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Broker on the run as £2bn vanishes by Barbara Mcmahon in New York FBI agents in the United States are looking for a rogue stockbroker who could have pulled off one of the biggest frauds ever. At least £218 million is missing after Martin Frankel's disappearance from his home in the expensive suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut - but authorities fear up to £2 billion may have been taken. "It could be one of the biggest movements of money of all time," said a consultant who worked for Frankel. A warrant for the arrest of the 44-year-old, a reclusive financier, was ...

HERE is a tale of two protests. The first occurred in December, when University of Washington students took to the streets to denounce the resounding passage of Initiative 200 (which abolished government race and gender preferences). The students' post-election demonstration paralyzed traffic for more than an hour on the Highway 520 bridge. It also caused backups on I-5, as far north as Lake City Way. This massive disruption made headlines and garnered extensive local TV news coverage. It involved 150 marchers - none of whom was arrested. The other protest occurred in November, a day before the fall elections. ...

Wallets Open Wide For Bush D.C. Event Wallets Open Wide For Bush D.C. Event Fund-Raiser Pushes Kitty Near $20 Million By Susan B. Glasser Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 22, 1999; Page A01 The Republican political establishment is throwing Texas Gov. George W. Bush a coming-out party in Washington tonight that will be the largest presidential fund-raiser ever here, but it is just one particularly lucrative stop on a cross-country money tour that is expected to boost his campaign over the $20 million mark by the end of June. From Florida to Michigan to South Carolina, Bush will ...

"Truth is something outside yourself, something to be discovered, and not...something you can make up as you go along." —George Orwell, 1944 "There are no facts."—Michel Foucault, 1968 Lying is ancienter than Croesus, as old as humanity itself. But there is something new about lying today—something in the way it is viewed and received. Writing about the disgraceful prevarications flowing from the White House of late, Christopher Hitchens suggests that what ought to trouble us even more than the dishonesties is "the praise and approbation that certain lies now receive from the wised-up." The change in the way lies ...

The Manager And Assistant Manager Have Been FiredCLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio Posted 5:39 p.m. June 21, 1999--Does your employer have the right to search you if they suspect you of stealing? Some Cleveland Heights Wal -Mart employees say, 'no.'NewsChannel5 reports the two store managers involved have been fired by Wal-Mart. But for Graham Robinson and about a dozen other employees, that may not be enough for what they call total humiliation."Deep within my heart (I'm thinking) this is like rape. This is like a violation of everything that we stand for in America," Robinson tells WEWS.He and three other men and ...

SKOPJE, June 22 (AFP) - Praising NATO for its campaign in Kosovo, US President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the alliance could intervene elsewhere in Europe or in Africa to fight repression."In Africa or central Europe, we will not allow, only because of differences in ethnic background or religion or racism, people to be attacked. We will stop that," Clinton told US troops gathered at the Skopje airport."We can do it now. We can do it tomorrow, if it is necessary, somewhere else," he said.Clinton earlier visited the Stenkovec camp where he got a rousing welcome from the refugees who ...

Following is an excerpt from the "solution" part of an article that will be posted at PROFESSIONALS' MONTHLYComments are welcome! Thanks. "Victors never commit war crimes", so say the former military types who now find jobs practicing punditry on twenty four hour, ceaseless babble, time and again television. Maybe this is the sort of rhetoric that drummed-up support to finish off some Nazis but in the same way we say that we cannot allow atrocities to be committed in Europe, is it possible that now, victors can commit war crimes? Times have changed, right? Is it illogical that there can ...

(Bossier City, Louisiana-AP) -- A Louisiana woman is accused of trying to beat her husband to death with a hammer. The woman's daughter and niece are also charged in the case. Police in Bossier City (BOH'-zhuhr) say the three women gave Michael Glass horse tranquilizers and then beat his head with a hammer as he lay unconscious. Authorities say Glass woke up, ran to a neighbor's house and called police. He's now hospitalized. Police say Glass' wife claimed she wanted to kill him because he abused her.

When Janet Reno sent in the FBI to fry the women and children in the Branch Davidian home, I was in Italy covering the Lega Nord. Stunned by what I read in the Italian press, I told my friends that a turning-point in American history had been reached: if the American people did not rise up and throw the rascals out, if Janet Reno and her colleagues were not put on trial for murder, there would be no hope of restoring the republic. The Italians were not shocked by my remarks: they assumed the worst. Intelligent Europeans were already learning ...

"JANES DEFENCE WEEKLY" that authorative magazine which tells all about military weapons of all types and how they work, and which nations have them, announced that the Pentagon has been hoping for the chance to experiment with a new state-of-art cluster bomb. Apparently the Serbian people proved to be just the right target the Department of Defense was waiting for. Judging by the number of women, children, old men and just plain ordinary folks whose lives were ended in a hail of shrapnel, the new "breed" of clulster bombs is a howling sucess. Nor has the DoD hesitated to use ...

