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From: "Liberty Matters News Service" Liberty_Matters_News_Service@mail.vresp.com> Subject: FBI Nabs Seven Eco-terrorists Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:20:19 +0000 FBI Nabs Seven Eco-terrorists The FBI has rounded up seven suspects accused of a variety of terrorist acts aimed at employees of a New Jersey pharmaceutical testing company and six companies doing business with Huntingdon Life Sciences. The suspects, all in their twenties, were indicted on charges of engaging in a conspiracy to violate a federal law that bans terrorism against animal enterprises. If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Additionally, the president...

RENO, NV (Mineweb.com) -- Nearly a year ago, this reporter called an old friend, who was the chairman and chief exectuive of Caterpillar (CAT) at the time. During the call, the executive expressed his concern and frustration about the use of CAT equipment by Israel’s military to bulldoze Palestinian settlements. There was no way he would support or in any way condone the use of the equipment to violate human rights. But, thus far, he was helpless to stop it. As far as we were concerned, the most complicated issue was: How can a company control a buyer’s use of...

ON THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE – By Baxter Black Mule Conversion What makes a man switch from horses to mules? Loneliness? Desperation? Boredom? Something to fulfill his life after he quits chewing Copenhagen?? Deb has watched Jimmy make the change. She actually may have contributed to his fall, which makes her an accessory, because she bought him a carriage for Christmas. She hadn’t known he’d been fantasizing about jacks and jennies the same way teamsters fantasize about Reos and Kenworths. Jimmy started going to buggy and wagon sales, draft-horse shows, Amish rodeos. He started learning the names of things,...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Jan 6 (Reuters) - It has rarely been cheaper to dance the tango in Argentina, which is why the number of foreign visitors jumped by a third in 2003, the government said on Tuesday. The steep fall of Argentina's peso, the product of a recent economic crash, has also filled the South American country's malls and boutique shops with bargain hunters eager to snap up local leather, wine and handcrafted jewelry. "Many tourists ... take advantage of the currency and the quality of service that has notably improved in Argentina," Tourism Secretary Enrique Meyer told local radio....

Miners worry as World Bank weighs financing future Friday October 10, 2:45 am ET By Eduardo Orozco LIMA, Peru, Oct 10 (Reuters) - To fund or not to fund, that is the thorny question facing the World Bank's (News - Websites) International Finance Corp. (IFC.UL) as it weighs its future in mining. The investment wing of the multilateral lender has commissioned an expert report on whether to continue financing an industry that is key to the development of many poor countries, but brings a heavy social and environmental burden. The report's recommendations are due out in January 2004 and World...

This week the Kremlin has started experiencing some serious and most unwelcome consequences of being the "informal" leader of the anti-Iraq war coalition and having convened a "summit of losers" (Russia, France and Germany) in St Petersburg on April 11-12. First, Washington quite clearly hinted that it might no longer consider Russia as a member of the so-called G8 club; then Russia found itself tossed overboard from the now trilateral negotiations on the North Korea nuclear issue to be launched in Beijing on April 23. The latter, as well-informed sources in Moscow report, was considered by the Russian ruling elite...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - It was enough to make a Texan president's heart swell: Hassan Atiya, an Iraqi on horseback, riding off into the chaos of wartime Baghdad with a vigorous wave and an exclamation — "I love you, America." And when it came to horse-wrangling Wednesday, he wasn't the only one. As forces from the U.S. 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing claimed Fort Rashid, a sprawling compound in southeastern Baghdad, they found among their prizes a field filled with 40 Arabian-Appaloosa horses in brown, gray and glorious chestnut. What followed was a scramble — a weirdly good-natured permutation of the looting...

What's the latest from the Canadian people's heroic war with the Great Satan? After a week of sniping, random potshots and suicide bombs from Chrétien fedayeen dispersed through strategically unimportant Canadian cities, one member of the ruthless ruling elite is showing signs of impatience with our long-time strongman: "I don't think things will change until our leadership changes," says David Pratt, Liberal chairman of the House of Commons Defence Committee. (Snip) Meanwhile, I find myself in the unprecedented position of being temporarily the least immoderate adult in my household. My wife, who was born in England, says she's ashamed to...

