Leaked TPP Investment Chapter Reveals Serious Threat to User Safeguards

A new­ly leaked chap­ter of the Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship (TPP) agree­ment from Wik­ileaks has con­firmed some of our worst fears about the agree­ment. The lat­est pro­vi­sions would enable multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions to under­mine pub­lic inter­est rules through an inter­na­tion­al tri­bunal process called investor-state dis­pute set­tle­ment (ISDS). Under this process, for­eign com­pa­nies can chal­lenge any new law or […]

Lamar vs. Aldous

NO WAY, ESEA! The ULTIMATE REVOLUTION ~Wrap-around health services ~Com­mu­ni­ty wel­fare “hubs” (Source) A 3D Research Report by a Grass­roots Mother Com­ing at us from every direc­tion.… Lamar Alexan­der’s blue­print for the Reau­tho­riza­tion of the ESEA agen­da is based on an old roadmap devel­oped by Aldous and Julian Hux­ley. Lamar’s agen­da can be sam­pled in these […]

Vermont House Approves Forced Consolidation of School Districts

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Despite one lawmaker’s valiant effort to pre­serve local con­trol over schools in Ver­mont, the state House on Wednes­day vot­ed 88–55 to force dis­tricts to merge into 1,100-student pre-K-12 edu­ca­tion sys­tems, or to have the Agency of Edu­ca­tion do it for them. As rep­re­sen­ta­tives dis­cussed H.361 — the House Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee bill to reor­ga­nize 270-plus school dis­tricts into […]

Grassroots Response to Marc Tucker

No way, ESEA!   FOR THOSE AMERICANS WHO HAVE BEEN  LIVING ON MARS: THE MORE BILLIONS THE GOVERNMENT SPENDS ON EDUCATION THE MORE THE DECLINE IN TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC TEST SCORES $ee the ear­li­er post about MARC TUCKER of the CARNEGIE CORPORATION titled “Gov­er­nance” — Erad­i­ca­tion of Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Gov­ern­ment: Marc Tuck­er’s Good­bye to Your Rights and Free­doms.” Tuck­er’s […]

Police Raid Small Family Farm, Charge Family, Seize Animals Because They Were Free Range

Image from Friends of West Wind Acres Face­book Page Sch­enec­tady Coun­ty, New York – Ear­li­er this month, a fam­i­ly farm in rur­al New York was raid­ed by police after the own­ers were cit­ed on a num­ber of trumped up reg­u­la­to­ry vio­la­tions. Joshua Rock­wood, the own­er of the farm, is being accused of mis­treat­ing his ani­mals, and […]

Federal Government Prepares to Track Unvaccinated Adults

Dur­ing the Nation­al Vac­cine Advi­so­ry Committee’s (NVAC) Feb­ru­ary meet­ing, Amer­i­can adults were put on notice by Big Broth­er that non-com­pli­ance with fed­er­al vac­cine rec­om­men­da­tions will not be tol­er­at­ed. Pub­lic health offi­cials have unveiled a new plan to launch a mas­sive nation­wide vac­ci­na­tion pro­mo­tion cam­paign involv­ing pri­vate busi­ness and non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tions to pres­sure all adults to […]

Agenda 21 Megacities Anaheim: This is What Agenda 21 Looks Like in Real Life

FA Note:  Kudos to this 29-year-old. His eyes are wide open.

Officials in Florida Back Off Land Restriction, Thanks to Property-Rights Watchdog

After almost two years of bat­tling local reg­u­la­tors, a small Hobe Sound, Fla. busi­ness is final­ly in the clear. Mar­tin Coun­ty offi­cials have decid­ed they will not levy $1,000 dai­ly fines against the Flash Beach Grille restau­rant for vio­lat­ing a decades’ old, unrecord­ed envi­ron­men­tal prop­er­ty restriction. Nev­er mind the local government’s beef stemmed from its own mis­take, […]

