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THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release December 6, 1999 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT HUMAN RIGHTS DAY/ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AWARD CEREMONY Presidential Hall 2:17 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much, Belquis. Congressmen Gilman, Lewis, Jackson Lee; Reverend and Mrs. Jackson; Deputy Attorney General Holder; Harold Koh, Bob Seiple, Julia Taft, Hattie Babbitt; Bette Bao Lord, thank you for coming back. Ladies and gentlemen, I need, before I begin, because this is my only opportunity before the press today just to say a brief word about this school shooting this morning in Ft. ...

Not many have noticed, but the collapse of the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle was, as perhaps only the New York Times put it, "a stinging blow to Clinton." It should have added: a self-inflicted blow. Reveling in their sudden notoriety, the sundry 60's retreads and wannabees who ran riot in Seattle are taking full credit for the breakdown. Like their narcissistic predecessors, they think Seattle was all about them. (Tom Hayden is even claiming Seattle was something "BIGGER" than Chicago 1968.) But when you come right down to it, Seattle was about leadership -- and Bill Clinton failed ...

Current Status: Project Suspending Work While the National Academy of Science (NAS) Conducts a Review of the Scientific Aspects of the Mission Per the United States Congress Conference Report (House Report 106-379) accompanying H.R. 2684, the FY 2000 VA-HUD-Independent Agencies appropriation’s bill, the Triana Project has begun the rapid suspension of its development work in a manner that is consistent with the legislated withholding of FY 2000 funding. This suspension plan covers a 90 day period of time, from mid-October to mid-January, the expectation being that the NAS review and subsequent report be completed expeditiously as decreed in the Appropriation ...

We read that Bill Clinton lost in Seattle. Says who? True enough, the World Trade Organization talks broke down amid the sacking of local storefronts and the President's futile pitch for attaching labor and environmental conditions to future trade agreements. Even some of his own advisers have been quoted as suggesting the President overreached himself. Yet to conclude that Mr. Clinton "lost" assumes that a new trade round is what he was trying to win. In fact, right from the start he hinted that trade was secondary to the real prize: a chance to shore up key parts of the ...

Just like Ronald Reagan we see that Dr. Alan Keyes is being denounced not only by the liberals and other assorted riff-raff, but by the establishment "conservatives" within his own Republican party. Like Reagan, we also see that Dr. Keyes can transcend the establishment by force of personality alone. And through post-debate polling results we see that, like Ronald Reagan, Dr. Keyes' message has an uncanny resonance with a very wide audience. Could Alan Keyes be the conservative leader that can fill the huge void left in the wake of Ronald Reagan? I'm starting to wonder?

Tina calls 'em BRITISH Talk magazine editor Tina Brown has given her U.S. election predictions to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera: The "top of the class, very cultivated" Al Gore will defeat George W. Bush, because the average American will shun Bush's "total lack of political culture." Brown expressed her admiration for Hillary Clinton, but said she'll lose to Rudy Giuliani for Senate because, she opines, women are turned off by "a hyper-careerist perfectionist who always makes them inadequate, inferior and ill-at-ease."

Amid the rhetorical fire in the battle over gun control, both sides have up to now at least agreed that people convicted of a felony should be blocked from buying a handgun. But many liberals are now turning that logic on its head. Just last week a subcommittee of the Virginia state legislature asked its staff to draft a constitutional amendment that would allow state courts to restore the voting rights of felons; currently only the Governor can restore their rights. The Virginia effort is but the latest move in a growing, nationwide campaign to end the long-standing restrictions on ...

Daily thought for; Tuesday December 7th, 1999 What Psalm would you choose? Think about America today, we have a government led by a man who has disgraced not only himself and his family but the office of the presidency as well. We have a military that has sworn to uphold the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, yet has sat by, taken orders from and groveled at the feet of a card carrying communist traitor, since he holds the title of Commander in Chief. We have a congress wrought with communism and homosexuality a senate that cannot find the ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. December 7, 1999 The Cat's Paw Nebula Credit & Copyright: Jason Ware Explanation: As soon as we find out whose cat did this . . . Nebulae are as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. No cat, though, could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula visible in Scorpius. The Cat's Paw Nebula is the glowing red nebula near ...

U.N. coming for your guns Private groups, governments team up to severely restrict firearms ownership By Stephan Archer and Sarah Foster © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com American gun owners and advocacy groups like the National Rifle Association are suddenly finding that when it comes to firearms legislation, they had better pay attention to what's happening not only in Congress and their state legislatures, but at the United Nations, where the Second Amendment is being quietly dismantled behind closed doors. Since the end of the Cold War, the disarmament community has brought small arms and light weapons within its sphere of interest, ...

