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You know the Catholic Church is in trouble when the left-wing Guardian refers to Francis as the “superman pope.” He didn’t earn this dubious honor just by brokering Obama’s embrace of the communist slave state in Cuba. He has promoted state-inflicted poverty by attacking economic freedom and is now pushing the global warming hoax: In 2015, the pope will issue a lengthy message on the subject to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, give an address to the UN general assembly and call a summit of the world’s main religions. The reason for such frenetic activity, says Bishop Marcelo Sorondo, chancellor...

<p>The alternative energy movement is ruffling the feathers of animal rights activists.</p> <p>Wind turbines, lauded for being an environmentally friendly energy source, are killing thousands of birds that fly into their propellers in the Altamont Pass (search) just east of Oakland, Calif., where more than 5,000 turbines have helped power the Bay Area for 20 years.</p>

The United States Navy may no longer test a powerful sonar system needed to protect their ships against enemy submarines because the noise it makes might possibly harm fish. That's the ruling by a federal judge in - where else? - San Francisco - who apparently believes that the alleged welfare of marine life is more important than the national security. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte ruled Tuesday that the Navy and the National Marine Fisheries Service had not considered alternatives that could protect whales and other marine life from the loud sounds created by the sonar, which some...

August 22, 2003 Press Release: ELF STRIKES THREE TIMES IN ONE NIGHT AGAINST SUVs For Immediate Release Two separate attacks against urban sprawl have been reported to the Through media reports, the ELF Press Office has been made aware of three ELF actions occuring in the early morning hours of August 22, 2003. Although the ELF Press Office has received no communications about these actions from the persons responsible, spraypainted signatures at all scenes indicates claims of responsibility by ELF activists. The actions include: Arcadia, California - Rusnak Mercedes Benz. Ten S.U.V.s were spraypainted with "terrorist," "killer," and "ELF". Duarte,...

<p>A WAR IS RAGING. It involves lands essential to our nation, and will dramatically affect future generations. No, I am not speaking of Iraq or Afghanistan. This war is right here: the Bush administration's radical, all-out attack on America's wilderness and public lands.</p>

MOAB, UTAH - Circling the redrock desert of southern Utah in a small Cessna, Tim Martin and Kevin Walker represent the history and the future of this starkly beautiful land. Mr. Martin's great-grandfather came out from Iowa in 1881, ranching 280 acres in Mary Jane Canyon just west of the La Sal Mountains. Martin still ranches 160 acres with his brothers, but he spends more of his time now piloting tourists over the Canyonlands and Arches national parks. He sees no problem with more oil wells around here. "Parking areas and camp sites are just as scabby looking as the...

<p>A fire that destroyed a five-story apartment complex under construction may be the work of a domestic terrorist group, fire officials said Friday.</p> <p>The early morning fire caused more than $20 million in damage to the unfinished, wood-framed building in the upscale University Town Centre residential neighborhood. No injuries were reported.</p>

You've got to hand it to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change -- their timing is impeccable. Pew's latest big-splash report, U.S. Energy Scenarios for the 21st Century, hit congressional offices just as members began debating amendments to the Senate energy bill (S. 14). What can policy makers, journalists, and corporate CEOs -- Pew's primary audience -- learn from this report? What policy conclusions should Senators draw from it? Read on. Directing the Pew Center is former Clinton-Gore administration Kyoto Protocol negotiator Eileen Claussen, so it is hardly surprising that Energy Scenarios endorses the substance -- if not the...

Sharon Votaw April 21, 2003 My husband and I bought some farmland in the California Delta over 30 years ago. This is prime agricultural land with deep, rich soils, ample water and a long growing season. In the beginning we would plant a crop; either beans or tomatoes or alfalfa, hay, wheat, corn, oats or barley. Then we hoped for favorable weather and a strong market. Farming has always been gambler’s choice. Some years were good and some years were lean, but we paid our bills and enjoyed life. Unbeknownst to us, in the early 1990’s the government again became...

President George Bush is targeting the international treaty to save the ozone layer which protects all life on earth from deadly radiation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.New US demands - tabled at a little-noticed meeting in Montreal earlier this month - threaten to unravel one of the greatest environmental success stories of the past few decades, causing millions of deaths from cancer.The news comes at a particularly embarrassing time for the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who pressed the President in their talks in Washington last week to stop his attempts to sabotage the Kyoto Protocol which sets out to...

Women voters a battleground in 2004 election By Scott Shepard WASHINGTON BUREAU Saturday, July 12, 2003 ARLINGTON, Va. — Just 37 minutes before the National Organization for Women was to host a forum for Democratic presidential candidates here late Friday afternoon, the Bush administration did what friends and foes alike say it does best: befuddle its adversaries. In this case, it was a three-page opinion from the federal Department of Education released at the curious time of 4:27 p.m. Friday upholding the basic provisions of Title IX, the federal law that expanded opportunities for female student athletes. For more than...

<p>House Republicans are set to exempt the military from stringent environmental laws for the war on terrorism, angering Democrats and green groups who say the Defense Department should not be above the law.</p> <p>The exemption language was contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2003, which overwhelmingly passed the House Armed Services Committee 57-1 late Wednesday and was expected to pass the full House next week.</p>

As America begins to mobilize to win the war against terrorism, the quality and capability of our Armed Forces is going to become an important priority. For the years of the Clinton-Gore administration, following the Gulf War, the destruction of our military was the priority. Helping in that process were the faceless bureaucrats, many still in place, pledged to environmentalism at any cost. "Endangered species has power to halt war training" was the headline on an article in an October 2000 edition of the Washington Times. Written by Steve Miller and datelined Fort Irwin, California, the article began "What may ...

America's Green Fifth Column By Tom DeWeese As America's military deploys troops, armor, planes and ordinance to bases in the Middle East surrounding Iraq, they will do so after years of fending off another kind of attack, one by the massed forces of environmental organizations that have done everything in their power to reduce and restrict the ability of our military to train its soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen. A Green Fifth Column has waged its own war on this nation's ability to be ready for war on land, sea and air, seeking through legislation and litigation to thwart...

<p>WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP -- A radical environmental group opposed to sprawl is claiming credit for fires that burned two houses in a Macomb County development.</p> <p>The June 4 fires caused about $700,000 damage to a pair of nearly completed houses in the Willow Ridge development in Macomb's Washington Township.</p>

<p>Environmental groups overwhelmingly backed Democratic candidates in the last election cycle, contributing more than 90 percent of their political contributions to them, financial reports show.</p> <p>"That proves what everyone has known all along: These organizations are much more concerned with partisan politics than with the environment," said Christine Iverson, spokesman for the Republican National Committee.</p>