World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/08/387/


Informant: binstock

When President Bush and Democratic leaders put together the bipartisan coalition behind the federal No Child Left Behind Act, they managed to sidestep, override or flat out ignore decades of sentiment that education is fundamentally a prerogative of state and local government.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040807G.shtml

About 1,800 US troops are now suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) caused by penetrating wounds. But neurologists worry that hundreds of thousands more - at least 30 percent of the troops who've engaged in active combat for four months or longer in Iraq and Afghanistan - are at risk of potentially disabling neurological disorders from the blast waves of IEDs and mortars, all without suffering a scratch. For the first time, the US military is treating more head injuries than chest or abdominal wounds, and it is ill-equipped to do so.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040807F.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=brain+injuries

When former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani urged President Bush to make Bernard B. Kerik the next secretary of homeland security, White House aides knew Kerik as the take-charge top cop from September 11, 2001. But it did not take them long to compile an extensive dossier of damaging information about the would-be Cabinet officer.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040807E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernard+B.+Kerik
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani

Was Mission Democracy weighing on Richard A. Boucher's mind, as he sat in deafening silence through a two-day regional summit in New Delhi this week? The US assistant secretary for South and Central Asian affairs, as an observer at the Fourteenth summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), could not have been unmindful of President George Bush's counsel to host-state India on a "crusade for democracy." Not a few here had bristled at Bush spelling out the names of India-friendly nations, where the "strategic partner" of the US was expected to intervene for the sacred cause.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040807B.shtml

Nicht nur bei UN-Bericht: In den Vereinigten Staaten steht die Wissenschaft unter Druck von Regierung und Industrie.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25036/1.html

Revolutionäre Garden und Premierminister Blair erneuern das Bild vom Schurkenstaat Iran.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25038/1.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18011007/


Informant: ranger116



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRKS-uSLxls


Watch this video of a congressional hearing. This congressional hearing was an investigation of the General Services Administration, for using government money to target Democratic candidates in the 2008 election. Lurita Alexis Doan, Administrator of the General Services Administration, is being interrogated by Congressman Bruce Braley, Democrat of Iowa. The subject is a briefing that was presented by Karl Rove's deputy, Scott Jennings, at the Office of the General Services Administration in January. This briefing was prepared by the White house political office headed by Karl Rove. Lurita Doan's testimony consisted of repeatedly claiming that "I don't remember".

The powerpoint presentation, that was made at a GSA briefing, listed Democratic candidates to be "run over by GSA trucks" , and Democratic candidates to have an "anvil dropped on their heads" by GSA. One slide shows a picture of a human figure being hit by a truck, which is marked with the initials "GSA". Another slide shows a picture of a human figure with an anvil falling on his head. The anvil is marked with the initials "GSA".

Would this hearing have ever taken place if the victim had been a smaller third party for limited government, instead of the Democrats? Is this just "the tip of the iceberg"? If YOU said something about "running over a public official with a truck", or "dropping and anvil on his head" would you not be charged with a crime?

For some reason; other than the C-Span live cable coverage, we saw no news coverage of this event.

Try a Google search on terms like "Bruce Braley" "Lurita Doan" , and see how hard you must search for major media coverage, such as from ABC, NBC, CBS, UPI, or AP etc. Visit the home pages of all of the above. Call, or email, them, and ask where this story is!

For example, see if you can find anything about this on any of the pages below: http://www.nbc.com/ http://nbc.resultspage.com/search?ts=custom&p=Q&uid=&w=Doan
0 Search Results for Doan

http://www.cbsnews.com/

The REALLY BIG STORY is the fact that the media has been silent about this. Can we trust our sources to tell us all of the important truth? Watch the big media jump in after the internet has already broken this story! Watch them change the subject by creating a big investigation of those who are guilty, but for some other minor "decoy scandal".

John Perna

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GSA Chief Violated Hatch Act, OSC Report Finds

An Office of Special Counsel (OSC) report has found that General Services Administration (GSA) Chief Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052307E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=General+Services+Administration

Channel 4 video report

A new report warns that climate change could provoke border conflicts and social collapse.

http://www.channel4.com/player/v2/player.jsp?showId=5738



The World's Water

Leonardo DiCaprio probes the water crisis and reminds us that "access to clean water is a basic human right."

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/04/06/the_worlds_water.php


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leonardo+DiCaprio

27-year-old Robert Daniels is being held against his will in a Phoenix hospital ward reserved for sick prisoners. If state officials have their way, he could be there for the rest of his life. He has been forced to live in a hospital cell in complete isolation.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/06/142246


From Information Clearing House

A British document speaks for the terrorist and reveals what the US hoped to hide, reports.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21516985-601,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hicks

Allegations spark fresh speculation of secret deal
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,2052599,00.html


From Information Clearing House

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070406/ts_alt_afp/usiraqpoliticssheehan


From Information Clearing House

Click:

News of the future operations can be revealed just three days after four soldiers, two of them women, were killed in a carefully planned ambush in Basra, taking the British forces death toll in Iraq to 140.

http://snipurl.com/1fpjs



Pawns in a losing game: Britain's policy in tatters

Fifteen British hostages are freed, at cost unknown. Meanwhile, six soldiers pay with their lives in Basra. Raymond Whitaker, Anne Penketh and Angus McDowall ask: just what are our soldiers dying for?

