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Crimes Against Humanity: : The Struggle for Global Justice
by matthew gream 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

No doubt readers of this forum will be interested in Geoffrey Robertson's ``Crimes Against Humanity: : The Struggle for Global Justice`` (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0713991976) in which he does excellent justice to tracing the origins of human rights and international human rights causes, especially as it evolved post nuremburg through the UNHRC, The Balkans, General Pinochet, Kosovo, East Timor and The ICC. Geoffrey is scathingly critical of the hypocrisy of international diplomacy in its failure to uphold agreed upon conventions and fundamental rights for individuals. His explanation not only illustrates circumstances as they occurred, but he tends to decribe how they should be, in order that "justice is seen to be done". Although there is no mention of cryptography, the insights into geopolitics and "the merry-go-round in geneva" illustrate the cogs and lubricants in the international framework of legal and diplomatic wangling. Fans of Jack Straw will be pleased that he "did the right thing" in the case of Pinochet, and my hero Noam Chomsky gets a brief message (his incisive criticisms on American foreign policy - and Robertson holds nothing bad in criticising the continuing hypocrisy). Matthew Gream Brussels, December 2000 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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by Income Opportunity 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

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by Giacomino C Parkinson 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

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Human Rights Alert-- Urgent Information needed on West Papua massacre by Indonesian military.
by Joe Baptista 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

>>> ---------- >>> From: "Michael Albert" <sysop(a)zmag.org> >>> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:25:39 -0800 >>> To: <znetupdates(a)tao.ca>, <znetcommentary(a)tao.ca> >>> Subject: ZNet Commentary / George Monbiot / Massacre Starts Tomorrow / Dec 1 >>> >>> >>> The Massacre Starts Tomorrow >>> And Britain will share the blame for what's about to happen in West Papua >>> By George Monbiot >>> Also Published in the Guardian 30th November 2000 >>> >>> There's an odd component of globalisation, which I find myself at a loss to >>> explain. We are, we're assured, living in a global village, whose people are >>> daily brought closer together. Yet we hear ever less about what is happening >>> in distant parts of the world. There is less foreign news in the papers than >>> there has been for sixty years. Foreign documentaries are almost extinct. >>> Parliamentary debate about overseas issues has all but dried up. In the >>> midst of the communications revolution, we are becoming strangers to each >>> other. >>> >>> So the massacres due to begin tomorrow will take almost everyone by >>> surprise. Indeed, there is hardly a news editor who has even heard of the >>> land in which they are scheduled to take place. >>> >>> West Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea, which has been >>> occupied since 1963 by Indonesia. Tomorrow, local people expect the >>> Indonesian army to launch a one-sided war, bloodier even than the carnage in >>> East Timor last year. The troops and militias have been armed and trained >>> and are awaiting orders. Only the international community can stop them. >>> But, though Western nations such as Britain are up to their necks in it, >>> they haven't the faintest intention of seeking to prevent the Indonesian >>> plan from going ahead. >>> >>> In 1961, the 800,000 Melanesian people of West Papua were promised >>> independence. Holland, the colonial power, began to transfer the >>> administration to local people. In 1962, Indonesia invaded. The attack >>> failed, but John Kennedy, with Britain's backing, coerced the Dutch into >>> surrendering West Papua to the United Nations, on the grounds that if the >>> Indonesian government were not appeased it might succumb to communism. The >>> UN, as planned, promptly gave West Papua to Indonesia, but on condition that >>> within five years its people would be granted "the right of >>> self-determination". In the event, 1000 Papuan men were rounded up and >>> forced to vote on pain of death for Indonesian sovereignty. >>> >>> Since then, tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Papuans have been >>> tortured, mutilated and killed by Indonesian soldiers. The government >>> launched a eugenics programme whose purpose, according to the former >>> governor, was to give "birth to a new generation of people without curly >>> hair, sowing the seeds for greater beauty". The Papuans have been pushed out >>> of their lands and replaced by people from the central islands of Indonesia, >>> brought in by the government to pacify the province. Its forests have been >>> sold to logging companies, its mountains to western mining firms. When >>> villagers have sought to defend their lands, they have been bombed and >>> strafed. Now the whole place is about to explode. >>> >>> Tomorrow, the indigenous people will make a formal declaration of >>> independence. The Indonesian army has been waiting for months for just such >>> a moment. Since August, thousands of commandos and paratroops have been >>> flown into West Papua. British-made Hawk jets have been overflying the >>> province's central highlands. Their deployment there was, according to the >>> Financial Times, sanctioned by Britain's Foreign Office. Militias are >>> currently being trained by the army outside the town of Wamena, one of the >>> centres of Papuan resistance. Some 12,000 firearms have been flown in, >>> presumably for distribution to Indonesian volunteers. Local people, by >>> contrast, are armed with spears and bows and arrows. >>> >>> The Indonesian army has been encouraging the Papuans to rise, planting >>> agents provocateurs and issuing public statements suggesting that >>> independence ceremonies will be tolerated (all previous rituals have been >>> ruthlessly crushed). Here, as in East Timor, the army will seek to unleash >>> sufficient force to persuade the indigenous people to abandon their hopes of >>> self-determination. >>> >>> Papuan leaders have repeatedly sought to reach a peaceful independence >>> settlement with the Indonesian government. But while President Wahid seems >>> vaguely sympathetic to their cause, vice-president Megawati, who has, in >>> effect, ultimate control over the province, appears interested only in >>> delivering lucrative logging and development concessions to the army in >>> order to secure its support. The Papuans have approached the British >>> government for help. It has ignored them. And still it continues to sell >>> arms to Indonesia. >>> >>> When the massacre begins, our officials will doubtless wring their hands and >>> lament the failure of Indonesia's people to resolve their differences by >>> peaceful means. Having seen what happened in East Timor and having failed to >>> do anything to prevent its repetition, the blood this time will be on our >>> hands. We helped to start all this. Now we must stop it. >>>

