[CTRL] Fwd: Prosecutions of DeLay and Cunningham Converge
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: December 15, 2005 11:45:20 PM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Prosecutions of DeLay and Cunningham Converge DeLay and The Duke: Together At Last http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/13/delay-and-the-dukeThe prosecutions of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) for money laundering and former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham for bribery have finally converged: A Texas prosecutor has issued subpoenas for bank records and other information of a defense contractor involved in the bribery case of a California congressman as part of the investigation of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.District Attorney Ronnie Earle issued subpoenas late Monday afternoon for California businessmen Brent Wilkes and Max Gelwix, records of Perfect Wave Technologies LLC, Wilkes Corp. and ADCS Inc. in connection with a contribution to a fundraising committee at the center of the investigation that led to DeLay’s indictment on money laundering charges.Who’s Brent Wilkes? Former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham resigned in late November after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes to steer defense contracts to companies…Wilkes, head of Wilkes Corp., is one of four unnamed coconspirators listed in Cunningham’s plea agreement.Wilkes and DeLay had a very cozy relationship: Wilkes’ company also hired Alexander Strategies, a consulting firm that employed DeLay’s wife Christine. His private jet company, Group W Transportation, provided flights to DeLay three times.Small world. Very small. = www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: God And Caesar in America
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: December 15, 2005 11:20:36 PM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: God And Caesar in America God And Caesar in America: An Essay on Religion and Politics (Paperback)by Former Senator Gary HartBUZZFLASH REVIEWShttp://www.wingsofjustice.com/05/12/woj05027.html Former Colorado Senator Gary Hart has written the most compelling, cogent contemporary treatise for the separation of church and state in America that we have come across. Titled "God and Caesar in America: An Essay on Religion and Politics," Hart's work is in the tradition of Tom Paine.This is a trenchant, earnest commentary that combines Hart's personal experience as a child raised in a Church of the Nazarene household (he attended a Nazarene College), his years as a Yale Divinity student, and his career as a Yale Law School educated attorney and elected politician. Although his faith-based upbringing combined with his years as a national leader in the Senate provide him with a unique perspective, it is the eloquent, impassioned analysis that Hart applies to the interjection of religion into politics that makes his short book so insightful.Hart can move from analyzing the deplorable manner in which right wing ministers hold Jesus hostage to achieve their own selfish political goals to the historical factors behind the separation of church and state that were enshrined into our Constitution by our founding fathers. More importantly, Hart makes a moral and practical case as to why mixing religion with politics is detrimental to both."Our founders knew that we would be governed by fallible human beings," Hart concludes, "from among whom we would select our leaders. They did not believe that human fallibility in the political sphere would be corrected by opening the corridors of power to ministers, priests and rabbis. To the contrary, to turn over the reigns of government to religious leaders could lead to one of only two destructive consequences: we would become a theocratic principality familiar to old Europe -- or religion would be totally discredited and taken over by the state.""Indeed, how can religious judgment all seem to be rendered against one political party?" Hart asks in a chapter called, "Beliefs, Values and Justice." "The 'values' employed are very partisan values. All this religious partisanship is a very short step away from preaching that Jesus was a member of one political party.""This kind of political activity may encourage one party," Hart continues, "and its candidates, but it certainly does nothing to further the gospel of Jesus."Indeed, in the original debates over the Constitution, one of the reasons religion was guaranteed the right to be free of the influence of politics -- and politics to be kept free of religion -- was that once a specific religious faction took control of politics, that religion itself would eventually become corrupted by the secular, practical concerns of the political sphere.Hart convincingly argues that religious values, as seen by a member of any faith, should be practiced in deed in the public sphere, but that absolutist religious principles have no place in the political world of the American democracy.Because of the absolutist nature of the religious right, we have seen less and less compromise in American politics. "This circumstance has been created in no small part by the introduction of absolutes, especially 'faith-based' absolutes, into a