline media. It looks like very good food for anaerobic bacteria and I >> suspect would decompose rapidly in the presence of acetogens and >> methanogens. Try a sample of digested sewage sludge (anaerobic) culture with >> some milk for a few days at 35 Celsius until gas is produced. Then add the >> Saxitoxin at known dilution, sample and analyse for Saxitoxin every hour. >> Within 12 hours I'll bet its all gone. Not sure of the specific test used to >> confirm saxitoxin but I guess its capable of parts per billion. Source in nature... http://www.scuba-doc.com/ingest.htm

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08 Sep '02

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08 Sep '02

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opsec hint: don't give classified into to Moussaoui
by Optimizzin Al-gorithym 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

US accidentally gave Moussaoui classified information on al-Qaeda: report September 07, 2002, 11:09 PM WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government accidentally gave Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in connection with the September 11 attacks, classified information about al-Qaeda, ABC News reported. The documents and computer disks were mistakenly handed over to Moussaoui along with materials the government is required to furnish for his legal defense, several legal sources, including one at the Justice Department, told the network Friday. Moussaoui is serving as his own counsel. <snip> http://www.arabia.com/afp/news/int/article/english/0,10846,283377,00.html

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research & homeland insecurity
by Optimizzin Al-gorithym 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

(sent to AAAS members) Dear AAAS Member: As the anniversary of September 11th approaches, AAAS continues to be engaged in issues that relate to national security and the role of science and technology. One such issue is the safe and responsible conduct of research involving biological agents and toxins. AAAS was recently asked by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to assist in alerting our members to the federal mandate (Public Law 107-188) requiring all facilities and persons that possess, use, or transfer agents or toxins considered a threat to animals, plants, animal and plant products and/or public health (called "select agents") to notify the CDC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Approximately 200,000 facilities were sent a copy of the notification form by the CDC. The deadline for submitting a completed form to the CDC is September 10, 2002. All entities that receive a copy of the form must comply, even if they do not possess a select agent or toxin. If you are in possession of a select agent or toxin and did not receive a form, you should call CDC's toll-free number: 1-866-567-4232. Further information on the select agent list, procedures for notification, and exemptions can be found at the following websites: CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/lrsat.htm USDA: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ncie AAAS is initiating an effort to monitor the effects of new national security initiatives on the research community. In that regard, we'd be pleased to hear about your experience, whether positive or negative, in complying with this new federal mandate. You can forward such information to Dr. Mark Frankel, director of the AAAS Program on Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law at mfrankel(a)aaas.org Sincerely, Alan I. Leshner Chief Executive Officer

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Re: seeking information for Tired News article
by Optimizzin Al-gorithym 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

At 02:33 PM 9/7/02 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >> What kinds of people are involved? > >Doctors, Lawyers, Mathematecians, Felons, Druggies, Anti-druggies, >Anarchists, Libertarians, Right-Wing-Fanatics, Left-Wing-Fanatics, >Teachers, Housewives, Househusbands, students, cops, criminals... We're all just voices in TM's head.. >> Who (socially, i mean, not names!) exactly are the members of the group? > >Agains, there IS NO GROUP. I'm not trying to be cute here - THERE IS >NO GROUP. The whole concept of "group" is flawed in this context. Dogthinker seeks Alpha Cat. >> WN has had a very familiar relationship with the cypherpunks - has it been >> viewed as a positive thing? Which? WN is widely considered lame ('tired' to you) esp. since Declan left. On the other hand, publicity can attract contentful participants. Also trolling feds and folks looking for help with homework. >> With whom else are the cypherpunks allied? > >[I actually had to take a moment to wipe the tears of laughter from >the question] > >Nobody. Well a few authors have gotten free plane trips & bed & board at the Feds' expense.. some even came back after it was over. Any such "alliance" would require a Group Consensus - >something which is just patently impossible. If you ever find two >CP's who can agree on enough to come to a broad Consensus, you let me >know so I can mark it on my calendar. True 'nuff. Now ask us about protocols which let you determine a consensus... well, that's tasty. >> Thanks for your time. I am hoping to get the story done before the end of >> next week (i.e. before the actual party.) Of course, I would never publish >> the location of the party or any other information that you don't feel >> comfortable about. And 'we' should 'trust' "you" *why* ?? (Ho-ho, list relevence! Explain/define the scare-quotes! For extra credit, explain how protocols might avoid spoofing.)

