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The failing of small towns across America is a canary in the coal mine. Jobs are disappearing everywhere across the country.
We can no longer sit silent while Washington denudes the U.S. of its farms, ranches, factories, defenses, and wealth.
Make no mistake - this country is being gutted like a corporate takeover. The people are being left with nothing.
Our military is being wasted in Iraq to enrich defense contractors. Oil is just a small part of that picture.
And when there are no factories left to manufacture a defense, when we are importing everything, food, fuel, weapons,
Letting rot the riches and heritage of this great nation, who will stop someone under their economic control from coming to take it?
Nuclear weapons? These people have the codes. They even have most of the news media in their back pockets.
Perhaps they will even have convinced al of us with their TV news it's better to be taken over than to starve,
Since none of us will have work by the time they are done other than "services" to the few wealthy in control.
These people talk God but they speak with a forked tongue while they slip their hands in your wallet pocket.
They are NOT the friend of rural America. They are NOT the friend of megalopolises. They are only friends to
their wallets. All this talk of "doing it for yourself" is horse puckey. That's to divide us. There is a
Reason why our coins are stamped "United We Stand." Because if we are working together and helping each other,
we succeeed, because we are greater than our individual efforts, struggling alone - and dying off, like these
small towns over America. You can take that to the bank, but you might have to work your passage overseas first.

D.

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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
 
American Made Clothing, Bags & Luggage, and Toys are now available
for sale in one convenient location

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

American Made Clothing, Bags & Luggage, and Toys are now available for sale in one convenient location

SHAKOPEE, Minnesota – February 14, 2005

Founded in an effort to preserve American manufacturing jobs, zebulonUSA.com, an online retailer of ONLY products Made in the USA, is pleased to announce its Grand Opening.

Utilizing suppliers from Maine to California, zebulonUSA.com has sourced products in the Clothing (Men’s, Women’s and Children’s), Bags & Luggage, and Toy categories. Future expansion is planned in the areas of Home & Outdoor, Sports & Outdoor Gear, and Tools.

For those seeking to Buy American, zebulonUSA.com provides a convenient one-stop source for purchasing a wide variety of American made products.

Contact: Paul R. Stanuch

President/Founder

zebulonUSA.com, LLC

#10A

240 Shumway St., Suite 600

Shakopee, MN 55379


pauls@zebulonusa.com

952-261-4147

http://www.zebulonusa.com


- posted by AquarianM @ 6:56 AM
Monday, February 14, 2005
 
Published: February 8, 2005, 4:00 AM PST
By Ed Frauenheim
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin may have some new competition--and not just from Bangalore, Shanghai and Singapore.

The latest kids on the tech block are places like Twin Falls, Idaho; Oklahoma City; and Jonesboro, Ark. These are among the smaller cities or rural areas of the United States where information technology companies have been locating or expanding facilities.

The companies, ranging from IT services start-up Rural Sourcing to computer giant Dell, can save on wages in these communities, thanks partly to inexpensive housing there. And in some cases, the companies are pitching operations in midsize America as an alternative to shipping work abroad.

Full story at: http://ct.cnet.com.com/clicks?c=23041-1377626&brand=cnet&ds=5


- posted by AquarianM @ 9:53 AM
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
 
ELPC News: Gov. Blagojevich Announces RPS Plan

Dear Daniel Stafford,

Great news! Last Thursday, in his State of the State speech, Illinois Governor Blagojevich announced a renewable energy development plan that will make Illinois a national renewable energy leader. The plan calls for 3,000 megawatts of new "green power," mostly wind power, by 2012. This is enough to power one million homes and is expected to create 3,000 construction jobs.

If you go to ELPC's website at www.elpc.org and click on (QuickTime video or MPEG video) in the lead story, you can watch the one-minute excerpt from Governor Blagojevich's speech in which he announces the plan, and you can read ELPC's press release commending Governor Blagojevich on this important announcement.

The Governor will be going to the Illinois Commerce Commission later this week and asking them to move this quickly. He will also try to use state financing authority to support building the largest wind farm in the world, a 432-megawatt project near Bloomington, Illinois.

If implemented, the Governor's plan would make Illinois the second biggest wind power state in the country by 2012. That is a climate change solution and positive alternative in the Midwest coal heartland.

We applaud Governor Blagojevich for this clean energy initiative. Wind power is good for jobs, good for rural economic development and good for the environment. This is a key pro-environmental step that will create good new jobs and spur rural economic development in some of the places in Illinois that need it most.

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- posted by AquarianM @ 2:47 PM

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