From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 08:23:50 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 08:24:10 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: White people "find", while black people "loot"!?!? Message-ID: <200509021223.j82CNnm14898@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Black People Loot.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 224745 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050902/fef3a7f9/BlackPeopleLoot-0001.jpg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag. Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with? Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her! I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike? And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ! On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that. There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland. No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this! You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit. Yours, Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com www.MichaelMoore.com P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st. --- You are currently subscribed to Mike's Message as: phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au To unsubscribe click on the link below: http://go.netatlantic.com/u?id=37672086F &l=michaelmoore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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War profiteering is obviously nothing new - particularly since the industrialization of warfare - nor is the use of mercenaries, but it seems to me that the increasing reliance upon PMCs outlines precisely the way that 'regime change' has become a sort of '(ad)venture capitalism'. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edpnewvoices08080805aug08,0,4800426.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines Ian Ian Roderick, PhD Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University http://ianroderick.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050902/8594de65/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 12:03:52 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 12:03:56 2005 Subject: [LNC] =?iso-8859-1?q?FW=3A_New_Upolads__M=E1s_obras?= Message-ID: <200509021603.j82G3qm28631@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Critical Discourse/Language/Communication Analysis [mailto:CRITICS-L@NIC.SURFNET.NL] On Behalf Of beaugrande Sent: September 2, 2005 11:56 AM To: CRITICS-L@NIC.SURFNET.NL Subject: New Upolads M?s obras Dear friends and/or colleagues! Caros/as colegas! In addition to those recently notified, the following papers and books have been reconstituted and uploaded to my website: www.beaugrande.com Adem?s de las obras ya avisados, se encuentran disponibles las siguientes en M?s obras disponibles: The Story of Grammars and the Grammar of Stories Smartly polished for upload! Rhetoric and Stylistics in Light of Large-Corpus Data Function and Form in Language Theory and Research: The Tide is Turning Theory and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Disconnection, Conflict, or Dialectic? (takes on Stephen Krashen) The rationality of Noam Chomsky The genetic psychology of Jean Piaget The Discourse of Dictionaries The Geopolitics of Culture from a Systemic Functional Standpoint Cognition and Technology in Education: Knowledge and Information - Language and Discourse Theory and Practice of Translation in the Age of Hypertechnology Terminology and Discourse between the Social Sciences and the Humanities Closing the gap between linguistics and literary study: Discourse analysis and literary theory Theory versus practice in language planning and in the discourse of language planning (takes on Joshua Fishman and Robert Cooper) University Students as Naive Readers: Anarchy or Self-Reliance? Interpreting the Discourse of H.G. 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URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050902/9b6d9541/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 12:07:19 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 12:07:20 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: [Air-l] off topic: Hurricane Katrina Relief for affected students and faculty Message-ID: <200509021607.j82G7Im29799@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> -----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Hunsinger Sent: September 2, 2005 11:43 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] off topic: Hurricane Katrina Relief for affected students and faculty VIRGINIA TECH TO OFFER ADMISSIONS TO STUDENTS AFFECTED BY HURRICANE KATRINA BLACKSBURG, Sept. 2, 2005 -- Virginia Tech will offer specialized admissions to students displaced by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. "We will offer admission for non-degree status on a case by case basis to qualified undergraduate or graduate students for the fall and/or spring semester. .... snip.... Displaced faculty in hurricane affected areas interested in visiting faculty status are encouraged to contact Provost Mark McNamee, (540) 231-6123. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Associatiion of Internet Researchers _______________________________________________ The Air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 12:17:02 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 12:17:05 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Iraq is here Message-ID: <200509021617.j82GH2m02553@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 2, 2005 11:46 AM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: Iraq is here --> From: ImpeachGeorgeWBush@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ImpeachGeorgeWBush@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Rita Pickering Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 7:46 AM To: Progressive; ImpeachGeorgeWBush Subject: [ImpeachGeorgeWBush] A Sign of Things to Come Subject: Gulf Coast "Chaos" -- A Sign of Things to Come Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:34:21 EDT Look closely at what's going on in the Gulf states: You're seeing America's future, when the infrastructure (cannibalized for Iraq and a nonsensical "war on terror") further decays and a Great Depression finally hits. You're seeing how politicians in Washington, D.C., really feel about the poor. People living without food, water, clothing, shelter, or medical care -- especially if they're black -- are just told to "be patient," day after day, until, predictably, they simply die. You're also seeing just how effective "Homeland Security" and FEMA will really be at "protecting the American people" in the event of a massive terrorist attack. They're worrying primarily about getting the OIL pipelines running again. The lives of tens of thousands of people coldly left to die are glossed over as just "collateral damage," as 3000 were at the World Trade Center. Watch: Soon you'll see how the federal government's military forces "restore order," under martial law, as the starving and doomed-to-die who dare to trespass on "private property" to steal food or water are shot dead in the street in cold blood. The first response of Washington bureaucrats is always an itchy trigger finger -- "security" (suppressing "insurgents") is their main concern, not "disaster relief." Welcome to living conditions in Iraq, in the United States. (The Iraqi people too are outraged that there's no electricity, no water, and nobody cares so long as the oil and blood money is flowing into the right hands. Unlivable conditions like that are natural breeding grounds for "insurgents.") So look carefully: This is what the Bush Administration's foreign policy looks like when applied as domestic policy. http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/12537489.htm Federal Officials Pressed to Explain Pace of Response BY MATT STEARNS, SCOTT CANON AND CHRIS ADAMS Knight Ridder Newspapers, Monterey Herald September 1, 2005 NEW ORLEANS -- (KRT) -- Hungry and desperate people trapped in a destroyed city. A police department in what one official called "survival mode." Dead bodies on the streets, blankets flung over them -- sometimes. Capt. Michael Pfeiffer of the New Orleans Police Department said the department's communication system failed during the storm and police districts now were working their areas often unaware of what was happening elsewhere in the city. Pfeiffer still has a handheld radio, but he's almost out of battery power and needs to keep it off most of the time. "We're in survival mode here," Pfeiffer said. With New Orleans degenerating toward anarchy and other areas hit by Hurricane Katrina still awaiting assistance [AFTER FOUR DAYS], federal, state, and local officials are under mounting pressure to explain why they haven't moved faster to get aid to people and places devastated by the storm. Terry Ebbert, the head of New Orleans' emergency operations, called the federal government's response "a national disgrace." Citing the complexities of trying to assist people in a 90,000-square mile area, much of it still flooded, officials in Washington on Thursday offered little more than empathy, pledges that the pace would pick up and pleas not to engage in finger-pointing. "We certainly understand frustration coming from people on the ground who are in need of help, and we will continue working to get them the assistance that they need," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. There was evidence Thursday that Americans believed what they saw on television more than what they heard from government officials. A Survey USA poll of 1,200 adults nationwide found that 59 percent of Americans thought the federal government wasn't doing enough to help victims of the hurricane and its aftermath, up from 50 percent the previous day. Fifty-five percent of the whites and 75 percent of the African-Americans polled said the federal response had been inadequate. In Mississippi, three days after Katrina, officials opened 20 sites in Harrison County to deliver water and ice to frustrated residents. While people had been reduced to searching through garbage for food, authorities didn't expect to be able to distribute any food until Friday. There's still no timetable for making temporary shelter available to those without homes. Col. Joe Spraggins, the director of the Harrison County Emergency Management Agency, said debris had hampered local authorities' ability to get supply trucks to distribution sites. He said 18 trucks with water and ice had been in a staging area before the storm, but the hurricane destroyed it all. Spraggins said Mississippi and federal authorities were under stress from the demands of a storm whose impact stretched across three states, including most of Mississippi. "FEMA is scattered all over the place," Spraggins said, noting that the situation was more "critical" in New Orleans than in Mississippi. "That's not their fault." Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who oversees FEMA, said "flooding ... has dramatically impeded our ability to get supplies into New Orleans." Even in Houston, which had begun to receive thousands of refugees from New Orleans, plans seemed uncertain Thursday. Only about 2,000 cots had been put on the floor of the Astrodome, leaving many without places to lie down. Harris County Judge Robert Eckels said the plan was never to house all 25,000 refugees at one time. Officials still didn't know when all of them would arrive in Houston. "There's very little communication from New Orleans," Eckels said. "It's very frustrating." Critics charged that the delays and confusion were a product of the Bush administration's misplaced priorities. William Waugh, a disaster-management specialist and public-administration professor at Georgia State University, said the federal government appeared slow to pre-position medical and other disaster supplies in the Gulf region, and slow to get federal troops and other disaster workers into places that Katrina had pummeled. Frannie Edwards, the director of emergency preparedness for the city of San Jose, Calif., charged that the Department of Homeland Security overreacted to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks four years ago by bleeding money out of conventional emergency-response programs. "Our natural disasters in the United States are seasonal, not preventable, and we know they're definitely going to happen," Edwards said. "Money for mitigation of them has been siphoned off to deal with terrorism activity, which we don't know is going to happen and which can sometimes be prevented. The federal government's change in emphasis away from all-hazards emergency management and to a very strong focus on terrorism has lessened the resources to respond to events like Katrina." Asked whether more could have been done to prepare for the disaster, McClellan said: "This is a time when the whole country needs to come together to help those in the region. And that's where our focus is. This is not a time to get into any finger-pointing or politics or anything of that nature." --- [Stearns, a Washington correspondent for "The Kansas City Star," reported from Washington. Canon, also of the Star, reported from Kansas City and Adams reported from New Orleans. Gary Fineout of "The Miami Herald" contributed to this report from Gulfport, Miss.; David Wethe of the "Fort Worth Star-Telegram" contributed from Houston and Seth Borenstein contributed from Washington.] _______________________ New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes By ALLEN G. BREED The Guardian (UK) September 2, 2005 Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday, as corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos. The tired and hungry seethed, saying they had been forsaken. "This is a desperate SOS,'' mayor Ray Nagin said. "We are out here like pure animals,'' the Rev. Issac Clark said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where he and other evacuees had been waiting for buses for days amid the filth and the dead. "I'm not sure I'm going to get out of here alive,'' said tourist Larry Mitzel of Saskatoon, Canada, who handed a reporter his business card in case he goes missing. "I'm scared of riots. I'm scared of the locals. We might get caught in the crossfire.'' Four days after Hurricane Katrina roared in with a devastating blow that inflicted potentially thousands of deaths, the frustration, fear, and anger mounted, despite the promise of 1,400 National Guardsmen a day to stop the looting, plans for a $10 billion recovery bill in Congress and a government relief effort President Bush called the biggest in U.S. history. New Orleans' top emergency management official called that effort a "national disgrace'' and questioned when reinforcements would actually reach the increasingly lawless city. About 15,000 to 20,000 people who had taken shelter at New Orleans convention center grew increasingly hostile after waiting for buses for days amid the filth and the dead. Police Chief Eddie Compass said he sent in 88 officers to quell the situation at the building, but they were quickly driven back by an angry mob. "We have individuals who are getting raped, we have individuals who are getting beaten,'' Compass said. "Tourists are walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon.'' A military helicopter tried to land at the convention center several times to drop off food and water. But the rushing crowd forced the choppers to back off. Troopers then tossed the supplies to the crowd from 10 feet off the ground and flew away. In hopes of defusing the situation at the convention center, Mayor Ray Nagin gave the refugees permission to march across a bridge to the city's unflooded west bank for whatever relief they could find. But the bedlam made that difficult. "This is a desperate SOS,'' Nagin said in a statement. "Right now, we are out of resources at the convention center and don't anticipate enough buses.'' At least seven bodies were scattered outside the convention center, a makeshift staging area for those rescued from rooftops, attics, and highways. The sidewalks were packed with people without food, water or medical care, and with no sign of law enforcement. An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet. "I don't treat my dog like that,'' 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. The street outside the center, above the floodwaters, smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles, and garbage. "They've been teasing us with buses for four days,'' Edwards said. "They're telling us they're going to come get us one day, and then they don't show up.'' Every so often, an armored state police vehicle cruised in front of the convention center with four or five officers in riot gear with automatic weapons. But there was no sign of help from the National Guard. At one point, the crowd began to chant "We want help! We want help!" Later, a woman, screaming, went on the front steps of the convention center and led the crowd in reciting the 23rd Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd ...'' "We are out here like pure animals,'' the Issac Clark said. "We've got people dying out here -- two babies have died, a woman died, a man died,'' said Helen Cheek. "We haven't had no food, we haven't had no water, we haven't had nothing. They just brought us here and dropped us.'' Tourist Debbie Durso of Washington, Mich., said she asked a police officer for assistance and his response was, "'Go to hell -- it's every man for himself'." "This is just insanity,'' she said. "We have no food, no water ... all these trucks and buses go by and they do nothing but wave.'' At the hot and stinking Superdome, where 30,000 were being evacuated by bus to the Houston Astrodome, fistfights and fires erupted amid a seething sea of tense, suffering people who waited in a lines that stretched a half-mile to board yellow school buses. After a traffic jam kept buses from arriving for nearly four hours, a near-riot broke out in the scramble to get on the buses that finally did show up, with a group of refugees breaking through a line of heavily armed National Guardsmen. One military policeman was shot in the leg as he and a man scuffled for the MP's rifle, police Capt. Ernie Demmo said. The man was arrested. Some of those among the mostly poor crowd had been in the dome for four days without air conditioning, working toilets or a place to bathe. An ambulance service airlifting the sick and injured out of the Superdome suspended flights as too dangerous after it was reported that a bullet was fired at a military helicopter. "If they're just taking us anywhere, just anywhere, I say praise God,'' said refugee John Phillip. "Nothing could be worse than what we've been through.'' By Thursday evening, 11 hours after the military began evacuating the Superdome, the arena held 10,000 more people than it did at dawn. National Guard Capt. John Pollard said evacuees from around the city poured into the Superdome and swelled the crowd to about 30,000 because they believed the arena was the best place to get a ride out of town. As he watched a line snaking for blocks through ankle-deep waters, New Orleans' emergency operations chief Terry Ebbert blamed the inadequate response on the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "This is not a FEMA operation. I haven't seen a single FEMA guy,'' he said. He added: "We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans.'' FEMA officials said some operations had to be suspended in areas where gunfire has broken out. A day after Nagin took 1,500 police officers off search-and-rescue duty to try to restore order in the streets, there were continued reports of looting, shootings, gunfire, and carjackings -- and not all the crimes were driven by greed. When some hospitals try to airlift patients, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesan said, "there are people just taking potshots at police and at helicopters, telling them, 'You better come get my family'." Outside a looted Rite-Aid drugstore, some people were anxious to show they needed what they were taking. A gray-haired man, who would not give his name, pulled up his T-shirt to show a surgery scar and explained that he needs pads for incontinence. "I'm a Christian. I feel bad going in there,'' he said. Earl Baker carried toothpaste, toothbrushes, and deodorant. "Look, I'm only getting necessities,'' he said. "All of this is personal hygiene. I ain't getting nothing to get drunk or high with.'' While floodwaters in the city appeared to stabilize, efforts continued to plug three breaches that had opened up in the levee system that protects this below-sea-level city. Helicopters dropped sandbags into the breach and pilings were being pounded into the mouth of the canal Thursday to close its connection to Lake Pontchartrain, state Transportation Secretary Johnny Bradberry said. He said contractors had completed building a rock road to let heavy equipment roll to the area by midnight. The next step called for using about 250 concrete road barriers to seal the gap. In Washington, the White House said Bush will tour the devastated Gulf Coast region on Friday and has asked his father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Clinton to lead a private fund-raising campaign for victims. The president urged a crackdown on the lawlessness. "I think there ought to be zero tolerance of people breaking the law during an emergency such as this -- whether it be looting, or price gouging at the gasoline pump, or taking advantage of charitable giving or insurance fraud,'' Bush said. "And I've made that clear to our attorney general. The citizens ought to be working together.'' Donald Dudley, a 55-year-old New Orleans seafood merchant, complained that when he and other hungry refugees broke into the kitchen of the convention center and tried to prepare food, the National Guard chased them away. "They pulled guns and told us we had to leave that kitchen or they would blow our damn brains out,'' he said. "We don't want their help. Give us some vehicles and we'll get ourselves out of here!'' -------- Original Message -------- Subject: (2) Gulf Coast Chaos Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:39:26 EDT There are times when America actually looks like the Third World county it is. Local: Chicago Doctor Stranded in New Orleans Treats Victims Thursday, September 1, 2005 / 7:26 a.m. by Steve Grzanich WBBM Newsradio 780 A Chicago doctor, who is stranded in New Orleans, is helping victims of the hurricanes and has some harsh criticism of the emergency response to the disaster. "The misery in the city, we can see it from our windows. It is just unbelievable," said Dr. James Sullivan, an infectious disease specialist at Chicago's Saint Joseph Hospital. Sullivan has a third floor room in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New Orleans which is surrounded by five feet of floodwater. "This is going to deteriorate every day," said Sullivan about the growing human toll in New Orleans. He had an ominous prediction. "Three to 12 days from now, we will start to see massive diarrhea outbreaks, vomiting, and illness from all out virus. Thats what is going to happen and there are no medical facilities. When that starts people will die." With several colleagues and police, Dr. Sullivan raided a nearby pharmacy and turned the hotel into a makeshift clinic. He and his colleagues have treated dozens of people. "Where the hell are the aircraft that are over in Iraq that ought to be coming down and taking people out. I am so furious at the lack of response here," Sullivan said. >From the roof of his hotel, Sullivan said he can see looting, fires, and he can hear gunfire. He had no idea when he might be able to return to Chicago. ) Copyright 2005 WBBM Newsradio 780. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Love is all there is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ImpeachGeorgeWBush SPONSORED LINKS Trademark united state United state military United state patent United state grant United state coin United state citizenship _____ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group " ImpeachGeorgeWBush" on the web. * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050902/22f9161f/attachment.html From johnerichardson at cds-web.net Fri Sep 2 13:11:08 2005 From: johnerichardson at cds-web.net (John E Richardson) Date: Fri Sep 2 13:09:59 2005 Subject: [LNC] Privatization of warfare Message-ID: Dear Ian, many thanks for this. You may also be interested to look up this book, if you hadn't already: P. W. Singer (2003) Corporate Warriors: The rise of the privatised military industry. Ithaca/London: Cornell Uni Press. all the best John > This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to > consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to > properly handle MIME multipart messages. > > > Hello all, > > I stumbled across this list during the summer and I'm pleased to discover it is still in use. > > At the bottom is an op ed piece that identifies well the advantages of privatizing military engagements particularly in the context of what Martin Shaw terms risk-transfer warfare (http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/205shaw.htm). Not only do military planners seek to transfer risks to over to local ground forces but increasingly they see the advantages in transferring duties and risk to PMCs which do not face the same sorts of public scrutiny as does the military. Death again becomes a private affair. > > War profiteering is obviously nothing new - particularly since the industrialization of warfare - nor is the use of mercenaries, but it seems to me that the increasing reliance upon PMCs outlines precisely the way that 'regime change' has become a sort of '(ad)venture capitalism'. > > http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edpnewvoices08080805aug08,0,4800426.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines > > Ian > > > Ian Roderick, PhD > Communication Studies > Wilfrid Laurier University > http://ianroderick.com > > > John E Richardson Dept of Social Sciences Loughborough University From irenaknezevic at hotmail.com Fri Sep 2 16:01:11 2005 From: irenaknezevic at hotmail.com (irena knezevic) Date: Fri Sep 2 16:01:13 2005 Subject: [LNC] new orleans stories Message-ID: the links to "white people find" and "black people loot" have already been altered due to a "controversy" below is another interesting story. Sep. 2, 2005. 09:55 AM The Toronto Star New Orleans on a hair-trigger Star duo caught in crossfire between police and gunmen 'Stop the car right now,' reporter told. `Back up, or I'll shoot' TIM HARPER WASHINGTON BUREAU NEW ORLEANS - I wheeled the car around and headed back to the scene of the shooting, looking for Toronto Star photographer Lucas Oleniuk, when the officer turned, spotted me and pointed the shotgun right at the windshield. "Stop the car right now. Back up, or I'll shoot," he screamed. A couple of others cocked their weapons and trained their guns on the car, purpose in their eyes. Instinctively, I raised my hands above the wheel and gunned the Pontiac in reverse over fallen tree limbs and debris in the street. This was our indoctrination into a Big Easy that'll never make a picture postcard. Minutes earlier, as Oleniuk and I first saw downtown New Orleans looming after a long odyssey to get into the locked-down city, he shouted at me to stop when he spotted armed officers crouched behind a cruiser, training their guns on an apartment block. His welcome to the besieged city came the second he left the vehicle when three shots rang out — a quick "pop-pop-pop." Oleniuk stumbled behind a lamppost for protection and began shooting photos. In seconds, as many as 40 officers sped to the scene, most in marked cars — but one in a Kinko's van — some of whom set up behind Oleniuk, their guns aimed over his left shoulder. Others, guns drawn, shouted at me to get out of the way. Realizing he was in the line of fire, Oleniuk raced for cover behind a cruiser and worked alongside a group of police as they fired into the building. After 15 minutes, the last of more than 350 images shot by Oleniuk depicted officers delivering a fierce beating to the two suspects, an assault so fearsome one of the suspects defecated. Realizing their frontier justice had been captured for posterity, the police turned on the photographer, one ripping a camera from his neck with such force it broke its shoulder strap. Another grabbed a second camera and, somewhere in the melee, Oleniuk's press pass was ripped from his neck. The officers fumbled with the cameras, finally pulling out the memory cards with the photos. Oleniuk pleaded for the return of his cameras, was rebuffed, then, after retreating about a block, approached them again and asked for his cameras back. One of the officers who had been hunkered down with Oleniuk during the 15-minute shootout said he could have his cameras, but when he asked again for his pictures, he was gruffly told: "If you don't get your ass out of here, I'm going to break your motherf---ing jaw." In the chaos that is New Orleans, police menacingly pointed loaded weapons at me four times, and Oleniuk and I watched later when four officers armed with machineguns, after first demanding to know where we were going, turned on an approaching cab and screamed at the Hispanic driver to get his hands off the wheel or they'd open fire. When he wouldn't do so immediately, it appeared for a split second that he would be shot on the spot. Mercifully, his shaky hands finally appeared above the dash. Because New Orleans is under martial law, police need no reason to stop and search anyone or pull them off the street. There's no doubt they see journalists as an impediment to their efforts to regain control of their city. But they have also been shot by snipers and looters in the nighttime chaos, and anyone who drives through this city these days knows what it's like to get a little twitchy. As one navigates ravaged New Orleans from the east, through Kenner and Jefferson Parish, past the airport and toward the French Quarter, driving flooded streets till the filthy water gets too deep, then trying alternate routes, it is the human toll, not the physical toll, which worsens. First, there is a single barefoot man walking aimlessly along Airline Highway. Then others slogging through the floodwaters of Metairie. Then families trudging dispiritedly along the roads of Kenner. Then, by the time you get to Napoleon and St. Charles in New Orleans, close to 100 sit silently in the middle of debris, watching the strange car navigate among the downed trees in their neighbourhood. Later, down St. Charles, some try to stop you to ask for rides — "I have a baby ..." — others glare sardonically, while others peer at the car blankly. Through downtown, toward the French Quarter, the refugees congregate in groups of 10 or 20. Some have guns, some have crowbars or iron bars, and, mindful of carjackings, you dispense with the hurricane etiquette of treating darkened intersections as four-way stops. When you park on Canal St. to get a sense of the enormity of the refugee flow as people come down the Interstate overpass, many pushing shopping carts or luggage racks, you sense the desperation. You park close to where others are parked and you regret that you can't pack them all in your backseat and get them out of there. And you wonder where the relief workers are. Additional articles by Tim Harper From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 2 20:22:42 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 2 20:22:45 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: A way for the phoneless to communicate Message-ID: <200509030022.j830Mfs26338@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Also, a discussion emerges about these same photos that you have posted. - Kandace On Sep 2, 2005, at 5:23 AM, Phil Graham wrote: > > > From: Allan LUKE (CRPP) [mailto:aluke@nie.edu.sg] > Sent: September 2, 2005 2:33 AM > To: Phil Graham; OSBORNE Margery Diane (CRPP, NSSE); James Ladwig; > KRAMER-DAHL Anneliese (ELL); KWEK Beng Kiat, Dennis (CRPP); Ruth > Wokak (E-mail); Gunther Kress; Hilary Janks; Lilie chouliaraki > Subject: FW: White people "find", while black people "loot"!?!? > > this from kris gutierrez - worth a look. > > > Professor Allan Luke > > Dean > > Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice > > National Institute of Education > > Nanyang Technological University > > Singapore 637616 > > > Tel : 65-67903185 > > Fax: 65-68969845 > > Email: aluke@nie.edu.sg > > http://www.crpp.nie.edu.sg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Gutierrez [mailto:krisgu@ucla.edu] > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:22 PM > To: alfredo; maria.s; Allan LUKE (CRPP) > Subject: Fwd: White people "find", while black people "loot"!?!? > > hope this pictures come through. kris > Kris D. 