2005.10.4=2[#277]:9.2=#(60x3+58)[US#58] Taiwan(2). Mei's Costco tour, Hsiang2 Taiwan, check all doc. #1. US Space/Nnprl. 2. "Trrr"Rspns. 3. US Spy.

Taiwan's position(2): http://www.taiwanbasic.com/notes/data.htm in Chinese < Lin, Ho: http://tinyurl.com/c5gkp opinion & news < L,H: http://tinyurl.com/88xs2 http://tinyurl.com/c3mer Fair cool to mild: Up 8:20, :30 Mei back to drive Jun then back again to tel and tel on tour, then 11:45 to work again, emails answer [C]R. Hard time for # below, hsaio-yi tel to have Mei do Costco tour, Reitei tel: Jung done Costco tour (from Mei) for themselves (leaving for Taiwan tonight) and mom/Hsueh, wants Mei to take care for her couple. Mei back to get Jun home, check and re-arrange entire piles of documents around so far, mom tel but her green card not found, Mei drive Hsiang & Jung to bus to airport to Taiwan. Now 11:31pm. Search through documents in cabinet drawers. Jun just to his room, bed 2:00am. #1. US Space & Nonproliferation Policy: 1. "Congressional Research Service Reports on Space Policy", Federation of American Scientists (FAS): Congressional Research Service [CRS] Reports, "provided without CRS authorization" [ http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/index.html ] Last Updated September 14, 2005: http://tinyurl.com/8rqtk 2. "The Iran Nonproliferation Act and the International Space Station: Issues and Options", March 2, 2005: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/space/RS22072.pdf "" INA’s Section 6 and the ISS. Section 6 of the INA concerns payments by the U.S. Government to Russia in connection with the ISS. On July29, 1999, duringmarkup of Section 6 bythe House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Science Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner explained that “Earlier this year, there were publications of the fact that entities of the Russian Space Agency were violating the MTCR. That’s why there is Section 6 in this bill.” From 1994-1998, NASA had paid Russia approximately $800 million through several contracts for space station-related activities. Those payments ended because Section 6 prohibits the U.S. government from making payments in connection with ISS to the Russian space agency, organizations or entities under its control, or any other element of the Russian government, after January 1, 1999, unless the President makes a determination that Russia’s policies to oppose proliferation to Iran that Russia is demonstrating a sustained commitment to seek out and prevent the transfer of WMD and missile systems to Iran, and that neither the Russian space agency nor any entity reporting to it has made such transfers for at least one year prior to such determination. "" 3. "Russia May Refuse to Return U.S. Astronaut to Earth Free of Charge", MosNews; created: 01.10.2005 16:01 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:54 MSK: http://tinyurl.com/7rh5m "" Beginning from the next space expedition Russia will deliver U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station only on commercial basis. William McArthur who has just left for ISS can stay in orbit until the American side pays for his return, RIA Novosti reported. "" #2. "Terrorism" Response (2) " Whose al-Qaida problem?" Sasha Abramsky, 4 - 10 - 2005: http://tinyurl.com/7dogz "" Much of the left’s opposition to the Iraq war and the Bush administration’s anti-terror campaigns – voiced by figures like Tariq Ali, Robert Fisk, George Galloway, Naomi Klein, and John Pilger – has blinded it to the need to engage with real problems and threats, says Sasha Abramsky. As summer 2005 began, I flew to London to stay with my parents. A few days after I arrived, four bombs blew up tube trains and a bus in central London on 7 July. It was the second time I had been in a city that was under attack by terrorists. Four years ago, I was living in Brooklyn when al-Qaida slammed passenger jets into the World Trade Center. Over these four years, I have spent more time than is entirely healthy obsessing over the new realities. Some of my friends and relatives tell me I’ve changed – that my politics aren’t as “leftwing” as they used to be during the anti-nuclear movement in Britain back in the 1980s. In a way, they are right. My core politics haven’t changed, but it seems to me that the world has changed so dramatically – traditional alliances and reference points have become unreliable, the ground rules of the power game have so shifted – I’d be a fool not to incorporate these changes into my analytical framework. "" "" British journalists Robert Fisk, John Pilger, and Tariq Ali, along with British MP George Galloway, and, on the other side of the Atlantic, commentators such as Naomi Klein have all essentially blamed Britain and the United States for bringing the attacks upon themselves. "" "" The left’s blindspot But theirs is also a truncated analysis. They assume that groups like al-Qaida are almost entirely reactive, responding to western policies and actions, rather than being pro-active creatures with a virulent homegrown agenda, one not just of defence but of conquest, destruction of rivals, and, ultimately and at its most megalomaniacal, absolute subjugation. It misses the central point: that, unlike traditional “third-world” liberation movements looking for a bit of peace and quiet in which to nurture embryonic states, al-Qaida is classically imperialist, looking to subvert established social orders and to replace the cultural and institutional infrastructure of its enemies with a (divinely inspired) hierarchical autocracy of its own, looking to craft the next chapter of human history in its own image. "" "" The demands of an open society A clear-headed view of al-Qaida and bin Ladenism doesn’t render the left’s opposition to Bush’s war in Iraq or Israel’s oppression of Palestinians any less urgent. A respect for international law, morality, and human rights requires this opposition (a point that, with regard to Iraq at least, Christopher Hitchens seems now to entirely miss). But such a view does put Iraq and Israel where they belong when it comes to bin Ladenism: as convenient recruiting posters for suicidal footsoldiers rather than the source of their ideology. "" "" That doesn’t mean that questions as to the origins of the current crises shouldn’t be asked, and answers sought. But it does mean those questions alone can’t serve as an end-point of the discussion. The progressive alternative If Osama bin Laden is the Trotsky of irredentist Islam, preaching a wacky, bloody notion of a roving, permanent Islamic revolution, how do we progressives respond? How do we propose to preserve political freedoms and pluralism while protecting the fabric of society? How do we safeguard against terror without applying, as do the Patriot Act and similar laws proposed by the Blair government in Britain, a wrecking-ball to constitutional rights and legal protections? "" #3. US Domestic Spies (2) 1. "US Domestic Covert Operations", from the Archive: WAR AT HOME (2/5) From: yibgle@cts.com (Gary Lee); date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:20:26 GMT Organization: The Gloons of Tharf; newsgroups: alt.society.anarchy http://mediafilter.org/MFF/USDCO.idx.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone who doubts that the government is capable of using agents provocateurs to plant phony requests for bomb-making information in this newsgroup as a pretext for censoring the entire net (or that it is capable of much worse if that fails) should take a glance at the following articles. These posts also contain much that should be of interest to anyone thinking about joining or starting any kind of anarchist direct-action campaign or organization. Gary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /** pn.publiceye: 23.5 **/ ** Written 6:49 pm Jan 24, 1991 by nlgclc in cdp:pn.publiceye ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPPORT THIS SITE! GET THE BOOK: "POLICE STATE AMERICA--US MILITARY CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLANNING" http://tinyurl.com/9zf7t http://shadowshop.com/order/books_1.html http://tinyurl.com/9h8cw