GLOBAL POLITICS
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- PRESIDENT BUSH HAD A SURPRISE PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY. HE
TOOK ARI FLEISCHER'S PLACE
Democrats are pointing fingers about the President's own business
dealings and conduct eleven years ago which he dismissed as being
exonerated long ago and the questions are due to election year
when the fingerpointing starts.
The vaccinations came up and Bush said that he hasn't made up
his mind.
When the President was asked if he is going to find Osama bin
Laden and the reporter was trying to establish a deadline by
which Osama would be caught, Bush said that Osama is most likely
dead but if he isn't dead they will get him. The war is going
to continue indefinately.
Another reporter asked the President about the anti-semiticism
that is going on in all of Europe and if he was going to address
it. He said among other things that he encourages the writing
of new Constitution. We had just discussed that at lunch. All
these federal decisions that are going contrary to the 'Religious
Right', the collapse of the economy and the inability to confine
those considered suspects for terrorism, could well set the stage
for that to happen. What is strange is that nobody geared into
that comment.
- THIS CONFIRMS THAT THERE ARE ALREADY WORKING ON IT:
- VOUCHER WIN'S RIPPLE EFFECT ON FAITH GROUPS
The Supreme Court did more last week than hand a victory to supporters
of school vouchers. Its controversial 5-to-4 ruling presented
a heady breakthrough for advocates who seek to expand the place
of religion in American public life. CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS
AND SCHOLARS HAVE BEEN WORKING TO NUDGE THE COURT INTO A NEW
INTERPRETATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT THAT WOULD OPEN THE DOOR
TO WIDESPREAD CHANGE. putting faith institutions on an equal
footing with secular groups as recipients of public funds. They've
had small victories in recent years, but hope this serves as
the "tipping point."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0702/p02s01-usju.html
- GAYS SUE N.J. FOR RIGHT TO 'MARRY'
Lawyers for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a national
homosexual-rights group, yesterday filed a lawsuit against New
Jersey officials on behalf of seven same-sex couples who were
denied marriage licenses in that state.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020627-79972192.htm
- HALF MILLION TURN OUT FOR SF GAY PRIDE PARADE
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/30/gayprideparades.ap/index.htm
- BOY SCOUT LEADER CHARGED WITH ABUSE
A Boy Scout leader was charged Thursday with 32 counts of sexually
abusing boys, police said. David Neil Brown, 40, of Blue Springs
turned himself into police Thursday and was charged with 19 counts
of first-degree sodomy and 13 counts of second-degree sodomy,
police Sgt. Mike Kruger said. He is being held on $1 million
bond. Kruger said Brown abused six boys from 13 to 15 years old,
most of them in the last two years.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-brf-scout-leader-abuse0627
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- OLD NEWS: ARAFAT SALTS AWAY $5 BILLION OF PA MONEY
The London Sunday Telegraph, December 5, 1999 According to the
London Sunday Telegraph, hackers have cracked the computer system
of PLO headquarters in Tunisia, only to find that "Yasser
Arafat has salted away billions of pounds (sterling) for the
Palestinian Liberation Organization in secret foreign bank accounts
and investments."
The PLO maintains about £5 billion in bank accounts in
Zurich, Geneva and New York, along with accounts containing smaller
sums in North Africa, Europe and Asia. In addition, the records
reportedly show that the PLO owns shares on the Frankfurt, Paris
and Tokyo stock exchanges, including stock in Mercedes Benz and
property in prestigious areas of European capitals. The paper
claims that the reports "are likely to prompt international
donors... to ask why Mr. Arafat is still demanding aid for his
Palestinian Authority."
- BUSH URGES IMMEDIATE WORK ON PALESTINIAN STATE
ELISABETH BUMILLER: NYT June 8, 2002 - '..Senior Bush administration
officials said the latest outbreaks of violence would not stop
them from moving forward with a peace plan. Officials are also
reaching out to other Palestinian leaders in an attempt to overhaul
the Palestinian Authority from within.
