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  ... abortion opponents love little babies as long as they are in somebody else’s uterus. Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933), U.S. pediatrician and medical educator; first woman, and second African American, Surgeon General. As quoted in the New York Times, p. A14 (December 31, 1993). Elders said this c. 1990.     Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need. Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French author. ...

I host a radio talk show in Bismarck, ND. I'm looking for PROOF that UN troops are congregating in our national parks or on government land...please e-mail me any information. Thank you...MURPHY

White House Statement on Online News, Internet Users U.S. Newswire 6 Dec 11:22 White House Statement on Online News and Internet Users To: National Desk, Media Reporters Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the White House: STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY As part of the President's continued commitment to the progress and growth of the Internet, the White House Press Office is pleased to announce a new service for online news organizations and Internet users. This new service, "Ask the White House," presents a unique opportunity for the ...

Anti-Personnel Land Mines, Sub-Machine Guns and Thousands of Bullets Found A CACHE of weapons has been found in a house in southern Kosovo inhabited by members of the future Kosovo Protection Corps. UN police officers and members of the NATO-led forces in Kosovo (Kfor) searched two houses in Stimje, where they said they found anti-tank rockets, anti-personnel land mines, sub-machine guns and thousands of bullets, as well as Kosovo Liberation Army and Serb police uniforms. They arrested two members of the Kosovo Protection Corps, who police said would be charged with "illegal possession of military armaments." The Kosovo Protection Corps, ...

(December 3) -- Following Israel's problems securing aid for the Wye accord, there is concern that Congress may not back a mega final-status assistance package. -- If all goes as planned, 10 months from now Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will be scrambling to put the final touches on their permanent peace accord as the government security and finance gurus crunch numbers to calculate the cost of peace. The technocrats will add it all up and write down a sum - of up to $100 billion, according to some diplomats, (see below). They will then look to the US government ...

On a neglected part of his recent, notorious "isolationism" speech, national security adviser Sandy Berger acknowledged that the U.S. is often seen abroad as an overbearing "hectoring hegemon." But he concluded that given the disparity of power and influence in the world today, there is not much we can do about it. Well, one thing we could do is keep President Clinton home and his mouth shut. Instead, he goes around the world smugly telling other people how to improve themselves. Clinton has this irresistible urge to pronounce himself on — and thus thrust the U.S. into — disputes that ...

This is a little over a week old, but I have not seen it anywhere on the net. It shows how the US is in a panic to keep control of ALL intelligence gathering. The US is threatening to stop sales of nuclear technology to Britain if they follow through with their so-called Public-Private Partnership to privatize government activities, including intelligence gathering. 22nd November 1999 U.S. Threatens To Cease U.K. Data-Sharing Washington has warned the British government that it will be forced to terminate Britain's privileged relationship with the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) if Britain privatizes its defense research ...

The surest sign that he's slipping is the complete hash he made of the Seattle WTO talks Will the 38% of Americans who despise Bill Clinton as the personification of evil please leave the room while I make the following appeal to everyone else: Take a moment to pity poor William Jefferson Clinton. After seven years of New Democracy, his party appears to be veering left again, as if Clintonism never happened. Hillary is packing for Westchester County and her own political career as a Senate candidate. (Yes, I'm aware of all the Jay Leno "good riddance" wisecracks on the ...

Speaking Out Even as USS Liberty's Heroic Captain Receives New Honor, Coverup of Israeli Attack on His Ship Continues By Paul Findley March 1998 Issue, Pages 26, 88 For providing heroic leadership under fire, despite severe personal wounds, Captain William L. McGonagle, U.S. Navy retired, is the well-deserved recipient of two of the highest honors our nation can bestow. But on both occasions the presentation received little public notice, and the U.S. Navy took care to omit important details of his heroism and the identity of the attacking military forces. His heroism is exceptional, partly because it occurred when ...

Monday, December 06, 1999Albright shuns investigation of Rwandan genocideInquiry mandated by un: Secretary of state was UN ambassador at time of killings Steven EdwardsNational Post Neshan H. Naltchayan, Agence France-PresseMadeleine Albright, the U.S. secretary of state, centre, with the 1999 Kennedy Center honorees: actor Sean Connery, dancer and teacher Judith Jamison, left, actor Jason Robards, seated, left, and singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder, seated, right, following a dinner at the State Department in Washington late Saturday. The 1999 honorees were to be celebrated at a gala at the Kennedy Center's Opera House yesterday. Meanwhile, Albright has refused to appear before ...

