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F.B.I. Scrutinizes Antiwar Rallies http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/national/23FBI.html?hp By ERIC LICHTBLAU Published: November 23, 2003
But some civil rights advocates and legal scholars said the monitoring program could signal a return to the abuses of the 1960's and 1970's, when J. Edgar Hoover was the F.B.I. director and agents routinely spied on political protesters like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"The F.B.I. is dangerously targeting Americans who are engaged in nothing more than lawful protest and dissent," said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "The line between terrorism and legitimate civil disobedience is blurred, and I have a serious concern about whether we're going back to the days of Hoover."
The abuses of the Hoover era, which included efforts by the F.B.I. to harass and discredit Hoover's political enemies under a program known as Cointelpro, led to tight restrictions on F.B.I. investigations of political activities.
Those restrictions were relaxed significantly last year, when Attorney General John Ashcroft issued guidelines giving agents authority to attend political rallies, mosques and any event "open to the public."
Civil rights advocates, relying largely on anecdotal evidence, have complained for months that federal officials have surreptitiously sought to suppress the First Amendment rights of antiwar demonstrators.
The F.B.I. memorandum, however, appears to offer the first corroboration of a coordinated, nationwide effort to collect intelligence regarding demonstrations.
FBI monitoring of antiwar protests questioned ACLU, Kennedy say efforts could imperil right to free speech http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/24/fbi_monitoring_of_antiwar_protests_questioned/
FBI Shielded Informants From Murder Charges, Panel Finds http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1689-2003Nov20.html
The FBI's skeletons http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2003/11/22/the_fbis_skeletons/
IN AN authoritative report on the FBI's misuse of informants in Boston, the House Committee on Government Reform has laid bare a 30-year record of misconduct by the nation's leading law enforcement agency. Congress needs to monitor FBI policy on informants to ensure that this pattern of abuse does not repeat itself.
Patriot Act Expansion Moves Through Congress http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/112303F.shtml By Jim Lobe OneWorld US Friday 21 November 2003
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congress is poised to approve new legislation that amounts to the first substantive expansion of the controversial USA Patriot Act since it was approved just after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
Acting at the Bush administration's behest, a joint House-Senate conference committee has approved a provision in the 2004 Intelligence Authorization bill that will permit the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to demand records from a number of businesses -- without the approval of a judge or grand jury -- if it deems them relevant to a counter-terrorism investigation.
Common Sense Resistance to the Patriot Act is growing in the American heartland http://www.msnbc.com/news/996267.asp?cp1=1
First Amendment survey finds knowledge lacking http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031120-104904-8883r.htm
Strip search http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20031113-083614-6837r.htm By Clarence Page
The Patriot Act, passed in the panicky weeks after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, allows the government to peek into the personal affairs of many people, not just suspected terrorists. The law's powers only begin with suspected terrorists. We have yet to learn how far it extends.
That's the part Attorney General John Ashcroft does not talk much about as he tours the country touting the powers the Patriot Act gave the federal government to fight terrorism.
Top Justice Aide Approved Sending Suspect to Syria http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59678-2003Nov18.html
The U.S. immigration law used to carry out the "expedited removal" of Arar strictly prohibits sending anyone, even on national security grounds, to a country where "it is more likely than not that they will be tortured," said a U.S. official familiar with the law applied in the Arar case.
War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1089158,00.html November 20, 2003
International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.
"Relax, Celebrate Victory," By Richard Perle http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/press/0502perle.htm 2 May 2003
Al Qaeda at Work in Iraq, Bush Tells BBC President Suggests Connection Between Terrorist Group and Hussein Government http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47270-2003Nov16.html November 16, 2003
"Now, there are some foreign fighters -- mujaheddin types or al Qaeda, or al Qaeda affiliates, involved, as well," said Bush, who leaves Tuesday for a four-day state visit to Britain. "They've got a different mission. They want to install a Taliban-type government in Iraq, or they want to seek revenge for getting whipped in Afghanistan. But, nevertheless, they all have now found common ground for a brief period of time."
Bush has said the United States has no evidence Iraq was involved with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But his linkage of Iraq and Afghanistan could suggest a connection, and polls have shown a majority of Americans believe there is one.
