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eco-logic ---- on-line ---- Freedom 21 calls on the President to create a... President's Council on Sustainable Freedom Attendees at the recent Freedom 21 Conference in St. Louis, MO, voted to send a letter to President Bush, asking him to create a President's Council on Sustainable Freedom. Bill Clinton's President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) effectively transformed the agencies of government to comply with, and actually implement Agenda 21, during the Clinton/Gore administration. Throughout the previous administration, the principles of freedom were ignored, at best, and often deliberately bypassed in order to implement policies administratively, which would not be ...

The Bush administration is expected to continue delaying a decision on American communications satellite exports to China because mainland leaders have not satisfied US concerns about Beijing's arms proliferation practices, a senior US official said on Tuesday. Chinese leaders ''knew what they had to say and they didn't say it'' during talks with Secretary of State Colin Powell last Saturday, the official said. ''Indefinite delay (by the administration in approving licences for the satellite exports) is the most probable outcome,'' he said. Before Mr Powell's visit to Beijing, Chinese officials were told in advance that he would be looking for ...

Macedonian Villages Say Cut off From World by Albanian RebelsSKOPJE, Jul 31, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Seven villages in northwestern Macedonia pleaded for food and medicines from international aid organizations on Monday, saying they had been cut off from the rest of the world by ethnic Albanian guerrillas. "The situation is more than alarming. We lack food and medicine in the seven small villages which make up the municipality," the mayor of Vratnica village, Toni Kocevski, told AFP by telephone. "We are cut off from the rest of the country and the world," he said, saying he had issued ...

August 1, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - A New Jersey real-estate mogul said he gave $62,000 under various names to Sen. Robert Torricelli and invited the New Jersey Democrat to invest in his company, it was reported yesterday. It's illegal for an individual to give more than $2,000 to a Senate candidate in an election campaign - or to make a contribution in someone else's name. Richard Kurtz, who heads the Kamson real-estate company, told the Bergen Record newspaper that he was advised by a Torricelli campaign treasurer, Adam Crain, that he was allowed to make contributions in the names of ...

Hong Kong scored a hit on the diplomatic front from the United States within hours of allowing Li Shaomin back into the SAR. US State Department officials passed on their pleasure at Dr Li's return at a meeting in Washington with Secretary for Security Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee. "We welcome the news," said a department official. "This confirms a high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong under the 'one country, two systems' formula." Privately, sources in the administration of President George W. Bush expressed surprise at the move, saying they had feared Hong Kong would hide behind national security issues. ...

Macedonian Official Launches War Crimes Probe Against RebelsOHRID, Jul 31, 2001 -- (dpa) As peace talks crept along with little progress, the Macedonian chief prosecutor on Monday launched an investigation into ethnic Albanian rebel leader Ali Ahmeti and ten other top figures linked to his National Liberation Army (UCK) and ordered their arrest over alleged war crimes. It was not clear what effect the probe would have on the talks, which ended Monday with an agreement to resume Tuesday at the lake resort of Ohrid. Optimism following earlier signals from both sides taking part in talks in Ohrid faded as ...

Kennedy Smith might fit right in as congressman by Howie Carr Wednesday, August 1, 2001 Just what America needed - another Kennedy with an arrest record running for public office in yet another state. Is there a doctor in the House? That's the answer that Dr. Willie Kennedy Smith hopes to answer with a resounding yes in the 5th Congressional District of Illinois, and isn't it about time that the plague of Kennedys spread to the Central time zone? Give the man a chance. After all, he hasn't been arrested on a rape charge in 10 years. This Kennedy pestilence ...

Energy Executives Urge Some Gas-Emission Limits on Bush With President Bush continuing to oppose international or domestic restrictions on gases linked to global warming, among the losers are energy companies that favor government action and have already spent millions on voluntary efforts to cut emissions. Given little credence by the White House despite large expenditures on lobbying and longstanding ties to administration officials, these companies are shifting their focus to Congress, where several bills that would impose emissions restrictions are being debated or prepared. But in that effort, the companies face formidable opposition from other energy concerns and trade groups ...

Albanian Guerrillas Said Forcing Macedonians to Leave VillageSKOPJE, Aug 1, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Armed men, believed to be ethnic Albanian guerrillas, forced Macedonians on Tuesday to flee their village of Blace, which lies near to the flashpoint northwestern town of Tetovo, the government's crisis body said in a statement. "During the day, men in uniform were seen, in the area surrounding Blace, near Tetovo, forcing Macedonians to leave the village" of some 400 people, the body said. It gave no further information, but implicated the ethnic Albanian guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (NLA), who launched an insurgency ...

China has formally charged US academic Wu Jianmin with endangering national security, a Hong Kong-based rights group said on Wednesday. Wu Jianmin, detained in the southern city of Shenzhen on April 8, would probably go on trial before a visit by US President George W. Bush to China in October, the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said. Wu's indictment comes after two other China-born academics with links to the United States - American Li Shaomin and US permanent resident Gao Zhan - were convicted of spying for Taiwan in July and thrown out of China. The rights group ...

