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<p>HOUGHTON -- Federal and state law enforcement officials remained on the Michigan Tech University campus late Monday after bombs found at two university buildings were disarmed. Radical environmentalists are considered possible suspects, a county official said.</p> <p>The bombs, described by university spokesmen as the "real thing," were discovered early Monday morning by campus public safety officers at the U.J. Noblet Forestry Building and the U.S. Forest Service Engineering Laboratory.</p>

We Are a Kinder Nation, but one Awakened to Danger Yesterday First Lady Laura Bush gave a speech to the Press Club and President George W. Bush gave a speech to the American people on homeland defense. Laura Bush said: "We are a kinder nation today. People seem to take more time to ask about each other. I notice more people hugging their friends and even reaching out to touch people they barely know. We are opening our doors to our neighbors and our hearts to strangers." George W. Bush said: "We are a nation awakened to danger. We're ...

The next time "environmentalist" saboteurs launch a campaign against Alaskan oil drilling — or any other project to improve life in these United States — they should be encouraged to review the videotapes of the collapsing World Trade Center twin towers. "You are not responsible for the terrorist attack," the enviros should be told, "but you are directly responsible for the collapse of the towers and the related loss of more than 5,000 lives."Is this true?These are the facts: When the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and other New York skyscrapers were being built, the steel columns that supported ...

The Something Undermining Our Nation By Holly Swanson © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com March 19, 1999 Charlton Heston recently said, in a speech at Harvard, that "Americans know something, without a name is undermining this nation, turning the mind mushy when it comes to separating truth from falsehood and right from wrong. And they don't like it." That something, the "it," the source undermining our nation has a name. "It" has been carefully concealed behind a seemingly friendly face and deliberately kept out of the public eye. "It" is the Green Movement. It is where the fuel for unrest is coming from. ...

Last week in a column - Have the Muslim Terrorists Merged with the Environmental Terrorists/I observed that it appeared, from the news and my e-mail, that the Muslim terrorists are enjoying quite a bit of support from their cousins the Environmental terrorists. This prompted John, a Michigan reader to note: Thank you for your column exposing the so-called "environmental" terrorists. I have worked as an environmental profession for 25 years. The rise of so-called "environmental" terrorism is of great concern. Like the Taliban, environmental terrorists tolerate no dissent. They seek to intimidate and destroy. Their enemy is civilization itself. "The ...

The people who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, and the unknown killer who sent anthrax through the U.S. mail, aren't the only terrorists waging war on America. Environmental and animal-rights terrorists are fighting a less visible, less damaging, but still serious guerrilla war against our freedom and our way of life. These terrorists use fires and explosives to attack America's free-enterprise system, our environmental policies, our universities, the use of animals for food and medical research, our judicial system and our values. Unfortunately, most Americans ignore these home-grown terrorists, just as most of us ...

The professionally goofy Sierra Club has released yet another report (Do they actually print these things on paper? Don't they know trees have souls?) &#151; this time claiming to "grade" America's largest cities on how they're doing when it comes to transportation planning. Since the way most people and goods get transported &#151; anywhere in America, but particularly here in the sprawling west &#151; is via motor vehicle, you might think the report would focus primarily on roads and highways, giving high marks to cities that are working hard to get their residents out of smog-inducing traffic jams by building ...

Belem, Brazil (CNSNews.com) - Timber industry representatives say international environmental groups are trying to establish a worldwide "eco-dictatorship," by creating environmental myths and controlling the forestry industry. Nilder Costa, a mechanical engineer with the timber company EIR Industries, warned participants at the Plywood and Tropical Timber International Congress in Belem over the weekend that environmental groups want to dominate the industry by way of the Forest Certification Council (FSC), a private group headquartered in Mexico that is trying to establish new restrictions on logging. Costa called the green agenda "colonialism with a new face" under an "eco-dictatorship," and he detailed ...

Near Itacoatiara, Brazil (CNSNews.com) - The only way to understand the forces at play in the battle between the environmental movement and the timber companies that harvest lumber in the Amazon Rainforest is to witness life here, even if only for a brief time. To hear the cries of international environmental groups, this land of soaring temperatures and swarming insects is a paradise being systematically destroyed by the ravages of man. My own experience took me deep into this massive jungle, whereupon my brow and clothes became drenched in sweat within minutes. Insects began feasting on my flesh with reckless ...

