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Thursday, December 2 1:21 PM SGT Rwandan child rape orgy is spurred by witchcraft KIGALI, Dec 2 (AFP) - Twelve children under the age of 10 have been sexually abused in this Rwandan capital in less than three months, some of them by women, judicial sources have revealed, saying they believed the paedophilia was caused by a resurgence of witchcraft. A Rwandan district prosecutor told AFP that he believed the spate of rapes, four of them of small boys, was a consequence of the traumatisms of the 1994 genocide by Hutus of their tribal rivals the Tutsis. "Cases of child ...

IT'S UP!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Free speech returns to Nashville as Gore Headquarters gets a new look -- NASHVILLE, TN (November 30) – “Heads are turning at Al Gore’s headquarters in Nashville this morning, and free speech has returned to the Music City!” said RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson as workers put up a 14’x48’ billboard over Gore’s new Nashville headquarters. “We’re giving the Vice President a warm welcome to Nashville, one that honors his relationship with the man he called ‘one of our greatest presidents,’ his political godfather and friend, President William Jefferson Clinton." The enormous billboard, located approximately 500 feet from ...

Muslims in Suwanee win right to pray during work breaks By The Associated Press Suwannee, Ga.-- An electronics plant expects the return of 33 Somali Muslims employees next week after they left their jobs because the company would not let them leave the assembly line to pray. Solectron Electronics officials agreed to schedule breaks to accommodate them, and 10 of the workers have returned to their positions making cellular phones. The rest are expected next week. Solectron promised to set aside a special space where the Somalis can pray and restrooms where they can wash their hands, face and ...

The Divorce What nerve! First these two monstrously dysfunctional, noxious cretins inflict each other on us with quid-pro-quo reciprocity and bestial ferocity. And then (if we are to believe the floater from the tabloid arm of the massive clinton agitprop machine), they decide to split and leave us holding these two mephitic gasbags. . .   © 1999 Mia T

Mexico halts imports from 2 Tyson facilities JEFFREY TOMICHARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Mexico has banned beef and poultry imports from two Arkansas Tyson Foods Inc. plants and 15 other meat processing facilities in Texas and Kansas because of violations Mexican inspectors say they discovered last month.    The ban halts sales from Tyson and other large meat processing companies to Mexican buyers, said Beth Gaston, spokesman for the Food Safety and Inspection Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.    Details of violations at the plants weren't immediately released. U.S. officials said they hadn't yet translated a letter from Mexican ...

Premillennialism over the last five decades has become prominent and publicized in response to the approach of the year 2000, which provided a unifying message to the authors and preachers who sought to predict when the end would come. Natural millennial anxiety provoked some people to accept and believe premillennialism, and this anxiety itself was amplified by the suddenly very real prospects of worldwide destruction demonstrated by the atomic explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and threatened by the United States and Soviet Union as each amassed weapons of mass destruction. Within a month, the year 2000 will come and we ...

Wednesday December 1 3:25 PM ET MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry gave the United States a protest note Wednesday accusing an American diplomat of spying and telling her to leave the country, Itar-Tass news agency reported. ``The note expressed a firm protest to the U.S. embassy in Moscow in connection with activity harming Russian security,'' Tass said. ``The Russian side declared that on this basis, Cheri Leberknight is to leave Russian territory.'' Russian press reports identified Leberknight as a second secretary in the political section at the U.S. embassy. The State Department confirmed ``an incident'' had taken place involving ...

Will Clinton-Gore Get Away with Killing the Most Promising Near-term Missile Defense System -- The AEGIS Option? (Washington, D.C.): Published press reports indicate that the Clinton Pentagon is actively considering seven options that would remove up to $2.5 billion over the next few years from the Navy Theater Wide (NTW) anti-missile system, dramatically slowing the program, if not killing it outright.(1) A preliminary decision could emerge as early as today as the result of a meeting between the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's director, Lieutenant General Ronald Kadish and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Jacques Gansler. BMDO's top official and ...

Mayor's guards stop checks of visitors' licenses By Lyda Longa, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta police officers who guard Mayor Bill Campbell's home have been ordered to stop checking the license tags of visitors after an officer discovered a friend of the mayor's son was driving a stolen vehicle. The discovery was made Monday evening after the teen dropped Billy Campbell, 15, off at the house in Inman Park. A few minutes later, an officer who heard the tag number called over the police radio stopped the driver at the corner of Moreland and Euclid avenues. The next morning, Atlanta ...

Daily thought for; Thursday December 2nd, 1999 Be ye not unequally yoked In Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, he tells us that we, Born Again believers, should not be yoked to heathens. 2 Corinthains 6:14 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Now many a liberal preacher would want you to believe that Paul was only talking about being married to a heathen and that we Born Again believers need not concern our selves with our everyday relationships, as long as we tried ...

