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We lost another WW11 vet today.My wife's Dad, August Niemann went to be with the Lord today . He was 94 years old. He flew as a ball-turret gunner out of England at the end of WW11. To his dying day he would never talk about the war. When he did, he would only tell us about the food drops at the end of the war. He said the people of Europe were so hungry, they would run out to get food as it was still falling. Sometimes there were so many people on the field, they would have to...

I just went and got a haircut. My barber is a very nice Thai lady whom I've been seeing for about ten years. Her son is in Iraq. He called to let her know he has been ordered to Mosul. Please put him on your prayer list. His name is PFC Peter T. Notkin, C Co 1/24 INF. He drives a Stryker armored vehicle. Please keep him and ALL our kids in prayer. His mother is very proud of him and terrified at the same time.

IRA's mockery of justice 06may01 THE human rights of IRA terrorists shot dead in an SAS ambush as they tried to blow up a police station and murder the officers inside were violated, a European court ruled yesterday. In a decision condemned as "astonishing and perverse", seven judges said Britain should pay the families of the eight men - among them some of the IRA's most notorious killers - $30,000 each because the cases were not properly investigated. The European Court of Human Rights also made similar awards to the families of two other IRA men and a Sinn ...

• Reuters • Reno to decide "shortly" on Gore outside counsel Updated 1:42 PM ET August 10, 2000 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Janet Reno said Thursday she hoped to decide "shortly" whether to name a special counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore over his 1996 fund-raising activities. Reno declined at her weekly news briefing to say whether she would make her decision before or during next week's Democratic convention in Los Angeles, where Gore is expected to receive his party's presidential nomination. Asked how close she was to making her decision, Reno replied, "I hope to do it ...

Analysis: Rudy Drops Out By Jacob Weisberg Posted on Slate 5/19/00 2:14:07 PM PT At his press conference this afternoon, Rudy Giuliani said he was withdrawing from the New York Senate race because he had "decided to put my health first." Commentators were quick to note the other obvious, unstated reason: He's a Republican who just left his wife for another woman. But there's a third factor, which hasn't been much discussed. Rudy would almost certainly have lost to Hillary Clinton even if he were in good health and happily married. The reason is that New York is now firmly ...

Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:06:01 EDT Subject: A letter to the President.. A letter to the President from Eric Jowers Whether you love him or hate him...read this "letter," ...it's too good to pass by. Hate it as you may, but you can't argue with this letter to the President. This needed to be said a long time ago. Eric Jowers, a retired Army Officer, who served as public affairs officer at Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991, wrote this letter. He now lives in Ozark, Alabama Dear Mr. President: It's not about sex. If it were about sex, ...

Nato Kosovo plan leaked on Net By Adam Lusher and Sean Thomas Press releases - Nato What's new - Nato News - Ministry of Defence A SECURITY blunder allowed sensitive Nato military plans to turn up on the internet, The Telegraph can reveal. British intelligence is investigating how the nine-page document, which details the rules of engagement for Nato soldiers serving in Kosovo, began flashing up on the computer screens of a London publishing company. An employee of the magazine publishers who asked not to be named said: "It's not really what you expect to find on your computer first ...

Nevada Rebels Tell the Feds: "Stop Closing Our Roads!" Shovel Is the Symbol, "We'll Get it Done" Is the Slogan to Keep Forests Open Tuesday, January 20, 2000 The Elko, Nevada Daily Free Press reported Sunday on the arrival of a huge shovel that symbolizes the county's battle with the federal government over a road which has been closed to the public. "I'm here because I had a lot of fun on the back roads of Nevada, my husband and I, going all over Clark, Lincoln and Elko counties, camping and looking around," said 82-year-old Ada Grastiet, who first ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 20, 1999 The Real Kosovo by Gary Dempsey Gary Dempsey, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute, just returned from the Balkans where he was filming a documentary on the aftermath of NATO's air war against Yugoslavia. Pristina, Yugoslavia: As President Clinton prepares to visit to Kosovo, it is common to see and hear things here that don't fit with the tidy fictions proffered by NATO and White House officials. For instance, when NATO's former top commander in Kosovo, Gen. Michael Jackson, turned over his post recently, he pronounced: "We have seen a return to normality" in ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX DECEMBER 16, 1999 12:09:44 ET XXXXX TIME MAG SAYS 'CENTURY CHOICE' NOW DOWN TO 5 TIME magazine on Thursday announced that its choice for 'Person of the Century' has now narrowed to just five: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler and Mohandas Gandhi. The magazine will make its 'Person of the Century' pick public on Sunday, December 26.

