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Huang Implicates Gore, Republicans in Illegal Fund Raising Judicial Watch Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2000 WASHINGTON – Judicial Watch continued to obtain testimony Tuesday from John Huang, the reported Chinese agent. Judicial Watch is the public interest anti-government-corruption law firm that sparked the Chinagate scandal with the original deposition of Huang four years ago on Oct. 29, 1996. Huang, who previously worked for the Lippo Group, an alleged front for Chinese intelligence, and was a high official at the Commerce Department during the Clinton-Gore administration, returned to answer questions about his and others' roles in the illegal sale of seats on ...

US election 2000 spending shatters all records Michael Ellison & Martin Kettle in Washington (Guardian News Service) THE COST of electing George W Bush or Al Gore on Tuesday as the United States President comes to a record of almost a third of a billion dollars - and that is without taking into account millions more in "soft-money" contributions that are unregulated and hard to track. Mr Bush has raised $ 187 million for his Republican campaign, all but $ 20 million of it spent by a fortnight ago. Mr Gore raised $ 133 million for his Democratic campaign, and ...

Earlier this year, NewsMax.com reported several U.S. islands had been ceded to Russia without congressional approval or public debate. Now, in a NewsMax.com exclusive, it has been discovered that another nation – Cuba – has benefited as well from the unprecedented generosity of the United States. Numerous islands and islets surrounding Cuba remain sovereign territory of the U.S. However, the U.S. State Department has given them away, without public debate or official treaty, charges retired U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Carl Olson of State Department Watch. Included in the island groups are Cayo Coco, Cayo Romano, Cayo Guajaba, Cayo Sabinal, Cayo ...

A Basic Income for All If you really care about freedom, give people an unconditional income. Philippe Van Parijs Entering the new millennium, I submit for discussion a proposal for the improvement of the human condition: namely, that everyone should be paid a universal basic income (UBI), at a level sufficient for subsistence. In a world in which a child under five dies of malnutrition every two seconds, and close to a third of the planet’s population lives in a state of "extreme poverty" that often proves fatal, the global enactment of such a basic income proposal may seem wildly ...

In Part..All Italics, underlines, and bolds are mine! IV. Freedom from fear F. Pursuing arms reductions Small arms 238. The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as “weapons of mass destruction”. Yet there is still no global non-proliferation regime to limit their spread, as there is for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. 239. Small arms proliferation is not merely a security issue; ...

All Italics, underlines, and bolds are mine! Dear Representatives to the Millennium Assembly This Charter is addressed to the UN Millennium Assembly and all the governments and peoples of the world they represent. It is a demand for global democracy. Throughout the century now coming to an end there have been well meaning and sometimes eloquent calls for world government; calls which pointed to the unfairness, inequality and injustice of the present distributions of wealth, power and policy making - which mean that today one in five of us lives in absolute poverty; calls which emphasised the dangers to peace ...

H.R. 1146 - The American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 1999 Summary The Charter of the United Nations is neither politically nor legally binding upon the United States of America or the American people. The Charter of the United Nations is commonly assumed to be a treaty. It is not. Instead, the Charter of the United Nations is a constitution. As such, it is illegitimate, having created a supranational government, deriving its powers not from the consent of the governed (the people of the United States and peoples of other member nations) but from the consent of the peoples' government officials ...

LOS ANGELES -- Scientists have spotted a small asteroid or a piece of space junk that they say has a 1-in-500 chance of hitting the Earth in 30 years -- far greater odds than any similar object ever discovered. If it is an asteroid and it hits the planet, "it would be equivalent to a fairly sizable nuclear blast," said Donald Yeomans, manager of the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For now, though, that is "fairly low in terms of concern," he said. The object, designated 2000 SG344, is believed to be 98 to 230 feet ...

Party Time, Boys Party Time! It seems that George, was a party boy, Drunk Driving Story Was Old Story. Big Al, was a party boy too, Gore Friends Recount Multiple DUI Incidents So why don't these two presidential candidates speak out on the War on Drugs. By their acheiving candidacy to the highest office in the land, despite evidence of past indescretions, doesn't it make you laugh when you think of the commercial....This is your brain....this is your brain on drugs. Les Sez Les Bon Temps Roulez!