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Grewal) Date: Sat Sep 3 19:43:49 2005 Subject: [LNC] BUSH AND THE RACISM LABEL GATHERING STENGTH In-Reply-To: <431A200D.7060401@uq.net.au> References: <431A200D.7060401@uq.net.au> Message-ID: Here is the view of one of the defenders of Bush and a committed "left" basher http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212498.shtml It shows Bush afficianadoes are slowly coming out in force. Baljit On 04/09/05, John Matson wrote: > > > > http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/85A3FD8F-F6C6-4A13-9FE1-4BF54FD3CEF4.htm > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/opinion/03dowd.html?th&emc=th > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We invite commentaries that seek to question, reframe, and think through the gender politics of religion, religious nationalism, and religious communities especially as they are constituted in and through the media. How are women constituted as subjects of the discourses of religion, nation, and community? Are women active agents and actors in constituting these powerful imagined communities? What feminist perspectives can be developed on questions that involve religion, media, and imagined communities? How might these contribute to feminist activism in relation to both marginal and mainstream forms of global media? We invite short contributions (a maximum of 2,000 words, which may incorporate photographs), in relation to these increasingly significant and contentious issues, that set up the parameters of debate, or promote a polemical point of view, report on work-in-progress or activist initiatives, or review recent publications or conferences. Please send via email to jane.arthurs@blueyonder.co.uk and ushazs@yahoo.com before October 14th 2005. Jane Arthurs, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Usha Zacharias, Westfield State College, Massachusetts, USA. John E Richardson Dept of Social Sciences Loughborough University From johnerichardson at cds-web.net Sun Sep 4 06:52:12 2005 From: johnerichardson at cds-web.net (John E Richardson) Date: Sun Sep 4 06:50:53 2005 Subject: [LNC] New online journal: Fifth Estate Online Message-ID: http://www.fifth-estate-online.co.uk/ Fifth-Estate-Online is an international, interactive on-line journal of radical media thinking and critical practice. It is a forum for all those who are deeply concerned about the historical and current role and power of the mass media in society, and who seek radical change. If you are interested in radical mass media criticism (RMMC), its ideas, practice and actions, this site is one to stay in contact with. Fifth-Estate-Online is based on the understanding that the mass media have, over the last 150 years, systematically failed to act as the critical 'fourth estate' that they have pretended to be. Instead they have consistently represented the interests of, and functioned as an integral component of the elites controlling society and determining policy. They have thus sabotaged rather than promoted democratic processes and civic interests. More recently, globalisation and the implementation of new technology have reinforced this position, to the extent that the mass media now often look like the first estate. John E Richardson Dept of Social Sciences Loughborough University From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Sun Sep 4 18:38:02 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Sun Sep 4 18:38:20 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fallujah Floods the Superdome Message-ID: <200509042238.j84Mc7C19610@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Frank Rich | Fallujah Floods the Superdome http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090405D.shtml Frank Rich: As the levees cracked open and ushered hell into New Orleans on Tuesday, President Bush once again chose to fly away from Washington, not toward it, while disaster struck. We can all enumerate the many differences between a natural catastrophe and a terrorist attack. But character doesn't change: it is immutable, and it is destiny. From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Mon Sep 5 18:54:37 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Mon Sep 5 18:54:58 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: "This place is going to look like Little Somalia" Message-ID: <200509052254.j85MsfK08913@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 5, 2005 5:36 PM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: "This place is going to look like Little Somalia" --> http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans By Joseph R. Chenelly Times staff writer NEW ORLEANS - Combat operations are underway on the streets "to take this city back" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "This place is going to look like Little Somalia," Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard's Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. "We're going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control." Jones said the military first needs to establish security throughout the city. Military and police officials have said there are several large areas of the city are in a full state of anarchy. Dozens of military trucks and up-armored Humvees left the staging area just after 11 a.m. Friday, while hundreds more troops arrived at the same staging area in the city via Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters. "We're here to do whatever they need us to do," Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon, of the Oklahoma National Guard's 1345th Transportation Company. "We packed to stay as long as it takes." While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and police helicopters filled the city sky Friday morning. Most had armed soldiers manning the doors. According to Petty Officer 3rd Class Jeremy Grishamn, a spokesman for the amphibious assault ship Bataan, the vessel kept its helicopters at sea Thursday night after several military helicopters reported being shot at from the ground. Numerous soldiers also told Army Times that they have been shot at by armed civilians in New Orleans. Spokesmen for the Joint Task Force Headquarters at the Superdome were unaware of any servicemen being wounded in the streets, although one soldier is recovering from a gunshot wound sustained during a struggle with a civilian in the dome Wednesday night. "I never thought that at a National Guardsman I would be shot at by other Americans," said Spc. Philip Baccus of the 527th Engineer Battalion. "And I never thought I'd have to carry a rifle when on a hurricane relief mission. This is a disgrace." Spc. Cliff Ferguson of the 527th Engineer Battalion pointed out that he knows there are plenty of decent people in New Orleans, but he said it is hard to stay motivated considering the circumstances. "This is making a lot of us think about not reenlisting." Ferguson said. "You have to think about whether it is worth risking your neck for someone who will turn around and shoot at you. We didn't come here to fight a war. We came here to help." Back to top -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050905/4f7d6914/attachment.html From jhuns at vt.edu Tue Sep 6 12:55:44 2005 From: jhuns at vt.edu (Jeremy Hunsinger) Date: Tue Sep 6 12:56:09 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fwd: Katrina -- one week after References: <00aa01c5b303$4fe81210$90bce244@familyroom> Message-ID: <4487C87B-844B-4B77-8EEA-A45DDC766B8C@vt.edu> Distribute as appropriate: Begin forwarded message: > From: Wesley Shrum > Date: September 6, 2005 12:52:05 PM EDT > To: 'jeremy hunsinger' > Subject: Katrina -- one week after > . > **** > > On Sept 5, one week after Katrina, a team of ten people conducted > qualitative interviews in the parking lot with approximately 50 > displaced > persons at a central Baton Rouge location. Afterwards, we met for > a couple > of hours, to abstract a consensus view of what we had learned. It is > important to keep in mind that we spoke with individuals with some > mobility > (own car, other?s car, bus) that had been displaced by Hurricane > Katrina and > we have not yet interviewed those living in collective shelters. > > --The vast majority are from the New Orleans metropolitan area > (including > Kenner, Metairie, Chalmette, but not the New Orleans North Shore or > Plaquemines). The vast majority of displaced persons are staying > in private > homes. > > --The further one goes away from hurricane areas, the more, the > better, and > the quicker is the assistance (people came back to Baton Rouge > because they > want to be closer to home, even in spite of reduced assistance). > > --Crime and fear of crime was universally unobserved or > insignificant, both > for early and late evacuees. > > --Blacks are more committed to returning home to New Orleans than > whites, > who express more reservations about returning (note, this does not > take into > account social class). > > --Displaced people have received assistance from (in order of > importance), > family, friends, and strangers. Churches have helped. Public > (government) > assistance was not just negligible?no member of the team recalled any > instance of government assistance reported by this group of > individuals (in > the rare cases where help was requested, it was not provided). > > --Most people consider themselves to be very lucky, doing well, or > doing > reasonably well given the circumstances. They are not requesting > assistance > (beyond that they are receiving, and some of the most fortunate > have their > own means). But the minority of persons who are not doing well > DESPERATELY > NEED HELP. > > --The main concerns are financial, for a place to stay, and > education for > their children. > > Put simply, depending on how long before they move back (if they > do), people > are worried that they will wear out their residential welcome. > > Summarized by W. Shrum, 5 September 2005 > http://worldsci.net World Summit event in Tunisia > http://worldsci.net/global Science & Development Project site > http://4sonline.net Society for Social Studies of Science > http://www.lsu.edu/sociology > > Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Tue Sep 6 19:36:31 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Tue Sep 6 19:36:56 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: William Rivers Pitt | Washing Away the Conservative Movement Message-ID: <200509062336.j86Nabo07851@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> -----Original Message----- From: t r u t h o u t [mailto:messenger@truthout.org] Sent: September 6, 2005 5:16 PM To: pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca Subject: William Rivers Pitt | Washing Away the Conservative Movement William Rivers Pitt, Nicholas D. Kristof, Woolsey renews push for Iraq exit strategy, rebels respond to US efforts to secure an Iraqi town and more ... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org Mayday Mississippi Delta http://www.truthout.org/mayday.shtml TO begins round-the-clock information support for everyone impacted by Katrina. We will provide the best sources available for the most up-to-date and expansive coverage possible. Go directly to our coverage of Cindy Sheehan's courageous stand in Crawford, Texas. http://truthout.org/cindy.shtml Join fellow bloggers at the t r u t h o u t Town Meeting. Get perspective on today's important issues from TO's editorial team and prominent guest bloggers. Join the debate! http://forum.truthout.org/blog t r u t h o u t | 09.06 William Rivers Pitt | Washing Away the Conservative Movement http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605A.shtml William Rivers Pitt argues that what we are seeing in New Orleans is the end result of what can be best described as extended Reaganomics. Small government, budget cuts across the board, tax cuts meant to financially strangle the ability of federal agencies to function, the diversion of billions of what is left in the budget into military spending: This has been the aim and desire of the conservative movement for decades now. The house of cards has fallen in. A generation of conservative thinking, combined with five years of neoconservative thrashing, has finally come to an unavoidable head. Senator Clinton: Oil Firms Turn Katrina Into Profits http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605B.shtml Pressed by constituents alarmed by skyrocketing gasoline prices in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) accused oil companies of manipulating energy markets to enhance profits and decried a lack of national leadership for a plan to free the country from dependence on foreign oil. Woolsey Renews Push for Exit Strategy in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605C.shtml In her latest attempt to pressure the Bush administration to revise its Iraqi policies, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), is planning to bring several national security experts before a hearing next week to discuss strategies to conclude the conflict. Nicholas D. Kristof | The Larger Shame http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605D.shtml The wretchedness coming across our television screens from Louisiana has illuminated the way children sometimes pay with their lives, even in America, for being born to poor families. It has also underscored the Bush administration's ongoing reluctance or ineptitude in helping the poorest Americans, Kristof remarks. But Hurricane Katrina also underscores a much larger problem: the growing number of Americans trapped in a never-ending cyclone of poverty. Michael Parenti | How the Free Market Killed New Orleans http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605E.shtml Parenti explains how the free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Forewarned that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and surrounding areas, officials, announced that everyone should evacuate. Everyone was expected to devise their own way out of the disaster area by private means, just like people do when disaster hits free-market Third World countries. Brutal Attack By Soldiers Left Innocent Iraqi Dead http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605F.shtml An army court martial yesterday heard the first graphic account of how seven British soldiers allegedly carried out a "brutal" and "unprovoked" attack on a group of Iraqi civilians that led to the death of an unarmed teenager from severe head injuries. As US Tries to Secure an Iraqi Town, Rebels Respond http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605G.shtml The American military recently moved into this small town 10 miles south of Fallujah, one of the most violent locales in Iraq, to secure it for the coming elections, and the insurgents took all of a day to respond. They fired a rocket that missed the Americans and landed instead in a nearby playground, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding eight other children. Mega-Disaster, Live! http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605H.shtml Resurrected from their patriotic torpor after the shocks of the September 11 attacks and their recruitment into the Army on the battlefield in Iraq, American television networks revealed the drama that unfolded in Louisiana, their journalists discovering and living the disaster of 200,000 people abandoned to their fate. Bush Fails to Stem Anger http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605I.shtml Mr Bush's visit was his second to the disaster zone in four days, as more reports of government incompetence surfaced amid calls for the dismissal of top officials, particularly at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The City Where the Dead Are Left Lying on the Streets http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605J.shtml In a makeshift grave on the streets of New Orleans lies the body of Vera Smith. She was an ordinary woman who, like thousands of her neighbours, died because she was poor. Abandoned to her fate as the waters rose around her, Vera's tragedy symbolises the great divide in America today. Rebels Take Control of Town of Qaim http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605K.shtml Fighters loyal to militant leader Abu Musab Zarqawi asserted control over the key Iraqi border town of Qaim on Monday, killing US collaborators and enforcing strict Islamic law, according to tribal members, officials, residents and others in the town and nearby villages. San Jose Mercury News | Congress Must Block Move to Name Far Right Judge http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605L.shtml The stakes are high: Senate Democrats and moderate Republicans must not waiver or compromise. They must warn Bush: They will not confirm an ideologue to the court or elevate a conservative activist - justices Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas - as chief justice. Tom Engelhardt | The Perfect Storm and the Feral City http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605M.shtml Tom Englehardt comments that in the last week we've seen many of the black poor of New Orleans not only left behind in a new Atlantis, but thousands upon thousands of them - those who didn't die in their wheelchairs, or on highway overpasses, or in the ill-fated convention center, or unattended and forgotten in their homes - sent off on what looked very much like a new trail of tears. Annan Fights to Keep UN Reform Measure Alive http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605N.shtml With next week's UN summit looming, Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned the world's nations Monday that they have just a few days to salvage "a once in a generation opportunity" to fight poverty and overhaul the United Nations. J. Sri Raman | Bush-Singh Nuclear Deal Creates Fresh Sino-Indian Strains http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605O.shtml The US Congress session beginning September 6 is set to discuss legislative changes that the recent US-India nuclear deal will need. India will be watching the Congress proceedings in this connection with interest. The concern of some Indians, however, will be about whether the US lawmakers will consider at all the consequences of the deal for peace and stability in South Asia and in a larger part of Asia. GOP Agenda Shifts as Political Trials Grow http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605P.shtml As the pressure on Republicans builds, Democrats are sounding emboldened. One sign of GOP unease: The Senate was supposed to vote this week on whether to permanently repeal the estate tax, but Frist said yesterday that the bill will be temporarily shelved. Helping Katrina's Victims http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605Q.shtml As the nation watches stunned by the images of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, an Indian tribe has opened its doors to shelter victims while individual Natives are heading to the damaged areas to help out. Marjorie Cohn | John Roberts: Uncompassionate Conservative http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605Y.shtml Marjorie Cohn's documentation of Roberts' record reveals a callous disregard for the rights of people very much like the tens of thousands who have died and been rendered homeless by Katrina. John Roberts' career has established his credentials as an uncompassionate conservative. A Roberts Court, Cohn warns, would threaten the rights of all but the rich and powerful. It is time for the Democrats to utter the "f" word: Filibuster. Iraqi Rebels Launch Daring Daylight Assault http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090605Z.shtml Rebels launched a daring daylight assault Monday against the Interior Ministry in Baghdad, killing two police in a surge of attacks by al-Qaida's arm in Iraq. Two British soldiers died in a roadside bombing in the south. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ You are subscribed as: pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca Click to REMOVE -> mailto:leave-259254-92679Y@news.truthout.org Go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org Click to SUBSCRIBE -> http://truthout.org/subscribe.htm Our Privacy Policy -> http://truthout.org/privacypolicy.htm From jhuns at vt.edu Wed Sep 7 17:19:02 2005 From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger) Date: Wed Sep 7 17:19:27 2005 Subject: [LNC] michael berube vs the Bush media machine Message-ID: this is an interesting critique of some recent media. http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/comments/717/ From iroderick at wlu.ca Thu Sep 8 09:39:28 2005 From: iroderick at wlu.ca (Ian Roderick) Date: Thu Sep 8 09:40:26 2005 Subject: [LNC] More on the privatization of warfare Message-ID: >From The Heritage Foundation "Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute - a think tank - whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense." http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/hl896.cfm "In the future, the private sector--not the government--will likely make the largest investments in the basic research and product development that create the technologies with the greatest capacity to change the nature of combat. In turn, how the private sector chooses to develop these technologies, apart from the guidance or prohibitions established by governments, may determine how future conflicts are fought." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/affb7943/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 11:35:13 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 11:35:38 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina Message-ID: <200509081535.j88FZCR24060@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or understand significant absences? Any ideas?? Phil _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina --> Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to censor the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news agency is reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now rejecting requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph any dead bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy to the Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of the caskets of soldiers killed in Iraq. NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers have been seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger named Bob Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. Brigham writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans Louisiana. The First Amendment sank with the city.* -- http://www.democracynow.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/bc779851/attachment.html From joumib at langate.gsu.edu Thu Sep 8 11:51:06 2005 From: joumib at langate.gsu.edu (Michael Bruner) Date: Thu Sep 8 11:53:39 2005 Subject: [LNC] mapping absence Message-ID: Hi Phil, This is a rather typical, and highly disturbing, attempt at controlling public memory. I've attempted to explain a procedure for mapping absence in a relatively recent essay. M. Lane Bruner, "Rhetorical Criticism as Limit Work," Western Journal of Communication 66 (Summer 2002): 281-99. I know that many graduate students here in the US have begun to employ such a methodological approach when attempting to understand and map rejected or "transgressive" (unspeakable) speech (which is often, of course, truthful speech). Michael M. Lane Bruner Assoc. Professor of Critical Political Communication Graduate Director, Doctoral Program in Public Communication Department of Communication Georgia State University 1052 One Park Place Atlanta, GA 30303-4000 USA 404-651-3465 (o) 404-651-1409 (f) ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:35 AM >>> One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or understand significant absences? Any ideas?? Phil _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina --> Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to censor the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news agency is reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now rejecting requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph any dead bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy to the Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of the caskets of soldiers killed in Iraq. NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers have been seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger named Bob Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. Brigham writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans Louisiana. The First Amendment sank with the city.* -- http://www.democracynow.org From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 11:56:08 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 11:56:40 2005 Subject: [LNC] mapping absence In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks Michael. Do you have an electronic copy. I'm very interested to read it. Best, Phil On 08/09/2005, at 11:51 AM, Michael Bruner wrote: > Hi Phil, > > This is a rather typical, and highly disturbing, attempt at > controlling public memory. > > I've attempted to explain a procedure for mapping absence in a > relatively recent essay. M. Lane Bruner, "Rhetorical Criticism as > Limit Work," Western Journal of Communication 66 (Summer 2002): > 281-99. I know that many graduate students here in the US have > begun to employ such a methodological approach when attempting to > understand and map rejected or "transgressive" (unspeakable) speech > (which is often, of course, truthful speech). > > Michael > > M. Lane Bruner > Assoc. Professor of Critical Political Communication > Graduate Director, Doctoral Program in Public Communication > Department of Communication > Georgia State University > 1052 One Park Place > Atlanta, GA 30303-4000 > USA > 404-651-3465 (o) > 404-651-1409 (f) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >>>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:35 AM >>> >>>> > One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or understand > significant absences? > > Any ideas?? > Phil > > _____ > > From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] > Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM > To: mark.miller@nyu.edu > Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina > > > --> > > Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans > > In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to > censor > the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news > agency is > reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now > rejecting > requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm > victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph > any dead > bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy > to the > Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of > the caskets > of soldiers killed in Iraq. > > NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers > have been > seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger > named Bob > Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in > Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. > Brigham > writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans > Louisiana. The > First Amendment sank with the city.