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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 81999                 WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS 'Dirty' war in Panama Congressional investigators say China to wreak havoc in Central America By Charles Smith © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Amid widespread concerns and administration denials following President Clinton's surprise admission that Communist China soon will be "running the (Panama) Canal," a previously unreported secret congressional investigation reveals that America will soon face a new "dirty" war in Panama involving China, Cuba and Russia. Speaking on the imminent transfer of the canal to the government of Panama, per the controversial 1978 Carter-Torrijos treaties, Clinton ...

White House Joins Suit on Gun Cos. By Anne Gearan Associated Press Writer Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1999; 8:54 p.m. EST WASHINGTON –– The White House is helping prepare a class-action suit against gun makers, alleging that guns and how they are marketed have contributed to violence in public housing projects, administration officials said Tuesday. The class-action lawsuit by some or all of the nation's 3,100 local housing authorities would be patterned on suits filed against the industry by 29 cities and counties, the officials said. Those suits claim that gun manufacturers have sold defective products or marketed them in ...

Washington, Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. labor unions, ``energized'' by their part in thwarting World Trade Organization talks in Seattle, are promising an all-out drive to block a U.S. accord clearing the way for China to join the WTO. ``We are planning a very vocal and very energetic'' campaign to oppose the agreement, said Thea Lee, trade policy director of the AFL-CIO union federation. That agreement, reached last month, is expected to come up for a congressional vote next year. Some U.S. Congress members, especially Democrats, say a full- throttle union campaign could make it difficult for them to vote ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio (CWNews.com) - A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit challenging the designation of Christmas as a federal holiday, saying the day is celebrated by non-Christians and Christians alike. US District Judge Susan Dlott said that while Christians mark the day to celebrate the birth of Christ, non-Christians still observe the day for gift-giving and family gatherings. Therefore, she said, Christmas cannot be regarded as a holiday that establishes one religious faith above all others in violation of the US Constitution's First Amendment. Richard Ganulin, 48, a lawyer who filed the lawsuit, said he would appeal ...

NASHVILLE- As part of his "Campaign" to reach out to students and teachers alike, Al Gore will play the lead in the Jefferson Davis High School production of Great Expectations. Seen here directing rehearsal, Gore is also the author of the play, which he admits is a modern story based loosely on Charles Dickens' classic novel. It is a unique sexual tale of a boy's passage into manhood. The play provides a contemporary look at life's great ironies. In Cottonopolis, a small Tennessee town, eight-year-old Alfinn Gore lives with his sister and his "Uncle" Joe. They are very poor, but ...

Ok, folks. Here are the details concerning this Saturday, December 11, 1999 protest in Orlando. TIME: The "official time" is 9:00am - ?. This is what is on the Sexual Predator Alert flyers. Any Freepers who can get there earlier are meeting at the "Crossroads" shopping center at 8:00am. The schedule says Clinton will speak at 10:00am (of course, he is always late!) and Gore is scheduled for 2:00pm. PROTEST SITE: Wyndham Palace and Spa 1900 N. Buena Vista Drive Lake Buena Vista, FL FREEPER MEETING PLACE: The Crossroads Shopping Center. From exit 27 on I-4, go North on State ...

Japan, which will experience the new year 14 hours before the United States, is determined to take no Y2K chances. But chances of what? Here are its plans, according to Agence France-Presse: • Deploy 96,000 members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces on Dec. 31, 1999, through Jan. 1, 2000. That's 12,000 more than usual for a normal New Year's Day in Japan, but officials were vague as to exactly what all those soldiers will be doing. • Among their number will be some special chemical units, assigned to cope with nuclear incidents. The Japanese are especially edgy since 69 people ...

Wednesday December 8 1:33 PM ET China Said Putting Second Missile Base Near Taiwan China Said Putting Second Missile Base Near Taiwan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report said China is building a second short-range missile base near Taiwan that would allow it to target the island's main military bases, The Washington Times reported on Wednesday.The latest Chinese missile site discovered by U.S. intelligence was at Xianyou, about 135 miles from Taiwan, and is nearly complete to house a force of short-range missiles, the newspaper said.The Washington Times also first reported in November that U.S. spy satellites ...

| | | | WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8 1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ammo ban forced on Texas distributor Overreaction to mass murder at Ft. Worth church? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Jon E. Dougherty © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com The Ft. Worth Fire Department has issued a citation to a national military surplus distributor after prohibiting the company from stocking bulk amounts of small arms ammunition -- even though city fire codes actually allow it. In a Nov. 18 letter, Asst. Fire Marshall Chief Paul Rider told Michael Tenny, CEO of Cheaper Than Dirt, Inc., a Ft. Worth-based company that sells ammunition and military surplus gear ...

Science Fetishism Dietrich von Hildebrand From Trojan Horse in the City of God In our time the natural sciences and their methods have increasingly become a pattern for all knowledge. Even such attributes as objective, critical, serious, reliable and sober are more or less identified with scientific, and the notion of the scientific is thought of a more or less exclusively in terms of the natural sciences. The result has been that the systematic study of any topic has been more and more dominated by the attempt to achieve the kind of objectification and neutralization that takes place in ...

