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June 6, 2001 Turner's U.N. Fund Plans World Resource Survey
By BARBARA CROSSETTE
NITED NATIONS, June 5 — One of the most ambitious projects to assess global environmental damage from the rapid consumption of natural resources was announced today by an unusual coalition of scientists, corporations, foundations and international agencies.
Timothy E. Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, a sponsor of the project, called it "the first global report card on our environment." The fund, set up in 1997 with a 10-year $1 billion grant from Ted Turner, founder of CNN, has been looking for environmental projects to support. It has already made grants in areas like women's and girls' health.
In March, it approved its largest donation, $10 million, for a campaign to save endangered coral reefs. The fund will give $4 million to the effort to give the earth a physical checkup.
Other contributors include the World Resources Institute in Washington, whose president, Jonathan Lash, was instrumental in developing the project; the Global Environment Facility, set up after the Rio de Janeiro summit meeting on the environment in 1992; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; and the World Bank.
Officials expect the project to cost $21 million, with $17 million already pledged. Up to 1,500 scientists will be asked to volunteer for the cause. Secretary General Kofi Annan, formally introducing the program today, said that it was "designed to bring the world's best science to bear on the present choices we face in managing the global environment."
The project, set up and run by the United Nations Environment Program, will also benefit from 16,000 satellite images donated by NASA.
Officials expect a final report to be published in 2005, with interim studies released occasionally.
At a news session today, Mr. Wirth, a former senator from Colorado and a former under secretary of state for global affairs, called the survey the first real assessment on the earth's life-support systems.
"Why is this important?" he asked. "The very basic fact is that we are living off our ecological capital, and if we continue this approach, we will soon discover that this is a bankrupt way for us to operate. The bulk of our economy is rooted in five biological systems — crop lands, forests, grasslands, oceans and freshwater ways. When the environment is forced to file for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 because its resource base has been polluted, degraded, dissipated and irretrievably compromised, then the economy goes down to bankruptcy with it, and so does everything else."
Angela Cropper of Trinidad and Tobago, a development expert who will be a scientific panel co-leader, saw much preliminary evidence. "Coral reefs are dying, the forests are being degraded and disappearing — these things have to be rehabilitated," she said. "Fish stocks are being significantly depleted."
She said the world would have to learn to regulate and manage dwindling natural resources.
Mr. Lash of the resources institute added that two-thirds of the agricultural lands were seriously degraded and that the number of people who depended on those lands for food was expanding. To revive that land, water is needed, among other items.
"Water use is rising twice as fast as population," he said. "Seventy percent of water is used for irrigation, and that suggests a set of trends that simply do not lead to a good outcome."
Calling the report crucial to understanding how to deal with growing human pressures on resources, Mr. Lash said, "If it's successful, in a few years you will have a good statement of the state of the world's health in terms of its capacity to produce the goods and services that support all human well-being and prosperity — food, clean water, fiber, the materials that make our world possible."
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World Resources Institute in Washington
Global Environment Facility
The World Bank
When you see The World Bank -- know that is American taxpayers footing the bill!
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I will post on Wirth tomorrow -- Wirth the Gaian, friend of Al Gore and worshiper of worms and molds.
How much American taxpayers dollars were moved by Congress to The World Bank for this research?
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Hill Hears Human Rights Commission Excuses and Complaints
Wednesday, June 06, 2001
WASHINGTON — Putting a bizarre spin on an international embarrassment, a State Department official told Capitol Hill lawmakers at a hearing Wednesday that the United States may have been tossed off the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights last month in part because some supporters believed the U.S. was certain to earn a spot on the commission — and so they didn't bother to cast their votes for the United States.
The U.S. had received 44 guarantees of support, 35 of them in writing. And yet the U.S. received only 29 votes. William Wood, deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, admitted that the loss came as a shock.
"Although not all members of the European Union used all of their votes for other European Union members, some and perhaps many did. Some may even have assumed our re-election was a foregone conclusion and therefore that they didn't need to vote for us," Wood said.
The loss of a seat on the commission was a particular embarrassment for the United States, which had been a member since 1947. The United States was one of four candidates vying for three seats assigned to Western European and North American nations.
The commission is a 53-member body elected through secret ballot by the Economic and Social Council, a 54-member group that includes perennial human rights violators such as Cuba, China, Libya, and the Sudan.
