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"This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq... this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war... our children will sing great songs about us years from now." Richard Perle (The Prince Of Darkness)  

TERROR WORLDWIDE INC. Just a call away from you and your family.  

These are days when it seems sanity has left us. Civic neurosis is maintained by keeping us living in a constant state of color-coded mental emergency. The besieged mind then retreats into thinking only of those most basic human needs: safety and security. Leaders who promise to provide and protect these needs are then revered.

However, it is during times like these that enormous change is possible. Humans are only willing to change if they are uncomfortable, and, for one reason or another, most Americans are not at all comfortable with what they see happening in their country.

We're discovering that more security does not make us more secure. We're realizing that respect garnered out of fear is not admiration. And we're remembering that in all human history, war has never really brought the promised peace.

We're watching the income gap widen into a chasm. We're trading the export of good jobs for the import of cheap trinkets. We're accumulating debt faster than our children can ever hope to pay it off. And we're glimpsing what only recently seemed a bright future now being thrown into the shade.

Ohio's infamous nuke with the hole in its head is being forced toward critical mass. Only a global outcry can stop it. Meanwhile, ample wind power is ready right there to replace the plant.

Last year the Davis-Besse reactor, near Toledo, missed bringing Chernobyl to the Great Lakes by a mere fraction of an inch of deteriorating metal. Boric acid ate through six inches of solid steel and left only a warped shard between the superheated core and unfathomable catastrophe.

Now DB's owner, First Energy of Akron, wants to reopen a machine of mass destruction that nearly destroyed, in one fell swoop, a region with millions of people along with Earth's largest bodies of fresh water. Indefensible against terrorist attack, Davis-Besse provides potential killing power beyond Saddam's wildest dreams.

But public outcry is also reaching critical mass. You can join in by clicking onto www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/2003/nrc_email.html and telling the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep this reactor shut.
Senate bill 1046, if passed by the full Senate, will go a long way to reverse most of the FCC's recent egregious media deregulation rulings. Again, if left to stand, these recent FCC rulings will lead to further consolidation on the part of big media, negatively impacting the independent media community. Thanks to the efforts of AIVF members and concerned citizens nationwide, this bill passed through the Senate Commerce Committee and now requires additional cosponsors to push the bill onto the Senate schedule for a vote.

We are hoping that Senator Mike DeWine and Senator George Voinovich will sign on the co-sponsor this bill.

Senate bill 1046 was introduced in May by Senator Ted Stevens (R - AK) and is currently co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of thirty-six Senators. The bill amends the Communications Act of 1934 making it explicitly illegal by federal law for broadcasters to own more than 35 percent of the national market. It also prohibits broadcast/print cross ownership in most markets; requires that radio owners divest properties in over-concentrated markets; and mandates that the FCC hold at least five public hearings during the next
On March 31, 2003, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and U.K. Home Secretary David Blunkett signed a new treaty providing for extradition between the two countries of persons accused of crimes. The new treaty, which has yet to be ratified by the U.S. Senate, marks an unprecedented departure from two centuries of American extradition practice. America has always been a refuge for those fleeing tyranny overseas, and a "political offense exception" to extradition has been an essential element of every one of our extradition treaties since Thomas Jefferson refused extradition of an opponent of the French Revolution.

Although the new treaty pays lip service to the political offense exception, it removes that essential protection for those seeking refuge on our shores. Worse, it subjects U.S. citizens to extradition based solely on unproven allegations by the British government. Any American active in Irish affairs faces potential detention, and transportation to the United Kingdom, without any proof of guilt, and without judicial review. Never before in its history has the United States government subjected the
The infamous Davis-Besse nuke---the one with the hole in its head---may be slouching toward new disaster. After nearly wiping out all of northern Ohio, First Energy, the utility that owns this radioactive turkey, has spent several hundred million bucks rushing it back toward operation. But there are critical problems still outstanding. And there is more than ample wind power to supply all the power the region needs without risking another Chernobyl.

So watch this space....in the coming days we'll outline some of the basic problems and some of the things YOU can do to help keep this machine of mass destruction permanently shut.

Meantime, read the press release below from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

And go to www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/2003/nrc_email.html to find out more, and to send a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which could keep this damn thing down.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Dave Lochbaum or Eric Young at 202-223-6133

Wednesday, June 25, 2003
New Plan for Government Investment in Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Cuts Persian Gulf Oil Imports in Half. "The Apollo Project" is a 10-point plan for energy independence proposed by A HISTORIC COALITION of labor unions, environmentalists, and peace advocates. If adopted by our government it would:

* Create three million jobs
* Protect the environment
* Improve public health
* Cost $30 billion/year for 10 years (7% of the Pentagon budget)

To send a message to all the PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES urging them to support this plan, just click "Reply" and then "Send." If you are not currently registered with TrueMajority or you would like to customize your message, click here:

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They say that history repeats itself. And so it does.

  Two years ago the Central Intelligence Agency released reams of intelligence documents on the former Soviet Union that had been classified for nearly 30 years. The findings were damning: the CIA for more than 10 years greatly exaggerated the nuclear threat the communist country posed to the world.  

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Raymond Garthoff, a longtime C.I.A. military analyst, admitted in 2001 "there were consistent overestimates of the threat every year from 1978 to 1985."  

Fast forward to 2003 and the CIA finds itself in a similar pickle. This time it's intelligence on Iraq's alleged stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and the country's nuclear ambitions appear to be in doubt. Two months have passed since major combat in Iraq has ended and those weapons of mass destruction, the reasons the U.S. launched a preemptive strike against Iraq, are nowhere to be found.  

       AUSTIN -- Congratulations to the Supreme Court on its 6-3 decision in the Texas sodomy law case and to all those, including the gay rights groups and the American Civil Liberties Union, who have fought so long and hard to rid the legal system of this manifest injustice. The Sunday chat shows featured a number of curious contentions over this legal decision: It was interesting to see rank bigotry against gays trying to disguise itself as a legal argument.

        Justice Antonin Scalia was foremost in this camp, throwing a public tantrum devoid of legal reasoning over the decision. Talk about lack of judicial temperament. Some advanced the argument that the law should have been left in place because it is rarely enforced. In fact, it was enforced, that's why there was a case in front of the Supreme Court, and under what principle is rarity an excuse for injustice? Because we relatively rarely execute people who are innocent, does that make it right? Slavery rarely occurs in this country, but it is still illegal.

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