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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A tip about the whereabouts of missing intern Chandra Levy was a hoax, investigators said Thursday. The tip, phoned in to a toll-free hot line run by a California firm, told authorities that Levy's body could be found near Fort Lee, an Army post near Petersburg, Virginia. But a high-level law enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation called the tip a "hoax," and the FBI said the information doesn't match the facts. "The FBI, in concert with Fort Lee officials, have determined that there is no site on or around the Fort Lee military base ...

  Why Drugs Won't Go Away They're Too Important Manzanillo, Mexico – Listening to the radio here the other day, I encountered a journalist who has spent the last couple of years investigating the drug racket hereabouts. I had never heard of the guy before and can’t vouch for the accuracy of his information. He made some interesting points. For starters, he calculates (how, I don’t know) that ten percent of Mexico’s gross national product comes from drugs. That’s huge. If he is correct, or even close, it follows that the Mexican government cannot afford to shut down the ...

Wave of the Future "Human rights," Lani Guiner, and the destruction of Macedonia by Dimitar Ilievski Special to Antiwar.com August 2, 2001 Arben Xhaferi is the leader of Macedonia's Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA), which is part of the nation's governing coalition. In October 1998, he wrote a remarkable article, "The Challenges of Democracy in Multiethnic States," which foreshadowed every problem this region has experienced during the past 3 years: the NATO bombardment, Macedonia's crises and the disastrous coalition government between the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (VMRO) and Xhaferi's DPA. The appearance of the article on the Albanian-American Civic League ...

Left Coast by Alexander Cockburn Antiwar.com August 2, 2000 Blueprints For Colombian War As we all know, the war in Colombia isn't about drugs. It's about the annihilation of popular uprisings by the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the ELN (National Liberation Army), guerilla groups or Indian peasants fending off the ravages of oil companies, cattle barons and mining firms. A good old-fashioned counterinsurgency war, designed to clear the way for American corporations to set up shop in Colombia, with cocaine as the scare tactic. Two recent Defense Department-commissioned reports outline in chilling terms the same strategy of ...

Congressional Republicans roared toward a month-long summer recess on Thursday with fresh momentum from a big win on President Bush's energy plan and a surprise deal on a patients' bill of rights, but Democrats warned the political judgement day was still coming.Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney visited the Capitol on Thursday morning to thank Republicans for their recent accomplishments, including a post-midnight endorsement in the House of Representatives of an energy bill that opens part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.The White House-backed health bill also appeared headed for passage in the Republican-controlled House on Thursday after ...

Bush Defends Israel Against Racism by BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Denouncing attempts to brand Israel as racist, the Bush administration vowed Thursday to fight any move to single out the Jewish state for criticism at a U.N. conference against racism. Suggestions that Secretary of State Colin Powell would not attend the conference opening Aug. 31 in South Africa or that he would send a low-level delegation prompted most of the Arab governments to drop references to Zionism from the text of a draft document. But there were other stabs at Israel laced through the 88-page text. ...

Kirk's Six Canons of Conservative Thought "Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as well as conscience." "Affection for the proliferating variety and mystery of human existence, as opposed to the narrowing uniformity, egalitarianism, and utilitarian aims of most radical systems;" "Conviction that civilized society requires orders and classes, as against the notion of a 'classless society'." "Persuasion that freedom and property are closely linked: separate property from private possession, and the Leviathan becomes master of all." "Faith in prescription and distrust of 'sophisters, calculators, and economists' who would reconstruct society upon abstract designs." ...

His nomination isn't even official yet, but the knives are already out for Gerald Reynolds, whom President Bush has tapped to run the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights. His crime? He opposes racial double standards. Like Martin Luther King, he wants Americans to be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. For this, Julian Bond, the chairman of the NAACP, blasts him as a ''staunch opponent of fairness programs,'' while William Taylor of the left-wing Leadership Conference on Civil Rights pronounces it ''quite extraordinary that Mr. Bush, who says he cares about education, ...

