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\"Trust In Government Surges During Crisis\"
by auto301094＠hushmail.com 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- (I know this reads like a bad troll, but thought you'd want to see it anyway...) Washington Post September 30, 2001 Federal Diary Trust In Government Surges During Crisis; Challenge Is To Keep It From Ebbing By Stephen Barr The liberals trust the government. The conservatives trust the government. Equal proportions of men and women trust the government. The results of a Washington Post poll published yesterday are stunning. The poll found that 64 percent of Americans trusted the federal government nearly always or most of the time to "do what is right," more than double the percentage who said they trusted the government in April 2000. The support cuts across ideological, racial, financial and geographic lines, reflecting broad support for the federal government, according to the data compiled by Richard Morin, director of Washington Post polling, and Claudia Deane, assistant director. Clearly, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 played a pivotal role in shaping how Americans view the government. Ninety percent support taking military action against groups or nations responsible for the attacks, according to the poll. A whopping 82 percent said they favored having the federal government take over security screening at U.S. airports. The poll breaks what had been a three-decade span of surveys showing that roughly one-third of Americans felt they could trust in government. In the early 1960s, University of Michigan polls found that more than seven in 10 Americans expressed confidence in the federal government. The proportion dropped below 50 percent after 1972 and spiraled downward through the decades of Vietnam, Watergate and political scandals. Today, the Post poll found, 69 percent of conservatives, 64 percent of moderates and 62 percent of liberals say they trust the government always or most of the time. People identifying themselves by political party also trust the government more than before. In April 2000, only 25 percent of Republicans said they trusted the government always or most of the time. Today, it's 73 percent. That's 12 percentage points higher than Democrats, who historically put more faith in government programs. The turnaround is equally impressive among independent voters. Only 27 percent of independents trusted the government last year; now, 62 percent say they do. The poll found that 64 percent of men and 64 percent of women expressed confidence in the federal government. Residents of the South (67 percent) and the East (66 percent) showed slightly more trust than people in the West (61 percent) and the Midwest (62 percent). Young people trusted the government slightly more than baby boomers, according to the poll. Sixty-eight percent of the people in the 18-to-30 age range said they trusted the government; 62 percent of those 31 to 44 expressed confidence; and 63 percent of people older than 45 said they trusted the government. When measured by income, the changes in trust are dramatic. In April 2000, only 31 percent of respondents earning $50,000 or more trusted the government; now it's 69 percent. Last year, only 28 percent of people earning $30,000 to $50,000 expressed trust, while 67 percent do now. A total of 1,215 randomly selected adults were interviewed Sept. 25-27 for the poll. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points. The positive feelings about government from Republicans and other conservatives probably spring from their staunch support of President Bush, a Republican. But other institutions -- Congress, the military, the FBI -- received equally impressive approval ratings in recent Gallup polls. Even federal employees are getting high approval ratings. A recent survey by the Presidential Appointee Initiative, a Brookings Institution project, found that 69 percent of Americans held favorable opinions of government workers. Numerous analysts of poll numbers think this tidal wave of trust in the government will recede when the crisis fades. But it doesn't have to slip away. That's the long-haul challenge facing Bush, members of Congress and federal employees. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wl8EARECAB8FAju4snwYHGF1dG8zMDEwOTRAaHVzaG1haWwuY29tAAoJEKadvsVlUK4P 0gIAoJ/IunWPDe6q9jLKjX3GYoYS4jgdAJ47b0F3pRzVFHwrBkjok34aPapoHg== =IP14 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Oracle must die
by Anonymous 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

>The crimes are: (1) insulting the memories of those killed, by trying >to hitch a free ride on the emotional backblast of the 911 attacks. (2) >treason against individual sovereignty, by aiding and abetting the >enemies of freedom (3) attempted murder of the rival company Microsoft. I agree. Last Fri I decided to go with informix (around $7K involved) - and oracle's joining of hysteria was the principal cause. This is the first time ever I made a decision based on non-technical issues.

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[FREE] stratfor (fwd)
by measl＠mfn.org 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

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Re: America needs therapy
by Subcommander Bob 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

At 03:48 PM 9/30/01 -0700, Steve Schear wrote: >and you know that junkies will do whatever it takes to get >their next fix. Hey, you should have seen what California was paying for hits of natural gas early in the summer... As long as you get a reliable, clean supply you can be healthy & productive (like the founder of John's Hopkins, a medical morphine addict). America just needs to get a better supplier than those flaky arabs who are always having violent family spats. ---- 'for, while it may only be a cynic who questions the benign intent of their current rulers, it would surely be a fool who believed that such benevolence is assured in the future.

