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THE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY I TPR reported that the National Women's Political Caucus featuring Clintonista crook Susan McDougal as a guest speaker for its convention. (McDougal, though it is quickly disappearing down the media's memory hole, went to jail for 18 months -- the maximum -- for civil contempt and also served time on fraud charges in the Whitewater case.) Now another case of instant redemption turns up: convicted Clintonista crook Webster Hubbell, who cheated the IRS out of $750,000 among other things, was a guest speaker at Georgetown's ritzy Episcopalian Christ Church. The topic: "The Return of the Prodigal ...

Thursday, July 8, 1999   PLA's bid to cut business ties hits more obstacles OLIVER CHOU The PLA's effort to cut ties with its commercial enterprises continues to hit problems despite repeated instructions from senior leaders. The army's leading group overseeing the divestiture admitted at a recent plenary session that problems included finding jobs for laid-off workers, idle and bad debts, and financial liabilities, according to the Liberation Army Daily. The group received briefings from six major inspection teams which made spot checks and identified problems over the transfer at all regional commands in April and May. Problems remained ...

The CIA spends taxpayers' money, but it doesn't want to say how, or on what. Now it's fighting a Freedom of Information Act request to reveal the 1999 intel budget, claiming that exposing the numbers would pose a threat to national security. In late March, the CIA told a federal court it could not release information requested under the Freedom of Information Act by the Washington, D.C.-based James Madison Project, a public-interest group devoted to educating the public on U.S. intelligence, secrecy policy, and national security. The information review officer for the spy agency's science and technology directorate argued in ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. LAWRENCE WALSH is a pillar of the Republican legal establishment, nobody's idea of a leftist liberal in search of a vast, right-wing conspiracy. So when Walsh sounds an alarm about the creeping influence of the ultra-conservative Federalist Society on the nation's courts, it's worth hearing, especially with four Federalist Republicans on the seven-member Michigan Supreme Court. Walsh spent seven years as a special counsel in Washington investigating the Iran-contra scandal. He burnished his GOP credentials first as an aide to New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, then as an assistant attorney ...

[Excerpts:]*Birth-rate bafflement: Blaine Harden's front-page story on July 5, under the headline: "Stresses of Milosevic's Rule Blamed for Decline in Births." Supporting this head are numerous examples of Serbian women electing to have abortions instead of children, and a reportorial analysis relating these choices to the general rottenness of life in a land featuring endless anxieties about war and an economy in shambles. But wait. We need an editor to step in here. If Milosevic, a crummy economy and war worries explain declining birth rates, then what explains the endlessly soaring birth rates in the part of the country most ...

DETECTIVES are investigating the trafficking of hundreds of young women as sex slaves from Albania and Kosovo to Britain. Some have been sold, some were kidnapped and others were tricked with false passports and promises of work. They are being forced to work in brothels where they can earn £1,500 a week or more, often selling sex to 15 clients a day. In most cases almost all the money goes to the gangsters. One Albanian ring linked to trafficking women for the British sex trade was smashed recently by the Metropolitan police vice squad and officers are gathering intelligence ...

Hillary Clinton Backs Israel On Jerusalem By Jonathan Wright WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, breaking with U.S. official policy, told an Orthodox Jewish organization based in New York that she considers Jerusalem ''the eternal and indivisible capital of Israel.'' She also promised that, if New Yorkers elected her to the U.S. Senate, she would support a strong Israel and favor moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, she said. She took the unorthodox policy positions in a letter to the Orthodox Union dated July 2 and obtained by Reuters Thursday. The Orthodox Union represents about ...

Bush Attends Minority Conference SEATTLE (AP) -- A day after aides said there was no time in his schedule, Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush decided today to make an impromptu appearance at a conference of minority journalists. About 6,000 journalists from around the country were attending the Unity '99 conference. All the presidential candidates had been invited, but only the two Democrats, Vice President Al Gore and former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, accepted at first. Bush's staff had said in a statement, ``Unfortunately, we are not able to schedule everything on this first trip.'' There was no ...

I posted most of this as a reply on another thread, but decided to give it a try on it's own. Among the more irritating things, to me, on FR is seeing the same thread posted multiple times, and not being able to find an old post that I wanted to review. John Robinson has now made those irritations unnecessary. Unfortunately, their is a rather large cadre of new and occasional users who have trouble managing the available tools. Maybe some of you experts could add a few tips related to making the FR experience as efficient as it is ...

