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Ozone layer over Europe dwindling -space agency Updated 11:30 AM ET December 2, 1999 PARIS (Reuters) - The ozone layer over Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia has dwindled to worrying levels nearly as low as those found in the Antarctic, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday. Measurements taken in the Netherlands showed local ozone levels were some two-thirds below the norm for this time of year, confirming the abnormally low levels detected over northwest Europe this week, ESA said in a statement. The ozone layer, high up in the atmosphere, shields Earth from much of the sun's harmful ...

Well, that's it, Rush has been bitten by the globalist vampires and he is turning into one himself. A caller complained that the WTO was a taxing government without representation. Rush went on about how Thatcher told him on a golf course at Vail that the EU was the same and that was unacceptable "but ..." and before Rush continued saying something to the extent "but the US is taking a stance on our terms at the WTO and the protesters overblow it" I was at the radio like Dr. Laura, screaming: "but what Rush, but what?" Rush now belongs ...

On The Edge: Pat Chats With Paula Zahn ZAHN: Leading THE EDGE tonight: a civil emergency declared, an all-night curfew imposed and the National Guard called in when tear gas failed to control thousands of anti-WTO protesters in Seattle.  And joining me now with his insights into the battle in Seattle is Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.  Good to see you. Thanks for joining us, Pat.  BUCHANAN: Hi, Paula. How are you?  ZAHN: I'm fine, thanks. How badly did those protesters hurt their cause?  BUCHANAN: Oh, they damaged it very badly, the ones that were violent and smashing windows ...

thousands of marchers are now aproaching the seattle king county jail...cops are staying out of sight, except for a few...people are joining the march as it goes...focus of the protest is less the WTO than the outrages by the cops, especially last night on capital hill where even county council people were gassed by the cops...all kinds of people joining the march...

MIke Richards (KPRC RAdio) requested an all-points INTERNET request for a Think-Tank guest to discuss the oposition to the WTO. Station address http://www.kprcradio.com Potential guests send response via website.

Sleepless in Seattle: Pat's Up Early for Good Morning America DIANE SAWYER: We have all been riveted this week on the pictures of that rioting which has focused attention on the World Trade Organization, an organization most of us probably heard very little about or understood that it inflamed such passions. Now one longtime opponent of the organization is here-Patrick Buchanan, running for President. He joins us from Seattle. Pat, good to have you here. Thank you. PAT BUCHANAN: Thank you Diane. SAWYER: As I understand it, you oppose the violence, but you do sympathize with the message of the ...

Woman Brought Into Court Wrapped Like a Mummy -- A Phoenix man said when he carried a woman over a threshold Monday, he was just trying to get her to a judge in time. But his plan had problems. The woman, his wife, had been bound -- mummylike -- with duct tape, authorities said. And the threshold was that of a courthouse where he thought she was scheduled for a hearing. Not only was it the wrong courthouse, but the hearing had been canceled. Ultimately, it may be Robert Horton, 52, who gets face time with a judge. Like ...

HILARY Clinton has vowed to divorce US President Bill after an explosive head-on row during an official trip. In the couple's worst bust-up since the Monica Lewinsky scandal, she hurled abuse at him during a recent visit to earthquake-ravaged Turkey and issued an ultimatum. Furious Hillary attacked her husband for not agreeing to quit politics so he can support her own campaign to win a New York Senator's seat. A White House insider revealed she spat at him: "You're an ungrateful son of a bitch!" Stunned Bill hit back: "There's no way I'm going to be your First Lady!" ...

The appearance of radio-equipped, masked men in black attacking shops during the Seattle demonstration became, not surprisingly, a focus of media coverage. Journalists quickly assumed that the window-smashers represented elements of the anti-WTO protest. But while it is permissible, under corporate journalistic ground rules, to make such assumptions it is not permissible to make the equally likely assumption that these masked rioters might have been government agents or corporate thugs. There is a long history of such activities by both government and corporations encompassing the use of professional strikebreakers, the placing of agents provocateur within protest groups, not to ...

GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS: Tackling taxes in Tennessee Copyright &copy 1999 Nando Media Copyright &copy 1999 Nando Times A special Nando site: Background and Web links for the 2000 presidential contenders. From Time to Time: Nando's in-depth look at the 20th century (December 1, 1999 10:56 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - No tea was dumped into Nashville's Cumberland River last month, but the inglorious end to Tennessee's effort to adopt an income tax was otherwise according to the revolutionary script. By the time lawmakers surrendered and went home, there were even protesters brandishing tar and feathers in the state Capitol. At ...

