September 2002 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Computer Developments UK 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

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Information for cypherpunks@minder.net
by Carson Baader 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

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Yahoo trojan horse in China.
by Matthew X 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

Yes sir no sir three bags full sir... http://news.com.com/2100-1023-956243.html?tag=fd_top Carnivore fails in the US...fall of Govts imminent? Declan McPotatoheads heads fall report..."No one's life, liberty or property are safe while the CATO Institute is in session." http://news.com.com/2010-1071-956201.html?tag=fd_nc_1 As the PATRIOT act was pre chewed,what else is on the menu Dec? Inquiring minds etc... "First they came for the hackers. But I never did anything illegal with my computer, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the pornographers. But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the anonymous remailers. But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the encryption users. But I could never figure out how to work pgp5 anyway, so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me. And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

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Code red leads to Code blue in DC.
by Matthew X 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

POLICE ABUSE ALLEGED IN THE ARREST OF A ROLLERBLADING POLITICAL ACTIVIST Bandana protection from Code Red smog in D.C. becomes an excuse for a brutal arrest and violation of rights WASHINGTON, D.C. -- D.C. Statehood Green Party member and community activist Chris Otten will represent himself in court on Thursday, September 5, when he faces charges after an incident in which D.C. police reportedly violated his privacy and used needless force. On July 25, Otten was rollerblading on U Street NW, wearing a bandana over his nose and mouth due to Code Red smog. A sergeant of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) approached Otten near the U Street Metro Station, wielding his baton and demanding identification. Otten refused, citing privacy rights, upon which police backup was summoned and Otten was tackled to the ground by several MPD officers. He was arrested on the charges of "failure to show identification" and "disorderly conduct," denied medical attention for eight hours, and spent 20 hours in jail. Otten called his arrest and brutal treatment typical of a larger assault on American civil liberties. "Everyday citizens need to concern themselves when the police show up to harass their fellow neighbors. I encourage all people to read up on our rights and watch the police carefully when the situation calls so to witness and testify against any police brutality that may, and in D.C., most likely will occur." "What happened to me is nothing new in DC," Otten added. "I met lots of people during my experience in the D.C. criminal justice system who are subjected to police abuse regularly -- to the point where this system has become a culture, a way of life for many D.C. residents." "As a candidate Ward One member of City Council, I am outraged that [incumbent candidate] Jim Graham and his campaign staff would stand by idly while a young man who was trying to protect himself from the smog found himself attacked and abused by police," said Edward Chico Troy, noting that the incident took place in Ward One. "The police should be held accountable to standards of professional law enforcemet behavior. We should never allow or condone the abuse of law-abidng citizens." Chris Otten will appear in D.C. Superior Court, 500 Indiana Avenue NW, courtroom 120 on September 5 at 9 a.m., after an 8 a.m. rally in his defense in front of the courthouse. For periodic updates during the day, call Mintwood Media at (202) 986-6186. "We must take a stand against police abuse of power and the criminal injustice system," said Otten. "This is especially true when U.S. government cronies like John Ashcroft have pounced on people's true fears stemming from 9-11 and he has used them to attack Americans' civil liberties through the USA PATRIOT Act and the Homeland Defense Department, both of which are reminiscent of McCarthy era policies from the 1950s." MORE INFORMATION The D.C. Statehood Green Party http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org 1314 18th Street, NW, lower level, Washington, DC 20036, 202-296-1301 - END -

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Was Mi5 behind the Blair Ditch project?
by Matthew X 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

