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Report blames U.S. pilots By JOHN WARD-- Canadian Press OTTAWA (CP) -- Two American fighter pilots were "the direct cause" of a bombing tragedy that killed four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan in April, say Canadian and U.S. reports released Friday. "Canadian troops conducting the live-fire exercise followed all appropriate procedures and regulations," Defence Minister John McCallum told a news conference. Investigators also determined that "the two American pilots contravened established procedures and were the direct cause of the incident." Two U.S. fighter planes were returning to base after what was described as a long patrol in the wee hours of...

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Discount Cut Makes For Some Unhappy Campers State Eliminated 50 Percent Discounts Posted: 10:24 a.m. CDT June 28, 2002 OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma has discontinued 50 percent senior discounts at state parks, a move that has led to some unhappy campers. "There's definitely discontent out there," said Wayne Ratcliff, a 69-year-old camper and state AARP board member from Durant. Faced with a $750,000 budget cut for fiscal year 2003, the Oklahoma Tourism Commission voted last week to end the discount starting Friday. Instead, seniors will get a flat discount of $2 a day. The new rate means residents 62 years...

Fearfully & Wonderfully MadeThomas S. Buchanan on God & Science For several years I taught a course to fresh-men on basic mechanics. In this course a teacher will begin by assuming that the universe is a very simple place where all ropes are massless, all pulleys are frictionless, and everything has only two dimensions. It is amazing how many problems you can solve when assuming that we live in such a strange universe.As the students progress and master simple mechanics, the teacher must introduce a third dimension, gravitational forces, and friction. The problems can no longer be solved so...

(photo: Deron Neblett) Ramirez rebels against the association. The past few years, 19th Street Association merchants had prided themselves on their unique promotional events. They hosted a New Orleans-style street party to draw people to their "anti-strip center," an eclectic combination of decades-old antique stores, hip art galleries and ethnocentric gift shops. Previous festivals had brought art cars, dance troupes, bands and fire twirlers, with attendance steadily growing. They usually pitched the events around themes that jibed with their unusual mix of the dozen or so stores just west of Yale -- including the home of the bulletproof hair, the...

Woman Hit By Car, Dragged For Miles Police Looking For Truck Driver Posted: 8:53 a.m. CDT June 28, 2002 Updated: 1:22 p.m. CDT June 28, 2002 OKLAHOMA CITY -- A Wayne woman walking on an interstate highway was dragged nearly five miles after being hit by a tractor-trailer rig in Cleveland County, authorities said. Michelle Fincher, 31, was killed about 11 p.m. Thursday while trying to walk across Interstate 35 in Moore, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. Fincher was hit by a car traveling south, then was knocked under the trailer of a semi, troopers said. Authorities were searching...

It has been my practice for the past seven years to use the words and written material from any group or organization to try and show the American people that the blueprint for the destruction of our nation and our God-given rights is right in front of their eyes - if they would just look. The following is a short excerpt taken from the web site of The Wildlands Project, http://www.wildlandsproject.org/ The Wildlands Project The goal of the Wildlands Project is to set aside approximately 50% of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as "wild land" for the preservation of...

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To get a sense of how compromised and politicized climate science has become, you don't have to look far. Just examine the lengths to which key documents were doctored to distort public perceptions. The most recent example to come to light regards The National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, or NAS, for short. The NAS, developed during the Clinton administration, attempted to forecast what will happen if global warming occurs. It has served as the basis for parts of a National Academy of Sciences' report to President Bush last year on the state of climate...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, June 28, 2002 WASHINGTON - An unusual right-left coalition, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Eagle Forum, today told the House of Representatives that legislation to standardize drivers' licenses across the country represents a backdoor route to a national identification system. "Congress should realize that a national ID - in any form - is little more than a superficial, ineffective quick fix that would provide the American public with a false sense of security," said Katie Corrigan, an ACLU Legislative Counsel. "This bill would implement an ineffective and expensive system that threatens freedom in...

Against Capitalism "We already have too much economic growth in the United States. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure." -Paul Elrich, Stanford University biologist and Advisor to Vice President Albert Gore "I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecological society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under capitalism." [Judi Barri of Earth First? quoted by Walter Williams, cloumnists with Heritage Features][Syndicate, State Journal Register, June 25, 1992] "The immediate source of ecological crisis is...

<p>Dick Gephardt's appalled. Tom Daschle's chagrined. Congress, in general, is at wit's end.</p> <p>It's time for us to do something, they say. WorldCom. Enron. Global Crossing. Enough.</p> <p>Here's what I say: not so fast. Before you start policing other peoples' books, police your own.</p>

Iraq: Pentagon Plan the Last One Standing 28 June 2002 Summary Retired Gen. Wayne Downing, a key figure in the debate over how to fight Iraq, has resigned, leaving a clearer path for a Pentagon proposal nicknamed "Desert Storm Lite." But even without the opposition posed by Downing, the Pentagon's plan for ousting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein may prove unworkable. Analysis Gen. Wayne Downing, who was brought out of retirement after Sept. 11 to serve as a deputy national security adviser, resigned suddenly from the anti-terrorism position on June 27. Downing, who was a four-star Army general and the former...

Most years I would be spending part of the Fourth of July in Show Low, walking in the annual Independence Day parade. Now that celebration is marred by the devastation of the Rodeo-Chediski fire. Of course, even absent this catastrophe, this year's gathering promised to be more somber than usual, proceeding in the shadow of the September 11 by al-Qaeda terrorists. -More-

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On my return from a recent visit to the United States, I was flooded with inquiries from people who wanted to know more about the situation there. They asked if I experienced any inconvenience during my stay and how the American people viewed us in Saudi Arabia in the light of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Well, since those tragic events, the US is no longer the country we used to know. Americans, too, now view us differently. And the simple act of traveling to America has become an adventure in itself, one that merits being...

Hart recovering from stroke By ERIC FRANCIS -- Calgary Sun CALGARY -- Five days before his 45th birthday, Bret (Hitman) Hart lies in a Calgary hospital fighting to regain use of his left arm and leg following a stroke. The former wrestling star had the left side of his body paralyzed on Monday when he suffered a blood clot in his brain seconds before or after he fell off his bicycle. Hart, who wasn't wearing a helmet, landed on his head but was able to call for help on his cell phone despite having lost feeling in his left side....

Beating what's likely to be the Democratic war drum in this year's elections, Al Gore blamed the nation's economic scandals — from Enron to WorldCom — last night on President Bush's economic policies. "You see now what it means to have an administration that's that committed to fighting and working on behalf of the powerful, and letting the people of this country get the short end of the stick," Gore told more than 200 supporters at a Manhattan fund-raiser. It was his strongest attack yet on Bush's economic policies and a preview of the likely Democratic strategy for November's elections....

Executive Summary Introduction Late on the night of 17/18 April 2002, a section from "A" Company, 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia?s Canadian Light Infantry BG (3 PPCLI BG) were conducting a live-fire exercise in the vicinity of Kandahar, Afghanistan, when they were mistakenly engaged by two American F-16 fighter aircraft. At the time of the attack, the two aircraft were returning to their home base in the Arabian Gulf area after a long patrol over Afghanistan. As they transited through the Kandahar region, ground fire from the Tarnak Farm Multi-Purpose Range Complex (hereafter abbreviated as the Tarnak Farm Range) attracted their...