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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT. Dr FRANCIS MBOMA TEL / 27-73-2214254 Private email addresses:dr_francismboma@mail.com or dr_francismboma@myself.com. Dear Sir, I am Dr.Francis Mboma, a native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am an Executive Accountant with the South Africa Department of Mining & Natural Resources. First and foremost, I apologized using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. Be informed that a member of the South Africa Export Promotion Council (SEPC) who was at the Government delegation to your country during a trade...

Rev. Peterson Says: “Court Decision Is Anti-God, Anti-American!” Los Angeles – Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, today commented on the ruling Wednesday by the 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, CA, which overturned a 1954 act of Congress that inserted the phrase “under God” after the phrase “one Nation.” Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote for the three-judge panel which ruled in this case. The case was brought by Michael A. Newdow, a Sacramento atheist who objected because his second-grade daughter was required to recite the...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. JERUSALEM (AP) — The prospect of flying casinos nose-dived Thursday when Israel's attorney-general ruled the airborne venture would promote illegal gambling. The specially fitted planes would have taken gamblers for four-hour spins for gambling outside Israeli airspace, circumventing Israel's antigambling laws. It received initial approval from Transportation Minister Ephraim Sneh a month ago. But Attorney-General Elyakim Rubinstein, ruled the ``flying casinos'' would promote an illegal activity, Israel Radio reported. Bending to Rubinstein's will to ground the planes before they could take off, Sneh reluctantly said on Thursday, ``I'm sorry, I can't...

US threatens Balkan pull-out over world court By Judy Dempsey in Brussels The US has threatened to pull out of the Balkans if the United Nations fails to grant its peacekeeping troops blanket immunity from prosecution when the treaty for the new international criminal court comes into force on Monday. The threat adds another strain to US-European relations, already made more difficult this week after President George W. Bush dem- anded Yassir Arafat be rep- laced as Palestinian leader. The US, unlike all 15 European Union member states and 44 other countries, is not a signatory of the ICC, a...

WASHINGTON- A panel of sports professionals and educators will examine ways to improve the 30-year-old law that has greatly increased opportunities for women in school sports, Education Secretary Rod Paige told a Senate committee Thursday. The new Commission on Opportunity in Athletics is being formed in the wake of a lawsuit that argues that the law, known as Title IX, helps women's sports at the expense of programs for men. "Some would like to settle this in the courts," Paige said. "But we believe the better approach is to discuss all the questions openly, in a forum where all voices...

Captain RibMan is afraid of what terrorists might do in the future and takes the appropriate action:This Old Bomb Shelter

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. PARIS (AP) — French computer services and consulting firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young said Thursday it will cut 5,500 jobs, or 10 percent of its work force, over the next six months as it adjusts to the slump in the telecommunications and financial services businesses. The job reductions, designed to streamline its administrative operations, come on top of 5,400 job cuts last year. The company currently employs 55,000 people worldwide. The technology sector investment boom of the late 1990s has largely vanished, and Cap Gemini's clients are focusing on making...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Citing a downturn in orders, DENSO International America Inc. announced Thursday that it was eliminating a total of 177 jobs at two of its California facilities. The North American arm of Japan-based DENSO Corp. said it was cutting 80 jobs at its DENSO Wireless Systems America Inc. manufacturing facility in Vista, Calif., and 97 positions at its LA Laboratories facility in Carlsbad, Calif. The company will provide the laid-off employees with severance packages and career transition assistance, he said. DENSO Wireless Systems America will continue producing automotive...

<p> Wednesday, June 26Updated: Thursday, June 27, 10:50 AM ET Draft-night gradesBy Chad Ford ESPN.com After 58 picks and several trades Wednesday night, ESPN Insider Chad Ford handed out his draft-night grades: Atlanta HawksRound 1: No PickRound 2: David Andersen, 6-10, Center, Australia (No. 37)Deals: Acquired Dan Dickau (No. 28) from Sacramento for future first-round pick Atlanta traded away Jamaal Tinsley for a future first-rounder last year. This year, they give up a future first-rounder for Dan Dickau in a trade with Sacramento. Dickau goes from a terrible situation with the Kings to a great one in Atlanta. Expect him...

