Welcome to the Montana BLM

I call this file "tidbits", updated 09/27/2004
As a Whistle Blower, I help keep BLM mgrs in Montana "honest"
just my way of saying "Thanks!" (see start.html for details)
If it wasn't for folks like former BLM DSD Janet Singer, you probably wouldn't be here...

Look for more "tidbits" in 2004; and until the US Department of the Interior puts its'
Montana Dakotas BLM house in order, revealing bits of insider information
will continue to become public knowledge.

*Due to the continual increase in this record
I have curtailed this file to more recent "tidbits"
and in other areas of the web pages I will be archieve'ing
items such as previous smt calendars and the 1998 Employee
Survey slides for example; if you need something that is
archieved -- just email me for a copy

For all previous "tidbit" entries (such as Ethics violations
Funds Diversions, Discrimination, Articles written by former BLM'ers etc.)
click these links (Large Files!)... WhistleBlower 2000
WhistleBlower 2001
WhistleBlower 2002
WhistleBlower 2003

Look below - New entries, added weekly - since 5/1999 to current ...Enjoy!

*The old web page (http://www.mcn.net/~gferren) is no longer being maintained.

Some thoughts on the selection for new DSD Resources...
Lemm is one of the Lonnie/Singer "in crowd" and, in fact, was essentially Lonnie's
right hand man, and heir apparent.
Lemm is the man who Lonnie would have picked if Lonnie was state director.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Lonnie had something to do with this selection,
it will ensure that he, Lonnie, has some say in MT, as long as Lemm is here
The culture of corruption in the Montana BLM continues, and won't change
unless there's a thorough purge of the mid-level managers and supervisors
who were entrenched by guys like Hamilton,Lonnie, and Singer.
People such as Robin Stoebe, Howard Lemm, Wong, Friez...
But we've had some small victories, too, like with stopping the pre-selection of Diane Friez
And putting out the word far and wide on low-life's like Gavin Frost
As long as the corruption continues, we will continue the battle...
New Deputy State Director for Resources Named (BLM - MT)

Regarding the attempted investigation into the BLM "raid"...
Senator Burns says he can't interfere with Judicial Branch business
since he's in the Legislative Branch of Government...so what appears to be
a coverup in the Montana BLM continues

In the News:
Interior/Forest Service Move Ahead With Outsourcing Jobs Plan
House Approves $20.2 Billion Interior Spending Bill
Norton v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Westerners Oppose Oil & Gas Drilling in Rocky Mountain Front (Public Lands - MT)
Opposition to Grazing Permit Buyouts
NPS/US F&W Deny Letter (Interior)

Oil & Gas Drilling on Public Land Causes Concern, Jim Baca (BLM - WY)
Concern About Restrictions on Public Land (BLM - WY)

Latest News on Indian Trust Fund Case
Norton Denies Responsibility (Indian Trust Fund Case)
Indians Reject Nighthorse Campbell's Solution to Indian Trust Fund Suit
Settle Indian Trust Fund Case
Tribes Want Courts Not Congress to Settle Indian Trust Case
Navajo Get Opening to Revive Suit Against Interior

Congressional Committee Circumvents Democracy (Interior)
Settlement of Road Claims Taken Out of Bill (Interior)

FEMA Rejected Davis on Aid to Clear Trees..Before Wildfires
Calif Area Was Ripe for Disaster
NASA:Arctic Ice Cap Melting At Alarming Rate

Daily KOS:Congress Archives

On the Iraq War Casualty Figures
Independent Media Center: Civilian Injuries and Deaths in Iraq
Rewards for Campaign Contributors:Iraq Contracts
More U.S. KIA's (Blood for Oil)
Aljazeera English web site
Rose Garden Press Conference Rules - Winning the "War"

Court Rules to Allow Ban on Public Access to Trail (Public Lands - WY)

(Posted 11/05/2003)

According to the website of the the International Campaign to Ban Landmines,
an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people a year are maimed or killed annually by these
lethal weapons left in the ground after wars. Between 1969-92 the U.S. exported over 4.4 million
anti-personnel mines to a dozen countries, mostly in the Mideast and Asia.
The UN's Children's Fund estimates that 30-40% of mine victims are children under 15,
who often trip over mines planted in long-ago wars, or pick them up thinking they are toys.
In 1999, a Landmine Treaty went into effect requiring participant nations to permanently
discontinue use, production, stockpile and transfer of landmines.
The treaty was signed by nearly 3/4ths of the world's nations, but the United States
has thus far refused to sign.

In the News:
Bush Signs $20.2 Billion Interior Budget

Norton Testimony Sought in Indian Trust Fund Case (Interior)
Accounting Shows Underpaid Royalties on Indian Lands (Interior)
Interior Downgraded in Progress on E-Gov't

BLM to Auction Off Utah Oil, Gas Leases in Wilderness Areas
BLM Plans Sale of Oil,Gas Leases (BLM - WY)
Unhappy Ranchers Blame BLM (BLM - WY)
Scientist Predicts 20-30 Species Will Be Lost Due to CBM Drilling

Gov't Grows 27% in Two Years Under Bush Administration

Senate Approves $3.4 Billion for Wildfires
Wildfires Could Worsen With Global Warming

Bush Administration Ignored Iraqi Attempts at Peace Before U.S. Invasion
When Did Arab Become A Dirty Word?
The President's Real Goal in Iraq
U.S. Aids in Torture of Canadian
U.S. Troops Hostile to Reporters
Osama Phones Home:Saudi Arabia
How We Denied Democracy to the Middle East
Freedom and Security

Using Drug Dogs in Schools aka Guilty Until Proven Innocent (MT)

(Posted 11/12/2003)

"I am fighting for two of these nominees, Janice Rogers Brown and Carolyn Kuhl,
both having been selected for the Ninth Circuit. This Circuit has demonstrated time
and again that their district is too large, too populated, and too diverse
to accurately represent the people who live within it.
I also believe the decisions of the Ninth Circuit to be out of touch
with the attitudes and beliefs of the people of Montana...", Senator Conrad Burns...
At least we now know what old Conrad really thinks ;>)

RE: Medicare bill in the news...
Newt Gingrich, the former House Republican leader, said in 1995
that he wanted to let Medicare to "wither on the vine."
This change would lead to that result, with cost incentives driving
people out. (Not coincidentally, AARP CEO William Novelli recently
wrote the forward to Gingrich's book.
...arguments for this Medicare bill have been..."we won't be able
to address this issue again for years", "it's a good start...", etc.
Like Congress doesn't meet every year???
If it smells like horse-flop, looks like horse-flop,
and fell from a horse's ass, it probably is horse-flop!

In the News:
Congressional Shenigans Go to Court (Indian Trust Fund Case)
BLM Chief Clarke Has Ethics Violations, Subject of IG Investigation
Robert Redford on Interior, etc.

Is Craig Manson another "diversity" minority appointed to a position beyond his qualifications?...
Bush Administration Controls Agencies "Science" (Interior)
Gov't Attorneys Fight to Prevent Roadless Appeal Case (FS)
Poll Shows Morale Low, Fear in Park Service Employees, Only 1 in 8 Willing to Respond
NPS Workers Openly Slam Bush Policies
USFS Workers in MT/UT Lose Jobs to "Privatization"

surprise, surprise...contracting out gov't jobs costs the taxpayers more money...
Forest Service Employees Lose Jobs to Private Contractors
EPA Gags Employees
Interior Admits Role in Klamath Fish Die-Off
Norton Killed Klamath Salmon
Interior Ordered to Get Fair Market Value, Myers Faulted
Freaky Fridays:Bush Administration Press Releases

BLM plans to put all those public affairs people to work? ;>)...
BLM Looks to Expand Wind Power (BLM - WY)
Wild Horse Groups Concerned (BLM - NV)

Energy Policy Cost Fact Sheet - $115 Billion Dollar Giveaway
Bill Moyer's Address to Nat'l Conference on Media Reform
Gov't Failing to Train U.S. Scientists/Engineers - Using Foreign Workers

Cheering for Runaway Bison and the Front
Rehberg Wastes Time on Breaks Non-Issue
Burns Pushes Eminent Domain Seizures of Private Land in Montana

(Posted 11/20/2003)

BLM List from PreTrial Statement (BLM as Defendant):
Janet Singer, John Moorhouse, Chuck Sandau, Park Richard, Aden Seidlitz, Thomas Lonnie,
Diane Friez, Robin Stoebe, Asko Virtanen, Robert Mitchell, Marilyn Krause, Kathy Bockness,
Tim Murphy, Tammy Watts, Larry Hamilton, Ruth Welch...
Remember folks, I know your secrets

In the News:
Judge Orders Interior to Rewrite Pro-Industry Mining Rules
Bush Administration Working to Kill Appeals of Outsourcing by Federal Employees

Gas Industry Opposes CBM Clean-Up Fund (WY)
Governor Caves to Industry, Drops CBM Clean-Up Fund Proposal (WY)
Development Begins on Grove Creek Ranch (BLM - MT)
Grazing, Hunting Could Be Ruined (Grove Creek - Ken Hanify)
Drilling Causes Wildlife Concerns (BLM - WY)
Groups Oppose Drilling in Winter Range (BLM - WY)
BLM Pulls Tribal Parcel From CBM Lease Auction (BLM - MT)
Energy Company Wants to Pay Less Tax on CBM (WY)

Tribes Want Energy Bill Killed
Indian Group Asks Senate to Kill Energy Bill
Baucus Kills Moratorium to Prevent Drilling of RMF
Energy Bill Vote Blocked
Bush Opens 8.8 Million Acres of North Slope to Drilling (Interior)
Interior Dept to Open AK North Slope
Lack of Consensus on Healthy Forests Bill Implementation

Freedom of Speech?, Not in America's Military
U.S. Troops Beaten With Concrete Blocks

taking instructions from Israel, America fights women and children now...
Wife, Daughter of Former Saddam Deputy Held
Montana Soldier Describes Duty in Iraq as Nightmare
Bush/Secret Service Actively Squash 1st Amendment Free Speech
U.S./Israel - Assassins R US
FBI Collecting Data on Anti-War Groups
How the U.S. Military Handles Anti-War Protesters
Amnesty International Calls for Investigation of Miami Police Excessive Force Actions Against Protesters
Fighting the U.S. Propaganda Machine
Under U.S. Control:Press Censorship in Iraq

Kucinich Inspires Passion
Kucinich Talks to NPRC
Darren Karr:Party X
Another Side to the Story...
Give Us a Reason to Vote


Montana Republicans answer to the energy deregulation/giveaway...build new (privately owned) power plants
to hell with the environment, and sell the power out of state...
Thank them for your higher electric bill at the next election!
GOP Leaders Unveil Energy Plan
Montana Governor Blows $70 Million on Fighting (Federal) Forest Fires

(Posted 12/01/2003)

Pre-trial conference in Billings 12/03/2003...
was interesting that Gavin Frost was included by the US Attorney
but always good to know where the snake is, huh ;>)
at least he wasn't out mooning someone or harassing a real Civil Servant
Your tax dollars at work...no less than (4) US Attorneys now defending
Interiors' right to practice discrimination in hiring! (class action lawsuit)

Politics - read the first part of my interview series with Montana Politics
at: Interview with Glenn Ferren, Part I

In the News:
Norton to Propose Grazing Overhaul
Gov't Plans New Livestock Grazing Rules (Interior)
Ranchers Hopeful for New Grazing Rules
Interior Rolls Back Babbitt Grazing Rules
New Grazing Rules to Help Ranchers

Effort to Restructure Indian Trust Fund Accounting (Interior)
Evidence of Criminal Violations, Utah Land Swap (BLM - UT)
BLM Withholds Some Oil,Gas Files (BLM - WY)
BLM Office to Step Up CBM Permitting (BLM - WY)
BLM Will Keep Inspection,Violation, and Enforcement Records Secret (BLM - WY)
NPRC Sues Over CBM Permitting (BLM - MT)
After NPRC Sues, BLM to Rewrite Environmental Review of CBM Project (BLM - MT)
Group Asks for Injunction Against Outsourcing Jobs (FS - MT)


file this under "Merry Christmas!"...
Republicans Do Not Extend Jobless Benefits
Bush Reelection Strategies

Scroll to Read About Mercury Pollution
Exxon:Using Propaganda to Curtail Jury Damage Awards

environmental racism?...
The Hunt for Black Gold Leaves a Stain in Ecuador
Who Will Pay for Decommission of 42 Nuclear Power Plants?

The U.S. Role in Argentine Military's Death Squads
U.S. Kills 9 Children in Afghanistan
U.S. Trained "Iraq" Army Quits

France and Germany aren't the only ones getting screwed, we (taxpayers) are paying for this "rebuilding"...
U.S. to Limit Iraq Contracts to "Coalition" Members

Why Some Gun Owners are Unhappy with Bush
The U.S. as A Threat to the International Criminal Court


When Judy Martz endorses someone, thinking people start wondering why?...
Askar Akaev's Career
Kyrgyzstan's President Askar Akaev
Analyst, State Needs $235 Million (Montana)
States' Budget Crisis Continue
Appeals Court Rejects Lolo Logging Plan
Forest Service Blamed for Blaze That Destroyed Homes (Montana)

I've worked in fire camp...they don't pray for rain...
The "Business" End of Fire Fighting

with 11 new power plants in various stages of development...
Report Says Montana Power Plants Big Polluters
Montana Superfund Sites

(Posted 12/10/2003)

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! ...to all the Real BLM Civil Servants

261 million acres administered by BLM, in 1998/99 it was 264 million acres...
wonder what is happening to your public lands?

