The Disappearing States

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 […]

Is Water The New Enron? – Fake Crises, Fake Bills, And Fake Solutions

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 […]

Population Control via Water Control

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 […]

PRESS RELEASE: ESA Protection Sought For Imperiled Yellowstone Bison

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 […]

The matter of Psychological Warfare

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. […]

“Waters of the United States” — the ultimate power grab

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.  […]

Property Rights at Stake in EPA’s Water Power Grab

Thanks to the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment, it soon may become far more dif­fi­cult to use and enjoy pri­vate prop­er­ty. The Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency and the Army Corps of Engi­neers want to make a water—and land—grab that should scare everyone. Under the Clean Water Act, the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has juris­dic­tion over “nav­i­ga­ble waters,” which the statute fur­ther […]

Far-reaching “Waters of the United States” rule could be the most significant EPA regulation you have never heard about: opinion

In 1972, Con­gress enact­ed the Clean Water Act (CWA) to “restore and main­tain the chem­i­cal, phys­i­cal, and bio­log­i­cal integri­ty of the Nation’s waters.” The fed­er­al gov­ern­men­t’s legal author­i­ty to reg­u­late water is large­ly derived from the Con­sti­tu­tion’s Com­merce Clause, which the­o­ret­i­cal­ly lim­its the gov­ern­men­t’s juris­dic­tion to the type of nav­i­ga­ble water­ways where such com­merce occurs. Sad­ly, […]

The UN’s got the money, the UN’s got the water

Judi McLeod, Edi­tor, Cana­da Free Press No one, and most espe­cial­ly Detroit May­or Mike Dug­gan, should be sur­prised that two Unit­ed Nations lawyers came to town to scold city offi­cials for cut­ting off water to delin­quent cus­tomers, sanc­ti­mo­nious­ly describ­ing the water shut-offs as a “human rights” violation. The Unit­ed Nations vir­tu­al­ly owns cities and towns of […]

Valiant TRUTH Warrior, Dr. Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty Passed Away – Monday, September 29, 2014

Dr. Stan­ley Monteith Dr. Stan Mon­tei­th, age 85, founder and radio pro­gram host of Radio Lib­er­ty, broad­cast­ing out of San­ta Cruz, Cal­i­for­nia, passed away Sep­tem­ber 29, 2014, of lym­phoma in a hos­pi­tal in San­ta Cruz, Cal­i­for­nia. He passed away peace­ful­ly sur­round­ed by his loved ones. Dr. Stan will be great­ly missed by his many radio fans […]

United Nations’ (U.N.) connection to Agenda 21 and sustainability and how it directly affects property owners.

Secure Arkansas spoke to the Asso­ci­a­tion of Arkansas Coun­ties for their Annu­al Con­fer­ence held August 20 – 22, 2014 in Lit­tle Rock, Arkansas.   Jean­nie Burlsworth Jean­nie Burlsworth, Founder / Chair of Secure Arkansas, began by explain­ing Unit­ed Nations’ (U.N.) con­nec­tion to Agen­da 21 and sus­tain­abil­i­ty and how it direct­ly affects prop­er­ty own­ers. She men­tioned […]

So we are paying them to take away our water rights?

April 19, 2014 “You say the Indi­an Water Com­pact requires Mon­tanans to pay the Indi­ans $55 mil­lion to take our water. Don’t you mean instead that the Indi­ans are pay­ing the state of Mon­tana $55 mil­lion for our water rights?” “No,” the leg­is­la­tor sup­port­ing the com­pact replied, “the Indi­ans get $55 mil­lion to ‘imple­ment’ the con­di­tions […]

Why Clive Bundy Isn’t Wrong

There have been a lot of peo­ple crit­i­ciz­ing Clive Bundy because he did not pay his graz­ing fees for 20 years. The pub­lic is also prob­a­bly won­der­ing why so many oth­er cow­boys are sup­port­ing Mr. Bundy even though they paid their fees and Clive did not. What you peo­ple prob­a­bly do not real­ize is that on […]

