-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-11 16:47:15 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA may well see one of its biggest blunders turn
into a budget boost. Lawmakers are blaming the mistaken bombing of the
Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade on an intelligence apparatus
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-11 19:54:40 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
China can't do anything effective in retaliation,
Oh, I dunno ... I think it'd be a good time (what with a semi-secret
Chinese/N.Korean "mutual defense pact" in the offing) for China to (re)occupy
Taiwan with
-Caveat Lector-
According to a statement on MS-NBC tonight,
the parents of "Trenchcoat Mafia" mastermind Eric Harris --the "military
brat"--
have thus far REFUSED TO COOPERATE with police investigators,
who STILL have not been able to question Mr and Mrs Harris ...
DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-11 16:57:04 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is clear is that the [UN] has picked shockingly poor corporate
candidates for its partnership efforts. Most notable is Rio Tinto ...
Rio Tinto, the Rothschilds' precious-metals holding company?
-Caveat Lector-
Yeltsin Fires Prime Minister
By BARRY RENFREW
.c The Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) -- President Boris Yeltsin fired Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov
today and replaced him with a longtime ally, plunging Russia into a major
political crisis.
Primakov's dismissal was a virtual
-Caveat Lector-
US, S.Korea Accused of Provocations
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea accused U.S. and South Korean forces
on Wednesday of staging military provocations inside the tense demilitarized
zone separating the two Koreas.
The North's official Korean Central News Agency said
-Caveat Lector-
Deep Serb Incursion Into Albania
By GREG MYRE
.c The Associated Press
BAJRAM CURRI, Albania (AP) -- Yugoslav troops fighting ethnic Albanian rebels
swept over the border into Albania in one of their deepest incursions yet
from Kosovo, international observers reported today.
-Caveat Lector-
U.S. Films Casualties in China
By JOE McDONALD
.c The Associated Press
SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Private Ryan is out, and heroic Chinese fighting
Americans in Korea are in.
``Saving Private Ryan'' and other U.S.-made films have been removed from
Chinese cinemas, casualties of
-Caveat Lector-
Peace Advocates Gather in The Hague
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Peace advocates are gathering this week to
promote a 21st century without war, launching campaigns against nuclear
weapons, child soldiers and small arms.
Some 5,000 participants -- including Nobel laureates,
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-12 08:58:38 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
See what I mean folks. The real objective here is getting the Moslems out of
Europe. Albania has been a thorn in the side of the western world for a
long, long time.
And Albania is the only CHINESE Communist
-Caveat Lector-
Yeltsin Impeachment Hearings Begin
By BARRY RENFREW
.c The Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian lawmakers began impeachment hearings today to remove
Boris Yeltsin, with political leaders saying the odds against the president
had soared after his surprise decision to fire
-Caveat Lector-
Clinton Accuser Passed Lie Detector
By PETE YOST
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kathleen Willey says she's prepared to testify again if
her one-time friend Julie Hiatt Steele is retried for obstructing the
investigation of President Clinton.
Newly unsealed results
-Caveat Lector-
No New Bombing in Belgrade
By ANNE GEARAN
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- NATO has not returned to bomb any targets in downtown
Belgrade since Friday night's mistaken hit on the Chinese Embassy, but a U.S.
military planner said the alliance has not sworn off the
-Caveat Lector-
Anglican-Roman Panel Nears Agreement
LONDON (AP) -- Roman Catholics and Anglicans are closer to agreement on the
sensitive issue of authority in the church following the release of a new
statement from a joint commission, Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey said
Wednesday.
-Caveat Lector-
Rubin: A Wall Street Man
By SALLY BUZBEE
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Robert Rubin spent much of his life speculating what the
stock market would do. He was good at it and made $100 million.
When he came to Washington, Rubin did essentially the same thing,
-Caveat Lector-
"Twice high, twice lowered,
The East will weaken the West as well.
Its [=the East's] adversary will fail under pressure
After several struggles, routed by sea."
--Century VIII, 59
"Twice high, twice lowered" -- World War I and World War II, elsewhere called
by
-Caveat Lector-
"China is demanding major concessions from the United States -- such as
public retraction of the allegation that Chinese spies stole US nuclear
secrets."
Will they threaten us with war if the Senate RE-impeaches "their" Bill
Clinton?