WASHINGTON — Is it an anachronistic echo from the Cold War era when the world was gripped by apocalyptic warnings of nuclear destruction or an idea whose time has finally come? Washington's renewed enthusiasm for a national missile defense system — a slimmed down version of the "Star Wars'' concept of President Ronald Reagan — is expected to dominate the U.S. national security debate in 2000. A decade after the communist Soviet empire's collapse, hastened by the Star Wars challenge that Moscow could not meet, the United States is moving toward a limited anti-missile system to defend itself against a ...

(CNSNews.com) - A federal government agency charged with enforcing existing laws is reportedly spending taxpayer money to pay special interest groups to lobby state and local governments into conforming with the agency's goals, according to a recent report. A study conducted by the Cato Institute, Cato Institute, a Washington-based think tank, indicates that, since 1995, the Environmental Protection Agency has doled out more than $6 million of taxpayers' money to various environmental lobbying groups. The federal government, via grants from the Environmental Protection Agency to nonprofit organizations, has allegedly been covertly supplying funds and technical support to the anti-automobile, anti-suburb ...

Narcotics: Our current policy makes violence the only means of doing business. Mass graves in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which may be filled with as many as 100 victims of the Juarez drug cartel, are very shocking, but not surprising. Even if these suspected graves are not found, the credibility of this scale of violence and corruption--in which the Mexican military and police may be involved--suggests some important lessons. Violence is inevitable in a prohibited business such as the drug trade. In legal businesses, no matter how profitable or large, even the most bitter disputes can be resolved nonviolently. When ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Seven teen-agers vanished into the rocky southern Utah desert after allegedly attacking and tying up two counselors during a camping trip for troubled youth. Two sets of tracks found Sunday led searchers to believe that the seven boys may have split into two groups. An eighth teen was captured Saturday. The search for the seven was called off just after midnight Sunday, with plans to resume at sunup today. Police had been using a helicopter with night-vision equipment, parasails and bloodhounds. "We have approximately 3,500 square miles of an unforgiving, hostile territory,'' said Iron ...

Under Russia's constitution, no member can be prosecuted while in office. A review of this year's Duma candidates found that 105 had been convicted of a crime; four others are wanted by police. MOSCOW--In a land where organized crime is posing one of the greatest threats to elected government, a variety of suspected criminals and thugs have discovered the best way to avoid arrest and prosecution: Win a seat in the Russian parliament. Under Russia's 6-year-old constitution, no member of parliament can be prosecuted while in office--even for crimes that have nothing to do with parliamentary affairs. "A deputy in ...

Yesterday while watching the NFL on Fox I became rather Upset with Fox playing along with the rest of the Media in the Promotion of January 1, 2000 as the beginning of the New Millenium. They are advertizing the January 1,2000 Cotton bowl as the First game of the new Millenium. Second, they ran another add, I forget for what product, with the grafics in the back of the Year 2000 up in golds lights while they talk about this years new years eve party and the NEW MILLENIUM! See what happens when you decide to use the NY Times ...

Yesterday while watching the NFL on Fox I became rather Upset with Fox playing along with the rest of the Media in the Promotion of January 1, 2000 as the beginning of the New Millenium. They are advertizing the January 1,2000 Cotton bowl as the First game of the new Millenium. Second, they ran another add, I forget for what product, with the grafics in the back of the Year 2000 up in golds lights while they talk about this years new years eve party and the NEW MILLENIUM! See what happens when you decide to use the NY Tim

(Excerpt only -- Link to article download page) Society, law and institutions: will global civil society demand a global constitution? · The United Nations is often expected to be more than it is, better than its member states, to somehow represent the spirit of world citizenry rather than the interests of powerful states. The result is often disappointment and disillusion. · The United Nations in its present state cannot be the end of the quest for global governance but an important keystone, a zone of experiment, a meeting-place for visions and an instrument through which the full arch of self-government ...

The Heisenberg Effect, the Philippines and Stratfor December 06, 1999 SUMMARY A couple of weeks ago, Stratfor forecast that Philippine President Joseph Estrada might not finish out his term. This week, the forecast was reported in the Philippines and stirred a huge controversy: Estrada accused Stratfor of being allied with his enemies, the Filipino stock market dipped and politicians debated whether or not Estrada should go. Ultimately, our analysis was quite correct and we stand by it. But the Filipino debate gives us cause to examine our role in disseminating intelligence on the Internet. Normally, Stratfor doesn't talk about ...

McCain Vows To End Gov't Waste FARMINGTON, N.H. (AP) -- Sen. John McCain said today that if elected president he would shut down the government if necessary to curb pork barrel spending by Congress. McCain, R-Ariz., said he would veto every piece of spending he could, and if Congress overrode him, he would tell the public who was behind the misuse of their tax dollars. ``I'd make them famous. I'd go on the radio the next Saturday and say, 'My fellow Americans, I think you should know Senator X has $2 million in this bill for manure-handling,''' he said today ...