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27/8 Tass 116 MOSCOW, August 27 (Itar-Tass) - A fire broke out at the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow on Sunday at around 15:20. The fire took place at an altitude of 460 meters over a short circuit in transmitting equipment of a paging company, Itar-Tass learnt this preliminary information at the place of the fire. Television transmitters located on the ground floor of the Ostankino television tower were automatically switched off as soon as the fire broke out in the telecom shaft, ORT General Director Konstantin Ernst has told Itar-Tass. The blaze is being put down under the ...

This is a long read,and is difficult in format,but worth the time.The source Cornell "Making of America" has a wealth of information.Mahan wrote this BEFORE the canal was built but the positions are still the same,only the participants have changed. I didn't realize how important Cromwell was to all this! Some quotes from Mahan, The policy of states is determined by the balance of advantages,and it behooves us to know what our policy is to be, and what advantages are needed to turn in our favor the scale of negociations and the general current of events. If the constitution really ...

Can't seem to cut and paste from here but interesting article.They don't seem to care much for Ms.Reno. They will not rest as long as a free venue exists.

2000 - 12:56 PM Discrimination Panel to Investigate Bar's Stuffed Monkey Display The Associated Press BOSTON (AP) - After hearing dozens of complaints, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has opened an investigation into whether a tavern's display of toy monkeys was meant to mock Black History Month. For full text see above.

2000 - 04:40 PM Senate Weighs Bill Making It a Crime to Harm a Fetus By Janelle Carter Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A bill that would make harming a fetus during a violent act a federal crime is a "flawed federal response" to assaults against women, the Clinton administration told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.

Snowballs and stones for US troops on Kosovo weapons search KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Feb 20 (AFP) - US troops raced out of north Mitrovica Sunday under a hail of snowballs, stones and bottles as a hostile Serb crowd chanted "Serbia, Serbia," and flashed victory signs as the last Humvee headed south. Soldiers lay on the flatbeds of open-sided trucks to protect themselves as the vehicles sped toward the central bridge linking the north and the south of the town. Several vehicles had their windows cracked while at least one US soldier, manning a machine-gun, was hit in the face ...

Saturday, February 12, 2000 Jiang compares sect's threat to Solidarity WILLY WO-LAP LAM President Jiang Zemin has warned that the Falun Gong sect poses as much of a threat to the Communist Party as the Solidarity movement did to the communists in Poland in the 1980s. In a discussion with senior aides, Mr Jiang cited the Falun Gong movement, unemployed farmers and workers and "splittists" among ethnic minorities as the most destabilising factors in society. A source said yesterday that Mr Jiang stressed the party must never underestimate the threat of the Falun Gong because of its "ability to ...

Please excuse this it's sort of a vanity post I guess. Read in Yesterdays paper (AJC)That A.E.VanVogt had died,ment to save the obit to post but it got tossed,and I can't find it on the web. VanVogt was the first to posit the "smart gun" concept in "the Weapon shops of Isher" These weapons could only be fired by their owners and would Leap into the owners hand at a thought (as I remember) Any one that can post the obit please do so.

‘Asymmetrical’ warfare – terrorism, computer hacking, economic sabotage, assassination of U.S. citizens – is the Chinese military’s strategy to defeat the United States. Should U.S. financiers whose trading adversely affects Chinese “red-chip” companies be assassinated? China’s People’s Liberation Army, or PLA, is discussing the concept. Should Beijing covertly fund political-influence operations in the United States? A new PLA book openly asks the question. Facing a potentially huge nuclear-weapons buildup as well as an even bigger high-tech conventional-arms race to reach parity with the United States and Russia, members of the echelon of senior colonels who will be among tomorrow’s ...

Friday, January 14, 2000 Influenza Marches Toward Moscow By Yulia Solovyova Staff Writer A wave of influenza has been sweeping through Europe and Asia, and Russian public health authorities are predicting an influx of the vicious Sydney flu by month's end. Already, wild-eyed media coverage of the flu epidemic raging in Western Europe has set Moscow on edge. "British hospitals ... have rented refrigeration trucks - just in case. Morgues don't stretch, do they," reported the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper on the front page Wednesday. That report could not be confirmed, but the breathless headlines continued on Thursday, with offerings ...

Russians to send Chechen males over 10 to 'gulag' By Patrick Cockburn, in Moscow 13 January 2000 Russia started screening all Chechens males between the ages of 10 and 60 yesterday, raising fears of mass deportations to harsh filtration camps – reminiscent of Soviet-era gulags. The filtration system became notorious during the last war in the republic when thousands of Chechens were tortured and many disappeared. Under new regulations, no Chechen male born after 1940 or before 1990 is being allowed in or out of the republic. Ramzan Bisultanov, 47, who was trying to yesterday to return to the ...

