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NEWS BRIEFS

The following seven defense briefs are from:
UNDERSTANDING DEFENSE, 1574 Coburg Rd. Suite 160, Eugene OR 97401

The last Minuteman II missile was pulled from its silo in early April. The Air Force then blew up the silo. All of the Minuteman II's have now been destroyed under a treaty with the USSR/Russia. There were once 150 M-II silos in western South Dakota. The nuclear warheads were all taken off in 1992. The missiles were on alert for 30 years and were getting old, although they could have been kept in service for years. 

The Clinton administration plans to shut down in one year as many military bases as Uncle Sam closed in the last six years. At least 15% of remaining US bases will close as part of a bill passed by Congress in 1991. However, there is opposition rising in Congress. Massive base closings could hurt the economy in key states, such as California, thereby hurting Democratic re-election chances. 

Clinton wants to "temporarily" trim the US heavy bomber force in half, from the current 211 down to only 107 planes. Critics say the cut is actually intended to be permanent, because Clinton has proposed no funding to reinstate the force. Defense advocates say that with the steady demise of US ICBM forces and the closing of so many overseas bases, even 211 planes is far too few. 

While many US states clamored for more gun control, two Baltic states in the ex-Soviet Union encouraged freer private ownership of handguns. Lithuania and Estonia said more gun owners help deter crime. As a crime wave crests - about equal to New York's - people are afraid to travel. But as one gun store manager said, "guns make people feel more secure and confident." The biggest seller is the 6.35 mm pistol.

Starvation is occurring in North Korea, recent escapees said. Many older people are committing suicide in order to "lighten the load" on families.

North Korea bought 40 Russian subs that could be modified to fire ballistic missiles, said Richard Sharpe in Jane's Fighting Ships, 1994-95. NK said is bought the subs for scrap. Right.

"Bio Warrior" is the latest redundant catch-phrase for the soldier of the future. "Cyborg" would be a better piece of jargon. He will be equipped with a range of built-in and snap-on sensors, machines, and capacities. For instance, he will wear optical devices embedded in his skull, giving him super long distance and microscopic vision, night sight, fog and smoke vision, and even vision allowing him to see through walls and barriers. This technology is not science fiction. Tests of helmets with flip-down devices that can do most of these things are underway, Some Special Forces are equipped with combinations of these capacities. The trick will be to "build-in" the systems, directly into the skull - and to find volunteers who will want the surgery required. 

The following four news briefs are from:
The AMERICAN INFORMATION NEWSLETTER,
Box 44534, Boise, ID 83711 along with individually listed sources. 

Are pro-lifers the next Clinton-regime target for federal militarized police assault? Two men who were detained for an armed surveillance of a pro-life demonstration at a Florida aboritorium were likely FBI or BATF agents according to a police report. The men wore body armor and carried a loaded machine gun as well as other weapons. The men, Robert Thrasher and Albert London, possessed the needed documents to allow them to carry both concealed weapons and a fully automatic machine gun, a firearm the ownership of which is denied the general public. The men told the police they were "doing a favor" for Florida child-killer, W.P. Keene. In addition to the MP5 fully automatic machine gun, the "weapon of choice" for the BATF as revealed during the Waco Trial, the men also had a 12 gage shot gun and five automatic pistols. The police let the duo go after determining they had the documentation for the arsenal. The police report indicates investigating officers suspected the two were members of either the FBI or the BATF. LIFE ADVOCATE

The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), the agency which initiated the deadly and unconstitutional military raid against the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas, received a budget increase under the Clinton regime during a period when other federal agencies received severe cuts in their budgets. The agency which has shown a willingness to use deadly force against American citizens in pursuit of disarming the citizenry is also the first so-called "civilian" agency which will be given military attack jet aircraft. According to Tom Valentine's RADIO FREE AMERICA (5.810 short wave, evenings 8-10), over a dozen military attack aircraft are being transferred from the Marine Corps to BATF. At Waco, attack helicopters and tanks were used against civilians. Now, jet fighter-bombers will be added to that anti-civilian arsenal. It is significant that more deadly military hardware is being transferred to the agency which will largely implement the Clinton regime's policy of disarming the American people. WORLD NEWS DIGEST with AIN sources. 

