Dear Tony,

After a year of wild weather and temperature extremes, we have learned anew that climate change isn’t just a theory -- it’s a reality affecting millions of people all over the world. Yet incredibly, there are still those who deny the science and reject the evidence in front of their eyes.

It’s never been more urgent to stand up to the deniers and pursue real solutions to the climate crisis. And with your help, that’s exactly what The Climate Reality Project is doing. We are sending thousands of trained volunteers into the field to say that climate change is real and our leaders need to take action.

This holiday season, help our trained Climate Presenters tell the truth about climate change all over the world. Will you make a $5 donation to support our Presenters at The Climate Reality Project?

This is the year when the reality of climate change hit home. Climate change has increased our vulnerability to extreme weather, and we are seeing the consequences more frequently and in new locations around the world.

This year, we saw one extraordinary weather event after another, from torrential rains in the Midwest to extreme drought in the American South. In Texas, daily temperatures were a full five degrees above normal! The story was much the same across the rest of the world.

This means delay is not an option -- and that’s why the work our Climate Presenters are doing is so important.

Even a small contribution will make a big difference. It costs an average of $17 to fund a Climate Reality presentation. With your help, our trained Climate Presenters can reach hundreds of thousands of people. They are traveling to schools, churches, business meetings and town halls to grow the global movement to solve this crisis.

Just this fall, we’ve received nearly 2,000 requests for Climate Reality presentations. Our Presenters are community leaders who have each been personally trained by our Chairman, former Vice President Al Gore, and who work to engage people at a grassroots level to take meaningful action now.

Will you make a tax-deductible donation before the end of the year? Donate $5 to help our Climate Presenters grow the worldwide movement to solve the climate crisis.

http://forms.climaterealityproject.org/donate-2011

Thanks for all you do,

Maggie L. Fox
President and CEO
The Climate Reality Project

The holiday season is a time to gather with family and friends to celebrate and give thanks for our many blessings.

I am thankful for your friendship continued support. It is an honor for me to serve our country and I feel blessed to be serving in the United States Senate.

This week, I also hope you will keep the men and women serving in our Armed Forces in your thoughts and prayers. Many of these brave soldiers will be away from their families this year, and knowing you support them goes a long way to boost morale during this time of year.

On behalf of Cindy, Meghan, Jack, Jim and Bridget, I want to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

As 2011 comes to a close, The Perry Family wants to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May 2012 be the best year yet for you and yours, and for this nation we love.

Dear Tony,

I can’t believe that 2011 is nearly over already. I hope that you’re enjoying this holiday season, and getting to spend time with your family and friends.

I wanted to let you know that my work wouldn’t be possible without your support. This holiday, I’m thinking a lot about my parents, and all the work they did, and sacrifices they made, to make a better life for our family.

At the same time, I’m reflecting on the fact that for far too many families around the country, it’s just not enough to work hard and sacrifice generously anymore. Working families need help. That’s why I’ve been fighting to extend tax cuts for the middle class – and why it’s so important that, when the New Year dawns, we be ready to keep standing up for those who are having the hardest time making ends meet.

For now, though, I hope this message finds you and your family well. Happy holidays, and may you have a blessed New Year.

Shelley

Dear Fellow Nevadan,

The holiday season is a special time for Landra and me. As parents and grandparents, we treasure the opportunity to spend extra time with our five children and 16 grandchildren. I hope you are also fortunate enough to have those you love nearby this year.

We know there are many families who will spend the holiday apart because they have loved ones in the Armed Services serving abroad. Like Americans across this great nation, we look forward to the safe return of all our servicemen and women. During this time of celebration, and throughout the year, we are thankful to them and to their families for their sacrifice. I recorded a special holiday message to be played on the Armed Services Network to thank our troops for their service. You may view the video by clicking here.

The opportunity to serve Nevada and the nation in the United States Senate is an unparalleled honor. I am grateful for your trust and support. On behalf of our family, Landra and I wish you and yours a loving, safe, and happy holiday season and best wishes for 2012.

Happy Holidays,

HARRY REID
U.S. Senator for Nevada

Dear Tony,

The holidays provide a wonderful occasion to spend time with family and friends, be thankful for our many blessings, and prepare for the New Year. Let us pause to remember all those who are suffering this holiday season and unable to celebrate with us.