<p>Idaho again has received a failing grade from a national gun-control organization, which says the state is among the worst at protecting children from gunfire. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence awarded Idaho an “F-plus” for the third straight year, after three years of a “D” ranking. The organization is named after James Brady, the former press secretary severely wounded in the attempted assassination of President Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Gold's spot price approached $310 Thursday for the first time since Oct. 22, 1999, confirming what observers say is a sustained rally for the precious metal. The metal's rise, up $4.20 to $308 an ounce, came as the euro gained to almost 90 cents on the dollar and the yen rose almost 1 percent against the greenback. The metal, which traded around $270 in January, is reflecting Middle Eastern turmoil, a visit by the Saudi king to Texas and the U.S. stock market's decline below what technicians say are support levels. "We're in the second stage...

Toronto stocks were higher at mid-morning on Thursday as gold issues pushed up while the market grappled with a stack of financial reports that lacked the guidance necessary to inject it with a strong dose of confidence. The Toronto Stock Exchange 300 composite index (^TSE - news) was up 17.19 points, or 0.22 percent, at 7,730.60 at mid morning, after falling nearly 20 points at the open. ``Most of the earnings that have come in have been less than expected and are not showing any indication of improvement in the fortunes of the company,'' said Rolie Bradley, an institutional salesman...

<p>Doris Kearns Goodwin, the prolific historian who recently acknowledged appropriating a few passages from another author's work for a book she wrote in 1987, told her publisher last week that the same book contained scores of quotations and paraphrases taken without attribution from other writers.</p>

NOW that all Congressional dealings with the bankrupted Enron Corporations and its outside auditors, Arthur Andersen, are under the glare of public scrutiny, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Chris Dodd is scurrying for cover, like a cockroach when the kitchen lights come on.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - Now comes the hard part in the $300-plus gold rally: finding the neglected mining stocks. Problem is, there aren't many. The entire category of gold mining stocks, from the Newmont Mining giants to the Vancouver-listed juniors, doesn't exceed $50 billion of market capitalization. "Up until three weeks ago the entire market cap of the book was smaller than McDonalds," said John Hathaway, whose $30 million Tocqueville Gold Fund is up 29 percent since Jan. 2. Of the largest gold companies, Hathaway sees Barrick Gold (ABX: news, chart, profile), digesting its 2001 purchase of Homestake Mining, as ...

In a blow to President Robert Mugabe's attempts to portray himself as fighting colonialism, two major African countries have criticised his policies. Both South Africa and Ghana have expressed their concern at the situation in Zimbabwe, where Mr Mugabe faces difficult elections in March.

EDITORIAL RANGE Magazine Winter Issue 2002 By C.J. Hadley, Editor/Publisher Ford Foundation gives Audubon $5 million and Earthwatch $5 million. Toyota gives Audubon $500,000. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) runs on an annual budget of about $400 million (including $37 million of your tax dollars thanks to generous feds). According to Tom Knudson of the Sacramento Bee, federal support of environmental groups is substantial and growing. “Last year,” he writes, “about $137 million flowed to 20 major environmental nonprofit groups – an average of $377,000 a day.” While much of that money is used to destroy resource users and American self-sufficiency, ...

Subject: Fw: URGENT ACTION Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:18:27 -0700 URGENT ACTION ALERT SUPPORT THE OLYMPIC RODEO To: Rodeo supporters and those opposed to radical animal rights activists From: Cindy Schonholtz, PRCA Animal Welfare 101 Pro Rodeo Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80919 As most of you know, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee is working with the PRCA to produce a rodeo as a part of the Arts and Culture Festival during the Salt Lake Olympics next February. Utah animal rights groups are putting enormous pressure on Salt Lake Organizing Committee CEO Mitt Romney to cancel this event. The rodeo ...