In the News:
No End in Sight for Indian Trust Fund Account Mismanagement (Interior)
New Head for BIA

Timber Theft in Alaska, Governmental Accountability Project...
Forest Service Timber Theft Unit Disbanded (Whistle Blower)
Government Accountability Project
NPS Moves to Fire Whistle Blower (Interior)

no details on who and what discipline occurred, esp no mention of Kathleen Clarke's involvement...
4 Interior Officials (Supposedly) Disciplined in Utah Land Swap Fraud (BLM - UT)

U.S. Judge Rules for BLM in CBM Leases (BLM - MT)
Officials Hopeful for CBM Damage Budget Plan (WY)
Venue Location for CBM Lawsuits in WY Being Argued (BLM - WY)
Drilling Planned in Alaska Oil Reserve
Scientists Recommend Missouri River Flow Reductions
Anger Over Energy Development on Public Lands
Interior's Water 2025 Conference in Denver, No Agreement on Definition of "Drought"

China:Financing Bush's Budget Deficit
$100,000 Bribe for Medicare Bill Vote

you've got to wonder why it took 'em so long to figure this one out?...
Pentagon Finds That Halliburton Overcharged
Halliburton Claims It Saved Pentagon Money

So Much for "Peace on Earth"...
Bush's Phony Photo Ops
Congress Pushes for Larger Military
Made in Israel Crackdowns in Iraq Won't Work
Israeli Security Experts Training U.S. for Urban Warfare in Iraq
FBI Increasing Domestic Surveilance (USA Patriot Act)
U.S. Provided Iraq Data for Making Nukes
Shooting Samarra's Schoolboys in the Back
Saddam's Capture and the Resistance

Saddam kept his other hand close to the pistol on his hip...
Rumsfeld and Saddam
Iraqgate, 1980 - 1994
Civil Rights Abuses at Guantanamo, Moral Black Hole
Officers Abused Sept 11 Detainees
2003:Hunger and Homelessness Increase in U.S.
Independent Media Center

When You Run Out of Oil, Just Sell the Public's Water...
Oil:Growth Vs Culture in Amazon

PPL Says No Need to Develop Southeast Montana Coal (Otter Creek)
Proposed Power Plant in Roundup Moving Forward - Legal Challenges Built Into Project Budget
Rehberg Works to Keep Wilderness Airstrips Open
Rehberg Seeks to Prevent Closing of Wilderness "Trailhead" Airstrips
Revealing the Hidden Costs of Firefighting in Montana

but the voters still support the Republican train wreck?...
Economy in Montana on Wrong Track
Conflict in Interest Ties to BNSF, Martz & Racicot

(Posted 12/19/2003)

Since the BLM gave me a special Christmas in 1998, here's my special Christmas present to BLM for 2003...

THEREFORE SPEAK I TO THEM IN PARABLES: BECAUSE THEY SEEING SEE NOT
AND HEARING THEY HEAR NOT,NEITHER DO THEY UNDERSTAND
FOR THIS PEOPLE’S HEART IS WAXED GROSS,
AND THEIR EARS ARE DULL OF HEARING, AND THEIR EYES THEY HAVE CLOSED

Your tax dollars at work...(4) attorneys and Gavin Frost are working on
Interior's Right to Discriminate (gender and racial preferences in hiring/promotion); Lori Harper Suek, Susan R. Oxford,
Marleigh D. Dover, Joshua Waldman...probably a quarter million in salaries alone!
Folks, you do know the difference between right and wrong, justifications for your
actions won't change the choice you have made and your willing participation
Merry Christmas Gavin!

In the News:
Previous Park Police Comments Didn't Provoke Retaliation (Interior - NPS - Whistle Blower)
Oil & Gas Drillers Getting Permits Quicker

Slate Magazine
Alaska Senator Denies Corruption Charge

If I was an Iraqi, I'd be very afraid...what do you think James Baker is
offering all those countries to get 'em to forgive Iraq's Debts?
Israeli Commandos Refuse to Serve in W. Bank/Gaza
The Hussein Capture, A Hoax?
U.S. Punishes Iraq City
Iraq's Phantom "Insurgents"
Bush Gets Serious About Killing Iraqis
Be Careful What You Say, This is America

Drilling the Rocky Mountain West
Miles City and Prostitution Money Funded City Services

(Posted 12/23/2003)

I am looking forward to keeping you informed in 2004!

Highlights of 2003 as promised

In the News:
BLM Releases Powder River Coal EIS (BLM - WY)
Bush to Log Old Growth Rain Forest in Alaska

CEOs Pay is the Result of Greed, Not Competition
America's Passive Work Force Watches Jobs Disappear

Bush:The Next World Order
Gadhafi as Courageous Statesman?
U.S. Oil Companies Eager to Return to Libya

"with a heavy dose of fear, violence, and money...we are here to help them"(Iraq)
Iraq Through the American Looking Glass


a couple of years back, I recommended "Deadly Feasts", by Richard Rhodes
as reading for detailed info on BSE, read it and see if you are getting the real story from the "media" damage control coverage...
Mad Cow Case Suspected

how long have you been eating "mad" cow?...
Congress Scuttled Meat Protection Measure

Precipitation Deficits Loom (BLM - Bill Volk)
Water for Sale Across the West
Proposed Biohazard Lab in Hamilton "Negligible Risk"
New Gas Pipeline Comes Online, But You Pay Record Prices for Natural Gas?
Judges Holding Republicans Accountable

(Posted 12/30/2003 appended 12/31/2003)

Welcome to 2004! and another year of the Whistle Blower!

Running in this cold weather makes one consider protecting VIBP's! -29 this am

We hear Phil Gill is Leaving MCFO for Billings...
I've noted previously some past problems with Fire Fighting for Phil and how duties
were "re-proportioned" to give his job the status needed, to the detriment of other
fire employees at MCFO

In the News:
Short Term Harm Seen in Grazing Rules Changes (Interior)
Interior Says New Grazing Rules Good For Long Term
Cattle Interests Like New Grazing Rules

Montana and CBM (BLM - MT)
Caution Urged in CBM Development (MT)
NPRC,Fidelity Settle CBM Lawsuit
The Companies Developing CBM in Montana
The Lawsuits Over CBM Development in Montana
Montana's Approach to CBM Development (BLM - McIlnay)
NPRC, Company Agree to Settle (CBM - MT)
Gas Wells Prompt Air Pollution Concerns in Rockies
Scramble For Energy Pits Ranchers Against Drillers
Wyoming Trying to Cope With CBM Growing Pains (BLM - WY)

Judge to Review Nevada's Role in BLM Seizure of Cattle (BLM - NV)
Paiute Tribe Grapples With Cattle Grazing (NV)
Representative Plans to Sell Public Land To Mining Companies (NV)


in case you didn't already know...you are or will be "cheap labor"...
U.S. Labor Dept Offers Tips on Ways to Cut Employees Wages
Cash Strapped States Face Problems & More Budget Deficits
Consumer Debt at Record Levels
Where's the Economic Recovery?

an estimated 8 to 12,000,000 (million) ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS...
Send US Your Tired, Your Hungry, Our Cheap Labor
A Warning Against Large Budget and Trade Deficits

the other Bush boy, think "Silverado", read more in M Moores "Stupid White Men"
Neil Bush and Stock "Windfall"


Seperation of Powers issue between the Judiciary and the Legislative Branches...
Congress Mandates Sentencing Guidelines
Police Draw Guns on Students During Drug Raid at High School
Privatization of Public Water Issues:India

Accidents Take Toll on U.S. Military
Aljazeera English Web Site
Iraq Under Occupation
"Death in Custody" Beating Death
U.K. Troops Kick Iraqi to Death
A Clear View of the U.S. War on "Terrorism"
Another U.S. Massacre in the Sunni Triangle
IDF Jails Five Conscientious Objectors (Israel)
Strained U.S. Military Offers Fat Re-Enlistment Bonuses
U.S. Army Forces Soldiers to Stay in Service Beyond Enlistment With "Stop Loss" Order
3 Discharged from U.S. Army For Abusing Iraqis at Detention Center
Special Report:Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military
Halliburton Gets Waiver to Overcharge Taxpayers
Syria,Turkey Warn Kurds
Iraq's Arsenal Was Only on Paper

Conceptual Guerilla
Seeing the Forest
Commonweal Institute
Due Process Protections
Serving the Public While Surviving Public Service

Montana Elections in 2004
Circumventing Constitutional Protections (MT - Court)

(USDA)but we won't tell you who sold it...
Mad Cow Meat Confirmed in Montana (John Munsell, Miles City)
Scientist:Mad Cow Changes Should Have Been Made Sooner
Ferren and the Invasion of Heaven???

(posted 01/07/2004)

Part II, Interview with MTPOLITICS - re: Montana's Financial Picture

In the News:
Interview with Interior's Lynn Scarlett, Office of PMB
BLM to Swap 6,500 acres of Public Lands for 970 acres of Private Land (BLM - MT)

BLM Orders More Study of CBM Drilling Plan (BLM - WY)
Different Views:CBM Creates a Stir (WY)
WWII Science Could Help with CBM Water (WY)
BCA Opposes CBM Project in Thunder Basin (WY)
Judge Sets CBM Court Venue (MT)
CBM Industry Should Listen to Farmers (MT - R. Muggli)

BLM Orders EIS for Carbon County Development - Grove Creek Ranch (BLM - MT)
Temp Changes in Alaska Shortening Oil Prospecting Season on Tundra
OSM:Fill Rule Removes Stream Protections
Investigation of FS Employee Computer Use (MT)
Jumping Ship at the EPA
Superfund Shortfall Keeps Dumps Toxic

Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas
IMF Sounds Alarm Over Shaky U.S. Economy, Deficits
Execs Pay to Play with GOP
"Jobless" Recovery Continues
Nation's Labor Market Remains Stagnant
Bush:"Blind Man in a Room Full of Deaf People"
U.S. Climate Policy Bigger Threat to World Than Terrorism
Bush:World Enemy Number 1

U.S. Buying Iraqis 50,000 AK-47's
Mortar Attack Wounds 35 U.S. Soldiers
U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Not Interested - Balk at $10,000 Re-enlistment Bonus Offer
U.S. Copter Goes Down in Iraq, Killing 9
One of Bush's Token Blacks Refutes Report on Iraq
Military Begins Huge Rotation of Forces in Iraq
Pilots,Air Controllers Worried About U.S. Fighter Escorts
Stones Against AK-47's, Iraqis Killed
LBJ V W

Revoke Corporate Corruption of American Democracy
The Truth Uncovered - The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
Bush:Misleader.org, Daily Mislead
Democratic Underground

MEIC Not Impressed with State Policies (MT)
Superfund Cuts Libby, Helena Short - Lack of Cleanup Funds

(Posted 01/18/2004)

The BLM LE Raid (coverup) - still a coverup - but at least one TV station has done a FOIA Request...
From the Office of Law Enforcement and Security Weekly Activity Report of Sept. 23:
Billings, MT Stolen Government Property
On September 12, 2003, BLM Agents, Rangers, OIG Agents, and other officers served
a search warrant at the home of a BLM employee.
Results of the search warrant included thousands of dollars of stolen government equipment
and supplies. Investigation is ongoing.

In the News:

"there is no freedom of speech in the Montana BLM", Diane Friez...or in the rest of Interior...
NPS Police Chief Turns Down Deal Offer (Interior - Whistle Blower)
Gagging the Fuzz (NPS - Interior)
NPS Police Chief - Teresa Chambers (Interior - Whistle Blower)
Reviews Clear Former Top Interior Lawyer, Judgement May Have Been "Tainted" (Interior - Ethics)
Norton Calls for Tripling Gas Permits in Wyoming (CBM)
Office of Law Enforcement and Security (Interior)
DOI Office of Policy, Mgmt, Budget (PMB)
DAS for OLES (Interior)
Progress Report:Implementing LE Reform (Interior)

Unions Not Happy Over Lost U.S. Jobs, Bush Plan
Report Card - State of the Union Address
Missing in the SOU Message, No Environment
Industry Flaks Learn How to Snooker the Public
Energy Case Pending,Scalia-Cheney Ties Criticized
Hunting Trip With Cheney Puts Ethics Spotlight on Scalia

ML King Day Marked with Protests Against the War
King's Dream of Lifting the Poor Still Elusive
States Ranked According to Public Corruption Convictions
TrueMajority
American Indian Leader Pledges 1 Million Voters
From the Wilderness
Common Cause - Working to Reform Government Ethics

Voters Dissatisified With State Government/Legislators (MT)

found:an online journalism class by UofM, but only open to native americans?...
Reznet News

(Posted 01/22/2004)

In the News:
Norton Approves Plan for Drilling in Alaska (Interior)
Norton Opens 8.8 Million Acres of Alaska to Drilling (Interior)
Alaska Oil Exploration Approved (Interior)
Norton Wants to Cut Trees, Snowmobile in YNP (Interior)

CBM Water Mgmt Changing (CBM - MT)
Fidelity Doesn't Like NPRC's Efforts to Ensure Responsible CBM Development (CBM - MT)
Ranchers Fear CBM Water (CBM - MT)
Public to Have Input on Missouri Breaks Access (BLM - MT)

CBS Censors Anti-Bush Ad
The 50 State Election 2004 Guide
Project Vote Smart

The National Security Archive - Declassified Documents
Power, Propaganda and Conscience in the "War on Terror"
Human Rights Watch
Florida Dept of Juvenile Justice Free to Kill

Army Expanding "Stop Loss" Order to Keep Soldiers From Leaving
Army Stops Many Soldiers From Quitting
Draft Creep - "Stop Loss" Order
Is President Bush a Deserter?
War Coverage - Censoring the Horror

Cheney Defends Corrupt Corporation Halliburton
Halliburton Admits to Pentagon That Staff in Iraq Took Kickbacks for Contract to Kuwait
Chief Justice Says SC Judges Free to Decide Own Ethics
More Herds Quarantined in Mad Cow Investigation

how long have you been eating "mad cow"?...
New Mad Cow Protections

A Perfect Storm: Many Retirement Plans in Danger
CBO Sees $477 Billion Deficit in 2004, Rising to $2 Trillion
Saying Goodbye to U.S. Jobs
Corporate America Trying Harder to Export More Jobs

and they will be outsourced overseas or more cheap labor will be imported to fill them...
Greenspan Says Lost Jobs Will Be Replaced

Silverado, $1 Billion Savings & Loan Collapse, that Neil Bush...
Neil Bush Gets Caught With Pants Down

All Indians Get A Monthly Check: Right?

