Bush plans on destroying National Forest to help his corporate buddies

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Bush Team Pushes Huge Timber Sale Under Guise of Fire Protection

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000150.php



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Under the guise of preventing forest fires, the Bush administration is planning the biggest timber sale on public lands in modern history. The Biscuit Project would allow logging of 372 million board feet of timber across 30 square miles of southwest Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest—enough timber to fill 70,000 logging trucks. The logging would be done on wildlands of uncommon beauty and ecological diversity, far from any community that could be damaged in a fire.

"It's the biggest logging sale since World War II," says Steve Holmer, communications director with the Unified Forest Defense Campaign, a coalition of national and regional conservation organizations. "Timber companies have made huge contributions to the Bush campaign. This project is political payback....."


It's strange, you know. Of all the fronts on which we can attribute misdeeds and malfeasance to the Bush administration, we often overlook the environmental havoc his reign has brought. This guy is seriously killing an entire wildlife preserve, a HUGE one, to make a profit for his campoaign contributors.

Somebody tell an Oregon hunter, please!

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1. uh...kick.

this is already falling off the frontpage.


It's important, people.

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2. Really part of his whole political philosophy

I really liked Michael Lind's "Made in Texas".

The Bush philosophy is to turn the US economy into a plantation-style semi-slave economy, basically a resource colony for the rest of the world, where the "plantation owners" live as an elite, and the rest of us are paid very poorly as miners and sharecroppers.

In the process, they will gut the educated middle class and whatever high-tech knowledge-based industry we have.

See Buzzflash:

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/03/20_lind.html

It's not just a forest he is destroying, it is a democracy.


PS. Love your pic. Those guys were one of my favorite bands.

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3. Mine too.

D. Boon was probably my biggest inspirational figure. The guy was a real hero.


And it's not just Bush, it's the whole Neocon cabal. They want all profits to go in one direction.

If Bush wins again, something tells me Canada's population AND economy are going to balloon exponentially.