political system where no single group gets everything that it demands and often does not even get one thing it wants unblemished by compromise."Hart is optimistic that the pendulum will swing back to the heritage of our Constitutional wisdom creating the separation of church and state: "Politicians hiding behind the robes of ministers, policy makers courting a vociferous religious element, adventurers cloaking foreign military ventures in the crusader's rhetoric, political manipulators cynically using public fears to turn out voters all will be swept back into our nation's nooks and crannies from whence they emerged. This must happen, because otherwise, America cannot be governed.""God and Caesar in America" is a profound and vitally important reflection on the danger to our democracy posed by religious fanatics who have seized control of our government. This is a must-read book for anyone concerned about the Mullah fundamentalists who have hijacked this nation.= www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the
[CTRL] Fwd: More Proof of Presidential VoteScam
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: December 15, 2005 11:06:09 PM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: More Proof of Presidential VoteScam http://www.bradblog.com/archives/2156.htm Leon County, FL to Dump Diebold After Undetectable Hack Reverses Test Election! Results Completely Flipped Despite Diebold Swearing That It Couldn't be Done! Election Supervisor Requests Funds to Replace Diebold in County, Says 'We will never use Diebold in an election again'The bad news keeps rolling in for Diebold. But that is hopefully good news for democracy and America! And it doesn't get any plainer than this stunning report from election... Even as the beleaguered American Voting Machine company smarts from yesterday's filing of a securities fraud class action suit a test election was carried out on Diebold voting machinery in Leon County, Florida. Diebold's security measures failed miserably and were easily defeated by a hack performed by a computer security professional on a Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Machine and Central Tabulator.In a post yesterday about the test and its remarkable results, BBV's Jim March gave this stunning summary of what happened: Due to security design issues and contractual non-performance, Leon County supervisor of elections Ion Sancho told Black Box Voting that he will never use Diebold in an election again. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from the county. He will issue a formal announcement to this effect shortly. Finnish security expert Harri Hursti proved that Diebold lied to Secretaries of State across the nation when it claimed votes could not be changed on the memory card. A test election was run in Leon County today with a total of eight ballots - six ballots voted "no" on a ballot question as to whether Diebold voting machines can be hacked or not. Two ballots, cast by Dr. Herbert Thomson and by Harri Hursti voted "yes" indicating a belief that the Diebold machines could be hacked.At the beginning of the test election the memory card programmed by Harri Hursti was inserted into an Optical Scan Diebold voting machine. A "zero report" was run indicating zero votes on the memory card. In fact, however, Hursti had pre-loaded the memory card with plus and minus votes.The eight ballots were run through the optical scan machine. The standard Diebold-supplied "ender card" was run through as is normal procedure ending the election. A results tape was run from the voting machine.Correct results should have been: Yes:2 No:6However the results tape read: Yes:7 No:1The results were then uploaded from the optical scan voting machine into the GEMS central tabulator. The central tabulator is the "mothership" that pulls in all votes from voting machines. The results in the central tabulator read: Yes:7 No:1This proves that the votes themselves were changed in a one-step process that would not be detected in any normal canvassing procedure - using only a credit-card sized memory card. Diebold Elections Systems head of research and development Pat Green specifically told the Cuyahoga County [OH] board of elections that votes could not be changed on the memory card.According to Public Records responses obtained by Black Box Voting in response to our requests shows that Diebold promulgated this misrepresentation to as many as 800 state and local elections officials.March added later, "this was all done without getting any passwords for any system. All we had was the same degree of physical access that any mid-to-high level elections staffer or official would have."Case closed? One would think so! But remarkably, states and counties around the country are still entering into contracts with this company to count your votes in upcoming elections!Be sure to let California's Sec. of State know about this latest knews, as well as your local Elections Board! Otherwise, these machines may well be coming to a hacked election near you!UPDATE: John Cole points out that Leon County is one of "those" counties from FL 2000!UPDATE 12/15/05: The Leon County hack story has now been reported by the actual mainstream media! Go figure! See coverage of the AP report here and a terrific article from Miami Herald here. A preview: Both Diebold and the state of Florida are now frantically scrambling to try and cover their asses over all of this!(Thanks John Gideon for the assist!) = www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary
[CTRL] Fwd: Under Rumsfeld, Posse Comitatus Dead and Then Some
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: gt; gt; MSNBC.com gt; gt; Is the Pentagon gt; spying on Americans? gt; gt; Secret database obtained by NBC News gt; tracks ‘suspicious’ domestic groups gt; gt; By Lisa Myers, Douglas Pasternak, Rich Gardella gt; and the NBC Investigative Unit gt; Dec. 14, 2005 gt; gt; gt; WASHINGTON - A year ago, at a Quaker Meeting House in Lake Worth, gt; Fla., a gt; small group of activists met to plan a protest of military gt; recruiting at local gt; high schools. What they didn't know was that their meeting had come gt; to the gt; attention of the U.S. military. gt; A secret 400-page Defense Department document obtained by NBC News gt; lists the gt; Lake Worth meeting as a “threat” and one of more than 1,500 gt; “suspicious gt; incidents” across the country over a recent 10-month period. gt; “This peaceful, educationally oriented group being a threat is gt; incredible,” gt; says Evy Grachow, a member of the Florida group called The Truth gt; Project. gt; “This is incredible,” adds group member Rich Hersh. “It's an gt; example of gt; paranoia by our government,” he says. “We're not doing anything gt; illegal.” gt; The Defense Department document is the first inside look at how the gt; U.S. gt; military has stepped up intelligence collection inside this country gt; since 9/11, gt; which now includes the monitoring of peaceful anti-war and counter- gt; military gt; recruitment groups. gt; “I think Americans should be concerned that the military, in fact, has gt; reached too far,” says NBC News military analyst Bill Arkin. gt; The Department of Defense declined repeated requests by NBC News gt; for an gt; interview. A spokesman said that all domestic intelligence gt; information is “properly gt; collected” and involves “protection of Defense Department gt; installations, gt; interests and personnel.” The military has always had a legitimate gt; “force gt; protection” mission inside the U.S. to protect its personnel and gt; facilities from gt; potential violence. But the Pentagon now collects domestic gt; intelligence that goes gt; beyond legitimate concerns about terrorism or protecting U.S. military gt; installations, say critics. gt; Four dozen anti-war meetings gt; The DOD database obtained by NBC News includes nearly four dozen gt; anti-war gt; meetings or protests, including some that have taken place far from gt; any military gt; installation, post or recruitment center. One “incident” included gt; in the gt; database is a large anti-war protest at Hollywood and Vine in Los gt; Angeles last gt; March that included effigies of President Bush and anti-war protest gt; banners. gt; Another incident mentions a planned protest against military gt; recruiters last gt; December in Boston and a planned protest last April at McDonald’s gt; National Salute gt; to America’s Heroes — a military air and sea show in Fort gt; Lauderdale, Fla. gt; The Fort Lauderdale protest was deemed not to be a credible threat gt; and a gt; column in the database concludes: “US group exercising gt; constitutional rights.” gt; 243 other incidents in the database were discounted because they gt; had no gt; connection to the Department of Defense — yet they all remained in gt; the database. gt; The DOD has strict guidelines adopted in December 1982, that limit gt; the extent gt; to which they can collect and retain information on U.S. citizens. gt; Still, the DOD database includes at least 20 references to U.S. gt; citizens or gt; U.S. persons. Other documents obtained by NBC News show that the gt; Defense gt; Department is clearly increasing its domestic monitoring gt; activities. One DOD gt; briefing document stamped “secret” concludes: “[W]e have noted gt; increased gt; communication and encouragement between protest groups using the [I] gt; nternet,” but no “ gt; significant connection” between incidents, such as “reoccurring gt; instigators at gt; protests” or “vehicle descriptions.” gt; The increased monitoring disturbs some military observers. gt; “It means that they’re actually collecting information about who’s gt; at those gt; protests, the descriptions of vehicles at those protests,” says gt; Arkin. “On gt; the domestic level, this is unprecedented,” he says. “I think it's the gt; beginning of enormous problems and enormous mischief for the gt; military.” gt; Some former senior DOD intelligence officials share his concern. gt; George Lotz, gt; a 30-year career DOD official and former U.S. Air Force colonel, gt; held the gt; post of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence gt; Oversight from gt; 1998 until his retirement last May. Lotz, who recently began a gt; consulting gt; business to help train and educate intelligence agencies and gt; improve oversight of gt; their collection process, believes some of the information the DOD gt; has been gt; collecting is not justified. gt; Make
[CTRL] Fwd: Feds Cooking the Books (Should USA Inc Be AUDITED?)