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police video surveillance of public schools; facerecog too
by Optimizzin Al-gorithym 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fi-campus8sep08.story SANTEE, Calif. -- As Mike Brooder pulls into the student parking lot outside West Hills High School, wireless cameras record his face and license plate--doing the same to every car that follows. The cameras then track the 17-year-old senior as he walks up a concrete path, studies his schedule, scratches his chin, waves to friends and then wanders to class. Nearly every move Brooder makes--and every move of his 2,300 classmates--is captured and stored in the campus' database. Following last September's terrorist attacks and years of school shootings, West Hills High sits on the cutting edge of the emerging surveillance society. Each bathroom door is monitored. Sensors that detect the smoke of a single match send alerts to campus security. By Christmas, four more cameras will be installed, and hall monitors will carry wireless computers that can pull up a student's school picture, class schedule and attendance record. School officials are considering whether to expand the SkyWitness surveillance system by adding facial recognition software that will allow a computer to filter out who should--and who should not--be on campus. Technology, once viewed primarily as a learning tool, is building a wall of electronic security on campus. "People are saying they expected this to happen after the shootings and the terrorists last year," said Brooder, an honor student who plays on the school baseball team. "Still, it seems a little overwhelming and extreme." And perhaps likely to become far more common--not just in schools, but everywhere. Schools are among the first to embrace new technology, often because companies view campuses as perfect testing grounds before rolling products out to corporate America. For instance, one of the companies behind West Hills' system, PacketVideo Corp., predicts that demand for products like SkyWitness will grow, as people are tracked at factories, office parks, stadiums--even places such as the Third Street Promenade shopping district in Santa Monica. Companies like the fact that students enjoy fewer constitutional protections than adults and have lower expectations of privacy than their parents. For many students, such surveillance is standard, with cameras at every bank ATM and many fast-food drive-throughs. But the desire to protect has led to an erosion of individual privacy, civil liberties advocates argue. "Once privacy is gone, you can't get it back," said Dale Kelly Bankhead, a spokeswoman for the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial counties. "This is not just about schools, but about a broader social attitude." Relying on such high-tech systems is an unusual move for high schools, but is expected to become a more popular trend in the post-Sept, 11 world, said Kenneth S. Trump, president and chief executive of National School Safety and Security Services, a Cleveland-based consulting firm. At Tewksbury Memorial High School, about an hour outside Boston, the push for security has gone so far as to result in a video-surveillance system that lets both educators--and local police--watch the hallways. "Cameras are everywhere someone wants to watch over," Trump said. The technology at West Hills relies on advanced hardware, but basic, off-the-shelf technology is already used by both parents and educators to watch kids. Software programs can take snapshots of every Web page they visit and every e-mail they send. Devices such as AutoWatch can be popped into an automobile and programmed to record a car's speed, as well as times, dates and the lengths of time it is driven. Cell-phone bills list the calls a student makes and receives. "You might call it control," said Joe Schramm, head of security at West Hills. "We call it keeping the kids safe." Tucked into the scrub-brush valley of Santee, West Hills High appears to be nothing but safe. The average SAT score is nearly 1100, and 70% of last year's seniors are attending either a community college or a four-year institution this fall. But West Hills High has not gone untouched by fear. Less than three miles away, Charles "Andy" Williams went on a shooting rampage last year, killing two students and wounding 13 others at Santana High School. The community was stunned when nearly two weeks later another student launched a shooting spree at a different school in the Grossmont Union High School District. Jason Hoffman, 18, wounded five people at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon. Hoffman committed suicide while awaiting trial. Last month Williams was sentenced to prison for 50 years to life. Despite the violence, the school district was forced to cut its budget across the board; the security group lost three of its 10 employees, including two of the staff members who helped patrol the 76-acre West Hills campus. Hoping to offset the pain of the staff cuts, the district started to look at technology it already had in place on its campuses and explore how the tools could be used for security purposes, said Sue Mangiapane, education global account manager for Cisco Systems Inc. The San Jose computer giant had been hired to install the core routers, switches and servers that formed the computer brain to link campuses with the district's offices and, in turn, to the Internet. Initially, the technology had been designed for instructional use, such as creating digital lockers where students could store their electronic art projects. Then, the focus shifted toward security. At a technology conference this spring, executives from Cisco and San Diego-based PacketVideo began discussing the school shootings and tossing around ideas of how the tragedies could have been avoided. "Schools aren't a key security market for us," said James Carol, chairman and co-founder of PacketVideo, a privately owned software company that creates wireless video networks. The company, along with Cisco and Sony, donated the equipment and handled the installation of the $50,000 SkyWitness system. "This was the right thing to do for a school that's essentially in our backyard," Carol said. The project at West Hills also provided the technology companies with a test lab in which to develop and try out a security system that the firms will ultimately market to corporate America and government agencies. Already, PacketVideo's software is used by cell phone and technology firms such as NTT DoCoMo in Japan and Siemens AG in Germany, and tapped for private security projects. Tech firms such as Microsoft Corp. and Apple Computer Co. have a long history of donating software and hardware to schools. The motivation is partly the push to be a corporate good citizen and partly the desire to influence the consumer habits of future shoppers. "If you want to stress-test a technology, particularly a security system, a school is a good place," said Trump of National School Safety and Security Services. "Most often, the biggest obstacle a company must overcome is the issue of cost. If [the technology] is free, many schools will be open to it." Aiding the decision is the fact that minors have fewer rights than adults, said John Pescatore, research director for security at the industry-consulting firm Gartner. "If the system gets too intrusive, the school and the technology companies are likely to get fewer complaints and fewer legal actions filed over it" than they would elsewhere, Pescatore said. "You can do things on a school campus that you could never do in an office building." Few of the students at West Hills or their parents knew about the new surveillance system when classes began in late August. The school's football team, the Wolf Pack, and the campus cheerleaders had practiced on campus this summer and saw the cameras being installed. Rumors flew, as word of the new technology became campus gossip. Some students, carrying their bar-coded photo identification cards, grumbled about the digital devices that tracked their every step. But most wandered nonchalantly by the wireless cameras, ignoring the monitoring. "We're observed all the time," said senior Kimberly Schmidtke, 17. "It's just that they're now taping us." That such surveillance would not only be accepted but also embraced by some teenagers marks a subtle cultural shift over public monitoring. A few decades ago, students rallied against having their actions recorded by authority figures. But as camera technologies became cheaper and easier to use, they became far more widely used, said Bankhead of the ACLU. Digital cameras sit on top of home computers, peek out of mall ceilings and take snapshots at gas station pumps. Cities such as Simi Valley have approved grants to pay for cameras to catch graffiti vandals, and dozens of towns nationwide use cameras to capture drivers who speed through red lights. "It's been so incremental, we almost didn't notice such monitoring of our lives was happening," Bankhead said. "We don't even know it's there. The more it's there, the more it seems to make sense to people." In the first few days of school, only a few parents voiced complaints--not about the technology itself, but that the district had not informed them that the system would be put into use. "For something so significant, it's the district's responsibility to disclose what they're doing," said Patty Everts, 50, while waiting Monday to pick up her daughter at West Hills. "We knew there was new technology on the campus that was being upgraded. Most people assumed it was for educational purposes, not security." School officials plan to send a letter out to parents next month "as soon as we know the full potential of how we are going to use this technology," said Principal Jim Peabody. "The technology will help us keep kids safe and keep out people who shouldn't be on this campus." But the security system could not have prevented last year's school rampages, because the shooters were not people who didn't belong on campus. Reliance on such technology to attempt the creation of a protective wall horrifies privacy proponents, who insist that the West Hills system is not only invasive, but also gives parents and school officials a false sense of security. "No one's even asking the question: Is this truly going to make my child safer?" Bankhead said. To 66-year-old grandfather Jerry Parli, the answer is moot. Lingering at the entrance of West Hills, he sat patiently in the hot August afternoon, waiting to pick up his two granddaughters. "It's about time they do something like this," he said. "It's a terrible thing, but it's time to embrace Big Brother." ---- "Well, as long as everyone's videotaping everyone else, I guess justice will be done" Marge Simpson

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Hershey Highway.
by Matthew X 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

Later this month, the General Services Administration will announce the first government agencies to be cross-certified with the federal public-key infrastructure bridge, making it easier for agency users to exchange data securely. The federal PKI bridge is designed as a way to link agencies' certificate authorities (CAs), which are the central component of a PKI. A CA is the server used to generate and manage digital certificates to identify users and secure their transactions. By cross-certifying CAs certificate policies through the bridge, which acts as a trusted third party, an agency that needs to accept a certificate from another federal agency, and ultimately other non-federal entities, to conduct an electronic transaction will know that the certificate can be trusted. On Sept. 18, GSA plans to hold a cross-signing ceremony that will show certificates from the Defense Department, the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center, NASA and the Treasury Department can interoperate, said David Temoshok, acting director for identity policy at GSA's office of governmentwide policy. Those agencies' PKI domains "will be able to cross-certify through the bridge" and will be recognized by each other, Temoshok said while attending the Interagency Resources Management Conference in Hershey, Pa., this week. He added that in 2003, GSA hopes to add Illinois and Canada to that list. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0902/web-bridge-09-06-02.asp Tech keeps track of parolees Florida county using VeriTracks system, which can plots a person's location relative to crimes committed Run pugsly RUN!

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Chop Chop
by Matthew X 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

CC is green tobacco with added saltpetre to assist burning,its sold under the counter in au to evade huge taxes on standard coffin nails and rolling sotweed. Cigarettes smuggling is huge world wide,a run between Turkey and southern Russia had nuclear materials as a backload to NJ.When the US customs found it the CIA got shirty.Enough to attack the twin Towers? maybe... http://organizedcrime.about.com/library/weekly/aa090402a.htm A Smoking Gun Cigarette smuggling is a billion dollar industry with links to organized crime and terrorism. In the film "Goodfellas," Henry Hill's first arrest comes about because he is selling a shipment of hijacked cigarettes to factory workers. The truth of cigarette smuggling is not nearly as innocent as that scene would lead us to believe. ETC.

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Call to repeal the PATRIOT act.
by Matthew X 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

http://workers.labor.net.au/151/c_historicalfeature_bush.html Washington has become the first State Labor Council in the U.S. to call on the AFL-CIO to seek repeal of the USA Patriot Act and oppose the Bush Administration, reports Fred Hyde. *********** The floor of the convention at the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) in Spokane, Washington was hushed when Gil Veyna took the mike to support "A Resolution Against the War, Attacks on Civil Liberties and Cuts in Public Services. "As a Chicano and a unionist," Veyna said resoundingly "I resent Bush's war on terrorism which is a war on working people and immigrants." Veyna, a 22-year Veterans Administration hospital employee, was at the August 19-22, 2002 convention as a delegate for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3197. His union is one of several which has raised objections to the governments plan to remove civil service protections and collective bargaining rights from the 170,000 federal workers in the newly formed Department of Homeland Security. In his comments, Veyna criticized the national leadership of the AFL-CIO for its unstinting support of the military actions in Afghanistan. He noted that now the administration has turned its guns on dockworkers, referring to the threat to call out troops in the name of "national security" in the eventuality of a strike by the International Longshore Workers Union. Veyna was no less critical of what he termed "federally sanctioned racial profiling following 9/11" which put immigrants under the spotlight and led to many unfairly losing their jobs. When Veyna sat down, not a single delegate of the 500 unionists representing locals throughout the state rose to speak against the resolution, and it passed overwhelmingly. Thus Washington became the first State Labor Council in the country to call on the AFL-CIO to seek repeal of the USA Patriot Act and oppose the U.S. government's war without end. MORE ON http://workers.labor.net.au/151/c_historicalfeature_bush.html