(Posted 01/28/2004)

STATE OFFICE MANAGEMENT TEAM STAFF MEETING MINUTES February 2, 2004
EEO Romero-Minkoff:
Sara will be in Butte on February 18 to present Sexual Harassment training.
Gavin Frost will also participate.
*Gavin could use some training, ;>)
but don't you find it "interesting", to say the least, that this snake from the
field solicitors office is working SH training!
With a history of discrimination based on age & sex (discrimination against males over 40)
and a stated intent to practice discrimination in hiring (gender and race preferences)
my thought is that Gavin is telling 'em how to CYA and get away with it!

Billings Bureau of Land Management Grazing Regulations Meeting
The BLM will soon be holding five forums for public comment on the release of the draft
environmental impact statement for the proposed changes to their grazing regulations,
one of which will take place in Billings. On Monday, February 2, from 6 to 10pm at the
Holiday Inn Grand on Midland Road, the people of Montana will have their opportunity to
voice their requests and concerns to a panel of BLM members.
If you cannot make the meeting and would still like to submit your comments,
you can either use the industry prepared comments with space for your personal remarks
(available at: http://hill.beef.org/sacco.asp), or you can mail your comments to:
Director (630), Bureau of Land Management; Eastern States Office; 7450 Boston Boulevard;
Springfield, VA 22153. For more information regarding the February 2nd meeting in Billings,
contact Mary Apple at (406) 452-7714.

BLM Raid - Montana BLM response to inquiry by Rehbergs office:
"I am writing in response to your inquiry of January 9, 2004, regarding a search warrant
that was served at the home of a BLM employee in Billings.
No information about this case has been released to the public. Because this is an ongoing
criminal investigation, we cannot comment on it any further. Please direct any questions
to the U.S. Attorney's office in Billings at 657-6101."
A. Jerry Meredith, Acting State Director

In the News:
Ranchers See Dry Water Wells from CBM Development (BLM - WY)
New Jersey Driller Sues Over CBM Permit Conditions (CBM - MT)
Energy Industry Claims Feds Slow to Issue Permits (WY)
Geothermal Exploration Underfunded (BLM - NV)
Hunters, Anglers Protest Energy Plan in Washington D.C. (MT)
Sportsmen Oppose Energy Bill
Judge Raises Exxon Valdez Damages, After 14 Years Exxon Still Hasn't Paid
Indian Tribe Sues Over Gold Mine Pollution (BLM - MT)
New Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs (Interior)

Senate Gives Employers Free Ride on Pension Plan Payments, $11.2 Billion Deficit in Program
2 Million to Lose Unemployment Benefits

the good news is they won't be counted any longer, so the unemployment rate will officially go down...
Millions to Exhaust Unemployment Benefits
Exporting American Jobs is Not "Good Business" for Everyone
Bush Budget to Cut Government Services, Increase Burden on State Governments
Democratic and Republican Parties Ignore Budget Deficit

Dennis Kucinich, Mad Cow, and FDR
Mutual Fund Whistle Blower Tells Senators About Beating
Public Citizen, Congressional Voting Records
GPO:Congressional Record
Nuclear Weapons Database
CBS Takes It in the Shorts Over Censoring Free Speech
A Little Background History on CBS

and were are not talking about Janet Jackson's breast...btw the breast thing is much ado about nothing...
What CBS Didn't Want You to See During the Super Bowl

U.S. Privatization of Iraq Oil Takes A Backseat for Now

file this one under you've got to be kidding...and take a good look at the placard!
Bush,Blair 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Nominees
U.S. Covert Operations in Chile to Overthrow Government (NS Archive)
Deadly Attacks on U.S. Soldiers on the Rise in Iraq

13 Homeless People Died in Missoula Montana in 2003

(Posted 02/04/2004 appended 02/05/2004)

In the News:

estimated cost to cleanup Pennsylvania's abandoned mines - $1 Billion...
Norton to Take Federal Coal Revenue From Western States to Pay for Mine Cleanup in East (Interior)
Former Interior Dept Solicitor Questioned
FS to Impound Cattle Herd (FS - NM)
Two Wyoming Grazing Allotments on "Most Overgrazed" Public Lands List (BLM - WY)
Wyoming Sends Complaint to Norton Over Wolves (Interior)
Wyoming Congressional Delegation Wants FWS Flexibility on Wolves (Interior)
Sides Square Off in Controversy Over Planned Grazing Regulations Changes (BLM)
BLM Voids Settlement Agreement With Wyoming Rancher (BLM - WY)
Whistle Blower Says EPA Used Unreliable Data

Ethics of Cheney-Scalia Outing Questioned
Dishonest Dubya
Bush Energy Plan
All Hat No Cattle
Get Your War On!
Fair and Balanced
Every Wonder Why the U.S. Has "Intelligence" Failures?
Bush Damage Control: Defends "Nat'l Guard Duty" Service Record

Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims File Suit
National Security Archive:Guatemala
The World's Largest Insider Trading Scam?
Republicans Hack Server and Leak Democrats Memos
Halliburton Tied To $180 Million in Bribes in Nigeria
We The People (Taxation Issues)
3 Major Court Cases Will Affect American Indians (Indian Trust)


couldn't wait for the road to be built...
11 Cubans Stopped in Buick On Way to Florida
This Is What All the Fuss Is About?
Janet Jackson's Breast:Most Searched For Event in Internet History
"NippleGate" Lawsuit Launched

BNSF:Trains Have Killed 35 Grizzlies (MT)
"Make-Em Pay Day" is Still in Business in Miles City

(Posted 02/08/2004)

Presidents Day 2004, Politics and Quotes of Note!

Read the BLOG!

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by
the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt(1918)

"Will you teach your children what we have taught our children?
That the Earth is our mother? What befalls the Earth befalls all the sons of the Earth."
Chief Seattle, 1855

In the News:
Interior to Consider Moving Minnow (BOR - New Mexico)
BIA Funding Being Cut to Pay for Work on Indian Trust Lawsuit (Interior)
Recreational Fee Demo Program Moves Toward Permanent Status, Pushed by Sen Craig Thomas (S 1107) (Interior)
Interior's Plan to Drill in New Mexico Stirs Strong Opposition (BLM - NM)
BLM Considering Re-Opening Road in WSA (BLM - MT)
Concern Over CBM Drilling Expansion in Colorado Brings Lawsuit (BLM - CO)
Forest Service Battles Too Many Fires

Scalia Defends Questionable Ethics of Cheney Association
Bush: U.S. Achieves Record Trade Deficit ($489 Billion), Jobs Flow Out of U.S.
Ashcroft Gathering Medical Record Information Of Women Who Have Had Abortions

Illegal Aliens Get Citizenship for Fighting for U.S. in Iraq
British Soldiers May Be Charged with Kicking Iraqi Prisoners to Death
Iraqi Contractors Being Passed Over by U.S. Reconstruction Contract Awards
U.S. Military:A Money Trail in Iraq
Arabs Not Impressed With New U.S. TV Station
Al Jazeera English Site
Counting U.S. KIA's in Iraq
Axis of Logic
Democracy Now!
Media Education Foundation
Trouble Remembering Bush's NG Duty
Harassment by U.S. Attorneys of Anti-War Demonstrators Intensifies
Rejection 2004
Many Sportsmen Fed Up With Republicans

Representing the Extreme Right-Wing Fringe of the Montana Republican Candidates for Governor

how about an old western tradition instead...the tar & feathering and ride out of town on a rail...
While NorthWestern Execs Get Bonuses, NW Workers Get Zero
NorthWestern Execs Get Bonuses

do you want more gov't or less?...federal (tax) dollars flow into local economy, (60) X $46,000...
Influx of Border Patrol Agents Boost High-Line Economy

Molnar and Shea, both running for PSC seats, voted for energy deregulation...
Molnar Tries Again for Seat on PSC

"Politics" is made up of two words, "poli", which is Greek for "many",
and "tics", which are blood-sucking insects. - Gore Vidal

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it
in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep." …Will Rogers

note to self, Sen Joe Tropila D-Great Falls instrumental in liquor liability cap of $250,000
(tort reform legislation for Montana Tavern Assoc.), HB 758, 2003 legislature says local gov't
can't pass ordinances stricter than state (re:smoking ban Helena), Ron Devlin R-Terry &
Sen Joe Tropila D-Great Falls sponsored and carried bill.
*the same Ron Devlin that tried to get MT taxpayers to pay for a railroad line over in SE Montana

"If we are to continue to have government by "We the people," judges must exercise judicial restraint,
and follow the lead of the 11th Circuit Court."
from Jeff Laszloffy Speaker Pro-tem Montana House of Representatives...
would be better, Jeff, if our Judges honored their obligation to our Constitution rather than your personal views

Running for PSC, (2) people that voted for energy deregulation (SB 390)
Brad Molnar, Debbie Shea...have you looked at your utility bill lately?
*Shea also worked to repeal the citizens initiative to ban cyanide mining (I-137)
and is term-limited out of the legislature

(Posted 02/16/2004)

In the News:
Norton Talks About Wolves, Drilling on Public Lands

Montana BLM take notice,for retaliation and wrongful discharge... (and a hit list of male employees)
U.S. SBA Must Pay $480,000, Rehire Worker
Judge Orders SBA to Pay Worker for Abuse in Gender Discrimination Scheme
Groups Sue Interior to Stop Drilling in NPR (AK)
Groups Sue Norton Over NPR, AK
BLM to Postpone Decision On Opening Road (BLM - MT)
Interior Pays Montana $26.9 Million from Oil,Gas,Coal Royalties on Federal Lands
Lodge Owner, NPS Do Battle
Public Debates Beartooth Travel Mgmt Proposal

CBS Pulls Bush Medicare Ad
CBS Pulls Administration Political Propaganda Ad on Medicare Prescriptions
Bush Sweet Deal for Electric Industry: North Dakota "Reduces" Pollution by Measuring It Differently
Bush Bypasses Senates Constitutional Role to Appoint Right-Wing Judge
Republicans Attack Kerry Over Vietnam, Voting Record

Gore won the popular vote, Jeb Bush & the U.S. Supreme Kooks gave Bush Jr. the Presidency...
Ralph Nader Enters Race As Independent
Nader For President

U.S. Ally Uzbekistan Boils Son, Sentences Elderly Mother to Hard Labor
Leaked Pentagon Reports Warns Climate Change May Bring Famine, War, Global Catastrophe (Cover Up)
International Online Documentary Film Company
Send A Letter to VP Cheney's Gay Daughter Mary

Mat Millenbach Runs for Seat in HD 50
After Rape'ing Montana Consumers and Business's, Energy Industry Makes Plans to Sell More Montana Power to Other States

group plans to use federal eminent domain to seize private lands - using legislation recently pushed through by Sen. Conrad Burns...
Energy Group Wants More Transmission Lines for Out-Of-State Sales
Davidson, Using Money From PPL, Attacks Montana's Environmentalists

just say No! to backroom deals and corrupt politics and to Pat Davison...
Davison Under Fire for Taking Energy Corporation Money - PPL (Energy Deregulation)

(Posted 02/24/2004)

In the News:
Indians, Interior to Talk (Indian Trust Lawsuit)
Indian Trust Lawsuit Moves to Mediation (Interior)
Questions Arise on Membership of Tribe Pushing for Casino
Corruption Probe Sought in Indian Tribes/Casino Gambling - $45 Million to Influence Public Policy
BLM to Ease Grazing Rules Across West
BLM Grazing Plan is Unbalanced
Park Fee Plan Should Be Buried
Northern Cheyenne Tribe Files Lawsuit Against BLM (BLM - MT)

CBO Reports Bush Budget to Cause $2.75 Trillion Deficit
Drilling in ANWR
Protests Against Nader's Presidential Run
Pentagon Report on Dangers From Climate Change
Climate Collapse:The Pentagon's Weather Nightmare Report
Apocalyptic Pentagon Report on Global Warming
Greenstar:Solar Power
U.S. Jobs Going to India
94 Coal Power Plants Planned, Global Warming Connection?