Pat Buchanan Thursday, December 2, 1999 Peoples Radio Network / 2pm-3pm PST Click To Listen (RealAudio) Talk Radio Audio Links

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 of ...

FORT WORTH -- A handful of Texas industries concerned about possible Y2K problems are temporarily halting or scaling back operations on the New Year's weekend, according to an Austin-based public interest group and an industry trade group. Nine of 70 Texas companies surveyed by Public Research Works will shut down some operations or add extra people during the high-risk period over New Year's Day, said Robin Schneider, Public Research executive director. "There is some momentum building for companies to take a safety holiday or to slow their operations on the last day of the year and on Jan. 1," ...

News Article by REUTERS on December 02, 1999 at 12:55:30: Sudan militia commanders defect to southern rebels By Alfred Taban KHARTOUM, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Sixteen militia commanders once aligned with Sudan's Islamist-led government have announced they are joining forces with the main rebel faction in the south. The commanders, in a statement issued on Wednesday in Waat in Jonglei state, 850 km (530 miles) south of Khartoum, declared they would fight against the government alongside the main Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the Upper Nile region. The SPLA has been fighting since 1983 for more autonomy for the ...

EDINBURGH (CWNews.com) - Scottish Health Minister Susan Deacon on Thursday described pro-life advocates as "extremists" and threatened them with police action for harassment. The newly-founded Precious Life Scotland said it is ready to picket family planning clinics which refer women for abortions and target the medical staff who operate them. Last month they succeeded in closing one Edinburgh clinic for a day. But Deacon said their methods are sending Scotland back to the "dark ages" and are driving vulnerable young people away from much needed help. During a speech to the Faculty of Public Health Medicine in Edinburgh, Deacon ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. SEATTLE -- Close your eyes and try to imagine your adorable 12-year-old, the apple of your eye, weaving a rug or toiling in rice paddies 10 hours a day instead of learning fractions. This powerfully emotional --but simplistic -- image represents just one obstacle in the path of liberalized trade with the rest of the world that countries such as India and Pakistan are desperately seeking. Unions, students and others have been protesting boisterously this week against, among other things, the World Trade Organization's lack of a stance against child labor. ...

What would possess environmental activists to jump into their VWs and Beemers and drive to Seattle to protest world trade? Or labor activists to switch off their Sony television sets and join them in the streets, disrupting this week's meeting of the World Trade Organization? Mere hypocrisy can't explain why modern-day Luddites smashed windows and snarled traffic in downtown Seattle. Willful ignorance is closer to the mark. The foes of free trade raise questions that were settled long ago. Free trade works to everyone's advantage. Understanding why is as simple as examining our own behavior. We take our cars ...

After months of painstaking talks on adding labor standards to the World Trade Organization (WTO) agenda, President Clinton's top trade negotiators believed they were finally making progress. Now diplomats say the effort is all but lost, after Clinton shocked trade ministers gathered in Seattle by suggesting that trade sanctions be used against countries that violate core labor standards. The remarks outraged developing nations, who already opposed a more narrowly focused U.S. proposal to create a WTO working group on labor, and undercut the U.S. administration's negotiating position, making U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky's work all the more difficult. Touted by ...

Be ye not unequally yoked In Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, he tells us that we, Born Again believers, should not be yoked to heathens. 2 Corinthains 6:14 14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? Now many a liberal preacher would want you to believe that Paul was only talking about being married to a heathen and that we Born Again believers need not concern our selves with our everyday relationships, as long as we tried to marry a good Christian. Poppy cock! ...

James Carville is sorry he called the mayor of New York a thug. "I really shouldn't have used that word," the Democratic strategist concedes. "There is actually a better word: goon. "I was gonna use bully. And tyrant, but that was too regal, too much like George III. Mean-spirited? The Congressional Republicans have already stolen that word. So I'm kinda left with goon." Now comes Washington's pit bull pitted against New York's pit bull. "Giuliani and I -- that's perfect," Mr. Carville exults. "He and I are at about the same level. Yeah, I'm sort of a political goon. But ...