The federal government has ordered Minolta Color Copiers to insert an invisible code to identify which machine made any particular copy. Further, every customer is now required to furnish a statement of why they need the copier and to furnish both social security numbers and their Corporate Tax Identification number. While this first attempt to register copiers is allegedly an anti-counterfeit measure, it has established a dangerous precedent giving the government surveillance capability of what is essentially a "people's press." Photo copiers were credited with facilitating the downfall of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe by helping break the Communist monopoly of the press. The potential power of the photo copier may not have been lost upon the emerging totalitarianism in America. THE LYKE REPORT

The Clinton regime has opened the way for the transfer of the technology needed for advanced military weaponry to the Communist Chinese. The regime has eliminated the watchdog committee which prevented export of military sensitive technology to the reds. Clinton expects to sell $150 billion worth of computer and telecommunications technology needed for advanced weapons, both conventional and nuclear. He plans to use the money from the transfer to close the "trade gap" for the United States. The regime claims it still will control transfers to Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya, Syria, and Cuba, but most of those states are currently military clients of the Chinese. NEWSSCAN Editorial comment [NOT RMSG]: It used to be called treason to aid & abet your enemy. This can't be called anything but a big-time sell out. A few multi-national corporations will make profits of a few billion dollars, and we taxpayers will then have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to defend ourselves against enemy's that we created. It's unconscionable, but when you look at the bunch who's running the country it's difficult to be surprised. If you think they have your best interest in mind, open your eyes. 

The following three briefs are from:
The WASHINGTON REPORT, PO Box 10309, St.Petersburg, FL 33733

Some good news. With all the "bad news" about our society, a PRINCETON SURVEY shows something good - 90% of Americans DO NOT steal, 86% are married, 84% DO NOT cheat on their spouses, 88% DO NOT spread lies about others and the TEN COMMANDMENTS are relevant.

About 10% of American youngsters attend private grade schools. Only 5.9% of Hispanic and 4.3% of Blacks nationwide attend private grade schools. It's quite different with our political "leaders" _ 40% of our U.S. Senators and 30% of our Representatives send their children to private grade schools. Editorial comment [NOT RMSG]: apparently our "leaders" don't wish to have their children dumbed down in the government schools they force most of us to use for our children. This doesn't say much about the confidence that our elected officials have in the education system that they are in part responsible for perpetuating. 

If U.S. drug company profits were cut in half, health care cost would decrease less than one percent. 

FREE PHONE CALLS? According to a forecaster for Microsoft, phone calls in the United States may eventually be free. Nathan Myhrvold said fiber optic deployments and other developments will drive the cost of an ordinary, voice-only phone call to zero. In a speech, "Road Kill on the Information Superhighway," he said it's purely a matter of economics. Data transmission cost will fall by a factor of at least 10, perhaps 50. Because voice calls use relatively little data compared to video, the cost will fall so low that companies will find it more economical to offer them free, as bonuses to video, computer, and other services carried on the same lines. When? It will only take "a few years," he said. THE POSITIVE ECONOMIST BULLETIN, 1574 Coburg Rd., Suite 160, Eugene, OR 97401. 

No homeless in six weeks! Using figures provided by Mitch Snyder, the gloom & doom, self-styled late advocate for the homeless, THE DARTMOUTH REVIEW discovered some good news: the homeless will all die off in a few weeks. This is sarcasm, of course. But it makes a point: Snyder's still-quoted figures are super-exaggerations. Snyder claimed that there are 3 million homeless persons in the U.S. (figures STILL quoted here in 1994) and that 45 died every minute. A little math shows that nearly 65,000 must therefore die daily. That means that the homeless problem will solve itself within about a month-and-a-half. 

