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March 10, 2003 - 4:43pm -- hydrarchist
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The State

Uncle Fluffy writes

"If you have read the Department of Homeland Security's website describing how to stay safe in these dangerous times http://www.ready.gov you know that it is hard to believe that ready.gov is not a parody.


Numeous paraody sites, mocking ready.gov have been set up. My favorite has to be the website of the Department of Homeland Panic at http://www.gialames.com/bescared.html



The Department of Homeland Panic....

March 10, 2003 - 2:47am -- hydrarchist
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The State

nolympics writes:

UN Launches Inquiry into American Spying

Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont

Sunday March 9, 2003

The Observer


The United Nations has begun a top-level investigation into the bugging of its delegations by the United States, first revealed in The Observer last week.


Sources in the office of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan confirmed last night that the spying operation had already been discussed at the UN's counter-terrorism committee and will be further investigated.


The news comes as British police confirmed the arrest of a 28-year-old woman working at the top secret Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets Act. Read the rest at The Observer"

March 7, 2003 - 8:27am -- hydrarchist
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nolympics writes:


Afghan Prisoners Beaten to Death at US Military Interrogation Base


Duncan Cambell

Two prisoners who died while being held for interrogation at the US military base in Afghanistan had apparently been beaten, according to a military pathologist's report. A criminal investigation is now under way into the deaths which have both been classified as homicides.

The deaths have led to calls for an inquiry into what interrogation techniques are being used at the base where it is believed the al-Qaida leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is now also being held. Former prisoners at the base claim that detainees are chained to the ceiling, shackled so tightly that the blood flow stops, kept naked and hooded and kicked to keep them awake for days on end.

Read the rest at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284 ,909294,00.html"

March 3, 2003 - 9:34am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes: Here's a new U.S. National Lawyers Guild (NLG) announcement of its position with respect to the critique of Stalinoid-front politics of the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition -- a critique seemingly shared by both "liberals, from the right" and a range of "autonomists, from the left."

March 1, 2003 Statement of the National Lawyers Guild


WHEREAS the ANSWER coalition has been subjected by some critics to
unprincipled attacks based on what others perceive to be the political
philosophy of some of its members; and

March 2, 2003 - 10:01pm -- hydrarchist
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Technology

gnat writes

"The website for the Committee for theLiberation of Iraq (CLI), a Washington insider group lobbying for war with Iraq, has had their website hacked! (See links at bottom for more information.)


It seems like the DNS has been somehow rerouted to www.salam2u.com rather than www.liberationiraq.org. The code that's doing is impressive too. It actually jumps you out of a google cache page, back to salam2u.



See for yourself



http://www.liberationiraq.org



and the google cache:



http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:dWU-YqxtT-oC: www.liberationiraq.org/+committee+liberation+iraq& hl=en&ie=UTF-8

February 26, 2003 - 10:33am -- hydrarchist
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In the Streets

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Direct Action Social Work Collective Targeted by the State

The Autonomous Collective, a anti-authoritarian anti-capitalist group
based in San Francisco, has recently come under police surveillance and
targeting. Two of it's African American members were singled out at
anti-war protest on February 16th and imprisoned, charged with felonies.

February 25, 2003 - 8:56am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes:


Historian Christopher Hill dies at 91

Martin Kettle, Tuesday February 25, 2003, The Guardian

Christopher Hill, the Oxford historian whose Marxist interpretations of the 17th century helped to revolutionise the way in which generations of scholars and students saw the English civil war and the era of Oliver Cromwell, has died.

February 23, 2003 - 8:22pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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The State

hydrarchist writes "This story was originally published in Counterpunch.



Security Threat?

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Barred Entry to the United States

By LAURA FLANDERS


Irish activist and former Member of Parliament, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey was detained by immigration officials in Chicago, February 21, and denied entry into the United States allegedly on "national security" grounds.


According to her daughter, Deidre, two INS officers threatened to arrest, jail, and even shoot the legendary civil rights campaigner when she arrived at Chicago's O'Hare airport. McAliskey (56) was then photographed, finger-printed and returned to Ireland against her will on the grounds that the State Department had declared that she "poses a serious threat to the security of the United States."


"Mommy was this close to being locked up," said Deidre, Saturday in New York. The two were traveling together from Ireland to the US to attend a christening,

February 23, 2003 - 7:56am -- hydrarchist
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Independent Media


The following is a translation from the Indymedia Euskal Herria.


Basque Country - Sole Basque Language Newspaper Closed by the Police.


Five years after the closure of the left-separatist newspaper Egin, the Guardia civil, following the orders of the Spanish judge Juan del Olmo of the national court, has closed "Euskaldunon Egunkaria". the only daily newspaper in the basque language. Ten people have been arrested and their offices in Bilbao, Gasteiz-Vitoria and Pampalona have been closed. The central office in the city of Andoain has also been shut down.

February 23, 2003 - 7:54am -- hydrarchist
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Anonymous Comrade writes

Terry Jones, of Monty Python, offers an insightful reason why we all should support Bush's plan to bomb Iraq:

"For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's how devious he is.

As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted the street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off one by one."

http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,882 459,00.html"

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