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Big Media Has Big Plans for Privatizing the Internet

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Trish Nelson

  Big Media Has Big Plans for Privatizing the Internet The Nation   by Jeff Chester   The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet … Continue reading →

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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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Tampering During Certification Meeting: Jerry Depew’s 3rd and Final Report from Monday’s Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines Meeting

Posted on February 5, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Tampering During Certification Meeting: Jerry Depew's 3rd and Final Report from Monday's Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines Meeting by Jerry Depew, Laurens, Iowa Iowa Voters for Open and Transparent Elections Rewriting software is not for beginners. But what … Continue reading →

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Band of Brothers: A New Movement of Democratic Veterans

Posted on February 4, 2006 by Trish Nelson

  Band of Brothers:  A New Movement of Democratic  Veterans BandofBrothers2006.org contributed by Howard Weinberg We’ve heard about Iraq, terrorism, and security from every side. But there’s one group that we need to hear from the most, and in 2006 … Continue reading →

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Iowa Health Freedom Coalition Day at the Capitol Mon., Feb. 13

Posted on February 4, 2006 by bfialindathieman

  Iowa Health Freedom Coalition Day at the Capitol Monday, Feb. 13   The Iowa Health Freedom Coalition, http://www.IowaHealthFreedom.org, enthusiastically invites you to attend our Day at the Capitol for consumers and practitioners interested in the growth of the healing … Continue reading →

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More on Monday’s Meeting of the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines from Jerry Depew

Posted on February 3, 2006 by bfialindathieman

More on Monday's Meeting of the Iowa Board of Examiners for Voting Machines from Jerry Depew by Jerry Depew, Laurens, Iowa Iowa Voters for Open and Transparent Elections You would have to be blind not to see that the Automark … Continue reading →

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Ed Fallon: Culver, Other Dems “All Too Comfortable with Present System”

Posted on February 3, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Ed Fallon: Culver, Other Dems “All Too Comfortable with Present System” State Representative and gubernatorial candidate Ed Fallon (D-Des Moines) held a press conference at the Capitol today to show how Secretary of State Chet Culver’s campaign finance reports show … Continue reading →

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Iowa’s Voting Machines: Making Sausage and Counting Votes

Posted on February 2, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Iowa's Voting Machines: Making Sausage and Counting Votes This just in from the Great Northwest – Iowa, that is.  Lots of wind, not too many people.  However, there is one fine fellow over here, Jerry Depew of Laurens, who has … 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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