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This morning, on Real Audio, our very own Robby Noel will interview Frank Davis, (Taxman here on FR) of "The National Retail Sales Tax Alliance" about the IRS "Showdown" Symposium that was held in Washington D.C. July 1 & 2.In order to access the show, click on EaglesUp.com The program starts now!!!Then click on this icon on the left: If you would like to read Frank's report, click: 1st Ever Report here on FR...IRS "SHOWDOWN" SYMPOSIUM!!!:-? Peace(pipe)

BAKU, July 6 (AFP) - NATO's campaign to halt Serb repression in Kosovo has resonated beyond the Balkans to the troubled Caucasus, where governments are grappling with the implications of the Yugoslav war for their own minorities. Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia are all laying claim to the role of victim, arguing that if NATO were to intervene, it would be to support them against aggression. "I believe that a NATO operation in the Caucasus would be desirable," Azeri foreign policy aide Vafa Gulizade told AFP. "Azerbaijan has undergone its own ethnic cleansing." "Thanks to a NATO operation, the Kosovo refugees ...

Hambrecht to fore in push to build 'Silicon Harbour' HUI YUK-MIN Investment bank Hambrecht & Quist (H&Q) of the United States is to lead a team of multinational technology companies in developing a US$1.2 billion "Silicon Harbour" in Hong Kong. Tien Chang-lin, chairman of the chief executive's Commission on Innovation and Technology, said yesterday the project would help transform Hong Kong into a technology centre within three to five years. He said the project had been proposed by a group of multinational companies headed by H&Q Asia Pacific a few weeks ago. The group also included computer giants IBM, ...

Second Amendment zealots insist that gun control laws deny weapons to law-abiding citizens, not criminals. But there is dramatic new evidence to counter that claim. And a major gun control bill that won final passage Thursday in the Legislature could become one of the state's most effective weapons in stopping the flow of handguns to criminals and underage buyers. The measure deserves quick and emphatic approval by Gov. Gray Davis. Assembly Bill 202 by Assemblyman Wally Knox (D-Los Angeles), limits sales of concealable handguns to one per person per month. It passed the Senate 21 to 14, the bare majority ...

DISARMED AND DANGEROUS As the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) burned, pillaged, and raped its way across Kosovo, KFOR commander Lieutenant General Mike Jackson held a press conference announcing that he was fully satisfied that the KLA was carrying out its pledge to disarm. A much-touted agreement, signed by Jackson and Hacim "the Snake" Thraci, mandates that the KLA start disarming by June 21. Never mind that the "figures given by both sides show that the KLA has fallen short of its commitments," as a June 29 Agence France-Presse dispatch put it. Even while Serbs were being killed, kidnapped, and driven ...

With the guilty plea of Webster Hubble, onetime law partner of Hillary Clinton and Arkansas political crony of Bill, independent counsel Kenneth Starr has closed the Whitewater investigation that wound up consuming more than five years and $50 million. Few Americans can remember what triggered the investigation into the Clintons' investment in a failed real estate venture and the savings bank it helped to bring down. Not even Starr can say what the Clintons were supposed to have done before the start of his investigation, when they did it and what statutes they offended. In the Whitewater matter, many ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Last July 4, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith strolled along the tree-lined streets of Bloomington, tucking hundreds of racist leaflets onto car windshields and under doors. A year later, police said, he charged through the same college town with a gun, killing a Korean student during a two-state shooting spree that also left a black man dead in Illinois. Late Sunday, when much of the country had its attention turned to fireworks and barbecues, the 21-year-old Smith was dead. What happened to him between the two holidays was, according to those who knew him, a horrible culmination of ...

1) ABC and NBC hopped on a Los Angeles Times story about how George W. Bush got preferential treatment to join the National Guard, but the same networks ignored the Times piece on Chung. 2) ABC conceded "most people don't seem to care that much about campaign finance reform," but that didn't stop the network from promoting "Granny D's" gimmick to push liberal "reform." 3) ABC claimed "SUVs are dangerous to smaller passenger cars" and CBS tagged them "killers of the road," but USA Today documented how CAFÉ rules have killed 46,000 while "just one percent of small car ...

What Was The President Told And When? Two of the most perplexing questions of the Chinese nuclear espionage scandal have been these: (1) After learning in April of 1995 from their monitoring of Chinese nuclear test explosions that China had apparently acquired classified design information about the United States' most sophisticated nuclear warhead, the W-88, why did Department of Energy (DOE) weapons scientists and counterintelligence officials delay for an entire year -- until April 1996 -- reporting this alarming information to the White House? (2) Given that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials learned of the same development in 1995 as ...

When Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation ended in a lame plea bargain last week, it was with an air of unreality that we remembered what Mr. Starr had put this country through. A year of prosecutorial inquisition over the sexual antics of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Impeachment of the President. A Senate trial. It all seems fantastic now -- and hard to believe that a single prosecutor could have so distorted our constitutional system. What drove Kenneth Starr? Many tried to puzzle out this bland figure as he carried on his crusade. As good an answer as any, I think, ...

When Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation ended in a lame plea bargain last week, it was with an air of unreality that we remembered what Mr. Starr had put this country through. A year of prosecutorial inquisition over the sexual antics of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Impeachment of the President. A Senate trial. It all seems fantastic now -- and hard to believe that a single prosecutor could have so distorted our constitutional system. What drove Kenneth Starr? Many tried to puzzle out this bland figure as he carried on his crusade. As good an answer as any, I think, ...

COMMENT: — by viewer Ted Tolleson. I just finished watching Nightline (6/29) and felt so strongly that I found your Web site to protest the treatment of the guest (U.N. whistle-blower) by the host, Cynthia McFadden. I’ve rarely seen such a hostile environment in a “news” program. I understand that an interview dealing with such a controversial subject should be direct and hard-hitting. But what focused my attention was the outright nastiness with which Ms. McFadden treated the guest. In the face of this treatment, the guest provided impassioned and poised responses to the pointed questions. It was clear to ...

 Original Article OTTAWA _ President Kim Dae-jung said that the new round of trade liberalization negotiations to be launched by the World Trade Organization (WTO) late this year, should be an occasion to narrow income gap between the rich and the poor countries. Kim made the remark in his summit with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien here Tuesday morning (Korea Standard Time). The President hoped that the positions of the developing countries should be fully reflected in the new WTO trade liberalization initiative, which will kick off in November in Seattle, according to Lee Ki-ho, senior presidential secretary for economic ...

Special Report: Y2K Survival Guide" [June 21] posed the question, "Is It Safe to Fly?" The real answer, regardless of the Federal Aviation Administration's unending political spin, is that no one, including the FAA, knows. I am a captain for a major airline and have been involved in air traffic control issues for 20 years. Contrary to the FAA, there is no way it can guarantee the safety of the air traffic control system past Jan. 1, 2000. While the FAA's theory that the Y2K computer problem alone represents little risk to our nation's air traffic control system is correct, ...

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When Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation ended in a lame plea bargain last week, it was with an air of unreality that we remembered what Mr. Starr had put this country through. A year of prosecutorial inquisition over the sexual antics of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Impeachment of the President. A Senate trial. It all seems fantastic now -- and hard to believe that a single prosecutor could have so distorted our constitutional system. What drove Kenneth Starr? Many tried to puzzle out this bland figure as he carried on his crusade. As good an answer as any, I think, ...

When Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation ended in a lame plea bargain last week, it was with an air of unreality that we remembered what Mr. Starr had put this country through. A year of prosecutorial inquisition over the sexual antics of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. Impeachment of the President. A Senate trial. It all seems fantastic now -- and hard to believe that a single prosecutor could have so distorted our constitutional system. What drove Kenneth Starr? Many tried to puzzle out this bland figure as he carried on his crusade. As good an answer as any, I think, ...

HAZARD, Ky.--During eight years in the White House, Ronald Reagan never tired of offering his version of the most feared words in the English language: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Bill Clinton set out Monday to prove him wrong. With a can of Mountain Dew in his hand and captains of capitalism at his side, the president tracked through the coal towns of Hazard and Tyner in the 97-degree heat of the eastern Kentucky highlands. Poverty rates in these parts are greater than 30%, and unemployment in at least one county is as high as ...

We have won a great victory, and acquired a new province. Already you can hear Kosovo spoken of as a "protectorate", echoing the good old days when the red-painted corners of the globe included such imperial territories as the Bechuanaland Protectorate, one of the nicer euphemisms of the Age of Empire, along with the even better "mandate". Some Americans are now saying quite bluntly, Ferdinand Mount writes in the Sunday Times, "We'll have to stay in Kosovo not for months or years but for a generation." As Mount says, the great problem at the end of the century is ...

Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) July 5, 1999 Turkey: Another Crisis Looms If President Clinton really thought the civil war in Yugoslavia was a threat to regional stability, he must be nervous about the crisis in Turkey. Rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan is considered a freedom fighter by separatist Kurds. But other Turks see him as a terrorist responsible for 37,000 deaths - and a court this week sentenced him to die for treason. Violence quickly spread across the largely Kurdish southeast. Rockets were launched at police housing and a municipal building, for example, and 12 rebels were killed in a gun battle. ...