Bush had not referred to the foreign fighters as "mujaheddin" until last week, when he used the term three times, including during the BBC interview, which was taped Thursday and released yesterday by PBS. He said in a separate roundtable interview with British editors that some of the guerrillas in Iraq "would like to see a Taliban-type government -- that would be the mujaheddin-type people."
"Some want to revenge the loss, the defeat in Afghanistan," he said. "They would be your al Qaeda types."
Who Lost Russia? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46530-2003Nov15.html
CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46460-2003Nov15.html November 16, 2003
GOP will trumpet preemption doctrine http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/12/gop_will_trumpet_preemption_doctrine/ 11/12/2003
Guantanamo's 'child soldiers' in limbo http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/16/guantanamos_child_soldiers_in_limbo/
'Enemy Combatant' Sham http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/opinion/19WED3.html?ex=1069995600&en=c5d10c3440424e92&ei=5070
Fortunately, it appears from this week's argument that the appeals court panel saw through the administration's spurious justifications. "As terrible as 9/11 was,"` Judge Rosemary Pooler observed, "it didn't repeal the Constitution."
9/11 panel subpoenas New York City http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031120-062551-2605r 11/20/2003
9/11 Commissioner & 9/11 Widow Condemn the White House For Restricting Access to Intelligence Documents http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/20/1653210 November 20th, 2003 [...]
Some members of the independent commission investigating have blasted the conditions that the White House has set in order for members of the commission to examine documents related to the attacks. Former Senator Max Cleland said, "If this decision stands, I, as a member of the commission, cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the commission had full access. This investigation is now compromised."
New job takes Cleland off 9/11 panel http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031123-091108-4750r.htm WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (UPI)
Cleland has been one of the more outspoken members of the commission, accusing the administration of delaying access to vital documents in an effort to run out the clock on its investigation. The panel, which started work at the beginning of the year, must submit its report by a congressionally mandated deadline of May 27, 2004.
9-11 Victims' Relatives: Extend Probe http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/sns-ap-sept-11-commission,0,7991213.story?coll=nyc-manheadlines-manhattan November 26, 2003, 7:38 PM EST
Media Silence on 9/11 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17254 By Danny Schechter and Colleen Kelly, AlterNet November 25, 2003
The media has also compromised its role as an independent watchdog. Until recently, there has been minimal media coverage of the 9/11 commission. This apparent media indifference leads us to ask the media and our fellow Americans the following question: Which event has greater historical importance, a paranoid Nixon White House attempting to insure political victory, or the death of nearly 3000 people, unparalleled change in U.S. foreign policy, and a war on terror likely to change American life for generations? It leads us to wonder about why there is so much ho-hum follow-up.
The networks seem too busy refuting the Kennedy Assassination critics to look into the likelihood of White House incompetence and even complicity in the events of 9/11. We owe the victims the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Isn't it time for our media to wake up and do its job if the government won't do the same?
Compromise Puts TV Ownership Cap at 39% http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12074-2003Nov24.html
Congress and the White House reached a compromise yesterday on consolidation in the television industry, averting a threatened presidential veto of a measure that would have rolled back a decision by the Federal Communications Commission to loosen the rules.
NOVEMBER 13, 2003 30 Media Outlets Protest Treatment in Iraq Claim: Reporters Harassed, Tapes Confiscated http://www.mediainfo.com/editorandpublisher/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2027078
Paper trail mandated for e-voting California requires voting machine receipts by 2006 http://www.msnbc.com/news/996711.asp?0cv=TB10&cp1=1
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 21 -- In a major victory for voting rights advocates, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced Friday that all electronic voting machines in California must provide paper receipts by 2006.
Democrats OK Michigan Internet Voting http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20031122_947.html
Twenty Michigan voters objected to the state party's plan, saying it would disadvantage poor and minority voters and be subject to fraud.
"The costs and risks of transacting ballots on the Internet really outweigh the benefits," said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, which made the case against the plan to the Democratic National Committee.
Fairfax To Probe Voting Machines http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54432-2003Nov17.html
Democrats in Fairfax County joined Republicans yesterday in criticizing the performance of the county's costly new high-tech voting system, saying that it may have disenfranchised voters in the Nov. 4 election.