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2432474.ece


From Information Clearing House

A local hospital source and a resident said six people, including two children and a woman, were killed in the missile strike on a home in the centre of the city, 110 miles south of Baghdad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070407/wl_nm/iraq_dc


From Information Clearing House

Thousands of people have marched in protest over a leaked White House proposal that would require illegal immigrants to pay thousands of dollars to become legal US residents.

http://snipurl.com/1fpjm


From Information Clearing House

The release of the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran has robbed the U.S. of a pretext to attack Iran, but the U.S. has not given up plans to attack Iran militarily, said Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, president of the Academy for Geopolitical Problems, a Russian think tank.

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11708925


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leonid+Ivashov

A SYDNEY spray painter, Ahmed Jamal, was treated like a dog and handcuffed continuously for three months while imprisoned in Iraq as an alleged insurgent, his brother said yesterday.

http://snipurl.com/1fpiz


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ahmed+Jamal

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following statement regarding the Defense Department's proposal to send 12,000 National Guard combat forces to Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://reid.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=272015


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Harry+Reid

A former captain in the Scots Guards who has served in Afghanistan and Iraq describes both operations as a political and military shambles in a book to be published next week.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2432462.ece


From Information Clearing House

Video

The film features many of the leading thinkers and intellectuals of our time including Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Tariq Ali and more. The film examines a bold new foreign policy paper introduced by the White House in September 2002 entitled: "The National Security Strategy of the United States."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1020.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chalmers+Johnson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tariq+Ali

War Pimp

By Marc Santora

Giuliani Says Nation at War Requires Him
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17502.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Giuliani

By Robert Fisk

Sami al-Arian is 49 but he stayed on hunger strike for 60 days to protest the government outrage committed against him, a burlesque of justice which has, of course, largely failed to rouse the sleeping dogs of American journalism in New York, Washington and Los Angeles.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17503.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sami+al-Arian
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Fisk

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/20991



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Swanson

http://wearenotbuyingit.com/1/index.php


Informant: shaman_nation



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

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6056/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/07/377/


Informant: bigraccoon



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6058/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+contractor

Jetzt das Klima retten!

„Plant for the Pla­net" ist eine Aktion der Um­weltorganisation der Verein­ten Nationen (UNEP) zum Klimaschutz. Eine Milliarde Bäume sollen in diesem Jahr im Rahmen der Kampagne weltweit gepflanzt werden.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681280ms40

Das Interview mit dem Exekutivdirektor des UN-Umweltprogramms (UNEP), Achim Steiner, führte Gabriele Hermani.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681276ms40



Der einzige Weg zum Frieden: Versöhnung

Ein großartiges Politik-Lehrbuch. Wenn die Europäer wirklich eine Politik des Friedens und der Versöhnung betreiben würden, dann könnten sie sich diesen Mann zum Vorbild nehmen. Zu einem neuen Buch über den Erzbischof von Galiläa Elias Chacour - von Rupert Neudeck.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681277ms40



Mana - die Macht der Dinge

"Wie filmt man Glauben? Wie dringt man zu etwas vor, das sich nur im Inneren des Geistes abspielt und macht es für den Zuschauer sichtbar, so dass es ihm nicht einfach nur erklärt wird, sondern er es sinnlich begreifen kann?" Nach „Bleep“ bringt Udo Grube nun einen weiteren Film zum Themenkreis Wissen, Weisheit und Spiritualitat ins Kino. Ab 10. April 2007 im Kino!

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681279ms40

Argumente zur Atomenergie I: Atom und Klima März 2007 Die Betreiber von Atomkraftwerken haben einen letzten Strohhalm für ihr Überleben entdeckt: Klimaschutz. Die Mehrheit der deutschen Bevölkerung kennt die immensen Nachteile der Atomkraft: Das Risiko eines Super-GAU, die Möglichkeit eines Terroranschlags, das ungelöste Atommüllproblem, die exorbitanten Kosten etc..

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681275ms40

Wasser wird wertvoller als Gold

Kein Zweifel mehr: Steigende Temperaturen und sinkende Wasserspiegel sind die größten globalen Probleme unseres noch jungen 21. Jahrhunderts. Und das eine hängt mit dem anderen zusammen. Tatsächlich jedoch sind wir noch weit entfernt davon, diese Zusammenhänge zu sehen und uns ernsthaft darauf vorzubereiten.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681273ms40



Klimawandel trifft zuerst Arme

Da die ärmeren Regionen der Welt schon jetzt am stärksten unter dem Klimawandel leiden, müssten die Industriestaaten umso dringlicher handeln, forderte der BUND.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681281ms40



Naturwunder sterben den Hitzetod

WWF zeigt die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in zehn bedrohten Ökoregionen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681285ms40



Greenpeace: "Der neue Klimabericht zeichnet eine apokalyptische Zukunft"

Nach einer Woche zäher Verhandlungen ist heute Morgen in Brüssel der zweite Teil des vierten Klimasachstandsberichtes der Vereinten Nationen verabschiedet worden.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681286ms40



USA: Oberstes Gericht rüffelt Bushs Klimapolitik

Die Umweltpolitik von US-Präsident George W. Bush hat vor dem Obersten Gerichtshof der USA eine Niederlage erlitten.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681292ms40



Blaues Gold wird immer kostbarer

Kauf einheimischer Lebensmittel kann Wasserverbrauch senken helfen.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741681294ms40

RELEASE

Black Box Voting, Voters Unite, Democracy For New Hampshire and Others - Advocating For Vendors Or Voters?

