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When Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, it was exercising its power to regulate interstate commerce by prohibiting discharges into the nation’s “navigable waters.” If a body of water could be used to transport goods from one state to another, it was covered by the Act. Like so many other statutes enacted over the […]
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years…” The United Nation’s […]
On the opening day of each new Congress, every member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives takes an oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and “bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” For many members, no doubt, this solemn […]
Following EFF’s victory in a four-year Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the government released an opinion (pdf), written by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in 2010, that concluded that Section 215—the provision of the Patriot Act the NSA relies on to collect millions of Americans’ phone records—does have a limit: census data. The Commerce Department […]
NEW SMART TVS OFFER A WINDOW INTO YOUR LIFE Smart TVs may be getting too smart as some now actually collect and transmit your spoken words, personal information, and sensitive data to other 3rd party sources. In fact Samsung, a major electronic manufacture, admits that they “collect, use, share, and store information through your SmartTV in […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pennsylvanians Restoring Education February 5, 2015, Pennsylvanians Restoring Education, Pennsylvania Against Common Core, Citizens of Pennsylvania, parents and students are asking Senator Lamar Alexander to stop the REAUTHORIZATION of ESEA: Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015 which will amend No Child Left Behind. This legislation violates federal law, […]
Brandon Keibler, Founder and Director, Project Digital Privacy Brandon Keibler is just your ordinary 16-year-old from Southern Indiana. At least that’s what some people might think. However, having become an activist at fourteen and helping to establish the Restore the Fourth organization, this young man has just launched an organization to encourage grassroots efforts aimed […]
Jim Beers, retired Refuge Manager, Special Agent, & Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Last Friday, 30 January, I wrote a piece, Kudos to North Carolina and Her Wolves that Never Were, complimenting the recent success of some men in North Carolina regarding how to stand up to the federal government and the Endangered […]
Federal officials want to order a quarantine for a South Pasadena woman and grad student whose sister recently contracted a case of measles at nearby Disneyland, but she is resisting the push because, she says, she doesn’t have the disease. Twenty-six-year-old Ylsa Tellez’s younger sister, 24-year-old Maura Tellez, was one of more than two dozen […]
The Dissolution of Local Representative Government Through Charter Schools Charter Horror Stories ESEA Reauthorization bill and charters, see HERENo Way ESEA! It is the best kept secret in the country. The most durable myth — that charter schools are “local control” — perpetuated by BOTH the Political Right and the Political Left. In fact charters eliminate […]
The “Internet of Things” (IoT) and Smart Grid technologies will together be aggressively integrated into the developed world’s socioeconomic fabric with little-if-any public or governmental oversight. This is the overall opinion of a new report by the Federal Trade Commission, which has announced a series of “recommendations” to major utility companies and transnational corporations heavily […]
FA Note: This Op-Ed appeared in the Wall Street Journal December 7, 2014. The authors are Reed Hopper and Todd Gaziano, with Pacific Legal Foundation. The EPA wants to redefine ‘the waters of the United States’ to mean virtually any wet spot in the country. Getty Images Earlier this year the Environmental Protection Agency and […]
The death of local control NO WAY ESEA! “We should never permit the American educational system to become the vehicle for experimentation by educational ideologues. A careful analysis of the writings and statements of vocal and influential spokesmen in the governmental and educational fields indicates a desire on the part of some of these individuals to […]
Real ID: gold star for good behavior; no report on the scarlet letter they’ll use to ID troublemakers. Real ID: gold star for good behavior; no report on the scarlet letter they’ll use to ID troublemakers. The TSA recently announced they will require a special driver’s license to board domestic flights by 2016. These ‘Real IDs’ […]
Every American needs to hear what Anita Hoge said on the Rense Radio interview Friday night.… What we found in contracts we requested was that Pennsylvania was the model to create a national I.D. for every person in the United States, starting at birth; they called it a womb to workplace database and it includes every individual.… [They […]
Jim Beers, retired Refuge Manager, Special Agent, & Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service A pack of “five to six” coyotes just killed a full grown horse, ironically owned by the County Sheriff’s Department, in a paddock between Detroit and Flint, Michigan. The local “wildlife technician” said he “can count on zero fingers the […]
The fight for the right to be Free! By Anita Hoge “Chairman Alexander and his staff have asked for input from the public on his discussion draft by Monday, February 2 via the e‑mail address [email protected]” (Source) How many Americans hate ObamaCare? Why do Americans HATE ObamaCare? We have socialized medicine now. Do you want to nationalize […]
Jim Beers, retired Refuge Manager, Special Agent, & Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service As someone with a long involvement in US and European wolf debacles of the past three-plus decades, it is with admiration and a wry sense of amusement that I have followed the sordid history of federal red wolf impositions on […]
from the ah,-now-I-understand-the-phrase-‘documented-citizen’ dept The TSA is disappointed that so few Americans have opted out of its bottle-tossing, package-groping screenings by signing up for its PreCheck program. For a few years now, the TSA has been selling travelers’ civil liberties back to them, most recently for $85 a head, but it’s now making a serious […]
Latest revelation from Snowden archive shows CSE has been monitoring, analyzing, and tracking millions of people who utilize popular file-sharing websites Rapidshare was one of three file-sharing websites targeted in the spy agency’s surveillance. (Photo: Evan Mitsui/CBC) Newly released documents contained in the archive of materials leaked to journalists by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals […]
Increasingly, our freedom and autonomy are threatened by those who seek to monitor and control every aspect of our daily lives. George Orwell’s “Big Brother” from the novel 1984 is a pale threat in comparison to the dystopian reality our leaders which have created for us since that book was published more than six decades […]
Business ceases to become business when it becomes engaged in political decision making regardless of whether the decisions concern foreign or domestic policy. It becomes a fifth column that seeks absolute control. A person would have to be completely brain dead not to see that this is what has happened to the United States. It’s […]
We have a problem when it comes to stopping mass surveillance. The entity that’s conducting the most extreme and far-reaching surveillance against most of the world’s communications—the National Security Agency—is bound by United States law. That’s good news for Americans. U.S. law and the Constitution protect American citizens and legal residents from warrantless surveillance. That […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
