https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:heyhey/ en-us Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:13:02 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901545/posts North Korea faces naval blockade over nuclear arms The United States is said to be considering a selective shipping blockade against North Korea to prevent the communist state following through on its threat to proliferate nuclear weapons. The Pentagon strategy has been dubbed Cuba Lite, a lesser version of the US blockade during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. The plan is in response to last week's claim by North Korea to the US that it already had nuclear weapons, and was prepared to make a "physical demonstration" of them or "transfer" them to other countries. North Korea also said it... Herald Correspondent https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901545/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:13:02 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901510/posts Spy case to open can of FBI worms Probe into dealings of Los Angeles socialite could expose bureau tactics, lax operations Twelve years ago, a team of U.S. counterintelligence operatives flew into frigid southern Manchuria to assess Chinese spying on American diplomats. Instead, the U.S. agents came to believe their own team was tracked by China's Ministry of State Security every step of their mission, which is still classified today. The first clue was an odd elevator encounter in remote northeast China, an FBI agent bumping into a California nuclear-weapons scientist suspected of stealing neutron bomb secrets. Counterintelligence agents are... newschoice.com/ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901510/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:20:49 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900271/posts Posted on Thu, Apr. 24, 2003 Justice, FBI Settle Lawsuit With Agent WASHINGTON -The FBI and Justice Department have paid a retired FBI agent $85,000 to settle his lawsuit alleging that he was reassigned without justification and his reputation smeared during the Clinton administration, his lawyers said Thursday. Dennis Sculimbrene, who was the senior agent detailed to the White House during the Clinton years, said he was forced out of his job and into early retirement in 1996 during the FBI files affair. A memorandum he wrote years earlier appeared to tie Hillary Clinton to the hiring of Craig Livingstone,... Associated Press https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900271/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:57:59 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899598/posts <p>The offer was nothing less than a guaranteed ticket to America.</p> <p>There would be no months spent waiting for paperwork, no haggling with immigration officials, no lines at the embassy, no phony documents. Just an open door to the land of plenty.</p> freep.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899598/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:06:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899519/posts <p>The offer was nothing less than a guaranteed ticket to America.</p> <p>There would be no months spent waiting for paperwork, no haggling with immigration officials, no lines at the embassy, no phony documents. Just an open door to the land of plenty.</p> freep.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899519/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:09:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898807/posts IMF has not set date for technical mission to Iraq WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it has not set a date for sending a technical assistance mission to Iraq and the institution has compiled no "checklist" of events that must happen before it sends one. Earlier this month, IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler said sending a team to the country would be "a first step" in the fund's involvement in rebuilding the country. "I do not have a time for a mission. We are continuing to work both internally with the fund and... reuters.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898807/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:44:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895921/posts <p>WASHINGTON - Weeks after testifying at a court hearing in a Kentucky murder, FBI scientist Kathleen Lundy told her superiors that she had knowingly given false testimony about her specialty of lead bullet analysis.</p> <p>In an e-mail likely to be used against her, now that she has been charged by Kentucky authorities on a charge of misdemeanor false swearing, Lundy wrote her superior: ''I had to admit that it was worse than being evasive or not correcting the record. It was simply not telling the truth.''</p> Associated Press https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895921/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:54:49 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895910/posts Homeland Security Names First Privacy Czar Nuala O'Connor Kelly, currently the privacy officer and chief counsel for the Department of Commerce's Technology Administration, has been named the nation's first privacy czar at the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to joining the government, she was the privacy officer for online ad firm DoubleClick. At DHS, O'Connor Kelly will be responsible for privacy development and enforcement, including oversight authority of the controversial Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II (CAPPS II) program at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). When Congress created the DHS last year, it required that the new department... dc.internet.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/895910/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:30:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889097/posts Time for the US to Get Out of the United Nations Summary: The propaganda surrounding the UN is such that most people are still blithely unaware that the United Nations wants to impose its own tax on all financial transactions, exercise total power over land use throughout the world, require everyone to carry a national or international identity card, require population control, and has even instituted its own court to prosecute anyone for whatever it deems to be crimes "against humanity." In addition, the UN wants its own independent military forces. [CAPITALISM MAGAZINE.COM] Here’s a suggestion. Let’s take the millions... Capitalism Magazine https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/889097/posts#comment Wed, 9 Apr 2003 17:44:46 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/873250/posts Challenges of Policing a Multi-Ethnic Community Listen to Capella Tucker's report (RealAudio) Immigration is a driving force behind population growth in the United States and much more culturally diverse residents are changing the way cities conduct every day business - from education, to commerce, to law enforcement. Capella Tucker explains how the police department in Houston, Texas is finding new ways to reach into immigrant communities. Although immigrants live in communities all across the United States, new arrivals tend to cluster in so-called 'gateway cities'--primarily Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, and Houston. Of these, Houston has had... www.voanews.