Credible surveys show that there are probably only about a quarter of a million homeless in the entire country - perhaps as few as 100,000. 250,000 would mean an average of under 1,250 per city, if the homeless were spread only through the 200 major U.S. cities. But the real per-city average is undoubtedly less, because many of the homeless live in tens of thousands of smaller cities and towns, too. THE POSITIVE ECONOMIST BULLETIN, 1574 Coburg Rd., Suite 160, Eugene, OR 97401. 

The U.S. government is run by various international agencies who are controlled by international financiers. They put up the money to elect our officials, who are answerable to them, not to the people. The banking systems of the world, including the Federal Reserve System, are governed by this same elite group. There are about five hundred people, primarily in the major tax exempt foundations, i.e., Brookings, Carnegie, Ford, Rockefeller, etc., who are actively engaged in transmitting the international finance ministers' orders to the government of the U.S. Beneath them are ten thousand exceedingly well paid businessmen, media personalities, and politicians who, with the aid of religious operatives, implement the orders of this ruling elite. The executive officers of the two dozen corporations that own the establishment media in America serve as directors on all of the major foundations, and together they determine what the servile media allows to be seen and heard in this country today. (THE OREGON STAR) THE WITNESS, 5231 16th Street, Lubbock, TX 79416

The following thirteen briefs are from:
THE MCALVANY INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR, PO
Box 84904, Phoenix, AZ 85071

Cocaine use and abuse in Colorado has reached record levels. "The 12 year trend of drug use going down came to an abrupt halt this year." said Ron Hollingshead of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Planned Parenthood's "Dollar a Day" program pays teenage girls $1 per day for not becoming pregnant. Counseling sessions encourage the use of birth control, which is another way of teaching the girls to be sexually active. 

A combination of high taxes, lower home mortgage interest rates, and low wages are causing more women to leave the work force and become full-time mothers. Demographers expect the trend to result in greater demand for generic and private label groceries. Outlet malls should also prosper, as moms have more time to shop and compare prices.

America's financial decline has hit young college professors. Thousands of instructors are juggling two and three part-time jobs (no benefits) to survive, and the new generation of professors cannot get tenured positions. Many of the under-40 teachers ran up tens of thousands of dollars in student loans pursuing Ph.D's, and the long years of education have not paid off. 

The number of new AIDS cases in America more than doubled from 49,016 in 1992 to 103,500 in 1993.

Idaho has very few restrictions on gun purchases, and the state's murder rate is 1.8 per 100,000 residents. Washington, D.C. has the most dictatorial gun laws in America, and the city's murder rate is 80.6 per 100,000.

Contrary to the lies of Bill and Hillary Clinton, the vast majority of medical providers oppose socialized medicine. 71% of the respondents to a survey by the American Academy of Family Physicians opposed the Clinton plan, with only 12% supporting it. More than 80% described the nationalized medicine as bureaucratic, and 63% called it socialistic.

A WASHINGTON TIMES report says three employees of the Rose Law Firm stated that Hillary Rodham Clinton supervised the shredding of a dozen boxes of documents related to the Whitewater affair.

According to the AMERICAN SPECTATOR (1101 N. Highland, Arlington, VA 22110), the allegations against Bill Clinton cover violations of 12 separate state and U.S. codes. If Clinton were convicted on all charges, he could be sentenced to a  maximum of 178 years in prison and fines of $2.5 million.

Arkansas private investigator Luther "Jerry" Parks was ambushed and shot to death last September. Parks' son Gary told the LONDON TELEGRAPH that his father was murdered to protect Bill Clinton's reputation. He said, "My dad was working on Clinton's infidelities for about six years, starting in 1983."  Jerry Parks kept two Clinton files in his bedroom. Just before he died, Parks' home was burglarized. The security system was dismantled, the telephone wires were cut, and the files stolen.

