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States' rights group demonstrates in support of Nevada ranchers whose cattle were seizedFALLON, Nev. (AP) About 50 ranchers and states' rights activists picketed a livestock auction yard Tuesday, protesting the federal government's seizure of cattle from two ranchers accused of trespassing on public lands. "As far as I am concerned, the government is stealing their cattle," said Varlin Higbee, a fifth-generation rancher who traveled nearly 300 miles to join the protest. Last week, the Bureau of Land Management confiscated nearly 200 cattle from Ben Colvin and Jack Vogt in south-central Nevada in a dispute that dates to 1995. Bureau officials ...

  MIAMI (Reuters) - A small plane flown by a novice pilot was stolen from a flight school in the Florida Keys on Tuesday and has landed in Cuba, authorities said. The manager of Paradise Aviation in Marathon said the pilot, a man in his early 30s, was on his first solo flight, Fox affiliate WSVN Channel 7 reported. The manager, Brian Hanson, said the pilot was taking instruction from the company. He was supposed to go once around the perimeter of Marathon airport then bring the Cessna 172 into land. "He came round and got within a hundred ...

JEWISH leaders reacted with alarm last night to the decision by a High Court judge to allow the black Islamic firebrand Louis Farrakhan into Britain. Mr Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, won a stunning legal victory when a 15-year ban maintained by successive Home Secretaries was overturned. The Government also expressed its dismay amid fears that the visit could threaten racial harmony and spark public disorder. Sources said they believed that when he arrives, he is likely to be shadowed by members of the Jewish community and closely monitored. Mr Farrakhan, 68, who is suffering from ...

Remember when Gov. Gray Davis refused to release details of $43 billion worth of power contracts? What was he hiding? News organizations sued for release of the information and a judge agreed it should become public. Now we know that nearly half of the $43 billion in long-term energy pacts will come from Calpine Corp. According to the California Independent System Operator, which runs the state's wholesale power market, Calpine overcharged the state by $236 million for power sold between May 2000 and February 2001. Some of the Calpine contracts were signed in February 2001, but Davis stalled release of ...

To the point, the so-called Earth Liberation Front is an international terrorist group and their main mouthpiece out of California's Berkley University of Socialism is a terrorist group leader. The E.L.F. has engaged in acts of terrorism against the people of the United States, they have destroyed college facilities, eradicated years of dedicated scientific work, and promoted terrorist tactics all in the sick name of mother Earth. It's time to crack down on the E.L.F by arresting their leaders at Berkley and making future acts of terrorism a risky and life losing venture. I strongly believe in the "Castle Law" ...

I'm posting this topic in an effort to gain insight into the scope of the illegal immigration problem in your area. That being so, how big of a problem is it? What areas have been the most effected, which haven't? How much of a problem has illegal immigration had on the economy in your area. How much of a problem has illegal immigration had on the social system in your area? How about the problems on the schools, business, etc?

Apparently, there are subjects The New York Times will issue Democratic National Committee press releases—excuse me, editorials—on besides campaign finance reform, global warming, the Florida recount and the stupidity of President Bush’s tax cut. Today, for example, the Timescelebrated Bill Clinton’s “second launch of his ex-presidency” with a jubilant piece headlined “Mr. Clinton’s Harlem Renaissance.” Clinton’s memorable exit from the White House in January—the inexcusable pardons, pilfered furniture, etc.—is referred to by the Times as merely a “faulty start.” The paper has moved on. Ignoring the obvious, that Clinton’s Harlem headquarters are just another shrewd face-saving ruse, and that he’ll ...

Cops tap database to harass, intimidate Misuse among police frequent, say some, but punishments rare July 31, 2001 First of two parts. BY M. L. ELRICK FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Police throughout Michigan, entrusted with the personal and confidential information in a state law enforcement database, have used it to stalk women, threaten motorists and settle scores. Over the past five years, more than 90 Michigan police officers, dispatchers, federal agents and security guards have abused the Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN), according to a Free Press examination of hundreds of pages of LEIN records and police reports. In many ...

Ever since they came to Washington, Bush-administration appointees from the corporate world have been scrutinized intensely by the media for potential conflicts of interests involving their stocks. After Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill received a barrage of media criticism for deciding to keep his holdings in Alcoa Corp., where he had been chairman and CEO, O'Neill reversed himself and recently sold off his $100 million in Alcoa stock and options. All of the Bush administration's other top officials who were corporate executives — from Commerce Secretary Don Evans to Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels to Vice President Dick ...

