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You will not read about it in the New York Times. You will not see the footage on your nightly news. In fact, even C-Span did not dispatch a video camera to preserve the event. But this week, in the Rayburn Office Building of the House of Representatives, in hearing room 2154, several members of the United States Congress took part in a display of slander and intimidation worthy of a totalitarian regime. The occasion was a hearing, held by the Congressional Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources titled: "The Pros and Cons of Drug Legalization, ...

Bush signs law barring Texas cities from suing gun manufacturers AUSTIN (June 18, 1999 9:00 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush signed a bill Friday banning Texas cities from suing gun makers, and released a statement saying it was wrong to blame gun violence on the manufacturers. "Gov. Bush does not believe the manufacturer of a legal product should be held responsible for the criminal misuse of that product," the statement issued by his office said. Approved by the Texas legislature last month, the bill requires cities or counties to obtain legislative approval before they can sue ...

For Education and Discussion Purposes Only!U.S. Industrial Espionage Is Confronted The Swedish government will investigate if the U.S. uses signals intelligence, meant for national security purposes, in a way that is a disadvantage for Swedish corporations. A highly controversial report about signals intelligence was given to the European Parliament, and has now reached the Sweden's Ministry for Foreign Affairs. [Text of image of the front-page of the EuroParl report.] In a report written for the European Parliament it is claimed that information from United States military signals intelligence is used to benefit American corporations. The report contains several examples on ...

AFTER three days of talks, forced into being by Russia's land-grab at Pristina airport, the United States and Moscow last night agreed a deal on the issue of post-war peace-keeping. An agreement worked out by both defence ministers - William Cohen and Igor Sergeyev - in 30 hours of haggling gave Russian troops a stake in three of the five zones administered by Nato in Kosovo. Reports said the number of Russians was put at 3,000 - less than one-third of the number Moscow had said it was prepared to send. "It preserves the unity of command . and it ...

Before he became King Billy's Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles was a deputy under his predecessor, Leon Panetta (Bowles returned to the private sector in December, 1995, and then cane back to the White House as Chief of Staff in 1997). During his grand jury testimony, Bowles professed no personal knowledge of Monica or her work in the White House. To perhaps refresh his recollection, Bowles was presented with a series of White House photographs taken during the government shutdown of mid-November, 1995. At page 233, we see Bowles did a fine job with identifying the photos until a strange ...

A Russian Zone By Charles Krauthammer Thursday, June 17, 1999; Page A35 I have never been accused of being a comsymp or a Russophile, but anyone who cares about the success of American foreign policy must believe that the gratuitous humiliation of Russia is simply stupid. Publicly carving Kosovo into five zones -- American, French, British, German and Italian -- leaving nothing to Russia, qualifies as gratuitous humiliation. It is pointless. This administration, in order not to offend Russia, has for years refused to build a defense to protect American citizens from attack by nuclear missiles -- an issue of ...

Our Common Enemy Who, or what is the enemy and common foe of liberty? Simply stated, the enemy of liberty is unwarranted compulsion in any form that violates the unalienable rights of citizens as long as they have not infringed upon and violated the unalienable rights of those around them. Our founders established a governmental form which enumerated these unalienable rights to its citizens. This was initially set forth in the Declaration of Independence with these great, immortal words : "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...

Timeline of Treason

From: Paul Zimmerman Dear Friends and Comrades in Liberty: I don't know if you are familiar with "The White Rose" but I wanted to share this with you. The White Rose was a group of friends in Nazi Germany who loved their country and their freedom and circulated leaflets calling for the people to resist the Nazis. These brave men and women took great risks and many of them lost their lives. Their story is one of great valor and they are our spiritual brothers and sisters. This is a four part piece that was written by one of ...

Week in Review It has been a great week for the campaign! We elevated the protection of unborn babies to a national issue in the debate with George W. Bush. Our Ten Commandments Protection Act became the congressional response to the Democrats trying to expand government power. We elevated the defense issue in appearances in Tennessee, and challenged Gore's new - and unbelievable - pro-family and pro-religion rhetoric. To finish off the week we have a number of national television interviews in the next few days. Here is the list: Saturday, June 19 I may be part of a story ...

Details of U.S.-Russian Kosovo peacekeeping pact HELSINKI, June 19 (Reuters) - Following are details of the agreement signed on Friday by the United States and Russia on the participation by Russian forces in a peacekeeping mission (KFOR) in Kosovo. The agreement is subject to endorsement by NATO and the Russian government. It comes under the mandate of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1,244 and is within the framework of the military-technical agreement between KFOR and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The agreement provides for unity of command, with the Russian side to exercise ``full political and military control'' over the Russian ...

