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Gavin Esler This election will be more bizarre than usual as states are moving their primaries earlier American commentators are already licking their chops in anticipation of next year's presidential election, with some claiming that it will be the most significant for a generation. But the dirty secret of American politics is that the system for filling the most important job in the world is rotten to the core. Once every four years electricity pours into the geriatric Frankenstein's monster called the race to the White House, and it splutters into life, terrifying us all. The electricity, of course, is ...

Monday, June 28, 1999 Ownership of knives, guns, banned in Lhasa Public security officials in Lhasa have banned the ownership of guns and ordered the confiscation of civilian-use explosives and knives. The aim is to prevent such weapons "falling into the hands of terrorists", according to an official circular. It comes ahead of the October 1 National Day and the sixth ethnic games in August in the Tibetan capital, part of activities to mark the 40th anniversary of the setting up of the Tibet Autonomous Government. Lhasa public security officials have ordered shops and residents to hand in all guns, ...

what has happend to f/r? all you here is whining and you post the same artical over and over. I think the only reason most of you are on here is to whine,you never here of any solutions. you all gripe about what the govt. is doing so what are you going to do about it? for starters why don,t you start a nation wide campaine of rotten egging all political and media events and see what happens its better than WHINING.

what has happend to f/r? all you here is whining and you post the same artical over and over. I think the only reason most of you are on here is to whine,you never here of any solutions. you all gripe about what the govt. is doing so what are you going to do about it? for starters why don,t you start a nation wide campaine of rotten egging all political and media events and see what happens its better than WHINING.

untitled HHS - The Linchpin of American Marxism? It's Not Necessarily Big Brother We Should Worry About, It's Big Sister The federal government wants to know where you work, and how much you make. I extracted much of the following information from HHS website sources, the rest from a very enlightening conversation with an HHS insider: Starting this year, 37 states will be formally hardwired to a federal database managed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) informally known as CSENET, or the Child Support Enforcement net. Before you decide that child support payments don't concern you, ...

Four years have passed since the most devastating act of terrorism ever committed on American soil: the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, in which 168 people died and another 400 were injured. In that time, home-grown acts of terror, particularly those committed by factions of the radical right similar to those responsible for Oklahoma City, have not gone away — and have, if anything, grown dramatically in frequency. Here's a link to the rest of the article.

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The British government has become the first in Europe to openly propose internationally agreed requirements for ISPs to build technology into networks that would allow for police surveillance. Under proposals for changes to the Interception of Communications Act announced by the Home Office this week, all communications service providers (CSPs) would be required to build interception software or hardware into their systems. The law -- if passed -- will apply to all types of new communications services, including Internet telephony, TV conferencing, paging, and satellite based personal communications systems. The International User Requirements have been drawn up over the past ...

CIA Psy-Ops on the Internet CIA Opposed Freedom, and Freedom of Discussion by Michael Kelly A description of the evolution of alt.politics.org.cia and the changing tactics used by the US government to suppress discussion of the real issues. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About a year ago, almost all the posters on this group were "retired" spooks. What they would do is sit like spiders in their webs waiting for innocents to come along and ask a question, such as "what are some good books to read" on such and such an intelligence-related topic. Of course, the newbie was then steered to some CIA-approved ...

It seems like everyone in New York is certain that Hillary Rodham Clinton will stand for the Senate seat about to be vacated by the retiring Daniel Patrick Moynihan. What they are not so certain about is why she would choose to do this. Why would the woman who hates the close scrutiny that being in the White House demands, who watched her husband and herself being hounded to distraction over Whitewater and Lewinsky, again make herself vulnerable to the same attackers? Even now, before she has officially announced that she is standing, her every change of expression or flutter ...

Dear MoveOn Petitioner, MoveOn.org is moving on to a new stage. We're now actively recommending great candidates for you to consider for year 2000. These are moderate candidates with real potential to take or hold key seats in 2000. We make it as easy as possible to review candidates and make contributions. The candidates can be found at: https://www.moveon.org/donate/index.html We've spoken out on impeachment, on gun safety, and on campaign finance. We've been heard, and had an impact, but we've also been frustrated by the power of the extreme right and of narrow special interests. Successful politicians must spend dozens ...

PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT -- June 1999 - PART 1 What Caused Columbine? Everybody's looking for the causes of the terrible tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, and for ways to prevent such horrible happenings in the future. Hillary Clinton has volunteered her intuition that "part of growing up is learning how to control one's impulses." Putting aside the point that most of us don't have impulses to go on a killing rampage, who is going to teach kids to control their impulses? Certainly not the "village" (i.e., the government or government schools), which Mrs. Clinton believes should ...

Below is an excerpt from a review of Douglas Starr's 1998 book Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce. ... Most recently, in the latter half of the 20th century, blood's mystique has lured not only spiritual and scientific seekers but also commercial bloodhounds with a nose for money. This new generation of blood disciples includes global traders sometimes guilty of greed and human exploitation, not to mention, in the eyes of certain jurists and medical watchdogs, gross neglect of the sacred Hippocratic tenet: primum non nocere ("first do no harm"). For just as seaborne exploration in the 15th ...

District Prepares for Y2K System Failures By Eric Lipton Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 28, 1999; Page A1 The District government, recognizing that its year 2000 repair program likely will not be completed on time, is planning a massive New Year's Eve mobilization of emergency personnel and other staff to ensure that critical city services are not interrupted if computer systems fail. Police will be stationed at more than 120 locations across the city, working 12-hour shifts, to take walk-in requests for emergency services. Twenty-one "warming centers," each supplied with food, water and cots, will open. School crossing guards ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/y2k/y2k.htm District Prepares for Y2K System Failures By Eric Lipton Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 28, 1999; Page A1 The District government, recognizing that its year 2000 repair program likely will not be completed on time, is planning a massive New Year's Eve mobilization of emergency personnel and other staff to ensure that critical city services are not interrupted if computer systems fail. Police will be stationed at more than 120 locations across the city, working 12-hour shifts, to take walk-in requests for emergency services. Twenty-one "warming centers," each supplied with food, water and cots, will open. School crossing ...

If you really want to get a good laugh and see what others think of Clinton, then just go here and have a look-see. http://www.morecrap.com/ovl.htm

I want to express an opinion spellcheck unavailable. Regarding the Post on burning the Gay Flag and other things I have read here in replys. I am 40 single chaste catholic non smoking conservative (would be married if I could marry Alan Keyes or aman like him) Twenty years ago I gave birth to a Bastard who had chronic asphyia at birth I begged God for his life which I have made history to keep him alive for 20 yrs as a private citezen I did borrow 24 thou from Uncle Sam to help out and was able to ...

June 27 update -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott say they will appoint conferees on the Juvenile Justice bill this week, before Congress breaks for the Independence Day recess. That could mean a House-Senate Conference agreement before the August recess. Minority Leader Richard Gephardt was making noises at the end of the week about finding a compromise on the differences between the Senate-passed Lautenberg gun show NICS check, which was twice rejected by the House, and the House-approved Dingell amendment also requiring NICS checks at gun shows. During a conciliatory press conference Thursday Gephardt ...

Readers keep pleading with me to tell them more while others, though not hostile, are somewhat suspicious, if not about me, at least about my sources. Once again I shall try and explain my situation. I am not on any government payroll and I do not have direct access to any intelligence agency. As I have tried to make clear on several occasions I am a listener. I don't pry, I don't question and I don't send or receive coded messages. But people are people, wherever they are and as such share the same weaknesses. A common weakness is talking, ...