If one had to describe George W. Bush's campaign in a phrase, it might be called Nike ad politics. He's got your attention, and the images he creates leave you with that warm, fuzzy feeling - maybe you're even considering buying - but it is not completely clear what he's selling. Competence? Confidence? Boyish charm? Sneakers? I can't think of one good reason to vote against the Texas governor. The thing is, I can't think of one reason to vote for him, either. And that's something the man from Austin has to start changing beginning with tonight's 90-minute debate ...

MARTIAL LAW HAS BEGUN! (it's a Three on the Richter Scale) Martial Law is Here! By Ed Hohmann Infowars.com Exclusive (Captured Video Images of I-35 Operation --(New Images! Click Here) (Captured Video Images (more!) Posted 11/29/99) -- Click Here While everyone has been wondering what excuse the Federal Government will use to declare Martial Law, we have been living under it. For years, right here in Texas, US Army soldiers have been performing civilian law enforcement duties off base. According to a US Army SWAT Entry Team Leader with the 38th MP unit at Fort Hood, the City of ...

A member of Sen. Robert Torricelli's 1996 fund-raising committee admitted in court Wednesday that he made $2,000 in illegal contributions to the Democrat's campaign. Carmine Alampi, the former treasurer of the Bergen County Democratic Party, is the third person to admit wrongdoing in the campaign, and the first directly connected to the campaign itself. Alampi, 46, admitted that he took money from someone else and gave it the campaign to circumvent donation limits. He pleaded guilty to aiding a campaign finance violation, which carries up to a year in prison and a fine of up to $25,000. The first guilty ...

Seattle rioters stir Clinton's rebel blood FROM BEN MACINTYRE IN WASHINGTON AS BILL CLINTON flew into a city reeling from mass street protest, the President, who joined hundreds of anti-Vietnam War protesters outside the US Embassy in London in 1969 clearly caught a whiff of his own past. "I am very sympathetic with a lot of the causes being raised by all the people that are there demonstrating," Mr Clinton said, before heading to Seattle and the scene of the largest display of civil disobedience in recent US history. "I also strongly, strongly believe we should open the process up ...

Delusion and denial http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- IN A NATION that loves underdogs and relishes upsets, why can't Pat Buchanan win the Presidency? His "Peasant Army with Pitchforks" seems utterly untroubled by his present pathetic poll numbers, which seldom - if ever-rise to double-digits in prospective general election match-ups. They point to their man's unquestioned skill as a media communicator and expect his performance in televised debates to sway millions upon millions of viewers. Against two bumbling moderates like Bush and Gore, argue the Buchanan Brigadiers, why shouldn't Pat's clarity and conviction sway 35 to 40 per cent of the voters ...

Got a fundraising letter from Matt Drudge and Rudy Guiliani. And even though I have problems with Matt not jumping on the recent proof that Vince Foster did NOT commit suicide, I think his heart is with us on that one. And I know he took off his link to FR as well. But I do think that I will send money to both he and Rudy (yes, I know Rudy is not as conservative as some of us want him to be) because they most closely represent the people who might help us make a difference. David Horowitz (one ...

December 2 1999 Israel faces mutiny in south Lebanon FROM SAM KILEY IN JERUSALEM ISRAEL'S occupation of south Lebanon has taken its toll on the discipline of some of the country's most renowned military units, amid allegations of incompetence by officers in the field which have undermined morale. At least 24 members of Battalion 13 of the Golani Brigade, which won its battle honours when it took the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967, were jailed for up to two months on Tuesday after they abandoned a training exercise on the Heights and returned to their tented camp in protest ...

The state (of Florida) Tuesday halted plans to manufacture and distribute its "Choose Life" specialty license plate, pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Women. The organization, represented by Boca Raton attorney and former state Rep. Barry Silver, had been seeking a court hearing this week to argue for a temporary injunction against production of the plate. The group says the tag is a state-sponsored effort to infringe on a women's right to abortion. "The urgency for a hearing isn't as great as it was before," Silver said. "We still want to go to court ...

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Gay rights organisation Stonewall has apologised to the Scout Association after Sir Elton John took part in a dance routine by male strippers dressed as cub scouts. The act, which saw Sir Elton singing on stage alongside the six dancers, took place at London's Royal Albert Hall on Sunday as part of a concert to celebrate Stonewall's 10th anniversary. But the Scout Association said that the performance had done themselves and gay rights cause "no favours" by making a link between homosexuality and paedophilia. Stonewall communications director Mark Watson said the group regretted causing any offence. He said: "We do ...