Saturday, April 07, 2007

CONTACT: Kathy Dopp, kathy.dopp @gmail.com

To quote Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com:

"If I find someone working *against* EI [election integrity], whether on purpose, or accidentally, or out of fear or anything else, I will call them on it, since such behavior impedes the process towards American EI."

FACT 1: Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software is more expensive, less secure and less reliable than publicly disclosed software and open source (free publicly disclosed) software.

FACT 2: COTS software is trade secret.

FACT 3: There is no legal means to require public disclosure of all COTS software on voting systems.

FACT 4: There is no technical means to ensure that COTS software does not contain any malicious or buggy programs that would deny voting rights or manipulate vote counts.

FACT 5: There is no practical method, given today's voting machine development methods and designs, to ensure that any voting system software actually ran on a voting machine during an election.

FACT 6: There is no infrastructure (equipment, systems, and technologists) available to verify that any voting system software actually ran on a voting machine during an election. (This infrastructure could be developed over time but could only be effective if more secure publicly disclosed voting machines were implemented with this goal in mind.)

FACT 7: Any COTS voting system software could be used to rig elections or to deny service to voters. COTS software is manufactured in China, Canada, India, and many other countries from which hacking attacks against US military and government computers have already occurred. Trusting COTS software is trusting tens of thousands of employees in thousands of companies all over America and the world.

FACT 8: The vast majority of software on current electronic voting systems (DREs, optical scanners, ballot marking devices, and central tabulating devices) is COTS software.

FACT 9: There is no need to use any COTS software on voting systems. Voting systems without COTS software could be developed and would be less costly, more secure, more reliable, and more verifiable.

FACT 10: There are no voting systems available today without COTS software, but fully publicly disclosed and open source voting systems could be developed and implemented especially if the government provided incentives or stopped spending taxpayer dollars on trade secret COTS voting systems.

Are voting system vendors or Common Cause or People for the American Way (PFAW), who pushed for paperless electronic voting in 2002, pushing for trade secret voting system software? Not publicly.

It is "Election integrity" groups and their followers who are demanding changes to proposed federal legislation which would otherwise require public disclosure of all software; in order to enable the use of trade secret COTS voting system software!

Election integrity groups who signed formal letters requesting amendments to enable the use of trade secret COTS software on voting systems, include:

Alliance for Democracy Audit AZ Black Box Voting Broward Election Reform Coalition Coalition for Voting Integrity (PA) Democracy for New Hampshire Las Vegas (NM) Peace & Justice Center Main Street Moms (theMMOB.org) Missourians for Honest Elections New Yorkers for Verified Voting (NYVV) North Jersey Impeach Group Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Reach Out America, Nassau Co. NY Velvet Revolution Voter Action Voters Unite Voting Integrity Alliance of Tampa Bay (VIA Tampa Bay)

In their own words:

"There must be no undisclosed voting system software. However, HR
811's proposed HAVA Section 301(a)(9), as currently written, fails to exempt software that is truly Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) from public disclosure. The bill must be amended to require true COTS software, such as the Windows operating system and standard printer drivers, to be escrowed and available to officials under confidentiality, but not publicly disclosed."

And

"The prohibition of undisclosed software does not provide any exemption for COTS software (commercial off the shelf). No existing voting equipment meets this requirement because they all use COTS, and many use Microsoft software. Microsoft will never share its code, and this requirement would make every piece of voting equipment in use today illegal, requiring jurisdictions to replace equipment at a high cost, unfunded by HR 811."

Note: Neither of these statements recommend prohibiting the use of federal dollars on trade secret COTS voting systems; or recommend increasing the time frames to develop fully disclosed voting systems. Black Box Voting, Voters Unite, Democracy for New Hampshire, Verified Voting of New York, Voter Action, Alliance for Democracy and others recommend exempting COTS software from full disclosure or requiring legally unenforceable requirements for partial COTS software disclosure.

Let me be clear: The position of Black Box Voting, Voters Unite, Democracy for New Hampshire and these other election integrity groups is that your federal tax dollars should be used to pay for trade secret software on voting systems; and they want that codified in federal law!

What benefits do these election reform groups imagine would be obtained from trade secret voting system software? Not one of the groups who publicly endorse trade secret voting system software has made public justification of their position since they formally adopted it on February 13, 2007.

Note: Common Cause and PFAW in 2002 likewise ignored the advice of technologists and helped vendors to push for implementation of in-auditable electronic-ballot voting machines. The new election integrity groups are similarly thumbing their noses at a large group of computer scientists and technologists to push for secret, costly, less secure, less reliable, and less verifiable COTS voting system software.

Democracy for New Hampshire objects not only to current proposals requiring full software disclosure, but also objects to current proposals which mandate manual counts of paper ballots in the 2008 election! In her own words, without justification, peer review or collaboration with other election integrity activists, Nancy Tobi of Democracy for New Hampshire states:

"10. Section 328. Effective Date for Audits. Impossible effective date [2008] for implementation among states for whom no such audit function currently exists."

Why are election integrity groups insisting that taxpayers purchase voting systems with trade secret software and adopting positions against independent verification of the 2008 election?

Your guess could be as good as mine. I have worked with dozens of computer scientists and technologists to understand and explain the issue of voting system software disclosure to layman since 2003. Here is a recent article on the topic of voting system software disclosure written by with the help of numerous technologists:

http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/dopp/VotingSystemSoftwareDisclosure.pdf

What is the solution? Paperless DRE machines should be immediately replaced with optical scan paper ballot systems before the 2008 election. The 2008 election should be manually audited in sufficient amounts to ensure accurate election outcomes. After that, no further federal funds should be spent on trade secret voting systems; and all voting systems, including DREs, optical scanners, and central election management systems should be replaced with fully independently auditable, fully publicly disclosed voting systems.

