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From the Frontline 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 ...

Court Hears Debate In FDA-Tobacco Case Justices, in Questioning, Appear Leery Of Government's Regulatory Claims By Joan Biskupic Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 2, 1999 The Supreme Court was highly skeptical yesterday of the Food and Drug Administration's claim that it can regulate cigarettes, suggesting a major setback for the Clinton administration's efforts to restrain the tobacco industry.  During one of the most vigorous oral arguments at the court in months, the justices suggested by their questions that they were almost certain to invalidate the FDA's watershed effort to regulate the nicotine in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco as ...

Buchanan backs Seattle protests, calls WTO 'embryonic monster' By The Arizona Republic Dec. 1, 1999 Conservative presidential candidate Pat Buchanan praised the thousands of demonstrators marching against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, calling the Geneva-based organization that sets the rules of global trade an "embryonic monster." Buchanan said Tuesday that the WTO was taking away the sovereignty of the United States and the thousands of WTO demonstrators were right to take to the streets to disrupt the opening day of meetings. "If there is one message we are trying to get across, it is that we stand against global ...

Bush Proposes Broad Tax Cuts: Moderate Plan Draws Fire From Forbes ABCNEWS.com W A S H I N G T O N, Dec. 1 — Leading GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush rolled out a $438 billion economic plan today that includes major cuts in taxes at all income levels — the cornerstone of his “compassionate conservative” platform. In a speech to the Chamber of Commerce in Des Moines, Iowa, Bush called for a reduction in the highest marginal tax bracket, to 33 percent from 39.6 percent, in a gesture to help the wealthy. But to deflect criticism from the ...

Kenya Calls AIDS National Disaster, Bars Condoms By Rosalind Russell NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya has declared AIDS a national disaster after more than half a million Kenyans died of the disease. Amazingly to some, however, the government still refuses to encourage condom use and, despite new measures to fight the spread of HIV and AIDS, the epidemic looks set to continue its deadly march. In a departure from his usual rambling discourses, President Daniel arap Moi gave a candid speech on AIDS to a national seminar last week and announced the creation of a National AIDS Control Council to ...

Latest Developments From WTO News of the violence generated headlines across Asia today: “Demonstrators overrun Seattle,” said a page-one headline in the Times of India, a top national newspapers. And in Tokyo, Yasushi Abe, an official at Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry, said he had anticipated protests. “But the scale of demonstrations and reported violence were beyond imagination,” Abe said in an interview. Conservative presidential candidate Pat Buchanan praised the anti-WTO protesters, calling the global trade organization an “embryonic monster.” Up and down the West Coast, dockworkers began shutting down cargo movement in solidarity with the anti-WTO protest. ...

Bill Clinton, the US president, yesterday threatened to plunge the World Trade Organisation into turmoil by demanding it should incorporate core labour standards in trade agreements and eventually use sanctions to enforce them. Mr Clinton's call, on his arrival at the WTO ministerial meeting in Seattle, went much further than existing US policy. It will anger developing countries - four-fifths of the WTO's membership - which condemn as disguised protectionism western efforts to link trade with labour standards. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Thailand's deputy prime minister and director-general designate of the WTO, said having trade sanctions on labour rights in the organisation ...

Anyone who switched on the television in the second half of Tuesday, wondering what was happening in Seattle – a city that Americans had been told was about to become the focus of the world's attention – would have been little the wiser. The dozens of network and cable stations that shelved regular programming to show such spectacles as the O J Simpson car chase, the phalanxes of terrified children running out of Columbine High School and the office complex in Atlanta where a gunman was on the loose, offered viewers precisely nothing. The time billed for the World Trade ...

WTO Turmoil: Hundreds More Arrested By Jonathan Dube ABCNEWS.com S E A T T L E, Dec. 1 — A day after World Trade Organization protesters broke windows and started fires downtown, officials — determined to prevent more violence — have invoked a zero-tolerance policy, cordoning off 50 blocks and arresting more than 200 demonstrators. Authorities made good on their vow to prevent a repeat of Tuesday’s mayhem, when a small faction of the thousands of protesters gathered here turned to violence and vandalism to express their anger at the WTO. Because of the disruptions, riot police fired tear gas ...

Presidential Debate on December 2, 1999 Alan Keyes will be in New Hampshire on December 2, 1999 along with the other Presidential candidates, George Bush, Steve Forbes, John McCain, Gary Bauer and Orrin Hatch, for a 90 minute debate. This is the first debate that George Bush will be taking part in, so it is also the first opportunity that we will have to see Alan Keyes and George Bush go head to head. After the clear and undeniable win of Alan Keyes against the other candidates a week ago in the debate in Arizona, the most important part ...