Washington, D.C.'s obsession with political correctness and "equality" has destroyed the city's police department. "I saw people hired who were practically illiterate," said D.C. detective Mike Hubbard, who spent five years training police recruits. "I've seen people diagnosed as borderline-retarded graduate from the police academy." Even past criminal records were considered insufficient grounds for being declared ineligible for a police position. "A lot of people who were in the drug rackets joined the police department," said former Washington police officer Montague Holmes. "Some of them went straight when they joined the department, and some of them didn't."

Legal lunacy strikes again! A Phoenix trade school refused to admit a blind man for a motorcycle mechanics course. The would-be student sued, and the school will be forced to pay $16,000 in damages and change its program to accommodate him. The decision came from the "Justice" Department's enforcement of the Americans With Disabilities Act. 

This sign is commonly seen in Waco, Texas: "Has the BATF visited your church today?" 

THE LIGHTER SIDE 

From THE WASHINGTON REPORT, PO Box 10309, St. Petersburg, FL 33733

The judge said to the criminal before the bench, "The last time you were here, I told you I didn't want to see you in my court again." The criminal said, "I know, your honor, I told the police that but they wouldn't listen."

The judge was outraged when the jury rendered a "Not Guilty" verdict. He asked, "What possible excuse can you have for freeing this defendant?" The jury foreman said, "Insanity, your honor." The judge asked, "ALL 12 of you?"

A street person was up before the judge for stealing a pair of shoes. The judge asked, "Weren't you before me a year or so ago on the same charge?" The thief said, "Yes, your honor. How long do you expect a pair of shoes to last?"

BUMPER STICKER: "National Health Care, The Compassion of the IRS, The Efficiency of the Post Office, At Pentagon Prices" 

The following two briefs come from:
THE WASHINGTON REPORT, PO Box 10309, St. Petersburg, FL 33733 

Did your major media tell you that Robert B. Fiske, Jr., the "independent" special counsel appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate the Whitewater-Madison affair, was a close buddy of then White House Counsel Bernard W. Nussbaum? They used to swap legal cases. Did they tell you that as a New York lawyer, one of Fiske's largest clients was International Paper Corp? That company was the one that sold the 810 acres of rural Arkansas land to Whitewater for a low-low price of only $550,000. 

The Bill Clinton White House staff is said to be very, very young to the point of being called the "Kiddy Corp". Lloyd Cutler, 76 years old, was recently brought in to help out and is being called the "Designated Adult".

The following five briefs are from:
The MCALVANY INTELLIGENCE ADVISOR, PO Box
84904, Phoenix, AZ 85071

The government's claim that taxes need to be raised to provide sufficient revenues are a blatant lie. Tax revenues increased by an average of eight percent a year from 1980 to 1991, but government spending increased by 11% a year during the same period. 

"Although government produces no real wealth, it still demands the right to consume virtually anything, even everything. And to satisfy the government's appetites, the real producers/creators of wealth (the free market workers, managers, and owners) are impoverished (taxed) to the point of economic slavery...How is it that one class of people who create cars, food, homes, etc. cannot afford them, while another class who creates nothing can? Sounds a lot like slavery, doesn't it?" Alfred Adask

FBI spokesman Bob Ricks reportedly said, "If you use that word again, I'm going to hang up!" during a phone conversation with Branch Davidian attorney Gary Coker. What was the dirty word? It was "Constitution."

TONIGHT SHOW host Jay Leno in talking about Washington attorney Bob Bennett, Bill Clinton's defense attorney in the Paula Jones lawsuit: "Clinton's lawyer has attacked Paula Jones for being greedy. Who better than a $450-an-hour lawyer to criticize a woman who makes $10,000 a year for being greedy?"

New York City's rat population is estimated at 15 to 40 million. Rat infestation complaints to the city's health department have increased seven-fold since 1992. "At night, you hear them [rats] screaming between the walls," said New Yorker Rose Madera. "The rats often wake my daughter by pulling at her door."

HOW MUCH HAVE WE SPENT ON WELFARE?

