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According to the Associated Press, a Russian foreign minister says Moscow respects Lebanese sovereignty. In a veiled swipe at the United States and its United States allies such as Israel, Russia's foreign minister said Sunday his country opposed a Security Council resolution demanding free presidential elections here and a Syrian troop withdrawal out of Moscow's respect for Lebanese sovereignty. Sergey Lavrov made his comments after meeting Lebanese President Emile Lahoud in Beirut, marking his latest high level meeting during a Middle East tour that has included talks with the leaders of Egypt and Syria. He is expected to arrive in...

Omega Letter Christian Intelligence Digest Treason Most Foul Commentary on the NewsFriday, July 09, 2004 - Omega Letter Editor The American electoral process, despite its perceived 'flaws' (think Election 2000) is the standard against which all other nations are measured in terms of freedom and fairness. And it has been since the Founding Fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to the principle of government of the people, by the people and for the people. It is America's electoral process that ensures America's freedom and prosperity. The President of the United States is the most powerful...

"WASHINGTON (AFP) - Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations (news - web sites) to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida. Recalling the long, drawn out process in the southern state, nine lawmakers, including four blacks and one Hispanic, sent a letter Thursday to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) asking that the international body "ensure free and fair elections in America," according to a statement issued by Florida representative Eddie Bernice Johnson,...

So now we see in all their starkness the double standards of the western media. Day after day, the shocking images from Abu Ghraib prison have been plastered all over the media. Yes, the abuse they have revealed is disgusting and appalling and it is right that it should be exposed and that we should be horrified. But nowhere near this attention is being paid to far worse barbarism being committed by our enemies. As Jeff Jacoby observes in the Boston Globe: 'Poor Nick Berg. The anybody-but-Bush crowd isn't going to rush to publicize his terrible fate with anything like...

<p>Politics predictably can get dirty during election years, but a new politicization of the Department of Health and Human Services has put the government squarely in the partisan mix. The odd thing about the situation at hand is that agencies in the executive branch are teaming up with groups opposed to President Bush and are weighing in with policy positions contrary to those held by the White House. The Hill newspaper reported yesterday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the independent United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are working with the activist group MoveOn.org to put on a June conference on "reproductive rights" issues. Some heads need to roll over this.</p>

Some conservatives on and off the Hill are angry that the Department of Health and Human Services has teamed up with critics of the Bush administration to hold a conference on global health and reproductive rights that will likely promote policies contrary to the president’s. The conference, sponsored by the Global Health Council, will gather health experts and advocates from around the world, including International Planned Parenthood Federation, the United Nations International Family Planning Fund and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, each of which has opposed the administration’s positions on abortion or reproductive health, some conservatives charge. In particular, the groups...

FBI files stolen from the home of Vietnam war historian Gerald Nicosia detail at least one secret 1970 meeting in Paris between future Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and representatives of the communist government of North Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam War. In an interview last week with California's Marin County Independent Journal, Nicosia said the FBI files contained information on Kerry's May 1970 trip to Paris, where he spoke to Hanoi negotiators who were beginning peace talks with the Nixon administration. Kerry revealed his secret meeting with then-enemy negotiators during a little noticed question and answer session...

PIERRE, S.D. — The demise of South Dakota House Bill 1191, which would have banned most of the state’s abortions, has left many pro-life supporters scratching their heads wondering what went wrong. "Just the day before, we were certain it was going to pass," said Ben Eicher, a religion teacher at St. Thomas More High School in Rapid City. Students, faculty and administrators at the school signed petitions, made telephone calls and sent e-mails to state legislators in support of the bill. "I was sitting in an office when a fellow religion teacher came in looking like she had seen...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- A major taxpayer group is urging likely Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry to stop collaborating with the European Union (EU) to impose damaging tariffs on U.S. products being exported from key swing states in the upcoming presidential election. Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist noted that Kerry has been touting his popularity among foreign leaders in recent weeks. However, Norquist said he was shocked to learn the extent some foreign leaders will go to remove President George W. Bush from the White House in November. Norquist points to direct evidence of election tampering by...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Top national Democrats rushed to the defense of former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke after White House officials refuted many of the allegations made by Clarke in his new book. Clarke, who testified on Tuesday before the 9-11 commission, has asserted that President George W. Bush was obsessed with finding an Iraq connection to the attacks on America on September 11, 2001 and did not, as opposed to the Clinton administration in Clarke's view, do enough to prevent the attacks from occurring. Senior administration officials defended the Bush record on combating terror both before the commission and...