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Raise the Fist at melbourne Indymedia.
by Matthew X 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33231&group=webcast Anarchists,Indymedia under attack. by Russell Walsh 2:44am Mon Sep 9 '02 article#33231 The Mayday of 2001 led State police violence and repression as detailed in Article,an alleged threat to police posted here eight days later has led to a court case here in Melb. Another alleged 'threat' coincided closely with the most violent and unprecedented attack on an Indymedia station.People being hospitalized and as at S11,2000 having their teeth smashed out.50 police are under investigation in Italy and some have admitted planting 'weapons' and faking 'assaults' on them. This is from raisethefist. Long Beach Anarchist Movement Under Heavy Fire by xxxxx Thu May 23 20:09:02 PDT 2002 May Day 2001, the now infamous riot in the streets of Long Beach, was just the beginning of a well organized conspiracy to destroy the growing anarchist movement in Southern California. The City of Long Beach, and it's police department, is now at the forefront of a well-organized quasilegal conspiracy, in the cahoots with Los Angeles, La Habra, Fullerton, and the orange County and Los Angeles sheriffs departments. Rest assured that the Feds are also heavily involved. Their goal is to jail a few of the most outspoken anarchists in order to intimidate the rest of the movement. We have seen this scheme played out already in Eugene with devastating results. Regardless of the harassment by the Long Beach Police Department, the activists continued to do work to better the community. Groups and programs such as 'Food Not Bombs' (an anti-military network that serves food as a protest to war and arms), 'COPWATCH' (an organization who monitors unlawful police activity), 'POWER' (an anti-authoritarian, anti-war/anti-racist group) have been created to empower the local community. On April 20, 2002, Mathew Gordon Lamont, a Long Beach Activist, who has been highly involved with the above mentioned groups and the infoshoppe along with Maxwell Lucas, a Food Not Bombs Activist, were pulled over in the city of La Habra (Orange County) after being followed by 2 Long Beach detectives. While their car was pulled over for unknown reasons, it was searched by LONG BEACH DETECTIVES (Long Beach is Los Angeles County Jurisdiction). The detectives found a gas can in the car, arrested the two men and took them into custody. Maxwell Lucas, who is a juvenile, was taken to the Orange County Juvenile Detention Center in Orange, CA. He is being charged with but not limited to the felony of possession of a destructive device. Matthew Lamont is being held in the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, CA. and is being charged with 4 felony charges of possession of a destructive device, transporting of a destructive device, the use of a destructive device, and the possession of materials/instructions to make a destructive device. Matthew was scheduled to have his first arraignment on Tuesday April 23rd in Division 7 of the Central Court of Orange County in the city of Fullerton. During this arraignment Matthew asked for a 3-week continuance in order to obtain an attorney. Matt's bail was placed at 100,000 dollars. Tuesday May 14th, 2002, Matthew Lamont had a scheduled court date in Santa Ana's Central Court for his extended arraignment. A small demonstration had previously been called for in front of the courthouse. However, when the demonstrators arrived they were greeted by at least 100 cops in full riot gear, undercover cops, sheriff's deputies, police horses, etc. The first group of demonstrators who arrived - unmasked, unarmed, unthreatening in every way - decided to go inside to view court proceedings. They proceeded to walk up to the court and waited for a few others to show up before proceeding inside. The demonstrators were told that Matthew Lamont's hearing was held first thing in the morning before his scheduled appearance. THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. It's an obvious attempt to lower his morale by making it difficult for supporters to appear in court and show support. The demonstrators then decided to wait out in front for more people to show up. Several sheriff deputies then confronted the demonstrators and said, "OK, people! I need to see your I.D's!". Only one person co-operated with them and the rest refused to show identification. The sheriffs then backed off when they realized they wouldn't be able to get any more information. Just moments later, the police started forming a line in front of the court door and strapped on their riot helmets and gear. They then surrounded the demonstrators up against a wall, and one officer read a dispersal order saying that if the group didn't disperse immediately they will all be arrested. Disappointed, the small group had no choice but to leave. As the small group proceeded to leave, two demonstrators were searched by police as they arrived to their car. When the rest arrived at the parking lot, the parking attendant told them that the police ordered him to let them into the lot to investigate for bombs. Just as the small group of demonstrators were forced to leave, another group of 8 had arrived. They stood across the street with a banner that read, "FIGHT POLITICAL REPRESSION! FREE MATT & MAX!". Police, and undercover officers proceeded to surveil the peaceful demonstrators with video cameras. Realizing the enormous police presence, 3 demonstrators went to get a video camera from their car so they could tape the overwhelming police presence. As they tried to do so, they were closely followed by 3 police cars. As the 3 demonstrators left the car and proceeded back to the demo, the police stayed behind and appeared to be analyzing the vehicle. Another demonstrator went into the court house and was confronted by a LOS ANGELES SHERIFFS DEPUTY who told her that Matthew had already had his arraignment and left court. Despite this, the demonstrators still decided to continue on with the peaceful demonstration which took place on the side walk across the street from the court house. Approximately 15-20 minutes later, the riot police began to disperse and leave the area. The riot police on horses left shortly afterwards. The sheriffs, and undercover officers remained on the scene and continued to video tape the demonstrators. After about an hour and a half, Matthew was seen leaving the court in the back of a squad car. Matthew's arraignment was supposed to be scheduled at the North Court in Fullerton, but was then moved to the Central Court in Santa Ana only 2 days before the demonstration. This was an obvious attempt to disorganize the event in fears of large amounts of people coming to show support. Matthew is being charged with 4 felony counts, and is facing serious jail time. At Matthews first arraignment, Tuesday April 23rd, one if his supporters, Jeff Hendricks, yelled out in support as he was being led back out of the courtroom by the bailiff. The Judge pressed the emergency button and the bailiff immediately arrested Jeff. Jeff was arrested for two misdemeanor charges: contempt of court and communication with a prisoner. Jeff was held on 15,000 bail until his arraignment on Thursday April 25. During his arraignment Jeff had his bail lowered to 7,500. On Friday Jeff made bail and was about to be released when a Deputy ran into the release room of the jail with a hold: A new warrant from the Long Beach police department for remaining at the scene of a riot. Jeff was placed back into custody and transported to an L.A county facility. Jeff made a phone call earlier that day from jail and told friends that he was put in HIGH SECURITY after being arrested at court (on minor misdemeanor charges), and had his picture taken by the FBI, and was continuously being questioned by authorities. While in custody, Jeff's car was impounded and searched for "explosives". At 4 am Saturday morning Jeff was again bailed out. Jeff is currently out on bail and is facing his two misdemeanor charges as well as a probation violation. The probation stems from his plead of no contest to failure to disperse after his arrest in the Long Beach May Day 2001 police riot. Jeff now faces up to 2 years in jail. Political repression in Long Beach has increased outrageously since May Day 2001, where approximately 100 demonstrators were brutally attacked and arrested as they attempted to peacefully march for workers rights. It was only two minutes into the demonstration and police began swinging their batons. The march didn't last more than 15 minutes before police opened fire with riot guns, forcing half of the march to disperse down a drive-way where they were beaten to the ground. The other half dispersed up against building where they were trapped after police unloaded several hundred rounds of rubber bullets on them. With guns still drawn, one-by-one, everyone was arrested. May 1st, 2002 set the worst case of police brutality in Long Beach in 33 years. Demonstrators suffered fractured arms due to baton swings, and penetrating wounds from scatter-shot projectiles fired from 12-Gauge shot guns. Bail was set as high as $25,000 for some arrestees. Many were being charged with 6 different misdemeanor charges. Despite the enormous repression, many of those arrested still decided to take their cases to trial. After September 11th occurred, the prosecutor and judge decided to include 3 years maximum jail time if convicted, along new plea which consisted of 30 days minimum in jail time if the previous plea bargain (1 year probation) wasn't taken immediately. After this, the majority of arrestees decided to plea in fear of serving heavy jail time. This was an obvious threat which demonstrated a clear act of prejudice directed towards the arrestees because of their political beliefs. On November 15th Robert Middaugn, who was one of those arrested on mayday, was scheduled to begin his trial. Robert had been in Jail since May 1st and was charged with Felony assault against a peace officer, Felony riot, Felony conspiracy, Felony resisting arrest, and misdemeanor failure to disperse. At the time of his arrest on May 1st Ruckus was on formal probation stemming from pleading guilty to assault against a police officer at the Democratic National Convention. When supporters of Ruckus appeared in court the morning of November 15th there were 4 police sitting in the courtroom in the jury chairs. Ruckus' supporters soon learned that these police were there to testify against him for his parole violation hearing. Yes, the police court was going to have Robert's probation violation hearing before his trial; in reality you're guilty until proven innocent in the American injustice system. The prosecution put the 'deal' of offering Ruckus 3 years in State Prison and 3 years formal probation upon release. In order to coerce Ruckus into taking the plea the judge informed Ruckus that he would be facing 4 years just for his probation violation not to mention a possible 13 more if found guilty of the other charges. Ruckus was threatened with 17 years in prison. After taking the plea for 3 years in state prison, Ruckus found himself possibly facing a 3rd strike on a new charge that will give him another 20 years to life. The repression didn't end here. In fact it only got worse. On Feburary 24th, another mayday arrestee, Sherman Austin, was raided by 25 heavily armed FBI agents and Secret Service for running a Los Angeles based anarchist web site, Raisethefist.com. Raisethefist.com was an alternative media site conversing a diversity of subjects including anarchism, activism, and current events not reported by mainstream media or even what passes as alternative media were reported and commented on in an open publishing format available to the public. Heavily armed with shot guns and machine guns, the FBI, Secret Service, LAPD and LASD surrounded Sherman in his home before pulling him outside and storming his house. FBI agents confiscated his computer equipment, along with his political literature and shut down the site along with the newly opened, laanrchists.org (Los Angeles Anarchist Collective) site that he also recently created. Despite the raid, Sherman still decided to protest the World Economic Forum in New York that month. After being targeted by authorities, he was then arrested by New York police, interrogated by the FBI and Secret Service for several hours, released, and then re-arrested minutes later by 6 FBI agents on charges from the new "Patriot Act". Sherman was called a terrorist in the court room and was denied bail as the judge rendered him a "threat to the community". After spending nearly 2 weeks in Maximum Security Federal Prison on 2 bogus felony counts that served a maximum 30 years jail sentence, Sherman's charges were mysteriously dropped and he was released "pending further investigation". The FBI to this day still remains in possession his computer equipment and political literature. The new "Patriot Act" gives law enforcements a new excuse to raid, surveil, follow, detain, incarcerate and deport anyone who even remotely sees to challenge the oppressive, brutal policies of the U.S injustice system. Hasan Hasan, a math instructor at Cerritos college and member of the Long Beach Peace Network, was illegally detained by the INS. Without being given any reason Hasan Hasan was both fired from his job and arrested within a matter of minutes. This was an obvious setup to target Hasan for his political beliefs. Hasan now faces deportation charges. A year had gone by since May Day '01, and in the first verdicts to come out of the violent police riot which erupted from a would-be peaceful march, jurors on Tuesday, May 21st acquitted two people of failure to disperse and convicted a third of unlawful assembly and wearing a mask with the "intent to commit a crime". Sarah Roberts, 26, the only one convicted, was handcuffed and taken into sheriff's custody after the verdicts were read. Over the strong objection of her attorney, Roberts was also ordered held on $100,000 bail until her sentencing. At Roberts sentencing on May 23rd, she was sentenced to 6 months in LA County and given $1,000.00 fine. Excessive surveillance, profiling, arrests and harassment has been experience by many local activists, especially those associated with the Long Beach Infoshoppe. There isn't one hour that the LBPD doesn't pass the Infoshoppe at least once. Their almost subtle monitoring consist of silver cars parked in front of the Infoshoppe, following local activists to and from events, videotaping, and harassing activists and community supporters. Political repression continues to intensify in Long Beach around the anarchist movement. The Long Beach Police Department are at forefront of a well-organized quasilegal conspiracy, in the cahoots with Los Angeles, La Habra, Fullerton, and the orange County and Los Angeles sheriffs departments and FBI. Their goal is to destroy the growing anarchist movement in Southern California. We've seen this happen in Eugene, and in the 60's with devastating results. We must not let it happen again! We must take immediate action to resist the repression and to free all political prisoners. We must take action now, otherwise it will be too late! For more information please contact the Long Beach Infoshoppe at 562-434-6934. 684 Redondo Ave Long Beach, CA Police share high quality and high cost communications,is it simply co-incidence that certain events are so tightly linked? Remember the kidnapping of jaggi Singh? First they came for the ELF and ALF suspects and I said nothing because I eat meat and pull down a great wage at the woodchip factory,then they came for the anarchists and IMCista's and I thought,I don't need reminding about a lot of depressing BS,then they came for everyone in the union and co-op,good riddance,no more dues and friggin' string bags.Then they started dissapearing people at random like what happened in Stalins Russia...the odds are they wont pick me...I hope.I do love big bother and we have always been at war with Oceania bin Laden.Right? add your own comments