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References:

Brad Friedman's Quote
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkpg=http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4370&linkid=33127

Resources which describe the complexities of verifying the integrity of software running on voting systems include these:

"Avoid Another HAVA Train Wreck: Software Disclosure Requirements are a Good Long Term Goal but Need to Be Redrafted in Current Federal Election Integrity Legislation." By Kathy Dopp and dozens of technologists and computer scientists
http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/dopp/VotingSystemSoftwareDisclosure.pdf

David Wagner, computer scientist in his testimony before the House Admin committee
http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/HearingTestimony/wagner.pdf

Holt's HR 811, A Deceptive Boondoggle -- 10 Blunders to Fix by Bruce O'Dell
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_bruce_o__070221_holt_s_hr_811_a_dece.htm

Their formal letters objecting to fully publicly disclosed software as proposed by Representatives Holt and Tubb-Jones, and Senators Clinton and Nelson:

"Thirteen Issues with the Holt Bill (HR 811)" by Nancy Tobi of Democracy for New Hampshire also takes current election reform bills to task for requiring independent manual counts of ballots in the upcoming 2008, claiming that any requirement for manual audits should be postponed until 2010.
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/13_problems_Holt811_Tobi

"Essential Revisions to HR 811" by John Gideon of Voters Unite is signed by Black Box Voting, by Verified Voting of New York, by Voter Action and many other major election integrity groups.
http://www.votersunite.org/info/HR811EssentialRevisions.htm

Because I have noticed that both Voters Unite and Democracy for New Hampshire have made edits to their written statements without acknowledgement in the past, I have made copies of the April 7, 2007 versions of their public position statements here:
http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/PositionStatements/13_problems_Holt811_Tobi.htm

and

http://electionarchive.net/docs_other/PositionStatements/HR811EssentialRevisions.htm


Kathy Dopp
kathy @uscountvotes.org
http://electionarchive.org
National Election Data Archive
Dedicated to Accurately Counting Elections


"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816



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Earth Meanders by Dr. Glen Barry
http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/
April 7, 2007

Climate change is the collapse of the global atmospheric system's processes and patterns and represents a massive environmental challenge to maintaining a habitable Earth. Yet climate is but one of several planetary scale ecological crises that threaten existence and are occurring now concurrently.

While climate change is so omnipresent that it interacts with and exacerbates virtually every other environmental crisis, it remains but one symptom of a much more malignant systematic breakdown in the global ecological system. Global heating could stop being a major issue tomorrow (it will not) and there are at least half a dozen ongoing ecological catastrophes that could still destroy the Earth and civilization such as it is.

It is critical in a post-natural ecological world that these global crises are understood to be connected and addressed holistically if there is to be even a sliver of hope of a human future. Threats to global security and sustainability now are primarily a result of failing ecosystems caused by ill-advised human procreation and development endeavors at the expense of natural ecosystems.

This essay will briefly review the other deadly ecological crises stalking the human race, identifying their stand alone potential to wreak havoc, along with their ability to in conjunction with climate change bring the whole biosphere and human and other complex life toppling down. Consider this a primer to non-climate related threats to global security and sustainability.

Climate Briefly

Climate change is of course the 800 pound gorilla in the room, causing so many problems and exacerbating or somehow interacting with nearly all others. The atmosphere is in shambles after a few centuries of European inspired treatment as a waste dump. Humans and their gaseous wastes have dramatically changed the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the way it functions.

The incessant scientific warnings of climate change caused extinctions, floods and droughts, rising seas, climate refugees, etc.; if anything, is a major understatement of the potential for grave negative global change if we do not decarbonize the economy including pursuing renewable energy with vigor, dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions ASAP, and embrace energy conservation and efficiency as signs of great virtue.

Global heating and all the attendant changes in ocean currents, atmospheric circulation and temperature and precipitation patterns may well kill us off by itself. But sadly, climate change is not the only or perhaps even the major global ecological issue threatening global ecological sustainability, sustainable development, equity, justice and international security.

Again, we could end carbon emissions tomorrow and the Earth is still on a trajectory to ecologically overshoot its carrying capacity. The social movement to save the Earth and seek to enter an era of global ecological sustainability is a multi- front battle with overwhelmingly poor odds and terrifying consequences for failure. We will live with the Earth or die.

The Threats

Where to start? How to characterize the disintegration of the Earth organism? How to capture the full range of emotional, scientific and ecological ways of knowing the end of being? How can a mere list of planetary system breakdowns capture the horror of mass starvation, death by dehydration, parents watching their children raped and taken into slavery as social order disintegrates along with the trees, air and water? It cannot.

Yet if there is to be any ecological hope, we must try to build upon the growing awareness of global warming, making it clear that there is a systematic failure of the global ecosystem occurring. The Meaning of Life is survival of our and other species, and we are failing in numerous regards.

Water

The world faces a water crisis that while made worse by warming is the result of centuries of aquatic resource misuse. There are already one billion people without access to clean water, 3,000 children die a day from bad water and the whole crisis could be mostly fixed for $20 billion. Water scarcity shows all indications of being the world's first ecologically induced mass murderer, yet most have little inkling of how dear water is.

Surface waters have been treated as waste dumps as long as humans have settled. The state of the world's lakes and rivers is dismal, with biodiversity in such systems decimated, and humans clinging to the banks of water bodies that they continue to shit and pollute into. Diminishing wetlands and depletion of aquifers which they help replenish mean that in essence we are mining our fossil water supplies.

