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Pennsylvania Avenue Who Won GOP 'Debate' in N.H.? Democrat Al Gore By Morton M. Kondracke Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) was the tactical winner of last week's Republican forum in New Hampshire. But the strategic winner -- unless Texas Gov. George W. Bush sharpens up his act -- will be Vice President Al Gore. McCain won the night by responding with wit to questions about his temper, by showing mastery of foreign policy and by appealing to independent voters, who could help him beat Bush in the Feb. 1 primary. Bush, though, is the national frontrunner and figures he'll win the ...

Military involvement in Battle In Seattle far more extensive than "mainstream media" said Alamance Independence Matt Maggio, Publisher & Editor Military involvement in attempting to suppress anti-WTO protests in Seattle has been much more extensive than reported in the "mainstream media." By last Thursday, authorities were so overwhelmed that even the Washington Army National Guard wasn't enough to supplement the Seattle police and Washington State Police - so 66 Air National Guard people were brought in to do patrolling alongside the Army National Guard units. A total of 425 National Guardsmen were doing patrolling and checking credentials - mostly keeping ...

ALAN KEYES DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE REPUBLICAN JEWISH COALITION FORUM DECEMBER 1, 1999 SPEAKER: ALAN KEYES, REPUBLICAN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [*] KEYES: Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Let me begin by saying what a special privilege it is for me to be here today and to share a few thoughts with some fellow Americans. Now I understand that under the banner of the Republican-Jewish coalition it is to be expected that I would spend time speaking to you as if you were merely a special interest group. But, see, I know better. I know ...

Hey, hey, ho, ho, we don't need the WTO Alamance Independence Matt Maggio, Publisher & Editor Email In the wake of the collapse of the World Trade Organization convention, there is a simple fact - we don't need WTO. In all the disputes about WTO and "free trade," one fact remains undisputable; we are the only affluent large-population nation in the world. Other affluent nations have small populations; for instance, the next-largest, Japan, has fewer than half as many people as we do - and it goes down fast from there. Other large-population nations are like India or Russia - ...

I ran this LeMonde article through an on line translations service. While the translation was imperfect, the article attacks the Clinton administration for its high tech spying aparatus called Echelon. The article says the NSA employs over 38,000 people in various positions world wide. Using over 50 Cray Super computers, the NSA has the ability to track virtually all e-mail and telephonic conversations world wide. Some key words being fosuced on now by NSA include: AK-47, cocaine, Flight 800, Davidians, Waco, Flight 800, Vince Foster and a host of key words which point to anti-administration conspiracies. Looks like we Freepers ...

In this the dawn of a new millienium the need for a global economy, global spirituality, global awareness are thrust upon us with extreme force. The protesters of the World Trade Org. in Seattle were just one group that showed the World that injustice will not be tolerated. The Catholic Church is only one out of three forces fighting for the power of the nations that will band together to create a New World Order. When Jesus was a child he went into the temple and taught the priests. Christ later returned to the temple and was angered by the ...

Seattle Aftermath (CBS) Seattle was supposed to take its place as a global city this past week. Instead those who say free trade is bad for workers and human rights filled the streets, then the city became a battle ground. Police struggling to keep control seemed to overreact. In comments broadcast on Cuban state television, President Fidel Castro said U.S. police action against protesters were worse than the repression imposed by Chile's former military ruler Augusto Pinochet. Castro said the Cuban people, like the world, had been astonished at the U.S. police's "brutal methods." The fiery 73-year-old communist leader, often ...

Jim Searcy at his site today says: "THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED: Just heard from my buddy in Big D. He said the fire Marshall came into Cheaper Than Dirt (which is www.cheaperthandirt.com ) and ordered the sale of ammo banned because of a supposed fire hazard. They were ordered to take all ammo to a centralized warehouse for storage. (Convenient for confiscation, huh?) The owner of CTD has asked for people to protest this to the city govt.. They can only have 100,000 rds. on hand in the store. My buddy says they sell that much in 1/2 a day. ...

Unions Make A Comeback (CBS) The head of the AFL-CIO today welcomed the collapse of the WTO talks, saying "no deal is better than a bad deal." But union leaders hope that the week of protest is a sign that organized labor is moving again. CBS News Richard Schlesinger reports more workers are pushing their way back to the table. Not far from the shattered glass and stinging gas in Seattle this week, there was another demonstration, not nearly as loud, but probably much more important. There were thousands of union members in the streets of Seattle, pushing for better ...

Students: why count on the god? By Sam Zeng NOWADAYS teachers often find that many students would put a polished red apple on their desk while taking a test. The apple comes from the temple, and the students¬ð believe the apple will bless them during the test. It is widely known that primary and high school students worship Buddha in the temple or in their homes. They pray to Buddha to bring them marvelous scores in exams and happiness in their daily life. At a local temple in Guangzhou, reporters, in no more than half an hour, saw over 20 ...

The All New W_kakis (rhyms with Dukakis)This mornings' Post has yet another love letter to W from David Broder. It reads, essentially: Timid is good. Not losing is victory. Coming unscathed is good enough qualification. Most importantly, since W_kakis was not rattled there ought not to be any doubt about his being ready. Later during Meet The Press, David went on to assure me that while W is not really that good in this debate like situations, he is the best when working a room. Now David gets to be in these rooms,so I will take his word for it, ...

Taiwan Appeals to Beijing over WTO Entry TAIPEI, Dec 5 (AFP) - Taiwan Economic Minister Wang Chih-kang said Sunday the island may ease its decades-old ban on some direct links with China if Beijing renounces its hostility over issues like its bid to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). "We feel there is no immediate relationship between entry into WTO and the 'three links' (with China)," Wang said upon return from Seattle where he attended the WTO ministerial-level meeting. He said WTO only regulates trade ties among contracting parties, and postal and transportation links with the mainland -- the other ...

Comment semer la zizanie à Washington, avec un AK-47 et un peu de cocaïne Mis à jour le samedi 20 novembre 1999 Jacques Isnard Le professeur Christopher Simpson, de l'American University de New York, pouvait-il se douter que la National Security Agency (NSA), la plus grande agence de renseignement des Etats-Unis, s'irriterait de ses propos révélant quelques-uns des mots-clés grâce auxquels le réseau d'espionnage Echelon écoute la planète entière ? Ses indiscrétions, en tout cas, ont eu de redoutables effets, qui expliquent la colère des responsables de la NSA, une agence fédérale que dirige le général Michaël Haydon depuis Fort ...

Global trade talks collapse in blow to U.S. Partners, poor nations say no to deal; opponents of the WTO claim victory BY JANE BUSSEY AND MICHAEL ZIELENZIGER jbussey@herald.com SEATTLE -- President Clinton's high-profile campaign to mold an ambitious agenda to liberalize global trade and expand the mandate of the World Trade Organization have collapsed here as America's largest trading partners and the world's poorest nations rebelled against a package they argued was stacked against them. In an unprecedented setback to the U.S. government, which has championed free-trade policy since the end of World War II, the 135 member nations of ...

U.S. News 12/13/99 Trade's battle hits Seattle In the quiet boardrooms, an admission that the noisy protesters have a point By Jodie T. Allen and Dori Jones Yang SEATTLE–Their sneakers were made in Indonesia, their jeans in Mexico, their backpacks in China, and their cell phones in Finland. Only their hand-lettered signs were made in the U.S.A.: "Don't Trade Our Future," said one. Protesters flooding the streets here last week symbolized the ironies, mixed agendas, and awkward coalitions that bedeviled the World Trade Organization talks themselves. First on the irony list was the setting: A major port, Seattle boasts of ...

1999.12.06¡@2:23am Taiwan time updated China to Shut 200 Papers for Straying from Official Line HONG KONG, Dec 5 (AFP) - Chinese authorities have decided to close some 200 local newspapers to reassert control over a press they believe has strayed too far from the official line, a Hong Kong-based human rights group said Sunday. According to the Information Centre of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China, the first targets will be popular tabloids that are overshadowing large papers run by the Chinese Communist Party. "These newspapers emphasize court cases, crime, accidents and corruption: people are buying them more ...

[snip]..... No column would be really complete without comment on our president or his "first" (among how many?) lady. The question recently arose whether our first lady/New York State senator-wannabe should pay for her air travel or enjoy the perks of being married to Bill as she campaigns against Rudy Guiliani. The debate revolves around what exactly would, or could, Hillary Rodham Clinton do with a good conscience. Looking back on her career record from being an accessory both before and after the fact to many of Bill's "indiscretions," through the financial chicanery of Whitewater to a variety of strangely ...

U.S. News 12/13/99 WTO - THE SOUND AND THE FURY: Men in black Kevin Whitelaw with D.J.Y. in Seattle and Joellen Perry Opponents of the World Trade Organization had every reason to be pleased. An improbable alliance of 30,000 union members, environmentalists, and religious activists marched peacefully down the streets of Seattle to protest WTO policies. Unionized dock workers shut down the city's port for a few hours. Hundreds of scraggly kids and graying hippies ranted against everything from the Cuban embargo to poverty, blocking thoroughfares and forcing the WTO to scuttle its opening ceremony. "We have the WTO to ...

December 5, 1999 Perhaps it's time to pull out By PAUL JACKSON Calgary Sun Preston Manning's Reformers have some shaking their heads and others livid with outrage over proposals we consider withdrawing from such international organizations as the U.N. and the Commonwealth. That's the fallout from a Reform policy paper Canada and the Millennium: A New Look at Foreign Policy -- but it should get us all thinking. Surely the party's right-on when it says membership in the Commonwealth is largely based on sentiment for our British ties. Now, neither sentiment nor British ties are bad in themselves, but the ...

WTO in Seattle: Scrutiny of Schell's leadership is just beginning as council schedules meetings By J. Martin McOmber, Seattle Times staff reporter As peace settles on the streets of Seattle, the crisis is far from over for Mayor Paul Schell. In a single week, the pro-business mayor went from cheerleading the World Trade Organization visit to extending personal apologies to shoppers in the downtown core. And the scrutiny of Schell's leadership is just beginning: "I'm the elected official, so it is my responsibility," Schell said yesterday while trying to make amends with merchants and shoppers. "You can always learn, you ...