Don't get mad, get even: our big plan starts today.

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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Today, as Bush's corporate donors celebrate their victory, it may feel like the progressive America we're all fighting for is very far away. But it doesn't have to be that way.

In 1994, just two years after a big presidential defeat, Republicans with a pro-corporate, right-wing agenda swept to power in the House. From there, they gained control of all three branches of government. It's our turn. If we can convert the passion and energy of the progressive movement we've built together into power on the ground, we can take back Congress and make 2006 our 1994.

Today, we're launching our plan to do that. Together, MoveOn members will build an organized network of neighbors and friends in every Congressional district to stop the Bush agenda. We'll organize press events, we'll hold living room meetings with our neighbors, and we'll meet with local leaders on the issues we care about most -- Social Security, right-wing judges, media reform, and more. We'll develop a national message together. And then we'll use this field network to take back the House in 2006. It's bold, it's audacious, and it's yours: the plan comes directly from tens of thousands of your comments about MoveOn's future.

Making this watershed moment come true will take real time, real energy, and, of course, real money -- we estimate at least $5 million over the next two years. We'll be spending the next months getting the program off the ground -- hiring organizers, building infrastructure, and recruiting the grassroots leaders who will make it all happen (stay tuned!). But we need to raise $500,000 this week to get this thing going.

Can you help? You can contribute by credit card or check quickly and securely at:
https://www.moveonpac.org/donate/2006.html

Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" swept in 54 new Republican representatives in 1994 and brought conservatives to power. The 15-seat gain that Democrats need in 2006 is modest by comparison. And we have three key advantages over Republicans in 2006:

1. Republican leaders have dramatically overreached -- they've staked the Party's future on a deceptive and extreme agenda. And now that they control all three branches of government, they're responsible for everything that happens. By exposing right-wing corruption and deception one community at a time, we can block their agenda and turn their strength against them.

2. A good team of dedicated volunteers can make a big difference in a House race -- much more so than in the race for President. So our energy in 2006 will have an ever larger impact.

3. We have enormous momentum from our presidential campaign. Today, the progressive movement is bigger and stronger than it has been in decades. Hundreds of thousands of new leaders got involved in politics in 2004, and we developed new tools that revolutionized grassroots organizing and fundraising. At MoveOn, our Leave No Voter Behind Campaign showed that by linking our members together locally, and focusing on systematic voter outreach, we could have an unprecedented impact -- literally turning out more voters than Kerry's victory margin in at least three key battleground states, and turning out hundreds of thousands more in battleground neighborhoods nation-wide.

In 2004 we ran a field program in 10,000 neighborhoods in the swing states. To win in 2006, we're going to use what we've learned to repeat it in every neighborhood in America. We'll ask MoveOn members and their friends to form local teams and commit a few hours a month, starting now. We'll use a variety of new and creative tactics to reach millions of people at their homes and through the media, to build the broad, national momentum for change that it will take to sweep aside our opposition.

In key swing districts where conservative incumbents are vulnerable, we'll take extra steps to publicly hold them accountable for every vote they cast against the public interest. And instead of starting three months before the election, we'll begin now to recruit leaders, persuade voters, and build a grassroots base for victory.

Changing the political direction of the country will not be cheap. In order to proceed with confidence and start hiring staff, developing materials and advertisements, and targeting carefully, we need to know that we won't run short of funds partway through, so today's request for support is an important yardstick. Can you help us raise the $500,000 we need to begin?

Click here:
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This big strategy stems from thousands of emails and conversations with MoveOn members, both online and at house parties and in-person gatherings. You told us to focus on key issues like social security, election reform, and energy policy. And we will, with a combination of high-profile, coordinated national grassroots actions (like our anti-war vigils) and constituent pressure in targeted swing districts. You told us you wanted to develop a progressive message. That national message -- which we'll develop from the grassroots on up -- will be a critical part of the 2006 campaign. And you emphasized the importance of intensive, local, grassroots organizing. That's what this plan is all about.

By combining the strategies MoveOn members are most passionate about, we can stop the Republican agenda, win at the ballot box, and put the country on a progressive path.

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Watch your C-SPANs, & Rice without Boxer & Kerry

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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During the broadcast of the inauguration today on all the channels try whiching C-SPAN2. C-SPAN2 is showing the "other side" of things on our newest President's day. Normally C-SPAN2 would be showing the U.S. Senate, but it's inauguration day and so they showing the protesters that are alone the streets of Washington DC. where the people of "ANSWER (Act Now to Stop the War & End Racism) Coaliton" and friends like Andy Thayer, and Brenda Stokely, Peta Lindsay could speak their minds. It's a little like Berkeley back in the 60's & 70's but I have to say that somehow it not the same. But it is OK! It's just that I guess I was younger then and I was differant too.