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by freevision 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

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Re: [FREE] stratfor (fwd)
by auto301094＠hushmail.com 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- James wrote: >What is this, Henry Kissinger's vanity website or something? It reads >like one of his Nixon era State Dept. memos on Vietnam or some shit. >Pure felgercarb. What objective criteria do you use to tell good analysis from bad? > Mr. Bin Laden must be flattered no end if >he thinks that the U.S. reallly considers him personally, or even his >entire organization, that much of a menace. You mean the way some people around here are convinced that this list will somehow be declared a terrorist organization? Like that? >Doubt he's that stupid, though. Probably not. ~F. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wl8EARECAB8FAju3g1EYHGF1dG8zMDEwOTRAaHVzaG1haWwuY29tAAoJEKadvsVlUK4P hxcAnjQynztwyO7pYffppJLeL7XstFXPAJ43NKHs9i2t3XCWpdjwF0LN3fe14g== =UPMk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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01 Oct '01

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New UK anti-terrorism powers to be rushed through.
by Tolan Blundell 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

The UK gov't is trying to push through new anti terrorism measures, including id cards, indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, and there's more talk of key escrow too.. from the Gaurdian : http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour2001/story/0,1414,561052,00.html [snip] Concerns about the effect on civil liberties of at least three pieces of anti-terrorism legislation, which ministers promise to introduce in four to six weeks, were raised. A cross-party alliance, supported by sacked Home Office minister, Mike O'Brien, has already been formed to resist the introduction of identity cards. New powers being introduced will include faster powers of deportation and extradition and an end to the mandatory obligation to consider asylum applications from known supporters of terrorism. [snip] -Tolan.

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AL Digital Acquires Second Nuclear Bunker
by Bill Scannell 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AL Digital Acquires Second Nuclear Bunker Doubles Space Available for Security of Computer Assets London, UK (1 October 2001) AL Digital (Telecommunications), Ltd., a leading provider of secure computer hosting and owner of The Bunker, today announced the purchase of a second nuclear bunker from the Ministry of Defence. The terms were undisclosed. This second bunker now known as The Other Bunker will effectively double the space available for the secure storage and hosting of Britain's digital economic assets. Located northeast of London, The Other Bunker will undergo retrofitting before being deployed as a computer co-location facility. The Bunker and The Other Bunker were designed and built during the Cold War as physically secure communications centres. Both offer the ultimate in protection from a myriad of attacks including; crackers, terrorist attack, electro-magnetic pulse, HERF weapons, electronic eavesdropping and solar flares. The rate of firms moving into The Bunker has accelerated dramatically in recent weeks, creating the need for additional secure computing space in the UK. "Increased demand has caused us to move forward our timetable ," said AL Digital Director Dominic Hawkin. "The Other Bunker needs to be open for business sooner than we planned." The Other Bunker is scheduled to have its first client servers installed by mid-2002. The storage capacity of the The Bunker will be able to absorb the needs of the market until that time. ENDS About The Bunker and The Other Bunker The Bunker is redefining the market for secure hosting. The facility provides the physically secure environment needed to protect digitally secure data. All the encryption in the world can't stop a server from being stolen, sabotaged or destroyed: The Bunker does. For more information, visit The Bunker web site at http://www.thebunker.net About AL Digital A.L Digital design, develop, deploy and run computing systems. These range from sophisticated software applications, to online stores, to custom designed hardware. For more information, visit AL Digital's web site at http://www.aldigital.co.uk Contact: Bill Scannell The Bunker, Ltd. ++44 (20) 8742 5902 bill(a)thebunker.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 7.1 iQA/AwUBO7giZfUhQXH5dzNXEQKIQwCgp/NVeSk/I4Spw1FlGVKaRQrU7q4AoM09 TXtxLaFmMtZa1zKA+rQutYu6 =c0pE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: Larry Ellison wants National ID Card database
by Bill Stewart 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Somebody on the list, promoting a total boycott of Oracle, quoted Larry Ellison as saying: >"We need a database behind that, so when you're walking into an airport >and you say that you are Larry Ellison, you take that card and put it >in a reader and you put your thumb down and that system confirms that >this is Larry Ellison" We need a database that knows, when you walk into an airport and say you're Larry Ellison, whether to take the big orange boot off your private jet's wheels that's there because you keep violating the quiet-hour curfew at San Jose airport And it needs to do this at every airport in the country so that, if your flight plan gets you into San Jose too late at night, they won't let you take off, even if you have caught up on your fines.

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