Court Bars Religious Tiles From Columbine Memorial June 27— DENVER (Reuters) - School officials were within their rights to bar Christian messages that families of victims of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre had painted on tiles for an on-campus school memorial, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. "By allowing a tile stating 'God is Love,' the (school) district would be obligated to post tiles stating 'God is Hate,"' the appellate judges wrote.The decision came a day after another federal appeals court in San Francisco set off a national debate by ruling that the Pledge of Allegiance was...

DENVER- A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Columbine High School administrators acted properly when they removed ceramic tiles with religious symbols painted by the families of two slain students. The decision from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling, which had ordered school officials to restore the tiles. The 4-inch tiles were painted in a project to renovate the school after two student gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher on April 20, 1999. School officials had removed the religious-themed tiles, saying they violated the Constitution's requirement for separation of church and state. The...

Woman urges AIDS testing Victim proof HIV is a local problem By MEGAN COOLEY Staff writer COEUR d'ALENE -- AIDS used to give Janie Sampson the willies. The disease was something for other people -- homosexuals and intravenous drug users. It certainly wasn't a North Idaho problem. That's what Sampson, 38, thought until she got AIDS herself."Don't think that AIDS is not here and don't think because you're not an IV drug user or don't sleep around that you can't get it," Sampson warned. The mother of two wants people, whether they consider themselves high-risk or not, to get tested...

By Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, To the Combined Procurement and R&D Subcommittees of the House Armed Services Committee , June, 27, 2002. Chairman Hunter, Chairman Weldon, Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you to discuss our Missile Defense Program. Your committee has been a strong supporter of this program in the past and we look forward to your continuing support as we work through the FY03 National Defense Authorization Act. Today, I would like to provide a brief update on our missile defense policy as a backdrop to General Kadish’s testimony....

Alan Keyes is making sense Could this really be the last show?

BOSNIA: Another Terrorist Slips Away June 5, 2002; AFP reported that a suspected Muslim terrorist, Saleh Nidal (a Yemeni), escaped from Bosnian police “surveillance.” Nidal is wanted in Italy for helping orchestrate attacks in Italy. Italy was seeking Nidal’s extradition.

How the Russians can take the next step in space tourism By Alan Breakstone With Soyuz spacecraft taking millionaire tourists to the International Space Station, can existing technology be applied to launch even more tourist flights? I believe the answer is yes. Using 35-year-old blueprints and the existing Soyuz spacecraft along with Proton launch vehicle technology, the Russian space effort and visionary international investors can revive a celebrated Cold War project and send space tourists around the moon. In the heat of the 20th century space race, Soviet engineers struggled to develop two projects for sending cosmonauts to the moon....

Fired driver candidate for board A man who was acquitted of charges he had sex with a male student is running for the Randolph County School Board. KEITH SALIBA STAFF WRITER CUTHBERT — A former Randolph County school employee, fired in 1999 in response to charges that he had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old male student, is running for the Randolph County School Board. Lee Morris Jordan, then 37, was acquitted by a Eufaula, Ala., jury in June 2000 on charges of sodomy and enticing a child for immoral purposes, according to Third Circuit District Attorney Boyd Whigham,...

KOSOVO: Albanians Arrested for Atrocities Against Albanians June 18, 2002; The UN reported that four members of the Kosovo Protection Corps (TMK) had been arrested by UNMIK police for alleged atrocities committed after NATO troops entered Kosovo. Interestingly enough, the crimes were committed against Kosovar Albanians. Three of the four men arrested were identified as officers (one a colonel in the TMK). May 23, 2002; StrategyPage recently ran a report about Kosovo’s “back to the Balkans” behavior regarding its border with Macedonia. The UN has been attempting to cool the Kosovo assembly’s appetite for border conflict. The UN and UNMIK...

By Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 26, 2002. SEN. BIDEN: (Sounds gavel.) The hearing will please come to order. We have two very distinguished witnesses on our first panel, and I'll get to that in just a moment. I would ask unanimous consent, in the interest of time, that my formal statement be placed in the record at this moment, as if read. And let me just very, very, very, very briefly summarize, because I want to have as much opportunity to get to...

  Bush vs. Corporate Corruption Inside Report by Robert Novak Jun 27, 2002 George W. Bush sat down privately with the nation's top business executives late last Thursday afternoon and gave them an earful about corporate ethics in what is being called America's second Gilded Age. It is a subject the president feels deeply about but so far has not addressed fully in public. So, his unscripted comments to the businessmen were not released. Will President Bush ever speak to the public definitively on what he considers corporate conduct that poisons the stock market and threatens the economy? "Stay...