Hi Matt Not sure if you've seen this one already but here goes. Quite where the anti-capitalists are going to get a thermonuclear bomb from isn't explained in the article but surely such a device would compromise their "Neo-Luddite" principles anyway? Yours, in a fallout shelter, somewhere west of London dK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOP FIRMS RETREAT INTO BUNKER TO WARD OFF 'ANARCHISTS' "Some of Britain's biggest companies are running their Internet operations on systems installed in a 300ft-deep nuclear blast-proof bunker to protect customers from violent anti-capitalist campaigners. They are renting space in hermetically sealed rooms capable of withstanding a one Kiloton explosion, electro-magnetic 'pulse bombs', electronic eavesdropping and chemical and biological warfare." This is from an article by Steve Boggan in the The Independent, 13 June 2001 - http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/update/story.jsp?story=77374: It seems that hundreds of companies have already installed systems in The Bunker - formerly known as RAF Ash, outside Sandwich in Kent - and dozens more are understood to be queuing up for space. The article quotes a Dr Ian Angell, professor of information systems at the London School of Economics and author of The New Barbarian Manifesto, as saying: "This isn't paranoia or fantasy, this is the future. There are sophisticated anti-capitalists out there who feel a great deal of resentment against the business world. These are the new Luddites and, given half a chance, they would smash the machine to pieces." Behind The Bunker is a company called AL Digital Communications, established by the brothers Adam and Ben Laurie and Dominic Hawken. "The AL Digital team made a sealed bid - still secret, according to the Ministry of Defence - and the 60,000sq ft bunker with 18 acres of land was theirs," writes Boggan. There are three back-up power systems big enough to fire up a small town. There is also a fire station, vast underground fuel and water tanks and an array of cameras on corridors and servers. "You have to understand. Future wars will be fought by capitalists and anti-capitalists as society polarises," Professor Angell is reported as saying. "When that happens, control of information will be as important as control of territory used to be in conventional conflicts. If you can stop your enemy from destroying your information, then you have a good chance of winning the war." __________________________________________________________________________ Distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. --- ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************