Senate backs Bush plan to terminate buyback program in setback for gun control forces By Alan Fram, Associated Press, 8/2/2001 15:12 WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate voted Thursday to back President Bush's plan to kill the government's gun buyback program, handing a victory to gun-rights forces. Senators voted 65-33 against a proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to provide $15 million for the program, created less than two years ago by President Clinton. The Bush administration announced last month that it was ending the program, saying there was no proof that it was taking guns from criminals. Under the program, local ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Wednesday that he is displeased with the automaker Toyota, saying the company has not, in his estimation, made enough progress on improving its image and relationship with minorities to stave off a boycott he has threatened to promote through his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Speaking in Washington, where he was to attend a conference of the National Urban League, Jackson said "The facts have not changed ... Toyota has 1,400 dealerships, and 55 are black- or brown-owned ... Unless some progress is made, we will have to begin some sanctions." Jackson originally called for a boycott after ...

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After the power shift in the Senate, Jeff Sessions, the Republican from Alabama who sits on the Judiciary Committee, noticed something funny about the way Bush administration nominees were sworn in for testimony during their confirmation hearings. Everybody knows the drill; the nominee stands and listens while the chairman says, "Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" The nominee says, "I do" and the testimony begins. That's the way it's been done by Republicans and Democrats for as ...

How to End the Illegal Invasion: Stop Paying for It! by 537 Votes When it comes to sending illegal immigrants home, the liberals have got the system rigged. If we arrest the illegals and attempt extradition, the hearings will allegedly cost more than keeping the illegals here. So you're better off, the argument goes, by giving them amnesty. Besides, the liberals argue, it's logistically impossible to send eight million people back to Mexico. Do we want troops marching through our cities, pushing out illegals at gunpoint? Of course not! So let's just surrender to the invasion, okay? Well, wait ...

Condidit.com always has the latest in supermarket tabloid news on the Condit-Levy affair first! Tune in, log on, drop out every Thursday for the latest! The National Enquirer has a big spread on Condit, Levy, and sex in DC, but only one bit of new information, such as it is. Their lead story claims, from TNE sources, that investigators believe Levy found out about Condit's other affairs, possibly tipped off by a Condit staffer, that this led to a big fight and she threatened to reveal all. The story also speculates that this was somehow tied in to Condit ditching ...

Interior Secretary Gale Norton will ask the National Academy of Sciences to review the biological rationale behind federal decisions to reserve water in Upper Klamath Lake for protected fish and withhold it from farmers in the drought-stricken Klamath Basin this summer. This comes a week after Norton overruled federal biologists by releasing surplus lake water to farmers when the biologists had earlier mandated that any such excess water go instead to national wildlife refuges. Together, the actions signal that Norton and the Bush administration are openly questioning -- and in some cases spurning -- the hotly debated April endangered species ...

Power projects rise to meet state's crisisPlants proposed for the Inland counties likely will contribute significantly to the megawatt surge.BY ROBERTO HERNANDEZ THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE In the race to get power plants up and running in time to meet California's energy demands for the summer and the next few years, three Inland projects are scheduled to go on line by next month. Another plant should be in operation by September. Together, the state-approved power plants -- in Colton, Palm Springs and Chino -- will eventually produce nearly 400 megawatts to help California meet its energy demands during the times when ...

Interior Secretary Gale Norton will ask the National Academy of Sciences to review the biological rationale behind federal decisions to reserve water in Upper Klamath Lake for protected fish and withhold it from farmers in the drought-stricken Klamath Basin this summer. This comes a week after Norton overruled federal biologists by releasing surplus lake water to farmers when the biologists had earlier mandated that any such excess water go instead to national wildlife refuges. Together, the actions signal that Norton and the Bush administration are openly questioning -- and in some cases spurning -- the hotly debated April endangered species ...

ASTORIA -- With state biologists predicting that 2001 will go down in the books as a banner year for Columbia River coho salmon, nearly 500 boats turned out at the mouth of the river Wednesday to find out whether opening day would live up to that promise. "I don't think we've ever seen a bite like this so early," Steve King, salmon harvest manager for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, said of the day's fishing. The bumper crop of salmon expected to cross the Columbia River bar in the next four months represents the abundant survivors of ocean ...

TROPICAL STORM BARRY SPECIAL ADVISORY NUMBER 1 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 3 PM EDT THU AUG 02 2001 ...TROPICAL STORM BARRY FORMS IN THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO... THIS AFTERNOON...AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT FOUND THAT THE STRONG TROPICAL WAVE IN THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO HAS STRENGTHENED INTO THE SECOND TROPICAL STORM OF THE SEASON. AT 3 PM EDT...1900Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM BARRY WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 26.3 NORTH...LONGITUDE 84.8 WEST OR ABOUT 320 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. BARRY IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 5 MPH AND THIS MOTION IS ...

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