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 Weekday Commentary from Jim Puplava Home Gold Slamming!Also see:  Manipulation of the Markets  Musical Chairs by Jim Puplava6/28 Update Introduce our newFSO Resource PageClyde Harrison Raw Materials: Economics 101Jim RogersWhy Raw Materials?   Nyquist Column 6/24The Coming Attack  Friday's Market Scoreboard  June 28, 2002  Dow Industrials 26.66 9243.26  Dow Utilities 4.63 273.88  Dow Transports 37.77 2730.32  S & P 500 0.82 989.82  Nasdaq 5.78 1464.98  US Dollar to Yen 119.655  US Dollar to Euro .9913  Gold 5.7 313.9  Silver 0.04 4.855  Oil -- 26.86  CRB Index 1.46 209.29  Natural Gas 0.01 3.245 All market indexes The Week in Graphs...

The US Supreme Court has narrowly decided, by a vote of five justices to four, that state funds can be used to pay for religious schools. The ruling is a victory for the religious right, which wants the biblical story of creation taught in schools instead of evolution. At issue was a programme in Cleveland, Ohio that allows students from poor families to attend private schools instead of state-funded public schools, using state-funded tuition "vouchers" of up to $2500. Supporters said the scheme would give parents a choice of schools they could not otherwise afford, in a city where public...

A controversial novel by German academic Martin Walser has sold out on its first day of publication in Germany. Tod eines Kritikers, Death of a critic, was called anti-Semitic by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper when it dropped plans to print extracts of the book. A spokesman at the Berlin bookstore Dussmann said his store had ordered "three times as many copies as for best-selling authors like John Grisham". "People undoubtedly want to see for themselves if the book is anti-Semitic," the spokesman said. Walser has said he never thought the book could apply to the Holocaust, as his critics maintain....

Well, it's hitting the mainstream.

Former Manson disciple Leslie Van Houten was denied parole Friday after a hearing in which she pleaded for her freedom, saying will always bear the sorrow of the cult murders that landed her in prison 33 years ago. It was Van Houten's 14th appearance before the parole board, and it had been considered her best chance yet of winning release. A judge earlier this month strongly admonished the board for flatly turning her down every time based solely on the crime, without taking into account her accomplishments in prison. "My heart aches and there seems to be no way to...

Every Saturday, for the past 21 weeks, protesters have assembled in this very spot to demonstrate against FBI and INS (Immigration Service) detention of over 2,200 Arab and Pakistani immigrants since 9/11. Caramel coloured clouds hanging atop Brooklyn Prison and Detention Centre lend a sober sight to a treeless, flowerless and a friendless neighbourhood. Dog-dirt strewn across the pavement emits a fowl smell, while the desolate structures all around look like a wild west movie set. An odd immigrant shopkeeper shuffles around, eyes downcast, lost in his weary shack. The silence is eerie. Unbelievable that only 10 subway stops away...

A priest was recently asked about priestly celibacy on a network television program.Sad to say, he responded by nonchalantly stating that the celibacy requirement for priests was only instituted about 800 years ago - "to keep property out of the hands of family heirs."If that were true, celibacy would be worse than wrong.Why a cleric with virtually no critical competence should have been called on as a "spokesman" for the Church can only be explained by the network. The man himself made things worse by his off-handedness.The history of celibacy, as it has been subject to intense scholarly review in...

Israel's first astronaut said on Friday that he has no particular worries about security as he prepares to venture into space aboard a U.S. space shuttle in the coming weeks. "It's going to be my first flight, hopefully not my last flight," said Ilan Ramon, an Israeli Air Force colonel and part of the crew for a 16-day science mission on shuttle Columbia. Columbia's flight has been postponed several times, most recently on Tuesday, when the July 19 launch date was scratched after NASA announced engine cracks had been discovered on Columbia and sister shuttle Atlantis. Tests on Columbia are...

KfallsArizona Fire - Personal ReportThu Jun 27 10:43:09 2002152.163.201.69 Subject: FIRES: Re: Fires Burning in America - from buckland Folks,Here is another *personal report* from the FIRES zone. Pay attention to these personal reports - they seldom make the major media and are not subject to some reporter/editors spin. Many thanks to all who have taken the time to let us know the true story going on.Jackie JunttiWGEN idzrus@earthlink.net To: idzrus@earthlink.netDate: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:39:15 -0600Subject: Fw: Re: Fires Burning in AmericaFrom: gary l buckland Dear Jackie - It is a hobby of mine to "flip over" a lot...