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecclesiastes 10:2 Party at Howlin's ALL PREVIOUS THREADS PROJECT DAFFODIL-Updated Summary 7-25-01 In light of the Daffodil Principle where individual efforts over time add up to a mammoth contribution, we use this lesson as we seek to promote conservatism, the Republican Party and the administration of George Bush. Here is the link to the article if you are interested. THE DAFFODIL PRINCIPLE List of suggested projects: Volunteer/Get Involved in Republican Party, in individual campaigns Join GOP groups-Republican Business Women's Assn, become ...

Californian Opposes Bilingual Ed By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) — In 1998, millionaire businessman Ron Unz spent about $750,000 to successfully push a ballot question to dismantle California's bilingual education program. Now Unz is bringing his campaign to Massachusetts, the state with the oldest bilingual education law. And he's meeting early opposition. Unz's proposal, which he hopes to put on the 2002 ballot, would require children who are not fluent in English be placed in intensive language classes to teach them English within a year. Parents would have the option of keeping their children in a traditional ...

Stalin’s Secret Pogrom In the new book “Stalin’s Secret Pogrom; The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee,” historian and Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International Joshua Rubenstein, along with Russian historian Vladimir P. Naumov, recounts the 1952 trial of fifteen Soviet Jews associated with Stalin’s “Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee.” Of the fifteen, fourteen were executed including writers Solomon Michoels and Yitzhak Feffer. The author views this event through the prism of Stalin’s anti-Semitism and paranoia and the anti-Semitism of an emerging Russian nationalism. While this analysis may be technically true, it entirely misses the central point regarding the cause of ...

Earley to Answer Warner's TV Salvo Republican Plans Ads on Education; Allies Decry Foe's Media Campaign as Effort to 'Buy' Office Summary: Earley will respond to Warner's media campaign with spots on education... about $400K over 3 weeks... Warner will spend about $500K a week through November... Gilmore says Warner trying to "buy" office, others echo... Warner ads indicate higher teacher salaries, reformed tests... Earley ad shows education discussion with son... Earley says Warner needs advertising to define him because he has no public service record... more give and take from Gilmore and Warner spokesperson.

President Bush broadly endorsed on Tuesday an election reform report by two former presidents on how to avoid a repeat of problems in last year's presidential vote but did not address its specific ideas, which included making Election Day a federal holiday. The report by a panel chaired by former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter called for giving federal funds to states to upgrade their voting equipment, setting uniform statewide standards to count ballots and asking broadcasters not to project winners until polls close in all 48 contiguous states. The commission's work stems from the extremely close vote in ...

London (dpa) - Police in the southern English coastal resort of Bournemouth are considering setting up a safe stretch of beach, complete with closed-circuit television, to protect foreign visitors from attack by local gangs. Foreigners, many of them students attending summer language courses, had been threatened and importuned for cigarettes or money, local police officer Keith Bunn said on Wednesday. Under the plan CCTV cameras would be directed towards the area, and officers would make regular patrols with bilingual assistance from the schools. Gangs of teenagers have been threatening and robbing foreign students of money and cigarettes in the Southbourne ...

Atrocities of the Marxist ANC 'Truth' commission reveals Mandela's bloody path to power By Anthony LoBaido © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Editor's note: WorldNetDaily international correspondent Anthony C. LoBaido has lived and traveled extensively throughout southern Africa over the past decade. His stories have covered the private apartheid special forces army Executive Outcomes, the war in Angola, and farm massacres of whites in Zimbabwe. In this first of a three-part series, LoBaido documents the crimes committed by the Marxist African National Congress, or ANC, during its war against the apartheid regime in South Africa. In Part II, tomorrow, LoBaido chronicles the misdeeds ...

WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday called proposed election changes outlined by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford "guidelines." He stopped short of a full endorsement of the report, which Republican strategists say favors Democrats. "I accept their report and recommend the key principles drawn from the report as guidelines for meaningful reform," said Bush, who hosted Carter and officials from the report's commission in the Rose Garden for an unveiling. "The commissioners offer many recommendations to strengthen our electoral system," Bush said. "Those recommendations are grounded in four fundamental principles, which I heartily endorse and recommend to the ...

Energy crisis a drag on state: Experts see economic pain but no catastrophe By Dale Kasler Bee Staff Writer (Published Aug. 1, 2001) A fixture in Southern California for decades, the Richmond Technology plant in Redlands makes specialized packaging for the electronics industry. But not for much longer. The packaging plant is crumbling under the weight of higher electricity prices, and its owners are transferring Richmond's 75 jobs to a sister plant in Houston at year's end. "The cost of electricity put us at a disadvantage," said plant manager Doug Pastoor. The lights are staying on and wholesale electricity prices ...

I wasn't surprised to see actress Mary Tyler Moore on Chris Matthew's "Hardball" show extolling the breathtaking benefits that belong, alone according to her, to embryonic stem cell research. It's easy to see why people desperately want to believe that research currently in play would restore the health of those with chronic, degenerative or deadly diseases. (Moore herself struggles with diabetes.) My own mother succumbed with lightning speed to the cancer multiple myeloma six years ago - and how I would have loved to have believed that a cure was imminent. Such fundamental human desires are a big reason for ...