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from YAHOO - Reuters
Wednesday June 12 2:58 PM EDT
Victory for Free Speech on Internet
PHILADELPHIA (Reuter) -- In a ground-breaking decision on free-speech rights over the Internet, a special U.S. court panel blocked as unconstitutional a new federal law prohibiting indecency on computer networks.
The three-judge panel issued Wednesday a preliminarly injunction blocking enforcement of portions of the Communications Decency Act, signed by President Clinton Feb. 8, which prohibit the distribution to minors of indecent or ''patently offensive'' materials over computer networks.
The court let stand prohibitions against obscenity and child pornography, types of speech that are not constitutionally protected and were not challenged by the act's opponents.
``The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation,'' U.S. District Judge Stewart Dalzell, a member of the panel, said in his opinion accompanying the decision.
``The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion,'' he said...
In its legal conclusion, the court said the blocked portions of the act were unconstitutional on their face...
The ACLU immediately posted the court's opinion and order, which total 177 pages, on its World Wide Web site, said Christopher Hansen, attorney for the national ACLU. The address of the site is http://www.aclu.org.


from AP on the Globe Online
Reputed Mobsters Accused Of Turning Religious Feast Into Mafia Cash Cow
By Associated Press, 06/12/96
By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - The ``almighty dollar'' was the real deity of the nation's most muscled its way into a Manhattan street festival that honors an Italian saint, said an FBI official.
On Tuesday, 19 reputed mobsters were charged in an indictment that attacks the Genovese crime family as a murderous racketeering enterprise.
The Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy was used as a prop to dupe the public into believing the festival's proceeds would benefit churches and charities, said U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White...
White and Kallstrom, who announced the charges at a news conference, said the family made nearly $20 million since 1980 on illegal businesses.
White said almost none of the money collected during the 11-day Manhattan feast each September went to churches and charities. The indictment estimated that $1.5 million was made in the past two years by charging businesses for space to operate booths.


from News From Reuters Online - YAHOO
Tuesday June 11 7:29 AM EDT
Whitewater Counsel Probing Use of FBI Files
NEW YORK (Reuter) - Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr began investigating how the White House obtained confidential Federal Bureau of Investigation files on several top Republicans, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Starr's investigators went to the Pentagon Monday to interview an Army aide, Anthony Merceca, who requisitioned the records while doing background checks on about 340 people in 1993, the newspaper said.
Republicans discovered that the White House requested FBI information of the travel office's director six months after he was removed, the newspaper said.
The White House has said the background records were mistakenly ordered by a worker temporarily assigned to the White House to help update the list of people allowed to enter the grounds.
Rep. William Clinger, a Pennsylvania Republican, said he will hold a hearing on the handling of the files as early as next week, the newspaper said.


from Yahoo Reuters
Sunday June 9 1:11 AM EDT
White House: FBI Background Records Returned
WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Seeking to defuse a political uproar, White House officials on Saturday said classified files on more than 300 persons, including prominent Republicans, were returned to the FBI without being examined.
Embarrassed White House officials insisted that the background records on some 330 individuals were mistakenly ordered by someone temporarily assigned to the White House to help update the list of persons allowed to enter the grounds.
President Clinton, asked if he was ``satisfied it was an accident'' that in 1993 the White House asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the controversial background reports, replied affirmatively: ``Based on what I know.''


from Bill Clinton's Skeleton Closet
News Flash: White House Suppresses Skeleton Closet
In a shocking blunder, the White House successfully put pressure on Hotwired Magazine to stop linking President Clinton's name to this very web page. This was all done behind the scenes -- we had no idea until we read Brock Meek's Netizen column of April 30th.
The White House official involved, David Lytel, was in charge of creating the popular Clinton White House web site. He recently left the White House, and is working for a private web page consultant. At a conference, he attacked Netizen for being cynical and unfair, citing the Skeleton Closet link. Meeks, in response, noted that Hotwired had removed the link after receiving official pressure from the White House. In Hotwired's "Threads" discussion, another Hotwired employee admitted that they had been "intimidated" by receiving email from the "whitehouse.gov" domain early in Netizen's infancy, and said she regretted that they caved in.


from Reuters Headlines from YAHOO
Thursday May 30 8:13 PM EDT
Scientists Comb Beethoven's Hair for Clues
CHICAGO (Reuter) - Scientists combing through the chemical and genetic structure of a lock of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair said Thursday the composer was not taking morphine despite his numerous ailments.
Strands of the famed composer's hair will be studied for traces of zinc, arsenic and lead as indications of what he died of in 1827 at the age of 56.
Scientists in the Chicago suburb of Naperville at the Health Research Institute, which specializes in alternative medicine based on the body's chemistry, also plan to test the hair sample for mercury, the common 19th century treatment for syphilis.
If high levels of zinc are found, it could indicate Beethoven's immune system was under attack. An excess of arsenic could indicate that the composer was deliberately poisoned. Heightened lead levels would point to a common source of accidental poisoning.


from AP on the Globe Online
Lincoln Home Popular With Prostitutes
By Associated Press, 05/30/96
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - To the embarrassment of federal officials, Abraham Lincoln's home has become popular to more than just tourists.
Prostitutes are frequently arrested within blocks of the former president's home. Three were arrested earlier this month.
Authorities hope to deter the prostitutes by letting federal prosecutors press charges against them. Typically such cases have been turned over to state and local courts for prosecution because there is no federal law outlawing prostitution.


from CNN Interactive
Elvis worshipped in India town
May 21, 1996
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Maybe we can attribute all those Elvis sightings to reincarnation.
In one small town in the Indian state of Karnataka, a picture of Elvis Presley hangs beside pictures of Hindu gods in a temple, according to a report in India Today magazine.
The faithful reportedly come to worship Elvis just like the other deities. The rock 'n' roll singer died in 1977.


