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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) […]
Pacific Crest Trail Proposal Seeks to Steal Your Lands Stewards of the Sequoia are people who enjoy all types of recreation including: Off Road Vehicles, Mountain Bikes, Horse Riding, Hiking, Hunting, Fishing, Camping, Windsurfing, Boating, Rock Climbing and more.…. See Stewards “Who We Are” video. We put our time and sweat into the trails we love […]
Piece by piece, filling in the Wildlands Network, and closing off America to Americans Sen. Dianne Feinstein relaunched a proposal to create two national monuments on more than 1 million acres across the California desert, saying her revised bill would set aside several areas for off-road vehicles and energy projects while preserving other areas […]
This afternoon (November 5, 2014) a district court in Utah held that the federal prohibition against “taking” Utah prairie dogs — listed as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act — exceeds the scope of federal power under the Commerce and Necessary and Proper clauses. Here is how Judge Dee Benson summarized his conclusion in People for the […]
Sixth in a series on a new ESA listing. We will publish additions to the series if/as they are written. A new addition to the Endangered Species Act, the Mazama pocket gopher, is found to have popped up in the lush, rainy forests and mountains of the Pacific Northwest. And who can blame him? The forests and […]
dusky gopher frog The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is seeking to protect the dusky gopher frog on the Endangered Species List by designating over 1,500 acres of private property in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana as a “critical habitat” for the embattled amphibian. But here’s the kicker: The frog hasn’t been seen on the […]
Fifth in a series on a new ESA listing. The author states there may be more coming in this series. A secret 2013 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife map that was accidentally placed in Thurston County Planning‘s public files has been obtained by Watchdog Wire. The map purports to show locations of the newly […]
Fourth in a series on a new ESA listing. Part Five will be published on October 29, 2014. Larry Weaver wants his gopher blood back. Larry Weaver at his gopher “subspecies” habitat. Photo by Steve Genson That smidgen of gopher blood means the world to both Weaver and many in his Rochester community in southwest Thurston County, Washington. […]
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, […]
A win for the little guy Government’s role is to serve the people. America is a people with a government, not a government with a people. The people—their needs, their interests, their rights—come first in all things. Our Constitution prohibits government behavior that is arbitrary, capricious, abusive, or uncompensated taking of private property, among others. […]
Third in a series on new ESA listing. Part Four will be published on October 28, 2014. Do Washington State officials believe that threatening excessive force against peaceful citizens is justified if a rodent’s life may be in danger? Or that rodents have more rights and deserve more protection than understaffed cops and the citizens they protect? […]
Second in a series on new ESA Listing. Part Three will be posted on October 27, 2014. In Washington state’s Thurston County, bureaucrats won Endangered Species Act (ESA) protection for a tiny cluster of pocket gophers because of their alleged super-sized penises. However, nobody but local officials appear to have seen this feature. They have offered no proof of this endowment, nor does […]
First in a series on new ESA listing. Part Two will be posted on October 26, 2014. Does size really matter? According to the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife and U.S. Fish and Wildlife, it sure does. The odd claims of state and federal officials have been enough to earn a small group of this incredibly […]
W. R. McAfee The Southwest is the area where Canadian and Mexican wolves mostly likely will meet and crossbreed. According to USFWS documents, the Mexican wolf’s inbreeding contributes to small litter sizes and low pup-survival rates. Cross-breeding with the non-native Canadian wolves would “solve” the Mexican wolf’s gene pool problem. Call it a “nonessential experimental […]
Jim Beers is a retired Refuge Manager, Special Agent, & Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service The talk below on wolves, and their “reintroduction” by federal bureaucrats, was given at a Town Forum in Dorris, California, on May 18, 2014. Mr. Beers handed out copies of his prepared remarks, published below. Jim Beers is […]
Part 1: Mexican wolves can devastate a ranch economically in ways not readily apparent or understood by the public The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is delisting and relinquishing management of their imported Canadian gray wolves back to state wildlife officials while simultaneously proposing “new rules”1 to “save” the Mexican gray wolf. These proposals […]
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 […]
“Private property must be guarded as priceless freedom. Land owners should reject the sustainable development idea that only government can protect nature, air, soil, water, open spaces, and the poor.” Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh Humans have always desired to own a piece of land that could be passed on to their heirs. Once they acquired property for […]
Rural landowners who desire to use their own property are shocked when they learn new regulations increasingly restrict them from doing almost anything. These regulations ostensibly protect endangered species, viewsheds, open space, or a host of other reasons for limiting the owners rights to use their land. Although the environment and society allegedly benefit from […]
BART is the Bay Area Rapid Transit district Anti-Dairy Ads on BART Urge Commuters to Bathe Exactly as the poison of illegal drugs is the root cause of so much violent and debilitating crime, and just as the army of poor children born annually into fatherless homes to be raised like weeds by elderly relatives is […]
Heather Gass Over the past few years, I and many others in the San Francisco Bay Area have been fighting against a plan that seeks to socially re-engineer our lives: the One Bay Area Plan. Over the next 25 to 30 years it will transform the lives of over 9 million people in 9 counties […]
We may never have thought of history as a means for altering our Identity–how we see ourselves and what guides how we are likely to behave in the future-but everyone with fundamental transformations on the mind seems to. The previous post’s steering through how all education pathways now seek to push communitarianism was a reminder […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
