INFORMATION FOR VOTERS

last updated: June 26, 2008

• Arctic ice melt signals that global warming is verging on positive feedback point of no return
  Global warming worse than thought: CO2 rises three time faster than predicted

• HOME DEPOT OFFERS SAFE RECYCLING PROGRAM FOR COMPACT FLUORESCENTS; however, a program for fluorescent tubes is still needed.
  In the event of fluorescent breakage, careful cleanup is needed to avoid building contamination;
  see instructions for safe cleanup of broken fluorescents.

• Fight to protect few remaining Allegheny wild spots enters crucial period

• Phil Donahue on his documentary film "Body of War" [AARP audio file]

• GM firms seen to leverage their profits on the back undeveloped countries facing climate crisis
  GM foes march in Germany
  Saskatchewan farmer and local hero wins Roundup-ready canola contamination claim against Monsanto
  GM Crops Found To Be Less Productive
  Center for Food Safety: "Who Benefits from GM Crops"
  France's Sarkozy aligns with Austria, Greece, and Hungary and stands up to GMO giant Monsanto

• Mankind is decimating life on earth: causing species extinction at 10,000 times normal rate
  BushCo opens roadless Tongass to logging and OKs gray wolf kills prior to contested delisting decision

  How green is your candidate?

• Roadmap to a carbonfree and nuclearfree energy future released by IEER and NPRI
  IEER devotes newsletter to false economic claims of nuclear power proponents [2.4MB PDF]

• American health care in crisis
  Listen to the revelations of former Pfizer VP Peter Rost [mp3 file]
  Why is Dennis Kucinich the only Democrat candidate pushing for it, when the majority of Americans want a universal single payer health care system?
  Answer: behind the smoke, the corporate Democrats are escalating the attack on the single payer system
  Meanwhile, Democrats continue to embrace "Market Fundamentalism"

• Congress steps up attack on basic civil liberties: "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act"

  Establishment media (NYT) and top Democrat Congressmen colluded for years
  with Bush in keeping citizen enemies lists and attacks on basic civil liberties:

  Times reveals US telecommunications companies helped Bush illegally spy on Americans
  Meanwhile, Bush continues to foster misperceptions
  New York Times reveals 2001 Bush executive order to spy on Americans

  After killing the story for a year the Times now raises obvious questions:
  NYT questions Bush/Cheney assumption of totalitarian 'war powers' of the Commander in Chief

  Now, fearing voter backlash, and with almost no Republican crossover,
  Democrats temporarily reject unconstitutional 'Patriot Act'

  An unrepentent Bush, like Nixon and Johnson, chooses to lash back
  Pittsburgh Post Gazette warns of US police state

• COOL labelling blocked by agribusiness
  Agribusiness's FDA lapdog seeks to confuse labelling for irradiated products

• Ontario's nuclear power interests push for refurbishments and new reactors

• Bush backers push new doublespeak attack on our national forests:
  this one's called the "Emergency Recovery and Research Act" (HR 4200)

• Hillary Clinton ignores majority of constituents on Iraq pullout
  Support builds for Clinton opponent in Senate/Presidential races

• Bird flu brings out double standard on patent protection of big pharma

• Democrats wimp out on Bush Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, a Bork clone
  Read or listen to Living on Earth's interview with Jonathan Turley

• Plamegate: how low can the media go?
  Woodward - what a difference 30 years makes
  

  Fitzgerald threw softball
  Libby indicted for lesser crimes in exposure of Plame

  Mainstream media fails to pursue story of White House personnel involved in treasonous exposure of Valerie Plame

  Detailed chronology of White House's outing of Valerie Plame

• Erie County - Dunkirk and Amherst - leads state with worst ozone/particulate pollution

• Adbusters : "Reclaiming our Cerebral Commons"
  . . . listen to the interview with Kalle Lasn

• Battlefield Earth: "Rapture alert level - orange"
  . . . Bush: a broader perspective on the politics of God
  . . . "Why does God hate Caribou?"
  . . . "DeLay, Deny, and Demagogue"
  . . . DeLay threatens judiciary over Schiavo rulings, Dems wimp out again
  . . . "Whose Nation Under God?"

