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With an area of 1212 square miles, Rhode Island is the smallest of the fifty states, but is about to take one of the biggest leaps in the nation. The RI Division of Planning is advancing a HUD supported sustainable development plan that creates a single region out of every county, city and community in […]
Only a government that lives like cockroaches in the darkness would pass a law criminalizing the act of turning on the light. Illinois — In March of this year the Illinois Supreme Court struck down the state’s eavesdropping law, and rightfully so, as it was touted as the most unconstitutional law of its kind in the […]
‘Transfer of Public Lands Act’ demands Washington relinquish 31.2 million acres by Dec. 31 In three weeks, Utah intends to seize control of 31.2 million acres of its own land now under the control of the federal government. At least, that’s the plan. In an unprecedented challenge to federal dominance of Western state lands, Utah Gov. Gary […]
Insatiable – that would seem to be the word that best describes the appetite of some in Congress and their friends in the environmental community. Congress has added over 450 pages to the defense authorization bill to designate wilderness, create new parks, designate Wild and Scenic Rivers and fund National Heritage areas – things that have […]
Jim Beers is a retired Refuge Manager, Special Agent, & Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Excerpts from a recent news article from McClatchy Newspapers: Rise in trade spurs U.S. to protect turtles 1. “The U.S. government is proposing a new level of protection for certain freshwater turtles, concerned that a massive increase in […]
EFF, ACLU Support Smith in Fighting Mass Surveillance Before Ninth Circuit Seattle — An appeals court will hear oral arguments in Smith v. Obama, a case filed by an Idaho nurse against a controversial National Security Agency (NSA) telephone data collection program, in Seattle on Monday, Dec. 8. Attorney Peter Smith. Credit: Lukins & Annis Anna Smith, […]
Footage shows officer immediately handcuff man for not obeying order Amidst a national debate about police brutality, another video has emerged of a police officer arresting someone for video recording, this time on his own friend’s private property. The footage out of Houston, Texas is all the more shocking because the cop doesn’t even try to […]
Seventh in a series on a new ESA listing. We will publish additions to the series if/as they are written. Unsupported claims in obscure essays from 1942, 1944, and 1960 have hurt a lot of people in south Thurston County, Washington. Oppressive laws are based on them—including the 2014 Endangered Species Act micro-listing of four Mazama […]
Japanese scientists have developed a new biotechnology technique that uses mackerel as surrogates for bluefin tuna with the hope of saving the prized species from extinction. Considered a delicacy in Japanese cuisine, globals supplies of bluefin tuna have been dwindling, prompting the International Union for Conservation of Nature to put the fish onto its red list. […]
FA Note: The international treaties and agreements cited in the ESA, which authorize the Act, were all negotiated to protect each nation’s agricultural economies and the communities dependent on them. Simple logic, and basic economics, both dictate — if a “market” exists/develops for any species, their numbers will grow. This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our […]
In politics, as with Internet memes, ideas don’t spread because they are good—they spread because they are good at spreading. One of the most virulent ideas in Internet regulation in recent years has been the idea that if a social problem manifests on the Web, the best thing that you can do to address that […]
Rev. Edward Pinkney “In places like Benton Harbor, Michigan and Detroit, there is something called the emergency manager, which essentially is a local dictator. He can depose the mayor and offer decrees and answer to no one except the governor. In these two cities and others, because they are lacking tax revenue (because of lack […]
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, once a Fox News TV show host — and now an outspoken critic of the US government — delivered a short, intriguing, and, I believe, important speech at the Mises Institute in Costa Mesa, California, on November 8th, 2014. Sir Thomas More He began by talking about the origins of Natural Laws, […]
Dr. Kate Vandemoer Dr. Kate Vandemoer outlines the Federal grab for control of water out West. One does not need to achieve a very high level of education to realize that water is the biological basis for all of mankind, and our most valuable and necessary resource. In fact, very few people reading this would survive […]
Our local media has been dropping broad, confusing hints about something big, something imminent, coming to the greater Bay Area. A front page article in the San Francisco Chronicle in March 2013, titled “Hard Choices for a growing S.F.” begins, “San Francisco residents will be getting thousands of new neighbors in the next 30 years, and […]
Charlie Birnbaum stands on his roof with the closed Revel Casino Hotel in the background. “I don’t think I’m in anybody’s way whatsoever,” he said. (MEL EVANS / AP, File) ATLANTIC CITY — Charlie Birnbaum, piano tuner, homeowner, landlord, son of Holocaust survivors and famed eminent domain resister, had a message for Atlantic City about trying […]
FA Note: GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems. What could be more routine than saving seeds from one season to the next? After all, that is how we grow crops on our farms and in our […]
Peer-reviewed research shows Yellowstone wolves pick their prey based on pack size FA Note: Both wolves and grizzly bears are “Keystone” species, introduced and/or “managed” to establish and maintain “healthy” ecosystems and populations; populations that kill and eat bison. Also, the Yellowstone bison herd was enlarged with private herd stock introduced by the U.S. Army in 1902. Buffalo Field Campaign and […]
Stephen L. Wilmeth Tyranny of the Crown The matter of Psychological Warfare Perverted Laws Two years ago we watched with alarm and dread as the EPA case played out against the Idaho couple attempting to build their dream house on the Priest Lake shore. Unilaterally, the EPA determined the lot the couple had purchased was a wetland. […]
FA note: Listing the Monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act would have a significant impact over much of the United States, especially considering their fall migration pattern. Monarch Butterfly Fall Migration Patterns. Base map source: USGS National Atlas. Broad Coalition Supports Petition to Protect Monarch Butterflies as Threatened under Endangered Species Act WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2014. […]
Gunnison sage grouse, (AP Photo/Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Dave Showalter) Federal officials granted protection to the Gunnison sage grouse on Wednesday, a move that could bring restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other activity to preserve the bird’s habitat in parts of Colorado and Utah. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper immediately renewed the state’s threat to […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Warning against establishing a precedent that would allow individual property rights to be sacrificed to target the politically weak for the benefit of the powerful, The Rutherford Institute has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure that Americans are not deprived of “life, liberty or property, without due process of law.” In […]
Comment from FA: “Centralized control over water and the abolition of private property rights to water are a core purpose of Agenda 21 policy making. The examples of a thrust toward this end from both federal and state governments are accelerating.” The Clean Water Act prohibits certain discharges to “navigable waters” without a federal permit. […]
Jim Beers is a retired Refuge Manager, Special Agent, & Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service A news article from a suburb of Toronto, Canada has just crossed my desk. A lady was getting her paper on her driveway as her two dogs frolicked (and were probably concentrating on other things like their toilette) […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
