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Government and Political Sites ////////////////////////////// State run servers info http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/states.html Information on US State servers and free (public) internet access. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIA www server http://www.ic.gov A great place for information of all sorts. Global facts galore! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Congressional WWW http://thomas.loc.gov Congressional info galore - more than you thought they'd let you know! This web page covers both houses of Congress. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- House of Representatives Web Site http://www.house.gov Contains vast amounts of info relating to the House of Representatives. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Defense of Freedom WWW http://fohnix.metronet.com/HomePages/kira/revolution/revolution.html Ze revolution home page comrade! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Government Web sites ==================== White House homepage http://www.whitehouse.gov/ Whitehouse FTP site ftp to: whitehouse.gov All sorts of Presidential papers are available to the public. Including all White House transcripts and press releases. Sunsite-based Gov. docs. emphasis on telecom and high-tech policies http://sunsite.unc.edu/govdocs.html Infomine at Univ of Calif. at Riverside http://lib-www.ucr.edu/govpub/ Wiretap Gopher gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/Gov/ Fedworld INFO NETWORK contains many up-to-date links of fed. info http://www.fedworld.gov/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russian Information Telnet site Telnet to: ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu This site has info on former and current Soviet Republics, former and current leaders and a copy of the revised Russian Constitution. Other Russian information is also available. Offers a list of related ftp sites. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welfare Gopher Gopher to: spike.acf.dhhs.gov Complete database for the Administration for Children and Families, under the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Full program descriptions including Aid to Dependent Families stats and facts and much more. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Indonesian Army Area Handbook Gopher to: umslivma.umsl.edu:70/11/library/govdocs/armahbs/aahb8 This archive is housed at the Univ of Missouri-St. Louis gopher site and contains a wealth of information. Early History of Indonesia, the coming of Islam, sources of local identification, languages and many other topics. Links to the Library of Congress Asia Field Operations study and a complete chronology of events makes this the most authoritative source on the net for Indonesian culture and information. You might even enjoy the info! The info is exhaustive and full term and research papers can be done from this site alone. Students - take note. One stop shopping for reports here. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stanislaw Staszic Univ of Mining and Metallurgy (Cracow, Poland) http://www.uci.agh.edu.pl or gopher to: gopher.uci.agh.edu.pl Includes topical info but also includes info for foreign visitors and links to the local gopher (above). Also has links to Polish Network Resources, a JPEG photo collection and travelogue/tourist guide by Michael Rozek that presents historical facts and cultural traditions in an easy to read and informal style. You'll love this informative virtual trip to Poland. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amnesty International Gopher to: gopher.io.org/pub/human-rights Learn about Amnesty International's mission and how they are battling torture, political imprisonments, "dissapearances" and other human-rights abuses. Political repression and capital punishment also are part of the fray. Many other links to other resources can be found here as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- United Nations Gopher (U.N. Gopher) Gopher to: nywork1.undp.org also via WWW at --> http://www.undp.org A thorughly educational experience awaits for those that travel here. World Trade, the U.N. Charter, World Currencies, The U.N. mission of Peace, and much more awaits the energized traveller. Includes daily journals of U.N conferences and so much more that it will amaze you. Students - go here. Teachers - go here. Everyone else - go here. Learn something of global policies and how they affect each and every one of us. Well worth the trip! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FedWorld http://www.fed-world.gov ftp://fedworld.gov telnet://fedworld.gov The United States Federal Gateway to over 10,000 different agencies and Federal Bureaus. This has got to be one of the hugest repositories of info available in the world. If it has to do with the U.S. govt - it's here. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russian Web server http://www.elvis.msk.su:80 Has links in English and Cyrillic to a plethora of resources. Currency exchange rates, an interactive Russian/English dictionary and links to other Russian web servers. There is also a form that lets you send faxes to Moscow addresses over the web. Getting better all the time. This web server is a joint venture between Russia and Sun MicroSystems. Can you say Unix in Russian? Nyet! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote Smart Project Web Page http://www.oclc.org/VoteSmart/lwv This site is sponsered by the League of Women Voters and makes the voting process and the vagaries of politics easier to understand. This site also has info on how to run a voter registration drive and contains guidelines for grass-roots political support. The political processes of government are presented in such an easy to understand way that you'll be politically savvy in no time. Also has numerous links to other political and voter related issues/topics located on various web pages and ftp sites. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOSFAN Foreign Affairs Network http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/dosfan.html A photographic tour of the Foreign Affairs Department. Links to the department's Gopher where biographies and info on State Dept. officials, press releases, treaties and other Dept. publications are located. There are other links to division bureaus as well. Most of the lists and info databases are searchable. This is another great source of information for research work and for anyone interested in furthering their knowledge of how government works in the United States. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Native American (American Indian) Info via Alachua Free-Net http://www.freenet.ufl.edu/~native An extensive source of information devoted to the Native American culture. Has links to other sites of related info as well as a complete list of tribes and their histories and present day activities. Great resource! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- American Politics Gopher at Northwestern University Gopher to: toby.scott.nwu.edu Information on all branches (Judicial, Legislative and Executive) of our US government is here. The Legislative archive section holds the greatest amount of info including how Congress members voted and what bills were proposed and what bills were passed along with what each bill was about. Links to other gopher sites include the National Election Studies site and many other government related links as well. Political junkies will fall in love with this site and they'll be burrowing for a long time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Congressional Quarterly Gopher Gopher to: gopher.cqalert.com A decent gopher site that gives the user a general "briefing" on the goings on ay Capitol Hill. Includes other links and in itself has a lot of info. It is not merely to publicize the CQ publication but this site does a great deal towards educating its visitors and that is commendable netiquette. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- C-SPAN Gopher Gopher to: c-span.org Contains a huge archive of information including a C-Span viewer's guide. Also included is compilatins of public affairs programs like "Booknotes" and "Cynical Reviews". There are also many features like "This Week in the House of Representatives", "Inside Washington: Government Resource Center" and listings of all House and Senate members. A very informative place. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov This is a new Library of Congress service (in the spirit of that great statesman Thomas Jefferson) that anyone can use to retrieve the text of congressional bills and resolutions. Legislative research projects will be a little easier for this site also has pointers to information and will contains search engines that let you search by bill numbers or keywords. A hyper-text version of "How Our Laws Are Made" will prove beneficial to the educational crowd and there is also a subject based index for easy retrieval of what you want. There is even numerous links to other web, ftp, and gopher sites including the House and Senate gophers. It doesn't get much better than this. If you need to find out about US government - start here. This is also a great educational resource as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CapWeb http://policy.net/capweb/congress.html This page was written by Capitol Hill staffers in order to inform the public taxpayers just who is in Congress serving them. A complete list of all Senator's and Representative's office locations, phone numbers and committee assignments are posted here along with their photos and email addresses. You can search member listings by name, state or political party and there is also an informative FAQ document. There's a map of the Wash. D.C. Metro and you can use the subway "navigator" to plan your travels while in Washington DC. If you need toknow all about your Congressman - here's the place to start your findings. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Rush Limbaugh WWW page http://www.rtis.com/natnl/rush/ Rushisms abound here and everything you wanted to know (and more) about Rush Limbaugh is at this site. There's a Rush sound-byte collection a Rush Limbaugh FAQ and Rush's 14 Commandments of the Religious Left. What more could you ask for? (ahem...) Well there's radio station lists of his syndicated talk shows and a list of upcoming television appearances. The piece de resistance is a web form that lets you talk back to Rush as easy as the click of a button - an email or a fax (you choose) goes right out to Limbaugh. I've included this Rush page just to show that I am an equal opportunity net lister and not possesed of a narrow mind... (ahem) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volunteers in Technical Assistance's Non-U.S. Disaster Update Gopher Gopher to: gopher.vita.org in the --> /disaster information/disaster situation and status reports/ international reports/situation reports/ Want to know about all the world's disasters (except in the USA) - then here is the place to come visit and learn. Most reports contain photos as well as mortality rates, damage statistics, economic loss and foreign-aid totals. Disasters are listed either chronologically (the most recent tragedy is at the top of the list) or you can view by region or geographic area of the world. If you think *your* life is a mess - stop over here! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet Disaster Information Network http://www.disaster.org http://165.247.199.30 email to: info@disaster.org APRIL 22st, Tucson, Az, USA - Hundreds of Internet users across North America and the Globe responded within hours to Wednesday's terrorist bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Individuals posted news updates, photos and emergency phone numbers electronically to the World Wide Web. Live discussions of the disaster have been going on around the clock since word of the explosion first hit the Internet. One Internet user likened this distribution of emergency information in and out of the disaster stricken area to the efforts of amateur radio HAM operators in past disasters, such as the California earthquakes. Similar efforts to provide important information were made following the recent earthquake in Kobe, Japan, but the disorganized nature of the Internet has made this valuable information hard for individuals to locate. Internet Direct, Inc., an Internet Access Provider with corporate offices in Arizona, has dedicated its resources to making disaster information available to all of the millions of Internet users around the world from one centralized location. This new service, the Internet Disaster Information Network (IDIN) which is also being referred to as the DisasterNet, acts as a central clearinghouse and index for worldwide disaster-related information. The IDIN allows Internet users to access complete, detailed information from a single address on the World Wide Web. "We wanted to create a way for people to easily access the available information surrounding events such as the recent bombing," said Mike March, President of Internet Direct. "We have dedicated a server and staff to centralizing this information. Now, instead of spending 12 frustrating hours trying to find information in an emergency, the click of a button is all that it takes for people to have complete access to helpful and necessary information." Late Wednesday afternoon, Internet Direct made a request to InterNIC Registration Services in Herndon, Virginia, the organization controlling address registration for the global Internet, to obtain the name www.disaster.org for use as a publicly accessible, civic information server. At approximately 2.00am Thursday morning, the InterNIC granted this unusual request. "Normally, it takes about four weeks to get registration approved. We felt this request was critical enough to approve the registration immediately," said Jean Gallagher of InterNIC Registration Services. Since the granting of the request, the technical and design staffs have worked around the clock to create an entire World Wide Web site in under 24 hours. "Usually, we will work on a site for two to three weeks before releasing it to the public. In this case, the technical staff put together a server in about four hours, and our design team worked around the clock to develop the content for the IDIN site," said Jason Ayers, Head of Graphic Design for Internet Direct. "Everyone here is enthusiastic to be working to help create this public site for everyone. They have all volunteered their time and expertise to assist with IDIN." Information that has already been made available includes the composite photo of bombing suspects released by the FBI, a list of fatalities and hospitalized survivors and their locations, phone numbers for Oklahoma City hospitals and relief organizations and addresses for charities accepting donations, and hundreds of other photographs, articles, eye-witness accounts and progress updates. "We plan to continue and fully maintain the Internet Disaster Information Network site permanently," guaranteed William Fisher, Business Mananger of Internet Direct, Inc. "Unfortunately, this won't be the last time people need information quickly in times of great need. Internet Direct and the IDIN will be there to provide stability and support for people whenever and wherever a disaster may happen. This is a fantastic opportunity for all of us [at Internet Direct] to give back to the Internet community that is our business." The www.disaster.net WEB site has received over 7,000 queries from around the world in its first 24 hours of operation. Right now, the requests are increasing by about tweny-five per cent each hour. "We expect to be receiving 8,000 to 10,000 requests an hour by tomorrow morning, as the information about the existence of the IDIN becomes available," reported Matthew Grossman, head of Operations for this effort and a lead designer for Internet Direct. Internet Direct has pledged to keep this server up to date and online for this and all future disasters as a public service to the Internet Community. For more information about the Internet Disaster Information Network or for those that do not have access to the World-Wide-Web, please send email to: info@disaster.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------