On Friday, Mr. Arafat called for a halt to the Israeli attacks.
"I am addressing this appeal to the whole international
world to stop this fascism, this Nazism, this dirty work against
our people," he said.
Mr. Mubarak had dinner with Mr. Bush at Camp David on Friday
night, where the two leaders met with a small group and discussed
the Egyptian president's proposals more informally than in their
meetings this morning. Participants at the dinner included Condoleezza
Rice, the national security adviser; Stephen J. Hadley, the deputy
national security adviser; and Andrew H. Card Jr., the White
House chief of staff.
Mr. Mubarak stayed overnight on Friday at Camp David.
This morning Mr. Bush and Mr. Mubarak were joined in their meetings
by Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell,
Assistant Secretary of State William J. Burns and George J. Tenet,
the director of central intelligence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/international/middleeast/09PREX.html?todaysheadlines
- EU'S NEW DANISH PRESIDENT BACKS ARAFAT'S OUSTER
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, whose country today
takes the rotating presidency of the European Union from Spain,
said yesterday he agrees with the US call that Palestinian
Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat needs to be replaced. Rasmussen,
in an interview with a Danish newspaper, said that since Arafat
either can't or won't put an end to suicide bombings, there is
a need for a Palestinian leadership that will.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1023716573928
- 57 MUSLIM NATIONS PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR PALESTINIANS
Representatives of 57 Muslim nations pledged support for Palestinians
in a resolution Thursday that made no mention of U.S. President
George W. Bush's call for Palestinians to elect a new
leadership.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/PrinterFull&cid=1023716564348
- HAMAS CHAT: HOW TO MURDER AMERICANS
Internet surfers looking to discuss how to murder American citizens,
need only to log on to the official Hamas terror gang website.
The site’s chat room has recently hosted a discussion, in
which participants have described how they would go about murdering
Americans.
http://israelnn.com/news.php3?id=26111
- REPORT: U.S. TROOPS IN IRAQ
Dozens of US troops and intelligence services had been sent into
northern Iraq from Jordan under a plan to overthrow President
Saddam Hussein, a Lebanese newspaper reported yesterday. In a
story datelined London, As-Safir daily quoted "well informed
diplomatic sources" as saying Washington "has launched
a security and military operation in Iraq". CIA chief George
Tenet had "personally visited northern Iraq and had given
orders to start the security plan after US President George W.
Bush approved a decision to ask the CIA to overthrow Saddam",
the source said. The paper said forward bases for US troops had
been set up in Jordan.
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4610298%5E401,00.html
- G.I.S FIGHT AFGHAN DEVASTATION WITH PLASTER AND NAILS
JAMES DAO - UNDUZ, Afghanistan - ..The soldiers in the northern
city of Kunduz are on the front lines of a different kind of
war, one fought not with guns or bombs, but plaster, nails and
cold, hard American cash.
Along with seven other civil affairs teams across Afghanistan,
they have been working with local officials and warlords to reconstruct
schools, hospitals, roads and water systems ruined by two decades
of war, some by American bombs last fall.
Though the soldiers refrain from calling their activities "nation
building," in war-scarred Afghanistan the distinction is
easily lost..
The teams are not spending lavishly, about $8 million this year
for the entire country, and have had to turn down many of the
large-scale projects Afghan officials are begging for, like major
road and bridge repairs. But in six months the teams have completed
nearly two dozen smaller projects, many in remote regions where
banditry or bad roads have limited the work of private relief
groups..