PLF Defends Emerald Isle Beach Homeowners Against A “Taking” By Town Officials

Town of Emer­ald Isle, N.C.; March 19, 2015: This week, the nation’s lead­ing prop­er­ty rights defense orga­ni­za­tion stepped in to rep­re­sent an Emer­ald Isle cou­ple who are fight­ing the town’s uncon­sti­tu­tion­al impo­si­tion of a 20-foot-wide gov­ern­ment dri­ving lane across their pri­vate­ly owned sandy beach property. Donor-sup­port­ed Pacif­ic Legal Foun­da­tion (PLF) is a pub­lic inter­est legal […]

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong on H.R. 5

An Alert by Anita Hoge Nation­al Review Online and Thomas B. Ford­ham Insti­tute are wrong, wrong, wrong on HR 5. Nation­al Review Online and Ford­ham Insti­tute are total­ly wrong on HR 5. They are call­ing HR 5 as “take back our schools” leg­is­la­tion and that “fed­er­al over­reach in edu­ca­tion might final­ly be com­ing to a close.” Michael […]

Liberal Obama Law Professor: Obama’s EPA is Burning the Constitution

Lau­rence Tribe, a lib­er­al Har­vard law pro­fes­sor, in fact, he was one of Obama’s law pro­fes­sors, claims that Oba­ma and his EPA is “burn­ing the con­sti­tu­tion”.  Tribe explains the lim­i­ta­tions that the con­sti­tu­tion allows to the EPA: “EPA pos­sess­es only the author­i­ty grant­ed to it by Con­gress.  Its gam­bit here rais­es seri­ous ques­tions under the sep­a­ra­tion […]

Fed Gov Moves To Seize Water Rights From 100,000 Montanans: “All Surface Water And Wells”

Greet­ings and Salu­ta­tions, read­ers! My Nome de Guerre in the bat­tle for truth and objec­tive jour­nal­ism is Jere­mi­ah John­son. I hope to pique your inter­est with a Mon­tana issue that, regard­less of the out­come, will have severe ram­i­fi­ca­tions and set a prece­dent nation­wide. This arti­cle cov­ers the CSKT (Con­fed­er­at­ed Sal­ish and Koote­nai Tribes) pro­posed water-rights […]

Buffalo as Metaphors

Jim Beers, retired Refuge Man­ag­er, Spe­cial Agent, & Wildlife Biol­o­gist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (METAPHOR, n. a fig­ure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to some­thing to which it is not lit­er­al­ly applic­a­ble, in order to sug­gest a resem­blance, as “A mighty fortress is our God”.) I have just fin­ished […]

Common Core, Part 2

Part 2 of Dr. Den­nis Cud­dy’s “Com­mon Core” arti­cle series was post­ed today at NewsWith­Views: http://newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis307.htm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto In today’s install­ment, Dr. Cud­dy writes, In 1848, the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO was pub­lished, includ­ing Plank No. 10, which pro­vid­ed for a “Com­bi­na­tion of edu­ca­tion with indus­tri­al pro­duc­tion” (a type of school-to-work approach). Nine years lat­er in 1857, the […]

110 Bills Currently Being Proposed in 36 States to Enact Medical Tyranny Regarding Vaccines

Dr. Paul Thomas tes­ti­fy­ing at a Sen­ate hear­ing in Ore­gon against bill SB 442 to remove vac­cine exemp­tions. The bill (in its present form) was defeated. Health Impact Edi­tor Comments Do not be dis­cour­aged by this report just released by the Nation­al Vac­cine Infor­ma­tion Cen­ter! Cit­i­zens across the U.S. are tak­ing action to oppose these […]

EIA: 13 Gigawatts of Coal Capacity to Retire in 2015 Due to EPA Regulation

From data reports pro­vid­ed to the Ener­gy Infor­ma­tion Admin­is­tra­tion (EIA), about 16 gigawatts of gen­er­at­ing capac­i­ty will be retired in 2015, of which near­ly 13 gigawatts is coal-fired. The coal-fired capac­i­ty will be retired pri­mar­i­ly because of EPA’s Mer­cury and Air Tox­i­cs Stan­dards (MATS), which requires coal- and oil-fired elec­tric gen­er­a­tors to meet stricter emis­sions […]

