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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (47346)	1/21/2000 8:22:00 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

Off-Topic, NeXt, Babbling, baboonium, bad & sicko Joke. Safe Harbor Statement: Ron, welcome back again, and I hope that after the GataUp someones backside occures soon to those wishing and a hoping to keep price of gold low find they lose control.... Ok, now Ron I have and do and will continue to look forward to your posts, eventhought I do popo them, and I guess you, but never you mind that, and aSoon I hope things will get lots aMore interesting, unless ofcourse Bill Murphy of GATA can not finally get a grip on that greased PiG. Hey, that good, POG = Price of Gold = PiG = Pig ? Gold, need an i. Note: next is only fooling and a joke and not true, but seems relavent. Reece Friday, Jan 21, 2000 9:04 AM ET Respond to Post # 47346 of 47350 You miss[pissed] my presence on this thread, don't ya Dougak.... <VBG>

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (47346)	1/23/2000 10:41:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116762

OT & the reason it was needed to bail out Mexico was?: Saturday January 22, 5:18 pm Eastern Time Mexico agency accused of bailing out casino owners MEXICO CITY, Jan 22 (Reuters) - A fresh storm was brewing on Saturday for Mexico's bank guarantee agency amid new allegations it absorbed dodgy bank loans of powerful casino owners as part of a massive bank bailout shouldered by taxpayers. Reforma daily on Saturday quoted a deputy from the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Dolores Padierna, as saying the Institute for the Protection of Bank Savings (IPAB) had taken on 265 million pesos ($28 million) in bad bank loans from big firms that owned betting shops and casinos. The allegations are the latest in a string of scandals over influence-peddling and high-level government corruption that have dogged the long ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). During the regime of disgraced former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, many banks were sold off wholesale, sometimes to unsuitable owners with no experience in banking, and business concessions were handed out to friends without going through the process of tender. A disastrous peso devaluation in December 1994 plunged already weak banks into crisis as debtors defaulted in droves and the government was forced to step in and take over billions in bad loans. The rescue package is estimated at around $100 billion. The enormous bill -- and the discovery some of the bad loans were made illegally -- have fueled widespread public discontent and a bitter political fight in Mexico.(cont) biz.yahoo.com

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (47346)	2/23/2000 10:44:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

OT(?)(govt. out of control?) Report: CIA Placed National Security at Risk UPI February 23, 2000 For more than a year and a half, high-ranking officials at the Central Intelligence Agency hid the fact that former director John Deutch stored dozens of highly classified documents on a home computer described as "highly vulnerable" to hacker attacks, according to an internal CIA report released Tuesday. "Despite knowledge [of prohibitions and vulnerabilities], Deutch processed a large volume of highly classified information on unclassified computers, taking no steps to restrict unauthorized access to the information and thereby placing national security information at risk," the report said. Though internal investigators, who were prevented from formally questioning Deutch by CIA lawyers, have so far concluded that there is "no clear evidence" that the data was stolen from Deutch's computer, the report concedes that (rest at) newsmax.com