Toxics of every sort pervade freshwater. Climate change has meant cycles of flooding booms and drought busts in terms of water supply are more common. People have built in and developed regions they never should have given their arid nature. There is simply not enough water in the right places to meet all its present uses including agriculture while ensuring all humanity access to water as a basic human right. Much suffering and death lies ahead unless water conservation takes center stage.

Land

Huge areas of the Earth's arable land have been converted from forests and other natural ecosystems to farms, industry and human settlements. Over 80% of the world's ancient forests have been lost and the rest are going now; at tremendous expense to the Earth's biodiversity patterns and terrestrial biogeochemical processes. Humanity uses the majority of the photosynthetic potential reaching the Earth. Terrestrial ecosystems which interact with the atmosphere, water and oceans have been so fragmented that the flows of energy and nutrients they facilitate are virtually gone.

Everywhere you look there are indications of sick land. Soils are eroding to such an extent that lack of fertile soil may in itself topple nations. Bee populations are dying with potentially huge implications for pollination. Amphibians are similarly slipping away, perhaps the frog in the coal mine. Toxics are bio-accumulating in virtually all organisms, with unknown impacts individually much less synergistically.

There are simply more humans occupying the global land base by several times than it can carry. Farmland continues to deteriorate, while genetically altered materials threaten what natural ecosystems remain with genetic pollution and superweeds. Much despoiled land full of weedy invasive species will be hard pressed to regain productivity much less an abundance of complex interacting species any time soon. Biodiversity is being lost before we even knew it existed, what its characteristics were, and its place in broader functioning of the Earth System.

Oceans

Some two decades ago as I was in the Peace Corps in Papua New Guinea, a friend with much greater ocean experience than I, the land-locked mid-westerner, assured me that the oceans were so vast, and its life so bounteous and resilient that it could never be much reduced. Just as with the vast American forests, oceans which could never be depleted are now becoming so.

Two-thirds of fish stocks in the world's high seas are overfished, problematic for the vast numbers of humanity that depend upon wild caught fish as their primary source of protein. Bottom trawling fishers mine the ocean floor, scraping away marine habitats with the fish. Tremendous amounts of unintended fish species are caught and thrown away as by-catch. Climate change has changed the chemistry of the world's oceans, making it acidic; as well as changing ocean currents which spread heat around the globe.

The world's oceans are in their last death spasm and will soon become largely lifeless. It is occurring across all trophic levels. Populations of plankton and phytoplankton, the basis of oceanic food webs, are crashing. Top predators such as sharks are so persecuted that entire marine food webs are unraveling. Huge regions of formerly bounteous marine habitats fall victim to coral bleaching and are becoming toxic dead zones.

Security and Sustainability in a Post-Natural Ecological World

As an undergrad studying International Affairs/Political Science in the mid-1980s, we spent endless hours examining the Soviet and Cold War threats to "Global Security" (which mostly meant democratic capitalist's interests). I would imagine much is the same today with global terror. It was not that other threats were not acknowledged or imagined, but the focus was NOT generally a concern that environmental issues could threaten global or regional security - much less the sustainability and existence of the Earth and humanity.

Today global ecological collapse is THE threat to global security and sustainability. Humanity is poised upon the precipice of its and creation's demise, even though climate change and the whole raft of other inevitable negative results of too many people consuming too much while destroying too many ecosystems has not yet begun to reach their full potential for cataclysmic mayhem.

Perhaps the greatest impediment to remedial policy is how frighteningly difficult it is for persons of different generations or mindsets to accept that humanity and society's enterprises have become the Earth's dominant force. And they are systematically dismantling the Planet's life-giving ecosystem engines.

In our post-natural ecological world of tawdry ecosystems surrounded by and encroached upon by endless human sprawl, we have to understand that climate change and other planetary, ecological and social ills are humanity's greatest security threat. We are not talking a change in political regimes, the fall of a civilization, or arcane social policy; we are speaking of the end of the world.

Cataclysmic crisis calls for dramatic change. As a start, and only a start, stopping burning coal, ending ancient forest destruction and restoring natural forests, and having far fewer children to actually shrink the population are the three biggest societal things that could be done to save the planet. We will never live securely and sustainably given actions of lesser magnitude than those that seek to protect and restore the Earth System.

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Plant trees, lots of them, you can never plant enough!
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3515163/

"When my co-counsel and I first visited Omar Khadr, our client in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he was a gangly, somewhat awkward and shy, but friendly 18-year-old whose voice was changing. That was in November 2004, a few months after the Supreme Court had ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that detainees at Guantanamo had a right to have access to lawyers and to the US courts," writes Rick Wilson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040707C.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Omar+Khadr

"On Monday, the US Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. EPA, produced what some are calling its most important environmental ruling in a generation, telling the EPA that unless it determines that global warming causes no harm, it must begin regulating CO2 emissions," says Kelpie Wilson.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040707A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelpie+Wilson

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,grossbild-840753-475947,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,475947,00.html


Informant: Tom

http://www.meta-info.de/?lid=25539



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+Oil

Jetzt ist es amtlich: Ärmere Länder werden vom Klimawandel besonders hart getroffen. IPCC legt weiteren Teilbericht vor und Regierungen versuchen in letzter Minute, ihm ins Handwerk zu pfuschen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25034/1.html



Klima plant 30er-Jahre-Revival

Forscher haben Szenarien der Folgen des Klimawandels durchgerechnet und sagen dem Südwesten der USA eine große Dürre voraus.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25028/1.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IPCC

Nach 20 Jahren ununterbrochenem Wachstums des Fremdkapitalanteils könnte nun das "Deleveraging' begonnen haben.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25033/1.html

From the poles to the tropics, the earth's climate and ecosystems are already being shaped by the atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases and face inevitable, possibly profound, alteration, the world's leading scientific panel on climate change said Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040707Z.shtml

Here's an article on the link of radar and Ewing's sarkoma, a rare bone cancer. The article was published 6 April 2007 in Cape Cod Times.

http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/gettingto6.htm


Informant: Dorothee Krien

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Cop Radar site re Alzheimers, Parkinsons, etc.

