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Kern County supervisors have approved plans to build a corn-powered ethanol plant north of Bakersfield. The project from Cilion Inc., approved Tuesday night, is slated to generate as many as 55 million gallons of the fuel additive each year. Environmental justice advocates rallied against the project, saying it would pump out nitrous oxide emissions that would worsen air quality in the polluted San Joaquin Valley. Planners say the project's value to the community trumps the environmental concerns. Two weeks ago, Hanford city leaders approved another ethanol plant to be based in Kings County, but agreed to pay a $1 million...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Global warming poses a "serious threat to America's national security" and the U.S. likely will be dragged into fights over water and other shortages, top retired military leaders warn in a new report. The report says that in the next 30 to 40 years there will be wars over water, increased hunger instability from worsening disease and rising sea levels and global warming-induced refugees. "The chaos that results can be an incubator of civil strife, genocide and the growth of terrorism," the 35-page report predicts. "Climate change exacerbates already unstable situations," former U.S. Army chief of staff...

Kern County's sludge ban suffered another blow Wednesday from U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess of Los Angeles. Last week, Feess issued a tentative ruling that stopped Kern County from enforcing the sludge ban while Kern fought off a legal assault from the city of Los Angeles, Orange County and the businesses that haul and farm sludge for them. Feess said in court that the Kern ban, enacted as Measure E by local voters on June 6, violated state recycling laws. On Wednesday, Feess issued a formal ruling that upheld those two previous decisions. But this new ruling went further....

DUBAI DUETS Late Friday, Department of Justice lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel were attempting to determine if former President Bill Clinton had registered as an "Agent of a Foreign Principal." Federal statute requires that anyone -- even a former President -- doing political or public affairs work on behalf of a foreign country, agency or official must register with the Department, and essentially update his status every six months. It was not clear the Clinton had done so. If his status is less clear, here is what we do know: If Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton did not know...

Evidence Destroyed, Alibi Attempted In School Chief's Theft June 23, 2006 By Patric Hedlund Sometimes, when you think it couldn’t look worse....it does. A report delivered June 16 by detective Riley Parker, commissioned by Schools Legal Service on behalf of the El Tejon Unified School District, catalogs John Wight’s troubled—and troubling—profile, including a driver’s license designated “Probationary-Negligent Operator” for six moving violations in two years, five of them with his ETUSD vehicle. Gasoline theft was not considered an allegation, but a fact: “There appears to be incontrovertible evidence that on May 19, 2006 [former ETUSD Superintendent] John Wight committed an...

CBS Lies. Will Dan Rather Get Away With It This Time? Written by Doc Farmer Sunday, September 12, 2004 Last week, 60 Minutes The Sequel (This Time It's Personal) ran a hard-hitting no-hold-barred investigative report trashing President George W. Bush. This is the fourth or fifth time CBS News has done this. Normally, this is done in the fashion of taking Bush-bashing books being sold by a publisher owned by the parent company of CBS News (Viacom) and doing puffball interviews with the authors. This time, however, CBS decided to raise, ad nauseum, the already discredited canard regarding Dubya's National...

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OAXACA - Mexican migration authorities gave five U.S. tourists three days to leave the country for participating in political activities in the southern state of Oaxaca, a migration official announced Thursday. Maria Baltazar said that the five young people were taken into custody in front of the Oaxaca government palace, where a group of villagers from Santo Domingo Teojomulco have been holding a protest since June 7 demanding the release of 14 peasants accused of carrying out a massacre of Indians. Baltazar said the U.S. citizens had been identified as Simon Sedillo, Kimberly Kern, Jason Massaro, Toryn Tonasello and Christopher...