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Scientists have reacted angrily to the revelation that the US military is funding development of a weapon intended to deliver an "excrutiating bout of pain" from over a mile away. The "Pulsed Energy Projectile" (PEP) device "fires a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid", the New Scientist explains. If you happen to be that something solid, then you get temporarily incapacitated without suffering permanent injury. That's the theory, but pain reasearchers fear that the proposed riot control weapon could be used for torture, and further doubt a solid ethical basis for the...

Bill Clinton pardons Marc Rich in the final minutes of his presidency, after Rich's ex-wife had donated to Hillary Clinton's senatorial campaign. And, of course, Rich immediately goes into business with Saddam Hussein in the Oil-for-Food scam. Now Hillary is running for president and Bill is looking to become the next U.N. secretary general.......... When Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich in 2001, that made it easier for Rich to participate in the Oil-for-Food scandal. Therefore, it can be fairly said that Bill Clinton himself bears partial responsibility for the deaths of more than 1,000 soldiers in Iraq, since the reason...

Revealed: U.N.'s plan for world governmentWND probe unearths plot for global taxation, gun control, standing army Posted: May 20, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The United Nations and the United States are engaged in a major battle over American sovereignty – the last major impediment to global governance – according to the May edition of WND's acclaimed monthly magazine, Whistleblower. Titled "THE NEW WORLD RE-ORDER," this special edition lays bare the United Nation's plan for global governance. The U.N.'s plan, dubbed "Our Global Neighborhood," is a 410-page final report of the Commission on Global Governance, and was first published in 1995...

"Never Again" Again What is the United Nations going to do about the genocide in Darfur? Washington SPEAKING OF THE ONGOING BRUTALITY in Darfur, Senator Hillary Clinton recently told an audience at the Munich Conference on Security Policy that "We cannot say, 'Never again,' as it happens before our eyes." Since the 1994 Rwandan genocide where close to a million people were shot, hacked, and clubbed to death while U.N. member states did virtually nothing to stop it, the phrase "Never again" has been invoked thousands of times by politicians, editorialists, and U.N. officials as a call to action to...

In the Make-Believe World of the United Nations, the sky’s always the limit. Years of PR have convinced the world at large that the UN is a warm fuzzy blanket. Dithering diplomats at Manhattan’s bloated bureaucracy talk a lot about peace, but no matter how critical the issue, never take any action. Even after scores of humans lose their lives in preventable genocides under UN watches, the worst that can happen is a Noble Peace Prize. The UN has become a sort of Grand Central for global activists. Still mainly mealy-mouthed after his decades long, well-paid career of empty promises,...

Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope to set up a global system where cyberspace would be under the control of the United Nations. The committee, which was set up in December 2003, is laying the groundwork for the U.N.-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society where a final decision on the control of the Net will be determined, stated a Reuters report. The summit will take place in Tunis in November. The panel is considering such problems as cyber-crime and e-mail spam. ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, currently is the most recognizable...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton received Sunday the German Media Prize for 2004, AFP reported. "Hillary Clinton is a model politician for millions of women around the world" who "represents in an exemplary way women's rights", the jury for the prize said. Senator Clinton, who participated Saturday and Sunday in the International Security conference in Munich, emphasised the importance of the role of NATO in trans-Atlantic relations. Since its inception in 1992 the German Media Prize has tapped left wing political figures. Hillary will join other winners, including husband Bill, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Queen Silvia of Sweden, German chancellor...

Updated: 2:49 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2005 UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Kofi Annan has selected former U.S. President Clinton to be the U.N. point man for tsunami relief and reconstruction, U.N. diplomats said Tuesday. “The secretary-general wants to make sure that once the television cameras leave, the world will not forget the victims,” said one envoy.....

War Crimes Prosecutor Under Investigation By UN NEW YORK - Insiders at the United Nations in New York are buzzing over allegations that could rock the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Evidence has been presented to the United Nations in New York that Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte may have knowingly submitted forged documents to the UN tribunal in order to obtain the indictment of Croat General Ante Gotovina, accused of war crimes against Serb civilians in the aftermath of a 1995 military campaign known as Operation Storm. Del Ponte then allegedly engaged in a...

March 2, 2005 UN SPECIAL ENVOY BILL CLINTON’S RECORDS SOUGHT FROM UNITED NATIONS AND STATE DEPARTMENT Watchdog Files Open Records Requests for Former President’s UN Contract, Expense Reports & Bush Administration Approval  (Washington, DC)  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, said today that it has filed an open records request with UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan, and Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests with the U.S. State Department seeking all records detailing the appointment of former U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton as United Nations Special Envoy for the countries affected by the tsunami in southern...

There's been a lot of talk over the past few years that billie-j would aspire to the office of Secretary-General of the UN.I always disputed it as a lost cause, since no member-State of the Security Council, having veto-power, could ever have one of their citizens running the show!I've been challenged by the beautiful and talented Mata Sherry to back-up my claims!Well! I spent about four hours trying to find the info on the UN website, and I can't find jack-shit!So I'm calling for help. Where is it written that the USA CANNOT put a candidate up for election to...