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/24/international/asia/24AFGH.html?todaysheadlines
- BUSH'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS POLICY:
Where the Rule of Law Doesn't Matter by Anthony DiFilippo - June
26, 2002
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0206nukepolicy.html
- JAPAN WANTS TO GET INTO NUCLEAR RACE:
Nuclear Arms Taboo Is Challenged in Japan
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/international/asia/09JAPA.html?todaysheadlines
- USE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN CHICKEN FEED IS SLOWLY, QUIETLY ELIMINATED
http://www.cephasministry.com/health_changes_in_poultry_and_antibiotics.html
- MEXICAN TRUCKS FINALLY START ROLLING - FILE A $44 BILLION
CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT
According to the legislation, Mexican trucks that undergo rigorous
and regular safety inspections by U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT) officials should be allowed access to U.S. highways. That
removes a rule restricting the trucks to a 20-mile zone in the
United States along the border, a sticking point with Mexico,
which has protested that the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) authorized Mexican trucks to travel freely within the
United States as of Jan. 1, 2000.
But 11 Mexican trucking companies filed a $44-billion class-action
lawsuit against the U.S. government on the very same day Bush
signed the legislation. Their complaint: The strict new U.S.
safety inspections, coming on top of pre-existing U.S. competition
and stiff border security, represent unfair trade barriers.
Even before enactment of the new legislation, Mexican trucking
companies on the border were losing as much as $100,000 a day
due to delays caused by tightened security since Sept. 11 terror
attacks, noted Manuel Sotelo, president of the Ciudad Juárez
Trucking Association.
http://www.americaspolicy.org/articles/2002/0202trucking.html
- STUDENTS IN 8600 SCHOOLS FAIL TO MEET LEARNING STANDARDS
Students in 8,600 schools that have failed to meet learning standards,
or 9 percent of U.S. public schools, can choose to go to better
schools in their districts this fall, the Education
Department said Monday. The numbers were higher than the Education
Department expected. In April, Congress was told 3,000 to 5,000
schools would be declared failing. Pupils in the schools will
have the choice of another school for the first time as a result
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which President
Bush signed in January. The law requires that students in schools
where scores don't meet state academic standards for two consecutive
years be allowed to transfer to another public school, with most
transportation costs paid.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/07/02/failing.schools.ap/index.html
- SUSPECTS LACKING LAWYERS ARE FREED IN ATLANTA
The release of 69 people from jail last week was a significant
victory in a long battle in Georgia to provide lawyers for people
who cannot afford them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/national/04LAWY.html?todaysheadlines
- BUSH SLASHING AID FOR E.P.A. CLEANUP AT 33 TOXIC SITES
WASHINGTON, June 30 ..The cuts, imposed because the cleanup fund
is hundreds of millions of dollars short of the amount needed
to keep the program on schedule, mean that work is likely to
grind to a halt on some of the most seriously polluted sites
in the country, confronting the surrounding communities with
new uncertainty over when the work will resume, how quickly it
will proceed and who will pay for it...
Like all sites covered by the Superfund program, the 33 that
are targeted for reductions are among the most contaminated grounds
in the country and pose some level of health and environmental
hazards to their communities. The documents provided by the inspector
general did not indicate how these sites were chosen for cuts...
Businesses have long complained about the Superfund program.
At one time, chemical and oil companies, among others, were required
to pay a special tax that cost them collectively about $1 billion
a year. The tax went into the fund to clean up contaminated sites,
but businesses said the system of allocating the money was unwieldy
and badly managed.
"They are required by law to do the remedy even if they
don't have the money," Mr. Spiegel said. "Someone will
have to pay, and the Bush administration wants the American people
to do it."..
But the trust fund is running out of money. Congress let the
corporate taxes expire in 1995. Without them, the fund has dwindled
from a high of $3.8 billion in 1996 to a projected $28 million
next year. President Bush's budget made clear that he did not
intend to reauthorize the tax.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/national/01SUPE.html?todaysheadlines
- 86 FIRMS FINED FOR TRADING WITH 'ENEMY'
The U.S. government disclosed it has fined 86 companies, including
Ikea A/S, CNA Insurance Cos. and the Los Angeles Dodgers, for
violating a law that bars companies from doing business with
an 'enemies' list of nations that includes Iran, Iraq, Cuba and
North Korea. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets
Control released a list of 115 fines totaling $5.8 million for
violations of the Trading With the Enemy Act dating back to 1998.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/775595.asp
- 84 MARINES, SAILORS CAUGHT IN DRUG OPERATION
Authorities in North Carolina have seized $1.4 million worth
of narcotics and have convicted more than 80 Marines and sailors
for using or distributing designer drugs, officials said yesterday.