RF radiation has been linked to biochemical effects, immunological effects, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease, cancer, cataracts, EEG effects and behavioral changes, to name a few. Studies from the old Soviet military suggest that some frequencies and modulations cause behavioral changes in humans. In 1990 the U.S. military was reported to be planning microwave radiation experiments on animals to study behavioral effects.

http://copradar.com/preview/chapt8/ch8d1.html

Also see National Technical Information Service (NTIS) publication number PB95-261350 titled Occupational Exposure of Police Officers to Microwave Radiation from Traffic Radar Devices (available on the Internet -- see Web Links page http://copradar.com/preview/linksto.html#addinfo ).


Informant: Joanne Mueller

Christian Science Monitor
by Pat M. Holt

04/05/07

Poor President Bush. He was only trying to defeat terrorists and spread democracy, and here he is up to his neck in Democrats and bad news. The Army has shamefully neglected wounded veterans. Many soldiers in Iraq who have not been either killed or wounded have had their tours extended. They are fighting with equipment that is ready for retirement or soon will be. When the president sent more troops, some of them minimally trained, in a surge to end the violence, the violence continued. The Justice Department fired eight US attorneys and can’t get its stories straight about why. Did the initiative originate in Justice or from the White House?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0405/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pat+M.+Holt

NewsWithViews.com
by Tom DeWeese

04/03/07

Which do you choose? A way of life where you are the master of your destiny, or one where virtually all decisions are made for you by one ruling body or another? It’s the classic struggle facing every human on earth. Freedom or control. Truth be known, there are many who actually choose control. It makes for a well-ordered society with few surprises...

http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom80.htm



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Strike the Root
by Barry Tudor

04/05/07

I submit that the United States we call home has long ago become an authoritarian form of government. According to Wikipedia, democracies rarely exhibit much authoritarian behavior, except in transition to/from authoritarian states or when martial law is imposed (during war, for example). Many (if not most) citizens of authoritarian states do not perceive their state as authoritarian until late in its development. … Consider the Merriam-Webster New Collegiate Dictionary definition of authoritarian: 1. of, or relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority. 2. of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or elite not constitutionally responsible to the people. An elite, not constitutionally responsible to the people. So I have a benchmark to go by. We do have a Constitution, and a Bill of Rights. Our leaders are oft described as elite. Let me see …

http://www.strike-the-root.com/71/tudor/tudor4.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Military Times

04/04/07

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget. This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase. A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says the 2008 bill and its accompanying explanatory report that will set defense policy should be specific about military operations and ‘avoid using colloquialisms.’ The ‘global war on terror,’ a phrase first used by President Bush shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., should not be used, according to the memo. Also banned is the phrase the ‘long war,’ which military officials began using last year as a way of acknowledging that military operations against terrorist states and organizations would not be wrapped up in a few years...

http://tinyurl.com/3c94ow


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=gwot
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=House+Armed+Services+Committee

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

04/05/07

The stand-off over the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran ended with a de facto prisoner exchange, despite denials by Britain and Iran that a swap was intended. … The seizure of the sailors and marines was the latest episode in a series of tit-for-tat confrontations between the US and Iran which began when the US tried to seize senior Iranian intelligence officials on an official visit to Arbil on January 11. The raid failed and only succeeded in detaining five Iranian officials at the liaison office, which has now been officially recognized as a consular office...

http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick04052007.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=15+British
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

Truthout
by Stephen F. Rohde

04/04/07

Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful and inspiring speech at Riverside Church in New York City which has become known as Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. One year to the day before he would be assassinated, Dr. King declared that he could no longer confine his energies to the domestic struggle for civil rights. Instead, his deep religious faith compelled him to denounce the war in Vietnam, both because it was wrong and because of what it was doing to America and the rest of the world. He declared: ‘A time comes when silence is betrayal.’ Today, our country is engaged in another immoral foreign war, which must be denounced with the same courage and conviction that Dr. King exhibited. Today, silence about the war in Iraq is betrayal...