And again thank you to Barbara Boxer and Sen. Kerry for their NO votes yesterday on Rice becoming Sec. of State. I saw her yesterday and I really don't like it when a witness tell a Congressial comm. what she well tell them. Why someone didn't remaind her that she was and witness & well answer all question put to her or go to jail I don't know. It's not like it's never been done before. But she was allowed to say things like "I'm not going to talk about that but I well tell you this...."

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Nader thoughts

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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It was 15 degrees in Washington, D.C. yesterday.

Very cold.

But I had to go to see what all the hoopla was about.

So, I put on my winter coat and walked with some friends down to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Tomorrow George Bush will be sworn in as President of the United States.

Instead of being impeached, he will be inaugurated.

Standing in front of the big Presidential reviewing stand, the reality of political USA 2005 was crystal clear.

Tomorrow, a man who is responsible for more than 1,300 young American lives lost, thousands seriously injured and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilian dead will be sitting there in that booth, watching his parade go by.

And 7,000 miles away, the slaughter continues.

You, our stalwart supporters, know this:

Nader/Camejo was the most comprehensive anti-war ticket in 2004.

But we were blocked from the Presidential debates, knocked off of ballots by the Democrats, and largely ignored in the national press.

The man in the spotlight, the man with the attention of the world’s press, John Kerry, was for the war, for the Patriot Act, for a bloated military budget, for Wall Street, and therefore for his own defeat.

And he was understandably defeated.

Throughout 2004, we predicted a Kerry defeat unless he stood tall against the war and made corporate power over the people and their government a central and concrete issue in the campaign.

And he refused.

And now, even mainstream Democrats are starting to see the light.

Take for example Robert Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy, Jr., who in 2000 urged me to pull out of the race, today says that while “the Republicans are 95 percent corrupt, the Democrats are 75 percent corrupt.”

Young Kennedy calls Bush “the most corrupt and immoral President that we have had in American history.”

But he says that the Democrats blew the election by not focusing on corporate power.

“The biggest threat to American democracy is corporate power,” Kennedy says. “Our most visionary political leaders have warned the American public against the domination of government by corporate power. That warning is missing in the national debate right now.”

Not missing, Mr. Kennedy, just ignored. (See In Pursuit of Justice, below)

Unlike the millions of liberals who were duped by the corporate Democrats, you – our loyal supporters – like the group pictured here protesting at the Republican National Convention in New York – stood tall with us and foursquare against two-party corruption and the Bush/Cheney machine.

I agree. (Thousands signed the Nader/Camejo impeachment petition throughout the 2004 campaign.)

We must take this declaration all across the country.

But first, we must study, understand, and be able to state clearly the multifaceted case for impeachment, so well documented in the attentive media.
That’s why for a donation of $100 to the Nader/Camejo campaign, we will send to you a copy of Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush by John Bonifaz (NationBooks, 2004, 169 pages).

In it, Bonifaz makes a detailed case that President Bush launched a first strike against Iraq without a Congressional declaration of war – and therefore should be impeached.

In addition, I’ll autograph for you a copy of my new book, In Pursuit of Justice (Seven Stories Press, 2004, 520 pages). This collection of more than 200 recent columns I’ve written on corporate power will prove to doubters like Mr. Kennedy and other Democrats that for forty years, the warning about corporate power and influence over our country and two major parties has not been missing from the debate – just widely avoided.

You should carry both of these books with you in 2005 as we move forward in our push to bring our military and corporate forces out of Iraq and hold Bush/Cheney accountable for their fabricated and increasingly costly war.

Two books – Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush and In Pursuit of Justice – for a contribution of $100 to our campaign.

Please let your friends and family know about this invitation by forwarding this letter to your e-mail address book.

You have helped us raise more than $100,000 in the last two months to pay down our debts.

And if just 2,000 more of our active e-mail list would go to our store right now and buy these two books, you will help send us back into the black.

Thank you for your generosity and bright horizons.

Ralph Nader

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[Nader-Camejo - Bitter Cold at the White House

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

---

It was 15 degrees in Washington, D.C. yesterday.

Very cold.

But I had to go to see what all the hoopla was about.

