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The First Lady sleeps, President Lumwedder creeps to the fridge for a snack at midnight. Froot Loops in a bowl, a banana, bread roll, so ... down the mouth hole with little control, and everything’s feelin' … all right!

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    The Times They Are A-Changin'


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    For the loser now
    Will be later to win
    For the times they are a-changin'.
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    Friday, December 05, 2003

    :: DUG853 12/05/2003 05:55:00 PM

    FLORA AND FAUNA -- Environment and Health


    BUSH BACKTRACKING ON CLEANER AIR

    Tuesday, the Bush administration announced its interest in mercury emissions, one day before President Bush asserted that "we all share duties of stewardship."

    The administration's alternative, a cap-and-trade system that was requested by the industry, would allow power plants to buy and sell the right to emit mercury.

    While this system already exists with sulfur dioxide, the environmental community points out that pregnant women and young children are vulnerable to mercury exposure, leading to developmental problems.

    About one out of every 12 women (4.9 million) of childbearing age has unusually elevated levels of mercury, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta."

    President Bush nominated Mike Leavitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency while noting that it was important to be "vigilant in protecting the air and soil and waters around us."  

    Newly installed, on the same day that he gave his introductory address to EPA employees, Leavitt said of the changes, "Frankly, we're just not satisfied with the level of reduction you get from the mercury MACT, so we're making the dual proposal."

    But a December 2001 Power Point presentation, written by then EPA administrator Christie Whitman, indicated that the proposed rules now being overridden by the Bush administration would have reduced emissions from the current 48 tons per year to 5 tons per year by 2007.

    The new proposal Leavitt backs, however, calls for a reduction to 34 tons by 2010, and 15 tons by 2015, regulations that are "three times less stringent and would take 10 years longer to achieve than reductions critics say are required under the Clean Air Act."

    Leavitt said of the new mercury standards, "If you care about clean air, then what is there not to like?"

    Representatives of industry seem to agree, saying that their rules will "work a lot better."  

    One lawyer representing coal-fired plants suggested that, "The environmental community has consistently overstated the health case for regulating mercury."  

    But his assertion is contradicted by the EPA's own website, which says, "Methylmercury is highly toxic."

    More than 80 percent of states have some kind of warnings on consuming fish because of mercury.

    Continuing the administration's habit of releasing potentially controversial environmental rules on the eve of holidays, the document was released the day before Thanksgiving.

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    Thursday, December 04, 2003

    :: DUG853 12/04/2003 09:53:00 PM

    ATTENTION URGENT ATTENTION URGENT ATTENTION URGENT ATTENTION


    The IRS Claims New Patriot Act Type Powers
    to Punish Political Dissenters


    By Robert R. Raymond


    In a precendent-setting case, the IRS wielded new power
    to punish the political speech of those who "espouse views"
    the government considers"inconsistent" with government-
    held beliefs.


    In a hearing originally closed to the public in a secret tribunal on a military island, but moved to a public location after protests from the press and the public, the IRS wants to wield this power against a former IRS whistleblower, who was forced to resign upon his discovery of fraud in the agency.

    After monitoring and taping the whistle-
    blower's appearances on Sixty Minutes, talk radio shows, and political publications where he rebroadcast his findings of IRS fraud, the IRS initiated this inquisition against their former whistleblower.

    This new power may find new political targets soon enough.

    The IRS, through the small office of "Director of Practice," claims the authority to wield carte blanche authority over all the other powers of government -- the authority to monitor, surveil, and eavesdrop on political dissenters, the authority to pry into the private financial records of banks, businesses, and taxpayers, the authority to conduct secret investigations under a criminal grand jury, and the authority to censure political dissenters by branding on them a badge of infamy and stripping them of governmentally-protected licenses.

    In short, under the guise of a "practice" investigation, the IRS claims the right to wield all intrusive and invasive powers of government available.

