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In reporting on the state of the nation, I have felt it necessary on previous occasions to advise the Congress of disturbance abroad and of the need of putting our own house in order in the face of storm signals from across the seas. As this Seventy-sixth Congress opens there is need for further warning. A war which threatened to envelop the world in flames has been averted; but it has become increasingly clear that world peace is not assured. All about us rage undeclared wars-military and economic. All about us grow more deadly armaments-military and economic. All about us ...

The Terms of Trade The new triangle trade - US-China-Israel-US The U.S. pays cash to the Chinese for tennis shoes and stuffed animals. The Chinese pay half the cash to the Israelis for advanced weapons systems. The Israelis get advanced weapons and money from the U.S., in return providing the U.S. and various of its citizens a sense of righteousness. Net, the U.S. gets what it wants - Tennis shoes for lumpen footware Stuffed animals for suburbian kiddies A sense of righteousness. The Israelis and the Chinese get what they want - Money and power. Does this mean that the ...

Putin warns of growing inflation threat MOSCOW, April 16 (UPI) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Monday that a larger than expected rise in inflation in the first quarter of this year threatened national economic growth, and urged the government to keep a balanced budget. "In the first quarter, inflation was twice as high as planned. This is one of the key threats," Putin said. Putin admitted the seriousness of the situation, warning finance ministry officials that "inflation is eating up our budget." Russian economic analysts had warned for weeks that Russia's economy was slowing down just as inflation ...

Russia's Putin fired his energy minister amid a fuel crisis that has left thousands freezing in the nation's far east. Meanwhile, the premier ordered the budget reworked to include debt payments to Western lenders. Media tycoon Gusinsky was turned down in a request to travel to Israel. He is being held in Spain on a Russian warrant. Meanwhile, Berezovsky sold his 49% stake in Russia's biggest TV broadcaster to a Putin ally.

The Clinton-Gore Counterrevolution The prospect of tyranny in America. By Michael Ledeen, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Tocqueville on American Character The American Revolution is the only real, and only successful democratic revolution in modern times. The French and Russian "revolutions," so dear to the hearts of the leftists, were monumental failures. The first led quickly to terror, then to Bonapartism, then to the restoration of the monarchy. The second created the most durable tyranny of the twentieth century. The American Revolution created a stable republic that has lasted more than two centuries, and is now ...

After Hours Trading covers active stocks in after regular market trading on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market. This story is released once a day before 7 p.m. U.S. Stock Futures Fall on Florida Court Verdict: After-Hours By William Selway New York, Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock index futures fell in extended trading after the Florida Supreme Court ordered the immediate recounting of thousands of ballots, giving new life to Al Gore's challenge to the state's presidential election tally. March Futures on the Standard & Poor's 500 Index dropped 40 points to 1355.00 after the ...

"Today, the Florida Supreme Court continued its war on the rule of law in Florida by issuing another radical decision on behalf of Al Gore. Four activist Democratic members of the Court assumed the role of elected legislators, county canvassing boards, the Florida Secretary of State, and trial judges in their outrageous, partisan ruling." "Despite the clear rebuke from the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, the Florida Court went even further in provoking an inevitable confrontation with the Florida legislature, and perhaps with Congress. Floridians deserve better." "I hope the U.S. Supreme Court will move quickly to reverse this ...

Stocks Trade Higher as Election News Offers a Boost 12-05-00 09:24 AM EST by Dave Runk | WSJ.com NEW YORK -- Technology stocks led the market higher Tuesday, rebounding from recent losses amid optimism that the U.S. presidential election will be resolved soon following court rulings Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 116 points, or 1.1%, at 10677 at midmorning, after gaining 186.56 points Monday. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 95 points, or 3.6%, at 2710.70 after dropping 29.54 in the previous session. Other major indexes also rose. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was up 17.20 ...

If you want your state legislature to maintain a given suffrage requirement for electors for President, the way you are to do it is to elect state representatives who enact, or once enacted do not change, such a suffrage law. That suffrage law, by our agreements with the citizens of other states besides our own, is to be a law like any other the legislature may change. That is what is necessary to leave the manner of choosing in the constitutional place. What is involved is the federal, constitutional promise of the citizens of Florida (say), to the citizens ...

