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2330 GMT, 991209 – Iranian Deal May Entice Caspian Oil Away From Turkish Pipeline Iran’s Oil Ministry will provide its Central Asian oil swap partners, Turkmenistan and Kazakstan, with a 30 percent cut in oil swap rates, the Iran Daily reported on Dec. 9. The swap plan is an effective economic and political policy tool for Iran, which allows Iran to effectively undermine U.S. sanctions. The plan makes Iran a more attractive outlet for Central Asian oil than the proposed Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, which will lead U.S. corporations to clamor to be allowed to invest in Iranian infrastructure. Iran’s Oil Minister, ...

After doing such a magnificent job in singing and cutting me a tape of a song I wrote for my daughter's wedding, I got approval from gonzo today for a FReeper fundraiser. Some of you know that his voice is outstanding and that he is not shy about performing. I am not shy about writing. Here's the deal. We will colloborate on an effort, or several efforts, to help raise some money for FR. If any of you need a special song to an existing tune, we will do it. I'll write it and Barry will sing and record it. ...

MIDI - WHITE RABBIT (a little tricky to know when to start - it's at about 33 seconds) One should have some gonads…the other, ovaries That is how children are created…that is the way it’s meant to be Things unnatural…are what we often see We are watching all our culture, slowly sinking in the tank As perversion keeps progressing, it’s the liberals we can thank They’ll destroy us…yes, take that to the bank They are raising their voices and they have told us they have rights On destruction of what is decent is where they have set their sights ...

POLITICS: Democrats Elated Over Recruitment Coups in California By Juliet Eilperin Sunday, December 12, 1999; Page A24 Democrats are thrilled with two recent recruiting coups out in California that materialized shortly before Friday's filing deadline: former representative Jane Harman (D), who will try to reclaim her old seat from freshman GOP Rep. Steve Kuykendall, and Democratic state assemblyman Mike Honda, who will take on GOP assemblyman Jim Cunneen for the seat vacated by Rep. Tom Campbell (R). Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee executive director David Plouffe said the party waged a "full court press" to enlist Harman and Honda. Democrats had ...

A Seattle Primer: How Not to Hold WTO Talks By Robert G. Kaiser and John Burgess Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, December 12, 1999; Page A40 Late on the final afternoon of the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle, with hope for an agreement slipping away, chief American trade negotiator Charlene Barshefsky asked her Canadian counterpart, Pierre Pettigrew, to take the chair so she could call the White House. As he agreed to run the meeting, Pettigrew recalled later, a colleague said: "Well, you may be like the orchestra conductor on board the Titanic." Just eight days before, Barshefsky had ...

Gore Courts South For Help in March: Democrat Makes Case to Blacks, Seniors By Ceci Connolly Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 12, 1999; Page A20 ORLANDO, Dec. 11—Looking beyond the early presidential contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, Vice President Gore visited the South today to offer himself as the Democrat better suited to win the region's blacks, senior citizens and environmentalists. Careful not to mention Bill Bradley by name--except to cheer his rival's speedy recovery from an irregular heartbeat--Gore nevertheless made clear he intends to knock Bradley out of the nomination fight in the series of southern contests ...

Warning Issued for Americans Abroad State Department Cites 'Credible Information' Of Possible Attacks By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, December 12, 1999; Page A01 The U.S. government yesterday warned all Americans traveling or living abroad to take extra security precautions from now through the first week in January because intelligence officials have obtained "credible information" that terrorists are planning attacks "specifically targeting American citizens." The global caution, issued by the State Department less than three weeks before people around the world ring in the new millennium, said the intelligence information "indicates that attacks could be planned for locations ...

Globalism Watch Issue #1.................................................................................................... December 12,1999 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helle Bering of The Washington Times in a column published Dec. 8 wrote: "...That’s just brilliant. They are proud of being part of a movement that wants to wreck the most important engine of economic growth, prosperity and overall global rising living standards we have — the freedom of trade and movement of people and goods between nations..." Movement of people? Interesting choice of words. I think she knows very well, as does the so-called 'conservative' newspaper that the WTO has little to do with free trade. The book I keep referring to ...

BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 11 – Louisiana Republicans' plans for a first-in-the-nation presidential caucus Jan. 15 were scrapped today by a state central committee dominated by the forces of Gov. Mike Foster. Party Chairman Mike Francis said a motion by Foster's allies to do away with the caucus was out of order, but the committee overruled the chairman 92 to 77. The committee decided to choose its 29 delegates during the presidential primary next March. Francis, backed by a Christian right wing that controlled the committee for more than eight years, managed to conduct a caucus four years ago that ...

"Don't call it a war room or a bunker," a White House source pleaded. "We are on the top floor of an office building, for Christ's sake." Call it what you will, the Information Coordination Center (ICC) set up by the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion at 1800 G Street, three blocks from the White House, is ready. Representatives of the Internet, telecommunications, airline, electric power, financial service, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and retail industries, as well as military and security operatives, will all be at the facility while the rest of us are celebrating the dawn of the ...