A recent drug scandal at the Air Force Academy, for example,
implicated 38 cadets.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020703-31752340.htm
- SCHOOL SAYS IT MAY HAVE SOLD, MIXED BODY PARTS
Federal agents in Galveston are closely examining records at
the University of Texas Medical Branch after the school admitted
the possibility that body parts in its Willed Body Program were
sold. A routine audit recently determined there was a possibility
that some of the bodies willed to the institution for research
had been sold by one of those assigned to handle the delicate
program. That same audit concluded that many of the ashes from
the donated bodies had
been co-mingled and that relatives may have received a mix of
several people's ashes.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020703-22020124.htm
- FRESH ELECTIONS IN ZIMBABWE 'NECESSARY', SAYS TUTU
ENI 2 JULY 2002 - White farmers are ordered to stop farming and
let their harvest rot and give up their farms. Following is Tutu's
solution: Harare (ENI). A potential political crisis in Zimbabwe
could be averted by a re-run of the country's controversial March
presidential election, Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop
from South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has said. The
election, which extended President Robert Mugabe's rule for a
sixth term, was characterised by international observers as "fundamentally
flawed" and fraught with violence and intimidation. [ENI-02-2002]
- GEORGE W. BUSH CALLED "GEORGE W. AL GORE"
By Rush Limbaugh! The issue is Bush's flip-flop on Global Warming.
Rush Limbaugh correctly identified the problem American voters
find themselves in these days: we elected Bush and got Gore.
Bush flipped his position on Global Warming in a most damaging
report to the United Nations. Cutting Edge analysis: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1663.cfm
- ON JUNE 4, 2002, THE WHITE HOUSE DOWNLOADED FROM CUTTING
EDGE WEBSITE
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1541.cfm which is entitled,
"September 11, 1990, President Bush (Senior) Presents Speech
To Congress Entitled, 'Moving Toward A New World Order'. On September
11, 2001, World Trade Center Is Bombed - an interval of '11'
years! Since we consider this article to be one of the "Smoking
Guns" implicating the Illuminati in the precise planning
of 9/11, we found it highly interesting the W.H. was reading
this article today!
- NANOROBOTS INVENTORS TURN TO DNA CODE
What's Behind the Nano Technology Scare?
http://www.cephasministry.com/science_nanorobots_subsidized_by_u.s._2003.html
- MICK JAGGER TO BE KNIGHTED. Friday Church News Notes, June
14, 2002 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service,
P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org)
- Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger is scheduled to be knighted
on June 15 by Queen Elizabeth II "for his services to popular
music." The Rolling Stones, one of the most popular and
influential rock bands, have flaunted their ungodly, immoral,
drug-drenched lifestyle before society for 40 years. Brian Jones,
vocalist and guitar player for the Stones, drowned in July 1969
at age 26 after abusing barbiturates and alcohol. At the funeral
service, Canon Hugh Evans Hopkins admitted that Jones "was
a rebel," that he "had little patience with authority,
convention and tradition" (Hellhounds on Their Trail, p.
199). At the last concert before his death, which was The Rolling
Stones' Rock 'n' Roll Circus, Jones was dressed as the Devil.
It ended with the song "Sympathy for the Devil," and
as it reached its climax Mick Jagger ripped off his shirt to
reveal a tattoo of the Devil on his chest.