China seeking major concessions
-Caveat Lector-
[Reuters]
"Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin returned to Moscow after talks with
the Chinese leadership in Beijing on dealing with NATO actions in the
Yugoslav crisis.
"MOSCOW AND BEIJING ARE UNITED in their demands," he said.
World Reacts to Russian Shakeup
-Caveat Lector-
Some Bristle at Holocaust Parallel
By DEB RIECHMANN
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton draws parallels between what Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic is doing in Kosovo and what Adolf Hitler did in
the Holocaust. But Jewish leaders bridle at the
-Caveat Lector-
"Democrats rejected the argument that the Chinese Embassy bombing
stemmed from underfunding of intelligence programs.
"Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., questioned how the CIA could have erred in
planning the bombing target when his own staff was able to pull down from the
-Caveat Lector-
China Urges Defiance of US Bullying
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
.c The Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) -- While praising victims of NATO's bombing of the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade as heroes, China's president accused the United States on
Thursday of seeking global dominance and
-Caveat Lector-
"In 1996, while he held the Pacific command, American warships were sent
in to warn China not to use its war games to try and disrupt elections in
Taiwan."
Ex-Admiral To Become China Envoy
By SONYA ROSS
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man chosen by
-Caveat Lector-
"Representatives from more than 100 countries overwhelmingly approved a
treaty to create a permanent war-crimes tribunal, despite strong U.S.
opposition. (The U.S. demanded special veto power to prevent prosecution of
any American "war criminal.".)
World Court May Be Key
-Caveat Lector-
It's the economy, stupid.
Banker Elected As Italy's President
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER
.c The Associated Press
ROME (AP) -- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, an internationally respected
banker-politician, won Italy's presidency Thursday with broad support from
both left and right,
-Caveat Lector-
"Many Chinese believe that NATO's behavior in Yugoslavia has exposed
American double standards:
"The US attacks Serbia with missiles while fighting against missile
proliferation by others; it demands that others respect human rights while
blithely producing its own
-Caveat Lector-
Note the imagery here: Charlemagne, the first modern Holy Roman Emperor;
and Aachen, the Holy Roman Empire's first capital outside of Rome.
This "Charlemagne Prize" originated in 1950, created by WHOM, I wonder?
Blair Receives Europe Unity Award
AACHEN, Germany (AP)
-Caveat Lector-
But some people argued that [Serbian] Internet access should be cut off.
"Continuing to provide these services would be kind of like giving aid
to the enemy," one person wrote.
LOS ANGELES (Dissociated Press, May 15, 2007) -- Facing its 806th day of
"protective
-Caveat Lector-
NATO Probes Strike on Civilians
By CANDICE HUGHES
.c The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- NATO acknowledged today its jets struck a
village where dozens of ethnic Albanian refugees were reported killed but
said it was going after ``military positions'' there.
-Caveat Lector-
Chinese Banker Picked To Lead Macau
By TARA SUILEN DUFFY
.c The Associated Press
MACAU (AP) -- A banker educated in Canada won a landslide victory today to
become the first Chinese to lead the tiny enclave of Macau in more than four
centuries, the final step before the
-Caveat Lector-
Memo Underlines Importance of China
By GEORGE GEDDA
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eager to strengthen relations with China, a newly acquired
Cold War partner, the United States in 1974 embarked on a systematic plan to
loosen security ties with Taiwan, including
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-15 13:22:40 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wealth is CREATED, not distributed.
Even ENERGY can be neither created nor destroyed, just redistributed.
'Twould seem even God has less "power" than an ideological Capitalist.
"To a 20-nothing
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-15 16:48:31 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince
parasites that they are victims. -- Thomas Sowell
No one is more paranoid about being "victimized" --e.g., by "Socialist"
conspiracies, by competitors
-Caveat Lector-
U.S. Has Past of Poor Military Maps
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The federal agency responsible for making charts and maps
used by military pilots has a history of providing incomplete and inaccurate
data, resulting in fatal mishaps such as the bombing of the Chinese Embassy
in
-Caveat Lector-
Report: Drug Trials Hiding Conflicts
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of patients are being recruited by
their personal physicians into a booming venture for doctors -- the business
of testing experimental drugs on people, The New York Times reports in its
Sunday
-Caveat Lector-
"While there was no consensus on long-term capital controls, there was
agreement among the finance ministers that certain temporary regulations on
capital flows were sometimes necessary ...".