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Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: December 15, 2005 11:12:19 PM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Feds "Cooking the Books" (Should "USA Inc" Be AUDITED?) GAO faults U.S. financial reportingBy Robert Schroeder, MarketWatchLast Update: 4:03 PM ET Dec. 15, 2005 http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?guid={4F40C814-5788-4642-A4ED-0769B5765223}siteid=myyahoodist=myyahooWASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. government didn't maintain effective controls over financial reporting in the latest fiscal year, potentially skewering the accuracy of federal financial statements, a congressional investigative group found. In a letter to President Bush and Congress, Comptroller General of the United States David Walker said government accountants found "material deficiencies" in the federal government's financial statements for 2005 and 2004. "The federal government did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting...and compliance with significant laws and regulations as of September 30, 2005," wrote Walker, who heads the Government Accountability Office. Walker said there were three major obstacles to evaluating the latest financial statements. First, he said, there were "serious financial management problems" at the Department of Defense. Second, the federal government could not adequately account for balances between federal agencies. Lastly he criticized the government's "ineffective process" for preparing its consolidated financial statements. Walker's letter was contained in the Financial Report of the United States Government for 2005. Walker also sounded a much more critical note about the country's long-term fiscal outlook than did Treasury Secretary John Snow in his own letter. "While deficits are never welcome," Snow wrote, "the 2005 deficit of $319 billion, when expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product, was lower than the deficits in 16 of the last 25 years." But, Walker said, "while the fiscal year 2005 budget deficit was lower than 2004, it was still very high, especially given the impending retirement of the 'baby boom' generation and rising health care costs." Walker also warned that the government must engineer "significant changes" in both spending and revenue to keep long-term deficits from impairing federal resources. Robert Schroeder is a reporter for MarketWatch in Washington. Copyright © 2005 MarketWatch, Inc. All rights reserved.=
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[CTRL] Fwd: Bread, beans, rice -- Patent Pending
-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: December 15, 2005 11:39:27 PM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Bread, beans, rice -- "Patent Pending""One of the most notorious cases of "biopiracy" was the 1997 patent awarded to RiceTec Inc of Texas for basmati, the popular aromatic rice of South Asia. The patent could not have been challenged if not for unrelenting pressure from seed activists."This year, there comes word that a group of scientists is applying for a patent on jasmine rice. They claim to have traced that rice's distinctive scent to a non-functional gene. "But surely no government would award a patent on something as natural as RICE simply because someone mapped a gene in it --and a gene that doesn't work, for that matter --- or would they?" The Gene Rush By Stan CoxAlterNet, December 14, 2005http://www.alternet.org/story/29532/As biotech crops blanket more and more of the countryside, America's organic farmers are struggling to keep their crops organic. The natural tendency of pollen and seed to wander from field to field, along with improved genetic-detection methods, have made it harder than ever to produce organic food that can be labeled as free of patented, engineered genes.So in 2002, a group of plant breeders led by scientists at Cornell University set out to breed organic corn varieties with built-in protection against stray genes.To do so, they took advantage of a well-known, naturally occurring gene, GaS, that inhibits fertilization of a corn plant by uninvited pollen. It looked like a neat way to keep patented pollen out of the organic gene pool, but there was one hitch.The key to the breeders' plan, the GaS gene, was patented.Last April, Nebraska seedcorn company Hoegemeyer Hybrids was awarded United States Patent 6,875,905, entitled "Method of producing field corn seed and plants." It described the use of GaS to block foreign corn pollen. When I asked Tom Hoegemeyer, chief technology officer of his family's company, how he first hit upon the idea, he said, "There was no particular flash of insight. It just occurred to me back in '95 or thereabouts. I remembered reading about it back in grad school."But members of the Cornell team don't understand how patent examiners ever could have approved the application. They say the gene GaS is extremely common in tropical corn varieties, that it has been transferred many times into US strains, and that the idea has been published in the scientific literature.Novelty and "non-obviousness" have always been two essential characteristics of a patentable idea. But the use of GaS, says Frank Kutka, who worked on the project as a Cornell graduate student, "is not novel and is perfectly obvious."He points to an article published exactly 50 years ago in Agronomy Journal, then the premiere journal of agricultural research. In that paper, an Iowa State University scientist described the use of GaS for virtually the same purposes that are described in the Hoegemeyer patent.But until someone invests considerable time and money to challenge the GaS patent, it will stay on the books.Hoegemeyer's is only the latest in a long parade of patents laying claim to naturally occurring plants and