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"The campaign in crisis here is not Rudy Giuliani's. After all, the mayor has a day job, he lives in New York state full time, and may be the least sneaky politician who ever lived. "The campaign in crisis is Hillary Clinton's. Her recent declaration that she 'intends' to run was made necessary not because of Giuliani's jabs or bad press coverage, but because Democrats were growing restless and uncomfortable. "Hillary made her staged pseudo-announcement before the United Federation of Teachers the other week after senior Democrats … made public their concern about a candidate whose response to a significant ...

Ummm, Folks, Take a peek at this web page I found. TAPPITTY-TAPTAP! Pictures and commentary on the Seattle Battle.

http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/1202/n_ap_1202_458.sml Anti-Catholicism alleged in choice of House chaplain 5.32 a.m. ET (1044 GMT) December 2, 1999 By David Espo, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Controversy is no stranger to the politically divided House, but even by recent standards, the latest flare-up is unusual — a fight over the selection of a new chaplain to minister to lawmakers and their families. The Rev. Tim O'Brien, passed over when House GOP leaders made their selection recently, charged Wednesday that anti-Catholic bias was at work. "I am convinced that if I were a mainline Protestant minister and not a Catholic priest, I would ...

Teamsters and Turtles: They're Together at Last WTO summit: Seattle is only the beginning as activists from all sides come together against growing globalization. By MARC COOPER      SEATTLE--After this week's Battle in Seattle, one thing is definite: The next World Trade Organization confab will be held in some place like Singapore or Jakarta. The corporate-dominated trade regimen enforced by the WTO is generating so much opposition that it can only meet under the sort of armed protection provided by a militarized state. Indeed, one silver lining of corporate-managed globalization is that it has coalesced U.S. domestic protest against it ...

Local news just said something like "Minnesota National Guard is leaving for Kosovo..."

Infoliant's November Compliance Tracker Delta Report: There is Still a Lot Of Y2K Work to be DoneOver 1,200 Updated Y2K Readiness Disclosures Recorded With Less Than a Month To Prepare PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Infoliant Corporation announced today that during the month of November, the Compliance Tracker(TM) Delta Report tracked 426 changes to the Y2K readiness status of off-the-shelf hardware and software products; 338 of these changes were ``negative.'' Taking into account the additional 806 disclosures that Infoliant tracked regarding revised corrective action plans, patches and upgrades, the number of updated Y2K product readiness announcements totaled 1,232 in November.In ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (edited for brevity) Introduction The 1999 Independent Task Force on Nonlethal Weapons (NLW) was sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations to assess the current status of nonlethal weapons development and availability within the Department of Defense (DoD), in light of their potential to support U.S. military operations and foreign policy. The Task Force found that the DoD has made only limited progress developing and deploying nonlethal weapons since 1995, when a previous Council Task Force studied the issue. This shortfall results from a continued lack of appreciation for NLW among civilian and military policymakers. It will take ...

Did the WTO plagiarize the British East India Company Charters? The defenders of the WTO speak of the organization in words redolent of arrogance of Al Gore asserting to be father of the internet, as if prior to 1995 global trade did not exist and, along with our technological revolution, is solely contingent on the WTO for its endowment. Those who speak of the technological revolution in such terms, ignoring the innovation and genius of those who actually brought the information technology revolution about and no thanks the bureaucracies of the WTO et all, act as if this is the ...

LA Times   A Failure to Communicate The World Trade Organization is widely misunderstood, and it hasn't helped its own case. But it isn't a global ogre.      The World Trade Organization has taken it on the chin in Seattle this week. Its ministerial meeting to launch a new round of trade talks has become the target of protest by a bewildering array, ranging from anarchists to environmental activists and labor unionists to rebels without any cause at all. Their message, largely lost in the din of street violence, was muddled, blaming free trade for ills such as poverty, unemployment, ...

City authorities claimed people were free to protest through most of downtown Seattle yesterday, as long as they did not block the streets. Public defenders and civil libertarians claimed the opposite, saying free speech was being unconstitutionally restricted by police who refused to allow legitimate political protests near the World Trade Organization conference. In short, it was a conflicting mess, as hundreds of protesters were swept up in mass arrests and carted away by the busload. A group of private attorneys and public defenders also complained that, despite their repeated requests, many of the protesters were not allowed to consult ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton, darling of abortion-uber-alles feministas everywhere, voiced support for Arkansas' parental notification law during a 1992 New York radio interview, it was revealed Thursday by WNYC's Brian Lehrer. Lehrer was the host who conducted the Q&A seven years ago. Rodham's remarks were in direct conflict with her official position on parental notification today. During her husband's first presidential bid, the Clintons campaigned as representatives for America's "forgotten middle class" and often took positions that were an anathema to the Democratic Party's extremist liberal base. But as First Lady, Rodham is now seen as the strongest national advocate for ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (December 2, 1999 2:00 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - George W. Bush must not only defend his title as GOP presidential front-runner when he makes his debate debut here Thursday night, but also he must persuade New Hampshire voters that he has not been taking them for granted. The Bush campaign juggernaut has stumbled in the Granite State, home of the nation's first presidential primary, where polls show Arizona Sen. John McCain has overtaken the Texas governor, and New Hampshirites suggested that complacency is to blame. "He is too comfortable," said Koni Farr, owner of Manchester's Merrimack restaurant, ...

