1995-12-31 Richard Moore The postings to which “valis” is responding were long and rambling, so I’ve kept just the beginning. In case you haven’t been following the Telecom legislation, Exon’s censorship provisions (simplifying a bit) make you liable for a $100,000 fine and years in prison for writing, reading, or transmitting anything on the net … Read more…
1995-12-30 Richard Moore Dear CJ, I sent an announcement of the cyberjournal list out to the NEW-LIST list (which has about 15,000 subscribers). As a result we got over 100 new subscribers to CJ overnight. I imagine these new folks are dipping their toes in the water to see if cyberjournal has something to offer … Read more…
1995-12-29 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: 28 Dec 95 >From: Robert Ward <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#366> J Warren ideas on Campaign Reform (Comments?) There are similar concerns in the UK, though we don’t have the same scale of problem that you seem to have in the US. There has been some recent kerfuffle over MPs receiving … Read more…
1995-12-28 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 To: •••@••.••• From: •••@••.••• (Jim Warren) Subject: GovAccess.230: net v.FCC; ulobby?; $reform; 1st; NJ; …telco XXX ~–<snip>–~ Lest You Think Campaign Finance Reform is Easy – Missouri Federal Appeal From: •••@••.••• Date: Sun, 24 Dec 95 02:52:00 UTC 0000 On Tuesday December 19, the 8th U.S. … Read more…
1995-12-27 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 >From: •••@••.••• (Hal Abelson) To: “Multiple recipients of list •••@••.•••” Subject: Computers, Freedom, and Privacy — Call for Demos Since its inception in 1991, the Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy has brought together experts and advocates from the fields of computer science, law, business, public … Read more…
1995-12-26 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 >From: Janice Shields <•••@••.•••> To: Multiple recipients of list <•••@••.•••> Subject: Gift Exchange NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until: Contacts: Ralph Nader or Janice Shields, December 25, 1995 202-387-8030 or 202-387-5190 WASHINGTON’S HOLIDAY GIFT EXCHANGE CORPORATE WELFARE FOR CORPORATE PAC CONTRIBUTIONS Ralph Nader today sent a letter to … Read more…
1995-12-26 Richard Moore [via Marsha] (Written by Edward G. McManus, Marlborough, MA; published in the December 1981 issue of some computer magazine) Merry Christmas From The Legal Department I. Though we, the “Greetor,” wish you well In our Holiday Entreaty, We limit all your claims, Dear Friend (Herinafter called the “Greetee”). II. We wish you … Read more…
1995-12-25 Richard Moore Hope you have a great Christmas. -Richard @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 Sender: Progressive News & Views List <•••@••.•••> From: Raleigh Myers <•••@••.•••> Organization: RA ENERGY FDN. ——- Forwarded Message Follows ——- From: “CECILIA RODRIGUEZ” <•••@••.•••> Organization: NATIONAL CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 Subject: “60 Minutes” report on … Read more…
1995-12-23 Richard Moore Dear CJ, I hope you found the recent X-Files posting interesting. The author turns out to be a journalist with considerable credibility and a proven track-record with exposes. I’m hoping to have more of the X-File story for you soon. -rkm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ To: Robert Parry <•••@••.•••> From: •••@••.••• (Richard K. Moore) Subject: … Read more…
1995-12-22 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 Sender: Richard Layman <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#357 The U.N. Maybe 8 years ago, _The Nation_ had a special issue on the U.N. It really made me realize that the UN has great possibilities. I think I still have the issue someplace. Richard Layman, Mgr., Business Development, … Read more…
1995-12-22 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 From: •••@••.••• (Information Warfare Mailing List) Subject: Re: Naval Battleship takeover – I don’t think so. (Long, RISKS-17.55) I thought RISKS readers might be interested in this moderator’s note from the IW mailing list, responding to the earlier message in RISKS-17.55. Moderator’s Note: Subject: Navy hacked … Read more…
1995-12-21 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 Sender: Fred Baube <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#339> Noam Chomsky – Media Power > JC -What the USA needs is Ralph Nader as President -to squash > the media barons and lift all US illegal blockades; Noam Chomsky > as a Special Person to replace the CIA, … Read more…
1995-12-20 Richard Moore Dear CJ, Below is a call to revitalize the U.N. Do you think the U.N. is salvagable? Does it have a useful role to play? For who’s benefit? Is it hopelessly enslaved to G7 interests? Regards, rkm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 >From: Rich Winkel <•••@••.•••> Organization: PACH Subject: Report on … Read more…