You know, It's really very disheartening to read the news today. Everywhere I look, I see kids killing kids, mothers killing their unborn, and politicians stealing from their constituents. The homosexuals have become a protected species and the courts have declared "open season" on Christians and public demonstrations of faith. To agree with the Bible today labels one as "narrow minded", "extremist", "radical", "judgmental", & "intolerant". The mainstream news media only exacerbates our depravity by painting our corrupt politicians with a "righteous" brush, completely ignoring the ones that speak the truth. All the while the American public for the most ...

FWRDED by Freeman center. www.freeman.org NB: There are other, higher estimates of the number of Iraq's retained SCUD missiles than the nine cited here. For example, after Gen. Wafiq Samarrai, head of Iraqi military intelligence during the Gulf war, defected in late 1994, he told the London Sunday Times that Iraq had at least 80 SCUD and al-Hussein missiles (LST, Feb 19, 1995) As posted at: http://www.wisconsinproject.org DEPT. OF MASS DESTRUCTION: Saddam's nuclear shopping spree. by Gary Milhollin The New Yorker The Talk of the Town December 3, 1999, p. 44. Ever since the United Nations weapons inspectors were shut ...

MEDIUM RARE by Jim Rarey December 8, 1999 CAN KEYES WIN? YES, BUT…. If the reaction on the internet to the candidacy of Allan Keyes were representative of his national standing, he would be a shoo-in for the Republican nomination for president and a formidable candidate in next November’s general election. Unfortunately, it is not. Unquestionably, a great many of those who are exposed directly to Keyes and his positions become fans. The problem is that a relatively small minority of the public has actually heard Allan Keyes speak. What little coverage Keyes has gotten in the mass media is ...

Wednesday December 8 1:21 AM ET McCain Vows to Cut 'Cold War' Weapons Systems McCain Vows to Cut 'Cold War' Weapons Systems Reuters Photo By Leslie GevirtzCONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) - Arizona Sen. John McCain, a war hero running for the Republican presidential nomination, used a Pearl Harbor Day speech on Tuesday to vow that, if elected, he would cut expensive weapons systems and spend more money on better trained and higher paid military personnel.In a luncheon address to a civic group on Tuesday, McCain chided both the Republican-controlled Congress and Democratic President Clinton for misdirecting ``scarce defense dollars'' to fund ...

Enter Stage Right - A Journal of Modern Conservatism The '68 boom and all that By Gerard Jackson First the good news. That some commentators have compared the economic similarities of the '60s with those of the '90s is a welcome attempt to use history as a means to inject some substance into the present economic debate. The bad news is that these commentators got it wrong. And once again I blame Keynesianism for their errors. They point out that more Americans than ever held stocks in '68; that the worst value stocks seemed to be the best-performing ones; that ...

Sen. Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.) is quietly conducting a special Senate Judiciary subcommittee probe of the Justice Department's handling of the siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tax., on April 19, 1993. But if Specter wants to get at the whole truth about Waco, he cannot stop at the Justice Department. He must trace the political chain of command for this tragedy right back to where the buck is supposed to stop--the Oval Office. Feeral Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who were at Waco say they were following orders from Washington, D.C. On that crucial day of April 19, ...

Gore Refuses No-New-Taxes Pledge By SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- After trying to box his opponent into a corner on taxes, Vice President Al Gore today refused to make an unequivocal no-new-taxes pledge, saying, ``Nobody has a crystal ball.'' Gore staged for television news cameras a stop at Washington's Cyberstop Cafe in order to send an e-mail questioning Democratic presidential opponent Bill Bradley on Medicare. The vice president was asked by a reporter if he was willing now to pledge no tax increases even if, under a Gore presidency, federal budget surplus projections fail to materialize and ...

WASHINGTON -- Two Bay Area Democratic members of Congress and another House colleague on Tuesday endorsed former Sen. Bill Bradley for their party's presidential nomination over Vice President Al Gore. Reps. Pete Stark of Fremont, George Miller of Concord and Jim McDermott of Washington state said they were backing Bradley because of his vision for the United States and willingness to address major issues facing the country, such as health care. ``Bill Bradley has put forth a big solution to one of the biggest problems facing Americans today, 44 million uninsured Americans,'' said Stark, a 14-term House veteran and ...

Trooper: Partial truth helps FBI By SARAH HUNTLEY of The Tampa Tribune -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TAMPA - A state trooper testifies he and other officers try to protect federal agents by misleading state judges. Florida Highway Patrol troopers have intentionally misled state judges by routinely telling them partial stories and filing incomplete reports in federal drug cases, according to a trooper's testimony Tuesday. Members of the highway patrol's elite drug interdiction teams do that to conceal the involvement of the FBI in traffic-related drug arrests, said Trooper Douglas Strickland. The goal, he said, is to protect undercover agents andal informants. But defense ...

Taiwan Discusses Missile Development By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press Writer TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan needs long-range missiles that can discourage an attack on the island, the vice president said Wednesday in a rare call for a weapon capable of hitting China. Taiwan has said the weapons it buys from the United States and other nations would be used to protect the island, not to strike the Chinese mainland. But Vice President Lien Chan's endorsement of a long-range missile was one of the most high-profile calls yet for a missile that could reach China. ``To make a foe afraid to ...