    A "license" to practice before the IRS -- even for people who have never requested such a license or actually practiced before the IRS, but are given one as a matter of law if they are accountants -- "licenses" the IRS to conduct private audits without notice to the taxpayer, confer with criminal prosecutors without disclosure, and bring special "disbarment" proceedings against disfavored dissenters, even if the alleged "disreputable" conduct has nothing to do with any "practice" before the IRS.

    The IRS now claims it can use these so-called "practice" investigations of anyone who Congress licenses to practice before the IRS -- regardless of whether they actually practice before the IRS -- to surveil the public appearances of dissenters, eavesdrop on the political conversations of dissenters, benefit from secret grand jury investigations, hold secret conferences with the criminal investigators, surreptiously tap the private database of taxpayer information, including taxpayers who merely have some financial "connection" to the accused, audit the political dissenter's personal financial records, and use all this information against the dissenter in the "practice" proceeding.

    Under the guise of a "practice" investigation, the IRS can ignore all the normal procedural protections against an illicit audit while it conducts such an audit.

    Simultaneously, the IRS can ignore all the legal protections afforded a person accused of a crime while conferencing with the people conducting a criminal investigation.

    Indeed, the IRS can even ignore the sunshine laws, as the records of such "practice investigation" are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, as are grand jury proceedings.

    The IRS claims it can exercise this authority in a secret proceeding without allowing a person the opportunity to cure any alleged mistakes, the opportunity to prepare a defense by knowing the exact facts they are accused of, without any opportunity for discovery, without any opportunity to call witnesses necessary for their defense, without any opportunity to cross examine their accusers, without any opportunity to testify at their own hearing about the merits of their position, without being forced to testify against themselves without such an assertion being held against them, and without even an opportunity for a hearing on the evidence.

    This power of this little office with a Napoleonic vision goes even beyond the Patriot Act type authority and stories of FBI monitoring of war protestors.

    Too Hoover-ish to be true in modern America?

    Just read the case of the IRS against Joe Banister scheduled for a "hearing" -- a hearing where the IRS prohibited Banister from introducing any witnesses or presenting any evidence as to his defenses, and even discussing the sincerity, the truth or the "reasonableness" of his positions -- on December 1 in the city by the bay, in the Tax Court chambers of the federal courthouse in San Francisco.


    History is being made.


    Robert R. Raymond is the past Independent candidate for the U.S House of Representatives for Wisconsin's 5th District in the 2002 elections.

    Please forward to any interested parties.


    SOURCE

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    Wednesday, December 03, 2003

    :: Nora 12/03/2003 12:52:00 PM

    Governments must tackle the "pain merchants"

    Amnesty International
    2 December

    Governments' failure to control the expanding trade in and use of security equipment is contributing to the incidence of torture and ill-treatment, reveals Amnesty International in its new report 'The Pain Merchants'.

    The latest research by the human rights organization highlights how a wide range of police and prison services are misusing old technologies and being encouraged to use new ones despite a lack of rigorous testing to establish if they are consistent with international human rights standards:

    · Steel batons with spikes have been offered for sale at a police equipment fair in China.

    · A metal and plastic projectile fired by a police officer permanently injured a woman in Switzerland in March this year, leaving fragments in her face which cannot be removed for fear of paralysis. This occurred before any other means of control had been attempted.

    . More than nine tonnes of leg irons (an implement banned by UN rules for the treatment of prisoners) were exported from the USA to Saudi Arabia during 2002.

    · Since the report went to press AI has discovered a South African government tender notice of 31 October 2003 calling for bids for the supply to the Department of Correctional Services of leg irons and belly chains, as well as electronic riot shields.

    · The UK government has authorised trials on Britain's streets of the taser gun -- which delivers a 50,000 volt electric shock through two darts fired from a distance, or can also be used up close as a stun gun. In AI's opinion it has yet to publish full medical tests on the taser's effects.

    · Sedative chemical incapacitating agents such as the one which killed more than 120 hostages when Russian security forces ended a siege in a Moscow theatre last year should be banned unless it can be proved that people will be protected from any indiscriminate or arbitrary effects.