Wood offered other possible explanations for the loss. He suggested that allies to Cuba and China campaigned against the United States; some nations retaliated against the United States to protest its not paying nearly $600 million in back dues to the international body; and many nations were angered by the United States "principled positions" on issues relating to the international criminal court, the environment, and economic, political and social rights. "When you take tough positions, you get a reaction," Wood said.
Former U.N. Ambassador Infuriated
The explanations were cold comfort to former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, who testified that a human rights commission comprised of human rights violators will eventually dismantle all the achievements made to date.
"Virtually all the dictatorships in the world will be participating in the human rights commission next year doing all the sort of things that dictatorships do — repressing others; jailing them; denying them free speech, press, and assembly; trying to bar them from taking part in commission activities," she said. "They will seek to revise the rules on accreditation to the commission, making it impossible for victims of repression to speak to the human rights commission and to circulate 'politically-motivated material' describing their treatment."
Kirkpatrick cited the example of Freedom House, a Washington-based non-governmental organization that documents human rights abuses in many nations. Kirkpatrick, a board member, said China is trying to discredit Freedom House. Cuba and Sudan are also trying to strip it of its U.N. accreditation.
Outrage on the Hill
Many congressmen, particularly some who have long fought to expand human rights internationally, expressed amazement at the outcome.
"The United Nations' Human Rights Commission is increasingly being populated with the most appalling, most disgusting, most persistent violators of human rights," said Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., a Holocaust survivor who moved to the United States from Budapest, Hungary, after World War II. "We clearly and inexorably are moving in the direction, with the growing sophistication of these assorted dictatorships, that the U.N. Human Rights Commission might in fact make itself a meaningless entity and our presence on it, or our failure to participate in it, might make very little difference."
Fallout Continues
Following last month's ouster from the commission, Congress voted 252-165 to withhold $244 million in back dues owed this year if the United States is not returned to the commission next year.
That vote was opposed by the Bush administration as counterproductive. "Let's not be too irate so that we start to take actions in the heat of the moment that we regret in six to eight months," Secretary of State Colin Powell said during a House Budget Committee hearing last month.
Powell's position was reiterated by administration officials Wednesday. "We will pursue our human rights policy regardless of whether we are on the commission or not. Those laggards who rejoice in our removal will learn that we will be no less vigorous in our pursuit of this nation's human rights principles than we were even in the past," said Michael Parmly, deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
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"Under the New Earth Ethic, the U.N. Security Council mission would include ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY, ***ensuring compliance by means of an International Court of Criminal Justice.***
Today, U.S. soldiers are sent to guard rain forests and endangered species in Central and South America. ***Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs *Timothy E. Wirth* [now the head of Turners UN Agenda] calls this 'a legitimate military issue.'"
The above is from "Hope for the Wicked" by Ted Flynn: Now Wirth, as head of the Turner UN Foundation, has the money and the clout to drive an agenda for an "International Environmental Security Force" (which of course the U.S. would be required to help staff)!
Suppose the U.N. decides that the "water" in Israel (because the powers that be have already set in motion the "Jerusalem as the International capital") is an international concern; therefore, the U.N. through the International Court of Criminal Justice brings Israel to "U.N. Justice"; and sends in the U.N. International Environmental Security Force to enforce the U.N. Agenda. Think that is farfetched! Ha!
Maybe Turner will leave with the United Nations when they move to Moscow.
I really don't care what the reasons were, it was a golden apple that fell in our laps as evidence that we need to get out of the U.N.
To reiterate the environmental agenda:
New U.N. treaty ratified quietly By Henry Lamb © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
The U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification was ratified by the U.S. Senate on October 18, [2000] ***but few Senators yet know that it has been ratified.*** Senator Craig Thomas (R-WY) introduced a package of 34 treaties, all of which were ratified by a show of hands -- ***no recorded vote.***
Initially, Senator Thomas' office told callers that the Senator had nothing to do with the ratification. On December 8, [2000] his office called to explain that Senator Thomas just happened to be on the Senate Floor late in the afternoon of October 18 -- and was asked by the leadership to handle procedurally, the package of treaties.
>>>Senator Thomas has asked the Foreign Relations Committee to explain how, and why, the Desertification Treaty was included in the package.<<<
At the recent climate change talks in the Hague, Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) said the treaty had not been ratified, until corrected by one of his staff. Phone calls to Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN), and other Senators, caught staffers off guard: Nobody knew how their boss voted on the ratification. They could not know -- there was no recorded vote.
