From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 1 16:26:15 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:26:15 -0800 Subject: CIA covert op on US Customs Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990401161526.009f2ba0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=20939 There were some posts at Indymedia.org last year linking CIA hatred of Customs as motive for assisting the scorpions nest plot to finish off the WTC.Not officially sanctioned in the slightest but there was ongoing human intel in-situ in SW Asia regaining stingers and tracing unexploded cruise missiles.(those were onsold to China) At the same time Customs disturbed a profitable CIA smuggling ring running cigarettes through Turkey in and various nuclear,biological and smack products out through NJ.The CIA chief in Hamburg had a picture of the WTC Customs head on a dart board.Again NO official involvement alleged but some CIA input to 9-11 practically certain."The devil finds work..." From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 1 19:36:58 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 19:36:58 -0800 Subject: Whit Diffie is dead,get over it. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990401193147.009ec490@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.sun.com.sg/hotnews/press/2002/19apr.html AND http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/globalization/goldenShieldEng.html How long are these creeps like Diffie (sun security) and Trei (RSA)going to be allowed to live? Everything cypherpunks are supposed to be about is being snuffed out in China as we speak.I will pay to send the death dealers Diffie and Trei to hell 10 $,pr. From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 2 15:10:05 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 15:10:05 -0800 Subject: Has Paul Allen earned killing? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990402150730.009f27e0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.thestranger.com/2002-07-04/city4.html "We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For you must not forget, we can also build. It is we who built those palaces and cities here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. WE are going to inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute." Buenaventura Durruti: From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 4 03:21:01 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 03:21:01 -0700 Subject: Russians recall ambassadors because... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990404031724.009f4100@mail.nex.net.au> To release Microsoft's source code,Hannsen files and new mp3 of "back in the USSR" http://www.cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Hanssen_1.htm "We've gone from excessive optimism at the beginning of the year, to serious pessimism, and now to downright fear."Commandante Arbusto. From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 4 03:35:47 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 03:35:47 -0700 Subject: US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies - smh.com.au "Ritt Goldstein info." Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990404033337.009e78e0@mail.nex.net.au> [ 15 July 2002 ] The Talent Myth Interesting article on the disconnect between performance and performance analysis ( Malcolm Gladwell via New Yorker ) They don't like it up 'em Article about the US media's 'sinister' reaction to John Pilger's recent commentaries in the Daily Mirror ( Roy Greenslade via Guardian ) See also this Independent article from yesterday, and this Pilger article from earlier this month US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies Article about the Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS), a US Justice Dept initiative which aims to recruit millions of US citizens - 'primarily from among those whose work provides access to homes, businesses or transport systems' - to act as a volunteer network of informants ( Ritt Goldstein via Sydney Morning Herald ) Goldstein has an unusual background - in 1997, following a campaign of police harassment, he fled to Sweden, becoming 'the only American in the world seeking political asylum'; see this Guardian article from 2000, and this Guardian article from last year Bush recount troops land plum DC jobs Article about the high number of campaign workers who received posts in the Bush administration following their participation in the Florida recount process ( Carol Rosenberg via Miami Herald ) FROM http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm Scroll down for a little anarchy... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Cable operators, who were forced to remove the adult channels beginning in September, exploited a loophole to offer sex content on an expanded pay-per-view basis instead. The law passed late Tuesday closes that loophole. An amendment was rejected that would have permitted erotic broadcasts if devices like smart cards were used to prevent minors from watching. About 50% of subscribers to YES and digital cable channels order adult content, and the cable industry claims that removing such material will cost it about $50 million annually. And if you live in the US of A,LISTEN UP! "Just know that there are some mean, evil motherfuckers running the country right now where if we don't go out and vote, they're really going to fuck us up. So get out there in November and show them that we're going to stay." Tom Byron, getting out the vote. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Seventeen government officials and police were taken hostage over the next several days as a means of exchange for farmers arrested in earlier protests. Over the next four days, thousands of demonstrators, bolstered by supporters from around Mexico, organized their municipal response and barricaded themselves in their towns, including Acuexcomac, Atenco, Magdalena Panoaya, and Tocuila as a defense from raids by the federal Mexican police. They barricaded the main roads in the towns and access to freeways, with piles of tires, tractor-trailers, Coca-Cola trucks, and burned police cars. At the same time, Mexican military forces and police surrounded the towns. On July 14, the Mexican government released 11 jailed farmers in an effort to resolve the hostage situation. All prisoners held by the protestors were released on Monday, July 15, the remaining farmers were freed, and the Mexican government conceded that plans for the airport may be modified. http://www.indymedia.org/index.php3?newswire=open -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2238 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 5 00:36:22 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:36:22 -0700 Subject: "Alien" The musical. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990405003123.009ee700@mail.nex.net.au> Andrew and I are working on a musical venison of the diddly scott meisterverk,"Alien"and invite you to send song titles and lyrics.Carrie Bradshaw is verboten as she gets 4.50$ an hour from Pogue for writing questions fer fucks sake! Remember,"A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb." and get squeaking. ALW and PR From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 5 02:07:29 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:07:29 -0700 Subject: : millicent ghetto blasters Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990405020116.009fbd90@mail.nex.net.au> >>...I would argue that the only *lasting* surprise offered by AP was the fact that when mild wants of large numbers of people can be coordinated, economic efficiency can lead to significant, and heretofore unexpected, outcomes (i.e. getting a notable figure killed). << Or...a complete nonetity that belonged to a certain target group.Society might offer the micro-payment option, for example,of paying a pooled fund out for a confirmed prediction of a bikie member of an outlaw band that made killing a condition of entry. I like the idea of targeting prison guards that volunteer for capital punishment detail. Could lead to significant difficulties filling certain positions that prop up the State...(my 0.02 mcents) From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 5 22:55:55 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 22:55:55 -0700 Subject: Team Red Leader Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990405225227.009f7950@mail.nex.net.au> "Create an "intelligence threat division" in the new department that uses what the plan calls "red teams" of intelligence experts. These teams would act like terrorists and plot attacks on vulnerable new targets in the country so that means of preventing such attacks can be devised." FROM http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/16/politics/16HOME.html?ex=1027483200&en=f29b9cfa49024549&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1 Mongo and the boyz do that for free! Why is it only ok to respond with violence if they hit you first? That's bad tactics. The first blow might actually kill you or seriously weaken you. From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 6 09:03:25 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 09:03:25 -0700 Subject: Kiss of the spiderman Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990406090203.009fcec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.cicentre.com/Hanssen/main.htm "Quit fucking apologizing for filesharing. Intellectual property is evil, filesharing is freedom fighting, and the sooner Jack Valenti is bumming quarters for a living, the better. The question is not how to protect artists, it is how to muster enough force to protect the right to hack." From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 6 22:21:42 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 22:21:42 -0700 Subject: Phone companies to violate your privacy more. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990406221614.009f7cf0@mail.nex.net.au> >>Do you have a 'reduced expectation of privacy'? << From "arbiet mach"Trei Thanks to your TIPS actions here re cj and your slimy companies actions in red China,what do you fucking think? Pointing the finger at others wont save your bacon Trei as you might. Oh and how long are you RSA weiners going to let the Quantum euro crypto companies steal a march on you? "If you want a picture of the future, imagine my boot stamping on your face forever." From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 6 22:41:18 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 22:41:18 -0700 Subject: Gilmore Sues on FAA ID, Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990406223420.009f2680@mail.nex.net.au> A few good cypherpunks...Goodonya john Gilmore! Yoda man! As well as operating like the old south african pass laws,these "oral" directives seem to discriminate.Do corporate jet passengers suffer this insulting and demeaning assault? Times like these sort the cypherpunk men from the overgrown boys.Waytogo Johnno! "When you don't have the law, you argue the facts. When you don't have the facts, you argue the law. And when you don't have either, you persecute the prosecutor" From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 6 23:12:57 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 23:12:57 -0700 Subject: Anarchist Q+A.Q. Are anarchists mindless violent thugs? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990406231038.009eb600@mail.nex.net.au> A. I never cease to be amazed and amused by the violent caricatures that dog the anarchist movement. When you examine the historical record, anarchists are angels when compared to other social movements. Violence is a by-word for religion, nationalism and racism. If you compare the limited violence committed by anarchists to the death and destruction that¹s caused by wars due to national, religious or racial differences, any violence committed by anarchists is insignificant when compared to the glorious record of the God, Queen and Country Brigade. So why are the stereotypes that anarchists are mindless violent thugs such a constant feature in popular literature and popular culture. The answer lies in the very principles that define anarchism. Anarchists want to break down hierarchies and rule themselves. Anarchist philosophy is a direct challenge to the idea that people need rulers to survive. Within our cultural, economic and religious context, people have a great deal of difficulty in believing that if you break down hierarchies that society won¹t disintegrate. The popular thinking is no rulers, no society, chaos. What¹s even more interesting is that at the very moment that human beings have access to knowledge, education and technology that makes hierarchies redundant, people are fighting to maintain the structures and institutions that limit their personal and social potential. The good thing is that more and more people are beginning to realise that rulers are an unnecessary imposition on people¹s aspirations and lives. Interestingly the decline of religion in western society (atheism is Australia¹s third largest ?religion¹) is one of those prerequisites that seems to be necessary to break down the stereotypes that continue to dog the anarchist movement. Through our aims, actions, activities, methods of organisation and planning, we can break down these enduring myths. Our position in Australian society is similar to the position of asylum seekers in this country, while asylum seekers are kept apart from the population they can be successfully de-humanised. Once contact increases, de-humanisation is difficult. As long as anarchists keep to themselves, they can be stereotyped. Once their presence begins to be felt in a community, they will be able to break down those stereotypes that have made them figures of fear and more importantly derision in most parts of the world. From http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos12143.html From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 8 03:17:53 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 03:17:53 -0700 Subject: PDA security article Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990408031637.009ffce0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.zdnet.com.au/itmanager/technology/story/0,2000029587,20266777,00.htm Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself. (Mark Twain) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 345 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 8 03:27:11 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 03:27:11 -0700 Subject: Fucking Yahoo's Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990408032536.009f1670@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.rsf.fr/article.php3?id_article=2959 "Who wants to participate to help form what will be the LAST revolution on earth, the one that'll take down ALL the governments?" James Dalton Bell. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 8 04:02:29 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 04:02:29 -0700 Subject: Micky mouse called to the NSA. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990408040002.009f5e80@mail.nex.net.au> LOS ANGELES -- Eric Haseltine is moving from one top-secret organization to another. Uncle Sam has plucked Walt Disney Co.'s chief of research and development to become head of research for the National Security Agency, which uses highly sophisticated technology to gather intelligence and break codes to protect sensitive government information systems. Haseltine worked for a decade at Walt Disney Imagineering, the company's design and development group. As such, he would seem an unlikely choice for his new government mission. But the worlds of the NSA and Walt Disney Imagineering aren't so dissimilar. Both organizations include a diverse group of top-level scientists and share a penchant for security and secrecy (Disney won't say how many scientists it employees). There's a certain institutional quality to the unmarked, drab buildings that make up the sprawling Walt Disney Imagineering complex in Glendale, Calif. Beyond developing innovative ride systems for theme parks, Disney's research and development team also has expertise in areas with military applications, including virtual-reality technology and information systems. Disney scientists are at the forefront of interactive TV and developing systems for protecting the company against Internet piracy. Haseltine, 50, who holds a doctorate in physiological psychology, also is no stranger to the defense world. He spent 13 years at Hughes Aircraft Co., where he also managed R&D projects and was known as a leading expert on flight simulation. He joined Disney in 1992. His new job will not be built around family fun. His role will be to lead a research and technology team for the spy agency, a division of the Department of Defense that employs 30,000. Neither NSA nor Haseltine will detail his exact responsibilities. "I'm taking the job because I want to contribute my skills to helping the country," said Haseltine. "I'm particularly motivated because of what happened on September 11. Under ordinary circumstances, I would never have dreamed of leaving Disney, but these aren't ordinary circumstances." Richard Verrier can be reached at richard.verrier at latimes.com or 1-800-528-4637, Ext. 77936. "The business of America is none of your business." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2324 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 8 06:12:14 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 06:12:14 -0700 Subject: A few good punks Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990408060532.009f32a0@mail.nex.net.au> > From seths list > > A little while ago, I noted how Websense, a censorware >company, is distributing daily lists of sex sites supposedly not >blacklisted by other censorware companies. See: > >http://sethf.com/anticensorware/websense/free_sex.php > > MSNBC picked up the story, and there's an excellent article >about it at: > >http://www.msnbc.com/news/774905.asp?cp1=1 >"Filter firm's Web site bares all" >"Websense links to X-rated sites that it says rivals didn't block" > > Websense remains unrepentant: > > "Meyer said that company executives were not concerned that kids > would use the tool to access objectionable content that that might > otherwise be blocked by their parents, teachers or librarians because > the company's site caters to corporations and government entities > rather than the public." > > I'm quoted in the article: > > "Seth Finkelstein, a civil libertarian computer programmer adamantly > opposed to such "censorware," said the double standard apparently > arises out of fear that an internecine feud would highlight the > shortcomings of filtering technology." > > "If somebody else had done this, they would ban it immediately," said > Finkelstein, who won the Electronic Freedom Foundation's 2001 Pioneer > Award for his work in monitoring the filtering field. "They do ban > directories of such sites, but they're not doing it for this one." > >-- >Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf at sethf.com http://sethf.com >Anticensorware Investigations - http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ >Seth Finkelstein's Infothought list - http://sethf.com/infothought/ >http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html > >_______________________________________________ >Infothought mailing list >Infothought at sethf.com >http://sethf.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/infothought profrv is scanning for millicent breakthroughs in the hard core sex arena...its a dirty job...but somepunks got to do it. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 8 06:54:22 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 06:54:22 -0700 Subject: Bedtime for Mongo. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990408064815.009faec0@mail.nex.net.au> — Tim May is a self-taught physicist and mechanical engineer who has hundreds of inventions to his name. His medical devices have helped countless people live better lives. But it’s something called cryptoanarchy that has created the most buzz and has so many people wondering whether May will completely change the way people get around. May's sense of what's possible is governed by the immutable laws of nature. Everything else is up for grabs. May is a self-taught physicist and multimillionaire entrepreneur who lives in a hexagonally shaped house of his own design atop a hill just outside Corralitos. Invisible from the road, the estate is outfitted with a softball field, a wood-paneled library that's full of awards and honorary degrees (May never graduated from college), a wind turbine to help supply power, and a pulley system that can deliver a bottle of wine from the kitchen to the bedroom. He calls the place Breakwind, and he stuffed it with a collection of toys and antiques that includes a jukebox, a slot machine,a realdoll and a 25-ton steam engine once owned by Henry Ford. In Westwind's basement, there's a foundry, a machine shop, and a computer room, where May often toils late into the night. He keeps a Porsche 928 and a black Humvee in one garage, two Enstrom helicopters in the other. The smaller, piston-driven chopper takes him to and from work at his offices in downtown san Jose; the larger, turbine-driven version is reserved for longer hops, like to his private island off the coast of southern California. For trips more than a few hundred miles, he flies his twin-turbofan CitationJet. Kamen has high-powered friends to match his taste in toys, and throws lavish parties that entice many powerful people to the new Berchtesgaden . Visitors have included George W. Bush,Kurt Saxon, NSA administrator william Pierce, and, more recently, J Orlinn Grabbe of the libertarian Mafia. But it's not the Rolodex, the air force, or the tricked-out Batcave that separates May from the usual posse of tech multimillionaires. It's the way he's gone about acquiring it all, and the offbeat, often idealistic ways he chooses to spend it. But Mays first love and greatest passion these days is an idea that may be the farthest-fetched of all: turning engineers and inventors into pop-culture superstars. Operating through a nonprofit outfit called U.S. First (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), May works to encourage kids to pursue careers as scientists, engineers, and big thinkers. Lots of people talk about doing that, but to May it's a holy crusade, and he sincerely believes he can reprioritize society to value inventors the way it values athletes. "Our culture celebrates one thing: sports heroes," he says. "You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or an engineer is." From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 8 07:04:26 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 07:04:26 -0700 Subject: Come to jesus Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990408070158.009f8580@mail.nex.net.au> BABY JESUS BUTT PLUGS AND MORE! jimmyd _writes " Boy, I know what I'm doing this weekend. I'm trotting on down to my local adult novelty emporium and get me a 'Baby Jesus Butt Plug,' and a 'Jackhammer Jesus Dildo.' Then come this Sunday, I'm gonna put on my best, get my girl, and go to church. Of course, I'll have that 'Baby Jesus Butt Plug' stuck up my ass, and my girl will have her 'Jackhammer Jesus Dildo' balls deep in her snatch. Then we're gonna praise Jesus with the rest of the flock. You think ole jimmyd's fuckin' wit ya? You think this sounds like part of a Tom Zupko/Extreme Associates video? No fucking way, homeys. I got my July 2002 AVN Supplement, and on Page 562 is the 'Baby Jesus Butt Plug' from Divine Productions, Inc. Here's what AVN staffer Susie Ehrlich had to say about this little novelty item: "Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam, so I shoved Him up my ass. He's 4-1/2 inches high, an inch and a half in diameter, and he's made of silicone. This very special butt plug features the likeness of Christ the Savior as a young'un wrapped in blankets, with only His beatific face peeking out. His legs form the base for a handy flange, keeping Him (and me) from sufering the embarrassment of being hauled out of my colon by the emergency room staff when I get carried away with my own kind of religious experience." Whoa! I'll bet Susi's a fun girl to pray with. And then a handful of pages later, we have Susie's take on the 'Jackhammer Jesus Dildo,' which is your basic crucifixion molded in silicone in the form of a dildo, and it's also from those whacky folks at Divine Products, Inc. "If that irritating Jews for Jesus cult would just promise a glow-in-the-dark silicone crucifix dildo to each new member, they might actually attract a few people who aren't completely insane. Something for the heretic who has everything." Other dildos from Divine include: The Virgin Mary, The Diving Nun, Moses, and more. Ya know, I think these Divine people are on to something here, and I think I'll give them a couple of suggestions to toss around. Here's my ideas for some new religious sex novelties you guys can also manufacture and distribute: 'Buddha Butt Creme' - It comes in a variety of sexy Kama Sutra flavors like passionfruit and chicken curry. 'Buddha Butt Creme' is an all-purpose anal lube with just a hint of a topical pain killer added for those sensitive assholes out there. 'Allah's Anal Probe' - This is the one item no Islamic couple should be without, or any other religious couple for that matter. While it looks and feels like most anal probes on the market, this one's different. It's made of a new, spage-age alloy which allows it to be heated to very high, desert temperatures and then that temperature is maintained in almost any environment, even the inside of a colon. Simply heat up the 'Allah's Anal Probe' in a microwave or a coventional oven, or hell, even in a campfire, and then shove it up your loved one's ass. He or she will think they're speaking with Allah Himself as they start shouting in tongues. 'I'm A Little Jew Boy Penis Extender' - Tired of going through life with all that guilt because you've never gotten your woman off? Them days are history, little jew boy. With your 'I'm A Little Jew Boy' penis extender you'll add a fat 4 inches to your puny little Hebrew cock. And that's not all, it's battery operated and vibrates at a fierce, passion-inducing rate. You'll have your girl shouting 'Oye Vey' for more, as you plug her snatch with this baby time and time again. Well, that's all the ideas I'm giving away for free today. I hear Divine's coming out with a children's line of religious sex toys begining with the 'Lil' Pedo Jesus' collection. That stuff oughta fly off the shelves! So if anyone at Divine wants more of jimmyd's ideas, they're going to have cough up some of them sacreligious bucks they're making. Oh, as a little postscript, I might add that I wouldn't donate two cents to defend this shit either. And I ain't even a religious guy. FROM http://www.simplyjimmyd.com/ From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 8 07:16:12 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 07:16:12 -0700 Subject: Contribute to delinquimcy;join the Police! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990408071510.009f8310@mail.nex.net.au> Cops Use Underage Girl in Another Porno Sting If it worked in Cincinnati against Larry Flynt, Tallahassee cops figured it would work in Florida- and it did. Using a 17 year-old girl as jail bait deputies raided four Tallahassee sex stores Wednesday, charging five people with peddling porn to a minor. The arrests came after a 17-year-old girl posed as a customer and was able to buy adult videos at Rick's Toy Box on North Monroe Street, Greg's Video on West Tharpe Street, X-Mart Adult Superstore on West Tennessee Street and Intimate Encounters on Crawfordville Road, according to detectives. Store owners called the undercover sweep "entrapment" and criticized deputies for using a 17-year-old to buy adult sex products. Sheriff Larry Campbell, once part of a campaign [some say a witch hunt] to drive adult stores out of Leon County in the early '90's, said he's just trying to make sure stores that sell dirty movies run a clean business. The sting was prompted by complaints, including a letter-writing campaign, questioning sales practices at the stores, according to police. Detectives wired the teen-age girl - a high school senior who's frequently paid to do undercover alcohol buys - and sent her to shop at eight Tallahassee stores. They gave her marked cash, but told her to spend lightly, the girl said, asking that her name not be used. It was her first time in a sex shop, but "you just have to be mature about it," she said. She told store employees that she was shopping for her boyfriend, who was too embarrassed to come inside. Since the sting was operating on a budget, she avoided the expensive movies and shopped the $9.95 racks, she said. In each store, she picked out one movie, browsed the lingerie sections briefly so she didn't arouse suspicions and then approached the check-out counters, the teen said. Among the titles she selected: "Over my Knee, Part II" and "The XXX Files." Clerks at four of the shops, including Rick's on West Tennessee Street, checked her ID and ordered her out. The others paid no attention as they sold to her - except for Bradley Harvey, owner of Intimate Emporium, who helped her pick out a video, the girl claims. "He gave me his card and he was like, 'Anytime you need anything, I've got catalogs,'" she said. Harvey and clerks from three other stores were charged with selling obscene material to a minor, a third-degree felony. Each was released from the Leon County Jail after posting $2,500 bail. Two of those arrested were at Rick's Toy Box. One of them was a veteran employee and should have known to check the girl's ID - but the other was simply there for a job interview and had no idea what was going on, according to Robin Smith, regional manager. Smith said the store likely will help with an attorney and said she was exploring other legal responses to the arrests. According to Smith, vice detectives entrapped her workers by sending in a "dolled-up" teen-ager who looked much older than she was. Worse, they sent the girl into adult video stores, where she would have seen things she never should have, she said. "They should look at what they did because they contributed to the delinquency of a minor by sending her into the store," Smith said. "They should look at what they did instead of just pointing the finger at us." Campbell has predicted more arrests. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 8 09:58:05 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:58:05 -0700 Subject: Encrypted confession to a real crime. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990408095546.009f8310@mail.nex.net.au> Before Jack Straw became UK roving arms salesman he was Jack the RIPa. Operation Dear Jack The Electronic Commerce Bill would make it a crime to fail to give up the decryption key to a message if a policeman thinks you've got it. If you haven't got it, it is up to you to prove you haven't. If you can't prove it, you would be liable for 2 years in jail. STAND sent this letter to Jack Straw, Home Secretary, with an encrypted confession to a real crime in it. We also made it look as though Jack Straw had the decryption key. Here is our photostory: we'll be relying on these photos to try and convince the judge that we didn't keep a copy of the key; Jack will have to come up with another argument FROM http://www.stand.org.uk/dearjack/photostory.php3 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 932 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 9 00:16:14 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 00:16:14 -0700 Subject: Who controls the past,controls the future.We have always been at war. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990408223057.009ebb20@mail.nex.net.au> On this day...1979 -- Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier escapes Lompoc federal penitentiary, California. The first issue of Open Road, a kick-ass, and very well produced, anarchist news-journal came out of Vancouver in August of 1976, transforming radical politics in Canada. Many of the articles in that first issue - Leonard Peltier's impending extradition to the U.S., George Jackson Brigade actions, an interview with Martin Soastre, a Puerto Rican anarchist and former POW, coverage of Native and prisoners' struggles - would not look out of place in the PNS today. Open Road motivated the creation of a more action-orientated, militant politic in Vancouver such as the Anarchist Party of Canada (Groucho-Marxist) which carried out a series of "pieings" - literally throwing a pie in the face of a politician or celebrity, with Eldridge Cleaver being the most famous "hit" - in order to make a political point. As simple as this may sound, it brought about political and personal transformations from planning and carrying out the actions to dealing with the consequences - confrontations with reactionaries and authorities. The more serious people in the scene started to do support work for the prisoners in the old B.C. Pen whose struggles eventually resulted in its closure. From then on, prisons have been an essential part of the work taken on by our circles. Out of this came Direct Action, an armed group which in 1982 blew-up an electrical substation on Vancouver Island ($5 million in damages) and a Litton Industries factory north of Toronto that built components for the Cruise Missile ($10 million in damages and several injuries). Some of the same people were also involved in the Wimmin's Fire Brigade firebombing of three video stories specializing in violent porn. They were arrested in January, 1983, immediately putting us into doing support work. In June of 1983 Bulldozer was raided and threatened with a charge of Seditious Libel (calling for the armed overthrow of the state) for the distribution of support-leaflets we were putting out. A mid-wife, living with us at the time, was arrested and charged with "performing an abortion" in an attempt to get information from her about our links to Direct Action. After several thousand dollars in legal fees, and a year of high-stress, all the serious charges were dropped in connection to the raid. After losing several legal challenges over the legality of evidence, the Vancouver Five, as they had come to be called, pled guilty to several charges related to the actions. "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him!" - George W. Bush, September 13, 2001 "I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." - George W. 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Big scandal: Enron and other corporate players bilked California during the energy crisis! Do you realize how pathetic that was? A massive, hideous rip-off, and all these latter-day Joads in California (many with purple hair, rings in their navels, tattoos on their kidneys and toy poodles dyed-to-match--you have to allow for California) cried over the months of ruthless pillage, "Where the hell is the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission? Where's FERC?" Well, FERC was occupied by regulators who came from a list supplied by one Ken Lay, chairman of Enron. Then there's the gross conflict of interest of the stock analysts, who were recommending stocks they thought were "dogs" or "a piece of crap" so their firms could score investment banking fees from these same dogs. Or take Dick Cheney's old firm, Halliburton, which, while he was in charge, "altered its accounting policies so it could report as revenue more than $100 million in disputed costs on big construction projects," The New York Times reported. The company's auditor: Arthur Andersen. And who is supposed to be policing all this? An SEC led by Bush's man Harvey Pitt, a lawyer for financial institutions who once wrote a law review article that advocated shredding..." Full piece at... http://www.progressive.org/July%202002/ivin0702.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2118 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 10 07:11:57 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 07:11:57 -0700 Subject: Jim Bell quoting anarchists legal aid approved. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990410064742.009f3900@mail.nex.net.au> Legal aid is so hamstrung that lawyers with the service took rare industrial action the other day in Melbourne au.That didn't stop my application for full service being approved.I've been an incapacitated invalid pensioner for 20 years apart from a brief career as a motorcycle courier.After a three agency,two nations police raid that led to laptop confiscation over a year ago,I was finally charged with 2 counts of threats to kill police and 2 of using a device to menace.Both relating to posts made at www.indymedia.org melbourne Au law is based on english and differs in some respects from the US.(Interestingly the UK has recently rolled back its common law protections to pre magna carta levels.)There will be a 'mention' shortly that I wont have to attend, then the trial date will be set.I haven't met my counsel yet and look forward to that soon. The prosecutions discovery consists of breathtaking and bloodcurdling allegations backed up with a copy of one 2 hour old e-mail copy(!) of a BBS post and a screen dump of another post that appears undated.Also record of an interview where no admissions where made.Possibly enough to hang,draw and quarter me,or at least put me away for 10 years.The alleged offences occurred prior to 9-11.It should be an entertaining trial that should answer some curiosity about the security of direct posting to BBS's like Indymedia.Also the micky mouse victorian police will get ripped to shreds on cross if I have any say in our trial strategy.I'm reading up on great law books by authors like Gerry ?,the ruby ridge,guy.Geoffry Robertson,john Mortimer and sandy sandfart.Not to mention Anton C... The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. 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I've advised FBI Agent Wagoner that there was a posting a few months ago about the St Louis FBI office supposedly having contacted the individual; I also advised him that I reported the below email to the Army's Criminal Investigative Division and Department of Defense, in case "war crimes" might be involved. And, that my copy of the "Chad Luke" latter was faxed, as requested by them, to Postal Inspectors (just in case, as some folks have speculated, the letters many of us received might possibly have actually been from bryan sullivan). The FBI asked that I place my letter and envelope into a sealed plastic bag in case it might later be needed for examination for fingerprints and other tracings of evidence--if you still have your copy, you might want to do likewise? If sullivan gets wind of this email, I imagine that there might soon be emails forthcoming from him (possibly disguised as another name/sender?) with disparaging remarks about me; but, though I strongly and wholeheartedly defend his right of free speech and right to voice his opinions, I feel that we all have a responsibility to report info of a possible criminal nature to the authorities. Again, so that the FBI has access to ALL info that might be being processed presently by other agencies, please advise FBI Agent Wagoner of anything you might have initiated--to email him, use sandiego at fbi.gov and make the subject "For Special Agent Mike Wagoner", or phone him at 858-499-7736. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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McConnell noted that the advanced technology gives China the power to electronically lock out U.S. intelligence monitoring and lock in the Chinese population. "Even if the Chinese use weak encryption the sheer volume of their communications will make it impossible for us to monitor. If China were to erect a public key infrastructure it will severely impact our intelligence gathering ability," stated McConnell. He also stated that Clinton was aware that the advanced surveillance technology might be abused by hostile foreign powers. "Can Key Recovery be used against dissidents and political opponents?" asked Adm. McConnell. "In a word, YES," he concluded emphatically..." http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/960202.html Hong Kong RSA Security BV Suite 4302, 43rd/Fl Central Plaza, 18 Harbour Road Wanchai Hong Kong Tel: + 852 2511 1381 Fax: + 852 2511 1382 greaterchina at rsasecurity.com Beijing, China RSA Security Inc Suite 623, Office Building 2, Beijing Bright China Chang An Building, No 7, Jianguomen Nei Dajie Dongcheng District, Beijing, China Postcode: 100005 Tel: + 86-10-65187838 Fax: +86-10-65187837 greaterchina at rsasecurity.com Shanghai, China RSA Security Inc RM 2401 Shanghai Time Square 93 Middle Huai Hai Road Shanghai 200021 China Tel: + 86 21 63910210-3 Fax: + 86 21 63910212 greaterchina at rsasecurity.com No Progress on Human Rights in China FROM http://www.hrw.org/asia/china.php Damn you to hell Trei. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 12 03:26:28 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 03:26:28 -0700 Subject: APster: Who do you want to kill today? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990412032516.009fd7e0@mail.nex.net.au> A British millionaire property magnate with a reputation as the Britain's most vicious landlord has been found guilty of hiring the hitmen who killed a former business associate. A jury at the Old Bailey Court on Monday cleared Nicholas van Hoogstraten of murder but convicted him of manslaughter, deciding that he had only sought to harm and intimidate Mohammed Raja, a retired businessman who was taking him to court for alleged fraud. Mr Raja was stabbed five times before being shot in the head by Robert Knapp, a man van Hoogstraten used to "dissuade" people who upset him, and an accomplice, David Croke. Both hitmen were sentenced last week to life imprisonment for the murder. Justice Newman said at the Old Bailey that he wanted the defendant assessed by a psychiatrist before sentencing him. Van Hoog-straten, 57, built up a £59.5 million ($A171 million) fortune through property deals. His lawyer said he would appeal. Outside court, Mr Raja's family embraced detectives after the jury's majority verdict of 11 to one. Van Hoogstraten undermined his own case by repeatedly interrupting his own defence counsel. He told the court how he would "send in the dogs" to evict "low-life" tenants. - Guardian From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 12 06:08:45 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 06:08:45 -0700 Subject: A Revolution in the library! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990412055712.009f8d60@mail.nex.net.au> http://cgi.www.microlib.co.uk/cgi-bin/www.microlib.co.uk/default.asp?action=page&page=/products/identikit "1. Give the investigator the name and the contact info for your attorney and ask them to direct any questions they might have to your attorney. 2. Don't tell them anything else. Regardless of how "harmless" it may seem. Just shut up, don't talk, don't try to outsmart the cops." Lucky Green.99. From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 12 06:14:43 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 06:14:43 -0700 Subject: Homeland Security is working citizen. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990412061017.009fa370@mail.nex.net.au> Salvadorans Liable in Torture Case Article about the findings of a Florida jury in a civil suit against two retired generals, now resident in the US, who were responsible for atrocities while they were members of the US-backed military regime that ran El Salvador during the 1980s ( AP via Miami Herald ) See also this blog entry from last month Exiled Salvadorean military chiefs face atrocity trial Article about a civil action brought in Florida against former high-ranking members of the US-backed military regime that ran El Salvador during the 1980s ( Guardian ) See also this article by Yolanda Chávez Leyva from 2000, the CJA website, and this blog entry from April FOR LINKS http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm AND http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4763175%255E662,00.html Aussie beats terror rap By DAMON JOHNSTON in New York 24jul02 AUSTRALIAN backpacker Adam Hart has dodged up to 10 years behind bars and been slapped with a seven-day prison sentence. 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Cosy relationship keeps corporates happy but could cost £20bn in taxes Investigative report indicating that the Inland Revenue's Large Business Office, which is supposed to scrutinise the tax liability of the UK's largest corporations, has been operating with a 'sweeping disregard for the law' ( Nick Davies via Guardian ) See also these minutes of an LBO meeting with eight 'large corporates' from March, these minutes of an Inland Revenue committee meeting from January, and this blog entry from April available at... http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm "He who fights with mongo's might take care lest he thereby become a mongo.". -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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"These are all acts of terror, and we really need to get a definition of terrorism. Unarmed citizens being beaten and killed by the militia is an act of terrorism." His statements were made during the 36th annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund Conference. Mr. Jackson is the founder of both groups. The remarks repeated similar statements made during a wide-ranging discussion with N'Digo magazine, a 125,000-circulation black weekly in Chicago, in which he said that federal, state and local entities can be responsible for "terrorist" acts. In that interview, Mr. Jackson also stated that incarcerations of black men "are part of a growth industry that is making millions of dollars for non-black communities it is a criminal act against humanity." The N'Digo interview was part of an annual feature the magazine does on Mr. Jackson for his conference. "If terrorism is shooting or killing innocent people, then the police that recently shot at an innocent black couple here in Chicago and were acquitted, despite being under the influence of alcohol, were terrorists," Mr. Jackson said in the interview, which appears in the July 18-24 edition of the magazine. He also said that President Bush "is exploiting the fears of Americans and exaggerating incidents, playing the terrorism theme like a one-string guitar." "Isn't terrorism the four police officers who beat Rodney King? Or the police that shot Amadou Diallo? What we must do is fight for a definition of terrorism and hold all those who fall under that definition accountable." "I don't think we have become enraged as a people, as journalists, as ministers, as communicators — we just kind of accept what's happening against our own community." 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Not sure yet but the SEC is a bushit pussycat and their accountant wasn't Arthur Anderson.(pheuw!) Q)When does their patent run out? 2004,I think,but they get to keep the 'name'.By then it should be like a company that traded with the old South Africa. Q)So what are they lying about "The most trusted name in e-security"? "Its not a lie if you believe in it." P.Trei.no,wait,sorry...that was George Castanza. Dead tree Nature might be worth a look this 18-july edition. NATURE REPORTS ON QKD AND id QUANTIQUE "Quantum cryptography: Can you keep a secret?" In its issue of July 18, Nature reports on the first steps towards commercializing Quantum Key Distribution systems. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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ETC >>Pierce made a lot of sense, if one ignored the politically incorrect hyperbole in his writings. << Yeah just ignore 99% of it.One nutty racist physicist down...DING DONG the nazi's dead! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 910 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 12 23:13:18 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 23:13:18 -0700 Subject: "WorldCom, Inc. has been a significant reseller for RSA Security" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990412225712.009f9cb0@mail.nex.net.au> From http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=rsas&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=319166 RSA Q2.Loss announcement.Will Trei harder... Jeff Gliddens been pressganged to right the listing vessel...someone should tell Stream.bomb... "Jeffrey D. Glidden, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer Glidden is responsible for Stream's corporate financial management activities, including treasury management, investor relations and legal affairs. He has more than 20 years of financial expertise. Glidden joined Stream International in 1997 following a six-year tenure at Banyan Systems Incorporated, a directory and messaging software provider. As Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration, Glidden presided over a software revenue increase of $45 million, to a total of $120 million. He helped Banyan complete an IPO in 1992 that raised more than $25 million. Glidden was previously Founder and Vice President of Finance and Administration of Imagitex Inc., a leading image scanning and processing systems developer. During his seven years with the company, Imagitex raised more than $13 million in three rounds of private equity financing. Prior to Imagitex Inc., he was Manager of Corporate Financial Planning on Compugraphic/AGFA Corporation's executive team."FROM http://www.stream.com/about/executiveteam/executiveteam.html Have a nice flight. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1723 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 12 23:25:03 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 23:25:03 -0700 Subject: Peter Trei,the ugly cypherpunk. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990412231909.009fd970@mail.nex.net.au> Peter Trei "If the people have betrayed the government, perhaps the government should abolish the people and elect a new one.- Bertolt Brecht" Isnt that what they're doing with the Golden shield aided by RSA? Have a heart TREI.http://www.geisinger.org/ Geisinger and WBRE TV-28 are committed to improving your heart health. Join today... 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In a media release, Australian Democrats IT spokesperson, Senator Brian Greig, said these changes would enable any government department to block legitimate public access to records simply by saying the records contained offensive material. "Currently, the Broadcast Services Act allows the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) to order websites to be banned under a very broad definition, but so far, its excesses have been monitored and curtailed by online civil liberties organisations such as Electronic Frontiers Australia," Senator Greig said. "To date, this has been done through the legitimate use of the FOI Act. However, the Government's proposed changes to the FOI laws mean the ABA will be able to hide behind the Act in all its decisions and be protected from genuine public scrutiny". "This knee jerk reaction from the Government is a direct response to probing questions from the Australian Democrats and the Electronic Frontiers Australia into the workings of the ABA," Senator Greig said. "Back in 1999 changes to the Broadcasting Services Act forcing the ABA to apply unworkable censorship laws to Internet were criticised by the Australian Democrats. "The application of those unworkable laws was so embarrassing to the Government, it now sees the need to introduce these changes to the FOI legislation." FROM http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/24/1027332394529.html From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 13 00:57:35 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:57:35 -0700 Subject: Police to go on strike? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990413005346.009edec0@mail.nex.net.au> Police claim right to strike By Paula Doneman and David Potter July 25, 2002 A NEW industrial battleground has emerged after police union officials yesterday claimed legal advice asserted that the state's 8000 serving officers had the right to strike. The advice, which challenged the long-held assumption that police were prohibited from striking, was unveiled in a letter yesterday from the Queensland Police Union to Police Minister Tony McGrady. The letter was sent hours after the Government cancelled an enterprise bargaining meeting at which a new pay offer was to be tabled.MORE AT... http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4771264%255E421,00.html Victorian police swear an oath of loyalty to the queen that some police say precludes strike action.Didnt stop one station at Frankston taking wildcat actions and in the 1920's the entire state force went off...we live in hope. From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 13 02:11:40 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 02:11:40 -0700 Subject: Anarchist Q+A.Q. How would an anarchist society deal with sexual crimes? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990413020905.009fc620@mail.nex.net.au> ANARCHIST QUESTION AND ANSWER Q. How would an anarchist society deal with sexual crimes? A. The standard answer that many anarchists give when confronted with this question is that sexual crimes would decrease in a society based on the free expression of sexuality. Unfortunately this answer doesn¹t even come close to answering the question asked. Whether a more open attitude to sexuality decreases crimes of a sexual nature is difficult to say, what is undeniable is that anarchist societies will have to deal with sexual predators. If the problem is not discussed and guidelines are not set, it¹s probable that sexual crimes will continue to be a major problem in an anarchist community. The epidemic of sexual crimes that have been and continue to be committed against children have to a large degree occurred because adults in a position of authority have had almost unlimited power in their dealings with children. This combined with easy access to children, communities not willing to even discuss the possibility of sexual abuse and a culture of silence which blames the victim for the sexual abuse, combine and set the necessary preconditions for widespread sexual abuse of children. The problem of sexual abuse isn¹t exclusively a patriarchal, heterosexual or homosexual problem, it¹s a problem that exists in all cultures where the division of power is a problem. The greater the power held by an individual, whether in a family setting among workmates or friends in the community or in a institutionalised sense, the greater the level of sexual abuse. Ways in which sexual abuse can be combated, but not eliminated, include education about what is and isn¹t sexual abuse, the breakdown of inequalities between individuals whether institutionalised or non-institutionalised, exposure at the first hint of a problem and promoting individual financial independence. Practical ways of dealing with the possibility of sexual abuse include electing or appointing members of the community who act as points of first call for potential victims if there is a hint of a problem. Individuals within the community having the power to call a meeting to discuss a potential problem. The community involved having the power to set limits on the freedom individuals have who have been accused and found guilty of sexual crimes and long term compulsory counselling. What most experts agree on, is that imprisonment does not alter behaviour. In many cases imprisonment makes the problem worse as many people imprisoned for sexual crimes continue to re-offend when released. Sexual abuse is a universal human problem that has dogged all cultures and all societies. Those societies that openly discuss the problem break down the inequalities that exist between people. They provide an easy framework for reporting the problem and attempt to deal with cases of sexual abuse openly and quickly incorporate counselling and treatment for offenders, as well as restrict re-offenders access to potential victims, are those that have the best chance of managing a problem that poses a challenge for all societes including anarchist societies. FROM http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos12250.html Remind me to send them APster 1.0 when its released. From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 13 02:13:31 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 02:13:31 -0700 Subject: High Treason Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990413021223.009d1a90@mail.nex.net.au> AUSTRALIAN RADICAL HISTORY THE EUREKA SERIES NO. 25 "THE FIRST HIGH TREASON TRIAL" Hotham decided to hold separate trials for the 13 accused. John Joseph the Afro-American who was accused of firing the first shot that killed Captain Wise, was the first brought to trial. The government believed that a jury would have no trouble convicting a black man. A number of lawyers came forward to help those accused of High Treason. Butler Aspirall and Henry Chapman appeared for Joseph while the Attorney General Stawell represented the Queen. The first clash came with the selection of the jury. The Crown challenged potential Irish jurors and publicans. John Joseph sent the court into a spin when he objected to gentlemen and merchants being selected on the jury. No Irish jurors were picked for jury for Joseph¹s trial. The Crown called two government spies to give evidence, both claimed they saw Joseph in the stockade. Two privates from the 40th regiment claimed they saw Joseph fire the first shot that struck down Captain Wise. The charge against Joseph that had to be proven, was that Joseph had attempted to subvert the authority of the Crown in the colony by wounding and killing her soldiers ­ in other words the Crown had to prove ?treasonable intent". The defence lawyers didn¹t call any witnesses and made much of the point that "a riotous nigger" or a "political Uncle Tom" could have "treasonable intent", leaving it up to the jury to decide if Joseph had any intent to commit treason. The jury returned quickly from their deliberations, finding John Joseph not guilty of High Treason. Pandemonium broke out in the court at the not guilty verdict. The cheering was so loud that Chief Justice Beckett (the residing judge) in a fit of pique, singled out two members of the public gallery and jailed them for a week for contempt of court. "On emerging from the Court house, he was put in a chair and carried round the streets of the city in triumph" ­ Ballarat Star. Over 10,000 people had come to hear the jury¹s verdict. When you consider that Melbourne¹s population wasn¹t even 100,000, the crowds that had gathered to listen to the jury¹s verdict were an indication of how important many people believed these trials were. FROM http://www.ainfos.ca/ainfos12250.html Shades of crispus attucks. From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 13 02:14:48 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 02:14:48 -0700 Subject: Habeus Corpus Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990413021429.009ffd90@mail.nex.net.au> CHARGE THEM OR RELEASE THEM!! Two Australian citizens Mr. Hicks and Mr. Habib are United States prisoners at Camp X in Cuba. Hicks was arrested in Afghanistan and Habib was arrested in Pakistan. Both men are held as ?hostile combatants¹ by the United States military, outside the jurisdiction of the United States Courts as well as the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. Over 300 prisoners from many countries are held indefinitely at Camp X by the United States military. If Hicks and Habib have committed crimes, they should be charged with these crimes. If they haven¹t they should be released and should be returned to their families in Australia. After the Second World War, prisoners of war who were not charged with crimes that fell outside the conventions of war, were released and sent home. Those that were charged with crimes were dealt with before military courts or special courts that were set up to deal with the charges. What¹s especially galling about the current situation, is the Federal government¹s inability and unwillingness to offer the normal diplomatic assistance that is offered to Australians who find themselves in difficulty overseas. The Australian government has gone out of its way to ignore the plight of Hicks and Habib, both Australian citizens with families in Adelaide and Melbourne. The German government made representations to the United States government and had its citizens released from Camp X. Why can¹t the Australian government do the same? Hicks¹ and Habib¹s continued detention is directly linked to the Australian government¹s refusal to offer assistance to them because it disagrees with their political philosophy. Hicks¹ and Habib¹s continued detention and the way their case has been handled by the Australian government has important ramifications for all Australians who go overseas, whose political opinions don¹t match the opinions of the government of the day. The Australian government should protect the interests of all its citizens, not just those with similar political viewpoints. The precedent that has been set by the Australian government¹s inaction over the fate of Hicks and Habib, has important ramifications for all Australians who travel overseas. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 14 12:15:09 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:15:09 -0700 Subject: Journalist detained,computer material seized. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990414121258.00a037c0@mail.nex.net.au> Vietnam: New clampdowns on media. Prominent former Communist party journalist Nguyen Vu Binh was detained on Friday as the country's newly elected parliament was meeting. It says material was taken from his computer and he is under arrest and cannot be contacted. A California-based organisation, the Democracy Club of Vietnam says he is among a group of dissidents who wrote to the Communist leaders early in July calling for political reforms and the release of political prisoners. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, reported that the writer was taken from his home by police on July 19 and is believed to be in detention somewhere in the capital, Hanoi. BBC online report.FROM http://www.indexonline.org/indexindex/20020724_vietnam.shtml Also Amnesty attacks Laos for human rights abuse today. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 985 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 14 12:20:57 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:20:57 -0700 Subject: The friends of PETER TREI. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990414121933.00a03d90@mail.nex.net.au> ChinaJiang Zemin. He makes no bones about wanting to become China's third "Red Emperor". To strengthen his grip on the state, the president launched a campaign to control the media and the Internet. A dozen journalists have been dismissed since early 2001 for tackling controversial subjects such as corruption. To make sure the message got through, in July 2001 the government reminded the country of the "Seven Prohibitions," especially one about "disrupting the work of the Party". As soon as China was awarded the Olympic Games, the president asked his security services to ensure a "healthy Internet". In less than two months, police arrested a dozen cyber-dissidents and closed more than 8,000 cyber-cafés. Described in his official biography as "modest and courteous," Jiang Zemin has never intervened in favour of journalist Wu Shishen, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992. In fact the president personally urged a stiff sentence for him. 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Nanotech Particles Penetrate Living Cells and Accumulate in Animal Organs Article expressing concern about the paucity of 'social, political and regulatory scrutiny' directed toward nanotechnology, in particular the interaction of nano-particles with living tissue ( ETC Group ) See also this Small Times article from March, this EPA research proposal from February, this NANO framing document (3.94MB PDF) from 2000, and the CNST website LINKS AT http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm Pommie 'christian socialist' blog. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 926 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 14 13:13:15 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:13:15 -0700 Subject: 10 months Isolation for Lompoc prisoner. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990414131204.00a06ec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/07/24/2096357 The following is a message from the "December 16th Committee": July 18, 2002 Update: Political Prisoner Richard Williams Dear Friends, For eight of the past ten months, Richard Williams, a Euro-American anti-imperialist political prisoner, has been held in isolation at USP Lompoc in Central California. He is the only political prisoner remaining in administrative segregation since the events of September 11, 2001. Yet, there have been no misconduct charges against him, so we ask, "Why is he in the hole?" See background information below. http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/07/24/2096357 From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 15 03:51:22 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 03:51:22 -0700 Subject: 802.11 years or life, without parole."I Rob Banks." Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990415034317.009f62a0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26397.html Also Shoeshine boy... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26402.html I rob banks... http://www.infoaust.com/prod79.htm back to The Entertainment Cartel's Lawmaking Marionettes Mercury News: Bill would let entertainment industry hack file-sharing networks. A sweeping new anti-piracy bill would give movie studios and record labels legal impunity to hack into file-sharing networks to halt the trade of copyrighted works. Introduced in Congress on Thursday, the bill prompted cries of vigilantism from technology advocates. It's tempting to write off these kinds of legislative stunts as the idiocy they are. The technical impossibility of getting such a law right is only part of the issue, however, as is the sheer lack of morality in the process. The bigger problem is the tendency of our lawmakers to bow to their corporate masters. Berman's campaign-finance debt to Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment cartel is understood, and certainly explains his willingness to screw customers. What's more worrisome is the rest of Congress -- the utter ignorance on the part of most members of the issues. We now live in a society that takes for granted Hollywood's outrageous lies about "intellectual property" and its protection, a society that simply does not understand the value -- the necessity -- of an open, robust public domain and fair use. Berman's stance is contemptible. Who's going to stop him? APster? FROM http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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You can't sob as you kiss your mother goodbye at the airport, because it's all on videotape. Then a security check, assumes you've swallowed dynamite and will kill any one you see. That's the contemporary computer system. Razor-thin returns on investment. Can't innovate. If you do it will be swept up into Microsoft OS (or Apple). Largest legal destruction of wealth in history. VCs should admit it. Swaggering tech CEOs a race of slaves, like deer in market's headlights. Moral choices keep getting starker. Even free software guys spend most of their time aping commercial software. Free software still has an almost pirate state of mind. GNU's Not Linix? What are you, then? Something childish about that. Not as bad as the scene in commercial software. There's no reason to buy Microsoft software that spies on you. Do you want ot make Jack Valenti the king of your box and Mickey Mouse your commissar? Why do you put up with viruses? Not just infecting your girlfriend, boys, you get your mom, your five-year old daughter. Why don't you teach your 11-year-old daughter not to click on that attachment? Because she's your 11-year-old daughter, moron. My posting software just crapped out for a few minutes, which means that I lost a bunch of this talk. So I'm just going to listen. FROM http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/3742378.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2278 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 15 05:51:38 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 05:51:38 -0700 Subject: "The SS is evil,cryptoanarchy is king." Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990415054453.009e7b20@mail.nex.net.au> Shit,I hope I dont get into trouble for saying that...or looking at ...SKEETER'S PATENTED BLOWJOB POSITION Wanker Wang Posts: That fucking Skeeter Kerkove is a fucking psychotic motherfucker. Not only does he look like a member of the Hell's Angels but he somehow manages to get his girls to perform some of the most revolting, vile sex positions I've ever seen. Check out the thumbnails above to see how he uses a modified, self-hogtied, throat fuck position on poor little Ashley Blue there. I'm fucking sick to my stomach. You want to puke? Visit this nutcase's insanity at http://www.bridgettekerkove.com. FROM http://www.lukeford.com/ It gets worse... Bridgette Kerkove Has Baby Girl; Signs Python Deal One-time performer of the year Bridgette Kerkove is productive both on and off camera. Last Sunday Bridgette gave birth to a baby girl Kaylynn Ashley. Bridgette was at Nikita Denise's house when she went into labor. Bridgette isn't back from the hospital yet so we took an opportunity to chat with Skeeter Kerkove Gene: What's cooking now that we don't have Harry at Metro to kick around any more. Skeeter: I don't know. He's gone but I'm still shooting my filth, doing double anals, d.p.'s and love stories like that- anal fistings. Gene: You just sent me some pretty wild pix Skeeter: They're from my last shoot for Metro- Skeeter Kerkove's Teen Patrol 2. We're going for the young look, and there's some serious ass-fucking, cause everything I shoot is anal. I just love girls' butts. I just want to squeeze 'em and love 'em. Gene: Us real men do. Skeeter: That's right. And every girl gets a fist up the ass. We've had all kinds of love stories- beer bottles, and lit candles and clothespins on the nipples. This new one stars Ashley Blue, Melanie, Julianna, Flick Shagwell and Ashley Long. The only girl who didn't get a fist in her butt was Flick. But I had her very busy in a d.p. with Erik Everhard and Manual. The last time I filmed her she had done it. We just wanted to do something different this time. I had Flick on two little 12x12 plastic tables in the hogtied position with Erik Everhard plowing down in her ass with Manual getting his b.j. Then they'd switch around and keep the ATM machine going. Use your ATM machine whenever you have the opportunity. It don't cost nothing. Gene: You're doing the anals with these girls hogtied? Skeeter: Yes. It's a tricky position but once the guys get going it's beautiful. Gene: That pushes the boundaries because you're mixing sex with a hint of bondage. Skeeter: Yeah, and I like it because when was the last time you saw this position done. This is giving me my little trademarked thing where I'm having all the girls do this. Gene: The content of what you're doing seems so atypical of Metro. Skeeter: Yes, and that's what helps make it a better love story. It's a whole different trip. But why I also get out of it- believe it or not- is a really good cable version. We get all of that done in 16 minutes with a lovely striptease, some French kissing and two sex positions. Then we're ready for insanity. I also use Mark Davis in every movie. Tom Byron likes doing that and there's a reason for it because that's the type of performer Davis is. And I finally got Erik Everhard which made me happy. Alex Sanders and Jay Ashley have also been just wonderful. I use jay Ashley in every single movie- no matter what I need him to do he does it the whole time with rock, solid wood. These guys just tear it up. Sam over at Metro has been so totally cool with me, he lets me do whatever I want. I'm doing two lines a month for them now and will probable be starting a third one when Bridgette gets back. I want to do an interracial line. I love that more than anything. If you remember in 1999 Bridgette did more interracial than anybody. She was doing Lex and Byron Long and Mark Anthony every chance she could get. We also signed a contract with Python last week for a Bridgette Kerkove licensing agreement to sell the bkmax.com product of movies that Bridgette and I own exclusively- like Bridgette Kerkove's Bedtime Stories, Pussy Playground, Bubblegum Bimbos- so we're excited about that. I'll put her name out there on hundreds of websites. And her toy deal with Forbidden Fruit is going real good. It's just such an expensive toy that they're going to wholesale it out more. Gene: You're brand new daughter's got a built-in porn name. So what's going to happen if one of these days one of your daughters comes up to you and says she wants to do porno. What would you tell her. Skeeter: I would cry. Just like I would if they told me they went to get a tattoo. That's one thing- I don't want any of my children to get a tattoo. 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Some scumbags seem to have fallen for their own wishful fantasy that any porn girl walking down the street will surely want to suck each and every cock she can find along the way --- because adult actresses are a cross-section of society, not many fit the mold that many scumbags falsely believe in. I hope you can find a way to legally (i.e., without subjecting you or your sources to slander/libel suits) get the names of the scumbags, and how they operate, listed publicly so that the girls will have an "ombudsman" place on your site to check so they can steer away from such predators! Your intended project is very necessary and I hope you will vigorously pursue it; and, rather than merely a one-time posting of accumulated input form the girls and others, I hope that continuing updates will ensue indefinitely. Thanks for looking out for the women of our Industry! Paul Flashburn Writes: I'm getting ready to write my first shoot piece over the weekend regarding scumbag #1. At the same time, I think it's important to praise people in the industry who are class acts as well for a bit of the old yin and yang. I have no problem writing about people with whom I've had personal experiences with or verified by numerous sources. But the people of the adult industry have to take a stand and be willing to voice their dealings with people and let it be known. Don't be the silent majority. Speak up and have the courage to do so. If it's based on experience, these 'public figures' can't hide behind vague threats of lawsuits without making them look more idiotic in the long run. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990415071030.009fc130@mail.nex.net.au> Or was it catherine M? This is a hastily scrawled inventory of one woman's lovers -- and they are a cast of thousands. She takes on groups of men with every orifice. Catherine Millet has provided us with a quite remarkable insight into a certain kind of female sexuality. With remarkable frankness, she leads the reader through an extraordinary range of experiences with a good deal of self-reflection, very little moralizing and a total lack of political correctness (hooray!). While there is an obvious inclination to focus on the extremes of her sexual behavior that go well beyond the normal range of experiences of most of us, in fact the majority of the book explores the nitty gritty of the kinds of activity that are much more mainstream. And perhaps we can be grateful that someone else has done the dirty work of accumulating the range of experiences necessary to make the insights authoritative! This is not a work of erotica, in my opinion. And if an open discussion of sexual activity between consenting adults makes you uneasy or worse, or offends your morals, don't read this book. But, if you think you might enjoy an unprecedented, direct and thoughtful consideration of the sexuality of a very interesting woman, this book comes highly recommended http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802117163/qid=1027751908/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-5344414-8414345 The Sexual Life of Catherine M. From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 16 13:42:24 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:42:24 -0700 Subject: Mayor Wellington Webb has earned killfiling. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990416133626.009fd030@mail.nex.net.au> Mayor's Office 1437 Bannock Street, ST 350 Denver, CO 80202 720-865-9000 mayorden at ci.denver.co.us Listen up you jerk,monies raised in cyberspace are now being pooled and will be paid to the person or persons unknown that most closely predict your permanent retirement from politics.Care to contribute? (My 2 c) APster; who do you want to kill today? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Mental abilities (e.g., reading, writing, speaking, visual observation, mental rotation)<< Did I tell you my mom was warned at little rock airport,"Dont joke in the airport! Joking in the airport is a federal offense!" I think all she said was they didn't find a bomb after being frisked. "Stop or my mom will shoot!" From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 16 15:40:57 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:40:57 -0700 Subject: No Borders Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990416153955.009f93a0@mail.nex.net.au> STRASBOURG: A WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS Jul 26 2002 Bordercamp Grows Despite Ban on Protests All actions and demonstrations relating to the bordercamp in Strasbourg were declared illegal on Wednesday, July 24. That day, a demonstration for freedom of movement was attacked with pepper spray, baton charges and tear gas, with more than ten arrests and multiple injured protestors. The ban of assembly was enforced on July 25 when media activists from the Publix Theatre Caravan and Indymedia were removed from the Strasbourg city center. Demonstrations have continued despite the ban, however, with prison solidarity actions and street theater. This camp initiated by the NoBorder network, and organized by activists from across Europe. It opened on July 19, and has included demonstrations, workshops, and discussions around the central demand of 'Freedom of Movement and Settlement' for all persons. The camp's goal is to bring together activists, migrants and artists from across Europe in a laboratory of creative resistance and civil disobedience. Read reports and view photos from the camp - July 22 [ 1 | 2 | photos ] - July 23 [ 1 | 2 ] - July 24 [ 1 | 2 | 3 | photos ] - July 25 [ 1 | 2 | 3 | photos | video ] - July 26 [ 1 | 2 | 3 ] FROM http://www.indymedia.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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FROM http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=rsas&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=320508 About Array Networks Headquartered in Campbell, California with sales offices in China, China's largest CDN provider ChinaCache chooses Array Networks over F5 Networks and CacheFlow More than 50 Array 1000 Web Traffic Managers to help ChinaCache serve 95 Percent of China's growing population of Internet users. Single Array 1000 handles more than 320 Million requests within five days during the Soccer World Cup. Golden shield over America? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 18 13:04:38 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:04:38 -0700 Subject: Sacco and Vanzetti,A mob-FBI hit. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990418130345.00a0d9b0@mail.nex.net.au> Mob Informant Scandal Involved Highest Levels of FBI # # Saturday, July 27, 2002 # # BOSTON - For more than 20 years, FBI headquarters in Washington # knew that its Boston agents were using hit men and mob leaders # as informants and shielding them from prosecution for serious # crimes including murder, the Associated Press has learned. # # Until now, the still-unraveling Boston FBI scandal has been # portrayed largely as the work of a handful of local agents - # mavericks willing to deal with the devil to bring down a Mafia # family. # # But documents obtained by the AP directly connect FBI headquarters # to a pattern of collusion with notorious killers. # # The AP found 20 memos from Boston agents to the FBI director's # office, along with six replies, showing that headquarters was # told of the abuses and condoned them. # # Written between 1964 and 1987, the memos made it clear to # Washington that the informants had killed and were likely to # kill again, describing one of them as "the most dangerous # individual known" in the Boston area. The memos also alerted # headquarters that two of the informants were crime bosses, active # "at the policy-making level" of criminal enterprises in Boston. [snip] From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 18 13:15:51 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:15:51 -0700 Subject: "The Quickening" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990418131517.00a0c410@mail.nex.net.au> A draft government report says we will alter human evolution within 20 years by combining what we know of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences. The 405-page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve human performance leading to telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity. People may download their consciousnesses into computers or other bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant "hive mind", a network of intelligences connected through ultra-fast communications networks. "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur," the report says. "Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind - an enormous, single, intelligent entity." Armies may one day be fielded by machines that think for themselves while devices will respond to soldiers' commands before their thoughts are fully formed, it says. The report says the abilities are within our grasp but will require an intense public-relations effort to "prepare key organisations and societal activities for the changes made possible by converging technologies", and to counter concern over "ethical, legal and moral" issues. Education should be overhauled down to the primary-school level to bridge curriculum gaps between disparate subject areas. Professional societies should be open to practitioners from other fields, it says. "The success of this convergent-technologies priority area is crucial to the future of humanity," the report says. wtec.org/ConvergingTechnologies/Report/NBIC-pre-publication.pdf -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1969 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 19 00:44:43 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 00:44:43 -0700 Subject: Quantum cryptography: Can you keep a secret? RSA is DOA. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990419004140.00a04a70@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v418/n6895/full/418270a_fs.html&filetype= Quantum cryptography: Can you keep a secret? Practical products are about to emerge from the weird world of quantum mechanics. Erica Klarreich finds out how quantum cryptography made it from the lab to the marketplace The Enigma code machine, used by the German military during the Second World War, was a masterpiece of complexity. Each letter of the alphabet was encoded by a system of wheels that could be set in an almost endless array of configurations, creating a seemingly unbreakable cipher. But Enigma had a chink in its armour. Messages could not be decoded unless the receiver knew which wheel settings the sender had used. Users exchanged this information, known as a key, at the beginning of the message and encoded it using another, prearranged, key. But security for this second key was not perfect. Enigma users changed it only once a day. After cracking a few messages by focusing on commonly used words, code-breakers could tease out the second key and decipher all of the day's transmissions. More then half a century later, secret messages are still only as secure as the keys used to encrypt them. Sensitive data are exchanged every day, yet no one has developed a system that ensures that the keys to these messages are absolutely secure. This may soon change. Companies are close to marketing cryptographic systems that use quantum mechanics to offer absolute security — guaranteed by the laws of physics. Devices that can securely transmit keys through fibre-optic cables may soon be available. And it might eventually be possible to transmit quantum keys using satellites, allowing users across the world to form secure connections. The keys used to encrypt most messages, such as those used to exchange credit-card information over the Internet, are themselves encrypted before being sent. The schemes used to disguise keys are thought to be secure, because cracking them would take too long for even the fastest computers. The widely used RSA algorithm is one example. Anyone wanting to receive a message publishes two numbers, one of which is the product of two very large prime numbers. Senders convert their message into a series of digits, and perform a simple mathematical calculation on the series using the publicly available numbers. Messages are deciphered by reversing the calculation. Prime movers This is easy to do if you know the values of the prime numbers, which are not published. An eavesdropper can, in principle, work them out, but for big enough numbers this would take millions of years with the computing power available today. The future performance of such systems depends on estimates about the speed of future computers, and such guesses have proved wrong is the past. In 1977, for example, Scientific American challenged computer scientists to decode a message encrypted using a 129-digit number1. Ron Rivest, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and one of RSA's creators, estimated that it would take 4 1016 years to factor such a number. But in 1994, a team of computer scientists and amateur volunteers managed to decipher the message by applying 1,600 computers to the problem over a period of eight months2. In the same year, computer scientist Peter Shor of AT&T Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey, described a new kind of threat. Shor was interested in quantum computers — hypothetical machines that should be able to carry out a large number of calculations simultaneously. He showed that if such a computer is ever built, it will be able to factor large numbers rapidly, and could quickly crack all the commonly used public key systems3. A quantum computer or new factoring technique might not come along for decades. But some secrets encrypted today, such as the design of nuclear weapons, will still be important then. "We have to assume that any information encrypted today is probably being recorded by eavesdroppers in the hope that it will be of value 10 or 20 years into the future," says Richard Hughes, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico who works on quantum cryptography. "If they have quantum computers, they'll be able to look at information encrypted today and learn useful things from it." But while quantum computers remain no more than an interesting possibility, another quantum technology could soon be ensuring total security. In quantum mechanics the act of measurement changes the properties of the very thing being measured. This is a boon to cryptologists, because it means that eavesdroppers cannot listen to certain types of information without leaving an unmistakable disturbance. Polarized opinion G. RIBORDY/UNIV. GENEVA Light work: keys encoded using polarized photons have been sent between Alice and Bob (top) through 67 km of fibre-optic cable under Lake Geneva. The details of a quantum cryptography system were first described in 1984 by theoretical physicists Gilles Brassard of the University of Montreal in Canada and Charles Bennett of IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York4. In their scheme, Alice sends Bob a series of ones and zeros, which are used to generate the key. Each 'bit' is represented by a photon of light with one of four possible polarizations: horizontal, vertical or one of the two diagonals. Alice and Bob agree that a horizontal polarization corresponds to a zero and a vertical polarization corresponds to a one, and make a similar decision for the two diagonal polarizations. Quantum mechanics says that Bob can either look to see whether the photon is horizontally or vertically polarized, or which of the diagonal polarizations it has, but he cannot do both. When a photon arrives at Bob's end, he randomly chooses which of the two types of orientation to test for. If Alice has sent a vertically polarized photon and Bob makes a horizontal–vertical measurement, he will discover the polarization correctly and read off a one. But if Bob makes a diagonal measurement, the vertical polarization of the photon lies exactly midway between the orientations he is looking for. The photon will instantly switch to one of the diagonal polarizations, each with the same probability, and Bob has an equal chance of recording a one or a zero. Bob will also get a random result if he makes a horizontal–vertical measurement on a diagonally polarized photon. At the end of the transmission, Bob knows he has correctly measured the polarizations of about half of the photons, but doesn't know which ones. So Bob contacts Alice on a channel that doesn't have to be secure, and tells her which type of measurement he made for each photon, but not the outcome of those measurements. Alice tells him which measurements were correct. They discard the incorrectly measured photons, and keep the rest for their key. To make sure that a third party, Eve, hasn't listened in to their original exchange, Alice and Bob next sacrifice a small amount of their key and check it over the public channel for errors. If Eve has been assessing the polarization of the photons somewhere between Alice and Bob, she will have changed the polarization of about half of them. This makes about one in every four entries in Bob's key different from those that Alice sent — a clear indication that Eve has been snooping. And there is no way consistent with the laws of physics for Eve to cover her tracks. In reality, noise in the channel through which the photons pass introduces a small number of errors into the transmission. So a clever eavesdropper could gain some information about the key by measuring such a small number of photons that Alice and Bob cannot distinguish the errors this introduces from those caused by noise. Alice's single-photon generator could also cause problems by occasionally sending out two photons instead of one. Eve can divert and measure one of the photons, while allowing the other to proceed to Bob. But in each case, Bob and Alice can generate a new key by applying an algorithm to their existing key. Eve, who is missing the bulk of the original key, cannot hope to predict the outcome of this algorithm. Gilles Brassard (left) and Charles Bennett laid the foundations of quantum cryptography. In 1989, a team led by Bennett and Brassard built a working device, and sent photons through the air to a receiver about 30 centimetres away5. By the mid-1990s, other groups were sending encrypted keys through tens of kilometres of optical fibre. And over the past few years, the first steps towards commercializing such systems have been taken. "Quantum cryptography is very much a reality," says Brassard. Gone in a flash Last October, a group of physicists at the University of Geneva in Switzerland launched a company called id Quantique, which will supply a system integrating the cryptography hardware — photon sources and detectors, and fibre-optic connections — needed to exchange keys. In March this year, they used the system to send single photons through 67-km telecommunication cables running under Lake Geneva6. "The system is very stable, and has the potential to be very fast," says Nicolas Gisin, a member of the team. MagiQ Technologies, a New York firm that specializes in quantum technologies, is trying to a build a system in which the discussion about which photons have been received correctly is streamlined and integrated with the photon generators, detectors and fibre-optics. The firm hopes to market a full quantum-cryptography system by early next year. MagiQ and id Quantique's systems are designed to connect users who are linked by a single dedicated fibre, but other groups are working on systems that can support a network of users. Last September, BBN Technologies, an information-technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, began a five-year collaboration with teams at Boston and Harvard universities to build a quantum network connecting the three institutions. Photons will be routed round the network using mirrors. "The mirrors send the photon along without measuring it, so they don't create the kind of disturbance an eavesdropper would," explains Chip Elliott, an engineer at BBN. Working devices may soon be on the market, but that does not mean that the engineers involved can rest on their laurels. Reliable single-photon generators, for example, are not yet commercially available. Today's systems, such as those developed by id Quantique, instead use lasers that generate pulses so weak that they almost never contain more than one photon. But at such low intensities, nine out ten attempts to fire a photon fail. Current photon detectors also present some problems. To spot a single photon, the detectors must be so sensitive that they will sometimes register photons that are not there. Even then, they will typically miss 90% of the transmitted photons. What's more, many photons are absorbed by the optical fibre and never make it to the receiver. "We send five million bits per second, but by the time we get done with all the detectors and the specialized protocols that shorten the key during the public discussion, we get somewhere between 100 and 1,000 bits per second," says Elliott. But this is enough for cryptographic uses. The Advanced Encryption Standard, the encryption algorithm used by the US government, uses a key with a maximum of 256 bits. A key distribution that sends 500 bits per second would allow users to change the key roughly twice per second, more than ample for most purposes. The distance that the key can be transmitted is a more important technical limitation. Most experts agree that the Geneva group's 67-km transmission is close to the maximum that can be achieved with current technology. Beyond about 80 km of cable, too few photons make it from Alice to Bob. Both id Quantique and MagiQ are reluctant to discuss who is interested in their products, but this limitation means that the first users are likely to be organizations that want to transfer highly secret material within a single city, such as government offices, banks and businesses. Long-range forecast The range could be extended by devices that strengthen the signal as it passes by, like those used to send telephone conversations over long distances. But unlike telephone repeaters, quantum versions would have to bolster the signal without measuring the photons. "A repeater that doesn't measure was thought to be impossible in the early 1980s, but since then scientists have shown that it is feasible in principle," Brassard says. "But we're nowhere near the technology to build one." Satellites could provide an alternative means of achieving long-distance transmission. Hughes' team at Los Alamos is developing a key-distribution system that sends single photons through open air. So that the photons can be distinguished from all the others bombarding the detector, the team uses various techniques to filter the incoming light. The detector only accepts photons within a narrow range of wavelengths — about 0.1 nanometres — and ignores photons that arrive from angles outside a window of about a hundredth of a degree. A bright pulse of light is also sent 100 nanoseconds ahead of each photon, cueing the detector to expect the next signal. LANL In the air: Richard Hughes has sent a photon-encrypted code from a laser source (circled, inset) to a receiver. "When we threw in these three filters, we could get the amount of light down to the level where we could detect the photons we wanted, even if the Sun was shining directly on the receiver," says Hughes. In a paper published this month7, Hughes and his colleagues describe how they sent keys over a distance of 10 km with rates similar to those achieved using optical fibres. Ten kilometres is still a long way short of the hundreds of kilometres between the Earth's surface and satellites. But because air turbulence, the factor that most disrupts the photons, occurs predominately in the lower two kilometres of the atmosphere, Hughes believes his system should be able to send signals to satellites. "I don't see any showstoppers at all to doing this from ground to satellite," he says. The team is now trying to make the receiver light and sturdy enough to fit in a satellite and survive a rocket launch. Combined with optical fibres, satellites could eventually form part of a long-distance transmission system. In the shorter term, the technology might help to protect the security of satellite television broadcasts. In one embarrassing breach, a hacker known as Captain Midnight interrupted a 1986 broadcast by US company Home Box Office and sent over half of the company's customers a five-minute broadcast of a message complaining about the firm's new subscription charges. Quantum cryptography may soon be helping to prevent similar lapses, and to protect sensitive transmissions. Within the next few months, such systems could start encrypting some of the most valuable secrets of government and industry. Cryptography is about to lose its Achilles' heel. http://www.idquantique.com http://www.magiqtech.com http://www.bbn.com ERICA KLARREICH Erica Klarreich is journalist in residence at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in California. References 1. Gardner, M. Sci. Am. 237, 120-124 (1977). | ISI | 2. Atkins, D., Graff, M., Lenstra, A. K. & Leyland, P. C. in Advances in Cryptology -- ASIACRYPT '94 (eds Pieprzyk, J. & Safavi-Naini, R.) 263-277 (Springer, Heidelberg, 1995). 3. Shor, P. W. in Proc. 35th Annu. Symp Foundations Comp. Sci. (ed. Goldwasser, S.) 124-134 (IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, California, 1994). 4. Bennett, C. H. & Brassard, G. in Proc. IEEE Int. Conference on Computers, Systems & Signal Processing 175-179 (IEEE Press, Los Alamitos, California, 1984). 5. Bennett, C. H., Bessette, F., Brassard, G., Salvail, L. & Smolin, J. J. Cryptol. 5, 3-28 (1992). 6. Stucki, D., Gisin, N., Guinnard, O., Ribordy, G. & Zbinden, H. New J. Phys. 4, 41 (2002). | Article | 7. Hughes, R. J., Nordholt, J. E., Derkacs, D. & Peterson, C. G. New J. Phys. 4, 43 (2002). | Article | FROM NATURE,REG REQUIRED. From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 19 01:47:46 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 01:47:46 -0700 Subject: Free our friends Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990419014406.009fe880@mail.nex.net.au> Holding terror suspects breaches rights, rules tribunal July 31 2002 A British tribunal today ruled that detention without trial here of nine foreign terror suspects under emergency laws imposed after the September 11 attacks breached European human rights regulations. The Special Immigration Appeals Commission said Britain's new anti-terrorism powers, rushed through in December, were "not only discriminatory and so unlawful ... but also disproportionate". In a ruling which dealt a blow to the government, commission chairman Andrew Collins said the laws were unfair because they allowed the detention of foreign nationals only, even though British citizens may have been equally involved with terrorist organisations. It therefore breached the European Convention on Human Rights. FROM http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/31/1027926904151.html Front page pics of whales in sidney harbour. Rogue Terror State USA still holds 2 au citizens in cruel and unusual conditions,no charges at camp z-ray.Those responsible may be held accountable. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990419021245.00a0bec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0726/p01s03-usju.html US ships Al Qaeda suspects to Arab states Article about the US Government's 'quiet practice of shipping key Al Qaeda suspects to the Middle East for interrogation' ( CSM ) See also this blog entry from March http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 704 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 19 02:21:27 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:21:27 -0700 Subject: Free jeff Luers-Burn your SUV. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990419021934.00a0bb60@mail.nex.net.au> SUV thread at http://www.kuro5hin.org/ NC: In Honor of Jeff Luers In Honor of Jeff Luers. ... UPDATE: Jeff "Free" Luers was sent to the Two Rivers Correctional Facility in Eastern Oregon to serve his nearly 23 year sentence. ... www.nocompromise.org/issues/18honor_free.html - 5k - Cached - Similar pages -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 689 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 19 02:31:37 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:31:37 -0700 Subject: Top stars getting extortion calls,a hopeful trend. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990419022716.00a0b1b0@mail.nex.net.au> Even 'B' grade actors like Stephen Seagal The day after, fear stalks Bollywood MUMBAI: A day after the Mumbai police released tapes of Sanjay Dutt-Chhota Shakeel conversation, fear gripped tinsel town after revelations that several top stars had been getting extortion calls. Shakeel Hear the Bollywood tapes: Tape 1 | Tape 2 | Tape 3 | Tape 4 (Note: The tapes contain abusive language) http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/default Destroying Hollywood and Detroit combines would now appear to assume priority. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 758 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 19 03:36:03 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 03:36:03 -0700 Subject: Shrub cant wait to get back to Texas roots. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990419033504.00a0c070@mail.nex.net.au> Gene: Do you do anal. Jessie: Yes I do. Gene: You just raised the value of your real estate. When was the first time you tried it. Jessie: It was with my ex fiance in Texas. You know that old saying- everything's big in Texas. Gene: Yeah and how was that steer going in your ass. Jessie: Real well. I like it. If the guy knows how to do it, it feels really good. I'll orgasm if I'm really attracted to the guy. I can get off ten or fifteen times. From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 19 09:00:52 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:00:52 -0700 Subject: Assassin phones Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990419085958.00a061d0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/07/30/1288553 Arquilla style 'swarm' analysis. From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 19 09:17:24 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:17:24 -0700 Subject: SWAT teams into journalists' homes,Ho hum. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990419091553.00a05c20@mail.nex.net.au> You can run to C-span Declan,but you cant hide. http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/07/30/0596214 CIA Expert: Leaks of Classified Information Must Stop Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com Saturday, July 27, 2002 WASHINGTON - "We've got to do whatever it takes - if it takes sending SWAT teams into journalists' homes - to stop these leaks," admonished James B. Bruce, vice chairman of the CIA's Foreign Denial and Deception Committee. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 635 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 19 10:00:10 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:00:10 -0700 Subject: Operation northwoods in Moscow? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990419095913.00a0dec0@mail.nex.net.au> Operation northwoods in Moscow? (just south of sunny latvia.) http://www.kavkaz.org/eng/article.php?id=1009 "...accusation against the FSB the main event of this summer». FROM http://www.cicentre.com/ SEE ALSO FSB strikes back at ex-agent Litvinenko Russia's Federal Security Service distributed photographs Friday purportedly showing a suspect in deadly 1999 bombings with a rebel warlord it claims paid him to organize the blasts - a day after an ex-security agent claimed the suspect had professed his innocence.....(The Russia Journal, 27 July 02) Homeland security at your service. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 975 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 04:41:59 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 04:41:59 -0700 Subject: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420043654.00a07960@mail.nex.net.au> >>... I now have to trust that a powerful third party, over which I have no control, and which does not necessarily have my interests are heart, will not abuse it's power. I don't want to have to do that. Peter Trei<< A hell of a lot of Chinese have to do that,peter,you fucking know that and yet still keep working for RSA,a part of the 'golden shield.Wake up and smell what your shovelling. >>Disclaimer: The above represents my personal opinion only. Do not misconstrue it as representing anyone elses.<< Afraid of some office politics? I haven't snitched you out yet for writing to this list,thats more than you gave cj. FUCK off and DIE! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Declan's beat is DC, politics and technology, and he loves to skewer people who are in positions of power over technologists, making laws and passing regulations about technology, who in general have no collective clue about what technology's station is in our lives. He tends to lean libertarian, he tends to take up the cause du jour of hackers and netizens, sometimes without thinking, and will always publish pros and cons as well as personal experiences. His recent escapades with a guy who sent him (as well as others) his resume is on the other side of the fence: his reception of a bulk spam from Costa Rica, which he forwarded to the abuse account at Yahoo (from whence it came) as well as the spammer himself, caused the spammer to then report him to a series of blacklists, who all shoot first and ask questions later. If at all. We talk about the power that these blacklists have and the space we've now occupied in the ongoing battle between spammers and legitimate online publishers. 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Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420060727.00a14340@mail.nex.net.au> ...need killing of course,WE MEAN IT MAAAAN! http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4817163%255E421,00.html innocent au citizens held in cages. Hicks lawyer hints at appeal 01aug02 THE lawyer for Australian David Hicks has flagged an appeal against a decision denying the alleged al-Qaeda fighter a trial before a United States court. Stephen Kenny, who represents the Hicks family in Adelaide, today said he would continue to pursue the issue. "We will continue and we hope that the full court (of the US Federal Court) will provide a greater sense of justice in this case," he said. In an overnight ruling, US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the US legal system had no jurisdiction over detainees, including Hicks, 26, held at a US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. DEATH to AMERIKA! From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 06:30:49 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 06:30:49 -0700 Subject: Terra phone Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420062955.009dde10@mail.nex.net.au> Terror phone link By MARK DUNN 01aug02 AN al-Qaeda lieutenant linked to hijacker Mohammed Atta phoned Australian contacts several times before the September 11 attacks. Imaz Eddin Barakat Yarbas, also known as Abu Dahdah, phoned people in Australia between 1996 and the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon. Dahdah, a Syrian whose contact details were found in the diary of one of Atta's subordinates, is now in custody in Spain with several other alleged al-Qaeda members. Atta died at the controls of American Airlines flight 11, which hit New York's World Trade Centre first, in the attacks that killed 3056 people. Dahdah reportedly met Osama bin Laden at least twice. Spanish prosecutors have said one of Dahdah's co-accused, Luis Jose Galan Gonzales, trained in an Indonesian terrorist camp in July last year. The Spanish indictment alleges the cell's members "had been directly related to the preparation and development of the attacks". The US State Department has listed Australia as a known country where al-Qaeda has operated. Attorney-General Daryl Williams has confirmed ASIO is aware of Dahdah's connection to Australia. But Mr Williams' office has refused to release details about what investigations have been conducted or whether individuals have been spoken to about calls they may have received from Dahdah. It is the fourth time evidence of an al-Qaeda operative with Australian contacts has been made public. Mr Williams' spokeswoman Carina Tan Van Baren said ASIO would not comment on the strength of the Australian links. Visa checks had established none of the 20 named September 11 hijackers had visited Australia under their real names, she said. Mr Williams' office has also refused to comment further on statements he made in December that two other Australians, aged 25 and 28, had trained with al-Qaeda and were believed missing in Afghanistan. Those men have been identified as Mathew Stewart of Queensland and Jack Terrence Thomas of Melbourne. The families of both men have denied their sons' links to the organisation. The Attorney-General would also not comment on the state of Australian-based businesses or groups it has previously claimed were being monitored for suspected terrorism links. One organisation in Melbourne, Al Barakat, voluntarily closed after its money transfer business was frozen by Australian Federal Police. Other al Barakat companies in the US, Somalia and Dubai have been forcibly closed. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4815410%255E661,00 .html From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 06:35:05 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 06:35:05 -0700 Subject: Slow that SUV! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420063441.009dbe10@mail.nex.net.au> Hairdryer ploy used on speeders August 1 2002 Melbourne residents who used hairdryers like police radar guns to deter speedsters in their suburbs risked fights with motorists, Victoria Police said today. Assistant Commissioner for Traffic Ray Shuey said local police would be talking to eastern suburbs residents who took the law into their own hands by pointing hairdryers at speeding motorists. "It's not appropriate from our point of view to engage in that type of activity," he said. He said the residents were risking altercations with motorists and urged them to look to their own behaviour on the roads first. "Quite often we have the concept that we don't want people speeding in our side streets," Assistant Commissioner Shuey said. @media print {.nopr {display:none}} advertisement advertisement "And yet we're quite prepared to go into other people's side streets and zip around and disregard kids or the elderly or anybody walking in those locations. It's okay to speed everywhere else but not in my patch." Boroondara City councillor Judith Voce confirmed residents in her ward had been using their hairdryers against motorists. She said speeding was an endemic problem in the east and residents were angry about "rat-runners" - motorists avoiding Citylink tolls or leaving the main arterials looking for short cuts through the suburbs. "People did slow down (for the hairdryers)," Cr Voce said. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 07:05:48 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:05:48 -0700 Subject: War of the flea Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420070413.009e3bc0@mail.nex.net.au> Finland's Smart Mobs Howard Rheingold: Helsinki's Aula.The Aula community in Helsinki and cyberspace is still my favorite smart mob - five hundred Finns who design and use mobile media to flock and blog, socialize and collaborate in geographic and virtual places simultaneously. When I spent an evening in June, 2002 with some of the Aula members, I had the opportunity to hang out in the "urban living room for the networked society" they were still constructing when I first met them, a year previously. Howard's upcoming book, "Smart Mobs", has been getting lots of press lately including this piece in the Washington Post. I visited Aula just before it opened a year ago, and was dazzled by its founders' ideas. Howard has captured perfectly what's happening there. 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It outlines the present and future security policies of the Interior Ministry and government as a whole. The Senate will examine the bill on 30 and 31 July. In a 29 July letter to French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the organisation denounced "the latest step to be taken concerning security matters. [The organisation is] alarmed by the setback for civil, collective and individual rights brought on by this bill." "It is generally recognised that the Assembly's adoption of the very controversial Law on Daily Security (Loi sur la sécurité quotidienne, LSQ) in November 2001, and the European Parliament's 30 May adoption of the disturbing amendment to the Directive on the Protection of Telecommunications Data and Information have already restricted these fundamental constitutional liberties. This bill threatens to simply erase decades of struggle for their establishment and preservation," stated RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard. "We deplore the general climate of surveillance that is introduced by the new measures submitted to the legislature ; the universal climate of suspicion that is encouraged by the fact that, henceforth, each citizen is considered a possible offender or terrorist, and the serious attacks on freedom of expression and the confidentiality of work-related and private correspondence. Our organisation specifically questions the possibility of guaranteeing the confidentiality of journalists' sources, to the extent that data from Internet connections and e-mail exchanges (Internet connection logs) could be requisitioned and examined with disconcerting ease by police officers," underlined Ménard. These concerns are amplified by the objective outlined in the bill to allow, "judicial police officers, acting in the context of an official investigation, and with a magistrate's authorisation, to gain direct access to computer files and enable the long-distance seizure, via telematic or electronic means, of information that appears necessary to the establishment of the truth". This excerpt refers to the authorities' licence to carry out off-property "searches" of Internet service providers' computer servers, which store logs of users' online activity, and automatically seize the information stored therein. RSF has, therefore, asked the interior minister : to specify the exact details of implementation under which the authorities will have access to data from Internet connections, sent and received e-mails and specify the policies governing the "seizure" of personal information ; to reaffirm his commitment to the protection of the confidentiality of professional exchanges, and especially the basic principle of confidentiality of journalists' sources to ensure, together with the Justice Ministry, that a sufficient number of magistrates who are experienced with these issues are given the means to deal calmly and impartially with police officers' requests for examination and seizure. RSF also renewed its 6 June appeal to Internet service providers, asking them not to retain user data, and urged Internet users in general, and journalists in particular, to use cryptography software in order to preserve the confidentiality of their exchanges. http://www.w3perl.com/fun/misc/tetedscul.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4049 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 07:30:25 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:30:25 -0700 Subject: "Lets HACK!" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420072800.009dbb70@mail.nex.net.au> The social hack."...comparisons to the days of civil rights activism, Rosa Parks and the Black Panthers: people fighting for rights they should inalienably have." http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/31/75737/5587 "...Civil disobediance is social engineering; it is a hack. Rosa Parks put a clog in the works by doing something no one expected, and modeling a simple, easy to emulate means of protest that soon led to diner sit-ins and boycotts of all kinds. The Black Panthers in Los Angeles expertly manipulated the "rules of the system" to their benefit, policing the police and arming themselves under full protection of law; even Neo, the latter-day hacker icon from The Matrix, could learn a thing or two from the Panthers about making the system work for you." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 926 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 07:34:34 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:34:34 -0700 Subject: Active2: Anatomy of a Cryptographically Distributed Database, Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420073319.009e3820@mail.nex.net.au> Active2Dev - ImcTech MoinMoin Wiki ... A Language for the Active2 Project: Active2Language. Meetings: 2002-04-24 MeetingAgenda2002Apr24 MeetingLog2002Apr24 Meeting2002SummaryApr24. ... kropotkin.indymedia.org/moin/moin.cgi/Active2Dev - 21k - Cached - Similar pages Active2Language - ImcTech MoinMoin Wiki ... 1 A Common Language for the Active2 Project. 1.1 Proposal. There are two global entity-spaces in Active2: the file-space and the user-space. ... kropotkin.indymedia.org/moin/moin.cgi/Active2Language - 10k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from kropotkin.indymedia.org ] tech.indymedia.org - ... and local indymedia tech collectives. Project Summaries: Periodic imc-tech updates ... Server Problems? J2 7:39pm. Active2: Understanding the basics of algorithms ... Description: Maintains a number of GPL'ed codebases as well as a global network of servers and anarchist/hard-left... 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Products include a quantum random number generator,and a quantum cryptography... Category: Computers > Computer Science > Theoretical > Quantum Computing www.idquantique.com/ - 6k - Cached - Similar pages China's human rights policy, and American criticism of it, have formed a centerpiece of U.S.-China difficulties ever since 1989, when pro-democracy protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square ended in bloodshed. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, died. In the years afterward, many in the U.S. Congress demanded that renewal of China's "most-favored nation" trade status be contingent on human-rights progress by the communist government. Most-favored nation status by the United States for China is now permanent. China insists it is making great progress in its own way and must be given leeway to balance the difficulties of governing 1.3 billion people through a period of great change with what it has acknowledged is the necessity of human rights. Human rights groups say China's harsh treatment of Tibetans, ethnic Uighurs and members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement demonstrates its lack of progress on the issue. China and the United States are attending the ASEAN Regional Forum as two of several nations who are not members of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations but have security interests in the region. Chinese President Jiang Zemin is scheduled to visit the United States later this year in what many perceive as a farewell trip before his expected retirement. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1914 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 07:54:52 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:54:52 -0700 Subject: Nuclear armed dictatorships and allies.China-Pakistan. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420075226.009e4ec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=17649040 China modernising Pak infrastructure PTI [ THURSDAY, AUGUST 01, 2002 11:40:28 AM ] BEIJING: As part of Beijing's efforts to supplement its strong political and military ties with Islamabad, China is actively helping develop Pakistan's key infrastructure sectors like roads, ports and railways. The leadership of the two countries during their recent meetings has decided to establish a "comprehensive partnership" in all fields of mutual interest, particularly in the economic field, official sources said. I just spewed coffee out of my nose. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420081330.009e6130@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.donet.com/~danderson/bombe/index.html The US Navy's Enigma code-breaker, the Bombe, first publicly exhibited the summer of 1990 at the Smithsonian Would you like to learn more about codes and ciphers, or try your hand at some crypto puzzles? · A fun site to visit: · Tales of the Encrypted · A good information and links page, just titled · Enigma, sponsored by a hardward/software firm in the Netherlands ·Just when I thought everything that could be said about WWII cryptography had been said -- · Enigma -- The Movie!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1464 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 08:26:47 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:26:47 -0700 Subject: No wardriving in the war room. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420082416.009e7800@mail.nex.net.au> You cant fight in here! http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24904-2002Jul31.html The Defense Department, concerned that hackers or spies might eavesdrop on classified meetings or secretly track the locations of top U.S. officials, is imposing new limits on its workers' use of the latest generation of wireless devices inside military buildings. Wonder if these are covered http://www.cpen.com/ From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 12:22:07 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:22:07 -0700 Subject: new rulers of the world,review. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420122111.00a04ec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opbooks.jsp?id=ns23542 The New Rulers of the World John Pilger $19/£10 Verso ASSUMING US propaganda is accurate, President George W. Bush is intending to bomb Iraq as part of his war on terrorism. If you want to know just how big a mistake that would be, read John Pilger's latest tour de force. Iraq's 22 million people are already the victims of a 12-year "medieval blockade" imposed by the US and British governments, argues the campaigning journalist. The UN Children's Fund says that these sanctions are the main reason why up to 6000 Iraqi children die every month. And the justification put about by US intelligence for an attack on Iraq is a myth: there is no evidence that it has any weapons of mass destruction. According to Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, the threat the country poses is "zero". Pilger also condemns the US bombing of Afghanistan, which one study said killed 3800 civilians between 7 October and 10 December last year. The overthrow of the Taliban regime has brought only minimal change, he says. The amount of time that corpses are hung out in public, for example, has reduced from four days to 15 minutes. As well as essays on Iraq and Afghanistan, The New Rulers of the World includes writing based on Pilger's TV documentaries about corporate power carving up Indonesia and the apartheid suffered by Aborigines in Australia. They are all empirical, angry and well-referenced; they illustrate his essential argument that the imperial power wielded by rich states and multinational corporations, led by the US, is far more destructive than any terrorist organisation. The terrible irony is that the US bombing of Afghanistan, and the proposed bombing of Iraq, create and reinforce the very conditions which breed extremism. In the aftermath of 11 September, Pilger points out, the point was powerfully made by Robin Theurkauf, a lecturer in international law at Yale University. "Terrorist impulses ferment in poverty, oppression and ignorance," she wrote. "The elimination of these conditions and the active promotion of a universal respect for human rights must become a priority." 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From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 13:13:55 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:13:55 -0700 Subject: Linked Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420131302.00a03060@mail.nex.net.au> Missed this link! http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opbooks.jsp?id=ns23539 Linked Albert-Laszlo Barabasi $26 Perseus Nexus (Small World in Britain) Mark Buchanan $25.95/£18.99 W. W. Norton/Weidenfeld & Nicolson America's baseball superstar Yogi Berra has a sideline as a man-in-the-street philosopher. His epigram, "It's déjà vu all over again", sprang to mind while I was reading Linked and Nexus. Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and Mark Buchanan deal with the emerging science of networks - how they form, how information and matter move through them, how puzzling aspects of everyday life can be explained by understanding their dynamics. What's the message, then? Simply that all networks - -the Internet, terrorist groups, multinational industries, interstate highways, Amazonian ecosystems - follow the same simple and powerful rules. The "science of networks" has sprung up to uncover these rules, and provide a firm foundation for the care and feeding of these interconnected patterns. Curious as to how Google came to be the most popular search engine on the Internet or what it would take to dismantle the Al Qaida terrorist network? The Barabasi volume will tell you. But if you want to understand the spread of infectious disease, how riots form or why the rich always seem to get richer, then Buchanan's treatment is for you. The mathematician Paul Erdös published over 1500 papers with 507 co-authors before his death in 1996. This prodigious output gave rise to something mathematicians call the "Erdös number," an integer representing the number of steps between Erdös and any given mathematician. Erdös obviously has Erdös number 0. Anyone who wrote a paper with him has number 1. Anyone who co-authored a paper with one of Erdös's co-authors has number 2, and so on. A low Erdös number is a matter of considerable pride among mathematicians, so important in fact that there is a Web page devoted to keeping track of the Erdös number of thousands of mathematicians. What is quite astonishing is that almost everyone - even a non-mathematicians like Bill Gates - has a very low Erdös number, typically between 2 and 5. This is a quintessential example of what Barabasi and Buchanan call the "small worlds" phenomenon. Basically, this web of science is a small world because it is a highly interconnected web, in which almost all mathematicians are closely linked to each other via a short path of co-authored papers. The network of mathematicians and their Erdös numbers serves as a prototype for just about every human social network - including the Internet, as both Barabasi and Buchanan show. Suppose you look at a particular Web page and ask how many clicks of your mouse it takes to get from this page to any other page via hyperlinks. Barabasi and his students actually did this calculation for their website at the University of Notre Dame. It contained 325,729 documents connected by 1,469,680 links. Counting up how many pages had one link, two links, and so on, they discovered that the number of pages having a certain number of links decreased by about a factor of five each time the number of links was doubled. These results lead to a simple relationship between the number of links in a network and the number of nodes in the network having that many links. Called a "power law", this relationship forms a central principle by which networks structure themselves. As both authors point out, power laws play as important a role in understanding networks as the famed bell curve of the normal probability distribution plays in understanding the role in statistics of independent random variables, such as a person's height. Two other extremely important rules of networks are also considered in some detail in each of these books. One of these is the "weak link" discovered some 30 years ago by sociologist Mark Granovetter. It refers to the seemingly paradoxical fact that the most important connections for spreading information throughout a network are not the people who are most closely connected to you. Rather, the key "connectors" are those who form a bridge between the cluster of people you know and other, similar clusters of close acquaintances of your friends. Thus, the links in a social network are not established at random. Instead,they are strongly clustered, and some of the connections are more important than others - that is, the ones enabling one cluster to link to another. These "busy bees" with an uncommonly large number of links to many clusters are the people writer Malcolm Gladwell claims are responsible for creating fashions and trends. They make deals happen and generally serve as agents or middlemen who "tip" things in one direction instead of another. The central idea of his book The Tipping Point (reviewed by Paul Marsden, 6 May, page 46) is that tiny and apparently insignificant changes can often have consequences out of all proportion to themselves, accounting for the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers or the rise of teenage smoking. Both Buchanan and Barabasi give enlightening accounts of both Granovetter's and Gladwell's work. Dig in, too, for fascinating accounts of the stability of food webs, the formation of "old boys" networks, the "new economy", the human genome, and much, much more. Both books are extremely well-written, entertaining accounts aimed at the intelligent lay audience. The overlap is inevitable: Barabasi and Buchanan employ the same anecdotes, talk about the same people and use similar diagrams to illustrate their message. Even the size and price of their two books are roughly the same. You could call them two peas in a pod - but their flavours are distinct. In short, both are to be heartily welcomed as about the best introduction you could hope to get to the whys and wherefores of networks, human and non-human. John Casti is at the Technical University of Vienna -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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By January 1983, a protracted campaign by Western psychiatric professional bodies and international human rights organizations led to a decision by the Soviet All-Union Society of Psychiatrists and Neuropathologists to withdraw from the World Psychiatric Association in order to avoid almost certain expulsion. It was not readmitted to the body until 1989, after several years of perestroika and the preliminary establishment of direct access by Western psychiatric delegations to Soviet forensic-psychiatric institutions and their alleged mentally ill political inmates. The subject of forensic psychiatry in China has thus far received little academic attention outside of China. A number of very detailed and informative studies of China's general psychiatric and mental healthcare system have been written, but these have rarely addressed the legal or forensic dimension of the topic in significant depth. In particular, very little documentary or other evidence has hitherto come to light suggesting that abusive practices similar to those that occurred in the former Soviet Union might also have existed, or might even still be found, in China. The general assumption has therefore been that the Chinese authorities, despite their poor record in many other areas of human rights concern, have at least never engaged in the political misuse of psychiatry. This article seeks to challenge and correct that assumption. From the early 1990s onwards, scattered reports from China began to indicate that individual dissidents and other political nonconformists were being subjected to forensic psychiatric appraisal by the police and then committed to special psychiatric hospitals on an involuntary and indefinite basis. One prominent example was that of Wang Wanxing, a middle-aged worker who had first been arrested in the mid-1970s for supporting the then officially denounced policies of Deng Xiaoping. Partially rehabilitated after the death of Mao, Wang resumed his political-activist career in the 1980s and became personally acquainted with the student leaders of the spring 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing. In June 1992, he unfurled a banner in Tiananmen Square calling for greater human rights and democracy in China, was immediately arrested, and then sent to an institution for the criminally insane in the outskirts of the capital, where he remained - diagnosed by police psychiatrists as a "paranoid psychotic" - until early 1999. In November of that year, after he announced his intention to hold a press conference with foreign journalists to discuss his ordeal, he was again detained and sent back to the same psychiatric detention facility for an indeterminate period. Wang's case and others like it have been the subject of several statements of concern to the Chinese authorities by relevant bodies of the United Nations. Another recent example is that of Xue Jifeng, an unofficial labor-rights activist who in December 1999 was detained by police in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, for attempting to hold a meeting with other labor activists and independent trades-unionists. He was then committed involuntarily to the Xinxiang Municipal Mental Hospital, where he remained as of December 2000. Xue was reportedly being force-fed psychiatric drugs and held in a room with mental patients who kept him awake at night and harassed him by day. Moreover, this was his second forced term in a mental hospital for "illegal" labor activities. The first came in November 1998, after he tried to pursue legal action against local Party officials who he alleged had swindled, through a bogus commercial fundraising scheme, thousands of his fellow residents of their life savings. On that occasion, more than 2,000 people staged a public demonstration in Zhengzhou demanding their money back and calling for Xue's release. Finally, in July 1999, the Chinese government launched a major and continuing campaign of repression against the Falun Gong spiritual movement, a neotraditional sectarian group, several months after the group staged a massive peaceful demonstration outside the Zhongnanhai headquarters of the Chinese leadership. Over the past year or so, numerous reports have appeared indicating that practitioners of Falun Gong were also being forcibly sent to mental hospitals by the police authorities. The overseas Falun Gong support network has so far compiled details of around 100 named individuals who have been dealt with in this manner, while overall estimates suggest the total number may be as high as 600. To date, reports indicate that three Falun Gong practitioners have died as a direct result of their detention and mistreatment in Chinese mental asylums. These disturbing cases highlight the need for a comprehensive reexamination of our previous understanding of the role and purposes of forensic psychiatry in China, both historically and contemporaneously. MORE http://www.columbia.edu/cu/asiaweb/JAL001_1.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 5968 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 20 15:47:32 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 15:47:32 -0700 Subject: SAP,saps. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990420154416.009f2960@mail.nex.net.au> Software giant SAP said Wednesday that it scored one of its biggest sales in three years, inking a deal with Ford Motor. The company will supply business applications to the automaker and its logistics partner, Caterpillar. FROM http://news.com.com/2100-1017-947503.html?tag=fd_top Stop Tax-Funded US Aid To Israel NOW ! ... *****. Check Out These Featured Articles: Why the US Supports Israel, by Steven Zunes. The Caterpillar Effect, by Neve Gordon. *****. SUSTAIN ... Description: Advocating the end of United States tax-funded aid to Israel, and supporting the Palestinian movement... Category: Society > Issues > ... > Middle East > Israel-Palestine > Organizations www.sustaincampaign.org/ - 34k - Cached - Similar pages Stop Tax-Funded US Aid To Israel NOW ! ... When Caterpillar began doing business with Israel, it could not have known that its products -- which are manufactured for civilian use -- would be employed to ... www.sustaincampaign.org/cat_gordon.html - 26k - Cached - Similar pages Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights - Home/What's New ... ... Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights. Caterpillar should end aiding Israel's demolishing of Palestinian homes Jerusalem - 2 March 2002. ... www.jcser.org/english/caterpillar.html - 9k - Cached - Similar pages The FORD_German tradition is a longie I guess,kinda like shrubs grandpappy. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2359 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 08:00:43 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:00:43 -0700 Subject: Govt by Anthrax Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421075907.00a05e80@mail.nex.net.au> Local Man Publishes Results of Anthrax Investigation a Chronicle staff report Longtime activist Richard Ochs, a Lauraville resident, has issued a 10-page report called "Government by Anthrax." The paper is a compilation of circumstantial evidence that Ochs believes justifies "an independent and open congressional investigation" of the origins of the anthrax letters that were mailed to some U.S. Senators in October 2001. The timing and targeting of the letters, according to Ochs, suggests that the perpetrators' motivation was to promote legislation, namely the passage of the USA Patriot Act. "Anthrax-laden letters were mailed to the Democratic Senate leadership on the same day that they blocked an attempt to rush the bill through without debate or amendments," says Ochs. "These threats frightened Congress in general and intimidated certain opponents of the Patriot Bill in particular." No Republicans received any anthrax laden letters. "The closing of the House and Senate office buildings made it difficult for members to read the bill," Ochs charges. "After the letters were received, the democratic leadership gave up their insistence on a two-year sunset clause [for the legislation]." Ochs notes that the day after the Patriot Act was signed, the Supreme Court was closed by a false anthrax scare. "Anthrax letters to the news media created widespread fear and a lockstep mentality in support of the Administration's policies," MORE http://www.charm.net/~marc/chronicle/anthrax_jul02.shtml Search also unit 731 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1823 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 08:40:57 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:40:57 -0700 Subject: UK Rats-Got terror? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421080442.00a08cb0@mail.nex.net.au> Lurking in your litter Horror movie warns of Britain's rising tide of rats. Rats: the story in links http://www.guardian.co.uk/ Got Terror? Terror all around us By Jamie Walker 02aug02 MILLIONS of Australians are being told their home, business and car insurance will not cover acts of terrorism, provoking warnings from consumer groups last night that the new rules could void normal cover. Claims for "innocuous" accidents could be turned down, said consumer rights lawyer Chris Field. And shop owners take note: next time S-11 style protesters turn up or a political demonstration turns ugly, the insurance might no longer cover a brick though the window. The nation's biggest general insurers, including Insurance Australia Group, Suncorp and Zurich, are attaching terrorism exclusion clauses to new policies and renewal notices in the run-up to the first anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks in the US. But the insurers have split over the definition of an act of terrorism, with Suncorp refusing to nominate a specific set of circumstances on the basis that "it would cause more problems than it would solve". The definitions from IAG and Zurich are so broad that Australian Consumers Association spokeswoman Gail Kennedy said they put "real question marks over what will be covered". Mr Field, executive director of the Melbourne-based Consumer Law Centre, said terrorism clauses could strike out the cover for property damage caused during political demonstrations, protests and rallies. "It is incredibly wide ... and might involve innocuous things that are perfectly legitimate in the political process," he said. Zurich's home insurance policies now exclude all acts of terrorism, "including but not limited to use of force or violence". While the exclusion cites possible political, religious and ideological reasons for a terror attack, it says any action intended to instil public fear will be excluded from cover. IAG, which trades principally as NRMA Insurance, has a similar terrorism definition, referring to acts designed to influence the government or "intimidate the public or a section of the public". Spokesman Jason Falinski said the company had been sending notices to policy-holders since July 1 on the insistence of its international reinsurers, Munich Reinsurance and Swiss Reinsurance. The exclusion clause was "driven entirely by the reinsurers" and was a condition of their contracts with IAG being renewed, he said. It would apply broadly to commercial policies, but the exclusion on comprehensive motor insurance and home insurance would be limited specifically to biological, chemical and nuclear attacks. As the nation's biggest general insurer, IAG has about 3.4 million policy-holders. Fifth-placed Zurich defended the terrorism exclusion clause, saying without it the company's reinsurers would no longer provide risk cover. Insurance Council of Australia public affairs manager Sandie Watson said policy wording was generally up to individual insurers, but in this case had been on an "across the board" response to September 11. Policy-holders had recourse to a free complaint system or could take their case to court. "There are very clear boundaries for what is an act of terror or an act of vandalism," she said. But a spokesman for Suncorp, the nation's second-biggest general insurer with up to 2 million policies under its own name and subsidiary GIO, said it would leave that decision to the courts in the event of a terrorism attack here. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4013 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 08:55:05 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:55:05 -0700 Subject: Honeypot. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421085043.00a0aec0@mail.nex.net.au> Child sex offenders nabbed after girl sets up Website August 1 2002 Four men have pleaded guilty to child sex offences after a 15-year-old Victorian schoolgirl set up a website with explicit photos of herself. The Melbourne Magistrates Court today was told the men, all in their 20s, allegedly met the girl in internet chatrooms from where she gave them links to her site which carried sexually explicit language and photos of herself. After viewing the site and reading the girl's text, the men arranged to have sex with her throughout 1999. The girl had initially set up the site with schoolfriends using another Internet website which allows people to build their own homepage. The four men all waived their right to a pre-trial committal hearing in court today and entered guilty pleas to charges of sexual penetration of a child aged between 10 and 16. advertisement One of the men, Geoffrey Townsend, 27, of Pakenham, also faces a separate charge of causing a child to take part in prostitution after he paid the girl for sex. In some of the schoolgirl's chatroom meetings, it was allegedly suggested that she could make money from the Internet liaisons. Troy Hill, 26, of Boronia, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of sexual penetration of a child and one count of making child pornography. Rick Gryzb, 24, of Bentleigh, and Aaron Hirt, 28, of Cranbourne, each pleaded guilty to three child sex charges. Police were tipped off by welfare workers who had been contacted by teachers when word of the website spread. Police subsequently closed the site. The four men will face a plea hearing in the County Court on October 15. A fifth man, Kent Matthews, 23, of Wheelers Hill, is facing five charges, including sexual penetration of child between 10 and 16. He will face a committal hearing in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on October 10. No evidence linking professor rat as a 22 yo to the 5 time fornication in one day with a 15 yo has been alleged.Thank Fuck. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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While the government obtained a court order authorizing some surveillance of their meetings in 1998, the scope of what was monitored seems to extend beyond what is commonly authorized. And at a hearing July 19, prosecutors refused to say whether they are currently taping Stewart's conversations with her own attorney, Michael Tigar. The indictment of Stewart has alarmed defense attorneys. "We take this as a very serious threat to the Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial," says Jim Harrington, an attorney with the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "Since the founding of this country, one of the fundamental rights our people have had is the right to a lawyer you can confide in. In this situation, you have the government interfering with that right." The association, he said, has already filed a friend-of-the-court brief objecting to the government's seizure of paper records and computer files from Stewart's office. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1680 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 10:53:49 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:53:49 -0700 Subject: Federal sledge hammers enviro nuts. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421105101.00a0bd90@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/01/0438721 Another computer gone,damn,I hope it was encrypted... Activists Under Siege The Chilling Tales of Scott Wells, John Blair and Frank Ambrose by Steven Higgs BLOOMINGTON. Add Scott Wells' name to the growing list of Indiana environmental activists to find themselves face to face with government agents. The Monroe County Councilman last week was questioned by the FBI and ATF about last month's fire at Pedigo Bay, an under-construction housing development for the rich and powerful on the shores of Lake Monroe. REST http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/01/0438721 From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 11:03:17 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 11:03:17 -0700 Subject: Technical research officer,I swear! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421110139.00a09020@mail.nex.net.au> Man who videotaped visitors in the nude gets probation, year in jail MILWAUKEE -- A judge placed a man on 10 years probation, but included a year in jail, for the secret videotaping of visitors to his home with cameras hidden in a bathroom and guest bedroom. Steven John Hintz, 29, was sentenced Monday by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge M. Joseph Donald on four felony counts of recording nudity without consent. The self-employed audiovisual technician pleaded guilty to the charges filed under a new state law after he unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the statute. Hintz was charged last December three days after the equipment was found by a guest who was visiting the home with his wife and two children. Detectives said Hintz told them he got the idea by watching television but insisted that he did not plant the hidden cameras for sexual gratification. Instead, he said, he did it merely to see if it could be done. ``Then why not place these cameras in the kitchen and living room?'' Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Patti Wabitsch asked. Hintz apologized for his behavior and asked for forgiveness. done. ``I'm confident it will not happen again,'' defense attorney Gerald Boyle contended. ``This young man has learned his lesson.'' Hintz said he did not expect to be forgiven overnight. ``If it were not for my foolish actions and childish way of thinking, none of us would be here today,'' he said. http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/3128417.html From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 14:32:02 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:32:02 -0700 Subject: In the Shadow of Death. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421143011.00a09040@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/01/2946669 Rising Up in the Shadow of Death: Reflections on the 2002 Anarchist Black Cross conference by Ernesto Aguilar • Friday August 02, 2002 at 12:50 AM ernestomedia at yahoo.com Addressing the recent Anarchist Black Cross conference.(cont) "The proliferation of unbreakable encryption would seriously and fundamentally threaten . . . critical and central public safety interests."L.Freeh. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 18:32:58 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:32:58 -0700 Subject: Hacking in good faith is OK,"wardriving' in texas will earn fatal injection. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421183112.00a0bec0@mail.nex.net.au> By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer LAS VEGAS (August 1, 2002 2:40 p.m. EDT) - A presidential adviser encouraged the nation's top computer security professionals and hackers Wednesday to try to break computer programs, but said they might need protection from the legal wrath of software makers. Richard Clarke, President Bush's computer security advisor, told hackers at the Black Hat conference that most security holes in software are not found by the software maker. "Some of us, here in this room, have an obligation to find the vulnerabilities," Clarke said. Clarke said the hackers should be responsible about reporting the programming mistakes. A hacker should contact the software maker first, he said, then go to the government if the software maker doesn't respond soon. Hackers commonly share their findings with others in their community through e-mail lists or Web sites. But how much they should disclose is an ongoing debate among computer security professionals. Some argue that full disclosure is best, while others say a hacker should only warn that a problem exists without showing how to take advantage of it. Clarke said hackers shouldn't help criminals by showing how to exploit a programming bug before the software maker has a chance to fix the problem by issuing a patch, or fix. "It's irresponsible and sometimes extremely damaging to release information before the patch is out," Clarke said. Companies differ in their response to independent researchers. While some encourage or even reward bug-hunters, others are more concerned about the possibility of extortion or embarrassment to the company. In some instances, they seek civil or criminal charges against the hacker. Clarke said that situation is "very disappointing," as long as the hacker acts in good faith. "If there are legal protections they don't have that they need, we need to look at that," he said. http://www.nando.net/technology/story/484376p-3867743c.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2413 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 19:00:51 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:00:51 -0700 Subject: Hysterical Hegemonic Hyperpower Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421185742.00a0a0e0@mail.nex.net.au> Resented for what it is, America also stokes antipathy by what it does. Here things have recently changed for the worse. The US is often a delinquent international citizen. It is reluctant to join international initiatives or agreements, whether on climate warming, biological warfare, criminal justice, or women's rights; the US is one of only two states (the other being Somalia) that have failed to ratify the 1989 Convention on Children's Rights. The present US administration has "unsigned" the Rome Treaty establishing an International Criminal Court and has declared itself no longer bound by the Vienna Convention on Law of Treaties, which sets out the obligations of states to abide by treaties they have yet to ratify. The American attitude toward the United Nations and its agencies is cool, to say the least. Earlier this year the US ambassador for human rights called for the early dismissal of the ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia— even though these are integral to any serious war on international terror and the US itself spent millions of dollars to bribe Belgrade into handing Slobodan Milosevic over to the Hague tribunal. FROM http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15632 integral to any serious war on international terror and the US itself spent millions of dollars to bribe Belgrade into handing Slobodan Milosevic over to the Hague tribunal. To many outsiders this inconsistent approach to international organizations and agreements, some of which Washington helped to establish, belies America's claim to share international interests and seek multilateral partners for its goals. The same is true of American economic practices. The US is both advocate and exemplar of globalization—free-market capitalism untrammeled by frontiers, special interests, restrictive practices, protectionism, or state interference. But at home Washington applies steel tariffs, farm supports, and de facto government subsidies (notably for the defense industries) for domestic political gain. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 19:34:34 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:34:34 -0700 Subject: Shrub,a pitiful helpless midget. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421193135.00a091a0@mail.nex.net.au> Bush's "Credibility Fixation" on Iraq You know Washington is sinking into quicksand whenever you start hearing that the U.S. should go through with its militaristic plans because if it doesn't, we would lose credibility. I hadn't heard that hoary rationalization since the darkest days of Vietnam, but there it was again, in the mouth of James Schlesinger, the former CIA Director, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of Energy and all around grand-poohbah of the Washington establishment. Here's what he told The New York Times: "Given all we have said as a leading world power about the necessity of regime change in Iraq . . . our credibility would be badly damaged if that regime change did not take place." Of all the reasons to go to war against Iraq, that's the worst possible one. That's like saying, "OK, it may be a stupid idea, but since we've said it so many times, we've got to do it." http://www.progressive.org/webex/wx073102.html Before Rumsfeld and Bush go off half-cocked, let's assess the short-term rationality of this planned invasion. First of all, it would be against international law, since Iraq has not attacked the United States and is not imminently preparing to do so. Second, it would be against the U.S. Constitution for Bush to do this without a declaration of war from Congress. Third, it would mess up our relations with our allies, and further enrage the Muslim world, which is the last thing the United States needs right now. Fourth, it could wreak havoc with our economy, which is already wobbly enough. 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Other terrorist groups have identified local supporters." ""Future terrorism could involve anything from chemical warfare to cyber terrorism," "Attorney-General Daryl Williams, who claims a meeting of national leaders in April clarified that situation, with the Commonwealth authorised to take control of national terrorist incidents. The heavily amended anti-terrorism laws recently passed by the Senate have bolstered defences against terrorism, Williams says, with supporting or committing terrorism punishable by life imprisonment. He now wants Senate support for stalled legislation to boost ASIO's reach, including the power to detain and question suspects without charges or legal advice." Fuck who need foreign terrorists.Still,on the bright side..."spot checks by the Department of Transport have shown it is possible for people to get through metal detectors at some airports while carrying knives." From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 21 23:53:47 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:53:47 -0700 Subject: AU spy agency gets domestic green light. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990421234722.00a08680@mail.nex.net.au> ACC-Australian Crime Commission-new gestapo born in secret. JOHN Howard has brokered a deal for a new national law enforcement body, with two controversial Carr government advisers helping him clinch an agreement with the states. Advertisement A secret meeting in the Prime Minister's Sydney office on Wednesday sealed the fate of the troubled National Crime Authority, and in its place will rise the Australian Crime Commission. The NCA will cease to exist in December, when the ACC will take over its coercive hearing and telephone interception powers. Since a falling-out last year, Mr Howard has been keen to sideline the NCA. The ACC will broadly take the form proposed unanimously by the states but rejected two weeks ago by the federal Government, with a charter to fight organised crime and the emerging threat of terrorism. The deal was finalised yesterday, following Wednesday's meeting attended by three Howard advisers and two proxies for NSW Police Minister Michael Costa – academic Richard Basham and former detective Tim Priest. Another Costa adviser, former NSW Police Internal Affairs commander Geoff Schuberg, is expected to become the ACC's director of operations. The ACC will be chaired by Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty. Its hearings will be conducted by an official chosen from the ranks of senior criminal lawyers. Former Queensland crime commissioner Tim Carmody is considered a front-runner for the job. Crucial to this week's deal was the federal Government's concession that the ACC will have its own in-house investigative capacity. It will not be just an intelligence assessment agency as originally proposed. In return, the states have agreed to fund the secondment of police from their forces to the national body. For the past eight years, the commonwealth has footed the NCA's bill. The states will formally approve the new commission at a meeting of police ministers in Sydney on Friday. Neither federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison nor Mr Costa, who acted as negotiator on behalf of the states, would comment yesterday. Spokespeople for both ministers would only say discussions this week had been "productive". Both levels of government have agreed to include ASIO director-general Dennis Richardson on the ACC's new board – involving the spy agency in domestic crime fighting for the first time. The commonwealth also has agreed to give up a board spot that was to be taken by one of its agencies, meaning voting numbers are split evenly between the states and Canberra. Final details about the ACC's budget and personnel were being finalised yesterday, but a plan suggested earlier this week to retain only half the NCA's investigators has been dropped. Mr Basham's and Mr Priest's involvement in the deal comes eight months after they joined Mr Costa's inner circle – Mr Basham as an adviser in his office and Mr Priest initially as an adviser but now as an informal confidant who works out of the University of Sydney's criminology department. Both had objected vigorously to some senior police management in the NSW force, particularly crime management in the western Sydney suburb of Cabramatta. In April the contract of a key target, then police commissioner Peter Ryan, was terminated. The ACC will be chartered to attack organised crime in a more vigorous manner than its predecessor. Figures provided to the federal Government this week showed that the NCA last year achieved lesser results than the NSW and Queensland crime commissions. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4830105%255E601,00.html Police minister is an ex-trot and is on medication for self diagnosed manic depresion,kinda reminds me of jamesd... http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/02/1028157844696.html The very model of the modern major medicated police minister. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4441 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jfreyre at uni.edu.pe Wed Apr 21 15:47:05 1999 From: jfreyre at uni.edu.pe (jose) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 06:47:05 +0800 Subject: DNS queries In-Reply-To: <371DEFA3.D99C62DE@uni.edu.pe> Message-ID: <368BF73F.1E39D1A5@uni.edu.pe> Thanx 4 da help, but it isnt the answer to ma question. I tray to know, ..... All the pc's on Internet use a server (Remote o local ; named ,etc ) that resolve the queries 4 non ip's domains, like www.microsoft.com 4 example 200.37.129.2 ---- use 207.17.220.2 to resolve the queries (of the domains ) in internet. I like to know if there be a program that say me Remotly that 200.37.129.2 use 207.17.220.2 to resolve the domain ( 4 da Internet ) queries. Best wishes Jose A. Freyre Security Admin - UNI - Networks From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 13:57:54 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:57:54 -0700 Subject: Open source Vs palladium-Social darwinism Vs Mutual aid? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422135508.009ee630@mail.nex.net.au> >>Frightened words of a dying man suffering from reality overload. << Yes but what do you think of what Tolstoy said? "First the Metal Storm [wired.com]the videos page , now this! Soon Australians will be able to fly up to anyone,HyShot homepage. anywhere in the world, within minutes, and then cut them to ribbons."From /. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 511 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 16:04:40 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:04:40 -0700 Subject: John McCain Needs killing Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422160127.009f1740@mail.nex.net.au> Or should he be allowed to live as an example that idiocy doesn't pay? WASHINGTON--A trio of politicians have renewed their efforts to persuade a court to uphold an anti-pornography law aimed at the Internet. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and two Republican House members on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to agree that the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) is a reasonable way to shield minors from commercial Internet smut.FROM http://news.com.com/2100-1023-948118.html?tag=fd_top Mc CATO head strikes again.That guy Bruce Taylor is definite APster pick.(my 2 mcents) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 775 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 16:32:01 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:32:01 -0700 Subject: We're only making plans for joshua. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422162952.009ee190@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20267097,00.htm Great for target aquisition eh,Gordie? General Motors plans to begin installing new sensors and communications systems into vehicles next year in a move that could save lives but that also raises privacy concerns. "What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?" From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 17:24:16 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:24:16 -0700 Subject: APster favours the brave."Take the shot!" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422172305.009f07a0@mail.nex.net.au> "...He decentralized decision-making authority and created a flat management structure to quickly respond to changes in his operating environment. He overcame turf battles by creating an overarching sense of mission and doctrine. He used the Internet, the globalization of news and the revolution in telecommunications to advance his organization's goals worldwide. He developed a complex organizational network in which information gets only to the right people at the right times. In his network, connections between individuals and groups are activated at key times to get work done and severed when they are no longer necessary. To terrorize America, Osama bin Laden adopted many of the management and leadership strategies that U.S. corporate leaders have embraced over the past decade-strategies that are gaining ground among U.S. military reformers and among leaders in the government's civilian bureaucracies. The strategies stem from a theory-being validated by American corporations, social activist groups and international terrorists-that in the information age, successful organizations behave more like computer networks than assembly lines..' http://news.openflows.org/ From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 17:39:49 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:39:49 -0700 Subject: Larry Ellisons Bhopals Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422173610.009f8040@mail.nex.net.au> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=17958976 Oracle plans aggressive growth in India PTI [ SATURDAY, AUGUST 03, 2002 2:14:24 PM ] NEW YORK: Impressed by India's record in software, California-based Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has charted out an aggressive growth plan in the country and expects to double its professional workforce in four years to deliver the best products and services. "India is a jewel in Oracle's crown," its executive vice-president for Asia-Pacific Derek Williams said. "We have invested well in expanding our presence in India and plan to continue to do so." It has expanded development facilities in Bangalore and is in the process of acquiring over seven acres of land in Hyderabad for expansion of its India Development Centre (IDC). Religious fascist extremeists in Govt,swastika's everywhere in the South,Larry feels right at home,"Good business is where you find it." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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As the number of alleged al Qaeda operatives and other Muslim militants coming from places other than the Middle East or South Asia rises, a key tool used to identify potential terrorists -- racial profiling -- may become even less effective. Russia has long argued that Chechen separatist fighters are linked to al Qaeda, and the presence of a Japanese man among their ranks suggests there is a broader ethnic mix from which al Qaeda or related militant groups can recruit. From China's ethnic Uighurs to American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh to a British national on trial in Dagestan for alleged terrorism, Muslim militants are not limited to Arabs or South Asians. The arrest in June of Jose Padilla, a Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican accused of planning to set off a so-called "dirty bomb" in the United States, only underscored this reality. Interestingly, some Japanese militant organizations have a long history of ties to Islamic militants. The Japanese Red Army, a leftist group responsible for the 1972 attack on Tel Aviv's Lod airport as well as several airline hijackings and attacks on foreign embassies, worked closely with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Although the Japanese Red Army disbanded in 2001 on the 30th anniversary of the Lod attack, the precedent for such cooperation still remains. http://www.stratfor.com/fib/fib_view.php?ID=205544 Dont fergit downunder,boy wonder davy Hicks,we gonna get you SUCKA! From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 17:49:17 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:49:17 -0700 Subject: BERNing down the NSA. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422174759.009fc2e0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.charm.net/~marc/chronicle/nsa_jul02.shtml The Baltimore Emergency Response Network (BERN), a group that seeks to halt U.S. military intervention in other sovereign nations and promotes peaceful solutions to conflict, will gather this Fourth of July, as it done since 1996, for its annual In[ter]dependence Day demonstration at the 38,000-employee National Security Agency. At 10 a.m. at 9800 Savage Road in Fort Meade, BERN members will demonstrate for an end to the NSA's secret and overt operations that they charge lead to killing, destruction and domination. They plan to deploy "Star Wars" balloons as examples of what they believe would be a more cost-effective form of missile defense than the "star wars" National Missile Defense program now underway. "Justice is the only means of security," said BERN member Max Obuszewski in a prepared statement to the press. "It is an ethical imperative that money wasted on spying and warmaking be diverted to satisfy the basic needs of all people of the world. We are interdependent as one human family." Four BERN members--Ellen Barfield, Max Obuszewski, Sister Carol Gilbert, O.P. and Sister Ardeth Platte, O.P--were arrested in October 2001 at the time of another BERN protest at the NSA. They were charged with trespass, destruction of government property and conspiracy. These charges were dropped in April 2002, but they were warned by a prosecutor at Fort Meade that new charges would be filed. "The defendants welcome an opportunity to challenge the National Security Agency in court," said Obuszewski. The four intend to take part in the July 4 protest. BERN activists have been seeking to meet with the NSA's director to discuss the agency's involvement with Star Wars, Echelon (which intercepts communications worldwide), and the Space Command Vision for 2020, which calls for domination of the heavens. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 17:57:06 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:57:06 -0700 Subject: LAO TZU Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422175604.009fcec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.greenanarchist.org.uk/Laotzu.htm It is difficult to describe what anarchism is. It is a kind of political philosophy. But it has no founder, no standard texts, no political party associated with it. And it is hardly ever discussed by philosophers themselves. As a political movement it is seen by historians as primarily a radical response to industrial capitalism, which developed in Europe towards the middle of the last century. Yet as a social perspective anarchism has a much longer history. Kenneth Rexroth, for example, in his book 'Communalism' traces the history and development of the many attempts that have been made throughout recorded history to establish an organic community based on non-coercive relationships. For that is what is meant by anarchy, not chaos or disorder. The aims and ideas behind these attempts - like that of the Digger movement - were always expressed through published writings - sermons, analects, dialogues, political tracts, mystical writings and the like. These writings of course have historical interest; but they are also important to us in helping us to formulate alternatives to the ideologies of contemporary capitalism - whether of the liberal or statist kind. One of the earliest of such writings is the short mystical tract entitled 'Tao Te Ching'. It was written by a Chinese sage called Lao Tzu (the 'old philosopher') Etc. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1531 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 17:59:21 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:59:21 -0700 Subject: TECHNIQUES OF REPRESSION Lessons from Ireland. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422175755.009f8ec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.greenanarchist.org.uk/Nire.htm For 17 years now Northern Ireland has been the training ground for the British State's counter insurgency techniques. On a recent visit to Ireland Arthur Scargill told an audience of Irish people that the miners' strike of 1984 had shown Britain for what it really is, a vicious police state. Roars of laughter greeted the spectacle of an English person coming to Ireland to tell the Irish that they live in a police state. For 17 years now Northern Ireland has been the training ground and the Irish working class the guinea pigs for the British state's counter insurgency techniques. .... Since 1972 the British state has been able to erect the full apparatus of a totalitarian state here in Northern Ireland in the name of 'a war against terrorism', ie a war against the catholic working class. 'Totalitarian' is no exaggeration. The typical catholic housing estate here has an army barracks / fortress in the middle of it, keeping a close surveillance of everyone on the estate with close circuit TV cameras, infra red cameras for night vision and a radar system which can detect anyone moving out of sight of electronic eyes in cameras. Helicopters hover overhead for most of the day with zoom in cameras, and telephone of anyone 'discontented' is tapped and their mail opened. Now working class housing estates are built according to a British army architect's specification. They are designed to give minimum room for civil disobedience and maximum room for the British army to step in to crush any outbreaks. Housing estates are built with only one exit / entrance so anyone causing trouble can be easily trapped inside; each block is a different colour or shade, and army helicopters have a special colour code of the estate so that any block or single house can be quickly and easily pin pointed from the air. 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We have also found that the strongest signals generally appear at those places where the women say they have suffered ill effects, and they followed a well defined path. Strong signals recorded on one occasion near the green gate were found to cover the womens' encampment but stop abruptly at the edge of the road leading up to the gate. The signals were also absent in the area around the nearby house. The strength of the signals has also been found on occasion to reflect the activity of the women. Signals at scarcely more than the background level have been found to increase rapidly when the women start a demonstration. http://www.greenanarchist.org.uk/Zapp.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1416 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 18:53:22 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:53:22 -0700 Subject: Attack of the cretins. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422183655.009ef6e0@mail.nex.net.au> [Oracle Corp Chairman and CEO] Larry Ellison wants to sell databases, correct? So maybe now we can have everybody's fingerprints and retinal scans put into computers. And Big Brother can be efficient with Oracle software. Siebel [Systems] has purchased the world's largest American flag and attached it to the side of their building, supposedly to symbolize growth. Of course, that might imply their company's growth. That is, if you want to invest now, it's a good chance to get in at a low price. On the political side, you see Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and talking about God punishing us. The cretins are coming out of the woodwork, The "Office of Homeland Security" does sound a little over the top It sounds like a phrase out of Orwell's 1984. It's scary as hell. One of the things I don't think Bush gets is that the terrorists win if they take away our freedoms, directly or indirectly. “Yesterday’s Technology Tomorrow”—the phrase has been thrown around the FBI for decades. It might be funny if it weren’t so true. “The agents have encrypted radio; they’ve got night vision; they’ve got the surveillance stuff,” says a former agent, one of several interviewed for this piece. “They have top of the line everything—everything except information technology.” Not to dwell too much on Sun’s Scott McNealy, but he did popularize the phrase “The network is the computer.” This idea, which the Fortune 500 started grasping five years ago, is as anti-stovepipe as you can get. It sees individual computers as communication devices, whose ability to link up with the rest of the world’s computers is more important than the processing power they possess on their own. It sees the network as a platform on which knowledge can be shared, amplified and re-created in new innovative forms, the networked pieces adding up to far more than the sum of their parts. Victory in the information war depends on the ability to use that information—to understand it, to react to it quickly. “September 11 was all based on controlling information,” says Carver Mead, the CalTech physicist, one of the fathers of the microprocessor and a pioneer in neural networking, an approach to artificial intelligence based on replicating the connective miracles of the human brain. “The fact is the hijackers controlled all the information. They had all the information on the first three planes—they were the only ones who knew what was going to happen. On the fourth plane, there was a tiny amount of information available to the passengers; they were able to use it to thwart the plan. “We actually knew a lot about some of these people,” says Mead. “We actually did know a lot, but we didn’t put it together.” Putting it together requires acceptance of the idea that the network is the computer–and that the bigger and broader it is, the better. a fit-for-the-1990s computer system will be in place at the agency by the end of 2003 I PROMIS you.The FBI’s controversial Carnivore system, which can read e-mail and track suspects’ Web activity, reportedly has a data mining component called Coolmine to help it analyze the information. But for most of Uncle Sam’s security-related data, mining is something done by keyboard- and hunch-wielding humans, by hand. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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But more typically, a complex set of specs gets jobbed out to one of the remaining handful of defense megacontractors, who undertake delivery of a very tightly specified black box or aircraft or weapons system, for some version of cost-plus. If all this sounds vaguely Industrial Age and socialist, it is—R&D by Five-Year Plan. But virtually all the high-tech weaponry now being tossed at Afghanistan was developed this way. This is also the system that gives you the $400 toilet seat. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 19:24:51 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:24:51 -0700 Subject: Get your war on. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422190832.00a02dd0@mail.nex.net.au> If there's any sane lesson that Congress should take away from the Enron political scandal (and this is assuredly both a corporate and political scandal), it is not that we need campaign finance reform—it is that we need federal spending reform. Want to get rid of corporate political corruption? Abolish corporate welfare so that Fortune 500 firms don't spend half their energy and public relations budgets farming Washington. With $100 billion of corporate loot divvied up by Congress every year, the wonder is that there aren't 100 Enrons out there, with tentacles into every law firm, media outlet and congressional office in the District of Columbia. And perhaps there are. The one lesson I've learned from my 20-year experience in Washington is that corporate America is perhaps a bigger adversary to small government and the free market than even Tom Daschle. Republicans, and specifically the Bush administration—which, of course, had a particularly cozy relationship with Enron—could go a long way toward defusing the Enron crisis by calling for abolition of the Commerce Department, the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank and other CEO feeding troughs. That'll probably happen the day the Olympics installs fair and impartial judges at skating events. Whats this got to do with war? SEE MWO's ANNALs of ENRON,it will all become clear. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 20:53:30 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:53:30 -0700 Subject: CHINA-Security forces physically assaulted protesters. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422205053.009f4bb0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/08/china080202.htm Repression in China Worsens Worker Protests (New York, August 2, 2002) - The Chinese government's refusal to allow independent trade unions is fueling worker protests, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The 50-page report, "Paying the Price: Worker Unrest in Northeast China," analyzes in detail the demonstrations that took place from March through May 2002 in three cities in northeastern China, and the government response to them. "The Chinese Communist Party is facing a serious dilemma: So is P.Trei if he reads his own propaganda. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1054 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 22 21:04:40 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:04:40 -0700 Subject: Hacking Shengen Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990422210329.009d1a90@mail.nex.net.au> "...On friday 26th a team of researchers from strasbourg nsv research(noborder sillicon valley) came to Strasbourg Neuhof, where the Schengen Information System (SiS) is located. It was the aim of a working group to develope a system to make the data stored in the Schengen Information System accessable for everybody. Accompanied by a french television team and several journalist, the team dig a hole next to the street which is going to the SIS. The work of the group soon got the attention of the police, obviously not understanding what was going on and suprised by the massive gathering of press people. Based on information of a resaerchers group who visited the SIS location some days before, a cable was taken out of the ground and connected to a notebook. After booting the system and logging in on the SIS system, the user rights of the schengen data were changed (chmod 777*) so from now on everybody is able to access his/her own data stored in the schengen system, of course also change or delete data as needed. After that then the noborder plugin was installed (apt-get install noborder) to enable access from everywhere whitout limitation. The communication protokoll was changed to TCP/IP for easy internet (webbased-)access. A easy to use webportal will be installed soon. Now the system was shutdown for a complete reboot and made ready for a free-communication compiling..." FROM http://slash.autonomedia.org/news/02/08/02/2129242.shtml From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 08:45:10 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:45:10 -0700 Subject: RICO and the Mann. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424084348.00a0d340@mail.nex.net.au> Subject: RICO and the Mann. 10/27/00 - Members of Asian Crime Ring Indicted 14 members of an Asian crime ring allegedly headed by Hung The "Kevin" Dong were indicted in Los Angeles on federal charges including prostitution and racketeering. Authorities were able to show that the group operates as an "ongoing criminal organization," making Dong's syndicate the first Asian organized crime group to be prosecuted using statutes within RICO. Dateline - October 28, 2000 LOS ANGELES - Pursuant to an FBI investigation dubbed "Operation Lucky Money," 14 alleged members of an Asian organized crime ring were indicted Friday on charges ranging from running a prostitution ring to credit card fraud. Authorities say the investigation and arrests gave a much clearer view of the activities of Asian crime rings, which are currently considered the most dangerous and efficient crime enterprises in the United States. James V. DeSarno, Jr., head of the FBI's Southern California operations said Friday, "We see violence, we see prostitution, we see money laundering, not unlike what we saw in the early days of organized crime." The indictments and arrests are the result of an ongoing joint investigation by FBI agents in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Hung The "Kevin" Dong (a.k.a. "Big Brother"), alleged boss of the group, was arrested Friday along with eight associates. Also arrested were Chooi Lu, Dong's girlfriend and alleged manager of the crime syndicate's prostitution ring, Tan Minh Ly (a.k.a. "Payday"), reputed to be the organization's top weapons trafficker, David Huang Wei, Johnny Chi Lee, Vincent Huang Wei, Boy Lai, Hector Barcenas and Binh Quoc Trinh. The other five individuals named in the indictment are considered fugitives and are actively being sought. Included on the list individuals who eluded authorities Friday is Dong An, who is also wanted on murder charges related to the crime ring's activities. The 38-count indictment charges members of the San Gabriel Valley-based crime syndicate with money laundering, credit card fraud, armed robbery, home invasions, prostitution, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking. The gang members are also accused of importing women from Malaysia, Mexico and other locations into the United States and forcing them into prostitution. Dong's syndicate allegedly ran dozens of brothels throughout Las Vegas and Southern California, with each brothel bringing in tens of thousands of dollars each month. Gang members would allegedly force the women to work in one brothel for a few months, then transport her to another and another, in what amounts to a violation of the Mann Act, "transporting women for illegal sexual activity," also known as "white slavery." More importantly, authorities announced at a press conference on Friday that, through the use of wiretaps and undercover operatives, they were able to ascertain that the group operated with a highly structured management and may be considered, for prosecutorial purposes, an "ongoing criminal organization." The consequence of such a discovery is that federal prosecutors were able to make the decision to prosecute Dong and his associates using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, which carries much heavier prison sentences on conviction than do most white-collar crime statutes. DeSarno said, "That's the goal, to use racketeering statutes to dismantle this organization." The nine individuals arrested Friday remain in custody and will make their first court appearance on Monday. They are scheduled to be arraigned on November 6 at the United States District Court in Los Angeles.Thats around the time I get my next 'mention'.I really hope this is it,cos I miss my jimmy Dell. Latest mention...sept 11. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 4093 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 08:46:50 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:46:50 -0700 Subject: Victorian Police Corruption. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424084606.00a0e0d0@mail.nex.net.au> Subject: Victorian Police Corruption. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ANARCHIST AGE WEEKLY REVIEW NUMBER 390, 6-12 MARCH 2000. BOOK REVIEW VICTORIA POLICE CORRUPTION Raymond Hoser 1999, ISBN 09586769 25 Published by KOTABI PUBLICATIONS It's refreshing to review a book that takes a peek at the soft underbelly of the Victorian Police Force. Ever wondered why few if any Victorian Police officers have seen the inside of a prison? Then you shouldn't go past Hoser's book. A book mind you, that wouldn't have seen the light of day if Hoser had buckled under the considerable pressure that was applied to prevent him publishing this book. Murder, rape, drugs, theft are some of the sins catalogued in this little gem that reads like a novel. Unfortunately the list of sins that are catalogued in Victoria Police Corruption have happened to real people with real families. The Victorian Police Force, Australia's most effective killing machine has been able to get away with this outrageous behavior for so long because of political and media corruption. This 720 page book names names, lists events and shines a torch into the black heart of the Victorian Police Force. Hoser's book goes one step further than the normal shock, horror corruptive expose. Hoser understands that Police Corruption could not occur without bent bureaucrats, politicians and a media that's not willing to rock the boat. Victoria Police Corruption should be mandatory reading for every bureaucrat, every politician and every hack reporter in Victoria. If we lived in a society that respected the truth, Victoria Police Corruption would be on the H.S.C. reading list and Hoser's name would have appeared on the New Year's Eve honors list. Neither of these things are likely to occur. Hoser and his books have been shunted to the margins of society because the same people in authority are using the same corrupt structure, to support the same corrupt status quo. VICTORIA POLICE CORUPTION is available from the publishers KOTABI PUBLISHING, PO Box 599, DONCASTER, VIC 3108, AUSTRALIA Tel: 61 3 9857-4491, Fax: 61 3 9857-4664 E-mail: adder at smuggled.com Online credit card orders: http://www.smuggled.com/subvrb.htm From page 262,"...later that year police trumped up another charge against him,This time it was "make threat to kill."Thats usually an easy one to convict because the police witness says,"He threatened to kill me."The defendant says,"No I didn't."The judge or magistrate invariably side with the police.Maximum penalty? 15 years." No reason for them to lie,right? In my case I'm in luck due to police overkill,I can blame pressure from at least 3 other agencies to convict me of something...Anything! The dickheads are truly desperate. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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As a result of accounting changes, >Harken's 1989 loss widened to $12.57 million from the $3.33 million loss >initially reported. > >Bush has denied wrongdoing, saying the Aloha matter reflected an honest >disagreement over accounting. "All I can tell you is, that in the >corporate world, sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it >comes to accounting procedures," he said earlier this month. FROM >http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_126.shtml >Middle Eastern countries, where the long, spooky arm of BCCI thuggery was >strongest >HAIG ALEXANDER M JR (360) HAMMER ARMAND (160) HAMMOUD MOHAMMED MAHMOUD >(105, 182, 332-3) HAQ FAZLE (48-50, 52-3, 286, 294) HARIRI RAFIC (355-6) >HARKEN ENERGY CORPORATION (229) >http://www.pir.org/main2/Harken_Energy_Corporation.html >Bahrain 1990 >· · Bainerman,J. The Crimes of a President. 1992 (293-7) >· · Beaty,J. Gwynne,S.C. The Outlaw Bank. 1993 (229) >· · Covert Action Information Bulletin 1992-#41 (50-2) >· · Executive Intelligence Review 2000-02-25 (46-52) >· · Hatfield,J.H. Fortunate Son. 2000 (70, 91-2, 97-105) >· · Lewis,C. The Buying of the President 2000. 2000 (194-6, >199-202) >· · Mother Jones 1992-10 (33, 66-8) >· · San Antonio Express-News 1999-07-11 (3J) >· · Stich,R. Defrauding America. 1994 (407, 410) >· · Texas Observer 1991-04-05 (16-7) >· · Texas Observer 1991-07-12 (12-5) >· · Texas Observer 1991-09-20 (11-7) >· · Truell,P. Gurwin,L. False Profits. 1992 (369-70) >· · Wall Street Journal 1991-12-06 (A1, 4) >http://www.pir.org/cgi-bin/nbonlin6.cgi?_HARKEN_ENERGY_CORPORATION >No connection yet to rewald...yet.Quasha-fortunate son? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Here is a candid revelation of the mobsters, rats, set-ups, wires, bugs, double-crosses, strategies, judges, juries, and lawmen who were the daily elements of Simone's law practice. If you enjoy the fictional "The Sopranos" television series, then you will be fascinated by Bobby Simone's factual and real-life expose, The Last Mouthpiece. Also at Am "But he was good to his mother." Expanded, factual, and accurate information throughout on Jewish gangsters, including such legendary figures as Meyer Lansky (whom Rockaway interviewed), Bugsy Siegel, Lepke and Gurrah, Kid Cann, Dutch Schultz, Waxey Gordon, Longy Zwillman, Big Jack Zelig, Boo Boo Hoff (who introduced the tommy gun to Philadelphia's Prohibition underworld), Mickey Cohen, the Purple Gang and others. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9652292494/qid=1028479484/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0188761-0538340 Oy vey. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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AND http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31135&group=webcast Paul Mullet, Fuckwit of the week. by profrv@(nospam)fuckmicrosoft.com 5:57pm Mon Aug 5 '02article#31135 Paul is a standover thug for the police union,threatening and bullying not just a lady but his boss.Now he confirms that he's an idiot not fit to run a station in woop woop. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1884 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 09:47:35 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 09:47:35 -0700 Subject: "The price of liberty is eternal Vigilantism" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424094625.00a11010@mail.nex.net.au> LAS VEGAS--Can vigilantism save computers from the next big virus threat? Striking back against a computer that is attacking you may be illegal under U.S. law, but a security researcher says people should be allowed to neutralize one that is unwittingly spreading destructive Internet worms such as Nimda. "Arguably the biggest threat the Internet faces today is the propagation of a big worm," said Timothy Mullen, chief information officer of AnchorIS, at the Defcon hacker conference here. Worms are a form of self-propagating virus that, once set in motion, can wreak havoc by taking control of other machines. Once the virus has claimed a PC, it can then use the machine to launch attacks on the wider Internet. "The next worm is going to happen, and it's going to be worse," Mullen said. The defensive strategy of "strike back" is gaining some support among politicians, who will be voting on a bill backed by movie and music studios that would allow retaliation to help thwart Internet piracy. The bill, proposed by Congressman Howard Berman, D-Calif., would protect copyright holders from liability if they place destructive decoy digital files into peer-to-peer networks to penalize users. Mullen said his hack-back idea is different because it is designed to improve the security of cyberspace and would not harm any computer systems. The Code Red and Nimda worms that hit last year shut down corporate computer systems and gobbled up bandwidth. Nimda was the most widespread and one of the most destructive worms of 2001. To counter this, Mullen has come up with a way for machines that have been attacked--but not infected--to trace the worm back to the attacking machine and prevent it from spreading the worm to other computers. Using his technique, the computer that launches an attack is paralyzed and requires an administrator to restart it, but it stays online and is not otherwise harmed, said Mullen, who is a columnist for SecurityFocus.com. "What we're doing, (according) to the letter of the law, is illegal," he said. "I would like to see the law changed...We've illustrated not just a reasonable recourse, but a minimal responsibility." Contacting the administrators of infected and attacking computers is not adequate, Mullen said. "This after-the-fact stuff clearly doesn't work. I'm still getting Nimda attacks," often from the same person, he said. However, several U.S. officials questioned the ethics of the idea. "You have trespassed on their system," said Mark Eckenwiler, senior counsel at the U.S. Justice Department's computer crime division. "There are more legally acceptable ways to deal with the problem than what is essentially hacking into their system." There also is also the possibility of hacking back at the wrong computer, said C.H. "Chuck" Chassot of the Department of Defense's Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence office. "It is the DoD's policy not to take active measures against anybody because of the lack of certainty of getting the right person," Chassot said. Jennifer Stisa Grannick, litigation director at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, said she felt Mullen's idea may be protected under a self-defense provision. "This is a type of defense of property," she said. "There is a lot of sympathy for that (kind of action) from law enforcement and vendors because we do have such a big problem with viruses." http://news.com.com/2100-1001-948309.html?tag=fd_top -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Most fines are handed out to smokers throwing butts out of cars. Melbourne city had the biggest number of people dobbing in litter bugs with 320 fines issued, followed by Richmond (196), Mulgrave (193) and St Kilda (148). An increasing number of people - about 18,000 - complained to the EPA about smoky vehicles via phone calls or on the Internet, with $204,000 worth of penalties paid. But while Victorians are more vigilant about pollution, more than 1000 fines remain unpaid or contested. The most common excuse used by litterers, particularly those fined for dropping cigarette butts, is that they don't smoke. But the EPA said malicious reports could clog the system, particularly for smoky vehicles, with the complaints line used to avenge personal gripes. EPA manager of operation systems Geoff Latimer said fines had increased because people were tired of pollution. "The community has become more aware there are avenues to dob people in for activities they find fairly appalling," Mr Latimer said. "People are more attuned to getting speeding fines and generally they stop speeding after that. "But when they get a pollution fine it is more surprising." http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4838350%255E2862,00.html I'm not just being contrarian posting this here,people throw lighted butts out in bushfire zones,ie most of au.Who needs terrorists? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2487 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 10:16:52 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 10:16:52 -0700 Subject: Japan ID's and now this... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424101528.00a11ec0@mail.nex.net.au> We know where you live By Nicole Manktelow August 3 2002 Icon It's an initiative designed to assist convergence - that is, the many devices and channels of communication that are blending. ENUM is a protocol that can be used to map phones, faxes or other devices from their particular telephone number to the Internet. It could give all Australian households a new electronic point of contact. It could also forge the beginning of a combined communications system. And, if adopted by various nations, it could pave the way for a massive international directory. Just how ENUM will be implemented, who will run it and if participation will be mandatory are details to be determined, according to national numbers body the Australian Communications Authority (www.aca.gov.au). advertisement The ACA controls Australia's telephone country code +61 and will soon decide who should be responsible for running the country's ENUM initiative. "It's about developing a single electronic address for people," says Paul White, the ACA's telecommunications licensing group executive manager. "There are no time frames yet," says White, as the project is in its early stages, but some experts believe it may be a reality within just three years. The ENUM protocol was devised by the Internet Engineering Task Force's (www.ietf.org) telephone number mapping working group. The group defined a domain name system (DNS) method for mapping a telephone number to a point of contact on the Internet. Using this method, the ACA's phone number +61 3 9963 6800, for example, would be reversed and become the basis of the address: 0.0.8.6.3.6.9.9.3.1.6.e614.arpa. The last few segments, "1.6.e614.arpa", utilise the country code and indicate that the address/number is located in Australia. Sending an email to such an address could "provide all the contact details of a person ... It might be a response that is as simple as a contact register", White says. "Almost half the households in Australia have Internet access and most have a phone. That's two electronic contact points. Then there are mobiles," he adds. With ENUM, "you would have a single electronic access point or address". The concept of a single contact point does, however, conjure familiar fears for civil libertarians, particularly if the implementation of ENUM does not give users full control over their details. "The effect of ENUM would be to establish a single unique contact number for each individual," says privacy expert Roger Clark. "If it was successful, it would represent a unique personal identifier, with all the threats to privacy and freedoms that this entails," Clark says. The ENUM protocol may concentrate on devices, but it is the people using these phones who will end up connected, eventually. "It's a device identifier, but devices are personal. And there is more location information embedded in them all the time," Clark adds. "It would be lovely if from the beginning the system would be under the user's control. But this is never how they are implemented." The ACA will publish an ENUM discussion paper on its Web site by the end of the month. A discussion group will follow, as will trials of various business models. The ACA will also "look at technical and consumer safeguards", White says, in particular the databases that are expected to handle the contract information for phone users. nicole at auscape.net.au http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/02/1028157836588.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Freeh steps down early, his career, a bit like the Soviet Union, fizzling out unlamented. Vise sets out to shock us with a tale of human evil, yet Hanssen comes over as merely a bit sad. What Vise does succeed in doing is shedding some light on an intelligence establishment which has been malfunctioning for decades." From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 11:20:30 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:20:30 -0700 Subject: White punks on dope. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424111949.00a12aa0@mail.nex.net.au> Friendly fire deaths linked to US pilots 'on speed' 'American pilots in Afghanistan, blamed for a series of "friendly fire" incidents and devastating erroneous attacks on innocent civilians, were routinely provided with amphetamines to tackle fatigue and help them fly longer hours. Pilots were allowed to "self-regulate" their own doses and kept the drugs in their cockpits ... Pilots who refused to take the drugs could be banned from taking part in a mission' ( Independent ) See also this Performance Maintenance manual (1.05MB PDF) for US Navy flight surgeons from 2000, this Toronto Star article from Thursday, this Vancouver Sun article from June, and this blog entry from last month LINKS http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1201 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 11:36:00 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:36:00 -0700 Subject: Alien,the musical. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424113357.00a14c10@mail.nex.net.au> Now altered slightly in transition,andrew lw dropped out...A Tom Zupko shoot is never done. And even when it's done perfectionist Zupko still seems to be doing it. But so far he's quite pleased with the way Ass Alien his latest feature is turning out though scenes remain to be shot. Gene: The other night was another long shooting night. You shot a scene involving Misty and Tony Tedeschi which took awhile to accomplish for physical reasons. [Misty's asshole was challenged to accommodate Tedeschi's bulk]. Nevertheless, you seem to be pretty pleased with what's been going on so far. Zupko: Everything's going good. This is the first movie I've shot in about five months. It's a lot of fun. It's light hearted and the way it's being put together is like a sitcom- with the canned laughter, applause, intros, and real commercials in between. And the style I'm shooting it in, isn't like my usual free style form. This is more of the traditional two-shot, single-shot style mimicking the dialogue of a sitcom. Actually it's very funny. This new guy Joe Daddy who derives his sexual pleasure from geriatrics is the Ass Alien. He did a good job. He hung in there wearing that heavy suit. Not only that he was fine in the sex scenes. This one might become a cult classic. I'm doing so much with it in post with animation and 3-D. It's going to be great. I have to say one thing. I'd like to pay special thanks to Samantha Sterlyng who hung with Zupko. A lot of people said she wouldn't be able to, but she did and did a phenomenal job. She was a dream to work with on the set. I've always thought that she was one of the most beautiful yet underrated girls in pornography. She told me she was down for anal and did five positions that were just ripping. Though we're not done yet, it's the best sex scene of the movie probably. But the whole thing was great. And not one girl gets slapped or spit on! I don't know if that's good or bad. I think when it's all said and done, it'll be unforgettable. From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 13:29:48 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 13:29:48 -0700 Subject: Deep Perps. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424132500.00a0caf0@mail.nex.net.au> Blue pill or the red? Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, enjoy the ride. I'm a speed king you go to hear me sing I'm a speed king see me fly Sweet child in time you'll see the line The line that's drawn between the good and the bad See the blind man shooting at the world Bullets flying taking toll If you've been bad, Lord I bet you have And you've been hit by flying lead You'd better close your eyes and bow your head And wait for the ricochet. Nobody gonna take my car I'm gonna race it to the ground Nobody gonna beat my car It's gonna break the speed of sound Oooh it's a killing machine It's got everything Like a driving power big fat tyres and everything I love it and I need it I bleed it yeah it's a wild hurricane Alright hold tight I'm a highway star Nobody gonna take my girl I'm gonna keep her to the end Nobody gonna have my girl She stays close on every bend Oooh she's a killing machine She's got everything Like a moving mouth body control and everything I love her I need her I seed her Yeah She turns me on Alright hold on tight I'm a highway star Nobody gonna take my head I got speed inside my brain Nobody gonna steal my head Now that I'm on the road again Oooh I'm in heaven again I've got everything Like a moving ground an open road and everything I love it and I need it I seed it Eight cylinders all mine Alright hold on tight I'm a highway star Swiss time was running out It seemed that we would lose the race Smoke on the water, fire in the sky We ended up at the Grand Hotel It was empty cold and bare But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside Making our music there With a few red lights and a few old beds We made a place to sweat No matter what we get out of this I know we'll never forget Smoke on the water, fire in the sky Black night is not right, I don't feel so bright, I don't care to sit tight. Maybe I'll find on the way down the line that I'm free, free to be me. Black night is a long way from home. I don't need a dark tree, I don't want a rough sea, I can't feel, I can't see. Maybe I'll find on the way down the line that I'm free, free to be me. Black night is a long way from home. Black night, black night, I don't need black night, I can't see dark night. Maybe I'll find on the way down the line that I'm free, free to be me. Black night is a long way from home. Long way from the wife.life.Dont come back...ever. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2760 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 13:58:27 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 13:58:27 -0700 Subject: ELF,Greenpeace,ALF direct actions. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424135708.00a10c60@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/04/4678572 As more wilderness and farmland areas are paved under and precious pieces of earth sold for the profit of a few, more actions are being planned. We will not stop until the developers and oligarchs do. With love and hope, ELF. From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 14:16:23 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 14:16:23 -0700 Subject: Anarcho-commies threaten to sue? Shurley shome mishtake! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424141418.00a108a0@mail.nex.net.au> It is the common belief of anarchists and communists of all likes to oppose property. Intellectual property is also shunned by extension. So there is a question of why(?!?) it is that these anarchist and communist works are today being copyrighted. Furthermore, the two main radical internet archivists (Marxist Internet Archives and Anarchy Archives) threaten to sue those who use their content. MIA and AA are also selling CDs of their content ($25 and $10), which is a direct exploitation of theory. MIA and AA have degraded themselves to the level of Hot Topic, selling the revolution. Anarchy for sale, $10. Be a Communist, only $25! But I faintly remember: the revolution will not be televised. MORE http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/04/4931670 ACE download site... Link: http://www.crosswinds.net/~redlibertad/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 15:56:39 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 15:56:39 -0700 Subject: The Klez excuse Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424155421.00a167a0@mail.nex.net.au> Working as a telephone tech support person for a non-tech sector company, Klez was particularly annoying as we would get angry telephone calls from our own corporate executives about how our server based antivirus program wasn't working, as they were getting angry emails from people at other companies telling them to stop sending them the Klez virus. All because the damn thing sent false header information and someone outside both companies had been infected, people would continue to blame the wrong parties when their own antivirus program would point them at the wrong culprit, despite all the media stories explaining the damn thing in clear detail. We had a number of execs refuse to believe us when we told them their machine was clean, as "obviously" we were wrong according to the people at the other company. Even had one high up try to install her own antivirus program because she didn't trust ours and ended up trashing her computer. Did I tell you my new trial 'contest mention' is on sept 11.Anniversary of Chile coup. From profrv at nex.net.au Sat Apr 24 19:04:03 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 19:04:03 -0700 Subject: Dewine needs spilling,chuck shumer off dabridge. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990424185856.00a13ec0@mail.nex.net.au> "The Ohio Republican, a former county prosecutor" Why am I not surprised? http://www.politechbot.com/p-03847.html Jim bell quoting anarchist contest mention on sept 11.No admissions,no evidence,no plea bargains,just another cascading APster extravaganza.Who wants to participate to help form what will be the LAST revolution on earth, the one that'll take down ALL the governments? James Dalton Bell. From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 07:28:43 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 07:28:43 -0700 Subject: Joshua Gordons homepage Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425072443.009fa880@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/~joshie/ I'm planning to write to josh re photonics,get something going.Getting a nibble on line 2...>>Thanks for the email. Can I post it on anti-state's forum? I think many would find it interesting. Bob Murphy<< Sure mate,were all anarchists here. "Long live the revolution! 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The Department of Energy has exploded plutonium, called a subcritical test, at NTS 17 times since 1997, leaving radioactive substances in the ground that filters into the largest aquifer in Southern Nevada. Yucca Mountain and Skull Valley are currently targeted as the only national nuclear waste dumps for nuclear power plants. Plans are in place to begin the shipment of over 77,000 tons of deadly spent nuclear fuel rods and weapons waste to Newe Sogobia. If the recently approved Yucca Mountain dump isn't stopped, nuclear waste will travel through 43 states, increasing risks of radiation exposure to millions. October marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. moratorium on full-scale nuclear weapons tests. In honor of the anniversary and in resistance, the Shundahai Network is organizing the Action for Nuclear Abolition in Nevada. The campaign will kick off with the Family Spirit Walk for Mother Earth and conclude with ongoing nonviolent occupations, blockades and other actions. 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Ironically, the kind of documentary evidence that might have proved valuable in tying up the loose ends of the Chicago Seven conspiracy is present in the new filings that the Bush recount committee made to the IRS. The evidence is clear that the Bush committee organized the movement of protesters across state lines, paid for their lodging, moved them into a position for the riot, and then defended their actions." From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 08:56:48 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 08:56:48 -0700 Subject: Up your date Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425085251.00a13d50@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26517.html The colonization of everyday life "...a clause was smuggled into a security patch in June. On the other hand, users already consent to similar conditions whenever they use the Windows Update facility - and few complain. The change needn't apply to corporate users. Microsoft recently introduced Software Update Services, which allows managed upgrades across the Intranet to users with Active Directory. (So you don't have thousands of desktops hitting Microsoft servers at once). We've asked Microsoft if this was a legal or a technical decision, and what was behind the decision to make installation of the service packs conditional on this clause. We await their reply. Related Stories MS security patch EULA gives Billg admin privileges on your box Anti-EULA script removes offending text Hows that supersecure SUSE going vulture? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1188 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 09:08:23 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 09:08:23 -0700 Subject: Activists break into parliament house grounds. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425090556.009f9ec0@mail.nex.net.au> INDONESIAN police have used water cannon against protesters who broke into the grounds of parliament, demanding that legislators approve key constitutional reforms http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4851137%255E1702,00.html "...several protesters began rocking and climbing the heavy steel gates at the main entrance. The cheering demonstrators toppled the gates..." Who wants to participate to help form what will be the LAST revolution on earth, the one that'll take down ALL the governments? James Dalton Bell. From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 09:15:29 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 09:15:29 -0700 Subject: Artful dodger. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425091144.00a151f0@mail.nex.net.au> VICTORIA'S worst toll evader yesterday admitted taking an extra 14 free trips on CityLink. Christos Katsimalis, 69, walked from court in February this year after avoiding more than $22,000 in fines for 223 trips on the toll road without an e-tag. He was convicted and handed a bill of almost $9000 for CityLink's court costs, but avoided further penalty after the magistrate heard his English was poor. Yesterday Mr Katsimalis pleaded guilty to a further 14 counts, overlooked during the earlier cases. He was again convicted without further penalty and ordered to pay $560 in costs.END City link relies on a Chaum style e-reader over the road.One with obvious brinworld possibilities.I told you I have an AP trial date set for sept 11.Anniversary of hugely succesfull anti-wef demo in Melb.2000. From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 09:40:16 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 09:40:16 -0700 Subject: Activists laptop seized by tri-state task force. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425091750.009fad90@mail.nex.net.au> Detectives investigating the suicide of Gold Coast grandmother Nancy Crick today seized computers and records from euthanasia doctor Philip Nitschke's home outside Darwin http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/06/1028157926407.html and http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31203&group=webcast AKiss your computer goodbye phill,you may not see it for over a year.Mine went off last june...2001. ctivists Computer confiscation. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 809 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 10:03:20 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 10:03:20 -0700 Subject: "Plot to conspire against the State,"Police chief arrested. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425100044.00a150b0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4852277%255E1702,00.html Police reject new chief August 06, 2002 WELLINGTON, New Zealand: The Vanuatu government held an emergency meeting after the police rejected the appointment of a new chief and officers arrested him and 14 other senior civil servants and civilians. Prime Minister Edward Natapei has condemned the arrests on Sunday of the 15 people on charges of seditious conspiracy as "unlawful and irresponsible." But he denied that the police action amounted to a revolt that threatened the government of this tiny 80-island nation in the Pacific Ocean. "No coup has taken place in Vanuatu. What happened was triggered by dissatisfaction by police officers over the appointment of the new commissioner of police," he said on Sunday. He said the government, which was re-elected for a second term in May, had the situation under control. Among those arrested was the newly appointed commissioner of police, Mael Apisai, a former police captain who had been made redundant in 1998. He was appointed last week by the Police Service Commission - a government-appointed body. Also arrested and charged with sedition were attorney-general Ham Bulu, several senior civil servants, three members of the police service commission, the private secretary to the country's head of state, Father John Bani, and a senior member of Natapei's staff. A spokesman for the 700-strong Vanuatu police officers' corps, Api Jack Marikembo, said they had not broken the law in making the arrests. He said police were simply enforcing the law based on solid evidence of a plot to conspire against the state. He did not elaborate. The 15 detainees were released on bail by a judge, who gave police until August 19 to complete their investigations. The arrested men were scheduled to reappear in court at that time. Martin Jones, publisher of the main newspaper, The Trading Post, said the Cabinet was meeting today to discuss the matter. "Business is normal, there is no danger on the streets," Jones said in a telephone interview. A mostly Melanesian nation of 200,000 formerly known as the New Hebrides, Vanuatu gained independence from Britain and France in 1980 after 74 years of joint colonial rule. A country of thinly populated, fertile volcanic islands, it lies near the equator. With an economy based mainly on tourism, Vanuatu also exports dried coconut along with small amounts of coffee, cocoa and other farm products. From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 10:28:40 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 10:28:40 -0700 Subject: Micemen. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425102625.009fc0f0@mail.nex.net.au> "...It blows my mind that these VC guys, who spent 20 years blathering about Ayn Rand capitalism, don't just admit that they live and work in a stagnant monopoly. What a bunch of limp-wristed sissies these captains of industry turned out to be, all these swaggering mercenaries so eager to punch out the bureaucrats in the free market. They're a race of slaves! They're like deer in the market's headlights, they creep around like mice." funny talk from bruce Sterling. http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/301-350/00325_open_source_speech.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 799 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 11:58:51 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:58:51 -0700 Subject: Caymen on the run. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425115621.00a15ec0@mail.nex.net.au> Salon back on song! http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/08/06/tax_havens/index.html "...Caymans is a favorite ploy of companies looking to avoid paying their fair share of taxes -- Enron had 692 subsidiaries there -- that wasn't the reason Harken or Halliburton had done it..." Arbusto and Co are shown as the gutless, mean-spirited, utterly self-centred and cruel characters that they really are. From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 12:28:18 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 12:28:18 -0700 Subject: Ohio stinks,ask me why. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425122639.00a15d80@mail.nex.net.au> Cincinnati Marriott Caves in to Pressure; Eliminates Adult Pay-Per-View From the Cincinnati Enquirer: The Citizens for Community Values in Cincinnati have waged a war against the Marriott hotel chain and won. Warned by local prosecutors that obscenity charges could be brought against them, operators of the Cincinnati Marriott Northeast have decided to stop offering pay-for-view adult movies to guests. CCV, an anti-pornography group assisted in getting the movies removed from the hotel by videotaping the in-room movies and forwarding tapes to the prosecutor. Other Greater Cincinnati hotels are being targeted in similar fashion. Phil Burress, president of theCCV, said “we're ecstatic” and that the CCV hopes for similar cooperation from other area prosecutors and hotel owners. Scott Greenwood, general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio, blasted CCV's hotel campaign as “fundamentalist, right-wing wackos ... trying to apply the lowest, most restrictive standards to something that is broadcast around the world. It's appalling. It's clearly a pressure tactic and it's anti-First Amendment and anti-personal autonomy,” Greenwood, a Cincinnati-based attorney went on to say. In June Marriott officials at the Mason hotel were contacted by Warren County Prosecutor Tim Oliver and told that the hotel's satellite TV adult programming, which he described as “quite explicit,” violated Ohio obscenity law and that they face possible charges should they continue to offer the service to guests. The hotel's decision to at least temporarily withdraw the adult service also pleased Oliver, who said, “That's what we wanted them to do.” In a July 24 letter to Oliver's office, Mason Marriott lawyer William O'Brien wrote that while the 302-room hotel is “committed to traditional family values,” it is also a business that caters to all members of the public, many of whom have widely varying tastes and opinions. O'Brien stated that though the hotel has removed the adult movie option for guests, it has “reserved the right to change its position.” He added, however, that any resumption of the adult entertainment would be accompanied by a notification to the prosecutor's office. An estimated 40 percent of the nation's hotels offer adult movie options, accounting for about 90 percent of pay-per-view revenue, according to Burress. Burress said his group is stepping up its efforts to wipe out what he described as the hotel industry's “white-collar pornography” because “they have started to bring in the hard stuff,” he said, referring to explicitly graphic adult movies. He said he is concerned that guests automatically have the option of accessing such adult fare rather than having to request the programming from the hotel and that children in the rooms “are only two or three clicks on a remote control from getting into it” — although hotels usually offer guests the ability to have the adult fare blocked. Ohio anti-First Amendment porn law put on hold [AP] A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of Ohio's new anti-pornography law, saying it's too broad and appears to violate the constitutional right of free speech. U.S. District Court Judge Walter Rice on Friday issued a temporary restraining order at the request of attorneys for bookstores, newspapers and video software dealers. The law adds computer images to the list of possible ways to display sexually explicit material and other content deemed "harmful to juveniles." Lawmakers passed the bill in February, and Gov. Bob Taft signed it in May. In his decision, Rice said the law's definition of what is harmful to juveniles is too broad and outlaws conduct and expression protected by the First Amendment. As written, the law could affect publishers, booksellers and others who disseminate material to juveniles, Rice said. The temporary restraining order keeps the law from going into effect today. Rice said he will grant a preliminary injunction later, which is indefinite and could result in a trial. Prosecutors origianlly welcomed the new law, saying it would allow authorities to put sexual predators behind bars longer. "We could use this statute as something else in our arsenal," Craig King, assistant Greene County prosecutor, said earlier. "It would give us another charge to throw in." When predators send pornography or nude photos of themselves over the Internet, they can only be charged with attempted dissemination of matter harmful to juveniles, a misdemeanor, since the detectives aren't really minors, King said. Under the new law, the predators could be charged with a felony and face up to a year more jail time, he said. But bookstores, publishers and video software dealers who sued the state argued that the law would violate their First Amendment rights and would restrict Internet communications. In a hearing before Rice on July 31, Elise Porter, an assistant Ohio attorney general, said the law attempts to modernize the way Ohio fights pornography and gives authorities more tools to go after sexual predators who use the Internet to prey on juveniles. Michael Bamberger, the attorney for opponents of the law, said the statute is too broad, and its definition of what is harmful to juveniles is difficult to understand. He said the law would have a chilling effect on the dissemination of constitutionally protected speech and expression. Courts in six other states struck down attempts at similar restrictions, he said. State Rep. Jim Hughes, R-Columbus, sponsored the law after a case he handled while an assistant Franklin County prosecutor. In the case, Mark Maxwell, of Oxford, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 1999 on charges that he enticed minors into sex through Internet chat rooms and e-mail. Some of the charges were dismissed because jurors said the law on disseminating pornography did not include electronic images, Hughes has said. From profrv at nex.net.au Sun Apr 25 15:05:41 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 15:05:41 -0700 Subject: God I'm a pig. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990425150326.00a187e0@mail.nex.net.au> Whoops,God IS a pig. ! Willful Disobedience Vol. 3, No. 2: A Few Words: Avoiding Moral Vanguardism Against Compromise The Machinery of Control: A Critical Look at Technology No Act of Revolt is Futile Not Just Producers --from Canenero Revolutioinary Solidarity --from At Daggers Drawn The State is One Hunger Strike A Tactic Expanded Social Subversion or Terrorism Beyond Selective Service A Call for Solidarity with Cypriot Anarchists A Letter from Marco Camenisch Captured in the Net --by Alberto In the Whirpool of the Passion --from Canenero "Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible" ? Death of a Despicable Man Different Here Like a Church --Massimo Passamani News and Shorts::: NEW online! Willful Disobedience Vol. 3, No. 1: A Few Words: Plundering the Arsenal The Refusal of Representatioin Work: The Theft of Life There are no natural Catastrophes Beyond Slow Death And God is a Pig More http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/vbutterfly.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1275 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 10:06:24 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:06:24 -0700 Subject: Hetts memory hole Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426095853.009fc800@mail.nex.net.au> >>> By PAUL KRUGMAN ...a well-known crypto-anarchist and anarchocapitalist. ;-) Cheers, RAH << R. A. Hettinga Well known false prophet and crashing bore. 'Trifecta' gets a mention at http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/ Scroll down.I cant keep feeding you like babies. "We have always been at war with Oceania bin laden." From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 10:27:56 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:27:56 -0700 Subject: Vulture Capitalism. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426102526.00a01b60@mail.nex.net.au> Privacy arms race... http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26519.html And NICP FUD http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26553.html Anyone bother with the regus? I prefer pommie carrion meself. From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 11:29:42 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:29:42 -0700 Subject: The PROMIS of Guatamala,the old South Africa. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426112452.009fc090@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,54342,00.html Honeywell helped the phoenix program in 'nam and PROMIS stolen software helped round em up in guatamala and the old south africa.This mob just got 80 million to be the next. http://www.csc.com.au/ here in Australia. But first, a little background information about CSC. We are a full-scope, global IT services company. We pride ourselves on providing real solutions to customers' business problems. These solutions range from management consulting, systems development, systems integration to outsourcing. Our solutions are based on experience, innovation and total capability. Being part of the global CSC offers our customers here access to some of the world's best people, processes, intellectual property and technology. We leverage the very best ideas and approaches from our worldwide industry verticals (such as Financial Services and Healthcare). We access those market-leading services from our global operations (like Outsourcing) to complement the regional and local relationships developed with our customers. The DoD's Computer Investigations Training Program offered its first class, Introduction to Computer Search and Seizure, in September 1998. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is awarding a contract worth US$86.9 million to train cybercrime fighters. According to news sources, the DoD announced that the contract will go to Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), an El Segundo, California-based firm with over 68,000 employees and revenue for its last fiscal year of $11.1 billion. Computer Sciences will use the money to assist the DoD's Computer Investigations Training Program (DCITP), instructing various agencies in the best methods for combating computer-based crime and for maintaining the security of defense-related computer networks from counterintelligence and other incursions. Agencies whose operatives receive training under DCITP include the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Army Criminal Investigations Division, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the Defense Computer Forensics Lab, the Defense Criminal Investigative Services and the 902nd Military Intelligence Group. 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From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 11:53:40 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:53:40 -0700 Subject: Norge-Nippon Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426114926.00a07ec0@mail.nex.net.au> The Norweigan "Byrett" (district court) will try the Jon Johansen DVD case on December 9, 2002. The trial was supposed to take place this summer, but the court decided to postpone the trial to find a technology savvy judge. The case will be tried by one judge and a panel of two lay assessors. Jon Johansen is being prosecuted by the Norwegian Economic Crime Unit (OKOKRIM) under Norwegian Criminal Code 145(2). Johansen created DeCSS software that can enable DVD playback on Linux. It is argued that the DeCSS software is a piracy tool. EFF information on the Jon Johansen case. http://www.nando.net/technology/story/489139p-3904411c.html Japan ID intro. About 70 people demonstrated against the system Monday morning in front of Japan's Public Management Ministry in downtown Tokyo. 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Among other services, it provides pilots to the State Department; maintenance crews, communications specialists and weapons experts to the armed forces; and police officers to the U.N. Ben Johnston claims that buying prostitutes -- many of whom were clearly underage -- had become so common among DynCorp employees at Camp Comanche, outside Tuzla, Bosnia, that he was forced to report the problem to the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Command..." From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 12:23:57 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:23:57 -0700 Subject: Bomb thrown in Court - Tehelka bust.-Fragging? Station I.SITREP. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426121339.00a08d90@mail.nex.net.au> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=18359849 "A friend of mine was blown up on the bench." http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=18356788 NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to Tehelka investigation editor Aniruddha Bahal, who was arrested earlier on charges of manhandling a CBI officer.The bail was granted by Metropolitan Magistrate Reena Singh Nag when Bahal was produced before her. Granting him bail on the personal bond of Rs 25,000 and a surety for the like amount, she said that Bahal had to surrender his passport within a week. Bahal was arrested by Delhi Police on Wednesday morning following a CBI complaint that he had manhandled one of the officers of the investigating agency. CBI Deputy Superintendent of Police N S Kharayat, who is probing a case under the Official Secrets Act involving some scribes of the news portal and home ministry officials, had alleged that Bahal had abused and manhandled him when he had gone to the Tehelka office in connection with the probe on Monday. Police has registered a case against Bahal under sections 186 (voluntarily obstructing a public servant in the discharge of his public function), 353 (assaulting or using criminal force to any person being a public servant in execution of his duty), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?artid=18354785 animal fat on trigger probably. From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 12:30:14 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:30:14 -0700 Subject: Nest Vile.Heading West like a rash of eurotrash. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426122501.00a1d080@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ The director of the CDC and a Louisiana health official discuss the latest West Nile Virus cases. An update on the West Nile Virus, which has caused five deaths in Louisiana this year. The director of the CDC and the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health discuss the latest news on the virus. "...You can't totally eradicate it. We can mitigate it. We can try to minimize it, and we're doing everything we can to do that, but the CDC scientists tell us that there's no way that we could ever eradicate it totally. This is a permanent condition in Louisiana and probably in the United States as well" Much like crypto anarchy and anarchist capitalism and the liberal press,I guess. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a senior member of the Judiciary Committee http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47789-2002Aug5.html The FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and other parts of the Justice Department have lost track of hundreds of guns and laptop computers, according to a report indicating that recordkeeping problems at the agencies are even worse than previously disclosed. http://www.cicentre.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1010 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 13:22:41 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:22:41 -0700 Subject: Atlanta Vice Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426124548.00a1ed90@mail.nex.net.au> Atlanta Suspends Vice Unit [From AP] The prostitute business in Atlanta should do a brisk business- at least in the next couple of days. That's because the Atlanta police department has suspended undercover vice operations aimed at prostitution after an officer shot and killed a suspected prostitute — one of four fatal police shootings in the past three months. Members of the 10-member vice squad will be temporarily reassigned while officers in marked cars perform their duties. Police Chief Richard Pennington said he suspended the undercover vice operations "out of concern for the safety of our officers and citizens." Atlanta police have mowed down 12 people this year, killing five, the largest number of police shootings since 1995. On Monday, an officer shot a suspected prostitute four times after she sprayed him with pepper gas and stabbed him in the face and arms when he tried to arrest her, police said. The officer was in stable condition at Grady Memorial Hospital. On July 14, a plainclothes officer killed an 18-year-old, who police said was trying to run over the officer. Relatives and friends said the teen was fleeing because he felt threatened. Timothy may have believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1450 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 13:28:19 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:28:19 -0700 Subject: Wahl for mayor.Vote for a change. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426132503.00a04ab0@mail.nex.net.au> A Chat With T.L. Wahl- St. Louis' First Amendment Advocate- Rob Black Ain't the Only Porn Guy to Have Run for Mayor Vegas is going nuts trying to legislate lap dancing, and a bunch of right wing religious goofballs in Cincinnati got the Marriott Corp. to cave in on the showing of pay-per-view movies in a Marriott. This of course prompted us to give TL Wahl a call and see what was doing in St. Louis. Wahl along with his wife Suzie was a recipient of the Hal Freeman Freedom Isn't Free Award at the recent Night of the Stars. [Ironically the "Stars" have to pay to go to a benefit honoring them.] Wahl likes to say he's the only guy in America convicted twice of prostitution for having sex with his own wife. Wahl runs openly advertised $200 "educational seminars," but the cops in St. Charles County saw it another way and figured Wahl's brand of Tupperware party was more like hooking. Having lost at the appellate level, Wahl asked the Missouri Supreme Court to hear his case but as yet hasn't received an answer. Wahl also writes and comments on First Amendment issues. Gene: Anything new on your legal front? Wahl: Oddly enough, we have not heard back from the Missouri Supreme Court as to whether or not they will hear our case. It's taken quite awhile. That's unusual. Otherwise things here are kind of quiet. Gene: Are you still doing your educational seminars. Wahl: We're not doing performances at this moment. They told us in St. Charles County that if we did the show again, we'd get 30 days in jail. And they use the word "show". Thirty days in jail would be pretty hard for me to take financially. Gene: You're pretty active on the local political scene. Wahl: Yeah. I've run for state representative. I've run for alderman here in St. Louis and I ran for mayor of Lake St. Louis. Suzie applied for the job of police chief back in 1991. When I ran for mayor I put together a booklet listing the issues that I thought were confronting the city. And I walked on foot every street in the city and knocked on every door of every resident in the city. I didn't win the election but that booklet was well regarded. But a lot of people used and referred to that booklet as far as the issues that would have to be dealt with. They did come to a boil and did have to be dealt with. A lot of the times the solutions I had proposed were the ones they ended up using. Gene: I think Cincinnati's going to be the start of some pesky little First Amendment mosquito bites Wahl: It goes back and forth. This being basically a theocracy in disguise, whenever they get a chance with a national threat or a national emergency they take that opportunity to swing the pendulum their way. But that's okay. We're not quitting. One of the things that we've considered doing in St. Louis is offering our performances for free. The problem with our performances is that there's sex and there's money. They consider that prostitution. Thereby we'd circumvent the whole prostitution aspect of it. We haven't worked real hard on that in finding a location, but that is a possibility and we'll see what the court rules. One day we may put the seminar on for free and see what they come up with next. I don't think they'd ever get us on obscenity because we offer scientific value in our presentation. Gene: What are your feelings about receiving the Freedom Isn't Free Award. Wahl: I was really genuinely honored. I remember when I heard about that award many years ago I really did think I'd like to have that some day. At the same time I'm kind of embarrassed because there I am in the room with the previous award winner who took a bullet in the back and is paralyzed for life. I got the award without being physically attacked, permanently attacked or spending any real time in jail. I haven't been through what some of those guys have been through. Gene: How long have you been active as far as First Amendment issues. Wahl: We were outed by our controversy in September 9, 1991 when the cops came in with a bogus search warrant [the Wahl's had an amateur video company] in honor of the local police chief's political campaign. They came in with a bogus search warrant, had a very public parade and we blew it all up in their faces. That's when we decided the best defense was a good offense. We've been very vocal about every issue, particularly censorship issues ever since then. When the local county prosecutor held a sideline job teaching law courses at the community college and told those people in the classroom that his opinion making an X-rated video was an act of prostitution, I sued him for libel. I also sued him for having a part time job. I sued the prosecutor on and on. I filed five or six lawsuits against him. His name was Tim Braun. None of the suits went anywhere. They were more of nuisance suits than anything else but they got in the newspaper and got us press. It drew attention to issues and we helped get him beat finally. A couple of years ago he publicly announced that at the behest of a local censorship group, Citizens Against Pornography, he was going after local video stores. They sent letters to the local video stores telling them they had better get rid of their stuff or face prosecution. I went around to the stores and said we need to have an organized effort to get this guy out of office. They trusted me with their mailing lists. Here I am, a mail order guy but I promised them I wouldn't use their mailing lists for my own purposes. I didn't. I printed up flyers -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Responding to what happened in Colorado, the state, ConAgra and a grocery chain have taken steps to better inform the public next time there's a recall. "We would be more proactive and react on it quicker because of this experience," said Patti Klocker, assistant director for consumer protection at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. "We could have given the heads-up to the consumers a little quicker." http://www.disinfo.com/pages/article/id2529/pg1/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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While some analysts seem skeptical about Microsoft's ability to wed the Windows operating system to its security and privacy plans -- some of which are based on a new security chip capable of cryptography and other defense measures -- they said the company is one of the only technology players capable of pulling it off. Full Story -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Cell' Supercomputing Chip Closer to Completion The initial design phase for IBM's mysterious new chip architecture, known as Cell, has ended and is now in the hands of engineers, company officials said. A supercomputer on a chip, Cell is a joint project of IBM, Toshiba and Sony. It is expected to be more than 100 times faster than a 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 chip. Full Story FROM http://www.newsfactor.com/ From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 17:01:27 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:01:27 -0700 Subject: War Tax Resistance,so? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426165901.00a18530@mail.nex.net.au> Book review from the Whole Earth Review magazine. E-mail to (wer at well.sf.ca.us) for more info about the magazine. War Tax Resistance (A Guide to Withholding Your Support From the Military) Ed Hedemann, 1992; 131 pp. $14.95 ($17.95 postpaid) from New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143; 800/333-9093 About half of your income tax goes to support the military, past and present. About 80 percent of the national debt is attributable to the military. For moral reasons or just plain outrage at expensive toilet seats and bombers that dont fly, there is cause for both liberal and conservative to decry the spending of such huge sums on killing when there are so many more pressing needs. What can you do about this matter? Can you refuse to support the military by paying only half your taxes? If you do that, what will happen next? Are there ways to avoid paying for the military and stay out of trouble? (Yes.) This book, now in its fourth edition since 1981, presents the tax resistance arguments, the rules of the game, your options for personal action, and the probable results. Maddening, tantalizing and realistic. AND http://www.cdi.org/msc/clock.html Maybe its too late. From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 17:20:23 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:20:23 -0700 Subject: A new leaner meaner lab rat. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426170820.00a186e0@mail.nex.net.au> Apropo of nowt much I just saw bits of 'fight club'.The zombie box drones away in the background,hoping against hope for another blockbuster live from the evil empire.FC?Dumb movie,but a few trick scenes inc the finale.2 stars and a bandaid. Steven Seagall does better norte americano style violencia. http://www.redherring.com/columns/2002/wednesday/labrat080702.html Placing a stethoscope on your boxen,(or a proctoscope in yr laptop,whatever.) "A signature analysis sensor is one to two years away," Mr. Siegel says. "I do think that it will be a hot area and will be surprised if it isn't established as a discipline." I am totally discombobulated... http://www.redherring.com/columns/2002/monday/capital080202.html VC lingo once reflected the bigger-better-faster themes of the Bubble. Now it's all about weaponry, air travel and needlework. FREE MARTHA STEWART! From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 17:39:12 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:39:12 -0700 Subject: The evil that men do lives on and on. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426173229.00a19d90@mail.nex.net.au> Living proof,I know. http://www.wage-slave.org/scorecard.html Al Martins writing a book... http://www.almartinraw.com/index.html Meets Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/bushboys.html They are shown as the gutless, mean-spirited, utterly self-centred and cruel characters that they really are,yet the bush crime family goes on and on.How long oh lord,HOW LONG! From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 18:25:29 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:25:29 -0700 Subject: AnCap Thread on APster Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426182218.00a159a0@mail.nex.net.au> Relive 1996 C/punks! http://www.anti-state.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Address_the_Columnists&action=display&num=1026422040&start=0 Fave quote so far..."When eBay first came out I remember a lot of people saying that without verification of identity on each end of the transactions the vast majority of eBay would just be anonymous fraud." From profrv at nex.net.au Mon Apr 26 18:33:48 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 18:33:48 -0700 Subject: One last FLING.Speech without limits Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990426183020.00a1f090@mail.nex.net.au> How do you get around the possibility that the Fed will simply look up the IP address of the APst AP website via DNS, find out who the ISP is, and make the ISP give up the name of the person being billed for the server's access? The naming scheme used isn't DNS, it's a Fling based hierarchical-naming scheme that just looks very similar to DNS from a nontechnical users point of view. It looks up "route balls" (the technique used to untraceably set up a data stream) rather than IP addresses. it's also based on a "peer-to-peer root plane" rather than the single (coercible, corruptable, unsubtle) primary root that DNS uses. Making the IP adress unfindable is a primary goal of Fling. Speech without limits Fling is a new suite of internet protocols that perform the function of DNS, TCP, and UDP in a manner that's both untraceable and untappable. Fling protects clients from servers, servers from clients, and both from an eavesdropper in-between. The result is that anyone can serve or retrieve any data, without fear of censure. http://fling.sourceforge.net/wiki/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1379 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 05:33:51 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 05:33:51 -0700 Subject: Nitschke: Beyond good and evil. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427053141.00a1c560@mail.nex.net.au> Nitschke: Beyond good and evil. "We lost two computers, many, many disks and files, all of them electronic," said Dr Nitschke shortly after the Darwin raid. "Not much in the way of paper material, but some drugs that are part of this medical practice. "When they turned up, they drove in en masse and came straight in. I was working at my computer, which is now gone." Dr Nitschke said anything the police couldn't open was "bolt-cuttered". Dr Nitschke said Exit Australia had temporarily lost contact with its clients. "I've got heaps of patients, I contact them a lot and need that stuff back as fast as possible," he said. "The police said they would work quickly and give me a copy of my disks. They said they would hold on to (the original) material for as long as they needed it." They work fast phill,regular speed freaks.(actually drug squad 'B' in Vic.are!) For next time and interested bystanders...Tricks of the trade (FROM Computer forensics tips By Michael Jackman, TechRepublic 07 August 2002.Znet)Extract... Incident response staff will need to understand the tricks used to thwart investigators and hide evidence. These tricks might include: Hiding data within files, such as .gif and .jpg pictures, a practice called steganography. Altering filenames and extensions to disguise evidence as innocent files, such as renaming a pornographic .jpg to gotmail.wav. Hiding files in unlikely places. Using Zero Link files (in Unix) that don’t associate with any directory. Modifying operating system utilities so that certain data is not listed or found during keyword searches. Sabotaging a computer so that, if it is investigated, a logic bomb will be triggered. Saboteurs also give hostile programs friendly names such as find.exe. Erasing files or disk space with file shredding utilities. These techniques represent just some of the tricks investigators are up against. Don’t wait until an incident has happened—create an incident response procedure now and invest in training and tools. If you wait for an incident to happen before acting, your company (and your reputation) will be damaged. In the meantime, these tips will help you determine whether an investigation is being conducted professionally. Additional resources 1. Web sites High Technology Crime Investigative Association—This organisation accepts members from law enforcement, corporate management, and corporate security staff. However, anyone may download its newsletter containing forensic tips and information. The June 2002 issue, for example, contained tips on how to recover deleted Outlook e-mail by corrupting and then rebuilding a copied Outlook .pst file. LC Technology International makes sophisticated data recovery tools and provides forensics training and investigative services. The Department of Justice offers guidelines for searching and seizing computers. SecurityStats.com provides digests of the latest statistics and analyses relating to computer security. These stats will help you justify a forensics budget to cover equipment, staff, and training. The Department of Justice Cybercrime Web site has news, articles, and other information. Same DoJ?-JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPORT CALLS FOR INDEPENDENT COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE THE INSLAW CONTROVERSY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The ("INSLAW Affair") report concludes that there appears to be strong evidence, as indicated by the findings of two Federal court proceedings, as well as by the Committee investigation, that the Department of Justice "acted willfully and fraudulently," and "took, converted and stole," INSLAW's Enhanced PROMIS by "trickery, fraud and deceit." From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 06:04:22 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 06:04:22 -0700 Subject: The crimes of Exxon go on and on. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427060316.00a1b7c0@mail.nex.net.au> Re Doe et al v ExxonMobil et al (1.21MB PDF) US State Dept letter that attempts to squelch a lawsuit against ExxonMobil for alleged human rights abuses, including murder, torture, kidnapping and rape, committed by the military unit guarding the company's natural-gas operations in Indonesia - 'the adjudication of these claims could prejudice the Government of Indonesia and Indonesian businesses against US firms bidding on contracts in extractive and other industries' ( US State Dept via ILRF ) See also this ILRF campaign page for links to the complaint itself and related documents, this Reuters coverage, and the Stop ExxonMobil website LINKS http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427095153.009ecec0@mail.nex.net.au> Mexico: New Drug Gang Alliances May Spread Overseas 7 August 2002 Summary Mexico's drug-trafficking industry is evolving into smaller, more compartmentalized and discreet criminal enterprises in which alliances between rival gangs are being viewed as more profitable than trying to kill each other off. This new preference for alliances instead of gunplay may soon lead to expanded associations between Mexican gangs and organized criminal groups from other Latin American countries as well as Europe, Russia and Asia. Analysis Mexico's illegal drug-trafficking industry is restructuring rapidly into smaller, lower-profile criminal organizations following the death earlier this year of Ramon Arellano Felix -- leader of the Tijuana drug cartel -- and arrest of his brother Benjamin, The Associated Press reported Aug. 3. At the same time, the center of power of Mexico's drug-trafficking industry has moved from Tijuana in Baja, Calif. to Ciudad Juarez in the state of Chihuahua, just across the border from El Paso, Texas. Mexico's evolving drug-trafficking organizations are smaller, more compact networks in which competing drug lords now seek to work cooperatively instead of killing their rivals, as the Arellano Felix brothers were fond of doing. Moreover, the shift in power to Ciudad Juarez means there likely will be a significant surge in narcotics smuggling from north-central and northeastern Mexico into the states of Texas and New Mexico. But southern California may see a drop in narcotics smuggling from Tijuana. http://www.stratfor.com/fib/fib_view.php?ID=205628 Get your drug war on at... art I: Violence-Prone Netwars Chapter Two: The Networking of Terror in the Information Age Chapter Three: Transnational Criminal Networks Chapter Four: Gangs, Hooligans, and Anarchists - The Vanguard of Netwar In the Streets Part II: Social Netwars Chapter Five: Networking Dissent: Cyber Activists Use the Internet to Promote Democracy In Burma Chapter Six: Emergence and Influence of the Zapatista Social Netwar FROM http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/ Famous for humping camels. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2579 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 10:08:00 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:08:00 -0700 Subject: Dumb Dumb Rum Bum. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427100048.00a1e750@mail.nex.net.au> "We have not made many strides since I've been here in improving the intelligence take." --Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, on the state of Military Intelligence You said a bunch,bummy. "...many countries and terrorist groups have learned how to thwart U.S. surveillance techniques. Other technologies have "enabled people to burrow underground and find ways to prevent the rest of the world from knowing what it is they're doing,.." Like in the FBI...The resignation of Collingwood, 54, is the latest in a wave of departures under FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, who has replaced nearly all of the bureau's top executives since taking the helm last September...Officials declined to provide details of Collingwood's plans, but one source said he is expected to accept a job at MBNA Corp. The Wilmington, Del., credit card company has hired former director Louis J. 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A specialist in the study of Gothic architecture OH,Robert O Bork.The Bork that argues in his best-selling Slouching Towards Gomorrah that the Declaration of Independence is the principal cause of our moral decline.The mind googles. Robert Bork has appeared on: · · Does Punishment Pay? · · Is the Press out of Control? · · Thomas Jefferson: Champion of Liberty or Dangerous Radical? · · Juries on Trial · · 1994: The Year in Ideas · · Does Hollywood Hurt America? · · 1995: The Year in Ideas · · Is America Doomed? Bizarro world but at least a few of these questions are asked and answered. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2778 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 10:43:55 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:43:55 -0700 Subject: Abusive factory boss beaten by unpaid workers. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427104239.00a20e50@mail.nex.net.au> A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ The media is outraged that workers beat the Director of the Odra Factory in Szczecin. In my opinion (they televised the incident), he clearly provoked that reaction by telling people quite openly to fuck off. It doesn't seem to occur to the media to be outraged that women at Odra Factory, which as far as I know is still exporting clothes, haven't been paid in six months. This is the first time we hear about it in the media. Now the police who didn't arrest workers are dismissed and some workers are arrested. This is an important step in workers' solidarity as workers from the Shipyards came to support the struggles of the women at Odra. Just recently members of Workers' Initiative from FA Szczecin criticized the Shipyard workers for failing to see their struggle as connected and show solidarity to other workers. 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Enjoy! "FROM http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/07/8267185 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1094 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 11:12:43 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:12:43 -0700 Subject: Split beaver denied max hardcore. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427111043.00a261b0@mail.nex.net.au> Catalina Abused? "This Thug's A Real Menace!" sez Max Girl Gene sez: We've contacted Steve Sweet to get his side of this story. Catalina writes: Hi Gene, I’m in the middle of a long expedition with Max Hardcore and his crew to Washington State , and Vancouver , British Columbia . We were ALL on our way up to Vancouver , but the border guards were being total jerks, and wouldn’t let Max into Canada . I know the guards rifled through my bags, and I’m sure one of them guys tried on my high heels because they were all stretched out the next time I wore them! I’m putting that into up on my site at http://www.catalina-pornstar.com/, and exposing these perverts! I also have their pictures too! None the less, the trip so far was great in one way for us, because Max we shot a pretty great scene with a new girl named Mia Sweet from Vancouver . She’s a real hell-cat, so Max told me to shove my foot in her mouth AND in pussy while Max fucks her in the ass! That’s what Max calls a Canadian Foot Warmer! But - and I don’t want to seem like I’m whining here - I also HAVE to tell you and the world about an unbelievable experience I had with a Mia’s manager-pimp who’s a real asshole! Even before the sex scenes I agreed to do for him up in Vancouver , this ass-wipe manhandled me so bad on the road up there that he left bruises you can see! This apes’ name is Steve Sweet, and he’s known for his nonfunctional cock, and pathetic internet site. Max thought he knew this guy, (He doesn’t really), so I figure he’s okay. Max lets Steve take me up to Vancouver to do a couple of scenes for him while Max shoots back in Washington . After my three-way scene in Washington , Steve, Mia, and I drive in Steve’s car up to Vancouver . My phone isn’t working, yet this fuck-wad won’t even let me use his phone to make any calls, so I’m nervous already. Maybe he’s mad at me because I did such a good job fucking his whore Mia as you can see from the attached picture. You can also see the whole scene on http://www.maxhardcore.com/. While riding up to Vancouver , I’m in the backseat while Mia is driving and Steve is in the passenger seat. I’m ignoring them both, simply occupying myself with a crossword puzzle, and for no better reason than not paying enough attention to him, he grabs my puzzle book from me and slams it on the floor. He starts yelling at me, saying he isn’t obligated to let me use his phone. He keeps telling me to shut the fuck up or else. I wish I had some mace and a blackjack at this point. Mia’s phone is in the back seat connected to her bag, so I call Max, telling him I’m pretty worried here, but the whole ugly situation isn’t evident yet, as Steve turns into a sweet guy while talking with Max, so I continue for the time being. When I get off the phone with Max, Steve starts yelling all over again, calling me a bitch, and that he’s going to drop me off in the middle of the forest! I start to call Max again, and he jumps right on top of me, tears the phone out of my hands, and screams that I ain’t calling anyone! I yell at him to get off me, but he won’t. He’s hurting my hands, arms and chest because his whole 200 pounds of blubber is on top of me! I’m crying and all he does is yell some more and start choking me. I tell him I’m calling the cops, and this nightmare continues when I he drops off at a hotel where all rooms were booked! I’m all alone there for a long time, until he comes back again, and tells me not to worry. He wants me to work for him, and tells me things will be okay. I didn’t have many options at this point, and in spite of my better judgment, I agree to do some PROFESSIONAL work for him, IF he behaves himself and I have a secure place to stay. Right! He takes me to his house on the water where he shoots. But he immediately does the wrong thing, ordering me to take off my pants and play with myself. Then, and I have no better way of putting this, he forces me to give him a blow job! He’s lucky I don’t want to hang around long enough to press charges! He wants me to work with him for two days and fuck two guys and work scenes with fisting for $500. I’m so violated, I get my bags ready to go in the morning and hitchhike back to America ! This guy is such an asshole! He orders me to say that I love him, and his big cock, (which, I can assure you, is not that big OR hard), and makes me say that I liked doing everything he tells me. I’m so exhausted and fed up with his crap, I tell him I just want to go to bed. His response is to tell him that he wants me to do a scene now – and it’s like two o’clock the morning! No fucking way, I tell him! He finally gives up, and I’m allowed to go to my room. I lock the door, but I’m terrified that he’ll come in at any time, but fortunately he never does. Needless to say, I didn’t get much rest this night! In the morning, I tell him I’m not going to tolerate anymore of his crap. So he surrenders and takes me to the bus station so I can get down to Seattle where Max is shooting. This thug Steve Sweet is a real menace, and needs to have some one put him into his place. He’ll take care of himself soon enough, and I have no intention of ever going back there to finish his career. I know he’ll take care of that all by himself soon enough. And yes, I know some people say things like this about Max, but I have yet to see Max pull the kind of pushy crap this guy from Vancouver thinks he can get away with. Max spells it out to the girls he and I work with before hand, and never ever does anything off camera. On camera, Max is good to go, so if you don’t want to do something you better be ready to say no, and not just go along with it and whine later. I have never really complained about someone in the business before in public. But this guy Steve Sweet is really out of line and I want everybody to know what kind of a low life fuck this guy really is. ...Catalina Gene sez: We also had the opportunity to chat with Max Hardcore [www.maxhardcore.com] who had this to say about the situation: Max: This was pretty surprising to me. I figured I knew the guy. It's one thing to push the fuckin' broads on the set- as long as they know what's going on and are down with the program. But off camera it's a different thing. Tackling someone is a little weird. I told her that I knew the guy and did some business with him but if you want to tell the story it's your call. She got manhandled pretty well and I told her if you want to say something go ahead. There's so much crap being said on the Internet that you don't know what to believe any more but she felt that it was a story that needed to be told. Gene: From what it sounds like she could be well within her rights to press charges. Max: Absolutely. But it's problematic being across the border. But if nothing else this story needed to be told. Steve Sweet started out a few years ago doing this thing called Sweet Loads. It was a video series that came out of Xplor Media. The guy was in the footsteps of Stagliano and other people who had done the POV camera blowjob-thing. People are still doing that stuff. But he got fed up with the whole deal of video distribution so he started putting all his energy into websites and he's got a pretty good grip on it now. He's out of Vancouver with Sweet Loads and Sweet Entertainment. They make content for other webmasters to use for their webmasters. And he's also got a few other websites up there. He's pretty well dialed into the upper echelon of guys that know how to work the 'Net, like Cybererotica- big players, guys who have thousands of sites up. He's doing pretty good with that and shoots a lot up there. He gets girls no one else has seen. I got to meet him by way of working on my sites and he wants to do some content trades and shit like that. I met him a couple of times and he's a real hard charger but, frankly, this surprised me. I didn't get his side of the story. I thought it was only fair that I talk to him and instead of the phone I'll see him in Florida in a few days. Sherman Survey results: Gene: Hello, I recently sent out a survey trying to find out what people thought about the newest craze in the Adult Industry, that being the creation of "Action Figures" of Porn Stars.... Here's just a couple of the responses I got...... I think they are designed for men who like to play with little girls. lol No really,I think they are a gimmick to promote the star and get lots of mainstream publicity. I also think they will become a collectable that will go up in value. Cindi Loftus I don't see any true reasons why the action figures shouldn't be made. I don't exactly think that you'll be finding any of them at your local toystore. More like your adult bookstores and in special areas of some comic book and action figure stores. What you will find at toy's r us are plenty of action figures and statues of many characters from horror films that are rated R. Any child may purchase one of these without a parent's permission. Basically, pornography is under so much government control that it usually only falls into a childs hands because of their own parents nonability to put things away. My opinion... Alana Evans Well Sherman, obviously you are a little out of touch in the action figure market. Now a days people buys those things and never open the packages because it would lower the resale value. Never understood the logic of buying something you will never open but hey that is just me. Now as far as Jenna's action figure goes I can't say I like the way it looks, but what the hey. Sure why not. They made trading cards for a while didn't they? Lee Carver It's trippers like you whom make it difficult for the adult industry to thrive in our Conservative Right Wing Republican government with retarded questions like: What are Children supposed to do with Action Figures of Porn stars? Were you sexually abused as a child that you had access to erotica of *any* nature as a child and/or minor? These action figures are intended for *adult* porn aficianados and *adult* collectors of all things porn. As *adults*, they're capable of making *legal* consumer decisions. Children should do *nothing* with *adult* action figures that they are not taught to do by their parents. If they tell them to throw away *adult* action figures that they find *magically* lying around somewhere, then that's what they should do. If they tell them to go out and steal *adult* action figures, because as *minors* they would not *legally* be able to purchase them, then they would probably be *your* parents. Either way, you're just a small fish. It's antagonists like you who no doubt talks like an advocate of Freedom of Speech, while never going to bat for the adult industry during voting time. *Then* you capitalize off of an industry to whom you are just a leech; a symbiotic parasite that feeds off of the misery of others. Misery that lame hypocrites like you help cause. I happen to know one of the creators of this product. I talk to him almost every day, and he's a man of integrity. He never made those action figures to be marketed to minors, they're collector's items. And what are *adults* supposed to do with them?: Let 'em collect dust up on a shelf or stick 'em up their asses if they really want to. 'Cuz that's what makes America great. Any antagonistic, ignorant, dreg-of-society like yourself can post their ignorant queries and insinuations via mass e-mail! God(s) Bless America, you stupid son-of-a-bitch! P.S. ~ Only closet-pedophiles like yourself call adult films 'porno', but how successful would the adult industry be without end users like you buying their stuff? Answer: We don't know. We don't do case studies of 'porno' people like you whose tendency is to immediately imagine children getting their hands on adult product. do_er_up_th at yahoo.com If you or anyone else would like to share their thoughts on this subject, please forward them to me at: onmyway2sherman at aol.com.... From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 11:19:14 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:19:14 -0700 Subject: Homeland Insecurity.2. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427104632.00a22ec0@mail.nex.net.au> Early this morning, US Marshals and MPD officers descended upon the Olive Branch Community's house at 1006 M Street, NW, to evict the residents of the building. The Marshals searched the building and removed some of the personal property belonging to Olive Branch residents. One resident described the eviction process as "political oppression." http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php The City Council voted Monday to put homeless people in jail if they are caught sitting or lying on downtown sidewalks. Violators of the new ordinance could face a $500 fine and 60 days in jail. http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/06/8560438 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 963 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 17:58:00 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:58:00 -0700 Subject: Viva Zapata! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427175510.00a199b0@mail.nex.net.au> 1893 -- Emiliano Zapata's 13th birthday. Of the group that joined Zapata, best-known was Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama. A fiery orator, he was strongly influenced by anarchist Peter Kropotkin's creed of the good peasant. Among those who rallied to Zapata was Octave Jahn. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#Jahn http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/KropotkinPeter.htm AUGUST 8 EMILIANO ZAPATA "Tierra y Libertad!" Hero of two Mexican Revolutions 1879 -- Mexican revolutionary hero, anarchist Emiliano Zapata lives! John Steinbeck scripts the film version. "Zapata will continue to live as long as people believe that they have a right to their land & a right to govern themselves according to their deeply held beliefs & cultural values." I would rather die standing than live on my knees! Emiliano Zapata -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1222 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 18:54:44 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:54:44 -0700 Subject: The great shame is I'm all out of Guiness. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427185143.00a1e320@mail.nex.net.au> The "Young Ireland Movement," was led by William Smith O'Brian, Thomas O'Meagher, John Michell, Terence McManus and Patrick O'Donohue. In the heat of the revolutionary year of 1848, their country beset by famine and official neglect, they attempted a peaceful coup against British rule. They failed, of course, as did others - on both sides of the Anglo-Celtic divide - who sought Irish home rule. But one of their lasting achievements was the adoption of the tricolor Irish flag - originally given them during a visit to Paris as a present by their French sympathizers. These were not the first revolutionaries - Irish rebellions date back way before Oliver Cromwell. But they were the best educated and the most articulate of their day, and as "The Great Shame" reveals, the loss of their leadership was profound. Transported as state prisoners to Van Diemens' Land (modern Tasmania), many of them - most notably Michell and Meagher - escaped to the United States. Meagher was the star, rising to a Union General during the Civil War, distinguishing himself at Fredericksburg and later becoming Governor of Montana. Michell, as if to prove that seemingly reasonable people can choose a radically different course, plunged into Confederate politics and became a die-hard secessionist. Hugh Larkin's story serves as something of a prologue to the "Great Shame." A "Ribbonman," he was one of the many blue-collar Irishmen whose campaigns against the British, however passionate, remained localized to their particular home towns. When he journey to Australia, unlike the Young Irelanders, was permanent: he became a successful farmer and, after earning his freedom, a relatively prosperous New South Wales country merchant. Kenneally's own family is descended from him. Even Larkin's story, however, has its tragedies, with a wife and a little daughter left behind - there is simply no historic trace of the little girl's fate. The closing chapters of The Great Shame deal with the Fenian Movement, its transportation to Western Australia and its own leaders' daring escape to America. Keneally also explores the collapse of Gladstone's Home Rule bill - and with it the last best hope for a peaceful settlement of Irish independence. This is not only a terrific history of the time, it is a celebration of the links which bind four great English-speaking countries: Australia, Ireland, Britain and America. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385720262/ref=pd_sim_books/104-0188761-0538340 From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 19:54:19 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:54:19 -0700 Subject: Cryptosporidium;a new Palladium Remailer/Mint/APster application. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427193631.00a1ad80@mail.nex.net.au> I anticipate my Remailer/Mint/APster application,Cryptosporidium will be IPO ready soon as GUI detail tidy up the interface.My upcoming trial next week will not delay this as I've delegated the task of bringing the project up to speed on Mongo.Thats why you haven't heard from him for a while.Betas of the separate components,known as WILE for the remailer,CJD for the Mint and Eblola gay for the APster,checked out and the bolted together CryptoS 1.0 is humming.(command line only at the moment) The GUI is taking time as we are having problems in the VC arena.Thats where C/punks comes in,for a modest investment,you too can take part in the biggest float since MS got their hooks into IBM.Send cash to 8/59 baynton st,Kyneton.3444. From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 20:13:26 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:13:26 -0700 Subject: FREE LEONARD HATTON! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427200523.00a1ab10@mail.nex.net.au> Sorry,I think my computers being hacked by the victorian police computer squad. That should read,FREE LEONARD PELTIER!. http://www.freepeltier.org/ Leo and I were in the same pen in BC in the 70's.I cant believe he's still inside after all these years I've spent fucking around and taking drugs.I feel a bit guilty for some reason event though its the criminal evil great satan state thats done it.And then clinton the rat, pardons mark rich! If I was in a room with him then he would never rape again,or talk,or walk.Also in with LP is chris Boyce,a C/punk who loved the great outdoors.Its cruel and unusual whats being done to those guys.FUCK the GOVT. From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 20:30:27 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:30:27 -0700 Subject: My cities in ruins. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427202802.00a1a9d0@mail.nex.net.au> <<< No Message Collected >>> From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 20:57:58 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:57:58 -0700 Subject: Planning a summer school shooting rampage? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427205549.00a23ec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.totalsecurityservices.com/ "...As recent events demonstrated, increased safety devices are needed to protect our pilots, children, teachers, managers, doctors, and government employees. The Insta-Brace™ is a secure, low cost, low visibility, and highly effective tool which provides a true physical barrier to attackers. At the first sign of trouble, only the Insta-Brace, with its stainless steel, aircraft strength cable and unique "occupant key," preserves people from harm until help arrives..." Remember to plan ahead,plenty of ammo,plenty of water. From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 21:08:22 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:08:22 -0700 Subject: Say goodnight to maddie. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427210358.00a23170@mail.nex.net.au> "TechTV's Cybercrime show interviewed me regarding Jim Bell's "Assassanitation Politics" essay. This was a tough interview as elements of the Bell case walk a fine line between civil liberties and civil security." Matt devost.Cute kid matt,yours? http://www.devost.net/archives/cat_obscurity.html Take a hard line. From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 21:27:44 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:27:44 -0700 Subject: Terrorist Accountants Alert. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427211713.00a24d90@mail.nex.net.au> "If you look at the likely targets of an attack by an adversary against the United States, it's not going to be the military computers. It's going to be the private sector infrastructure targets, the major telecommunications switches, the major public power grids." Devost,guy kills me.CNN in January 2000: Must be a freakin' psychic.(Eligible Receiver!?) "I would implore people to go out and read this document by two Chinese colonels called Unrestricted Warfare [see related link below]. It talks about the migration of nation-states to tactics such as information warfare, or financial sector attacks, or conventional terrorism attacks using asymmetrical cells a la Osama bin Laden. So there's definitely this fundamental thinking-- a lot of people have referred to it as a revolution in military affairs, the Gulf War being the first information war. I think it goes above and beyond that, in that the nation-states are now having to resort to these sort of unrestricted methods in order to achieve their objectives." Unrestricted Warfare (report by senior colonels of People's Liberation Army, China): Part I: http://sun00781.dn.net/nuke/guide/china/doctrine/unresw1.htm Part II: http://sun00781.dn.net/nuke/guide/china/doctrine/unresw2.htm FEB 2000. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1527 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 21:32:14 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:32:14 -0700 Subject: Toffler scofflaw. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427213005.00a25160@mail.nex.net.au> World economies will increasingly be based on information, reorganizing the nature of work and increasing the gap between rich and poor; the globalization of world trade, economic activity, and communication will be met by a simultaneous rise in tribalism, and Mazarr predicts the conflict between the two will be "one of the major hallmarks of the coming decade." He also projects that a transformation of authority may result in a collapse of public confidence in all social authorities, and suggests that all of these trends will result in a worldwide feeling that things have never been so good, yet also leave people decidedly negative and pessimistic about the future. The first decade of the 21st century, Mazarr writes, will see "the most profound transition in human history," a period of both opportunity and risk. "Fate has provided us with the raw material of a new renaissance in human society, but it is up to us to make that renaissance a reality." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312218990/o/qid%3D971378884/sr%3D2-2/104-0188761-0538340 From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 22:37:39 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:37:39 -0700 Subject: PR CONDEMNS FEDERAL INDICTMENT OF LYNNE STEWART. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427223444.00a08250@mail.nex.net.au> The National Lawyers Guild condemns yesterday's federal indictment of New York attorney Lynne Stewart and the impact on attorney-client privilege that it will have. The Sixth Amendment of the U.S Constitution protects attorney-client privilege, without which there can be no effective assistance of counsel. "Stewart is a veteran criminal defense attorney who often represents both controversial causes and unpopular clients. The government seems to be singling her out as poster child for its campaign to justify the unconstitutional monitoring of conversations between lawyers and inmates. This is clearly designed to have a chilling effect on lawyers zealously representing their clients," said Bruce Nestor, President of the National Lawyers Guild. For three years the New York FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force has been investigating Stewart, an attorney for Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who has been serving a life plus 65-year sentence. This fall the government announced a new rule that purports to allow the Bureau of Prisons to monitor conversations between lawyers and inmates deemed threats of committing future acts of violence or terrorism. In October the National Lawyers Guild submitted comments opposing the new rule although the Bureau of Prisons is enforcing the rule even prior to the usual "notice and comment" democratic input process. "In addition to undermining the principle of attorney-client privilege, John Ashcroft's recent actions, including yesterday's indictment, may have a chilling effect on lawyers who want to represent politically active clients but are afraid of being singled out by the government for surveillance," said Nestor. Stewart and three others were charged yesterday with providing material support to terrorists. Last December, Ashcroft said, "to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists." Ashcroft appears to have expanded this now to include legal advocacy. The Guild is launching a campaign of legal organizations around the country to join in opposing this indictment and its attack upon attorney-client privilege. http://www.nlg.org/ The State will pay dearly for this.There wont be any 'truth and rec' commissions. From profrv at nex.net.au Tue Apr 27 22:56:11 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:56:11 -0700 Subject: Corralito's police log. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990427224459.00a09ca0@mail.nex.net.au> Well its close to Mongo's mate Kurt Saxon's 19th century pad at Eureka... http://www.arcataeye.com/police/ Grab a donut and scroll...think of the donut,not the hole. Then http://www.9622.net/admin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=604 Interactivity or occupational therapy? Who cares if it keeps them off the streets. AP could be based on a protocol that consists of zero-knowledge proofs, undeniable signatures and oblivious transfers.But it wouldn't be APster. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 13:07:15 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:07:15 -0700 Subject: Homeland securities new agency;Ministerium =?iso-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Statessicherheit. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428125737.00a20d30@mail.nex.net.au> "Including informants, the Stasi at one point would number one operative for every 66 East German citizens; so ruthless and efficient were they in their efforts to squelch dissent that even the KGB found itself occasionally appalled by the Stasi's methods." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813337445/ref=pd_sim_books/104-0188761-0538340 "Both IBM and Texas Instruments unknowingly employed Stasi spies who gathered information about computers and communications apparatus. Another group had developed a unique particle spray, similar to a chemical weapon, to spread over enemy communication stations and disrupt correspondence in case of war." Mmm. "Can you imagine a police informer for ever 6.5 persons in the country? All phones tapped. All packages/letters from the "outside" world opened and usually kept (stolen). Can you imagine spending your life in a 6x6 cell in total isolation. One young man (38y/o) lived for 9yrs, till his death, like that. Six medical students spent 3 to 11yrs in prison just for applying for a VISA! " Its getting easier. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 13:52:58 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:52:58 -0700 Subject: AdCouncil PSAs.ChuckO agree's. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428134758.00a22ec0@mail.nex.net.au> >>Holy fuck, I can't believe these new TV PSAs from the AdCouncil: http://www.adcouncil.org/campaigns/campaign_for_freedom << "These PSAs are really wacked out. They are supposed to be fictional depictions of life in a country other than the U.S., but they are incredibly hypocritical! For example, the "Library" PSA shows a young guy asking for a book from a librarian, who informs him that it is no longer available and then asks him why he wants to read it. They pan the library and all these government agents pop out of hiding. Of course, as many of you know, the U.S. government would like to see this become a reality, with some kind of TIPS programs for libraries. The FBI is already requesting information from libraries and libraries have this annoying habit of monitoring and controlling the surfing habits of patrons at library terminals. I looked at another PSA, "Arrest," which shows some guy being pulled over by the police and then being arrested for having the wrong reading material. Fact it, activists and other people have routinely been detained at airports for having the wrong reading material. Having radical books in your car has frequently been a pretext for arrest and, at the least, harassment."ChuckO. ChuckO runs an excellent anarchist site at www.infoshop.org I recommend the interactive news highly. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Murawiec is merely the latest case. Think of David Horowitz, the ex-leftist cheerleader for the Black Panthers who now goes around lecturing blacks on their alleged "racism" and demanding all-out war on the Arab world. Think of Stephen Schwartz, the Weekly Standard's "expert" on Wahabism, who gave up the fringe politics of left-anarcho-Trotksyism to become a major theoretician of the Riyadh-as-"kernel of evil" school. How long were you a trot jamesd? 4 years?,5? Not that theres anything wrong with that. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 14:32:55 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:32:55 -0700 Subject: Arbusto news. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428143200.00a274d0@mail.nex.net.au> Genetically modified crops may pass helpful traits to weeds, study finds 'For the first time, researchers have shown that a gene artificially inserted into crop plants to fend off pests can migrate to weeds in a natural environment and make the weeds stronger. Scientists studied genetically engineered sunflowers - those modified with a gene that produces a chemical toxic to certain insects - to see what happened when these foreign genes, called transgenes, were inadvertently passed along to weedy relatives' ( Ohio State ) See also this abstract, and this blog entry from last month.LINKS http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 985 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 15:39:35 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:39:35 -0700 Subject: Encrypted DNA. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428150731.00a270e0@mail.nex.net.au> Our meme shears technology is pressing ahead here at chez rat.One of the most fascinating and controversial aspects of WILE,(the remailer part of cryptoS),is the use of encrypted DNA.Solutions that work across multiple locations, and are flexible enough to handle new security concerns, depend upon the prior development of a common biometric trust infrastructure. That this can only happen under cryptoanarchy is a given.Varying levels of access to the DNA information are assumed in the acceptance statement of WILE.Beta testing revealed a high uptake,most being click throughs,not even reading the agreement.Once in remailer motion the fully identifying DNA can only be pulled down in several clearly specified events and based on a protocol that consists of zero-knowledge proofs, undeniable signatures and oblivious transfers. a) Life threatening disease/illness by the users Dr.(s) b) APster contracts seeking confirmation of nominee and their demise. c) Abusers of the CJD Mint technology.Much of this is fully automated relying on random audits of large transfers and culling high and low samples of users.This technology requires the user to literally 'use it or lose it.' Collapse of Govts MUST occur before full release of CryptoS,that CS is itself possibly the best way to bring them all down is the irony of our time.APster alone or with widespread social revolution in the streets may not do the job.Please send money so we can bring the international GUI to version 1.Become a part of Hirstory. You know it makes sense.$$ to unit 8/59 Baynton st.Kyneton.Vic.3444. http://abc.net.au/news/justin/weekly/newsnat-8aug2002-69.htm From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 15:46:01 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:46:01 -0700 Subject: Disabled man who "stalked" police convicted,sentenced. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428154437.00a1f130@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4866297%255E2862,00.html A ONE-LEGGED man who stalked a young policeman using loud Irish music was yesterday sentenced to three months in jail. But the prison term was suspended for two years by magistrate James Mornane because of the man's age and disability. The Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard Constable Paul Sorbain was angered and scared after the man, whom he had previously dealt with, was seen on several occasions parked in a car in front of his home. Constable Sorbain said he even started to question his decision to join the police force when the problems started between Christmas and New Year's Day last year. He told the court he had visited David Baldwin, 58, of Flemington, about damage to Baldwin's car. But he said he became concerned when he saw Baldwin out the front of his suburban house in a red four-wheel drive, playing loud Irish music. The court heard Constable Sorbain had heard the loud music previously but thought nothing of it. The policeman's partner, Fiona McCall, told the court they were even advised to keep a piece of paper by their bed to keep track of the events. The court heard Baldwin took a photograph of Constable Sorbain on one occasion. The policeman said he decided to confront the man on January 13 this year, when he saw him parked in front of his house when walking home from work. He said he asked him what he was doing before telling him to f--- off. "My concern is for myself and my partner," Constable Sorbain told the court. Sgt Martin Hardy said police officers found several pieces of paper with car registration numbers - linked to the Flemington police station - when they arrested Baldwin at his home on January 13. He said people's addresses and times were also written on pieces of paper that were found in the man's kitchen and car. Sgt Hardy said a tape of Irish music and a camera were seized as evidence and a Melways book was found with a page book-marked, which showed where the policeman lived. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 16:35:50 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:35:50 -0700 Subject: China coal toll. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428163419.00a1b890@mail.nex.net.au> A COAL miner has been pulled alive from a pit in northern China after surviving five days underground in appalling conditions, but 18 of his co-workers have been found dead, state media said. The man was rescued from the Chiyu mine in Huozhou city, Shanxi province, in the early hours of this morning, the state Xinhua news agency said. The miner was taken to hospital and was in a critical condition, the report said. Only hours before, officials had told the agency that hope was fading fast for all 19 miners, who were trapped 60m underground early last Sunday after faulty electrical wiring in the main shaft ignited a fire. Rescuers and doctors entered the shaft as early as Wednesday but were unable to advance because of high temperatures, dense smoke and large amounts of poisonous carbon monoxide, Xinhua reported. The bodies of the 18 other miners, who died from suffocation and carbon monoxide poisoning, have been removed from the mine. Police on Wednesday arrested eight people in connection with the accident, including the mine's manager, Xinhua reported. "Initial investigations showed that the mine had no adequate safety systems and its owner, in order to evade safety checks, had ordered the miners to work secretly at night," it said. Efforts by officials to reduce the appalling death toll in China's mines are greatly hampered by the existence of huge numbers of small pits, often illegally operated. Foreign experts, backed by some state statistics, put the annual toll in Chinese mines at more than 10,000. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,4869392%255E401,00.html From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 16:48:04 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:48:04 -0700 Subject: Bad Gorilla! Dont do that again! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428164405.00a25c50@mail.nex.net.au> Another Day, Another No-Penalty Microsoft Settlement ZDNet: Microsoft, FTC, Settle over Passport. "We believe that Microsoft made a number of misrepresentations, dealing with, one, the overall security of the Passport system and personal information stored on it; two, the security of online purchases made with Passport Wallet; three, the kinds of personal information Microsoft collects of users of the Passport service; and four, how much control parents have over the information collected by Web sites participating in the Kids Passport program," Muris said during the conference call. Remember Microsoft's squeals of angst when privacy advocates complained about Passport? Once again, Microsoft is found not to be telling the truth about serious issues. And, once again, the governmental agency with the power to do something realistic fades away on contact. The FTC hasn't even issued a slap on the wrist here. It merely got Microsoft to agree not to do it again. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/ Scroll down for encrypted mac option. Was CJ way ahead of the curve in threatening to kill Bill? Answers on the back of a stamp to sam adams... Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1664 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 16:53:01 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:53:01 -0700 Subject: AU universities cracked,"Why do you think I'm a proffr." Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428164915.00a1cec0@mail.nex.net.au> AN anti-corruption authority yesterday raised the alarm on security of computerised student records at universities around the nation after it spotted weaknesses at all 10 public universities in NSW. The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption report on university security was based on an inquiry into the unauthorised cancellation of students' failed subjects in their academic records at the University of Technology Sydney. All other NSW universities were surveyed as part of the inquiry into 21 academic record changes for 11 fee-paying Indonesian students, which found corruption in the cases of nine of the students. Deficiencies such as "too many staff with access to modify or create records", infrequent checks of access and removing ex-employees' access were found in the universities in NSW. ICAC recommended that state prosecutors consider charging a former employee of the UTS Graduate School of Business, Toto Sujanto, with bribery and unlawfully altering computer records. He allegedly obtained $8000 in cash for changing subject failures to cancellations. ICAC commissioner Irene Moss said the report "does raise questions for other Australian universities". http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4854053%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html Overt corruption involves honorary degree's to the likes of lyman Nemnitzer,kurt Waldheim,arnie Swarzeneggar,henry Kissinger,HIH chairman X,etc,etc. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1717 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 17:03:33 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:03:33 -0700 Subject: Faith based education,shrub approved madrasses coming soon. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428165836.00a28ce0@mail.nex.net.au> 'Terrorist School' Head Aquitted Associated Press Print this 8:55 a.m. Aug. 9, 2002 PDT LONDON -- A chef who promoted "The Ultimate Jihad Challenge" on an Internet site, inviting people to take weapons training in the United States, was found innocent of terrorist charges Friday. A jury at London's Old Bailey criminal court found Sulayman Balal Zainulabidin, 44, innocent of violating the Terrorism Act. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,54440,00.html Faith-Based and Community Initiatives: Rallying the Armies of ... ... US Department of Labor Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives; Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the US Department of Education; ... Description: Promoting the President's vision to enlist, equip, enable, empower and expand the heroic works of... 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Zimmerman then took odd jobs working for International News and the LIFE Los Angeles bureau. When a job opened up as a LIFE darkroom technician in Washington D.C. Zimmerman headed east.Before finally heading South. I hear Declan is available to serve if called upon,in the interests of national security. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 17:33:33 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:33:33 -0700 Subject: Pool full of Sharks. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428173232.00a2eec0@mail.nex.net.au> Today," "GMA" booking wars have gotten "insane," says TV veteran While one source says the situation is "insane," Verne Gay describes the morning show feud as "nutty." Producers at the ABC and NBC morning shows have accused the other of lying, cheating and breaking -- or at least twisting -- established rules. Gay writes: "In case you're wondering, 'Today' despises 'GMA,' and the feeling is mutual." (Newsday) > SLEAZY OR MERELY COMPETITIVE?: "One producer [involved in trying to book the kidnap victims] was said to have swerved into another on the highway; one was said to have sobbed to the girls that she would be fired if the interview didn't take place. Another was alleged to have called the police to complain that the competition was stalking the girls, in order to keep them away." (Los Angeles Times) > TV show bookers tell victims they'll feel better after telling their tales http://www.poynter.org/medianews/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1314 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 17:41:00 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:41:00 -0700 Subject: Rush in democRATS and blipverts.GREAT DANEger. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428173740.00a2e770@mail.nex.net.au> Russia: Subliminal media manipulation? Russia's Deputy Media Minister Valerii Sirozhenko has announced that his agency has set up special devices capable of detecting the illegal use of the so-called "25th frame" to send subliminal messages to television viewers, Russian agencies reported. Sirozhenko claimed that many channels use the 25th frame, and if such usage is proven by the new equipment, they will be subject to stiff fines or the revocation of their broadcasting licenses. He also mentioned that the practice was used in the Soviet era "for unclear reasons." On June 27 Sirazhenko warned "some TV stations" who his office "know are using subliminal" advertising. Sirazhenko says has only been once case of a television station being caught. Two years ago, reported the Moscow Times, the Press Ministry said Yekaterinburg broadcaster ATN was trying to mesmeriee its viewers with an undetectable "watch only ATN" command. According to popular legend, in the 1950s, tests in cinemas in the United States using an undetectable 25th frame with an advertising slogan, such as "eat popcorn, drink Coke" resulted in significant increases in consumption of both. Movies recorded on film are normally shown at 24 frames per second, the speed with which the human eye recognizes fluent motion The concept of so-called 'subliminal advertising' has been widely deried in recent years, though the practice, effective or otherwise, is still illegal in Russia and the US. RFE Radio Liberty report. Snopes.com 'urban legends' pages on subliminal advertising. The row over subliminal advertising during the 2000 US presidential elections. FROM http://www.indexonline.org/indexindex/20020809_russia.shtml -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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All these threats are because of this", city Police Commissioner M N Singh told newsmen here."Masala toh filmi hai (the plot is real fit enough for making films)", he said adding that the very idea to do films on dons like Chhota Shakeel or the now-famous J J Hospital shootout was unfortunate and not in good taste."On one side, we are fighting and police are sacrificing lives, on the other hand some people want to do films on dons and encounters and make money", he said. Meantime... Sikhs concerned about mistaken identities have been told the FBI's on it...As the American Sikh leaders stressed on increased cultural sensitivity towards the Sikhs among law enforcers, Rick Thornton, a senior member from the Civil Rights Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) appreciated that their concerns were "important and legitimate".We all know how important and legit the civil rights of indigenous and african-americans have been to the FBI.in the past.No reason to think the Sikhs wont receive the same care and attention.Right? The other premier US law enforcement crew the SS have been busy...Beginning at Friday morning, eight blocks of downtown Washington's 17th Street - between H Street and Constitution - will be closed to trucks, said Secret Service spokesman John Gill. Also, on the four blocks closest to the White House, Gill said, "No parking, no stopping, no standing." and especially no e-mailing death threats like "KILL the PRESIDENT!" "Its a real pain in the ass," said agent Rick Walkinshore,"We have to check each one out every time,drives us ratty,I swear.Its better if they're anonymous" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2230 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 19:35:37 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:35:37 -0700 Subject: Penguins in Big Blue. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428193147.00a25380@mail.nex.net.au> Tinkerbell Factor I know I am not alone in this. If you read Slashdot regularly, you'll see a recurring theme in the arguments made by Linux proponents: While Linux is more complex than some other operating systems, it provides a great deal of power and customizability. Many Linux users, including me, actually take pride in the ability to use the system. While I have had some good experiences with operating systems that are more conventionally intuitive, the operating systems that present the greatest challenge intrigue me the most. And the payoff is a great deal of satisfaction in the ability to fine tune and customize the interface and the work environment. Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) operating systems are a different story altogether. While I typically detest the company's innovation strategies, I have actually, in some deranged way, found a certain measure of fulfillment in being able to accomplish difficult tasks on Windows. http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18878.html Each new crash or system glitch presents new challenges, new routes to explore, new techniques to learn. Because I have a tendency to fetishsize the tool -- whether it be a new development tool, an operating system or even a new graphics card -- my means to the computing end is often just as pleasurable for me as the end itself. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1558 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 19:48:48 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:48:48 -0700 Subject: Wheres Mongo? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428183315.00a2aa90@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.simonforgovernor.com/speeches.php No.Too much competition for that big headed pissant,speaking of which...THE BIG HEADED ANT Charles Darwin is a name that¹s synonymous with evolution and the theory that evolution is based on the principle of "survival of the fittest". Peter Kropotkin¹s fame is much more limited, he¹s known in anarchist circles as a significant 19th century anarchist thinker and author. Few people even in the anarchist movement realize that he made a contribution to the theory of evolution that¹s on a par with Darwin¹s. He believed that Darwin¹s central evolutionary tenet was wrong and that evolution was based not on competition, but on Co-operation. In enters the big headed ant. The big headed ant was introduced to Australia from Africa over a hundred years ago. Since its introduction it has slowly displaced indigenous ant species and has had a major impact on other insect species and animals in the Australia bush. The big headed ant has turned ant to be a major threat to indigenous ant species. Green, bull and other Australian ant species are normally wiped out when the big headed ant colonies a new area. Currently Darwin the capital of the Northern Territory has became the new front line in the battle to stop the speed of the big headed ant. The big headed ant¹s evolutionary advantage is based on its social behavior. Indigenous ant groups display competitive behavior within their subspecies. If two colonies share the same resources they compete against each other for these resources. The big headed ants behavior is diametrically apposed to the behavior of indigenous ants. If two colonies are forced to share the same resources they merge and Co-operate and don¹t waste time and effort battling each other over who shall use these resources. The big headed ants Co-operative behavior gives it the edge it needs to survive and prosper in a world that¹s dominated by competitive behavior. The story of the big headed ant¹s evolutionary success mirrors the story of human society. Although competitive capitalism is currently on the ascending across the world, the destructive tendencies of competition hold the seeds of its demise. Co-operative forces will always win out against competitive forces. Anarchism¹s underlying message is one that promotes Co-operation and opposes competition. Anarchism is based on the principles of voluntary Co-operation, the very principle that has given the big headed ant into the evolutionary advantage it needs to displace its competitive neighbors. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 19:56:43 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:56:43 -0700 Subject: Utah Blahs Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428195209.00a2ac50@mail.nex.net.au> BOOK REVIEW ?JOE HILL¹ By Gibbs M. Smith, Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City 1984, Originally Published 1969 HD8073 H55563 1984 ?Joe Hill¹ was published in 1969 to mark the 54th anniversary of the execution by firing squad in Utah in 1915 of Joe Hill I.W.W. songwriter and activist. Joe Hill (Hillstrom) a Norwegian immigrant entered the United States in 1902 and joined the I.W.W. in 1910. While working in Utah in 1913 he was arrested, tried and executed in 1915 for the murder of a Salt Lake City grocer in what was little more than a show trial. Tens of thousands of people, both in the United States and overseas including the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson, appealed to the Utah authorities for clemency with no success. Hill¹s execution was a direct consequence of the anti I.W.W. hysteria in Utah. He was convicted primarily on inconclusive circumstantial evidence. Interestingly two members of the I.W.W. in Golburn in New South Wales, Australia were executed in 1917 for the murder of a policeman as a consequence of the anti I.W.W. hysteria that was whipped up in Australia because the I.W.W. spearheaded the struggle against conscript in Australia. While their deaths were virtually ignored, the execution of Joe Hill in Utah made Hill into a working class legend. The legend of Joe Hill has survived as a consequence of the legacy of his songs, songs that in some cases have been incorporated into popular working class culture. Although other songwriters had written songs for the I.W.W., Joe Hill¹s songs encapsulated the mood of the times. His first song ¹The Preacher and the Slave¹ was a parody of the Salvation Army Hymn ?In the Sweet Bye and Bye¹. Hill¹s fading memory has been kept alive by the song ?I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night¹, a song set to music by Earl Robinson from a poem written in 1925 by Alfred Hayes. Paul Roberson¹s rendition of ?I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night¹ assured Hill of immortality. Gibbs M. Smith¹s ?Joe Hill¹ is a well researched 280 page analysis of the man and the legend. The book has over 70 pages of references and notes for any reader who is interested in doing further research on Joe Hill (Hillstrom). Gibbs M. Smith¹s book on Joe Hill could be available from the remainder bin of one or two radical bookshops. The difference between Gibbs¹ book on Joe Hill and other books on Hill is Joyce Kornbluh¹s introduction to Gibbs¹ book. In her introduction Kornbluh gives an excellent summary of the history of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16707 DENVER — A federal appeals court this week revived a lawsuit brought by animal activists who claimed they were protected by the First Amendment when handing out pro-vegetarian leaflets near a Utah school. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, appealed a ruling by a federal judge that animal-rights activists cannot picket on a sidewalk next to a school because it interferes with school activities. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 5 reversed a lower court's decision granting summary judgment to school officials. Maybe if they were preaching creationism they'd be getting fucking PAID. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 20:04:11 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:04:11 -0700 Subject: "WHAT ANARCHISM MEANS TO ME" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428200019.00a2c650@mail.nex.net.au> Anarchism, like any other political ideology, is a point of view about how we humans should organize our life in common. It argues that, rather than do this through governments, we should arrange our affairs through local co-operative organizations, federating when necessary on a regional, national or global scale. This sounds very mild, but is in fact revolutionary because it involves vast changes. It implies, for example, workers' control of industry, whether we are thinking about the post and its newest equivalents in managing human communications, or of transport, or of food production and distribution, or of, for example, the garment industry, dominated today by child labor in South Asia. Such a society would evolve enormously different priorities. It means, for example, that in the absence of a governmental machine for protecting them from the poor, the rich would have to share with the poor. Children in a playground have little difficulty in establishing the principle of Fair Shares. They know that it is grotesque that a few people should own almost everything, while vast numbers have nothing at all. They know perfectly well that the kid who insists on grabbing everything needs cutting down to size. Like the rest of us, he can have his fair share. What else could anyone expect? It also means that, in the absence of the military force of the so-called Great Powers, or of those tedious little local warlords, people would have to settle down to live with their neighbors without regard to religion, language, nationality or color. Once we have taken the giant leap forward in recognizing that need, what a liberation it would be for us all to set about arranging the complex necessities of an anarchist society. Colin Ward "WHAT ANARCHISM MEANS TO ME" "Freedom" the English Anarchist Fortnightly that was founded in 1886 has recently introduced a new section in its paper called "What Anarchism Means To Me". Always looking around for new ideas on how to improve the quality of the "Anarchist Age Weekly Review" we¹ve decided to introduce a "WHAT ANARCHISM MEANS TO ME" segment. We encourage as many of our readers as possible to put their thoughts down and send us an article for this segment. IN 500 WORDS OR LESS email, fax or post us your thoughts. ­ DON¹T DELAY, PUT YOUR THOUGHTS DOWN AND SEND THEM TO US TODAY. Joseph TOSCANO/LibertarianWorkers for a Self-Managed Society. anarchistage at yahoo.com From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 20:12:26 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:12:26 -0700 Subject: Airborted. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428200909.00a290f0@mail.nex.net.au> Airborted In an astonishing victory for the residents of San Salvador Atenco, the Mexican government last week confirmed that they were abandoning plans to build a new international airport smack on top of the small farming community just outside of Mexico City. The whole saga began last autumn when Mexican President Vicente Fox's government approved plans to build a six-runway, $2.3 billion airport that would gobble up much of San Salvador Atenco's farming land. In October, a federal ruling offered villagers a mere 40 pence a square yard for the land - the land that served as the farmers' main source of food, income, and security. The residents of Atenco and the surrounding villages quickly dismissed this slap-in-the-face offer, and immediate protests and marches were organised. Over the next 9 months, farmers mobilised themselves with few results - but things began to change on Thursday, July 11th, when a demo was organised to protest an official government announcement affirming the airport plans. Farmers travelling in a peaceful caravan to the demo were attacked by police with clubs, tear gas, and live ammunition. Thirty protesters were injured, fifteen arrested, and five hospitalised-one of whom, Jose Enrique Espinoza Juarez, died in hospital two weeks later. This brutal show of force inspired supporters in nearby Atenco to take immediate and radical direct action. Over the next few days, five police squad cars were burnt and used along with other seized vehicles (including some Coca-Cola trucks!) to block the nearby national highway. Thirteen government and police officials were taken hostage, and the Atenco farmers used these hostages as bargaining tools in their struggle with the authorities. On July 14, the last hostages were released in return for the release of all arrested farm workers. It has taken the government another three weeks to cancel plans for the airport altogether, but with last week's announcement; the Atenco workers' victory became certain. Many people feel that the Atenco struggle has been a vital test of the ability of a community-based movement to stop projects that only serve the interests of a few, powerful and wealthy businesses. The administration of President Fox has a plethora of such projects, including the lofty Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), a plan to privatise the energy industry and support the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The PPP is President Fox's crown jewel economic project, which seeks to transform south eastern Mexico into an industrialised factory centre where maquiladoras (sweatshops) can thrive, producing yet more raw materials for the developed countries in the Northern Hemisphere. The plan involves massive construction projects and generous factory building incentives in an attempt to attract more foreign investment from multi-national corporations. But the PPP cuts right through the heart of a lot of indigenous land and territory in the poverty stricken southern Mexico State of Chiapas and beyond. Roberto Rivera, a student involved in a recent Atenco solidarity march, sees the protests in Atenco as "an important turning point, because the proposed airport is the first integral step in the process of implementing the Plan Puebla Panama . . . if the plans to build this new airport in Atenco are stopped, it will be a major blow to the PPP." The events of Atenco have indeed sent a clear message to multi-national companies and the governments that seek only to protect their interests. "Even if they gave us all the gold in the world," said one Atenco woman, "We wouldn't leave our land because that is all we have." http://mexico.indymedia.org/ Another much smaller but still encouraging win was in Melb this week when the successor to Wackenhutt,Group 4,lost validation from the RMIT.Grassroots action. http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31334&group=webcast -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In Iran the Basiji (the Islamic police force) routinely stop cars playing forbidden Western music, and if unmarried women are found in the company of men, they are arrested and charged with moral corruption! Single women can be subjected to humiliating virginity tests, and if they fail they are given the option of marrying their companion or being flogged for having extramarital sex. www.hambastegi.org From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 23:02:41 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:02:41 -0700 Subject: FI.AP. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428230137.00a1eec0@mail.nex.net.au> Freedom Insurance by Warren Tilson Recently in the almost hallowed pages of the not yet venerable web site Anti-State.com, two articles have appeared that may point the way to gain a free society now. Robert Vroman's Assassination Politics and Andy Stow's defense agency articles are both influences for what I am about to describe. I should point out that I am unalterably opposed, on moral grounds, to Assassination Politics. This opposition is beyond the scope of this article so I will not go into it here. There is however an aspect of AP that appeals to me and that is the naming of a freedom offending individual and asking other individuals to act in a certain way towards that individual. Stow's article describes a decentralized defense agency/society that will get you out of statist caused trouble provided you are a member. Even to the point of using combat troops to enable your escape from a prison if it should come to that. This is a great idea and I think it holds some promise even if there are some technical issues that have to be worked out. What I am proposing is a system of insurance that if you are arrested on some political crime (gun law, drug law, sex law, tax law, immigration law, or commercial law etc. violation) lawyers will be dispatched as well as activists and propagandists. The lawyers are there to use whatever legal tactics they can to keep your life from getting worse, i.e. they would get you out of jail and act as a shield between you and the state's employees. This is no different than what lawyers are supposed to do now, however our lawyers will have an ideological bond with the person they are defending so there will be more agreement on tactics and a vision of the ultimate goal which many lawyer-client relationships lack now. Civil Rights lawyers will also be sent to make sure it becomes a Civil Rights issue by suing the arresting agency, its employees and all sundry agencies, and their employees that are involved. The activists and propagandists are there simply to stir up non-violent trouble. Their purpose is to organize protests, run ads in the local media, appear on local talk shows, hand out fliers, discuss jury nullification, hold workshops and engage in civil disobedience. These things sometimes happen in a controversial case but it is usually an ad hoc arrangement that may lack focus, strong leadership and the resources to stay committed. If you own Freedom Insurance and you are arrested for something your policy covers you are guaranteed that allies and sympathizers will be on the scene, coming to your aid within 24 hours. It does not matter how small the issue, you call – they come. One of the first things that the activist will do is find out all they can about the arresting officer(s) and the prosecutor. They will then organize peaceful protests at the residences of these people, the ads will mention these people by name and ask if they know anything about freedom or the Constitution or their oaths to the Constitution. In addition their families will be sought out and asked questions such as: "Do you support your husband when he violates the rights of others?" "Did you know your daughter was acting illegally and in violation of the Constitution she has sworn to uphold?" The idea here is to get it in to the heads of the people who enforce these laws that it just is too much trouble to bother with. Arrest someone with an FI card and he is looking at months of living hell for him and his family and friends. After awhile, if this idea is successful the mere presence of a FI bumper sticker will get the driver of that vehicle a pass or the owner of that store a pass or that prostitute a pass and so on. The more that cops lay off FI policy holders will ensure that more and more people will join and in this way the state will be undercut. As people realize that the police have no will to enforce evil laws those laws will be disobeyed by millions. If what usually happens when a people are free to go about their business we will see a massive increase in the standard of living with all the usual happiness that follows from that. After awhile this might very well evolve into Stow's Defense Agency and from there the state will be halfway into the grave. Of course (another nod to AP) it should be pointed out that all the main offices and computer servers will be located outside of the USA and all communication will take place with the aid of encryption. Let's give it a push: become a Freedom Insurance owner today. Call the home office for a representative near you. August 9, 2002 discuss this article in the forum! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 5190 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 23:18:24 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:18:24 -0700 Subject: APster will save your Gnuts. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428231225.00a20d00@mail.nex.net.au> >>If only... Luckily the cypherpunks are doing all they can to make sure that no such technology ever exists.<< Your new here aren't you? Check out the archives a little circa 1996."By their fruits ye shall know them." And by their Gnuts as well. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 316 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 23:40:28 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:40:28 -0700 Subject: Leechnet. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428233452.00a24050@mail.nex.net.au> As a former beta tester for Leechnet,all this P to P chat reminded me to revisit Nordic Research.They may be onto something with,"...the concept of cybercash one step closer to reality." Maybe,youse would probably know better than me."extra skin?" Caveat Lecter. http://www.leechnet.com/product.html Featured product: Opticart Web page developers using the OptiCart system are praising that the website no longer has to be built around the shopping cart unlike other shopping cart software and e-commerce software, but is instead added as an extra skin after the design and implementation has already been made. The OptiCart system uses Java technology to provide real-time updates of the contents of the shopping basket and brings the concept of cybercash one step closer to reality. The OptiCart system uses Java technology to provide real-time updates of the contents of the shopping basket and brings the concept of cybercash one step closer to reality. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Teachers Federation (B.C.T.F.) and the B.C.G.E.U. - A tent-city occupation by street youth and students on the front lawn of the provincial legislature building in Victoria in February which ended with it's dismantling by riot police - The fire-bombing of Premier Gordon Campbell's office on the night of February 21st. - A B.C Federation of Labour rally at the legislature in Victoria by more than 20,000 people, at which a group of about 10 anarchists intervened by attacking a security barrier and throwing rocks at the legislature building. - An anti-poverty Snake March in Victoria on March 25th that went through a mall and several corporate stores, leaving splatters from paint-bombs and graffitti behind. - An anti-poverty march to one of Premier Gordon Campbell's homes in Vancouver on April 1st. - An all-womyn anti-poverty brigade's occupation of a "Member of the Legislative Assembly" office in Victoria on April 25th that was broken up by riot police who pepper-sprayed several demonstrators. - A May Day demonstration in Vancouver against the 6-dollar training wage that included a half-hour blockade of a McDonalds restaurant (one of the businesses using the training wage, and a major contributor to the Liberal's election campaign.). After the end of the demonstration a masked group charged through a downtown mall and carried out small acts of vandalism and sabotage. - A July 14th demonstration at the opening of a gallery show at the Vancouver Art Gallery at which the Premier was scheduled to speak at, but failed to show his face in public - because of "security concerns" caused by hundreds of angry demonstrators who attempted to dismantle a security fence, spat on police officers, and were then pepper-sprayed. From profrv at nex.net.au Wed Apr 28 23:54:26 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:54:26 -0700 Subject: Fox a lame duck. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990428235302.00a20090@mail.nex.net.au> The Mexican government saw the future in these cornfields spread across the dry Texcoco lake bed about 18 miles east of Mexico City. Here it envisioned spending $2.3 billion for a state-of-the-art, six-runway airport that would be Mexico's shiny new face to the world for the 21st century. It was to replace the choked-up, jury-rigged airfield that has served the capital since the dawn of the 20th. Read more http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/09/5495094 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 731 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 00:14:25 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:14:25 -0700 Subject: Sony the Darkhorse. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429000912.00a210f0@mail.nex.net.au> Its already got its sound down,now...http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4860 SONY HAS OFFICIALLY announced its own digital rights management technology, OpenMG X. Meeja companies keen to implement some way of limiting the use of digital content - generally video and music – are also competing for the standard way of managing digital rights. Microsoft is making strenuous efforts in this area but Sony with its interest in producing the video and music people may be tempted to pirate is determined to establish itself as the standard setter. According to Sony, OpenMG X" consists of the following software modules: 1. An encoding module which adds digital rights management information, such as the number of times content was copied or played, to music/movie content and converts them into code at the distributors' end. 2. A server module which distributes digital rights management information on content to the users' end. 3. A client module for developing application software compatible with "OpenMG X" Sony says that as "both a hardware manufacturer and content/service provider," it is seeking "to connect content producers and end users in providing range of services that distribute high-value content in a secure environment." Sony says the technology can be applied to mobile phones and PCs as well as its own digital Walkman and PlayStation2 products and wants to leverage its position the console and consumer electronics king to persuade content makers to sign up to its system. It says that, since OpenMG X" as an open platform technology, it should support the secure distribution of content. It says it is considering licensing this technology to hardware manufacturers and software vendors. Also Sony is appealing a 'zones' crack down here in OZ. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1883 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 11:04:17 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:04:17 -0700 Subject: Let them drink coke. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429110306.00a22490@mail.nex.net.au> : WATER RIGHTS Aug 8 2002 Families Fight Coca-Cola in Kerala for Water Coca Cola Virudha Samara Samithy (Anti Coca-Cola Struggle Committee) organized a mass rally and public meeting at Plachimada, India on August 4, marking the 105th day of a campaign against the company. A spirited march proceded to the plant, accompanied by many from the surrounding communities, as well as numerous police. Speakers discussed the ongoing theft by Coca-Cola of water throughout the region, poor labor conditions inside the plant, and the complicity of Indian political parties in abetting multi-national corporations. This ongoing struggle against this plant in the state of Kerala was launched on April 22, with a symbolic blockade and an ongoing continuous picketing/dharna by women and children belonging to the Eravalar and Malasar communities. Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt. Ltd established the bottling plant, and subsequently sunk more than 60 borewells on the premises, which is adjacent to a major irrigation canal, and several kilometers from numerous reservoirs and the Chitturpuzha River. Water in the area has both become depleted and polluted. This more than three month long campaign has included blockades of the plant, lawsuits both against and on behalf of the protestors, destruction of advertisements, and numerous rallies and marches. [ India IMC | CorpWatch India ] http://www.indymedia.org/index.php3?newswire=open -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2215 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 11:33:26 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:33:26 -0700 Subject: It won't happen here (will it PeterT?) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429113110.00a232c0@mail.nex.net.au> Matthew >>I want to comment on something else here, which I find to be a common trait with US citizens: "it can't happen here". The Chinese gov't can do anything they like, because any citizen who would try to "keep watch" would find himself shot. What basic law of the universe says that this can't happen in the US? What exactly will prevent them, 10 years from now, to say "compelling state interests require that we get to do whatever we want with the little box"? You already have an official "gov't against 1st ammendment" policy, from what I've read. Mark I hear Luke and John are concerned as well,Peter? From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 11:46:38 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:46:38 -0700 Subject: "Go learn some finance." Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429113452.00a23050@mail.nex.net.au> >>Go learn some finance before you attempt to abstract emotion into the quantifiable.<< Umm,Hett,old buddy,old pal,have you seen this? http://www.cdi.org/msc/clock.html How Quantifiable is infinite? >>Actual numerate, thinking, people gave up on that nonsense in the 1970's<< We're all keynesians now? WTF? BTW how are the digital bearer bonds going? Do we still have need of that hypothesis? The fact that Bell and CJ eventually ended up betting on equity volatility like it was actually predictable and got their asses handed to them for their efforts is beside the point, of course. :-). "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of money as we know it] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Hett the Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Chowderhead Empire' From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 12:04:21 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:04:21 -0700 Subject: Cryobrain Leitels bush-eugene condensate. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429114757.00a26120@mail.nex.net.au> >>I don't try to filter<< Not much:) That archive over there does not exist.Don't go there.(I have an brother called Ruprecht who impersonates me sometimes...an evil twin? You kill me Leitel. You'd give stand up comic Clinton a run for his money.What, were you SLEEPWALKING! Drank some liquid nitrogen? WHAT? >>I don't try to filter, but to join several sources. << Oh,so you just get into a lynch mob with fruit loops like jamesd occasionally,join several extralarge sources and mailbombs away? I think I get it,Filter feeders cant be to discriminating,right? Your an idiot, but at least an intelligent one. I can't leave you out without creating a skewed picture of what is going on.Chill brother. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 12:17:36 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:17:36 -0700 Subject: Frankly Tommy F is a McDill.(Lost laptops flap) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429120606.00a2a120@mail.nex.net.au> Drop in the ocean,http://www.cdi.org/msc/clock.html When Golitsin was shown files detailing appalling security breaches he would ask what the officer responsible was doing now. "Same job,"he would be told. Golitsin would then ruminate for a few days then announce he was sure the man was a traitor. "But why,Anatole?" Because in KGB,failure is serious offense,you would not be trusted and maybe he then thinks of turning." "But thats not the how its done in the west,we don't act like that...except in the FBI." Golitsin looked blank,he was almost devoid of humor. Spycatcher,page 318.Peter Wright. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 13:07:05 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:07:05 -0700 Subject: Shoot the uniforms. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429130452.00a291a0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A947-2002Aug9.html "The pilots' union is calling for the TSA to create a new airport badging system using a biometric component, such as iris scans or fingerprints, to verify the identity not only of pilots but also of any armed federal agents who may be on a flight. Meanwhile, Luckey has sent pilots tips on counter-surveillance techniques, such as how to sneak a photo of a suspicious person. Stalking incidents, like thefts of uniforms, are "demonstrably a very viable threat and something we need to guard against," he said." From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 13:21:54 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:21:54 -0700 Subject: .The Hollywood 19.Marked for death Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429131758.00a2b020@mail.nex.net.au> Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware; Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin; Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia; Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan; Republican Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina; and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. A spokesperson for Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, who signed the letter, said that lawmakers did not want FBI agents to arrest casual users; they'd rather go after operators of network "nodes" that handle much of the traffic. Its Time some 'nodes' in power were gone after.(my 2$) APster; who do you want to kill today? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To create encryption keys, RSA uses two huge prime numbers and multiplies them together to produce another number that is considered the "key." Testing then confirms whether the initial numbers were in fact prime. The current algorithms used in so-called primality tests are speedy but have a miniscule probability of producing a wrong answer. But a new algorithm, developed at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur by Manindra Agrawal and his students Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, is believed to generate correct results each and every time. "The most glaring weakness in the current cryptographic software is that we can't prove with a guarantee that a number is prime," said Eric Allender, a professor of computer science at the State University of New Jersey at Rutgers. "This new algorithm answers a fundamental question that has been open for some centuries and studied intensely for several decades." Although Agrawal's paper on the subject, titled "Primes is in P," has yet to be published, it is causing a stir in the field because of the way it handles a math problem that has captivated mathematicians as far back as the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Several leading computer scientists and mathematicians have studied the paper. "Some of the preceding work was quite complex," Allender said. "This is really a lovely, crisp and elegant algorithm." Practical uses for the algorithm, computer scientists admit, are still far off. "Our algorithm is slower than the fastest-known primality testing algorithms," Agrawal said. "The satisfying part of our algorithm is that it is completely deterministic as opposed to earlier ones that may make an error--even though rarely." Computers scientists said that in many areas, people are often willing to live with that small probability of error. But with the increasing reliance on encryption in fields such as banking and secure communications, a greater priority is being placed on strengthening cryptography. "The greatest import of this (algorithm) is as a theoretical result and as a first step," Allender said. "It opens the door. There will be subsequent refinements and improvements in the techniques to make it more practical." E-mail story Print story Send us news tips Related News Critical hole found in encryption program June 27, 2002 Security company drops PGP encryption March 8, 2002 Distributed computing strikes gold December 13, 2001 Get this story's "Big Picture" FROM http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949170.html?tag=fd_top From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 13:36:47 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:36:47 -0700 Subject: Does Shrub smoke? Give the man a ciguatera. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429133421.00a24280@mail.nex.net.au> A MEAL of spanish mackerel turned a dream fishing trip into a 19-month nightmare of bizarre and painful illnesses, a family says. Miecha McLean, 15, her mother, Glenda, and father, Bruce, claim they became violently ill and had to be treated in hospital soon after eating the mackerel on a fishing trip around Queensland's Hervey Bay Marina. Seven others who ate the fish, caught on the MV Princess 2 in January last year, also fell ill, according to documents tendered to the Supreme Court. One victim, a young Canadian backpacker, was even blinded for a few days by her illness, Mr McLean - who is the Supreme Court's chief executive - told the Herald Sun. Mr McLean claims he suffered 19 months of bizarre, unexplained illness including heart-attack-like symptoms, painful muscle spasms, "terrible aching all over", fluid retention and depression. He and his family are suing the Princess 2's skipper, Anthony David Nicholson. The Kilsyth family claim Mr Nicholson should reasonably have suspected the big spanish mackerel could have caused ciguatera poisoning. Mr McLean said ciguatera poisoning occurred in only about seven places in the world, but Hervey Bay was one of the most notorious. He said toxic amounts of it were more likely to be found in big fish that fed on little fish who ate plankton off the reef. Mr McLean said when he took his daughter to the hospital, soon after she ate the spanish mackerel in a Thai curry, she was drenched in sweat and her eyes were rolling back into her head. "She was in a very, very bad way," he said. "So was my wife - she was on the verge of collapsing. And then I copped it, and a short time later my brother-in-law became very, very ill. "In the end, he was the worst of all of us. "We were hallucinating, shaking. My daughter stopped breathing for a while. "We didn't know what had hit us until the doctor asked whether we had eaten fish." Mr McLean said his family had continued to suffer as a result of the neurotoxin still in their bodies. He said he had lost about 10kg in weight and had become "pretty much a loner". From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 13:39:50 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:39:50 -0700 Subject: Where the spies are. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429133816.009f2cc0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4872312%255E662,00.html Spy chief flees to Australia By CHRIS GRIFFITH 10aug02 A MYSTERY Middle-Eastern buyer of $50 million of prime Brisbane real estate has been identified as Bahrain's fugitive deputy head of intelligence, sought by Interpol for fraud. Colonel Adel Jassim Felaifel this year fled to Australia from Bahrain, where he feared for his life because of political reforms. Searches show firms associated with him own property including the Queensland Government's old Family Services building in Brisbane and the former FAI Insurance Building - a $50 million portfolio. But two international figures - Omar Ali Babtain, president and chief executive of United Medical Group, and Khalid Bin Nasser Bin Abdulla Al Misnad, president of the Misnad Group, an international trading and building company - have lodged an application in Queensland's Supreme Court challenging Mr Felaifel's ownership of the Brisbane sites. In court documents Mr Felaifel has detailed his role from 1979-2000 as head of Bahrain's Security Intelligence Service "Shia section". "I investigated accusations of such political crimes, using normal police procedures, and questioned people accused of these crimes," Mr Felaifel said. But he strongly denied allegations of torture made against him in a court affidavit. Court documents say Interpol sought Mr Felaifel's arrest on a request from the Bahrain Government on May 20. Mr Babtain's affidavit said Mr Felaifel has a former wife and three small children in Bahrain, a wife and children in Sweden, a relationship with a former Gulf Air stewardess, an Australian national, and another Gulf Air stewardess "wife", Brisbane-born Anne Cherie Windsor, who owns five Queensland properties. Mr Babtain said Mr Felaifel sold him and Mr Misnad properties in the Middle East but never transferred the contracts. The two allege their money funded his Australian purchases. Mr Felaifel denies wrongdoing and says he is owed $25 million in debts. He said political circumstances in his country changed when the king died in 2000. "His son introduced political reforms, including freedom of political expression, and released political detainees." Mr Felaifel felt he had to leave the country for his safety on May 2 this year. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 13:58:50 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:58:50 -0700 Subject: Trei makes headlines.Yay peter! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429135459.00a27250@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.norwalkadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-snakebit3aug08.story?coll=stam%2Dnews%2Dlocal%2Dheadlines Despite published reports of the "untimely demise" of Trei, a northern snakehead on display at Pagano's Seafood, the fish is alive and well and gobbling up goldfish by the handful, owner Kris Drumgold said yesterday. Apparently giving new meaning to the snakehead's nickname, Frankenfish, Trei was swimming menacingly with the goldfish yesterday morning, just hours after a Norwalk newspaper hit the stands with a front page story that pronounced the fish dead of "broken gills." About two weeks ago, Trei, one of 28 species of Chinese snakeheads capable of walking on land and surviving out of water for days, was put on display in the Scribner Avenue seafood store. Snakeheads have been reviled in the news since they were discovered in a pond in Maryland and a lake in North Carolina. Biologists fear the snakeheads, which have no known predators, are capable of cleaning out ponds and streams of other species of fish and wriggling over dry land into new areas to eat more. Unlike the lead character in Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein," Trei was not brought back to life, Drumgold said. The fish unwittingly took part in his own "staged death" for a store clerk. As a practical joke, Drumgold said he faked Trei's demise by filleting a fish that looked like him and presenting it to the clerk, who then reported to the Norwalk newspaper that the fish had died. It is illegal to possess snakeheads in 13 states, and U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton has proposed a federal ban on importing live snakeheads into the country. They are legal to own in Connecticut and Mass, but it is illegal to release them. The state Department of Environmental Protection is looking at a possible ban of the razor-toothed creature, said Rick Jacobson, assistant director for inland fisheries at DEP. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 14:02:32 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:02:32 -0700 Subject: Laptops a go go. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429135144.00a24010@mail.nex.net.au> The seven Attorney General agencies that saw computer equipment do a disappearing act in 2001 were; the Australian Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Australian Federal Police, ASIO, Family Court, National Crime Authority, National Native Title Tribunal and the Department of Public Prosecution, spokesperson for the Attorney General, Catherine Fitzpatrick confirmed. Fitzpatrick also said that the fact that all the agencies concerned had "very good encryption" meant confidential information couldn't have gone astray. "If you're not the user of that laptop, you'll not be able to access it," she said. However, Labor said this explanation was unsatisfactory and didn't take into consideration the fact that computer equipment could be stolen internally for personal use. "How do we know the person responsible for the laptop didn't take it?" asked Senator Lundy's spokesperson. The federal Opposition said that resumption of Senate Estimates on February 18 would give it the opportunity to enquire further about the missing laptops and ask questions such as how much the replacement value of the equipment would cost the taxpayer and whether or not police investigations were being conducted into the vanishing computers. http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000024993,20262975,00.htm From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 14:05:15 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:05:15 -0700 Subject: Proffr. expresses fears over the safety of his bodies Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429140237.00a2aa60@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/home.asp "...the exhibition of 'plastinates', his name for the preserved corpses, is designed to inform the layperson about the intricacies of the human body. He calls the exhibition 'an anatomy of experience'. Von Hagens' method of preserving the bodies involves replacing bodily fluids with reactive polymers such as silicone, epoxy or polyester polymers, and was patented by the professor over twenty years ago. The method enables cells, sinews, and veins to remain in an identical state to that preceding preservation, even down to the microscopic level. Hence, microscopic examinations are still possible." From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 14:15:33 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:15:33 -0700 Subject: .Pedophiles and Terrorists.At least 2 horsemen need killing. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429140945.00a2b7e0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml;jsessionid=5Y3VHSWXGGKCGCRBAE0CFFA?type=internetnews&StoryID=1314125 "Grooming" Kiddies for 'meatspace'. http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=1312881 "U.S. would seek to extradite them because they sent child pornography into the United States, Bonner said. "I don't care where in the world you are, if you send it here you are subject to U.S. law," he said." APster; who do you want to kill today? Set a horseman to catch one...or two.(my 2$) From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 14:32:14 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:32:14 -0700 Subject: Liars poker at http://www.smirkingchimp.com/ Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429143011.00a244e0@mail.nex.net.au> WASHINGTON (AP) - Memo to Republican candidates for the House: Never let Democrats "get away with" using words such as privatization or stock market when they criticize GOP plans for Social Security. Avoid supporting any specific proposal for personal retirement accounts — the concept backed by President Bush to let workers invest part of their payroll taxes on their own. And "never use the word 'privatize' when referring to Medicare modernization or reforms." Those and other morsels of advice are in a 280-page campaign primer distributed in recent weeks to House GOP candidates by the party's congressional campaign committee. The material was obtained by The Associated Press. ( The full story... | 4839 bytes more | 20 comments -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 905 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 15:05:50 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:05:50 -0700 Subject: Zabalaza. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429111103.00a22ec0@mail.nex.net.au> African anarchism online African anarchism online New African anarchist website online at http://www.zabalaza.net Includes pamphlets, perspectives, Zabalaza magazine Also see Older anarchist material http://www.struggle.ws/africa.html www.zabalaza.net "Since 1994 the ANC-led government has approved a number of controversial arms deals (and proposed arms deals) with countries such as Rwanda, Uganda, the Republic of Congo, Algeria, Colombia, Syria, Turkey, Taiwan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Many of the recipients of South African arms are authoritarian and undemocratic regimes; countries with poor human rights records; or countries experiencing various forms of intra and inter-state conflict, including regional arms races." India has recently purchased arms from DSA. http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/terror_trade_times/ttt_5.htm More info on vulture capitalism. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1587 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 15:35:34 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:35:34 -0700 Subject: Me Tarzan. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429152248.00a08ab0@mail.nex.net.au> The DoD wants to blind and burn you individually,no more Hiroshimas...maybe. US DoD push for laser, microwave weapons http://defence.janes.com/ In its FY 2004 Defence Planning Guidance, the US Department of Defense calls on the US Air Force (USAF) to plan for directed-energy (DE) weapons within a decade. Industry officials say the technology exists to support those plans. F-35 nosecone blueprints now available on blacknet,btw. In Sydney thousands marched against the rogue terror State... http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4877601%255E421,00.html If your 747 feels warm when you get on it may be a short flight...at least one passenger noted that the cabin was hotter than normal prior to takeoff.Sydney.Today In the swings and roundabouts of deals with tyrannies,au lost a billion or so in Iraq wheat and gained 25 in a natural gas deal with China. APster; who do you want to kill today? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1185 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 15:42:31 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:42:31 -0700 Subject: The value of stupidity in spying. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429153746.00a07010@mail.nex.net.au> A smile and a stick will see you through Before Bond, a spy didn't need a fancy gadget from Q to get out of trouble. John Fisher's Gentleman Spies tells of a golden era in espionage Giles Foden Saturday August 10, 2002 The Guardian Gentleman Spies: Intelligence Agents in the British Empire and Beyond by John Fisher 209pp, Sutton, £20 "Supposing they had got some tremendous sacred sanction - some holy thing, some book or gospel or some new prophet from the desert, something which would cast over the whole ugly mechanism of German war the glamour of the old torrential raids which crumpled the Byzantine Empire and shook the walls of Vienna? Islam is a fighting creed, and the mullah still stands in the pulpit with the Koran in one hand and a drawn sword in the other. Supposing there is some Ark of the Covenant which will madden the remotest Moslem peasant with dreams of Paradise? What then, my friend?" So Richard Hannay, late of The Thirty-Nine Steps, is sent on the perilous mission of Greenmantle, John Buchan's first-world-war thriller. Published in 1916, it raised the spectre of a jihad led by an evil genius bent on thwarting the interests of the so-called civilised nations. That jihad (in fact, a genuine part of a German strategy to destabilise British possessions in the east), in combination with the "great game" of the Hindu Kush (in which Russian influence was the danger), were the two main concerns of the "gentleman spies" whose stories John Fisher tells in this entertaining and well-informed history. They were people like the Whittall family, Turkish-speaking Harrovians with "major interests in the mohair trade in Asia Minor", the "moneyed tramp" William John Childs, and "the reporter who played the piano" - and kept a snake in a cigar box - Paul Dukes. Another was Robert (later Baron) Baden-Powell, who wrote an essay on the value of stupidity in spying. While Germany's clever spies were rounded up, "the exceedingly stupid Englishmen who wandered about foreign countries sketching cathedrals, or catching butterflies, or fishing for trout, were merely laughed at as harmless lunatics". As for tradecraft, Baden-Powell added that "a smile and a stick will carry you through any difficulty" - sentiments which could just as easily be found in any pre-war spy novel. By the time Ian Fleming updated the image (and technology) of the gentleman spy in the figure of James Bond, real-life spies had been taking their cue from fictional avatars for decades. Yet not all the work of these intrepid young adventurers had the adrenaline levels of a Buchan-style thriller. Take the case of one Bradshawe, our man in Kirkuk. Styled by friends as "the most bored man in Iraq", he spent his time "resigning by every mail". Posted by our man in Victoria,pr.http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,771296,00.html Where are the Philbies and Hanssens of yesteryear? Have to keep spellchecking that with Google. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 3365 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 15:57:33 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:57:33 -0700 Subject: Feeling RANDy?,have a squiz at this.The Ainal 'wink' Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429155303.00a0e9c0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.arabnews.com/Cartoon.asp FROM http://www.arabnews.com/Static/Supplement.asp "The biggest problem before the country's planners under the leadership of King Fahd was to strike a balance in the employment of the Internet. KACST executives were aware of its need not only in business, finance, education and communications, but also culturally. Critics in the past had raised questions about the delay in the launching of the Internet, and then the close monitoring of websites. What they failed to understand was that a new technology could not be just imposed on people before the proper groundwork had been done. The users were to be educated on the pros and cons of the new technology and a mechanism was to be involved to keep the society away from the negative sides of the Internet. Many Western and other developed countries are now following what Saudi Arabia understood at the beginning. The aim was to strike a balance between technological advancement, culture and religion and today none of the three components undermine any of the others. During a symposium on the Internet in Dammam, Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman Khaled Al-Zamil said: "We spare no effort to enter the IT world without fear and hesitation, because we have established a scientific base which qualifies us to enter such world and gain its benefits but at the same time distance ourselves from what causes harm to our religion and ourselves." From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 16:32:08 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:32:08 -0700 Subject: BUSH ILL-lupus disseminate-BUSH DYING? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429162753.00a07bd0@mail.nex.net.au> I will have my little jokes,yet what if vlad bought some over on his trip? There really was a 'clockwork orange',once...The election of a Labor government under Harold Wilson in 1964 caused deep-seated hostility in the American and British intelligence communities. The Daily Mirror tycoon Cecil King - a long-time MI5 agent - made it clear that he would publish "anything MI5 might care to leak" - part of his "coup" which he was convinced would bring down the Labor government. Harold Wilson was in fact a social democrat of moderate political views, fully committed to continued membership of NATO and the retention of Britain's nuclear forces, and he was a staunch anti-Communist. Nonetheless, many extreme right-wing intelligence officers viewed Wilson as a dangerous socialist. Wilson's predecessor, Hugh Gaitskell, had died of a rare tropical disease, lupus disseminate, following his return from a visit to Moscow. Certain paranoid MI5 officers were convinced that Gaitskell had been murdered by the KGB to get power for Wilson, who was a Soviet agent. A secret plot, code-named Clockwork Orange, was hatched to discredit Wilson and the Labor Party. http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/sstate3.htm From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 17:07:54 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:07:54 -0700 Subject: Am I 5. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429164436.00a0e180@mail.nex.net.au> MI5 and MI6 are the world's oldest secret intelligence agencies. They began in 1909 with the formation of a military section (MOT, which became MI5) and a naval section (M1-1C, later MI6). Captain Vernon Fell was the first head of MI5, a post he retained for thirty years. Fell was a xenophobic racist who believed that genuine British people "are sorry for any of our women folk who marry a foreigner". He set about compiling an "Alien Register" of all foreigners in the country; by 1914 it had details of 16,000 people on its files. Iggy pops singin',"I'm bored." terrific. "I'm the chairman of the bored."...Later... "MI5 installed Lord Tredegar, a well-known falconer, on the south coast of England with his birds as part of the Falcon (Interceptor) Unit with instructions to hunt down any suspicious-looking carrier pigeons that might pass by. MI5 later had Lord Tredegar imprisoned in the Tower of London for revealing his work to a fellow peer." The original 'Falcon.' "MI5's interrogation centre for enemy agents during the war was at Latchmere House, run by Colonel Stephens, who was greatly disliked within the service for his "almost Nazi behaviour and vile temper." One prisoner was beaten nearly to death and there were several suicides and attempted suicides in the cells. MI5 commenced Operation Double Cross, which involved "turning" German agents into working for British intelligence. There was, however, an element of "triple cross" to the system, with agents still secretly working for the Abwehr. Throughout the war, MI5 was at the centre of a series of blunders and misinterpretation of information, which led to several disasters in planning against German forces. For example, a captured map of the German invasion of France was dismissed as a fake." An army officer later to work in intelligence with Mi5 and ASIS,charles ellis,was later found to have sold the allied order of battle to the Abwehr.After the war he sold INT to the KGB.Shit happens. "British intelligence made a deal with Nazi war criminal Joseph Mengele for his records of the Nazis' development of the nerve gases Sarin, Tabun and Soman. Soon afterwards, Mengele's brother, father and co-researcher were all released from custody and allowed to resume their civilian employment without regard to their Nazi pasts; Mengele himself was allowed to emigrate to Argentina." Dont mess with those precursors,jimmy! Speaking of precursors,this ones timely... "In Iran, a popular nationalist leader Mohammed Mossadeq had become prime minister in 1951 and was seeking to nationalise the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - the most powerful economic institution in the country. A joint MI6/CIA operation was mounted to depose Mossadeq and restore power to the pro-western Shah of Iran. MI6 provided a network of agents inside Iran; the CIA supplied $2 million and arms. A campaign of covertly-funded propaganda and bribery culminated in August 1953 with the overthrow of Mossadeq by army leaders in the pay of Western intelligence. The Shah always subsequently maintained close links with British intelligence during his reign of brutal dictatorship." "...a group of paranoid MI5 officers (notably Arthur Mann and Peter Wright) became convinced that a Soviet mole was present in the senior ranks of MI5 - possibly even the Director General himself, Roger Hollis. However the case against Hollis (who retired from MI5 in 1965) was largely circumstantial and the case was never proved. The obsessive mole-hunter Peter Wright left the service an embittered man; still convinced of Hollis' guilt..." Hollis helped set up ASIO. The CSIS and ASIO spy on you,(if your a septic.) Your NSA /CIA/ FBI spy on us.Its called ECHELON.Great model in some ways for APster.Responsibility is always offshore and deniable,cascading agencies. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 17:28:57 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:28:57 -0700 Subject: 3 Gorges. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429172611.00a13c70@mail.nex.net.au> Virtually in exile With such personal threats at home, it's not difficult to see why some online journalists and activists chose to work in exile. There are problems with this approach, obviously -- their online information might be blocked at home, many potential readers will not be able to afford access to their site and their critics will always accuse them of being stooges of foreign governments - but for some the benefit of being able to tell the truth outweighs these concerns. The main problem of running a Web site in exile is maintaining local relevance and authenticity when writing from abroad; specifically, the site needs regular, up-to-date information from within the country. The only way to do this is to develop a network of reliable correspondents on the ground and to develop efficient channels for getting their information out of the country. In the worst cases this means either heavily working the phones to your contacts on the ground, or, where phone-tapping is a concern, the smuggling of documentation out of the country. On the face of it, that would seem to be little advancement on the tedious and dangerous methods of the Communist-era dissidents. Still, when it works, it can bring the only non-regime-sponsored information to the outside world and offers a unique eye on closed societies. The work of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was certainly one of the best examples of such activity the Internet has ever seen. In less restrictive situations, the Internet itself is the networking tool, and e-mail allows émigré publishing to be current from the ground in a way that Iron Curtain dissidents never could be. Even then, however, expanding a network of correspondents on the ground is not always straightforward, and the specifics of the local culture and local regime need to be considered. My own Institute for War and Peace Reporting is familiar with this problem. The editors of our online publications covering post-Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan and the Balkans are all émigré journalists in London who develop their networks on the ground according to the possibilities in individual countries. In Uzbekistan, for example, the situation is relaxed enough for us to have a physical office in Tashkent and a rather normal network of correspondents radiating out from it. In Turkmenistan, however, the situation is significantly more complicated for us. Forget a physical office: all our reporters on the ground communicate directly via e-mail with our central office in London. Trying to build a normal network there would only attract informants who would turn in all our associates, so we keep our correspondents on the ground isolated from one another. They wouldn't recognize each other if they sat next to one another on a bus in downtown Ashghabat. But even if you have a developed network of correspondents on the ground, that doesn't mean that people will feel comfortable talking to them. When fear so thoroughly permeates society, mouths stay closed. In some cases, however, the subject matter is so potentially damaging to people's lives that they are able to overcome their fear of the authorities. The work of the Three Gorges Probe, a Web-site in Canada dedicated to discussing the controversial Three Gorges dam project in China, provides an interesting example of this. Publisher Patricia Adams was reluctant to discuss the details of her network on the ground, but she told me that ordinary people in the region are very eager to talk to TGP correspondents about the dam, as they genuinely hope their concerns will be addressed. Their willingness to talk is understandable; after all, many of them are the ones being resettled by the dam project. The Three Gorges Probe Web site highlights another particular problem of this genre: oftentimes, the line between journalism and activism becomes fuzzy -- to the detriment of the reader seeking objective information. Adams insists Three Gorges Probe is pure journalism, but it is pretty clear that the site offers a mostly critical view of the project. While that may be a justifiable editorial policy intended to counter all the official information on the dam project, many émigré sites have very serious problems with balance. Amnesty International's Umit Ozturk sees this as unfortunate in the Turkish case but admits, "It couldn't be any other way." Most Turkish and Kurdish émigré sites are run by "activist reporters," people who care so passionately about their cause that objectivity takes a back seat in their online efforts. Veronica Forwood of Reporters without Borders, however, says it depends on the background of the editors. Those who come from a strong journalism background usually try to maintain a sense of balance and concentrate on on-the-ground reporting rather than commentary. Interestingly, there is now serious talk in U.K. NGO circles of creating a non-profit project specifically designed to help émigré journalists establish Web sites with local correspondent networks for the people in their repressive regimes back home. The idea is to provide start-up funds as well as the technical expertise and journalism training needed to run an émigré Web site with real impact on the ground. Real change is not virtual That impact is the heart of the problem for all Web sites working within and around repressive regimes. For all the excited talk about the Internet bringing freedom, actual examples of online publishing bringing about change in these countries are few. In many ways, the Internet seems to fulfill the same role as samizdat did in Communist Czechoslovakia. Like that old dissident literature, the Internet in authoritarian regimes offers the only place for critical voices, but, sadly, it has little effect on the ground. Remember, despite the international fame of writers like Vaclav Havel, outside of a small circle of intellectuals in Prague, hardly anyone ever read samizdat within Communist Czechoslovakia. The Velvet Revolution emerged from direct action within a changed geo-political atmosphere; decades of dissident carping had nothing to do with real change when the regime finally fell. As it was with samizdat, most people in authoritarian regimes never get a chance to see Internet publications, and the whole enterprise, both the publishing of banned information and official attempts to stop it, is more a game for elites: elite dissident intellectuals criticize elite rulers, and they argue back and forth in a virtual space. The opponents can score a few victories in that virtual space, but meanwhile, back in reality, little changes for the people on the ground. Some may find such a conclusion a bit pessimistic, especially coming from someone who works in the field of online journalism in these countries. But it is important to keep one's feet on the ground and neither underestimate the scope of the problem nor overestimate the ability of the medium. And there is some reason for cautious optimism. CPJ's A. Lin Neumann, for example, reminded me that, "elites, generally, tend to lead the movement toward change so the fact that the Internet is somewhat confined to elite communication in some places does not disqualify it as a change agent." Neumann points to China, saying that the Internet has had an effect on the ground there, leading, for instance, to greater impact of stories on corruption. Neumann also told me that the nature of the Internet means, "It is simply harder, even for the Burmese bad guys, to keep secrets from the world, because once information gets out it circulates widely." "Twenty years ago," he noted, "that information -- such as a secret arrest that is revealed through an underground contact -- would have to circulate by newsletters sent in the post; now it is on the desks of journalists and others within minutes." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 8169 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 17:30:46 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:30:46 -0700 Subject: "They!,who the hell are THEY!" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429172001.00a12ec0@mail.nex.net.au> Censorship Wins Out Many journalists and activists have brought their struggle for democracy to the Internet but plenty of nasty regimes have learned to control the Net for their purposes Andrew Stroehlein posted: 2002-04-16 Editor's note: Andrew Stroehlein is head of training at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and founder of Central Europe Review. He writes regularly about Internet censorship in authoritarian regimes. A decade or so ago, it was all clear: the Internet was believed to be such a revolutionary new medium, so inherently empowering and democratizing, that old authoritarian regimes would crumble before it. What we've learned in the intervening years is that the Internet does not inevitably lead to democracy any more than it inevitably leads to great wealth. "The Web really does scare these regimes," says Veronica Forwood of Reporters without Borders. The idea that the Internet itself is a threat to authoritarian regimes was a bit of delusional post-Cold War optimism. It is true that many activists and journalists have brought their struggle for democracy, the rule of law and freedom of expression to the new medium, but they have not been blessed by inevitable victory, and plenty of nasty regimes have learned how to co-exist with the Internet in one way or another. In country after country, the same old struggle goes on: hard-line regimes and their opponents remain locked in battle, and the Internet has become simply one more forum for their fight. Repressive regimes are paranoid by nature. Those in power see enemies everywhere and encourage mass paranoia, overemphasizing threats to national security in order to justify their draconian rule. When early Web-heads equated the Internet with inevitable democracy, paranoia-prone regimes were natural suckers for the idea. "The Web really does scare these regimes," Veronica Forwood told me. Forwood is the UK Representative for Reporters without Borders, the publisher of the excellent "Enemies of the Internet" report, outlining the situation in many regimes around the world, "They want to control everything, and the Web seems so nebulous and unknowable to them, they are just frightened by it." Indeed, many repressive states see the Internet as such a threat that they simply ban it altogether. The former regime in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and North Korea are two cases of a complete ban, though it is known that a few very high-ranking ministers in each regime have had access to e-mail at least. Another particularly harsh example is Burma. A. Lin Neumann, Asia Consultant for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and author of an excellent recent report on press freedom in Burma, explained to me that the military junta in Rangoon effectively prevents public Internet access in the country. One needs a permit for a modem, and though a few people have them illegally, long-distance calls for foreign access are prohibitively expensive. The tiny number of government-approved e-mail accounts are all monitored by censors, and the high price of those accounts again keeps most ordinary citizens away in any case. Relying on high access costs as a de facto censor is an easy trick for regimes, as they generally lord over desperately poor countries. As we previously discussed here in OJR, Uzbekistan is a perfect example. In true Soviet style, the authorities in Tashkent have set up the technical infrastructure so that they have the capability to monitor e-mails and Web browsing, but it seems they don't actually interfere that much just yet, because they know the price of access means that only a tiny fraction of the population are online, an insignificant fraction apparently in the authorities' view. But an all-out ban and relying on high access costs are hardly the only methods of keeping control over online information. Despite the theory behind the Internet's built-in anti-censorship architecture, official control is actually very possible in practice, especially as the regimes run the telecommunications infrastructure when the country comes online. In Iraq the regime is trying to use the Internet to its own advantage while cutting off access to the public. The Internet is accessible from some government ministries, but since, like Burma, one needs special permission to own a modem, home access is limited to the most trusted members of the ruling elite. The situation in Cuba is little better. The government allows access at approved institutions, including trusted firms and universities. Private access at home is nearly non-existent, and the government is setting up a Cuba-only intranet for young people, to keep their activity corralled in an easily controlled space. The overall effect of these efforts, according to a detailed report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is that, "there is essentially no legal, commercially available public access to the Internet" in Cuba. Some repressive regimes, however, realizing that the new technology can have some positive benefits for society at large, have developed a more sophisticated approach to the Internet, attempting to allow widespread access and yet maintain control over it. China has tens of millions of Internet users and has easily one of the fastest growing online populations in the world. Still, the authorities' control points are several. Chinese chatrooms, for example, are monitored and comments offensive to the regime are removed quickly by the moderators. Much more importantly, though, is the Chinese government's ability to censor material coming in from outside China. All external information runs through government servers, so the authorities can and do block outside Web sites they deem potentially dangerous. A report by CPJ in January of last year notes that the main targets for blocking are Western news sites, Chinese dissident sites, Taiwanese media and sites of the banned religious group, Falun Gong. But the CPJ Report also observed how inconsistent the blocking can be, and this point is backed up by this writer's experience. On a recent trip to China, I did a little test of my own in an Internet cafe: US sites cnn.com and time.com were blocked, but UK sites for The Guardian and The Independent newspapers, both with plenty of articles critical of Beijing, were easily accessible. It is, however, probably not as random as it appears, and the Chinese authorities have blocked a huge number of sites, most likely paying more attention to those sites they feel are better known to Chinese users. Certainly, the authorities' overall control can be in no doubt, exemplified by the fact that their blocking can be turned on and off at will: during last October's APEC meeting in Shanghai, the Chinese authorities temporarily lifted their blocks of some American Web sites as a sop to foreign delegates. As CPJ's A. Lin Neumann told me: "Chinese blocking is reasonably effective on their part. It takes some determination to get around it, and I doubt that many people want to really play the game. Most of the students I talked with, quite frankly, were more interested in sex, computer games and English proficiency (in that order) than they were in politics on the Internet." While it's true some editors try to stay one step ahead of the blockers by constantly setting up new proxy sites, that kind of cat-and-mouse routine, forcing the reader to waste time keeping up with frequent address changes, only benefits the censors. While access to the outside world is significantly limited in China through extensive and complex blocking, the authorities have a much easier time controlling what is published within China. As in many heavy-handed regimes, self-censorship is the key factor in China: editors of Web sites inside China know well the limits of what is acceptable and what is not, and it only takes a few tough arrests and harsh crackdowns to send a clear signal to Web journalists and activists everywhere. The infamous persecution of online publisher Huang Qi is probably enough to keep most Chinese Web editors in line. This "let that be a lesson to you all" tactic is as old as man, but even with the newest technology it still works -- and is a typical ploy even in regimes that are generally considered less repressive than China. Umit Ozturk, vice-chair of Amnesty International's Journalists' Network, explained to me how this works in Turkey. In Turkey, if a Web site publishes something the military-dominated state finds unacceptable, the ISP's will receive a quick visit or a phone call from someone "suggesting" the immediate removal of that site. Failure to do so would be very detrimental to one's health, so the ISPs naturally comply. When the optimists spoke of inevitable freedom through the Internet a few years back, they forgot about such crude and effective methods of information control. Virtually in exile With such personal threats at home, it's not difficult to see why some online journalists and activists chose to work in exile. There are problems with this approach, obviously -- their online information might be blocked at home, many potential readers will not be able to afford access to their site and their critics will always accuse them of being stooges of foreign governments - but for some the benefit of being able to tell the truth outweighs these concerns. The main problem of running a Web site in exile is maintaining local relevance and authenticity when writing from abroad; specifically, the site needs regular, up-to-date information from within the country. The only way to do this is to develop a network of reliable correspondents on the ground and to develop efficient channels for getting their information out of the country. The main problem of running a Web site in exile is maintaining local relevance and authenticity when writing from abroad. In the worst cases this means either heavily working the phones to your contacts on the ground, or, where phone-tapping is a concern, the smuggling of documentation out of the country. On the face of it, that would seem to be little advancement on the tedious and dangerous methods of the Communist-era dissidents. Still, when it works, it can bring the only non-regime-sponsored information to the outside world and offers a unique eye on closed societies. The work of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was certainly one of the best examples of such activity the Internet has ever seen. In less restrictive situations, the Internet itself is the networking tool, and e-mail allows émigré publishing to be current from the ground in a way that Iron Curtain dissidents never could be. Even then, however, expanding a network of correspondents on the ground is not always straightforward, and the specifics of the local culture and local regime need to be considered. My own Institute for War and Peace Reporting is familiar with this problem. The editors of our online publications covering post-Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan and the Balkans are all émigré journalists in London who develop their networks on the ground according to the possibilities in individual countries. In Uzbekistan, for example, the situation is relaxed enough for us to have a physical office in Tashkent and a rather normal network of correspondents radiating out from it. In Turkmenistan, however, the situation is significantly more complicated for us. Forget a physical office: all our reporters on the ground communicate directly via e-mail with our central office in London. Trying to build a normal network there would only attract informants who would turn in all our associates, so we keep our correspondents on the ground isolated from one another. They wouldn't recognize each other if they sat next to one another on a bus in downtown Ashghabat. But even if you have a developed network of correspondents on the ground, that doesn't mean that people will feel comfortable talking to them. When fear so thoroughly permeates society, mouths stay closed.MORE... http://www.ojr.org/ojr/world_reports/1018991587.php -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 13143 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 17:42:48 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:42:48 -0700 Subject: Missing Cobalt 60. Dont worry,be happy. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429173151.00a16930@mail.nex.net.au> "An inspector at the No. 502 Power Plant in the southwestern province of Sichuan discovered 63 pieces of Cobalt-60 and 14 empty lead casings missing in late February, the semi-official China News Service said in a report seen by Reuters on Sunday" "Cobalt-60 produces gamma rays that increase the chances of cancer in those exposed to it, but it can also be used as a medical tracer and to treat various types of cancer and irradiate food. As one of several radioactive materials less closely guarded than uranium or plutonium, experts say it could be used in a so-called "dirty bomb" - a conventional explosive combined with a radioactive material that could spread the harmful material over a wide area." http://www.threegorgesprobe.org/tgp/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=4921 From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 17:45:03 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:45:03 -0700 Subject: Got a 'hot' IED? Hire a helicopter from us! Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429173930.00a16600@mail.nex.net.au> Heli-Tele is the ultimate aerial surveillance tool, it can read car number plates from 2,000feet. and easily identify suspect persons Reconnaissance of buildings & sites Aerial photographic & video filming Security checks of sensitive areas Airborne escort & protection service http://www.euro-tec.dial.pipex.com/heli.htm For Boeing aircraft see Saddam Hussein or Sandline.http://www.sandline.com/site/index.html Tell em' your from the professor. From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 18:59:54 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:59:54 -0700 Subject: Tigers wood Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429185630.00a09ec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.celebritysexnews.com/2002/elin_nordegrin_nude.shtml She's Elin Nordgren? Check collars and cuffs. and Byrons,the Texas Jordan? The Icon Hangs 'Em Up If you saw the Kevin Costner movie For the Love of the Game, there's a scene where Costner, during the course of a ballgame, throws his arm out and at that point knows his 19 year career as a pitcher is over. Costner in true movie fashion, though, finishes to pitch a perfect game. Tom Byron had a similar moment yesterday during the run of a sex scene. Contrary to movie fashion, Byron took himself out of the scene he was doing with Kitten and let her finish it up with her off camera beau, Mark Davis and Monique. Byron said he was happy it ended that way because it turned into a whale of a threesome. Byron: I don't want to be like Zupko and announce my retirement for the 300th time. And this is not a 'work' as they like to say in the wrestling business. It's been coming on for the last couple of years. I just got to the point where, I don't want to say burnout, but the fact-of-the-matter is that I'm 41 years old. I put in my 20. Now it's time to collect the pension. And thankfully I'm in a position where I'm able to do that. And a thing a lot of people don't know, I have arthritis in both my knees and lower back- very likely as a result of contorting my body in weird positions so the camera can see the penetration and stuff like that. I guess I had that moment of clarity yesterday. I was doing a scene for my new series Black Attack. It was with Kitten. I'm attracted to her, and was really looking forward to banging her. But, I don't know. All of a sudden I realized I wanted to fuck her, but I didn't want the camera there. It's been a steady progression over the past few years since I entered the business arena. Even from the time I started directing, that was ultimately as a means to and end, which was to retire gracefully. Not overstay my welcome. I've got to say over the past couple of years, with rare exceptions, I've just kind of gone through the motions. You see it on tape, and it's edited, and it looks like I'm going to town. But it's become sort of a mechanical act for me. And I want my private sex life back. I've shared my penis and my legendary balls for the last 20 years. Now I'm shy and I don't want to share them anymore. For the last few years, I've been saying this, I enjoy the first ten minutes of a scene. Then after that I get lost in that place. I say to myself, oh my God this girl's sucking my dick and licking my ass, but after that I know I still have to get another 20 or 30 minutes of footage. That's when I'm editing in my head, thinking how I'm going to cut this thing together. I just don't want to do that anymore. It's been a great 20 years and everything but I don't want to overstay my welcome. And I think I've come to point in my life where, knock on wood, I'm financially able to do something like that. A lot of people have to stay in the business and in front of the camera because that's what keeps on paying their bills. Gene: You're a private guy, you're introspective and dare I say, a bit of a homebody. Byron: A lot of that was from wrestling with this decision. It's a big decision on my part because my sex life has been documented on film. And it got me into the homebody introspection. I think in some weird way I'm embarrassed almost that everyone knows what my dick looks like. Gene: Well, definitely we know what the balls look like. Byron: But by no means am I ashamed or put down by what I've done. Nor do I think I'm better than anyone else that's ever done it before me or who will do it in the future. I want to be more outgoing. I want to be taken more seriously as a businessman. I'm co-owner of Extreme Associates and XPW wrestling but I'm still looked on as that guy who does the fuck films. I want to get more into that arena and learn more about that side of the business than I have. I've gotten an immeasurable amount of knowledge in the last five years by being involved with Extreme. But I want to delve into that more and be looked on as a businessman. However, I'm still going to direct. I'm still going to shoot and edit. As far as my series, that's it for Lord of Asses. I may start a new chapter with some new series. While Whack Attack has the brand recognition, I may start something different. And it'll still be the same thing except for the fact that I won't be on camera. It'll still be a Tom Byron movie with the camera work and editing. And by any means I don't know if this is a permanent thing. I may take a year off and decide I want to come back and do this thing. Or in the course of a scene you never know. Now that the pressure's off, if I get horny during a scene- and it could happen- I might want to whip it out and get a blowjob. What I might do, for shits and giggles, is an occasional non-sex appearance. And I'm going to put my name out there for other companies. If you pay my exorbitant rate, I have script approval and it's a good movie overall, I will consider doing a non-sex performance to lend my celebrity to a production. But I've got to do it first for Zupko who's been bugging for the last couple of years. I've had a SAG card for the last 15 years, maybe I'll get into mainstream. I don't know. I never really sought that but other people have done it. Maybe I'll give that a shot, too. You mentioned being introverted, well maybe that part of me is going to change, too. Largely as a result of this. Mark Davis has a birthday party Saturday night. I'll go to that. I went to Night of the Stars. It was good seeing a lot of the people there. That was fun even though I had too much vodka and was really loaded towards the end of the night. But we had a limo. I just want to be more out there. I want to be the ambassador of Extreme- maybe not as ubiquitous as Ron Jeremy. Here's a guy that doesn't perform that much anymore, but he's still that entity because he's out everywhere. Every porno event you see happening, there's Ron Jeremy. Oh, this must be the place to be because Ron Jeremy's here. I want to start being more like that. I just want to begin a new chapter in my life. Gene: You have mentioned on several occasions that Viagra's what kept you in the game. Byron: By all means. If it wasn't for Viagra I would have been making this announcement at least a couple of years ago. And that's what's kept me in. But yesterday that didn't even work. There are some guys who use it every time they do a scene, some of whom are doing two scenes a day. First of all, the shit causes real bad heartburn. I got heartburn like a motherfucker. And your vision gets kind of blurry and blue. It's not something that I would need in my private life but it's something that I pretty much have come dependent on just to get me through that extra 20 or 30 minutes of footage. Gene: That we might have it for the record, who was the first girl that you ever worked with? Byron: I wish I could remember. I think that was the only scene she did, or she might have done one other movie. Some transient girl. I really don't know. Gene: We needed a chronicler back then. Byron: Yeah. There was no Internet, no AVN. There was barely a Hustler back then because Larry was still locked up in his bedroom before he had laser surgery on his back. Actually the chronicler back then was Bobby Hollander. He was the one who started Adult Cinema Review. Gene: Like you might ask of Michael Jordan, is this really it? Byron: If I make a comeback announcement, don't be surprised. Better yet, don't hold your breath. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 727 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Thu Apr 29 20:36:28 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:36:28 -0700 Subject: Hard rockin' amigo. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990429203534.00a0c4b0@mail.nex.net.au> WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE This promises to be dangerous ground for us both, dear reader. See, I used to bleed all over the page for a living - and those unfortunates recognizing the byline will know I'm being nothing but literal in my appropriation of that lame cliché. Let's just say there's a few hot goth psycho-bitchs out there who know the taste of me through more than one precious bodily fluid ... As a weekly columnist for SCREW magazine and then a monthly rabble-rouser at the SPECTATOR, I turned my life in New York City and San Francisco into the gasoline for igniting reams of newsprint into endless bleats, rants and manifestos. Scooping and snooping my way into the most interesting - and educational - situations the sexual underworld has to offer earned me a certain amount of notoriety. Many wild and grim parties later, I even imagined myself owning the wisdom of Dante. Then I moved to L.A., and learned, baby, learned (Porno Inferno). Four years into this incredible voyage, this nerveless deathmarch, I have overcome that all-too typical smug East Coast native's naïve superstition that the city of Los Angeles is Soul Death; in all fundamental spiritual matters, indeed Hell on Earth. No, after 48 months of nothing but forced research into my immediate environment, I have come to my own independent conclusion: Los Angeles is a moral, intellectual, and creative black hole, sucking the very life force from any man, plant or animal foolhardy enough to exist on its cursed soil. And oh yeah, it's Hell on Earth, as well. You might say I'm wallowing in the perspective of the blind man yanking on the elephant's tail and pronouncing it a snake, what with immersing myself in the Valley-based porn video industry. "Of course it stinks when you're squatting in the outhouse, dummy," you might say. "You have to wipe your ass and come out into the living room with the proper folks!" I ain't buyin' it. Common wisdom out here is that the only difference between the low standards of behavior over there in the "Big Town" (I love it - one aspiring Robert Evans doing time peddling DVD mastering services to the porn hoi polloi actually called it that in front of me) and the tawdriness of the porn industry is this: Where in Hollywood the Sharks That Be will gladly sell your mother, their mother, anybody's mother to a drug-crazed cannibalistic white-slavery cult for the sake of "earning" many hundred-thousands and even millions of dollars, their counterparts in the porn industry will commit the same deed for the sake of, oh, a hundred bucks. We're a heinous lot, people, and it can't be whitewashed. The PBS series "Frontline," in their latest breathless "expose" on the porn industry, doggedly skimmed the surface of our distastefulness, preferring the eye-rolling melodrama of the Spanky and Our Gang Play Manson Family antics of one flash-in-the-pan company that specializes in cartoonishly marketing childish shock antics to the less obvious but far more pressing issues dealt with every day by performers, shooters, graphic artists, warehouse workers, etc ... Hey, Frontline, how about a little data-gathering on the Redwood Forest of bad paper that gets passed to hard-working Jacks and Jills who are nearly always already working under the radar of state and federal fair employment laws? Or the flagrant subculture of bootlegging and "backdooring" that pops up like acne on a Max Hardcore starlet's face? Believe me, as a former daily newspaper reporter, I know the answer. Not "sexy" enough. That's actually the trade lingo, you know, for determining a topic's commercial news value. Kind of puts the hypocrisy of the corporate information industry's stance on our little "Playpen of the Damned" in proper perspective, doesn't it? Of course, I'm still a long way from being a defender of this industry. Having been exploited and humiliated by the same bottom feeders as many other naïve wannabes, and then having been exploited at arm's length by the ostensibly respectable big boys of corporate porn (but hey, at least their checks usually clear!), I find myself these days almost exactly where I began during my early days shooting art-fetish porn in San Francisco - doing it myself, the lowly smut equivalent of a struggling independent filmmaker with Something to Say that frightens the horses, as well as the limited imaginations of the Bean-Counting Porn Republicans. Having made the transition from critic to director, I'm here to sell you the manifesto of a New Wave in porn, akin to the quantum leap made by Truffaut and Godard the day Jean Seberg went before their cameras in her pixie-cut and striped boatneck, hawking American newspapers and a romantic state of perpetual political, personal and sexual rebellion. This is the female muse I seek to have stripped bare by her grooms, even. Not your machine-made victim of a post-corporate sexuality, as defined my former San Francisco roommate, artist Rev. Steven Johnson Leyba in his amazing new book, COYOTE SATAN AMERIKA (Last Gasp Press): "False advertising has abstracted sexuality into some distorted commodity to sell commodities. The sex drive is one of the strongest instincts, but the proprietors of government want us to be frustrated by the sex we can't have. Sexual unattainability helps keep the world economic machine going as we attempt to buy what we are told is a better way, life, style, etc. ... Pornography is constantly monitored and policed, not out of moral concerns but out of economic concerns ... All sexual images in the media are only used for economic strategies ... Sex and its image are policed to maintain an apolitical use. Any depiction outside of fucking seems to be a societal threat." Whether the honesty is casual or profound, the only difficult thing I demand of my performers is the truth of their sexuality and the spirit behind it, whether for documentary purposes or to portray a character which, if I have my way, is usually scripted to reflect the performer portraying it. I don't need a cadre of bored "professionals" in front of my camera or at my back, milling about as part of an overpaid mercenary army of crew serving mostly to bolster some faux auteur's notions that he is indeed the General Domo of his own banana republic: there's no room for journeymen, snake-oil salesmen or bored traffic cops on this adventure. Hey, believe me. I made the half-hearted attempt to sell out, for the sake of a comfortable niche, and a regular salary. In my last curtsey to corporate porn, I offered around a project earlier this year that is inarguably the best porn feature I've ever thought up. Which, considering I wrote the screenplays for 2001's three most-nominated corporate porn features, might make the naïve think I'd be knee-deep in Cuban cigars and Tokyo whores right now, finally preparing to shoot something with a decent amount of sheckels in the kitty. But: Nah. This is the Porn game, fools, where anybody who thinks beyond the self-imposed box is immediately considered a threat to Life As We Know It. If they can't suck you in and housebreak you, they ostracize you - while reassuring you to Keep In Touch, especially if you have any new ideas to appropriate - ah, be pitched, that is ... But that's okay. Revolutions are born out of disenfranchisement and repression, and so comes Serious Mirror Productions, not a belching factory of anonymously splattered revolving flesh, but a craftsman's workshop, where porn can be addressed as the true funhouse reflection of our society and souls that it is, whether in the sweat spots tumbling delicately off a slut's ass to explode against the floor, or the hypnotic, throat-gulping snake-dance of a deep-throat queen swallowing "sin"that tastes like life and perhaps anchovy paste, and offering some otherwise unenlightened mook back the blind, infinite joy of orgasm. Funny, how when I first began shooting hardcore here in the valley, my Fagin-esque mentor admonished me against decorating my set with so many mirrors, since it slowed down the conveyor-belt pace of factory porn. I think maybe he was also afraid to pass in front of one, and reveal to those of us he was exploiting his own lack of any visible reflection. Even funnier, when earlier this winter I discovered a novel by Ryu Murakami, the Tokyo author and filmmaker whose film TOKYO DECADENCE first convinced me a decade ago that the serious metaphysical issues ruling my own life could be addressed in erotically engaging, sexually explicit art. Visiting Suzi Suzuki, the first professional porn star I ever shot, and her husband in San Francisco for New Year's, I discovered that another recent movie that changed my life was based on a Murakami novel, AUDITION (Directed not by Murakami but energetic pulp director Takashi Miike, AUDITION is a delightfully droll, disturbingly hilarious black comedy I recommend to anybody truly interested in the unsolveably brutal nature of art, exploitation and desire; skirt-chasing directors suffering from martyr's complexes are particularly advised to watch and learn.) Suzi gifted me with an extra copy of the author's notorious-in-Japan first novel, ALMOST TRANSPARENT BLUE. Riding a Greyhound back down into Porno Inferno, I was so bemused and energized to read the narrator's grandest vision while sitting in the back of Burger King on the rest stop that I was almost stranded when I didn't hear the driver's all-aboard call: "So I'd like to see a movie that cut out a little bit of the palace or the city in my head, like cutting up a cow, I think it really could be done. "I think it would be a movie like an enormous mirror, a huge mirror, reflecting everyone who saw it, I'd really like to see that movie, if there was a movie like that I'd see it for sure." So then, the gravity of serendipity has offered a final stamp of approval on this glorious pipedream. It's Serious Mirror time, ya'll. Don't look if there's something in you that you can't stand to see. This is nothing less than a true outlaw porn manifesto we're constructing, with the aide of collaborators you'll meet in future dispatches. Our work - never "our product" - is based neither on shock tactics and thoughtless brutality, nor psuedo-sophisticated marketing techniques. There's no room left for that sort of shit even in porn, now that as a race we have all actually entered into what could be the final struggle against the multinational corporate Illuminati (For real, chumps!). In the chaos of sex and art the potential for revolution can never be extinguished, try and repress it as censors will, try and ignore it as greedy hacks might. The brutal, intimate truth of sex denies the lies we build fascist societies on, renounces the hypocritical values of an extinction-driven culture. It's the first peep of defiance and the last act of individualism. It's our damnation and/or our salvation, depending on which way we steer. If you can't hang with that, click back to the press releases. Now. -David Aaron Clark -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430144810.00a21060@mail.nex.net.au> TIBET/CHINA: REPRESSION, HACKERS, AND MONKS Aug 10 2002 Hackers Target Chinese Media Amidst Continued Tibetan Repression As China tries desperately to remake its image after entry into the WTO, the regime continues it's crackdown on Tibetan monasteries and Falun Gong hackers. While China uses an imposter Panchen Lama to spead propaganda, they are releasing certain Tibetan political prisoners. Tanag Jigme Zangpo, an elderly Tibetan teacher who has spent most of the past 40 years in prison, has been allowed to leave Tibet and arrived in Chicago earlier this month. At the same time, Chinese authorities in Tibet continue the destruction of monasteries, they have begun their own "War on Terror" by arresting Tibetan lamas on allegations of bomb attacks. The regime is also battling a ever more sophisticated band of Falun Gong hackers and a shadowy group known as the Hong Kong Blondes. In recent months, various Chinese state satellite news broadcasts have been hacked into and replaced with video explaining to the Chinese people the repressive measures used by the government against non-violent Falun Gong members. At the same time, people in Beijing complained of picking up their phones and hearing a five-minute recorded message from Falun Gong attacking the Chinese regime's attempts to silence the group. Discuss this story and add more links regarding Tibet, the Falun Gong, and repression in China. [ Tibetan Information Network | Public Defamation of Falun Gong by Chinese Officials | More about the Satellite TV Hacking ] http://www.indymedia.org/index.php3?newswire=open -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430154600.00a28d90@mail.nex.net.au> Confidence Men - Why the myth of Republican competence persists, despite all the evidence to the contrary 'Getting people to follow you by force of personality, persuasion, and will is the essence of leadership. In fact, some of the qualities that make the president so great at scamming the policy process proved to be his greatest strengths in the first phases of the war. Bush was supremely confident and appropriately indifferent to complexities that might have distracted a more thoughtful, but less resolute, individual. But mostly, what the Bushies call "leadership" is just a confidence game. And over time, that kind of leadership will get its butt kicked by reality every time' ( Joshua Micah Marshall via Washington Monthly ) AND Hollywood's Private War For Social Control 'If you control the means to disseminate content, you can subsequently control the public. If you can't afford - or are not willing - to play by the "established" means of control, you are typically left to fend for yourself in local venues and audiences. Thanks to the Information Age, this is not the case anymore. This harsh reality terrifies the entertainment industry that will stop at nothing - no matter how ill-conceived - to keep its reign despite a failing business model and changing economic and customer environment. The copyright debate isn't only about profit, it's also about who controls information, and ultimately, people and society' ( Richard Forno via Infowarrior ) See also this letter (PDF) from 19 congress critters to John Ashcroft from last month http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Another tester of the e-mint module,CJD,warned PR,"Careful bending over in the shower to pick up the SOAP."However the easiest to use and fastest app,WILE,the remailer,has had no complaints so far,(well,maybe one from an east coast net loon,something about clones dna) No serious drawbacks. As last minute work progresses on the GUI,(something like the intro to I-war) the air is dense with geekspeak spiced with a dash of federalese. There's talk about encryption and nonrepudiation, digital signatures and biometrics, and more acronyms than you'll find in a bowl of alphabet soup: PKI, VPN, CHAP, TACACS,SOAP. All this for the highly anticipated destruction of the DOD and the DOJ, the FBI and the NSA! Two out of three rats carry cryptosporydium (a cause of gastroenteritis); only slightly less common are salmonella, listeria (which causes septicaemia and shrubs disease,lupus disseminata.Al Zeihmer works for us so why play with palladium when your cruising with cryptoS? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1627 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 16:54:09 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:54:09 -0700 Subject: Approximately 70% of the world's lotteries at risk from obsolete tech. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430164650.00a29c50@mail.nex.net.au> >>Frank Groneman, a network-security engineer at Gtech Corp., a Rhode Island firm that provides high-tech services for approximately 70% of the world's lotteries, says that Security University courses gave him the hands-on experience that he was looking for. "I learn by doing," he says. "I can watch people put up slides all day, but it doesn't really sink in." Like many other firms with high-level security needs, Gtech encourages staffers to keep up to speed on the latest advancements -- or risks -- in the field. "We need to have absolute security," Groneman says. "One transaction could be worth $200 million to $300 million." << RSA Selected by GTECH Corporation to Provide Encryption ... ... Developers at GTECH Corp. used RSA’s BSAFE™ cryptography engine to build security into the company’s PRO:SYS on-line lottery system. ... GTECH Corp. GTECH Corp. ... www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/980331-2.html - 20k - Cached - Similar pages Obsolete? "The most trusted name in e-security?" Surely some mistake! No. Quantum Random Number Generator Quantum Key Distribution Single Photon Counting Module FROM http://www.idquantique.com/ Tick,tick,tick... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The new system has also angered army personnel who claim they have lost their identity because regimental numbers have been removed from personnel files. The contract with the firm PeopleSoft provided an initial budget of $25 million and a completion date of late 2000. PMKeyS is supposed to provide defence with a human resources management computer system replacing more than 20 purpose-built systems. The civilian side of the system was up and running on time by late 1999. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,4882041%255E662,00.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2119 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 17:16:34 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:16:34 -0700 Subject: Rosepetaling joshua. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430171406.00a2bec0@mail.nex.net.au> A PERTH schoolboy's suggestion that rose petals be scattered on the streets of Manhattan to commemorate September 11 has reportedly been taken up. Joshua Tan, 14, from the northern Perth suburb of Kallaroo, responded to a World Trade Centre website invitation to submit ideas on how to commemorate the anniversary, the Sunday Times reported today. In his email the teenager suggested rose petals could be scattered in the streets to remember the victims and celebrate the victory of the spirit of the people, like in Roman times. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday emailed back saying Joshua's suggestion would form a key part of the September 11 commemorations. "I can't believe that I'm on the other side of the world and my idea has been taken on board," Joshua told the paper. "I just had a feeling I wanted to do something and be part of it." I had that feeling last year.Funny old world innit? Bloomberg probably smokes petals. From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 17:33:16 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:33:16 -0700 Subject: Luv to Joshua. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430172833.009f05c0@mail.nex.net.au> Linux users of Victoria and many other exciting online groups await your input,see... http://www.nambla1.de/ About NAMBLA Membership New and Noteworthy Boys Speak Out What People Are Saying The Prisoner Program What Can Science Tell Us? Publications Selected Readings How old are you now J?You never write,call. From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 17:51:58 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:51:58 -0700 Subject: "When are you comin' back jimmy bell" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430175033.009f03f0@mail.nex.net.au> "E-bomb" may see first combat use in Iraq 17:45 08 August 02 NewScientist.com news service Weapons designed to attack electronic systems and not people could see their first combat use in any military attack on Iraq. It is widely believed that the US is planning for an attack that could overthrow Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, who it believes is developing weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqi president responded publicly for the first time on Thursday, exhorting Iraqis to be prepared "with all the force you can to face your enemies". US intelligence reports indicate that key elements of the Iraqi war machine are located in heavily-fortified underground facilities or beneath civilian buildings such as hospitals. This means the role of non-lethal and precision weapons would be a critical factor in any conflict. High Power Microwave (HPM) devices are designed to destroy electronic equipment in command, control, communications and computer targets and are available to the US military. They produce an electromagnetic field of such intensity that their effect can be far more devastating than a lighting strike. Pumped flux The effect exploited by HPM weapons was accidentally demonstrated in the 1950s when street lights in Hawaii were knocked out by the electromagnetic pulse produced by high altitude nuclear tests. One unclassified approach to producing the required pulse is a device called an Explosive Pumped Flux Generator. In this a charged bank of capacitors energises a coil wrapped around a copper tube, which itself contains high explosives. On detonation, the explosives expand the tube from the back and moves rapidly forward, forcing the tube to make progressive contact with the coil and causing a short circuit. This has the effect of crushing the magnetic field at the same time as reducing the coil's inductance. The resultant spike lasts tens to hundreds of microseconds and can produce peak currents of tens of millions of Amps and peak energies of tens of millions of Joules. By comparison, a typical lighting strike produces around 30,000 Amps. Single use HPM weapons would be single-use and could be delivered on almost any a cruise missile or unmanned aircraft. Future devices are likely to be re-usable. Military planners will be particularly interested in claimed ability of HPM weapon's to penetrate bunkers buried deep underground by using service pipes, cables or ducts to transmit the spike. Insulating equipment from such spikes, for example by using Faraday cages, is believed to be very difficult and expensive. Another weapon that targets electronic equipment has already seen use in the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. Blackout bombs, such as the formerly classified BLU-114/B, releases a spider's web of fine carbon filaments into the air above electrical distribution infrastructures. This causes short circuits when the filaments touch the ground. Tomahawk cruise missiles fitted with warheads operating on similar lines attacked the Iraqi power grid during the 1990 Gulf war. David Windle From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 18:23:09 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:23:09 -0700 Subject: Peoples daily golden tax. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430181319.009f3d30@mail.nex.net.au> 2000. Golden Tax Project Operational in Four Cities and Five Provinces The State Council has decided that as of January 1, the authentication, auditing and checking information management systems, as an important component of China's Golden Tax Project, were the first to be launched in four cities and five provinces (Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing municipalities; and Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces) on January 1, 2001. These systems will also be put into operation in 22 other provinces beginning from July 1,2001. By then, the auditing and checking systems will cover tax authorities at all levels nationwide through the Internet, and a nationwide value-added tax (VAT) monitoring system will be established across the country. It is reported that the Golden Tax Project, established in line with the idea of "science and technology plus management" according to the instructions of State Council leaders and in light of China's present economic situation, is a VAT monitoring management system with Chinese characteristics....By the end of 2002, China will have introduced the anti-counterfeit and invoice-related tax control system to ordinary value-added tax payers. Sources say that the completion of the project on time and up to required quality will play a significant role in preventing, checking and prosecuting tax evasion and fraud activities carried out by making use of the special value-added-tax invoices, and reducing losses of tax money; it is also of importance to supervising and controlling the taxpayers' activities of production and operation and change of their tax funds; TODAY Network reduces false invoices Xinhua | ¡¡¡¡BEIJING, Aug. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- The "Golden Tax" computerized tax network helped cut the numbe... AT http://www.chinanewsagency.com/ Why do these sites take so fucking long to load peter? PETER? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2444 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 18:49:17 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:49:17 -0700 Subject: Diracs Sea. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430183257.009fae30@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/8/10/22052/7953 Honigs 'ether'...>>The standard model is totally unable to explain mass without the higgs boson.Theres a hitch finding this 'god' particle according to new scientist,dec 8.01.Im unclear as to the difference between "ether" (honig) and a 'higgs field'(NS article) << >>Quantum mechanics based on heisenbergs uncertainty principal is under attack.The two slit experiment has another explanation that even revives 'ether' According to electrical engineering professor,bill honig. The theory feynman was sure no one quite understood and einstein mistrusted may be about to be superceded with potential to crack crypto's,holy grail,Quantum encryption.<< (Before IdQuantique caught up with the pentagon.) >>Quantum mechanics is 75 years young and the cornerstone of the modern scientific world view.But it has its dissidents. Bill honig's an internationally recognized inventor,journal editor and long time academic at curtin university.A skeptical inquirer whose doubts about the orthodoxy are caused by logic. His rebellion took shape as a teen prodigy at a brooklyn high school,asking too many questions about quantum mechanics.He went into electrical engineering and rose high in military research.Then in mid-career,while working on nuclear weapons he had a change of heart.Looking in an atlas for a new home that might be safe and peaceful and passing over iceland he settled on perth.WA.au. Believing we can and must describe the fundamental particles of matter as they really are there and not blurs of probability is carrying on einsteins fight.In this old/new picture of the subatomic world,the basic particles are spinning,electromagnetically charged droplets;as they change speed they cast off expanding "photexes"that are compared with smoke rings,rippling outward.Space is an ether made up of two oppositely charged fluids. END extract.more at... http://www.physicsessays.com/ Honig has picked up and carried forward work by paul dirac.<< Archive mining,"You call this archeology!" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2600 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 19:00:51 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:00:51 -0700 Subject: The US ally that will sever your motherfucking head off. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430185714.009fa990@mail.nex.net.au> RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has executed an Indian man for smuggling heroin and flogged 12 teenage boys in public for harassing women, Saudi media reported on Sunday. The youths were given 15 lashes each for "flirting and bothering families" at a park designated for families in the conservative Muslim kingdom, al-Eqtisadiah newspaper said. Police flogged the youths immediately after catching them in the park in the resort of Taif. The boys had entered the enclosure by scaling the walls. Saudi Arabia's strict implementation of Islamic sharia law bans unrelated men and women from mixing before marriage. The paper did not make clear when the floggings happened. In a separate case an Indian man was beheaded on Sunday for smuggling an unspecified amount of heroin into the kingdom, the official Saudi Press Agency said. The execution in the eastern Khobar province raised to at least 27 the number of people put to death in the Gulf Arab state this year. Drug smugglers, murderers and rapists are usually executed by public beheading. At least 75 people were executed in the country last year and 121 in 2000. Other punishments in the kingdom include stoning for adultery and flogging for relatively minor crimes including alcohol consumption. On the bright side at least some of them go in for fucking camels. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1372 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 19:11:41 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:11:41 -0700 Subject: Dacoits that leave law enforcement in the dust. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430190303.009f9ec0@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.rediff.com/news/veerapan.htm • 'If the police kills two of his men, Veerappan kills four policemen' http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/rudolph.htm Aliases: Bob Randolph, Robert Randolph, Bob Rudolph, Eric Rudolph and Eric R. Rudolph Oh,and... Marc Rich is a fugitive from justice and a tax cheat who renounced his citizenship and fled the United States. Moreover, he traded with the Iranian government while it was holding American hostages. "We have always been at war with Oceania bin laden." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 865 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 19:18:27 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:18:27 -0700 Subject: Diffie,Ellison,Dell will be held accountable.I PROMIS you. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430191500.009f9c50@mail.nex.net.au> The rush to the security pork is only eclipsed by the ratfuckers attempts on penguins http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=18687260 Sun casts long shadow before major Linux gathering REUTERS [ SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 2002 3:20:34 AM ] SAN FRANCISCO: Is there a wolf in penguin's clothing? That is the theme of a spirited discussion among supporters of the Linux operating system, a freely available piece of basic software with a penguin mascot. The wolf potentially lurking just outside the door, some Linux-boosters say, is Sun Microsystems Inc., the high-end computer maker, which is expected to unveil its first general-purpose, low-end Linux machine, and its own version of Linux, on the eve of a major convention for the cooperatively developed software. Linux, which will be debated and celebrated at the Linuxworld exposition in San Francisco Aug. 13-15, must prove itself in the rarefied world of running crucial corporate applications, like huge databases, analysts said. Linux is a new version of Unix, the mainstay corporate operating system, though it does not yet have the reliability and power of older Unix systems, analysts say. "Linux and Unix combined are competing with Microsoft," whose Windows program is graduating from personal computers to powerful servers and which offers its own, mostly-Microsoft view of the world, dubbed .Net," said Pierre Fricke, an analyst at research firm D.H. Browne. Sun also remains one of Microsoft Corp.'s biggest rivals, and its latest move has been blasted in advance by competitors. "They are trying to control something which inherently isn't designed for that sort of control point," -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Growing Interest With major players like Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) looking at clustering technologies, Terra Soft is positioned for growth, especially because the Xserve has been well-received in the technical community. Staats said after three years of making Linux available for Apple computers, things are finally beginning to fall into place for Terra Soft. "There are now a large number of third-party solutions and products and vendors and service providers and clients that are jumping on the Yellow Dog [Linux] boat," said Staats. All About Science Terra Soft recently shipped version 2.3 of Yellow Dog Linux. The newest version offers the KDE desktop, which provides features like graphical user interface "translucency." Oh and "Now and then, for no good reason, life will haul off and knock a man flat," the father consoles his son. The 1957 Disney movie OLD YELLER is like that. For most of the film, it is a light hearted slice of life with scenes reminiscent of the old Disney nature documentaries. Toward the end, the movie takes a sharp turn, transforming it into a tragedy. For bill Gates I hope. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1961 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 20:15:21 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:15:21 -0700 Subject: The RANT corporation Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430200740.009fbec0@mail.nex.net.au> CATO sure has some flakes but a la rouchian in the RAND! Quelle fromage! ""I would be hesitant to give too much credit to this recent briefing. It is very significant that the president, secretary of state and defense secretary have stated that this person's individual 'musings' did not reflect US policy. It is also important to point out that the Rand Corporation has also stated that this person's opinion did not represent their thinking". Ambassador to Saudi Arabia,Jordan.http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=17658 "Investors should also feel secure in the president's firm statements that top executives of companies that violate the law will be prosecuted, tried and if convicted could go to jail." Like his pappy threatened to throw all those silverado type shysters inside,"read my lips!" "On 9/11 we will remember the solidarity of the Saudi people..." No smart assed comment.I am having some sort of seizure... From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 20:35:57 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:35:57 -0700 Subject: You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430202646.009fa5c0@mail.nex.net.au> Life in plastic, it's fantastic,legal fight to protect parody and commentary on the pop culture that shapes our society. Marketers can't be allowed to pre-empt the marketplace of ideas. http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16699 Mattel Vs Aqua,parties advised to "chill."Here come de judge! Drop out,Tune out,Turn off...the new leary,GWB. Bush to Welfare Recipients: Drop Out of School. Lost in the flood of big news stories--Iraq, the financial scandal, Israel and Palestine, fast track--was a little gem from George W. on the subject of welfare reform. Speaking in Charleston, South Carolina, on July 29, Bush castigated Senate Democrats for trying to take some of the nastier edges off of his welfare bill. "Under the way they're kind of writing it right now, out of the Senate Finance Committee, some people could spend their entire five years--there's a five-year work requirement--on welfare, going to college," Bush said to applause. "Now, that's not my view of helping people become independent. And it's certainly not my view of understanding the importance of work and helping people achieve the dignity necessary so they can live a free life, free from government control." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1397 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 20:45:27 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:45:27 -0700 Subject: Nepal,Aceh and Columbia collateral damage in War on Terra. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430203841.009fa190@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.fas.org/asmp/library/asm/asm48.html Just as the heavy handed Cold war led to incredible mass murder,torture,corruption and repression so goes the latest war on a tactic,this time,not even an ideology. The provision on "classified activities" is especially troubling because it permits "projects not otherwise authorized by law," in other words, covert actions. This latest round of military aid has made one thing clear: the U.S. military has found a new excuse to extend its reach around the globe, arming regimes that had previously been blacklisted for human rights abuses, weapons proliferation, or brutal conflict. From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 20:59:36 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 20:59:36 -0700 Subject: Nations Horoscope. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430205427.009f9020@mail.nex.net.au> Remember Nancies astrologer? During the(balkan) war years the programme "Milja's Horoscope" was amongst the most popular programmes on Serbia's third channel, which normally offered light entertainment. Milja, a somewhat dishevelled actress, pronounced herself to be an astrologer, telling the nation's fortune. When the international community announced harsher measures against Miloševic's regime, she informed her viewers that a "cosmic boomerang" would strike back at the enemies of Serbia. http://www.ce-review.org/ebookstore/reljic1.html From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 21:12:29 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:12:29 -0700 Subject: Keyser Soze in Hungary Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430210933.009f9640@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.ce-review.org/ebookstore/kosztolanyi1.html "Legalised corruption in the Communist days pervaded even the middle and lower echelons of our society in the form of wage calculations based on the expectation that practitioners of certain professions would be able to top up their scanty earnings through tips. This was true of everyone from taxi drivers, through petrol pump operators to doctors (though the tips there have a grander sounding name, paraszolvencia or hálapénz, translating literally as "gratitude money"). Under Kádár, a political position was a means of lining one's pockets, of living the good life. Party lackeys were an elite, a caste unto themselves and had many traits in common with today's mafia in the way they went about their business of bleeding the state dry in creating a conspiratorial, secretive world where everyone who counts knows everyone else." "Never in the brief history of post-Communist democracy has the work of a parliamentary committee attracted such a great deal of attention or triggered such an outcry. Part of the fascination with Hungary's Oil Committee lies not just with the general human preoccupation with the seamier side of existence, the larger than life characters we have become so accustomed to from the pages of countless detective novels—and with a series of unexplained deaths, mafia retaliation hits and bombings, the oil scandals have all the essential ingredients of any paperback thriller..." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1630 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 21:37:19 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:37:19 -0700 Subject: Towels tax deduction. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430211706.009fdec0@mail.nex.net.au> The Taliban's Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has been out of work since being so rudely interrupted by the infidel last fall. The MO worries that having these guys just sitting around might be a case of idle hands becoming the Great Satan's workshop - remember what happened with all those T-men after they repealed prohibition? So to prevent the Committee from turning into a bunch of nuevo-federal narcs who'll terrorize us all for decades, the MO suggests the Committee be put to work reviewing pornos and adding appropriate sound effects per Islamic law. Ludicrous dialog could have a laugh track added, just like in Chica Boom #12 The depiction of adultery could have the sound of stones falling on flesh; public nudity would have the sounds of lashing, all with suitable scrams and cries. You get the idea. And in certain special cases, like Hershel Savage doing one of his disgusting stepfather routines, you would have the sound of a firing squad. Anything by Max H. would of course be drowned out by sounds of the urination of 1000 fat lesbians. Truly, the possibilities are endless. The MO offers to bring all the members of the idle Committee to his bunker in Quatar, set up editing bays, and put them to work in exchange for a modest federal grant. Surely this is preferable to a bunch of towel-headed dildos sitting around looking for work. http://www.lukeford.com/ Site also seeks well hung asians if thats not an oxymoron.There has to be some legal asian hardwood out there somewhere.Get yer wood on! Lets not forget big Jim,tax rebel par exellence..Like most guests of the state penal system,JB is working in prison for what amounts to slave wages and has "virtually no money for toothpaste, magazines, socks, snacks,(well,maybe thats good.) writing paper and stamps." None of these items are allowed inside the facility from the outside world but JB can purchase them from the prison canteen. http://www.bop.gov/facilnot.html From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 21:51:46 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:51:46 -0700 Subject: Critical mass;way to go.Blocking up roads is a lot of fun. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430215009.009d1a90@mail.nex.net.au> On 15th July, a bunch of people from activist groups Rising Tide and Critical Mass met up on London's South Bank for a climate change bike ride round the city centre. We were going to stop at five evil companies around the capital to give them an award for fucking up our planet. Our first stop was the International Finance Corporation, which is part of the World Bank. It's right next to the Houses of Parliament - coincidence or what? We made some noise outside, handed out leaflets and gave them the award. Next we cruised off round Parliament Square. The 'Countryside Alliance' had a stall there, and I gave them a couple of shouts of 'get a job'. Then it was up Whitehall, through Trafalgar Square and on to the National Portrait Gallery, which is sponsored by BP. Next we moved off to Enterprise IG in Soho. These are the people responsible for BP's Helios awards, the in-house awards given to BP employees who do a good job of making the company look green and nice. We got a baffled response from the company's workers. They had to be told by their boss to get back inside and close all the windows (in case we bit?). We were on our way to Cromwell and Sullivan when some dude in a BMW ran over one of the guys on a bike. Luckily he wasn't hurt, even though the car had gone over his back wheel. The guy in the car looked like he was gonna shit himself when thirty bikers pulled up around him. He called the cops, who soon came and pestered everyone. Last of all, we went to the BP Head Offices in Finsbury Circus. Here the cops were waiting for us. British Transport Police had a dog unit and meat wagon ready. The security people from BP were also waiting, even though we'd no intention of raiding the place. The Azerbaijan PR man Ð sorry, 'Community Relations' officer - came out to talk to us (the demo was mainly about BP's proposed Azerbaijan pipeline). Eventually, everyone except from a couple of the hardcore went off to the London Activist Resource Centre (LARC) in Whitechapel. The hardcore stayed to play with the cops and nearly got stopped for cycling the wrong way round a roundabout. It was a nice protest - Critical Mass is so fucking empowering, I recommend everyone to try it. Blocking up roads with a load of bikes, making noise and just cruising around London Rkn Anarchist Youth Network From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 21:57:34 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:57:34 -0700 Subject: In Thrall.Utima Thule? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430215415.009feec0@mail.nex.net.au> anarchist magazine from Aotearoa/New Zealand. We apologise for the delay in getting this issue up on the web. visit http://free.freespeech.org/thrall/23nzmayday.html Contents include: - People's Global Action - We are Everywhere even Aotearoa. An important international decentralised anti-capitalist network that has a branch right here in Aotearoa. (Note: Since we published no.23, it has been announced there will be a PGA Aotearoa nationwide conference in November 9-10 in Wellington this year. This will most probably be the biggest gathering of direct action, anti-capitalist groups in Aotearoa for some time). - People's Global Action - Analysis: A New International? - Direct Action versus the Wellington inner city bypass. A brief documentation of working class community resistance. - Wildcat strikes in Aotearoa - Mayday reports from around Aotearoa - Anarchy in the R.K. part two - a look at anarchism in South Korea from 1961 to the present day by a NZer who visited Korea - Auckland housing occupation - Anti-war, anti-Israeli state protests in Aotearoa - The true story behind the mayday anti-capitalist invasion of Wellington and some international news we couldn't squeeze into the printed issue of thrall specially for our website readers: - Sydney Mayday report - London Mayday report The Thrall website has also been substantially updated to include new links to texts, radical history, and analysis people may be interested in. If you are overseas and wish to receive the printed version of Thrall, you can subscribe if you send us a donation to the address below. Send us well-concealed cash (Aus $, US$ etc.). We appreciate donations as well, as we distribute our magazine for free. Cheers, Fydd for the Thrall collective. ===== Thrall PO Box 22-076 Christchurch AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND e-mail: thrallnet at yahoo.com website: " target=_blankhttp://www.thrall.orcon.net.nz/ or http://www.freespeech.org/thrall ... Ultima Thule The highest or uttermost point or degree attained or attainable, the acme, limit; the lowest limit, the nadir. The most distant unknown land. ... RIP.Neil. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 2568 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 22:01:08 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:01:08 -0700 Subject: Women shot dead. Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430215922.009f8310@mail.nex.net.au> http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=02/08/10/4020832 Apparently buoyed by the earlier success in the take over of oil facilities, Itsekiri women yesterday in Warri marched against three multinational oil companies namely Shell, Chevron and Texaco, disrupting their operations. At least one woman was shot dead in the scuttle that ensued between the protesters and security operatives drafted to ward off the women from advancing beyond the gates of Shell main office, situated opposite the Federal Government College, Warri. The women protest coincided with the commencement of the strike by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) branch of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) in response to the lock-out of some members of the union by Shell management. But the women, who sealed off the gates to the operational bases of the three oil companies simultaneously, said their action was to demand for scholarships and jobs for their children and wards, micro credit schemes for the women and the aged as well as the immediate end to gas flares, acid rains, oil spillage and other forms of environmental degradation plaguing their communities. Hows yer SUV goin' sport? From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 22:42:34 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:42:34 -0700 Subject: Seth on TCPA at Defcon/Usenix Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430223140.00a2a4b0@mail.nex.net.au> XPalatrocious. PALladium by stealth:This is why CJ deserves a freaking medal for telling william Gates Esq where to step off.Has anyone in fUcking americaStAn heard of the WISDOM of INSECURITY,by allan Watts? >>http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography at wasabisystems.com/msg02134.html This scenario of word processor vendors denying people access to their own documents until they do something to benefit the vendor is not just "plausible" -- it's happening here and now. John << Lots of heavy shit is happening,"here and now,"Get out of Dodge. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 760 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 22:58:20 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:58:20 -0700 Subject: On analaliens and enema's Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430225119.00a2a200@mail.nex.net.au> Gay Jewelry by Ponce,Gay & Lesbian Jewelry specializing in ... ... 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Name: not available Type: text/html Size: 1289 bytes Desc: not available URL: From profrv at nex.net.au Fri Apr 30 23:22:37 1999 From: profrv at nex.net.au (Matthew X) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 23:22:37 -0700 Subject: On the outright laughability of "Internet Bearer Underwriting" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.19990430230047.00a2b6c0@mail.nex.net.au> Without Mongo(who's buying some second hand couches in porn valley,btwSEE http://www.simplyjimmyd.com/ chowderHETT has worked up some head of steam. >>In short, sir, please to fuck off, until you actually know what > you're talking about. < Now hett if that was to happen this list would completely clam up.If fisherpersons knew what they were doing where would the outer banks be today? The Black sea?See? When your IBU get's up then you can pay someone to get us to fuck off.(to the trust territories?) I want your IBU to get up.don't get me wrong,no one more than me wants to see anonymous e-cash in wide (and APster) use.You and Mongo are high on my personal hitlist if for no other reason than being insufferable terminal and crashing bores. If anyone fucks with Jims encrypted election donation's scheme,they know what'll happen.Messing with the international vote,(if we ever need one.)will be the equivalent of suicide.IBU requires APster...and remailers/mints/cryptoanarchy.Wake up.