Category Archives: National News

What You Can Do To Ensure Reliable Elections in Iowa

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Trish Nelson

What You Can Do To Ensure Reliable Elections in Iowa OpEdNews Last Thursday, Blog for Iowa asked you to contact your state representatives in Des Moines to demand verifiable elections in Iowa. Today, we are asking Blog for Iowa … Continue reading →

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ETHICS HALL OF SHAME

Posted on February 10, 2006 by bfiacarolinevernon

ETHICS HALL OF SHAME From publiccitizen.orgAn unprecedented wave of corruption, cronyism and special-interest sleaze has gripped our nation’s capital in recent years. To bring greater public attention to the individuals involved in these ethics scandals – in the hope … Continue reading →

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Nussle Uses False Arguments to Defend Soaring Federal Deficits

Posted on February 7, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Nussle Uses False Arguments to Defend Soaring Federal Deficits IowaDemocrats.org Nussle Claims 9/11 is to Blame; Facts Show Tax Cuts, Increased Spending Are the Real Cause DES MOINES – Jim Nussle once again tried to justify soaring budget deficits to … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Goodbye to Local News

Posted on January 30, 2006 by bfiaarronwings

Goodbye to Local News MediaCitizen By Timothy Karr In a final act of defiance, the anchor at Honolulu Fox affiliate KHON-2 gives management a piece of his mind, before they pull the plug. THE BIGGEST THREAT to the type … Continue reading →

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Call Harkin and Urge Him to Support a Filibuster

Posted on January 29, 2006 by bfialindathieman

Call Harkin and Urge Him to Support a Filibuster Mike Ganzeveld from the Green Tea Blog posted this in the Blog for Iowa comments yesterday: Tom Harkin is on the fence right now trying to decided whether or not he … Continue reading →

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Bush Job Approval Ratings Take Another Dive

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Trish Nelson

Bush Job Approval Ratings Take Another Dive American Research Group, Inc. If it's not on TV, is it real? You would never know this if you get your news from television, but “W” is not doing so well with the … Continue reading →

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The Congressman and Abramoff (as told by Dr Seuss)

Posted on January 25, 2006 by bfiacarolinevernon

The Congressman and Abramoff (As Told by Dr. Seuss) Thanks to Jim Nickel for sharing this. That Abramoff!That Abramoff!I do not like that Abramoff!“Would you like to play some golf?”I do not want to play some golf.I do not want … Continue reading →

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