December 12, 1999 A SPECIAL REPORT: Clinton's Top Fund-Raiser Made a Pile for Himself, Too By JEFF GERTH WASHINGTON -- On a sweltering June evening this year President Clinton headlined yet another Democratic Party fund-raiser, but this time the guest of honor was Terry McAuliffe, Mr. Clinton's closest and most loyal Washington friend as well as his tireless money man. Shedding his prepared remarks, the president said, "I love this guy." It is easy to understand why. The ebullient McAuliffe says he and his staff have raised about $275 million, an unprecedented sum, for Clinton's causes: election campaigns, the 1997 ...

WASHINGTON -- On a sweltering June evening this year President Clinton headlined yet another Democratic Party fund-raiser, but this time the guest of honor was Terry McAuliffe, Mr. Clinton's closest and most loyal Washington friend as well as his tireless money man. Shedding his prepared remarks, the president said, "I love this guy." It is easy to understand why. The ebullient McAuliffe says he and his staff have raised about $275 million, an unprecedented sum, for Clinton's causes: election campaigns, the 1997 inaugural celebration, a legal defense trust, the millennium festivities, the presidential library and Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate ...

PRESIDENT Clinton and his Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, are to boycott the ceremonial handover of the Panama Canal on Tuesday amid American concern that the deal is handing influence over the strategic waterway to China. Some Republicans say the handover could provoke a repeat of the Cuban missile crisis - this time involving Beijing. The United States will be represented at the ceremony by the former President Jimmy Carter, who signed the 1977 treaty that is now ending US administration of the canal and returning it to Panama's government. American critics of the handover are alarmed that Hutchison Whampoa, ...

It started off as a simple request for donations and support. It turned into a five-day marathon fundraiser, consuming 12 threads and more than 2,000 posts. It brought out the best in every single person who participated, most of whom had never met. It honored a man who had an idea, who turned it into a reality, who gave it to the world. In deepest gratitude and respect, this group of people dug deep and gave from their hearts. This man is Jim Robinson.

To all: The issue of money is at the heart of all our problems. It began in 1913, and then when FDR plunderd the gold reserves and declared the FED the source of all money. He begat a system that exists to this day. The fact is that fiat money is not money. See Edwin Vieira, Jr. for details. It all has to do with a very simple concept of frational reserves. When the people grew used to redeeming their FRN's in gold the "bankers" realised an opportunity to get the people to keep their gold in the banks. Then ...

The Family That Preys Together by Jack Colhoun GEORGE JR.'S[George W.] BCCI CONNECTION "This is an incredible deal, unbelievable for this small company," energy analyst Charles Strain told Forbes magazine, describing the oil production sharing agreement the Harken Energy Corporation signed in January 1990 with Bahrain. Under the terms of the deal, Harken was given the exclusive right to explore for gas and oil off the shores of the Gulf island nation. If gas or oil were found in waters near two of the world's largest gas and oil fields, Harken would have exclusive marketing and transportation rights for the ...

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A day after indicting Los Alamos scientist Weh Ho Lee, senior government officials tell the NEW YORK TIMES on Sunday that Lee "jeopardized virtually every nuclear warhead in the American arsenal through unauthorized computer transfers of many of the country's most sensitive nuclear secrets." TIMES hotshot James Risen reports that much of the data is still missing -- vital information that Lee put on 10 portable computer disks from 1993 to 1997. Only 3 of these disks have so far been recovered! On the disks, Risen writes, "were thousands of pages of nuclear-related documents." In 1997 Lee placed on ...

NORTHRIDGE-- California State University, Northridge, students hosted about 50 high school students Friday to teach them about financial aid, scholarships and campus life. A handful, including Shantel Peart and Obinna Ihesiaba, had personal stories to share. They face expulsion for failure to pass remedial classes and had a fine line to Walk while schooling their younger counterparts. They had to tell students from David Starr Jordan High School in Watts about the balance between rigors and rewards of college life while not turning them off to higher education. And they had to sell Cal State to students while putting aside ...

The Third Way was my idea, says Gaddafi ISSUE 1661Sunday 12 December 1999 The Third Way was my idea, says GaddafiBy Philip Jacobson    The Third Way Debate Summary - Nexus Online  Col. Gadaffi and Libyan Government: Information and Links - Libya Resources  Muammar Gaddafi - Encyclopedia of the Orient  The Green Book   The Labour Party  Libya- AfricaNet  MUAMMAR GADDAFI, the maverick Libyan leader who sees himself as one of the world's great philosophers, last week was credited by his acolytes with another notable feat - inventing Tony Blair's political credo. The London bureau of the Jana state ...