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Get that old criminal record expunged,NOW!
by Matthew X 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

Two in five face job vetting in drive to detect offenders 'The new Criminal Records Bureau predicts that within three years it will be making more than 11 million checks on past offenders, out of a working-age population of 29 million [in the UK]. The police previously made about one million criminal record checks a year ... The government drive means that a Criminal Record Certificate could soon become as essential for a job interview as a curriculum vitae and a suit ... Of the 11,627,595 checks predicted to be made each year from 2005, only 3.2 million will be on those who work with children. The other eight million or so certificates will be requested by people seeking to apply for work in a wide variety of other roles and professions. To reach these targets - which the bureau must hit if it is to become a self-funding body - employers will have to be encouraged to demand the £12 certificates from applicants' ( Independent ) The CRB has received a great deal of coverage in the UK media over the last two weeks, after it failed to clear a huge backlog of checks on school staff in time for the start of term. As the CRB is nominally a Home Office agency, the public has been given the impression that this was a civil service cock-up. In fact, the work of the CRB is performed by Capita, a private firm with a long record of botching government contracts See also this Telegraph article, and this Guardian article LINKS? http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm Funny attempt to smear your friendly professor...Professor rat,to many people he is a businessman, funnyman, philanthropist, entrepreneur and patron of the arts,but to one anonymous coward... http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33154&group=webcast The devil went down to Kyneton.