U.S. Won't Join Anti-Land Mine Treaty

Blair's response...whether or not it was done is not important and is really offended that the spying was reported...
U.S.,Britain Spying on UN
The Daily Misleader
Double Standards, Israel's "Security" Fence
British Soldiers Kill Iraqi Prisoners - Camp Bucca
Some American Troops in Iraq Quoted

by the same corp that wouldn't air anti-war ads, thinks you are too dumb to know how to turn the radio off or change channels...
Clear Channel "Morality Police" Pull Howard Stern Show
Scalia Ethics Again Questioned

Loss of Good Jobs Hits Montanans Hard
End the Silence, Speak Up On Energy Development in Montana

(Posted 02/27/2004)

"True History of the Kelly Gang", Peter Carey (recommended reading!)

Re: Matt Millenbachs run for a Montana representative seat:
Matt does have ethics, but he's also quite naive, and he was a disappointment as SD.
Lonnie simply ignored many of Millenbach's directives, and did as he pleased.
So did Murphy. Millenbach knew about the "crew" there, but either didn't want to do anything
about it, or couldn't. But he deserves credit for reorganizing Singer's shop, and pulling her fangs.
Fact is, he could have done more. During his tenure as BLM SD, the SMT pulled the wool over his eyes.
The SMT is still there and even with the new SD and ASD,
the SMT will continue to be the real power (and corruption) in the Montana BLM!

In the News:

this begs the question, "if you can't manage your work force with ethics and honesty,
how can you manage our public lands?"...
Marty Ott, Montana BLM SD, On The BLM Mission (BLM - MT)
Email Seeking Info Sent to 60,000 Interior Employees, After FOIA Requests Ignored (Interior)
Oil & Gas Leases in Critical Wildlife Habitat Being Criticized (Interior - WY)
Energy Companies Put Oil Fields in Winter Range/Key Migratory Corridor (BLM - WY)
Norton Pushing Bush's Forest "Thinning" Plan
Max Wants More Budget $'s For Clearing "Dead Trees and Other Debris" From Forests

Bush Education Secretary Calls Teachers Terrorists
Bush's "Sound Science" Doublespeak
How Industry Won the Battle of Pollution Control at EPA
BIA Faces New Probe, Ethics Violations And Incompetent Mgmt

FS employees, send me the jokes,stories,and cartoons and I'll give a real report on their "inappropriate" status...
FS Reading Employee Emails

So you think you want to work for the federal government?...
Employees Disciplined for Emails

CBM Development Moving Slowly in Johnson Country, Gov't Red Tape Blamed (CBM - WY)
BLM Requires EIS on Road Changes,Grove Creek Ranch (BLM - MT)

if you can represent a special interest and are easily lead/manipulated to support political agendas...
BLM Seeks RAC Nominees (BLM - MT)
BLM Considering Keeping Captured Wild Horses Closer to Home (BLM - NV)
BLM: Coal Production on Public Lands May Double (BLM - WY)
BLM and FS Announce Grazing-Fee Hike ($1.35 to $1.43)
William Myers, An Assault on Indian Lands and Tribes
Rancher Accuses USFWS Biologist of Trespassing
Inquiry Made Into Whether Biologist Trespassed (Interior)

Claims that British troops have killed Iraqi civilians in custody will be investigated
Bush's Effort to Go To War with Iraq
U.S. Military Spending ($500 Billion per Year) Sparks Budget Warnings
U.S. Trying to Keep Soldiers From Leaving Service
Is The U.S. Still Empire Building in Haiti?
Indonesian Army Killed American Teachers

Blackmun Papers Show Rehnquist's Efforts to Overturn Roe V Wade (Supreme Court)

Supreme Court justices are not bound by the judicial code...
Questioning Scalia's Ethics and Judgement

no idea where 17,000 lbs of the meat went, "probably eaten"...
The Mad Cow Meat Recall
Gas Price Watch, Consumer Advocacy
Accounting Work Being Outsourced to India - Jobs Flow Out of U.S.

when the unemployment runs out, you officially "gave up looking for a job"...
Unemployment Rates Holds Steady? - As 400,000 Exhaust Unemployment Benefits
Can the new PAC on the block unseat Bush in '04?
Farm Subsidy Database

My Governor is Still Dumber Than Your Governor (MT)

while Bob Brown continues to get free political advertisement with "public service" ads...
Brown & Davidson Taking Money From PPL, Conflict of Interest?
Group That Represents Special Interest Groups Advising Davison (The Gallatin Group)
Keeping it Wild?, Outfitter Wants Hot Tubs in Wilderness

(Posted 03/09/2004)

Looks like BLM'ers will have to read my web page from home this week ;>)

In the News:
Latest on Indian Trust Fund Lawsuit (Interior)
Interior Told Again to Close Internet Access (Indian Trust)
Internet Cutoff Ordered at Interior
Interior Dept's Internet Connections Shut Again

Oil & Gas Drilling Choices Benefit Corporate Interests (Interior)
Rove Off the Hook for Influencing Water Policy (Interior)
Former Regional Forester to Lead Fire Mgmt Council (FS - MT)
FS Hired PR Firm to Sell Logging Plan, Wants Details Kept Quiet
Rancher Arrested, Cattle Impounded (FS - NM)
BLM Chief K. Clarke Hails States Work to Preserve Sage Grouse (BLM - NV)
EPA,BLM Fight Over GroundWater Pollution From Nevada Mine (BLM - NV)
Pollution Fears Take Glitter Off Gold Mine
Drilling Plan in NM Makes GOP Donors Happy (Interior)
NM GOP Donor Gets Oil-Drilling Leeway (BLM - NM)
Judge Orders BLM to Do Study (BLM - MT)
BLM To Let Industry Pick Drilling Method (BLM - CO)
New Carson City FO Mgr Don Hicks to Put Experience to Work (BLM - NV)
Conservationists,Ranchers Disagree Over Grazing (BLM)
BLM May Pay Ranchers for Wild Horses Care (BLM - NV)

Rehnquist Mulls Retirement
Your Share of the American Pie
Some Facts About Inequality in America
Foreign Labor Statistics
How the Pie is Sliced
Income and Wealth Inequality
Another Public Subsidy for Private Corporations, SILO Tax Shelters

jobs are outsourced because it makes more money for corporations...top end US manuf worker ($22hr)
same worker in Mexico ($2hr), Indonesian workers were(.40cents hr/NIKE) in 1992, $80K systems job in US=$10K in India...
India, Where Software Comes From
India's Prime Minister Defends US Job Movement to India
An "Offshoring" Outsourcing Ideal?
State Budget Shortages Cost Taxpayers More

The New Pentagon Papers, Suppressed Information - NSA Whistle Blower
Stop Hiding the Bodies!
They Really Said That?
Iraqis Selling Arab Fighters to US
Former US Natl Guard Soldier to Challenge Iraq Wars Morality

Spain heard the message...you will be held accountable for what your government does in your name...expect to see more such...
Spain Throws Out Government
PLF Hijacker Dies in US Custody in Iraq
Bush Administration Bans Foreign Manuscripts
On the Set of A Bush Campaign Commercial
GWB:I AM NOT A CROOK!

New Report Warns Global Warming Damage Becoming Irreversible

A Little PSC History (MT)
Coal-Tax Fund Tapped to Buy Computers

Burns says Libby who/what?...
Baucus For, Burns Against Superfund Cleanup

(Posted 03/16/2004)

The BLM Raid finally makes the news, and one has to ask the question...
is the lack of ethics in BLM's management a contributing factor to these problems?...
and what about the rumored investigation in Lewistown's Fire division???
We already know fire fighting is used as a budget tool for procurement wish lists...
BLM Fire Center Air Tanker Base Manager Charged With Theft, Pleads Not Guilty

In the News:
Griles Cleared of Some Violations (Interior)

America, the best Interior dept money can buy...
Griles Gets Reamed in IG Report (Interior)
Interior's Mismanagement Hurting Everyone (Norton - Indian Trust)
Rebecca Watson Promises Wildlife Won't Be Sacrificed For Energy (BLM)
BLM Clears 1,400 CBM Permit Backlog (BLM - WY)

CBM, coming soon to the place where you live...
Stillwater County Gets CBM Primer (MT)

Utah Defends Offshoring/Outsourcing Welfare Call Center to India
Ethics Corruption in US House of Reps

America, the best legal system money can buy...
Scalia Won't Remove Self from Buddy Cheney's Case

Welcome to Amerika!..
Man Goes to Jail for Sign Saying "Our Court System is a Joke"
Eisenhower Put Together Secret Group
U.N. Oil for Food Scandal, $2.3 Billion Stolen

Iraqi Recruits Put in the Firing Line
The Unexplained Death of a Palestinian Militant

it's past time to hold Israel responsible for its actions...
Investigate the Death of American Rachel Corrie, Killed by Israel March 16th, 2003
6 US Soldiers Charged with Assaults/Abuse of Iraqi Captives
The Taliban File

New Coal-Fired Power Plant Near Circle Planned
Bob Brown Backs Repeal of Cyanide Mining Ban
Clash Between Protectors of Resources, Exploiters of Resources (RMF - MT)

(Posted 03/23/2004 appended 03/26/2004)

Some thoughts on the BLM employee facing charges from the "raid"...
If guilty he should face consequences, but look at what others get away with...
misappropriation of funds, like range improvement money for almost anything
a state director or field office manager wants, even if it's against the law
or weeds money to buy a laptop and projector ($11,000)...
and how about the mismanagement of BLM personnel?
Then there's the bogus NEPA that's done to satisfy a foregone decision.
The focus is always on the little guy, and sacrifices must be made
to the farce of integrity and efficiency, but never by BLM management!

In the News:

the selling of America...
Bush Treasury Secretary Says Outsourcing Can Help Economy
The Jobs of the Future Are A Thing of the Past
Snow Supports Job Outsourcing, 3 Million US Jobs Lost
Bush Nomination to 9th Circuit Opposed (Myers)

Interior Failing to Deliver Royalty Checks (Indian Trust)
Interior Squeals Like A Pig Under a Gate, Gets Appeal Court Bailout (Indian Trust)
EIS to Examine Only Startech of Calgary Proposed Wells in RMF (BLM/FS - MT)
Clarke Says BLM Opposes Sage Grouse Endangered Listing (BLM)
Worker Denies BLM Stolen Property Charges (BLM - MT)

Our Future, Issues and Campaign Index
Center for American Progress, Claim Vs Fact
The League of Conservation Voters


strange that king george didn't make the list...
"Worst Ever" Corruption Top 10 List

I've read that the US has vetoed UN resolutions more than any other nation...
US Vetoes UN Resolution Condemning Israel
The Chilling Implications of This State Killing
Raped and Tortured by the US in Guatemala
Iraqis Drag US Dead Through Streets
Many Occupation Personnel Killed in Iraq, Crowd Mutilates US Dead
Conscientious Objector, National Guard Soldier Charged with Desertion
Day by Day, Death by Death - US Military Fatalities
US Soldiers in Iraq Still Having to Buy Own Body Armor
1st Armored Division Seeks Robert Fisk
Private (Security) Armies in Iraq Big Business
Jewish Settlement Removal a "Big Lie"
Shock and Awe, One Year Later
The White House Philosophers

Rapid Growth of "Dead Zones" in Oceans Threatens Planet
World Court Rules US Violated Rights
Out of Work Miner Blows Himself Up

State Loan to Finance Construction, Company Hires Foreign Labor (MT)
Constitutional Amendment to Ban Cyanide Mining May Go On Ballot (MT)
NPS Management Saps Wildness From Yellowstone's Bison (MT)

(Posted 03/31/2004)

Noted, I recently requested a current TO (FOIA) and with the TO document
came notice that BLM would not list the Law Enforcement people...
You wouldn't want to mess with the LE folks!, I'm guessing that like the NPS LE
people, they have been issued M16's and body armor, they had bullet-proof vests in 2000
A June 2000 Table of Organization lists Bart A Fitzgerald, William A Duncan, Pamela A Stuart
Brian K Cornell, Terry A Messerli, Rhonda J Howard, Lori M Harbaugh (Miles City), William RL McDonald (SD),
Wallace L Crump (Dillon), Gretchen A Gabriel (trainee Havre),Terry C Sauer (Butte/Helena)
Lewistown and Malta had empty LE positions in 6/2000, Anthony W Lue (Missoula)
and LE Volunteer Billings Robert Bateman, a TO later than >2000<2004 would be more up-to-date

In the News:
PEER News
Current GS Salary Table
Current LE Salary Table
Senate Panel Approves Myers


the selling of America...
Would-Be Workers Unable to Find Jobs
Jobless Rates Rise
Bush Says "Get A Job"

and you wonder why "disgruntled" workers show up and shoot up the place?...
Most Companies Don't "Fire" Employees
US Firms Avoid Paying Taxes on Billions in Profits, Downsize American Operations Increase Hiring Overseas

The National Security Archive
Cheney Documents Ordered Released
Air America Radio
The Internet Weekly Report
The Capitol Steps
Americans for Less Secrecy, More Democracy

Gruesome Iraq Images Could Shake US
Atrocity in Fallujah
Palestine Chronicle
Mosul Unsafe for Foreigners

Bull Mountain Coal Gets Permit
Lawsuit Filed to Hold Kendall Mine Responsible for Cyanide, Arsenic Pollution
Rehberg Gets Into Mad Cow

(Posted 04/04/2004)

And he asked him, what is thy name?
and he answered, saying, our name is Legion for we are many

In the News:
A Fox in Interior's Henhouse
Interior's Weak Ethics
Water Problems Continue in the Klamath Basin (Interior)
Latest on Indian Trust Case (Interior)
Companies Removing Salt from CBM Water (BLM - WY)
CBM Development to Hug State Line - 30,000 Wells (CBM - MT)
Newmont Claims Win Over Clean Water Act (BLM - NV)
Supreme Court Eyes Land Mgmt Case (BLM - UT)

lots nearby selling for $100,000 for 1/10th acre...
BLM Sells 155 Acres to Multinational Mining Company for $855 (BLM - CO)
USDA:Mark Rey Pulls a Dick Cheney
Energy Source? or Terror Target? (LNG)

First Nuclear Power Plant License Since 1973 Sought
Class Warfare:Jobless Recovery Not Helping Workers
Companies Remain Relunctant to Hire - 262,000 Layoffs 1st Quarter 2004
Large Indian Outsourcing Company to Work in America
Holding Politicians Accountable, FactCheck
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Informed Comment

Aljazeera English
Iraq on the Brink of Anarchy
When Private Armies Take to the Front Lines
Civilians or Mercenaries?
Blackwater USA, Mercenaries for Hire
US Kills 3 More Journalists
Soldiers Choose Canada
Misreporting the Iraqi Uprising
Bush's Iron Fist in Iraq
Iraqis Do Not Want US
To Power Go Its Spoils
Condi Recalls the Days After 9/11

How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business Without Really Trying


a determined effort to silence the Court...
Effort Under Way to Split the 9th Circuit Court

(Posted 04/10/2004)

Email from Conrad Burns 4/15/2004, US Draft:
"...For this reason, proposals have been set forth to institute a special skills draft
that would select people with these much-needed language and specific highly technical skills
to serve in the military...While there are proposals for reinstating the draft in both the
House of Representatives and the Senate, no program has been implemented thus far."

