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Allies told peace dividend is over, more defense spending needed BRUSSELS, Dec 2 (AFP) - Declaring the post Cold War "peace dividend" over, NATO's new secretary general bluntly told Allied defense ministers Thursday they will have to spend more to ready NATO for future conflicts. "The time for a peace dividend is over because there is no permanent peace in Europe or elsewhere," said Lord Robertson. "And if NATO is to do its job of protecting future generations, we can no longer expect to have security on the cheap," he said. His call for greater European military spending came as ...

When Steve Forbes attacked George W. Bush in the Republican debate Thursday night for saying he would consider raising the retirement age for Social Security, Bush was ready with a reality check. The novice but carefully prepared presidential debater shot back with a quotation indicating Forbes himself was once enthusiastic about the idea. It was one of several battles over truthfulness during the first GOP presidential debate to include Bush.

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WARNING:*** THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN*** - A Florida phone sex operator has won a workers' compensation settlement claiming she was injured after regularly masturbating at work, her lawyer said. Attorney Steven Slootsky told Reuters he was not sure whether the Fort Lauderdale woman's claim was the first of its kind, but it certainly was out of the ordinary. Slootsky said his client agreed to a "minimal settlement" earlier this month. He declined to disclose the amount. During the course of her claim for workers' compensation benefits, the now 40-year-old employee of Fort Lauderdale's CFP Enterprises Inc. said she developed ...

Chernobyl nuclear reactor closed after radioactive leak Source: AFP Published: Friday December 3 3:39:41 AM KIEV, Dec 2 - The newly re-opened third reactor at Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, has been shut down because of a malfunction in its emergency cooling system, a plant spokesman said today. "A leak was detected Wednesday night in the pipes transporting radioactive water and used to cool down the third reactor," the Chernobyl spokesman said, adding however that no increase in radioactivity was recorded. Reactor number three, which is the only one in operation at the plant, ...

George W. Bush And The Third Way The Alan Keyes Show October 14, 1998 Excerpt: Dr. Keyes: Welcome back to America's Wake Up Call. You know I was just handed something by my colleague here that deeply disturbs me. It's the Wall Street Journal today, which I hadn't had a chance to look at, because I was wandering around yesterday and hadn't gotten to all of my papers yet this morning. And on the left hand side they have a column that I just quickly running my eyes over, and what I'm looking at shocks me deeply, and yet I ...

POLICE yesterday identified a fourth site near Juarez as a possible mass grave, amid fears that the search for bodies killed in drug cartel wars will spread through Mexico. Up to 200 people have disappeared in the Juarez area and 100 of them, including 22 Americans, are believed to have been buried locally. The remains of six unidentified bodies stacked on top of each other have now been uncovered on a Juarez ranch with the help of FBI agents using radar detectors. Jaime Hervella, director of the Association of Relatives and Friends of Missing Persons in El Paso and ...

Women in Submarines VOICE OF THE GRUNT TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLES Hack's Column - A Sailor Refuses To Give Up The Ship - Or His Honor Mac Notes General Kross, USAF (Ret) Pans The C-17 Home Is Where The Heart Is A SAILOR REFUSES TO GIVE UP THE SHIP -- OR HIS HONOR BY DAVID H. HACKWORTH, 30 November 1999 If America runs out of Jack Dalys, it'll run out of freedom. Daly, a U.S. Navy sailor, initially almost single-handedly took on the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon. And eventually, with a little augmented firepower here and ...

After watching the events unfold in Seattle for the last three days, I am struck by the difference between the way the old guard left has taught the young liberals to think, and how hypocritical the old guys act.In what must be a severe shock to the class of 2000, the very people that told them of the glory of the civil rights march, and the vietnam protests, has now shown their true colors, as a kind of pseudo-fascist.The left has always maintained that the right to free speech is sacrosanct, but now they want to shut up their opposition. ...

