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    Exclamation Stop Bush Energy Bill!

    From NRDC, please send an email, only takes a few seconds.
    (letter from Robert Redford)
    Dear NRDC Member,

    I recently sent you this message by postal mail, but events are moving
    so
    rapidly I wanted to follow up by email so you can act on this as
    quickly
    as
    possible.

    Over the next few weeks, President Bush and his congressional allies
    will try
    once again to ram their disastrous energy bill through the U.S. Senate.
    They
    fell only two votes short in November and they've vowed to make passage
    of the
    bill their top priority now that Congress has returned from recess.

    This bill may be the worst piece of legislation you and I will see in
    our
    lifetimes. It would pick your pocket, despoil your natural heritage,
    endanger
    your family's health and smother your hope for a more secure energy
    future. We
    ignore this bill at our own peril.

    Let me tell you our simple plan for thwarting this shameless attack on
    our
    environment and pocketbooks. If millions of Americans each took one
    minute to
    protest this bill, it would cause every senator who is tempted to vote
    for it
    to think twice about doing so.

    You can make this happen within the next few hours by doing two things:

    First, go to http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp?src=RR0401
    and send your two senators an email or fax, telling them to vote
    against
    this
    pro-polluter energy bill. Then, forward my email to at least four of
    your
    friends, family members or colleagues.

    I am emailing this message to 550,000 NRDC Members and activists. If
    each one
    forwards this message to just four more people, we will generate a
    national
    tidal wave of opposition before this day is over.

    And that won't be a moment too soon. This disgraceful bill would pick
    our
    pockets to hand out billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to the
    oil, coal
    and nuclear industries. That's their long-awaited reward for making
    big-time
    contributions to the Bush-Cheney campaign. They profit while the rest
    of
    us pay
    the price -- in tax dollars and environmental degradation.

    This bill gives the energy giants a free pass to drill their way
    through
    our
    last wild places, burn more dirty coal, build a new generation of risky
    nuclear
    power plants and dramatically increase air pollution that would sicken
    the
    vulnerable -- especially children and seniors -- for decades to come.

    It would establish oil and gas development as the dominant use of our
    federal
    public lands, open national parks to the construction of electricity
    transmission lines, exempt polluters from core provisions of our clean
    air and
    water laws and waive liability for the producers of the toxic gasoline
    additive
    MTBE -- even though it has contaminated at least 1,500 public water
    supplies in
    all 50 American states.

    You'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more backward-looking, wasteful
    and
    self-defeating energy "plan" than this one. At a time when the federal
    deficit
    is soaring and we're going to war in the Persian Gulf oilfields, the
    White
    House wants to stick us with the tab for prolonging our destructive
    dependence
    on fossil fuels, foreign oil and dangerous nuclear technology.

    This is not a national energy policy. This is corporate welfare, pure
    and
    simple. Estimates of the bill's corporate tax breaks range from $23
    billion to
    well over $100 billion with loan guarantees included. No surprise
    there.
    Big
    energy companies cooked up this raid on the federal treasury during
    hundreds of
    secret meetings with Vice President Cheney's energy task force and
    their
    allies
    on Capitol Hill.

    It's one thing to gouge taxpayers. But to claim this rip-off is in the
    national
    interest, as the White House would have us believe, is a slap in the
    face to
    every working American.

    Poll after poll shows that the vast majority of voters -- of both
    parties --
    understand that we simply must reduce our out-of-control appetite for
    fossil
    fuels if we ever are to secure energy independence. That means turning
    American
    rooftops into the Persian Gulf of solar energy. It means producing cars
    that
    get 40 miles per gallon. It means constructing efficient buildings that
    use
    half the energy of the average American office without sacrificing
    comfort.

    Making this transformation to a super-efficient, low-pollution economy
    would
    save consumers upwards of a trillion dollars, spare our last wild
    places
    from
    destruction, improve our health, slow global warming and reduce our
    dependence
    on undemocratic regimes overseas. It's a no-brainer to anyone living
    outside
    the White House.

    But unless millions of Americans speak out right now, the enactment of
    the
    president's energy bill will doom us to an apocalyptic future of
    blighted
    wilderness, poisonous air pollution, devastating climate change and
    endless
    wars over fossil fuels.

    Please make your voice heard. Go to
    http://www.savebiogems.org/takeaction.asp?src=RR0401
    and tell your senators to obey the will of the American people, *not*
    the
    dictates of giant energy corporations! Call on Congress to create a
    sustainable
    and affordable energy path.

    And please be sure to forward this message to at least four other
    people.
    Believe me, millions of Americans are just waiting for a simple way to
    stop
    this madness and lend their support to a sane and hopeful energy
    future.

    Sincerely yours,

    Robert Redford
    Board of Trustees
    Natural Resources Defense Council

    . .

    Note: If you have any questions about this message, please write to us
    at
    membership@nrdc.org

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    My anger @ the chickenhawk freespending world ruining facists is only balanced by my excirtement of this bluebird afternoon @ Alta

    DONE & BUMP!
    ( although e-mailing UT Senators about stuff like this is like pissing in a resavoir to raise it. last time Bennett called me @ home to explain his position. admirable for a nuke energy lobbyist, I gues)

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    Angry Let's add this to the "to do" list:

    Dear MoveOn member,

    We didn't think the hypocrisy at CBS headquarters could get any worse. But it just did.

    As you know, CBS refused to run MoveOn Voter Fund's "Child's Pay" ad -- perhaps the most tasteful and uncontroversial advocacy ad in history -- during the Super Bowl. CBS executives claimed they had a blanket policy against all so-called "issue" ads.