&nbsp"A day that will live in infamy."   58 years ago today, December 7, 1941, just after 8:00 am, Japanese Vice Admiral Nagumo led a carrier striking force against the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, sinking or severely damaging most of the US Pacific Fleet and killing or wounding over a thousand US military men. This was the wakeup call that signaled US entry into World War II. US public opinion had us pursuing an isolationist policy. People wanted to believe that if we don't attack them they wont attack us. Although it now appears that the White ...

U.N. coming for your guns Private groups, governments team up to severely restrict firearms ownership American gun owners and advocacy groups like the National Rifle Association are suddenly finding that when it comes to firearms legislation, they had better pay attention to what's happening not only in Congress and their state legislatures, but at the United Nations, where the Second Amendment is being quietly dismantled behind closed doors. Since the end of the Cold War, the disarmament community has brought small arms and light weapons within its sphere of interest, placing them and their "proliferation" on a par with such ...

Globalization without representation © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com The hour of destruction, or manly opposition to the machinations of tyranny, stares you in the face. Every friend to his country, to himself and posterity ... is now called upon ... to make a united and successful resistance to this last, worst and most destructive measure of administration. Is this a leaflet for the protests at last week's meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle? No. It's a leaflet for a 1773 town meeting in Boston to protest the passage of the Tea Act by England's Parliament. But the 226 years ...

Mary Brosnahan, Coalition for the Homeless, Executive Director will be a guest on C-SPAN this morning. She is Rev. Al's buddy and one of the 1,000 protesters rallied in Union Square yesterday to denounce Mayor Giuliani's policy toward the homeless, including sweeping them from the streets while insisting they work if they want shelter. I will try to call in, but never have much luck. My phone company shuts me off after 40 rings are unanswered and I haven't gotten through to C-SPAN since 1998. If someone gets through, maybe someone could ask Mrs. Brosnahan about her quote from the ...

Hillary Clinton's first salvo as a declared Senate candidate shows her to be firmly wedded to the failed poverty politics of the past. Speaking before a crowd of mostly black clergy last week, Mrs. Clinton ripped into Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's new initiatives on homelessness, accusing him of "criminalizing" poverty and destroying families She couldn't have chosen a better issue with which to distinguish herself from Mr. Giuliani. The mayor has announced, heretically, that the able-bodied homeless should help themselves. He wants those shelter residents who can work in exchange for their benefits to do so. He also proposes that street ...

Is it time Puerto Rico was given its independence? The U.S. commonwealth, which pays no federal taxes but receives billions in U.S. aid and benefits, has decided it doesn't want the Navy to ``practice bomb'' Vieques island. The training raids on Vieques have gone on for decades. Naval officials said the bombing and shelling are crucial, not only for troop readiness, but also to make certain the weapons and ammunition are properly maintained. Vieques is the last place in this part of the world where the Navy and Marines can engage in super-realistic advanced combat training exercises. Naval authorities ...

In praise of truancy Prepare for another phony, media-driven social crisis. The New York Times is reporting that the nation has a chronic problem with truancy, that is, kids finding better things to do than hang out in the public schools. Ten percent of public-school kids are absent at any given time, and in big cities the problem is worse, with some kids deciding at the age of 15 that they've had it with the whole educational charade. What have our nation's governors decided to do about it? Are they rethinking the intellectual absurdities of universal, compulsory education with ...

December 7, 1999 By ANTHONY LEWIS In a book on a long-running civil conflict, the author briefly describes how his government uses surveillance systems to trace suspected enemies of the state. He is arrested, charged with a serious crime, his house ransacked and papers seized. Did this happen in China, or perhaps Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore? No, it happened in Tony Blair's Britain. It is an astonishing story, and it discloses a dirty little secret: The Blair government has authoritarian instincts. The author is Tony Geraghty, a respected journalist who was the star defense correspondent of The Sunday Times of ...

northpole     North Pole Standoff* by Vindicator Source:  Newsgroup Alt. Conspiracy        North Pole - A fierce battled ended in a stand-off today as a multi-jurisdictional task force of federal law enforcement agents tried to arrest the leader of a militant doomsday cult, who call themselves "Elves," living in a heavily fortified compound at the North pole.     The "Compound"      According to witnesses, federal agents hid in livestock trailers as they drove up to the compound.  The approach was difficult in the snow using wheeled vehicles.  Several agents were reportedly thrown from the trailer when ...

Sweeney's Song We read that Bill Clinton lost in Seattle. Says who? True enough, the World Trade Organization talks broke down amid the sacking of local storefronts and the President's futile pitch for attaching labor and environmental conditions to future trade agreements. Even some of his own advisers have been quoted as suggesting the President overreached himself. Yet to conclude that Mr. Clinton "lost" assumes that a new trade round is what he was trying to win. In fact, right from the start he hinted that trade was secondary to the real prize: a chance to shore up key parts ...