World-News

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/19/155625/229


Informant: Corey



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The House Judiciary Committee announced Tuesday that Chairman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law Chairwoman Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., would seek the authority to subpoena White House adviser Karl Rove and former White House counsel Harriet Miers.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007I.shtml



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BBC Video Report

Pessimism 'growing in Iraq'Iraqis have little confidence in their own government and the US-led coalition forces, a major survey has shown.

http://snipurl.com/1dfhg



Iraqis increasingly pessimistic

Fewer than one in five Iraqis has confidence in U.S.-led coalition troops and they are evenly split on whether they have confidence in Iraq's government, according to a poll published Monday.

http://snipurl.com/1dfhi



From Information Clearing House



Kick out the occupation and sectarian gangs from Iraq:

We are commemorating the 4th year of the U.S.-led war on Iraq. This war that brought us nothing but carnage, poverty, and more than two million displaced people. This is Bush's promised democracy to Iraqis.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17353.htm

Impeachments of Bush, Cheney, and Gonzales, followed by felony indictments and trials are imperative if the rule of law in the United States is to be preserved.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17350.htm



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By Robert Fisk

As the West looks anxiously at Iraq and Afghanistan, dangerous cracks are opening up in Lebanon ­ and the White House is determined to prop up Fouad Siniora's government.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17352.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

By Ghali Hassan

A recent cover story in the Time magazine (March, 2007, Europe and Asia) by Bobby Ghosh, "Why They Hate Each Other", aimed at removing the Occupation as the generator of violence against the Iraqi people, and portrays the violence as "Iraqis killing Iraqis". This media distortion obfuscates the U.S. monopoly on terrorism and allows the U.S. to use Iraq as a laboratory for terror at the expense of the Iraqi people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17359.htm



Muslims Mute on Terrorism? Excuse Me?

By Dr. Khaled Batarfi

Yes, we have our hate speakers and fear merchants, but they are mostly in caves and prisons, hunted and doomed. Yours, however, are members of legislative bodies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17360.htm

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/188264271


From Pam F.



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Protect Polar Bears From Trophy Hunters
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oid=474&aid=7998&msource=DR070304001&tr=y&auid=2469506

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Help Save Polar Bears: Deadline is April 9th
http://ga3.org/campaign/polar_bears_threatened/



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http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/gesund/armuthorn.html


Aus: LabourNet, 20. März 2007

Claiming that the release of detailed information on oil and gas pipelines could aid terrorists or troublemakers, pipeline companies in Washington state are appealing a judge's order that they disclose to the public specifics about their potentially explosive lines. Meanwhile, the companies are asking the Legislature to change the Washington Public Records Act to allow the information to be kept secret - while simultaneously claiming in court that the law already shields the records from disclosure.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007P.shtml

A House committee released documents Monday that showed hundreds of instances in which a White House official who was previously an oil industry lobbyist edited government climate reports to either play up uncertainty of a human role in global warming or play down evidence of such a role.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007O.shtml



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Police arrested more than 100 Iraq war protesters in San Francisco and New York City on Monday as the nation marked the fourth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=March+17

The Senate is poised to pass legislation today stripping President Bush's authority to appoint interim US attorneys. Aides in both camps said neither party sees an advantage in slow-walking the US attorneys bill and predicted it will pass the Senate with a bulk of lawmakers in both parties supporting it.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007L.shtml

US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald was ranked among prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves" on a Justice Department chart sent to the White House in March 2005, when he was in the midst of leading the CIA leak investigation that resulted in the perjury conviction of a vice presidential aide. The chart was drawn up to identify US attorneys who should be removed. Two prosecutors who received the same ranking as Fitzgerald were later fired.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032007K.shtml



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by Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus

In the name of stability, the U.S. is wrecking what stability exists on the fragile continent.

http://ga3.org/ct/Ap20pgF1XRPY/

Unmuddying The Waters

by Jon Devine, TomPaine.com
http://ga3.org/ct/M120pgF1XRPT/

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Achim Schmillen

03/14/07

Do you remember every Web site you visited, every email you sent, and every word you Googled during the last two years? Probably not, but your Internet service provider might — especially if a proposal currently popular in Washington becomes law. In September, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales called for a law to force Internet service providers (ISPs) to store customer information for one to two years...

http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,05822.cfm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner

03/19/07

The Bush administration and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce picked an awkward moment for their latest assault on financial and consumer-protection regulation. At the very moment that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was meeting with Wall Street bigwigs in a high-profile confab this week to call for weakening the post-Enron Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other investor and consumer protections, the stock market was tanking. Why is the market so nervous? Mainly thanks to the latest bitter fruit of financial deregulation: the collapsing $1.3 trillion ’subprime’ mortgage business, which now accounts for one mortgage in three. Here is a textbook case of why financial institutions need to be regulated, to protect both consumers and the solvency of the larger economy...

http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12584


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Tennessean
by Saritha Prabhu

03/19/07

Four years isn’t a long time but, in the context of the Iraq war, can seem like an eternity. Was it only four years ago that we sat and watched TV images of American tanks hurtling across Iraqi desert sands? The prevailing mood in this country, then, was a mixture of gung ho and unsure. This, many thought, was going to be the mother of all reality shows — 21st-century warfare in real time, the world’s mightiest military, fly-swatting a bratty country. That was then, and here we are now, in the war’s fifth year — past statue-toppling and museum-looting; past ‘Mission Accomplished,’ ‘Stuff happens’ and ‘Bring it on!’; past purple fingers, elections and constitutions; past car bombs, IEDs, beheadings and torturing; past talks of partition and is-it-or-isn’t-it-civil-war debates...

http://tinyurl.com/2j78jy


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

03/19/07

The Bush administration, desperate for justifications to buy a little more time with the American people for its failed adventure in Iraq, markets the idea that if the United States rapidly withdraws from Iraq, the ‘terrorists will follow us home.’ A closer examination of this assertion — like the rest of the administration’s fear mongering — demonstrates it is baseless. U.S. State Department statistics show that historically, North America has had the lowest incidence of terrorism worldwide. The American public’s shocked reaction to the catastrophic 9/11 attacks was due, in part, to the infrequency of past terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. After the unique events of 9/11, terrorism in North America has resumed its historical modest trajectory. North America has been a relative safe haven from terrorism for several reasons...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1944


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Guy Smiley
Slate
by Fred Kaplan

03/19/07

What a dispirited, dispiriting speech President George W. Bush delivered this morning to mark the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. One could argue that it would have been dishonest to deliver any other sort of speech, for few things are more dispiriting than this war, which has now gone on for a quarter-year longer than America’s involvement in World War II. Yes, the war in Iraq is a very different war, but one would have thought — certainly we were told — it would be a lot shorter. And President Bush made it very clear that this war is not nearly over...

http://www.slate.com/id/2162159/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fred+Kaplan

CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs

03/19/07

On Saturday March 17th, Appeal to Reason co-founder Liam Madden and a number of other Iraq vets stood on the stage near the Pentagon and called for people to move from protest to resistance. Madden’s call echoed similar suggestions that have been coming up more frequently among movement activists. In fact, some groups have already begun this move, occupying legislator’s offices and insisting that they do more than say they are against the war while they vote to continue funding it. In Washington state, activists with the Port Militarization Resistance have attempted to block shipments of Stryker vehicles and other supplies on their way to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the ports of Olympia and Tacoma. On March 16th, Christian antiwar activists participated in a sit-in across from the White House to protest the war. These instances are but a few examples of how the momentum of the movement can be pushed forward...

http://www.counterpunch.org/jacobs03192007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tacoma
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AntiWar.Com
by Pat Buchanan

03/20/07

If George W. Bush launches a preemptive war on Iran, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will bear full moral responsibility for that war. For it was Pelosi who quietly agreed to strip out of the $100 billion funding bill for Iraq a provision that would have required President Bush to seek congressional approval before launching any new war on Iran. Pelosi’s capitulation came in the Appropriations Committee. What went down, and why?

