<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">From an environmentalist group in my area.<div><br></div><div>Here is nice local (Elgin) story:<br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/second-siemens-plant-illinois.php">http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/second-siemens-plant-illinois.php</a><br><h1 class="entry-header" style="font-size: 22px; "><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/06/second-siemens-plant-illinois.php" _base_target="_parent" linkindex="108" set="yes">Second Siemens Wind Turbine Plant to Open in Illinois</a></h1><h5 class="tagline">by <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/authors/index.php?author=matthewm" _base_target="_parent" linkindex="109" set="yes">Matthew McDermott, Brooklyn, NY</a> on 06.24.08</h5></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Friday film reminder:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><br></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><b>"War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death"</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><b>Friday, July 11, 7 p.m., Countryside Church UU, 1025 N. Smith Rd., Palatine, IL</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana">This film explores the history of tactics used by U.S. administrations and media, from Vietnam to the present, to justify foreign wars. Writer Norman Solomon avoids partisanship to look at the big picture. There will be discussion after the film.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>=== National news not so good.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Yesterday, we had the Congressional sell-out on FISA. Here's the summary from one of my favorite organizations (started following them long before political awakening), EFF.org:</div><div><br></div><div>Senate Joins House in Caving to White House Immunity Demands</div><div><a href="http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/07/09">http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/07/09</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And then, President [sic] Bush telling it like it is on carbon emissions:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; background-color: #eeeeee"><font face="Verdana" size="5" color="#004780" style="font: 16.0px Verdana; color: #004780"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bush-to-g8-goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter-863911.html"><u>Bush to G8: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'</u></a></font><font face="Verdana" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Verdana"> </font><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit. As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: <i>"Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."</i></font></p></div><div>- hal</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>