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Today at the USO Canteen FReeper Style is a very special day. We have all heard that once a Marine always a Marine and that is more true than naught. There is no finer example of a Marine and a FReeper than LadyX . Her travels in life and into the lives of others has been numerous. Today join us in celebrating LadyX and her 50 years as a Marine. Many of you have written to me of your appreciation for knowing LadyX and how today marks 50 years since she became a Marine. This is surprise to LadyX...

>Gold bugs masquerading as pinstripe bankers By: Tim Wood Posted: 2002/06/21 Fri 12:00  | © Miningweb 1997-2002 PRINCETON, New Jersey -- The money management arm of one of Canada's most prestigious banks, RBC Global Investment Management, has issued a no-holds barred punt for gold. It is thought that top-rated professional gold investor, John Embry, authored the report.RBC is the first mainstream international investment house to sign on to the gold conspiracy, at least publicly, casting the current "suppression of the gold price" as a covert version of the nonsense of the late 1960s and early 1970s when central bankers...

*****APC NEWS WIRE***** http://www.americanpolicy.org/ June 24, 2002 Volume 5, Issue 7 A Publication of the American Policy Center Tom DeWeese, President Peyton Knight, Editor 98 Alexandria Pike, Suite 43 Warrenton, VA 20186 540-341-8911 FAX: 540-341-8917 apc@americanpolicy.org APC is now offering you a quick and easy way to multiply your efforts and help win more battles! Simply click http://www.referralblast.com/rblast.asp?sid=5906 to send this APC Action Alert to up to TEN of your friends! It’s fast, it’s easy, and most of all, it’s extremely effective in KILLING LEFTIST POLICIES! *** “Sisters of the River” Victims of Heritage Area Land Grab This just in...

President Robert Mugabe ordered 2,900 commercial farmers to stop work yesterday, as Zimbabwe faces its worst food shortage for 60 years. The order is the final step before the government seizes the farms, including the crops in the fields, for redistribution to its black supporters. "From [today] a farmer could be arrested for trying to feed the nation," the Commercial Farmers Union spokeswoman Jenni Williams said. "We have 22,567 hectares [more than 56,000 acres] of wheat in the ground which will only be harvested in September/October. Who is going to look after the crop if the farmers stop working?" She...

<p>June 25, 2002 -- Some fathers take their families on boring road trips, but the family of actor John Travolta will spend this summer on a two-month, 35,000-mile around-the-world flight - with Travolta doing the piloting himself.</p> <p>A self-professed "airline geek," Travolta will fly his family from Los Angeles to Auckland, New Zealand, on July 1, the first leg in a 10-nation tour.</p>

NEW YORK, Jun 25, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Recovery workers completed their search Monday at a badly damaged building across from the World Trade Center site but found no human remains, fire officials said. Firefighters began searching the Deutsche Bank building, located across the street from where the south tower once stood, nearly two weeks ago. Officials had believed the building could contain the final remains from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. The week before the search began, the remains of about a dozen people were found in two other damaged buildings near ground zero. Sal Cassano,...

<p>June 25, 2002 -- A group of 9/11 victims' relatives said yesterday that former mayor Rudy Giuliani supports their vision for a "grand memorial" at Ground Zero.</p> <p>Yesterday's closed-door meeting - the second with Giuliani since he left office - came less than two weeks after Mayor Bloomberg angered some victims' families by calling for a smaller memorial at the site, saying "less may be more."</p>

<p>The Bush administration has begun a civil rights investigation into the use of American Indian symbols and tribal names in West Virginia's 4-H Club chapter.</p> <p>The Agriculture Department began investigating yesterday a complaint it received last year from a West Virginia parent whose daughter had attended a 4-H summer camp in 2000. The results of the unprecedented investigation will be forwarded to the Justice Department, which could end federal funding for the state's 4-H program.</p>

<p>Liat Yagen (above) was the woman whose covered body was tagged with the No. 10 after last week's bus bombing.</p> <p>June 25, 2002 -- JERUSALEM - The delicate arm peeked out from a black body bag by the side of the road, victim No. 10 of the Jerusalem bus bombing that threw the Mideast peace process into turmoil last week.</p>

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A Bank of England working party, which includes representatives of commercial banks and the Treasury, is investigating the wider introduction of Shari'ah compliant house mortgages in the UK, according to the Observer newspaper. The working party has been looking at the issue for over six months and banks such as Citigroup and Barclays are "eyeing a lucrative market if they crack the problem," the UK Sunday newspaper reports. According to wealth analysts Datamonitor, the 5,000 richest Muslims in UK have liquid assets of over $5 billion and the Observer quotes the company as having no doubt "the market for Islamic...