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=10701


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+Buchanan
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LewRockwell.Com
by James Bovard

03/20/07

Alberto Gonzales will soon be ejected from the Justice Department. Bush’s Attorney General has been caught in too many flagrant lies and abuses. The real question is whether Gonzo’s fall will signal the beginning of the end of the Bush reign. Gonzo’s fall will be widely seen as a result of shenanigans and deceits involving the firing of 8 U.S. attorneys. The White House and top Justice Department officials seem to have colluded to deep-six attorneys who threatened Republican congressmen or appointees. The pending congressional testimony by Gonzo’s former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, could create new problems for the White House. But Bush is probably in much greater danger from the derailing [of] a Justice Department investigation into Gonzo’s possibly criminality...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard42.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

03/16/07

Throughout the many years of the Cold War, conservatives maintained that it was necessary to have an enormous military and military-industrial complex to protect us from the Soviet communists who were threatening to conquer the United States and the Western world. Throughout those years, one glaring fact stands out: At no time did conservatives ever claim that Islamo-fascism was a threat that required a massive military machine. The threat was always communism, especially Soviet communism...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0703f.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The proliferation of government watch lists is a troubling development in the "war on terrorism." The challenges of such lists include differences of opinion on who's actually a security threat, consolidating information across agencies by making the computer systems communicate the with one another.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17356.htm

Accounts of a Feb. 28 "literary luncheon" at the White House suggest that President George W. Bush's reading tastes -- until now a remarkably good predictor of his policy views -- are moving ever rightward, even apocalyptic, despite his administration's recent suggestions that it is more disposed to engage Washington's foes, even in the Middle East.

http://ipsnews.net/wap/news.asp?idnews=36955


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe

Very few Americans believe Iran represents a danger for their country, according to a poll by New York Times and CBS News. Only 10 per cent of respondents think Iran is a threat to the United States that requires military action now, down 11 points since mid-February.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/15093


From Information Clearing House

The forces are in place to conduct a strike right now. The US has moved an additional carrier group, has deployed additional missile defense assets, has deployed an additional mine sweeping ship to the gulf. The US is in the process of adding oil to a strategic petroleum reserve. All of these are the steps that would be taken if one were going to conduct a strike in Iran.

http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=78014



US mulling missile base in Bulgaria, Romania to deter Iran: report

The United States plans to station the defensive missiles in the Black Sea coast and the Rodopi mountains, South Bulgaria, the daily quoted a high-ranking US diplomat as saying.

http://english.people.com.cn/200310/13/eng20031013_125881.shtml



5,000 U.S. Troops To Be Deployed In Bulgaria, Romania

The U.S. military plans to deploy some 5,000 troops in Bulgaria and Romania next year as part of a plan to create new, more flexible bases in Eastern Europe.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/10/41560200-3be5-4d8f-a3c0-237fd4f8555b.html


From Information Clearing House

The Iran-US standoff at the present time has a shocking resemblance to the run-up to the US led invasion of Iraq.

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1230.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17351.htm



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http://www.denverpost.com/healthcare/ci_5476832

Informant: binstock

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An interesting Quote in an Alzheimer's Disease Forum

This article may date back to last year, but Alzheimer's Groups don't often acknowledge a link to EMFs, so I draw your attention to it, since it is a personal case, with an e-mail address.

Martin

http://alzheimers.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/214102241/m/8041028251

(see specifically Joanne C. Mueller's note):-

Hi: Certainly we caregivers and Alzheimers' sufferers need to remain hopeful. In order to spare those of you who have already read my other rather lengthy posts, I am going to skip most of my history -- reasons why I have been researching EMF/EMR (electromagnetic fields/electromagnetic radiation) for over a decade.

You will notice that "DRUGS" are the main theme in most if not all articles re new scientific discoveries.

Scientists don't dare do the studies that show "cause" due to toxic, EMF pollution. They lose their funding and/or don't receive funds in the first place.

Dr. George Carlo's "docu-drama," The Boiling Frog Syndrome" will be released to theatres some time in 2007 (health problems due to cell phone useage). Dr. Carlo worked for the cell phone industry and was even threatened for sharing the truth. He stopped speaking out but is once again trying to educate the public.

I am saddened to note that even the Alzheimers site does not include precautionary info re chronic, prolonged exposures of EMF/EMR!

Studies many years ago linked Alzheimers with women working in the sewing industry. Any electrical device puts out a magnetic field and in the case of a sewing machine, levels can be 4.0 milligauss or more in the typical location for one's head while sewing.

PREVENTION is vitally important and one way to help do that is to make sure electrical items are kept at least 4 ft. away from the head of one's bed. I don't know what one does about extensive sewing machine use.

There have been Workers' Comp cases re health problems and on-the-job electrical exposure. This is not something that is mysterious and unknown as researchers, government and industry would like you to believe.

The 2002 EMF California Report links brain cancer, Leukemia, Lou Gehrig's Disease and miscarriage to levels as low as 4.0 milligauss.

