San Jose Mercury News (Mercury)San Jose, Calif., United States of America — www.bayarea.com
"Training has begun on Integraph, a state-of-the-art police dispatch system that uses global positioning to track officers, looking similar to a live video game playing itself out on a real-time map of San Jose. The 2-year-old technology, set to debut in mid-June, is used by a handful of police agencies, including those in San Diego and Santa Rosa." [more]
"By trying to justify the current fight in Iraq as a fight against terrorism, the administration has done two frightening things. It has tried to divert attention from Osama bin Laden, the man responsible for the wave of terrorist attacks against American interests from New York and Washington to Yemen. And the policy advanced by the speech is a major step toward creating a dangerous, self-fulfilling prophecy and reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts on the ground." [more]
"In the small town of Hit, soldiers responded to a rocket-propelled grenade attack two weeks ago by staging a house-to-house search for weapons. The raids unleashed a furor in the religiously conservative area, as men expressed outrage over soldiers' barging into homes where the women were, in the Iraqis' view, immodestly dressed. That was all it took to spark a furious attack on the local police station, where Army officials were meeting. Before it was over, two soldiers were wounded by a grenade tossed into the compound and Army reinforcements fought their way in to rescue the injured; after they left, demonstrators ravaged the abandoned compound." [more]
"Protesters and dockworkers were hit with wooden bullets when Oakland police opened fire to clear an anti-war demonstration at the Port of Oakland this morning." [more]
"A new anti-war newspaper has begun publication in the East Bay [Area], hoping to promote what it bills as a more humane, less jingoistic alternative to the gung-ho militarism of President Bush." [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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