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The Bohemian Club, the secretive, men-only society known for its annual bacchanal on a sprawling forest enclave in Sonoma County, has won state approval for a logging plan allowing the group to harvest as much as 1.7 million board feet of timber a year. The state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's endorsement of the club's controversial permit essentially eliminates government oversight of its timber-harvesting practices over the next century. While the 130-year-old club, whose members are believed to have included every Republican president since Herbert Hoover, argues the logging plan will help reduce fire risk and restore its 2,700-acre...

Hon David Kilgour and David Matas will be in Wellington Tuesday 11 September to highlight new evidence from their painstaking research into the practice of state-sanctioned organ harvesting in China. The former Canadian MP and the human rights lawyer have spent a year and a half researching and travelling in a global mission to raise awareness of the practice they conclude is "a form of evil yet to be seen on this planet." Kilgour and Matas released Bloody Harvest: Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China in January this year. The report almost doubles...

A man of principles Silence in the face of evil is not David Kilgour's way. Sadly, there are few like him in seats of power Toronto Sun Sunday, July 16, 2006 By Peter Worthington David Kilgour is one of those guys destined to make waves -- never for self-aggrandizement, always on moral issues of principle. At age 64, he's been around the hoop. A former Crown attorney, he was first elected to the House of Commons as a Tory in 1979. He's served in the cabinet, quit the party and joined the Liberals, quit the Liberals to sit as...

1010 WINS has learned that an investigation is underway into what may be the illegal harvesting of human bones from deceased victims whose families never gave consent for the bones to be removed. There are at least 30 cases involved and that number could grow. Sources say long bones from arms and legs were surreptitiously removed and replaced with pipes or broomsticks. The matter came to light after the sale of the Daniel George & Sons Funeral Home in Brooklyn. New owners Deborah Johnson and Robert Nelms found financial fraud and believed bodies were tampered with. "We're aware of the...

BIMINI, Bahamas — The bulldozers moved slowly at first. Picking up speed, they pressed forward into a patch of dense mangrove trees that buckled and splintered like twigs. As the machines moved on, the pieces drifted out to sea. Sitting in a small motorboat a few hundred yards offshore on a mid-July afternoon, Samuel H. Gruber — a University of Miami professor who has devoted more than two decades to studying the lemon sharks that breed here — plunged into despondency. The mangroves being ripped up to build a new resort provide food and protection that the sharks can't get...

The U.S. Congress is poised to pour unlimited funds into embryonic stem cell research that not only destroys innocent human life, but it has shown no substantial promise as a curative and threatens the health of women worldwide. So much for “progress and advancement.” After more than 20 years, embryonic stem cell research has not yielded a single cure. During this same time, adult stem cells have been used to treat people with heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injuries and at least 50 other documented conditions. The focus on therapeutic cloning has been aimed at our heartstrings, prophesying cures...

Brain-harvesting case may lead to class-action suit By KEVIN WACK, Portland Press Herald Writer Copyright © 2005 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc. E-mail this story to a friend A brain-harvesting operation that involved the state Medical Examiner's Office faces growing legal problems, with two Portland lawyers exploring a class-action lawsuit and two other attorneys lining up suits of their own. John Campbell, the Portland lawyer who recently settled a lawsuit in which a Gorham couple alleged their late son's brain was taken without consent, said Thursday that he is now looking into filing a class-action case. Campbell said he has talked...

The Neolib Attack on Adult Stem Cells By Michael Fumento  November 11, 2004 The only beneficiaries of ESC therapy to date have been these guys, and precious few at that.   Among the magazines even die-hard right-wingers should sometimes read are the neo-liberal ones The New Republic and the Washington Monthly. They often contain thoughtful articles with stimulating fresh thinking. Alas that makes it all the worse when they publish something moldier than a slab of Roquefort cheese. So it is with their current combined attack on adult stem cell research, designed to support the alternative of embryonic stem cells....

Harvesting Those Fetal Body Parts By Kelly Patricia O'Meara Scientists depend on human body parts for research they believe may yield breakthroughs in a number of diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, that affect millions of people. But the public largely is unaware of the way the laundry list of body parts for scientific research is filled. Those who oppose using human flesh for research wonder if knowing the gruesome details would make a difference to those who support the practice. Actual requests for body parts such as a "whole intact leg, including the entire hip joint," come with special...

December 16, 2002 Dear Pro-Life Friends: The NJ Senate passed S1909 today. The measure will now move to the Assembly where it will most likely be scheduled for a hearing before the Assembly Health Committee in the very near future. From hereon in, please use both the Senate and Assembly bill number in any correspondence on the bill. It is S1909/A2840. Please contact your two Assembly members immediately and urge them to oppose S1909/A2840. You can call the Office of Legis Svcs at 1-800-792-8630 or go to the legislature's webpage to find out who your two assembly members are. The...

Landowners in the Santa Cruz Mountains and other forested areas of California who want to cut timber on their property will have to submit new information to the state showing the impacts of other nearby logging projects under a bill signed Sunday by Gov. Gray Davis. The bill, by Assemblyman Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, was championed by environmental groups and opposed by some in the timber industry. Under it, the State Board of Forestry will require by Jan. 1, 2005, anyone submitting a timber harvest plan to the state to include maps showing ``the location and boundaries of past, present,...