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December 1, 1999 Ambassador James Dobbins Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State for Kosovo and Dayton Implementation The State Department Washington DC 20520 By fax and mail: (202) 647-0939 Dear Ambassador Dobbins: The decision by the international community’s High Representative in Bosnia to dismiss twenty-two officials, including the Mayor of Banja Luka Mr. Djordje Umicevic, is an ill-judged act. The Serbian Unity Congress does not take positions in favor or against individual politicians, but we are strongly committed to democracy. Elections often bring results that strike some observers as unfortunate. That is their essence. American practice, however, ...

Fidel Castro, president of Cuba, said he wanted to attend the World Trade Organisation in Seattle but would not because the US government did not want him in the country. He also accused the US government of plotting with Cuban exiles to have him arrested if he set foot on US soil. The US state department replied that they would have granted Mr Castro a visa but he had not requested one.

Boy Scouts Reject Proposed Troop PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) -- The Boy Scouts have rejected a proposed troop that was to have been sponsored by the United Church of Christ in Petaluma, and church leaders say they are insulted. Pastor Lynda Hyland Burris said she believes the Scouts rejected the troop because its proposed scout master, Scott Cozza, is vice president of Scouting for All, a group that advocates an end to scouting's ban on gays. In a letter to the church, officials from the Boy Scouts' Redwood Empire Council in Santa Rosa said the Scouts ``concluded that it is not ...

In Seattle today, one felt one was witnessing the birth pangs of the kind of energetic, idealistic and ideologically diverse social movement that could turn the United States from its current bi-partisan, nation-breaking death march to globalization. On the streets protesting against the WTO was a coalition of extraordinary diversity: tens of thousands of AFL- CIO members and their families, thousands of environmentalists, students and young people. All sense that at bottom, they are being sold a bill of goods by corporate globalists. WTO head Mike Moore said today he didn’t care about the demonstrators—after all, he claimed, 1.5 billion ...

(reuters)snippet............Among these were whether the new round should include a review of anti-dumping rules used to protect domestic industries -- an idea vigorously opposed by U.S. negotiators who fear this could upset powerful labor unions ahead of the 2000 presidential election. Another problem area concerns U.S. and EU demands that the WTO take labor standards into account over objections from developing nations, who see this as undermining one of their key economic assets: cheap labor

Lowell Ponte MORE FROM LOWELL PONTE —Can You See? —Hidden Motives —Lowell Ponte Archive   Sheeplike in Seattle FrontPagemag.com | December 1, 1999 get a printer-friendly version of this article "LIBERALISM IS MARXISM sold by the drink," said pop-philosopher wit P. J. O'Rourke. Is Pat Buchanan's "Populism" likewise fascism sold by the shotglass? Both intoxicants have revelers and rebels marching and spinning this week in the streets of Seattle, Washington, in a circus of protest unrivaled since the 1960s. "Seattle 1999 is like Philadelphia 1787," said Charles Derber, speaking Monday on my national radio show from his perch near ...

I need a favor from someone. My daughter is getting married later this month and I have written a song for her to the tune of MY HEART WILL GO ON. It is going to make everyone cry -- it certainly did me as I wrote it. I sing worse than Clinton lies. That's pretty bad. Is their a male FReeper who can sing the song and record it on a cassette for me? Another was going to do it but I haven't heard from him and am running out of time. If you can, please get me by FReeper ...

Biotech goods don't eat at Americans Pro-science U.S. culture seems to shape attitude By Thomas Kupper UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER November 29, 1999 Fill a shopping cart in any American grocery store these days and chances are that many of the items you buy contain "bioengineered" ingredients. That frozen pizza might contain vegetable oil from soybeans engineered to resist weedkillers. Your box of crackers might include syrup from insect-resistant corn. A can of soup could have both corn and soybean products, as could any number of other common processed food products. Europeans, horrified by what they call "Frankenfood," are eliminating ...

WASHINGTON — Promising to continue strong U.S. support for Israel, all six Republican presidential contenders wooed the Jewish vote on Wednesday during appearances before a group of Republican Jewish activists. On the eve of their appearance together for the first time at a New Hampshire debate, the candidates took the stage separately at a Washington hotel to flash their foreign policy credentials and pledge that U.S. support for Israel would not waver under their leadership. "A safe and secure Israel is in our national interest,'' said front-runner Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who received a rousing welcome from the crowd ...

