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<p>MESCALERO, N.M. (AP) — A Mexican spotted owl survey taker employed by the Mescalero Apache Tribes natural resources agency was arrested Wednesday for arson.</p> <p>Paul James Valdez, 27, was charged with intentionally starting a fire on the southern New Mexico reservation on or about June 2. He was also charged with furnishing false information to a federal agent.</p>

You're square if you're not there! Lawmakers will be in session - - the fiscal year ends Sunday, and they still don't have a budget - - - so yell your heart out for NO NEW TAXES!

After more than a year of emotion-inciting display, a controversial billboard proclaiming the pope to be the Antichrist is no longer visible, having been taken down by its sponsor and replaced with a new message regarding days of worship. Larry Weathers, the Oregon barber responsible for posting the ad, says the media company that owns the space decided to honor a commitment to the Catholic League to remove the message once its term had expired. The contract ended in May, but it wasn't until last week that the pope placard was removed. "We're happy with the result to a certain...

Man barred from being near children By James O'Keefe Staff Writer June 28, 2002 STAMFORD -- A Greenwich man who videotaped young boys at local YMCAs and downloaded child pornography from the Internet will not go to prison for his crimes. Instead Ernest Drupals, 31, of Corona Drive, was placed on five years probation following his guilty plea last month to 30 counts of possession of child pornography. Conditions of his probation include that Drupals have no contact with children under 16, register as a sex offender and keep a detailed driving log of everywhere he goes. The sentence was...

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Man shot during robbery, police say By JAMAAL ABDUL-ALIM of the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: June 27, 2002 Greenfield - A man who tried to rob a Greenfield gun shop at knifepoint Thursday afternoon was shot in the chest by the shop owner, police said.The victim, identified only as a 57-year-old Greenfield man, was taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa, according to police.Police have yet to interview the victim because the shooting left him unconscious, Detective Sgt. Paul Schlecht said.Schlecht said later Thursday that the man's wound was not life threatening. The man's condition was not...

In Hebrew the policemen are called 'shomreem'. In ancient times, the guards were also called shomreem. This word comes from 'shomair' which means "to keep". It's a very important word in the Bible. The Lord is called 'Shomair Yisrael', the Keeper of Israel. But the word shomreem is not just for the Lord. It says in God's Word..."You will be blessed if you shomair...keep the covenant." Keep the command, keep My way, keep My Word, keep My Torah...KEEPIt's important to keep. It is written we have this treasure in earthen vessels. It is not enough to have a treasure....

HOW DESPAIR IS TRANSFORMING ISRAELThe Wallby Yossi Klein Halevi Post date: 06.26.02 Issue date: 07.08.02 JERUSALEM, ISRAEL"The world hates us and always will," a neighbor said to me on the stairs before wishing me a good day. "What more do you need than the Holocaust?" He is Sephardi, without familial memory of Europe; but the bitter, new mood of besieged Israel has penetrated everywhere. In a full-page newspaper ad urging Israelis to boycott European nations that now refuse to sell Israel military equipment, employees of the country's military industry wrote, "In the moments of truth, we learn yet again that...

The following letter was sent on June 27 by the chairman of the Camden, Maine Democratic Municipal Committee to its membership (the letter has been edited for this forum): Dear Camden Democrats: As many of you know, when I volunteered for this position I said I would not be interested in running a rubber-stamp committee that blindly toed the standard party line. My own politics are progressive, to the point of conflict with much of what the state and national organizations practice, especially as embodied in the DLC and in the current makeup of the DNC. I understood this going...

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JUNE 28 - JULY 4, 2002 Dissonance The Gray Rat Blame the governor for no books, no desks, no toilet paper by Marc Cooper NOW THAT SUMMER VACATION HAS BEGUN, YOU can bet students from Jefferson High in South-Central L.A. are pleased to be back home. No more prolonged stints of sitting on counters or standing in classrooms without enough chairs. No more humiliating "service classes" -- doing menial work for teachers who show up (and not being able to take necessary academic classes because so many teachers do not). And while we're on humiliation, no more having to crowd...