The 1999 EMF RAPID Conclusions name low level EMF's as Class 2B carcinogens.

The National Library of Congress website identifies EMF's as "toxic...."

"AGEING" (of the cells) is what happens when a person sleeps every night exposed to even low levels of EMF/EMR.

I have previously mentioned my grandsons' rare immune (an "ageing of their cells" -- they were infant/toddler ages) that predisposed them to Leukemia, etc. and that they "got well" after we moved their beds away from walls opposite electric meters.

AMYLOID was identified in one of my guinea pigs who had been exposed to
(inside) bedroom wall in our house opposite where the electric meter is mounted (outside). The University Vet who did the necropsy identified the particular amyloid as "reactive."

Obviously drugs are still necessary to try and reverse the ravages of Alzheimers (continuing to rise at alarming rates) BUT, it is more than possible any such medications once released to the public, might only be effective a short time and/or actually worsen a victim's situation IF persons aren't warned about sleeping close to electrical items, the need to check for improper wiring and correction of grounding problems, etc.

Don't give up on prayer, hope or positive thinking but do what you can to help your loved one regardless of their stage and also to help yourself prevent every health problem all the way from poor sleep to cancer!!! Joanne


Joanne C. Mueller, Guinea Pigs R Us, 731 - 123rd Ave. N.W., Minneapolis, MN 55448 USA...Phone: 763-755-6114 ..Email: jcmpelican@aol.com


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Mit der Bitte um Veröffentlichung senden wir Ihnen folgende Pressemitteilung der ödp München:

Rede des ödp-Landesvorsitzenden zum politischen Aschermittwoch jetzt zum Anhören und Download im Internet - Suttner äußert sich zu Klimafragen

Die vollständige Rede des bayerischen Landesvorsitzenden, Bernhard Suttner, ist nun im Internet unter http://www.oedp-muenchen.de als Audiodatei verfügbar.

Sie kann auch als CD bei der Geschäftstelle des Stadtverbandes München gegen eine Schutzgebühr von 5,- € angefordert (Tel. 45247415 bzw. E-Mail info @oedp-muenchen.de) oder direkt in der Geschäftstelle Brienner Str. 46/V (bitte vorher anrufen) abgeholt werden.

Suttners Aschermittwochsrede ist auch zum Nachlesen im Internet unter
http://www.oedp-bayern.de/themen/texte/aschermittwoch-2007.html


Herbert Brunner
Pressebeauftragter
Ökologisch-Demokratische Partei (ödp)
Stadtverband München
Brienner Str. 46
D-80333 München
Fon 089/45 24 74 15 × Fax 089/55 06 99 86
E-Mail presse @oedp-muenchen.de
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Veranstaltungshinweise:

Wir laden Sie herzlich ein zu unseren kostenfreien Vorträgen. Immer in den Räumen der Gregor-Louisoder-Umweltstiftung: Brienner Str. 46, U2/U8 Königsplatz und U1/U7 Stiglmaierplatz.

Do., 12. April 2007, 19.30 Uhr
"Pflanzenöl als Dieselersatz – schon heute eine marktreife Alternative!"
Referent: Markus Hollemann, http://www.ajuvo.com

Do., 10. Mai 2007, 19.30 Uhr
"Impfen, Pro und Contra - die individuelle Impfentscheidung"
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Do., 14. Juni 2007, 19.30 Uhr

„Aktiver Nichtraucherschutz – was ist in München und Deutschland möglich?“
Referent: Axel Napolitano, Pro Rauchfrei
Do., 12. Juli 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"Meereskraftwerke – eine Energiequelle der Zukunft. Technische Möglichkeiten und aktuelle Projekte"
Referent: Dr.-Ing. Wilfried Knapp, TU München
Do., 9. Aug. 2006, 19.30 Uhr

"Wer bezahlt eigentlich mal Ihre Rente und unsere Staatsschulden?“
Referent: Martin Schmidt-Bredow, Zeitbank für München
Do., 13. Sept. 2006, 19.30 Uhr