***This treaty was signed by the Clinton administration in 1994. It has been locked up in the Foreign Relations Committee since.***
>>>Normally, treaties of such monumental importance are debated in committee and then forwarded to the Senate floor for further debate and disposition.
>>>Not this time. The treaty appeared in a package of 34 treaties -- most of which were single-issue treaties with single nations, dealing with stolen vehicles, criminals, and the like. ***The Desertification Treaty, however, is not a single-issue treaty with a single nation.
This treaty is one of several environmental treaties that emerged from the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. One of those treaties, the Convention on Climate Change, was ratified in 1992. The Convention on Biological Diversity failed ratification in 1994. ***The Convention to Combat Desertification was skillfully maneuvered through the Senate to avoid the public reaction which killed the Convention on Biological Diversity.***
***The Desertification Treaty claims jurisdiction over 70% of the earth's land area -- virtually all of the land that is not covered by the Convention on Biological Diversity.*** Moreover, this new treaty creates a structure through which all other environmental treaties are supposed to be integrated under a common United Nations implementation regime. ***A companion treaty is now being developed by the U.N. Commission on Water for the 21st Century.*** The United Nations is, in fact, creating the structure in international law and, through its extensive bureaucracies, to control the use of all natural resources on earth.
The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty on October 18, 2000 -- whether or not it knew what it was doing. On November 17, the Clinton administration delivered the ratification documents to the United Nations. The United States is now bound by the international law that claims the power to dictate land use in 70% of the earth's land.
The name of the treaty implies that it is concerned about deserts -- in fact, ***it is concerned about all land use.*** To combat desertification, the treaty seeks to prevent land use that its enforcers think may lead to desertification. ***Converting forests to pasture, for example, or ***pasture to row crops, or ***crop land to subdivisions, are ***all uses that may lead to desertification, according to literature produced by the United Nations.
***There is no distinction between *federal land and privately owned land* when it comes to land use under the jurisdiction of the U.N. The U.N. sees its role to be the establishment of policy -- it is up to the participating nations to see that the policy is implemented.
>>>The recent rash of land acquisition measures promoted by the administration and Congress seeks to get more land under federal ownership. The vast expansion of regulatory control over land use by all federal agencies makes it easier for the United States to comply with its international obligations under a variety of international treaties.<<< This new treaty extends even further the U.S. obligation to control land use.
According to the treaty itself, no reservations can be included in its ratification (Article 37). The Resolution of Ratification adopted by the Senate contains several reservations -- all of which will be ignored by the United Nations.
***Withdrawal from the treaty cannot even begin until after three years of participation -- and then another year must pass before withdrawal is recognized by the U.N. -- assuming, of course, that there is some desire in the Senate to withdraw.***
Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental Conservation Organization and chairman of Sovereignty International.
***The Desertification Treaty claims jurisdiction over 70% of the earth's land area -- virtually all of the land that is not covered by the Convention on Biological Diversity.*** Moreover, this new treaty creates a structure through which all other environmental treaties are supposed to be integrated under a common United Nations implementation regime.
***A companion treaty is now being developed by the U.N. Commission on Water for the 21st Century.*** The United Nations is, in fact, creating the structure in international law and, through its extensive bureaucracies, to control the use of all natural resources on earth.
Our current and many previous elected officials need to have the Constitution explained to them.
Presidential Oath of Office
"I, name, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Oath of office to all Members of the House and Senate
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Bush and the rest of our elected officials have no sense of guilt in giving our sovereignty away to the United Nations. They have no understanding of the word SOVEREIGNTY.
Voting with their hands to omit public records is another one that jerks my chain real hard.
4. Strictly speaking, in our republican forms of government, the absolute sovereignty of the nation is in the people of the nation; (q.v.) and the residuary sovereignty of each state, not granted to any of its public functionaries, is in the people of the state. (q.v.) 2 Dall. 471; and vide, generally, 2 Dall. 433, 455; 3 Dall. 93; 1 Story, Const. Sec. 208; 1 Toull. n. 20 Merl. Repert. h.t.
Reference: John Bouvier, A Law Dictionary Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and the Several States of the American Union, Childs & Peterson, c1856.)
to control the use of all natural resources on earth.
And that natural resource includes YOU. The devil which owns the Mammon system is coming to exact full compliance with all who bow down to him.
Re 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Re 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Sadly, the mark system is well advanced and the church which has fallen away is deceived. Here is the account of Jezebel's death --
2Ki 9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel
heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked
out at a window.
