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CARB takes taxpayers' money under false pretenses of cleaning up mobile pollution, but they follow the orders of the Alliance of Auto Makers.

California Air Resources Board (CARB) fails California and the USA

The Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate (ZEV) was intended to be a requirement for actual production, contrary to Board Member Dan Sperling's assertion that it's merely "technology forcing".

It was not intended as a research program. It was intended to put real Zero Emission Vehicles into the hands of willing buyers, on the free market. Enough of them to make a real difference, 10% by 2003. Previous CARB weakness led to retreat after retreat, until now even the Board fails to remember its purpose.

There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States and all it would take is a presidential signature on a proclamation and the attorney general's signature on a warrant to which a list of names is attached. Ask yourself if you really want to be on Ashcroft's list. The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a "mass exodus" of illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed down and to be turned into prisons.

Much more: http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/FEMA-Concentration-Camps3sep04.htm

From: http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=43899&cat=14

Atlanta, Ga. 4/20/2008 07:20 PM GMT (FINDITT)

A father accidentally shot and killed his son after mistakenly taking the boy for a turkey while the two were hunting in Belle Plaine, Minnesota.

According to police Anthony Klaseus and his son Hunter had been out around 6:30 p.m. Saturday when the accident occurred. The two had been hunting turkey when the father fired his 12 gauge shotgun at what he believed was a turkey.

The gunshot hit his son directly in the chest. Anthony Klaus immediately called 911 but responders pronounced the boy dead at the scene.

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This story is tragic, but I can't help but wounder if the father will be charged with Manslaughter un like Dick Cheney. To bad the boy didn't live to apologise for blocking his dads shot. I guess 9 year old boys are less resilient then an old Attorney.

From: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add...

Presented at George Mason University on April 14, 2008
Dedicated to Betty Hall and the New Hampshire State Legislature.
By David Swanson

John Adams, who was later the second president of the United States, wrote some words in the Constitution of Massachusetts that have been quoted approvingly by the U.S. Supreme Court and every state supreme court in the United States. He described a separation of powers among three branches of government and said that this would be done

"to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men."

Thomas Paine in his "Common Sense" pamphlets that helped launch the American war for independence, wrote that

"so far as we approve of monarchy, ... in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law OUGHT to be King; and there ought to be no other."

From:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/20/bill-clinton-if-we-lose-_n_8767...

There's a Texas-sized stumbling block on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's comeback trail.

Even Clinton's most devoted surrogate -- her husband, Bill Clinton -- acknowledged the do-or-die stakes on Wednesday in Beaumont, Texas, conceding that a loss in Texas or Ohio would likely doom her candidacy.

(Guess what)

And this:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_QDnA56kHa3qYl41FUYT3PLHJvwD8VOK68O0

Obama Wins Most Texas Delegates

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Barack Obama has won the overall delegate race in Texas thanks to a strong showing in Democratic county conventions this past weekend.

Obama picked up seven of nine outstanding delegates, giving him a total of 99 Texas delegates to the party's national convention this summer. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won the other two, giving her a total of 94 Texas delegates, according to an analysis of returns by The Associated Press.

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON: A chunk of Antarctic ice nine times the size of New York's Manhattan Island has collapsed suddenly and put an even larger glacial area at risk.

Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 220-square-mile (570-square-kilometer) chunk in western Antarctica. British scientist David Vaughan says it is the result of global warming.

The rest of the ice shelf, the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut, is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice. Scientists worry that it too may collapse. Larger and more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995.

Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf Risks Collapse, U.K. Group Says
By Alex Morales

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- An Antarctic ice shelf bigger than Connecticut risks collapse because of global warming after a retreat that began on Feb. 28, the British Antarctic Survey said.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/06/7525/

Published on Thursday, March 6, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
The Election That Might Not Happen
by Betsy Hartmann
It’s springtime in American politics. It’s only early March, but there’s a giddy, hopeful feeling to this election season, a sense that new leadership is blossoming. We could have a Democrat in the White House next year. But winter isn’t over yet and we need to balance our hope with a little fear. In 2000 Bush and Cheney stole the election in Florida. In 2004 they played dirty tricks in Ohio. In 2008 could they go one step further — and suspend the election altogether?

http://abcnews.go.com/WaterCooler/wireStory?id=4385777

Residents of Vermont Towns Vote to Support Hypothetical Bush-Cheney Indictment.

Voters in two Vermont towns approved measures Tuesday calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for what they consider violations of the Constitution.

John Curran Republican National Committee
More symbolic than anything, the items sought to have police arrest Bush and Cheney if they ever visit Brattleboro or nearby Marlboro or to extradite them for prosecution elsewhere — if they're not impeached first.

In Brattleboro, the vote was 2,012-1,795. In Marlboro, which held a town meeting on the issue, it was 43-25 with three abstentions.

"I hope the one thing that people take from this is, 'Hey, it can be done,'" said Kurt Daims, 54, who organized the petition drive that led to the Brattleboro vote.

A controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US.
Wikileaks.org, as it is known, was cut off from the internet following a California court ruling, the site says.

The case was brought by a Swiss bank after "several hundred" documents were posted about its offshore activities.

Other versions of the pages, hosted in countries such as Belgium and India, can still be accessed.

However, the main site was taken offline after the court ordered that Dynadot, which controls the site's domain name, should remove all traces of wikileaks from its servers.

The court also ordered that Dynadot should "prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court."

From: SF Chronicle http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/MN99V2PMN.DTL

The state agriculture department plans to use airplanes at night this summer to spray a farm pesticide over urban San Francisco, Marin County and the East Bay, intending to eradicate a potentially destructive moth.

The little-known proposal to wipe out the light brown apple moth, which if it became established could destroy the region's agricultural industry, has developed increasing opposition among some residents who fear for their health.

Hundreds of people whose homes and yards were sprayed in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties from September to December have filed reports that said the pesticide seems to have caused coughing, wheezing, muscle aches and headaches, among other symptoms. One Monterey family reported that a child had a first-time asthma attack.