Pacific Leaders Debate Asian Crisis
By JOCELYN GECKER
.c The Associated Press
-Caveat Lector-
Taiwan Statement May Enrage China
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- In a new book that could enrage China, Taiwan's
president urged Beijing to give up its nationalistic concept of a ``Great
China'' and instead divide the country into several smaller autonomous
regions.
President Lee
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-15 13:22:40 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wealth is CREATED, not distributed.
Even ENERGY can be neither created nor destroyed, just redistributed.
'Twould seem even God has less "power" than an ideological Capitalist.
"To a 20-nothing
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-15 16:48:31 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince
parasites that they are victims. -- Thomas Sowell
No one is more paranoid about being "victimized" --e.g., by "Socialist"
conspiracies, by competitors
Subj:Runaway Censorship
Date: 99-05-15 00:56:37 EDT
From: xxx
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NBC Edits 'Nuclear Waste' From Mini-Series, Outside Pressure Charged
Three paragraphs excerpted from the New York Times, May 14, 1999.
By LAWRIE MIFFLIN
What began as a
-Caveat Lector-
Ruling Allows Cops To Seize Cars
By LAURIE ASSEO
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Police do not need a warrant to seize someone's car from a
public place under laws requiring forfeiture of property linked to crime, the
Supreme Court said today.
The 7-2 ruling
-Caveat Lector-
"In TMS, an electromagnetic coil is placed on the scalp and current is
turned on and off to create a pulsing magnetic field that reaches into a
small area of the brain. The goal is to make brain cells underneath the coil
fire messages to adjoining cells."
Pulses May Ease
-Caveat Lector-
Russia Wants Iraq Sanctions Ended
By NICOLE WINFIELD
.c The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Russia, China and France suggested Wednesday that the
Security Council suspend sanctions on Iraq once a new arms monitoring system
is in place, part of a new round of
-Caveat Lector-
"While in the U.S. military, [he] taught soldiers in the Special Forces
about Muslim culture. Prosecutors say he LATER lent his military expertise to
terrorists ..."
Ex-Sgt. Indicted in Terror Campaign
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- A
-Caveat Lector-
NATO Peacekeeping Mission Changing
By ROBERT BURNS
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The military mission that the Clinton administration
originally envisioned for NATO in implementing a Kosovo peace accord is
taking on a new look. The ground force would be much
-Caveat Lector-
"``The Apache was essentially designed to fight World War III in Europe
...' "
Officers: Apaches Not So Vulnerable
By RICHARD PYLE
.c The Associated Press
TASK FORCE HAWK, Albania (AP) -- The Army's Apache attack helicopters were
designed specifically to defeat
-Caveat Lector-
Something weird is going on here, Drudge ...
Buchanan's Brother Sought by Police
By JOHN SOLOMON
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A brother of presidential candidate Pat Buchanan is
arranging to surrender to police on charges he used a gun to threaten
-Caveat Lector-
"``There's no suspicion of foreign sabotage,'' said a National Security
Council spokesman. ``[But] the Air Force does NOT believe there's any common
TECHNICAL problem that connects these various incidents.''
"He said the CIA's involvement in the investigation was
-Caveat Lector-
"A senior member of the Liberal party objected strenuously that this
measure, if passed, would give Dutch citizens too much power over their
government."
Entire Dutch Cabinet Resigns
By ANTHONY DEUTSCH
.c The Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The entire
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-20 09:46:12 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The shooting occurred at 8:03 a.m. EDT in the commons area at Heritage High
School in Conyers, 25 miles (40 km) east of Atlanta.
And the Senate vote occurred only a few hours afterward. How convenient!
-Caveat Lector-
Boys May Be Impacted by Body Types
By PAISLEY DODDS
.c The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) -- Long legs, a tiny waist and a big bust made Barbie the target
of critics for giving girls an unrealistic body ideal.
Now, chiseled pectorals, abdominals and biceps have put male action
A dramatic recent case was the MIA, the Multilateral Agreement on
Investments [a proposed global economic treaty].
