Archive for August, 2002
Foreign Prisoners Becoming a Problem for Karzai
“Several hundred Pakistanis have been released since the spring, but the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has visited many of the prisoners, say 1,000 to 1,200 Pakistani prisoners remain.
The prisoners’ plight has become a political issue in Pakistan, where Islamic clerics responded to Sept. 11 by whipping up militant fervor and sending thousands […]
Bank Robber Meets Corporate Criminal
This is written by an inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles who briefly shared a shower with Charles Keating.
“Keating, Boesky and Milken collectively swindled Wall Street out of more than $500 million. Yet together they served less than 10 years. I know a man serving 20 years for an $800 heist.
Americans […]
1 in 4 Teachers Is Not Trained in Field
“About one in four classes at public middle schools and high schools is taught by a teacher not trained in the subject, and the problem is much worse in schools that serve poor and minority students, according to a report released today by the Education Trust.
The issue is expected to draw broad attention this fall […]
Palmtops in the Operating Room
“Such electronic checking has become common among doctors who use hand-held organizers. ( Harris Interactive, a research firm, estimates that about 17 percent of doctors use a hand-held in some way.) "The P.D.A. is much easier than the P.D.R.," Dr. Howell said, referring to the Physicians’ Desk Reference, the bulky print volume containing much the […]
Stroke the Rich - Bush’s bailout for well-off investors. By William Saletan
“But if investors are entitled to keep every dollar they gain in the stock market, it’s hard to see why they shouldn’t cough up every dollar they lose. That’s the principle that Bush and other Republicans propose to violate by increasing the amount of capital losses an investor can write off on his income taxes.
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The Gatekeeper: Watch on the INS: Detainees Equal Dollars by Alisa Solomon
“…the state of Nebraska, collecting $65 per detainee per day from the INS, rakes in more than $1 million a year over and above the cost of running the place.
County jailers have long known that housing INS detainees pumps easy income into the coffers. Nearly 900 facilities around the country provide beds for the INS, […]
Surveillance Camera Map Project
They have a map of all the surveillance cameras in Manhattan!
“The Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) and Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) lead workshops on surveillance cameras, public space, and civil liberties. Participants take to the streets, documenting the city’s surveillance cameras.”
Workshop Week I
Linux battle becomes political
“A new body called the Initiative for Software Choice has started lobbying governments over their use of so-called open source software.
The group is backed by Microsoft and critics see it as an attempt to stifle governmental use of open source software.”
BBC NEWS | Technology
US thinktanks give lessons in foreign policy
This is an important article on who all those “experts” are and why they are on TV. Turns out that most of them are from one of three right-wing think tanks.
“Although these three privately-funded organisations promote views from only one end of the political spectrum, the amount of exposure that they get with their books, […]
Chicken hawks
Where were the Hawks when it was their turn to serve?
“Consider Washington’s two most prominent superhawks: Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld’s deputy) and his adviser Richard Perle. Who’s Who in America is curiously vague about their precise whereabouts in the late 1960s, though it is fairly clear where they were not. As the shrewd and sceptical Republican […]
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