genes. In 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the validity of patents on crop varieties and all of their parts, including pollen, egg cells and genes. The effect of the Court's opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, was to declare the agricultural gene pool open to genetic prospectors. And the rush is on.Bean counters and melon squeezersIn the world of patents, novelty is supposed to be king. Many of today's genetic patents demonstrate cleverness -- no argument there -- but too often it's the cleverness of the poacher, not the inspiration of the inventor.In one widely discussed case, a Colorado business executive named Larry Proctor obtained a patent on a yellow version of the common dry bean. To come up with his "invention," he pulled a few yellow specimens out of a bag of normal-colored beans bought in a Mexican market. After growing plants and selecting among them for a few generations (a generally ineffective way to breed beans), Proctor applied successfully to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.The 1999 patent covers much more than his own variety of bean. If you want to market any beans with a similar shade of yellow in the United States, the patent requires that you get a license from Proctor. Proctor has brought lawsuits to defend his claim, but as of July 2005, his family professed never to have collected a penny.News of Proctor's patent caused more than a little bafflement in Latin America, where people have been growing, trading, cooking and eating yellow beans for millenia. Indeed, Proctor's beans are almost identical genetically to yellow varieties from Mexico. Despite protests, the patent continues in effect.Shamrock Seed Co. of California wants to patent a
[CTRL] NJ sex-abuse suit shield, Fired priest sues
-Caveat Lector- 12/12/05 - N.J. close to lifting sex-abuse suit shield - Assembly's OK would all but make bill law, allowing assault victims to sue churches, charities by Jeffrey Gold Associated Press - Trenton - "Legislation that would allow childhood victims of sexual assault to sue churches, schools and other nonprofits for the actions of their employees is scheduled for a vote today in the state Assembly. The measure is opposed by the Roman Catholic Church, but if passed in the Assembly is likely to become law, since acting Gov. Richard J. Codey already voted for it in his role in the state Senate when it passed that house in May 2004, said a sponsor, Sen. Joseph F. Vitale, D-Middlesex." http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051212/NEWS02/512120310/1123/NEWS01 Fired priest sues Cardinal Egan for $5M by Carol Eisenberg 12/16/05 "A Newark priest has sued New York Cardinal Edward Egan and several other top church officials for $5 million, contending that he was terminated as a school director in 2003 for speaking out against bishops' cover-ups of clergy sex abuse. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by the Rev. Robert Hoatson in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, also alleges that Egan, along with Newark Archbishop John J. Myers and Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard, are "active homosexuals," who protected predatory priests out of fear those men might reveal their own secrets. While the suit claims that Hoatson "has personal knowledge" of the prelates' sexual activity, it provides no evidence to back that up. Hoatson's lawyer, John A. Aretakis, said Thursday several priests have agreed to provide "first-hand evidence of the sexual proclivities of the men we have mentioned when they are subpoenaed and put under oath." Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for Egan, dismissed the allegations as "not only false, but libelous and malicious. There's not a word of truth to this."" http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-egan1216,0,5816934,print.story?coll=nyc-homepage-breaking2 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=""ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] It's time to start drilling in ANWR(The Arctic National WASTELAND Reserve)
-Caveat Lector- back to anwr.org Its time to support ANWR drilling Americas anti-oil policies are hurting jobs, prosperity and the poor. Political policy writer Paul Driessen of the Congress of Racial Equality and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise writes very directly on the merits of ANWR and the nonsensical arguments of environmentalists and obstructionists in Congress against it. Read Paul Driessens piece below. The budget reconciliation bill recently passed by the US Senate would finally open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling. Environmentalists are outraged, while most Democrats in the House of Representatives plan to go against their constituents best interests by voting against drilling. Sadly, thats to be expected. Whats amazing is that a number of House Republicans are likewise saying they intend to vote to lock up ANWRS vast energy resources. Theyre supposed to understand market forces and energy economics at least better than their colleagues across the aisle. And yet they are planning to cast nay votes precisely when global demand for petroleum is soaring, energy prices are reaching all-time highs, and winter heating bills will make it increasingly difficult for poor people to heat and eat. That any responsible member of Congress could vote against this energy development legislation underscores the ideological blinders worn by drilling opponents, the vast misinformation that still dictates discussions about this issue, and the refusal of elected officials even to acknowledge the cumulative effects of environmental protection rules enacted over many decades much less do anything about them. Many votes against drilling will come from California, Northeastern and Midwestern legislators who