The Divorce What nerve! First these two monstrously dysfunctional, noxious cretins inflict each other on us with quid-pro-quo reciprocity and bestial ferocity. And then (if we are to believe the floater from tabloid arm of the massive clinton agitprop machine), they decide to split and leave us holding the mephitic gasbags. . .   © 1999 Mia T

Occasionally in the culture wars we get to report good news. Last night I appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show on Black Entertainment Television to talk about my new book Hating Whitey. In fact the entire show was devoted to a discussion of the themes of Hating Whitey—the fact that black leaders blame white people for problems endemic to the black community, that anti-white racism is considered okay in the liberal culture and so forth. I brought along a secret weapon with me in the person of LA talk show host (and FrontPage columnist) Larry Elder who was as ...

A Brief Comment—What’s Happening in Seattle and Why By Michael Albert Ballpark 50-100,000 demonstrators assembled in Seattle. They are farmers and industrial workers, unionists and environmentalists, young and old, men and women, from the U.S. and from the third world, and they are angry and their target is the WTO, and thus also oppressive world trade, and thus also, just a minor step beyond, the market system and capitalism itself. They are there to raise social costs to elites by their actions on the scene and by the repercussions for continuing organizing around the world (75,000 today demonstrated in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - She was a homeless woman in the park across from the White House - convinced she was married to President Clinton. Tipper Gore tells the story of her encounter with the woman in ``The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America,'' a book that serves as a catalog to a show of photographs with the same name. The exhibit of 150 photos, including 10 taken by Mrs. Gore, opens Saturday at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In a foreword to the book, Mrs. Gore wrote that the woman in Lafayette Park was obviously suffering. ``She said her ...

By keeping God out of their government, schools and daily lives, Americans are straying from the moral principles that have kept citizens strong and free, a presidential hopeful said Monday. "The most basic premise of liberty cannot even be taught in our schools, yet we assume the sun will rise on a free America in 2030," said Alan Keyes, a former State Department official in the Reagan Administration and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Social and Economic Council. "I hate to see the day in which we turn to our young people and ask them to sacrifice their ...

Although the government opposes a proposed re-creation of the final day of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege, Justice Department officials on Tuesday submitted the names of three experts in the field of infrared imaging as potential participants in the test. U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. of Waco, who is presiding over the civil lawsuit filed against the government by Branch Davidian survivors, invited attorneys on both sides last month to nominate neutral experts to help recreate the final day at Mount Carmel. His order came after Special Counsel John Danforth, who is investigating the events of April 19, ...

WASHINGTON – George W. Bush is cramming for his first appearance in a Republican debate, since a misstep Thursday night in New Hampshire could carry potential to renew questions about his readiness for the presidency. Aides have been scouring news reports and press releases for every mention of the Texas governor by his rivals, looking for potential debate-night attacks. They say looking through two years of transcripts helped prepare Bush for his Nov. 21 interview on the Press." On Monday and Tuesday, top advisers also trooped to the Governor’s Mansion in Austin, Texas, where they participated with Bush in prep ...

WTO and the New World Order The World Trade Organization is not about free trade Let us see what the Globalist handbook has to say about the WTO and its future and let us seek out the truth of its real purpose. Our Global Neighborhood, published in 1995 by the Commision on Global Governance before the WTO was formed officially. "One of the early priorties of the WTO will be to see that action can be taken toprotect the global environment." From the book. The book, er Plan, says that the WTO will create and enforce environmental standards through ...

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ISSUE 1651Thursday 2 December 1999 Aimless, feckless, hopeless and legless in SeattleBy Boris Johnson  World watches a city's recriminations IS it just me or is everyone going bananas? I have just finished a long conversation with a colleague at The Spectator in which he expressed his fervent support for the protesters in Seattle. I am too stunned to recount exactly what he said, but the gist of it was that he held his manhood cheap he who was not there to storm the Starbucks coffee parlour, and give the Robocop policemen a bloody nose. Suddenly, everyone seems to be ...