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Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi has instructed the Democratic Caucus and promised the corporate media that the Democrats will not impeach Bush and Cheney even if they win a majority in Congress. Of course, such timidity is the most likely way for the Democrats to not win a majority in Congress. While 90% of Democrats and 81% of Independents disapprove of Bush in the latest Harris poll, only 67% of Republicans approve of him. Every poll done on impeachment http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling shows very strong support among Democrats and weak opposition among Republicans. Moreover, an off-year election is won by inspiring your "base" to turn out in higher numbers, and nothing inspires Democratic voters like impeachment.

Here's an article about Pelosi's position: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/pelosi

Here's where you can send her your own thoughts: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov

Tell your own Representative and Senators to support impeachment: http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/65

Help us elect pro-impeachment Democrats: http://impeachpac.org


Delivery Planned for DontAttackIran.org Petition --Cindy Sheehan to Lead Delivery of Petition to White House --Ray McGovern to Lead March to Sec. Rumsfeld's Home

Delivery of petition to White House opposing attack on Iran When: 1-3 p.m., Thursday, May 18 Where: Lafayette Square Park, in front of White House, Washington, D.C.

March to Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld's House When: Departing at 3 p.m., Thursday, May 18 Where: Lafayette Square Park, in front of White House, Washington, D.C.

JOIN US! Take the Metro to McPherson Square.

A broad coalition of organizations has collected over 40,000 signatures on a petition opposing a U.S. attack on Iran. See the list of participating organizations, the petition, signatures, and comments at: http://www.dontattackiran.org

Cindy Sheehan plans to lead the delivery of the petition and signatures to the White House between 1 and 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 18, in cooperation with a "Pray In" in Lafayette Square Park organized by the Network of Spiritual Progressives: http://www.tikkun.org/community/spiritual_activism_conference

Prayer leaders will include: Bob Edgar, Rev.Lennox Yearwood, Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, Ahmed Ahrar, Holly Near, Rev. Osagyefo Sekou, Rev. Jim Winkler, Rev. Penny Nixon, John Dear S.J., Archdeacon Michael Kendall, and Pledge of Resistance to the Iraq War: Ken Butigan. Also speaking in support of the petition delivery will be Cindy Sheehan, founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, Medea Benjamin, Co-Founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, and David Swanson, Co-Founder of the After Downing Street Coalition.

Following remarks by these speakers and delivery of the petition, along with boxes of signatures and comments, to the White House, Ray McGovern, U.S. Army veteran and retired 27-year CIA analyst, will lead a march through downtown Washington, D.C., to the home of Donald Rumsfeld, where protesters will gather to ask Rumsfeld why he lied about the need for a war on Iraq. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/rumsfeld

Representatives of many of these organizations, which promoted the petition, will be present and available for comments: Gold Star Families for Peace, CODE PINK, Progressive Democrats of America, Democrats.com, Traprock Peace Center, Global Exchange, Velvet Revolution, Democracy Rising, Truthout, OpEdNews, Backbone Campaign, Consumers For Peace, Campus Antiwar Network, The Young Turks, Citizens for Legitimate Government, Counter Punch, United for Peace and Justice, Stop the War Coalition, This Can't Be Happening, Voters Evolt, Springs Action Alliance, Radio News America, OrbStandard, International Socialist Organization, Voters for Peace, Thom Hartmann Show, Environmentalists Against War, U.S. Peace Council, Grandmothers for Peace, Justice Through Music, Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran, World Can't Wait, The Rational Response Squad, Idriss Stelley Foundation, Bush Free Zone, Voice International, Foundation for the Development of Human Resources, Tbilisi, Georgia, Political Cooperative, City Sites, Agir contre la guerre (France), Americans Against the War (France), Spiritual Activism Conference, Muslims for Peace (Australia), AndrewBurgin.com, Peace Movement Aotearoa, Not in Our Name Aotearoa New Zealand, Pixel4Peace, Liberty News TV, IntelligentFuture, CampUS Strike for Peace. http://www.dontattackiran.org


FLYER: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/daiflyer.pdf


Cindy Sheehan and Ann Wright to Speak in Virginia May 17, 2006 - 7 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center Charlottesville, Virginia Music -- Speakers -- Question & Answer Period Cindy Sheehan is co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace and the mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, KIA April 4, 2004, Baghdad. In August, 2005, she camped outside President Bush's home in an effort to ask him for what noble cause her son was sent to die. Ann Wright resigned from the U.S. State Department in protest the day the Iraq War began. She had served as a diplomat for 16 years and received the State Department's Award for Heroism. She also served for 29 years in the US Army/Army Reserves and attained the rank of Colonel. Terri Allard is a singer/songwriter with an extraordinary talent for capturing the human spirit in her songs. With power-packed vocals and infectious energy she has the uncanny ability to move her audiences to pin-drop silence. Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice 434-961-6278 http://www.charlottesvillepeace.org

