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December 10, 2003 - 4:20pm -- jim
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Technology

Utah Students Set New Fi-Fi Record: 82 Miles

Weber State University

December 10, 2003 - 10:28am -- jim
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In the Streets

Jaggi Singh writes:

December 5, 2003, Quebec City

Dear Friends:


After more than two-and-a-half years, all charges against me related to
the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City (April 2001) have been dropped.

December 3, 2003 - 6:49am -- nolympics
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David Martinez writes:


"500 Miles to Babylon"

David Martinez


We leave Amman at 3 AM, with a half-dead moon hanging over the cold city. As per custom, we have hired a white GMC SUV, and a driver, who keeps up a steady 100 mph from the word go. When the sun finally rises we see the desolate desert of eastern Jordan, which makes West Texas look like Guatemala, stretching out all around. Miles of flat, rocky sand, as far as the eye can see, with cargo trucks speeding empty back from Iraq, and others broken down by the side of the road, their drivers in red-checked khaffiyas, peering under the hoods.

November 30, 2003 - 3:35pm -- jim
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Mainstream Media

"Consultant in Iraq Contracts Employed President's Brother"
Stephen Fidler and Thomas Catan, London Financial Times, November 28, 2003, p. 6.

Neil Bush, a younger brother of US President George W. Bush, has had a
$60,000-a year employment contract with a top adviser to a Washington-based
consulting firm set up this year to help companies secure contracts in Iraq.

November 30, 2003 - 3:32pm -- jim
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Drug War

Alaska Appeals Court "Just Says No" to Pot Case

The Alaska Court of Appeals will not reconsider its August decision
allowing adults to possess as much as a quarter-pound of marijuana
in their home.


In an opinion released Friday, the court denied the Alaska attorney
general's petition to rehear the case, which invalidated a 1990
voter initiative criminalizing all amounts of marijuana by calling
the resulting ban on personal pot use in the home unconstitutional.


The court rejected all the assertions the attorney general's office
made in arguing that the decision was flawed in the case of Noy v.
State, which resulted in Attorney General Gregg Renkes instructing
all state law enforcement agencies not to arrest or cite adults for
personal marijuana use in their home.

November 24, 2003 - 2:27pm -- hydrarchist
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Independent Media

Amnesty International forced to withdraw Chavez Documentary amid threats of violence

Amnesty International Vancouver have been forced to withdraw the documentary on Hugo Chavez amid threats of violence

Amnesty Forced to Withdraw Chavez Documentary from Canadian Screening amid Threats of Violence.
Last year two Irish filmmakers were eye witnesses to one of the most extraordinary events in recent Central American history. Donnacha O’Brin and Kim Bartley had travelled to Venezuela to film an intimate portrait of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. They found themselves in the middle of a coup staged by elements in the military, powerful forces in the privately owned oil companies and the privately owned media.

November 24, 2003 - 2:06pm -- hydrarchist
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Work

renegado writes
Cops and Security Guards Riot in Baghdad - report from Ewa in Baghdad,

17.11.2003 10:13

*NEWSFLASH*
- read report below but bear in mind that news just came in of another proetst, same place, same issue, taking place now as none of the protestors demands have been met....

Baghdad, 16/11/2003: Ministry Security Guards and Police Besiege Their
Bosses, Take Over Street – Minister of the Interior Forced to Address and
Appease Crowd

From approximately 10am yesterday, Governing Council Ministry security
guards and Iraqi police protested outside the central Baghdad security
bureau in Sadoon Street over the withholding of their wages.

The Sadoon street bureau has been the location of at least three previous
protests in the last two months.

November 20, 2003 - 2:47pm -- jim
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Technology

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Nigerian Email Con-men Fall into Their Targets' Net"
Tony Thompson, crime correspondent
Sunday November 16, 2003, The Observer


  It has been described as the internet's first blood sport and is fast becoming one of the web's favourite pastimes. Fed up with having their inboxes clogged with emails from Nigerian fraudsters promising untold riches, the victims are finally hitting back.

Scam-baiting -- replying to the emails and stringing the con artists along with a view to humiliating them as much as possible -- is becoming increasingly popular with more than 150 websites chronicling the often hilarious results.

November 20, 2003 - 6:33am -- hydrarchist
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In the Streets

"European Social Forum -- Another Venue is Possible: Negri vs Callinicos
J.Walker, Monday November 17, 2003 at 10:56 AM

It’s certainly possible to level a critique of the social forum process as elevating certain individuals to movement stars, something the radical edge of the movement has always rejected for a variety of reasons. The Negri/Callinicos debate was billed as exactly that however, a battle between two movement stars perhaps broadly representing the two major ideological tendencies within the anti-capitalist movement currently in contestation. The title of the debate was “Multitude or Working Class”.

November 16, 2003 - 11:07am -- jim
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The State

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Lucy Parsons Center Visited by the Secret Service"


On Friday, November 7, an agent from the Secret Service paid a visit to the Lucy Parsons Center, a long-time radical bookstore and infoshop in Boston. Earlier in the week the bookstore received a suspicious piece of mail allegedly sent from the bookstore and containing questionable material. The Secret Service acting on “intelligence reports” was investigating this mail which had been reported to the National Lawyers Guild, but not to the Secret Service.

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