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Politics : Clinton -- doomed & wagging, Japan collapses, Y2K bug, etc -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SOROS who wrote (122)	9/7/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1151

But how many HRs will McGwire finish with?

To: SOROS who wrote (122)	9/7/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1151

Soros, Nosterdamus has been "discredited". WWIII was supposed to start in Europe through a Muslim vs Christian" conflagration. It almost happened when Islamic volunteers from both Lybia and Iran joined the Muslims in Bosnia. Fortunately, President Clinton (which some braindead individuals insist on "impeaching or forcing his resignation") designed a brilliant strategy to defuse the situation and at a minimal cost if any (only few accidents which happen all the time in the military) in American lives, defused the situation. I say that if Starr manages to carry on a "coup d'etas" our Presidency will be so weaken that we will end up like Italy having new governments, that do not govern, every few months. It is time to put this non sense aside. If the President's sexual organs did not penetrate Lewinski's sexual organs, he did not lie under oath in the Jones extortion trial. Period. Sexual deviations, while not the best "standard setting example" are not impeachable offenses in our constitution. Making it a public domain affair shows how low those that would see the country go down the drain rather than accept the fact that Clinton's presided over one of the greatest successes in our history, can go. What can I say, "Pox on both your houses". Zeev

To: SOROS who wrote (122)	9/7/1998 12:02:00 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1151

Soros: Well, you're just full of good news. sf

To: SOROS who wrote (122)	9/9/1998 10:33:00 PM
From: SOROS	Respond to of 1151

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Floods and heavy rains have destroyed 119,000 houses and left more than 200,000 people homeless in nine Sudanese states, the government said. The government's Humanitarian Aid Commission, in a statement published in newspapers Wednesday, said 65 schools and 60 health institutions have also been destroyed and vast tracts of farmland have been inundated. The government has mobilized troops to fight the worst flooding along the Nile River in a half century and is considering evacuating thousands of people in districts near Khartoum. The worst hit regions in Sudan, Africa's largest country, are the Shamalia and el-Nil states north of Khartoum. On Tuti Island, located in the Blue Nile, a few hundred yards from where the river meets the White Nile, more than 10,000 inhabitants have been battling the surging river for three days. A 2.5-mile-long wall of sandbags has been erected to save thousands of homes. Sudan often has a flooding problem in September, when the rivers peak and seasonal rains begin. Meanwhile, air drops and feeding centers operated by international agencies hoping to alleviate a famine in southern Sudan are relieving some suffering, but people are still dying at an alarming rate, the United Nations said Wednesday. ''The famine is not yet over,'' said Michael Sackett, regional manager of the U.N. World Food Program. But ''it is clear that the trend is improving for the first time.'' Hunger is a persistent problem in southern Sudan, home to a 15-year civil war. About 1.5 million people have died in the fighting and famines. The international effort has slowed the death rate, but Sudanese will face continued food shortages for at least another 14 months until next season's crops are planted and harvested, Sackett said.

To: SOROS who wrote (122)	9/9/1998 10:40:00 PM
From: SOROS	Respond to of 1151

Monday, August 31, 1998; 7:05 a.m. EDT HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- The first hailstorm in memory caused serious damage in a southern Vietnamese village and sparked rumors that it was a harbinger of doomsday. The chief of the provincial Weather Forecast Station was forced to visit Hiep Thanh, in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu, and appear on local television to explain that it was a natural phenomenon, an official of the forecast station said. Sunday's hail destroyed 11 thatched homes and damaged 19 others. All of the village's vegetable gardens were damaged, as were other crops.

To: SOROS who wrote (122)	9/9/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (9) \| Respond to of 1151

by Joseph Farah, Between The Lines Commentary First let me say that I am a journalist, not an economist. Nothing I say in this column ought to be interpreted as personal financial advice. I am not qualified to offer it. I am, however, considered something of an expert in my chosen profession. I observe what goes on around me, around the world, I ask questions and seek the truth about a wide variety of issues on a daily basis -- sometimes even issues I don't initially understand very well. Second, let me say , that I hate making predictions of any kind. People seem to have an uncanny knack for remembering when you are wrong and never crediting you when you are right. With that little preface out of the way, I am about to venture into dangerous waters. I am going to predict -- with relative assurance -- that the U.S. economy is heading south, in a hurry and deep. The fact of the matter is there are very few experts on the subject who don't foresee at least a mild recession on the horizon. It's inevitable because of cyclical trends as well as global conditions. The downturn is unavoidable. It's simply a question of how bad things are going to get. My educated guess is we are headed into the tank in the next 15 months. The optimists say that there are contingency plans in the works. That should tell you how seriously they view deteriorating conditions in Russia, Japan, the rest of Asia and, for that matter, most of the rest of the world. The world's stock markets are already in a tailspin. The Federal Reserve plans to respond to a corresponding trend here by flooding the economy with money. I believe, after studying economic history and talking to experts on the subject, that this is a fundamental error that will only compound the problem. Instead of reacting, we ought to be analyzing how we got ourselves in this predicament in the first place. The answer to that question is through reckless lending on a global scale. All through the good years and semi-good years, we've been hearing about the advantages of the emerging global economy. Well, my friends, there are disadvantages, too. And we are about to experience them. Even if the United States were an economic island, we would not be spared the coming pain. Recessions always follow booms in the economy. Furthermore, the Fed has been creating artificially low interest rates that contribute to excesses in our economy. We have now begun paying the piper for these misguided policies. In recent days we have seen the reaction of the stock market. Anticipating a decline in the rate of return on capital, the speculators will withdraw. All this is pretty obvious. You can see the early warnings in the decline of U.S. stock prices in recent days. "Corrections," they call it. Wishful thinking for a nation which has 57.6 percent of its household liquid assets invested in the stock market -- the highest percentage in the last 60 years. But just as the United States begins facing what some will assume to be the worst of the "slump," the economy will be hit with a severe knockout punch. That blow will be delivered on or before Jan. 1, 2000, with the wallop of the Y2K millennium bug. Even the most optimistic projections of what the computer glitch will mean to our way of life suggest serious economic dislocations. But what if those assessments are, as I believe, overly optimistic? What if the truth lies somewhat closer to the other extreme? What if the bug means widespread power outages, disruptions of routine services such as food and gas delivery, failures of long-forgotten embedded chips, even, God forbid, civil and social chaos and a overnment-military overreaction? The economic recession could quickly deteriorate into an all-out depression. That's not a prediction. But it is a distinct possibility. And anyone who pretends otherwise has his head buried in the sand. What's the answer? Don't look to government for it. The only solution may be in self-reliance, individual initiative and prudent preparedness. Consider yourself warned. A daily radio broadcast adaptation of Joseph Farah's commentaries can be heard at ktkz.com

To: SOROS who wrote (122)	9/11/1998 9:28:00 PM
From: Kevin Michael	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1151

What is the major clash with China? For years people have been saying the end is near, but Christ says no one knows when the time will come. Though there have been some past prophets who have been amazingly accurate with some of their other predictions and also predicted the end of the world near this time. Even an Egyptian pyramid gives a timeline of some events (memory is vague as to which one) that were predicted to occur and they did. They also predicted the end of the world at this time. Soros I don't know where you get all your information but it is indeed interesting. With all the gloom and doom that is out in the world let us hope that peace, good moral values, and global cooperation will lead us out of these troubled times. KM