FLYER: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/may17color.pdf

The MLK Jr. Performing Arts Center is located at 1400 Melbourne Rd Charlottesville, Va. Suggested Donation - $5.00 (No one turned away)

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----- Original Message -----
From: XMJMac
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: My Fax to Pelosi who stated impeaching Bush "Not in the cards"

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
Washington, D.C. Office
2371 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4965
Fax: (202) 225-8259
Email: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov


To Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi,
May 14, 2006

I just read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle in which they reported: “Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco has told her caucus that the idea of impeaching President Bush isn't in the cards if the party takes over the House in November's elections.” And “Pelosi also restated her opposition to the idea of censuring Bush over his decision to invade Iraq in March 2003.” To this I add, America is dying a slow painful death due to Bush, Cheney, et al and it is incumbent upon the very survival of this republic that all of these criminals be removed from power immediately. I am astonished that you would not lead in calling for their removal from office and with that said, we need new fearless Democrats leading our congressional caucus if we are to save this country. In my opinion, I can think of two men who have shown such leadership and they are Congressman John Conyers or Congressman John Murtha. Both of these patriotic congress members have exhibited the wear-with-all to stand up to these despots.

I would like to ask you, Rep. Pelosi, just what are you thinking when you make such statements? You are not showing leadership but collusion. When your spokesman Brendan Daly stated: “We want oversight and checks and balances,'' He is joking, right? Without fearless leadership going into these mid-term elections where our message is that Bush, Cheney, et al must be impeached to save this republic there will be no checks and balances and we will not retake the house. America is at a critical mass right now and it is incumbent upon our party to save her from blowing apart in a nuclear meltdown.

While your spokesman stated that it is not your interest, it is the interest of many Democrats like me that these criminals are taken out of power before they do more damage. Impeachment is the driving force behind many to make sure that we take back both the house and the senate.

There is an old saying: “If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem” and by your alarming remarks, it proves that you are indeed part of the problem. By your sentiments expressed in that article, it is time that you step aside as minority leader since you are failing to lead this party, this country and where you would want leading this country a man that has committed many acts of treason. If you think I am the only one that feels this way, I can assure you that I am not.

In closing, I am faxing you pictures of soldiers whose faces have been blown off and pictures of dead and injured Iraqi children and you tell me if Bush and Cheney who are despots and dictators deserve to stay in power.

Mary MacElveen

This letter sent to you is being sent to other Democrats and will be posted on my RadioLeft.com blog.


Article: A Democrat-controlled House wouldn't impeach, Pelosi says
http://tinyurl.com/j5yhg


Informant: Bugs



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=impeach

Freeport: "Working Towards Sustainable Development"? http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/22/22429/1.html

Hier ist dokumentiert, was der Bundesrat wieder anrichten will:
http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/16/013/1601339.pdf

Die Justizministerin will´s aber bisher nicht so, also muß nun so viel Sand ins Getriebe gestreut werden, dass gar nichts von diesem Horrorgesetz in Kraft tritt, um der geplanten Volksverhetzung, verdeckten Ermittlung und Schnüffelei durch die Entmündigungsbehörde (zur Irreführung "Betreuungsbehörde" genannt) eine Riegel vorzuschieben.

Dringender denn je ist für jede/n eine Vorsorgevollmacht nach http://www.vo-vo.de/index2.htm

Werner-Fuss-Zentrum
Scharnweberstr. 29
10247 Berlin
http://www.psychiatrie-erfahrene.de

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/4468/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Vice President Dick Cheney made handwritten notations on a July 2003 newspaper column that indicate he was focused on a critic of the administration's Iraq policy, according to a court filing in the CIA leak case.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051406Y.shtml

Here is a view from across the pond..that cheating has a long and bipartisan history in US elections. In 2004, the potential for cheating was known before the election...Oct 04...and verified by Share International editor Benjamin Creme in Dec. 04..

http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2004/dec_04.htm#q&a

Q. (1) Does the final outcome in the US Presidential election accurately reflect the preference of those who voted, or
(2) was there any corruption or manipulation which might have changed the outcome? If so,
(3) which side cheated more?
(4) If the results were ‘fixed’, by which methods was it done?