- JUDGE DECLARES FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL'
A Manhattan judge has declared the federal death penalty unconstitutional,
likening it to "state-sponsored murder of innocent human
beings." Federal Judge Jed Rakoff handed down his dramatic
ruling yesterday, nixing a government bid to seek the death penalty
against a pair of alleged Bronx heroin pushers accused of murdering
an NYPD informant.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/51614.htm
- U.S. PEACEKEEPERS 'TO STAY IN BOSNIA'
US peacekeeping troops will stay on in Bosnia, despite a row
over the United Nations mission there, both Nato and the US ambassador
to Bosnia have said. A spokesman for Nato said that an emergency
meeting of Nato ambassadors on Monday had decided that the thousands
of troops serving in the alliance's stabilisation force (S-For)
would remain in Bosnia and no contributing country would withdraw
its troops.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2079000/2079028.stm
- CIVILIANS TARGETED IN SUDAN WAR
Tens of thousands of people are fleeing fighting in Sudan's oil-rich
region of Western Upper Nile, following the fall of the key rebel-held
town of Mankien to government forces in June. The charity Christian
Aid says there is clear evidence that civilians are being targeted
in the government offensive.. Men, women and children are driving
livestock before them in search of a place of safety.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_2082000/2082624.stm
- BUSH MOVES AHEAD ON POSSIBLE IRAQ ATTACK
U.S. officials say military may strike without warning The Star.com
Jun. 14, 2002 - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. President George W. Bush
is methodically laying the foundation to overthrow Iraq's Saddam
Hussein, perhaps with military action, and observers say it is
possible the United States may strike without warning...
Behind closed doors at the White House, the president reacted
with dismay to reports that U.S. military leaders were lobbying
against an Iraqi invasion anytime soon. "I don't know what
they're talking about," two senior U.S. officials quoted
the president as saying. They interpreted the remark to mean
Bush is seriously considering military action despite opposition.
Bush himself told supporters this week: ".. Evil is evil,
and we will fight it with all our might."..
- Saddam, meanwhile, is showing more aggressiveness. Today,
U.S. aircraft bombed an Iraqi military facility in response to
an Iraqi attack the previous day on aircraft patrolling the southern
``no-fly" zone. It was the fourth such strike in a month...
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently dismissed claims by
the Iraqi government that it has no nuclear, chemical or biological
weapons. "They are lying," Rumsfeld said.
..the State of the Union address and Bush's outing of an "axis
of evil" - Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Standing before Congress,
he offered the first hint of his ``strike first" doctrine
and, perhaps, his plans for Iraq. "I will not wait on events
while dangers gather," Bush said.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/
- VERICHIP HIGH HOPES
VeriChip was announced in December, the company has been bombarded
with queries from people interested in the device including e
over 2,000 kids who have e-mailed, wanting to have the chip implanted,"
he said. "They think it's cool."
Richard Seelig, the company?s director of medical applications,
injected two VeriChips into himself after hearing stories of
rescue workers at the World Trade Center scrawling their names
and Social Security numbers onto their bodies in case they didn?t
make it out of the rubble alive.
Company executives believe the worldwide market for such implantable
chips could reach $70 billion per year and that profit motive
will drive wide-spread media conditioning espousing the benefits
of such chips to help the human condition.
CNN reported on Monday, May 6,2002 that two Virginia congressmen
proposed a $315 million program that would require biometric
markers on all states' driver's licenses within five years. The
Congressmen, Representatives Jim Moran, a Democrat, and Tom Davis,
a Republican, want a driver's license to carry the driver's retinal
scan, fingerprint or some other kind of biometric marker within
an encrypted chip in the license.
http://prophecyandcurrentevents.com/thglory/
- SAN FRANCISCO ATTORNEY: BUSH ALLOWED 9/11
San Francisco Examiner:Publication date: 06/11/2002 Stanley Hilton
now figures his case is stronger because of a coalition of attorneys,
victims' families and bipartisan legislators who gathered in
Washington on Monday to condemn the government's lack of action
in preventing the Sept. 11 attacks.
Hilton is the San Francisco attorney who filed a $7 billion lawsuit
in U.S. District Court on June 3 against President Bush and other
government officials for "allowing" the terrorist attacks
to occur.
Among Hilton's allegations: Bush conspired to create the Sept.
11 attacks for his own political gain and has been using Osama
bin Laden as a scapegoat.