* > -- > http://www.democracynow.org > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 13:25:22 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 13:25:54 2005 Subject: [LNC] The Visible Hand Message-ID: <1371A3A0-EE6B-49A6-80D6-A45965B013CF@uwaterloo.ca> Government Intervention in Stock Market is Detailed by New Report, GATA Says Tuesday September 6, 8:30 am ET http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050906/65371.html MANCHESTER, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2005--A major Canadian financial management firm that a year ago published a compilation of evidence of central bank manipulation of the gold price has just done the same in regard to the U.S. stock market and has reached a similar conclusion. ADVERTISEMENT The new report is titled "Move Over, Adam Smith: The Visible Hand of Uncle Sam," and has been published by Sprott Asset Management of Toronto. It was written by the firm's president, John P. Embry, and his assistant, Andrew Hepburn, and concludes that the U.S. government has intervened to support the stock market so many times that "what apparently started as a stopgap measure may have morphed into a serious moral hazard situation, with market manipulation an endemic feature of the U.S. stock market." The new report relies largely on reports of news organizations and the essays and research papers of economics academics that, as might be expected, have not been well-publicized in the United States. But some of these reports have been circulated by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee over the years. The Sprott report does not maintain that the government should never intervene in the stock market; it recognizes that certain emergencies may argue strongly for temporary intervention, such as the 1987 stock market crash and the terrorist attacks of September 2001. But, the Sprott report notes, frequent surreptitious intervention, conducted through intermediaries, the government's favored financial houses in New York, gives those intermediaries enormous advantages over ordinary investors. Frequent intervention, the Sprott report adds also makes it impossible to distinguish between national emergencies and political expediency. The Sprott report concludes: "Given the available information, we do not believe there can be any doubt that the U.S. government has intervened to support the stock market. Too much credible information exists to deny this. Yet virtually no one ever mentions government intervention publicly, preferring instead to pretend as if such activities have never taken place and never would. "It is time that market participants, the media and, most of all, the government acknowledge what should be blatantly obvious to anyone who reviews the public record on the matter: These markets have been interfered with on numerous occasions. Our primary concern is that what apparently started as a stopgap measure may have morphed into a serious moral hazard situation, with market manipulation an endemic feature of the U.S. stock market. "We have not taken a position on the wisdom of intervention in this paper, largely because exceptional circumstances could argue for it. In many respects, for instance, the apparent rescue after the 1987 crash and the planned intervention in the wake of September 11 were very defensible. Administered in extremely small doses and with the most stringent safeguards and transparency, market stabilization could be justified. "But a policy enacted in secret and knowingly withheld from the body politic has created a huge disconnect between those knowledgeable about such activities and the majority of the public, who have no clue whatsoever. "There can be no doubt that the firms responsible for implementing government interventions enjoy an enviable position unavailable to other investors. Whether they have been indemnified against potential losses or simply made privy to non-public government policy, the major Wall Street firms evidently responsible for preventing plunges no longer must compete on anywhere near a level playing field. It is most unfair that the immensely powerful have been further ensconced in their perched positions and thus effectively insulated from the competitive market forces ostensibly present in our society. "In addition to creating a privileged class, the manipulation also has little democratic legitimacy in the sense that the citizenry has not given its consent. This has tangible ramifications. By not informing the public, successive U.S. administrations have employed a dangerous policy response that is subject to the worst possible abuse. In this regard, the line between national necessity and political expediency has no doubt been perilously blurred. "We can only urge people to see what the evidence indicates and debate what is and ought to be a very contentious matter. The time for such a public discussion is long overdue." The Sprott report can be found in Adobe Acrobat format at the Sprott Internet site here: http://www.sprott.com/pdf/pressrelease/ TheVisibleHand.pdf It also can be found at the GATA Internet site here: http:// www.gata.org/SprottReportTheVisibleHand.pdf Contact: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Chris Powell, 860-646-0500 Source: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/8afa1eeb/attachment.html From joumib at langate.gsu.edu Thu Sep 8 14:48:28 2005 From: joumib at langate.gsu.edu (Michael Bruner) Date: Thu Sep 8 14:50:52 2005 Subject: [LNC] mapping absence Message-ID: Hi Phil, I tracked down a late draft on my old computer, and it is 99% of what the final article turned out to be . . . so hopefully it will suffice (it is in Word 97, hope you can read it). If not, let me know and I'll keep looking. Thanks for your interest, and I'd love to know what you think if you get around to reading it. Michael >>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:56 AM >>> Thanks Michael. Do you have an electronic copy. I'm very interested to read it. Best, Phil On 08/09/2005, at 11:51 AM, Michael Bruner wrote: > Hi Phil, > > This is a rather typical, and highly disturbing, attempt at > controlling public memory. > > I've attempted to explain a procedure for mapping absence in a > relatively recent essay. M. Lane Bruner, "Rhetorical Criticism as > Limit Work," Western Journal of Communication 66 (Summer 2002): > 281-99. I know that many graduate students here in the US have > begun to employ such a methodological approach when attempting to > understand and map rejected or "transgressive" (unspeakable) speech > (which is often, of course, truthful speech). > > Michael > > M. Lane Bruner > Assoc. Professor of Critical Political Communication > Graduate Director, Doctoral Program in Public Communication > Department of Communication > Georgia State University > 1052 One Park Place > Atlanta, GA 30303-4000 > USA > 404-651-3465 (o) > 404-651-1409 (f) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >>>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:35 AM >>> >>>> > One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or understand > significant absences? > > Any ideas?? > Phil > > _____ > > From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] > Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM > To: mark.miller@nyu.edu > Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina > > > --> > > Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans > > In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to > censor > the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news > agency is > reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now > rejecting > requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm > victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph > any dead > bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy > to the > Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of > the caskets > of soldiers killed in Iraq. > > NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers > have been > seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger > named Bob > Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in > Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. > Brigham > writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans > Louisiana. The > First Amendment sank with the city.* > -- > http://www.democracynow.org > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > _______________________________________________ LNC mailing list LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If not, let me > know and I'll keep looking. > > Thanks for your interest, and I'd love to know what you think if > you get around to reading it. > > Michael > > >>>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:56 AM >>> >>>> > Thanks Michael. Do you have an electronic copy. I'm very interested > to read it. > Best, > Phil > On 08/09/2005, at 11:51 AM, Michael Bruner wrote: > > >> Hi Phil, >> >> This is a rather typical, and highly disturbing, attempt at >> controlling public memory. >> >> I've attempted to explain a procedure for mapping absence in a >> relatively recent essay. M. Lane Bruner, "Rhetorical Criticism as >> Limit Work," Western Journal of Communication 66 (Summer 2002): >> 281-99. I know that many graduate students here in the US have >> begun to employ such a methodological approach when attempting to >> understand and map rejected or "transgressive" (unspeakable) speech >> (which is often, of course, truthful speech). >> >> Michael >> >> M. Lane Bruner >> Assoc. Professor of Critical Political Communication >> Graduate Director, Doctoral Program in Public Communication >> Department of Communication >> Georgia State University >> 1052 One Park Place >> Atlanta, GA 30303-4000 >> USA >> 404-651-3465 (o) >> 404-651-1409 (f) >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> >>>>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 09/08/05 11:35 AM >>> >>>>> >>>>> >> One thing that continues to plague me: how do we analyse or >> understand >> significant absences? >> >> Any ideas?? >> Phil >> >> _____ >> >> From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] >> Sent: September 8, 2005 11:14 AM >> To: mark.miller@nyu.edu >> Subject: Bush cracking down on press coverage post-Katrina >> >> >> --> >> >> Federal Government Attempts to Block Press Access To New Orleans >> >> In New Orleans the federal government is being accused of trying to >> censor >> the images coming out of the devastated city. The Reuters news >> agency is >> reporting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is now >> rejecting >> requests by journalists to accompany rescue boats searching for storm >> victims. In addition journalists are being asked not to photograph >> any dead >> bodies in the region. Critics of FEMA's request compared the policy >> to the >> Pentagon's policy that bars reporters from taking photographs of >> the caskets >> of soldiers killed in Iraq. >> >> NBC News Anchor Brian Williams is reporting that police officers >> have been >> seen aiming their weapons at members of the media. And a blogger >> named Bob >> Brigham has written a widely read dispatch that the National Guard in >> Jefferson County are under orders to turn all journalists away. >> Brigham >> writes *Bush is now censoring all reporting from New Orleans >> Louisiana. The >> First Amendment sank with the city.* >> -- >> http://www.democracynow.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LNC mailing list >> LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu >> http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > > > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 15:14:45 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 15:15:22 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fwd: Murder References: Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark Crispin Miller > Date: 8 September 2005 2:18:24 PM > To: Mark Crispin Miller > Subject: Murder > > > http://buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/09/mai05241.html > > -snip- > > Subject: FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead 9/7 > > Just like Operation Iraq Freedom. No photos of the dead. > > I went to the Bring the Troops Home Tour in Evanston, IL last > night. I heard many heartbreaking and breathtaking speakers. Many > were Gold Star Parents. Some were anti-war and Peace activists. > There was a Blue Star wife - her husband is awaiting deployment to > Iraq in November. One of the most heartbreaking story I heard was > that told by the father of a soldier who - if I have the timeline > correct, was scheduled to return from Iraq, and was killed > reportedly by his own hand, just hours before his return. The > family wanted to attend his return in Dover. They were denied. They > were told that this soldier had committed suicide (only minutes > after a phone conversation with his family) but were not allowed to > see his body. > > They requested an open casket funeral. They were denied and > discovered the casket had been locked shut. They finally convinced > a person at the funeral home to open the casket in order to see > their son before he was to be buried. They discovered he had been > shot in the back of his head. They were told by his fellow soldiers > that this happened when he was showering following his phone call. > Upon further investigation, they also learned (from his friends in > the military) that his own firearm had not been used. Days later, > when they went to the funeral home they learned that the worker who > had opened the casket for them to see their beloved son had been > fired from her job. > > No photos. No viewings. Not at Dover, nor at the funeral home. If > they don't see their beloved family members, then this government > can say whatever it wants. The stories are just that - stories. > They don't have to make sense. They don't have to be true. > > Now no photos. No viewings. Not in New Orleans. Not in the > Superdome. Not in the nursing homes. Not in the streets. The > stories will be just that - stories. They won't have to make sense. > They won't have to be true. > > We must keep the lies of being safe at home alive. No matter how > many dead we have. > > We must have accountability and we will never get it from this > government. We will have more lies, more tax breaks for the rich, > more moneys for Halliburton. This government must be impeached! > (can we impeach a government?) > > There is a march and rally at the White House on September 24. > People are coming from all over the nation. > > We must show our disgust and anger toward this administration's > lack of humanity. Please join the thousands already committed to > demand accountability and change. > > Leslie Evanston, IL > -snip- > quentin mar? > qmare@mac.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thom Hartmann (in my opinion, the BEST talk radio host in the nation) dropped me this note last night: "I got a call this morning from what was almost certainly a quickly-thrown-together Rove Operation Republican boiler room operation. He was calling from "northern Virginia" and couldn't possibly have heard KPOJ's signal here in Portland (this was when I was doing our local show) - even at 25,000 watts, we only weakly reach all the way to Seattle. No way we're bouncing over the Rockies. And he didn't know my name. Some guy working off a list of talk shows, asking why we weren't talking more about the failures of the Mayor and Governor in LA/NO..." Thom If you haven't listened to Thom, online if you have to, you should. And read his op-eds too at our Thom Hartmann article archive. The lying dirtball rightwing extremist Republican leader, Tom Delay, stumbling to talk the right wing party lie, said that emergency response starts from the bottom up, beginning with the mayor, then the governor. Too bad Bush issued an order saying the federal government was taking charge on August 27, the same day the governor of LA requested such aid. Now DeLay is saying that it would be better to postpone hearings, so FEMA officials are not dragged away from the disaster response. I say drag the incompetent losers away. They have not helped. They have hindered. If there was a disaster in my area, I'd prefer that the current FEMA team stay away. Well, since there are more registered Republicans in my precinct than Democrats, maybe FEMA would do its job. But, being close to Philly, which votes 80-85% democratic, I'd surely want FEMA to stay away. They'd let the city be destroyed, then move people to the reddest state, using their newest election theft strategy, gerrymandering by disaster. I'll repeat what I said in my last email: Now is the time that we must wake up Americans to the destruction right wing Republicans (and I'll add} right wing democrats (like Lieberman, Biden, Schumer and their DLC friends) have already inflicted upon the US, and the awful potential of three more years of Republican rule to lay waste to the US and make it a true third world nation. We have to get rid of these right wing extremists. The Washington Post was duped into supporting the right wing echo-chamber lie, shifting the blame to the mayor and governor, but they wised up and offered a retraction, stating: A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26. 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URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/d5680690/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 19:13:38 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 8 19:14:11 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Paramedics: Police Prevent People from Leaving New Orleans Message-ID: <200509082313.j88NDau04217@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> This just keeps getting stranger. First, soldiers to get everybody out. Now police to keep everybody in. Phil ************** t r u t h o u t | 09.08 Paramedics: Police Prevent People from Leaving New Orleans http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805A.shtml Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky, paramedics from California who were attending the EMS conference in New Orleans, detail their own experiences during and after Katrina. Their reports show that official relief efforts were callous, inept, and racist. Offers Pour In, But the US Is Unprepared http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805B.shtml Generous offers of aid for Hurricane Katrina victims are pouring in from scores of nations, but in many cases the United States is unprepared to receive the goods. Macabre Reminder: The Corpse on Union Street http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805C.shtml Six National Guardsmen walked up to the corpse on Union Street Tuesday afternoon. One soldier took a parting snapshot like some visiting conventioneer, and they walked away. Norman Solomon | "Bush the Protector" vs. "Bush the Menace" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805D.shtml The media storyline for the cataclysm of 9/11 - echoing countless narratives from Bush and others in the administration - was a continuous tale of American virtue in a mortal struggle with its opposite. Few journalists challenged that simplicity, but now, Norman Solomon explains, to the extent that the media storyline for the catastrophe of New Orleans has a villain, it's the Bush Administration itself. Newsweek | Wrong Priorities? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805E.shtml Angry state officials accuse the White House of ignoring warnings that its focus on terror left the nation unprepared to cope with natural disasters. Schwarzenegger to Veto Same-Sex Marriage Bill http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805F.shtml Governor Schwarzenegger announced Wednesday night that he will veto landmark legislation that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry. Feingold: Provide Airtime for Hurricane Survivors http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805G.shtml In a letter to the five major news networks, US Senator Russ Feingold today asked each of them to provide airtime to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina who are spread out across the country in relief staging areas. America Takes a Dive http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805H.shtml Barely a word of compassion for Katrina's victims and the perpetual, endless, everlasting excuse that he had already used after the September 11, 2001, attacks: no one could have predicted. It is even more of a lie today than it was four years ago. Edwards, Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, Dean Step Up Criticism of White House http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805I.shtml Democratic leaders unleashed a burst of attacks on the White House on Wednesday, saying the wreckage in New Orleans raised doubts about the country's readiness to endure a terrorist attack and exposed ominous economic rifts that they said had worsened under five years of Republican rule. Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805J.shtml On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones, people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without bread could eat cake. Cindy Sheehan | What Kind of Extremist Will You Be? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805K.shtml Cindy Sheehan laments that now oceans of blood - both Iraqi and American - have been spilled for ruinous and disturbing policies of very bad people in our government who have based their reasons for invasion and occupation on their twisted imaginations and their seemingly bottomless lust for power, profits, chaos and confusion. UN Report: Parts of America Are as Poor as Third World http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805L.shtml Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a shocking United Nations report on global inequality. Sidney Blumenthal | What Didn't Go Right? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805M.shtml The Bush administration's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina stands as the pluperfect case study of the Republican Party's theory and practice of government. Sidney Blumenthal reminds us that for decades conservatives have funded think tanks, filled libraries and conducted political campaigns to promote the idea of limited government. Now, in New Orleans, the theory has been tested. The floodwaters have rolled over the rhetoric. Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of Dead http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805N.shtml "It's impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story," Larry Siems of the PEN American Center told Reuters. Democrats Seek Roberts Papers, but Administration Balks http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805O.shtml In 1990, the Federal Communications Commission asked the first Bush administration to defend a policy aimed at encouraging more minority ownership of broadcast stations. As the number two man in the solicitor general's office, John G. Roberts Jr. played a critical role in the government's decision to reject the request, according to documents that came to light yesterday. Max J. Castro | Katrina Exposes Ugly Aspects of Bush and America http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805P.shtml It is not merely an emotional outburst when a top rap singer says on national television that George Bush doesn't care about black people; Max J. Castro says it's a solid argument backed not just by the evidence of the past few days but also by the policies of the last five and a half years. Now: Did Race and Class Affect the Relief Effort? http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Q.shtml How did race and class affect the relief effort in the aftermath of Katrina? William Rivers Pitt | Let the Dead Teach the Living http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Y.shtml "What have the dead taught the living in the last two weeks," William Rivers Pitt asks. We have learned that priorities matter. We have learned that the conservative small-government model is a recipe for catastrophe. We have learned that government is sure to absolutely fail its citizens when it is run by people who hate government. Responsible and effective government matters. At this moment, we have neither. We are, simply put, on our own. Dean: Race Played a Role in Katrina Deaths http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Z.shtml Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard Dean told members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday at the group's annual meeting. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ You are subscribed as: pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca Click to REMOVE -> mailto:leave-260832-92679Y@news.truthout.org Go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org Click to SUBSCRIBE -> http://truthout.org/subscribe.htm Our Privacy Policy -> http://truthout.org/privacypolicy.htm From sotillos at mail.montclair.edu Thu Sep 8 23:11:50 2005 From: sotillos at mail.montclair.edu (Susana Sotillo) Date: Thu Sep 8 23:15:34 2005 Subject: [LNC] Trying again from OpEdNews Message-ID: <4320FD76.1010402@mail.montclair.edu> THE STORY OF THE HURRICANE COWBOY WHO FIDDLED WHILE NEW ORLEANS DROWNED How Bush Spent His Summer Vacation by Amanda Lang, PhD http://www.opednews.com Why did Bush vacation - cut wood, clear brush, bike, and read -- for days while the world watched Katrina develop then slam as a category 4 hurricane into the Gulf Coast? Just as he did on September 11, 2001, he froze. They don't have cable or telephones in Crawford? The unfolding catastrophe has Bush leadership skills, or lack thereof, written all over it. He treats his own citizens with the same contempt and callousness as he does the Iraqi civilians - as "collateral damage." If a category 4 hurricane is not a "bomb" dropping on American soil, what is? Bush remained on vacation one whole day after Katrina hit, WAITING FOR WHAT? The federal government was 'missing in action' and has failed its citizens abysmally. And Congress... where the hell are they? They rushed back to Washington over night for one woman's feeding tube, but can't seem to find the way back for a destructive hurricane that most likely killed thousands. Are these citizens too poor or not expounding the right religion to garner the attention the Trade Tower victims received? They all sat and watched this train wreck, now they are screwing up the rescue and salvage, probably busy searching for the 'scapegoat' du jour. Do the Bush administration and Congress want to create a situation where they could declare martial law? Looks like it. New Orleans has become a war zone. Martial law declared. Since when is a policy of "you loot, we shoot" appropriate for people just trying to survive until help arrives? THEY ARE DYING. So are they 'looters' or 'survivors' (like the TV show "Survivor" Americans loves to love)? So what if in addition to food, water, diapers, and medical supplies, they take some jeans? They've been wearing oil, chemical and sewer-soaked clothes for days. They're wading through floating, decaying dead bodies. New Orleans is and will be uninhabitable for three to six months at least, so the merchandise is already a write-off. Think about it? Would you want this merchandise? Let good come from it while it can. The 'survivors' have obtained weapons and are using them. Escaped prisoners riot and hold hostages. People go 'feral' displaying 'pack' and/or 'mob' behaviors when threatened and their lives are in 'great peril.' Unfortunately, in America you can find a gun anywhere in virtually any caliber, so chaos reigns. A "loot-shoot" policy only exacerbates the problem. Relief workers received orders to divert efforts from 'saving people' to 'crime fighting'. Why choose 'property' over 'life'? The policy lacks common sense, compassion, or understanding of the survival instinct. CNN has images of people dead and dying on camera. Their reporters are watching people - children and elderly - die before their eyes. The sick, injured, dehydrated, starving, and scared feel abandoned. In the hot, stinking Superdome, where 25,000 refugees await evacuation, fires and fighting are breaking out. Fear, anger, and hopelessness will push conditions to a boil, and more people than necessary will die - mostly the innocent victims of this horrible disaster. Do we need to request U.N Aid and Peace Keeping Forces? It appears we lack the expertise and leadership to prevent or deal with a major national crisis. Why aren't these convoys and helicopters dropping in water, food, and medicine to these trapped individuals? Yes, conditions are deteriorating, but our National Guard soldiers fly helicopters through Iraq every day taking gunfire for a far less legitimate cause. Is the relief necessary beyond the Bush administration's capabilities? We do not posses the numbers of National Guard soldiers and relief workers necessary to get this situation under control. Just like Iraq - not enough bodies on the ground to do the job. Bush cut funding to New Orleans hurricane preparations by $72.1 million and gave eight jets to Pakistan - FREE - valued at $36 million each = $288 million. Get the picture. 'Survivors' of this crisis sure could use that $288 million and the $5.6 billion per month [this breaks down to almost $186 million a day] or $67.2 BILLION PER YEAR the Neocons are throwing at Iraq, plus the billions in pork given to corporations this year alone. Even worse, image you're a National Guard soldier in Iraq that has family, friends, and property in 'harm's way, but are stuck policing the streets of Iraq. The irony of the situation is macabre. You were sent to fight an urban guerilla war based on a 'buffet' of evolving lies and rationales -- perhaps on your second or third tour -- and your family is back home dealing with this mess alone -- homeless, injured, starving, drowning, or dying -- and you are not there and you don't have a clue what their condition is because no one else does. Tragic irony. They face an uncertain future and still may die themselves on a street or road in Iraq. In the news, they hear of over-the-top CEO salaries, while Florida hotels evict refugee families so fans can attend a football game. How would you feel to discover your loved ones where not evacuated, even though it was known a category 4 or 5 hurricane was approaching? Or even worse, they still stuck in the disaster area because at your pay scale, they just couldn't afford to leave. A reckoning time is here. The 'Hurricane Cowboy' has a lot to answer for, as do the 'knuckled-headed' Neocons and the 'do-nothing' Congress. This tragedy should have been prevented. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lives completely destroyed and while Bush fiddled with a guitar, went on a two-day speaking jaunt/fund-raiser to California and Arizona, and 'read' a speech, ironically to a group of sailors and WWII veterans: "This morning, our hearts and prayers are with our fellow citizens along the Gulf Coast," Bush said. "We know that many are anxious to return to their homes. It's not possible at this moment." His heart and prayers may have been there, but his ass sure wasn't. This article was cited by UK's Guardian. But they made a mistake. The paragraph below corrects it. Amanda Lang was an E-5, 52B-D, in Gasoline and Diesel Depot Power Generation Equipment Repair. She enlisted in 1976 and per her enlistment contract, ETS date 79, honorably discharged. She adds this due to the continuing attack of honorable military men and women by these Neocon Chickenhawks. Think John McCain, Max Cleland... She is not or has never been an officer...she worked for her living in the military. Amanda Lang, PhD conducts research in Organizational and Technological Innovation primarily in the area of New and Strategic Business Development. 