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President Roosevelt personally ordered covert surveillance on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor during the second world war after receiving intelligence that the duchess had been passing secrets to a top Nazi with whom she was alleged to have had a tempestous affair, according to documents released to the Guardian by the FBI. The damning dossier - released for the first time by the intelligence agency - shows that the main reason why the Americans thought the abdication of Edward VIII had taken place in 1936 was because the duchess fervently supported the Nazi regime and this was totally unacceptable...

June 28 — Government officials will discuss boosting the national color-coded terror alert from yellow to the more critical orange during next week's Fourth of July holiday festivities, law enforcement sources told ABCNEWS. The current Homeland Security Color Advisory Code of yellow indicates that federal authorities believe there is a serious, increased and predictable threat of terrorist activity. Orange indicates that a terrorist threat is more critical and may be likely to be carried out. Under orange, armed forces and law enforcement agencies coordinate various security measures as extra precautions are taken at public events. Law enforcement officials prepare to...

A racially charged row has erupted over plans for an "apartheid Berlin Wall" outside Cape Town, where residents want to fence off a poor black residential area from a predominantly white one. The wall is due to be built in Kraaifontein, a working class area between Cape Town and the university town of Stellenbosch. Residents want the 340-metre (1,115-foot) wall to separate their largely white community from about 8,500 low-cost houses being built in neighbouring Wallacedene. Mcebisi Skwatsha of the African National Congress calls the wall "appalling, wrong and immoral", and has vowed to try to get its construction blocked...

SO, PYRAMIDS, OR SOMETHING ELSE? A joint expedition of Russian and Uzbek archaeologists has discovered several ancient pyramids in Uzbekistan. According to the scientists, these 15-metre-high constructions concealed for human eyes may be at least 2,700 years old. The ancient pyramids were discovered in a remote mountains area, in Kashkadaryin and Samarkand regions, in the south of the country, BBC reports. Archaeologists state that the discovered pyramids are similar to that ones of Giza, Egypt, though in contrast of them, Uzbek pyramids they have a flat surface. According to the experts, thanks to their remoteness, the pyramids were not taken...

Border deal targets refugees By ALLAN WOODS Canada will be allowed to reject refugee claimants coming across the border from the United States as a result of an agreement signed Friday by Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and U.S. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. The safe third-country accord will also help ensure that terrorists cannot slip across the border into either country, a fear that gained prominence in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. "We're well on our way to a smart border for the 21st century," Mr. Manley said at a news conference on...

President Bush announced today that he will undergo a colonoscopy tomorrow at Camp David, a routine checkup after doctors found benign polyps a few years ago. The procedure will mark the first time there has been a transfer of power to the Vice President while a President has been sedated for a medical procedure. When asked how he feels, the President said that he felt fine and was looking forward to an afternoon of exercise, after the procedure is done. Earlier in the day, Bush attended a fundraiser for Rep. Connie Morella, R-Md. Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya! Full...

Editorial:A September 11th Hijacking: How 'Gay' Activists Smeared Father Mychal Judge Close Friend: 'He Was a Celibate Catholic Priest and Nothing More.' By Dennis Lynch Victims of the September 11 hijackers were not just people. One victim of the September 11 terrorists was the truth about a Catholic priest. This is the story of how homosexual activists hijacked the truth about Father Mychal Judge. The Father Mike We Knew By now, nearly everyone in America knows the story of Father Mike. He was born May 11, 1933, and ordained as a Franciscan priest on February 25, 1961. He died September...

Friday, June 28, 2002 12:21 p.m. EDTArafat Using Sex Video to Seduce New 'Martyrs' Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat began using a soft-core sex video on Thursday to entice new "martyrs" to the cause of killing Israelis. Arafat's state-run Palestinian Broadcast Company debuted the sexy promotional film aimed at would-be suicide bombers, with footage that shows how Palestinian martyrs will be serviced by six dozen anxious-to-please virgins in the afterlife. The video, which preceded Thursday's 3 p.m. afternoon news, shows a young Palestinian man walking with his girlfriend as he spies some Israeli soldiers off in the distance. According to...

Decoding Indus Valley script TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2002 12:57:48 AM ] ALLAHABAD: Director, Robertson Medical Institute and Ayurveda Ratna Gopalji Agarwal on Tuesday said he had deciphered the much-elusive Indus script which, he claimed, would prove historic in the realm of world history and civilisation. In his latest discovery Mysteries of the world history unfolded, Agarwal told Times News Network that deciphering the Indus script would lead to genetic and radical changes in the current world history books. He said his discovery had brought to surface mysteries shrouding Indus archaeological finds. He said interpretation of all...

Election Day is November 5, 2002. Please, Florida, do not forget the HATRED FOR THE CONSTITUTION the Supreme Court of Florida exhibited in November and December of the year 2000. From the SCOFFLAWS website, there is a clear chance for you to replace three of the seven Kangaroo Court Justices: Merit retention is a system of selecting Justices established by the voters when they amended the Florida Constitution in the 1970s. Under merit retention, the Governor appoints new Justices from a list of three to six names submitted by a Judicial Nominating Commission. The Governor must select from the list....