BLAIR'S VICIOUS ATTACK ON BUSH'S PARTY Nov 19 2003 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13637233_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-BLAIR-S-VICIOUS-ATTACK-ON-BUSH-S-PARTY-name_page.html
The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush http://www.opednews.com/thoreau1103bush_rape_suicide.htm
SAN FRANCISCO JAILS: Handling prisoners Stripped of dignity Lawsuits mount over jail's practices regarding strip searches, safety cells http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/16/MNGTL32L521.DTL
Former soldier says sexual assault in the military changed her life http://www.9news.com/storyfull.aspx?storyid=20921
High-tech microscopes expose Americans' private lives http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-11-10-campbell_x.htm
U.S. to finance Muslim schools $157 million to 'improve' education in Indonesia http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35603
Gay Nazi victims to get memorial http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1068724867249&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724
Killer Instinct Three Decades Later, Closed Investigation Into Vietnam War Killings Revealed http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/Investigation/vietnam_tiger_force_031112-1.html
"You had to have a killer instinct, you had to have a strong survival instinct," said Doyle, who is now retired and living in Missouri. "You got to be quick on the trigger. You got to be pretty merciless."
"If you're walking along a rice paddy dyke, and them farmers are out there planting rice, and one of them looks up at you and makes eye contact, and the eye contact is the wrong kind of contact -- because you can kill with a look -- he's a dead man," he said. "You better not look with hate. Curiosity -- maybe he might live. But when he made eye contact, if you detected hate, you would probably kill him."
Members of the unit say it was impossible for them to tell who was an enemy fighter and who was a peaceful villager.
The young lieutenant who commanded the unit, James Hawkins, now 63, says he and his men learned to smell the enemy or anyone who might pose a threat.
"I can't describe how this really, the smell was," he told ABCNEWS. "But it was a distinct, odor, you know, if they had been there, you'd been down a trail. You, you could smell where they'd been there recently."
Causey recalled catching a group of Vietnamese by surprise, causing them to come out of their hut with their hands up. When Causey and fellow soldiers called the platoon leader to find out what they should do with them, "a minute or so later he responded that they should be shot. So we took them over to the wall and lined them up and we shot them," said Causey, who was never investigated nor charged with any wrongdoing.
No Comeback for Guatemalan Ex-Military Ruler Rios Montt Fails to Qualify for Runoff http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23955-2003Nov10.html
Players: Steven Aftergood One Man Against Secrecy Newsletter Editor Works to Limit Classified Information http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14488-2003Nov25.html
Carter faults US on rights http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/12/carter_faults_us_on_rights/ By Doug Gross, Associated Press, 11/12/2003
ATLANTA -- Perceived human rights violations by the United States during the war on terrorism could allow dictators in other nations to justify their own abuses, former President Carter said yesterday. Opening a conference of international human rights workers, the Nobel peace laureate said an erosion of civil liberties in the United States has "given a blank check to nations who are inclined to violate human rights already."
Wrongful research http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2003/11/22/wrongful_research/
ANY TESTING of experimental drugs for the mentally ill is complicated by the difficulty of getting informed consent from patients who have diminished competence, especially people who are confined to an institution. Yet successful treatment of the mentally ill has relied increasingly on new and better drugs, so researchers have to find ways to secure full informed consent from patients or their guardians within ethical guidelines.
"Jonestown Tragedy--What the Chronicle/Examiner Won't Tell You" http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=5047 Kevin Willmann Monday, November 17, 2003
Remembering the Guyana tragedy http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35649 Les Kinsolving November 18, 2003
The truth is out there ... somewhere While the 'official' story of a charismatic preacher descending into madness and leading his brainwashed followers to their death is accepted by most people, too many unanswered questions about Jim Jones and the Jonestown mass suicide inevitably lead to conspiracy theories, weird and plausible, writes MARTIN VENGADESAN. http://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2003/11/23/features/6754098&sec=features
Rebecca Moore is a professor at the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University and oversees the Alternative Considerations of Jonestown website (http://jonestown.sdsu.edu). She lost both her sisters and her nephew in the tragedy.