LAst week the president announced that we will have federal budget surpluses this year and every year into the foreseeable future. Before you uncork the champagne, take a look at the fine print in President Clinton's projections. The national debt stands at $5.6 trillion--that's $55,000 for every family in America. The fine print shows that, far from decreasing, the national debt will rise to more than $7.5 trillion by 2015. So how can our national debt be rising if we're running surpluses? The answer is simple: We're not running surpluses. The president has a well-earned reputation for his careful choice ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Mondays may be tough, but the first week of a month can be a killer, a study of U.S. death rates appearing in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine found. The study, which examined records from 1983 to 1988, found the combined death rate from substance abuse, suicide, accidents and homicide typically jumped 14 percent during the first week of each month compared with the last seven days of the previous month. And because the rates are even higher among the poor, the research team from the University of California at San Diego suggested monthly benefit checks ...

SEATTLE (AP) — A day after aides said there was no time in his schedule, Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush made an impromptu appearance today at a conference of minority journalists. Bush spent only a few minutes at the Unity '99 conference, shaking hands with a crowd that quickly gathered around him. He made no formal remarks. The Texas governor's initial decision not to attend the conference even though he was campaigning in Seattle today had drawn criticism from some of the 6,000 journalists attending the conference. That controversy was described in an article in today's Los Angeles ...

Throughout the careers of the first sociopaths lifes, they have always leached money from other people. The oval office was their ultimate meal ticket. Now I think Hillary realizes the gravy train may dry up so she is going to get one last looting in before she rides off. Collect millions, blame the nation for picking on her so bad so she has to withdraw, let the money sit and forget and then , take it all in.

Today, at a Des Moines, Iowa press conference, Republican Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan called massive illegal immigration an "undeclared war on our southern border" and vowed to "stop foreign criminals who are crossing and re-crossing with ease to prey upon American citizens." Mr. Buchanan cited the 1993 CIA shooting, World Trade Center bombing, and murderous rampage of Rafael Resendez-Ramirez-all crimes perpetrated by illegal aliens-as examples of the exploding crime rate among illegal immigrants. "In 1980, our prisons housed 9,000 criminal aliens. Today, nearly 25% of those incarcerated in federal facilities alone-over 60,000 inmates-are criminal aliens who crossed our open ...

Pristina, July 7, 1999 - In accordance with the Wesley Clark - British General Michael Jackson agreement, the gathering of the members of the so-called KLA into collection points is really forming of future barracks for the paramilitary of the Albanian terrorists, who are to take over local power. In that way, the final blow would be inflicted to Bujar Bukoshi and his, up till now, almost unknown FARK (Forces Army Republic of Kosovo) that has some two thousand people. Bukoshi, who is known to be a follower of Ibrahim Rugova, also the agent of the German intelligence service (BND), ...

For a few minutes Wednesday morning, the presidential suite of a downtown Salt Lake City hotel became the demilitarized zone in the rival White House campaigns of Republicans George W. Bush and Orrin Hatch.Dismissing aides, the Texas governor and Utah senator spent about 30 minutes in a private discussion. Both later described the hastily scheduled meeting as respectful and cordial, but declined to provide details.Hatch suggested the meeting after earlier tellin reporters he planned to steer clear of Bush campaign events in Utah.The meeting took place in the Salt Lake Marriott Hotel before Bush's scheduled breakfast meeting with six Western ...

The mother of an Arlington teenager will never forget the phone call she received from Williamsburg Middle School, where her daughter was in the eighth grade. "I'd like to invite you to a meeting about girls at risk," said Latanja Thomas, the eighth-grade school counselor. "What risk?" the mother asked. "Eating disorders?" "No." "Drugs?" "No." "Well, what is it?" "Oral sex." "I about dropped the phone," the mother recalled. "I was stunned." So were other parents of girls at Williamsburg who took similar calls that evening and showed up for a meeting in the school library a few nights ...

Sign slogans you can use while mingling with Hillary supporters.Mingle with Hillary supporters, use stealth signs as suggested by Rush,e.g.: 1. Hillary, the Senator who will go all the way. 2. Hillary, one of Bill's favorite women.Aimed at Soccer Moms who wish they were 3. He betrayed her, you shouldn't. He betrayed her, we shouldn't 4. If she beat the indictment, she can beat Rudy. 5. Don't ask what she has, ask what she says she has done. 6. Don't ask what she has done, ask what she will do. 7. Your life will never have any meaning, until she ...

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From the Newsweek issue dated July 12, 1999 CAMPAIGN 2000 Bush Prepares for the Blitz As investigative reporters and opposition researchers sharpen their knives for campaign 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush's team is well prepared. The GOP front runner has already done a thorough job of oppo research on himself. According to campaign spokesman David Beckwith, during his '98 re-election drive, Bush asked his personal lawyer, Dallas attorney Harriet Miers, to do a "survey of public records" so his campaign would be ready to answer questions about his background. Miers used paralegals from her firm and she remains ...