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MANCHESTER - Steve Forbes may have taken shots at George W. Bush last night, but he wasn't nearly as hard-hitting as his youthful supporters in the mosh pit. Yes, mosh pit. Forbes hired a local punk band to attract a crowd at his rallying station outside WMUR's studio, and when the band, 5 Bucks!, started playing, dozens of kids in orange Forbes shirts started thrashing, hurling their bodies into one another, club-style. Who were these committed young campaigners? Were they here for the flat tax, for privatization of Social Security? "I just want the free stuff," said Seth Meisner ...

Acrimony As Global Trade Talks Fail By Adam Entous SEATTLE (Reuters) - World trade ministers failed on Friday to launch a new round of global trade liberalization talks in an embarrassment for host President Clinton and a setback for the cause of free trade. U.S. officials declared an end to the World Trade Organization meeting as time ran out for solving deep differences between the 135-member nations, fueling a spiral of recrimination.

Ok, I have been to the WH and DC for protesting with the Freepers over 20 times this year. At the March for Justice, 10/31/98, I noticed how many Freepers smoked. To make a long story short, every time I meet with Freepers, a LOT OF THEM SMOKE. What is up here? Yes, I am a cigarette smoker and glad to see others doing it. Yes, to those that are opposed. We already know it is not good for us. But, DAMN IT. It is is our right.

Pat Buchanan - 1994 History Knows Where It's Going", exulted the April 15 full-page ad in the New York Times. Dates and names preceded: "1944, Bretton Woods The IMF and the World Bank." "1945, San Francisco The United Nations." "1994, Marrakech The World Trade Organization." Marrakech had just given birth, said the ad, to "the third pillar of the New World Order." Thus did America cross yet another frontier on her long march into captivity... The glittering bribe the globalists are extending to us is this Enhanced access to global markets --in exchange for your national sovereignty! ... Like Gulliver ...

From: ATTC1@www.kc.co.kr X-Org: The Asia Pacific Internet Company Pty. Ltd. X-URL: http://www.apic.net/ DATE: 04 Dec 99 1:17:29 AM TO: Americans@www.kc.co.kr SUBJECT: Guns - Are They A Problem ??? Please help us with this survey. It is one of the most ambitious surveys ever undertaken on the subject of HAND GUN CONTROL IN THE US, and we apologize up front for this method of delivery, however we want to contact 5,000,000 Americans BEFORE Congress returns from its break so that the President and Members of Congress will have current information to help them in their impending work. To have your voice ...

SEATTLE -- In a stunning setback to the U.S. agenda for expanding global trade, negotiations collapsed late Friday after ministers from 135 nations could not reach consensus on how to move forward. It marked the first time that a conference on global trade failed to chart a future coarse on opening markets around the world. In the end, four days of closed-door meetings of the World Trade Organization foundered because environmentalists, labor groups and farmers fought the powerful hand of globalization. Keith Rockwell, a spokesman for the WTO, confirmed that ministers from 135 nations would take a ``pause'' in ...

It's too bad that we are stuck with the moniker ''hate crimes.'' The label makes it sound as if it were a crime to hate. It has given opponents of hate crime laws a handle for all sorts of cliches: ''Every crime is a hate crime.'' ''Nobody commits a love crime.'' Today it has become politically correct - in the true meaning of that phrase - to disparage laws that make it worse to commit a crime when the motive is bias. It's become popular to belittle the notion that society has an investment in upping the ante on such ...

As word spread through Seattle, now known locally as "Jackboot City", that the WTO had failed and was to adjourn without agreement, cheers and shouts of joy went up from the groups of protestors in front of the Westin Hotel and the Jail. Another group in Westlake Square, near the Westin, celebrated by lighting candles and reading aloud together from the Constitution fo the United States of America...

Interview with Seattle MD (posted 12-4-99)My name is Richard DeAndrea. I'm a medical doctor. What I saw up here was martial law. This turned into a police state. Everything you have seen on television regarding local news broadcasts including national public radio was a blackout. The police were using concussion grenades. They were using shooting tear gas canisters directly at protesters facing. They were using rubber bullets. Some of the damage I saw from these rubber bullets took off part of a person's jaw, smashed teeth in their mouth. I saw the police arrest people who had their hands up ...

My apologies for the vanity, but I have some questions that I would like someone to ask of Governor Bush and his supporters. I thought that fellow Freepers might be able to add to the questions, suggest some answers, and offer general commentary. I climb on my soapbox for a paragraph after my questions. I'd like to see one George Bush supporter who will answer some of these questions instead of ignoring or attacking the questioner: 1. Governor Bush, you gave Texas two tax cuts, but Steve Forbes points out that state spending in Texas rose faster than federal spending ...