"Krieg um's Öl oder Frieden durch Erneuerbare Energien"
Referent: Ulrich Haushofer, Stb., Gehrlicher Solar
Do., 11. Okt. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"Gentechnik, Functional Food und Politik – die Globalisierung des Brotzeittellers"
Referent: Thomas Semonsky, ganzheitlicher Ernährungsberater
Do., 25. Okt. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"In Würde altern – für eine gute ambulante Pflege und streng kontrollierte Altenheime!"
Referentin: Johanna Schildbach-Halser, Nachbarschaftshilfe Rosenheim, ödp-Bezirksrätin
Do., 08. Nov. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"Vorwärts in die Steinzeit? Wie die Industriegesellschaft sich selbst zerstört“
Referent: Martin Kraus, M.A., Philosoph
Do., 22. Nov. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

Film: "Lacoma und der Konzern (ein energiepolitisches Gesellschaftsspiel) – Auswirkungen des Braunkohletagebaus für Mensch und Umwelt"
Do., 13. Dez. 2007, 19.30 Uhr

"Der Global Marshall Plan – Initiative für eine weltweite Ökosoziale Marktwirtschaft"
Referent: Frithjof Finkbeiner, Global Marshall Plan Initiative

ödp – Profil
In der ödp arbeiten Menschen zusammen, die dem Streben von Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft nach "Immer mehr" das Prinzip Verantwortung entgegensetzen: "So leben, dass Zukunft bleibt!". Angestrebt wird eine Wende im Lebens- und Wirtschaftsstil - weg von der Überfluss- und Verschwendungswirtschaft, hin zu Nachhaltigkeit und "echter" Lebensqualität.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3202.html



Senator predicts Gonzales will be forced out within a week
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/16930979.htm


Informant: ranger116



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by Pastor Chuck Baldwin

The Republican Party's unwillingness to advance a genuine conservative has left millions of grassroots Republicans on the verge of leaving the GOP. For example, a poll at the recent CPAC meeting found the "overwhelming majority of conservatives displeased with the leadership of the Republican Party, and most conservatives scowl at the thought of having to vote for Rudoph Giuliani, John McCain, or Mitt Romney."......

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin356.htm



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http://www.glrc.org/story.php3?story_id=3364


Informant: binstock

Barely a week seems to pass without the Bush administration getting caught hiding, censoring, or denying global warming science. Last week the Center for Biological Diversity and former Clinton official Debora Williams obtained an internal administration order prohibiting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists from talking about polar bears, sea ice, or global warming.
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/press/polar-bear-03-07-2007.html

Congressmen Jay Inslee (D-WA), Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Brad Miller (D-NC) have demanded the administration withdraw the policy and explain its actions to Congress. Check out the media coverage at the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/306820_bears09.html?source=mypi San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/09/MNGBQOIBMG1.DTL
and the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901986.html



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Poll
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0319-04.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0319-03.htm



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BFC SPECIAL ALERT!
* Spring into Action for Wild Buffalo!

PLEASE CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE TUESDAY, MARCH 20!


Dear Buffalo Friends,

Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 20, BFC's Josh Osher and Darrell Geist will present testimony to the House Subcommittee for National Parks, Forests and Public Lands at the Oversight Hearing on Yellowstone National Park Bison.

BFC will demonstrate that the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP) is failing the last population of wild bison in the U.S., the Yellowstone herd, which currently numbers fewer than 3,600 animals. The IBMP, signed in 2000, is a state-federal agency plan responsible for the harassment, capture, slaughter and quarantine of wild Yellowstone buffalo. Since the IBMP's inception, 1,912 Yellowstone bison have been killed by Yellowstone and Montana. The hearing will begin at 10 AM (est) and can be viewed live by going to: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=36.

We have waited a very long time for an opportunity like this. Tomorrow's hearing marks an amazing chapter in the buffalo's story and they need your help to make it as powerful as possible.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION! Call the House Parks Subcommittee & your House Representative on Tuesday!

1) If you live in the home district of one of the Subcommittee members please contact her/him on behalf of the last wild buffalo because it is especially critical that they hear from you! Urge them to do whatever it takes to stop the harassment and slaughter of the wild Yellowstone bison. Contact information for each member of the House subcommittee is listed below or here at this link: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newcommittee.cgi?site=ctc&lang=&commcode=hresources_parks

2) Don't see your Representative listed? Use the following contact info to get your message to the subcommittee membership: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, 1333 Longworth House Office Building, Phone: (202) 226-7736, Fax: (202) 226-2301
Email: parks.subcommittee@mail.house.gov (Entire Committee)

3) If your House representative is not on the Subcommittee, please contact them anyway and urge them to take a leadership role in protecting the Yellowstone bison, the United State's last continuously wild herd (use link below).