So, I put on my winter coat and walked with some friends down to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Tomorrow George Bush will be sworn in as President of the United States.

Instead of being impeached, he will be inaugurated.

reviewing standStanding in front of the big Presidential reviewing stand, the reality of political USA 2005 was crystal clear.

Tomorrow, a man who is responsible for more than 1,300 young American lives lost, thousands seriously injured and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilian dead will be sitting there in that booth, watching his parade go by.

And 7,000 miles away, the slaughter continues.

You, our stalwart supporters, know this:

Nader/Camejo was the most comprehensive anti-war ticket in 2004.

But we were blocked from the Presidential debates, knocked off of ballots by the Democrats, and largely ignored in the national press.

The man in the spotlight, the man with the attention of the world’s press, John Kerry, was for the war, for the Patriot Act, for a bloated military budget, for Wall Street, and therefore for his own defeat.

And he was understandably defeated.

Throughout 2004, we predicted a Kerry defeat unless he stood tall against the war and made corporate power over the people and their government a central and concrete issue in the campaign.

And he refused.

And now, even mainstream Democrats are starting to see the light.

Take for example Robert Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy, Jr., who in 2000 urged me to pull out of the race, today says that while “the Republicans are 95 percent corrupt, the Democrats are 75 percent corrupt.”

Young Kennedy calls Bush “the most corrupt and immoral President that we have had in American history.”

But he says that the Democrats blew the election by not focusing on corporate power.

“The biggest threat to American democracy is corporate power,” Kennedy says. “Our most visionary political leaders have warned the American public against the domination of government by corporate power. That warning is missing in the national debate right now.”

ProtestUnlike the millions of liberals who were duped by the corporate Democrats, you – our loyal supporters – like the group pictured here protesting at the Republican National Convention in New York – stood tall with us and foursquare against two-party corruption and the Bush/Cheney machine.

I agree. (Thousands signed the Nader/Camejo impeachment petition throughout the 2004 campaign.)

We must take this declaration all across the country.

But first, we must study, understand, and be able to state clearly the multifaceted case for impeachment, so well documented in the attentive media.
That’s why for a donation of $100 to the Nader/Camejo campaign, we will send to you a copy of Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush by John Bonifaz (NationBooks, 2004, 169 pages).Warrior King

In it, Bonifaz makes a detailed case that President Bush launched a first strike against Iraq without a Congressional declaration of war – and therefore should be impeached.

In Pursuit of JusticeIn addition, I’ll autograph for you a copy of my new book, In Pursuit of Justice (Seven Stories Press, 2004, 520 pages). This collection of more than 200 recent columns I’ve written on corporate power will prove to doubters like Mr. Kennedy and other Democrats that for forty years, the warning about corporate power and influence over our country and two major parties has not been missing from the debate – just widely avoided.

You should carry both of these books with you in 2005 as we move forward in our push to bring our military and corporate forces out of Iraq and hold Bush/Cheney accountable for their fabricated and increasingly costly war.

Two books – Warrior King: The Case for Impeaching George Bush and In Pursuit of Justice – for a contribution of $100 to our campaign.

Please let your friends and family know about this invitation by forwarding this letter to your e-mail address book.

You have helped us raise more than $100,000 in the last two months to pay down our debts.

And if just 2,000 more of our active e-mail list would go to our store right now and buy these two books, you will help send us back into the black.

Thank you for your generosity and bright horizons.

Ralph Nader

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Have you seen the ad where Daddy Bush & Bill Clinton speak not as Pres. but just people?

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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OK, if you've seen it have you asked yourself, Where is Pres.Carter? There's a reason he's not there and you won't hear anything of it from him. But if you'd like to find Pres. Carter,my kind of person, he's at http:www.cartercenter.org
It's a shame would we did to one of the real people Presidents we ever had. And he may be the last. All your going to get now, more than like, is what the two parties gave you to choose from. Your Paries are running your country for their owners, "The world Corps".
And what they're asking us to do is to, "Gave us your watches and we'll tell ya what time it is". Of course, they didn't say that it would be the right time or that you be paid for your watches. Or that by the time they got around to gaving you the time it would be so late that telling ya would be meaningless.
Keep your watches and your money and do things for yourselfs. Once you ask others to "do things for you" your also telling them that the items are not that important to you that whoever is handling it for you can do or not do whatever they want your not going to track it. You've got things that are more important to you. That's why I don't agree with our teaching SEX in School. God only know what your KIDS are being told one day to another. By someone you may not have ever meet. GEEEES. If you send that message to your Goverment, and we have, what the hell to you think they think of us. And it to the point now that you most know that our Elected Goverment People don't send their kids to those schoools. Their not going to have their kids mixing with people like that. And now they have made sure that they don't have to ask they have gaven themselfs enought money, working for us, to make sure they don't have to. So, now what do you think of yourselfs? Damn we make me mad...