31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Had Zimri
peace, who slew his master?
32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who
is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down:
and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and
he
trode her under foot.
34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said,
Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's
daughter.
35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her
than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
[Jezebel gave her mind to the beast, her feet ran to evil, her hands grasping her own pleasure and self-fulfillment, loving the world and the things of the world.]
36 Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This
is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh
of Jezebel:
37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung
upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they
shall not say, This is Jezebel.
"Jezebel's destruction may be looked upon as typical of the destruction of idolaters and persecutors, especially that great whore, that mother of harlots, that hath made herself drunk with the blood of saints and the nations drunk with the wine of her fornications, when God shall put it into the heart of the kings of the earth to hate her, #Rev 17:5,6,16." ...Matthew Henry, 1700's.******
The spirit of Jezebel has seduced God's servants to idolatry, the Christian Church is apostate, has fallen away and given its mind to the beast....it is full of Pride and Self and Self-Exaltation. It wears a SINFOIL hat and cannot receive nor hear the truth. Swine have filled the temple and the wicked one stands in the holy place (the hearts of those who say they "believe") and the Lord, like Jehu, is coming in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power... 2Th 1:9-9.
Jezebel took the warnings of Jesus and she said to Christians, "All of those things you don't like in the Bible -- narrow gate, foolish virgins, unprofitable servants, unfruitful branches, being holy, being conformed to His image, obeying Him, denying yourself , picking up your cross -- You can just ignore all those things or say they don't apply to you, indeed you can rip out whole verses and chapters if you want, you can even go buy my new versions which have them handily deleted already for you...because the Lord was wrong about all those things He said, and it is just too hard to keep his commandments (Bill Clinton said so and you believe him, didn't you?) and after all Nobody's Perfect, and God loves you too much to let you suffer. Yes, you indeed shall be as gods knowing good from evil and you can decide for yourself...so just use your skull and think you are all you want to be and name it and claim it and you can have all this world and heaven, too, and I know, I know, some warn that Atheistic Secular Humanism is promoted and financed by Satan, the Illuminati and Communism, but I say unto you that you can have it YOUR WAY, you deserve a break today, just do it, go ahead, enjoy yourself! So deck yourself with gold and precious stones and pearls, hold up the golden cup in your hand and God will fill it! You can drink of the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils because you're special, you've evolved into a higher species and know what is best for yourself so you can pick and choose what you want to do of that horrid To Do list that Jesus spoke of; you're better than other people around the world who are in tribulation and persecution (after all, they must have done something wrong because they are poorer than you), because you Americans are better, better than even the Jews because look hard things have been for them, and God owes you all these things of the world that you desire so much and that you give your money in exchange for so you can treasure them in your heart and he will give you all those things you desire in the world if you will bow down and worship the church and its doctrines and I will protect you from any false doctrines, just listen to my pastors and my prophets, and you can let your feet run ahead and you can live life anyway you want and do anything you want and God who is rich in mercy is really the big cosmic bellhop Who will come down and kiss your perVersions, and repent of all of those hard sayings that He said and He will do your bidding because all dogs go to heaven and why shouldn't you because your acts of sinful behavior are cute to Him and because what I said in the Garden has come to pass...you now are the gods I said you would be."
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Rev 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her:
for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and
shall see no sorrow.
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The Lord responded, "I still have a small remnant that are wholly mine and follow me whithersoever I go."
Wednesday May 23, 05:00 PM Secretive Bilderberg group to meet in Sweden By Peter Starck STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - EU enlargement and the bloc's military role, NATO's future and developments in Russia and China will top the agenda when senior Western business leaders, politicians and a sprinkle of royalty meet in Sweden this week.
The Bilderberg group, a semi-secret discussion forum for the Western world's power elite, will hold its annual meeting in the town of Stenungsund on the Swedish west coast on May 24-28, Swedish newspapers reported on Wednesday.
A 900-metre long metal fence has been erected around Hotel Stenungsbaden, the meeting venue, to keep intruders away, regional daily Goteborgs-Posten said, publishing a picture of the fenced-in hotel.
Anti-globalisation demonstrators are expected to protest outside and local police see the event as a useful training exercise ahead of the mid-June European Union summit in the city of Gothenburg 50 km (30 miles) to the south.
