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The world has turned upside down and inside out. I don't know if I have ever been more confused than I am today. Somewhere, in all this mess of a life we have created for our children, we have lost integrity. Everyone has ulterior motives, and no one is brave enough to say exactly what they think because it might make someone mad, or hurt someone. I say, so what. I say it is time to start taking responsibility for your own actions and quit treating the sympton and start treating the cause. The cause of all of our problems ...

For decades, American soldiers have been taught that, if taken captive, they should provide just their "name, rank and serial number." But in the Internet age, disclosing even that minimal amount of information turns out to be dangerous. The U.S. Secret Service is leading an investigation of a sprawling fraud case in which someone applied for and obtained hundreds of credit cards in the names of top U.S. military officers, including more than 75 generals and admirals. The cards were then used to obtain cash. Among those who have been officially informed that attempts were made to have cards issued ...

  McCain's ties with Vietnam Special US report by Ted Sampley No. 143,   29 Nov. - 5 Dec. 1999 John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona and former Navy pilot, has emerged as the leading advocate for normalizing relations with the same government that has repeatedly lied about torturing and killing U.S. soldiers who were captured during the Vietnam War. McCain's high-profile and unrelenting support for a government that brutally tortured and murdered his fellow POWs is causing POW/MIA family members and fellow Vietnam veterans to question the senator and his motivations. They ask what drives McCain, who ...

SUPPRESSION OF CHRISTMAS IS OPPRESSION OF CHRISTIANS This year, in many schools, there will be no Christmas. No Santas, no Rudolphs, no Christmas trees or dancing snowmen. Certainly no Wise Men or Nativities or baby Jesuses. No parties, no cards, no nothing. Christmas is banned. Both as a cultural and as a religious holiday, it is going out of style, looked down upon by the thought police. Seen somehow as a vestige of the old days when Neanderthals were in charge, before the days of social enlightenment. The swirling you hear is the sound of traditional American culture being flushed ...

WASHINGTON –– President Clinton misses Al Gore. Clinton was asked at a new conference Wednesday if Gore's presidential campaign and subsequently diminished role as vice president had hampered his administration's goals. He said Gore was indeed spending less time at the White House during the campaign. "Obviously he's not around as much," Clinton said. "We don't have lunch every week, and I miss that terribly." But he said Gore remains an important adviser on many issues. Just what advice Gore has been giving is unclear – the vice president is trying to get out from the shadow of the administration ...

The Republican Presidential debate Dec. 2 gave Steve Forbes a strong push, while candidates George W. Bush and John McCain appear to have lost a little ground among likely Republican voters in New Hampshire, according to a Newsweek poll conducted Dec. 2 and 3 by Princeton Research Associates. On Dec. 2, Forbes was favored by 9 percent of the likely Republican voters, and on Dec. 3, the day after the debate, Forbes was up to 17 percent. His overall rating for both days was 13 percent. On Dec. 2, Bush had 39 percent of the likely voters; on Dec. ...

Campaignwatch has just posted another anti-Keyes post and I counted 67 replies.67 too many.We are about to embark on a new voyage into the future here in FR., and I propose a solution to disruptors.Read their post and then ignore it. Let all of like-mindedness reply all they want, they will be identifying themselves, but we shouldn't even reply to the disruptor. When we come across these provocative threads and see no replies, we know that it is a disruptor thread and not something to consider.The reason I suggest this tactic is because I rely a lot on some of ...

ATLANTA -- Agreeing to turn plowshares into swords, so to speak, the Tennessee Valley Authority directors Wednesday voted to approve a contract to manufacture a key component for atomic bombs at the Watts Bar nuclear power plant in southwest Tennessee. It will be the first time in U.S. history that a commercial reactor will be used to produce material for nuclear bombs. Tritium, the ``H'' in H-bombs, is ahydrogen isotope that greatly enhances the explosive power of bombs. TVA officials defended their agreement to provide the material to the U.S. Department of Energy as nothing more than a continuation ...

Just at this moment, somehow or other, they began to run. Alice never could make it out, in thinking it over afterward, how it was that they began . . . and the Queen kept crying, "Faster! Faster . . . . "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. "If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" — "Through the Looking Glass" "Be what you would seem to be or — if you'd like to put it more simply ...