I'm sure that selling nuclear secrets is probably a "no-brainer" way for a corrupt administration to make the very biggest bucks, but now that those horses are out of the barn I thought maybe we could come up with some ideas for the next scam artist to occupy the "Oral" Office. For example, how about selling favorable legislation to American Indian tribes hoping to start gambling casinos (or hoping to keep other tribes from opening competing casinos)? How about giving friends overseas the contract to print US currency so that they can print up a little personal "walkin' around" money ...

Since the beginning, the two most ardent supporters of Don Adams Case have been Free Republic and WWDB 96.5 in Philadelphia. Finally, in the persons of Clarity(Brian Buckley) and Rollye James these two powerful tools for the protection of the Constitution and the First Amendment meet to discuss the latest details of the Don Adams Case. The Show began with both Clarity and Don on the air together and they discussed our meeting with the DA's Office. Don's major point was that even if it may have been said in jest, one of the DA's actually said to Brian after ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (Reuters) - General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE:GD - news), the No. 4 U.S. defense contractor, said Tuesday it agreed to buy three businesses from telecommunications provider GTE Corp. (NYSE:GTE - news) for $1.05 billion in cash, in a move to strengthen its worldwide information network. General Dynamics said the deal, part of GTE's plan to shed non-core assets, will bolster earnings immediately. The three units are part of GTE's Government Systems organization -- communications systems, worldwide telecommunications services and electronic systems. General Dynamics said the three units have a backlog of $900 million, employ about 6,200 people, and ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Opponents of Florida's statewide school voucher program filed a lawsuit Tuesday, saying it is unconstitutional and will destroy public education while breaking down the wall between church and state.The law creating the vouchers, signed a day earlier by Gov. Jeb Bush, allows parents to send their children to private or parochial schools at taxpayer expense. It is the only statewide voucher program in the country.Students in failing schools can choose to go to private school with the tax dollars that would otherwise go to the public school. Students at just two schools, both in Pensacola, would ...

Recent publicity surrounding the Clinton sex scandal and the approach of November elections seem to be bringing the cyberloons out of the woodwork. Conspiracy theories, innuendo, and outright political lies are proliferating via the Internet faster than anyone can keep up with them. The most egregious example is the Clinton 'Body Count' message, a list of 50 or so names of Clinton "friends" who allegedly died under "strange" circumstances. The message implies without making direct accusations or citing sources that Bill Clinton is responsible for the murders of dozens of people who may have been in possession of "incriminating ...

Remarks by President Clinton to Operation Allied Force Troops To: National and International desks Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100 WASHINGTON, June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following are remarks by President Clinton to Operation Allied Force Troops at Aviano Air Base, Italy: 9:26 P.M. (L) THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Well, Captain Davis, you are a pretty tough act to follow -- (laughter) -- and not short of self-confidence, either. That's good. (Laughter and applause.) I'd like to begin by saying that Hillary and I are delighted to be back in Aviano. We have been here several times to ...

Executive Order 13083 seeks to give the US government supremacy over the states, instead of the states empowering the federal government.

NARAL: Bush's Actions Contrast With His Image on Abortion-- U.S. Newswire 22 Jun 11:05 NARAL: George W. Bush's Actions as Governor Contrast With Campaign Image as Centrist on Abortion To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: William J. Lutz of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, 202-973-3032 WASHINGTON, June 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League: George W. Bush is attempting to portray himself as a centrist on the issue of abortion while on the Presidential campaign trail, but his fervent opposition to a woman's right to choose ...

The NATO campaign against Yugoslavia is the war of many names: according to Bill Clinton is it is a) the war to stabilize the European economy for American business interests), b) the war to punish Slobodan Milosevic for ethnic cleansing, c) the war to restore the Albanian refugees--who were driven out of Kosovo by the NATO bombing. We’ve learned by now that Bill Clinton can never tell the truth about anything, even by accident. To get a glimmer of the truth we have to turn to more reliable sources, like for example the British conservative Roger Scruton, who (writing in ...

Attention News Editors: Police Association of Ontario Reviews Support of Federal Gun Registry MISSISSAUGA, ON, June 22 /CNW/ - The Police Association of Ontario, which represents over 13,000 police personnel in the province, will be reconsidering their support of the Federal Gun Registry, at their Annual General Meeting being held in Mississauga from August 17-20, 1999. ``When the concept of a federal gun registry was proposed in 1994, by then Justice Minister Allan Rock, the support of the Canadian Police Association and its provincial affiliates was seen to be crucial to the government's efforts,'' says Bill Baxter, President of the ...