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The Italian police have not had a very encouraging press in the past fortnight. First they shot dead a rioter at the anti-G8 demonstrations in Genoa. Then, to make matters worse in the eyes of the London tabloids, they arrested five Britons, beat them up and banned them from Italy for five years. Such brutality is great for unreconstructed lefties. It enables them to change the subject from globalisation (which is, let’s face it, pretty boring) to something more interesting. An Italian journalist, Vittorio Longhi, writing in last Friday’s Guardian, delivered a textbook performance. ‘We were not in Genoa, nor ...

(08-02) 15:45 PDT FALLON, Nev. (AP) -- Sheriff's deputies in at least two Nevada counties were poised to block federal agents from impounding cattle last week, until the U.S. Justice Department warned the local law officers they could face federal criminal prosecution if they interfered, The Associated Press has learned. The Bureau of Land Management seized 130 cattle from John Vogt of Lida, Nev., last month, saying he owes $300,000 in fees and penalties for illegal grazing on public land. BLM agents also seized 62 cattle from Ben Colvin, of Goldfield, Nev. They say he owes $70,000. The agency said ...

Israel's Answer to Palestinians: Elimination Thursday, August 02, 2001 By George Friedman Email this Article It appears Israel is preparing to implement its final option: break battle gridlock with the Palestinians and destroy them once and for all. Rather than tolerate the continuation of random, spontaneous violence, the Sharon strategy will be to silence them entirely. It will require a massive military blow against the Palestinian political infrastructure. It will involve the decapitation of the Palestinian leadership and the exile or deaths of the political elite. Weapons caches will be sought and destroyed, communications facilities ruined. From Israel's standpoint, the ...

FBI VIOLATED THE LAW AGAIN Back about 1955, as a tall, lanky 14 year old kid, I did many odd jobs. Anything for a buck was my reputation in the neighborhood. That included cutting grass, shoveling snow, caddying for the rich folks at the country club, a paper route, working political functions, and helping out at various stores and restaurants when needed. So, along with making money, I also had a rather good idea of what was going on in my little corner of the world. It was while substituting as a restaurant dishwasher one night a week that ...

MORE than 100 women and children belonging to the fundamentalist Church of God have fled from Canada to the United States after Canadian social services clamped down on the Church’s policy of disciplining children with a rod or belt. Seven children, aged 6 to 14, were taken into care from a Church of God family last month after their parents were asked by social workers to stop using straps or sticks to discipline them. When the parents refused, police helped to take the children away. Fearing Canadian social workers might take more children into care, other local Church families fled ...

IPPF URGES EU TO FIGHT AGAINST PARENT'S RIGHTS AT CHILD CONFERENCE International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has called upon its European allies to put pressure on European governments to ratify sexual rights for children. In a memo sent to IPPF contacts in the European Union, IPPF also warns of the anticipated effectiveness of "right-wing governments and groups" at the September UN Special Session on Children. IPPF criticizes the activities of pro-family groups at the preparatory meetings for the Special Session, and worries that the final document that emerges in September will not establish sweeping enough reproductive rights for children. The ...

August 2, 2001 To the People of the Third Congressional District of Arkansas: Now that the United States Senate has confirmed my appointment to head the Drug Enforcement Administration, I will be leaving my congressional seat to take on that new responsibility. Despite the excitement of the new challenge, this transition is very difficult for my wife Susan and me, because we understand the high honor and privilege it is to represent the Third Congressional District of Arkansas. Our hearts and our home are in Arkansas, and were it not for the obligation of service, we would prefer to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Border Patrol strategies focused on keeping immigrants away from cities has forced more to risk death sneaking into the country over mountains, through deserts and across rivers, congressional investigators found. The strategy assumed that rugged terrain would deter immigrants from trying to enter the country illegally, and those that did take the risk would be easier to catch. "While migrants have always faced danger crossing the border and many died before INS began its strategy, the strategy has resulted in an increase in deaths from exposure to either heat or cold," a report from the General Accounting Office ...

FBI Agents Arrest CNN Producer Web Producer: Sean Rowe Reported by: 11Alive Staff Last Modified: 8/1/01 9:51:51 PM More Details • related links The FBI has arrested a CNN executive producer on charges he used the Internet to try and entice an underage girl for sex. Agents claim that Alan Audet, a 44-year-old father living in Marietta, used a chat room to develop an online relationship with a person whom he believed to be a 13-year-old girl. The FBI says Audet was actually communicating with members of its Innocent Images Task Force (IITF). Agents say Audet attempted to entice the ...

