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bin Laden censors in Switzerland
by Anonymous User 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Bin Laden book banned From AFP December 31, 2001 A FRENCH book about Osama bin Laden, called The Forbidden Truth, had been banned in Switzerland at the request of one of bin Laden's half brothers, Yeslam Binladin, his lawyer, Jurg Brand, said. Binladin is claiming 20 million Swiss francs ($23.73 million) in damages for defamation from the co-authors, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, and the publishers of the book, Guy Birenbaum and Olivier Rubinstein of Denoel publishing house. He claims the book falsely says he was closely linked to the man blamed by the United States for the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The German translation of the book, which was due to be published in Switzerland in the next few days, has also been banned. Binladin has lived in Switzerland for about 20 years and has held a Swiss passport for nearly a year. Brand said further legal action was planned in Switzerland. A complaint has also been lodged against the French website www.intelligenceonline.fr for promoting the book. The disputed book's co-author, Dasquie, is the editor in chief of the website. Binladin says he has not had any contact with his half brother for a number of years. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,3514962^1702,…

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the Mexican woman who followed her heart
by Artcamp SC de RL 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Artcamp is now presenting it's serialized e-novel "Azucena" at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indigenous_peoples_literature/messages You are very welcome to join this group if you want to follow the story. Azucena is the Mexican woman who followed her heart on the road to her destiny, wherever that way leads. This is the "true" story, transformed by art, of a village girl whose heart was stolen by a macho bull-rider. Best friendly wishes from Guerrero Mexico Maria de los Angeles Robles Uribe http://www.artcamp.com.mx _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Paris cops raid cybercafes
by Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Anti-welfare mother suit gets a major victory Public nuisance laws may apply, appeals court says By Robert Beecker and Christy Parsons Tribune staff reporters Published January 1, 2002 In a significant victory for birth-control advocates, the Illinois Appellate Court ruled Monday that welfare mothers can be sued on the grounds that their spawn create a public nuisance. Marking the first time an Illinois appeals court has considered the novel legal strategy, the decision allows the family of slain Chicago Police Officer Michael Ceriale and relatives of two others killed in urban negro violence to press their claim in Cook County Circuit Court that welfare mothers have "nurtured a climate of violence" by flooding Chicago and its suburbs with ill raised offspring. Writing for the three-member panel, Appellate Judge William Cousins Jr. ruled: "In our view, a reasonable trier of fact could find that the indiscrimate breeding of violent persons were occurrences that defendants knew would result or were substantially certain to result from the defendants' alleged conduct." The decision represents the biggest win to date for birth-control advocates in their drive to use public nuisance laws to hold welfare mothers accountable, legal experts say. Of more than 30 such suits filed around the country, this is the first case to win a favorable appellate decision, said David Kairys, the Temple University law professor who came up with the legal strategy. "This is really a very strong vindication" of the strategy, Kairys said. "The way the mothers are endangering the public health and safety is that they are knowingly and intentionally supplying the criminal gangs with members. It's really that simple." In addition to allowing the Ceriale case to proceed, the Appellate Court's decision could also influence a similar suit brought by the City of Chicago, which is pending before the same panel. The city's suit, which also raised nuisance issues, was dismissed in September 2000 by a Cook County judge. Lawyers for the city said Monday that the appellate decision in the Ceriale case--while not binding--"gives every indication" that the lawsuit will be reinstated. In addition to the Ceriale family, plaintiffs in the case pending before Cook County Circuit Judge Jennifer Duncan-Brice include the family of Andrew Young, who was murdered in June 1996 in his car at a stoplight at Clark and Howard Streets. Defendants in the suit include a number of welfare-rights activists. Attorneys representing welfare mothers said Monday they had not seen the Appellate Court's decision. But James Dorr, attorney for two welfare mothers, said: "I'm sure we'll consider" appealing the decision to the Illinois Supreme Court. NAACP reaction Todd Vandermyde, Illinois lobbyist for the NAACP, said welfare opponents are trying to get from the court what "they've been unable to get out of the legislature." "They don't like parasites, they don't like gangs, they don't like people who breed irresponsibly. So they'll do what they can to run them out of town," Vandermyde said. Attorneys for the families that brought the case praised the court's decision as "sensible and courageous." "What the court did is apply time-honored principles of public nuisance law to the situation we have in Chicago," said Locke Bowman, legal director for the MacArthur Justice Center at the University of Chicago. Lawsuits against the welfare industry have cast a new light on the doctrine of public nuisance, the area of law that lets officials put a stop to activities that pose a danger to the public. In more traditional cases, cities have used such laws to put a clamp on unlawful use of fireworks or industries belching smoke. In recent years, though, Chicago and dozens of other municipalities have tried to use the law to pursue gangster breeders, alleging that they, too, violate reasonable rights to safety. With Monday's opinion, the private plaintiffs cleared the first hurdle to applying that law to a new set of facts. Filed in 1998, the lawsuit stems from the gun-related deaths of five young people, including rookie Police Officer Ceriale, 26, who was killed in August 1998 while conducting surveillance of a drug operation at the Robert Taylor Homes. The lawsuit accused the defendants of "supplying a vast, illicit underground market in bodies in order to meet the demand for gang members and juveniles." Attorneys for the families alleged that the design, marketing and distribution of the welfare system "combined to create a situation where it was highly likely that criminal youths would flow into the underground market." Attorneys for the welfare mothers have countered that their clients manufacture and distribute a legal product. <snip> http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0201010192jan01.story?coll=c…