• John Negroponte: from death squads to National Intelligence czar

• Earth's ecosystems are collapsing says international body of experts;
  read the report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment project
  UK scientist blasts US climate "loonies"
  CLEAR PROOF OF HUMAN CAUSATION OF GLOBAL WARMING
  Details: Innovations article, Knight-Ridder

• American Torture: Bush-whack style

• The fruits of laissez-faire utility deregulation: the Enron example
  . . . here we go again: lobbying Energy Bill 2005

• Gonzalez approved as AG by less than 2/3; are NY's senators coming around?
  NY's Clinton and Schumer help Bush make Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State

• Bush lies about true condition of Social Security in his attempt to privatize it
  Bush is illegally using Social Security staff to promote privatization
  Bush agencies to continue distributing their own 'news' despite GAO objection
  . . . "Don't like the news?"
  . . . "It's Not Your Father's America Any More"

• "Big Pharma's Dirty Little Secret", by Pfizer's Peter Rost

• Moyers responds to right-wing takeover at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  Republicans force "balance" at financially dependent PBS; hello state organ
  NOW looks at the "opinion" neo-con 'news' media machine

• Plasticizers shown to cause brain damage, as well as hormone mimicking effects
  Food Supply Vulnerable to Contamination by Drugs and Plastics from Gene-Altered Crops
  Monsanto gets deferred prosecution for bribery , ... more
  Syngenta aided by UK/US 'regulators' in unlicensed GMO corn cover-up

• Bill Moyers talks with Richard Dawkins about evolution vs "intelligent design"

POST-ELECTION ANALYSIS :

Ohio electoral vote challenged by only one Senator
Background and analysis

Senate vote on Presidential election
House vote on upholding the Senate challenge

Ohio Canvassing Board denies recount request
Recount of Ohio vote will occur

John Dean
"Alas, The People Have Spoken"

Australia :
"Those Things We Were Liable to Read into the Bible - It Ain't Necessarily So"
Dr. Helen Caldicott's views

Canada :
"We Don't Have to Abandon Our Beliefs Just Because a Few Million Extra God-Fearing Gay-Haters Voted for Bush"

New York :
"Light Up the Cave"

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LCV ENDORSES JOHN KERRY

GET THE FACTS ON THE MAJOR ISSUES AT : votewiththefacts.org

New York League of Conservation Voters' ENDORSEMENTS

• First Amendment democracy Florida-style
  Lame-duck LePore still has opportunity to mess with this election , more

• Bush: the Champion of Hyper-Individualism Over the Common Good

• TV crew filmed unsecured munitions after April 9, 2003
  Looting spree gutted Iraq munitions dump after US soldiers left it unsecured
  Large media outlets ignore the video evidence, aid Bush big lies on Iraq War

• Study : 100,000 Iraqis, mostly women and children, killed in ongoing Iraq War

• Very Little Patriotic Sacrifice - The Art of Stealing Elections

• The New York Times and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle have joined several citizen groups in the call to vote out all NYS Legislature incumbents. But voting out incumbent NYS Legislators is easier said than done; see Newsday and Buffalo News stories.

• WNY Incumbents Vote Against NYS Superfund/Brownfields legislation
• 26th Congressional District Race: Reynolds vs. Davis - Follow the Money

  Jack Davis for Congress
  Reynolds for Congress

• Sinclair Broadcasting Orders Its 62 Stations to Air Anti-Kerry Propaganda; Bush-appointed FCC chief fails to act.

• US Soldiers Again Flee to Canada to Avoid Illegal Iraq War

  Listen to Amy Goodman interview Conscientious Objectors Hinzman and Hughey
  Transcript of this interview

• US Vetoes UN Security Council resolution calling for halt to Israeli operations in Gaza

• BUSH AND BLAIR'S CASE FOR WAR DEMOLISHED BY FINAL REPORT OF IRAQ SURVEY GROUP
  Bush won't say 'No WMDs', repeats Saddam link to 9/11 lies
  View from New Zealand

  Principled Labour MP calls for international court review of Blair/Bush war crimes :

  Blair : Iraq had no WMDs, but no apology for illegal war, instead invokes Bush's global Islamic terrorism fear mongering tactics
  OpenDemocracy interview
  World Socialist analysis

• FBI investigates spying for Israel by personnel in the office of the No. 3 Pentagon official, Douglas Feith
  A cozy relationship with Israeli military officials and the discredited INC leader Ahmed Chalabi
  Background on Douglas Feith

• Rumsfeld faulted for Afghanistan/Guantanamo/Abu Ghraib sadism but not held accountable

• American public largely ignorant of Bush administration responsibility for Afghan/Iraqi torture

• The Center for Public Integrity :

  The Politics of Big Oil
  Well Connected : Find out who controls the media where you live

• The New York Times' Admits Its Pre-War Iraq Coverage Was Slanted

  Ditto for the Washington Post
  The Post's Mea Culpa
  Editor and Publisher's analysis

• "Red-State" America Against Itself

• The Far Right Goes to Bat for Nader

• Green Party calls for UN investigation of Israeli nuclear weapons

• Alliance for Justice launches animation : "John Ashcroft is the intrusive SPY-DER-MAN"

• Friends of the Earth prevails against GM giant Bayer in pesticide secrets case

• U.S. AIDS/HIV scientists muzzled by Bush administration

• Bush misuses post-9/11 secrecy laws to hide important environmental documents

• Amnesty International report calls U.S. "war on terror" blatant doublespeak

  Boston Globe article
  The Scotsman

• 100+ Industry Lobbyists Appointed by Bush to Federal Agencies Subvert Public Interest

• Public Interest Research Group releases 2004 Congressional Scorecard
  Many more "zeros" than "heroes"

• Ben and Jerry's "Pig Mobile" caravan puts spotlight on dollar cost of Iraq war

• Increase in asthma is one of the effects of global warming

• Human harm from widespread pesticide use

• Iraqi horrors covered up by U.S./Brit leadership for months

  Los Angeles Times reports Rumsfeld and Bush knew in January
  Unexpected $25 billion request brings Iraq/Afghanistan total to $191 billion.

• Iraqis Celebrate in Fallujah as Old Iraqi Army under Saddam's former General Patrols Streets

• 9/11 COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED

  FAILURE OF INTELLIGENCE LEADERSHIP DETAILED by PBS's Frontline

• NSA chief Condi Rice perjures herself re 9/11 Commission facts?

• Bush's Labor Sec. Chao faulted for toxic disaster worse than Exxon Valdez

• John Dean on Bush administration secrecy: "worse than Nixon"

• Pentagon insider describes falsification by the Pentagon of reports on Iraqi WMD

• Anti-terrorism czar Clarke on Bush: "he's done a terrible job on the war against terrorism"

  Salon.com interview with Clarke

• ETA-experienced Spanish voters differentiate war on terrorism from illegal War on Iraq

  "One down, two to go"
  Spain: an example for all in war on terrorism
  More ...

• Blair Drops Prosecution of Whistleblower to Prevent Evidence of Iraq War Illegality Being Made Public

  Guardian story
  More ...

• Bush Administration (EPA, FDA, USDA, DOD, HHS, Interior, ...) Distorts Science

• The Awful Truth about Iraq

• Nothing to Preempt

• Iraq War Unconstitutional, Congress Abdicated Its Responsibility

• Time to Hold Democrats Accountable on WMD/Pro-War Stances

• Bush Planning War on Iraq Only Days after Inauguration

• Bush, Powell, Cheney, Rumsfeld Misled American People into War

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution View

• Mad Cow Disease in U.S.A.:

  Whose interests? Bush's corporate buddies.
  Ranchers fought rules
  USDA: Agent for Meat Industry
  Tip of the Mad Animal Iceberg
  USDA Can't Find or Won't Release Inspection Records