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CDR: Arthur Anderson black-bagged, NIPC now spooking
by David Honig 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

"Arthur Andersen's office in Vilnius has reportedly fallen victim to electronic surveillance operations. Following the discovery of suspicious equiptment in the office, Andersen called on the Lithuanian authorities to open an investigation into what it views as a case of economic espionage. Another firm highly active in the region, J. Kabasinka & Partners, is said to have also been subjected to similar surveillance" Intelligence Newsletter 12 Oct 2000 p3 indigo-net.com [no affil.] Also a notes that FBI now training NIPC in Carnivore use. "Previously the FBI had sworn NIPC was not engaged in law enforcement surveillance." p 5 same issue. Will scan sources for John's library.

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Re: Scenes from the Supreme Court protests today
by George＠Orwellian.Org 03 Dec '00

03 Dec '00

Alright, Declan using his Nikon Coolpix 950! Screw that analog stuff. Got 340Mb? At 5:21 PM -0500 12/1/00, Declan McCullagh wrote: # http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/supreme-court-bush-gore-arguments.html The Reverend Al Sharpton, working off more weight. Hey, they get to use bullhorns in DC? We can't even use a stick to hold up a sign here in NYC! Our resident racist prosecutor & fantasy killer Tim May wrote: # # I noticed the guy down on his knees...was he expecting the # Republicans to give him a bullet to the base of the neck? Huh? What is going on in what's left of your brain? Our resident racist prosecutor & fantasy killer Tim May wrote: # # Frankly, I think much of Al Gore's desperation comes from his # realization that if he loses, he'll face prosecution for his # treason vis-a-vis the Chinese. And, as someone pointed out to # me recently, if Al Gore has no power, the Chinese won't need # him around. In fact, he becomes a positive liability for them, # in terms of testimony, plea bargains, memoirs, careless comments. # They may choose to retire him with extreme prejudice. Gore wants to be president so he won't be killed? World-class lame lamentations.