Backyard burger and wiener roasts targeted by EPA

The Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency has its eyes on pol­lu­tion from back­yard barbecues. The agency announced that it is fund­ing a Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia project to lim­it emis­sions result­ing in grease drip­pings with a spe­cial tray to catch them and a “cat­alyt­ic” fil­tra­tion system. The $15,000 project has the “poten­tial for glob­al appli­ca­tion,” said the school. […]

Stop The Fast Track To A Future Of Global Corporate Rule. The Dangers Underlying the TPP and TTIP “Trade Agreements”

Sev­er­al major inter­na­tion­al agree­ments are under nego­ti­a­tion which would great­ly empow­er multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions and the World Eco­nom­ic Forum is pro­mot­ing a new mod­el of glob­al gov­er­nance that cre­ates a hybrid gov­ern­ment-cor­po­rate struc­ture. Humankind is pro­ceed­ing on a path to glob­al cor­po­rate rule where transna­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions would not just influ­ence pub­lic pol­i­cy, they would write the […]

UPDATE: Minnesota Farmer Victorious in Court!

Judge Clears Raw Milk Farm­ers of Con­tempt Charges for sell­ing their products In the sto­ry of David and Hei­di Berglund from last week, was a glimpse into the over reg­u­la­to­ry nature of the Min­neso­ta Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture (MDA). The MDA threat­ened a peace­ful fam­i­ly with $500 per day fines for feed­ing their community. On March […]

Healthy People 2020 and The Decade of Vaccines

FA Note:  Dr. Ten­pen­ney’s arti­cle below details what may be the most impor­tant prop­er­ty rights bat­tle we face. If we lose our nat­ur­al right to con­trol what hap­pens to our bod­ies, all oth­er “prop­er­ty” own­er­ship is illu­so­ry. The miss­ing ele­ment in this arti­cle is the vac­cine con­nec­tion to the Unit­ed Nations’ Glob­al Health ini­tia­tives, as tar­get­ed through […]

‘Sneak and peek’ bill rolls quietly through (Virginia) General Assembly

PATRIOTIC? State Sen. Jen­nifer Wex­ton wants to endow Vir­ginia law-enforce­ment agen­cies with Patri­ot Act powers. FA Update:  Vir­gini­a’s Repub­li­can-con­trolled Sen­ate and House have enrolled (passed) Sen­ate Bill 919 (text here), and House Bill 1946 (text here). House Bill 1946 was signed by the House Speak­er March 6, and Sen­ate Bill 919 was signed by the Sen­ate Pres­i­dent […]

Supreme Court weighs review of Army Corps’ jurisdiction decisions

The Supreme Court may decide as soon as Mon­day to review a high-pro­file case on whether an Army Corps of Engi­neers deter­mi­na­tion that prop­er­ty qual­i­fies for Clean Water Act pro­tec­tions can be chal­lenged in court. In Kent Recy­cling Ser­vices LLC v. Army Corps of Engi­neers, the jus­tices are pre­sent­ed with the ques­tion of whether a corps […]

Chicago Lurie Children’s Hospital Takes Baby Away From Family for Seeking a Second Opinion

When Lak­isha Tanna’s infant grand­son was trans­ferred to Lurie Children’s Hos­pi­tal in Chica­go, Illi­nois, she thought that he was in the best place he could be to receive the care that he need­ed for his med­ical con­di­tion. She nev­er dreamed that this choice would even­tu­al­ly result in her adorable grand­child being what she terms “med­ical­ly kid­napped” more […]

Supreme Court Rules that Cops Do Not Need a Warrant to Search Your Home

In anoth­er dev­as­tat­ing blow to free­dom, the Supreme Court ruled Tues­day that police don’t need a war­rant to search your prop­er­ty. As long as two occu­pants dis­agree about allow­ing offi­cers to enter, and the res­i­dent who refus­es access is then arrest­ed, police may enter the residence. “Instead of adher­ing to the war­rant require­ment,” Gins­burg wrote, […]