tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60480722508668655482024-03-13T16:38:16.658-07:00Agenda 21Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048072250866865548.post-8013454728717063632013-02-23T07:13:00.001-08:002013-02-23T07:13:22.903-08:00Woman Fined $5K For Throwing Birthday Party On Family Farm<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/66a2tZX9c5U" width="480"></iframe><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048072250866865548.post-37016340853618679642013-02-01T17:25:00.002-08:002013-02-01T17:25:18.936-08:00Troops bulldoze homes, leave thousands homelessSoldiers wearing U.N. logos evict whole towns in land grab<br />
<span class="caption"><span class="caption"><strong>By Alex Newman</strong><br />
Thousands of poor Brazilian families are living in wretched conditions at make-shift refugee camps after being evicted from their homes at gunpoint by federal forces, some of whom were sporting United Nations logos, according to sources. <br />
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The massive operation, which left an estimated 7,500 or more people, including thousands of children, homeless was justified by authorities under the guise of creating an Indian reservation.<br />
Towns literally have been wiped off the map, and no compensation was offered to the victims. About 400,000 acres of land were expropriated in the latest operation.<br />
Residents in the Siua-Missu area in the state of Mato Grosso battled heavily armed federal police and military forces for weeks using sticks, rocks, Molotov cocktails and other crude weapons.<br />
In the end, however, the powerful national government forces were overwhelming.<br />
Virtually all of the residents have now been displaced, living in squalor, packed into school gymnasiums in nearby towns. Others are living on charity under plastic tarps propped up with sticks with no clean water or sewage services.<br />
Leaders of the feeble resistance, meanwhile, are being hunted down by authorities for punishment.<br />
It was in 1993, shortly after the first United Nations summit on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro, when the scheme was proposed. The Brazilian government’s executive branch decreed that the land in question belonged to Indians.<br />
“These areas are marked off with rushed studies by leftist anthropologists, ideological and hardly scientific,” Fernando Furquim with the Movement for Peace in the Countryside, a non-profit organization that supports private property rights, told WND.<br />
“The conflicts between the productive sector and Indians are assuming greater proportions,” he added. “Countless non-governmental organizations have appeared, many from abroad, to involve themselves in the question.”<br />
Brazilian officials, meanwhile, sent WND an error-riddled statement containing claims that victims were not entitled to compensation but that some would be re-settled elsewhere if they qualified under the “agrarian reform” program.<br />
Authorities also told WND that the U.N. was not involved in the eviction efforts but that the organization’s logos were on the military equipment and personnel because they had recently returned from “peace-keeping” abroad.<br />
In Suia-Missu, legal battles ensued after the executive decree as property owners with valid deeds to their land fought back. Many of the residents have lived in the area for decades, and some were born there.<br />
Their properties were mostly purchased as larger farms in the area and sold off in pieces in recent decades. Some were inherited from relatives.<br />
The Brazilian courts eventually ruled that the forced evictions could proceed, so in November, residents were given 30 days to vacate their land.<br />
Most refused to leave, but heavily armed Brazilian troops and federal police were too powerful for the poor farmers in the area to resist.<br />
“The evicted victims are now living at schools in Alto da Boa Vista and camps, with some being sheltered by relatives,” Naves Bispo, a local resident and victim of the land-grab scheme, told WND, adding that the situation was dire and deteriorating.<br />
“None of the people were relocated by the government, despite the government’s lies,” he noted. “There never existed a plan for these people, there was just an expulsion: brief, brutal and grotesque.”<br />
Like other victims and analysts who spoke with WND, Bispo was unsure about why Brazilian authorities had decided to create an Indian reservation on land that was never occupied by Indians and was already lawfully owned.<br />
Official documents obtained by WND show that in the 1970s, the National Indian Foundation, part of the Brazilian Justice Ministry, twice confirmed that Indians had never lived on the land in question.<br />
