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Mine Your Own Business, a film produced by New Bera Media in association with the Moving Picture Institute, looks at the dark side of environmentalism. It talks to some of the worlds poorest people about how western environmentalists are campaigning to keep them in poverty because they think their way of life is quaint. It is the first documentary to ask hard questions of the environmental movement.

In nearly every conversation, the soldiers, Marines and contractors expressed they were upset with the coverage of the war in Iraq in general, and the public perception of the daily situation on the ground. They felt the media was there to sensationalize the news, and several stated some reporters were only interested in “blood and guts.” They freely admitted the obstacles in front of them in Iraq. Most recognized that while we are winning the war on the battlefield, albeit with difficulties in some areas, we are losing the information war. They felt the media had abandoned them. During each...

Dr. Tawfik Hamid doesn't tell people where he lives. Not the street, not the city, not even the country. It's safer that way. It's only the letters of testimony from some of the highest intelligence officers in the Western world that enable him to move freely. This medical doctor, author and activist once was a member of Egypt's Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Arabic for "the Islamic Group"), a banned terrorist organization. He was trained under Ayman al-Zawahiri, the bearded jihadi who appears in Bin Laden's videos, telling the world that Islamic violence will stop only once we all become Muslims. He's a...

The government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given the Israeli Defense Force the final approval to conduct the ground assault to the Litani River in southern Lebanon. "According to military sources, close to 70 percent of the Katyusha rockets raining down on Israel are fired just south of, and north of the Litani river. It is in these parts of Lebanon that the Hizbullah's Nasser Unit is waiting with thousands of fighters and functioning command and control centers," reports the Jerusalem Post. Over 40,000 Israeli troops are available for the full scale invasion of southern Lebanon. Prior to the...

The sound of the UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters echoed off the rugged, snowy ridges, almost 9,000 feet up in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border. In the dim first light of dawn, the men of U.S. Army Special Forces detachment Alpha 732 were scanning the fog-bound boulders and trees, searching for Taliban fighters... Ten months later, home from Afghanistan at Hawaii's Camp H.M. Smith, Sgt. Sar stood at attention as he received the Silver Star, the nation's fourth-highest award for valor in combat. He was a reluctant recipient. He felt that what he had done that day in...

Coast Guard News and Information Press Release Date: Feb. 28, 2006 Contact: Cmdr. Jeff Carter (202) 267-1933 STATEMENT BY VICE ADM. TERRY CROSS, VICE COMMANDANT OF THE U.S. COAST GUARD, ON THE COAST GUARD'S DUE DILIGENCE IN SUPPORT OF THE CFIUS PROCESS WASHINGTON - "Early in the CFIUS process, the Coast Guard's initial review identified potential intelligence gaps. Since completing its initial intelligence assessment, the Coast Guard has continued its due diligence by auditing all P&O operations in the United States, examining DPW operations outside the United States, obtaining formal assurances from DPW regarding ongoing access to information on personnel...

On the off chance that you missed C-Span's "Washington Journal," here are excerpts from an appearance by Jayson Ahern, Assistant Commissioner for Customs and Border Protection, and Coast Guard Rear Admiral Thomas Gilmour on that program, which were helpfully forwarded by the White House: HOST: Jayson Ahern, ... There are more than 300 ports of entry in the U.S., are they safe? CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER JAYSON AHERN: I believe they are. Certainly, we're on a path of continuous improvement, but the many layers we've put in place since the 9/11 tragedy I think has strengthened our port...

A Salvation Army volunteer who has just returned from Biloxi, MS called in to the Paul Finebaum show and described his experiences. He said that people are still living under tarps for shelter; that WalMart had handed out gift cards to storm victims but that the cards could not be used because people had no way to get to a WalMart; and that there are football-field size warehouses full of relief supplies that can't be delivered because of a lack of trucks. He also said that the place still reeks with the stench of dead animals. He also asked Finebaum...

October 17, 2005, 8:35 a.m. Dubya Closes a Door? What Harriet Miers may mean for constitutional law. By Dennis Coyle "The horror, the horror," seems to sum up the reaction of many conservatives to the nomination of Harriet Miers to serve on the Supreme Court. One can almost hear the ominous organ of Doors's keyboardist Ray Manzarek in the background, as Jim Morrison intones, "This is the end." And it is an end, of sorts — the end of conservative hopes that a Republican president known for bold strokes would put forward a forceful intellect who would help shift the...