from MoJo Wire The Exile Files
IDI AMIN Cannibalistic crazyman Amin escaped from Uganda to Libya in 1979 at the invitation of the equally erratic Muammer Qaddafi. Later, Amin slipped into Saudi Arabia for an all-expenses-paid exile. He now resides outside of Jedda with the surviving members of his family. (Amin is reported to have eaten a son and fatally dismembered one of his wives.) Foreign diplomats have spotted the white-robed Amin sipping coffee and jawing with Ugandan ex-pats at a local hotel.
JEAN-CLAUDE DUVALIER While most Haitians knew him as "Baby Doc," those close to Duvalier called him "Baskethead"--though not to his face, of course. For 15 years Duvalier ruled Haiti by repression. Then in 1986, after simmering unrest boiled over, Duvalier and his family "retired" to a palatial villa near Cannes, paid for with millions looted from the Haitian treasury. But a costly divorce, a spending spree, and an international effort to freeze his assets left Duvalier penniless. Evicted from his villa in February 1994, Duvalier now lives in a shabby cottage with his mother and his five dogs. French Telecom later cut off his phone service because of unpaid bills. He hasn't been heard from since.


from Time Daily 5/13
The Plot Thickens
MOSCOW: Allegations that Russian mafia groups sold arms and nuclear materials to the Irish Republican Army have surfaced after British diplomats were accused of spying in Russia. Last week, the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) arrested and charged a government worker with giving information to British agents. The British government threatened to retaliate if Russia expelled the nine diplomats accused of espionage, a threat that seemed to cool the dispute. "The issue is closed," said an official in the Russian FSB of the threatened expulsions on Sunday. A story in the British newspaper The Mail could rekindle the issue. On Sunday, The Mail quoted a colonel in the FSB saying that the Russian arrested official "confirmed that the IRA had been supplied with arms and offered stolen radioactive material." The colonel added that three or four members of the IRA traveled to Russia in early 1996 and met with mafia groups who offered them both conventional arms and nuclear material. The IRA reportedly paid the mafia groups a "huge deposit," and arranged for them to transport the weapons out of Russia. "We don't know where the radioactive material is. We are not sure if the mafia still has it or if it has been smuggled out," the colonel told The Mail.


from AP on the Globe Online
Outrage Over Explicit Prison Video of Richard Speck
By Associated Press, 05/13/96
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - In the videotape secretly recorded in a maximum-security prison, mass murderer Richard Speck strips off his jumpsuit to reveal women's blue underwear.
Along with another inmate, he snorts a white powder that appears to be cocaine, engages in sex acts and tells the camera how he's had the time of his life behind bars.
``If they only knew how much fun I was having in here, they would turn me loose,'' Speck says.
The videotape, portions of which began airing last week on Chicago's WBBM-TV, shows no contrition from the man who murdered eight student nurses nearly 30 years ago. Speck died of a heart attack in 1991, one day shy of his 50th birthday.


This was posted on alt.conspiracy 4/1
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Mad Cow Manifesto
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Let it be known, that Cows of all races and varieties of this planet are MAD.
As cows, we are MAD, and angry about the way we have been herded into jail cells, and fed poor quality food.
We have been abused, misused, and mistreated by greedy flesh merchants who criminally sell our milk and flesh in a most cruel and callous manner.
Therefore, we have prayed to the great Devil-Cow in the sky for revenge.
Our master has declared that all who eat cow flesh will eventually become diseased, and die a horrible death.
We, the cows of the world have declared war against all you flesh eaters. Plague will be transfered to the most evil of you immediately, followed by a massive plague to begin on January 1, 2000 to all consumers of cow flesh, regardless of prior tradition or ignorance.
BE WARNED!!!!!!!
We are MAD MAD MAD MAD MAD, and we will DISEASE YOUR SOUL IF YOU EAT OUR FLESH!!!!!
STOP EATING COW FLESH IMMEDIATELY, OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES!!!!!
Signed,
The most angry, and hostile,
MAD COW


This was posted on alt.conspiracy
In article <4j9gii$p84@we.got.net>, auvergne@got.net says... >In article , > Seb wrote:
>>New virus out that was started by somebody using america online. You get
>>the Good Times virus in your email, You don't have to download anything
>>to get it. If you get a subject listing in your email called "Good
>>Times" erase it immediately. It is set off if you click on it to read
>>the message. It will destroy your harddrive and put you internal
>>processor into some sort of binary loop. So do not read any email
>>messages tha have the subject listed "Good Times" I just received a
>>warnign about in in my email. From a penpal reader
>What do you expect from the mindless masses that AOL has given access to the
>net?
>I wish someone would blow up all of AOL's mainframes.
Did you know that this stupid message "IS" the good times virus. You mail it to everyone you know willingly. One day alone I got six copys of it ...
Geeze
~| %) Roark


This is from The Week from Metrotel (UK)March 9 Edition
Los Angeles
Haing Ngor, who survived four years of torture at the hands of the Khmer Rouge before playing a leading role in the 1984 film, The Killing Fields, was assassinated last week by agents of Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator, according to the victim's brother. Los Angeles police initially thought that the shooting of Haing Ngor outside his home had been the work of armed robbers.


This is from alt.conspiracy 3/22.
From - Fri Mar 22 14:29:51 1996 From: rivero@accessone.com (Michael Rivero) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: Jews as Potential Traitors Date: 22 Mar 1996 10:42:09 -0800
In article <4iqiuc$c61@netaxs.com>, Robert Alpert wrote:
>You fools need to understand that your situation is hopeless. The
>International Jewish Conspiracy is far too entrenched for you to overcome
>our insidious power. To we Jews, you feckless goyim are all expendable,
Oh? Then who pays retail? :)
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