Moore and her husband Fielding McGhee have faced numerous obstacles in their efforts to persuade the government to release classified documents concerning the People's Temple. Moore is particularly shocked that the US Government only performed seven autopsies on the more 900 bodies that were recovered from Jonestown!
The Jonestown Massacre CIA Mind Control Run Amok? http://www.conspire.com/jones.html
Leo Ryan's aide Joseph Holsinger feared that the CIA might have been running a covert operation there so sinister it would shock even hardened CIA-watchdogs. In 1980 Holsinger, who'd already discovered Dwyer's presence at Jonestown, received a paper from a professor at U.C. Berkeley. Called "The Penal Colony," the paper detailed how the CIA's mind-control program, code-named MK-ULTRA, was not stopped in 1973, as the CIA had told Congress. Instead, the paper reported, it had merely been transferred out of public hospitals and prisons into the more secure confines of religious cults.
The CIA and Military Mind Control Research: Building the Manchurian Candidate A lecture by Dr. Colin Ross http://mindcontrolforums.com/radio/ckln01.htm
Now according to this book, "Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?" by Michael Myers, according to him, Jonestown was a CIA medical experiment. It was a mind control research site. So that seems preposterous and impossible to believe. What data and circumstantial evidence add up to that conclusion?
A Curtain Lifts on the Life of Spies Former CIA Agents Adjust to the Overt World After Years of Telling Lies http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37228-2003Nov13.html
The CIA declined to comment for this article, but interviews with Eades, other former spies and intelligence experts provided a further glimpse into spy life -- how spies gain cover, what they do to maintain it, and how hard it is to come out, even when their departure is planned and voluntary.
Eades and other former CIA officers said there was no immediate psychological relief, but rather a pervasive anxiety over how to tell spouses, future spouses, family, friends and co-workers that they had lied to them.
EU hi-tech crime agency created http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3226178.stm
Wal-Mart covering up 'I hate you' baby toy? Mystery remains over 'subliminal message' heard by parents http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35633 By Diana Lynne November 16, 2003
An equally upset Lynne Glaze from Washington state estimates that before she discovered what the message was, her 5-month-old had listened to it over hundreds of hours.
"I used to play it every night as he went to sleep. He even had learned how to turn it on himself," Glaze said.
"I would love to get to the bottom of it," she continued, adding that she "would like to make sure the manufacturer does not get away with this hateful 'crime' against babies."
Wal-Mart's Burk said the matter was investigated and officials working with the supplier concluded there were faint "beeps" in the background of the ambient ocean sounds.
"We weren't able to determine what the beeps were," she said, "but because of customer concern, we removed the product off of our shelves."
After this author explained she heard the toy first-hand and concurs with parents that the sound appears to be a voice speaking the words, "I hate you," Burk dismissed it as the "power of suggestion."
"A lot of times the power of suggestion is there," she told WND. "If someone says they hear the toy say, 'I love you' then that's what you think you hear. Or if someone thinks it says 'I hate you,' that's what you're going to hear."
Burk could not say what investigators learned from the supplier about how the "beeps" got on the toy and why. She also would not divulge any information as to who the Chinese supplier is and whether it is continuing to make the toys.
Wal-Mart used microchip to track customers High-tech devices monitor product from manufacturer's headquarters http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35629
Bio-chip implant arrives for cashless transactions Announcement at global security confab unveils syringe-injectable ID microchip http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35766
A 'brain charger': The ultimate PDA accessory? http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20031120.gtdreamnov20/BNStory/Technology/
EEG brain cap detects musical creativity http://www.eetimes.com/at/news/OEG20031022S0047 By R. Colin Johnson October 22, 2003
Eduardo Reck Miranda, head of computer music research and leader of the neuroscience-of-music group at the University of Plymouth, England, recently reported up to 99 percent accuracy in recognizing specific electroencephalogram patterns for musical ideas using a 128-electrode EEG brain cap with signal-processing algorithms including three neural networks.