All night long Dick Morris has been giving us not only the percentages of the Vote but also HOW MANY PEOPLE VOTED. Why can't we get that same information at VOTE.COM ?

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Seattle Focus Shifts From Protests to Trade Issues: Seattle in Shambles December 3, 1999 FoxNews The drama shifted on Thursday from Seattle's riot-torn streets to the convention center as weary ministers raced against the clock to clinch a global trade pact. As anti-free trade demonstrators marched peacefully through the city center, ministers of the 135-member nation World Trade Organization (WTO) prepared for all-night negotiations to launch a new trade liberalization round. With a new sense of urgency ahead of Friday's end to the meeting, some trade officials said the difficult talks had progressed in some areas while others feared they ...

Santa: "The coal truck is behind me."

[posted for research, education and discussion only] Unfortunately, the vision which had impelled the breaks from England, France and Spain and which, with us, led to the Constitution, became lost in a misnamed "New World Order" of Third World revolutionary rhetoric combined with cynical exploitation by the former European colonizers. This was not the New World of this hemisphere at all, but in Marxist guise, the continuation of the class conflicts and lack of opportunity of the Old World of Europe. It was filtered through revolutionary rhetoric of Marxist thought in which nation after nation was "liberated" but none ever ...

A VIEW FROM HERE By Deb Weiss The Age of Unreason Goes To Seattle December 2, 1999 Talk about a blast from the past. Talk about retro-chic. It all seemed so familiar, I couldn't help thinking back to Grant Park, and 1968, and the infamous Democratic Convention that began with the usual bunting and delegates in silly hats, but ended with screams and broken glass, and a sense that something fundamental had been forever shattered. There were the swarms of demonstrators (or "outside agitators," or "revolutionaries," depending on who was doing the talking), wild with excitement, tying a city up ...

SIGHTINGS Corporate America Under Siege: The Undeclared State of Emergency By Stuart H. Rodman 12-2-99 Picture this bleak future, Americans with no civil liberties. No right to free speech. No right to question your government. Newly-enacted Y2k related legislation places limits on free speech and on your right to access vital information obtained from corporations-even when your safety and well being is affected. What are they trying to hide? Corporate America Under Siege: The Undeclared State of Emergency By Stuart H. Rodman 12-2-99 Suppose you found corporate documents which say that your company has a chemical plant that could ...

December 3, 1999 PUBLIC INTERESTS / GAIL COLLINS Flash-Frozen G.O.P. MANCHESTER, N.H. -- The Republican presidential debate last night was awesome. George W. Bush chained himself to the podium to protest a rule banning use of consultants on stage, while Steve Forbes, who was dressed up as a giant turtle, attacked Captain Nemo's Fast Food Fish Fry restaurant in downtown Manchester . . . Stopstopstopstop. Sorry, we've gotten the debate mixed up with the far more eventful World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. All that excitement over something that used to be called GATT has given the presidential campaigns new ...

December 3, 1999 Conceding Free Trade's Flaws By ROBERT E. LIGHTHIZER SEATTLE -- Yes, the protesters in Seattle don't seem to realize the paradox of their stance. After all, television ran footage of some of them attacking Nike stores while wearing Nike hightops. But there are incongruities on the other side, too. Most American proponents of free trade accept internationally what they would never accept domestically. Until he arrived in Seattle, where for the first time he called for trade sanctions for countries that fail to meet minimum labor and environmental standards, President Clinton had mostly emphasized the sunnier side ...

December 3, 1999 Globalization and the Wage Gap By ANDREW KOHUT WASHINGTON -- It's difficult to decide how seriously to take the protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization. We learned in the 1960's that unruly people taking to the streets can foreshadow broader changes in public opinion. Yet these protests are mostly about economics, and we also know that Americans are more financially satisfied than they have been in years and that consumer confidence is near record levels. Clearly the worst of what we have seen in Seattle is thuggery for its own sake, but the support for ...