Stay safe and warm as you celebrate the many wonderful traditions of our American culture. Tom, Mama, and the whole team wish you and your family a very Happy Holidays.

Dina

Tony --

You may know me as the tall guy who followed Barack everywhere he went.

As the President's body man for the last four years, it's been my privilege to help him with whatever he needs: making sure he's on time, finding some food when we're on the road, or playing a quick game of basketball (he won, mostly).

Of course, this also means I've also eaten many, many meals with him.

So first of all, I just want to say thanks for supporting the Obamas and being part of this campaign. It means a lot, not only to the President, but to all of us who've worked by his side.

Two: I kind of love this "Dinner with Barack and Michelle" contest. You all have to do this.

Get on that here.

You should know this practically never happens.

While Barack wants to do these dinners throughout his campaign, I know that dinner with Barack and Michelle is something that usually only happens with the girls, and no one else.

The fact that this dinner is with the two of them should tell you how much it matters to them to know that you have their backs out there.

I wouldn't let this one get away.

Donate $3 or whatever you can today to automatically be entered to win a spot at dinner for you and a guest:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Barack-and-Michelle

Thanks,

Reggie

Tony -

I can¡¯t tell you how exciting it is to be back on the campaign trail. Since formally announcing my candidacy for Congress in Nevada¡¯s 1st District, the response I have received has been incredible.

It is hard to believe that we are just 10 days away from the New Year and just 10 days away from a critical fundraising deadline.

To hit our goal we must raise ¡°10k in the final 10 days¡± and the only way I know to get there is with your generous contribution of $15, $50, $100, or more.

The press, the pundits, and the folks in Washington will be judging our campaign on the year-end finance report and that is why your support is so important.

From the AFL-CIO jobs rally to the Salvation Army Auxilliary¡¯s Christmas party, and from a roundtable with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to a visit with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, it has been a great few weeks.

THANK YOU as always for your help and support.

Dina

P.S. It is only with your $15, $50, $100, or more that we will reach ¡°10k in the final 10 days.¡± Will you help us hit the mark?

December 20, 2011

Dear Fellow Nevadan

This morning, I joined President Obama in the Oval Office as he signed the Hoover Power Allocation Act into law. This law is a significant achievement for Nevada and one that I have been working on for many years. I first introduced this legislation in 2009 and I commend President Obama for signing it into law because Hoover Dam is a critical element of Southern Nevada¡¯s economy.

This law ensures that for the next fifty years Nevada will continue to receive approximately 25 percent of the clean and affordable renewable electricity generated at Hoover Dam. I am proud to have worked on this legislation because Hoover Dam¡¯s clean and affordable renewable electricity is good for our economy and our environment.

The Hoover Power Allocation Act helps Nevada¡¯s economy by providing affordable, renewable energy to multiple entities throughout Nevada including the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Boulder City, Lincoln County, Overton Power District, Valley Electric, and Nevada industries at the Basic Management Industrial Complex near Henderson. The electricity generated at Hoover Dam also helps Nevada to meet peak demands at lower costs. For more information on this important legislation, please click here.

Thank you for taking the time to read this email. I wish you and yours a loving, safe and happy holiday season and best wishes for 2012.

Sincerely,

HARRY REID
U.S. Senator for Nevada

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December 19, 2011

Dear Fellow Nevadan,

I am proud to announce that once again, Congress has voted not to appropriate a single dime to make Nevada the nation’s dumping ground for nuclear waste. Last week, Congress passed a year-end funding bill that included zero funding for Yucca Mountain. Additionally, I was able to block an attempt by House Republicans to prevent the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from closing out Yucca Mountain licensing activities in this legislation.

Despite the best efforts of House Republicans, President Obama and Congress have made a decision to end this dangerous project. I commend President Obama for keeping his word to Nevadans to prevent the most dangerous substance known to man from being stored 90 miles away from the world’s premier tourist destination.

Yucca Mountain was never a good idea and it’s time to move on towards real solutions that ensure Americans’ health and safety. The Blue Ribbon Commission will soon finish its work on recommendations for safely and securely managing nuclear waste, and I look forward to their final report.

Thank you for taking the time to read this email. For more information on my work to prevent Nevada from becoming the nation’s nuclear dumping ground, or to contact me, please visit my website, reid.senate.gov.