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Still Dreaming,still Schnewsing.
by Matthew X 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos12924.html WAKE UP! IT'S YER ALWAYS AFTER SUMMIT... SchNEWS APOCALYPSE SOON? "It should now be crystal clear that the South African government is hell-bent on smashing legitimate dissent by whatever means they deem appropriate, including attacking peaceful marchers and terrorising children. The ghosts of the South African past are returning with a vengeance." Johannesburg demonstrator, outside the Earth Summit, this week. Tanks in townships, tooled up riot cops firing teargas and stun grenades into crowds of people, mass arrests, threats of deportation, laws against group assembly, the secret police spying on people...South Africa ten years ago?? Try South Africa this week MORE ON. http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos12924.html

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Victims out killers online.
by Matthew X 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5052161%255E2862,… A VICTIM'S lobby group plans to use the Internet to out two Victorian teenage killers. People Against Lenient Sentencing president Steve Medcraft said he planned to pass on the names of the two teenage boys convicted of killing Seaford grandmother Marie Greening Zidan for publication on a US-based site. The group also plans to publish their addresses when released from jail. A civil liberties organisation has accused the group of taking the law into their own hands. The action came as Mrs Greening Zidan's daughter, Janine Bramley, gathered signatures on a petition calling for a change to the Children and Young Person's Act to enable children who murder, rape or viciously assault to be publicly named. Mrs Greening Zidan, 73, was killed in her home on October 15, 2000. Two local boys, then aged 15 and 16, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. They were sentenced to nine years' jail, with a minimum of six. Mrs Bramley said the Act was meant to protect children who scrawled graffiti or stole a car -- not those who raped or murdered. The petition also calls for sentencing for juveniles "more in line with community expectations". Mr Medcraft said he had legal advice suggesting that if the names of the boys were forwarded to the website's operators and then placed on the site, his organisation could escape prosecution. "The system will not guarantee these guys won't re-offend so if the system can't guarantee it we will at least give people an equal chance," Mr Medcraft said. He will seek further legal advice and hopes to have the names listed within six months. "If it means that I'm going to be put up in court on this issue I'm prepared to wear the flak so that the community can have access to what is their right to protection and free speech." Victorian Council for Civil Liberties vice-president Greg Connellan said placing the names on the website would be irresponsible. "They are acting unlawfully and it's incredibly arrogant for them to assume that they have the right to act unlawfully with impunity and other people don't," he said. Mr Connellan com mended Mrs Bramley for trying to get her point across through a petition. Mrs Bramley and Mr Medcraft met with Opposition corrections spokesman Kim Wells on Friday to raise concerns about justice, including offenders being imprisoned in juvenile detention centres after the age of 18, and lack of compensation for victims of crime. Mr Wells said he planned to table Mrs Bramley's petition in Parliament and will also present a letter Mrs Bramley has written to Parliament. In Victoria, the name of an offender cannot be published if under 17 when the crime was committed and under 18 when reaching court. A spokesman for Attorney-General Rob Hulls said: "In Victoria, the president of the Children's Court can give permission for the publication of a child's name, but the general principle is that they should not be published because the sentencing emphasis for children is on rehabilitation and giving them a chance to reintegrate and reach their full capacity in adult life."

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Hang Cheney
by Matthew X 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

He was in charge and could have saved the pentagon... http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_390.shtml Time of 1st strike 8.46,time of pentagon strike 9.38.Time to scramble jet and shoot down plane/missile...aprox 5-10 minutes. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/worldtrade010911.html Background on the groundhog http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATCheney.htm Everyone is witness. Everyone is a journalist.

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Ace of spades.
by Matthew X 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

How fate, and Stalin, finally dealt the 'ace of spies' a losing hand The order to kill Sidney Reilly - the "ace of spies" whose exploits supposedly provided inspiration for James Bond - came directly from Stalin, according to the author of a new biography of the MI6 agent.....( Guardian Unlimited, 6 Sep 02) "To the best of my knowledge Reilly never killed anyone in the course of his spying. The only killings he carried out were with a view to lining his own pocket. He was a good spy but also a criminal who perfected confidence stings. He was a scoundrel who spoke seven languages and exactly the type of person SIS needed." --Andrew Cook, author of the new book, On His Majesty's Secret Service - Sidney Reilly ST1 Subject of teleseries a decade or so ago starring Sam Neil. Zambia's ex-spy boss arrested - again Zambia's former intelligence boss Xavier Chungu has been arrested for the fourth time in three months, and charged with stealing a motor bike, police said on Friday....(SAPA/AFP, 6 Sep 02) One of au's ASIS chief's was assaulted twice during his term of office.SEE Oyster,by brian Toohey. http://www.cicentre.com/

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先开发满意后付款
by 北航/华中/清华开发团队 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

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by cypherpunks＠Algebra.COM 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

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Re: Privacy/anonymity charities
by R. A. Hettinga 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

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APB on killer of Timothy Thomas.
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

RACIST WANTED FOR THE MURDER OF TIMOTHY THOMAS IN CINCINNATI by October 22 Coalition Sat Sep 7 01:14:14 PDT 2002 APB: http://www.raisethefist.com/news.cgi?artical=wire/----985950picture.jpegIMG… Photo of suspect,all suspects are innocent until proven APtargets. APB: http://www.october22.org Does David Boren need killing? I ask you,who do you want to kill today? http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/july-dec02/intelligence_9-5.html

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seeking information for Wired News article
by R. A. Hettinga 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

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Warchalking?
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

Chalking It Up To Experience Graphic artist Sean McDonough, a 34-year-old Canadian citizen, doesn't seem like a security threat. He's polite, soft-spoken, clean-shaven, and owns a one-bedroom condo in an exclusive downtown Toronto neighborhood. But on Wednesday night, when McDonough arrived by Greyhound bus at the Buffalo, N.Y., Peace Bridge border checkpoint on his way to participate in Sunday's Kennedy Center Open House Arts Festival he was denied entry and sent packing back to Toronto. "Everybody got off the bus and went into the waiting area. I was pretty well held over while everybody else was allowed to go ahead," McDonough told us yesterday, a couple of hours before making his second attempt to cross the border in order to take part in Edwin Fontanez's Washington Chalk Festival, a Kennedy Center tradition. "I answered a lot of questions. I showed them my sketchbook. When I said I was going down for a chalk drawing festival, the lady got very suspicious. She said, 'Are you going to sell any of your art?' And I said no. She said, 'How do I know that?' And I said, 'I guess you'll have to take my word for it.' And so they rejected me." We tried to obtain an explanation from the appropriate federal officials. McDonough said he noticed the blue uniforms and sidearms of U.S. Customs officers, but a Customs Service spokesman sent us to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The INS told us Customs was responsible. "He's an artist: If he says they were wearing blue uniforms, that's good enough for me," an INS public affairs officer said. But then Customs insisted that INS did the deed. "This is not the first time that Customs has bounced something back to us," the INS flack responded. But later we were told, confidentially, that the INS had filed an incident report describing its role. Department of Homeland Security, anyone?

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Anne thrax needs an asslift.
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

