----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Keene" <chris.keene at which.net> To: "StopWTORound" <StopWTORound at onelist.com>; "stopthe WTO" <stoptheWTO at topica.com> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 9:02 AM Subject: [Fwd: TOP FIRMS RETREAT INTO BUNKER TO WARD OFF 'ANARCHISTS']
> "You have to understand. Future wars will be fought by capitalists and
> anti-capitalists as society polarises"
>
> TOP FIRMS RETREAT INTO BUNKER TO WARD OFF 'ANARCHISTS'
>
> "Some of Britain's biggest companies are running their internet
> operations
> on systems installed in a 300ft-deep nuclear blast-proof bunker to
> protect
> customers from violent anti-capitalist campaigners. They are renting
> space
> in hermetically sealed rooms capable of withstanding a one Kiloton
> explosion, electro-magnetic 'pulse bombs', electronic eavesdropping and
> chemical and biological warfare."
>
> This is from an article by Steve Boggan in the The Independent, 13 June
> 2001 -
> http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/update/story.jsp?story=77374:
>
> It seems that hundreds of companies have already installed systems in
> The
> Bunker - formerly known as RAF Ash, outside Sandwich in Kent - and
> dozens
> more are understood to be queuing up for space.
>
> The article quotes a Dr Ian Angell, professor of information systems at
> the
> London School of Economics and author of The New Barbarian Manifesto, as
> saying: "This isn't paranoia or fantasy, this is the future. There are
> sophisticated anti-capitalists out there who feel a great deal of
> resentment
> against the business world. These are the new Luddites and, given half a
> chance, they would smash the machine to pieces."
>
> Behind The Bunker is a company called AL Digital Communications,
> established
> by the brothers Adam and Ben Laurie and Dominic Hawken. "The AL Digital
> team
> made a sealed bid - still secret, according to the Ministry of Defence -
> and
> the 60,000sq ft bunker with 18 acres of land was theirs," writes Boggan.
>
> There are three back-up power systems big enough to fire up a small
> town.
> There is also a fire station, vast underground fuel and water tanks and
> an
> array of cameras on corridors and servers.
>
> "You have to understand. Future wars will be fought by capitalists and
> anti-capitalists as society polarises," Professor Angell is reported as
> saying. "When that happens, control of information will be as important
> as
> control of territory used to be in conventional conflicts. If you can
> stop
> your enemy from destroying your information, then you have a good chance
> of
> winning the war."
>
> The Independent article was forwarded to me by Dick Eastman -
> eastman at wolfenet.com
>
>
>
> --
> Chris Keene, Coordinator, Anti-Globalisation Network
> 90 The Parkway, Canvey Island, Essex SS8 0AE, England
> Tel 01268 682820 Fax 01268 514164
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