I wish you and your family all the best in the holiday season.

Sincerely,

HARRY REID
U.S. Senator for Nevada

APPEARANCE ON BBC - DECEMBER 15, 2011
FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES CASINO GAMING INDUSTRY

Jonathan Galaviz, Managing Director at Galaviz & Company, appeared on BBC World December 15, 2011 to discuss the future development of the casino gaming industry in the Philippines. You may click here or click on the image below to watch a segment of the TV interview on BBC's website (1 minute to load).

Early this morning, the last of our troops left Iraq.

As we honor and reflect on the sacrifices that millions of men and women made for this war, I wanted to make sure you heard the news.

Bringing this war to a responsible end was a cause that sparked many Americans to get involved in the political process for the first time. Today's outcome is a reminder that we all have a stake in our country's future, and a say in the direction we choose.

Thank you.

Barack

This information has recently been updated, and is now available.

Secretary's Remarks: Keynote Address at the International Crisis Group's "In Pursuit of Peace" Award Dinner
12/16/2011 11:19 PM EST

Keynote Address at the International Crisis Group's "In Pursuit of Peace" Award Dinner

Remarks
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of StatePier Sixty at Chelsea Pier

New York, NY

December 17, 2011

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SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. (Applause.) Oh, my goodness. Well, if it ever were a secret. (Laughter.)

Thank you, Marc, and thanks to all of you for being part of this evening to support such an extraordinary, important organization that is relied upon certainly across the world, and that includes the State Department.

I want to thank Marc and Frank Giustra. I want to thank Louise for her leadership and everyone on the board; the chairman, an old friend, Tom Pickering; Wolf Blitzer, thank you for giving of your time; and all the generous supporters here tonight. Because for more than 15 years, you have helped policy-makers see the world more clearly and respond to conflict more effectively. So I thank you.

I also have a number of colleagues here from the diplomatic corps, two wonderful friends, Kati Marton, as we remember her extraordinary husband and our friend and colleague, and Queen Noor and the work that she¡¯s done around the world.

And I especially want to join in thanking our four honorees, women who inspire us with their courage and their commitment to pursue peace and justice in the face of enormous obstacles.

These four women ¨C Sima and Claudia and Shukri and Sihem ¨C are in and of themselves absolutely the kind of leaders that we want to honor. They also represent millions of women who deserve our support, because they, like the remarkable three women who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize last Saturday in Oslo, challenge us to think more deeply about what making peace really requires. They help us see that persuading warring parties to lay down their arms is only part of achieving peace. True peace also takes reconciliation and justice. It requires opportunity and sustainable security for all citizens. Peace without these things is hollow and fleeting ¨C indeed it often turns out to be no peace at all.

And women can be a powerful force for peace across all these dimensions.

Consider what did happen in Liberia in the spring of 2003. Those of you who have seen the movie Pray the Devil Back to Hell know this story. Thousands of women from all walks of life ¨C Christians and Muslims together ¨C flooded the streets, marching, singing, and praying. Dressed all in white, they sat in a fish market under the hot sun and a banner that said: ¡°The women of Liberia want peace now.¡± They built a network of women across the country, even as violence flared all around them.

And when peace talks finally began, they staged a sit-in at the negotiations, linking arms and blocking the doors until the men inside reached an agreement. The peace was signed, the dictator fled, and still they did not rest. They turned their energies to building an enduring peace ¨C a peace that would deliver results for their families and reconciliation for their nation. And in time, a woman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was elected and became the first woman ever elected president of an African country. Her election gave new hope to the people of Liberia ¨C men and women alike ¨C and inspired millions of us around the world.

Today, there are dozens of active conflicts across the globe, many of them brutal civil wars, which threaten the lives of millions of men, women, and children, as well as our own interests and values.

These conflicts create space for pirates and terrorists to operate with impunity and send waves of refugees across borders, threatening regional security. They involve non-state actors, from militias to cartels to child soldiers, making them much more complicated to resolve. And they are growing increasingly deadly for civilians, who face abduction, rape, and dislocation on a massive scale. Non-combatants represented 10 percent of the casualties in World War I, 50 percent in World War II, but as high as 90 percent in many recent conflicts in Africa. In these wars, civilians are not collateral damage, they are primary targets.

