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Untitled Document The End: NATO’s Strategic Confusion and Diplomatic Brilliance News/Current Events Editorial Opinion (Published) Source: Stratfor Published: 1840 GMT, 990619 Author: staff Posted on 06/19/1999 17:17:42 PDT by Phil V.     The End: NATO’s Strategic Confusion and Diplomatic Brilliance 1840 GMT, 990619 It's legal, 13 year olds can buy and sell assault rifles.   Legislative loophole allows 13 year old girls to make big profits selling assault rifles! Whoa, now who ever thought the day would come that we would see this happen? Probably no one, but this is one of those rare boondoggles you can expect ...

Wayne Higley gave a four-star performance when he appeared on "Good Morning America" to recount his daring days as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam. Thomas Beebe, head of military programs at Southern Illinois University, captivated students with stories about life in the SEALs. So did Raymond Aucker, who was superintendent of the Panther Valley School District in Lansford, Carbon County. All three said they loved their glorious times with the Navy's elite Sea, Air and Land fighting teams. Too bad that their service in the SEALs existed only in their fertile imaginations. Higley, Beebe and Aucker were frauds, and they ...

Arkansas Department of Corrections Plasma Center, Grady, Arkansas 71644, 7/17/82, RRW SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: The current inspection of this plasmapheresis center was conducted [text deleted]. The last inspection of this plasma center, operated in a State Correctional Institution, was conducted on 9/12/81 and disclosed the refractometer calibration record was incomplete, corrected record errors were not identified by the corrector, no record of the calibration of the bed scales and the unit weighing scale on Sundays of each donation period, and there was no record of the lab centrifuge having ever been calibrated. An NAF letter was issued on 9/21/82 ...

Whats wrong with this reasoning? 'We have a constitutional right to travel.. Yet we require registration & liscensing of cars & drivers.. These requirments even faciliate our rights.. So why not require the same for guns?' Loosely quoted from billies interview with wolfie on CNN ths morning....

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Russian President Boris Yeltsin came to Sunday's meeting with President Clinton bearing one gift — a report on declassified Russian information relating to the assassination of President John Kennedy. Sandy Berger, Clinton's national security adviser, termed the report a "very interesting gift.'' But he refused to speculate on whether it contained any new information on the Kennedy assassination, saying it was in Russian and U.S. officials had not reviewed it. The documents will "be reviewed carefully and all interesting elements will be made public,'' Berger told reporters traveling with Clinton to the economic summit in Cologne. ...

The new Clinton foreign policy and military doctrine is about one thing only. It may attempt to put flowery words to it, and explain it in as politically correct a fashion as possible. But, in a word it is all about : TREASON !!!! Because this : Leads directly to this :

If one follows the philosophy of tolerance that the pro immorality liberals of the clinton era apply to the application of governmental power, then one must assume that the "devil' is a friend. Since the devil is the arch enemy of religion and morality, then it must be true that the devil is also good and can't be criticized. To criticize the devil, or the devils followers, GROUPS like the IMMORAL pervert homosexuals, is in fact HATE LANGAUAGE. When immoralists take over thought, what they try to do is LEGITIMITIZE immoral conduct or any conduct for that matter that is ...

Hey, are you like me? Need a good laugh from time to time??? If so, follow the link to Left-Wing Films. At first, I was frightened, then I found myself laughing uncontrollably. It's pitiful how these people take themselves so seriously....

Hughes and Loral -- Where's the Outcry? The Lack of Fallout from the Cox Report By ROBERT STOWE ENGLAND WASHINGTON -- Any lingering doubt there was harm done to national security by the transfer of satellite technology to China by two U.S. satellite companies was largely dispelled by the release of the unclassified version of the Cox Report in late May. The only question that remains is the degree of harm, which is variously estimated to be somewhere between modest and serious. While media and public attention to this serious matter has been virtually nil, some national security analysts ...

At the height of the scandal over her husband's   arrair with Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Clinton   told a friend: 'God is doing this and he knows   the reason.' Bob Woodward, the reporter    who was a central figure in the downfall of  President Nixon, tells the inside story of another           presidential family tragedy   GOD ONLY KNOWS      On the helicopter ride from the White House to  Andrews air force base to catch the plane to  Martha's Vineyard, the Clintons were not  speaking to each other. Doug Sosnik, a political  aide travelling with them, found ...

For education & discussion only. President Clinton's loyal understudy, Al Gore, formally applied for the promotion last week. The Vice President rightly bragged about prosperity and peace, and promised to build on that record while restoring unimpeachable integrity to the White House. Altogether, his kickoff back home in Tennessee was a solid step in his quest to be seen as a leader, not a mild-mannered mannequin or a wonkish adviser. He pumped up the friendly crowd, pronounced himself restless for "fundamental change," aimed a few zingers at the Republicans, and even spoke a little Spanish. Mr. Gore has been a ...