It's been remarkably warm and dry in Washington, D.C., beating 70 degrees almost every day in early December. But if people there think it's warm now, wait until February, when hot air gushes forth over new legislation targeting global warming and our way of life.I'm referring to new legislation, the Global Climate Change Act of 2001 (soon to be of 2002). It's sponsored by Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who wants to become president on Jan. 20, 2005. He's a smoother version of Al Gore. But he shares Gore's cult-like belief that our lives must be dramatically coerced in a green ...

January 8, 2002 A Property-Rights Claim Meets Resistance By LINDA GREENHOUSE ASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — Advocates of property rights have been on a winning streak at the Supreme Court for the last 15 years or so as the court, by narrow majorities, has expanded the categories of land-use regulation for which the government must compensate property owners. But it appeared during an argument at the court today that the property-rights side might have finally overplayed its hand. A lawyer representing hundreds of owners of residential building lots at Lake Tahoe ran into resistance to his argument that a three-year ...

Dennis T. Avery, a senior fellow for the Hudson Institute and a former senior policy analyst for the US Department of State, recently took note of sanctions applied to Steven R. Arnold, a former researcher at the Tulane University Center for Bioenvironmental Research. The Federal Office of Research Integrity found that Arnold had "committed scientific misconduct by intentionally falsifying the research results published in the Journal Science and by providing falsified and fabricated materials to investigating officials." His punishment? He will be unable to receive federal research funding for five years. Avery called it "one of the most dramatic scientific ...

<p>Another case of "biofraud" has surfaced in Washington state, prompting lawmakers there to call for congressional intervention.</p> <p>A state fish and wildlife biologist asked taxidermist Jim Gintz for grizzly bear hair samples in March 2001, said state Rep. Bob Sump, Republican co-chairman of the Natural Resources Committee.</p>

Announcing: Operation: Restore the Eagle A Public Service Announcement : 01.04.02 Americans have rights, too - a message that many have been trying to convey to the powers in Washington. The Endangered Species Act (ESA), created to protect endangered species - has for years eroded away another species from the land, Americans. This attack on the fabric of America in left unchecked, threatens the security of this nation as a whole. From Klamath Falls to out southern border, the rights of hard working Americans are being ignored, as well as our national security being compromised. But this Year - 2002, ...

Senate Passed 'Land Grab' Angers Property Rights Activists By Christine Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) - In the waning days of 2001, the Senate passed a $600 million-a-year bill designed to conserve habitat and open space in a way that doesn't hurt farmers and local economies. Still, opponents call it a "land grab" that gives state bureaucrats and environmental groups the power to call the shots over private property. The American Wildlife Enhancement Act of 2001 was passed by voice vote in the Senate on Dec. 20 as an add-on to an existing law, the Conservation and Reinvestment Act ...

Lynx-fur furor focuses on science role By Lynda V. Mapes Seattle Times staff reporter Government field biologists have unwittingly detonated the explosive tension between science and politics in land-management decisions throughout the West.

Senators Offer Soviet-Style Central Planning for the Klamath Basin James Buchal 12.27.01 "We must now face the harsh truth that the objectives of communism are being steadily advanced because many of us do not recognize the means used to advance them . . . No one who truly understands what it really is can be taken in by it . . . Yet the individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced ...

Agriculture chief upholds management plan for 11.5 million acres of Sierra By JIM WASSERMAN Associated Press Writer 12.27.01 SACRAMENTO (AP) - The Bush administration announced support Thursday for a Clinton-era management plan that giving a new environmental tilt to managing 11.5 million acres of national forest in the Sierra Nevada. U.S. Agriculture Under Secretary Mark Rey, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, upheld earlier agency decisions that rejected appeals by loggers, ski resorts and off-road groups hoping to kill the plan. "The plan is a final agency decision which is now being implemented," Rey said. The management plan, formally ...

<p>FORT IRWIN, Calif. - With real tanks, fake ammunition, and thousands of troops, ''combat'' on the Army's 643,000-acre training ground in the Mojave Desert amounts to the world's biggest war game.</p> <p>Now a move to expand the National Training Center to make it even more realistic is being held up by two endangered species - the desert tortoise and a plant called the Lane Mountain milkvetch.</p>

© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com In the wake of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, certain parties in the Department of Interior are using the nation's heightened concerns about security to advance a long-standing agenda that would turn DOI into one of the nation's "top cop" agencies – right up there with the FBI, BATF and the other law-enforcement agencies of the Justice and Treasury departments. Under legislation drafted but not yet introduced, officers of the Department of Interior's five law enforcement agencies would be able to exercise extensive subpoena, warrant and arrest powers, not only on ...