Mahathir Mohamad, who as Malaysia's soft-on-terrorism prime minister last year urged fellow Muslim leaders to achieve a "final victory" over the Jews who "rule the world by proxy," today endorsed Kerry's effort to defeat President Bush....

Receive FREE updates by email: America Helps China Put A Man In Space By Notra Trulock October 31, 2003 China has become the third nation to put a man into space. The Washington Post’s John Pomfret wrote that China’s first manned space launch would "mark a great step for China" in its quest to be recognized as a great power. The New York Times’ John Yardley quoted top Chinese officials as saying the mission would show China to be a world power equal to the United States. The media coverage made only passing reference to the Chinese military’s control...

Budget treacheryState and city leaders pass their deficits down Wherever you look, be it Sacramento or downtown Los Angeles, budget treachery abounds. Earlier this year, Gov. Gray Davis warned that in light of lean times, the state could no longer afford to make "backfill" payments to cities and counties to offset lost revenue from the 1998 cut in the state's vehicle license fee. The warning set off a panic among local government officials across the state, who lobbied furiously for maintaining the backfill. Eventually, Davis backed off his plan to end the funding. State legislators assured the public that whatever...

**Media Advisory** Date: May 16, 2003 Contact: Daniel Borchers Founder and President Citizens for Principled Conservatism (240) 476-9690 PrincipledConservative@yahoo.com www.PrincipledConservative.org Jason Blair & Ann Coulter: Switched at Birth? Ann Coulter’s latest (weekly) screed against the New York Times reaches two conclusions about the Jayson Blair debacle. The first is that Blair was hired and promoted – despite his profound professional faults – simply because he is black. Coulter’s second conclusion is that the New York Times was "cruel" for enabling his dysfunctional behavior. If so, then we can also conclude that Human Events hired and promoted Ann Coulter – despite...

The French government secretly supplied fleeing Iraqi officials with passports in Syria that allowed them to escape to Europe, The Washington Times has learned. An unknown number of Iraqis who worked for Saddam Hussein's government were given passports by French officials in Syria, U.S. intelligence officials said. The passports are regarded as documents of the European Union, because of France's membership in the union, and have helped the Iraqis avoid capture, said officials familiar with intelligence reports. The French support, which was revealed through sensitive intelligence-gathering means, angered Pentagon, State Department and intelligence officials in Washington because it undermined the...

George Galloway, the anti-war Labour MP who is suing over allegations he secretly took money from Saddam Hussein, faces the prospect of a criminal prosecution for treachery. The Observer can reveal that the Director of Public Prosecutions is considering pursuing the Glasgow politician for comments during the Iraq war when he called on British troops not to fight. In an interview with Abu Dhabi TV during the Iraq conflict, Galloway said: 'The best thing British troops can do is to refuse to obey illegal orders.' Lawyers for service personnel claim his call for soldiers to dis obey what he called...

Germany's intelligence services attempted to build closer links to Saddam's secret service during the build-up to war last year, documents from the bombed Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad obtained by The Telegraph reveal. Documents recovered from Iraqi intelligence HQ in Baghdad They show that an agent named as Johannes William Hoffner, described as a "new German representative in Iraq" who had entered the country under diplomatic cover, attended a meeting with Lt Gen Taher Jalil Haboosh, the director of Iraq's intelligence service. During the meeting, on January 29, 2002, Lt Gen Haboosh says that the Iraqis are keen to have...

