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Normal 1 0 1999-12-07T13:56:00Z 1 959 5470 self 45 10 6717 9.2720 Normal 0 0 0 Subject: NSA   NSA Patent Explicity Mentions Machine Transcription In today's Indy: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Features/spies151199.shtml By Suelette Dreyfus The US National Security Agency has designed and patented a new technology that could aid it in spying on international telephone calls. The NSA patent, granted on 10 August, is for a system of automatic topic spotting and labelling of data. The patent officially confirms for the first time that the NSA has been working on ways of automatically analysing human speech.   The NSA's invention is ...

Eyeless in Seatle http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- LEAVE IT TO BILL CLINTON'S crew of masterminds at Seattle to make Pat Buchanan sound like a statesman. That television entertainer and sporadic presidential candidate is suddenly transformed into a prophet when he denounces this administration for trading with the enemy of freedom -- and on the enemy's terms. Even a blind hog will find an acorn now and then, and this time Mr. Buchanan's vitriolic rhetoric sounds like a simple recitation of the facts when he says this bunch in the White House is selling out freedom. And lots of Americans agree. Some ...

What's Going Right in Kosovo By George Robertson Tuesday, December 7, 1999; Page A31 It has become distressingly fashionable to belittle the efforts of the international community in Kosovo and to present a picture of frustration and failure. And it's true that the situation in Kosovo is not as good as any of us would like. But the acts of hatred and vengeance that still occur--albeit on a much smaller scale than before--do not represent the whole story. Only six months ago, nearly one million Kosovars were living in refugee camps. Inside Kosovo, a further 500,000 people had fled ...

An open letter to the FBI:I am pleased--no, delighted--that I have been included in your Megiddo Report. What you say about me is entirely true! You got something right for a change. I DO believe that the coming tribulation will be the greatest hardship the world has seen since the Noahic Flood.Your report portrays me as a radical...a dangerous religious nut who believes that God will harshly judge America for the corruption, evil, injustice, abomination, and the murder of millions of unborn citizens under the protection of the man's highest court. Again, your accuracy amazes me.Your agency and the people ...

In a recent article, NewsMax named some of Clinton's sex partners. Some of the names are relatively new: Marilyn Jo Jenkins Beth Coulson Robin Dickey Lencola Sullivan What do we know about these women?

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SEATTLE (AP) -- The city's police chief announced his resignation in the wake of violent, fiery protests that marred the World Trade Organization's conference here last week. Chief Norm Stamper, 54, revealed the decision in a letter given to Mayor Paul Schell over the weekend, and in an interview published in Tuesday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The chief said he decided last month that he would retire in January, but moved up the announcement because of the WTO protests. His resignation will take effect in March. "I certainly do accept full responsibility that our officers did not get all the support they ...

Meachum, go back to school With respect to Mr. Meachum's diatribe "Greedy God," I would respectfully request that Mr. Meachum go back to school and study a little history. Evidently his God is not the God of the founders of this country. Actually, his God doesn't exist. What the founders crafted by drafting the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, was a summation of political, philosophical and religious thought ... concerning the nature of humanity and the relationship of an individual's rights to other individuals and government. If Mr. Meachum would care to read Plato, Socrates, Thomas Aquinas, ...

U.S. expects N. Korea's first ICBM customer to be Iran By Steve RodanTuesday, December 7, 1999 North Korea is expected to soon present the Taepo Dong intercontinental ballistic missile for export, U.S. intelligence sources said. The first customer, the sources said, will probably be Iran. The sources said North Korea has proven able to accelerate missile development and sell technology and hardware after a minimum of tests. They said a major impetus of North Korea's missile program is to export the weapons for hard currency. North Korea has agreed to suspend a planned launch of its new Taepo Dong-2 missile, ...

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BEIJING, December 7 (Itar-Tass) - A high-level source in the Russian delegation, who made preparations for Russian President Boris Yeltsin's trip to the capital of the People's Republic of China (PRC), told Itar-Tass on Tuesday that, following an informal meeting between President Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin, Chairman of the PRC, opening here on December 9, Russia and China intend to act jointly in the efforts to ensure security and stability in the world. The source emphasised that "the leaders of Russia and China are brought together by an exceptionally warm personal relationship". The source drew attention to the fact that ...

Watching the debates last night, I reached the conclusion that Bush has already offered the VP spot to McCain for 2000. I was suspicious in the previous debate but last night confirmed my thinking. They did everything except crawl down behind the stage and engage in a disgusting act! Their questions to each other were nothing but self-serving validations! I don't care if this is their intentions but believe it to be disengenious if it is being done in secrecy.

When it comes to health benefits, legally recognized marriage trumps same-sex unions at the newly formed Exxon Mobil Corporation. The newly merged oil company Monday said it will continue to follow Exxon's long-standing policy of extending spousal benefits only to couples who are legally married. It will also continue extending benefits to same-sex partners of Mobil employees who were receiving those benefits before the merger. But spokesman Ed Burwell said partners of new homosexual employees will not get those benefits. Burwell said the company uses legally recognized marriage as the standard because it "ends the need for the company to, ...

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to lend her name to a dinner next month for Americans for Peace Now, a group that "has long functioned as the PLO's amen corner in the United States," journalist Evan Gahr reports. "Longtime advocates of a Palestinian state, Americans for Peace Now more recently opposed the 1995 American law to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. And in a fund-raising letter this year they even railed against the 'Judaization of Jerusalem,' -- a term redolent of Arab hate literature," Mr. Gahr said. "Americans for Peace Now, for its part, seems to want to ...

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Clinton Legacy Watch # 44 : A Lot is 'Going South' South of the Border (Washington, D.C.): "What the President meant to say is...." Any seasoned bureaucrat has had to employ a variation on this theme from time to time. Usually, the reason is because the occupant of the Oval Office has misspoken in some minor way, deviating unintentionally from the government's chosen line on a point of policy. Who Will Be 'Running the Canal'? Rarely -- if ever -- however, have all the President's flacks and all the President's bureaucrats had such a monumental challenge as the Clinton spinmeisters ...

American voters, from corporate chief executives to the nation's poor, are approaching next year's elections with "a deep ambivalence" that is coloring their view of candidates and their own concerns. So said Benjamin Barber, a political author and presidential adviser, as he took a break Saturday from a one-day conference on democracy. Barber - who has talked with several of the GOP and Democratic presidential candidates - also heads Rutgers University's Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy. "I think we are divided within ourselves," Barber said. Americans are enjoying the prosperous economy, the low unemployment rate ...

Some of the Army's leading authors are crying "censorship" over the chief of Armor's decision to call the latest issue of Armor magazine back from the printers and cut large portions from an article that is sharply critical of Army policy. Maj. Gen. B.B. Bell, who as commandant of the Armor Center and School, Fort Knox, Ky., serves as publisher of Armor, said he was only trying to refine what he called "a provocative and very appropriate article" when he took his red pen to the piece. But Bell's critics said his actions risked damaging the magazine's credibility and might ...

Illegals Seek Out Communities with Public Hospitals/Healthcare Following a conversation recently with an illegal alien I know well, he and his wife told us that they returned from Memphis to our town because they needed to be where the public hospital and the doctor they've been using are located for the impending birth of their second child. Although they still had access in Memphis to a public hospital and a doctor, they were told they need to use the Tenncare provider they've been using in our town (some smart medical staffer managed to pass the cost along to our community ...

Just a quick vanity to salute veterans on the anniversary of the "day of infamy." I offer my humble gratitude for a job well done.