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040407M.shtml


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Luther
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+F.+Rohde

from Reason to Freedom
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

04/03/07

The SEC wants you exactly where you are; a working ‘John’ who makes a day’s wages for two days’ work, worrying about whether your 401K will be enough, and whether the corporation you spent your life working for will go through down-sizing, or worse, ‘bankruptcy,’ and thus default on your retirement benefits. It is ugly, but it is the reality faced by most Americans today. Government carefully couches the text in terms both esoteric and bland, designed to firmly close the door on your real participation in the wealth produced by America. This happens in ways you never even imagined, all the while simulating a system they proclaim to be for your protection...

http://tinyurl.com/2cn7nh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Melinda+Pillsbury-Foster

04/05/07

An Iranian opposition group based in Iraq, despite being considered terrorists by the United States, continues to receive protection from the American military in the face of Iraqi pressure to leave the country. It’s a paradox possible only because the United States considers the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, a source of valuable intelligence on Iran...

http://tinyurl.com/2d6msd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/6049/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Iraqis surviving violence are not so sure they can also survive disease. "Iraq was known to be the best in healthcare in the region," Dr. Iyad Muhammad from Ramadi General Hospital told IPS. "Best doctors, hospitals, nurses and cheapest medicines. The situation now is the opposite."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607HA.shtml

The tumult in the sub-prime mortgage sector has hit some of the industry's employees as hard as its borrowers. Nationwide, job losses in the category that includes mortgage lending, real estate and construction climbed 346 percent in the first quarter, to 21,245 from 4,764 in the same period last year, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607LA.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mortgage

Democrats called for an investigation Thursday into whether President Bush acted illegally in appointing Sam Fox ambassador to Belgium. A day earlier, Bush named Republican fund-raiser Fox to the post as a recess appointment - a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress, where Democrats had derailed his nomination.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607S.shtml

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Bush gets down & dirty with Fox nomination

Fox News
by Susan Estrich

04/08/07

George Bush was not about to let Sam Fox lose out on becoming ambassador to Brussels just because he gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry. Call him loyal or stubborn, but clearly the president was very grateful for Fox’s assistance. So after the White House withdrew the Fox nomination when it became clear than Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations committee were lining up against it, the president did not tell Missouri’s largest Republican donor to go home and unpack. Instead, Bush simply waited for the senators to leave town, and has now resubmitted Fox’s name to serve out this Congress as a recess appointment...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,264850,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ambassador+to+Belgium
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Susan+Estrich

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' top aide, who refused to testify before Congress about her role in the politically charged firing of eight US attorneys, abruptly quit her job Friday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607U.shtml



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
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Noam Chomsky

Video

Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics, MIT Amy Goodman, host, Democracy Now!David Goodman, reporter. Tackling subjects like corporate influence over government and the deceptions of political leaders.

http://snipurl.com/1fhc7


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Noam+Chomsky
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Amy+Goodman

A senior European Union security official has warned the head of the EU delegation for Somalia and Kenya that military forces may have committed war crimes in occupied Somalia.

http://snipurl.com/1fhc3


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Somalia

German prosecutors said Thursday they will make a new attempt to bring 13 CIA workers to justice for the abduction of a German-Lebanese citizen mistakenly suspected of terrorism.

http://snipurl.com/1fhbz


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khaled+el-Masri

The Department of State will not rule out paying a salary to Sam Fox, the major Swift Boat Veterans For Truth donor who was recess appointed as US Ambassador to Belgium by President George W. Bush yesterday.

http://snipurl.com/1fhbu


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ambassador+to+Belgium

The timing has fuelled speculation of a deal to free the British sailors and marines seized by Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2050424,00.html


From Information Clearing House

ONE of the 15 freed hostages admitted Britain WAS gathering intelligence on Iran, a previously unbroadcast interview revealed last night.

http://snipurl.com/1fhbm



In His Own Words

Captain Chris Air of the Royal Marines revealed to Sky News that he and his colleagues had been gathering intelligence on the Iranians. Here follows the full transcript of that interview.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1259451,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Russian and foreign media have recently reported the U.S. could launch an operation, codenamed Bite, against Iran at 4:00 a.m. local time April 6. The operation was expected to deliver air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities over a 12-hour period to prevent the country from obtaining nuclear weapons.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070406/63202367.html


From Information Clearing House

The United States would suffer losses if it attacked Iran but weight of numbers would ensure it eventually achieved air supremacy, Russian generals said on Thursday.

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=107565


From Information Clearing House

War pimp alert

The Prime Minister directly linked the Tehran regime to killings of British soldiers in Iraq, accusing it of "backing, financing, arming terrorism".

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2426272.ece


From Information Clearing House

Congressional Democrats say their constituents are clamoring for something even the most liberal lawmakers promise they won't pursue: President Bush's impeachment.

http://snipurl.com/1fhba


From Information Clearing House



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I've tried to be respectful of the man and the office, but the three defining sins of the Bush Administration--arrogance, incompetence, cynicism--are congenital: they're part of his personality.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1607243,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions lies of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3014241



Pentagon report says no link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda

Interrogations of Saddam Hussein and seized documents confirmed the former Iraqi regime had no links with Al-Qaeda, a Pentagon report said Friday, contradicting the US case for the 2003 invasion.

http://snipurl.com/1fhb5



Report outlines Pentagon effort to link Iraq, al Qaeda

Declassified memo shows how officials shaped intelligence
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17493.htm



No Saddam Al-Qaida Link: Full Pentagon Report

A PDF of the Pentagon inspector general report
http://snipurl.com/1fhb7



Pentagon Officer Created Phony Intel on Iraq/al-Qaeda Link

Newly released documents confirm that a Pentagon unit knowingly cooked up intelligence claiming a direct link between Iraq and al-Qaeda in order to win support for a preemptive strike against the country.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607A.shtml


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney

Simon Basketter exposes how special British units in Iraq are run by the same man who commanded death squads in Northern Ireland.

http://snipurl.com/1fhb2


From Information Clearing House

By Pamela Schwartz

As taxpayers prepare to meet this year's April 16th tax deadline, they may want to consider that almost 40 cents of every tax dollar is spent on past and present military spending, according to a newly released publication by the National Priorities Project.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17496.htm

By John Nichols

Just imagine if one of the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination endorsed this radical agenda:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17492.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+Freedom+Agenda
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=+John+Nichols

By William Blum

Almost every individual or group not in love with US foreign policy, which Washington wants to stigmatize, is charged with being associated with, or being a member of, al Qaeda, as if there's a precise and meaningful distinction between people retaliating against American imperialism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17498.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=American+imperialism
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By Barry Lando

Citing one of the globe's great champions of human rights, " As President Bush has said, what every terrorist fears most is human freedom - societies where men and women make their own choices, answer to their own conscience and live by their hopes instead of their resentments."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17497.htm



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Thank you to those of you who took action on this last year. Unfortunately Idaho is still determined to de-list wolves. We need your help again.