MI5 agent David Rupert tried to get the Continuity IRA (CIRA) to procure biological weapons, The Sunday Business Post has learned. The breakaway republican group eventually declined Rupert's overtures, but the informant is believed to have succeeded in smuggling arms from the United States into Ireland, with the full knowledge of MI5, in 1997. The American was operating as an agent for the British security service from a base in Donegal without authorisation from the Irish government. The Garda was also not informed. This newspaper has seen a series of e-mails which were sent by Rupert to his MI5 handlers in which he outlined his extraordinary efforts to inveigle himself into the CIRA hierarchy between 1993 and 1998. "I had outlined the weapons deals briefly in the US," Rupert wrote in one e-mail sent to his MI5 handler in 1998. "I talked about the computer deal and then the big one, biologicals. I said I understand they are quite easy to get in the US as a laboratory experiment type deal. They were interested." The 51-year-old Rupert is now on the Witness Protection Programme in the United States waiting to give evidence in the trial of Michael McKevitt, the alleged leader of the Real IRA. McKevitt is expected to go on trial early next year in the Special Criminal Court on charges of directing terrorism. Related article: North's MI5 man in bizarre chemical weapons plot MI5 spy in North enquired about biological weapons MI5 agent David Rupert tried to get the Continuity IRA (CIRA) to procure biological weapons.....( Sunday Business Post, 2 Sep 02) "I had outlined the weapons deals briefly in the US, I talked about the computer deal and then the big one, biologicals. I said I understand they are quite easy to get in the US as a laboratory experiment type deal. They were interested." --MI5 spy David Rupert in an e-mail sent to his MI5 handler in 1998 on his attempts to convince the Continuity IRA to procure biological weapons from the United states

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FBI,CIA in au.
by Matthew X 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

FBI quizzes US ambush victims By Jordan Baker and Catharine Munro 03sep02 AN FBI agent has interviewed victims of a violent ambush in Indonesia's Papua province as they recovered in an Australian hospital. Three people died when an estimated 15 gunmen opened fire on a convoy of cars carrying teachers and their families near a huge US gold mine at the weekend. Seven Americans and an Indonesian were airlifted to a hospital in Townsville, north Queensland, where at least two underwent surgery. Among the injured sent to Australia were American school teachers Saundra Hopkins and Ken Balk, and their six-year-old daughter Taia. A Townsville Hospital spokeswoman said all patients were stable and resting comfortably. United States Embassy spokesman Matt Conoley said an American consular official and an embassy legal attache, who was also an FBI agent, had flown to Townsville. They were interviewing the American patients. "Obviously this kind of attack can raise concerns that this could be a militant or terrorist attack," Mr Conoley said. "We wanted to verify whether or not that was the case. "At this point it's too soon to tell and I don't have any details about what was talked about." The New York Times reported Western diplomats believed the ambush did not appear to be part of an international terrorist plot against Americans. Amnesty International today condemned the attack but warned authorities to refrain from using the incident as an excuse to crack down on Papuan civilians. It called for an immediate, impartial and effective investigation. Any suspects should be charged with a recognisable criminal offence and be brought to trial in accordance with international standards for a fair trial, it said. "Freeport (mine) also has a responsibility to ensure that an effective and independent investigation takes place," it said. Security authorities have blamed the Free Papua Movement (OPM), but the OPM and its political arm have denied responsibility. Some analysts have suggested elements of the military could be involved. The loosely-organised OPM has waged for three decades a low-level guerrilla struggle against Indonesian rule in the province in the western half of New Guinea island. Meanwhile, a Papuan human rights group has said 15 people had been questioned without lawyers over the killing of three teachers at a remote mine in Papua province. The claim came as Amnesty International issued a statement calling on the Indonesian government to respect human rights while tracking down the killers of two Americans and one Indonesian at the Freeport gold and copper mine on New Guinea island on Saturday. Ten more people were injured in the attack on a convoy of cars travelling on a road between the coast and the highlands mine. They included seven Americans and an Indonesian who were evacuated to Townsville Hospital in far north Queensland for urgent medical treatment. But the Indonesian military and police both denied they had detained any suspects as their search continued. Aloysius Renwarin of the Human Rights and Advocacy Group (ELSHAM) in the provincial capital of Jayapura said he had received reports that people in the tribal village of Wara Banti, close to the site of the attack, had been detained in the mining settlement of Tembagapura. "We heard reports from the Amungme tribe, particularly from Wara Banti village, that they have been accused of being involved in an attack," Renwarin said. "Fifteen residents of Wara Banti were interrogated by the police but they were not accompanied by a lawyer." "The 15 were just ordinary people, they don't know much." Villagers were unable to carry out their everyday work because access to roads had been limited to the military, he said. Regional police chief Made Pastika said ELSHAM's claim was incorrect. "The police have not arrested anybody," he said. Pastika said that police had not yet identified a man who was shot dead by soldiers near the scene of the attack on Sunday on suspicion of being involved in the ambush. "We have asked members of two local tribes to confirm the identity of the dead man but they don't know him," he said. Papua regional military chief Major General Mahidin Simbolon denied any arrests had been made. "We're trying our best here and people just need to be patient," he told Reuters. Security analysts have questioned the ability of the badly organised guerilla group, Free Papua Movement (OPM), to carry out the ambush and said such violence was uncharacteristic of their decades-old struggle for independence. Amnesty International warned the military not to use the attack to justify harsh operations, saying that past assaults have resulted in gross human rights violations against civilians. "The Indonesian authorities have an obligation to bring those responsible to justice," the group said in a statement. However, it warned against using the incident as justification for indiscriminate operations against Papuan civilians, including independence activists. "It would not be the first time that the Indonesian military has been suspected of provoking armed attacks or other disturbances in Papua or elsewhere in Indonesia in recent years," Amnesty international said. First CIA agents in au? 1) Commander Samuel Rountree Sanders,listed as Assistant Naval Attache' and assistant Attache' for air.1954 2)Lt Colonel Collas G Harris.'Assistant air Attache'.1956.The year of Dulles visit.