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URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050909/cdc35985/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 8 15:14:45 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 9 09:45:55 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fwd: Murder References: Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark Crispin Miller > Date: 8 September 2005 2:18:24 PM > To: Mark Crispin Miller > Subject: Murder > > > http://buzzflash.com/mailbag/05/09/mai05241.html > > -snip- > > Subject: FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead 9/7 > > Just like Operation Iraq Freedom. No photos of the dead. > > I went to the Bring the Troops Home Tour in Evanston, IL last > night. I heard many heartbreaking and breathtaking speakers. Many > were Gold Star Parents. Some were anti-war and Peace activists. > There was a Blue Star wife - her husband is awaiting deployment to > Iraq in November. One of the most heartbreaking story I heard was > that told by the father of a soldier who - if I have the timeline > correct, was scheduled to return from Iraq, and was killed > reportedly by his own hand, just hours before his return. The > family wanted to attend his return in Dover. They were denied. They > were told that this soldier had committed suicide (only minutes > after a phone conversation with his family) but were not allowed to > see his body. > > They requested an open casket funeral. They were denied and > discovered the casket had been locked shut. They finally convinced > a person at the funeral home to open the casket in order to see > their son before he was to be buried. They discovered he had been > shot in the back of his head. They were told by his fellow soldiers > that this happened when he was showering following his phone call. > Upon further investigation, they also learned (from his friends in > the military) that his own firearm had not been used. Days later, > when they went to the funeral home they learned that the worker who > had opened the casket for them to see their beloved son had been > fired from her job. > > No photos. No viewings. Not at Dover, nor at the funeral home. If > they don't see their beloved family members, then this government > can say whatever it wants. The stories are just that - stories. > They don't have to make sense. They don't have to be true. > > Now no photos. No viewings. Not in New Orleans. Not in the > Superdome. Not in the nursing homes. Not in the streets. The > stories will be just that - stories. They won't have to make sense. > They won't have to be true. > > We must keep the lies of being safe at home alive. No matter how > many dead we have. > > We must have accountability and we will never get it from this > government. We will have more lies, more tax breaks for the rich, > more moneys for Halliburton. This government must be impeached! > (can we impeach a government?) > > There is a march and rally at the White House on September 24. > People are coming from all over the nation. > > We must show our disgust and anger toward this administration's > lack of humanity. Please join the thousands already committed to > demand accountability and change. > > Leslie Evanston, IL > -snip- > quentin mar? > qmare@mac.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050908/7b683071/attachment-0002.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Fri Sep 9 16:26:47 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Fri Sep 9 16:27:30 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fwd: Help Ben Marble! References: Message-ID: Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark Crispin Miller > Date: 9 September 2005 3:44:37 PM > To: mark.miller@nyu.edu > Subject: Help Ben Marble! > > > This column is also at > http://opednews.com/articles/ > opedne_jackson__050909_physician_who_told_o.htm > > > Physician who told off Cheney lost his home in Katrina, arrested by > Cheney's M-16-carrying goons, selling video of confrontation on eBay > > By Jackson Thoreau > > Dr. Ben Marble, a young emergency room physician who plays in > alternative rock bands and does art on the side, needs our help. Since > he was the one who told Dick Cheney to "go fuck yourself" on Thursday, > that's the least we can do. > > Marble is a complex guy, to say the least. Some of the lyrics he > writes can be considered harsh by some - personally what I've heard is > very much on target - but he has a softer side as an organizer of > breast cancer fund-raisers, not to mention an ER doctor. > > When he, like thousands of others, lost his home due to Hurricane > Katrina last week, it was the single most traumatic week of his life. > That led to his confrontation with the man who best represents the > worst of the most callous, heartless, shittiest administration in U.S. > history on Thursday. > > As Marble explains, he was driving to his destroyed house Thursday in > Gulfport, Ms., when military police refused to allow him to cross a > barricade that was about 200 feet from his home. They forced him to > drive an extra 20 minutes and spend even more on gasoline. > > "Thanks to Dubya Gump and Mr. Cheney, gas is really expensive and > extremely hard to get anywhere Katrina has destroyed," Marble wrote. > "So needless to say, I was extremely aggravated that they wouldn't let > me pass." > > Suddenly a long line of dark cars pulled up, and they honked at Marble > to back up to let them through the barricade that supposedly no one > could drive through. That only made Marble madder so he did what most > of us would do - or at least consider doing. > > "I waved a middle finger at the caravan," Marble wrote. > > After driving the extra 20 minutes and filming video of destruction > along the way, he made it to his home. Marble overheard a neighbor say > that Cheney was down the street talking to people. That's when he got > the idea to go meet Dr. Evil himself. > > "I am no fan of Mr. Cheney because of several reasons," Marble wrote. > "For those who don't know, Mr. Cheney is infamous for telling Senator > [Pat] Leahy 'go fu** yourself' on the Senate floor. Also, I am > not happy about the fact that thousands have died due to the slow > action of FEMA, not to even mention the wrong war in the wrong place > at the wrong time, i.e. Iraq." > > So Marble asked a couple police officers if he and a friend could walk > down to Cheney. They told him Cheney was "looking forward" to talking > to "the locals." > > "So we grabbed my Canon digital rebel and my Sony videocamera and > started walking down the street," Marble wrote. "And then right in > front of the destroyed tennis court I used to play on Dick Cheney was > giving a pep rally, talking to the press. The secret service guys > patted us down and waved the wands over us, and then let us pass." > > As he stood about 10 feet away from Cheney and his friend and some > camera operators from CNN and other media filmed the scene, Marble > suddenly yelled, "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself, you > asshole!" > > Hey, at least Marble was polite. After all, he referred to Cheney as > "Mr. Cheney." > > "I had no intention of harming anyone but merely wanted to echo Mr. > Cheney's infamous words back at him," Marble wrote. "At that moment, I > noticed the Secret Service guys with a panic-stricken look on their > faces, like they were about to tackle me, so I calmly walked away back > to my former house." > > His friend videotaped a little bit longer and then came back to > Marble's house. As they were salvaging a few things from Marble's > home, two military police waving M-16's showed up and said they were > looking > for someone who fit Marble's description who had cursed at Cheney. > > "I told them I was probably the person they were looking for, and so > they put me in handcuffs and 'detained' me for about 20 minutes or > so," Marble wrote. "My right thumb went numb because the cuffs were on > so tight, but they were fairly courteous and eventually released me > after getting all my contact info. They said I had NOT broken any laws > so I was free to go." > > So let's get this straight: A physician with a newborn baby loses most > everything he owns in the hurricane, does what most of us WANT to do > and "echoes" Cheney's words he spoke on the god-damned Senate floor > last year, walks away harmlessly, mission accomplished, and then once > the media cameras leave, he is treated like a foreign terrorist as > Cheney's goons waving M-16s handcuff him in front of his destroyed > home? Had it not been for the media cameras filming the initial scene, > I doubt Cheney's goons would have just let Marble go after 20 minutes. > > America, land of the free? > > Marble and his family have been in the media spotlight before, > including his wife, Lisa, and baby, Sofia Grace, who was born shortly > after the storm, on CNN. Marble has also been interviewed in art > magazines and the Biloxi Sun Herald about his concert fund-raisers and > musical success - one of his bands, dR. O, has had at least 20 No. 1 > songs on the MP3.com charts. > > "The truth is even with all our losses, we are still luckier than many > people down here because at least we didn't die," Marble wrote. "But I > thought I could try to raise some awareness to the bad policies of the > Dubya Gump administration and also possibly raise some money to > replace the many things we lost, and so I decided I would auction the > videotape my friend shot of the event. I will also grant an interview > to the winner if so desired." > > So go to eBay at > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? > ViewItem&item=7712048060&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 > and place a bid for this important video to help Marble raise some > needed funds. I have done so and was at least at one time the high > bidder. > > Marble also has an Internet site with photographs of some damage in > his town at www.HurricaneKatrinaSucked.com. A photo of him is at > http://www.theharbinger.org/xix/000919/smith.html and you can also > email Marble at clone9@yahoo.com. > > Dr. Ben Marble, you rock. May we all return the favor. > > Jackson Thoreau is a Washington, D.C.-area journalist/writer. The > latest book to which he contributed, Big Bush Lies, was published by > RiverWood Books of Ashland, Ore. He is working on another book called > "Thou Shalt Not Cheat: How Bush and Rove Broke the Rules, From the > Sandlot to the White House." He can be contacted at > jacksonthor@gmail.com. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"They were not reprimanded," Nichols said. "They were counseled." Lt. Matt Udkow and Lt. David Shand returned to the base from their mission on Aug. 30, a day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Nichols said. Udkow and Shand met the next morning with Cmdr. Michael Holdener, who reminded them their orders were to fly water and other supplies to three destinations in Mississippi - the Stennis Space Center, Pascagoula and Gulfport - and then return to Pensacola, Nichols said. "The Hollywood role of this thing is search and rescue," Nichols told The Associated Press. "Logistics was just as important. They realize that." According to an account in The New York Times, the two air crews picked up a Coast Guard radio call that helicopters were needed for rescues in New Orleans. They were out of radio range to Pensacola, so they decided to fly their helicopters to New Orleans and join the rescue effort without permission. It took only minutes for the H-3 helicopters to fly to New Orleans, where Udkow's crew plucked people off rooftops. Shand landed his helicopter on the roof of an apartment building where more than a dozen people had been stranded. When he returned to get more, two crew members entered the building and found two blind residents and led them to the helicopter. Udkow later received permission to continue with the rescue missions when he landed to refuel in New Orleans. Both helicopters returned to Pensacola, about 200 miles east of New Orleans, by dark, as required by flight rules. Nichols was unsure whether any supplies went undelivered as a result of the rescues. The pilots and Holdener weren't available for interviews Wednesday, Nichols said. He said Udkow was flying and Shand was resting between missions. "We all want to be the guys who rescue people," Holdener told the Times. "But they were told we have other missions we have to do right now and that is not the priority." The air over New Orleans was so thick with helicopters a few days later that crews were having a hard time finding people who needed rescuing, but that was not the case when Udkow and Shand flew their rescue missions. "I would be looking at a family of two on one roof and maybe a family of six on another roof, and I would have to make a decision who to rescue," Udkow told the Times. "It wasn't easy." Nichols said Udkow was in no way being punished by being put in charge of a temporary kennel in Pensacola for pets of military personnel who had been evacuated from hurricane-stricken areas. "It's a collateral duty," Nichols said. "These guys don't just fly. They do other stuff." From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Sat Sep 10 20:50:48 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Sat Sep 10 20:51:19 2005 Subject: [LNC] Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans Message-ID: <200509110050.j8B0oic21306@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans By Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo t r u t h o u t | Report http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005A.shtml Saturday 10 September 2005 New Orleans - Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been "deputized" by the Louisiana governor; indeed some are wearing gold Louisiana state law enforcement badges on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards on their arms. They say they are on contract with the Department of Homeland Security and have been given the authority to use lethal force. Several mercenaries we spoke with said they had served in Iraq on the personal security details of the former head of the US occupation, L. Paul Bremer and the former US ambassador to Iraq, John Negroponte. "This is a totally new thing to have guys like us working CONUS (Continental United States)," a heavily armed Blackwater mercenary told us as we stood on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. "We're much better equipped to deal with the situation in Iraq." Blackwater mercenaries are some of the most feared professional killers in the world and they are accustomed to operating without worry of legal consequences. Their presence on the streets of New Orleans should be a cause for serious concern for the remaining residents of the city and raises alarming questions about why the government would allow men trained to kill with impunity in places like Iraq and Afghanistan to operate here. Some of the men now patrolling the streets of New Orleans returned from Iraq as recently as 2 weeks ago. What is most disturbing is the claim of several Blackwater mercenaries we spoke with that they are here under contract from the federal and Louisiana state governments. Blackwater is one of the leading private "security" firms servicing the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It has several US government contracts and has provided security for many senior US diplomats, foreign dignitaries and corporations. The company rose to international prominence after 4 of its men were killed in Fallujah and two of their charred bodies were hung from a bridge in March 2004. Those killings sparked the massive US retaliation against the civilian population of Fallujah that resulted in scores of deaths and tens of thousands of refugees. As the threat of forced evictions now looms in New Orleans and the city confiscates even legally registered weapons from civilians, the private mercenaries of Blackwater patrol the streets openly wielding M-16s and other assault weapons. This despite Police Commissioner Eddie Compass' claim that "Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons." Officially, Blackwater says it forces are in New Orleans to "join the Hurricane Relief Effort." A statement on the company's website, dated September 1, advertises airlift services, security services and crowd control. The company, according to news reports, has since begun taking private contracts to guard hotels, businesses and other properties. But what has not been publicly acknowledged is the claim, made to us by 2 Blackwater mercenaries, that they are actually engaged in general law enforcement activities including "securing neighborhoods" and "confronting criminals." That raises a key question: under what authority are Blackwater's men operating? A spokesperson for the Homeland Security Department, Russ Knocke, told the Washington Post he knows of no federal plans to hire Blackwater or other private security. "We believe we've got the right mix of personnel in law enforcement for the federal government to meet the demands of public safety." he said. But in an hour-long conversation with several Blackwater mercenaries, we heard a different story. The men we spoke with said they are indeed on contract with the Department of Homeland Security and the Louisiana governor's office and that some of them are sleeping in camps organized by Homeland Security in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. One of them wore a gold Louisiana state law enforcement badge and said he had been "deputized" by the governor. They told us they not only had authority to make arrests but also to use lethal force. We encountered the Blackwater forces as we walked through the streets of the largely deserted French Quarter. We were talking with 2 New York Police officers when an unmarked car without license plates sped up next to us and stopped. Inside were 3 men, dressed in khaki uniforms, flak jackets and wielding automatic weapons. "Y'all know where the Blackwater guys are?" they asked. One of the police officers responded, "There are a bunch of them around here," and pointed down the road. "Blackwater?" we asked. "The guys who are in Iraq?" "Yeah," said the officer. "They're all over the place." A short while later, as we continued down Bourbon Street, we ran into the men from the car. They wore Blackwater ID badges on their arms. "When they told me New Orleans, I said, 'What country is that in?,'" said one of the Blackwater men. He was wearing his company ID around his neck in a carrying case with the phrase "Operation Iraqi Freedom" printed on it. After bragging about how he drives around Iraq in a "State Department issued level 5, explosion proof BMW," he said he was "just trying to get back to Kirkuk (in the north of Iraq) where the real action is." Later we overheard him on his cell phone complaining that Blackwater was only paying $350 a day plus per diem. That is much less than the men make serving in more dangerous conditions in Iraq. Two men we spoke with said they plan on returning to Iraq in October. But, as one mercenary said, they've been told they could be in New Orleans for up to 6 months. "This is a trend," he told us. "You're going to see a lot more guys like us in these situations." If Blackwater's reputation and record in Iraq are any indication of the kind of "services" the company offers, the people of New Orleans have much to fear. ----- Jeremy Scahill, a correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!, and Daniela Crespo are in New Orleans. Visit www.democracynow.org for in-depth, independent, investigative reporting on Hurricane Katrina. Email: jeremy@democracynow.org. ------- From sagumano at sancharnet.in Sun Sep 11 21:34:46 2005 From: sagumano at sancharnet.in (sagumano@sancharnet.in) Date: Sun Sep 11 21:35:28 2005 Subject: [LNC] Re: Welcome to the "LNC" mailing list (Digest mode) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1126488886.4324db3693497@nwebmail.sancharnet.in> This is to confirm my subscription.K.Manoharan Quoting lnc-request@listserv.cddc.vt.edu: > Welcome to the LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu mailing list! Welcome to the > Language in New Capitalism Network. 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And on whose orders? http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1457802.htm Sunday, September 11, 2005. 3:19pm (AEST) Protesters decry US peace activist's arrest A small group of protesters upset at the possible deportation of a US peace activist has gathered outside a Melbourne jail. American teacher Scott Parkin came to Australia in June on a six-month visitor's visa. He was arrested yesterday after the Department of Immigration (DIMIA) revoked his visa because, the Anti-Deportation Alliance says, he is considered a threat to national security. The Immigration Department has confirmed an American citizen is in custody, but has declined to comment on the case. Mr Parkin's legal adviser, Marika Dias, says he has attended a number of protests in Australia but has done nothing wrong. "It's very important to note that this is not about character, this is a separate ground under the migration legislation," she said. "He was granted a visitor's visa [and] there were no security issues perceived at that stage. "Scott has complied with that visa completely while he's been here. There's been no wrongdoing on his part." Dan Cass, from Greenpeace, says Mr Parkin is Australia's first political prisoner. "The detention and expulsion of Scott Parkin is the thin edge of the wedge," Mr Cass said. "This only encourages us to think that when the Howard-controlled Senate looks at review of the ASIO laws, Australia will be placed under potentially police powers." Greens leader Senator Bob Brown wants to know who ordered Mr Parkin's deportation. "I'd like to know whether the orders for his arrest came from the Pentagon," he said. "I doubt very much that they came from Australia's security services. "After all, he was cleared for a visa for this country a few months ago." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec.. FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862&BRD=... FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/3/171718/0826 FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509.. FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902dale.. FEMA turns away generators http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond" http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470 That last one is real -- not satire but straight from FEMA's website. From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Sun Sep 11 23:52:20 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Sun Sep 11 23:52:55 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Joint Chiefs okay pre-emptive nuclear strikes Message-ID: <200509120352.j8C3qFE02089@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> rogue state _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 11, 2005 5:46 PM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: Joint Chiefs okay pre-emptive nuclear strikes --> More http://tinyurl.com/cpc5g (WaPo) Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan Strategy Includes Preemptive Use Against Banned Weapons By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 11, 2005; Page A01 The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. The document, written by the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs staff but not yet finally approved by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, would update rules and procedures governing use of nuclear weapons to reflect a preemption strategy first announced by the Bush White House in December 2002. The strategy was outlined in more detail at the time in classified national security directives. At a White House briefing that year, a spokesman said the United States would "respond with overwhelming force" to the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, its forces or allies, and said "all options" would be available to the president. The draft, dated March 15, would provide authoritative guidance for commanders to request presidential approval for using nuclear weapons, and represents the Pentagon's first attempt to revise procedures to reflect the Bush preemption doctrine. A previous version, completed in 1995 during the Clinton administration, contains no mention of using nuclear weapons preemptively or specifically against threats from weapons of mass destruction. Titled "Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations" and written under the direction of Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the draft document is unclassified and available on a Pentagon Web site. It is expected to be signed within a few weeks by Air Force Lt. Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, director of the Joint Staff, according to Navy Cmdr. Dawn Cutler, a public affairs officer in Myers's office. 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Bush decides you are. > > From Morgan Pillsbury: > > PRIVACY & RIGHTS: > > * PRESIDENT AS KING & RULER OVER ALL: There's a chance the US Supreme > Court may over turn the ruling, but if not, the President of the > United > States now will have the power to jail any US citizen without charges, > without a lawyer and without a hearing for as long as he wishes. > All he need do is say that the US citizen is an "enemy combatant." > That's what the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week. > * Power to Detain U.S. Terror Suspect Is Upheld. LINKS: > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/national/nationalspecial3/09cnd- > padilla.html > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/ > AR2005090900772.html > > * Could you be subjected to such arbitrary presidential powers? > For a special report on the PATRIOT Act and YOU, click here: > LINK: http://www.agora-inc.com/reports/190SPATY/W190F605/ > ----- > * A federal judge overrules the secret gag provisions of the PATRIOT > Act that shielded the identity of librarians who got FBI demands for > records about library patrons under the Act. A rare win for liberty. > * Judge Rules in Favor Of ACLU in Patriot Act Case. LINK: > http://www.ftimes.com/main.asp? > SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=29363&TM=32421.49 > ====================================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050912/7d7c247c/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Mon Sep 12 17:01:07 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Mon Sep 12 17:01:44 2005 Subject: [LNC] Crikey! Things are just starting ... Message-ID: <200509122101.j8CL11i06524@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/12/uk.poverty.tv.reut/index.html LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Make Poverty History (MPH), hailed as one of the most effective lobbying campaigns ever with its simple message and signature white wrist band, was banned on Monday from television and radio advertising in Britain. Advertising watchdog Ofcom said the goals of its campaign, including an array of stars clicking their fingers to ram home the message that a child dies of preventable poverty every three seconds, were political and therefore outlawed. "We have reached the unavoidable conclusion that MPH is a body whose objects are 'wholly or mainly' political as defined under the Act. MPH is therefore prohibited from advertising on television or radio," Ofcom said on its Web site. Make Poverty History, an amalgam of 530 charities and aid groups that is part of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, said it regretted the decision. "The millions of people who are wearing a white band or taking action as part of a campaign do not see this as a narrow party-political issue. They see it as the great moral issue of our time," it said in a statement. The organization was created last year with the single goal of persuading the governments of the Group of Eight industrialized countries to write off billions of dollars in debt owed by the world's poorest countries. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his finance minister Gordon Brown have both praised Make Poverty History as having been the deciding factor in convincing the G8 in June this year to agree to write off more than $40 billion worth of debts. Copyright 2005 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed From persgal at wanadoo.nl Mon Sep 12 19:00:15 2005 From: persgal at wanadoo.nl (H S) Date: Mon Sep 12 18:33:17 2005 Subject: [LNC] Crikey! Things are just starting ... References: <200509122101.j8CL11i06524@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: <003201c5b7ed$be54fc60$b102a8c0@wanadoo.nl> U.S. law professor proposes assassinating more suspected terrorists By Paul M. Barrett The Wall Street Journal 09/12/05 "Post Gazette" -- -- In June, about 100 people gathered at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank, to hear a lecture by John Yoo on "fighting the new terrorism." Mr. Yoo recommended an unusual idea: assassinating more suspected terrorists. A law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, he said his proposal would require "a change in the way we think about the executive order banning assassination, which has been with us since the 1970s." Such a change is needed, he said, because it is wartime: "A nation at war may use force against members of the enemy at any time, regardless of their proximity to hostilities or their activity at the time of attack." Mr. Yoo, 38 years old, is no ordinary ivory-tower theorist. During a two-year stint at the Justice Department from 2001 through 2003, he wrote some of the most controversial internal legal opinions justifying the Bush administration's aggressive approach to detaining and interrogating suspected terrorists. Some of those memos have become public, but not all of them. Asked after his AEI talk whether there is a classified Justice Department opinion justifying assassinations, Mr. Yoo hinted that he'd written one himself. "You would think they -- the administration -- would have had an opinion about it, given all the other opinions, wouldn't you?" he said, adding, "And you know who would have done the work." A spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment. Mr. Yoo is playing an instrumental role in redefining the murky area where law intersects with foreign policy. The change underpins President Bush's claim that he possesses the sort of far-reaching emergency powers exercised by past presidents during conventional wars. Mr. Yoo, like others in the academic clique known as "sovereigntists," is skeptical of international law and the idea that international relations are ever based on principle, as opposed to self-interest. Mr. Yoo argues that the Constitution gives Congress limited authority to deter presidential actions in foreign affairs. The judiciary, he says, has almost none. At the Justice Department, Mr. Yoo crafted legal arguments for the president's power to launch pre-emptive strikes against terrorists and their supporters. He molded a theory for not applying the Geneva Conventions to captured terrorist suspects. And he interpreted the federal antitorture statute as barring only acts that cause severe mental harm or pain like that accompanying "death or organ failure." In the wake of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, the Bush administration has backed away from Mr. Yoo's most extreme ideas about interrogation. But that hasn't discouraged him from waging an intellectual offensive in speeches, articles and a forthcoming book to be published by the University of Chicago. His claim is that American law permits the president to go to almost any lengths in the name of fighting terrorism. The Yoo Doctrine, as it might be called, fits with the broader Bush-administration view that pursuing American interests is best for the country and the rest of the world. Before 9/11, Mr. Yoo helped lay legal groundwork for some of the president's high-visibility withdrawals from treaties, including the antiballistic missile pact with Russia and the agreement underpinning the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands, established in 1998 to deal with the gravest international crimes. Another illustration of the Bush mind-set was the president's recess appointment last month of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an institution Mr. Bolton had derided as largely superfluous. Not surprisingly, Mr. Yoo is reviled on the political left. Students at Berkeley last year circulated a petition demanding that he recant his Justice Department work or resign his professorship. (He has done neither.) Human-rights advocates suggest he might be a war criminal and compare his memos with Nazi legal documents. Amnesty International urged in May that state bar associations consider sanctions against Mr. Yoo and others. Within the Bush administration, former Secretary of State Colin Powell warned in 2002 in an internal memo that Mr. Yoo's ideas about treatment of detainees would "undermine the protections of the law of war for our troops." In July, senior uniformed military lawyers deplored his analysis in Senate testimony. In person, the academic is disarmingly mild and defends his views calmly. He has had plenty of practice, and not just in media interviews and on campus. His wife, Elsa Arnett, he says, disagrees with almost everything he believes about politics and policy. "We have some heated discussions," he says. "I welcome it. It keeps me honest." Mr. Yoo has always enjoyed being a conservative fly in the liberal soup. He met his future wife when they were both Harvard undergraduates on the staff of the campus daily, where he relished the role of token right-winger. She is the daughter of veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett. "Elsa was always a smart, interesting person, and that was attractive to John, even though they disagreed about everything political," says David Lazarus, a friend since college who affectionately refers to Mr. Yoo as "the evil one." Ms. Arnett, a writer, declined to be interviewed. Mr. Yoo inherited conservative instincts from his parents, who emigrated from South Korea when he was an infant. Both physicians, they hated communism and admired Ronald Reagan. They sent their son to a private Episcopal high school in Philadelphia where he studied Greek and Latin and attended chapel three times a week. At Yale Law School in 1989, he joined the Federalist Society, a national group of right-leaning lawyers that sponsors debates and serves as a job-referral network. With help from Federalists, he snared prestigious clerkships: first with Judge Laurence Silberman, an appellate jurist in Washington much admired on the right, and then with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. A good word from the justice, Mr. Yoo says, helped him obtain a top staff job with Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. While on Sen. Hatch's staff, Mr. Yoo clashed with Democrats over Clinton judicial nominees. In 2000, he aided the Republican legal contingent that helped win the decisive electoral brawl in Florida. Even by the standards of elite Washington legal circles, Mr. Yoo earned a reputation for what Justice Thomas calls "a very high level of confidence in conclusions he might reach." In an interview, the justice warmly recalls his former clerk as "a real showman and a real intellectual -- a smooth talker who made good arguments." Mr. Yoo had an unusual degree of certainty that he knew the "original intent" of the Constitution's authors, Justice Thomas says. "We'd kid him sometimes that he was right there at the founding." Former co-clerk Saikrishna Prakash recalls teasing, "John, break out the crystal ball and tell us what the framers thought." Mr. Yoo would fire back, "Yes, I consulted the framers. You're all wrong, and I'm right." When he wasn't drafting opinions in the Thomas chambers, Mr. Yoo sometimes played squash with Justice Antonin Scalia, another conservative hero. Mr. Yoo says he didn't let the justice win, as some other clerks did. A Supreme Court spokeswoman says the justice recalls the matches but doesn't remember losing. In 1996, Mr. Yoo moved to liberal Berkeley, where he had taught briefly before. He explains this fish-out-of-water situation in careerist terms: Berkeley was the best law school that offered him a tenure-track job. Mr. Yoo challenges an academic consensus that for decades has promoted international law and other legal restraints on U.S. war making. This thinking grew out of the post-World War II goals of resolving conflict at the United Nations and checking executive-branch excesses during the long nuclear standoff with the Soviets. The majority view relies heavily on constitutional provisions, such as the one stating that Congress, not the president, has the power "to declare war" and "raise and support armies." Years before he joined the Bush administration, Mr. Yoo was writing law-review articles arguing that this consensus is at once outdated and -- despite the Constitution's language -- in conflict with the intentions of the founding fathers. Seeking to play down the seemingly clear wording of the declare-war clause, for example, he argues that Alexander Hamilton and his colleagues adapted the British idea that Parliament could declare the existence of an all-out war, but such a statement wasn't necessary before the king could launch hostilities. Congress, Mr. Yoo contends, was given only two ways to counter the commander-in-chief: impeaching him or cutting off funds for the military. In James Madison's words: "The sword is in the hands of the British king; the purse in the hands of the Parliament. It is so in America, as far as any analogy can exist." In practice, Mr. Yoo's assertion that the commander-in-chief has vast "inherent" authority in times of crisis pretty accurately describes what past presidents have done. Since the nation's earliest days, when George Washington waged war against Indians in the Ohio River Valley and John Adams sent American ships against the French, presidents have ordered troops into scores of conflicts without formal congressional declarations. In fact, Congress has declared war only five times. Mr. Yoo likes to point out that Bill Clinton sent U.S. forces to Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan -- all without formal congressional declarations. And war presidents from Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt used military commissions to try enemy soldiers without the usual panoply of courtroom niceties. It's vital, says Mr. Yoo, to see the antiterrorism effort as a genuine war. Facing terrorists who don't obey treaties and can't be disciplined at the U.N., the president must be able to act swiftly and flexibly, he contends. Mr. Yoo got a chance to put his ideas into practice in 2001, when he received a midlevel political appointment in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. The small office opines on the legality of executive-branch actions. When the planes hit on 9/11, anxiety raced through Justice Department headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue, recalls Robert Delahunty, then a lawyer in the counsel's office. He says Mr. Yoo immediately asserted himself, declaring, "This is war. The law operates differently." He "came to this first, before others," says Mr. Delahunty, who now teaches at the University of Saint Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis. In the months that followed, the White House asked Mr. Yoo's office for memos on antiterrorism authority. He served as primary draftsman of key documents, such as one dated Sept. 25, 2001, that said the president had broad constitutional power to launch military attacks on terrorist groups or states that support them, "whether or not they can be linked" to 9/11. A Jan. 9, 2002, memo concluded that neither the federal War Crimes Act nor the Geneva Conventions constrained the administration in its handling of al Qaeda and Taliban detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. The most startling memo in this series was an Aug. 1, 2002, analysis concluding the federal antitorture statute forbids "only extreme acts" that cause either "lasting psychological harm" or physical pain "akin to that which accompanies serious physical injury such as death or organ failure." As commander-in-chief, the opinion stated, Mr. Bush could bypass U.S. law and international treaties prohibiting inhumane treatment of prisoners. These opinions remained secret until abuse at Abu Ghraib came to light in spring 2004. The memos began to leak, and then, in June 2004, the White House released a batch of them as part of a damage-control effort. Alberto Gonzales, then the White House counsel and now attorney general, disavowed the Aug. 1, 2002, memo on interrogation. He dismissed its analysis of presidential authority to disregard antitorture laws as "irrelevant and unnecessary." By then, Mr. Yoo had completed his planned two-year stint in Washington and returned to Berkeley. Disappointed by the administration's response -- "They kind of ran and hid," he says -- he wasn't surprised when he became a target for Bush critics. A White House spokeswoman declined to expand on Mr. Gonzales's earlier comments. Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy suggested in a speech in April that Mr. Yoo and others deserved formal disciplining. "No action -- criminal, administrative, or otherwise -- has been taken against the high civilian officials responsible for the authorization of torture and mistreatment by U.S. officials," he said. Jeremy Waldron, a law professor at Columbia University, gave voice to a common view in legal circles, calling the Yoo memo on torture "shocking as a jurisprudential matter" and a mark of "dishonor for our profession." While publicly the administration has kept its distance from Mr. Yoo, other arms of the conservative establishment, including this newspaper's editorial page, have defended him. (Mr. Yoo worked as a summer intern for The Wall Street Journal's news department before starting law school and has written articles for its opinion pages.) Mr. Yoo says his former boss, Justice Thomas, no stranger to personal controversy, privately offered moral support but warned that "these things will always be harder on your family than on you." Indeed, Mr. Yoo's wife only learned about the memos along with the rest of the country. While at the Justice Department, her husband hadn't talked about his classified work at home. In explaining the fallout to her, Mr. Yoo says he stressed that as a lawyer, he had described the reach of statutes and treaties, leaving policy choices to more senior officials. The torture memo, he says, responded to a question posed by the Central Intelligence Agency: "How far are we allowed to go?" A CIA spokesman declined to comment. Contrary to critics who say his work started the U.S. down a "road to Abu Ghraib," Mr. Yoo says none of his most controversial memos applied to ordinary prisoners in Iraq, only to alleged terrorists who might know about future mass attacks. He says he deplores the abuse at Abu Ghraib, but attributes it to military misbehavior, not legal interpretations. Mr. Yoo says al Qaeda members don't qualify for prisoner-of-war protections under the Geneva Conventions, because those treaties are between nations. Al Qaeda isn't a nation and doesn't respect rules of war, he says, such as not intentionally attacking civilians. The president ordered American officials in February 2002 "to continue to treat detainees humanely" and "in a manner consistent with the principles" of the Geneva Conventions. But he added the caveat that this should be done "to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity." The Bush administration says that it complies with the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which the U.S. ratified in 1994. Mr. Yoo takes solace in that most of the ideas he advocated are very much alive in Washington. The military and CIA continue to operate secretive detention-and-interrogation centers. The indefinite imprisonment of terrorism suspects and use of military commissions have survived legal challenges. In June 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that federal courts can review the grounds for detaining foreign enemy combatants held outside the U.S. The justices separately ruled that American citizens held as terrorism suspects must have access to lawyers and fair hearings. But beyond providing for the barest sort of judicial oversight, the court seemed to accept the idea that the country is at war and that the president and his subordinates have exceedingly broad latitude to run it. If confirmed, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is expected to be a strong proponent of this view. "It seems to me," says Mr. Yoo, "that the leaders in government and the judges and some legal thinkers, too, accept now that the fight against terrorism is a real war." Chain of Influence John Yoo has worked for some of the best-known figures in the conservative legal world: BOSS: Laurence Silberman, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Washington YOO'S POSITION: Law clerk DATES: 1992-1993 BOSS: Clarence Thomas, associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court YOO'S POSITION: Law clerk DATES: 1994-1995 BOSS: Orrin Hatch, Senator (R-Utah) YOO'S POSITION: General counsel, Senate Judiciary Committe DATES: 1995-1996 BOSS: John Ashcroft, former Attorney General YOO'S POSITION: Deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel DATES: 2001-2003 Copyright ?1997-2005 PG Publishing Co., Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Graham" To: "'Language in New Capitalism'" Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 11:01 PM Subject: [LNC] Crikey! Things are just starting ... > http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/12/uk.poverty.tv.reut/index.html > > LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Make Poverty History (MPH), hailed as one of > the most effective lobbying campaigns ever with its simple message and > signature white wrist band, was banned on Monday from television and radio > advertising in Britain. > > Advertising watchdog Ofcom said the goals of its campaign, including an > array of stars clicking their fingers to ram home the message that a child > dies of preventable poverty every three seconds, were political and > therefore outlawed. > > "We have reached the unavoidable conclusion that MPH is a body whose objects > are 'wholly or mainly' political as defined under the Act. MPH is therefore > prohibited from advertising on television or radio," Ofcom said on its Web > site. > > Make Poverty History, an amalgam of 530 charities and aid groups that is > part of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, said it regretted the > decision. > > "The millions of people who are wearing a white band or taking action as > part of a campaign do not see this as a narrow party-political issue. They > see it as the great moral issue of our time," it said in a statement. > > The organization was created last year with the single goal of persuading > the governments of the Group of Eight industrialized countries to write off > billions of dollars in debt owed by the world's poorest countries. > > British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his finance minister Gordon Brown have > both praised Make Poverty History as having been the deciding factor in > convincing the G8 in June this year to agree to write off more than $40 > billion worth of debts. > > Copyright 2005 Reuters. 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Nancy Jean Smith To post to this list, send your email to: ? lnc@listserv.cddc.vt.edu From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Tue Sep 13 17:48:16 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Tue Sep 13 17:47:33 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: "No photos, no stories" Message-ID: <200509132148.j8DLm9W01349@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 13, 2005 4:57 PM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: "No photos, no stories" --> From Ilene Proctor: Following efforts by FEMA to keep the media from photographing or even covering the recovery of bodies in New Orleans CNN went to court and sought a restraining order against FEMA. They won a temporary injunction, and before the court could hear arguments FEMA dropped the restrictions, conceding that they had no legal right to restrain the media in this way. Well, they are doing it anyway. This is nothing less than the Bush administration willfully thumbing its nose at the courts and the Constitution. Read this: As bodies recovered, reporters are told 'no photos, no stories' - Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, September 13, 2005 New Orleans -- A long caravan of white vans led by an Army humvee rolled Monday through New Orleans' Bywater district, a poor, mostly black neighborhood, northeast of the French Quarter. Recovery team members wearing white protective suits and black boots stopped at houses with spray painted markings on the doors designating there were dead bodies inside. Outside one house on Kentucky Street, a member of the Army 82nd Airborne Division summoned a reporter and photographer standing nearby and told them that if they took pictures or wrote a story about the body recovery process, he would take away their press credentials and kick them out of the state. "No photos. No stories," said the man, wearing camouflage fatigues and a red beret. On Saturday, after being challenged in court by CNN, the Bush administration agreed not to prevent the news media from following the effort to recover the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims. But on Monday, in the Bywater district, that assurance wasn't being followed. The 82nd Airborne soldier told reporters the Army had a policy that requires media to be 300 meters -- more than three football fields in length -- away from the scene of body recoveries in New Orleans. If reporters wrote stories or took pictures of body recoveries, they would be reported and face consequences, he said, including a loss of access for up-close coverage of certain military operations. Dean Nugent, of the Louisiana State Coroner's Department, who accompanied the soldier, added that it wasn't safe to be in Bywater. "They'll kill you out here," he said, referring to the few residents who have continued to defy mandatory evacuation orders and remain in their homes." "The cockroaches come out at night," he said of the residents. "This is one of the worst places in the country. You should not be here. Especially you," he told a female reporter. Nugent, who is white, acknowledged he wasn't personally familiar with the poor, black neighborhood, saying he only knew of it by reputation. Later Monday, the recovery team collected a body from a green house on St. Anthony Street in nearby Seventh Ward. The dead man, who was slipped into a black body bag and carried out to one of the white vans, had been lying alone on the living room floor for nearly two weeks, neighbors said. "I told them weeks ago he was in there," said Barry Dominguez, 39, who lives across the street and has refused to leave the neighborhood he grew up in. After the recovery team took away the St. Anthony Street body, two workers urinated on the side of a neighbor's house. The CNN suit was in response to comments Friday at a news conference in which officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency said members of the news media would not be allowed to witness the recovery of hurricane victims' bodies. Terry Ebbert, New Orleans' homeland security director, had said Friday that the recovery effort would be done with dignity, "meaning that there would be no press allowed." Army Lt. Gen. Russell Honore later said there would be zero access to the recovery operation. During a hearing Saturday morning in U.S. District Court in Houston, a lawyer who represented the government said FEMA had revised its previous plans to limit coverage. Government agencies may still refuse requests from members of the media to ride along, or be "embedded," on recovery boats as crews gather the dead. "But, to the extent the press can go out to the locations, they're free to do that," said Keith Wyatt, an assistant U.S. attorney, according to a transcript of the hearing. "They're free to take whatever pictures they can take." Army Lt. Col. Richard Steele said the government's position as explained in court Saturday didn't represent a change in policy. Reporters can watch recovery efforts they come upon, but they won't be embedded with search teams. "We're not going to bar, impede or prevent" the media from telling the story, he said. "We're just not going to give the media a ride." Chronicle news services contributed to this report. E-mail Cecilia Vega at cvega@sfchronicle.com. Page A - 9 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/13/MNG3HEMQHG1.DTL http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/13/MNG3HEMQHG1.DTL&t ype=printable -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050913/dba247f5/attachment-0001.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Tue Sep 13 18:06:27 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Tue Sep 13 18:05:44 2005 Subject: [LNC] Wally Wisdom from the Australian Labor Party Message-ID: <200509132206.j8DM6KW09455@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Some background to one of the stupidest policies I've seen in a while: The Howard government increased by 25% the amount Australian Universities can charge students while cutting funding at the same time. Result? Instant 25% increase in fees across the board. Consequence? Enrolments dropped all over the country by up to 30 %. Here is the Wallies' response: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,16598168,00.html Student 'stocks' to bolster unis Samantha Maiden 14sep05 BANKS and superannuation funds would be called on to help students through university by offering "education stocks" under radical proposals to double the number of university places by 2020. Calling for the next "great leap forward" in higher education funding since the introduction of the HECS reforms in the late 1980s, Labor MP Craig Emerson has urged the ALP to debate proposals to encourage private sector investment in Australia's universities. Unlike a HECS debt or loan, the education stocks, or "human capital contracts" as Dr Emerson calls them, would embrace equity financing and require students to pay a percentage of their future income to super funds and banks. Students who landed highly paid jobs would repay more to their investor, with the Government policing the contracts. Living expenses could also be covered by the contracts, to provide students with the option not to rely entirely on part-time work to supplement their studies. Labor backbencher Peter Garrett believes a similar model can be used to develop music talent in Australia, with record companies and artists entering a share agreement on copyright for a fixed period. As with the education proposal, the amount repaid would depend on how much revenue the artist generated. Dr Emerson told The Australian yesterday a rapid expansion of higher education was required to ensure Australia remained competitive internationally. "Realistically, that can't be achieved simply by putting in public resources," he said. "I want to see taxpayer-funded investment in higher education increase, not reduce. But if we rely on that alone we won't see the increase in university numbers that we need. "Under this proposal, you would basically enter into an arrangement with a private financier to cover tuition costs and living expenses." Dr Emerson, who will detail the proposal in his untitled book on new policy ideas for Labor, has held talks with banks and superannuation funds, whom he refused to name, about his idea. "From my initial discussions with a number of financial institutions, there is genuine interest in the idea but we will need to work it up together to make it a financially attractive proposition," he said. Dr Emerson said the key concern of the financial institutions was making sure it was structured so that any risks, such as non-payments, could be managed. Currently, students securing a publicly funded place have two options to pay for their university degrees - paying upfront or deferring their debt through the HECS scheme and starting repayments when their income reaches $36,000. If students miss out on marks, they can either pay upfront fees for a full-fee degree or secure a low-interest loan from the Government through the new FEE-HELP scheme. Graduates already owe the Government $10billion in HECS debts, and FEE-HELP debts are predicted to soar to $3billion by 2009. However, the FEE-HELP loans remain capped at $50,000, which means they do not cover the cost of scores of full-fee degrees. A medicine degree can cost up to $200,000. Dr Emerson said the Government could put an upper limit on how much students could repay and allow them to negotiate deals with banks and super funds. "If they're involved in an expensive course such as medicine then the costs of the degree are higher, but their expected income is also higher," he said. "If you agreed that it was 3per cent and you become a plastic surgeon earning $500,0000, then that could be a lot of money. "This is an equity investment. What distinguishes equity from debt is you get a percentage of future earnings rather than a flat amount. Super funds are looking for income yielding investments rather than capital gains." Dr Emerson said he also did not believe HECS debts had scared students away from universities in the past, but believed that was starting to change in the wake of dramatic increases in HECS charges. Mr Garrett said the proposal would be better than other artistic grants, which either consisted of indefinite subsidies or a limited pool of money. privacy terms C The Australian From DWINIECKI at boisestate.edu Tue Sep 13 18:29:48 2005 From: DWINIECKI at boisestate.edu (Donald Winiecki) Date: Tue Sep 13 18:29:40 2005 Subject: [LNC] Wally Wisdom from the Australian Labor Party Message-ID: For me, it's all serving the neo-liberal goal of destroying public education (in addition to publically funded anything!). Up until recently, liberatarian logic held that the only thing to be provided for by governments was national defence. Now, however, with the use of corporate mercenaries by the US government, even the neo-lib's sister, liberatarianism, is being trashed. The 'human capital stock' idea is under debate here in the United States. Though it sounds like sci-fi social engineering, it's really not all that uncommon already. I know law students who have accepted funding for their education in return for a promise to work at the funder's behest for some duration after graduation. Also, endowed faculty positions in universities can come with an expectation to research and provide (what are essentially) free consulting services to the endowing agency or company. >>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 9/13/2005 4:06:27 PM >>> Some background to one of the stupidest policies I've seen in a while: The Howard government increased by 25% the amount Australian Universities can charge students while cutting funding at the same time. Result? Instant 25% increase in fees across the board. Consequence? Enrolments dropped all over the country by up to 30 %. Here is the Wallies' response: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,16598168,00.html Student 'stocks' to bolster unis Samantha Maiden 14sep05 BANKS and superannuation funds would be called on to help students through university by offering "education stocks" under radical proposals to double the number of university places by 2020. Calling for the next "great leap forward" in higher education funding since the introduction of the HECS reforms in the late 1980s, Labor MP Craig Emerson has urged the ALP to debate proposals to encourage private sector investment in Australia's universities. Unlike a HECS debt or loan, the education stocks, or "human capital contracts" as Dr Emerson calls them, would embrace equity financing and require students to pay a percentage of their future income to super funds and banks. Students who landed highly paid jobs would repay more to their investor, with the Government policing the contracts. Living expenses could also be covered by the contracts, to provide students with the option not to rely entirely on part-time work to supplement their studies. Labor backbencher Peter Garrett believes a similar model can be used to develop music talent in Australia, with record companies and artists entering a share agreement on copyright for a fixed period. As with the education proposal, the amount repaid would depend on how much revenue the artist generated. Dr Emerson told The Australian yesterday a rapid expansion of higher education was required to ensure Australia remained competitive internationally. "Realistically, that can't be achieved simply by putting in public resources," he said. "I want to see taxpayer-funded investment in higher education increase, not reduce. But if we rely on that alone we won't see the increase in university numbers that we need. "Under this proposal, you would basically enter into an arrangement with a private financier to cover tuition costs and living expenses." Dr Emerson, who will detail the proposal in his untitled book on new policy ideas for Labor, has held talks with banks and superannuation funds, whom he refused to name, about his idea. "From my initial discussions with a number of financial institutions, there is genuine interest in the idea but we will need to work it up together to make it a financially attractive proposition," he said. Dr Emerson said the key concern of the financial institutions was making sure it was structured so that any risks, such as non-payments, could be managed. Currently, students securing a publicly funded place have two options to pay for their university degrees - paying upfront or deferring their debt through the HECS scheme and starting repayments when their income reaches $36,000. If students miss out on marks, they can either pay upfront fees for a full-fee degree or secure a low-interest loan from the Government through the new FEE-HELP scheme. Graduates already owe the Government $10billion in HECS debts, and FEE-HELP debts are predicted to soar to $3billion by 2009. However, the FEE-HELP loans remain capped at $50,000, which means they do not cover the cost of scores of full-fee degrees. A medicine degree can cost up to $200,000. Dr Emerson said the Government could put an upper limit on how much students could repay and allow them to negotiate deals with banks and super funds. "If they're involved in an expensive course such as medicine then the costs of the degree are higher, but their expected income is also higher," he said. "If you agreed that it was 3per cent and you become a plastic surgeon earning $500,0000, then that could be a lot of money. "This is an equity investment. What distinguishes equity from debt is you get a percentage of future earnings rather than a flat amount. Super funds are looking for income yielding investments rather than capital gains." Dr Emerson said he also did not believe HECS debts had scared students away from universities in the past, but believed that was starting to change in the wake of dramatic increases in HECS charges. Mr Garrett said the proposal would be better than other artistic grants, which either consisted of indefinite subsidies or a limited pool of money. privacy terms C The Australian _______________________________________________ LNC mailing list LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050913/ffb6456f/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Tue Sep 13 19:16:47 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Tue Sep 13 19:16:03 2005 Subject: [LNC] Wally Wisdom from the Australian Labor Party In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <200509132316.j8DNGeW26699@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> It's a bizarre form of indenture. Another neofeudal impulse. I remember reading a quote by a businessman in 1933 or so that said (roughly) "Brains are cheap. I can hire a Professor for $25 a day". The really ironic part is that working Australians already have to give a percentage of their wage to banks and superannuation funds to pay for their retirement. From lifelong learning to lifelong liening. I can see the slogan now: "Take a lien on a life! Mortgage your kids, your house, your husband, your wife." Sick stuff. _____ From: lnc-bounces@malagigi.cddc.vt.edu [mailto:lnc-bounces@malagigi.cddc.