US To Help Russia With Y2K Checks By H. JOSEF HEBERT .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Energy Secretary Bill Richardson unveiled a high-tech, long-distance telecommunications link Wednesday to help Russia monitor its nuclear power plants for Y2K computer problems. Richardson invited reporters into the top-secret Situation Crisis Center at the Energy Department headquarters to witness an hourlong exchange with Yevgeniy Adamov, Russia's minister of atomic energy. Richardson said he will be in the crisis center on New Year's Eve to monitor the Y2K rollover at American nuclear reactors, power plants and the U.S. electricity grid. Two Russian experts ...

A WTO Primer: A look at the World Trade Organization and the issues in Seattle By TONY KARON What is the World Trade Organization? Formed in 1995, it's a global coalition of 135 governments that makes the rules governing international trade in an increasingly global economy. The creation of those rules requires a unanimous vote, which means that agreeing on new rules takes years of extensive, often contentious trade negotiations. The WTO also functions as a kind of court, making binding rulings when member states are in dispute — for example, when European governments tried to stop importing hormone-treated beef ...

**Exclusive** White House officials are furious that the NATIONAL ENQUIRER is planning to report that Bill and Hillary Clinton are talking divorce! Tensions escalated after a brutal fight last month in Turkey, where Bill and Hillary were touring earthquake-ravaged areas, says the report. Next week [12/14] the tabloid will unleash the report with a front page scream exclusive that quotes "family and legal sources". One senior White House official called the paper earlier this week to express his outrage at the devastating story. But compounding the matter is the fact that Bill Clinton's private attorney, David Kendall, who is overseeing ...

SEATTLE--Conservative presidential candidate Pat Buchanan praised the thousands of demonstrators marching against the World Trade Organization, calling the Geneva-based organization that sets the rules of global trade an "embryonic monster." Buchanan said Tuesday that the WTO was taking away the sovereignty of the United States and the thousands of WTO demonstrators were right to take to the streets to disrupt the opening day of meetings. "If there is one message we are trying to get across, it is that we stand against global government and an undemocratic new world order," said Buchanan, who is seeking the Reform Party nomination for ...

JERUSALEM (December 2) - Officials in the Prime Minister's Office yesterday accused the Palestinians of holding up talks on the overdue West Bank withdrawal, and said the PA is making a mistake if it thinks US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright - due in the region Tuesday - will be able to pressure the government or help resolve the issue. "It's up to the Palestinians and them alone - we have honored our commitments," said one official. "The map will not be changed. That is final, and we don't think Albright will want to have anything to do with ...

Gene Tatum's revelations are EXPLOSIVE, naming many names and connections that go to the very top. He claims to have video and audio cassette evidence directly implicating the biggest of the big. He was recently hidden away deep in some federal pen. I am not sure of his present status, but his life may very well be in danger. He should not be silenced and he should be protected. Tatum's information has the compelling quality of one who was on the scene. The supprssion of what he has to say adds to its veracity. But you can judge that for ...

Protests Could Drown Out Real Anti-WTO Message Demonstrations in Seattle disrupt summit opening, but the point may be lost amid anarchic scenes. Serious critics of the World Trade Organization may be facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans — making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists — ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor — ...

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _____________________________________________________ For Immediate Release                    November 30, 1999                                      November 29, 1999 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT:          International Family Planning Waiver Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 599D(c) of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000, as enacted by section 1000(a)(2) of Division B of H.R. 3194, the Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2000, I hereby waive the restrictions contained in subsection 599D(b) to the full extent authorized by sub-section 599D(c). This waiver shall take effect immediately and shall continue until the expiration of ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOX NEWS VIOLATES JOURNALISTIC ETHICS AND AGREEMENT WITH JUDICIAL WATCH Klayman Had Agreed To Go On O'Reilly To Discuss Libelous Harvey Berkman Hit Piece On Judicial Watch's Form 990, Which Is Posted, Along with Accountants and Legal Reports, on Judicial Watch's Website (Washington, D.C.) In recent days, using its liberal surrogates in the news media, the Clinton Administration has published articles which libel Judicial Watch and Larry Klayman. In response, Larry Klayman sued two of the reporters which the White House likes and who smear Clinton critics, Harvey Berkman of The National Law Journal and David Segal ...

STATE, LOCAL AUTHORITIES GET NEW GUN-TRACING TOOL.Federal government unveils huge database that should assist in speeding up process.By Jennifer Corbett DoorenHearst NewspapersWASHINGTON -- A computer program unveiled Tuesday by the federal government should help state and local law enforcement authorities quickly trace guns used in crimes.The program, called Online LEAD, has been operating on a trial basis since February and helped local law enforcement officials and the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to trace guns used in crimes in New York, Washington, Boston and Nashville, Tenn.Nashville Police Chief Emmett Turner, who participated in the pilot program, ...