Over many decades, American leadership helped to build an architecture of institutions and alliances designed to prevent full-scale conflict between the world¡¯s great powers. But traditional peace-making methods are proving less effective at preventing and ending smaller conflicts and civil wars. More than half of all peace agreements fail within 5 years. The recidivism rate for civil war is particularly high. According to the World Bank, 90 percent of the last decade¡¯s civil wars occurred in countries already scarred by conflict.

So there has to be a better way. And we need to work together to forge a new approach to making peace. And I know that in this work, the Crisis Group will be in the lead.

We can start by asking what¡¯s missing from most peace talks and the agreements they produce. One answer to that question is women. (Applause.) In the past 20 years, hundreds of peace treaties have been signed. But a sampling of those treaties shows that less than 8 percent of negotiators were women.

Now, there is a clear moral argument ¨C after all, women do represent half of humanity and they have, we have, a fundamental right to participate in the decisions that shape our lives. But the moral argument has so far failed to change behavior on the front lines, where it matters most.

So we need to move the discussion off the margins and into the center of the global debate, and we frankly have to appeal to the self-interest of all people, men as well as women. Because including more women in peacemaking is not just the right thing to do, it¡¯s also the smart thing to do. This is about our own national security and the security of people everywhere.

Tonight I want briefly to examine the growing body of evidence that shows how women contribute to making and keeping peace ¨C and that those contributions lead to better outcomes for entire societies.

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BCC: recipientsYou Show Details FROM:Shelley Berkley TO:Tony Lei Message flagged Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:50 PMMessage body. Dear Tony, ...

Judy --

With your help and the right leadership, I have faith that our great state will turn around and make a full economic recovery.

Getting our state back to work is the top priority in my administration and we have a lot of work to do, but—as long as we have the right leadership—I am confident in Nevada's resiliency.

As Governor, I am doing all I can to help turn the economy around and invite more businesses to our state but I cannot help our state alone. That's why I'm writing you today.

Will you join me today in supporting Dean Heller for U.S. Senate?

My friend Dean Heller is a man I trust. He will do what is right for our state and what is right for this country.

Dean understands that the federal government spends too much money and places too many regulatory burdens on small business and on the state of Nevada. He's also a tireless advocate for smaller, limited government and states' rights.

Please join me in supporting Dean in 2012 by contributing $50, $25, or even $12 today to Dean's campaign for jobs, fiscal responsibility and victory in 2012.

We need a leader who isn't afraid to make the tough choices in Washington, and to do what's right for our state and for this country.

Sincerely,

Brian Sandoval
Governor

P.S. Join my friend Dean and I in our effort to grow Nevada's economy. Please contribute $12 or more to Dean's campaign today.

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Dear Tony,

You and I both know what it takes to create jobs. It takes reliable infrastructure, schools that produce a talented workforce, and investments in new technology that can create entire new industries.

And when the economy is in a rut, it takes extra help to keep money in the pockets of struggling families, and incentives for small business owners to keep growing and hiring.

You and I also know what it takes to build a winning campaign. It takes a strong message, a dedicated field program ¨C and grassroots support from people like you to pay for it all, one small contribution at a time.

We¡¯re on our way to reaching our December fundraising goal, but as of this morning, we¡¯re $7,436 short. I¡¯m counting on my great team of supporters to help bridge the gap ¨C can you contribute $5 or more to help right now?

If you ask Dean Heller, job creation is all about protecting special privileges for special interests and directing more and more of the federal budget to those who have already climbed the ladder of success.

But we tried that. It doesn¡¯t work. Handouts to millionaires don¡¯t turn into jobs for the middle class. And paying for those giveaways by raising taxes on working families? That will only make things worse.

Dean Heller has very different ideas about how to create jobs ¨C and about how to build a campaign. He¡¯s relying on his special interest pals to pour millions into Nevada attacking me, outsourcing the dirty work to Karl Rove just like he helps corporations outsource our jobs.

It¡¯s time to prove that we have what it takes to beat him. Please click here to contribute whatever you can afford right now ¨C every dollar gets us closer to our goal!

We know how to create jobs. And we know that, in order to get Washington focused on the right priorities, we need to win campaigns like this one. Good thing we know how to do that, too.

Please click here to give now!

Thanks for showing we have what it takes to win.

Shelley

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