    "Just because security equipment may be described as 'less than lethal' does not mean it cannot be abused, nor that it cannot injure or kill, said Brian Wood, Amnesty Internationals expert on security equipment. "We are extremely concerned that in many countries devices are being authorised for use on the population without sufficient investigation of their effects on human rights." ...

    Background:
    Amnesty International reported torture by police or security forces in 106 countries last year.

    There are now at least 856 companies in 47 countries involved in the manufacture or marketing of weapons described as being a "less than lethal" alternative to firearms, many of which easily lend themselves to torture.

    Stopping the Pain Merchants, take action!

    For more information see "The Pain Merchants: Facts and Figures"

    THE PAIN MERCHANTS -
    Security equipment and its use in torture and other ill-treatment
    The full report online

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    :: Nora 12/03/2003 09:23:00 AM

    BITS AND BOBS FROM THE ROVING BLOGGER

    Rumsfeld Ramble Wins 'Foot in Mouth' Award
    [But Arnie is learning fast!]

    LONDON (Reuters) -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's curious statement at a press briefing was named on Monday as the year's most baffling comment by a public figure.

    Rumsfeld, usually renowned for his uncompromising tough talking, was awarded the 'Foot in Mouth' award for a confusing message which probably left his audience in the dark as to its meaning, Britain's Plain English Campaign said.

    "Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known unknowns; there things we know we know," Rumsfeld told the briefing. "We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."

    John Lister, spokesman for the campaign which strives to have public information delivered in clear, straightforward English, said: "We think we know what he means. But we don't know if we really know."

    Rumsfeld, whose boss President Bush is often singled out by language critics for his sometimes unusual use of English, took the booby prize ahead of a bizarre effort from actor-turned politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.

    "I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman," was the odd statement from the new California Governor.

    Source

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    New Anti-Drug Weapon: Bras and Thongs

    BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) -- They have tried aerial assaults and stiff jail sentences. Now Colombian officials have a new and unlikely weapon to combat the cocaine trade: push-up bras and thongs.

    Some 900 peasant women in Colombia are set to make racy lingerie and sell it to French supermarket chain Carrefour under a U.N.-backed program aimed at encouraging impoverished farmers and their families to stop growing drug crops.

    "We thought it was a very original idea. These are regions where there are drug crops and people need legal jobs," said Thierry Rostan of the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Bogota.

    Despite a fierce U.S.-backed campaign to spray drug crops with herbicide and impose longer jail terms, Colombia remains the world's No 1. producer of cocaine. Poor farmers, many of them coffee growers gone broke, have turned to drug crops to make a living.

    The lingerie, which includes bras and lacy panties, will be made at clothing and shoe plants in the southern coffee-rich province of Cauca, which has seen a spike of cocaine crops due to the collapse of world coffee prices.

    Source

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    Palestinian Baby Born in Bethlehem Draws Crowds

    BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) -- A baby born in Bethlehem is drawing crowds by the thousands. Palestinians in the West Bank town revered by Christians as Jesus' birthplace have been thronging to the adjacent Aida refugee camp for a glimpse of the 11-day-old infant many are calling a "miracle baby."

    The boy has gained attention for being born with a large birthmark across his cheek that roughly forms in Arabic letters the name of his uncle, Ala, a Hamas militant killed by Israeli troops after he was alleged to have planned a suicide bombing.

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    Tuesday, December 02, 2003

    :: Nora 12/02/2003 07:12:00 AM

    Bioprospecting -- Corporations profit from indigenous genes

    By Jeff Shaw

    You can’t own a Hagahai man from Papua New Guinea, not even if you’re a scientist. As a scientist you can, however, have part of him delivered to your door for $200 plus $81.50 in shipping and handling ...

    According to the U.N. Development Program, 80 percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity is located in indigenous territories. And the people who live there are thought to offer "narrow" gene pools -- or distinct populations that can facilitate genetic study ...

