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Documents obtained by several journalistic investigations reveal that Lafarge has paid taxes to the terror group to operate its cement plant in Syria, and even bought Isis oil for years. Lafarge also has close ties to Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Apart from being a regular donor to the Clinton Foundation, Clinton herself was a director of Lafarge in the early 1990s, and did legal work for the firm in the 1980s. During her connection to Lafarge, the firm was implicated in facilitating a CIA-backed covert arms export network to Saddam Hussein.

his statement starts at about 1:20, but at about 1:50 he flat out states that "there was no moderate middle" save for some non-fighters like shopkeepers. He blames our allies for sending weapons and aid to terrorists. His comments certainly imply that the Free Syrian Army was not composed of moderates.

Baylor declined to respond to reports Tuesday that President and Chancellor Kenneth Starr, best known for his investigation of the Clinton administration, has been fired by the Board of Regents in the wake of a sexual assault scandal involving the school and its football team.

I have a brokerage account. A person with the same name as me passed away and the broker transferred all of my shares to his heirs. What legal actions can I take? What rights do I have? Anybody in the financial industry that can weigh in...it would be appreciated. Thanks

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence...

A nice little ditty parodying Obamamania

"...the idea that we're going to keep incarcerating, keep incarcerating...pretty soon we're not going have a young African-American male population in America. They're all going to be in prison or dead, one of the two"

One of two brothers struck by a hit-and-run driver outside a Mattydale bar died from his injures Sunday morning and the other brother is fighting for his life. Gerald A. Masterpol, 24, Mattydale, died at 10:45 a.m. at University Hospital, where he was rushed after the incident at 2 a.m. Saturday, deputies said. His brother, Jeffrey T. Masterpol, 23, remained in critical condition Sunday night at the hospital, a spokeswoman said. Michael J. Henderson, 20, of 4312 Heritage Drive, Clay, was charged Saturday with three counts of first-degree assault. Deputies said Henderson and Richard Gillings, 24, of Mattydale got into...

Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with firsthand knowledge of the matter. The administration has refused to provide the Sept. 21 President's Daily Brief, even on a classified basis, and won't say anything more about it...

>PATRICK J. FITZGERALDUNITED STATES ATTORNEYNORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOISPREPARED REMARKS FOR THESUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME, TERRORISM, AND HOMELAND SECURITYCOMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARYU.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESAPRIL 28, 2005INTRODUCTIONMr. Chairman, members of the Committee, thank you for asking me here today. I verymuch look forward to this opportunity to discuss with you how the efforts of the United StatesAttorney’s Offices in the investigation and prosecution of terrorists have changed since thepassage of the USA PATRIOT Act (“Patriot Act”) and, in particular, section 218 of the PatriotAct which helped to dismantle what was formerly known as “the wall” between intelligence andlaw enforcement.I will state up...

<p>WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 - State Department analysts warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Osama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him an even more dangerous haven as he sought to expand radical Islam "well beyond the Middle East," but the government chose not to deter the move, newly declassified documents show.</p>

does anybody have a url's for the various "link collections" pertaining to the scandals of the clinton years - chinagate, filegate, etc

At Least 3 Dead, 4 Wounded In Nightclub Shooting Witnesses: Alleged Gunman Went Onto Stage, Fired Shots POSTED: 10:32 pm EST December 8, 2004 UPDATED: 11:36 pm EST December 8, 2004 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At least three people died and four others were wounded after a shooting at a Columbus nightclub on Wednesday night, NBC 4 reported. The shooting took place shortly after 10 p.m. at Alrosa Villa, located at 5055 Sinclair Road. Two members of the heavy metal band Damageplan were reportedly shot and killed, including Dimebag Darrell, formerly with the band Pantera, NBC 4's David Wayne reported. The...

In recent weeks, The Heinz Endowments has been accused of using its funding of the Tides Center of Western Pennsylvania to advance a laundry list of partisan causes and fringe political groups. This accusation is simply wrong. It originated in an opinion column written by a researcher for the conservative, Washington, D.C.-based Capital Research Center. The crux of CRC’s argument is that money directed by the Endowments to Tides is "fungible." By supporting projects through Tides, CRC alleged that Heinz has secretly funneled money to every other organization that has ever received funding through Tides Center and the separate Tides...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just weeks before Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement received several warnings that Islamic terrorists were seeking to strike on American soil and that a likely target was government buildings, documents show. The information, though it was never linked to McVeigh, was stark enough that the Clinton administration urged stepped up security patrols and screening at federal buildings nationwide, including those in Oklahoma. The government, however, didn't fortify buildings with cement barriers like those hurriedly installed after McVeigh detonated his explosive-laden truck at the curb of the Murrah...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- For the second year in a row, the State Department warned that South Asia "remained a focal point for terrorism directed against the United States" and said trends in terrorism continue to shift from the Middle East to South Asia.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- For the second year in a row, the State Department warned that South Asia "remained a focal point for terrorism directed against the United States" and said trends in terrorism continue to shift from the Middle East to South Asia.</p>

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The wife of U.S. Senate candidate Rick Lazio radioed medical advice to bystanders after a police officer on duty at her husband's debate Wednesday had a seizure. "No one around knew what to do so one of our advance people got on his radio and called for help," Lazio campaign spokesman Dan McLagan said. "One of the people who was close to Rick and Pat handed the radio to Pat and she talked the people through first aid procedures until help arrived." Pat Lazio is a registered nurse with a masters degree in nursing sciences, McLagan ...

If Robert Novak's syndicated column yesterday about the Fed is even partly correct -- and I believe it is -- then financial markets could be in for a bumpier near-term ride than most folks think. And certainly bumpier than our inflation-less prosperity deserves. The estimable Mr. Novak, who is surely the most influential conservative journalist around, and quite possibly the number one media commentator of his generation, believes that Alan Greenspan is being pressured by President Clinton's Fed appointees into a new tightening cycle that will be much more aggressive than the Chairman wants. Greenspan reportedly preferred only a ...

I don't usually comment on tabloid TV, but this case, and this nitwit jury, really made me mad. i don't want to re-hash the whole case, but here's my take. I strongly believe Mr. Tonkin got away with murder in this case. Mr. Tonkin's defense is that the accident occurred after the girls "lost him." The fallacy of this is proven by the fact that he was at the scene of the accident shortly after it occurred. With a maniac driver on their tail, what were these girls options? If they slowed down or pulled over, God only knows what ...