Sri Lankan Mass Graves Uncovered By NADESA PILLAI VITHYTHARAN The Associated Press JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (AP) - Wailing mothers and sobbing fathers filed past scraps of clothing and two human skeletons displayed on wooden tables in a police station Friday to determine if the remains belonged to some 300 people who disappeared while in military custody. The skeletons - one blindfolded and bound - were exhumed Thursday at a site in northern Sri Lanka where a former soldier said he helped bury bodies in mass graves. The remains will be sent to experts for further examination. The skeletons were identified ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Rutherford Institute has sued the Arlington Police Department on behalf of a former police sergeant fired for wearing a cross-shaped pin on his uniform. George Daniels, a 13-year veteran of the force, was fired in September for wearing a half-inch gold cross pin on his uniform collar. According to department policy, any unauthorized pins must be approved by the police chief. Chief David Kunkle had specifically forbidden Daniels to wear the pin. Frank Waite, a city attorney representing the police department, said he was not at liberty to discuss the lawsuit filed on June 14 but ...

Christian rights group told to cut ties with UN By Evelyn Leopold UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (Reuters) - A Swiss-based Christian charity group which campaigns against slavery in Sudan said on Friday a decision by a U.N. panel to withdraw its U.N. accreditation was a ``vote of shame.'' The United States was alone late on Thursday in voting against the withdrawal of credentials from Christian Solidarity International (CSI). In January the group bought the freedom of 1,050 slaves, mainly children, for $50 per person. The U.N. panel's decision has to be reviewed by the 54-nation U.N. Economic and Social Council ...

Clinton hails deal with Russia on Kosovo peace force Kyodo News Service COLOGNE, Germany, June 19 (Kyodo) - By: Keiji Urakami U.S. President Bill Clinton on Friday hailed an agreement struck in Helsinki between the United States and Russia that defines the role of Russian troops in the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo. ''I am fully supportive of this agreement and very pleased by it,'' Clinton told reporters after attending a working dinner with his Group of Eight (G-8) colleagues in Cologne, Germany, which focused on issues related to Kosovo. In Helsinki earlier in the day, U.S. Defense Secretary William ...

U.N. renews mandates of Bosnia peace missions UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (Reuters) - The Security Council unanimously authorised on Friday a 12-month renewal of the 32,500-strong NATO-led stabilisation force (SFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina and a U.N. mission there mainly comprising 1,900 police. Both the U.N. Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) and SFOR were established to carry out provisions of the United States-mediated 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended nearly four years of fighting. SFOR includes troops from all 19 NATO members and 17 non-NATO countries while the police task force is drawn from more than 40 nations. The International Police ...

Gov. Jeb Bush's Wife Fined $4,100 The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush's wife was fined by customs officials in Atlanta for failing to declare $19,000 in clothing and jewelry she bought during a trip to Paris. Columba Bush paid Customs a $4,100 fine for failing to declare the merchandise Thursday, the Bushes said in a statement released Friday. The governor said he and his wife ``deeply regret this mistake.'' ``I am sorry for exercising bad judgment and can assure everyone this will never happen again,'' Mrs. Bush said. Mrs. Bush spent five days in Paris, arriving ...

Latest at Stratfor.Com Kosovo Crisis Center 2355 GMT, 990618 - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has asked permission to be allowed access to ethnic Albanian detainees in Serbia. The ICRC office in Belgrade reported that Dominique Dufour, head of the ICRC delegation to Yugoslavia, met with Serbian justice minister Dragoljub Jankovic. The ICRC did not provide any details on the meeting. Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported the Justice Ministry gave the ICRC permission to "visit penitentiary establishments." 2345 GMT, 990618 - The Albanian government, the UNHCR, and KFOR announced a plan to return ethnic Albanian refugees to ...

Clearly, the Democratic party is doing all it can to disarm the American public. Why?

America's police departments are gearing up for complete gun confiscation. While Janet Reno is putting the brakes on the police for going after minorities with "profile stops", the police are going to need new enemy for their "war on crime" - the gun owner. I believe Clinton later this year will sign an executive order outlawing ALL handguns. This will be like a kid in the candy store for the gung-ho Rambo type cops out there. So Joe Sixpacks ... get your weapons and prepare to turn them over to the good police officers - for the children!