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The average household spends 30 percent
of its energy budget on water heating.

AquaStar On Demand Tankless Water Heaters by Bosch

Takagi Tankless Water Heaters

Mean Distance from Sun  149,597,890 km  (1 astronomical unit, or AU)

Orbital Period  365.26 days

Rotational Period   23 h 56 m

Diameter  12,756 km

Mass  5.9742 x 10 27 g

Density  5.515 g/cm3

Gravity  980 cm/s2

Atmosphere (primary components)  78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% other

Mean Temperature at Surface  15 °C

Number of Moons  1

Population  6.3 billion (2003)

Local Environmental Concerns:

in Delaware:
Motiva's Delaware City Refinery
located 15 miles from Wilmington, Delaware
Motiva Enterprises LLC is a joint venture between Saudi Refining Inc. and Shell Oil Company.
Facilities include one crude unit, sulfur recovery, gas plant, alkylation/ether polymerization,
naphtha treater, a cat cracker, coker, hydrocracker, desulfurizing, CCR reformer and one hydrogen plant.

in Pennsylvania:
Sun Oil - oil refinery
Hog Island - oil refinery
Fort Mifflin - oil refinery
Girard Point - oil refinery, chemical plant
Philips -
Sunoco -
Kinder-Morgan Chemical - chemical plant
Boeing - military helicopters

in New Jersey:
Salem 1 & Salem 2 nuclear reactors
Hope Creek

Coastal Eagle Point Oil Company oil refinery
Rt 295 and Rt 130, West Deptford, NJ
receives Norne field oil from the Norwegian continental shelf
products: propane (1.4%), unleaded petrol (43.7%), jet fuel (10.3%), gas oil/diesel (34.0%), fuel oil (7.1 %)
the 1000 acre oil refinery has soil and groundwater contaminated with
metals (arsenic, lead and chromium) and organics (petroleum hydrocarbons,
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, xylene, and toluene)

tap water from New Jersey American Water Company costs $1. per 250 gallons

Two schools in northeastern Pennsylvania closed and at least 1,000 students were sent home
this week when an overpowering stench from a nearby landfill made it impossible to conduct
classes. Residents and students in Taylor, a borough on the Lackawanna River, complained
that the odor was making them ill. Two nearby garbage dumps, owned by Environmental and
Recycling Services Inc., accept hundreds of tons of trash daily, much of it from out of state.
-Associated Press, December 13, 2003

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What is your "ecological" footprint?

Worldwide, there are 4.5 biologically productive acres per person.
Find out how much you are using....

One sixth of the United States' electricity consumption is used for air conditioning.
In the US, most people spend about 90 percent of their time indoors.
-Newsweek, Aug 4, 2003.

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President George Bush has called on every American child, to donate $1. each to
"America's Fund for Afghan Children".  The funds will be used to help suffering
children in Afghanistan with food, warm clothing, water, medicines and shelter.
-October 2001

Contributions can be sent to:

"America's Fund for Afghan Children"
c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.
Washington, DC 20509-1600.

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News from Around the World

In Singapore, $814 is spent on health care per capita. Life expectancy: 79 years
In the U.S., $4,499 is spent on health care per capita. Life expectancy: 77 years
-World Health Organization; 2000 data

45 percent of British feel that George Bush is a higher risk to world peace than Saddam Hussein.
-NBC News, Meet The Press, March 2003

80% of this year's U.S. Soybean crop will be planted using bio-engineered seed. The bio-engineering
adds a gene that confers resistance to the herbicide "Roundup". Such crops allow farmers to apply
Roundup and know that everything but the "Roundup Ready" soybean seedlings will be killed.
-USA Today, April 1, 2003.

A Pew Research Center survey of 20 nations shows an across-the-board increase in unfavorable
opinions of the United States.  In 17 of the 20 nations, those who hold negative views about the
United States are more likely to say the problem is Bush rather than the country generally.  The poll
portrays the United States as increasingly isolated, compared with the findings in a Pew survey last year.
- USA Today, June 4, 2003

"In the event of a chemical, biological, nuclear or radiological attack by terrorists, British
police could find themselves forced to shoot members of the public to maintain order."
- Police Federation Conference, Blackpool, England, 2003

The brain-wasting illness Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs when humans eat
brain or spinal matter from a cow that is infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.
Cows contract the disease when they are fed the brain or spinal parts of infected cows.
- Associated Press, Dec 29, 2003

Farm-raised salmon contain signifigantly more dioxins and other potentially
cancer-causing pollutants than salmon caught in the wild. Eating more than
one meal of farm-raised salmon per month could increase the risk of getting cancer
later in life. Those salmon farmed in Northern Europe contain the most pollutants,
followed by North America and Chile.
- Science Journal, January 8, 2004.

"This White House has forfeited any right to have its utterances taken on faith."
-Toronto Star, January 13, 2004

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There are 6.3 billion people living on the planet.

1.3 billion of them live on less than $1 US per day.

20 percent of the world's population receives 83 percent of the global income.

If Yucca Mountain is used to store radioactive waste, it would receive 1-6 shipments
per day, for 24 years. Planners say most of it would be transported via rail,
with 1/3 of the shipments going through downtown Chicago.
The Federal Government owns 87% of the land in Nevada.

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ECHELON

Echelon is a global signals interception system operated by the NSA
and includes facilities in the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

The Echelon system sweeps the radio spectrum worldwide, eavesdropping on phone calls, faxes and emails.

The system then uses a network of super-computers maintained by the U.S. National Security
Agency (NSA) to filter the data - at the rate of two million calls per hour - looking for keywords,
voiceprints, or particular telephone numbers that are of interest.

Echelon countries avoid violating their own laws, which prohibit spying on their own citizens,
by having one of the other Echelon countries do the spying and then handing over the data.

Sugar Grove, West Virginia - Echelon outpost
the six antennae target European and Atlantic Ocean regional communications satellites

Waihopai, New Zealand - Echelon outpost
satelite communications interception station
maintained by New Zealand's GCSB (Government Communications Security Bureau)

Tangimoana, New Zealand - Echelon outpost
Radio Communications Interception Station

Menwith Hill, UK - Echelon outpost

A January 1998 report to the European Parliament claimed that "within Europe, all e-mail, telephone,
and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the United States National Security Agency."

Although Washington has maintained officially for more than a decade that the NSA targeted only military
and political antagonists, "Concern was aroused in particular by the assertion in the report that Echelon had
moved away from its original purpose of defense against the Eastern Bloc, and was currently being used
for purposes of industrial espionage."  The Times mentioned the case of the European Airbus consortium that lost
a 3.5 billion pounds contract in 1995 after its offer was overheard and passed to Boeing, a U.S. firm. Although routinely
denied – for example by CIA director George J. Tenet – it is proven that commercial and economic intelligence
is now a major target of international SIGINT activity.  Mike Frost, who worked 20 years for the CSE, the Canadian
secret service, confirmed this and claimed furthermore that the intelligence services of the UKUSA states also helped
each other by spying on each other’s behalf so that at least local intelligence services could not be accused of anything.
For instance, the Government Communication Headquarters (GSHY), Britain’s equivalent to the NSA, asked the CSE
to spy on two British government ministers when Prime Minister Thatcher wanted it to tell her if they were on her side.

Misawa Air Base, Japan - communications interception station

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