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Baltics or Balkans – It’s a Matter of Mission 2125 GMT, 990707 An article in the July 7 edition of the Washington Post postulated that the Kosovo conflict and its aftermath have increased the chances of Balkan countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia receiving admission into NATO – possibly at the expense of the three Baltic aspirants. The article argued that, with 30,000 troops in Bosnia, 10,000 in Macedonia, 7,500 in Albania and a planned 57,000 in Kosovo, the long-term commitment to keeping the peace in the Balkans may refocus NATO’s expansion plans to the south. Additionally, with NATO-Russian ...

Judy Shelton got lots of attention in 1989, when she predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union in ''The Coming Soviet Crash.'' She followed it up in 1994 with ''Money Meltdown: Restoring Order to the Global Currency System.'' That book looked at the many problems following the collapse of Bretton Woods. The Asian crisis and Russia's chaos proved that many of her criticisms were correct. Shelton suggests the use of gold to help anchor a global monetary system. With such a strong foundation, nations could stop disasters such as the Asian crisis before they spread. IBD spoke with Shelton ...

Please repost to Newsgroups etc. - article posted on the web at: www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#Fear Dear All, Fear Not the Forces of Darkness! There has been some particularly nasty disinformation around this summer's Bilderberg Conferences including a false participant list and a message on the 'June 18th global day of action' list from a made-up organisation accusing me of being taken in by Nazis [www.bilderberg.org/1999.htm]. Please do check Bilderberg out for youself at www.bilderberg.org - the site I created free of speculation and racist claptrap to fill the knowledge gap for those on the 'left' and 'greens' about these global manipulators. ...

  http://www.thestar.com:80/thestar/editorial/news/990707NEW01b_FO-ARMY7.html July 7, 1999 `NAFTA' for military proposed U.S. war college report urges joint command with Canada, Mexico By Linda Diebel Toronto Star Latin America Bureau MEXICO CITY - A United States military report advocates a joint command for American, Mexican and Canadian forces, in the same way the three countries are united under free trade. The report, by Lt.-Col. Joseph Nunez for the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., also suggested a North American peacekeeping force, headquartered in the U.S., with deputy commander positions rotating between Canada and Mexico. ``Moving from bilateral arrangements to a (military) organization ...

TOKYO In recent months Japan's government has: Begun building its very own spy satellites. Allowed its warships to fire shots in anger for the first time since World War II. Partially approved a law allowing police to tap phones. Opened debate on whether to declare a flag and anthem evocative of the war as national symbols. Initiated the process of revising this country's pacifist Constitution. One by one, these items barely register on the news seismometer. Taken together, they seem to signal the emergence of a more assertive Japanese state. For many Japanese and many other Asians, a strong ...

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A simmering feud within the Congressional Black Caucus boiled over last week as Ways and Means ranking member Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) lashed out at Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) for what he cast as a pattern of dishonest attacks on Africa trade legislation by Jackson and an outside group with which he has been closely linked. Jackson has often ruffled feathers in his crusade to defeat the establishment-backed trade bill, plying his own colleagues with an Internet lobbying campaign that has come under fire for the tone and aggressiveness of its tactics. But exasperation turned to anger amid a wave ...

The last UK governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, could be given the responsibility for the enlargement of the European Union in his new role as an EU commissioner. The European Commission's President Romano Prodi wants member government to name their commissioners by Thursday night and will unveil his new team on Friday. Reports in UK newspapers say Mr Patten, a former Conservative Party chairman, will be given one of the most influential portfolios in Europe. Neil Kinnock, who lost his job at the commission earlier this year, is also said to be returning to Brussels as a vice-president in ...

Alexander Launches Straw Poll Drive By MIKE GLOVER .c The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander opened a grassroots drive Wednesday to build support for a straw poll next month that could be a key to his hopes for the GOP presidential nomination. Alexander said he plans to campaign in 60 of the state's 99 counties in the 23 days he has planned in the state before the Aug. 14 straw poll in Ames. ``My goal is to get the presidential campaign discussion back where it ought to be and away from polls and ...