Like a peddler of internet disguises, a small Canadian company is selling a novel service that promises to let people remain completely anonymous while sending e-mail chatting and visiting Web sites. While the service is intended to give internet users greater paivacy to communicate ideas or shop online,critics worry it could also allow the unscrupulous to fearlessly send abusive e-mail and exchange illegal goods such as child pornography and pirated soft ware. The technology launched Monday by Montreal-based Zero Knowledge Systems Inc. is more complete than existing Web privacy tools because it allows individuals to hide not only identities but ...

US Secretary of State Albright cancels visit to Panama WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (AFP) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright canceled planed to attend Tuesday's ceremony marking the handover of the US-administered Panama canal because of the progress in Middle East talks, a state department official said Friday. "A pivotal breakthrough in the Middle East peace process resulting from the secretary's trip there this week and the subsequent meeting of Middle East leaders in Washington next week made it impossible for the secretary to go to Panama," the official said. "The secretary regrets not being able to attend the historic ...

BBC IN HILLARY DEATH WISH CONTROVERSY England's BBC found itself at the center of complete controversy on Monday -- after the network posted a Hillary Clinton death wish on its website! "New York's best hope may be that Hillary Clinton will, if elected Senator, follow the precedent of Robert Kennedy--and promptly get shot dead," wrote Edward Harshman, United States, on the BBC website. Posted for discussion and information only for full see Drudge.

Falun Gong Is as Bad as Narcotic Drugs Our Staff Reporters Ma Shikun and Zhang Yong stationed in the United States recently paid a special visit to the chairman of the US Lin Zexu Foundation. Following is their report dispatched from Washington. Recently,there has been frequent occurrence of incidents about Chinese residing in the United States who have been possessed by Devil because of practice of Falun Gong. Chinese communities are deeply concerned about this and are trying to stop Fulun Gong from further endangering society and impairing the physical and mental health of compatriots. With this issue in mind, ...

Let us pause for a moment and reflect on the past. On November 7th,1938, the third Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris,Ernst Vom Rath was shot by a young polish man Hershl Grynszpan. Grynszpan's parents,Polish Jews who had lived in Hanover since 1914,had just been expelled from Germany.On Oct 28,the Gestapo on orders from the foreign office,began rounding up Polish Jews to transport them to the Polish border. Prevented from entering Poland,they were kept in appalling conditions in a no-mans land on the Polish side at Zbaszyn,near Posen.Grynszpan's parents were among the first rounded up and the son ...

Korea Watch - http://www.koreawatch.org >#1 Never represent yourself in a court > Agreed. >#2 What is a weapon or considered of military value is open to interpretation > When your starving and your economy is going into the tank, an Isuzu Trooper with soldiers inside is a weapon. >#3 Everything that north Korea gets is for the military > And that goes for humanitarian aid. Indirectly this is even more true since the entire economy and infrastructure is geared towards providing for a strong military. -snip- >With the recent relaxation of trade restrictions on the north, this >prosecution of ...

China Approves Anti-Cult Law By Charles Hutzler Associated Press Writer Saturday, Oct. 30, 1999; 2:25 p.m. EDT BEIJING –– Calling Falun Gong an unprecedented threat to communist rule, China's legislature paved the way Saturday for leaders of the banned spiritual movement to be given lengthy prison terms and the death penalty at upcoming trials. Nearly unanimous passage of a new anti-cult law by the legislature's executive committee inside the Great Hall of the People came as defiant Falun Gong followers trickled into adjacent Tiananmen Square for a sixth day of peaceful, largely passive protests. Embarrassed by the demonstrations and ...

Chinese president Jiang Zemin defended China's human rights record but declared in France that democracy was not a "absolute". Not far from the Elysee Palace where he spoke,French police arrested eight members of the media watchdog group Reporters without borders during a protest at the offices of Air China. "Democracy is not an absolute concept,"Jiang told a news conference,speaking along side French president Jacques Chirac. "On the contrary,it is relative,it is relative to the characteristics of each country."

October 18, 1999 Jiang Zemin, China's Third Red Emperor Chinese President Jiang Zemin begins a major tour of Europe and north Africa Monday basking in the glow of spectacular ceremonies which saw him crowned the country's third red emperor after Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Considered for a long time as just a temporary stand-in at the helm of the world's largest communist nation, he has imposed himself as the country's uncontested leader since the death in 1997 of his mentor Deng. Following the triumph of Hong Kong's return to China in July 1997, he visited the United States ...