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03 Sep '02

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Erm,ah,a "Pinhead" from ratbags.com would like to set you straight.
by Matthew X 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

The moral disease of homosexuality is rooted in the godless metaphysics of evolutionism. Evolutionism is the theory, homosexuality is the practice. Evolutionists fail to distinguish between the anus and the vagina because they both appear as a hole. It is the same ideology that refuses to distinguish between human bones and monkey bones because they both appear as bones. This is like failing to distinguish between a rocket launcher and a pipe because they both appear as a tube. However, nobody makes that mistake becuase everybody applies intellegent design theory, not evolutionism, to those things. Many evolutionists take this ideology to its logical limit. Since their belief system predicts the anus and the vagina are both purposeless holes with no difference between them there is no reason not to engage in the using of either one--with the easier-to-obtain anusus winning out. This is where homosexuality comes from. Well, what are the actual consequences of this behavior? Anus-stuffing evolutionists think they have deceived G-d because they have deceived themselves, but G-d is not mocked and he will have his vengence! Returning to our analogy, the vagina, like the pipe, is designed for bi-directional flow. The anus, like the rocket launcher, only launches one way! If you continue to stuff anuses, like stuffing a rocket launcher--an explosion will inevitably occur. This is what's happening in the world today. Global warming is really caused by the wrath of G-d against the rampant anus-stuffing society known as the Netherlands. G-d intends to melt the polar ice caps in order to drown that most sinful lowland nation like he did to the world in the days of Noah--and this time, there will be no litttle Dutch boys to stick their fingers in the dyke-holes to stop it. That will only be the beginning, the day of reckoning for the continual stuffing anuses for ll of humanity will then be upon us! (partially described in Revelation) Jesus loves you and so does Pinhead http://www.ratbags.com/ranters/pinhead010722.htm

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Chicken attack on America.
by Matthew X 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