1995-12-20 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 >From: Robert Parry <•••@••.•••> Subject: October Surprise X-Files (Part 2): The Ladies’ Room To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L <•••@••.•••> >>From The Consortium Web Page http://www.delve.com/consort.html * October Surprise X-Files (Part 2): The Ladies’ Room By Robert Parry @Copyright 1995 WASHINGTON — After its release on … Read more…
1995-12-20 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 To: (Joke Group)•••@••.••• >From: •••@••.••• (Marsha Woodbury) Subject: Glasgow Rosie’s Fruitcake recipe You people keep sending me this Christmas gem, so I will run it again–I never tire of it…the Ed Glasgow Rosie’s Fruitcake recipe: 1 cup butter 1 teaspoon baking sode 1 cup CSR sugar … Read more…
1995-12-20 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 Sender: “R. Byers” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#351>Byers re: trapdoors & voting On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Richard K. Moore wrote: > Yes I remember clearly the media stories around the elections. The first > thing they got wrong was the bit about it being the first … Read more…
1995-12-20 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 95 From: “Darrell D. E. Long” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Navy hacked by Air Force http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et/ A few clicks and then the e-mail message entered the ship’s control system… War of the microchips: the day a hacker seized control of a US battleship BY SIMPLY dialing the Internet and … Read more…
1995-12-20 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 08:07:57 -0800 Sender: “R. Byers” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: cj#350> re: spying trapdoors & voting While speculations about trapdoors and other micro-manipulations might help us focus our attention in the right places in the future, I think there is danger in getting caught up in this stuff … Read more…
1995-12-19 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:08:46 -0800 Sender: Ernest Hua <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: (resend) cj#341> CIA, drugs and spying trapdoors > It reminds me of a story I read in the SF press a few months prior to the > Nicaragua elections in which the Sandinista’s supposedly lost. It seems an … Read more…
1995-12-18 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 From: PNEWS-L Subject: Haiti under CIA fist >From: •••@••.••• Subject: Haitians under CIA fist The more we read about Haiti, the truth I mean, the more we realise that the two-parties of succeeding US Administrations allow the American people two choices -like between Dracula and his … Read more…
1995-12-18 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 From: •••@••.••• (Marsha Woodbury) To: •••@••.••• Subject: International Internet NewsClips (@) Hello folks – Here are excerpts from this week’s edition of my column, “International Internet NewsClips.” The full version plus archives are at MecklerMedia’s Internet World site (http://www.iworld.com/netday/NATW.html). You can also find my reviews of … Read more…
1995-12-17 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: (resend) cj#341> CIA, drugs and spying trapdoors > It reminds me of a story I read in the SF press a few months prior > to the Nicaragua elections in which the Sandinista’s supposedly > lost. It seems an NSA … Read more…
1995-12-16 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 To: •••@••.••• From: •••@••.••• (Jim Warren) Subject: GovAccess.222.snoops: monitoring; NSA; power spies; cellular; … CONTENTS Web Site on Encryption and Privacy Internet Domain-Name Registration “Constitutes consent to monitoring”!!! Spooks Are Everwhere! — InterNIC, Psychics, AND the Republican Nat’l Committee Baltimore Sun Says NSA Spies on American … Read more…
1995-12-16 Richard Moore * * * HUMOR AND OPINION POETRY + by an Unknown Author (via American Reporter) Cyberspace 12/15/95 poem free THE LIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS Author Unknown ‘Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck… How to live in a world that’s politically correct? His workers no longer would answer to “Elves”. “Vertically … Read more…
1995-12-16 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 Sender: •••@••.••• (Joe Ferguson) Subject: Re: cj#339> Noam Chomsky – Media Power > JC -What the USA needs is Ralph Nader as President -to squash > the media barons and lift all US illegal blockades; Noam Chomsky > as a Special Person to replace the CIA, … Read more…
1995-12-16 Richard Moore The following is posted to CyberLib under “Norman&Quin-CIA&Drugs”. Below are highlights. One of the story lines is about CIA use of trapdoors to track all kinds of transactions throughout the world. We’ve all thought (and seen movies) about the awesome powers possible via trapdoors — why wouldn’t the CIA be in the … Read more…
1995-12-15 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 From: “•••@••.•••” <•••@••.•••> Subject: In the suburbs of Doublespeak Your reification of `vocabulary propaganda’ sent me back to a thin volume, “The Question of German War Guilt,” produced by Karl Jaspers not long after his liberation from a concentration camp. In it he says over and … Read more…