Hilton said he has information that bin Laden died several years
ago of kidney failure.
http://www.examiner.com/news/default.jsp?story=n.lawyer.0611w
- A NEW INDEX: PRESIDENTIAL HERITAGE
We came across a number of interesting links by name mews agencies
about the Bush Connections. This information is not about conspiracy
theories, but 'knowledge chases away fear of the unknown'. We
need to know what to expect from the Bush family in the White
House. The Bush and bin Laden families' relationship through
the Carlyle Group is largely undisputed. Some interesting missile
statistics and how they play into our daily life. This index
runs off the New World Order index for future reference. Anything
pertaining directly to the Bush administration will be listed
there.
http://www.cephasministry.com/index_presidential_heritage.html
- RESEARCHING USAMA BIN LADEN'S DEATH
The CNS news report stated that it is reported that Omar and
Bin Laden had returned to one of the underground Taliban bases
near Kandahar in the south, at approximately 11 a.m. local time
in Afghanistan on 16 October. As the two and others were entering
the underground base, it was reported an ally fired upon his
(Omar's) back from the rear. The report is that Omar was hit
in the upper torso, and bin Laden was hit once in the chest and
once in the upper left shoulder area. Both expired at that location.
See three reports of what we found:
http://www.cephasministry.com/terror_is_usama_bin_laden_dead.html
- 911: EGYPT WARNED U.S. OF A QAEDA PLOT, MUBARAK ASSERTS
Egyptian intelligence warned U.S. officials about a week before
Sept. 11 that Al Qaeda was planning a significant operation,
President Hosni Mubarak said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/04/national/04WARN.html?todaysheadlines
- MUSHARRAF: BIN LADEN NOT IN PAKISTAN
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf expressed doubt Monday that Osama
bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, saying it would be "almost
impossible" for him to have escaped detection here. "I
can't say
for sure whether he is dead or alive," Musharraf told a
news
conference. But "one thing I am certain about is that he
can't be
in Pakistan."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020701/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_bin_laden_5
- EUROPE SEETHES AS DEFIANT U.S. GOES ITS OWN WAY
America's European allies expressed "deep regret" yesterday
over US threats to pull out of UN peacekeeping operations. The
Bush administration said it would not budge in its opposition
to the new international criminal court, which was created yesterday...
Romano Prodi, said he was deeply concerned by Washington's opposition.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,747743,00.html
- U.N. URGED TO OPPOSE U.S. IMMUNITY
A coalition of groups supporting the new International Criminal
Court (ICC) has urged the United Nations Security Council to
reject American demands to exempt US peacekeepers from its jurisdiction.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_2069000/2069059.stm
- U.S. PROPOSES TRIBUNAL COMPROMISE
The United States proposed a compromise Tuesday to keep American
peacekeepers from being prosecuted by the new international war
crimes tribunal and avoid a threatened halt to U.N. peacekeeping
in Bosnia. The U.S. plan would allow the United States and other
four permanent Security Council members to veto the International
Criminal Court's investigation of peacekeepers. There was no
immediate official reaction from the 14 other members of the
U.N.
Security Council, who overwhelmingly support the court which
officially came into existence on Monday.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&514&e=16&u=/ap/20020703/
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- BILL AUTHORIZES FORCE TO RESCUE AMERICANS FROM WORLD COURT
With strong administration support, an important House committee
has voted authorization for the president to use force to rescue
any American held by the new International Criminal Court and
to bar arms aid to nations that ratify the court treaty.. Senator
calls it a "rogue court." The bill would also codify
the Bush administration's announced policy of refusing to cooperate
in any way with the court, and it would bar the extradition of
anyone sought by the court.
http://www.iht.com/articles/57496.html
- U.S. WANTS NATO-LED PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) On Wednesday afternoon U.S. officials
told United Press International that American diplomats in the
United Nations had hoped to convince the NATO-led peacekeeping
operation to accelerate plans to replace U.S. troops stationed
in the country with a European force. Under such an arrangement,
European police would replace the U.S. presence.