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Donald Winiecki Sent: September 13, 2005 6:30 PM To: lnc@malagigi.cddc.vt.edu Subject: Re: [LNC] Wally Wisdom from the Australian Labor Party For me, it's all serving the neo-liberal goal of destroying public education (in addition to publically funded anything!). Up until recently, liberatarian logic held that the only thing to be provided for by governments was national defence. Now, however, with the use of corporate mercenaries by the US government, even the neo-lib's sister, liberatarianism, is being trashed. The 'human capital stock' idea is under debate here in the United States. Though it sounds like sci-fi social engineering, it's really not all that uncommon already. I know law students who have accepted funding for their education in return for a promise to work at the funder's behest for some duration after graduation. Also, endowed faculty positions in universities can come with an expectation to research and provide (what are essentially) free consulting services to the endowing agency or company. >>> pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca 9/13/2005 4:06:27 PM >>> Some background to one of the stupidest policies I've seen in a while: The Howard government increased by 25% the amount Australian Universities can charge students while cutting funding at the same time. Result? Instant 25% increase in fees across the board. Consequence? Enrolments dropped all over the country by up to 30 %. Here is the Wallies' response: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,16598168,00.html Student 'stocks' to bolster unis Samantha Maiden 14sep05 BANKS and superannuation funds would be called on to help students through university by offering "education stocks" under radical proposals to double the number of university places by 2020. Calling for the next "great leap forward" in higher education funding since the introduction of the HECS reforms in the late 1980s, Labor MP Craig Emerson has urged the ALP to debate proposals to encourage private sector investment in Australia's universities. Unlike a HECS debt or loan, the education stocks, or "human capital contracts" as Dr Emerson calls them, would embrace equity financing and require students to pay a percentage of their future income to super funds and banks. Students who landed highly paid jobs would repay more to their investor, with the Government policing the contracts. Living expenses could also be covered by the contracts, to provide students with the option not to rely entirely on part-time work to supplement their studies. Labor backbencher Peter Garrett believes a similar model can be used to develop music talent in Australia, with record companies and artists entering a share agreement on copyright for a fixed period. As with the education proposal, the amount repaid would depend on how much revenue the artist generated. Dr Emerson told The Australian yesterday a rapid expansion of higher education was required to ensure Australia remained competitive internationally. "Realistically, that can't be achieved simply by putting in public resources," he said. "I want to see taxpayer-funded investment in higher education increase, not reduce. But if we rely on that alone we won't see the increase in university numbers that we need. "Under this proposal, you would basically enter into an arrangement with a private financier to cover tuition costs and living expenses." Dr Emerson, who will detail the proposal in his untitled book on new policy ideas for Labor, has held talks with banks and superannuation funds, whom he refused to name, about his idea. "From my initial discussions with a number of financial institutions, there is genuine interest in the idea but we will need to work it up together to make it a financially attractive proposition," he said. Dr Emerson said the key concern of the financial institutions was making sure it was structured so that any risks, such as non-payments, could be managed. Currently, students securing a publicly funded place have two options to pay for their university degrees - paying upfront or deferring their debt through the HECS scheme and starting repayments when their income reaches $36,000. If students miss out on marks, they can either pay upfront fees for a full-fee degree or secure a low-interest loan from the Government through the new FEE-HELP scheme. Graduates already owe the Government $10billion in HECS debts, and FEE-HELP debts are predicted to soar to $3billion by 2009. However, the FEE-HELP loans remain capped at $50,000, which means they do not cover the cost of scores of full-fee degrees. A medicine degree can cost up to $200,000. Dr Emerson said the Government could put an upper limit on how much students could repay and allow them to negotiate deals with banks and super funds. "If they're involved in an expensive course such as medicine then the costs of the degree are higher, but their expected income is also higher," he said. "If you agreed that it was 3per cent and you become a plastic surgeon earning $500,0000, then that could be a lot of money. "This is an equity investment. What distinguishes equity from debt is you get a percentage of future earnings rather than a flat amount. Super funds are looking for income yielding investments rather than capital gains." Dr Emerson said he also did not believe HECS debts had scared students away from universities in the past, but believed that was starting to change in the wake of dramatic increases in HECS charges. Mr Garrett said the proposal would be better than other artistic grants, which either consisted of indefinite subsidies or a limited pool of money. privacy terms C The Australian _______________________________________________ LNC mailing list LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050913/64a0fea3/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Tue Sep 13 21:15:00 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Tue Sep 13 21:14:17 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Notorious Texas-based firm hired to manage body count Message-ID: <200509140114.j8E1EqW26091@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> goodness me ... industrial waste contractors ... oh my ... _____ From: Mark Crispin Miller [mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] Sent: September 13, 2005 8:54 PM To: mark.miller@nyu.edu Subject: Notorious Texas-based firm hired to manage body count --> For SCI's nauseating background--and very close relationship with Bush-- see my Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order, pp. 197-200. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/FEMA_outsources_Katrina_body_count_to_firm_imp licated_in_bodydumping_scan_0913.html FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals 09/13/2005 @ 6:04 pmO Clarification: After FEMA began working with Kenyon, they were subsequently contracted by Louisiana Governor Blanco. It was Louisiana that signed a formal contract. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned. Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses. Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco subsequently inked a contract with the firm after talks between FEMA and the firm broke down. In other words, FEMA and then Blanco outsourced the body count from Hurricane Katrina -- which many believe the worst natural disaster in U.S. history -- to a firm whose parent company is known for its "experience" at hiding and dumping bodies. The Menorah Gardens cemetery chain, owned by SCI, desecrated vaults, removed hundreds of bodies from two cemeteries in Florida and dumped the gruesome remains in woods frequented by wild hogs, investigators discovered in 2001. In one case, a backhoe was used to crack open a vault, remove corpses and make room for more dead bodies. SCI paid $100 million to settle a lawsuit filed by outraged family members of the deceased. A secretary at the lawfirm that sued SCI over the Florida cemetery scandals gasped when informed that FEMA had outsourced handling of Katrina victims' bodies to an SCI subsidiary. "Oh, good lord!" she said. Peter Hartmann, general manager of the Menorah Gardens Cemetery chain, was later found dead in his car from carbon monoxide poisoning outside his parents' home in an apparent suicide. RAW STORY calls to FEMA were not returned. Waltrip, chairman of SCI, is a longtime friend of Bush's father, former President George Herbert Walker Bush. The firm's political action committee donated $45,000 to George W. Bush's 1994 gubernatorial campaign. The company also contributed more than $100,000 for construction of the George H.W. Bush presidential library. "It is appalling that the Bush administration -- which has already badly bungled its response to hurricane Katrina -- would hire a company with a record of gross mismanagement of mortuary services," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a Washington D.C.-based watchdog group. "I can only imagine that this decision was made because of President Bush's long-time friendship with the head of SCI, Robert Waltrip." SCI also owned fifteen funeral homes named as defendants in a lawsuit filed on behalf of family members alleging "macabre mishandling, abuse and desecration of bodies" by Tri-State Crematory in Georgia. The lawsuit accused SCI-owned funeral homes of sending bodies to the unlicensed, unregulated crematorium, where never-incinerated corpses were found piled outdoors and stuffed in sheds in 2000. Some vaults designed to hold one body each had 67 sets of human remains stuffed inside, investigators discovered. SCI was among the companies ordered to pay settlement fees to family members, a legal source has confirmed to RAW STORY. Kenyon bills itself as the world's leading disaster management company. It provided morgue support services following the 9/11 plane crash in Pennsylvania and the Asian tsunami. As North America's largest funeral and cemetery company, SCI operates 1,500 mortuaries and cemeteries nationwide. The company's website claims the firm is dedicated to "compassionately supporting families at difficult times, celebrating the significance of lives that have been lived, and preserving memories that transcend generations, with dignity and honor." SCI was also involved in an earlier scandal in Texas. Eliza May, former Texas Funeral Service Commission Director, filed a lawsuit accusing George W. Bush, then Governor, of obstructing an investigation into SCI license violations. May was fired following a dispute with Waltrip. Waltrip and an SCI lobbyist met with Governor Bush's chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh (Allbaugh was later appointed head of FEMA after Bush became President, but left to become a lobbyist representing Halliburton, among other corporate clients). According to Newsweek, Bush stopped by and said to Waltrip, "Hey, Bobby, are those people still messing with you?" May, a Democrat, sought to force Bush to testify in the case, but in August 1999, a Texas judge tossed out a subpoena issued by May's lawyers for Bush to give a deposition. Bush, who was not a defendant, called May's claims "frivolous" and denied knowing the circumstances of her ouster. In 1999, when Bush was gearing up to run for the presidency, Texas Governor Rick Perry approved a settlement for May. SCI paid $55,000; the state of Texas shelled out the balance without admitting wrongdoing in May's termination. Jennifer Crider, spokeswoman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), expressed concern over FEMA's choice of an SCI subsidiary and questioned whether the selection was made through a no-bid process. "The tragedy in the Gulf States must not be compounded by disrespecting those who have died," Crider told RAW STORY. "It's critical that government contracts be subjected to scrutiny to ensure that there has been no fraud or abuse of taxpayer money or interest." Democrats have called for formation of an anti-fraud commission to investigate no-bid contracts awarded in relation to Hurricane Katrina, she added. Why FEMA chose to outsource mortuary services to a paid contractor is also mystery to Dan Buckner, co-owner of the Gowen-Smith Chapel in the Gulf area. Buckner had planned to serve with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Responses Team, which reportedly told Buckner's partner, Gary Hicks of Paducah, KY, to expect up to 40,000 deaths from Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi. Upon learning of Kenyon's contract, Buckner expressed puzzlement. He told the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, "Volunteers would have gone at no charge." Clarification: After FEMA began working with Kenyon, they were subsequently contracted by Louisiana Governor Blanco. It was Louisiana that signed a formal contract. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Well I suppose if you can't attract investors in the human futures commodity market your parents might be persuaded to let you enlist for an 'education'. http://www.leoburnett.com/news/press_releases/2005/prapr18-94431.asp About Leo Burnett USA Leo Burnett USA creates ideas that inspire enduring belief for many of the world's most valuable brands and most successful marketers, including McDonald's, Disney, Procter & Gamble, Marlboro, Altoids, Heinz, Kellogg, Nintendo and the U.S. Army. As the most awarded agency at the Effie Awards for four straight years, Leo Burnett USA is the "Most Effective Agency in America." Ian Ian Roderick, PhD Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University http://ianroderick.com From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Wed Sep 14 10:38:00 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Wed Sep 14 10:37:36 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: [CSL]: Thanks to corporations, instead of democracy we get Baywat ch Message-ID: <200509141438.j8EEc0m08946@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society [mailto:CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of J Armitage Sent: September 14, 2005 5:05 AM To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [CSL]: Thanks to corporations, instead of democracy we get Baywat ch --> Thanks to corporations, instead of democracy we get Baywatch It was claimed that the internet and satellite TV would topple dictators, but commercial interest are making sure they don't George Monbiot Tuesday September 13, 2005 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1568613,00.html 'Several of this cursed brood, getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, whence they began to discharge their excrements on my head." Thus Gulliver describes his first encounter with the Yahoos. Something similar seems to have happened to democracy. In April, Shi Tao, a journalist working for a Chinese newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for "providing state secrets to foreign entities". He had passed details of a censorship order to the Asia Democracy Forum and the website Democracy News. The pressure group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) was mystified by the ease with which Mr Tao had been caught. He had sent the message through an anonymous Yahoo! account. But the police had gone straight to his offices and picked him up. How did they know who he was? Last week RSF obtained a translation of the verdict, and there they found the answer. Mr Tao's account information was "furnished by Yahoo Holdings". Yahoo!, the document says, gave the government his telephone number and the address of his office. So much for the promise that the internet would liberate the oppressed. This theory was most clearly formulated in 1999 by the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. In his book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Friedman argues that two great democratising forces - global communications and global finance - will sweep away any regime which is not open, transparent and democratic. "Thanks to satellite dishes, the internet and television," he asserts, "we can now see through, hear through and look through almost every conceivable wall. ... no one owns the internet, it is totally decentralised, no one can turn it off ... China's going to have a free press ... Oh, China's leaders don't know it yet, but they are being pushed straight in that direction." The same thing, he claims, is happening all over the world. In Iran he saw people ogling Baywatch on illegal satellite dishes. As a result, he claims, "within a few years, every citizen of the world will be able to comparison shop between his own ... government and the one next door". He is partly right. The internet at least has helped to promote revolutions of varying degrees of authenticity in Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Argentina and Bolivia. But the flaw in Friedman's theory is that he forgets the intermediaries. The technology which runs the internet did not sprout from the ground. It is provided by people with a commercial interest in its development. Their interest will favour freedom in some places and control in others. And they can and do turn it off. In 2002 Yahoo! signed the Chinese government's pledge of "self-regulation": it promised not to allow "pernicious information that may jeopardise state security" to be posted. Last year Google published a statement admitting that it would not be showing links to material banned by the authorities on computers stationed in China. If Chinese users of Microsoft's internet service MSN try to send a message containing the words "democracy", "liberty" or "human rights", they are warned that "This message includes forbidden language. Please delete the prohibited expression." A study earlier this year by a group of scholars called the OpenNet Initiative revealed what no one had thought possible: that the Chinese government is succeeding in censoring the net. Its most powerful tool is its control of the routers - the devices through which data is moved from one place to another. With the right filtering systems, these routers can block messages containing forbidden words. Human-rights groups allege that western corporations - in particular Cisco Systems - have provided the technology and the expertise. Cisco is repeatedly cited by Thomas Friedman as one of the facilitators of his global revolution. "We had the dream that the internet would free the world, that all the dictatorships would collapse," says Julien Pain of Reporters Without Borders. "We see it was just a dream." Friedman was not the first person to promote these dreams. In 1993 Rupert Murdoch boasted that satellite television was "an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere". The Economist had already made the same claim on its cover: "Dictators beware!" The Chinese went berserk, and Murdoch, in response, ensured that the threat did not materialise. In 1994 he dropped BBC world news from his Star satellite feeds after it broadcast an unflattering portrait of Mao Zedong. In 1997 he ordered his publishing house HarperCollins to drop a book by Chris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong. He slagged off the Dalai Lama and his son James attacked the dissident cult Falun Gong. His grovelling paid off, and in 2002 he was able to start broadcasting into Guangdong. "We won't do programmes that are offensive in China," Murdoch's spokesman Wang Yukui admitted. "If you call this self-censorship then of course we're doing a kind of self-censorship." I think, if they were as honest as Mr Wang, everyone who works for Rupert Murdoch, or for the corporate media anywhere in the world, would recognise these restraints. To own a national newspaper or a television or radio station you need to be a multimillionaire. What multimillionaires want is what everybody wants: a better world for people like themselves. The job of their journalists is to make it happen. As Piers Morgan, the former editor of the Mirror, confessed, "I've made it a strict rule in life to ingratiate myself with billionaires." They will stay in their jobs for as long as they continue to interpret the interests of the proprietorial class correctly. What the owners don't enforce, the advertisers do. Over the past few months, AdAge.com reveals, both Morgan Stanley and BP have instructed newspapers and magazines that they must remove their adverts from any edition containing "objectionable editorial coverage". Car, airline and tobacco companies have been doing the same thing. Most publications can't afford to lose these accounts; they lose the offending articles instead. Why are the papers full of glowing profiles of the advertising boss Martin Sorrell? Because they're terrified of him. So instead of democracy we get Baywatch. They are not the same thing. Aspirational TV might stimulate an appetite for more money or more plastic surgery, and this in turn might encourage people to look, for better or worse, to the political systems that deliver them, but it is just as likely to be counter-democratic. As a result of pressure from both ratings and advertisers, for example, between 1993 and 2003 environmental programmes were cleared from the schedules on BBC TV, ITV and Channel 4. Though three or four documentaries have slipped out since then, the ban has not yet been wholly lifted. To those of us who have been banging our heads against this wall, it feels like censorship. Indispensable as the internet has become, political debate is still dominated by the mainstream media: a story on the net changes nothing until it finds its way into the newspapers or on to TV. What this means is that while the better networking Friedman celebrates can assist a democratic transition, the democracy it leaves us with is filtered and controlled. Someone else owns the routers. www.monbiot.com ==== This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. Please reply to this e-mail to highlight the error. 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They make the nastiest street hustlers look like pikers--and they don't the excuse of poverty. http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBGTUOWMDE.html Government Credit Cards for Katrina Expenses Draw Scrutiny By Hope Yen Associated Press Writer Published: Sep 15, 2005 WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers and watchdog groups worry that allowing federal employees to charge up to $250,000 on their government-issued credit cards for Hurricane Katrina-related expenses will lead to a repeat of past abuses. Some of the cards in the past were used to pay for prostitutes, gambling activity, even breast implants, government audits have shown. "People are concerned this is a risk," said Greg Kutz, managing director of special investigations at the General Accountability Office, which conducts audits at the request of Congress. About 250,000 federal employees have government credit cards, which typically have a purchase limit of $2,500. At the request of the Bush administration, Congress increased the credit line to $250,000 as part of a massive Katrina recovery bill approved last week. The aim is to make it easier to speed aid to victims. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said the "outrageous increase" was "slipped" into the bill. He is seeking to insert language in a Katrina health bill that would reduce the limit in most cases to $50,000. Responding to initial criticism, the White House issued new guidelines this week saying agencies must designate in writing which of their staff will receive the new spending privileges. Purchases of more than $50,000 must be preapproved by a senior manager. "Substantial financial controls already exist but we are currently looking at what additional protections might be useful. If in working with Congress, agencies, and state and local leaders it is determined that additional safeguards are required, then we'll put them in place," Alex Conant, spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget, said Wednesday. Critics say the additional oversight is needed because the cards offer special opportunities for abuse. Purchases are billed directly to the government, making it difficult to recover losses from wayward federal employees intent on fraud because of the time lag from the purchase date to subsequent billing. Cronyism also is a danger, as officials have more leeway under the higher limit to purchase more expensive supplies from politically connected companies without the benefit of open bidding and competition. Even if they're detected, time-strapped agency directors often don't pursue disciplinary action, according to audit reports. In recent years, several GAO audits found hundreds of thousands of dollars of improper expenditures at the Pentagon and other agencies, from purchases of remote control helicopters and airline tickets to Palm Pilots and $2,500 flat-panel computer monitors. Someone even bought a dog. Navy personnel also in 2002 used separate government travel cards to hire prostitutes at brothels, gamble and attend New York Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers games. One civil employee ran up nearly $35,000 in personal expenses over two years, including breast enlargement surgery for his girlfriend. The GAO has noted improvements in agency oversight since then, including reducing the number of government cards from more than 500,000 to 250,000 to limit the potential for fraud from lower-level government employees. The Pentagon also has said it installed software to help track when potentially suspect purchases are made. But as recently as last year, the GAO cited continuing oversight problems at the Veterans Health Administration and said it had no way of knowing - without conducting specific audits - whether improvements at other agencies are actually in effect and working. The concerns prompted Grassley, as well as Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the top Democrat on that committee, last week to urge congressional leaders to officially lower the cap to $50,000 to ensure full compliance. Collins has also signaled separately she might consider creating a special inspector general to monitor spending and no-bid contracts. "Imagine the fraud we could see," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight, noting that recent abuses involved cards with much smaller purchase limits of $2,500. "For bigger purchases involved in the rebuilding effort, that should involve competition and serious planning. Instead we have far too many people with far too much access to money without any organization or effective oversight," she said. --- On the Net: Copies of two recent GAO report on card abuses can be found at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04737.pdf http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04717t.