Author: postMigrator

Published on Monday, July 14, 2008 by Agence France Presse
Bush to Lift Offshore Oil Drilling Ban

WASHINGTON – US President George W. Bush will announce Monday he is lifting an executive ban on oil drilling on the US outer continental shelf and urge lawmakers to follow suit, the White House said.

“The president will announce that he has decided to lift the executive ban on oil exploration in America’s outer continental shelf and he will again call on Congress to lift its legislative ban,” said spokeswoman Dana Perino.
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I always knew this was coming…bet others of us did too.

ASW
http://www.leftinthewest.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1953

Logging Industry Misleads on Climate and Forest Fire
Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 10:57:29 AM MDT

By Chad Hanson, Ph.D.

Recent editorials by timber industry
spokespersons are a wildly misleading attempt to
promote increased logging of western U.S. forests
under the guise of reducing wildland fires and
mitigating climate change. The timber industry
fails to mention, however, that logging is one of
the major contributors to greenhouse gas
emissions (Schlesinger, “Biogeochemistry: an
analysis of global change”, Academic Press,
1997). A recent scientific study found that
completely protecting our national forests from
all commercial logging would significantly
increase carbon sequestration and reduce
greenhouse gases (forests “breath in” CO2 and
incorporate the carbon into new growth), while
increasing logging on our public lands would have
the opposite effect (Depro et al. 2008, Forest
Ecology and Management, Vol. 255).

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Now i don’t spend too much time wrangling about in the 2-party system-but
this is an AWESOME READ! And i know some of these people & was involved w/
some of this history while it was happening (as is the case w/ many of U).
And i like the way eco & social-justice issues are linked here…

See U in Denver next month?

ASW

—————————- Original Message —————————-
Subject: Western Democrats, Western Environment
From:    “Lance Olsen” <lance@wildrockies.org>
Date:    Sun, July 13, 2008 7:13 am
To:      “cmcr-outreach” <cmcr-outreach@vortex.wildrockies.org>
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In the West, and particularly in the Rocky
Mountain West,  environmentalists face the worst
possible politics. The 20th Century’s radical
Republicans don’t care because they don’t expect
the environmental vote, and the 20th Century’s
radically mainstream Democrats take the
environmental vote for granted.

The end result is that Democrats can get away
with damaging spaces and species if they are only
just a very little less damaging than the
Republicans. Year after year, decade after
decade, the Democrats can end up a dangerous to
wild spaces and species as any Republican, but
they do it too slowly for most people to notice.

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Note the COINTELPRO tactics described below…we have all seen this
before-& it STILL happens! Certain very perceptive, manipulative people
who are very disarming in their demeanor & who call themselves
“non-violence trainers,” “facilitators,” “police liaisons,” & “mediators”
have been pulling this shit for years (decades, even) in our circles w/
impunity (regardless of how many of us are on to their bullshit). Pay
close attention in Denver & St. Paul at the political conventions…they
will likely be there!

ASW

—————————- Original Message —————————-
Subject: MNN 6 Nations:  Ain’t no stoppin’ us now!
From:    “orakwa” <orakwa@paulcomm.ca>
Date:    Sun, July 13, 2008 12:29 am
To:      Undisclosed-Recipient:;
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AIN’T NO STOPPIN’ US NOW!  SIX NATIONS
CLOSES DOWN FOUR ILLEGAL DEVELOPMENT

SITES IN BRANTFORD ONTARIO SO FAR .

by Karakwine of Kanehsatake

MNN.  July 12, 2008.  On Saturday, July 5th, 2008, at the
Grand Council meeting the women ‘suggested’ that the
chiefs stand with those people who had been arrested
for demonstrating against illegal construction on our
land known as “Brantford”.

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