BEFORE a shot was fired in Iraq, Tony Blair blamed treacherous Jacques Chirac for putting British lives at risk. By vetoing a UN threat of war, he said, the French President removed any chance of Saddam surrendering peacefully. Well, British Servicemen have been killed. We can only hope Mr Blair will not forget. He must surely return from the battlefield with a totally different vision of Europe’s future. The PM started well by snubbing Vladimir Putin’s invitation to tomorrow’s anti-US bitching session with France and Germany. But a price must be paid for their stand against freedom for Iraq. We...

ICONOCLAST DAILY NOTEBOOK.... WARNING! State Department Appeasers At Work Again! April 5, 2003: A reminder to the naive among us, quietly relishing the imminent victory of America in Iraq. Your work is not quite done. Beware the ides of Tony Blair and the career Arabists in the American State Department. As George W. Bush and Tony Blair meet again on the Continent, the ground for the mother of all diplomatic betrayals is being prepared by the subvert-Israel crowd in Washington and abroad.....

Treachery.... April 2, 2003: Want to get a really realistic perspective on why Coalition military forces are in Iraq, as well as the kind of sadistic psychopaths the peace movement are giving aid and comfort to? Then focus your memories back on last week's much-celebrated (by the media) tragedy when a supposed Iraqi ?suicide bomber? vented his rage at the unjust American invasion of his homeland and blew himself and his car up, killing four US marines. Ooops! Seems there's been a minor update to that story that Dan Rather and Peter Jennings have neglected to inform us about. Turns...

The fix is in. "World opinion" — as defined by the United Nations, the AJWs (al-Jazeera-watchers), domestic antiwar types, the French and German streets, Hollywood, and certain segments of our own media — has decided that the United States and Great Britain will be held to an impossibly high standard during the duration of this war, while the peace-loving government of Saddam Hussein will be held to an outrageously low one. Kofi Annan has already made it clear he's more outraged by the possibility of an errant U.S. missile than he is by reports that Baath-party Brown Shirts are abducting...

<p>ANKARA, Turkey — Despite warnings from the United States and other NATO allies, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday his government was seeking to send troops into northern Iraq to prevent instability at the Turkish-Iraqi border.</p> <p>Erdogan said in a televised address that he wanted to send soldiers into northern Iraq to quell any Kurdish rebellion and to prevent an influx of Iraqi refugees. He said Ankara and Washington had "reached agreement" on preventing a breakup of Iraq, but did not say whether that understanding included sending in Turkish troops.</p>

The United States has formally abandoned the prospect of a northern front in the war against Iraq as Turkey has once again balked at cooperating with the U.S. war effort. But what is looming as a major crisis is the danger that Turkey will militarily pursue its own agenda in northern Iraq. Washington has been dismayed by the invasion of Turkish troops into northern Iraq. Officials said thousands of Turkish troops have crossed the border into Iraq in an operation that was not coordinated with the United States.Breaking News!

Beasley and former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes were named co-recipients of the 2003 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. Both men were cited for taking stands against Confederate emblems, making them highly unpopular in their home states.

WHEREAS, the country formerly known as France is in fact Iraq's largest trading partner; WHEREAS, the current president of the country previously known as France, formerly known as Jacques Chiraq, did, as foreign minister of the country previously known as France, refer to the dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, as a “personal friend”; WHEREAS, the country formerly known as France has declared in no uncertain terms that it will use its Security Council veto to block any resolution threatening force against its client state, Iraq; WHEREAS, the country formerly known as France has decided to renege on its commitment to...

Jack Idema, whose exploits are detailed in the Hunt for Osama best seller, just said on Howie Carr that the French, as late as the last 10 days, were still selling Mirage jets to Iraq via intermediary state.

Bastard just said it...if we attack Iraq they are out as a partner on the war on terror.

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Saudi Arabia is quietly examining the prospect of raising the level of its strategic relations with Pakistan. Saudi Arabia has accelerated talks with Islamabad for the purchase of Pakistani weapons as well as joint military and strategic projects. Riyad also seeks to exploit Pakistani's expertise in missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have already developed an array of defense and military relations. But Gulf defense sources said the discussions in Riyad to expand strategic ties reflect the kingdom's concerns over its deteriorating relations with the United States. The sources said Saudi Arabia...