Since 1964, our country has spent over $5 TRILLION [that's trillion, with a big "T"] on welfare. That's enough to buy EVERY Fortune 500 company and ALL the farmland in the United States.....TWICE!!! We all have a hard time comprehending these kinds of numbers. To understand just what a TRILLION DOLLARS is, this may help put it in perspective for you, by using seconds of time. If you added up a million seconds, you would go back in time just 11 1/2 days. If you went back in time a billion seconds, it would be the year 1963. Now, if you went back in time a TRILLION seconds - and are you sitting down - you would be time warped to the year 29,715 B.C. A trillion, is a lot of seconds, AND a lot of dollars. And what have we gotten for our big bucks spent. In a nutshell, we have greatly empowered big government over a large segment of the population, we've made more people than ever dependent on the government dole, we've taken away the spirit, morals, and self-reliance of most of these people, and we certainly have done nothing to help these people help themselves. In other words, $5 TRILLION DOLLARS has actually made the situation much worse. What a buy!!! Would you like another 30 years of this  LBJ Great Society "war on poverty"? 

INEXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP

The really horrifying thing about America today is that the political leadership and most of the people running the country have no practical experience beyond politics. How can these so-called experts improve America's industrial performance when they never ran an industry? How can they judge treaties on fair trade when they know nothing of trade? How can they solve the problems of health care when they never ran a hospital, insurance company or pharmaceutical company and never treated a patient? 

For the most part, the people in charge of government never met a payroll or managed a practical operation of any kind. they take their advice from professors and theoreticians, some of whom couldn't run a two-bottle milk route. Professional politicians without real-life experience in anything but politicking must surely be the most impractical and dangerous type of leadership a nation can have. By James R. Cook, Investment Rarities, 7850 Metro Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN 55425. From: STRAIGHT TALK, PO Box 60, Pigeon Forge, TN 37868.

The following 9 briefs are from:
STRAIGHT TALK, PO Box 60, Pigeon Forge, TN 37868

Feminist "leader" Gloria Steinem once said that she looked forward to a time when our kids would be raised "to believe in human potential, not God." Well,  this has happened in our public schools, with a vengeance. So, how's it going? Not so hot. "USA Today" reports two studies which show: 51% of teachers say they've been verbally abused; 16% were threatened with physical injury; 7% were physically attacked; and 24% of our public school teachers say  violence against the faculty is a serious problem in their schools.

In Clinton's health care plan the word "mandatory" is included 24 times, "prohibit" 51 times, "restrict" 54 times, "obligation" 56 times, "penalty" 59 times, "enforce" 87 times, and "limit" 269 times, according to Jack Wheeler.  Two million jobs will be lost in the Clinton Health care plan. STRATEGIC INVESTMENT, 3/16/94 

The Clinton 1342 "Health Care" bill creates an incredible 105 bureaucracies, expands an additional 47, and calls for more than 100 new regulations. Editorial comment: Clinton's health care plan has much more to do with "people control" than with providing quality health care. It's called cradle to grave socialism, and it's been a failure everywhere else it's been tried. 

The five people who have had the most books written about them are, in order: Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, Washington, and Napoleon.

According to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll, only 19% of Americans think they can trust the federal government to do what is right at least most of the time. This is way down from 76% in 1964, 30 years ago. 

The Federal Reserve Act was foisted on us in 1913. Almost a century and a half before that a man who many historians rate as the greatest American said:  "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their  currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the American people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." His name was Thomas Jefferson. 

Regarding Whitewater, "If even a few of the leads now being investigated can be substantiated, the Clinton Administration will not survive. The range of suggested impropriety stretches well beyond the Watergate accusations that brought down the Nixon Presidency." STRATEGIC INVESTMENT

57% of income tax revenue now pays interest on the debt.

New Jersey spends more per public school pupil ($10,561) than any other state, yet ranks 39th in SAT scores. District of Columbia public school students rank 5th in funds, but 49th in SAT scores. Utah's per pupil expenditure is lowest of any state ($3,128), yet the state ranks 4th in SAT scores.

 

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