have made a career of railing against high energy prices, obscene oil company profits, unemployment and balance of trade deficits while simultaneously doing everything possible to constrict supplies, increase demand and drive up prices. For instance, air quality rules coupled with a virtual prohibition on building new nuclear plants mean that most new electrical generating plants are gas-fired. So demand for natural gas continues to climb, while domestic supplies continue to decrease. But these same legislators have consistently opposed natural gas (and oil) development in Alaska, off the East Coast, off the Florida coast, along the Pacific Coast, in the Great Lakes, throughout the western states, and in any other areas where petroleum might actually be found. They apparently believe its OK to drill in other countries, even in sensitive areas in other countries. Its likewise appropriate to buy crude from oil-rich dictators (especially when offered at a discount by Venezuelan despots), send American jobs and dollars overseas, reduce US royalty and tax revenues, imperil industries that depend on petroleum, and blanket habitats with ecologically friendly wind turbines and solar panels. However, drilling in the USA, even for natural gas, is strictly verboten. This is truly political theater of the absurd. ANWR, government geologists say, could hold up to 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Thats 30 years of imports from Saudi Arabia. Turned into gasoline, it would power Californias entire vehicle fleet for some 50 years. The areas natural gas could fuel Florida, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin generating plants for a decade or more. At $50 a barrel, ANWR crude would eliminate the need to import $800 billion worth of foreign oil, create up to 700,000 American jobs, and generate hundreds of billions in royalties and taxes. Bringing this oil online would have another vital benefit. As Prudhoe Bay and nearby oil reserves decline, a point will be reached where there isnt enough to keep the Trans-Alaska Pipeline running at capacity. That would mean enormous quantities of otherwise recoverable oil will be left in the ground, instead of fueling our economy. New supplies from ANWR would ensure that our oil lifeline remains open. But all that is irrelevant, insist environmental purists in and out of Congress. Energy development would irreparably destroy the refuge, they assert. Caribou droppings. ANWR covers 19 million acres, an area equivalent to South Carolina. Of this, only 2,000 acres scattered in small parcels across the coastal plain would actually be disturbed by drilling and development, thanks to modern directional drilling technologies. Thats 0.01% of the refuge, one-twentieth of Washington, DC or 20 of the buildings Boeing uses to manufacture 747 jets! The potentially oil-rich area is flat, treeless tundra 3,500 miles from DC and 50 miles from the beautiful mountains seen in all the deliberately misleading anti-drilling photos. During eight months of winter, when drilling would take place, virtually no wildlife are present. Only oil field workers are crazy enough to remain outdoors when temperatures drop to minus 40 F, the tundra turns
Re: [CTRL] The american Petroleum Institute supports ANWR(The Arctic National WASTELAND Reserve
-Caveat Lector- Thew sets up a straw man argument. IN no way will anwr be able to pump enough to supply to entire US. At most 1 maybe 1.5 million barrels/day (the capacity of the exiting pipline system) so 1. million barrels/day out of an estimated 10.5 Billion Barrels (at 1997 technology, and $27/bbl with 7 years of advancement in technology and $60/bbl probably a whole lot more available) will certainly last a whole lot longer than thew false straw man argument. Remember:More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than have died in United States Commercial Nuclear Power plant operations visit my web site at http://www.info-quest.org Visit my energy page at http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html Check out the latest on the anwr drilling project http://www.anwr.org visit my blog at http://info-spectrum.blogspot.com My ICQ# is 79071904 See the Pledge of alleginace to the flag that the 9th circuit court of appeals doesn't want you to say. for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.info-quest.org/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:30:16 -0500 From: thew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ctrl] The american Petroleum Institute supports ANWR(The Arctic National Wasteland Reserve) i made no statement about the impact of drilling, so it would be hard for me to have exagerated it, grossly or otherwise. as to a long time, i guess that's a point of view call. We consume over 20 million barrels a day ( the latest figure i found on a quick internet search was 20,517,000 per day) that works out to 7.488.705,000 barrels a year. so if we use your conservative figure that is a year and a half of oil. even if we use your higher figure that works out to less than 6 years worth of oil. and all these numbers are contingent on out oil consumption staying at the same level - which it has never done. not really all that much oil. a million barrels a day is less than 5% of our consumption. that is why i don't think it's a worthwhile tradeoff. it doesn't solve our problems. It barely impacts our problems. It is mere window dressing, so the oil companies can pretend there isn't a real problem to deal with, while they rake in record profits as our population has to make choices like heat the home or feed the kids. On Dec 16, 2005, at 12:50 PM, William A. Bacon wrote: Thew grossly exagerates the impact of drilling, the oil industry requires only 2,000 acres out of 19 million acres in that artic WASTELAND the poulation of caribou increased from 