American Heritage Rivers Recent Additions | Contact Us | Print Version Search: EPA Home > Water > Wetlands, Oceans, & Watersheds > American Heritage Rivers > Executive Order 13061 What is the Initiative? Designated Rivers AHRI Contacts Your River and Its Watershed Services for Your River Executive Order 13061 Executive Order 13061 EO 13061 DATE: 09-11-1997 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For Immediate Release September 11, 1997 EXECUTIVE ORDER 13061 - - - - - - - FEDERAL SUPPORT OF COMMUNITY EFFORTS ALONG AMERICAN HERITAGE RIVERS By the authority vested in me as President by the...

THE JOY OF FAKE FACTS: For our money, Andrea Mitchell and Chris Matthews gave the best recitation. By Friday night, everyone knew the latest script; the gang was piling on Michael Brown, the inept, unqualified Bush Admin crony who still serves as FEMA head. And you know how your “press corps” is! Once they’ve all agreed on a script, they all begin to improve basic facts! Their jobs become easier; their story gets better; and it lets them stroke their thighs a bit faster. By this time, everyone else had said it. So Mitchell and Matthews faked it too:

The images of Hurricane Katrina below show affected areas as it hit Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the northwest Florida coast of the Gulf of Mexico on August 29, 2005. The purpose of these images is to assist executives and their advisors who may be considering this region as a business location, and put it in perspective, since this was one of the worst storms on record to hit the United States. It is a rare, catastrophic event.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A team of investigators is being sent to the Hurricane Katrina-ravished Gulf Coast to follow the money - namely, billions of dollars in relief aid the federal government is pouring into the region without normal contracting safeguards. The 30 Homeland Security Department investigators and auditors are part of what officials call an unprecedented effort to ensure federal funds are properly distributed in a rescue, relief and rebuilding process expected to exceed $100 billion.

"I would have double bagged it." Those were the words of Brett Favre in a really funny commercial that was out not too long ago. He was making fun of "Monday morning quarterbacks", the kind of people who want to say he should have seen the free safety in position to make that interception and, instead, thrown to the tight end who was wide open on the other side of the field. Of course, the answer is that he didn't see either the free safety or the tight end because he was dodging a defensive end in his face at...

Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf coast, there is little argument that the response was botched. But an extensive Knight Ridder review of official actions in the days just before and after Katrina's landfall Monday, Aug. 29, reveals a depth of government hesitancy and a not-my-job attitude that may have cost scores of people their lives. The Department of Homeland Security, facing its first major catastrophe since it was created, failed to issue a critical disaster declaration until more than a day after the storm. The White House never appointed a coordinator to monitor disaster developments.

Former President Bill Clinton called in to the BET telethon to express support and was asked by co-host Steve Harvey what his administration would have done differently if it were in power during the hurricane. Clinton refrained from criticizing Bush, but talked about the importance he placed on the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "We always thought faster was better than slower," Clinton said

The government promised banks a hands-off approach in overseeing nearly $5 billion in Sept. 11 recovery aid to small businesses. What it got in return was numerous loans to companies that didn't need terror relief - or even know they were getting it, The Associated Press found.

It’s time for me to apologize because I expected that New Orleans would mobilize what it had to evacuate its citizens or provide for it those not leaving instead of abandoning hundreds buses and (how many?) warehouses full of provisions to be destroyed in a flood. I agreed with the decision not to send Louisiana National Guard troops and Red Cross workers into rising flood waters and mobs of looters where they would become victims themselves, a decision that delayed relief to New Orleans for more than a day. I voted for a not-infallible man who appointed not-infallible men to...

Let the past day’s events be a sign to all our G.I.’s and civilians serving in the war on terror that we appreciate your sacrifice. We honor your service. We pray for your safekeeping. You are the reason that we are free to choose our leaders not have them chosen for us. Thank you all, and may God bless you.

For all you old AFSC 702's, what do you think about the "memo's"? Ken Daves