Idaho Governor "Butch" Otter has said the state will seek to kill 75% of the wolf population; Idaho's official position (based on House Joint Memorial 5 which prefaces the Idaho wolf Management plan) calls for removing all wolves from Idaho "by any means necessary".

Your help is urgently needed!

Your comments are due May 9th and can be made electronically by emailing: NRMGrayWolf@fws.gov , include "RIN number 1018-AU58" in the subject line of the message. By mail to: US Fish and Wildlife Service, Wolf Delisting, 555 Shepard Way, Helena MT 59601 or by fax to: (405) 449-5339

Talking Points: I oppose the Fish and Wildlife Service's proposal to delist of the gray wolf.

The Endangered Species Act requires that the gray wolf be fully recovered before it can be delisted, and that States like Wyoming and Idaho have responsible plans in place to manage wolf populations. The Fish & Wildlife Service should wait to propose delisting under the Endangered Species Act until all the factors that once led to wolf eradication are adequately addressed. Such plans must be in place in every state in the Northern Rockies region and are an essential part of the delisting process.

Today wolves are not ready to lose federal protection because:

- The Wyoming and Idaho plans will not protect wolves. Wolf management should not be turned over to states whose state plans do not provide sufficient protections to ensure wolf populations exist into the future.

- The FWS should not be including portions of adjacent states into the proposed area for delisting, especially where the adjacent states have asked not to be included. Washington State is just starting the development of its own wolf plan and does not want the FWS splitting off 1/3 of the state for differing levels of protection.

- Because wolves travel easily across state borders, protections in the Northern Rockies should not be lifted until all states (Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana) have wolf plans that can provide the continued protections wolves need to survive. The boundaries FWS drew for including parts of Oregon and Washington don't make sense for any potential wolf recovery in these states. The FWS has said the areas where federal protections would be lifted would be high conflict areas for wolves, but these are also the very areas wolves must travel through to recolonize elsewhere in the state.

- Robust wolf populations in Idaho and Wyoming are essential to return wolves to Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Utah, which are all part of the gray wolf's historic range.

- Wyoming would allow wolves to be shot on sight in most of the State, and the Fish and Wildlife Service has rejected Wyoming's management plan.

- Idaho Governor Butch Otter has said the state will seek to kill 75% of the wolf population; Idaho's official position (based on House Joint Memorial 5 which prefaces the Idaho wolf Management plan) calls for removing all wolves from Idaho "by any means necessary". It is not clear that current wolf populations are adequate to ensure recovery in the region. Human population growth, habitat development and disease present ongoing challenges to wolf recovery.

In the meantime, we can do more to help wolves and the people who are experiencing conflicts with them:

The Fish and Wildlife Service could and should do more to help resolve conflicts with livestock owners, using non-lethal methods where possible.

Before wolves can be delisted:

- Every state with wolf populations must have a credible plan in place to maintain healthy, sustainable wolf populations.

- The Fish and Wildlife Service must thoroughly examine how trends in habitat loss could increase human-caused mortality of wolves, and take steps to avoid any future harm to the wolves.

- The Fish and Wildlife Service must establish a science-based ecosystem approach to wolf recovery.

- There must be demonstrated wolf movement between the populations of Yellowstone, central Idaho and Glacier.

- There must be adequate funding in place to ensure that healthy wolf populations can be maintained; currently there are no guarantees of adequate funding.

This is your opportunity to save these animals! Don't let it, and the wolves, disappear!

Read a Lewiston Tribune article about the Spokane public hearing on March 8th http://www.landscouncil.org/news/wolf_supporters_say_they_don_t_trust_idaho.asp

To learn more visit http://wildwolves.homeip.net/IdahoWolves/ResistingDelisting1.html


Informant: smileycoyote



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wolves

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0406-01.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=IPCC

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0406-02.htm

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In a First, Security Council to Discuss Climate Change Threat

The UN Security Council will discuss potential threats to international security from climate change for the first time later this month.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040607T.shtml



Fear Over Diluted Climate Warnings

An authoritative international global warming conference lapsed into an unprecedented showdown between scientists and diplomats over authors' concerns that governments were watering down their warnings. Last-minute negotiations over language continued behind closed doors Friday, less than two hours before the scheduled release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in Brussels.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607EA.shtml



Southwest May Get Even Hotter, Drier

Global warming will permanently change the climate of the American Southwest, making it so much hotter and drier that Dust Bowl-scale droughts will become common, a new climate report concludes.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607EB.shtml



Environmental Racism Still Major Problem

Twenty years after a landmark report documented environmental racism in the United States, new evidence shows that toxic waste is still being disproportionately dumped on communities of color.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040607EC.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0406-03.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bernie+Sanders

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/345/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/352/



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/06/339/



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