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/873250/posts#comment Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:00:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/822026/posts Researchers Tie Worldwide Biodiversity Threats To Growth In Households ARLINGTON, Virginia - Scientists from Michigan State (MSU) and Stanford universities, in a fresh look at world population dynamics, have revealed evidence that increased numbers of households, even where populations are declining, are having a vast impact on the world's biodiversity and environment. Reduction in household size has led to a rapid rise in household numbers around the world and has posed serious challenges to biodiversity conservation, write Jianguo (Jack) Liu of MSU and Stanford colleagues Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich and Gary W. Luck in the Jan. 12 advance... National Science Foundation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/822026/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:35:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/822022/posts <p>HARRISBURG, Pa. - A tax protester who allegedly promotes a bogus legal loophole to convince people they owe no taxes was ordered by a federal judge to stop the practice and turn over his clients' records.</p> <p>The order came Friday in the government's effort to force Thurston Bell of Hanover to stop giving clients allegedly false tax advice and charging large fees for filing tax returns.</p> Associated Press https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/822022/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:26:05 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/820585/posts By Walter F. Roche Jr. A federal immigration judge who presides over sensitive visa and deportation cases sought a financial partnership with a Virginia firm whose clients could end up before him in court, according to a tape recording seized in a government raid. Judge D. Anthony Rogers' conduct appears to violate federal conflict of interest regulations and prompted a memo in March from an investigator for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service expressing exasperation that Rogers remains on the bench in Dallas. baltimore sun https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/820585/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:45:12 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/819758/posts Expert: 'Not a safe vaccine' Smallpox inoculation still too risky for public, doctor says By Jim Erickson, Rocky Mountain News January 6, 2003 President Bush shouldn't have offered the smallpox vaccine to the American public last month because it's still too risky, a leading authority on adverse reactions to the inoculation says. "President Bush said that any civilian who wanted it could have it. I think that was a mistake, frankly," Dr. Vincent A. Fulginiti said Friday. He spoke at Children's Hospital in Denver. "This is not a safe vaccine for the general public because of all the complications," Fulginiti... Rocky Mountain News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/819758/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jan 2003 18:47:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/812221/posts Federal judge stays order to remove Ten Commandments Montgomery, Alabama-AP -- A Ten Commandments monument can remain in the Alabama Judicial Building a while longer. Federal Judge Myron Thompson has stayed the injunction he issued last week requiring Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore to remove the monument by January third. Thompson says he issued the stay to give a federal appeals court time to review his finding that the monument is unconstitutional. Moore said he installed the monument because he believes that the Ten Commandments provide the moral foundation for American law. . Associated Press. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/812221/posts#comment Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:36:57 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/812220/posts Nearly half of new U.S. senators, representatives are millionaires WASHINGTON — Close to half the incoming members of Congress are millionaires, and many will face votes that could affect their financial holdings. For example, 11 of the 63 first-termers in the House and Senate have financial interests of at least $15,000 in banking or credit-card companies, including bank directorships, according to an Associated Press review of financial-disclosure forms filed during the campaign. One issue the next Congress is expected to tackle would make it harder for consumers to declare bankruptcy, a bill pushed by the banking industry. Millionaire freshmen Senators:... Associated Press https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/812220/posts#comment Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:26:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/809557/posts 2 Senators Say State Department Could Have Prevented 9-11 Attacks WASHINGTON -- The State Department's failure to follow its own rules for issuing visas allowed the Sept. 11 attacks to happen, two top Republicans senators said Wednesday. Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona and Pat Roberts of Kansas said in a report that "the answer to the question -- could 9-11 have been prevented -- is yes, if State Department personnel had merely followed the law and not granted non-immigrant visas to 15 of the 19 hijackers in Saudi Arabia." There was no comment from the State Department. In the past,... ASSOCIATED PRESS https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/809557/posts#comment Fri, 20 Dec 2002 02:57:54 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/808801/posts Anti-Discrimination Bill OK'd in NY Senate New York Senate Approves Bill Barring Discrimination Against Gays; Gov. Says He'll Sign It ALBANY, N.Y. Dec. 17 — The New York Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would outlaw discrimination against homosexuals in the state, and the governor promised he'd sign it. The state Assembly approved the measure in January as it has annually since 1993. Gov. George Pataki received an endorsement for re-election from Empire State Pride Agenda, the largest gay and lesbian group in the state, after the Republican state Senate said in October it would take up the anti-bias bill.... Associated Press https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/808801/posts#comment Wed, 18 Dec 2002 20:43:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/806689/posts Europe's ISPs Overrun with Website Take-Down Orders LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's Internet service providers (ISPs) say they are overwhelmed by a barrage of requests to take from their networks Web sites that violate copyright or contain defamatory statements. Under the E-Commerce Directive, a European Union (news - web sites) law enacted this year, ISPs are compelled to remove from their computer servers Web sites that carry copyright-protected materials such as films, songs and pictures, or those that contain libels or so-called hate speech. In the case of copyright concerns, the law is primarily designed to protect media companies who have... Reuters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/806689/posts#comment Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:32:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/806165/posts NAFTA could trump water regulation ANALYSTS SAY INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAWS COULD DICTATE CONTROL OF KAWC ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, W.Va. - International trade laws could undermine state efforts to regulate water distribution by the German conglomerate hoping to buy Kentucky-American Water Co, some legal and water-policy analysts argue. Last week, the West Virginia state attorney general's office asked its Public Service Commission to temporarily vacate an order permitting West Virginia-American Water Co.'s New Jersey-based parent to be sold for $4.6 billion to Thames Water. Lexington-based Kentucky-American is included in the deal. Thames is a British subsidiary of the German firm RWE... ASSOCIATED PRESS https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/806165/posts#comment Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:30:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/806139/posts Trade Pact Concerns Textile Industry WASHINGTON - Some Southern lawmakers, anxious to protect their states' struggling clothing and textile industries, fear they may have bartered away their best leverage when they reluctantly voted to broaden President Bush (news - web sites)'s power to negotiate trade pacts. The United States announced this month a trade proposal that would eliminate tariffs over the next 13 years on manufactured goods, including textiles and apparel. The proposal shocked textile businesses and their congressional defenders, including several who agreed to grant Bush trade promotion authority last summer in exchange for renewed protections for textiles, an... Associated Press Writer https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/806139/posts#comment Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:46:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/806134/posts Daschle Says Dems Will Fight Tax Cuts WASHINGTON - Democrats are ready to act quickly on an economic plan designed to help middle-income people and produce immediate results, but will fight the tax cuts the White House is considering, Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle said Thursday. The Bush administration is working on a proposal that is expected to center on tax cuts. Plans to revive the economy are likely to dominate the early weeks of the new Congress that convenes next month. "With our economy stalling, unemployment rising and confidence suffering, it is clear that we need more than new... Associated Press Writer https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/806134/posts#comment Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:37:18 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/801379/posts Pa. Hate-Crime Law Now Includes Sexual Orientation Schweiker Signs Bill Containing New Language HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Pennsylvania's law against ethnic intimidation has been expanded to cover sexual orientation and physical disabilities. Gov. Mark Schweiker signed a bill with the new language on Tuesday. He said it sends a "strong, clear message that Pennsylvania will not tolerate violence against anyone." Already included in the state's definition of ethnic intimidation were color, religion and national origin. The bill adds ancestry, gender or gender identity, mental or physical disabilities and sexual orientation to the definition, and it changes race to include "actual or... Associated Press https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/801379/posts#comment Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:19:11 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/799596/posts <p>President Bush yesterday signed legislation to continue an international wetlands-protection program initiated by his father, President George Bush, to sustain migratory birds.</p> <p>The bill reauthorizes the 1989 North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) for five years to protect rare, threatened and endangered species dependent on wetland ecosystems.</p> THE WASHINGTON TIMES https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/799596/posts#comment Tue, 3 Dec 2002 06:24:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/799410/posts High Tax Republicans Replacing 'Tax and Spend' Dems? WASHINGTON -- A new tax revolt may be in the works. Only this time, the "bad guys" are Republicans. Taxpayers in several states are complaining the GOP politicians they put in office are acting like Democrats when it comes to spending their hard-earned dollars. Nevada is a case study, a microcosm of the political minefield now facing states from coast to coast. Gambling is no longer Nevada's "silver bullet," Nevada Taxpayers Association President Carole Ann Vilardo tells NewsMax.com. And so, a Governor's Task Force (so named even though it was actually created... newsmax.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/799410/posts#comment Tue, 3 Dec 2002 00:25:18 GMT