Firefighters struggling to contain a blaze in central Washington State that ultimately killed four of their own were hampered in their efforts by a federal policy to protect endangered fish, Fox News has learned. Firefighters were unable to douse the deadly fire in Okanogan National Forest in Winthrop, Wash., in July because of delays in granting permission for fire-fighting helicopters to use water from nearby streams and rivers protected by the Endangered Species Act, according to sources close to the fire. Firefighters Tom L. Craven, 30, Karen L. Fitzpatrick, 18, Devin A Weaver, 21, and Jessica L. Johnson, 19, burned ...

Absentee school district Hardly a day seems to pass without auditors unearthing yet another example of multimillion-dollar waste or malfeasance at the Los Angeles Unified School District. So it's par for the course that State Controller Kathleen Connell has released yet another report diagnosing the district's neglect and incompetence -- specifically, in the way it monitors student attendance. This is, after all, the district that can't account for how it wasted $175 million on the Belmont Learning Center, how it plans to pay for a whopping 15.3 percent employee pay raise, or how it managed to blow $100 million ...

OSHA launches Stringer probe by David Fleming The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has opened an investigation into the death of Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman Korey Stringer, 27, who died Wednesday of heat stroke after collapsing following a practice at the team's training camp in Mankato, Minn. OSHA interviewed several Vikings employees Wednesday in Mankato. Representatives may be back at the camp as early as next week to finish their investigation, which could lead to citations and fines against the Vikings if they are found to have violated OSHA standards for workplace safety. OSHA is still hoping to speak ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Police found a couple stabbed to death in their apartment Thursday after responding to a frantic 911 call from the woman's daughter, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair. Jackie McNatt, 30, said she was in another room when her mother and a companion were attacked. Katie McNatt, 63, was stabbed in the neck and the chest. Willie Anderson, 72, was stabbed eight times in the neck, according to a police report. Police were investigating and said it did not appear to be a robbery.

Sex-diary prosecution: Parents turned in son to get him care Thursday, August 2, 2001 Kevin Mayhood Dispatch Staff Reporter Shocked and frightened by the explicit sexual fantasies they found in their son's journal, Brian Dalton's parents turned him in to authorities. Michael and Sarah Dalton wanted his parole revoked for a year or two, long enough for him to receive intensive sex-offender treatment in prison. They didn't expect he'd be charged with a new crime. Mr. Dalton said he opposed his son's pleading guilty to a charge of pandering obscenity, but Brian Dalton wanted to quietly do his time ...

An estimated 800 Iraqi commandos, the bulk of the force that stole into Jordan two weeks ago, remain pinned down in Jordan’s eastern desert in two places – around Wadi Athner and near the town of Ruwayshid, report the intelligence sources of DEBKA-Net-Weekly. The incursion into Jordan by Iraqi military forces was first reported jointly by Debka and WorldNetDaily last week. Official sources in the U.S. and Israeli governments have denied any knowledge of the Iraqi incursion to WorldNetDaily. However, small groups of the first batch have since made their way further west. Around 15-25 of these intelligence-trained crack commandos ...

Tampa City Council votes to keep cameras Thursday, 2 August 2001 20:40 (ET) TAMPA, Fla., Aug.2 (UPI) -- The Tampa City Council voted 4-3 Thursday to continue the experiment with surveillance cameras that use a face recognition computer software in a busy nightclub area. Opponents say the cameras are a violation of civil rights. The software program -- on free trial for a year -- allows police to take images from the weekend crowds in the city's Ybor City section that are fed into a computer that compares the faces to a database of mug shots of wanted criminals and ...

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50 000 chances to live the American dream The United States government is to make 50 000 immigrant visas available to people around the world, including South Africa, under its visa lottery programme, the US consulate announced in Cape Town on Thursday. The programme is free and open to people from countries which have historically low rates of emigration to the US. All people born in South Africa and other eligible countries who meet the eligibility requirements are permitted to apply for this immigrant visa lottery. There is no charge for the application process which is subject to two conditions. Applicants ...

MOSCOW (AP) - On the eve of leader Kim Jong Il's expected arrival in Moscow, North Korea lashed out at the United States on Thursday, saying it will continue to develop missiles to guard against U.S. military threats. American talk about the missile threat from North Korea is nothing but "groundless sophism to cover up its dominationist intention," the North's foreign news outlet, KCNA, said in a commentary. Kim was expected to arrive in Moscow late Friday night after a nine-day train journey across Russia. He is scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin the next day. No official announcement ...

U.S. senators propose Kyoto alternative Chris Baltimore Thursday, August 2, 2001 at 18:30 JST WASHINGTON — A trio of conservative Republican senators on Wednesday rolled out a bill they said was the U.S. answer to the Kyoto global warming treaty rejected by the Bush administration. The legislation proposed by Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Frank Murkowski of Alaska and Larry Craig of Idaho would spend $2 billion over 10 years on new technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The bill, which faces opposition among congressional Democrats, would also earmark $1 billion to sell the technology to developing nations like China and ...