    Deepening the concern over genetic study is a lack of standards. In many cases DNA has been obtained and patented without prior approval or a full understanding of what is at work. Private companies are the most active gene hunters. But they are not subject to strict federal regulatory and oversight guidelines if they don’t take public dollars. Additionally, if a cell line helps develop the next Viagra, nothing forces these companies to share proceeds with the person from whom the genetic information came. In other words, private companies can go onto reservations without disclosing what they’re doing, take DNA samples without saying why, get rich from the information, and not share the bounty with its often impoverished source.

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    I'm just sittin here watchin'
    the wheels go 'round and 'round.
    I really love to watch 'em roll.
    No longer riding on that merry-go-round,
    I just had to let it go.

    John Lennon

    Yep. That's me, too. Watchin' the wheels and singin' outta tune. No wonder I'm dizzy most of the time! The wheels in the world are seemingly spinning out of control. We see exponential growth in some areas, a winding down in others. There are war and hate in one arena, love and unity in another — all born of one event. Astounding fortunes made by some, mean staggering losses for others — within all industries — all at the same time. Earth changes are quaking the very ground beneath our feet while the sun is wreaking havoc with the weather.

    This is our opportunity to change our outlook and move forward in a new way, with a willingness to release previously held ideas, let go and to open to possibilities we might not have considered before. We will be required to use creatively what we already have in new ways, and, even if we have to "fake it 'til we make it," it's an opportunity to learn. And it's an opportunity to take action — to let our voices be heard to make a difference, to find solutions, to make a change.

    There is another way of looking at things and A-Changin' Times will provide support as we all make our way through this labyrinthine new world.

    Love, peace and clarity,

    Veralynne





    I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS: The ACTivists, our fellow bloggers, the readers, the contributors.

    ACT has gathered a group of like-minded people without whom this venture would be a lonely chore. Thanks for your contributions, all; Bill, Colleen, Leo, Raff, Johanne, all the rest and those to come, your submissions and enthusiasm are invaluable. Bloggers, your blogs and links are inspiring. Readers, your links and referrals to and recommendations of ACT to friends and family are priceless. We all know folks who could benefit from "another way of looking at things." ACT NOW to open minds and hearts during these A-Changin' Times! ACT's philosophy is not to serve as strictly a news source, but to alert, awaken, inspire and motivate readers to exercise their rights and participate in creating positive change for people everywhere.


    Meet the ACTivists


    Lisa contributes to ACT from her base on the East Coast of the U.S. While her "Giftedly Outspoken" tagline may have started as a joke, it has proven to be valid! Her dedication to the philosophy of living simply and leaving no footprints on the Earth will reveal itself concerning consumer and health issues, employment crises, environmental activism, animal rights and much more. Lisa is learning to live the "cultural creative" lifestyle which will become more of a necessity for our survival in the days to come. In the meantime, her knowledge of bringing issues to light for grassroots activism will serve to accomplish our goals of making required changes in Washington.


    DUG is our West Coast U.S. correspondent. A long-time supporter of ACT's goals, DUG is a prolific researcher and sharer of news and views from off the beaten track. He's seen the writing on the wall for a long time and his caring and altruistic nature motivates him to make every effort to help people understand what's going on under the mainstream media radar. DUG's progressive views and nose for progressive news is much appreciated here. Blog on, DUG!

    Working his universal magic from a beach base in Australia, Pip's motto, Carpe Diem or "Seize the Day!", has served him well in approaching and accomplishing his goals of reaching other people. Pip's big heart drives him to research and present information that piques the curiosity, soothes the soul, and motivates those he touches to live life fully. Often entertaining and always informative his own weblog, Wilson's Blogmanac, is a daily "must visit" for thousands around the world. We at ACT are very fortunate to have his interest and caring mastery of the blogging art, for his technical as well as spiritual support and friendship.