Use Source URL. In part... On the third issue -- guidelines on control, limitation and disarmament for conventional arms -- the underlying approach had given the Secretary- General a broad mandate to respond to requests from Member States for assistance in post-conflict situations. Small arms raised a number of difficult problems for international peace and security, aggravated by a lack of reliable data on their production and sale and coupled with their growing lethality and easy black market availability. The two decisions of the Assembly's last session -- resolutions 53/77 M and T -- constituted evidence of the world community's ...

(All italics, bold, and underlines are mine, to call attention to particular statements or comments. Please view the Source URL for non-annotated version) REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON BEFORE THE NATIONAL SUMMIT ON AFRICA, FEBRUARY 17, 2000 - WASHINGTON, D.C. Washington - The following is the White House transcript of the President's remarks, as delivered: The PRESIDENT: Thank you very, very much. It's a wonderful thing to be introduced by an old friend. Old friends and people you have appointed to office will tell false, good stories about you every time. (Laughter.) Africa never had a better friend in America ...

"Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings." Patrick Henry Would you enter a website that had a Privacy Policy which you agreed to? Most Internet users would probably say yes. Would you enter a website without knowing what the Privacy Notice for it was? Probably not. Which brings me to my point. How am I supposed to know what a website's Privacy Policy ...

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The Bill of Rights of the Texas Constitution (Article I, Section 4) allows people to be excluded from holding office on religious grounds. An official may be "excluded from holding office" if she/he does not "acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being." This would specifically exclude all Atheists and Agnostics from holding public office. It would also exclude: Most Buddhists, who do not believe in a personal deity. Members of the Church of Satan; they are typically agnostics. Some Unitarian Universalists. Some followers of the New Age who do not believe in the existence of a personal deity However, Wiccans ...

History of the Motto "In God We Trust" The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase received many appeals from devout persons throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize the Deity on United States coins. From Treasury Department records, it appears that the first such appeal came in a letter dated November 13, 1861. It was written to Secretary Chase by Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania, and read: Dear ...

I was watching FOX News this morning at about 8:00 CDT while they telecast excerpts from Al Gore's campaign speech in Michigan. I was startled to hear Al Gore refer to our nation as a representative democracy, and even more startled to hear the crowd cheer him. The first thing that I thought of, as the anchorperson went back to his routine was, why didn't this anchorperson point out this blatant lie, and gain some credibility for their station. It is the biggest lie that has come out of Al Gore's lips yet, and it will probably go unreported. It ...

Israeli body burnt after torture, say police By ROSS DUNN, Herald Correspondent in Jerusalem The body of an Israeli has been discovered in the West Bank in what some reports described as a lynching by Palestinians, as the violence in the territories entered its second month. The 25-year-old man had been tortured and shot several times before being set on fire, Israeli police said. The corpse was found near the West Bank town of Ramallah, where two Israeli soldiers were lynched at a Palestinian police station this month. An Israeli police spokesman said: "The signs on his body, the fact ...

Islamic extremist groups, opening a new front in the holy war against Israel, have launched sophisticated cyberspace attacks that have paralyzed major Israeli government Web sites, The Post has learned. The carefully coordinated attacks - dubbed the e-Jihad - are originating in the United States and Britain and have shut down Web sites of the Israeli Defense Forces, the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Israeli Parliament this week. The cyberterrorists say their next targets are the Bank of Israel, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the main Israeli government Web sites. "What you are seeing is a new kind of ...

Rogan to Briem: Clinton May Have 'Wagged the Dog' in Cole When Republican James Rogan appeared on Ray Briem's program (Los Angeles' KIEV) Saturday night, he offered no apologies for his stance in support of Bill Clinton's impeachment. "I'd cast this vote a thousand times and lose a thousand elections," Rogan said to Briem, noting the vote was the right thing to do. Asked by a caller if the USS Cole bombing might have been a "wag the dog" scheme by Clinton to affect the elections, Rogan gave an interesting answer. He didn't say no. He said that he was ...

$1 Million Pot Tax Bill Stirs Fight Man Ordered to Pay Even Though He Was Never Arrested By Frances Ann Burns FRANKLIN, Ky. (APBnews.com) -- A few months ago, state police found 517 marijuana plants growing in an isolated hollow in eastern Kentucky. Investigators suspected that 23-year-old Charles Thomas Jr., who lived nearby in a trailer, was involved in cultivating the crop. But they were unable to get enough evidence to make an arrest, let alone to secure an indictment or a conviction, according to Thomas' lawyer. Nevertheless, Thomas owes the state a little more than $1 million under a ...