But the U.S. quarrel with the international community remains
on the International Criminal Court. Earlier this year, U.S.
Ambassador for War Crimes Pierre Prosper notified the United
Nations the Bush administration will not seek ratification of
the Treaty of Rome signed in 2000 by Prosper's predecessor David
Scheffer.
The United States has already withdrawn military observers in
East Timor over concerns the U.N. Security Council will not grant
an exemption to the uniformed men from the international court.
The U.N. must decide to extend peace keeping missions in Lebanon,
Georgia and the Western Sahara by July 30 --where U.S. concerns
are expected to be raised again. Copyright © 2002 United
Press International
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=03072002-093949-5605r
- ANTI-TERROR ADVISOR DOWNING RESIGNS AS BUSH AIDE
The top White House official for coordinating the federal government's
counteroffensive against terrorism resigned yesterday in a surprise
decision that removed one of the Bush
administration's leading advocates of launching aggressive and
unconventional attacks on terrorist networks. The departure of
retired Army Gen. Wayne A. Downing raised questions among security
experts about both the administration's plans to improve homeland
security through a massive government reorganization and the
direction of its policy on Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56316-2002Jun27.html
- HOMELAND SECURITY "ABOVE THE LAW"
WASHINGTON, June 26 - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee
accused the Bush administration today of trying to put the proposed
new Department of Homeland Security "above the law"
by exempting it from some regulations on access to information,
conflict of interests and whistle-blower protections.
Jeffrey H. Smith, a former general counsel of the C.I.A., said
he believed that "the time has come to consider the creation
of a domestic security service," akin to Britain's elite
MI-5 force. Such a service, combining elements of the F.B.I.
and C.I.A. into a new counterterrorism agency should not have
arrest authority, Mr. Smith said, adding that care would have
to be taken to protect civil liberties but that "I believe
that is doable."
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who is
the chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, warned
even before any witnesses spoke that such an approach "raises
important civil liberties questions that speak to our core democratic
values."
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/politics/27RIDG.html?todaysheadlines
- BILL RAISING FEDERAL DEBT LIMIT SQUEAKS THROUGH THE HOUSE
The House last night barely approved a Senate-passed bill that
would raise the federal debt limit, sending the proposal to the
president's desk despite loud objections from House Democrats.
The proposal, approved 215-214, would provide a $450 billion
increase in the current $5.95 trillion cap on federal borrowing.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020628-143700.htm
- SENATE, HOUSE PASS DEFENSE SPENDING BILLS
The House on Thursday passed a $355 billion defense spending
bill that includes a pay raise for military personnel and some
of the biggest funding increases for the military in decades.
Minutes later across the Capitol, the Senate approved a $393
billion bill that maps out defense spending policy for the fiscal
year 2003 beginning Oct. 1 Congress responded to the urgings
of President Bush that it put defense at the top of its legislative
list.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020628/ap_on_go_co/congress_defense_36
For more information and statistics, etc. in new index:
http://www.cephasministry.com/index_presidential_heritage.html
- COURT RULES PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
The Pledge of Allegiance, recited by millions of American children
at the start of each school day, is unconstitutional because
it describes the United States as "one Nation, under God,"
a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. A three-judge panel
of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled 2 to 1
that the reference to God, which was added to the pledge by Congress
in 1954, amounts to an official endorsement of mono- theism.
http://www.newsminute.com/pledgebanned.htm
- THE SENATE VOTED 99-0 TO CONDEMN THE FEDERAL 9TH CIRCUIT
COURT'S DECISION
In his morning prayer, Ogilvie said, "THERE IS NO SEPARATION
BETWEEN GOD AND STATE.. In gratitude, we declare our motto: 'In
God we trust' ... It is with reverence that, in a moment, we
will respect our commitment to you in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Help us to savor those words ... As we declare our convictions,
we affirm that patriotism, we affirm that we are one Senate united
under you, in God we trust."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56322,00.html
- "UNDER GOD" PLEDGE BATTLE ALL ABOUT DAD?