    Also from Australia, Lucy mentors, facilitates workshops and teaches in the field of personal and spiritual growth. Drawing on Buddhist, Christian and Hindu spiritualities, her website, Inspired Presence, is a creative presentation of her influences, artistic and spiritual. Lucy has recently started working with intuitive tools such as the Mythical Tarot and the Tao Oracle to assist people along their life journeys. Lucy brings to this service poetry's powerful use of symbolism and metaphor -- hence, The Lyrical Oracle, speaking with refreshing beauty and timeless truth, offering you insight, choice and power. Lucy's background provides experience and understanding which she uses in her inspired communication of the wisdom of the cards.

    A motorcycle mama, a rock and roller and a true cultural creative, Jeannine (J-9), from the heart of America, brings a brilliant sense of humor to ACT, along with her sense of justice, peace and environmental devotion. J-9 is currently facing a health challenge, and we're looking forward to her great attitude and strength bringing her back to her giving, activist self in short order. J-9 shares Veralynne's enthusiasm for using music and the "hippie" philosophy of minimal consumerism and giving, in revealing the truth and in encouraging the healing of the planet and its global rifts among nations and people.
    Tell J-9 You've Read It!



    Veralynne may be Owner/Editor of ACT, but she's merely the ringleader, having been blessed with the voluntary efforts of a group of very different yet like-minded people with gifts to share. Veralynne fancies herself a proud dilettante and "hippie wannabe," reaching back into America's wealth of wisdom from our recent history for philosophy and guidelines to deal with today's issues of war and peace, injustice and lack of love for our mother planet. It's very easy to be cynical these days, but with ACT, Veralynne hopes to temper the pain and confusion we feel with music, creativity, progressive participation in the political process and sharing of ideas, attitudes and ACTions.


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    MONEY. IT'S NOT JUST FOR BREAKFAST ANYMORE* — Lisa's finger on the Pulse of America and Its Actions in the World

    THINGS DUG UP BY DUG — His News and Views From Here and There

    THE LYRICAL ORACLE — Poetic Interpretations of Events and Issues by Lucy Lopez

    LOVE KNOWS — Remembering and Reflecting Hidden Wisdom of Our Forgotten True Nature by Lucy Lopez

    I'N'I — INVESTIGATING THE NEW IMPERIALISM — From William Bowles

    WHAT WOULD YOU THINK IF I SANG OUT OF TUNE? — Stream-of-Consciousness Essays by Veralynne

    SOMETHIN'S HAPPENIN' HERE — World or U.S. News or Commentary

    RIGHTS AND WRONGS — Government Takeover of American Freedom, Media and Elections

    BATTLE LINES BEIN' DRAWN — War and Peace

    POLITICS OF FEAR VS. DEMOCRACY — The Campaign to Oust Bush and the Progressive Movement to Regain our Country

    BORN YESTERDAY...NOT! — Orwell Himself Couldn't Have Imagined This Bullshit!

    CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC — Readers Write

    CAN MUSIC SAVE YOUR MORTAL SOUL? — Old Hippies Breaking New Ground, New Hippies Treading Old Ground, and Everything Musically Relevant in Between.

    C'MON PEOPLE NOW, SMILE ON YOUR BROTHER! — Cultural Creativity, Pop Culture, Art Culture, Lifestyle, Including The Cultural Creatives, The Creative Class, The Hippies and Simple Living

    HACKERS, CRACKERS, WEBLOG YAKKERS — The Internet, Privacy, Security, etc.

    FLORA AND FAUNA — Environment and Health

    THE MEDICINE CABINET — Negotiating a Peace Treaty in the War on Drugs

    FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH — Actions to Take to Make a Difference

    STOP, PEOPLE! WHAT'S THAT SOUND? — Ev'rybody Look What's Goin' Down: Recommended Books, Movies, Music, Websites, Blogs, etc.

    WORDS AND WORKS — Poetry, Prose, Letters, Essays, Quotes and Quips

    ONWARD AND UPWARD! — Motivation and Inspiration

    Not by our hands. Not by our will. Not in our name.


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    * "Food" for Thought From Lisa:

    "Only when the last tree has died and
    The last river has been poisoned and
    The last fish has been caught,
    Will we realise that
    We cannot eat money."
    19th Century Cree Indian

    "The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food."
    Russian proverb


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