On that there was near-uniformity in the corporate sector, the government,
the media component of the corporate sector, the international financial
institutions. They were all in
-Caveat Lector-
"The family moved to Conyers two years ago from North Carolina. ``They
were people that really kept to themselves.'' The boy's mother works as a
secretary for a veterinarian.
"Neighbors were not sure what the stepfather did for a living ...".
Profile of Georgia
-Caveat Lector-
NATO Explains Bomb Dumping To Italy
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- NATO has provided Italy with ``detailed reports''
about its dumping of unexploded bombs in the Adriatic Sea, Italian Prime
Minister Massimo D'Alema said Thursday.
D'Alema had demanded an explanation from NATO after
-Caveat Lector-
The allegedly "Communist" Red Brigade was actually an agents-provocateur
group funded by fascist millionaires (who would benefit most from the
right-wing reaction to a bogus "Communist terrorist threat") and secretly
working in consort with NATO. Its victims, oddly for a
-Caveat Lector-
"For nine years, top executives for several of the world's biggest firms
held secret annual meetings to divide world markets, fixing prices to the
penny ..."
Roche, BASF pay record U.S. price fixing fines
By David Lawsky
WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - European
-Caveat Lector-
Top European banking executives meet in Helsinki
HELSINKI, May 20 (Reuters) - Top executives of leading European banks are
meeting in Helsinki this week for the semi-annual discussions of the
secretive Institut International d'Etudes Bancaires (IIEB), Finnish bank
officials
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-21 15:11:13 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not ruling your analysis out, Goat, but ...
My sense is that the Red Brigades were (are?) genuinely Communist,
but that their funding comes indirectly, via a cutout, from the Oligarchy,
for the reasons you
-Caveat Lector-
Hit Man Manual Publisher Settles
By MARY PEMBERTON
.c The Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A publisher agreed Friday to stop selling a book on how to
be a hit man and will pay millions of dollars to two families who claimed a
hired assassin used the manual to kill their
-Caveat Lector-
The Guardian (UK)
Euro launch took British banking to brink of chaos
Investigation: Scramble for billions during two weeks of trading gridlock
By Lisa Buckingham and Jill Treanor
Friday May 14, 1999
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/The_Paper/Daily/Story/0,3604,50176,00.html
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-21 07:57:37 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some people favor freedom, liberty and equality over
the whims of the majority.
No people ever knowingly, willingly gave away their freedom, liberty and
equality due to the "whims" of a MAJORITY. These things
-Caveat Lector-
Does anyone here still believe in "smart bombs," or even in smart
bombers?
NATO Admits Hitting Albanian Post
By KATARINA KRATOVAC
.c The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- NATO forces mistakenly hit an ethnic Albanian
rebel base, the alliance said Saturday,
-Caveat Lector-
NASA Computers Found Insecure
By JOSEPH SCHUMAN
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A government investigation into NASA's cyber security
found it so vulnerable to attack that hackers could easily disrupt command
and control operations, including the tracking of
-Caveat Lector-
Gorbachev: NATO Must Stop Bombing
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- Former Soviet president and Nobel Peace Prize
winner Mikhail Gorbachev on Sunday delivered a stinging message to the United
States government to stop NATO's bombing campaign in Yugoslavia.
The leader who helped end
-Caveat Lector-
NATO Blunders May Erode Support
By WILLIAM C. MANN
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An increasing number of NATO bombing blunders against
embassies, hospitals and ethnic Albanian refugees and fighters is eroding
allied and congressional support for airstrikes after
-Caveat Lector-
"The Senate intelligence committee chairman, Richard Shelby, R-Ala.,
said the attorney general and her top lieutenants should go.
"Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., agreed that ``heads should
roll.'' Somebody, he said, ``made some major mistakes here, and
-Caveat Lector-
"Clinton's ties to Hollywood appeared to infuriate his Republican
rivals."
Now that the Cold War is back, should we expect a return to "censored"
cinema such as existed up until the late '50s, during the same period?
Senate approves bill aimed at Hollywood
By
-Caveat Lector-
Abducted Kosovo men tell of ordeal by Serb army
By Crispian Balmer
ULCINJ, Montenegro (Reuters) - Kosovo Albanian men abducted by Yugoslav
soldiers have returned to their refugee camps here amazed to be alive but
shaken by an ordeal which included beatings and sexual
-Caveat Lector-
Now, now, mustn't interfere with "the free market" ...