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Another Battle Looms Over Bush-GOP Energy Bill

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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When Congress begins its new session this week, the Republican leadership is expected to quickly re-introduce essentially the same energy bill it passed in 2003 and 2004. And on January 24, Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) will convene a hearing of his Energy and Natural Resources Committee to focus on the problem of natural gas (limited supply, high price).

As always, the two chambers will have to reconcile their versions of the bill, which is likely to take several months. The two previous bills were both defeated in the Senate.

The House bill, H.R. 6, will again be hotly opposed by environmental and energy conservation groups.

"The energy bill is a classic example of a legislative stocking stuffer, where Congress slipped in billions of dollars in targeted subsidies for the coal, nuclear, oil, and gas industries," U.S.PIRG energy analyst Navin Nyak told BushGreenwatch.

"Investing in clean energy policies would create thousands of new jobs, save consumers and businesses billions of dollars, and significantly reduce air pollution from power plants," added Nyak. "Instead of embracing this win-win-win situation, the Bush administration and Congress crafted an energy bill that weakens environmental protections, fails to protects consumers and throws more than $35 billion taxpayers dollars at polluting industries."

Besides the fact that the bill provides huge subsidies to the fossil fuel (greenhouse gas) industries closely tied to the Bush administration, while doing almost nothing for alternative energy or energy conservation, environmental experts oppose a laundry list of other harmful provisions likely to be carried over from last year. Among other things, the bill would:

* Exempt all oil and gas construction activities -- including roads, drill pads, pipeline corridors and refineries -- from having to obtain a permit controlling polluted stormwater runoff caused by construction activities, as is currently required under the Clean Water Act.
* Dramatically increase air pollution and global warming with its huge new incentives for burning coal, oil and gas.
* Threaten drinking water sources by exempting from Safe Drinking Water Act regulation the underground injection of chemicals during oil and gas development.
* Allow more smog pollution for longer than the current Clean Air Act authorizes.
* Establish an "Office of Federal Project Coordination" within the White House to expedite the permitting and completion of energy projects on federal lands and override environmental safeguards.
* Continue to promote development of all Outer Continental Shelf lands -- including sensitive moratoria protected lands and, potentially, national marine sanctuaries -- through two poorly defined studies.
* Repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act, the main law protecting consumers from market manipulation, fraud, and abuse in the electricity sector, even while evidence of corrupt industry behavior is front page news and ratepayers are owed billions to compensate for the industry's illegal activities.
* Mandate the siting of a high voltage electricity transmission line through the Cleveland National Forest in southern California and other public lands, overriding a decision by the State of California rejecting such siting.

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Bush Admits Misgivings About Famed Phrases

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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WASHINGTON - President Bush says he now sees that tough talk can have an "unintended consequence."

During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, the president, who not long ago declined to identify any mistakes he'd made during his first term, expressed misgivings for two of his most famous expressions: "Bring 'em on," in reference to Iraqis attacking U.S. troops, and his vow to get Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) "dead or alive."

"Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean," Bush said Thursday. "'Bring 'em on' is the classic example, when I was really trying to rally the troops and make it clear to them that I fully understood, you know, what a great job they were doing. And those words had an unintended consequence. It kind of, some interpreted it to be defiance in the face of danger. That certainly wasn't the case."

On other points, Bush said:

_He wants Congress to approve major changes in the Social Security program before the end of May. Many Democrats and some Republicans in Congress oppose Bush's proposal, which may entail steep reductions in future benefits.

_Baseball's new policy for steroids and other drugs is "a very strict policy and I want to congratulate both parties."

_Four years as president have changed him. "They say my hair is grayer. But I come from a pretty white-haired gene pool. At least half of it."

On July 2, 2003, two months after he had declared an end to major combat in Iraq, Bush promised U.S. forces would stay until the creation of a free government there. To those who would attack U.S. forces in an attempt to deter that mission, Bush said, "My answer is, Bring 'em on."

In the week after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush was asked if he wanted bin Laden, the terrorist leader blamed for the attacks, dead.

"I want justice," Bush said. "And there's an old poster out West, that I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive.'"

