| Jon's Green Soapbox..... |
[16 Jul 2004|02:51am] |
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So we are giving away the trees and the land and we also get to pay for it even though there isn't enough money now for the Forest Service?????
BUSH REJECTION OF ROADLESS FOREST POLICY A BONANZA FOR TIMBER
INDUSTRY
The Bush administration's announcement this week that it plans
to open nearly 60 million acres of pristine, roadless National
Forests to logging, mining, oil and gas drilling and road
building may be one of the largest environmental rollbacks of
the modern era. It also dramatizes the urgent need for genuine
campaign finance reform.
Industries that opposed protections for roadless areas on
National Forests have given nearly $25 million in campaign
donations to President Bush and the Republican Party, according
to the Heritage Forests Campaign. [1] These same industries have
contributed close to $5 million to Democrats. President Bush
alone has received nearly $5 million in campaign contributions
from industries that oppose environmental preservation.
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| Jon's Soapbox..... |
[16 Jul 2004|02:54am] |
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I hope to God that the reports of abuse of children is wrong. If not this idiot needs to be impeached.....
NEW EVIDENCE : BUSH MISLEADS ON PRISON ABUSE SCANDAL
President Bush has claimed that the prison abuse scandal in Iraq was just
"conduct by a few American troops."[1] But with Congress investigating the
scandal,[2] a series of explosive new reports provides evidence that the
tactics may have been approved at the highest levels of government. Even
worse, one leading investigative journalist says the Administration is
holding videotapes of soldiers sodomizing Iraqi children.
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[16 Jul 2004|03:59am] |
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CROSS OUT what isn't you
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