BLM USFS Lack Law Enforcement Authority

The U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion and laws of Con­gress have nev­er pro­vid­ed for a gen­er­al grant of law enforce­ment author­i­ty to the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. Our nation­al gov­ern­ment was pur­pose­ful­ly cre­at­ed by our found­ing fathers to be a gov­ern­ment of “lim­it­ed” pow­ers. World his­to­ry has repeat­ed­ly proven that an uncon­trol­lable and intru­sive bureau­cra­cy destroys a free soci­ety. When […]

Restructure US Government to Make “Huge” Green Changes in America, Study Proposes

Excerpt:  One of the major imped­i­ments, the study says, is cre­at­ed by America’s “basic frame­work of gov­ern­ment, estab­lished by law,” which is “one of sep­a­rat­ed and dis­persed author­i­ty,” in which “gov­ern­ment agen­cies at all lev­els — fed­er­al, state, local, trib­al and even inter­na­tion­al — can only do what they have been autho­rized to do by […]

Federal Court Finds Conspiracy, Orders USFS and BLM to Reinstate Hage Grazing Permits

Lib­er­ty Scene (Lib­er­ty and Prop­er­ty Rights Coali­tion) reports a land­mark deci­sion for ranch­ers in the Hage law­suit in the fol­low­ing press release. PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 5.29.2013   Fed­er­al Court Finds Con­spir­a­cy, Orders FS and BLM to Rein­state Hage Graz­ing Permits (RENO, NV)  Fri­day, Chief Judge Robert C. Jones of the Fed­er­al Dis­trict Court […]

Appeals Court Tosses Out Hage Judgment

A fed­er­al appeals court has thrown out a $4.4 mil­lion legal judg­ment that deceased ranch­er and Sage­brush Rebel­lion icon Wayne Hage had pre­vi­ous­ly won from the fed­er­al government. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fed­er­al Cir­cuit has reversed an ear­li­er court deci­sion that ordered the U.S. For­est Ser­vice to com­pen­sate Hage for infring­ing on […]

Showdown at the Red Tape Corral

Fed­er­al land con­trols come under bright light in Tomb­stone, Ari­zona. Free­dom Advo­cates asks: When will locales and state gov­ern­ments start remind­ing the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment that they have no author­i­ty under Arti­cle 1 Sec­tion 10 of the Con­sti­tu­tion to direct land man­age­ment prac­tices?  Read arti­cle below. —————— Opin­ion, The Wash­ing­ton Examiner In a show­down between the Oba­ma […]

Oregon Man Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail for Collecting Rainwater on His Property

(CNSNews.com) – A rur­al Ore­gon man was sen­tenced Wednes­day to 30 days in jail and over $1,500 in fines because he had three reser­voirs on his prop­er­ty to col­lect and use rainwater. Gary Har­ring­ton of Eagle Point, Ore., says he plans to appeal his con­vic­tion in Jack­son Coun­ty (Ore.) Cir­cuit Court on nine mis­de­meanor charges […]

Feds Take Historic Water Supply of Tombstone, Arizona

Before the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment declared own­er­ship of much of Ari­zona, water appro­pri­a­tions were estab­lished to Tomb­stone, Ari­zona.  Mag­i­cal­ly the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment now lays claim, fol­low­ing a nat­ur­al dis­as­ter, to pre­vent water line repair across “fed­er­al lands.”  Free­dom Advo­cates asks:  Does the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment have the pow­er to own vast expans­es of wilder­ness any­way?  Does any­one read […]

Dam Removal will Ruin Lives and have Catastrophic Consequences

Dam Removal Would Be Catastrophic Defend Rur­al America March 23, 2012 Stephen Koshy Mr. Stephen Koshy is a hum­ble man, aged 77, who just hap­pens to love our coun­try and share our con­cerns over what is hap­pen­ing to it. He became aware of the plan to destroy four Kla­math Riv­er dams, due in part to the […]