The ironic revelation that the child and her mother are Christians
who attend the Calvary Chapel in their home town of Elk Grove,
Calif., was announced by Pastor Chuck Smith of Calvary
Chapel in Costa Mesa, Calif., on his radio program Sunday night.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28160
- 'PLEDGE' JUDGE PUTS RULING ON HOLD
A day after he shocked the nation by declaring the Pledge of
Allegiance unconstitutional, a federal appeals court judge put
his ruling on hold Thursday.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=514&e=2&u=/ap/20020627/
- ap_on_re_us/pledge_of_allegiance_22
- HIGH COURT APPROVES SCHOOL VOUCHERS, RANDOM DRUG TESTS
A divided U.S. Supreme Court neared the end of its session Thursday
with rulings on two controversial lawsuits. In one case, the
court approved school vouchers, ruling that the Constitution
allows public money to underwrite tuition at religious schools
as long as
parents have a choice among a range of religious and secular
schools. In another controversial decision, the court ruled that
public high school and middle school students who participate
in competitive after-school activities can be tested at random
for drugs, just like athletes.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56376,00.html
- JUDGE STRIKES LAW CITING 'TERRORIST' GROUPS
A U.S. law authorizing the State Department to designate groups
as "terrorist" and which allows those who support them
to be prosecuted has been declared unconstitutional by a federal
judge, throwing U.S. anti-terrorism strategies into disarray.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020627-595079.htm
- HOUSE PASSES BILL TO GIVE PRESIDENT FAST TRACK AUTHORITY
BY ONE VOTE
The Bill it to strengthen President Bush's ability to negotiate
global agreements. The 216-215 vote, with one Republican voting
"present," capped an intense week of maneuvering in
which GOP leaders fought to quell internal unrest that nearly
caused the bill's defeat last week, while fending off sharp Democratic
criticism. The bill would give the president authority to negotiate
international trade agreements and submit them to Congress for
a yes-or-no vote, no
changes allowed.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56333,00.html
- DOLLAR SLIDES TO BRINK OF FREE FALL
The US dollar yesterday moved to the brink of free fall ­
a nightmare scenario for the world economy ­ after reverberations
from the WorldCom scandal triggered panic among investors. The
currency came within a whisker of parity with the euro and crashed
through key psychological barriers against the yen and the pound
as investors rushed to dump dollar assets.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=309438
- U.S. PLANS MASS SMALLPOX SHOTS
The Tampa Tribune 7.7.2002 - "... The government also is
laying the groundwork to carry out mass vaccinations of the public..
The plan to increase the number of "first responders"
who receive the vaccinations to roughtly 500,000 from 15,000
and to prepare for a mass undertaking of vaccinations in effect
acknowledges that the government's existing program is insufficient
to fight a large outbreak. By the end of the year, officials
expect to have eough to vaccinate every American, about 280 million
people.
C-SPAN a few days ago addressed this area and a nurse called.
She had researched effects of vaccine, etc.. She was very upset
that these vaccinations are mandatory. She said she found that
some 33 states have already adopted the new law to quarantine
people who refuse to get vaccinated. We have not read that anywhere
else to confirm but it sounds plausable.
Texe Marrs has alarmed people about vaccinations. Read our additional
research about nanorobots in this newsletter.
- ILLINOIS WILL BUY PILLS IN CASE OF NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
Illinois announced Wednesday that it would buy a stockpile of
350,000 thyroid-protecting potassium iodide pills. In a nuclear
accident, potassium iodide blocks the gland's adsorption of cancer-causing
radioactive iodine. The state's Department of Nuclear Safety
plans to hand out two, one-day doses to the estimated 180,000
people in the state who live within 10 miles of its six nuclear
plants.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/News/E08BAFEF38E50FCF86256BE50008361E?
- OpenDocument&Headline=Illinois%20will%20buy%20pills%20in%20case%20of%20nuclear%20accident
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