In the News:
Interior Dept is Denounced, Corrupt Deals with Energy Companies Are Used to Cheat American Indians (Indian Trust Lawsuit)
Interior Whistle Blower Vows to Fight for Job (NPS)
IG Report:Indian Schools Not Safe Enough (Interior)
Supreme Court Eyes Land Mgmt Case (BLM - UT)
In Utah, A Public-Land Fight On An Epic Scale
Interior Ordered to Pay $48,000 for Seizure of Eagle Feathers
Increase in CBM Production Slows (CBM - WY)
Industry Works to Reclaim CBM Water (CBM - WY)
CBM Water Quality Must Be Addressed (CBM - WY)
Forest Service Uses Bogus Photographs in Effort to Push Heavy Logging

US Soldiers Feeling the Effects of DU Poisoning, Denied Treatment
Veterans for Peace
Call for Return of US Troops in Iraq
De-lamination of Iraq
Iraq Unites Against US Occupation
US War Planners to Critics:"Shut Up"
Human Rights Watch Calls for Probe Into US Action in Falluja
US Deploys for Showdown with Cleric, 880 Iraqis Killed
Deaths of Scores of Mercenaries Not Being Reported
Mercenaries in Iraq
Silver Bullets, Brazen Lies
Collapse?
"Submit or Die" - The US Siege of Fallujah
Anti-US Outrage Unites Iraq
20,000 US Troops Won't Be Coming Home Soon
Italian Hostage Killed
Text:Latest Bin Laden Tape as Broadcast

Condi Bites

Scalia Apologizes
Citizens Against Government Waste, Taxpayer Watchdog

Montana Related:

this has great implications for public lands access in Montana...
Man Found Innocent of "Corner Jumping"

Republicans must only drink bottled water?, They surely favor contamination of our water sheds...
Martz Endorses Rollback of Citizen Ban on Cyanide Mining
A "Politically Correct" Montana
Kyrgyzstan:Askar Akayev's Diminishing Democracy

(Posted 04/15/2004)

Listed for BLM's defense in the Billings Civil Case:
Janet Singer, John Moorhouse, Chuck Sandau, Park Richard, Aden Seidlitz, Thomas Lonnie,
Diane Friez, Robin Stoebe, Asko Virtanen, Robert Mitchell, Marilyn Krause, Kathy Bockness,
Tim Murphy, Tammy Watts, Larry Hamilton, Ruth Welch
I recently had some interesting email correspondence with Bob Bump
From the list above, guess who said "we'll turn this into an opportunity for you..."
guess who said "I don't know how he (Ferren) got any of his awards" after writing a
"your a team player" praise on an award for yours truly ;>)
*Remember, save the documentation! I did.

In the News:
Judge Allows Challenge to Colorado Water Pact (Interior)
Mismanagement of Federal Oil & Gas Resources (Interior)
Oklahoma Indians Petition for Colorado Land (Interior)
Interior Seeks to Make Park Recreation Fees Permanent
Groups Unite to Protect Idaho Wilderness (BLM - ID)

Complaints Over Bush Pick for National Archives Head
Scalia Still the Focus of Ethics Questions, "Good-Ol Boys"
15 Year Old "WhistleBlower Protection Act" Is A Failure
US Special Counsel Gags Own Employees (OSC)
Interior Gags NPS Chief
Interior Continues to Harass WhistleBlower

Bush Backtracks on Plan to Eliminate Overtime Pay
Iowa Town Suing BNSF Over Job Losses
Wolfowitz Denies Woodward "Plan of Attack"
Best Places to Work in the Federal Government
Agency Rankings...Scroll Down for Interior/BLM
Oceans in Deep Trouble
The Memory Hole - Freeing Information

BLM Approving Thousands of Oil & Gas Permits That Are Not Being Used
BLM Announces Public Meetings on RMF Oil & Gas Projects (BLM - MT)
Man Admits Selling Bad Seed to BLM (BLM - UT)

Conquest of Iraq:
No Truce in Falluja
Military Contractors in Iraq - Mercenaries for Hire
Some US Workers Flee Iraq
Soldiers and Fortune - Mercenaries in Iraq
Pentagon and Mercenaries Role in Iraq
US Kills Al-Iraqiya News Correspondents
Iraq Power Hand Over a "Fraud"
US Works to Limit "Coalition" Pullouts
US Senator Talks Draft for Iraq

the war is not real, if you don't see it...
Contractor Fired Over Picture of American Military Coffins
Casualties in Iraq
UN & Iraq Oil-for-Food/Fraud Theft - Billions Stolen
Corruption and Mendacity Won't Rescue Iraq's Occupiers

Bushworld:A Strange Place
Michael Moore - Dude, Where's My Country?
Bush:Press Conference Tips
Environmental Retard?


nukes and the American/Israeli double-standard...
How Israel Captured Nuclear WhistleBlower Vanunu
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Vanunu)
Israeli Who Revealed Nuke Secrets Hailed
A Warning to Those Who Would Criticise Israel

Montana State Legislature
Right Wing Extremeism Alive & Well in Montana Politics (Laszloffy)
"Right to Work" Law Really Effort to Restrict Workers Rights
Lawsuit Over Montana Stream Pollution (Spring Creek)
Burns For Energy Bill That Targets RMF
US Destroying Working Class in Columbia (MT HRN)

(Posted 04/27/2004)

"The God of Small Things", A. Roy (recommended reading)

In the News:
BLM's Management of Wild Horse Program Questioned, Money Being Shifted From Rangeland Mgmt
Inside the BIA
BLM to Enforce Drug and Alcohol Regulations on Public Lands (BLM - NV)
BLM Plan to Restrict ORV Travel (BLM - WY)
Lawsuit Filed Over CBM Wells (CBM - MT)
BLM Gets 12,000 Comments on RMF Drilling (BLM - MT)

Congressmen Go to India to Outsource More American Jobs
Pace of Job Losses Accelerating

Iraq War Boosts Halliburton Profits
A (Picture) Thousand Words, America's Dead Sons & Daughters
Don't Look at the Coffins
Media Suppression in America, by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Disney Attempts to Stop Distribution of Film Critical of Bush

Photos Show Torture of Iraqis By US Soldiers
More Torture Evidence
Prisoner Details Abuse
Prisoners Speak of Torture at Hands of US Soldiers
British Soldiers Brutality
Outrage at US Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners
US General Faces Cruelty Charges
Foreign Fighters Have Small Role in Iraq Resistance
Mazar-e-Sherif to Fallujah (massacres)
Iraqis Want America to Get Out
The Fairy Tale of "Liberation"
Arabs and Israelis, Media Watch
Arab News
US Has Killed 9 Reporters in Iraq
The Good Guys Who Can Do No Wrong
Iraqi Scientist Still Being Held in Isolation

Baby President
GWBush.com

Call of the World Social Movements

now all we have to do is kill the agressive ones...the meek shall enherit (whats left of) the earth...
Baboons Learn to Live in Peace

look for a Military Draft after the election...
HR 163, Draft Bill...US Senate Has A Draft Version Too
S 89, Senate Draft Bill
Young People Debate the Draft
Iraq Needs More US Troops
The National Security Archive, Declassified Secrets

these (bio agent labs) and university research reactors would be great terrorist targets?...
Hot Lab Building Boom
Terrorists and Nukes
The US Army's Chemical Weapons (WMD) Stockpile
Global Warming Destroying Habitat, Species

this is a travesty, and you still only get to chose the "lesser of two evils"...
Bush/Kerry May Spend $1 Billion on Campaign

Energy Firms Already Fighting I-150 With Bogus "Poll"

time to get off your knees and take back what is rightfully yours...
Initiative 150, to Correct Energy Deregulation Fiasco

sounds strange, isn't this a $7.5 billion dollar fund?...
MT Work Comp Rates to Rise
Glenn Ferren Will Run in HD 82

(Posted 05/07/2004)

From The Culture of Terrorism by Noam Chomsky, Chapter 15 "Standards for Ourselves":
"The temptation to put the world aside and keep to personal concerns is high.
People whose day-to-day existence offers them little in the way of satisfying work,
control over the conditions of their lives, or even material security
will be reluctant to face unpleasant realities and thus to abandon what little they
have to give some meaning to their lives, to lose the comforting faith in the images
devised to keep them subdued and acquiescent: the noble guardians of the gates,
the enemy beyond, the benevolence of our intentions, and the whole array of devices
concocted to show that we are wonderful and they are devious, evil and threatening.....
The standards we choose to set for ourselves will inevitably have far-reaching consequences,
given American power and wealth and all that flows from these endowments."

Drilling the RMF...
The Bureau of Land Management has held public informational meetings in Choteau,
Great Falls and Missoula. According to BLM Field Manager Dave Mari, more than 12,000
comments have been e-mailed to the agency.
Two more meetings are scheduled. The first will be at 6 p.m. May 17 in Helena at
the Carroll College Campus Center Sienna/Ross/Rice Room;
the second will be at 6 p.m May 20 in Browning in the Blackfeet Community College Commons.
For those unable to attend a meeting, written comments may be sent by June 1 to:
Field Manager/Blackleaf Project EIS Team Lead, Bureau of Land Management,
Lewistown Field Office, P.O. Box 1160, Lewistown MT 59457;
or by electronic submittal to mt_blackleaf_eis@blm.gov.
To view BLM's scoping document, go to
Scoping Info

In the News:
BIA Head David Anderson Under Fire (Interior)
Support for Indian Casino Triggers Recall Vote
Senator Calls for BIA Head to Resign
FS Employees Face Discipline Over Fatal Fire
Old Bombers Being Pulled from Fire Fighting
Administrative Appeal to Protect Bears (FS - MT)
Opposition to Drilling Montana's RMF (BLM - MT)
Rescue the Rockies
Interest Growing in Oil & Gas Leases (SD)

Bush:Another Coverup? in Murder of American Nick Berg
A President Beyond the Law
Rumsfeld's Responsibility
Pictures of Wounded Being Shot Censored
Prisoner Abuse, Racism
If We See Our Enemies As Inhuman...
Iraqi Prisoner Abuse, Pictures
Iraqi Victims of War
Report:Troops Shot Iraqi Civilians Dead in Cold Blood
Mercenaries Taking Over US Military Duties
The National Security Archive - Declassified Interrogation Manuals
Bush:Elitist!

Senate Passes Corporate Welfare Tax Bill - $170 Billion Giveaway
Burns,Baucus Blow Horn Over Corporate Welfare Tax Bill
US Trade Deficit Soars to Record High, US Buying More Than Selling
DOE Plans Elite Guard Force
US Marshalls Sued Over Scalia Tapes
Top Federal Workers With Bogus College Degrees

Study Says CWD Can Be Spread Through Environmental Contamination

Rehberg Falls Out of the Saddle with "Right To Ride" Bill
Water Shortages Predicted for Montana

in case you wondered why corporate interests don't pay taxes in Montana...
State Dept of Revenue to Withhold Corporate Tax Info
Corporations: Are They Paying Their Fair Share?, How Would We Know?
Georgia Resident Files Suit Over Montana Stream Access
NWC Showing Greater Profits Over Same Period in 2003

the legislature gave away Montana's hydropower resource, now the people will pay dearly to buy it back...
MT Cities Bid $1.26 Billion for NWC Systems

(Posted 05/13/2004)

Dennis Kucinich will be in Montana Sunday and Monday
I encourage you to hear him speak...and then wonder why you are stuck with Bush and Kerry
when you could have a real choice
Our great "Democracy" is broken, if the only choice is the "lesser of two evils" or
"anyone but (substitute Presidents name here, ie Clinton, Bush, etc)"

Motion to Court this week for Summary Judgement and Award for Plaintiff
will post court document and related on this later

You might be interested in this SBA case:
US Attorney Lori Suek Loses Case:Former SBA Employee Gets $500K & Job Reinstatement (Montana)

We hear a rumor that Carol Schriver, former EEO counselor at MSO BLM, has written a not-very-complimentary book
on our favorite Agency, don't have a line on a copy of this, but if you do let me know,
I would love to learn more of the nefarious doings of MSO Mgmt and its cast of characters
like Hamilton, Lonnie, Singer, etc.