Is Human Uzi Ann Coulter 38 or 40 years old? And when she insists that she's the former, is she telling a fib? The right-wing media scourge who has been getting plenty of ink for her best-selling book, "Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right" frequently scorches hapless reporters who dare write that she's no longer in her thirties. Newsday's Aileen Jacobson who was planning to rely on numerous published accounts, including People magazine's, that Coulter is 40 let her subject argue her into using the younger age in a recent profile. "Media accounts that she's 40 are wrong, she maintains," Jacobson wrote. But yesterday Jacobson told us: "I do believe that she is 40." London Telegraph writer Toby Harnden, meanwhile, wrote in his July 19 piece: "An air of mystery surrounds Coulter's age. She says she is 38 but her publicist puts her at 40. After the interview, she sends me an e-mail: 'I think you should go with one of the incorrect younger ages.' " Ann Coulter: 38 and holding firm? (Dayna Smith - The Washington Post/File Photo) Our own investigation revealed that: * Coulter's Connecticut driver's license lists her birth as December 1961. * Her D.C. driver's license, acquired many years later, says she was born in December 1963. * The birth date on file at the New Canaan, Conn., voter registration office is Dec. 8, 1961. In an effort to clear up all this confusion, a member of The Post's crack research team phoned the New Canaan registrar of voters, who chuckled, checked his records and reported that Coulter registered to vote in 1980, when presumably she was the legal minimum voting age of 18. That would make her 40 today. But when we reached Coulter, she predictably stuck to her guns. "It's like the difference in being thrown off the 13th floor or the roof," she e-mailed us. "So the upside is, I'm two years younger than at least some newspapers have said I am, but the downside is, I'm still 38. Yikes!" My only regret with Osama bin Laden is that he did not manage to kill every member of the Wall Street Journal editorial staff." "In this recurring nightmare of a presidency, we have a national debate about [George W. Bush's stolen presidency].... Otherwise there would be debates only about whether to impeach or assassinate. MORE ABOUT... Eric Alterman Media Analysis "We need to execute people like Ann Coulter in order to physically intimidate conservatives, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors." First things first: Mr. Ashcroft, if you're there, I do not mean any of the statements above to be taken literally. I do not mean them at all. None of them. OK? What I do mean is to point out the incredible hypocrisy of those on the right, the center and the "liberal media" who defend the lunatic ravings of Ann Coulter, whether because she is "kidding" or because "the left does the same thing." (For those who have been lucky enough to have missed the Coultergeist of the past few months, the author of the summer's number-one bestselling nonfiction book in America has--in language identical to that above--expressed her regret that Timothy McVeigh did not blow up the New York Times building, mused aloud whether Bill Clinton should have been impeached or murdered, and called for the execution of John Walker Lindh in order to intimidate liberals.) It's degrading to have to write about Coulter again. As a pundit, she is about on a par with Charles Manson, better suited to a lifelong stay in the Connecticut Home for the Criminally Insane than for the host's seat on Crossfire. Her books are filled with lies, slander and phony footnotes that are themselves lies and slanders. Her very existence as a public figure is an insult to our collective intelligence. I should really be writing about the campaign by neocon chickenhawks to intimidate Howell Raines and the New York Times on Iraq. But fortunately, John Judis and Nick Confessore have taken responsibility for that, leaving me to the less ominous but more baffling phenomenon of the bestselling Barbie-doll terrorist-apologist, who continues to be celebrated by the very media she terms "retarded" and guilty of "mass murder" while calling for their mass extinction by the likes of her ideological comrade Timothy McVeigh. Make no mistake. Coulter may routinely call for the murder of liberals, of Arabs, of journalists, of the President, among many others. She may compare adorable Katie Couric to Eva Braun and Joseph Goebbels and joke about blowing up the Times building. But instead of ignoring, laughing at or, perhaps most usefully, sedating her, we find Coulter's blond locks and bony ass celebrated by talk-show bookers and gossip columnists--even a genuine book reviewer--from coast to proverbial coast. Do I exaggerate? While promoting her hysterical screed against "liberals"--a category so large she occasionally includes, I kid you not, Andrew Sullivan--this malevolent Twiggy with Tourette's was booked on Today, Crossfire (as guest and guest host), Hardball, The Big Story With John Gibson and countless other cable and radio programs. She was lovingly profiled in Newsday, the New York Observer and the New York Times Sunday Style section. She was the Boston Globe's honored guest at the White House correspondents dinner. Her incitements to murder and terrorism have been cheered and defended in the Wall Street Journal and National Review Online. (The latter did so, moreover, despite her having termed its editors "girly boys" and behaving, in the words of the website's editor, Jonah Goldberg, "with a total lack of professionalism, friendship, and loyalty.") And her publisher, Crown, says it has no plans to correct her lies in future editions. Why should they care? Is anyone holding them accountable? The slanderous nonsense she puts between hard covers, moreover, is selling not only to the caveman crowd, it's also receiving praise in such respectable outlets as the liberal LA Times Book Review and being quoted as constitutional gospel by alleged intellectual George Will on ABC's This Week. This despite the fact that Coulter's accusations have been as effectively discredited as Hitler's diaries. (The last time I checked, the folks at Tapped, the American Prospect's weblog, had compiled so many of these falsities it took them nearly 3,000 words to enumerate them. Coulter has also been ripped to shreds by dailyhowler.com, spinsanity.com, mediawhoresonline.com, Scoobie Davis Online and by Joe Conason in Salon. The most comprehensive compilation can supposedly be found at slannder.homestead.com. I cannot bring myself to actually wade into it.) So what's the deal? Is looking like an anorexic Farrah Fawcett and wearing skirts so short they lack the dignity and reserve of Monica Lewinsky's thong enough to insure the embrace of the national entertainment state no matter what you say, just so long as your murderous bile is directed at "liberals"? Would it have worked for Saddam if he wore a size 6? I really don't know. Naïve optimist that I am, when I first picked up Coulter's book in galleys in the late spring, I felt pretty certain we were done with her. I mean, how even to engage someone who terms Christie Todd Whitman a "birdbrain" (page 51) and a "dimwit" (page 53); Jim Jeffords a "half-wit" (page 50); and Gloria Steinem a "deeply ridiculous figure" (page 37) who "had to sleep" with a rich liberal to fund Ms. magazine (page 38)--all of which makes her "a termagant" (page 39)? Coulter's done far worse since, of course, and yet, like one of those Mothralike creatures that feed on bullets and squashed Japanese villagers, the monster continues to grow, debasing everyone and everything in its wake. Coulter jokes about McVeigh blowing up the Times, and the Wall Street Journal--which was blown up by terrorists on September 11--rushes to her defense. Their man, Daniel Pearl, was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan. Have they no shame? At long last, have they no sense of decency left?

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Sites under Threat.
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

Ten Porn Websites Were Threatened in Granholm Letter Michigan's attorney general Jennifer Granholm threatened at least ten porn websites with legal action in last week's guilt by association letter that was sent to iBill, a website billing company. Frankiesangels.com was one of them. The other nine are identified in that letter. Frank Bongiorno says iBill has now assured him that they would support him in any legal action against Granholm. Bongiorno says attorney Jeffrey Douglas has referred him to a free speech attorney in Michigan. "I've gotten a proposal on what the costs might be and we're going to try and generate some funds for this legal endeavor," says Bongiorno. "We're going to go after her for defamation of character and do it in a way that creates as much publicity as possible. We want to get this on CNN and MSNBC; we want to get this story any place we can possibly get it. We're going to keep plugging away until she gives us a public apology, recants what she said and pays us for our losses." According to Bongiorno, the webmasters of the other nine sites being targeted are reluctant to go public. "I don't know why," he says. "That doesn't make any sense to me. Adult webmasters aren't known to be the best businessmen in the world." The ten companies are listed in the threatening letter sent from Granholm to iBill. Granholm specifically states that the companies are "engaged in the promotion and distribution of child pornography" - a libelous accusation if there were ever legal grounds to sue. Granholm accuses iBill, vis a vis, of aiding and abetting the distribution of child pornography and that their conduct will result in prosecution. iBill is ordered to cease and desist in its activities. Bongiorno said on advice of Jeffrey Douglas he'd be breaking the other adult companies' rights to privacy by divulging their names from the letter. The companies include gay sites, fetish sites and straight. "Mine stands out like a sore thumb," Bongiorno says. "The other ones are pretty hardcore urls. Frankiesangels seems out of place on the list." In au the daily planet,a legal brothel has been ordered to pull alleged 'ads' off the web as they can be printed out in Victoria.The Judge joins a list of aussi Canutes that includes state attorneys of NSW and SA.Also the Federal Minister has had some flak for being a bull in an internet china shop.('cept the damge is being routed around)

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Corruption Cali style,encrypted donations needed.
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