Celebrity news from the United Kingdom: In April, Germaine Greer, the Australian feminist and author of The Female Eunuch, was leaving her house in East Anglia, when a young woman accosted her, forced her back inside, tied her up, smashed her glasses, and then set about demolishing her ornaments with a poker. A couple of weeks before that, the 85-year-old mother of Phil Collins, the well-known rock star, was punched in the ribs, the back, and the head on a West London street, before her companion was robbed. "That's what you have to expect these days," she said, philosophically. Anthea...

The British Government has backed plans for free condoms and contraceptive pills to be made available in secondary schools, in a campaign to halve the number of teenage pregnancies in Britain by 2010. Britain's rate of teenage pregnancies is the highest in western Europe and the second highest in the developed world. The Public Health Minister, Hazel Blears, gave the first official blessing for school-based health clinics offering a full range of contraception, advice on sexual health, and counselling for bullying and stress. The decision follows experiments in about 20 schools. The Department of Health said improved availability of contraception...

NATO's New Mission is Fighting Terrorism, Robertson Says Speech June 20 in Washington by NATO Secretary General NATO understands how the world has changed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, says Secretary General Lord Robertson, and "that's why we are moving forward with a sense of urgency to retool the Alliance to tackle terrorism." Speaking to an internationally diverse audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington June 20, Robertson said terrorism "has mutated from a nation-specific problem of law enforcement into a lethal threat to national security and international stability. The willingness of today's terrorists, and their backers...

We all have a novel in us but Saddam Hussein, it turns out, has at least three. In between murdering his own people, shifting from bunker to bunker and defying George W. Bush, the Iraqi dictator has found time to write (or, more likely, dictate) a fictional trilogy. These works have been devoured with equal eagerness by members of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council and the CIA. Last week all three novels were placed on the compulsory curriculum of every Iraqi school. Qusai, Saddam’s killer son and presumed heir, liked them so much he bought 250,000 copies. Every Iraqi province...

Like a scorpion in a bottle, assisted by some external intervention, the dollar fought yesterday to avoid parity with the euro. It closed in London at 0.9862, a rate which sounds like one for one to the layman and which may well be realised in practice next week. The dollar has fallen against other major currencies pretty consistently since February 1. That slide, while notable, is not catastrophic. The greenback is stronger than it was four years ago. While the workings of the foreign exchange markets might seem arcane, this movement is at least as important as other economic stories...

Commentary: Joe Bob's week in reviewBy Joe Bob Briggs NEW YORK, June 28 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court ruled that only juries, not judges, are authorized to give people the needle, the gas, the bullet, the noose or the jolt. It makes it easier on the condemned, who goes to his death knowing that his non-existence was desired unanimously. Ann Landers died at age 83, sensibly. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declared that all American currency printed at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco must include the phrase "In a Non-Specific Yet Loving Deity We Provisionally Trust." "The...

Blast destroys most of Hebron's Palestinian HQ: military radioThe Israeli army blew up the bulk of the Palestinian Authority's main compound in Hebron where diehard Palestinian militants had been trapped by the Israeli army for four days, Israeli military radio said, adding that Palestinians may have been killed in the building. Army bulldozers cleared away debris so soldiers could search what was left standing of the security and administrative complex, known as the "muqataa", the radio said. Witnesses said the building had caught fire after a powerful explosion, while shots could be heard and helicopters buzzed overhead, witnesses said from...

- HOUSTON — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former ambulance driver who claimed he was wrongfully fired after stopping for doughnuts while transporting a patient to a hospital. U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal granted the city's request and dismissed all of Larry Wesley's discrimination and equal-protection claims earlier this week. Wesley, who is black, alleged that he was treated unfairly because of his race. In his lawsuit, Wesley claimed EMS drivers of other races caught making unscheduled stops were not fired or were later reinstated. Rosenthal ruled that Wesley's claims that other employees received lesser...

NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- The commanding officer of the Little Creek-based dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46), Cmdr. Brian Shanahan, and the ship's executive officer Lt. Cmdr. Byron Tracy, were relieved of duty June 19 by Commander, Amphibious Group 2, Rear Adm. Kevin Moran. Based on the preliminary results of an ongoing official investigation, Moran relieved the two officers for the grounding of the ship off the North Carolina coast near Morehead City the night of June 6. The grounding occurred about 1,000 yards off the coast. No one was injured, nor does the ship require any repairs. At...