Chicken kill leaves bitter aftertaste By Daniel Lewis, Regional Writer September 3 2002 When the diseased birds wouldn't burn as fast as they were being gassed or having their necks wrung, the alternative for Mangrove Mountain was the pits. There are two of them, lined with more than 100 shipping containers that are filled with the carcasses of about 1.5 million chickens. The pits must be monitored for at least 30 years - which the Auditor-General says is costing about $1 million a year. They are symbols of the fact that people are still paying for Australia's worst outbreak of exotic animal disease long after the last animal was destroyed. Newcastle disease struck the small Central Coast farming community's poultry industry in 1999. What happened to farmers like Shaun Rodger has helped the country understand how devastating a widespread outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease would be. The Productivity Commission looked at Mangrove Mountain and noted: "Although the disease was confined to one area it took three months to control, involved up to 5000 people working on eradication and is conservatively estimated to have cost governments around $22 million (excluding compensation)." advertisement The cost to the chicken meat industry has been put at $200 million and farmers are still furious over their compensation. From what he saw at Mangrove Mountain, Mr Rodger's assessment of foot-and-mouth is that "you wouldn't have a hope in hell of stopping it". Mr Rodger - whose family was reduced to accepting food parcels after the outbreak - is also chairman of the NSW Contract Poultry Group and represents most chicken farmers around Mangrove Mountain. They are still angry, he says, over the lack of consultation from government authorities as the outbreak was tackled. "You have got to use farmers. Nobody knows their plot of dirt better than the farmer. Farmers just felt isolated." Had their advice and help been accepted, the outbreak would have been controlled far more quickly and cheaply. Many locals also fear that the pits are not being monitored closely enough, Mr Rodger said. The destruction and disposal of seven million animals in Britain last year after a foot-and-mouth outbreak has thrown the spotlight back on carcass disposal. Britain's Environment Agency recorded about 50 cases of water pollution related to carcass burial, but there was no long-term contamination of drinking water. There were about 900 burial sites and 300 complaints about the smell. The burning of animals on spectacular pyres was seen as a public relations disaster that cost British tourism billions of dollars. The preferred method of carcass disposal in Australia is burial, although burning was tried first at Mangrove Mountain. Huge fires fuelled by 120,000 railway sleepers burnt 24 hours a day to destroy more than 500,000 birds, but could not keep up with the killing, says NSW Agriculture's Kevin Cooper, who managed the outbreak. The pits were built to the highest standard, well above the water table, and rigorous testing had revealed no problems. NSW Agriculture is now working with local government to identify sites across the state that could be safely used for future carcass burials. At Mangrove Mountain, the State Government still employs a community worker to help locals adjust. A Department of Community Services survey found that 69 per cent of people felt it would take at least two years to recover economically and emotionally. Its research identified continuing divisions between chicken farmers and others over issues such as restriction of movement during the emergency. The outbreak also sparked stigma, paranoia and conspiracy theories. Farmers' children were bullied and the case of the child who had a chicken sandwich unnecessarily confiscated when the school bus was stopped at a checkpoint has become bitter legend. Mr Rodger says the only good result was Mangrove Mountain was put on the map. When Sydneysiders discovered the beautiful rural property within an hour's drive, real estate prices rose, but "they're already complaining about the smell of chook manure".

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SOB George and the Mondragon.
by Matthew X 03 Sep '02

03 Sep '02

The Challange of Mondragon. In the Beginning . . . . The Basque region of Spain has, in recent years, seen the rise of a system of cooperatives that is unparalleled in its dynamism, growth, and economic impact on a region. The system, which spreads throughout the surrounding Basque region, is named after Mondragon, a town in the mountains of Guipuzkoa Province near Bilbao, the place where the first cooperatives started. Since its start over thirty years ago, it has gained an international reputation, with similar models now being developed in England, Wales, and the United States. While its explicit connections to the anarchist tradition are unclear, the Mondragon system is an example of liberatory [sic] organization which, like its predecessors in the Spanish Civil War, has achieved success on a scale unequaled in any other part of the world. The Mondragon network was founded by a Catholic priest, Don Jose Maria Arizmendi, a man who had narrowly missed being put to death by Franco as a result of his participation in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side. With the help of collections from citizens of Mondragon, he founded an elementary technical school in 1943. The first graduates numbered among them five men who, in 1956, founded a small worker-owned and managed factory named ULGOR, numbering initially 24 members, and given to the manufacture of a copied kerosene stove. This cooperative venture proved successful and developed into the flagship enterprise of the whole system which later was to come into being. At one point ULGOR numbered over 3,000 members, although this was later recognized as too large and was reduced. The structure of this enterprise served as the model for the latter enterprises forming the system. Following the Rochedale principles, it had one member-one vote; open membership; equity held by members and hence external capitalization by debt, not equity; and continuing education Mondragon Corporación Cooperativa 17/06/2002.- MCC increased sales by 14.7% in 2001 and created 6,800 new jobs In a year like 2001, characterised by an acute slowdown in the economy all over the world, made worse in the second half of the year by the tragic events of 11 September, MCC companies performed reasonably well. They increased their sales by 14.7%, with significant international expansion in the industrial area and 6,800 new jobs created, although overall profitability fell somewhat. For 2002, the forecasts are for a 14% rise in sales and 5,000 new jobs http://www.makethemaccountable.com/

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