First We Modernize then We Abandon the Canal The United States started a $1 billion canal modernization program in 1997 that will be completed in 2005. To date our government has spent $450 million on this project. This information came from an article, "Passage to 2000" by John C. Gribar, P.E. & Jaime A. Bocanegra in the December, 1999 issue of the technical magazine "Civil Engineering" published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. This expenditure, solely by our government, is very interesting, since we will be abandoning this 85-year old project to the country of Panama in two ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUESDAY, DECEMBER 07, 1999 12:09:44 ET XXXXX RUSSIA , CHINA TEAM TO BALANCE 'WORLD DOMINANCE' BY UNITED STATES Russian President Yeltsin is scheduled to arrive in Beijing tomorrow for talks aimed at promoting a "strategic partnership" with China to balance what both countries see as "global domination by the United States." MORE BEIJING, December 7 (Itar-Tass) - A high-level source in the Russian delegation, who made preparations for Russian President Boris Yeltsin's trip to the capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC), told Itar-Tass on Tuesday that, following an informal meeting between President Yeltsin ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE REAGAN INFORMATION INTERCHANGE SEARCH TERMS: www.reagan.com Thank you for your support! Why Did the KLA Have a Stash of Serb Police Uniforms? Who Were IN Those Serb Police Uniforms of News Stories Featuring "Masked Assailants" In Police Uniforms? On December 3, 1999, AFP reported that UN police and KFOR troops found illegal weapons, KLA uniforms, and Serb police uniforms in a house "inhabited by members of the future Kosovo Protection Corps [the successor to the supposedly-disbanded KLA]. What are KLA members doing with Serb police uniforms? Remember all of those news stories about various war crimes and atrocities ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE REAGAN INFORMATION INTERCHANGE SEARCH TERMS: www.reagan.com Thank you for your support! KLA producing heroin in Turkey Bulgarians Report Seizure of Acetic Acid from KLA Group November 18, 1999 Sofia, November 18th (Tanjug) - Bulgarian government newspaper Demokratija reported that Bulgarian customs officials seized 953 kilograms of acetic acid anhydride, a catalyst in the heroin production process, in a truck loaded in Pristina, heading for Turkey. According to the newspaper, the Bulgarian authorities claim that the merchandize was loaded in Pristina by a narco-group connected to KLA. Demokratija also reports that the chemical was sent from Kosovo, across Macedonia, ...

WEB SERVICES: Belgrade, Yugoslavia Forecast FOUR-DAY FORECAST Tue. snow HIGH 0 C 33 F LOW -2 C 27 F Wed. sunny HIGH 3 C 39 F LOW -2 C 27 F Thu. sunny HIGH 5 C 41 F LOW 0 C 31 F Fri. sunny HIGH 6 C 44 F LOW 0 C 31 F WEATHER MAPS SATELLITE Larger view 6 hr. animation FORECAST Larger view CURRENT CONDITIONS 9 a.m. (local), Nov. 23 mostly cloudy Temp: -2 C, 28 F Rel. Humidity: 92% Wind: W at 30 kph ( 19 mph) Sunrise: 6:46 a.m. Sunset: 4:04 p.m. RELATED LINKS ...

War Crimes Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Abandons "Thousands in Mass Graves" Claim Politika: Avoiding the truth by resorting to more lies November 12, 1999 Politika, November 12th - Chief prosecutor of the Hague Tribunal, Carla del Ponte officially solved a forensic dilemma on the Albanian victims in Kosmet - the figure in question is not 100.000 Albanians killed, as it was so far falsely claimed by Mr. Clinton and other US Administration officials, but is much smaller. There is also no evidence of Albanian sufferings during the YA security forces actions, except in the direct clashes between YA and police units ...

New Fed Ears Can Hear Your Phone Conversations By Ben Anderson CNS Staff Writer 17 November, 1999 (CNSNews.com) - In the name of national security, the federal government has reportedly developed and patented technology enabling itself to monitor and possibly transcribe millions of supposedly private telephone conversations. A report published this week by Britain's Independent News indicates the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has "designed and patented a new technology that could aid it in spying on international telephone calls." The NSA's technology development is intended to search and sort through text, some of which originates from human speech, ...

Duty, honor and country, in Alfred Rascom's words, sometimes boil down to taking care of the man next to you. That's what Rascon did that day a third of a century ago when his Army platoon was pinned down.....

In 1957 the people of the Territory of Alaska voted to enter into a contract with the United States and become the forty-ninth state. Under the Statehood Act,the State of Alaska was to receive the same rights, more or less, as the other several states. these rights included the right and responsibility to manage resources for the benifit of ALL Alaskans.These resources included the fish and game resources of the State. The citizens of Alaska made one grievous error, they thought they were dealing with honorable men. In 1980 the United States passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. ...