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...To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of the Swords or Cuttreaux of which I may die possessed; and they are to chuse in the order they are named. —These Swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be for defense, or in defense of their Country and its rights; and in the latter case, to keep them unsheathed, and prefer falling with them in their hands, to the relinquishment, thereof. Will, July 9, 1799

Being the shootings began here there is much local news- so I combined three articles from todays paper...Clinton denounces hatred BY ABDON M. PALLASCH STAFF REPORTER President Clinton said Benjamin Nathaniel Smith's weekend rampage that killed two and wounded nine others was driven by "blind racial hatred against anybody who didn't happen to be white." Noting the shootings happened on the Fourth of July weekend, the president said during a visit Tuesday to Downstate East St. Louis: "That action was a rebuke to the very ideals that got us started." Meanwhile, Matthew Hale, the leader of a white supremacist group ...

Wednesday, July 7, 1999 Kosovo Has Changed the Rules of the Game Europe: War put NATO in the thick of the Balkans for the long term and also put limits on the alliance's future sphere of action. By ROBERT E. HUNTER The Kosovo war's long-term impact on the NATO alliance is already emerging. It began as a limited military action to stop the horrors of ethnic cleansing and to validate the allies' wider ambition of creating a Europe "whole and free." But it has produced a deep and potentially consuming engagement in the Balkans. In the bargain, Kosovo has ...

Hillary Takes The Suckers For a Ride The most publicity a politician ever had from one event in New York was when Mayor John Lindsay switched from a Republican to a Democrat in the summer of 1972. The evening news took eight and nine minutes to tell of a political move that supposedly was of unparalleled magnitude. Everyone proclaimed that Lindsay would run for president in the Democratic primaries and then against Richard Nixon and enthrall the nation. With all the publicity you ever saw, he went out and got 40 votes in one Democratic primary, 20 in another ...

The Liberals of the 60's used Marx, Rousseau, Mills and others to justify their beliefs. But since these philosophers seldom agreed that meant the 60's Liberals had a hodgepodge of beliefs that defied logic in most instances. And that is what we are fighting against today. A belief that has no logic and no media that will hold Liberals accountable for their beliefs.

URGENT ACTION ALERT Postal Service Privacy Rules Change On June 9th the US Postal Service opened an official "Comment Period" for a Privacy Rules change that would allow them to "retroactively" make their Form 1583 legal. This rule change would allow them to release personal information on Form 1583 including the box renters' home address to anyone that asks for it if the box renter is using the box for business purposes. WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN. Everyone needs to send in (snail mail) a complaint letter, which must arrive by JULY 9th 1999! SEE SAMPLE LETTER AT: ...

This e-mail was sent by a fellow Christian regarding comments Al Gore made during a recent speech. Have any of you heard how Al Gore lives a Christ centered life????? He gave a big speech this week about how his faith is so important to him. Well the funny part is, he said his favorite Bible verse is John 16:3. Of course the speech writer meant 3:16, and Al Gore wasn't familiar enough to catch the error. Well John 16:3 is -- " And these things they will do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me." ...

Kosovars Say Russia Forces Unwelcome By JIM HEINTZ .c The Associated Press MALISEVO, Yugoslavia (AP) - The men hanging around the devastated town market wave happily when NATO tanks roll by, but they won't lift a hand when Russian troops come down their streets. Malisevo is one of four towns in Kosovo to be put to a potentially inflammatory test in coming weeks when Russian peacekeepers begin fanning out into heavily ethnic Albanian areas, where residents see them as synonymous with the hated Serbs. ``They have Kalashnikovs, the same as the Serbian police. When we look at them, we see ...

First Lady Campaign Costs Taxpayers .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign committee will pick up many of the costs of her travels around New York State, but not all of them. While the campaign committee plans to pay for her travels around the state as she gauges support for a Senate run, federal taxpayers will pick up the tab for security. Accommodations and other expenses for the Secret Service aides accompanying Mrs. Clinton would continue to be the federal government's responsibility. The campaign would pay the costs of political aides accompanying the first lady. The ...

Web posted 7/7/99 at 2:45 p.m. EDT (Alexandria, VA) — Steve Forbes, Republican presidential candidate, made the following remarks regarding the recent proposal by British Prime Minister Blair and the republic of Ireland's Prime Minister Ahern for power sharing in Northern Ireland between Nationalist and Unionist parties: "The leadership of Mr. Blair and Mr. Ahern in proposals to implement the 'Good Friday Accord' should be supported by both Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. The way to peace and justice in the Isle of Ireland is by such a power sharing arrangement. Violence will never bring civil rights to ...