It is time for Al Gore to concede the presidency to George W. Bush, and to allow the president-elect to get started on the tortuous but crucial task of building an administration: leader, page 17; from one courtroom to the next, page 29; Lexington on the real winners and losers from this election, page 36

So, will they leave peacefully after Gore's suits collapse? This thread is meant to gather signs they won't, but opinions about why they will are also welcome. I have provided a start in some warning signs, and I am interested in the input of other Freepers to add to it. Please, not your theories about other well-known past incidents, especially in cases where everything is in dispute. I am looking for other pieces or clues in the last three weeks in particular. A credible threat assessment requires gathering the intel data; that is what this thread is meant to be ...

The following is a letter I recently sent to Scott Rasmussen about some of the possible fraud issues in this election. The original posts were on another thread. Someone there suggested that they be reposted as an article of their own. I have chosen to post the letter sent, in the "vanity/opinion" section, so that others may see it and comment on it if they wish. Dear sir, Since the election, a number of us at Free Republic have been discussing a theory of events that suggest, among other things, that your pre-election polling results might have been more accurate ...

Pardon, this is not an article but a news report on WLS in Chicago, an ABC station. In the 11:00 AM News (right before Rush) they reported comments from former U.S. Senator from Illinois Paul Simon. Simon praised the conciliatory tone of W's speech, said it was not premature for Bush to be working on the transition, said that the process had already dragged on long enough and that it needed to end. He apparently stopped just short of explicitly calling on Gore to conceed, but the meaning of his comments was clear. Simon, a past Democratic Senator from Illinois, ...

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China: Struggling over Massive Bank Debt 2240 GMT, 001027 The People’s Bank of China has released statistics on bank debt that are more pessimistic than previous official statements. According to Xie Ping, the bank’s director of policy research, Chinese financial institutions will need to write off an estimated 2.5 trillion yuan ($300 billion) in unrecoverable loans. This sum is equivalent to 31 percent of annual gross domestic product. The comments are significant for several reasons. First, they suggest Beijing is abandoning efforts to minimize the scale of China’s forthcoming bank bailout. The 31 percent of GDP is in the same ...

Arafat's diplomacy in extremis What's happening in the Middle East between the Palestinians and the State of Israel is a war that did not erupt spontaneously, nor did the combatants stumble into it by accident. Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is conducting "diplomacy by other means," and those means are violent and filled with terror. Arafat appears willing to accept the cost as measured in lost Palestinian and Israeli lives. Israel under Prime Minister Ehud Barak has gone an extraordinary distance in accommodating Palestinian demands and trusting Arafat to restrain terrorist attacks and police his own territory effectively. Under pressure ...

Concerned Drugmaker Could Effectively Block Abortion Pill Friday, October 13, 2000 By Adam Pasick NEW YORK — The rollout of the recently approved "abortion pill" may be held up by an unexpected source: the manufacturer of a drug used in the controversial treatment. The drug known as RU-486 and sold under the name Mifeprex can't be used on its own. Mifeprex stops the placenta from growing, but women must also take a Searle Pharmaceuticals drug called misoprostol to expel the dead fetus. But misoprostol was actually designed as an ulcer drug, and Searle doesn't want it used any other way. ...

Tuesday October 10, 8:13 pm Eastern Time Morningstar.com Lucent Bombshell Hits 700 Funds By Frank W. Stanton Another earnings warning? Please, say it ain't so! Today's gloomy earnings announcement came from struggling telecom- equipment concern Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - news), which shed 25% of its market value in after-hours trading. More than 700 funds own a piece of Lucent, so the news will almost certainly turn into a throbbing migraine for millions of mutual-fund shareholders. Shareholders in funds like Schwab Communications Focus (Nasdaq: SWCFX - news), which owns more than 48 million shares of Lucent, over 6% of its ...

Egypt/Syria – Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa arrived in Syria on Oct. 10 for talks with his Syrian counterpart Faruq al-Shara on the current Middle East crises, AFP reported. The Egyptian minister has already stated that Egypt will adopt the same position as Syria if it is attacked by Israel. 1235 GMT, 001010

[Selected newsworthy items, see link for full article] In Syria, demonstrators have attempted to storm the US embassy, breaking windows and forcing the embassy to close. A poll on the Internet site arabia.com - a site popular in the Gulf - found that 70% of respondents were in favour of an Arab-Israeli war. In Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, thousands of people burned Israeli and US flags in the northern town of Sakkaka near the Jordanian border. In Jordan, where almost half the population which is Palestinian, demonstrators clashed with police as they tried to march on the Israeli embassy in ...