On a previous thread 18 questions were asked of the Kneepad Knights. Coffeemate answered No. 8 incorrectly. It is not surprising that he did not know Clinton actually PLANNED AND LED demonstrations against his country on foreign soil. Coffeemate and others who came to his defense, either have no knowledge of what happened or are lying again to this forum. Sit back and relax. Coffeemate will be hiding under the covers after this. The term might be shell shock. The Virginia mental patient and Ash (whatever his current identity may be) were quick to join coffeemate. What disgusting pieces of ...

NEW YORK -- Madeline Kahn, the Oscar-nominated comedian best known for her work in the films "Paper Moon" and "Blazing Saddles" and in the Broadway revival of "Born Yesterday," died Friday in a Manhattan hospital. She was 57 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was ovarian cancer, said Jeff Schneider, a spokesman for the William Morris agency, which represented her. Ms. Kahn acknowledged the illness publicly last month, saying she was undergoing "aggressive treatment." She had been fighting the disease for the last year, Schneider said. Once described as a Botticelli angel cracking a malicious grin, Ms. Kahn was one ...

JOURNAL / By FRANK RICH In a move that would have incited headlines less than two years ago but barely rated column items two weeks ago, Fox News Channel ended the brief TV career of the first New Media journalistic superstar, Matt Drudge, by "mutual consent." Attention should be paid to this cautionary tale, and not for the reasons you might expect. As those whose memories haven't entirely purged Monicagate will recall, Mr. Drudge is the fedora-wearing grandstander whom many, I included, once feared as the Devil of journalism incarnate. He published malicious rumors as fact and, with the new-fangled ...

December 4, 1999 W.T.O. Meeting to End Without Detailed Accord By REUTERS SEATTLE - Ministers from the World Trade Organization will end their meeting in Seattle without achieving their goal of setting a detailed agenda for launching a new round of trade liberalization talks, diplomats said Friday. Diplomats from Asia, Europe and Latin America said the United States and the W.T.O. would release a brief statement declaring an end to the meeting but would not issue an extensive communique, as they had hoped. "All I'm expecting is a short political statement," said a senior European ambassador. "It might be dressed ...

http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/rich/120499rich.html

Brazil Lashes Back at Clinton Child Labor Remarks BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's presidential spokesman responded to U.S. criticism of its child labor problem on Friday by chiding industrialized nations, saying that if they dropped trade barriers it would be easier to end the practice. ``When more countries like the United States open their markets for countries like Brazil, the more we are going to export, grow and easily combat these problems,'' spokesman Georges Lamaziere told reporters in Brasilia. He made the comments after President Clinton signed an international treaty banning abusive child labor on Thursday and cited Brazil's shoe industry ...

To all who are interested. Steve Forbes will be coming to Cottonwood, Az. for a Town Meeting on December 7th at 2:30 p.m.Location: Quality Motor Inn, Hwy 89A Cottonwood.RSVP 602-275-4400Forbes 2000, Inc.2401 N. 24th StreetPhoenix, Az. 85008Calling all Arizona Freepers!!

For Editorial and Discussion use only: Read the Original Article HERE: Frank Rich, NY Times Article on Matt Drudge December 4, 1999 JOURNAL / By FRANK RICH The Strange Legacy of Matt Drudge n a move that would have incited headlines less than two years ago but barely rated column items two weeks ago, Fox News Channel ended the brief TV career of the first New Media journalistic superstar, Matt Drudge, by "mutual consent." Attention should be paid to this cautionary tale, and not for the reasons you might expect. As those whose memories haven't entirely purged Monicagate will recall, ...

Delegates Say WTO Talks Fail By MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) - Disappointed delegates of the World Trade Organization reported Friday that they had failed to get agreement on an agenda for a new round of global trade negotiations but they said they would probably try again to bridge huge differences next year in Geneva. ``We had to suspend this meeting and that is a disappointment,'' Canadian Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew told reporters late Friday night. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, the chairman of the meetings, had called a session of all 135 countries for later in the ...

BEIJING, Dec. 3—A Chinese scholar has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for leaking "state secrets" about the country's missile program in research done at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., the university said today.Stanford President Gerhard Casper said the school learned this week that Hua Di, a 63-year-old former official in China's missile program who is also suffering from a rare form of male breast cancer, had been sentenced by a Beijing court to the heavy prison term. Hua was arrested after returning to China last year to attend a family funeral. Chinese authorities had told him in ...