Miranda is also working on two follow-up experiments that directly extrapolate his current results. A "brain soloist" project will attempt to extend the active-listening experiment by repeating a musical passage exactly until a composer actively listens to it. When the neural network detects that a composer is actively listening, it changes the notes played. A "brain conductor" experiment, on the other hand, will extend the holistic-vs.-focused experiment by enabling a composer to change the volume of one instrument in a quartet merely by focusing on it.
Miranda also plans to switch from the cumbersome 128-electrode brain cap to a magnetic encephalogram (MEG), which records the magnetic field generated by neural activity. Today MEGs are less well-developed than EEGs, but they hold the promise of providing more accurate, localized signals that might not even require a cap, Miranda said. (EEGs measure the difference in electrical potential on the scalp, but sensing magnetic fields does not require direct attachment to the scalp.)
Can we interest you in an orgasm, ma'm? http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/27/1069825871077.html November 27, 2003
US doctors are casting around for female volunteers to test an "Orgasmatron", an implanted device that will trigger instant ecstasy, the weekly British magazine New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue.
Electronic Nose May Replicate Dog's Sniffing Skill http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20031121/tc_nm/tech_dog_dc
Could I Get That Song in Elvis, Please? http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/arts/music/23WERD.html?8hpib
Developed at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and financed by the Yamaha Corporation, the software, which is due to be released to consumers in January, allows users to cast their own (or anyone else's) songs in a disembodied but exceedingly life-like concert-quality voice.
Cult finds 'eternal youth' formula http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/7683425 By James Langton, Evening Standard 14 November 2003
The controversial cult which claims to have cloned five babies says it has discovered a way of reversing the ageing process.
Experts have admitted the techniques used are "good science" and that reversing ageing is "theoretically possible". However, they criticise the Raelians for refusing to reveal their methods and proof of their claims.
Activists Plan Fight for Marine Mammals Exempt From Some Rules to Protect Animals, Navy Might Seek to Alter Sonar Limits http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45873-2003Nov15.html
New particle is double trouble for physicists http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994389
A mysterious sub-atomic particle has been revealed that does not to fit any of the models currently used by physicists.
Hill Negotiators Agree to Bar Patents for Human Organisms http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11576-2003Nov24.html
Nicotine Compound Safely Boosts Memory, Protects Brain http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-11-13-4
It was only a matter of time ... http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/25/1069522585547.html November 25, 2003 - 1:13PM
Researchers reckon they've found an up side to smoking - it may protect the young from developing schizophrenia.
And the more cigarettes smoked, the better the protection against schizophrenia, according to a study published in an international psychiatry journal.
However it stressed that while the findings could shed light on the causes of schizophrenia, the hazards of smoking vastly outweighed any benefits.
Nicotine studied as treatment for brain disorders http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/12/nicotine_studied_as_treatment_for_brain_disorders/
In one small study on non-smoking teenagers with ADHD, nicotine administered through a skin patch appeared as effective as Ritalin in helping them peform an important mental function called inhibition, which involves the patient blocking a distracting response.
The teens' improved concentration could help explain why adolescents with ADHD are much more likely to smoke, according to researcher Alexandra Potter of the University of Vermont.
A study in rats found another type of mental improvement. When the rats were given low doses of nicotine and subjected to stress -- which normally impairs memory -- they performed on a test as well as rats free of stress. And a third study found that when rats' thyroids were surgically reduced, those given nicotine made far fewer errors on a test than those without nicotine. They even did as well as rats whose thyroids were intact. The surgery was meant to mimic hypothyroidism, a condition that affects about 5 million Americans and tends to produce problems with memory and thinking.
Testosterone 'fountain of male youth' http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7854081%255E13762,00.html
TENS of thousands of aging American men are trying testosterone shots, patches and gel in hopes of regaining youthful vigour and virility.
A new report uncovers little evidence it works - or that the therapy is even safe - but recommends careful study to find out.
MRI scans 'spot future dementia' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3234714.stm
Is the Earth preparing to flip? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2889127.stm
Scientists create a virus that reproduces http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2003-11-13-new-life-usat_x.htm
Secret of cell movement 'found' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3224886.stm
The coolest experiment ever Was Einstein right about general relativity? We'll soon find out, says Tim Radford http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1088579,00.html
Play to be restaged after script found in mummy http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/15/1068674416942.html
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