In the News:
New Lawsuit Against Interior Over CBM Development in Powder River Basin (MT/WY)
Meeting on Drilling RMF:BLM Asked "Who Do You Really Work For?" (BLM - MT)
Foreign Firms Own Mining Rights on Public Lands at Less Than $5 Acre (Interior)
A Public Land Grab Unmatched in US History (Interior)
Bargain Priced Mining Claims Abound in the West, .84cents to $27 acre (Interior)
BLM Must Follow Rules (BLM - MT)
Norton Reamed for Clearing Griles (Interior)
David Anderson BIA:Part Time Work for Full Time Job
Grazing/Wildlife Refuge Dispute in Colorado
Wild Horse Advocates Plan Demonstration (BLM - NV)
Interior Asks FAA to Certify Air Tankers Safety

Bush Administration Pushes New Overtime Rules to Exempt Workers from Overtime Pay
Bush:Paybacks for Political Fund Raisers
Bush:The Jesus Landing Pad

The Cover-Up Continues
Iraqis Indict US Occupiers
The Gray Zone
A Double Ordeal for Female Prisoners
Army Report Details Iraqi Prisoner Abuse (Taguba Report)

Israel Commits War Crimes in Rafah

should we invade Israel? (or just nuke 'em ;>), we invaded Iraq on the basis of UN Resolutions...
Despite UN Resolution, Israel Continues Killing in Rafah
Israeli Forces Massacre Protesters in Rafah
Reuters Staff Abused by US Troops in Iraq
Abu Ghraib and Falluja--a familiar kind of terror
Abu Ghraib and the Many Faces of America
US Kills 40 at Wedding Party in Iraq
Bush's Ineffective Leadership a WMD, Nicholas Bergs Father Says
Bush:Everything's Hunky-Dory!

40% More US Jobs Predicted to be Outsourced Offshore
Efforts to Outsource American Jobs Offshore Accelerating

btw, there is no oil shortage...
Gas Tops $5 Gal in Alaska Villages
High Temps Melt Arctic Icecap

School of the Americas Watch
Landmines to Take Toll on Columbians for Decades to Come
Media Matters for America
Moores New Movie Excites Cannes Audience
The Progressive Magazine
Kerry Wants to Lure Nader Supporters

since we don't really check for mad cow in the US, how many here??...
Thousands May Have Human Form of Mad Cow Disease

In Montana, the Next ANWR Debate (RMF)
Saving Montana's Rocky Mountain Front
Toll of Drought Reported (MT)

(Posted 05/21/2004 appended 05/31/2004)

In the News:
Interior Under Fire for Abuse,Deaths in American Indian Prisons (BIA)
New Head of BIA, Brian Pogue
Interior Muzzles Park Chiefs (NPS)
Whistle Blower Leaves National Fisheries Service (NOAA)
BLM Looks at CBM Discharge Leak Into Area Groundwater (CBM - WY)
CBM Problems, Drillers Opting to Buy Out Ranchers (CBM - WY)
BLM to Host Ah-Nei Public Comments June 7th (BLM - MT)
BLM to Cut Grazing (BLM - MT)
Ranchers Will Be Limited on Rangeland (BLM - MT)
Oil Lease Holders Exceeding Limit on Public Lands Leases (BLM - Tom Lonnie)


to stop prison abuses...from becoming public ...
Rumsfeld Bans Camera Phones in Iraq
Whistle Blower on Iraqi Prison Abuses Faces Retaliation,Reprisal
The Actions of Mercenaries and Private Security Firms in Iraq
US Accused of Homicides in Iraq Prisons
Did US Kill Another Aljazeera News Reporter?
Did US Bomb Another Wedding Celebration?
5500 Iraqis Killed in First (12) Months of Occupation
UN Resolution to Give Wide Powers to US in Iraq
Iraq Oil Pipeline Badly Damaged
Iraqis Dismiss Bush's Abu Ghraib Plan
Suspicious Death of Iraqi Scientist in US Custody

(DV)Tell Me Lies
Report:Cheney Helped Halliburton With Iraq Contract
Amnesty International Slams US in Human Rights Report
Leaders of 60+ Countries Critical of American Policies
Boeing Exempt From US Sanctions on Syria
Bush Was Right!

Bush Grants Pardons
The Coverup of the Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty Remembered
Nuclear Experiment Planned in Nevada
Army Fined Over Nerve Gas Releases (1994-2000-2002,WMD)
Bush Looks At Easing Gasoline Pollution Rules
Australia Warned Its Drying Up


a real choice, a real candidate...not the village idiot and a stick man...
Dennis Kucinich, A Voice for Change

MEIC:Montana Energy
The Failure of Montana Power Company
Deregulation and NorthWestern Corp in Montana
State Energy Policy
Montana State Legislature
Montana Legislature:Look Up Bills Information
Energy Deregulation:SB390
Blackfoot Tribe Borrows Money From Its Workers Comp Insurance Fund
Fire-Fighting Contractors Don't Come Cheap
Gov, DNRC Object to News Report on Fires
Game Farm Owners Want State to Pay for Losses (I143)
Colorado Mining Interests Spend $400K to Get Cyanide Mining Back in Montana (I147)
House Candidates Share Views on Issues

(Posted 06/02/2004)

Girl From the Gulches, The Story of Mary Ronan - recommended Reading!

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President,
right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt

Ninth Circuit Court
This week, a district court judge in California ruled that the Partial Birth Abortion Ban
signed into law by President Bush earlier this year was unconstitutional.
This recent decision highlights yet another way that the views of those in San Francisco
are out of step with those held by many Montanans.
The government is sure to appeal this ruling, which means this case will face consideration
by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Recent rulings by this particular Court,
whose decisions are binding on our state, have demonstrated just how far San Francisco
is from Montana.
To address the growing disconnect between the rulings of the Ninth Circuit and the perspective
of Montanans, I recently cosponsored legislation to split up the Ninth Circuit in order
to better reflect the views of the people these courts represent.
Under S. 2278, two new circuit courts would be created. Montana would be a member of the
Twelfth Circuit, along with Arizona, Nevada and Idaho.
This legislation will break up the largest appeals court in the country, both in terms of
geographic size as well as caseload. Montana would no longer be bound by decisions made
in San Francisco, and I am pleased to support this legislation to bring a little common sense
back to the rulings that affect Montana. Senator Conrad Burns

Last time I saw Gavin Frost he asked "how's the campaign going?", with a smile
It (possible run for governor) and then the legislature run went well...
Pulled more people to my web site and to pages like this one ;>)...
lots of free advertisement for very little $ investment!

In the News:
Firefighters Can Do Jobs Without Large Air Tankers (Kathleen Clarke - BLM)
BIA Chief Reassigned; Tribal Prison Deaths Probe
National Public Lands Grazing Campaign
Biologists Alarmed at Disease Outbreak in Klamath Salmon (Interior)

your public lands have gone from 264 million acres in 2000, to 261 million acres in 2004...
BLM Sells Public Land for $280,000 Acre (BLM - NV)
CBM Industry Fears Endangered Species Sage Grouse Listing (CBM - WY)

US Army Expanding "Stop Loss" Conscription Program
Military Families Protest Extended Iraq Deployments
Evidence of Beatings Resulting in Death Abounds
US Frantic to Change Harsh Revelations in UN Human Rights Report on Iraq
US Civilian Contractors Cited in Iraq Prison Abuses
US Contractors Sued Over Iraq Prison Abuses
Vinnell Corp in Iraq
He Died for Money - $670 month in Iraq

Australian Tried to Tell US About Attack (2000) Before 9/11
Ohio Residents Concerned About US Armies 1269 Tons of VX Nerve Gas (WMD)

Energy Developers to Invest $3.4 Billion in Azerbaijan Oil Field
Companies Bid $53.9 Million for Alaskan Oil Leases (BLM - AK)
BLM Plans to Offer More Alaskan Oil Leases (BLM - AK)

Congress Proposes Raising Student Loan Rates - Higher Education Act

Montana's Federal Courts Facing Furloughs,Curtailment of Services
Martz Requests Funds from State Account to Repair Federal (BOR) Canal
Colorado Mining Company to Receive $11 Million in Back Revenues from Colstrip Coal

(Posted 06/10/2004)

Billings Court Motion

In the News:
Supreme Court Will Not Require Interior Agency to Protect Public Lands, BLM - Utah
NPS Encourages Superintendents to Lobby Congress (Interior)
Rancher in Fight With BLM Sells Cattle (BLM - WY)

Abu Ghraib & CACI - Torture for Hire Contractor Linked to Interior Dept
Private Interrogators Hired to Work in Iraq Despite Ban (CACI International)
The Global Torture System (CACI International)
Supporters of US Invasion of Iraq Feeling the Heat at Election Time
Iraqis Put Contempt for US Troops on Display
Poll Says Iraqis Want US to Leave

Mourning in America, Another "National Treasure" Gone?
Home of the Not-So-Free
Turning The Tide:Noam Chomsky Weblog
Click Back America


in God we Trust, all others pay cash...
Court Dodges Pledge Case
UN Says Globe Drying Up at Fast Pace


Rehberg falls off horse (again) for real this time...
Was Rehberg Drunk?

(Posted 06/14/2004 appended 06/16/2004)

PILT Funds Released To Montana (Conrad Burns) Coming from a total of more than $224.3 million nationwide, Montana is set to receive
$16,681,936 from the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM)
Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program. The PILT program provides repayment to counties
for tax revenues lost, based on the amount of tax-exempt federal lands within their borders.
These funds will help our state to improve our community services and infrastructure,
so it comes as great news to all of our firefighting and law enforcement programs,
roads, water and wastewater facilities, and many other vital state services.
I’ve worked hard in my position as Chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee,
which funds the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management, to see this
money make it through the appropriations process, and am glad to know that Montana’s
counties will be able to improve those systems that individually need it the most.
Even more, through Secretary Norton’s use of the accelerated payment program,
we’ll now be getting these funds early enough to help our counties build next year’s budget.
If you’d like to see more specific information on the amounts approved for individual
counties, access the BLM website at: http://www.blm.gov/pilt.

Montana is long overdue for New Congressional representation...

Sen. Baucus: Toll free from Montana: 1-800-332-6106
http://baucus.senate.gov/emailmax.html

Sen. Burns: Toll free from Montana: 1-800-344-1513
http://burns.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Home.Contact

Rep. Rehberg: In Montana: 1-406-454-1066
http://www.house.gov/rehberg/contact.html

In the News:
Norton Says Endangered Species Listing Would Hurt Energy Production (Interior)
FS, Interior Mismanage Budget
Interior Fails Indian Trust Mediation
Cattle "Grass Bank" Controversial (BLM - WY)
New CBM, Oil & Gas Interest in Park County (BLM - WY)
O&G Development Divides Community (CBM - WY)
Court Hears Challenge to CBM Leases (BLM - WY)
50,000 Comments on Drilling RMF (BLM - MT)
CBM Development in Canada Concerns Montanans, Canada CBM Environmental Standards Less Than Standards For Golf Courses

Senate Votes 93-4 to Add 20,000 Troops to Army, $7.2 Billion Cost
US Occupation Soldiers Killed in Iraq
British Soldiers Tortured Iraqis
DOJ Interrogation Memo, Standards of Conduct
Will Mercenaries in Iraq Be Brought to Justice?
US Troops Murdered Iraq General, Charged with "Manslaughter"
Iraq 1917, A History Lesson
The Iraqi Job Crisis, Who Got the Money?

Federal Judge Points Out Bush, Hitler Similarities
Hanging Out with Dick Cheney
AP Sues Military to Get Complete Bush Service Records

House Passes Taxpayer Funded Buyout for Tobacco Farmers, $155 Billion Corporate Welfare Bill
Crowd Control Taser/"Stun Gun" to Be Introduced
Western Drought Now Beats Dust Bowl, Could Persist for 30 Years
US Experts Say Earth Warming Up More and Faster Than Previously Thought
Energy Company Executive/Shell Chairman Says Oil & Gas Burning Threatens the Planet

Equal Access to Justice Reform Act of 2003
The 9-11 Visibility Project
Stop Bush Campaign

MT Energy Development, Contradictions
Baucus Says Not Enough Forest "Thinning"
Wolves Eating Yellowstone Elk Herd, Herd Down by 50%
Reintroduced Wolves Reducing Elk Population in Idaho
MOGA Smarting Over Support for Game Farms, Business Subsidy
Hamilton Bio-Lab Level 4 Approved, Martz Applauds

don't know about "fly dung", but I do recognize horse sh**...
Dave Galt, Where Have Those Billions in Federal Hwy $$$ Gone???