Tonight on TVLand we got to relive a bit of our precious childhoods, as some of the longtime actors from Sesame Street gave us a glimpse behind the lens through which we've looked for the past 30 years. "Sesame Street Unpaved" was a refreshing step back, to a time when the most critical thing in my life had nothing to do with politics or government, but had everything to do with cookies. As Chris Matthews and Bill O'Reilly and whoever the CNN propaganda minister was for that hour, I took a break, and actually enjoyed an hour of television, in ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain denied Wednesday that donations from telecommunications executives influenced legislation he introduced that would strip the Federal Communication Commission of its power to approve telecom mergers. "The position that I took was long before I received the contributions. That's a fact,'' said the Arizona senator, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the communications industry. The legislation introduced May 26 and the contributions actually were close together. But the McCain campaign Wednesday night produced a telecom-magazine article from five months earlier showing that McCain was promoting a draft bill ...

POP SINGER MAKIHARA GIVEN SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR DRUG CHARGE Japan Times, 9 December 1999Popular singer-songwriter Noriyuki Makihara was sentenced Wednesday to a suspended 18-month prison term for possessing amphetamines at his Tokyo home. The Tokyo District Court found Makihara, 30, guilty for violating the Stimulant Drugs Control Law, but suspended his sentence for three years. He was arrested after the drugs were found at his home in August, and prosecutors had sought an 18-month sentence. Makihara pleaded guilty at his first trial hearing last month, saying he used the drugs because at times he could not tolerate a life surrounded ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A jury hearing a lawsuit filed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family found Wednesday that the civil rights leader was the victim of a vast murder conspiracy, not a lone assassin. The King family had sued Loyd Jowers, a retired businessman who claimed six years ago that he paid someone other than James Earl Ray to kill King in Memphis in 1968. The family's lawyer claimed that the FBI, CIA, the Mafia and the military were involved. The family wanted the jury to find evidence of a conspiracy and lend support to their call ...

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PRESS RELEASE: Paul Questions Implications of Canal Turnover Return to the Press Release directory Project FREEDOM Opening Page FOR RELEASE: December 7, 1999 Paul Questions Implications of Canal Turnover WASHINGTON, DC - With the end of the year quickly approaching, Congressman Ron Paul is expressing serious concern over the transfer of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian government. Questioning the validity of the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty, Paul is concerned about what the transfer will mean to US national security and commercial interests. "I opposed the ambiguous Panama Canal Treaties during my first terms in Congress," Paul said, "and I ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton was blindsided Wednesday when asked why none of his top White House aides were people of color. The president was visibly taken aback at a news conference when a reporter asked why seven key White House jobs had never been held by minorities during his administration and immediately challenged the questioner. "I disagree with that. What are they?," Clinton said. The reporter named the jobs as chief of staff, national security adviser, press secretary, counsel, domestic policy adviser, economic adviser and senior adviser/counselor. The president appeared to be flummoxed by the question, saying he had ...

N E W Y O R K, Dec. 8 — First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has finally made a date to call on controversial black civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton, ABCNEWS has learned. After months of avoiding one another, Mrs. Clinton will accept an invitiation to visit the Harlem headquarters of Sharpton’s National Action Network on Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 17, to discuss her Senate race, sources close to the first lady said. Sharpton skipped the first lady’s Nov. 30 breakfast meeting with other prominent black clergy in New York City, saying Mrs. Clinton should have showed ...

Last year, as Iowa voters were preparing to elect a United States senator and an assortment of state and local officials, the Steve Forbes organization flooded the state with money for a lucky bunch of Republican statehouse candidates in order to gain their support. Joe Sexton of Rockwell City, who heads Farmers for Bush, received $1,000. In Cedar Rapids, Ron Corbett got $5,000 from Forbes, even though he was a Lamar Alexander supporter. David Miller of Libertyville got a $1,000 check -- "with no questions, no strings attached," Miller said. Such is the Midas touch of Forbes, a publishing executive ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. DULUTH, Ga. (AP) -- Farm equipment manufacturer Agco Corp. plans to close its plants in Coldwater, Ohio, and Lockney, Texas, citing a decline in demand agricultural tools and rising production costs. The Coldwater factory, which made planters, hay tools, spreaders, tractors and loaders, quit production Oct. 1. The company said Wednesday the plant, which still has 100 employees, will be closed completely by April 1. Production will be relocated to plants in Hesston, Kan. and Beauvais, France, as well as a Soo Tractor Co. plant in Sioux City, Iowa that ...