LA Film Permit System Investigated for Possible Fraud Almost everyone in the porn industry can relate to this in some degree. Those pesky permits. You know the ones- LA's ritual form of blackmail that keeps the cops off your back. And God forbid if you don't have one. Well you might just get a visit from the constabulary during a shoot and have your tapes impounded. Then you have to go to court. Yadda yadda yadda. And it's a real pain in the ass. Well guess what? All that money you've been paying has gone to support the lavish lifestyle of LA's bureaucrats. The LA Times broke the following story Saturday. Move over Enron and WorldCom. Move over John Rigas. L.A. Film Permit Agency Is Target of Investigation: Lavish spending and political donations by officials of the quasi-public body lead to raids. The Times reports an investigation of the Entertainment Industry Development and its alleged misuse of public funds by lavishing exorbitant tips at restaurants, sending its executives on Caribbean jaunts and donating money to politicians who sit on its board. The Entertainment Industry Development Corp., whose board includes the entire Los Angeles City Council and county Board of Supervisors, gets its $3-million budget from permit fees that would otherwise go to public coffers. An investigation by the district attorney's office, with the assistance of county auditors, led to a Wednesday night search of the agency's offices and the home of its president, Cody Cluff. Financial documents and computer disks were seized. Prosecutors said Cluff, 43, charged $500,000 worth of personal expenses, steered funds to his children's school, and perjured himself on state documents he signed denying that any of EIDC's directors profited from the agency. Cluff's attorney, Tom Brown, said his client and the EIDC have cooperated with investigators. Cluff has done nothing wrong, he said. "EIDC entertains and markets the film industry," Brown said. "We believe that when we've had an opportunity to explain its business and what we've done, both EIDC and Cody Cluff will be fully vindicated." Records show that the agency contributed nearly $200,000 to politicians, including more than a dozen who sat on its board. No charges have been filed. County auditors said the search warrant was sought after the agency refused to turn over financial records this summer. "They've been fighting giving us information," said Pat McMahon, the county's assistant auditor-controller. Auditors found that Cluff, a former deputy mayor under Riordan, received more than $50,000 in direct payments from EIDC to his personal American Express card. Prosecutors found more than $40,000 in charges for Laker basketball games and other sporting and concert events, and $20,000 in cashier's checks from the EIDC to Cluff. Cluff charged the EIDC for his membership in the Grand Havana Room, a Beverly Hills cigar club that lists a $3,000 initiation fee and a $200 monthly charge. Auditors also noted "numerous payments for meals and bar [alcohol] tabs at exclusive restaurants and clubs, often incurred late at night or early in the morning," where Cluff sometimes signed for tips equal to 100% of the bill. Court papers also state that Cluff, who had once worked as an auditor, used $40,000 in EIDC money to pay for trips to Georgia, as well as Utah and France--where two of the world's biggest film festivals, Sundance and Cannes, are held. Prosecutors said Cluff and another EIDC executive traveled to the Caribbean at agency expense. Court papers said the EIDC gave money to the school that Cluff's children attend, and list a $5,000 contribution to Covina High School. The office also paid $341,000 to an Internet company run by one of its 45 board members. State records show that the EIDC has contributed $194,000 to political committees since 1998. The recipients include more than a dozen politicians who at the time were sitting on the group's board. Jackie Goldberg, who represented Hollywood on the Los Angeles City Council and now represents the region in the state Assembly, received at least $15,500, the largest amount. The EIDC also contributed $10,000 to the anti-secession campaign run by Mayor James K. Hahn, an EIDC board member. On Friday, secessionists called for an investigation by the city ethics commission into a possible conflict of interest by Hahn. "It's absolutely appalling," said Gene La Pietra, head of the Hollywood secession effort. Kam Kuwata, Hahn's consultant on the anti-secession campaign, said Friday the mayor solicited the contribution but that there is no conflict.

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Indyjournos a go go.
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=202052&group=webcast Four filmmakers - one from IMC South Africa, 2 from IMC Italy and one from IMC New York, narrowly escaped arrest in Cape Town, South Africa this morning. The 4 were filming a strike by privatised water workers at the request of the workers. Workers were fearing the heavy police presence and harassment during their strike. The 4 IMC people were arrested and then de-arrested. An autonomist lawyer was negotiating with cops on the phone when the 4 saw they were about to be arrested again. They got into their cars. The cops shouted to the security to keep the gates of the water plant locked. The four intrepid filmmakers were then forced to bust through the gates in their cars, having to bash them five times. One got everything on film! Expect a preview soon. Unfortunately after this the workers were all arrested. It seems they have been taken to a far away cop station to prevent their friends, the Mandela Park Anti-Eviction Campaign, from marching on the police station. However, as they are SA Municipal Workers Union members the union should be able to get lawyers to get them out today. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP: Especially in France - please hold protests at Suez Lyonnaise offices. This is the worlds worst water multinational. They did terrible things like raise prices 300% in Buenos Aires and cut off to the poor. We need to expose them internationally. It is not for nothing that the Cape Town workers are striking partly over poor wages but also to have the plant nationalised. Please publish to the South Africa Indymedia site details of your protest - we will pass the info on to workers. To contact the workers in custody call Max on +27 73 1546555 Independent Journalism,its not a job,its an ADVENTURE.

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by Search n' shop 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

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Local Support for Jim Bell quoting Anarchists free speech trial.
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33127&group=webcast MELBOURNE URGENT SUPPORT free speech trial MATT TAYLOR 11 SEPT. Who's attending? by Joanna 10:53pm Sat Sep 7 '02 (Modified on 11:41pm Sat Sep 7 '02) article#33127 address: http://melbourne.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=32685&group=webcast bpossum(a)hotmail.com URGENT ACTION NEEDED IN MELBOURNE to support person facing potential extreme miscarriage of justice, and to uphold freedom of speech. "On sept 11 the police are charging a mentally disabled man with threats to kill them. One was a comment to a post made here on May 8 and another on june 1 of 01." Matt Taylor could be jailed for 20 years. MORE ON www.indymedia.org Melbourne au actually I just found out its 5 years max from my lawyer.

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Re: Wolfram on randomness and RNGs
by Eric Cordian 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

Steve Schear writes: > Stephen Wolfram's book, "A New Kind of Science," is nothing if not > interesting. This encyclopedia-sized volume traces how his fascination > with cellular automata, beginning in the 1970s, led him to spend decades > exploring the significance of complexity created from simple rules. I bought a copy the day it came out. It's an interesting read, but as far as I can tell, contains nothing of startling import. It contains not a single proof. It merely suggests that Cellular Automata are sufficiently rich to model any physical process, and maybe someone, someday, will use them for that purpose. Then again, so are Turing Machines. It's much like a book on Cosmology that goes on and on about how lovely Riemannian Geometry is, and presents lots of beautiful pictures of manifolds, but leaves it for others to actually figure out a way to use Riemannian Geometry to model the interaction of geometry and matter. The one test I usually apply to books is to ask what I can do after reading them that I couldn't do before reading them. After Wolfram's book, I can write the Rule 30 RNG in a couple of lines of the programming language of my choice. Not a massive skills increment, but the book does have some pretty pictures. Definitely worth $48 if it's in your interest area, but it's no "Godel, Escher, Bach." > But the remarkable fact is that none of these > methods seem to reveal any real regularities whatsoever in the rule 30 > cellular automaton sequence. And thus, so far as one can tell, this > sequence is at least as random as anything we see in nature. Yes, but... A cellular automaton consists of an array of cells in 1-1 correspondence with the integers, and does a potentially infinite amount of computation at each step. It is not particularly striking that we can generate a seemingly random sequence of bits using an open-ended amount of computation between emitting each of them. > But is it truly random? I get the impression Wolfram believes the universe is not random but pseudo-random. His measure of randomness is that there is no shorter method of computing the random sequence than by running the CA that generates it. This gets into the whole descriptional or Kolmogorov complexity idea of random strings being those that have no shorter description than themselves. As opposed to the type of randomness we imagine we get from things like radioactive decay, which Wolfram no doubt secretly believes are the result of small scale discrete processes as well. We hashed some of this around in sci.math when the book came out, and someone mentioned that Wolfram was peddling Rule 30 at Crypto '85. Article Reference: (Crypto '85) Article: Cryptography with Cellular Automata Author: Stephen Wolfram While "A New Kind of Science" contains lots of new and original things, what's new isn't original, and what's original isn't new. That Wolfram is less than candid in disclosing this, and according to some, does not credit colleagues for their ideas which he borrows, makes the book less than a stunning exposition of its subject matter. There's even a 1993 post by Bruce Schneier in sci.crypt commenting on Rule 30. [There is a known plaintext attack against these generators; see W. Meier and O. Staffelbach, "An Analysis of Pseudo-Random Sequence Generators by Cellular Automata," Advances in Cryptography--EUROCRYPT '91 Proceedings, Springer- Verlag, 1991, pp. 186-199. The attack is quite efficient on a PC with values of n (widths of th CA) up to 500. Additionally, Paul Bardell proved that the output of a CA is identical to the output of a linear-feedback shift register, and is hence no more secure. See: P.H. Bardell, "Analysis of Cellular Automata Used as Pseudorandom Pattern Generators," Proceedings of 1990 International Test Conference, pp. 762-768.] I'm also not convinced that the Rule 30 bitstream does not have a compact discription, merely because Wolfram has so far failed to discover one. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"

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What Kind of man has a pussy?
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

Who let the cats out? and what's with the Merc? Wasn't it in the 60's you had a small German car,the 70's you had a small German gun and the eighties, a small German boy? Hang on to something long enough I guess... Has Mongo been hanging on to his sausage too long? Searching for the perfect man, Kathy Lette takes a butcher's at what's on offer. http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/06/1031115934706.html Throw another shrimp on the barbie for me mate.

