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Campaign Spectator Is Gore Nuts? Years ago, when I was a young reporter in Washington, I came across a little scandal called Watergate. I wrote the first stories about it. I was the one who started it all. Now what would you think if I, in all seriousness, told you that? After all, even if you weren't conversant with the facts of Watergate, you could easily find out that I did not in fact discover the scandal, that I did not write the first stories about it, and that I was not the one who started it all. At ...

The violent street demonstrations in Seattle are symptoms of a much broader and deeper social worry: the ever-worsening global problem-shortage. With peace and prosperity blanketing ever larger stretches of the globe -- with nuclear weapons being decommissioned and Unionists and Nationalists entering into government together in Northern Ireland -- we are in danger of reaching a state of affairs where there is nothing left to protest. How else to explain the bizarre decision of tens of thousands of people to converge on Seattle in the cold and damp to slash tires and smash windows to show their outrage toward negotiations ...

UN: Kosovo minorities need others' help (UPI) Updated 7:40 PM ET December 2, 1999 By LULZIM COTA TIRANA, Albania, Dec. 2 (UPI) The head of the U.N. Administration in Kosovo on Thursday asked for Albania's help in bringing peace to the province and protecting the rights of minorities there. Bernard Kouchner said reconciliation between Kosovo's Serbs and Albanians would be a long time in coming. "Unfortunately the situation of the minorities remains bad in Kosovo," he said at a joint news conference with Albanian Premier Ilir Meta. Kouchner visited the Albanian capital, Tirana, three days after a Serb was murdered ...

MONTE CARLO -- Edmond J. Safra, a multibillionaire who built a banking empire that specialized in catering to the very rich, suffocated in a predawn fire on Friday in his luxury duplex penthouse here on the Riviera, and the local authorities said the fire had been set by two hooded intruders. Safra and a nurse, Viviane Torrent, both died of smoke inhalation while hiding in a bathroom, the chief prosecutor of Monaco, Daniel Serdet, said at a news conference on Friday. He said the intruders had escaped and were being sought. Safra's wife, Lily, and her granddaughter hid in another ...

December 4, 1999 Family mourns fetus carried by dead woman Husband thanks public for support in battle to bring baby to term By Phinjo Gombu, Toronto Star Staff Reporter Two days after Paul Shin went public to plead for doctors to keep his clinically dead wife on a ventilator for the sake of her 10-week-old fetus, the unborn child was declared dead. In a hastily called news conference yesterday, the medical team caring for Sophia Park, who has been declared brain dead from tuberculous meningitis, announced the death of her fetus. ``Regrettably I'm here to inform you, on behalf ...

Carter's Marxist mouthpiece By William Bright Marine © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com Wednesday's showing of MSNBC's "Playback" with John Gibson featured a confrontation on the Panama Canal giveback which had Robert Pastor, Jimmy Carter's National Security advisor on Latin America on one side, and Mark Braden from the Republican National Committee on the other. No mention was made of Pastor's Marxist background and Soviet connections as revealed after the "fall of the wall," but it was more balanced than recent writing about the situation in one of the leading "mainstream" papers, the Washington Post. I am a dual citizen of Panama ...

Crimes motivated by hate aren't special A few years ago, when my oldest son was nine, I showed him Jet magazine's coverage of the 1955 funeral of Emmett Till. We lived in Chicago at the time, and I showed him pictures of the mutilation of Till, a Chicago 14-year-old who was visiting relatives in Money, Miss. Reportedly, Till, showing off for playmates, said the wrong thing to a white woman. She told her husband, and a few nights later, two white men, Roy Bryant, the woman's husband, and J.W. Milam, kidnapped the boy from his uncle's cabin in the middle ...

Serene Seattle Faces Rights Abuse Allegations By Chris Stetkiewicz SEATTLE (Reuters) - Angry residents and human rights groups on Thursday demanded a probe of claims that riot police brutalized peaceful protesters as city officials admitted they botched security for an international meeting on trade. Besides pummeling innocent bystanders with teargas and rubber bullets, critics said police in this city that proudly tolerates almost any group also trampled demonstrators' Constitutional rights of assembly and free speech. ``We call on Mayor Paul Schell and (Washington state) Gov. Gary Locke to appoint an independent panel to investigate the response of law enforcement to ...

Free Republic: The canvas on which we paint. Free Republic is unquestionably one of the best things to happen to me in the last year. People gather at this wonderful place, and they share and refine one anothers points. Those items and opinions that are questionable are given the trial of fire, the Peer Review that is Free Republic. Those that survive are the better for it, and those that don't are relegated to the realm of the discarded and discredited. A Darwinian survival system is in place here. Only the fittest ideas will survive. But there is another side ...

MS denies giving NSA key A second "key" in Microsoft Windows is only to comply with federal rules governing software export, company says.   Microsoft is denying claims by a Canadian security company that it has installed a second key in its Windows programs in order to give the U.S. government access to users' computers. Intead, it said it's only following the rules imposed by the U.S. to allow software exports. By Lisa M. Bowman, ZDNet News September 3, 1999 3:03 PM PT Updated at 6:20 PM PT Andrew Fernandes, the chief scientist of Cryptonym, had claimed that a ...

IN AMERICA, WE have a two-party system," a Republican congressional staffer is supposed to have told a visiting group of Russian legislators some years ago. "There is the stupid party. And there is the evil party. I am proud to be a member of the stupid party." He added: "Periodically, the two parties get together and do something that is both stupid and evil. This is called -- bipartisanship." Our current mass immigration policy is a classic example of this fatal Washington bipartisanship. It is a stupid policy because there is absolutely no reason for it -- in particular, Americans ...

EDGEWOOD, N.M. (AP) — A van slammed into a tractor-trailer rig on icy Interstate 40 in central New Mexico early today, killing 13 people in the van. The van, carrying 17 people, was headed east on I-40 at about 2 a.m. The driver did not notice traffic ahead was stopped and the van "under-rode the back end of a tractor-trailer,'' Santa Fe County Undersheriff Benjie Montano said. "There didn't appear to be any signs of braking'' by the van, he said. Thirteen people in the van died — 11 at the scene — while four others were hospitalized, Montano ...

The official line of Hillary Clinton's many friends and admirers in New York goes something like this: "It's going to be a tough, close race, but she'll pull it out in the end." That is more prayer than prediction. Close elections cannot be forecast a year before the event. And the same people were talking only a few months ago as if the first lady could not lose. She can. Things are not going well for Clinton's candidacy for the U.S. Senate as the cold winds begin to blow. "I am stunned by the number of people we know ...

Excerpts from the Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H. The Associated Press, Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999; 11:13 p.m. EST KAREN BROWN [WMUR-TV]: Mr. Keyes, America intervened in Kosovo when it became apparent that innocent civilians were being slaughtered. Now the same is happening in Chechnya. What should the United States do about Russia's military crackdown on Chechnya? ALAN KEYES: Well, first of all, I think the first part of your statement is not true. Over the course of the last several months, we've learned a lot of information that suggests that the propaganda that was unhappily spread throughout the media ...

Antifederalist No. 41-43 (Part 1) THE QUANTITY OF POWER THE UNION MUST POSSESS IS ONE THING; THE MODE OF EXERCISING THE POWERS GIVEN IS QUITE A DIFFERENT CONSIDERATION . . . . A federal republic in itself supposes state or local governments to exist, as the body or props, on which the federal bead rests, and that it cannot remain a moment after they cease. In erecting the federal government, and always in its councils, each state must be known as a sovereign body. But in erecting this government, I conceive, the legislature of the state, by the expressed ...

Air Force One crashed in the middle of rural America. Panic stricken, the Secret Service mobilized and descended on a local farm in force. When they arrived, the devastation was incredible. The aircraft was totally destroyed with only a burned hulk left smoldering in a tree line that bordered a farm. Secret Service inspected the smoking hulk but could find any remains of the crew or the President's staff. To their amazement, a lone farmer was plowing a field not too far away as if nothing at all happened. They hurried over and surrounded the farmers tractor. "Sir," the ...

CommentMax NewsMax.com WTO Makes Strange Bedfellows Gerald L. Hibbs December 3, 1999 There's chaos in Seattle, where thousands of protesters have converged, some of them comporting themselves in a peaceful manner. They have, however, contributed to the chaos being used, as human shields against the police's rubber bullets, by the rioters who have vowed to bring down the scheduled World Trade Organization talks. Delegates to the 135-nation trade gathering have had to rely on police escorts, but even that hasn't been enough, as the mass of rioting humanity has jeered them back to their hotels and stopped the opening ceremony ...

Red Bank, N.J. -- An outcry over the treatment of farm animals has led to the cancelation of the annual live Nativity scene at Blaisdell Lumber. For five years, Bruce blaisdell has allowed the Arts and Antique District to use a portion of his parking lot for a live nativity scene. This year, however, Blaisdell said he and other district members have decided to cancel the event which helps raise money for local outreach organizations because of complaints and bad publicity. "I had a call and one lady said she's afraid deranged people will kill the animals (like her?) overnight. ...

Chinese Genocide Against Mongols (Part Three) ----The Devastating Aftermaths of the Genocide and the conclusion with legal bases Tsengelt Gonchigsuren In the previous two parts of this article, I focused on the Brutality and Savage Nature of the Genocide and its general picture (part one), and the Scope and the Seriousness of the Genocide in Its Historical Context (part two). Now I discuss the devastating aftermaths of the genocide and the conclusion of this article. The bitter and tragic irony is that this cultured, civilized country did this genocide also in the name of "culture" and "revolution." Let see what ...

Antifederalist No. 40 ON THE MOTIVATIONS AND AUTHORITY OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS It was a common saying among many sensible men in Great Britain and Ireland, in the time of the war, that they doubted whether the great men of America, who had taken an active part in favor of independence, were influenced by pure patriotism; that it was not the love of their country they had so much at heart, as their own private, interest; that a thirst after dominion and power, and not to protect the oppressed from the oppressor, was the great operative principle that induced ...