(Posted 06/27/2004)

Reply to Motion for Summary Judgement (Defendant)

In the News:
Report:Indian Jails a "Disgrace" (Interior - BIA)
US Park Police Chief Sues in Civil Court for Reinstatement (Interior)

and you believe it, right?...
Park Service Says WhistleBlowers Will Be Protected ;>)(Interior)
FS Sued to Stop Grazing Plan in SW Montana
National Forests Fall Victim to Firefighting
FS Looking at National OHV Plan - Draft Policy

US Tries to Censor Coverage of Saddam Hearing
Iraq's Missing Oil Billions
The Birth of the Pseudostate - Iraq
What Makes Iraq a Sovereign State?
Iraq Invasion Boon for Terrorists
Reshaping Iraq
Iraq - The Show Goes On
A Clear View of the US War on "Terrorism"
America's New Bogeyman
US Soldiers Charged with Drowning of Iraqi Detainee
Israeli Interrogator Was at Abu Ghraib
US Military Straining to Find Troops

Corporate Profits Up

Amerika!...the illusion of Democracy is sometimes revealed...
Citizen Asks to Speak at Congressional Hearing, Sentenced to Jail (Sassower)
FOIA's 38th Birthday


interesting what the afl-cio does "endorse"...
Montana AFL-CIO Playing Politics

(Posted 07/07/2004)

Now living in Superior MT after a lot of moving in June/July!...

In the News:
GAO/IG Report Says Interior Wastes Millions on Vehicle Fleet
Bush Admin Gives Green Light to Log Remote Roadless NF's

Clear Channel Again Censoring Anti-War Messages
Dick Cheney by Sutton
Nuclear Overkill - SIOP 62

Bush Plan:6,000,000 Workers to Lose Overtime Pay
Cenex Profits Up

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children - Civil Case

The Nation of True Israel,ST Regis Meeting

(Posted 07/14/2004)

Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God."

A federal appeals court has ruled that the vice president of an ISP can't be charged
with violating federal wiretapping laws for snooping on e-mail sent to his customers.
Under current law, e-mail users shouldn't expect privacy, and current law doesn't distinguish
between an e-mail service provided by an employer or an ISP.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit's decision Tuesday affirms a district court
ruling dismissing a criminal wiretap charge against Bradford Councilman, who was vice president of Interloc,
a rare book listing service, in 1998.
"Everybody knows that when you use an e-mail service provider from an employer,
a school or an ISP, that they have access to your e-mail and don't need your permission"...

This web site will be moving soon, let you know where asap...GF

In the News:
Interior Opposes Cut in Royalty for Trona Miners (WY)

Bush will likely backdoor him in anyway, ongoing effort to subvert 9th Circuit...
Myers Nomination Stopped!

BLM Rejects Extension of Comment Period, Residents Concerned Over Water Supply (WY)
Landowners to Put Initiative on Ballot for Protection from Mineral Rights Development (WY)
BLM Asking for $42 Million for Wild Horse Budget
BLM Seeks Comments on Drilling Proposal in Big Game Habitat (BLM - WY)
USGS To Study CBM Effects on Tongue River (CBM - MT)
Concern About Damage to Tongue River (CBM - MT)
B.C. Turns Down Martz's Request for CBM Environmental Impact Study (CBM - MT)


a Martz in charge!, God Help Us..
Governors Don't Control Our Public Lands

GAO:U.S. Underestimated War Costs By $12.3 Billion, Will Need Another $50 Billion After the Election
America Is Not A Charitable Organization
A Nation Whose Government Rules Only Its Capital - Iraq
Academics Targeted As Murder Hits Iraqi Colleges

along with several satchel/brief-case nukes...
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Data Missing
Israeli Spies Caught in New Zealand

like the U.S., Israel Ignores U.N. Resolutions...
U.N. Resolution Tells Israel To Tear Down Wall

Oil, The Center for Public Integrity - Big Oil Interests
NIH Blocking Marijuana Medical Research
Bin Laden on Iraq

Ted Rall Comics
Ted Rall - Bush & Company
Sutton - More Reasons to Vote Bush Out!
Doonesbury on Fox, The State Propaganda Station


will a preference subsidy really fall?...
Ruling Ends Preference for State Land Leases (MT)
Colorado Mining Company Funding I-147 (Cyanide Mining) - $737,000 (So Far)
Largest Superfund Site in U.S. - Cleanup of Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers - $1 Billion Price Tag

the restitution program is corrupt and so are the administrators...,
with any claim being rubber-stamped by the Court - Terry Fox (Miles City) recently got a judgement
of restitution to be reimbursed for a $35.00 hr ranch hand!!! ...just one example
Embezzlement, Crime of Choice - Do the Crime Serve No Time

(Posted 07/22/2004)

Look for this webpage in the future at: On Blackfoot.net
On Web Host 150m

In the News:
BLM on Pace to Set Record for Drilling Permits
ND Company Lease Bid for O&G Highest Ever (BLM - MT)
NPRC Set to Sue Over CBM Waste Water (CBM - MT)
Wildlife Agencies Left Out of Decisions on Pesticides (F&WS - Interior)

Army Coverup for Commanders Involved in Iraqi Prisoner Abuse
GI Says Ordered to Drown Iraqi Prisoner
British Soldiers Kick & Beat Iraqi Prisoners to Death
Doctors Without Borders Pulling Out of Afghanistan
The Real Cost
ANG Recruiting Falling Short
Older Soldiers Face Life & Family Distractions, Younger Soldiers (18-21) Better Choice for Combat & Dying

$Millions Being Spent to Cleanup Hanford Radiation Contaminated Groundwater Ineffective
America the Free? Be Careful Which Candidate You Support
Medicare to Cut Cancer Payments
Fox News Channel Rewriting History
US Prison Population Hits New Record (6.9 Million)
NYC Cop Charged for Not Arresting Homeless

PPL Profits Increase
ChevronTexaco's Profit More Than Doubles
ConocoPhillips Profits Double
Exxon Mobil:$5.79Billion Profit in 2nd Quarter +$70Billion "Windfall" Revenue
Congress Debates $100 Billion Iraq Cost
The Real Cost of "Empire" ($Trillions) Debts and Deficits
527 Groups Hammering Republicans


Well, IT DID KINDA LOOK LIKE A FOOTBALL...

after articles on the cost of fighting fire...
FS Barring Journalists from MT Fires
NW Energy Bankruptcy and $3,000,000 Bonus for Corp Head Drook

competition for a lease; you get to match the bid, then get it reduced...
Rehberg Ranch Estates Blocking Access to Public Lands
Cyanide Mining Supporters Defend Initiative I-147

(Posted 08/01/2004)

Looks like another appeal to the Ninth Circuit coming up...
For 3 Years Anderson and Shanstrom in Billings Federal Court have been doing their best to see the civil case never gets to a Jury
Who do you suppose these guys hang with at parties and the country club - Gavin Frost and some BLM folks we know?
*The Federal Court in Helena does not appear to be as corrupt as the one in Billings, could be the distance from the BLM State Office
is a good thing...

The Fed District Court in Billings wants to grant summary judgment for the Defendant...
the "logic" for their decision goes like this...given the choice between horse sh** and a gourmet cheesecake,
we like the Defendant's horse sh** because it came wrapped in a better package,
and we are only concerned about the package...I'm serious!, it can't be summed up any better
and the Court sounds totally insane!

In the News:
BLM Trims Wild Horse Birth Control Plan (BLM - MT)
Mountain Lions Blamed for Killing Wild Horses (BLM - MT)
Firm Plans CBM Exploration (BLM - WY)

NSARCHIVE:The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
US - Empire Building in South America Continues Through Political and Covert Interference
Populist Reforms in South America, US Wants the Oil
Israeli Troops Hold BBC Crew at Gunpoint
Oil-for-Food Multi-Billion Dollar Corruption Probe Continues

America's War Machine - $417 Billion Defense Bill,$25 Billion More for Iraq
Iraq's Sovereignty - Puppet Government
American Puppet Government in Iraq Shuts Down Al-Jazeera News Reporting
Where the Killing Starts
Unreported War, The Scale of Conflict
Group Claims US Has Killed 37,000 Civilians in Iraq
NYC Denies Anti-War Group's Permit
Anti-War Group Files Lawsuit Against Clear Channel for Suppressing Freedom of Speech
US Army Not Showing Fahrenheit 9/11 Movie to Troops
Democrats Stop Pretending to Be Anti-War
Reporting for Duty

Japan Nuclear Accident Kills 4 People - Boiled Alive
US Medical Errors Kill 200,000 A Year
Dangerous Fire Season Still Forecast

Probe of Child Protective Services Cases Won't Happen (MT)

(Posted 08/15/2004)

In the News:

Reply to Court's Decision to Grant Summary Judgement for Defendant

Interior Dept Says Plans to Delay Some New Oil & Gas Drilling Projects
Culture of Fear at Interior
Interior Survey Results
LE Agents at US Fish & Wildlife Svc Speak Out
BLM Cataloging Comments on Plan to Drill RMF (BLM - MT)
Forum to Look at CBM Drilling Issues (WY)

Law:US Code

Income of Rich Grows,Everyone Else Lose Income
Voters Have Little Choice When It Comes to War
Death after Death, Blood after Blood
US Plans in the Middle East

Fahrenheit 9/11 DVD Releases Oct 5th
Chavez Survives US Empire Building
Stories Missing from US Media
Project Censored - the Role of Independent Journalism
What if George Bush Tried to Write His Own Speech?

Montana Fisheries Info System
Mining Districts (MT)
To Reduce Costs, Corrections Dept Wants $18 Million Increase
CO Mining Company & Cyanide Mining Backers Want Court to Throw Out I-147 Lawsuit

(Posted 08/25/2004)

Does this mean Diane Friez will again try to assume her "reward" for years
of obediance and loyalty to Janet Singer?(the DSD,SS position)...we are watching...

Subject: New Bureau Safety Manager
My friends and associates, it is my pleasure to announce the selection of
Ms. Sandy Guches as the new Bureau Safety Manager. Sandy comes to the
position from the Montana State office where she served as the Deputy
State Director for Support Services. She has been with the Bureau of Land
Management for 20 years.
Sandy is a recognized leader in the management of safety and occupational health issues.
She brings to this position a strong technical background and a broad base of professional
managerial experience. She has an outstanding vision for the revitalization of the Bureau's
safety program and I am proud to have her as part of my management team.
Sandy will begin in her new position as Safety Manager on November 1, 2004.
Join me in welcoming her to the Washington Office.

Go ahead, admit it...you really thought YOU elected the President,
Here are some of the folks that will actually elect your next president...
(Montana)Nominated Presidential Electors:
Michael Badnarik and Richard V. Campagna (Libertarian)
David Merrick,James Edwards,Toni Tikalsky
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (Republican)
Jack Galt,Thelma Baker,John Brenden
David Cobb and Pat LaMarche (Green)
Scott Proctor,Paul Stephens,Robert D. Beck
John Kerry and John Edwards (Democrat)
Carl Donovan,Sharon Dinstel,Bob Lubbers
Ralph Nader and Karen Sanchirico (Independent)
Alex Roberts,Scott Brandt,Linda Parker
Michael A. Peroutka and Chuck Baldwin (Constitution)
Russell Brown,Mark DeGroot,Kent Holtz

Busy around here in July/August...moving from Helena, couple of trips to Miles City,
then in-laws visiting, time spent last week searching at nine mile for the lost 3 yr old,
news of a grandchild due early next year!, but not too busy to get in some great fishing

Official Announcement:
The government today announced that it is changing its emblem from an Eagle to a CONDOM
because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance.
A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation,
protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed.
Damn, it just doesn't get more accurate than that.

In the News:
Federal Judge Orders Halt to Sale of Indian Oil Lands (Interior - Indian Trust Lawsuit)
Conservation District Authority Extends to CBM Water (CBM - MT)
Fidelity/NPRC Reach Accord on CBM Water Quality Monitoring (CBM - MT)
Wyoming Governor Will Research O&G Drilling Plan for Bridger-Teton
BIA Facing Charge of Prisoner Abuse at Detention Center in Browning (BIA - MT)
National Recreation Reservation System Contract Award Protested
BLM Rejects Bid for Coal Lease As Too Small (WY)

Australian Charged With War Crimes in Afganistan

with talk of the draft returning (after the election)by both Republicans and Democrats...
US Military Deaths in Iraq Pass 1,000
NG Records Show Bush Missed Service, Lapse of Duty
Voting Public Still Unsure Where the President Stands...
Sutton Impact:RNC

CBO Projects Highest Ever Federal Deficit in 2004 - $442 Billion
Number of Americans Without Health Insurance, Americans Living in Poverty Increased in 2003
Greenspan Says Social Security and Medicare Benefits Must Be Cut
Immunity Denied for Judges in Boot Camp Death
God is not a Republican. Or a Democrat.

The Bra Fence, MT FW&P as Morality (Bra) Police (Helena)

(Posted 09/02/2004 appended 09/07/2004)

Heard from the grapevine...
Seems the BLM Solicitor (Gavin Frost&company) is tracking email, still looking for the "mole" ;>)...
We hear Julie Kale has been promised a position by Howard Lemm after her WO detail ends,
even though the position doesn't currently exist...
Some think it's a power play - Joyce Norris asked for a months leave during eoy budget
and was denied by the DSD SS, went to the SD and got (3) weeks leave...
Inquiring minds want to know - why so much turnover in procurement/contracting?
there is a history of controversy in this area at MSO...
Did she really say that? "No one would donate leave to someone like you...", J Norris to
Jan Jensen, who we hear received a lot of donated SL
The rumor still persists that Dottie Green is feeding me inside info,
never has, but might if I asked her ;>)
About the Diane Friez/Tom Lonnie "connection" - from what I hear the connection
sounds like a physical one, if you know what I mean...what a couple,
Tom hoping for a SD job somewhere and Diane plotting for the MT DSD SS job,
there are stories of "wife-swapping" and shoplifting/divorce/reluctance to pay child support
and private liasons involving these two, wish I could tell you all I've heard folks...