1995-12-13 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >>> Item number 5912, dated 95/12/12 Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:04:43 +1000 Sender: Progressive News & Views List <•••@••.•••> From: •••@••.••• Subject: Noam Chomsky -Media Power (from CAQ) From: •••@••.••• Subject: Noam Chomsky -Media Power (from CAQ) Pt 1 JC -What the USA needs is Ralph Nader as President -to … Read more…
1995-12-13 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 Sender: “David E. Anderson” <•••@••.•••> Subject: re: Iraq and NWO If I’m not mistaken, the sanctions are imposed on the same government which engages in chemical and ecological warfare against its minority population, uses torture as a routine tool of government, and has continued nuclear and … Read more…
1995-12-13 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 Sender: Arun Mehta <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: PNEWS re: Doublespeak & escaping the USA > Someone needs to organize in the belly of > the beast. Richard, This is one posting of yours that I will treasure. It is a pleasure to share your perspective. > Interestingly … Read more…
1995-12-11 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >Sender: Progressive News & Views List <•••@••.•••> >On 12/10/95, Martin Kaufman <•••@••.•••> wrote: >Enjoyed your post on Doublespeak. You’ve obviously read your Chomsky and >Herman. rkm: No I haven’t. Seeing what’s going on is more a matter of perspective than it is of insight, it seems to me. It all seems … Read more…
1995-12-09 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ >From: •••@••.••• Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 To: •••@••.••• Subject: When Corporations Rule The World Great reading. Much of what you need to know to understand the push for globalized economies, Multinational Corporations, behind the scenes planning groups like the Council on Foriegn Relations, Trilateral Commision, and the Bilderberg group in … Read more…
1995-12-09 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ * * * SPACE + by Jeff Foust American Reporter Space Editor Cambridge, Mass. 12/8/95 galileo 701/$7.01 GALILEO’S JOVIAN DEBUT A BLAZING SUCCESS by Jeff Foust American Reporter Space Editor PASADENA — After a six-year, 2.3-billion-mile journey, the Galileo spacecraft successfully arrived at the planet Jupiter Thursday, as the main spacecraft … Read more…
1995-12-08 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 From: “A.E.Mail Journal” <•••@••.•••> Subject: Half a Million Children Die in Iraq ———————————————————— Views Expressed In this Open Forum are of the Authors Only ———————————————————— LEGACY OF THE LAST WAR: HALF A MILLION CHILDREN DIE IN IRAQ By Rebeca Toledo ————————- Via Workers World News Service … Read more…
1995-12-08 Richard Moore Dear CJ, The previous version of this article (cj#325) included definitions for “Competitive”, “Democracy”, and “Reform”. This new version includes also “Free Trade”, “Privatization”, and “Reforms, Democratic”, plus minor updates to the earlier terms. Cheers, Richard ******************************** This article may be posted in entirety for non-commercial use. ******************************** Doublespeak and The New … Read more…
1995-12-06 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ To: (Joke Group)•••@••.••• >From: •••@••.••• (Marsha Woodbury) Subject: Procession of balls-fighters Richard Handal– two posts: Comment: THE REAL CARMEN For opera lovers and haters alike, we reprint herewith the “English” synopsis of the opera Carmen, as it appeared in the program for a recent performance in Genoa, Italy. Doubters should leave … Read more…
1995-12-06 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 12:36:19 -0800 Sender: •••@••.••• (John Lowry) Subject: Re: cj#328> Yves: Democracy, technocrats & things… > … … >Comments, anyone? > >Yves Leclerc > You may well be right, but, since the problems stem from an overconcentration of power, we won’t know until there is a decentralization … Read more…
1995-12-06 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 12:36:16 -0800 Sender: •••@••.••• (John Lowry) Subject: Re: cj#327> re: Elites > … I think it’s important to >identify _corporations_ (collectively, with power skewed to the richest) as >the emobodiment of elitist power, and the Gingrich’s and Toffler’s as their >paid agents, their inhouse demagogues. If … Read more…
1995-12-05 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 13:24:29 -0800 Sender: •••@••.••• (John Lowry) Subject: Re: cj#326> re: right to be here >It is no longer a matter of “wishing,” but of sound economics. The >foolishness that passes for finance capitalism simply doesn’t work to create >an effecient and workable distribution of resources, and … Read more…
1995-12-05 Richard Moore @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 To: •••@••.••• (Richard K. Moore) >From: Mark Stahlman (via RadioMail) <•••@••.•••> Subject: Re: Norman Knights Richard: Sorry, I’ve been flu’ed out and not online for a few days. Yes, the world is run by elites. Always has been; always will be. That’s true of villages in … Read more…