Tuesday, July 31 10:48 PM SGT Code Red computer virus hits Switzerland BERNE: July 31 (AFP) - The "Code Red" computer virus which affected thousands of computer users in the United States in July has now reached Switzerland, hitting numerous well-known companies, a government spokesman said on Tuesday. Claudio Frigerio from the Federal Office of Information and Telecommunications told AFP at least 10 webservers and their homepages had been infected. Frigerio said the virus had attacked Internet addresses using the suffix ".ch". He said the virus also tried to infiltrate the Swiss government's system but did little damage because an ...

If there was any doubt that there was a well-coordinated and full-scale assault on Commissioner Mary Gall's nomination as chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), it was erased during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on July 25. During that hearing Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.), in a vicious but ultimately lame attack upon Commissioner Gall, used a quote leaked to her from a closed CPSC meeting. Boxer's leaked information, from a meeting about a compliance action Gall ultimately voted for, was of a piece with a press conference held the previous day, complete with parents ...

Wednesday, August 1 6:55 AM SGT Members of US Congress sharply divided over UN race conferenceWASHINGTON, July 31 (AFP) - The trenchant debate over a UN-sponsored conference on racism became even more volatile Tuesday, as divided members of the US Congress by turns praised and lambasted the White House for its announced possible boycott of the event. The United States on Friday threatened to stay away from the conference if the agenda includes talk of reparations for slavery and colonialism or a measure equating Zionism with racism. But some members of Congress -- including those in the Congressional Black ...

In 1950, the U.S. military was kind of like Gary Cooper in "High Noon": surrounded by bad guys, outgunned and not at all up for a shootout. The Soviet Union was making ugly noises all along the Iron Curtain; Yugoslavia's Tito was threatening to take Trieste; Red China scarfed up Tibet. Then North Korea slashed south with a powerful army, smashing everything that stood in its way. Our armed forces were at less than quarter strength of what they'd been just four years before, when we took out Hitler and Tojo. From Harry Truman down, leadership had bought into a ...

Water is flowing through the Link River Dam at an increased rate, and that has prompted some people to place irate phone calls to U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials in charge of the Klamath Project demanding to know what’s going on. The answer is simple. The Department of Interior declared that up to 75,000 acre-feet of water stored in Upper Klamath Lake could be diverted to Project farmers, and that’s where the water is going, said Jim Bryant, chief of land and water operations for the Project. The flow below the dam is “incredibly high, but it didn’t come ...

BEIJING - Only 70 per cent of Chinese-made condoms are up to standard, a recent survey has shown, with many failing strength tests, the state press reported yesterday. The survey, carried out by the State Quality Inspection Bureau during the first half of the year in Beijing and Zhengzhou, found that only 35 of the 50 surveyed condom brands, manufactured by 23 companies, were up to standard, the People's Daily said. Of the 26 types of condoms made by China's six leading state-owned companies, only 18 made the grade, it said. The survey also found that many manufacturers were selling ...

Just saw a short segment on Fox about a fire in Washington State that took the lives of 4 Okanogan firefighters--it seems that when the fire began it was small and manageable--the firefighters asked for helicopters to bring in water from the nearby river and help put it out--but--consideration was given to the various fish in the lake that might get caught in the buckets--so the water delivery was delayed while the fire grew to cover 30 miles--4 firefighters--3 men and a woman--died as a result--ranger first denied denying water--timeline later shows that indeed fire untreated grew much larger.

There he was yesterday in all his glory, reveling in the adoration of the manufactured crowd at 125th Street in Harlem in front of the most expensive office for an ex-president in U.S. history. The entire, sorry episode was just another in the tattered legacy of Bill Clinton, lovingly recorded for posterity by a worshipful media. Never mind that this location in the cultural capital of black America was Clinton’s second choice. Recall that he really desired space in the Carnegie Hall Towers on 57th Street – a world wholly removed from Harlem and the black experience – but that ...

It's a good thing the Social Security and military retirement programs are actuarially solvent; the armed forces don't need any more money for live-fire training; and Americans have seen their taxes fall till they can pay the remaining federal levies with pocket change (leaving them vast sums to invest in the modernization of private industry, not to mention pricey prescription medicines.) Because if that weren't the case, one might wonder if our delegates to Washington had temporarily taken leave of their senses, as the House of Representatives this week voted to take $15 billion of our tax money, bundle ...