The Bilderberg group, named after the hotel where it first met in 1954, was formed early in the Cold War era in reaction to a growing Communist threat. Today, many critics see it as a conspiracy and an agent of a new capitalist world order.
Bilderberg member Jacob Wallenberg, chairman of the board of commercial bank SEB and head of Sweden's influential Wallenberg family whose empire has a finger in most big Swedish industries, played down the group's importance.
"This is one of many meetings all over the world where decision-makers get together," he told the daily Dagens Nyheter, which earlier published the main agenda topics.
Invited as speakers, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were groomed at Bilderberg meetings before rising to fame as U.S. President and British Prime Minister respectively.
EU Commission President Romano Prodi, NATO Secretary-General George Robertson and European Central Bank Governor Wim Duisenberg all have a past as Bilderbergers.
SHAPING CAPITALISM
"Even though no formal decisions are made...this group, together with many others, has contributed to shaping the kind of capitalism we have today and cemented the world's leading business elites together," Goran Greider, editor-in-chief of Dala-Demokraten, a regional Swedish daily, said in a live studio debate on Sweden's TV4 television.
Bilderberg participants abide by the so-called Chatham House rule, which forbids everyone present from disclosing what anybody else has said.
"The secrecy is regarded as very provocative. Men in power talk towards consensus behind closed doors on timely issues on the political agenda," Ulf Bjereld, a political science professor at Gothenburg University, said.
Bilderberg members include former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, U.S. Senators Christopher Dodd, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, France's central bank governor Jean-Claude Trichet and former IMF heads Michel Camdessus and Stanley Fischer.
Also listed are the chairmen of car makers Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, and DaimlerChrysler, Juergen Schrempp, former British finance minister Kenneth Clarke, Dutch Queen Beatrix and Xerox Corp CEO Paul Allaire
I will post on Wirth tomorrow -- Wirth the Gaian, friend of Al Gore and worshiper of worms and molds.
I can't wait! LOL! Worshiper of worms and molds - sounds like one of Al Gore's friends!
"We clearly and inexorably are moving in the direction, with the growing sophistication of these assorted dictatorships, that the U.N. Human Rights Commission might in fact make itself a meaningless entity and our presence on it, or our failure to participate in it, might make very little difference." -Tom Lantos
Hey, this really must be getting obvious if even Tom Lantos is starting to get the picture! Hey Tom! They're outvoting us! That's the plan!
"I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow", also sounds like the thinking of the "most Christian" nation in the world, yet "in one hour shall thy destruction come" is certainly a possibility given the number of countries in this world that love us so.
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>>>>"I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow", also sounds like the thinking of the "most Christian" nation in the world, yet "in one hour shall thy destruction come" is certainly a possibility given the number of countries in this world that love us so.
This is tragic beyond words. America is living out the last half of Deuteronomy Ch. 28, the cursings for disobedience and may precede the demise of Western Civilization. The whole of the O.T. was set out to show, among other things, ensamples of what NOT to do, and too many think the rules don't apply to them. God will not be mocked and He is not a respecter of persons.
1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples:
and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world
are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest
he fall.
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How bout we throw in a quote from the U.N.? "Americans have forfited their right to control their natural resources because of their urban sprawl, and their SUV's, someone had to take charge."
Do any of you remember forfiting your right to control our natural resources? Or even being asked to?
As far as the U.N. is concerned, Americans are just vermin using up the natural resources hand over fist. They can make this bold statement because our elected officals will not utter one word of protest, and we are too broke to go to Washington and rally.
. Think that is farfetched
Sigh, unfortunately it is not. The only thing that may delay such an action is that I think the current European crisis with immigration will keep them busier than anyone thinks.
What good is handwriting on the wall to a nation that can't read?
The bulk of our economy is rooted in five biological systems — crop lands, forests, grasslands, oceans and freshwater ways
Agriculture and mining are the two basic industries upon which all else relies. Fishing and forests can be lumped in with agriculture to keep it simple.
The most shortsighted attacks are on these two basic industries. Looking at resource use also ignores how these things came to be in the first place, they are not forces of nature, people created them.
What? You say people created forests and coal?
Yes, people have made these into resources.
Excellent question. We're doomed and I'm getting the heck out of here. Do I have a better chance of redemption in a Latin American country? Or should I remain and fight the beast?
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide! The Lucie is coming!
34 Posted on 10/28/2001 01:06:34 PDT by Zadokite
35 Posted on 11/30/2001 22:34:19 PST by Zadokite
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