In the News:

groundwork for a future SD position Dave?...or just cheer leading?...
McIlnay, BLM Spokesman on CBM
7 Leaving Buffalo FO, Pressure and Stress (BLM - WY)
Health of Horses/Range Discussed (BLM - MT)
Interior Asks For Looser Guidelines in Accounting for Indian Trust Money

Senate Blocks Outsourcing of Some Federal Jobs
Fewer Americans Choosing to Vote
A Progressive Democrats BLOG

Annan Says American Invasion of Iraq Illegal
Barnes Upset About Helping Bush Avoid Vietnam War
US WMD (chemical weapons) disposal begins at Army Depot in Oregon
Glitch Halts WMD Destruction in Oregon
Al-Qaida: US Facing Twin Defeats
Baghdad Out of Control
Young Americans Still Dying Because of Bush's Deceit
Some War Wounded Recover Far From Home
Americans Convicted of Torturing Afghans, Get Prison Terms
Truth Revealing Itself Faster Than Bush Team Can Lie

The Economics of Fire in Montana
Out of State Mining Co. Ponys Up $1.3 Million for I-147
LAWS Current Session (2005) MT Legislature
Should Drilling Be Allowed in RMF?

an online course...but only if you are a native american...discrimination??...
UM Gets Journalism Grant

(Posted 09/17/2004)

Re McIlnay and the CBM forum meeting in Miles City...
The MC Star ran an article on the meeting, the public participants almost universally stated it was a waste of their time to attend!
McIlnay's LTE comments thus seem very naive...Dave - it's not looking good for that SD position after all, and you remind folks of the T Murphy mgmt style (bombast and BS)
In other news, looks like MCFO is gearing up for a new RMP...
lots of money involved, years to complete, and public scoping meetings!!...
wonder if McIlnay will still be the only one singing BLM's praises?

BTW, just so you know...you still Suck! Gavin, Friez, Stoebe... ;>)

In the News:
Interior Leases Wild Horse Preserve to Energy Companies, Plans to Evict Herd
"Best Connected" Energy Lobbyist to Pitch Rocky Mtn Drilling
Gale Norton Cries Wolf All Over Again
Report On Indian Prisons, Interior Can't Account for Funds
BIA Jails A Disgrace
Former BIA Official Sees No Surprise in Report on Indian Jails
FOTE:Steve Griles
BLM Finishing Review re:Planned 25 Year Lease to Mormon Church

Federal Judges Cut Construction, In Attempt to Avoid More Layoffs (Fed Court Funds Being Cut)
Republican Governor Vetoes Minimum Wage Law
Call-Up on Tap After Election
Republican Controlled House Attempts Legislation to Prevent Pledge Case Rulings
The 9th Circuit Bows to Political Pressure

The US's Secret Nuclear War
Banned in Iraq, Aljazeera Speaks Out
Abu Ghraib Doctors Knew of Torture
MAMMA

Energy Providers Attempt to Stop Colorado Citizen Initiative on Renewal Energy

(Posted 09/27/2004)

Decision by Billings Court to Grant Summary Judgement to Defendant, rec'd Oct 1...
my Notice of Appeal to Ninth Circuit in the Mail to Billings Court, mailed Oct 1
A Federal Judge - $160K year and appointment for life, just to Obstruct Justice
Montana History shows that when the Courts and Judges are corrupt, Vigilantes enforce the Law

In the News:
Field Solicitor Frost With History of Drunken Brawling Does Community Outreach Via Rugby Team
Interior Backing Off Some Mining Claims
Groups Concerned Over Oil & Gas Development That Threatens Western Rivers (Interior)
Latest on Indian Trust Litigation, Interior Withholds Checks
Judge Says Indians Have Right of Notification Before Land Sales (Indian Trust)
As Election Nears, Interior Drops Canadian Company's RMF Drilling Plans
Interior Backs Off Montana O&G Drilling
EPA Issues Pre-Election Gag Order to Your Civil Service Employees
Bush Administration Opposes New Whistle Blower Protection Legislation
From Montana to New Mexico Bush Clears Path for Energy Development

Iraq:Of Homeland, Identify, and Occupation
US Assault Kills Hundreds in Najaf
Report: No WMD (No Kidding!)
US Army Using Big $ Offers in Effort to Sign New Recruits
US Troops in Iraq Told Not to Ask When They Are Going Home
Professor Sues Pentagon to Make Public Honor Guard War Casualities Photos

US Job Cuts at 8 Month High in Sept
Energy Bill A Special Interests Triump

as they send your jobs overseas and import cheap foreign labor...
Senate Resolves Corporate Tax Giveaway Bill
Back Room Deals, Republicans Changing the Way Laws are Made in America

Fact Check, for Political Statement Corrections
Republican Delay Draws Third Ethics Rebuke
Federal Judges Seeing Lots of Civil Cases from MSPB Actions
Republicans Want to Control Court Decisions, House Votes to Break Up Ninth Circuit

Growing Concern Over Chemical Weapons Stockpiles in US
Federal Scientists Search for Lost H-Bomb

Goodbye Flip Flop Flap

Despite Opposition From Energy Providers, Colorado Voters Hold the Cards on Renewable Energy


Seems State employees in Montana get the same treatment for Whistle Blowing as BLM employees...
State Fires Whistle Blower

(Posted 10/11/2004)

Fall, Snow, and Hunting!

Remembering the NTE on Singer's position, and Diane Friez being slipped into that...
Tom Lonnie was acting and signed off on the NTE...
was he also the selecting official on that backdoor run??...
does a very "personal" relationship = a prohibited personnel practice??

In the News:
NWR Managers Protest Against Shared Mgmt of Montana Bison Range
Latest on Indian Trust Lawsuit
West Gains Windfall $1.1B Revenue from Fed Lands Energy and Minerals Production Royalties
Millenbach Running for HD50 Billings

Cry Freedom of Speech - The Killing of Democracy in America
Blocking the Vote - Destroying Voter Registrations
Sinclair Stations to Air Anti-Kerry Documentary
Bush Quietly Signs $143B Corporate Tax Giveaway
2004 Deficit Surges to $413 Billion
Endangered Species:US Programmers; Jobs Going Offshore or to Immigrants
Computer Firms Slash High Tech Jobs in Third Quarter

Archive Sues CIA for Review of Key Iraq Document
State by State, The Bill For the Iraq War
American Friends Service Committee - Iraq
AR Unit that Refused Iraq Mission Broken Up

100,000 Comments Called "Insufficient"
Environmentalists Talk of Getting Radical, Of Giving Up Too Much

Public Speaks Out Against Coal Power Plant (Thompson Falls) - Told Permitting Will Go Ahead Regardless
BCBS Makes $2M CHIP Donation, Holds Back $90M

and you believed it was your government...working for you...
EPA Not Talking to Media About Asarco Cleanup
Mine Pollution Lawsuit (Cyanide) - Kendall Gold Mine
Asarco Pollution (Arsenic) - E Helena MT

(Posted 10/25/2004)

Spending some time taking my gun for a walk (aka hunting)
and Working on my Ninth Circuit submittal (2nd Appeal against Billings Court), will post soon

In the News:
Montana Congressman Questions BIA Competence, Jail Is An "Outrage" (Interior)
Proposal Restricts Appeals on Dam Licensing (Interior)
Power Companies Quadruple Applications to Build Power Plants Near Parks (Interior)
EPA Enforcement Chief:EPA Tried to Thwart Lawsuits Against Polluting Power Plants
Rosebud County To Regulate CBM Waste Water
BLM Auctions Wild Horses (WY)

Exxon Mobil Profit Soars, Record $6.23 Billion
Study Finds Big Perils in Arctic Warming
Report Sounds Alarm on Pace of Arctic Climate Change
Arctic Melt Accelerates
Humans:Suspects in Demise of Giant Mammals

a not-for-profit health care system, now there's a real good idea...
US Health Insurer Aetna Posts $1.29 Billion in Earnings


true representative democracy, now there's a novel idea...
The Electoral College Votes, Time for a Change?
Was There Really "Voter Fraud"?
More Than $600 Million to Buy-the-Vote
Sinclair Feels the Power of Blogs

Halliburton Awarded More Contracts Without Competitive Bidding
Whistle Blower Asks for Halliburton Investigation
Did US Slaughter 100,000 Iraqis?
Navy Seal Tells of CIA Abusing, Killing Iraqi Prisoners

Suing Judges:A Study of Judicial Immunity
Interim Report:re Pro Se Representation in Ninth Circuit

McGrath to Sue Martz Over Tongue River
Feds Make Killing on Sale of Confiscated Land
State Refuses to Release Draft Water Rights Agreement
"Hoodwinked", Energy Deregulation in Montana

(Posted 11/08/2004)

Back from Hunting season...

Appeal to Ninth Circuit submitted...

In the News:
Clash on the High Plains (Interior)
Researchers Study Microbes and CBM Production
BLM OKs Land Swap with Coal Company (BLM - WY)
Authorities Investigate Death of Woman in Reservation Jail (BIA - Interior)

US to Increase Military Numbers in Iraq to Highest Level of War (So far)
Bush Paints Rosy Picture of Iraq Situation
Squeezing Jello in Iraq
Group to Charge US With War Crimes
US Military Probes Killing of Unarmed Wounded Iraqi Prisoner
Dead-Check in Falluja
Discipline, Punishment Urged for Reservists
Lancet Report on Iraqi Mortality
Amnesty International Seeks US Military's Taser Files
Who's who in Iraq:Allawi, Baathist
Who is Ayad Allawi?
The Effects of Combat Deaths on US Families

Republican Jesus

Republicans Looking to Repeal Food Labeling Law
Industry Friendly Additions to Gov't Funding Bill Troublesome
Federal Law Rewards Exposers of Wrongdoing (Whistle Blower)
Congress OK's $5 Million Penalty for Agencys Telecommuting Shortfalls

The New Economics:Social Insecurity
Microsoft to Open Another Research Center (India) to Tap Foreign Student Talent
National Security Archives - Declassified
Bhopal 20 Years Later, Union Carbide

Sen Jim Elliot (D) Sues MDOR to Release Corporate Tax Records

(Posted 12/02/2004)

Merry Christmas!...MT BLM mgmt received a well deserved kick in a delicate area recently...
can't give you the details yet, but hang in there, these guys can be hung with their own ropes!

The Missoula Independent recently ran an article on BCBSMT that you should read...
Peter Babin (CEO), Chuck Butler (Gov Martz's Communications Director) are names you should remember...
as the nonprofit BCBS's move to convert to for profit, they build up huge reserves of cash
from the premiums you pay, this in turn changes CEO salaries from $500K to $15 to $19 million for example
you are in effect paying for the "perfect crime"; corp profits increase, executives salaries increase
and public health care services decrease as BCBS reduces it's physician and hospital reimbursements

Looks like the fee demo program got a back door (appropriations bill) entry into law
...just call it Republican privatization of your public lands...

In the News:
Unfair Recreation Fees Now Law (BLM)
Interior Backs Industry, No Endangered Listing for Sage Grouse
Interior's #2 Resigns (Ethics Violations - Griles)
Latest On Indian Trust Case
SmartMoney Report on Indian Trust Mismanagement:Interior's Role in the Fraudulent Practices
Justice Dept to Try to Overturn Initiative Barring More Hanford Waste (USDOE)
Sale of Wild Horses to Slaughter Legalized (BLM - S. Conrad Burns)
Company Agrees to CBM Development Delay (BLM - WY)
When Watchdogs are Lap Dogs (Interior)
Industry Lap Dog Griles Finally Resigns,or Thank God and Greyhound He's Gone (Interior)

Newmont Mining Company, Cyanide and the Environment
Newmont Mining Facing Opposition For Environmental Record

US Increases Funding ($700M) for Military Recruiting Efforts
Nat'l Guard Recruiting Falls 30% Since Oct 1st, Guard Hiring 1400 Recruiters
Report:CIA Paints Realistic Iraq Picture - Situation Deteriorating, Unlikely to Improve
US Special Forces Threatened DIA Workers Over Iraq Prison Abuses,Torture
Whos Spraying Afghan Poppy Crop?
US Sells $1.2B in Weapons to Pakistan

Art Exhibition Closed Because of Bush Monkey Portrait
The Great American Rationalizer

Budget Bill Only Tip of Iceberg of Gov't Deficit
By Increasing Taxes and Fees - States Increase Revenues
Number of Hungry,Homeless Increase in US
Bush Replaces Outspoken Civil Rights Chairwoman

Study Shows Climate Change Affecting Species
Your Free Annual Credit Report
Yes Magazine, Post Election 2004
Classics of American Colonial History
Victims of Law WhistleBlowers Site

(Posted 12/20/2004)

Excerpt from a recent email reply from Congressman Denny Rehberg... I am committed to ensuring the solvency of our Social Security system,
and am an original cosponsor of the Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act,
which passed the House in the 107th Congress.
The bill will prevent the surpluses of the Social Security and Medicare hospital
insurance trust funds from being used for any purpose other than providing retirement
and health security. The Lock-Box Act also requires that such surpluses be used to pay down
the national debt until such time as Medicare and Social Security reform legislation is enacted.
...seems a rather contradictory statement, no?