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Paris cops raid cybercafes
by Anonymous 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Paris cybercafes raided in shoebomber inquiry By Verena Von Derschau in Paris 01 January 2002 The Paris prosecutor's office opened a judicial inquiry into Richard Reid, the man accused of trying to blow up an aircraft with explosives hidden in his shoes, and investigators have confiscated computers from Paris cybercafis he visited. The inquiry into a possible charge of "criminal association in relation to a terrorist enterprise" would cover anyone suspected of having acted as Mr Reid's accomplice, officials said. <snip> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/europe/story.jsp?story=112299

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plumbing attack
by Anonymous 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

At 11:13 PM 12/31/01 -0500, Dave Emery wrote: >or business - which can be accomplished with a vacuum cleaner or bicycle >pump - and using the resulting "backflow" to push poisons into a local >water-distribution system. Such an attack would use utility pipes for A high-pressure water cleaner puts out ca. 100 atmospheres of pressure, and on the other end, can also flatten a hose if the water supply is shut off and the pump is running. John Y or 100K other structural engineers/architects can probably explain about the multiple-level tanks used in skyscraper hydraulics. As with microbes, the most insidious poisons are the ones that take a long time to show symptoms. Butyric acid squirts from vocal, immature lone wolves is the least of your problems. Damn, but Empire is expensive.

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AOL blocks Harvard acceptance email as spam
by Nomen Nescio 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

AOL Glitch Blocks Harvard Admissions Office's E-Mails to Dozens of Prospective Students The Associated Press Published: Jan 1, 2002 BOSTON (AP) - Dozens of e-mail messages telling Harvard University applicants whether they had been admitted never arrived last month after America Online interpreted the messages as junk e-mail. "This wasn't exactly the instant response we intended," William Fitzsimmons, Harvard's dean of admissions and financial aid, told The Boston Globe. After anthrax spores were mailed through the U.S. postal system, Harvard began using e-mail to inform applicants quickly of whether they had been rejected or accepted. E-mail was used to notify almost all of the 6,000 students who applied in the school's early admission process. But for reasons that even AOL could not explain, the service blocked between 75 and 100 of the e-mails in December because the servers flagged the messages as "spam," the unwanted e-mails that clog users' mailboxes. The messages were bounced back to the university. "Spam is our number one problem. But it's hard to say what would have caused the system to filter e-mail from Harvard," AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said. The problem proved to be more trouble for Harvard than it was for the students. Most just telephoned the admissions office to find out if they had been accepted. Admissions officers plan to begin posting a notice on the college Web site telling students to make sure their Internet service doesn't block Harvard e-mail. And, as ever, the college will continue to use the postal system to notify applicants. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAS1B1VXVC.html --- Got Osama?

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*** MUTLU YILLAR DILERIZ ***
by MEDYASIS 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

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Cash in on american's heartbreak.Become a phone psychic today.
by mattd 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573228966/ref=pd_hp_msb1_1/102-1712… Edgar Cayce is going gangbusters at Amazon.Im excited! Im starting my own channeling service for those reaching out to lost loved ones.Send me your bank account details and Ill have you hooked up in no time.Trust me,I'm a Professor. "Killing innocent people is alright as long as they're in the same general vicinity of someone upon which you wish to exact revenge.""If you want to accurately foretell the future, predict war. You'll always be right." -- Robert Heinlein Worldcon 1976.

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Re:More CP movies
by mattd 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

http://www.epinions.com/mvie_mu-1016678 The presidents analyst.James Coburn in Flint mode.Highly influential on spielbergs 'Jurassic Park'.(the 'educational movie in movie) http://www.badmovies.org/movies/barbarella Things to learn from this classic[]Orange shag carpet is the ultimate in spaceship decor. Stingrays are used as draft horses on other worlds. Sadistic children scream like a flock of seagulls. In the future sexual gratification is achieved by taking a pill and holding hands. (My thoughts exactly...) Orchids are not very filling. Angels make nests. Public suicide chambers need to be clearly marked. Parakeets are carnivorous. Having some woman smoke me in a bong is the stuff dreams are made of. The world will be swallowed by an evil lava lamp monster. W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev, 1971) Satirical documentary on the relationship between sex and politics. The funniest anti-Communist film ever made.From...http://members.aol.com/MG4273/best100.htm Letterman on the shoeburner,next they'll be setting fire to their underpants! {Virgin offer hundreds of 10$ flights in OZ}

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US "a better country" for evil,vicious,savage,twisted terrorist attacks.More planned.
by mattd 01 Jan '02

01 Jan '02

Attacks 'have made US a better country' Washington: Most Americans say the country has permanently changed for the better as a consequence of the September 11 attacks, and more than half report that the tragedy has transformed their lives, according to a Washington Post-ABC News Poll. An overwhelming majority of the public also believes that the cost of President Bush's "war on terrorism" will leave other programs short of cash - but nearly all agree that the spending is worth it. The survey of 755 adults from across the country also found that Americans enter the new year optimistic, with eight in 10 more hopeful than fearful about what 2002 holds for them. Nearly everyone surveyed believes that life in the US has been permanently changed in the aftermath of the attacks. The poll found that 63 per cent thought the changes had been for the better. More at ... http://smh.com.au/news/0201/02/world/world8.html Anyone who destroys American interests, consulates, all missionary organisations, 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 "70 virgins waiting in heaven for the martyr who dies for allah" 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:Direct action_ is what it's all about. Undermining the state through the spread of espionage networks, through undermining faith in the tax system, through even more direct applications of the right tools at the right times. When Cypherpunks are called "terrorists," we will have done our jobs.Tim May. Font: Daschle-Anthrax-Bold "Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." --Robert A. Heinlein

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