    Yesterday, we learned that the network plans to broadcast an ad promoting the Bush Medicare prescription drug law. This is part of a $13 million taxpayer-financed TV campaign to take the heat off the White House for pushing through a drug plan that benefits drug companies and insurance companies more than Medicare recipients.

    The White House ad features the tagline "Same Medicare. More Benefits." But a report by Consumers Union last month said that most people covered by Medicare will wind up spending more for prescription drugs, as a result of the provisions in the law which favor drug companies. According to the Washington Post, the campaign is intended "to counteract Democratic criticism that changes to the (Medicare) program will harm older Americans."

    If that isn't a controversial issue ad, we don't know what is. But since CBS appears to be changing its policy, our Voter Fund has submitted our own Medicare ad which exposes the facts behind this spin campaign to run on CBS. So far, we haven't heard back. Please give CBS a call today to let them know that they need to either pull the White House ads or run ours.

    You can reach CBS at:

    Phone:
    CBS Comment Line
    (212) 975-3247

    Email:
    newmediasales@cbs.com

    Web form:
    CBS web form

    After you've called or emailed, please help us track the number of calls and emails that are pouring in by going to:
    MoveOnvoterfund.org

    We're spreading out the calls across a number of relevant CBS numbers, so hopefully you won't get a busy signal. Also, we have no quarrel with CBS News or any CBS journalists, who have actually given fair coverage to CBS Corporate's unfair decision. Please don't call the CBS news desk.

    There's another issue involved here that needs to be taken very seriously: if Bush's Medicare ad is intended to function as a campaign ad (and that clearly appears to be the case) then this may constitute a criminal election law violation. In fact, the ad company which made the ad which will air on CBS also works for the Bush/Cheney re-election committee. We've put in a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Health and Human Services to begin the process of establishing the facts in this case.

    For now, help us hold CBS accountable by asking them to stop running the Bush Medicare ad -- or to accept ours.

    Sincerely,
    --Adam, Carrie, Eli, James, Joan, Laura, Noah, Peter, Wes, and Zack
    The MoveOn.org Team
    February 5th, 2004

    P.S. Our friends at the Center for American Progress have done an incredible job documenting the links between the Bush administration, the ad company which is creating these Medicare ads, and the drug companies. Today's Progress Report is online at:Progress Report


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    bump, from the great white north.

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    The long hard slog of economic recovery continues, as the Labor Department announced that "just 112,000 new jobs" were created – "far fewer than expected" and "a disappointing report" on the whole. Although there was a modest job increase, "job gains were well short of the pace economists say is necessary to revive the battered labor market." Since the most recent recession 33 months ago, jobs have been created at the slowest rate since World War II. This is just part of a larger economic picture, including (according to the Economic Policy Institute) "the extended duration of the job slump, the slowing of wage growth to less than the rate of inflation, the fall of income for the lowest-paid Americans compared to the rise in income for top earners, the ‘missing labor force' excluded from unemployment counts, and the skewing of President Bush's policies toward higher-income tax relief and high federal deficits." The issue of deficits and deficit prediction isn't covered appropriately in the mainstream press, either, according to Berkeley economics professor and American Progress guest columnist Brad deLong.

    Halliburton, the oil company who has reaped billions of no-bid contracts since its CEO Dick Cheney became Vice President, has launched its second television ad in as many months attempting to whitewash its record. The ad features Halliburton CEO David Lesar leading off the commerical saying, "We're serving the troops because of what we know, not who we know." It was an incredible assertion, considering the company has received $2 billion in no-bid contracts (despite a history of repeatedly overcharging the federal government), and has not been punished for a "$6 million kickback scheme" or for allegedly overcharging the government while in Iraq – all while its former CEO (who has a financial interest in the company) just happens to be Vice President of the United States, and all while the company happens to be a major benefactor of the Administration in charge. See American Progress's backgrounder on Halliburton's dealings with the government.
    In the ad, the Halliburton CEO says, "Our employees are doing a great job. We're feeding the soldiers." It was a comment that echoed a previous Halliburton ad with images of soldiers being fed. Unfortunately, the portrayal overlooks a report that showed the Pentagon repeatedly admonished the company for feeding soldiers "dirty" food. The report said Halliburton's kitchens in Iraq had "blood all over the floor," "dirty pans," "dirty grills," "dirty salad bars" and "rotting meats ... and vegetables." And even while scrimping on the most basic sanitation, Halliburton still may be trying to pocket some extra cash. As the LA Times reports, the company "has potentially overcharged $27.4 million for meals served to troops." And while Lesar said Halliburton's privileged position in Iraq is not because of "who we know" – the fact is there has yet to be any serious punishment of Halliburton doled out by the Administration in the face of its behavior.
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    Oh yeah, and it was also in the news today that Bush is supporting a nominee to the 9th Circuit Court (that oversees most western public land issues) that is a radical anti-environmentalist (William Myers III). Ran in the Seattle Times today, but can't find the link.

    Trying to oppose Utah senators is worthless. Ultra Right Wing biggots listen to nobody. When I lived in UT, I received nothing but- "that is not my stance on the topic- because we should raid the environment, dig up Moab and give oil companies money" At least I'll get me some powder this weekend. Okay, i'm just pissed I had to work today.

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    I agree with everything from the "Redford Letter" except:

    "...build a new generation of risky nuclear power plants..."

    The electricity we use has to come from somewhere, and Nuclear Power is by far the safest form of practical electricity generation. Not one person has lost their life due to nuclear power in this country. The same can not be said for any other form.

    And due to the anti-nuclear lobby we are depending on 20 year old technology. So what's "risky" about building new ones?

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