Reports: China to close financial markets for New Year Associated Press Thursday, December 2, 1999 Chinese financial markets will close from noon on Dec. 31 to Jan. 2 to guard against Year 2000 computer problems, state media said Thursday. However, stock and futures markets, as well as brokerages, are to keep computers turned on to see whether they make the change to the new century, securities newspapers said. Chinese officials are worried that computers programmed to read only the last two digits of a year could mistake 2000 for 1900, throwing finance and other industries into turmoil. China's top ...

Governor George W. Bush "A Tax Cut With A Purpose"Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce December 1, 1999 Thank you. From the first day of this campaign, I have been deeply grateful for the warmth and welcome of this state. Today, I want to share my tax cut plan with you, and with America. A tax cut designed to sustain our nation’s prosperity – and reflect our nation’s decency. For nearly twenty years, with rare exceptions, our economy has been strong. America’s long economic boom has defied all prediction and precedent. Twenty-five years ago, experts talked about "limits to ...

MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush faces an important examination of his presidential credentials Thursday when he meets his Republican rivals in a debate for the first time. Bush, who unveiled a $483 billion package of tax cuts Wednesday, will be the center of attention in the six-man debate, which will also feature Sen. John McCain of Arizona, publisher Steve Forbes, conservative activist Gary Bauer, talk radio host Alan Keyes and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. The 90-minute session at WMUR-TV was to be broadcast nationally by Fox News at 8 p.m. EST. Leading the field by ...

Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's new book, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America," is without doubt one of the most important publishing events in the annals of American education in the last hundred years. John Dewey's "School and Society," published in 1899, set American education on its course to socialism. Rudolf Flesch's "Why Johnny Can't Read," published in 1955, informed American parents that there was something terribly wrong with the way the schools were teaching children to read, and my own book, "NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education," published in 1984, explained in great detail how and why the decline in public ...

LA Times Bradley Gives Strong Support to Free Trade Campaign: Democratic presidential contender says open-market system 'will benefit more people than it will hurt.' He also calls for arms talks with Russia. By JIM MANN, Times Staff Writer      MEDFORD, Mass.--Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley strongly defended policies of free trade and open markets Monday, telling a group of university students here that the advantages outweigh any harm that may be caused.      On the day the World Trade Organization opened its highly contentious meeting in Seattle, Bradley said that the complaints raised by labor and environmental groups should be taken ...

POLITICS: He'll face state Sen. Bill Morrow and car-alarm king Darrell Issa for the bid. The vociferous, controversial Robert K. Dornan has been saying he might shake up the 48th Congressional District race by jumping in himself. But Wednesday brought an even bigger surprise in the bid to replace retiring Rep. Ron Packard, R-Oceanside. Son of Dornan. Mark Dornan, the youngest son and longtime campaign aide of the former congressman, announced that he moved to the district from Los Angeles a month ago, that he will marry Dec. 11, and that he will honeymoon on his own campaign trail. ...

Gen. Eugene E. Habiger, left, chief of security, and Energy Secretary Bill Richardson testified recently on Capitol Hill of the need for increased funding to protect the laboratories and safeguard computers from encryption. Plans to protect the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories from foreign espionage have fallen behind schedule because Congress failed to appropriate enough money for security measures, the Energy Department's new "security czar" said yesterday. Even if Congress now approves a request for emergency supplemental funding, plans to have a new security program fully in place by next September are off-track. "I'm not going to be able to do ...

LA Times Loggers' Suit Alleges Ecological 'Religion' Guides Forest Policy Timber restrictions are unconstitutional because U.S. accepts belief that trees are sacred, cutters say. By STEPHANIE SIMON, Times Staff Writer      ST. PAUL, Minn.--In the velvety quiet of Minnesota's forests, the U.S. government has buckled to zealotry.      The zealots decreed: Trees are sacred. Thou shalt not cut.      And the government did their bidding.      Such is the theory behind an unusual lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Forest Service of foisting the "religion" of the Deep Ecology movement on all Americans by adopting it as a guiding policy for timber management.      The ...