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03 Dec '00

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Poe puzzle solved after 150 years
by R. A. Hettinga 02 Dec '00

02 Dec '00

http://www.nandotimes.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500285318-500450084-5029354… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Code breakers believe Poe puzzle solved after 150 years * Text of Poe's messages By JEFF DONN, Associated Press WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (November 30, 2000 3:51 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Edgar Allan Poe, master of the mysterious and the macabre, may have uttered his last words from beyond the grave. A coded message published by Poe in 1841 in a magazine where he worked as editor has been deciphered with the help of modern computing and the intuition of a young puzzle solver, 151 years after Poe's death. As it turns out, the translated passage wasn't Poe's message for readers yet unborn or a key to comprehending his enigmatic stories. In fact, the passage is so inept and sentimental he probably didn't write it all. But the mystery of whether he selected and encoded the passage remains. It was one of two encoded texts that Poe presented as the work of a "Mr. W.B. Tyler," challenging readers to break their codes. No one did -- maybe no one cared to -- until scholars, in recent years, began embracing the theory that Poe himself came up with the messages and devised the codes. The theory holds that Poe, obsessed with death and premature burial in "The Tell-tale Heart" and other stories, would have encrypted his own words in nearly impenetrable code meant to be pried open only long after his death. In 1992, Duke University doctoral student Terence Whalen, while procrastinating on his dissertation, finally decoded the first message. It was a passage from the 1713 play "Cato" by English writer Joseph Addison. But it took computer power and more time to fathom the second. "I can't really say if I cared what it would say, one way or the other. But I was curious to see what it would yield," said Gil Broza, a 27-year-old computer programmer from Toronto who cracked the code. For his solution, he was awarded $2,500 in October by Williams College, in Williamstown. Shawn Rosenheim, a Poe scholar there who had pondered the problem for years, established the contest in 1996. The two texts were much like complex versions of today's newspaper cryptograms. In Poe's time, they were often called "ciphers." The first cipher put the original message backward. But its solution took just a few days, because each letter in the original message matches just one other letter in the code. The second cipher is far more complex. Each letter in the original has multiple variants. The letter "e," for example, has 14. The code freely mixes upper and lower case and turns some characters upside down. It is also maddeningly brief -- fewer than 150 words -- and so a discovered letter may provide clues to few words. It is also littered with what appear to be typographical errors. Rosenheim and many others tried to solve it and failed. The breakthrough came when Broza decided, in traditional deciphering technique, to assume that each three-letter code word could represent "the," "and," or "not" and to play with the possibilities. With a computer program of his own design, he scanned lists of phrases showing the same patterns of letters. He finally identified four letters in one word and conjectured correctly, like a contestant on "Wheel of Fortune," that it was "afternoon." That gave him yet more letters to decode more words and ultimately the whole text, within two months of work. The deciphered message is a treacly passage wholly unlike Poe's work, with references to sultry breezes, amorous zephyrs and delicious languor. "I can't imagine Poe would have taken the trouble to construct an elaborate cryptogram to disguise something this banal," said J. Gerald Kennedy, a Poe expert at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. On the other hand, Poe was a prankster who used to write anonymous reviews of his own work, accusing himself of plagiarism. Some believe Poe chose the name Tyler to tweak President John Tyler, whose administration had passed over the chronically broke Poe for a job. In the end, the solved texts do touch on themes that preoccupied Poe, like immortality and enclosure, but neither appears to be the coveted message to posterity. They don't even indicate definitively if Poe encoded them. "I spent years of my life on this," Rosenheim said this week. "But I might be wrong." "You can make an argument one way or another," said Whalen, now at the University of Illinois in Chicago. "That's just like Poe -- and just like life," he added. "There's always another question." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Global | Nation | Sports | Politics | Opinions | Business | Techserver | Health & Science | Entertainment | Weather | Baseball | Basketball | Football | Hockey | Sport Server | MAIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright © 2000 Nando Media Do you have some feedback for the Nando Times staff? -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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by roberto 02 Dec '00

02 Dec '00

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CanCrypt: Canadian cryptographic resources
by M Taylor 02 Dec '00

02 Dec '00

I have been updating CanCrypt, a directory of Canadian cryptographic resources. It is intended to be a clearing house of Canadian related cryptographic resources. Although the relaxing of US export regulations has reduced some of its importance, Canada still has a more liberal cryptographic policy for export and usage. Compared to both the USA (re: export) and UK (re: RIP) it is very crypto-friendly. http://www.privacy.nb.ca/cancrypt/ If you have additions, please me know. -- M Taylor mctaylor@ / privacy.nb.ca

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