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info restriction: reclassifying declassified docs
by lcs Mixmaster Remailer 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020113/ts/us_germ_weapons_1.html Bush May Limit Germ Weapons Info By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration is considering whether to restrict distribution of government documents that describe how to make germ weapons, White House officials said Sunday. U.S. stockpiles of offensive germ warfare agents were destroyed nearly three decades ago as part of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. But the government kept the blueprints for manufacturing such weapons, and continues to sell them. ``The administration is generally conscious of this issue,'' John H. Marburger III, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a telephone interview Sunday. ``There are obviously people thinking about what to do about it.'' The administration is likely to take action on the matter, Marburger said, adding that he did not know what action would be taken nor when. Homeland Security director Tom Ridge hinted that the administration is strongly considering placing new restrictions on the information. ``We are a very open society and we're very much an information society, and there are a lot of us that think that some of the information we share with the public probably should be restricted in some fashion,'' Ridge said on CNN's ``Late Edition.'' Marburger and other administration officials are ``looking to see what kind of information should be so easily available in the public domain,'' Ridge said. Members of Congress have also aired concerns about the issue, he said. ``We are open, we are trusting, but we have to be a little bit more careful and a little bit more vigilant,'' Ridge said. ``And we may have to take a look at these kinds of issues from a different perspective because of the tragedy of September 11 and the follow-on incidents that we've had to deal with.'' Several agencies are weighing the level of danger and possible action, Marburger said. A spokeswoman for the Defense Department said Sunday she could not comment, as did a White House spokesman. Representatives of the Justice Department (news - web sites) and the White House Office of Homeland Security did not return calls. Marburger said he had not personally seen the documents on assembling such weapons. Among the questions is how dangerous they are, he said. ``It is clear that they are based on a picture of biology that's almost 50 years old,'' he said. ``It's not clear to me how useful they are.'' The New York Times first reported on the documents and the debate in Sunday editions, and said despite their age, the manuals contain information that could help produce the kind of anthrax powder infected at least 18 people and killed five in the United States last year. According to the newspaper, federal agencies routinely sell the now-declassified documents to historians and researchers. The government provides more sensitive papers on the subject after Freedom of Information Act requests. Dr. Harry G. Dangerfield, a retired Army colonel, is preparing a report for the military that will call for the reclassification of more than 200 reports that he told the newspaper are cookbooks for turning germs into weapons. Any such move to reclassify the manuals would run into resistance from advocates of public access to government documents. Moreover, an executive order signed by then-President Clinton (news - web sites) in 1995 bars reclassification, the Times said. The Bush administration is considering its own order allowing the documents to once again be kept from public view, it reported. Marburger said Sunday he did not know about any such move. ........ I found http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/mcode/A_00044.htm to have enough info to culture and sporulate, though you'd have to look elsewhere for freeze drying and milling tech.

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HEY - ALL YOU LESBIAN LOVERS OUT THERE !
by LesbianSex 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

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Stephen Gough,Leigh Gassner need Killing.
by mattd 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Victoria Police Commander Leigh Gassner denied that police had overreacted, saying it did not take much for an innocent act to spill over. "Even the ... Mexican Wave is pretty harmless but to put it into context, when you start throwing things then you can't take it lightly," he told reporters. "There's a cultural issue about where this is occurring and I think we have to say that that culture is no longer tolerated at the MCG anywhere * Anyone detected throwing items or starting the Mexican Wave throughout the ground will be automatically evicted; * On-the-spot fines, harsher penalties for invading the playing area and intensified bag searches will also be introduced, with details yet to be worked out. The tough stand follows a weekend of hooliganism during two matches at the MCG which resulted in 36 arrests and nearly 500 expulsions. Members of the ACB, the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC), Victoria Police and the state government met today to consider how to address crowd misbehaviour. MCC secretary Stephen Gough told reporters the agreement on the measures was unanimous. "The idea is that we don't want to see cricket interrupted at the MCG and we don't want to see the future of cricket at the MCG under any threat," he said.