<p>June 25, 2002 -- VIENNA, Austria - The United States and Russia will join forces to track down missing radioactive material across the former Soviet Union to prevent it from being used in "dirty bombs," the U.N. nuclear watchdog said yesterday.</p>

The Arthur Andersen conviction was more than just bad news for the troubled accounting firm. Lawyers, too, are alarmed that what they consider routine legal advice a jury saw as a federal crime. The jury found the firm guilty on the basis of a single memo written by Andersen lawyer Nancy Temple, advising a partner on how to edit an internal memo about Enron's financial disclosures. The June 15 verdict was so upsetting to lawyers that when news of it reached a legal conference in Austin, all other discussion temporarily ground to a halt, said Pat Allison, a Houston attorney...

<p>WASHINGTON.</p> <p>A CENTRAL assumption of much Mideast analysis - that America must lean on Israel and help Yasser Arafat to get Arab support against Iraq's Saddam Hussein - has now been turned upside down.</p> <p>Instead, President Bush took the position that there's one unified war on terror and demanded that Arab states oppose anti-Israel terror just as strongly as they oppose Osama bin Laden terror.</p>

WASHINGTON, Jun 25, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- U.S. inspectors will screen U.S.-bound cargo containers before they leave Rotterdam's seaport, part of an effort to prevent terrorists from smuggling nuclear and other weapons into this country, the Customs Service said Tuesday. The agreement with the Netherlands government allows U.S. customs inspectors to be stationed for the first time at that port, one of the busiest in the world. It marks the third agreement of its kind and the first in Europe that customs has entered into with the hope of improving cargo security at the world's seaports. That...

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush's outline for a path to peace in the Middle East was a smash hit with conservatives and supporters of Israel, but did not stop persistent questions about the policy from some Democrats and potential 2004 challengers. In unveiling his long-awaited proposal on Monday, Bush backed a provisional Palestinian state but rebuked President Yasser Arafat, saying Palestinians must choose new leaders uncompromised by terror. That prompted an immediate rejection by Palestinian officials of any call for Arafat to step down. The speech was cheered by a cross-section of Congress but there...

<p>Payroll records probed.</p> <p>June 25, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Disgraced Rep. Gary Condit gave three of his most loyal staffers whopping pay raises just days after he admitted to cops he was sexually involved with murdered intern Chandra Levy, it was revealed yesterday.</p>

<p>June 25, 2002 -- Investigators probing the ImClone scandal are examining key new evidence that casts doubt on what domestic diva Martha Stewart and her broker have said about her stock sales, it was revealed yesterday.</p> <p>On Dec. 27th - the day Stewart sold her ImClone shares - phone logs show the home-and-garden guru's society stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, called to say the price of the company's shares was dropping, congressional probers said.</p>

Davis Heads South By George Neumayr Garry South, Gray Davis's principal political adviser, is usually cocky and unflappable -- serenely and satirically mocking Republicans from a position of strategic superiority. But the wheels on the Gray Davis re-election bus are beginning to wobble, and South sounds scared. With Bill Simon ahead in several polls and Davis widely disliked, South is frantically spitting out slander about Simon to reporters. Nothing is off-limits to the Lee Atwater of the California Democratic Party, not Simon's deceased father, not his business or bank account, not even his posture. South says that he has been...

They came to the United States planning to inflict as much death and destruction as possible. Equally important to them was instilling in the American people a sense of panic, a palpable fear that could paralyze their resolve. They brought with them plenty of money and explosives. Their mission was to bomb factories and train stations throughout the country. It was 60 years ago today that the last of them were arrested. Nazi saboteurs, they’d arrived in the U.S. earlier in the month by German submarine. All had lived here for substantial periods earlier in their lives. They spoke excellent...