Thailand losing the battle against child prostitution
BANGKOK, May 20 (Kyodo) -- By: Supalak Ganjanakhundee Complaining that the
sea is dirty, the sand dark, and the sun usually on vacation elsewhere, Thai
travelers
-Caveat Lector-
Clinton OK's CIA's sabotage plan over Kosovo: Newsweek
.c Kyodo News Service
NEW YORK, May 24 (Kyodo) -- U.S. President Bill Clinton last week issued an
intelligence ''finding'' authorizing the CIA to begin secret efforts to
undermine public support for Yugoslav President
-Caveat Lector-
Wall Street's Scandals Highlight Need for Regulations
New York, May 22 (Bloomberg) -- In a bull market, Wall Street's pursuit of
profits can sometimes land securities firms and their employees on the wrong
side of the law.
This week, Merrill Lynch Co., Morgan Stanley Dean
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-24 13:05:33 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The question must come up, though (and this does run
counter to Ockham's Razor, because it thoroughly complicates things), whether
the Red Brigades were *created* ex nihilo by what I call the Oligarchy
-Caveat Lector-
Three NAFTA news items.
Can you say "open borders"? And "cheap labor"?
Texas bill would send billions to border projects
By Harihar Krishnan
DALLAS, May 12 (Reuters) - Texas lawmakers could decide as early as this week
the fate of a plan to spend billions of
-Caveat Lector-
North Korea Official To Visit China
By CHARLES HUTZLER
.c The Associated Press
BEIJING (AP) -- North Korea's No. 2 leader will travel to China next week for
the highest level visit since Beijing angered its once-close communist ally
by opening relations with rival South Korea
Subj: 60 Minutes Transcript
Date: 99-05-24 23:31:39 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Toews)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[This is not an official transcipt. Tony]
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000rkQ
(From here on, this is a word-for-word
-Caveat Lector-
"According to the sources, the directive was approved by the Politburo
on July 2, 1992 -- a year into U.S. President Bill Clinton's first term ..."
China's leaders ordered stepped-up espionage in 1992
WASHINGTON, May 24 (Kyodo) -- By: Paul Flatin China's top leadership
-Caveat Lector-
Italy to Speed Up Secret Service Reform on Terrorism Fears
Rome, May 24 (Bloomberg) -- The Italian government is expected to pass a law
on Friday to reform the country's secret services, in an attempt to make them
more efficient after the killing of a government adviser last
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-25 11:13:55 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What ever happened to misfeasance, malfeasance, and nonfesance of
office?
With so many guilty, prosecuting anyone on those charges is no longer
feasible.
DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
==
CTRL is a
-Caveat Lector-
"Greece and Italy, meanwhile, are lobbying for a pause in the bombing to
give Milosevic a period of calm to frame a reply to NATO's demands..."
Italy has found it necessary nudge, nudge to reorganize its
intelligence services under a more NATO-friendly spy czar due to
-Caveat Lector-
"Come back on your shield [a battlefield hero] or don't come back at
all."
--A Spartan mother's traditional goodbye to her son, going off to war
Mrs. Reagan, Thatcher Praise McCain
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two grande dames of the conservative movement, Nancy
Reagan and
-Caveat Lector-
India Launches Kashmir Airstrikes
.c The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Indian Air force jets launched airstrikes Wednesday
in the disputed mountains of Kashmir, where the army has been exchanging
mortar and heavy artillery fire with Pakistani forces, a domestic
-Caveat Lector-
Censoring Sought for China Report
By PETE YOST
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Claiming a need for national secrecy, law enforcement and
intelligence agencies in the Clinton administration initially sought to
censor almost all of the first seven pages of a
-Caveat Lector-
Worldwide Charity Executives Probed
By KARIN MILLER
.c The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Allegations that executives of the worldwide charity
Feed the Children took home boxes of donated food, clothing and household
goods are being investigated by state
-Caveat Lector-
Canada Lodges NATO Plea
By BARRY SCHWEID
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Canada is lodging a plea for NATO to choose its bombing
targets in Yugoslavia more carefully as the Clinton administration extends
its review of U.S. policy in the Kosovo conflict.