5,000 to 21,000 after the current alaska pipeline was built. and at a withdrawal rate of a 1million barrels /day 10.3 billion barrels (minimum estimate otimistic estimate of 43.3 billion barrels at 1997 technology and pric of $27/bbl see http://www.anwr.org ) anwr would last a long time. Bill Bacon Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/U6CDDD/izNLAA/cUmLAA/zgSolB/TM ~- www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance?not soap-boxing?please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'?with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds?is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. CTRL@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Om Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance???not soap-boxing???please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'???with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds???is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what
Re: [CTRL] The american Petroleum Institute supports ANWR(The Arctic National WASTELAND Reserve (fwd)
-Caveat Lector- Why do you think thew is so desperate to keep us dependent on OPEC oil? Remember:More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than have died in United States Commercial Nuclear Power plant operations visit my web site at http://www.info-quest.org Visit my energy page at http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html Check out the latest on the anwr drilling project http://www.anwr.org visit my blog at http://info-spectrum.blogspot.com My ICQ# is 79071904 See the Pledge of alleginace to the flag that the 9th circuit court of appeals doesn't want you to say. for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.info-quest.org/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:39:36 -0500 From: thew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ctrl] The american Petroleum Institute supports ANWR(The Arctic National WASTELAND Reserve perhaps you did not read the end of my post. here it is again: a million barrels a day is less than 5% of our consumption. that is why i don't think it's a worthwhile tradeoff. it doesn't solve our problems. It barely impacts our problems. It is mere window dressing, so the oil companies can pretend there isn't a real problem to deal with, while they rake in record profits as our population has to make choices like heat the home or feed the kids. You are arguing against yourself here. a million barrels a day will do NOTHING to ease our energy problems. less than 5% of our daily needs is not enough of a payoff, for me, to go into a wildlife preserve. If you told me it would supply 75% our needs for a hundred years, i would agree with you - drill. But the payoff is not worth the cost. Let's get back to your original post - why should i care that a petroleum concern is pro-drilling? Don't you think their naked self- interest outweighs their objectivity? On Dec 16, 2005, at 6:16 PM, William A. Bacon wrote: Thew sets up a straw man argument. IN no way will anwr be able to pump enough to supply to entire US. At most 1 maybe 1.5 million barrels/day (the capacity of the exiting pipline system) so 1. million barrels/ day out of an estimated 10.5 Billion Barrels (at 1997 technology, and $27/ bbl with 7 years of advancement in technology and $60/bbl probably a whole lot more available) will certainly last a whole lot longer than thew false straw man argument. Remember:More people have died in Ted Kennedy's car than have died in United States Commercial Nuclear Power plant operations visit my web site at http://www.info-quest.org Visit my energy page at http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html Check out the latest on the anwr drilling project http://www.anwr.org visit my blog at http://info-spectrum.blogspot.com My ICQ# is 79071904 See the Pledge of alleginace to the flag that the 9th circuit court of appeals doesn't want you to say. for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.info-quest.org/Enumerated.html -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:30:16 -0500 From: thew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ctrl] The american Petroleum Institute supports ANWR(The Arctic National Wasteland Reserve) i made no statement about the impact of drilling, so it would be hard for me to have exagerated it, grossly or otherwise. as to a long time, i guess that's a point of view call. We consume over 20 million barrels a day ( the latest figure i found on a quick internet search was 20,517,000 per day) that works out to 7.488.705,000 barrels a year. so if we use your conservative figure that is a year and a half of oil. even if we use your higher figure that works out to less than 6 years worth of oil. and all these numbers are contingent on out oil consumption staying at the same level - which it has never done. not really all that much oil. a million barrels a day is less than 5% of our consumption. that is why i don't think it's a worthwhile tradeoff. it doesn't solve our problems. It barely impacts our problems. It is mere window dressing, so the oil companies can pretend there isn't a real problem to deal with, while they rake in record profits as our population has to make choices like heat the home or feed the kids. On Dec 16, 2005, at 12:50 PM, William A. Bacon wrote: Thew grossly exagerates the impact of drilling, the oil industry requires only 2,000 acres out of 19 million acres in that artic WASTELAND the poulation of caribou increased from 5,000 to 21,000 after the current alaska pipeline was built. and at a withdrawal rate of a 1million barrels /day 10.3 billion barrels (minimum estimate otimistic estimate of 43.3 billion barrels at 1997 technology and pric of $27/bbl see http://www.anwr.org ) anwr would last a long time. Bill Bacon www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER
