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NEW YORK — Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton and several others were arrested Monday during a City Hall Park protest over a crackdown on the homeless by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. "I'm being charged with being homeless,'' the black activist said as he was handcuffed by police. "They do this to the homeless every night.'' Sharpton deliberately did not apply for a demonstration permit in order to challenge Giuliani's homeless policy. He said homeless activists would continue to gather at the park, keeping the number under 20 people in order to comply with city laws. Police said 11 people were ...

Ask the White House Have a question for the President? The White House this week is launching a new service that will let Internet users to post their queries online. The White House press office is launching the service through partnerships with Internet news organizations. Each week, Internet users are encouraged to send their questions about policies and issues to participating news sites, which will then submit their five most popular questions to the press office. The responses will be posted weekly on the Web sites of each participating news organization. The first news organization to feature 'Ask the White ...

When the United States pulls out of Panama next week under the Carter-Torrijos treaties of 1977, the Chinese will move in.     And while President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore won't be on hand to greet them, Howard Phillips and Larry Klayman will.     "We're heading down . . . to fill the void in the absence of President Bill Clinton," Mr. Phillips, presidential candidate of the newly named Constitution Party (formerly the U.S. Taxpayers Party), tells Inside the Beltway.     Joining him for a news conference in Panama City Dec. 14 -- the official day of the Panama Canal hand-over -- will be Mr. ...

This article isn't the usual mainstream media "ignore the underdogs" stuff. clickCheers,Richard F.

THREAD #1 THREAD #2 AND NOW...THE TRANSCRIPT: Election 2000 Special Presentation: The Arizona Republican Primary Debate Aired December 6, 1999 - 8:00 p.m. ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ANNOUNCER: This is a CNN Election 2000 special presentation: "The Arizona Republican Primary Debate." Presidential candidates take questions from reporters and from one another in a key primary state. From the Orpheum Theater in downtown Phoenix, here now is the moderator: Judy Woodruff. JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you for joining us. Tonight we hope to give voters ...

Treasury Department officials shredded 162 boxes of documents being sought in a lawsuit involving the mismanagement of Indian trust funds, covered up their actions for more than three months and lied to a federal court about it, court records show. The document destruction was outlined in a report by court-appointed investigator Alan Balaran, released yesterday by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth -- who four months ago ordered the government to pay $625,000 for the earlier "disobedience" of Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and then-Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin in withholding records in the case. "This is a system clearly out of ...

... But the idea of limiting how much individuals can contribute to political campaigns got a scathing critique from former ambassador Alan Keyes. “If we have the right of free association, then I think we have the right to associate our money with the causes we believe in — in any amount that we think is necessary to get those causes to work,” Keyes said, as the crowd cheered. Keyes called for a system of “no dollar vote without a ballot vote. ... If you can’t walk into the voting booth and cast a vote, you should not be able ...

Alleged Calif. bomb plot sought revolution -FBI     Excite Home | News Home Enter your e-mail to WIN: . Click here to WIN Videos for a year! News Home U.S. World Business Sports Entertainment Tech Odd More Reuters · UPI Alleged Calif. bomb plot sought revolution -FBI Updated 10:45 PM ET December 6, 1999 By Suzanne Marmion SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Two suspected militia members arrested in connection with an alleged plot to blow up a California propane plant had been involved with a group that hoped to use violence to spark the overthrow of the U.S. government, court ...

December 6, 1999 1,000 in Park Denounce Giuliani on Homeless Arrest Policy By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN ith bitter speeches and vitriolic chants, more than 1,000 demonstrators gathered at a rally in Union Square Sunday to denounce Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and his plans to force people in city shelters to work in exchange for their beds and to stop people from sleeping on city streets by threatening to arrest them. The rally, organized by the Coalition for the Homeless, was held Sunday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the State Supreme Court decision in Callahan v. Carey, a class-action ...

Reality Check - Debates: Destined To Be Dull? By Eric Engberg (CBS) From the crowded press room, CBS News Correspondent Eric Engberg has seen his share of political debates. In this Reality Check, he reviews Monday night's performances by the Republican presidential hopefuls. Uncle! Mercy! I'll come out with my hands up! Can it be true there are eleven more months for presidential debates? Yes. Yikes! CNN and the Arizona Republican Party tried to get the candidates out of their canned, sound-byte spewing stump routines with format changes. It didn't work. In the first part of the debate, CNN reporters ...

GOP Hopefuls Face Off Again (CBS) Candidates for the Republican presidential nomination squared off Monday night in Phoenix, in their second debate in four days. The six men reiterated many of the promises from Thursday's showdown, including safer schools, lower taxes and a more disciplined foreign policy. "My plan says less power to Washington, not more," said Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the front-runner. "I'll keep `em out of it," Arizona Sen. John McCain said of Washington bureaucrats. Hours after a school shooting in Fort Gibson, Okla., left four students injured and underscored growing concerns about school violence across the ...

Seattle, The Lessons Learned. Dec. 1999 Lurker Just Another Opinion Seattle And The Lessons Learned Well, the Circus In Seattle appears to be winding down, and upon close examination of the events that occured there, I have gleaned what I feel a number of useful tactics which I feel will be necessary for Freedom lovers to use sooner or later. It must be obvious to all but the most completely stupid among us that the protestors won this battle. While I personally disagree with this band of Luddites, I must admit that their tactical and strategic planning was completely succesful. ...

STUNNED cops claim they have caught Britain's youngest-ever drug dealer - a girl aged THREE. The toddler is said to have sold cannabis to two undercover officers at her drug-den home. She allegedly handed it through a grille in the wall after taking payment - as her mum and gran proudly looked on. The pair were arrested along with four other relatives in Middlesbrough, including the girl's father and grandad. Drugs squad chief, Detective Sergeant Charlie Bell, said yesterday: "The officers were shocked and amazed when they got to the house and found someone so young. "She must be the ...

the eXile - Feature Story Issue #23/78, November 18 - December 2, 1999 Don't Shave It...Stripe It! Top Ten Torture Tips Sheremetyevo's Negro Tax How I Got Myself Tossed From a Bill Bradley Fundraiser By Matt Taibbi "Eggheads unite: you have nothing to lose but your yolks." - Adlai Stevenson At the first sight of him, my shoulders sagged from relief, and a broad, joyful smile came across my face. He was all the evidence I ever needed. There was a God after all! I first saw him this past Sunday, on the sixth floor of Madison Square Garden, ...

EXCERPTS:King County Councilman Dwight Pelz, grousing as the county worked on a post-695 budget, called Eyman "a self-aggrandizing punk." Pelz, a former state senator, said he's spent years "fighting back against these little right-wing punks trying to take back the government."Says House Co-Majority Leader Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam: "He's(Eyman)on a roll and I think he's a little bit full of himself. I guess he wants people to know he's watching every move we made."But she gives the devil his due: "He certainly had the mood of the people on his side. They certinly are watching, and we do need to listen."State ...

WHAT IF?: The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been Edited by Robert Cowley Putnam, 395 pages, $27.95 When Sennacherib, the Assyrian king, rolled up outside of Jerusalem with his army in 701 B.C., the handwriting was on the wall. Sennacherib was in the midst of a military campaign in which he would end up conquering some four-dozen walled cities. So when he began his siege of the capital of the small kingdom of Judah, it was only a matter of time. Or so it seemed. Sennacherib never did take Jerusalem. He stayed for a time, and ...

                                Men-only clubs to be banned                                 By Rachel Sylvester                                   ALL-MALE clubs, ranging from 17th century St James's                                 establishments to suburban golf courses, are to be banned under                                 Government plans.                                 Ministers want to outlaw private clubs which refuse to admit                                 women as part of their commitment to promoting equality.                                 They are discussing proposals to change the law to make it                                 illegal to have a single-sex membership policy or give                                 preferential treatment to men.                                 Private clubs are exempt from the Sex Discrimination Act, but                                 one minister said this was ...

The internet site www.politics.com has an internet poll until Wednesday at Midnight Eastern. You have to give your information to register and then vote.

AMERICAN art curators who helped mount Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition in New York this year have accused him of excessive spending and of meddling in the organisation of the show. The British collector, who owned the works on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, involved himself in the smallest details, from the labelling of the works to their positioning. Documents shown to the New York Times reveal that Mr Saatchi demanded that the financially strapped museum pay £8,600 in overtime to art handlers because he preferred to work in the evenings. He flew in his personal installation consultant at ...

TO: Constitution (Taxpayers) Party members and interested parties FROM: Ed Frami, National Vice Chairman RE: Personal Commentary, "Damn Yankees! Revisited" Damn Yankees!, Revisited There is a stage play called, "Damn Yankees!." In the story, a frustrated Washington Senators fan sells his soul to the devil so that he could become a star player and lead his beloved Senators over the hated New York Yankees in the race for the American League pennant. A similar scenario is beginning to take place in the 2000 race for the presidency. The establishment political parties, the Democrats and Republicans play the role the "Damn ...