A. (1) No. My information is that there was much cheating.
(2) Yes, Kerry should narrowly have won Ohio and Florida and the Presidency. I am afraid it is the same old story, more expertly performed this time.
(3) The Republicans. It seems that cheating by Democrats was minimal and only on a personal basis, but cheating by Republicans was pre-planned and widespread, especially with the new electronic machines.
(4) Pre-programmed electronic voting systems and various other methods, cruder but just as effective — delayed postal votes, double voting, non-counting of votes, and more. Of course, the marginal (swing) states like Florida and Ohio were targeted and the machines were programmed to change every fifth vote for Kerry to a vote for Bush. However, even without ‘stolen’ votes, Bush, like Gore last time, did in fact decisively win the popular vote which I personally prefer as a record of democratic public opinion.

Warning about Diebold software was published in Share International magazine in Oct. 2004.

http://www.share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2004/oct_04.htm#message


Most of us are so addicted to information that we do not act.. but simply stand and wait..for more information.


Informant: Betsy Whitfil

US admits for first time that global warming is killing reefs - and will now be legally obliged to protect them

By Geoffrey Lean,
Environment Editor
Published: 14 May 2006

Global warming is killing coral reefs, the Bush administration has formally admitted. And the admission means that, under US law, it will finally be obliged to take action to reduce the pollution that causes climate change.

The US National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has this month ruled that two species of coral - elkhorn and staghorn - must officially be registered as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act, partly because they are imperilled by rising sea temperatures. They are the first species ever to be listed as a result of global warming.

The two corals are the main reef-building species in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Florida, but they have declined by 80 to 98 per cent throughout the region. The NMFS - part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - concluded that "elevation of the sea surface temperature" was partly to blame. The ruling accepts that the corals die when the sea temperature exceeds 29C, because a curious relationship between tiny algae and the coral breaks down.

Corals are really colonies of billions of tiny animals called polyps. They lay down limestone skeletons that build the reef. But the tiny reef-builders in turn depend on algae called zooxanthellae. Not only do they give coral its colour, they harness the power of the sun through photosynthesis to feed the polyps.

More than a million of the algae throng each square centimetre of coral. But when the sea temperature rises, the polyps expel them into their stomachs, and then spit them out through their mouths. The coral becomes transparent, and eventually dies. This white death - virtually unknown 25 years ago - is now happening increasingly around the world as global warming takes hold.

But under the Endangered Species Act, the US government is legally bound to take measures to diminish the threat, by cutting back the pollution that causes climate change. And environmental groups are preparing to take it to court if it continues to refuse to do so.

© 2006 Independent News and Media Limited

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article447818.ece


Informant: Teresa Binstock

A message from Eleanor

Original Message:

Please help me out with this folks! I need 500 more signature by next week when I have to fax this over!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/968489199

PLEASE cross post and forward this message as much as possible!

A senior CIA official, meeting with Senate staff in a secure room of the Capitol last June, promised repeatedly that the agency did not violate or seek to violate an international treaty that bars cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees, during interrogations it conducted in the Middle East and elsewhere.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051406Z.shtml

A message from Eleanor

Original Message:

Dear Friends,

Please go to this site and vote yes! I've given up on links, they don't want to work. Just copy and paste them into your browsers, please! http://www.surreyleader.com it's to the right of the screen and tell Starbucks to stop supporting this brutal sport! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/787688008

Thanks,

Ronda

Vote: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/

Results 74% No ! 4% Don't Know

Results
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sfl-510bushbros.poll,0,7176897,post.poll


Informant: ranger116

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/05/12/nsa-whistleblower-says-p_n_20884.html


Informant: ranger116



Telephone Records are just the Tip of NSA's Iceberg
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/


Informant: lwirbel

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12774274/site/newsweek/


Informant: ranger116

13.05.2006

China will für die Olympischen Spiele 2008 rund 800.000 Kubikmeter indonesisches Merbau-Holz in Sportanlagen einbauen. Das Tropenholz wächst fast nur noch in den Regenwäldern von West-Papua. Mindestens drei Viertel des gehandelten Merbau-Holzes stammen aus illegalem Raubbau.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5223



Die Bevölkerung in Afrika wächst, die Waldfläche schrumpft

09.05.2006

Familienplanung und die Erschließung neuer Einkommensquellen können den Druck auf die Wälder verringern.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n5203

Jason Leopold reports that on Friday, May 12, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of themeeting said Saturday morning.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051306W.shtml