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050915/b80cac1c/attachment.html From skarmani at emirates.net.ae Fri Sep 16 08:59:13 2005 From: skarmani at emirates.net.ae (Sohail Karmani) Date: Fri Sep 16 09:01:22 2005 Subject: [LNC] Katrina's imbeciles Message-ID: <09b901c5babe$b860c770$49ce6056@sohaillaptop> Unfortunately, I've just been listening/reading to recent comments (see below) by Bill O'Reilly on the aftermath of Katrina. O'Reilly is by no means an inconsequential figure; he's of course a popular newsreader on FOX news and so mercilessly broadcast around the world. Does he, I ask, represent the American values (see below) that say the Iraqis, Iranians, and Afghans have been salivating over these past few years? Are these values possibly the reason why we are constantly reminded that Arabs and Muslims are envious of the West? As far as I can make out, America is bleeding with racism in a manner and on a level that confirms the worst possible stereotypes of American society. My main issue is not though with O'Reilly but with the societal structures that breed morons like him and then allow them to position themselves publically in the most disgusting fashion possible. (see also http://www.cosmosleft.com/pages/3/) Read on: =============== O'REILLY ON KATRINA >From the September 13 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly: Source: http://mediamatters.org/items/200509150001) O'Reilly: Now, what's the real story? The real story is this: Ten percent of Americans, and 10 percent of any society, simply are so chaotic for whatever reason that they're never, ever going to be able to fend for themselves and make a living. They are either substance abusers, they're mentally ill, they're screwed up emotionally beyond -- they can't carry on a conversation, they're catatonic, schizophrenic, whatever it may be. No matter how much money you pour in, they're always going to be in that condition. It's not massive neglect, it's not; it's human nature. Now, our government has a duty to provide a safety net so these people aren't living under bridges. But some of them are anyway, because all the entitlement money they get they spend on heroin or crack or alcohol. So they can't pay their rent because the money that they're given they spend on drugs and alcohol. So what do you do? Give them more money? They're not going to pay their rent, they're going to spend it on drugs and alcohol. And therefore, they're going to be out on the street with their hand out. Many, many, many of the poor in New Orleans are in that condition. They weren't going to leave no matter what you did. They were drug-addicted. They weren't going to get turned off from their source. They were thugs, whatever. Now the tragedy is that a lot of times these people have children, and society has to take care of their children. Now, to me, I'm much more punitive than -- I would take the children away from these people. If you tested positive for heroin or crack, I'd take your child away, out of the house. All right, I'd rather have the kid in the system than under your control. It's a tough call, but that's what I would do. But it isn't society's neglect, it's the absence of personal responsibility, which the government can not force you to be responsible, not in a free society. ================= Best Sohail -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050916/40f75beb/attachment.html From iroderick at wlu.ca Fri Sep 16 09:43:02 2005 From: iroderick at wlu.ca (Ian Roderick) Date: Fri Sep 16 09:42:51 2005 Subject: [LNC] Katrina's imbeciles Message-ID: makes me recall one of the stories of Vlad the Impaler... "Dracula was very concerned that all his subjects work and contribute to the common welfare. He once noticed that the poor, vagrants, beggars and cripples had become very numerous in his land. Consequently, he issued an invitation to all the poor and sick in Wallachia to come to T?rgoviste for a great feast, claiming that no one should go hungry in his land. As the poor and crippled arrived in the city they were ushered into a great hall where a fabulous feast was prepared for them. The princes guests ate and drank late into the night, when Dracula himself made an appearance. 'What else do you desire? Do you want to be without cares, lacking nothing in this world,' asked the prince. When they responded positively Dracula ordered the hall boarded up and set on fire. None escaped the flames. Dracula explained his action to the boyars by claiming that he did this, 'in order that they represent no further burden to others so that no one will be poor in my realm." http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/VladT.htm Ian >>> skarmani@emirates.net.ae 16/09/2005 8:59 am >>> Unfortunately, I've just been listening/reading to recent comments (see below) by Bill O'Reilly on the aftermath of Katrina. O'Reilly is by no means an inconsequential figure; he's of course a popular newsreader on FOX news and so mercilessly broadcast around the world. Does he, I ask, represent the American values (see below) that say the Iraqis, Iranians, and Afghans have been salivating over these past few years? Are these values possibly the reason why we are constantly reminded that Arabs and Muslims are envious of the West? As far as I can make out, America is bleeding with racism in a manner and on a level that confirms the worst possible stereotypes of American society. My main issue is not though with O'Reilly but with the societal structures that breed morons like him and then allow them to position themselves publically in the most disgusting fashion possible. (see also http://www.cosmosleft.com/pages/3/ ) Read on: =============== O'REILLY ON KATRINA >From the September 13 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly: Source: http://mediamatters.org/items/200509150001 ) O'Reilly: Now, what's the real story? The real story is this: Ten percent of Americans, and 10 percent of any society, simply are so chaotic for whatever reason that they're never, ever going to be able to fend for themselves and make a living. They are either substance abusers, they're mentally ill, they're screwed up emotionally beyond -- they can't carry on a conversation, they're catatonic, schizophrenic, whatever it may be. No matter how much money you pour in, they're always going to be in that condition. It's not massive neglect, it's not; it's human nature. Now, our government has a duty to provide a safety net so these people aren't living under bridges. But some of them are anyway, because all the entitlement money they get they spend on heroin or crack or alcohol. So they can't pay their rent because the money that they're given they spend on drugs and alcohol. So what do you do? Give them more money? They're not going to pay their rent, they're going to spend it on drugs and alcohol. And therefore, they're going to be out on the street with their hand out. Many, many, many of the poor in New Orleans are in that condition. They weren't going to leave no matter what you did. They were drug-addicted. They weren't going to get turned off from their source. They were thugs, whatever. Now the tragedy is that a lot of times these people have children, and society has to take care of their children. Now, to me, I'm much more punitive than -- I would take the children away from these people. If you tested positive for heroin or crack, I'd take your child away, out of the house. All right, I'd rather have the kid in the system than under your control. It's a tough call, but that's what I would do. But it isn't society's neglect, it's the absence of personal responsibility, which the government can not force you to be responsible, not in a free society. ================= Best Sohail From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Sat Sep 17 16:59:43 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Sat Sep 17 16:59:23 2005 Subject: [LNC] Calling Noel Heather Message-ID: <200509172059.j8HKxh603186@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Hi Noel, if you are there, can you send me an email offlist please? If anyone knows that Noel has moved recently, can you please send a contact email. Thanks, Phil From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Sun Sep 18 13:25:15 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Sun Sep 18 13:24:58 2005 Subject: [LNC] Here, Doc, take a mop Message-ID: <200509181725.j8IHPEO09275@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Effects of limiting liability Phil http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/15/katrina.response/index.html Doctors eager to help sick and injured evacuees were handed mops by federal officials who expressed concern about legal liability. Even as violence and looting slowed rescues, police from other states were turned back while officials squabbled over who should take charge of restoring the peace. Warehouses in New Orleans burned while firefighters were diverted to Atlanta for Federal Emergency Management Agency training sessions on community relations and sexual harassment. Water trucks languished for days at FEMA's staging area because the drivers lacked the proper paperwork. Consider the stories of these frustrated volunteers: Dr. Bong Mui and his staff, evacuated with 300 patients after three hellish days at Chalmette Medical Center, arrived at the New Orleans airport, and were amazed to see hundreds of sick people. They offered to help. But, the doctor told CNN, FEMA officials said they were worried about legal liability. "They told us that, you know, you could help us by mopping the floor." And so they mopped, while people died around them. "I started crying," he recalled. "We felt like we could help, and were not allowed to do anything." (Watch the video of hundreds languishing sick at the airport -- 4:16) Steve Simpson, sheriff of Loudoun County, Virginia, sent 22 deputies equipped with food and water to last seven days. Their 14-car caravan, including four all-terrain vehicles, was on the road just three hours when they were told to turn back. The reason, Simpson told CNN: A Louisiana state police official told them not to come. " I said, "What if we just show up?' He says, 'You probably won't get in.' " Simpson said he later learned a dispute over whether state or federal authorities would command the law enforcement effort was being ironed out that night. But no one ever got back to him with the all-clear. FEMA halted tractor trailers hauling water to a supply staging area in Alexandria, Louisiana, The New York Times quoted William Vines, former mayor of Fort Smith, Arkansas, as saying. "FEMA would not let the trucks unload," he told the newspaper. "The drivers were stuck for several days on the side of the road" because, he said, they did not have a "tasker number." He added, "What in the world is a tasker number? I have no idea. It's just paperwork and it's ridiculous." Firefighters who answered a nationwide call for help were sent to Atlanta for FEMA training sessions on community relations and sexual harassment. "On the news every night you hear 'How come everybody forgot us?' " Pennsylvania firefighter Joseph Manning told The Dallas Morning News. "We didn't forget. We're stuck in Atlanta drinking beer." The government's response to Hurricane Katrina has been sharply criticized. Elected officials -- chiefly President Bush, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin -- have acknowledged flaws in the response. Some take responsibility "To the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said earlier this week. On Thursday, in a nationally televised address from New Orleans, he proposed a large aid package for the city and other areas that were hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. In the speech, he said the lessons from Katrina call for a new approach to responding to disasters. (Full story) "There were failures at every level of government -- state, federal and local," Blanco told Louisiana legislators Wednesday evening in Baton Rouge. "At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again," she said. "The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility." Nagin, once angry and embattled, was also conciliatory. From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Mon Sep 19 02:40:29 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Mon Sep 19 02:40:12 2005 Subject: [LNC] Google this Message-ID: <200509190640.j8J6eRs02382@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> go to google and type in "miserable loser" then hit "i'm feeling lucky" .. here is google's explanation for the result Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture. Googlebombing 'failure' 9/16/2005 12:54:00 PM Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House's official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns. Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission. Permalink From jhuns at vt.edu Mon Sep 19 09:00:30 2005 From: jhuns at vt.edu (Jeremy Hunsinger) Date: Mon Sep 19 10:15:13 2005 Subject: [LNC] Fwd: Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Clevedon) References: <3ED41433DE9DC047A7E87857AC9C4A00021434FB@scwex01.scw.vu.nl> Message-ID: <016627E7-54CB-4D22-956E-4C3EC3167BCE@vt.edu> Begin forwarded message: > From: Ragna Zeiss > Date: September 19, 2005 3:19:05 AM EDT > To: EUROGRAD@NIC.SURFNET.NL, STSGRAD-L@cornell.edu > Subject: Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Clevedon) > Reply-To: R.Zeiss@fsw.vu.nl > > > ?an exciting and much needed new development. The new journal will > help to > question existing assumptions about discourse analysis and ultimately > widen understanding of the processes of language.? Michael Billig, co- > editor, Discourse & Society, University of Loughborough, UK > > > About the Journal > > It is fair to say that existing international scholarly > publications on > language, discourse and communication have tended to favour the > Western > world. The philosophies, the concepts, the theories and the methods > that > are discussed are mostly of Western origin; if and when data from non- > Western cultures are analysed, it is usually the Western paradigms > that > are employed, often without enough attention paid to local, particular > contexts, including the concepts, concerns and intellectual > traditions of > those contexts. As a consequence, ideas, techniques, issues from non- > Western communities are marginalised and opportunities for > intercultural > exchange and genuine scientific innovation missed. In these > conditions, > the international scholarly discourse remains largely univocal and > acultural, though often under the guise of integration, generality and > interdisciplinarity. > > To promote intellectual diversity and to draw attention to > marginalised > discourse communities, Multilingual Matters, UK, a market-leading > publisher in the fields of discourse and cultural studies, has > launched a > new journal, entitled Journal of Multicultural Discourses (ISSN 1744- > 7143). Edited by Shi-xu, Professor and Director of the Institute of > Discourse and Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University, China, the > journal > will appear in early 2006. > > The journal is devoted to scholarship that (1) explores intellectual > traditions on language, discourse and communication especially outside > dominant paradigms; (2) researches into practices in, as well as > concepts > about, language and communication in especially marginalized > communities; > and/or (3) develops multiculturalist approaches to language, > discourse and > communication. > > More specifically, it publishes articles featuring one or more of the > following six types of subject matter: > > (1) On the form of language studies outside the mainstream: e.g. > explorations in the history, philosophy, theory, concepts, methods or > principles of the language scholarship of Asia, Africa or Latin > America; > > (2) On cross-fertilisation between culturally different intellectual > traditions of language, discourse and communication: e.g. > deliberations > about how to conduct dialogue between culturally different > intellectual > traditions and/or how to generate innovative, local-and-global, > multicultural approaches to human communication; > > (3) On problems, issues, concerns of a marginalised discourse > community: e.g. study of discourses of domination, prejudice, > exclusion, > solidarity, co-operation, empowerment or transformation in Asia, > Africa, > Latin America or minority communities within Western societies; > > (4) On culturally different versions, accounts and narratives about > issues, events or situations of global interest and concern: e.g. > critical > comparison of culturally varied discourses about terrorism, > hegemony, the > environment, peace, development or human rights; > > (5) On the criticism of discourses about one?s own culture and about > other cultures, groups or communities: e.g. critical study of > imperialist > or discriminatory discourses about minorities, non-Western cultures or > otherwise disadvantaged ?others?; and > > (6) On the identification, creation or promotion of discourses in > favour of cultural harmony and common progress: e.g. description of or > proposal for ways of speaking about one?s own culture or about other > cultures, communities and groups that enhance cultural solidarity and > prosperity. > > The journal features divergent disciplines, ranging from linguistics, > discourse studies, communication studies, cultural studies, > anthropology, > literary criticism, philosophy, religion to pedagogy. > > The Editor encourages the submission of high quality papers on topics > relevant to the interest of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses. > Reviews of important, up-to-date, relevant publications and > proposals for > special issues on relevant topics are also welcome. Manuscripts > should be > presented according to the ?guidelines for authors? that can be > found at > www.multilingual-matters.com and they should be sent to: > > Professor Shi-xu > Director, Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies > Zhejiang University > 388 Yuhangtang Road > 310058 Hangzhou > China > www.shixu.com > Tel:++86(0)571.88206208 > Fax:++86(0)571.85029729 > Email: submissions@multilingual-matters.com (with a note ?for JMD?) > and > xshi@zju.edu.cn (also for preliminary enquiries) > > > Comments > > ?I find this to be one of the most innovative and very timely > additions to > the network of publications in the social sciences?Journal's focus on > restoring the balance of cultural-philosophical background > perspectives in > the social sciences is an admirable goal, which is likely to lead to > revolutionary breakthroughs? Jaan Valsiner, editor, Culture & > Psychology > and From Past to Future, Clark University, USA > > International Editorial Board: > > Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney, Australia > Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University, USA > Felix Banda, University of the Western Cape, South Africa > Zvi Bekerman, Hebrew University, Israel > Jan Blommaert, University of Ghent, Belgium > Narcisa Paredes Canilao, University of the Philippines, the > Philippines > Dariusz Galasinski, University of Wolverhampton, UK > Gu Yueguo, Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences, China > Isolda Carranza, National University of Cordoba, Argentina > Howard Giles, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA > Henry Giroux, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada > Aydan Gulerce, Bogazici University, Turkey > Monica Heller, University of Toronto, Canada > Ludmilla Konstantinova Kostova, University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria > Victoria V. Krasnykh, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia > Robert Maier, State University of Utrecht, the Netherlands > Gabriella Modan, Ohio Sate University, USA > Michaela Mudure, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania > Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Indian Institute of Technology, India > Katsuhiro Ohashi, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan > Abdullah Shunnaq, Yarmouk University, Jordan > L?via Mathias Sim?o, Universidade de S?o Paulo, Brasil > Kwesi Yankah, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana > Robert Young, Oxford University, UK > > Review Editor > Doreen Wu, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China > Email: ctdwu@polyu.edu.hk > (Innovative book/article reviews on relevant topics and issues are > encouraged.) > > International Honourary Board > Michael Billig, University of Loughborough, UK > Jaan Valsiner, Clark University, USA > Shen Jiaxuan, Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences, China > Wimal Dissanayake, University of Hawaii, USA > Teun A. van Dijk, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain > > Editorial Assistants > Wendy Zhao, Zhejiang University, China > > > Details are available on our website: www.multilingual- > matters.com/multi/journals/journals_jmd.asp jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu jeremy.tmttlt.com www.tmttlt.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Associatiion of Internet Researchers From johnerichardson at cds-web.net Tue Sep 20 04:35:15 2005 From: johnerichardson at cds-web.net (John E Richardson) Date: Tue Sep 20 04:31:40 2005 Subject: [LNC] Winning hearts & minds in Iraq Message-ID: British tanks storm Basra jail to free undercover soldiers http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1573933,00.html Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill Tuesday September 20, 2005 The Guardian British troops used tanks last night to break down the walls of a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Basra and free two undercover British soldiers who were seized earlier in the day by local police. An official from the Iraqi interior ministry said half a dozen tanks had broken down the walls of the jail and troops had then stormed it to free the two British soldiers. The governor of Basra last night condemned the "barbaric aggression" of British forces in storming the jail. John E Richardson Dept of Social Sciences Loughborough University From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Wed Sep 21 13:10:29 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Wed Sep 21 13:10:27 2005 Subject: [LNC] architects of the dyslexicon Message-ID: <35F9CF13-95B9-46BC-AD7E-D4E0C324BD61@uwaterloo.ca> http://www.badmash.org/videos/videos_flv.php?v=george_bush_512K_Stream From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Wed Sep 21 15:08:14 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Wed Sep 21 15:08:16 2005 Subject: [LNC] more silencing Message-ID: <3B18F71B-3810-44BB-AEAD-9FE49E871285@uwaterloo.ca> http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105J.shtml Pentagon Nixes 9/11 Hearing Testimony By Kimberly Hefling The Associated Press Wednesday 21 September 2005 Washington - The Department of Defense forbade a military intelligence officer to testify Wednesday about the work of a secret military unit that identified four 9/11 hijackers more than a year before the Sept. 11 terrorists attacks, according to the man's attorney. In written testimony prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, attorney Mark Zaid, who represents Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, said the Pentagon also refused to permit testimony there by a defense contractor that he also represents. The Judiciary Committee was scheduled to hear testimony about the work of a classified unit code named "Able Danger." In his prepared remarks, Zaid was ready to say on behalf of Shaffer and contractor John Smith that Able Danger, using data mining techniques, identified four of the terrorists who struck on Sept. 11, 2001 - including mastermind Mohamed Atta. "At least one chart, and possibly more, featured a photograph of Mohamed Atta," Zaid said in his prepared remarks. The Defense Department had no immediate comment. On three occasions, Able Danger personnel attempted to provide the FBI with information, but Department of Defense attorneys stopped them because of legal concerns about military-run investigations on U.S. soil, Zaid said in his prepared remarks, encouraging the panel to locate a legal memorandum that he said Defense Department attorneys used to justify stopping the meetings. Zaid also charged that records associated with the unit were destroyed during 2000 and March 2001, and copies were destroyed in spring 2004. Rep. Curt Weldon. R-Pa., who was the first to come forward to assert that Able Danger had identified Atta and three others as being members of an al-Qaida cell, was also scheduled to testify. If Weldon is correct, the intelligence would change the timeline for when government officials first became aware of Atta's links to the terrorist network al-Qaida. Former members of the Sept. 11 commission have dismissed the "Able Danger" assertions. Pentagon officials had acknowledged earlier this month that they had found three people who recall an intelligence chart identifying Atta as a terrorist prior to the Sept. 11 attacks. In addition to Shaffer, another military officer, Navy Capt. Scott Phillpott, has come forward to support Weldon's claims. He was not on Wednesday's witness list. Salon provides breaking news articles from the Associated Press as a service to its readers, but does not edit the AP articles it publishes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050921/18a325fc/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Wed Sep 21 16:11:31 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Wed Sep 21 16:11:30 2005 Subject: [LNC] Gross National Happiness papers Message-ID: <71015558-9D7C-4DE4-921A-B4F67BD7B35D@uwaterloo.ca> http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/publications/gnh/gnh.htm From iroderick at wlu.ca Thu Sep 22 13:23:43 2005 From: iroderick at wlu.ca (Ian Roderick) Date: Thu Sep 22 13:24:20 2005 Subject: [LNC] From 'shock and awe' warfare to economic 'shock therapy' Message-ID: "Neoliberalism In a Conflict State: The Viability of Economic Shock Therapy in Iraq" http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2004/jun/looneyJun04.pdf It seems that hyperwar may not translate so cleanly to hypercapitalism... As an aside, I recently found a second-hand copy of _The Survival of Capitalism_ by Henri Lefebvre which I have not read and I was wondering if anyone on this list has read it. I have only had a chance to thumb through it with all the demands of the start of term but it seems to mark out many of the ideas regarding space that Lefebvre goes on to develop later in _The Production of Space_ but his discussion of the reproduction of the relations of production as central to neo-capitalism seems quite germane to the interests of this group. "This neo-capitalism could be said to be a capitalism of organisation. This is not the same thing as an organised capitalism - far from it. Its cohesion is merely superficial; it fails to reabsorb its contradictions. The coherence is no more than ideological, that is, it intervenes in and is closely tied to "reality" yet conceals it, masking its contradictions just like any other ideology" (p. 112). Ian From iroderick at wlu.ca Fri Sep 23 11:51:00 2005 From: iroderick at wlu.ca (Ian Roderick) Date: Fri Sep 23 11:51:28 2005 Subject: [LNC] War, Chaos and Business Message-ID: In armed conflict, maneuver warfare requires the ability to operate "inside opponents' observe- orient- decide- act loops." Such mental and physical quickness generates ambiguity, confusion, and panic in the opposing side. The idea is to penetrate the enemy, isolating him into non-cooperative elements which pump up his friction and impede any vigorous response. Commanders who can achieve these effects often gain victory without bloody and "decisive" battles. For more details on OODA loops in armed conflict, please consult our sister site, Defense and the National Interest. In business, the idea is not so much to confuse competitors, although that is always satisfying, but to get customers to buy whatever it is that you're selling. Competitors are hostile and sometimes agile features of the environment, but "defeating" them is not the main idea. It turns out, though, that OODA loops can shape customer desires just like they shape opponents' conception of the conflict in war. Companies that operate "inside their competitors' and customers' OODA loops" typically turn customers into fanatical loyalists. Details in my new book, Certain to Win. http://www.belisarius.com/index.html Hello all. Phil, I believe that this might be what you meant by monopsony? Common sense would have made one think the military metaphor was being extended to the 'free marketplace' and the rivalry between companies, but in fact its really about imposing your will on the 'customer' and making it their desire. Ian From nr03 at fsu.edu Fri Sep 23 12:01:47 2005 From: nr03 at fsu.edu (Nicholas Ruiz) Date: Fri Sep 23 12:15:33 2005 Subject: [LNC] Kritikos, Volume II, September 2005 Message-ID: <20050923120147.0w4fybvhcgsgk08s@webmail2.fsu.edu> Kritikos, Volume II, September 2005 An interview with Gerry Coulter (editor of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies) http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Enr03/Gerry%20Coulter%20Interview.htm Vanguard Assemblages: New Media and the Enthymeme...p.mchenry http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Enr03/mchenry.htm -- Nicholas Ruiz III GTA/doctoral candidate Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities Florida State University Editor, Kritikos http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~nr03/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- From sotillos at mail.montclair.edu Sun Sep 25 11:28:22 2005 From: sotillos at mail.montclair.edu (Susana Sotillo) Date: Sun Sep 25 11:31:40 2005 Subject: [LNC] March in Washington D.C. Message-ID: <4336C216.1090902@mail.montclair.edu> Many of us were there. From two of our own towns in New Jersey (Montclair and Bloomfield), seven buses left for DC. This morning I heard Republican Senator McCain state that "they (the perverse leadership in power) were staying the course" regardless of what the rest of America thinks. There were between 150-200,000 demonstrators. Demonstration The Associated Press Lies Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2005-09-24 15:15. Media There are hundreds of thousands of people marching in DC, right now, but the AP reports: Demonstrators call for U.S. troops to leave Iraq JENNIFER C. KERR Associated Press WASHINGTON - Opponents of the war in Iraq marched by the tens of thousands Saturday in a clamorous day of protest, song and remembrance of the dead, some showing surprisingly diverse political views even as they spoke with one loud voice in wanting U.S. troops home. ____________ REUTERS LIES: Thousands protest Iraq war, economic globalization By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters flooded Washington on Saturday to stage dual demonstrations against the U.S.