Author: postMigrator

Energy Company Drilling to Blame for Indonesian Volcanic Eruption?

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Indonesian govt “gives up” on stopping mud volcano-Energy Company to Blame?
Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:42am EDT

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s vice president said on Friday the
government had given up all hope of halting a mud volcano in East Java which has
displaced thousands of people, hurt businesses, and destroyed the local environment.

The disastrous mud volcano, which started erupting in May 2006 near Indonesia’s
second-biggest city of Surabaya, has proved a huge problem for the government.

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An Alaska Native Speaks Out on Palin, Oil, & Alaska

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And he didn’t even go into McCain’s egregious policies toward AZ Natives during his
many years as senator…

ASW

Subject: An Alaska Native speaks out on Palin, Oil, and Alaska

An Alaska Native speaks out on Palin, Oil, and Alaska

By Evon Peter

evonpeter@mac.com
<http://us.mc517.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=evonpeter@mac.com>

9/8/2008

My name is Evon Peter; I am a former Chief of the Neetsaii Gwich’in tribe from
Arctic Village, Alaska and the current Executive Director of Native Movement. My
organization provides culturally based leadership development through offices in
Alaska and Arizona. My wife, who is Navajo, and I have been based out of Flagstaff,
Arizona for the past few years, although I travel home to Alaska in support of our
initiatives there as well. It is interesting to me that my wife and I find ourselves
as Indigenous people from the two states where McCain and Palin originate in their

leadership.

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Hurricane Ike Update

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This also fails to mention the likelihood of an extensive tornado outbreak-from Texas/Louisiana up into at least the Lower Mississippi Valley-along w/ much flash flooding & tropical-storm-force winds in these inland areas-that may even move further inland (Ohio-Tennessee Valleys) later.

This will not be pretty…

ASW

——– Original Message ——–
Subject:     Hurricane Ike update
Date:     Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:35:45 -0700
From:     Fred Heutte <phred@SUNLIGHTDATA.COM>
Reply-To:     Fred Heutte <phred@SUNLIGHTDATA.COM>
To:     OREGON-LEADERS@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG

There is a lot of media coverage but here are some key points:

* Hurricane Ike is a very large, dangerous storm that covers much of the Gulf of Mexico.  While it has held a quite steady course and has not gained much in wind force, it is poised for a direct hit on Galveston and Houston.

* Hurricane Ike will landfall at or close to Galveston Island around 2 am Saturday morning as a Category 2 storm with winds around 105-115 mph. Hurricane force winds will be felt in coastal areas for as much as 6 hours prior to that and will affect areas well inland as it turns sharply toward the north.  Millions of homes will lose power as
the storm damages the electrical grid.

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