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A friend of my sent me this note and I wanted to share it with every one I know. I would add my own comment about the upcoming election. If in any race at the federal level, an incumbent is returned to their seat, then the people of our Great country did not do their job. This election is critical, no matter what side of the aisle you are on. Brad White My friends; I am against the $85 Billion dollar bail out of AIG Instead, I am in favor of giving that same $85 Billion to America in a...

This is an amazing site. A map of the world appears on the left side where you can position your cursor on any spot on the earth and then zoom in for a closer look. Or, and this is even better. From the pull down menu above the map, select ImageLinks and then press go. On the left side a series of real satellite images (thumbnails)pop up which you can enlarge by clicking on the image. There is also a link to the CIA fact book for the area you selected and others. This is a really interesting site!!

<p>3 charged in woman's death Strangled: 20-year-old victim and 18-year-old suspect were roommates.</p> <p>Three Anchorage teenagers were charged Friday in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old woman whose burned body was found the day before on a dirt road outside Girdwood.</p>

Address by the Honorable Walter J. Hickel Commonwealth North April 4, 2002 - Hotel Captain Cook, 12 noon Crisis in the Commons: the Alaska Solution Thank you for the opportunity to talk today about a new book ….which I hope will be a handbook for Alaska leadership for generations to come… …and a guide for those parts of the world… … that are struggling with how to fight poverty, the breeding ground of terrorism. The idea in this book is much bigger than one person or one generation. And I hope that many of you in this room will pick...

Way Under the Radar Jef Raskin, 03.25.02 Toy planes can elude Star Wars shield. I design human-machine interfaces and write for a living, but between those careers I've also had my own successful model plane company. So it wasn't a huge leap when I recently bid on a government RFQ (request for quote) for a silent, unmanned reconnaissance craft for use in studying ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. I figured in my costs, my time, and some extra for unforeseen problems, and submitted my bid. A few months later a USDA Forest Service purchase order transformed me from an ordinary...

ANWR: Setting the record straight By KARA GITTINGS MORIARTY The United States Senate is debating one of the most important issues of the year, passage of a national energy policy, which will affect all Americans. Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., has introduced his own energy bill (S. 1766), after the House passed HR 4 in August 2001. It is not uncommon for the Majority Leader of the Senate to introduce something different than what passed the House, but it is uncommon for him to bypass the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Instead of letting the committee process work, he is...

Alaska Ear The Divine Appendage (Published: March 3, 2002) THE ACTUAL FACTS . . . Truth-seeking Ear is happy to set the record straight regarding the misadventures of Anchorage Deputy Police Chief Mark Mew during the recent visit of President Bush, currently ranked as the worst day of Mark's life. First, it is not true that Sen. Frank Murkowski was in the car when Mark put it in a ditch near the Alaska Native Heritage Center and couldn't get it out. His only passenger was a Secret Service agent, who was able to walk the rest of the distance to ...

DATE>17.10.01 CHANNEL>Current Affairs Mercenaries home in on Osama bin Laden With $25 million on his head, Osama bin Laden had better be worried more about the half a dozen mercenary groups already in Afghanistan seeking to grab the bounty than about the coalition forces, says Kajal Basu New Delhi, October 17 If there is one entity that Osama bin Laden should be scared of, it is not the military coalition that is trying to "smoke him out" of a cartographer's nightmare of caves and underground warrens - he should be petrified of the bands of mercenaries, officially declared and ...

Gwich'in: ANWR battle is about human rights, not oil ARCTIC VILLAGE--The Arctic Village community hall shook into the wee hours of the morning on Saturday, while inside a fiddle band roared and a jubilant crowd stomped and clapped to the music. A red-and-gold banner on one side of the log hall said "Welcome to Gwich'in Land," while a black banner hanging opposite bore a picture of the globe and proclaimed, "Save the Earth." Between the banners, Gwich'in Athabascan Indians and their environmentalist allies two-stepped and twirled to the music. Come mid-morning--after much coffee was consumed--panel discussions on protecting the Arctic ...

Carter regrets ANWR compromise September 12, 2000 By DEB MOORE Alaska recently hosted a variety of events in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and the accomplishments of our invited guest, former President Jimmy Carter. Representing the Northern Alaska Environmental Center, I was proud to participate in these important functions and to extend our thanks for all of President Carter's efforts in protecting Alaska's wild places. President Carter has done more than any president since Eisenhower to protect the wilderness and wildlife values of Alaska's Arctic. By signing ANILCA--the most significant conservation measure ...

Conservation bill's future uncertain as early adjournment looms September 12, 2000 The Associated Press ANCHORAGE--U.S. Rep. Don Young and Sen. Frank Murkowski's massive conservation bill is in trouble. Congress is racing toward a mid-October adjournment, meaning time is on the side of those who are fighting the measure. The legislation, called the Conservation and Reinvestment Act, would reallocate about $3 billion a year from offshore oil drilling into land conservation, wildlife protection and parks programs. It would do so by creating 15-year entitlements largely beyond the control of congressional appropriators or the White House. The measure has won the endorsement ...

Knowles raps Carter on refuge move By T.A. BADGER Associated Press Writer ANCHORAGE--Gov. Tony Knowles is not in the habit of lashing out publically at fellow Democrats, especially when they also happen to be former presidents. But he's making an exception for Jimmy Carter. Knowles on Thursday angrily accused Carter of being a rude houseguest by traveling to Alaska to announce that he will try to persuade President Clinton to grant national monument status to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain. "Without any meaningful dialogue with the people of Alaska, you used our state as a media prop and ...

Let us look closely into the hidden meaning behind the allegorical legend of this degree. It is apparent the lesson of the degree – the inner symbolic meaning – is not a lesson of struggle to regain freedom and liberty from bondage and slavery, as was the case in the 15th degree; but is a lesson of struggle constantly necessary to hold and preseve freedom and liberty already secured. In the 15th degree, the destruction of the Temple of Solomon and the City of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzer symbolizes the loss by external forces of war and conflict freedom and liberty ...

Excerpt from: DECLARATION OF THE CAUSES AND NECESSITY OF TAKING UP ARMS July 6, 1775 We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. -- The latter is our choice. -- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. -- Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding ...

House committee approves emergency status for census spending July 23, 1999 Web posted at: 3:02 p.m. EDT (1902 GMT) WASHINGTON (July 23) -- Declaring next year's constitutionally mandated census an emergency, a House panel has made it possible for the $4.5 billion cost of the national accounting to be paid for out of the federal budget surplus. The money for the census is part of the appropriations bill that funds the State, Justice and Commerce departments. According to Republicans if the money had not been classified as an emergency they would have had to make cuts to other parts of ...