Foreign
-Caveat Lector-
Spy Threat to U.S. May Be Marginal
By JOHN DIAMOND
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lost amid the alarm over the alleged Chinese theft of U.S.
nuclear secrets is a conclusion being articulated by arms control advocates,
intelligence officials and even some
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-26 12:41:21 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"We determined some time ago that it was not a good idea to link human
rights and trade."
--- Madeline Albright on US policy towards China
It wasn't a good idea, either, to link
-Caveat Lector-
Polls Show Clinton Ratings Slipping
By WILL LESTER
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Public approval of President Clinton's job performance has
slipped to its lowest level in almost three years in a new poll that shows
the public about evenly split regarding which
-Caveat Lector-
Relevant factoid here: Juan Carlos and nearly all his ministers were
Opus Dei, thus secretly in the service of a "foreign power," namely the
Vatican ...
Ex-Spy Chief Sentenced in Spain
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- A former Spanish spy chief and another ex-intelligence
official
-Caveat Lector-
Kazakstan Sues Oil Joint Venture
ALMATY, Kazakstan (AP) -- A prosecutor has filed a lawsuit seeking to shut
down seven oil wells run by a Kazak-U.S. joint venture because they are
extracting too much oil, officials said Wednesday.
Mukhtar Zhurgenbayev, prosecutor of
-Caveat Lector-
"... the prelate is trying to exonerate drug traffickers accused of
murdering Cardinal Ocampo because in Mexico drug traffickers contribute
heavily to the Church."
Ex-AG Challenges Cardinal in Death
By JOHN RICE
.c The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A once-polite
-Caveat Lector-
Ex-GOP Leader Admits Funneling Money
.c The Associated Press
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A former county GOP chairman pleaded guilty Thursday to
violating campaign finance law by illegally funneling $11,000 to Democratic
U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli.
Berek Paul Don, 51, pleaded
-Caveat Lector-
Pentagon OKs Missile Sale To Taiwan
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon today recommended sale of 240 Hellfire
missiles to Taiwan in a deal worth about $23 million.
The proposed sale also includes spare parts and related equipment for the
missiles, which Taiwan would use aboard
-Caveat Lector-
Democrats Want Investigation of GOP
By MICHELLE MITTELSTADT
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats want the Justice Department and Congress to
investigate whether House Republican leaders are violating campaign finance
laws with a planned $25 million fund for key
-Caveat Lector-
Multinational corporations function no differently than the secret societies
of old.
Hmm ..
DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
==
CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic
screeds are not allowed.
-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-05-28 14:10:13 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
An article in Newsweek's May 31 issue discusses a secret "finding" that
allegedly authorizes government hackers to "diddle with Milosevic's
bank accounts" in foreign banks. According to the author, the action
-Caveat Lector-
PRIONS.
Form of Fatal Insomnia Discovered
By KATHARINE WEBSTER
.c The Associated Press
Researchers have discovered a brain-wasting disease that begins with severe
insomnia and ends in hallucinations and death.
The disease, sporadic fatal insomnia, is caused by the same
-Caveat Lector-
"The Nationalist party, popularly called the Gray Wolves, was
established in the 1960s by the late Alparslan Turkes, an army colonel who
staged a coup in 1960.
"The anti-communist Turkes aspired to unite the Turkic-speaking states
within the former Soviet Union under a
-Caveat Lector-
JFK's Casket Was Dropped in Ocean
By KAREN GULLO
.c The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A bronze casket used to carry President Kennedy's body
from Dallas to Washington is in a watery grave -- 9,000 feet down in the
Atlantic Ocean, according to assassination documents.
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And you wonder why Trenchcoat Mafiosi want to blow up the school?
Dancing Graduates' Diplomas Held
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- One boy did a version of Michael Jackson's famous
``moonwalk'' dance, gliding backward across the stage. Another shimmied and
shook his rump.
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Greek Bus Passengers Taken Hostage
By DEREK GATOPOULOS
.c The Associated Press
SALONICA, Greece (AP) -- A bus hijacked by an Albanian gunman and carrying at
least nine Greek hostages crossed the border into Albania early Saturday,
police said.
Armed with an Kalashnikov
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A (pointing) finger in every pie around the world ...
U.S. Criticizes Egyptian Rights Bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department said Friday it is ``deeply
disappointed'' in a law passed unanimously by the Egyptian parliament that
increases government powers over human
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