Union Misrepresents PMA’s Position on Benefits; Violates Media Blackout Agreement in Releasing Statement to News Organizations SAN FRANCISCO (June 26, 2002) – The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which has a representative observing the contract negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), violated an agreed upon media blackout by releasing misinformation to the news media today regarding the PMA’s benefits proposal to the ILWU. Furthermore, the ILWU today informed the PMA that it was unilaterally lifting the media blackout. In response, PMA’s Negotiating Committee Chairman Ray Holbrook strongly urged ILWU President Jim...

In the early morning of April 5, in the West Bank town of Tubas, an elderly man was milking his goats in his olive grove when he heard the whining of an unmanned drone in the sky. He looked up and saw Israeli special forces emerging from behind some trees on the nearby hillside and from cars with Palestinian plates to surround a small stone house that belonged to his son. ''Jaish, jaish'' (''army, army''), he shouted to his son, and told him to send his wife and daughter down the slope. He did not suggest that his son, Munqas...

News Flash: U.S. House of Representatives Says Alexander Graham Bell Did Not Invent the Telephone By HNN Staff Mail it to a friend "Bell, Alexander Graham (b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1847; d. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1922), inventor of telephone." Dictionary of American Biography "Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the life and achievements of Antonio Meucci should be recognized, and his work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged." United States House of Representatives, June 11, 2002 On June 11, to little fanfare, the United State House of Representatives declared that the...

Catholic World News CWNews DAILY NEWS BRIEF for JUNE 28, 2002 © Copyright 2002 Domus Enterprises US Senator Becomes Catholic Convert WASHINGTON, Jun 28, 02 (CWNews.com) -- Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas was received into the Catholic Church on Thursday. Senator Brownback, who was raised on a family farm in Kansas, entered the legal profession, then was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1994. Two years later, he was elected to fill the Senate seat that became vacant when Bob Dole became Vice President. Senator Brownback was received into the Catholic Church in a ceremony at the Catholic...

AFTER eight decades of fumbling with hooks on brassieres, French women are being offered a technical breakthrough — a soutien-gorge that fastens with magnets and undoes with a twist. The gesture is so easy that it should transform the lives of the 80 per cent of women who put their bras on back to front and then pull them around, the makers say. The makers, Bolero, also see advantages for the Gallic male: no more struggling with le crochet récalcitrant. “Men have always found the fastening system to be barbaric,” a spokeswoman said. Georges Chetochine, a behavioural consultant who advised...

Viking treasure hoard yields astounding finds 06/24/2002 STOCKHOLM: Four years ago, a farmer digging in his fields in Sweden's Baltic island of Gotland came across a Viking coin. He called a friend from the local museum, and together they soon uncovered another 150 Viking relics. But the crops growing in the fields hindered their work and they gave up. The following summer, with crops that year infected by lice, they resumed their search - and on July 16, 1999, came across the biggest Viking-period treasure hoard so far discovered. It had been lying there for about 1,100 years. The Spillings...

MILWAUKEE, Jun 28, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- The Grateful Dead will live again. The Walworth County board voted 5-0 Friday to allow the band to hold a reunion concert Aug. 3-4. It will be the first time band members Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir have played in concert since the 1995 death of Jerry Garcia, the Dead's leader. The County Highway Committee initially rejected a concert permit fearing it would cause health, safety and police problems by attracting 200,000 people to a venue that can only hold about 35,000. But the band's promoter,...

A LOW-FAT French cheese has been greeted with outrage by the country’s traditional cheesemongers, who see it as an attack on a centuries-old way of life. The Fine Bouche cheese boasts of its role in the fight against cardiovascular disease but it has had the opposite effect on purists, whose blood-pressure is soaring as they spring to the defence of France’s old-fashioned high-fat, high-taste fromage. They are furious at the implication that if Fine Bouche is good for you, other cheeses are not. The debate is political and cultural, pitting the French art de vivre against what is seen as...

Ted Nugent Getting back to school, getting back to school, I remember a teacher that I had. Now I only wee, I went, I went through the seventh grade, I went through the seventh grade. I left home when I was 10 years old because I was hungry. (laughter) And .. this is true. I worked in the Summer and went to school in the Winter. But, I had this one teacher, he was the principal of the Harrison school, in Vincennes Indiana. To me, this was the greatest teacher, a real sage of..of my time, anyhow. He had such...

In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful CAIR ACTION ALERT #335 OPPOSE SANCTIONS BILL THAT HARMS AMERICANS AND SYRIANS (WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/20/02) - CAIR is urging on Muslims and other people of conscience to take a few minutes and contact their elected representatives in opposition to a new counterproductive bill being considered by Congress, the "Syria Accountability Act of 2002." The House bill number is HR4483 and the Senate bill number is S2215. They are nearly identical in terms of imposing possible trade sanctions and downgrading of diplomatic relations. The proposed legislation is not in America's best interest....