<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Have you heard that Congress is right now trying to stop the importation of cheaper-priced Canadian medicines because they're afraid of dangerous chemicals that might be hidden in the shipments by terrorists? Yup, that's what the big-pharma-controlled politicians are worried about! Uh-huh.<BR><DIV><BR><DIV>Do you know that we pay the insurance companies to cover our health, dental, and drugs, our cars and motorcycles, houses and summer cabins, recreation vehicles and boats, luggage and travel (like flight insurance), life, our burial costs...is there anything these guys have forgotten to insure? Can you spell "protection racket"?</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Save Our Democracy!</DIV><DIV>Common Ground for June 2006 notes that D.C. has a habit of interfering in foreign elections by use of an agency known as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). NY professor of politics Bertell Ollman jokingly suggested that we need an INTERNATIONAL Endowment for Democracy (IEFD) that would allow foreigners to contribute funds to restore democracy inside the U.S. The idea "took off." Ollman is now heading a board of directors that includes author Gore Vidal, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and National Lawyers' Guild President Michael Rattner. To check out their mission and their blogs, cartoons, and videos, see iefd.org.</DIV></SPAN><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The Electric Automobile Association (EAA) is urging the public who like to breathe (without asthma or other pulmonary obstructions) to write or email Toyota to make "plug-in" hybrids. It can be done by the auto makers and it has been done by one member who participated in the recent drive from Santa Clara to Sacramento, a 117 mile trip. The road-worthy hybrid Prius with the home-made plug-in kit got 100+ miles per gallon (BTW, beating Honda's 2000 Insight rated at 60-71 miles per gallon).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Save California's Water!</DIV><DIV>Have you heard of S 912? It's the Clean Water Authority Restoration Act of 2005. Urge Senator DiFi to cosponsor it! For more info, see environmentcalifornia.org.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Aren't these all Green Party concerns? Shouldn't they be?</DIV><DIV>Andrea</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>------------------------</DIV><DIV>"We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy, but we cannot have both."</DIV><DIV>---Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>