Posted: June 27, 2002 2:30 p.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Almost 10 months after the terror attack on Sept. 11, the verdict is in on the charities that volunteered to collect and distribute donated money to the families of the victims. And that verdict, as you may know, is guilty of fraud in the inducement. According to The New York Times, roughly a billion dollars in charitable contributions sit in banks waiting for some kind of designation. There is heavy-duty interest coming in off that billion so the charities are in no rush to disperse the funds. The Red Cross...

<p>WASHINGTON — It may sound like a plot device for a futuristic movie, but the federal government may not be far from forcing Internet service providers to keep copies of all e-mail exchanges in the interest of homeland security.</p> <p>The White House denied a Washington Post report Thursday alleging that the Al Qaeda terrorist network is working on using online and stored data to disrupt the workings of power grids, air traffic towers, dams, and other infrastructure. But a White House official did acknowledge that Al Qaeda has an interest in developing such abilities.</p>

[snip] In the United States since Sept. 11, and also in a Europe alarmed by the resurgence of the far right, there have been and continue to be laudable efforts to prevent Muslims from being tarred with the terrorist brush. Muslim voices, those of the people on the Arab, Afghan, Pakistani or Kashmiri streets as well as those of intellectuals and politicians, are being given media time and space, and are being listened to. (The British Guardian newspaper's decision to spend a whole week spotlighting "Islamophobia" is a recent example.) Most of the voices we have heard have had extremely...

Here are two transcripts of Daniel Pipes on television Monday, one from Fox News and the other from Cable News Network. Note how in both cases his militant Islamic opponents turn from the subject at hand to attack him. How Central Is Muslim Anti-Semitism? Fox News: "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" Monday, June 24, 2002 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/426 VAN SUSTEREN: Tonight, a disturbing message of hate from a source barely out of diapers, a 3-year-old Muslim girl. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BASMALLAH, TODDLER: Allah's mercy and blessing upon you. DOAA 'AMER, IQRAA-TV HOST: What's your name? BASMALLAH: Basmallah. 'AMER: Basmallah, how...

A contingent of 15 Outback Steakhouse employees from across America traveled to Kandahar, Afghanistan, on June 17 with food in tow to cook for the coalition forces deployed there. On the flight between Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and Kandahar, Lt. Col. Gary Goldstone, 17th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron vice commander, described the delivery as a big surprise. “This mission is special,” Goldstone said. “We’re delivering about 6,000 steaks to people who have been eating (Meals Ready to Eat) for the last three to six months. The look on their faces should be telling.” A lot of planning went into the mission,...

Good evening, I'm Dan Rather. Devastating revelations today linking President Bush to the unfolding Worldcom fraud and bankrupcy scandal. It was revealed today that in 1999, then Governor George W. Bush attended a Dallas Cowboy football game. A game also attended by Scott Sullivan, the 40-year-old financial brain accused of the devastating profit-rigging at WorldCom. Sources have said that Bush and Sullivan sat within 3 sections of one another. While it has yet to be confirmed - or yet to be denied by the Whitehouse - these sources say Bush and Sullivan communicated via the pretzel vendor and it may...

Jun 27th 2002 For the first time at least since 1989, but arguably since 1945, America has both the chance and the motivation to reshape the world, writes Bill Emmott, the editor of The Economist WHEN Dean Acheson, Harry Truman's post-war secretary of state, wrote his autobiography, he chose a grandiloquent title to describe his dozen years in government. He had been “Present at the Creation”, he said, by which he meant the building by America of a new world, out of the wartime rubble of the old—or, at any rate, of half a new world, the free half, while...

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo gestures while addressing businessmen in Malacanang presidential palace in Manila June 28, 2002. Arroyo said the military had seized four camps of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group, linked by Washington to the al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden. 'We are now having a major battle in Patikul, right in the camp where the Abu Sayyaf was born way back in 1995,' Arroyo said in a television broadcast.

BUG BUSTERS: FBI agents sift through a storage trailer in Ocala, Fla., in search of clues to the deadly anthrax mailings. The site belongs to a bioresearcher who's a "person of interest" in the probe. FBI agents hunting for last year's anthrax-sending psycho searched a Florida storage trailer belonging to a bioresearch scientist who three years ago commissioned a study into ways the deadly bacteria can be delivered by mail. Federal sources said the scientist, Dr. Steven Hatfill of Hagerstown, Md., is a "person of interest" in their probe into the deadly wave of mailings that killed five people last...