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Nude Bomb
by mattd 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Latest wave of protests 14jan02 FIVE nude protesters skinny dipped at Sandridge beach yesterday, escaping arrest despite their illegal actions. Nudity lobby group Freedom International staged the latest in a series of protests aimed at changing the state's nudity laws. Keith Stodden, Tony Pitman, Rollan McCleary and Stuart Kingsford have told police before each protest and there have been no arrests, despite one protest last year being staged in the same park as a police rally. Mr Pitman said the lack of arrests did not mean their message was unheard. "I think there is a point. If we do it enough times we have kind of proven that the law is redundant," he said. "What we need is for the law to be changed because it can be applied arbitrarily." Mr Pitman pointed to a court decision last year concerning two women who were arrested for jogging nude outside the Crown casino during a protest. While the court found they had not behaved offensively and therefore committed no crime, they still had to suffer the trauma of court appearances, he said. You gotta fight for your right To PARTY!

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Open source license
by Marcel Popescu 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/369/ 12. AUDIT. During the term of this License and for one (1) year thereafter, upon reasonable notice and during normal business hours, Borland or its outside auditors will have the right to enter your premises and access your records and computer systems to verify that you have paid to Borland the correct amounts owed under this License and determine whether the Products are being used in accordance with the terms of this License. You will provide reasonable assistance to Borland in connection with this provision. You agree to pay the cost of the audit if any underpayments during the period covered by the audit amount to more than five percent (5%) of the fees actually owed for that period.

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Re: Say Good-Bye To Spam FII
by measl＠mfn.org 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 ma95rkb(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > BRAND NEW ANTI-SPAM TECHNOLOGY! Oh, the irony... -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin(a)mfn.org If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they should give serious consideration towards setting a better example: Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate... This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers, associates, or others. Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the first place... --------------------------------------------------------------------

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14 Jan '02

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Ken Taylor: After the fire, into Africa,
by mattd 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Hey thats my Dad. charlesk(a)netcon.net.au Tanah-merah,Mt Macedon. 03 54261466 He has a neighbor called JEFF GORDON! If you want to discuss various ways and means of OFFING JEFF GORDON! Deniability,Anonymity,E-dinars,Guns,wtf are you waiting for? APster now,before Oceania takes complete control,because this new system is an incredible force-multiplier, it can super-empower people so they can destabilize a superpower.Bet the farm. Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, in a booklet entitled Political Guerilla Warfare. Feltrinelli said that the task of the terrorist was to violate the law openly challenging and outraging institutions and public order in every way. Then, when the state intervenes as a result, with the police and the courts, it will be easy to denounce its harshness and repressive dictatorial tendencies.

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Re: Rogue terror state violates Geneva Convention
by mattd 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

>>If the US prisoners in question had engineered, or were suspected of having engineered, the deaths of thousands of innocent people, I suspect that even LESS sympathy or consideration would be shown them. They certainly would not get any from me. Marc de Piolenc<< Has your head been up your ass for the last 50 years? In the name of anti-communism and to expand the Imperialist United Snakes Empire,MILLIONS,not thousands,MILLIONS of innocent people have died.Horrible bloody deaths! And now the statue of liberty is suddenly the fucking RED QUEEN! A word means what I want it to mean!?FUCK THAT NOISE! Fuck your sympathy,Fuck the US and Torture and Kill all US prisoners.Its good enough for them FUCK THEM! To hell with Amerikkka.All paying tax got what they deserve.Anyone who destroys American interests, consulates, all missionary organizations, McDonald's, KFC, Shell or Caltex petrol pumps or American Express, or anyone who cuts off the head of an American, you will be given complete protection and a special place in paradise.See the CIA sabotage manual for ways to FUCK SHIT UP in Norte LaLa Land.http://smog.net/curiosities/sabotage/

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2 tonnes OK city;4 tonnes found in Singapore terror cell.
by mattd 14 Jan '02

14 Jan '02

Ammonium Nitrate found in Singapore.Shrub chokes on a Preztel.The US has about 6000 yankee snakes in Singapore, Massive investments in the Police State.Shares Spy satellite traffic,nearly all that comes out of OZ. A target rich environment.It would be much better to provide Al Qaida with APster tools than let them create east African type bloody outrage.When it comes out that the US rogue Terror state knew how to prevent terror bomb outrage's and did nothing...Collapse of Govts will be the least of their worries. . "Hirstory has also shown that in the ensuing chaos between the fall of the old and the start of the new order, there is a great danger of a cult leader taking control of the revolutionary spirit in order to set himself up as the new dictator. The few times this has not happened, there has been great international efforts made to crush the Revolution before it sets an example the rest of the world could follow. These are both dangers that need to be considered during the development of the revolution."

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