-led war in Iraq and economic globalization, and to demand that President George W. Bush bring troops home. ____________ Bloomberg Prefers Anonymous Source: U.K. Rally Against Iraq War Draws 10,000; U.S. Protests Planned Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A London demonstration against the war in Iraq drew at least 10,000 people today as similar protests were planned in European capitals including Paris, Rome, Madrid and Oslo, and in Washington. Andrew Burgin of the Stop the War Coalition, which backed the London rally with the Muslim Association of Britain, said there were 100,000 demonstrators in Hyde Park, in the city center. A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman, who declined to be identified, put the number at 10,000. Comment viewing options Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes. We were there in the tens of Submitted by neil friedman (not verified) on Sun, 2005-09-25 10:55. We were there in the tens of thousands. We came fromacross the United States. WE packed the streets from curb to curb. We stood shoulder to shouldere with friends and strangers alike. We converged on the Nations Capital with one message in one clear voice. We held our banners high. The media can record whatever nimbers they please. The President and all his minions can dismiss us as a bunch of misguided misfits for all I care. I was there. I would go again at a hearts beat. We have to remember, this was only the first shot and despite the fact that the media willfully ignored our presence we will not disappear, but we will continue to grow in number, just like we did in during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. Armies are not built in a day. Yesterday was a victory for Peace Love and Happiness. Let's not be discouraged. We will prevail and the Press will come. An old Hippie and long time anti war activist for Peace Neil ? reply We were there in the tens of Submitted by neil friedman (not verified) on Sun, 2005-09-25 10:53. We were there in the tens of thousands. We came fromacross the United States. WE packed the streets from curb to curb. We stood shoulder to shouldere with friends and strangers alike. We converged on the Nations Capital with one message in one clear voice. We held our banners high. The media can record whatever nimbers they please. The President and all his minions can dismiss us as a bunch of misguided misfits for all I care. I was there. I would go again at a hearts beat. We have to remember, this was only the first shot and despite the fact that the media willfully ignored our presence we will not disappear, but we will continue to grow in number, just like we did in during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Rights Movement. Armies are not built in a day. Yesterday was a victory for Peace Love and Happiness. Let's not be discouraged. We will prevail and the Press will come. An old Hippie and long time anti war activist for Peace Neil ? reply MEDIA CREDIBILITY Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2005-09-25 10:28. The media AND the Democratic Party lost their credibility a long time ago. One need look no further than to their failure to publicize, much less do anything about, the findings of the House Subcommittee on Assassinations, whose 1979 report concluded that both President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., were probably killed as the result of conspiracies. (The media has so ignored this story that most Americans still think that the last government word on the subject of President Kennedy's assassination was the Warren Report.) That same media and Democratic Party have also ignored the historically high discrepancies between exit polls and "official" results in last year's presidential election, the same year in which people in the Ukraine used similar discrepancies to decide that their elections had been fraudulent. Ralph Nader is right: The Democratic Party is useless. What we need is to begin now to build a viable third party. It might take a long time, but it will take less time to restore power to the people that way than to do it through the Democratic Party, which has become nothing more than a foil for the Republicans. ? reply Third party Submitted by Musicman (not verified) on Sun, 2005-09-25 11:05. LETS START BUILDING. I have never voted for a Republicrat for prez! I don't intend to unless the very core of the parties changed into a real representation of whats good for THE PEOPLE. I have great hope in the Green party. Libertarian seem to only care about their own independence from government. I also care about that...but I want a compassionate system also. PEACE ? reply SAY THE WORD Submitted by FENEEKA (not verified) on Sun, 2005-09-25 09:38. In my humble opinion..as a Viet Nam vet ('68)...as a member of Viet Vets Against The War ('69-70)...as a father of 5 sons (4 school-ged and very impressionable)...we need to look at the broad view of what is happening to this country...It's called Totalarianism. As his (dubya) daddy once..so eloquently stated.. " if it looks like a duck...it's probably a duck..." And this duck smells of death. Also to quote a dirge from the bad old days...(from Loggins and Messina's "Golden Ribbons" song)..." ...what does it avail a man to gain in fortune and lose his soul?? We must fight this firestorm of plutocratic insolence and arrogant didain for life with the same vigor and power as they are. The dichotomy is, yes very evident...we are damned near our own civil war. The poor and disenfranchised "societal debris" will rise up. Revolution comes on a whisper...and behind the barrel of a gun...as insideous and horrifying as this seems. These people are not screwing around. While we are peacefully protesting the policies and arrogance of this unelected liar-leader...they simply turn off the TV and continue with the staus quo. It will take violent acts to get the attention to the media...Does anyone remember Chicago '68??? The Weather Underground needs to be re-activated ASAP...and start blowing up our icons of greed. We can change the world...it's dying...(Thank you David and Graham)... God Save this Country. FENEEKA ? reply -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Sun Sep 25 16:59:59 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Sun Sep 25 17:00:09 2005 Subject: [LNC] War, Chaos and Business In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <200509252059.j8PKxvo12009@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> > -----Original Message----- > From: lnc-bounces@malagigi.cddc.vt.edu > [mailto:lnc-bounces@malagigi.cddc.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Ian Roderick >Phil, I believe that this might be what you meant by monopsony? Not really. Monopsony is the inverse of monopoloy: one buyer many sellers. >Common sense would have made one think the military metaphor was being extended to the 'free marketplace' T Freidman is right about one thing: the free market today is underpinned by military and police presence. >and the rivalry between companies, but in fact its really about imposing your will on the 'customer' and making it their desire. Yep -- Thanks for the piece Ian. Best, Phil From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Mon Sep 26 02:43:47 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Mon Sep 26 02:43:59 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: [CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE] China's leaders launch smokeless war against internet and media d issent Message-ID: <200509260643.j8Q6hjo29517@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society [mailto:CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of J Armitage Sent: September 26, 2005 2:36 AM To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE] China's leaders launch smokeless war against internet and media d issent China's leaders launch smokeless war against internet and media dissent * News deemed contrary to national interest is banned * Party summit decides to target 'liberal elements' Benjamin Joffe-Walt in Shanghai Monday September 26, 2005 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1578189,00.html China announced a fresh crackdown yesterday on the internet amid further revelations of a plan by Hu Jintao, the president, to suppress dissent. "The state bans the spreading of any news with content that is against national security and public interest," said a statement from Xinhua, the official news agency. The announcement called for blogs and personal web pages to "be directed towards serving the people and socialism and insist on correct guidance of public opinion for maintaining national and public interests". The statement was just one of a series of initiatives by the government to root out politically sensitive news from domestic and foreign media. On Thursday a Chinese journalist and former professor was given a seven-year sentence for "inciting subversion" by writing hundreds of articles for banned overseas news websites. Last month the government tried to implement a scheme to pay journalists according to how much Communist party officials liked, or disliked, their articles. In July a political activist was given five years for posting a punk song on the internet deemed to be subversive, and in April a journalist was sentenced to 10 years for sending an email overseas about restrictions on freedom of speech. Providing further evidence of an organised national crackdown, the New York Times reported yesterday that Mr Hu called for a "smokeless war" against "liberal elements" in China during a secret leadership meeting in May. The government employs a cyberspace police rumoured to number 30,000 and has spent lavishly on internet filters. Journalists and human rights organisations say the "smokeless war" amounts to a transformation of the government's tactics from violence, open harassment and the closing of newspapers to more covert methods of maintaining control. Journalists who try write on forbidden topics are rarely attacked directly, but are discredited by charges such as corruption, sexual harassment and extramarital affairs. They claim confiscation of notes, address books and mobile phones happen secretly beneath a facade that nothing is wrong, so as to defend the image of the party and its leaders. "They are trying to safeguard the welfare of the regime, while simultaneously providing for the illusion of a free liberal press," said Law Yuk-kai of the Hong Kong-based Human Rights Monitor. "But the internet provides a new way to organise people and is therefore a mounting threat to the government." With a growing income gap and agitated unions, migrant workers and students, Mr Law said the government was feeling increasingly threatened by any media that provide outlets for expression of dissent. "They are in a bind. On the one hand they want to encourage economic development but on the other hand they want to strangle any political initiatives by those not benefiting from the new China." While many governments prevent the free flow of controversial information by simply banning the internet altogether, China's strategy has been one of controlled welcome - exploiting the internet's phenomenal potential to drive China's its globalised economy while simultaneously suppressing its potential for freedom of expression. The current struggle in the Chinese media began in the 1990s when the government cut funding to various media outlets, forcing them to engage in a balancing act between encouraging circulation [through genuine news] and servicing the propaganda department [as most media are required to do]. "When [former president] Jiang Zemin came to power, the propaganda department began controlling all Chinese media," said one high-ranking editor of a party-run newspaper with close government connections. "After Hu Jintao became president, there was an effort to open up. But after about six months the central government started getting complaints from local officials about their inability to govern because of media reports exposing corruption in their administrations ... everything reversed- there was a big policy change back to the way things were." The editor told the Guardian that the row in the party centred on the president's lack of authority over local leaders. Yesterday China gambled with a goodwill gesture to pro-democracy members of Hong Kong's legislature, inviting them to mainland China for the first time in more than 15 years. But the visit appeared to backfire when at least one member of the group wore a T-shirt with a picture of tanks in Tiananmen square, a symbol of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in which hundreds of students were killed. Background China has built the most sophisticated government-controlled internet on earth, often hailed as "the Great Firewall". With the help of western technology firms and internet companies, China filters foreign sites, restricts blog postings, limits online chats and censors instant messages for the second-largest online population in the world. While the barriers are easy to get around with a bit of techno-wizardry, journalists, editors, internet service providers and cybercafe owners are all under heavy pressure to abide by the rules and to self-censor to stay in business. The experience can frustrate - thousands of sites are blocked, emails can just disappear and even search engines will not turn up results for certain words. Banned phrases from news sites, blogs and instant messaging services include independence, democracy, Taiwan, Tiananmen Square, freedom and the Dalai Lama ==== This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. 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URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050926/021a607e/attachment.html From johnerichardson at cds-web.net Thu Sep 22 07:55:56 2005 From: johnerichardson at cds-web.net (John E Richardson) Date: Mon Sep 26 09:01:33 2005 Subject: [LNC] Exploitation of migrant workers Message-ID: http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/winnn6/index/pressoffice/press_index/press-040227.htm Citizens Advice says the Government must establish a Fair Employment Commission to enforce the rights of millions of the lowest paid workers in the UK - including migrant workers who are among the most vulnerable of all. The charity has stepped up its calls for a pro-active employment rights agency in the wake of the deaths of 20 Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay and as MPs prepare to debate a Bill on the licensing of gangmasters this week (Friday). In a report called Nowhere to turn, Citizens Advice says the UK remains the only EU country without an enforcement body charged with ensuring that employers comply with their legal obligations. In the report, Citizens Advice catalogues a list of shameful cases involving migrant workers employed in a wide range of industries including the care home sector, cleaning and hospitality, as well as in agriculture and food processing. Workers are often getting pitiful wages, living in accommodation unfit for habitation and in fear of victimisation or instant dismissal if they complain. Citizens Advice believes that the proactive enforcement approach of the National Minimum Wage - which has its own enforcement agency within the Inland Revenue - should be extended to other basic workplace rights. Citizens Advice Chief Executive David Harker said: "Millions of the most vulnerable and poorly paid workers in the UK economy - often performing unglamorous but essential tasks - are losing out. Migrant workers are among the most vulnerable of all. "We can only guess whether the tragic deaths of the Chinese cockle pickers in Morecambe would have been avoided if such an agency had existed. With the 10 EU accession countries due to join this May, no one knows how many more migrants will come to the UK for work. The need for action to ensure their rights are protected is clear. "Without the means for effective enforcement of workplace rights, this lamentable situation can only get worse. It is time for a modern, pro-active system of enforcing basic standards at work. "The creation of a Fair Employment Commission is a challenge. But the potential prize - for workers, employers, trade unions and Government alike - is great. It would help make the current good practice of some employers the standard practice of all, and help eliminate exploitation of the vulnerable." Cases seen by Citizens Advice Bureaux include: * Two Philippino women who went to King's Lynn Bureaux were being made to work 80 hours a week for ?75 at a care home and on several occasions had been ordered out of bed in the middle of the night to do domestic chores for the owner. * Bolton CAB was approached by a Portuguese man and his 17-year-old pregnant wife who had been brought to the UK to work on local farms. They were sharing a house with 17 other workers and, after deductions from their wages for transport and housing, were left with ?6 per week to live on. * Two Chinese and one Korean post-graduate student employed as part-time cleaners approached Oxford CAB to say that they had not been paid for up to three months' work, a seemingly common scam involving foreign students. Citizens Advice believes that, as a first step, the Government should establish a cross-department Task Force on Fair Employment, led by a senior minister and charged with overseeing consultation with both workers' and employers' organisations on the role, functions and structure of a Fair Employment Commission. Copies of Nowhere to turn (pdf 118Kb) pdf link can also be provided by post from Citizens Advice by emailing rebecca.shah@citizensadvice.org.uk John E Richardson Dept of Social Sciences Loughborough University From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Wed Sep 28 08:23:57 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Wed Sep 28 08:24:15 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: [CSL] RA post for anti-war internet activism ESRC project Message-ID: <200509281223.j8SCNpo23899@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> -----Original Message----- From: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society [mailto:CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Joanne Roberts Sent: September 28, 2005 4:20 AM To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [CSL] RA post for anti-war internet activism ESRC project From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:CRIT-GEOG-FORUM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Pickerill, Dr J. Sent: 27 September 2005 15:54 To: CRIT-GEOG-FORUM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: RA post for anti-war internet activism ESRC project Sorry for cross postings but please forward to anyone who might be interested in this RA post for a new ESRC project. Thanks Jenny ------------------------------- Research Assistant Anti-War Movements in the Information Age Department of Sociology, City University, London Fixed term for 24 months ?21.5k - ?24k Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work on an ESRC project focusing on anti-war movements, with particular concern for their use of ICTs/new media. The project is led by Professor Frank Webster (City), working with Dr Jenny Pickerill (Leicester). You will share responsibility for the design, realisation and analysis of the studies associated with this project. You will have a higher degree (preferably doctorate) in a relevant social science discipline. Experience of empirical research, to include the analysis of qualitative data, and some knowledge of anti-war movements are also required. Start date: 1st of January 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter Benefits include a final-salary pension scheme. Closing date: 14 October 2005 For an informal discussion of the post, interested candidates may contact Frank Webster at f.webster@city.ac.uk For more information and an application form, visit www.city.ac.uk/jobs or write to the Recruitment Team, HR Department, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB quoting job reference number MP/0007. Actively working to promote equal opportunity and diversity. ------------------------------- Dr Jenny Pickerill Lecturer in Human Geography Department of Geography University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH UK work: +44 (0)116 252 3836 fax: +44 (0)116 252 3854 email: j.pickerill@le.ac.uk web: www.jennypickerill.info -------------------------- **************************************************************************** ******** Distributed through Cyber-Society-Live [CSL]: CSL is a moderated discussion list made up of people who are interested in the interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society in all its manifestations.To join the list please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cyber-society-live.html **************************************************************************** ********* From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Wed Sep 28 10:36:47 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Wed Sep 28 10:37:06 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: [CSL]: Army Investigates Photos of Iraqi War Dead on Web Message-ID: <200509281436.j8SEafo18688@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> _____ From: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society [mailto:CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of J Armitage Sent: September 28, 2005 5:12 AM To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [CSL]: Army Investigates Photos of Iraqi War Dead on Web September 28, 2005 The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/international/middleeast/28site.html?th&em c=th Army Investigates Photos of Iraqi War Dead on Web By THOM SHANKER WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - The Army has opened an investigation into whether American troops have sent gruesome photographs of Iraqi war dead to an Internet site where the soldiers were given free access to online pornography, Army officials said Tuesday. Some photographs on the Internet site show people in American military uniforms standing around what appear to be dead bodies. Other photos include graphic images of severed body parts and what appear to be internal organs spilling from bodies onto the ground. The images are said to come from Afghanistan as well as Iraq. Their authenticity has not been determined. Paul Boyce, an Army spokesman, said that if soldiers had posted the images, their actions could violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which defines conduct unbecoming an officer or enlisted soldier. Another Pentagon official who reviewed the Web site said it raised questions, as well, of whether the acts could be viewed as a violation of the Geneva Conventions, which set standards for treatment of remains of those killed in a combat zone. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington-based civil rights and advocacy group, called for an investigation after details of the photographs were described in news media and online reports. Arsalan Iftikhar, the group's legal director, asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to "investigate this troubling phenomenon and do whatever is necessary to bring it to an end." On the Web site, the photographs are set aside from the pornographic images that are its standard content. Those who provided the pictures often included crude captions. But there is also some discussion about the war, its purpose and conduct. Attempts to reach the operator of the Web site on Tuesday were not successful. An article published last week in the Online Journalism Review of the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Southern California identified the site's operator as Chris Wilson, and said he lived in Florida but maintained the site on computer hosts overseas. The article quoted him as saying: "To me, this is from the soldier's slant. This is directly from them. They can take the digital cameras and take a picture and send it to me, and that's the most raw you can get it. I like to see it from their point of view, and I think it's newsworthy." On the site, under the headline "Cooked Iraqi," a posted photograph shows uniformed men posing in front of what appear to be charred remains. The photo promoted several anonymous postings including one that said, "Burn baby, burn!" Another contributor had a different reaction: "Yip, its funny when it's a 'second rate' Iraqi, but an outrage when its one of your own," adding, "Typical and these are the people charged with the responsibility of showing the world how we can improve life in Iraq." Officials said the military's preliminary inquiry was being conducted by the Army Criminal Investigation Command. They said it had proved difficult to identify the military personnel who can be seen in some of the photographs wearing Army or Marine Corps uniforms but no clear name tags or unit markings. Digital cameras have been ubiquitous in the modern combat zone, and it was digital pictures and videos that provided the first public evidence of the extreme degree to which military police soldiers had abused Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. In the aftermath of Abu Ghraib and reports of other abuses by American troops, Pentagon and military officials acknowledged that such behavior could severely damage the American war effort in Iraq. "I think it's really a disturbing phenomenon to see that our military personnel would be engaging in such inappropriate behavior, behavior that brings dishonor to the military," Ibrahim Hooper, the spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a telephone interview. ==== This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. 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The Posada case has further frayed the strained relations between the United States and Venezuela, the world's No. 5 oil exporter and a top supplier to the U.S. market. Chavez, an ally of Communist Cuba who often rages against U.S. foreign policy, says Posada is a terrorist and warned this year that his government could revise its diplomatic relations with the United States if he were not extradited. "They have taken a decision as vile and sinister as the actual act of terrorism. Once more the U.S. government has been unmasked as a farce in the war on terrorism," Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel told reporters. "The saga of the Bush family is always linked to terrorism," he said. Rangel said attorneys were working on a legal response to the decision. But asked whether Venezuela would review its ties with Washington, he responded: "When did we say that?" HELD SINCE MAY The United States has held Posada, 77, since May for illegally crossing the border from Mexico. He denies involvement in the 1976 bombing, but has admitted working against Cuban leader Fidel Castro. A former CIA collaborator, Posada escaped from Venezuelan prison in 1985 awaiting retrial for the bombing. A military court initially acquitted him in the 1980s. Caracas and Havana say he planned the bombing of the Cuban jet off the Bahamas. His case has been widely seen as a difficult one for the Bush administration, which says it is fighting a war on terrorism, but has chilly relations with Havana and Caracas. Continued ... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://malagigi.cddc.vt.edu/pipermail/lnc/attachments/20050928/551ef759/attachment.html From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Wed Sep 28 23:16:40 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Wed Sep 28 23:15:59 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Linguistic Anthropology Position, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <200509290316.j8T3GYo16769@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> -----Original Message----- From: Wodak, Ruth [mailto:r.wodak@lancaster.ac.uk] Sent: September 28, 2005 12:16 PM To: Maura Bayer Cc: lip@lists.lancs.ac.uk; rudolf.de-cillia@univie.ac.at; a0000690@unet.univie.ac.at; Usama Suleiman; brigitta busch; oberhuber@gmx.at; ute.smit@univie.ac.at; EI-TEACH; pwgraham@uwaterloo.ca Subject: WG: Linguistic Anthropology Position, University of Texas at Austin FYI, Please distribute! Ruth Wodak Professor in Discourse Studies Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University Lancaster, UK LA1 4YT Tel: xx44 1524 592437 Fax:xx44 1524 843085 http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/wodak/index.htm http://www.univie.ac.at/discourse-politics-identity http://www.wittgenstein-club.at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/researchgroups/dpi/dpi.htm -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Elizabeth Keating [mailto:ekeating@mail.utexas.edu] Gesendet: Di 27.09.2005 16:50 An: ekeating@mail.utexas.edu Betreff: Linguistic Anthropology Position, University of Texas at Austin Dear Colleagues: Please circulate widely. Apologies for cross-postings. Best, Elizabeth The Department of Anthropology plans to fill a tenure track position in the field of Linguistic anthropology at the rank of Assistant Professor. The appointment is subject to budgetary approval. The successful candidate will have an active research program in linguistic anthropology. Area and specialty are open, but we are particularly interested in candidates who complement the department's strengths. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or demonstrate clear evidence that the PhD will be completed before the 2006-07 academic year begins. This position requires a record of original and significant research, excellence in publication, and superior teaching ability. Duties include graduate and undergraduate teaching; research in the candidate's area of specialization; and service to the department, college, and The University of Texas at Austin. Priority will be given to applications received by November 15, 2005. A background check must be made of the successful candidate prior to appointment. Candidates should send a vitae and a letter of intent to: Chair, Linguistic Anthropology Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, 1 University Station C3200, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712 AA/EEO employer. ____________________ Elizabeth Keating, Associate Professor (Linguistic Anthropology) Department of Anthropology Director, Science, Technology & Society Program The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station C3200 Austin, Texas 78712-0303 USA phone: 512-471-8518; fax 512-471-6535 office: E.P.Schoch Building, room 2.206 home page: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~keating/ Science, Technology and Society Program http://www.sts.utexas.edu/ From iroderick at wlu.ca Thu Sep 29 16:23:43 2005 From: iroderick at wlu.ca (Ian Roderick) Date: Thu Sep 29 16:23:36 2005 Subject: [LNC] And now, the war forecast Message-ID: You have heard of software that claims to predict pop music hits, well now there is software to predict the outcome of wars... And now, the war forecast http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4368226 Ian From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 29 16:28:49 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 29 16:28:13 2005 Subject: [LNC] And now, the war forecast In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <200509292028.j8TKSnc13181@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Then it will come in very handy for scientifically proving the utility of making a preemptive strike. Ergghh ... > -----Original Message----- > From: lnc-bounces@malagigi.cddc.vt.edu > [mailto:lnc-bounces@malagigi.cddc.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Ian Roderick > Sent: September 29, 2005 4:24 PM > To: lnc@malagigi.cddc.vt.edu > Subject: [LNC] And now, the war forecast > > You have heard of software that claims to predict pop music > hits, well now there is software to predict the outcome of wars... > > And now, the war forecast > http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4368226 > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > LNC mailing list > LNC@listserv.cddc.vt.edu > http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/lnc > From pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca Thu Sep 29 22:06:03 2005 From: pwgraham at uwaterloo.ca (Phil Graham) Date: Thu Sep 29 22:05:33 2005 Subject: [LNC] FW: Genetic Crossroads: Mentoring Gender, Selecting Sex; California stem cell program; more Message-ID: <200509300206.j8U263c20593@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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