Recalling that remark, Bush told the reporters: "I can remember getting back to the White House, and Laura said, 'Why did you do that for?' I said, 'Well, it was just an expression that came out. I didn't rehearse it.'

"I don't know if you'd call it a regret, but it certainly is a lesson that a president must be mindful of, that the words that you sometimes say. ... I speak plainly sometimes, but you've got to be mindful of the consequences of the words. So put that down. I don't know if you'd call that a confession, a regret, something."

During his second debate last year with presidential challenger Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), Bush was asked to name three instances in which he had made a wrong decision. At the time he declined to identify any specific mistakes.

Reporters at Thursday's round-table also asked Bush about the high price tag for his second inaugural celebration and suggestions the $40 million gala, which is being paid for by private donations — much of it coming from lobbyists and corporations — be scaled down.

"The inauguration is a great festival of democracy," he said. "People are going to come from all over the country who are celebrating democracy and celebrating my victory, and I'm glad to celebrate with them."

The newspapers participating in the round-table interview were the Detroit Free Press, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, The (Portland) Oregonian, the (Little Rock) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Miami Herald, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star, The (Phoenix) Arizona Republic, the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, The (Columbia, S.C.) State, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press.

Ya think we should have thought about his use of the spoken word before we put him BACK in office. The people we put in office tell alot about who we, as a people, are. Idiots put idiots in office. It once was that the "good-old-country-boy" was a hard guy to fool, no longer. The dumping down of America has done it work and now shows how eazy it is to get and put people into office that don't evern know how to use the English langage, let alone know what their doing. If you can think before you speak, you do. We are the land where image is everthing and substance means nothing. So, for ever mistake he makes you make it as well. You put him where he is and so now thanks to you I'm no smarter than you. Till I move out of this land and re-aline myself with people who I can think well of.

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Bush Administration Threatens Success of 10-Year Wolf Recovery

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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Four weeks from now, January 12, marks the official 10-year anniversary for the return of the gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park. While the resurgence of a wolf population in the lower 48 states is an historic wildlife conservation success, Defenders of Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen warned this week that the reintroduction campaign will be in jeopardy if the Bush administration has its way.

In a speech this week in Washington, DC, Schlickeisen described the many benefits of the campaign: not only the return of the gray wolf, but also ecological benefits, such as balancing the elk population and a consequent boom in willow and cottonwood tree growth. None of this would have been possible without the protections now being threatened by the Bush administration's Department of Interior.

The wolves have already been reclassified from endangered to threatened on the national level, which in some cases has entirely removed protections. The Bush administration is also pushing for still weaker federal management of the wolves, via a shift to the state level. Defenders has filed a lawsuit against reclassification on the grounds that the wolf population has not fully recovered, and that the rule precludes recovery in additional habitat suitable for wolves. [1]

In what Defenders calls an unscientific approach to wolf management, distinct regions are being designated in the U.S. without appropriate consideration being given to population goals for each region. For example, in the Northwest, population goals have been set for three states -- Idaho, Montana and Wyoming -- and six states are to be added to this new group without adjusting population goals for that region. In the Northeast, one recovery zone was created for the removal of protections even though no recovery efforts had been made in certain subsets of the Northeast recovery zone.

As Schlickeisen told BushGreenwatch, "Wolves have made great progress in the last decade. Sadly, the Bush administration is rapidly becoming the wolf’s most dangerous predator. Its efforts to remove protections for the wolf, coupled with its unscientific approach to wolf management, pose the greatest threat today to the continued recovery of the wolf in this country."

Wolf protections are also being attacked on a second front. In the Bush administration's efforts to rewrite section 10J of the Endangered Species Act, control of the wolves would be turned over to Idaho, Montana and Wyoming before federal delisting, and federal protections would be weakened before recovery goals were met. [2]

Along with this policy move, state agencies would be allowed to kill wolves where there are declining elk populations, even if wolves are not proven to be the primary factor in the decline. People would also be allowed to kill wolves based only on personal beliefs that the wolves pose a threat to property. Defenders sees the Bush administration proposal as an opportunity for unnecessary killings and abuse of the rule. [3]

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SOURCES:
[1] Defenders of Wildlife speech, Dec. 14, 2004.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.

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Hollywood gave Micheal something that gaves Bush too.

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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Dear Friends,

Last night, at the People's Choice Awards, "Fahrenheit 9/11" was named the Best Movie of the Year. It was a stunning moment for us. And, somewhere inside the Bush White House, someone there must have been stunned, too.

