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D.C. West Nile outbreaks cluster around Army unitMilitary lab experimenting with vaccine for virus spreading fast into Fairfax CountyPosted: July 26, 2002 8:41 p.m. Eastern  By Paul Sperry © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Over the past 18 months, health officials here have found 407 dead birds infected with the West Nile virus, including two picked up at the White House this week. The mosquito-borne virus is spreading so fast in nearby Fairfax County, meanwhile, that health officials have stopped testing dead birds. Every quadrant of the county now has the virus. Fifty birds – two blue jays and the rest crows –...

Seattle man's arrest tied to international investigationBy Mike Carter and David HeathSeattle Times staff reporters The FBI investigation into a group of Seattle-based militant Muslims has a bigger target, federal sources say: Abu Hamza al-Masri, the firebrand Islamic cleric in London who supports Osama bin Laden and whose mosque is considered a recruiting ground for the al-Qaida terrorist network. The investigation accelerated late Monday when federal agents in Denver arrested James Ujaama, 36, a central figure in the Seattle group. He is being held on a material-witness warrant issued by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia,...

Does anybody 'Disagree' with this? "The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one perhaps of the Right, and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.... [E]ither party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which...

<p>RESIDENT George W. Bush has reassured us that ''From the antitrust laws of the 19th century to the S&L reforms of recent times, America has tackled financial problems when they appeared.'' But the savings & loan reforms came seven years and 150 billion taxpayer dollars late. Nor did that problem merely ''appear.'' It was created by a deregulation bill in 1982 overseen at that time by Vice President George Bush.</p>

GATA Urges Congressional Support for Monetary Reform & Accountability Act on Gold http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020708/80165_1.html On February 14, 2002 Congressman Ron Paul issued a press release that included the following:"The private Gold Antitrust Action Committee held a press conference this week to discuss federal manipulation of gold markets. The group has uncovered evidence suggesting that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury department, operating through the Exchange-Stabilization fund and in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, have been systematically working to deflate the price of gold. Because rising gold prices are seen by investors as a barometer of inflation, the Fed has purportedly...

Mystery men keep handle on security at courthouse BY LINDA SATTER ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE July 22, 2002 They stand resolutely outside the federal courts building in downtown Little Rock, watching and listening, saying little. Inside, more of these mysterious men patrol in navy blue jackets, starched white shirts and gray pants. They demand identification from all who enter and screen for weapons. In courtrooms, they keep an eye on proceedings while their earpieces deliver a running account of happenings elsewhere in the building. Occasionally, they speak softly into radios, and then suddenly, discreetly, more of their kind appear. They also guard...

What Happened to Harken? The gas and oil company W. walked away from in the '90s lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the past 5 years, and is now trading for pennies. FORTUNE.COM Thursday, July 18, 2002 By Andrew Serwer 'Disaster Zone' What Happened to Harken? Whiplash! Stocks Take an Afternoon Dive The Comeback Kid Archive With all the renewed interest surrounding President Bush and his dealings with Harken Energy Corp. a decade or so ago, at least one intriguing question remains unanswered. We all know what became of George W. Bush, but what became of Harken?Turns out...

Sunday, July 21, 2002  RELEASE THE DOCUMENTSPresident Bush – and the Republican Party – are in real trouble because of the stock market meltdown and the sure-to-follow economic slowdown, which threaten our control of the House this November. But what imperils his presidency even more is his refusal to release all the documents relating to his Harken Energy stock sale back in 1990. He says that deal has been “vetted” and “nothing found.” OK, so why not take away a Democratic and media target – these so-far unreleased documents still sitting under lock and key inside the SEC – and...

Here's a little snapshot of recent History regarding two major items to the American Taxpayer. Almost seems like there's a Plan underlying all of this.  We should soon be seeing some sort of Government Plan to spend our money to save us from recent occurrences, shouldn't we?  S&L's ------ Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State by Davita Silfen Glasberg, Dan SkidmoreSynopsis ----Corporate Welfare and the Welfare State $200 billion . . . and counting. That's what it is costing United States taxpayers to bail out the savings and loan industry from its crisis of the 1980s. Estimates are that...

<p>NEW YORK, Jul 14, 2002 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In his first extensive interview on the vice president's role in the controversy at oil services company Halliburton, current CEO David Lesar defended the firm's bookkeeping and said that former CEO Dick Cheney was aware of the firm's accounting methods, report Wall Street Editor Allan Sloan and Senior Writer Johnnie L. Roberts. Lesar says Cheney knew that the firm was counting projected cost-overrun payments as revenues, "The vice president was aware of who owed us money, and he helped us collect it," Lesar tells Newsweek. The firm says it has always accounted for overrun revenues the way it does now, but the amounts weren't significant until the end of 1998. "We stand behind the accounting treatment," Lesar said.</p>

State Detains Reporter Over Leaked Saudi Cable National Review Writer Criticized Visa ProgramBy Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, July 13, 2002; Page C01State Department officials detained a young National Review reporter for questioning at the daily briefing yesterday after he asked about a classified cable involving embarrassing problems with U.S. visas in Saudi Arabia. <<<<<<<<<<<<< snip >>>>>>>>>>>>>>After Mowbray criticized the visa program in a series of reports, Secretary of State Colin Powell asked for the resignation Wednesday of the department's top consular official, Assistant Secretary of State Mary Ryan.National Review Editor Rich Lowry accused the department of trying...

Just a little review of some of the issues of the campaign for "nostalgia" sake. There's much more covered at this record from Campaign 2000 ----- http://www.issues2000.org/George_W__Bush.htmBudget & Economy More exploration, more nuclear, more energy research. (May 14) Restore consumer confidence with tax cuts & new oil supplies. (Mar 28) Proposes to shrink federal budget to 16% of GDP. (Mar 12) Cut national debt by $2T in 10 years; leave $1.2T in debt. (Feb 27) Too much government spending will end prosperity. (Nov 2000) Despite prosperity, “It’s time for a change” in Washington. (Oct 2000) Claims of Gore’s spending are...

New ambassador to Saudi Arabia is another Bush/Carlyle Group crony.October 9, 2001, TuesdayBy Jonathan Ashley, Eyes On American Dallas attorney Robert Jordan was confirmed Wednesday by the United States Senate to serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan has no diplomatic experience. However, his connections leave no doubt as to why he was named to the post. He defended George W. Bush in a probe of insider trading allegations in 1990. The allegations involved the sale by Bush of 60% of his Harken Energy Corp. stocks two months before a 25% drop in the stock's price. According to a 7...

Here's an interesting poll dealing with 9 - 11 events -------------http://www.ecclesia.org/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=&TOPIC_ID=97 Ecclesiastic Commonwealth Community

The July 4th surrenderPosted: July 8, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Call it the Independence Day capitulation or July Fourth surrender. Forty-eight hours after handing the U.N. an ultimatum – either U.S. troops get immunity from the International Criminal Court, or we veto the U.N. mission in Bosnia – President Bush backed down. The globalists called our bluff, and America threw in its hand. Hours before the capitulation, the president was a portrait in patriotic defiance. "As the United States works to bring peace around the world, our diplomats and our soldiers could be drug into court." U.N....

Bush E.O. says the Taliban isn't much of an Enemy now.  Any other interpretations from others? Here 'tiz ---------------   http://cryptome.org/eo13268.txt

Shocked and angry: the prophet whose warnings over Wall Street were ignoredBy Rupert CornwellInterview: Professor JK Galbraith - EconomistThis surely is the hour of John Kenneth Galbraith, grand old man of American economics. But those who travel to the leafy suburbs of Boston in the expectation of a giant and gloating "I told you so" will come away disappointed. Amid the debris of Enron and WorldCom, the lifelong critic of unbridled corporate power exhibits none of the satisfaction of a prophet whose warnings have come to pass. "Those of us who've concerned themselves with this matter cannot take satisfaction for...

Soros warns of dollar plungeGeorge Soros: 'market fundamentalism' a danger George Soros, the billionaire financier, has warned that the US dollar could lose one-third of its value over the next few years. On the currency markets, meanwhile, allegations of yet another accounting scandal - this time at office equipment firm Xerox - made investors dump the US dollar and push it within a quarter of a cent of parity with the euro. Mr Soros also warned stock markets could fall "much lower" if consumer confidence and growth faltered in the United States. The financier made his fortune running a hedge...

Prevacid is too expensive to make in this Country?Those who take it know what Prevacid is for, but I'll give a link to it anyway ----- http://www.prevacid.com/  ------I started Prevacid about a year ago. The Dr. who prescribed it gave me some 1 week blisterpaks of them to get me started and see if I tolerated it. These Packs had a lot of info on them that ARE NOT on the prescription bottle. ONE PIECE OF INFO WAS THIS ----- "MADE IN CHINA"That, to me, means that the finished cost of each capsule was on the level of Pennies each. The...

Will Bush follow Bill to bailout city?Posted: June 26, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc. "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions," said Hamlet. If President Bush has time left over from defusing a war between India and Pakistan, and preparing a plan for Mideast peace, he best take a quick glance south. From Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego, democratic capitalism is in deepening peril.Some 500 maquiladora plants in Mexico have moved to Asia, taking 250,000 of Mexico's best jobs, in search of 25-cents-an-hour Chinese labor. The global race to the bottom is on.Mexico's stock...