Stories from 2002-08-01
"Under the legislation, sponsored by Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, and Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona, the Justice Department would no longer have to convince a special court that a suspect was an agent of a foreign power or a member of an international terrorist organization to obtain a wiretap under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act." [more]
"The ruling is a victory for the Bush administration, which contends that the more than 560 detainees at a Navy base in Cuba are enemy combatants who can be held indefinitely without criminal charges or access to legal counsel or U.S. courts." [more]
"An array of experts warned a Senate committee today that an invasion of Iraq would carry significant risks ranging from more terrorist attacks against American targets to higher oil prices." [more]
"Indonesia does not need US military assistance in its campaign against terrorism since the country's armed forces are powerful enough to carry out the task, Defence Minister Matori Abdul Jalil said today. 'America knows exactly how powerful our armed forces are,' Jalil told a press briefing before this week's visit by US Secretary of State Colin Powell." [more]
"A preemptive military strike not authorized by the Security Council would clearly violate the UN Charter that legally binds all nations." BENJAMIN B. FERENCZ [more]
"In May, a wireless security expert managed to detect the nonsecure wireless LAN at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in Arlington, Va. (see story). While parked across the street from DISA's headquarters, the security expert was able to view the Service Set Identifier numbers of access points and numerous IP addresses. Using a standard 802.11b wireless LAN card attached to his laptop computer and access-point detection software from San Diego-based NetStumbler.com, he was able to scan the network in less than half an hour." [more]
"Can the president start a war by himself, the naive ask, without Congress or a vote or anything? They wave away that question. Bush is up for the job, they say, having made his bones in ordering the invasion of Afghanistan. This is a worldwide war on terrorism it's got different rules than all those old 20th Century wars." [more]
"Officials say they also need clean drinking water, clinics built and stocked with basic medicine, schools and books, plus loans for the small businesses that once filled the bazaar, which was famous for its ceramic goods." [more]
"A spokesperson for the U.S. Air Force Surgeon-General's Office in Washington confirmed pilots are given the stimulant Dexedrine, generically known as dextroamphetamine, to stay alert during combat missions in Afghanistan. Pilots refer to Dexedrine as 'go-pills.' The sleeping pills they are given, called Ambien (zolpidem) and Restoril (temazepam), are referred to as 'no-go pills.'" [more]
"The U.N. report said 52 Palestinian deaths had been confirmed by April 18, and that up to half may have been civilians. It called the Palestinian allegation that some 500 were killed 'a figure that has not been substantiated in the light of evidence that has emerged,' the diplomats said Wednesday. The U.N. findings mirrored those of Human Rights Watch, which said its experts had found nothing to back allegations of an Israeli army massacre. Human rights groups have said 22 civilians were killed in Jenin." [more]
"Facts don't assist the conditioned media reflex of blaming everything on Saddam Hussein. No matter how hard you search major American media databases of the last couple of years for mention of the [US] spy caper, you'll come up nearly empty. George Orwell would have understood." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more]
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