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It's a crime, under the recently enacted US Patriot Act, to give funds to any organization which is, or has, given money to a known terrorist or terrorist supporting group, even if you didn't know that you did so, or are now doing so.The Taliban organization of Afghanistan is listed as a Terrorist Supporting group by the United States Justice department. The United States Government has given the Taliban organization of Afghanistan millions of dollars, thus making the UNITED STATES Federal Government one of those criminal organizations supporting terrorists.(43 million USD given to Taliban in May, 2001) Which means, if ...

A noodle-shop owner who refused to shake hands with Tung Chee-hwa on Wednesday said yesterday he was wrong to have spurned his hand. The man, who gave his name only as Chow, said he now regretted his action after watching Mr. Tung's response to the snub on the television news. "Mr. Tung was very lenient and broad-minded" he said. "He did not blame me. I think he is good official. Like many other people, I might have had some prejudice towards Mr. Tung in the past. I might be wrong." "I now urge people to support Mr. Tung to seek ...

July 14, 1956 The Ching Dynasty was overthrown long ago. By whom? By the party led by Sun Yat-sen, together with the people. Sun Yat-sen's forces were so small that the ching officials didn't take him seriously. He led many uprisings that failed each time. In the end, however, it was Sun Yat-sen who brought down the Ching dynasty. Bigness is nothing to be afraid of. The big will be overthrown by the small. The small will become big. After overthrowing the Ching dynasty, Sun Yat-sen met with defeat. For he failed to satisfy the demands of the people, such ...

Britain yesterday unveiled what it said was further evidence that Osama Bin Laden masterminded the Septemer 11 attacks on the United States. However, although the 23 page document claimed a majority of the suicide hijackers had now been linked to Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, it admitted the evidence would not stand up in a court of law. The paper published in parliament, included quotes the Government said Bin Laden had utered on a video that had not been broadcast but was circulating through his al-Qaeda network. "It is what we instigated in self defense. So if avenging the killing of ...

Gaza- Palestinian organizations, forces and political figures have rejected Jordanian monarch King Abdullah's proposal that the Arab countries should offer collective guarantees for "Israel's security" in return for a Palestinian state. They said that the idea, which also proposed complete merger of the Zionist entity in the Middle East, would not be successful and underlined that the Palestinians were the ones in need of security guarantees in the face of Zionist occupation's atrocities. Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, a prominent Hamas leader, told the UAE daily 'Al-Bayan' that the proposal was unacceptable and that any Arab leader accepting it would be embarassed ...

Question: Do you share President George W. Bush's vision of two states, Israel and Palestine, living "peacefully together in secure and recognized borders"? Freep away.

LAST-MINUTE MOVE: At the WTO meeting in the tiny Gulf state this weekend, Beijing is likely to attempt to have Taiwan classified as a separate customs territory of China, according to the minister of economic affairs.China is certain to make a last minute attempt to impede Taiwan's entry into the WTO during the ministerial meeting set to begin this friday in Qatar, according to Minister of Economic Affairs Lin Hisn-yi. In an exclusive interview with the Taipai Times, Lin said " there will surely be actions taken by the PRC to interfere with Taiwan's WTO entry... they have done it ...

Pirates yesterday upstaged the Hong Kong launch of Microsoft's Windows XP software by offering a $50 version of the $2,300 package. Retailers of the genuine product complained that the shops in several computer malls were openly selling the illegal software- including yet to be released Chinese language version. Customers said it was easier to find the pirated version than the real thing. Illegal versions of XP have been available in Hong Kong for months, but copies reportedly worked for only a month or two before expiring. The knock off software now being sold in small shops and malls appeared to ...

According to the Jerusalem post article found at the above link, the five Israelis were illegally working for a moving company while on expired tourist visas. INS is holding them pending deportation hearings expected soon.

One of Osama Bin Laden's accomplices, who is currently being held in custody in Egypt, has given sensational evidence of his former boss's activities. In his words, "the number 1 terorist behind the current biological attacks". The accomplice, who is called Arnad Ibrihim Al-Najara, says that Bin Laden procured anthrax strains with a comparitively small ammount of money in cash. Mr. Al Najara's testimony was cited by the New York Post. It proved incredibly easy to get hold of the bacterial weapon. Bin Laden ordered the bacteria from two firms located in the Czech Republic and one of the countries ...

Go to the site. Just under the artist's rendering of Afghanistan you will see the Words "THE FRENDLIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, POSSIBLY THE UNIVERSE" A pretty tough sell in this day and age. I almost pitty them.

A story that got lost in the shuffle of the Sept. 11 World Trade Centre tragedy. Sept 12, 2001- The final burial of Brittish Racing legend Donald Campbell, pilot of the legendary Bluebird that crashed on Coniston Water in 1967 while attempting to set a new water speed record. His body was not recovered untill May of this year when it was brought to the surface shortly after the raising of the wreckage of the Bluebird. DNA tests concluded the body recovered was that of Mr Campbell and the burial service took place not far from the crash site in ...

The Linked page outlines a strange interpretation of the Great Seal of the United states. (back of $1 bill) It is a prophecy of 13 time peroids in the history of the United States as represented by the 13 levels of the pyramid on the reverse of the great seal. The 13th period began in 1932 and ended in 1945. Roosevelt's tenure as president of the United States. They call Roosevelt the "last founding father", as supposedly he completed the foundation of the United States bringing us to the period as represented by the "all seeing eye" at the top ...

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The wise retaliation against terrorism will be to take a step which will completely root out terrorism forever and this will be by creating a very strong influence of positivityand harmony in world conciousness, so any kind of negative trends do not arise, the announcement reads. For that the proposal calls for establishing a group of 40,000 experts in the Vedic knowledge and technologies of peace... (GET READY FOR THE KICKER!!!!!!!) The announcement outlines the financial requirements of the proposal. "What is immediately needed is an endowment fund of $1 BILLION in order to permanently engage 40,000 peace makers in ...

The following is a short excerpt. Click the link for the full text. TNA NEWS WITH COMMENTARY - I warned in several articles about the danger that ignorant Chinese generals could pose to America and China's asian neighbours as well as the Chinese people. These generals(not all, by the way) are incredibly ignorant of the West and particularily America, nearly as ignorant as the pre-war Japanese militants who brought disaster upon the chinese people and eventually on their own people. Unfortunatey, Clinton's political stupidity, moral cowardice and shocking venality served only to strengthen the predjudices and ignorance of these men ...

Occoupied Jerusalem - An oppinion poll released in the West Bank Tuesday by the Alqods Media and Communication Centre showed support for Palestinian Authority Chairman Yaser Arafat plumeting to 23%, the lowest rating ever for the Palestinian leader. In contrast, support for the Islamic resistence movement, Hamas, rose to 20.7% and for its junior sister, the Islamic Jihad organization, to 5.7%

The following ia sn excerpt from an article titled BEIJING, BIN LADEN and BUSH. Click the link above for the full text. Obviously, Beijing would not be too concerned if the Americans terminated Osama Bin Laden. And this is where it gets interesting. I've tried to stress two things in previous articles: firstly Beijing's long term goal is to get the U.S out of the Pacific-Asia region. Secondly, that many members of the regime, including generals, believe that America is in a state of terminal moral decline which has resulted in her instincts for survival being severely eroded. Therfore, Beijing ...

All the Palestinian National Authority websites are down. Could it be they were found to contain encrypted messages?

George Bush- "We will make no distinction between those who have committed the act and those who have supported them." As I have seen posted here several times tonight, "No Arab will sleep tonight" IT WILL SOON BE ASS KICKIN' TIME