New Yorkers are unfazed by her out-of-state address. They don't see a problem with her role as First Lady, and they worry least of all what independent prosecutor Ken Starr might say about her. Statewide, after a slow start voters have decided they would would elect Hillary Rodham Clinton anyway — and by a hefty eight-point margin — if her presumed matchup for U.S. Senate against Mayor Rudy Giuliani were held today, a new Sunday News poll shows. The random survey of 805 registered state voters, compiled over two days last week, found Clinton besting Giuliani 47% to 39%, ...

U.S. Accused of 'Promis' Information Warfare Program An Aspect of Echelon [Interview with Fabrizio Calvi and Thierry Pfister, authors of book L'Oeil de Washington (The Eye of Washington), by Denis Jeambar and Yves Stavrides; place and date not given: "Espionage: How Washington Booby-Trapped All the World's Computers"] [Translated from the French] How far can a government go? Democracies have settled that issue of the desire for power in principle: The state of law, situated at the heart of their institutional mechanisms, forms their boundaries. But that framework is in fact more virtual than real, and laws or treaties are very ...

By Michael Rivero Copyright 1998, WorldNetDaily.com "Dear Sir," began Monica Lewinsky's somewhat peevish letter of July 3rd, 1997. In it, according to the recently released report by Kenneth Starr, the former intern chided the president for failing to secure for her a new White House job, and hinted that continued stalling would result in word of their affair leaking out. The next day, Monica confronted Bill Clinton in an Oval Office meeting she described as "very emotional"; a meeting which ended when the president warned her, "It's illegal to threaten the president of the United States." Three days later, another ...

Intro: The rumbles of yet another nationalist earthquake are shaking the former Yugoslavia. Rising from the fetid hovels of Pristina and the concrete-block family farms of rural Kosovo is the newest political and military force to beset the Balkans -- the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), known to Albanians as the Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosoves. Foreign Affairs May/Junel 1999 (volume 78, number 3) Kosovo's Next Masters By Chris Hedges INSIDE THE KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY The rumbles of yet another nationalist earthquake are shaking the former Yugoslavia. Rising from the fetid hovels of Pristina and the concrete-block family farms of rural Kosovo ...

This is kinda old, but still worth checking out... Two dozen sources of Kosovo news, from both inside Kosovo and "outside aggregators," as well. The URL is http://ojr.usc.edu/indexf.htm?/sections/features/99_stories/stories_kosovo_033099.htm

RAMCO ENERGY COMMENTS ON THE FUTURE OF THE CASPIAN REGION AT THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM CONFERENCE TWO-TEN NEWS NETWORK, London, February 18. This press release is transmitted on behalf of Ramco Energy plc. Steve Remp, Chairman and Chief Executive of Ramco Energy plc (Ramco), today spoke at the Institute of Petroleum's high-level international conference on The Caspian Region: The Major Oil and Gas Play for the Next Decade. Supported on the day by speeches by the Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, KCMG QC, a non-executive director of Ramco, plus a number of key industry figures, the conference examines the ...

While he and his aides were still struggling to end the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, President Clinton was agonizing over America's failure to halt an even greater tragedy five years ago. Last month, the president directed his top foreign-policy advisers to study the genocide that took hundreds of thousands of lives in Rwanda to see if the United States could have intervened effectively. Now, as American forces settle in to the job of policing part of Kosovo, Clinton is re-examining the massacres in central Africa, as well as ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo, in an effort to create ...

PRESS RELEASE BIG WIN FOR AMBASSADOR ALAN KEYES IN POLK COUNTY, IOWA, STRAW POLL Keyes' Tally Almost Doubles Bush's Numbers Ambassador Alan Keyes was the big winner in the Polk County Republican Party Presidential Straw Poll tonight. Polk County is the most highly-populated county in Iowa and encompasses the capitol city of Des Moines. Following a family barbecue picnic at the Living History Farms on Saturday evening, June 19th, in Urbandale, Iowa, a total of 344 votes were cast by ticket holders. Results are as follows: Keyes 34% Bush 18% Alexander 17% Dole 8% Bauer 8% Kasich 6% Smith 5% ...

Patrick J. Buchanan, increasingly frustrated in his third presidential bid, has been advised to abandon the Republican Party and instead try to win the nomination of Ross Perot's Reform Party. The Reform nomination would provide the populist and protectionist Buchanan with $12.6 million in federal money for the general election against what are likely to be decidedly nonpopulist free traders as GOP and Democratic nominees. "This is really an enormous idea," said Don Devine, an adviser to Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes. Officials of the Buchanan campaign clammed up Friday when asked about it. Bob Adams, Buchanan's spokesman, said he was ...