4) Please contact your Senators and urge them to hold a similar hearing in the Senate (use link below).

Urge the Subcommittee (and all of Congress) to provide clear direction to our National Forests and Parks that wild bison belong, and are our top priority on public lands and ask them to fund the purchase of wildlife conservation easements including winter range and corridors for bison to migrate through private lands in the Yellowstone area. BFC will be visiting with Congressional offices over the next two weeks and your calls will make a huge difference! To contact non-Subcommittee members as well as your Senators use this link (scroll down to the bottom of the page): http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/actnow/politicians.html

HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS & PUBLIC LANDS:

*Majority Membership:
Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) [Chairman], 202-225-2435, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Dale E. Kildee (D-MI), 202-225-3611, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), 202-225-2726, neil.abercrombie@mail.house.gov
Donna M. Christensen (D-VI), 202-225-1790, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Rush Holt (D-NJ), 202-225-5801, http://holt.house.gov/contact.shtml
Dan Boren (D-OK), 202-225-2701, http://www.house.gov/boren/emailsignup.shtml
John P. Sarbanes (D-MD), 202-225-4016, http://sarbanes.house.gov/IMA/issue_subscribe.shtml
Peter A. DeFazio (D-OR), 202-225-6416, N/A
Maurice D. Hinchey (D-NY), 202-225-6335, http://www.house.gov/hinchey/contact/zipauth.shtml
Ron Kind (D-WI), 202-225-5506, http://www.house.gov/kind/contact.shtml
Lois Capps (D-CA), 202-225-3601, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Jay Inslee (D-WA), 202-225-6311, http://www.house.gov/inslee/contact/email.html
Mark Udall (D-CO), 202-225-2161, http://markudall.house.gov/HoR/CO02/Contact+Mark/Contact+Mark.htm
Stephanie Herseth (D-SD), 202-225-2801, stephanie.herseth@mail.house.gov
Heath Shuler (D-NC), 202-225-6401, http://www.house.gov/writerep/

*Minority Membership:
Rob Bishop (R-UT) [Ranking Member], 202-225-0453, http://www.house.gov/robbishop/contact/
John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), 202-225-5435, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Christopher Cannon (R-UT), 202-225-7751, http://chriscannon.house.gov/email.htm
Tom Tancredo (R-CO), 202-225-7882, http://tancredo.house.gov/contact/contact_contacttom.shtml
Jeff Flake (R-AZ), 202-225-2635, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Rick Renzi (R-AZ), 202-225-2315, http://www.house.gov/renzi/email.shtml
Steve Pearce (R-NM), 202-225-2365, http://www.house.gov/formpearce/emailtemplate.htm
Henry E. Brown, Jr. (R-SC), 202-225-3176, http://brown.house.gov/writebrown/
Louie Gohmert (R-TX), 202-225-3035, http://gohmert.house.gov/contact_louie.htm
Tom Cole (R-OK), 202-225-6165, http://www.house.gov/cole/contact.htm
Dean Heller (R-NV), 202-225-6155, http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Bill Sali (R-ID), 202-225-6611, http://sali.house.gov/contactform/
Doug Lamborn (R-CO), 202-225-4422, http://www.house.gov/writerep/

MORE INFORMATION: Also invited to testify are representatives from the National Park Service, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, the Humane Society of the United States, Montana Stockgrowers Association, Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, National Parks Conservation Association, and Utah State University. An eclectic crew, to say the least. We will make BFC's testimony available to you as soon as possible.

Read BFC's press release from Monday, March 19, 2007: http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/press0607/pressreleases0607/031907.html

THANK YOU for taking action for the last wild buffalo! Your "endless pressure, endlessly applied" is paying off!

Save the herd... spread the word!


BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN (BFC)
P.O. Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070 (phone)
406-646-0071 (fax)
bfc-media @wildrockies.org
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org

BFC is the only group working in the field, every day, in defense of the last wild buffalo.

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Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC)
http://tinyurl.com/kppo5

Yellowstone Bison Update from the Field 3/29/07
http://www.buffalofieldcampaign.org/media/update0607/032907.html

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Informant: smileycoyote



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http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907LB.shtml



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http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907LA.shtml

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http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907EA.shtml



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http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907EB.shtml



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http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907EC.shtml



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http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031907ED.shtml

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