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Plea Bargain Blackmail rejected in Hartford.
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/09/05/7640999 They're not in quite as much danger as Camilo but still in need of support -- people should at least be aware of them, as well as the Long Beach folks and Camilo. ================== "And then there were three... Hartford 18 holdouts prepare for trial" By Chris Harris Published 09/05/02 in the Hartford Advocate Last October, more than 300 anti-war demonstrators took to Hartford's streets, in opposition to United States military actions against Afghanistan. But what started out as a peaceful demonstration at Bushnell Park -- its participants students from UConn, Central Connecticut State University, Yale, and Wesleyan, as well as several local activists -- ended in front of Constitution Plaza, with pepper spray, beatings, and the arrests of 18 people, seven on charges of inciting to riot. Nearly a year later, three of those 18 demonstrators have yet to plead out, and say they will take the matter to trial. Dave Bonan, 24, Jason Cappell, 23, and Max Greene, 19, were in Hartford Superior Court last Tuesday, represented by New Haven attorney Norm Pattis. Each has appeared before a judge several times since the protest. Bonan, Cappell, and Greene -- all wearing pins that read "Defend the Hartford 18" -- told the Advocate they've been offered numerous chances at a plea bargain but have refused. The charges against them range from interfering with police and inciting to riot, a felony, to disorderly conduct and trespassing. A date for their trial has been set for October 15. "These boys," says Pattis, "refuse to buckle." Accepting the plea bargain would mean admitting blame, something these three holdouts don't want to do. They say the worst crime they committed on October 25 was blocking traffic, staying in the street when ordered by police to get out, and marching without a permit. The demonstration marched along various streets, and approached Sen. Joe Lieberman's office at One Constitution Plaza on Market Street. Throughout, police in cars and on foot tried to divert the demonstration off the streets and onto the sidewalks. Police patience had worn thin by the time the mob made it to Lieberman's office. Police bumped, elbowed, and shoved some of the demonstrators onto the sidewalk. Then, police started blasting the crowd with pepper spray. The Hartford 18 were grabbed in choke holds, and dragged off to patrol cars. At the time, a police spokesman described the crowd as "rowdy," claimed they were banging on police cars and chanting "anarchy now" and "attack the police!" The arrests began only after marchers had ignored police orders for 45 minutes, police say. This reporter, who was present from start to finish, saw no such provocation. "I didn't do anything," says Greene, a sophomore at Wesleyan. "If I accepted a diversionary program, it would be admitting guilt." All three say they feel more like victims in this case, not criminals. They're confident a jury will rule in their favor. "It's kind of difficult to comprehend that 18 of us got arrested at a peaceful protest," says Greene. The rest of the Hartford 18 accepted the state's plea offer for accelerated rehabilitation -- a brief form of probation that results in a dismissal of the case. If they're able to stay out of trouble during that probationary period, the charges will be cleared from their records. Pattis says his clients could see some jail time if found guilty. How much jail time depends on the judge, he says. No minimum period of incarceration is associated with the charges pending against his clients. While he wouldn't comment specifically about his plan of attack for this case, Pattis did say he'll introduce video footage of the demonstration shot by Greene as part of his defense. This evidence, he suspects, will be "pivotal" to the outcome of the trial. "It shows this was a police riot," says Pattis. "These were people engaged in protected speech, and it would be a disaster for them to be convicted of anything." Pattis says his clients "represent the very best of what this country is all about," and added that any witness "the state puts up will become our witness on cross-examination." None of the three would comment on whether or not he is planning to sue the city or its police department. Greene says he's experienced psychological trauma as a result of the police riot and still has recurring nightmares about the experience. ### Posted for fair use. http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=har&db=nac_fea&ref=21900 Comment www.infoshop.org

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Re: Prosecutors' Contention That Hotmail E-mail Is "Extremely Difficult To Trace"
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

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Worry about Kinko Rats.
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

"...I'm less worried about bin Laden's gang attempting to bring down the Internet than I am about these rats finalizing their next plot via instant messages sent from rented computers at Kinko's...." http://news.com.com/2010-1071-956823.html?tag=fd_nc_1 "...Considering how panicky this nation can become during times of crisis--remember the Palmer Raids of the early 1920s and the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War?--this isn't an idle concern..." Anniversary of Palmer raids yesterday,see Daily Bleed. "Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures" Up to now, all strategies have failed if we are determining their success as achieving an anarchist social revolution that completely wipes out the state and capitalism forever across the globe.APster; who do you want to kill today?

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Re: Wolfram on randomness and RNGs,
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

I KNOW WHAT YOU'LL DO NEXT SUMMER What do galaxies, stockbrokers and style gurus have in common? A set of numbers that describes everything they do. Does nature's hidden program mean we're all deeply predictable, asks John Casti Cover story dead tree New Scientist magazine.31 August 02. Wolframs patterns,fractals,elliot waves,fibonacci waves,all working against 'free will'. And the sheeple looked up... http://www.newscientist.com/inprint/previous/20020831.jsp A proposal was floated in 2000/1 of pulling random bursts off various broadcasts just prior to sending message,system would rely on satellites and be quite expensive,its since been superceded as an expensive technical proposition by http://www.idquantique.com/ NATURE REPORTS ON QKD AND id QUANTIQUE "Quantum cryptography: Can you keep a secret?" In its issue of July 18, Nature reports on the first steps towards commercializing Quantum Key Distribution systems.Bitch slap me if you look like Jessica Stern.

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by Gabriel Rocha 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

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War Games Gulf style.
by Matthew X 07 Sep '02

07 Sep '02

Wake-up call Article based on an interview with retired Lt Gen Paul Van Riper, the 'wily 64-year-old Vietnam veteran' who 'sank most of the US expeditionary fleet in the Persian Gulf' during a recent war game organised by the Pentagon - ' "You're going to have to use cellphones and satellite phones now, they told me. I said no, no, no - we're going to use motorcycle messengers and make announcements from the mosques," he says. "But they refused to accept that we'd do anything they wouldn't do in the west." ' ( Guardian ) See also this Army Times article from last month, and this transcript of a US Defense Dept briefing from last month.LINKS http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm The Troubling New Face of America 'We have ignored or condoned abuses in nations that support our anti-terrorism effort, while detaining American citizens as "enemy combatants," incarcerating them secretly and indefinitely without their being charged with any crime or having the right to legal counsel. This policy has been condemned by the federal courts, but the Justice Department seems adamant, and the issue is still in doubt. Several hundred captured Taliban soldiers remain imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay under the same circumstances, with the defense secretary declaring that they would not be released even if they were someday tried and found to be innocent. These actions are similar to those of abusive regimes that historically have been condemned by American presidents' ( Jimmy Carter via Washington Post ) 'Donahue' for Sept 5 Transcript of yesterday's edition of Donahue, a US public affairs programme, during which investigative reporter Greg Palast was interviewed about the electoral assistance George W Bush is giving his brother Jeb in Florida ( MSNBC ) The Florida state pension fund is heavily invested in Enron, apparently (for the record I can't stand Donahue/Carter but we are in a 'kingdom of fear.')

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07 Sep '02

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