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THREE years after failing to block the US invasion of Iraq, France has returned to the diplomatic world stage to calm the Lebanon conflict. President Chirac, returning to his favourite role of world statesman, has taken a bold line at the United Nations that conflicts with Washington and London. He is capitalising on the discredit that Iraq caused les Anglo-Saxons and drawing on France’s past as the governing power of Lebanon. The strategy is risky because France was targeted by Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsors over its intervention in Beirut in the 1980s. One bomb attack in 1983 killed 41...

A magnificent Christian secret is about to be revived. It is also found in the paintings of Poussin, Salimbeni and Tenier, and at the Rosslyn Chapel. It ties in with the Judas Gospel (see news page) and the secret behind ALL the pyramids and Stonehenge... The key to decoding the star maps: A forgotten 4,000 year old coffin lid from a priestess of Hathor depicts the precise stars of the Pleiades in Taurus. Scholars have missed this 'hidden' evidence and presume the 'Bull's thigh constellation' to be the Big Dipper.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A young Black Muslim leader already charged with vandalizing a West Oakland liquor store was jailed today for allegedly using his BMW to run down a bouncer after being thrown out of a San Francisco strip club, police said. Yusuf Bey IV, 20, son of the late Black Muslim leader Yusuf Bey, was booked on suspicion of attempted murder and aggravated assault after he allegedly ran over one bouncer and tried to hit a second with his car outside the New Century Theater on Larkin Street, authorities said. He was being held without bail. Bey went to...

...Venezuelans would prefer at this time if the Carter Center stayed away from our country. The role the Center played in the recall referendum, before and after it, left a very bitter taste in all of those like me, who are certain that the outcome was fraudulent. ... Carter ... did not demand that the CNE do the “hot audits” on August 16th. ... There are lies in the reports from the Carter Center, such as that the boxes containing the ballots never left their sight. Thus, Venezuelans in the opposition think the Carter Center failed them completely by being...

Bwahahahah!!! Gasp! Bwahahahahahahah! (tears of laughter, blogger convulsing on the floor subject to one of the biggest laugh attacks recorded in blogdom). (Breathe, breathe deeply, garner composure, start writing again) Today we learn that Jennifer Mc Coy of the Carter Center will brave Venezuela to offer help in consolidating peace and democracy! The nerve! What is in store for us? Are they going to approve the new judicial system whose near uniform composition will ensure "peace" through a "uniform justice" (pun intended)? Will they offer to monitor the 2006 elections to validate yet another "fair" Chavez victory? ... I have...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

In light of John Kerry comments on John Ashcroft, we have to start a new meme that only 14.7 Million of the 120 Million voted for him. That's about a quarter of the electorate. Don't let the media get away with the lie that since 56 million people voted for him, he has to have a say in any policy matters. By the way, this is how I get 14.7 Million. From those (accurate) exit polls, 97% of Bush voters voted for Bush because they wanted to, leaving 3% who voted for Bush because they disliked Kerry. That's (60M *...

On Tuesday, October 26, over 500 supporters of President Bush gathered outside the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Field House to protest an appearance by Michael Moore. Moore, who was paid for by IUP student activities fees, was visiting IUP as part of his national "Slackers Uprising Tour". Rhonda Goodrich, Courtney Adams, the IUP College Republicans, and the Indiana County Young Conservatives organized the event, and were extremely pleased with the turnout. The counter protest to Michael Moore was so effective that even Moore himself had to mention the crowd outside. "I have never seen anything like this," Moore told the...

Damn, I hate it when I've been had and I've been had big time. In 1982, while I was working for Congressman Manuel Lujan of New Mexico, a man came up to a me during a gathering in Albuquerque and introduced himself as Terrance J. Wilkinson. He said he was a security consultant and gave me a business card with his name and just a Los Angeles phone number. A few weeks later, he called my Washington office and asked to meet for lunch. He seemed to know a lot about the nuclear labs in New Mexico and said he...

Teen blinded when frog shot from potato gun Associated Press DALLAS - A teenager was blinded after being struck in the face with a frog shot from a so-called "potato gun." Daniel Benjamin Berry, 17, received the injury after he looked down the barrel of the gun's PVC pipe barrel and was hit in the face by the frog. "He is going to be blind in both eyes," Daniel's mother, Lisa Berry, said. Potato guns are made of pipe with one end sealed. A potato is wedged into the open end and a flammable liquid put into a sealed chamber...

Bastard just said it...if we attack Iraq they are out as a partner on the war on terror.