21 million people voted in the People's Choice Awards. They chose our film over "Shrek 2," "Spiderman 2" and "The Incredibles." If we can beat that many superheroes, surely we can survive the next four years.

I can think of no greater honor for us this year than the award bestowed upon us last night by the American people. On live television, with no threat of my remarks being censored or cut short, I thanked all of you and the rest of our fellow Americans and dedicated the prize to the parents of our servicemen and women in Iraq, the Lila Lipscombs of America who suffer so profoundly by the reckless actions of the Bush administration.

(If you'd like to see what I said -- this time, no riot! -- you can click here. I even dressed up!)

It was an historic moment as no documentary had ever won the People's Choice Award for Best Picture. And I thank each and every one of you who voted and made that happen.

I took Congresswoman Maxine Waters and her husband as my guests last night. My family was there, too, as was some of our crew. We had a great time and I even got to meet Mel Gibson for the first time (he won a secondary prize for best film drama). More on that later!

Thanks again, and now let's get on with the serious work at hand -- winning more awards! Hahahaha. Just kidding. We have an inauguration to attend, don't we?

Yours,

Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
MMFlint@aol.com

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CBS Ousting Four Employees Over Faulty Bush Story

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"He who is willing to sacrifice freedom for safety deserves neither freedom nor safety." - Ben Franklin
"One useless man is called a disgrace; two useless men are called a law firm; and three or more useless men are a congress" - John Adams
Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."--Mark Twain

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By Ellen Wulfhorst for REUTERS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS News fired four employees on Monday in the wake of an independent panel report that found a "myopic zeal" led the network to disregard basic journalism principles when it aired a faulty story about President Bush (news - web sites)'s military service record.

The panel was convened after a Sept. 8, 2004, report by anchor Dan Rather on the "60 Minutes II" news program claiming Bush won special treatment in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War. It found CBS failed to determine the accuracy of key documents used in the report.

CBS then waged a "strident" defense rather than probe the heart of the matter, it said. It allowed the same staff who produced the original report to produce follow-ups, it said.

"These problems were caused primarily by a myopic zeal to be the first news organization to broadcast what was believed to be a new story ... and the rigid and blind defense of the segment after it aired despite numerous indications of its shortcomings," said the panel report. The panel was headed by former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi, retired head of the Associated Press.

Twelve days after the segment aired, CBS News retracted it and Rather apologized, saying they were duped by bogus documents. Rather later said he would step down in March.

The CBS News segment relied on documents allegedly written by one of Bush's commanders, now dead. The panel said it had not determined whether the documents were real or forged.

"WRONG, INCOMPLETE OR UNFAIR"

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said: "CBS has taken steps to hold people accountable and we appreciate those steps."

The scandal deals another blow to credibility in journalism, adding CBS News to a list of media tainted by sloppy or false reporting. Other casualties have included The New York Times, USA Today, the BBC, Washington Post and CNN.

Leslie Moonves, chairman and chief executive officer of CBS and co-president of parent company Viacom Inc., said in a statement: "There were lapses every step of the way."

"The bottom line is that much of the September 8th broadcast was wrong, incomplete or unfair," Moonves said, promising to adopt changes to improve CBS' credibility.

Among other suggestions, the report proposed CBS News appoint a "standards executive" and not assign coverage of any challenge to its reporting to the original reporting staff.

It also suggested CBS News not allow competitive pressures to prompt airing of a story before it is ready. "It would have been better to 'lose' the story ... to a competitor," it said.

Kent Collins, chairman of the broadcast news department at Missouri School of Journalism, said the report may have been bad news for CBS but good news for journalism as a whole.

"We all have to suffer this kind of thing to stay honest in a business that is self-policed. I worry that it goes on a lot more than it is revealed, certainly at lesser levels, and at the local level stories are rushed to air and rushed to print," he said. "There is such an appetite on air and in print and on the Internet for stuff, we risk our credibility on trying to feed that ferocious appetite too quickly."

The panel said it found no evidence of "a political agenda" in the timing or content of the story, which ran ahead of November's U.S. presidential election.

The panel placed blame on the trust placed in producer Mary Mapes, one of those let go in the aftermath, as well as a "vast deference" given to Rather and the decision to rush, or "crash," the story to beat out any competition.



A month after making the retraction, Rather, 73, said he would step down as anchor on March 9, his 24th anniversary in the job.

(Additional reporting by Michele Gershberg and Kenneth Li)

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