Category Archives: Big Government

Where Has Health Freedom Gone in Iowa? WHO Radio, Feb. 7

Posted on February 6, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Where Has Health Freedom Gone in Iowa? WHO Radio, Feb. 7 Iowa Health Freedom on Jan Mickelson Show Feb. 7 WHO Talk Radio with Jan Mickelson. Channel AM 1040. Feb. 7, Tues. 10:00 AM. Where has Health Freedom … Continue reading →

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EPA SAYS ALL IS FORGIVEN FOR SOME ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIORS’ AIR POLLUTION SINS

Posted on February 5, 2006 by bfiamollyreagan

EPA SAYS ALL IS FORGIVEN FOR SOME ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIORS' AIR POLLUTION SINS This week's IOWA Public TV program “Market To Market” just reported: “In what's being hailed as a major step forward, the US Environmental Protection Agency kicked off … Continue reading →

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Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution” to the Nuclear Waste Problem

Posted on February 1, 2006 by bfiacarolinevernon

Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution”
to the Nuclear Waste Problem

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

This program is central to the Bush administration’s efforts to jump-start the moribund nuclear power industry.

Statement of Mary Olson, NIRS Campaign to Stop Reprocessing. Director of NIRS southeast office:

“[George W.] Bush’s misguided obsession with nuclear power has reached a critical and dangerous juncture. The administration has been desperate to find a nuclear waste solution in order to resuscitate the moribund and unpopular nuclear power industry by moving forward quickly on the scientifically-flawed Yucca Mountain waste dump in Nevada. Instead it has found itself spinning its wheels in the mire of Yucca Mountain’s geologic instability and the scandal of covering up these data. Faced with an industry impatient to move its on-site waste, the administration is now clutching at a new nuclear straw.”

“Its latest scheme is reprocessing of irradiated commercial fuel, one of the dirtiest and most proliferation-vulnerable processes in the nuclear fuel chain. Abandoned in this country for more than 30 years, countries where it has been done – including Britain, France and Russia – are now reaping its hideous environmental legacy of contamination and disease.”

“The price tag in dollars – as well as in health impacts – will be enormous if this country is allowed to venture back down the reprocessing road. The only U.S. commercial reprocessing site ever to operate – in West Valley, New York – is projected to cost more than $5 billion to clean up despite reprocessing only a fraction of the waste sent there between 1966 and 1972. Now Congress has awarded the U.S. Department of Energy $50 million of our money to set this debacle in motion once again although the totals are likely to reach the hundreds of billions of dollars.”

“The existing nuclear reactors around the globe are already sitting-duck terrorist targets. Separating plutonium from nuclear power waste fuel – as reprocessing does – simply sets up new and inviting opportunities for terrorists to seize fissile, bomb-capable materials. Support for a reprocessing program makes a mockery of statements coming out of this administration that protecting the American people from terrorism is paramount. Instead, it will put more Americans in harm’s way.”

Reprocessing Is Not the “Solution” to the Nuclear Waste Problem

The Radioactive Waste Burden

Splitting atoms to make electricity has created an enormous problem: waste containing 95% of the toxic radioactivity produced during the Atomic Age. Nuclear weapons production, industrial activity, research and medicine combined, create only 5% of this problem.
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U of Iowa Students/Faculty Dismayed by Regents’ Power Grab; Event on Monday

Posted on January 28, 2006 by bfialindathieman

U of Iowa Students/Faculty Dismayed by Regents' Power Grab by Linda Thieman Iowa City faculty/staff/student event planned for this Monday, January 30, at 3:30pm, Terrace Room (Room 166) of the Iowa Memorial Union to share their commitment to self-determination With … Continue reading →

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Iowa v. Pro-choice Laws

Posted on January 22, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Iowa v. Pro-choice Laws NARAL Pro-choice America NARAL Pro-choice America Foundation gives Iowa a “C” when it comes to laws that enable a woman’s right to control her own body, with only 5 percent of Iowa counties actually providing … Continue reading →

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The Politics of Domestic Spying

Posted on January 21, 2006 by Trish Nelson

The Politics of Domestic Spying The Daily Iowan by Nicholas Johnson (used with permission) Nicholas Johnson, who held three presidential appointments in the federal government during the 1960s and 1970s, now teaches communications law at the UI College of … Continue reading →

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Civil Liberties Groups File Lawsuits Over Domestic Spying

Posted on January 17, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Civil Liberties Groups File Lawsuits Over Domestic Spying Muslim American Society NEW YORK, Jan 17 – Civil liberties groups fired double-barreled lawsuits at George W. Bush, challenging the legality of his domestic eavesdropping program and demanding its immediate suspension. The … Continue reading →

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Al Gore: A Consitution in Crisis

Posted on January 17, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Al Gore: A Consitution in Crisis AlterNet.org Gore Accuses Bush of Breaking the Law by Authorizing Spying The following is the text of a speech delivered by Al Gore in Washington, D.C. yesterday, January 16, 2006. The former vice … Continue reading →

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A Call to Action on Samuel Alito

Posted on January 13, 2006 by bfiacarolinevernon

A Call To Action – Judge Samuel Alito by Caroline Vernon Progressive Action for the Common Good http://www.qcprogressiveaction.org Calling all Progressive Activists…. Judge Samuel Alito threatens individual rights and hides his far right views—he is not in the mainstream of … Continue reading →

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Pentagon Keeps Database of Youthful War Talent

Posted on January 7, 2006 by Trish Nelson

Pentagon Keeps Database of Youthful War Talent MinutemanMedia.Org by Jim Hightower Hey, youngsters – Uncle Sam not only wants you, he's got your number! Not yet sure what you want to do in life? Why not get paid and see … Continue reading →

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