“I know and feel that we are once again in a dictatorial state run by followers of Fidel, of Mao, of Che,” Bispo continued, pointing to the ruling Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT) and its well-documented links to tyrannical regimes in the region.<br />
“This is terror against the poor, a strongly surging plague, very organized, an affront to democracy in the Americas,” he added. “I lost my land, my work area, but I will never lose my ideals.”<br />
<strong>Residents resist</strong><br />
While the press was barred from documenting much of the battle, local news reports showed the true extent of the human tragedy. Many critics have said it constitutes forced relocation, a crime against humanity under international agreements.<br />
Gas station owner Arnaldo da Costa, reportedly the first person to be notified of the evictions, lamented the situation in a TV interview.<br />
“This is the worst day of my life, the worst in my 53 years,” he said. “I told the guy to find a place for us, show me where we’re supposed to go.”<br />
Another man interviewed for the same segment started his grocery store 30 years ago and was set to lose his life’s work if forced to leave.<br />
Meanwhile, authorities would not even let farmers pick their own crops, a young student told the interviewer.<br />
“We planted over 100 acres of rice that they won’t let us harvest, we wasted 90,000 Brazilian reals ($45,000), and they simply will not let us harvest it,” she said, crying. “Sad, very sad, sad, lots of anguish, lots of suffering.”<br />
Some residents, though, were defiant.<br />
“I am going to stay here until I die,” Eliezer Rocha told a TV news crew. “I prefer to be killed by a bullet than to die of a broken heart later without a place to live, without a place to work.”<br />
The sentiment was widespread as poverty-stricken locals, on the verge of losing their only means of subsistence and virtually all of their property, tried to keep federal forces at bay with improvised weapons and mass demonstrations.<br />
Some residents burned Brazilian flags while others organized patrols, in vain, to chase the police and military away.<br />
Local politicians, state lawmakers and even federal members of the Brazilian Congress spoke out as well.<br />
“Ten people were injured in this clash,” Brazilian Sen. Jayme Campos from Mato Grosso was quoted as saying in Brazilian media reports after one of the many battles that raged between residents and federal troops.<br />
“Any and all aggression by government forces will correspond inevitably with a violent reaction from the community,” he said.<br />
Drawing attention to the thousands of people being forcibly evicted with no place to go, Campos said they were doing nothing but waging “a desperate fight to maintain the achievements of their entire life’s work, sweat, and sacrifices.”<br />
To defuse the situation and prevent deaths, the senator called for a temporary suspension of the evictions and a change in the Constitution that would allow lawmakers to have some control over the executive branch’s currently unilateral establishment of “Indian lands” wherever it chooses.<br />
The “extreme measures” being pursued by authorities, he said, were inappropriate.<br />
“These rural farmers are willing to do anything: to kill and be killed,” Sen. Campos observed. “A tragedy can happen at any moment.”<br />
His pleas, along with those of fellow lawmakers, fell on deaf ears.<br />
<strong>All over</strong><br />
By Jan. 18, Brazilian authorities claimed that the entire area had been “cleared.”<br />
Many of the structures – homes, churches, schools, a hospital, playgrounds, farms and more – were already bulldozed. The rest will be razed soon.<br />
“This is a real shame what is going on here,” local property owner Paulo Gonçalves, whose land was also expropriated, told WND in a phone interview. “A great injustice is being committed against these people. They have nowhere to go, no plan.”<br />
Another local resident, who did not respond to a request for permission to use his name by press time, told a similar story.<br />
“My father had 2,000 hectares in the region and lost everything,” the young man told WND. “He had six employees who worked directly or indirectly on the farm, and today they are living on charity and almost suffering from hunger and have had not any help from the federal government.”<br />
Local media reports showed tearful residents telling reporters their whole world had come crashing down in an instant.<br />
“We’re looking for a place to go, I still don’t know. Everybody left here without knowing where they were going to go,” Juvenil Moreira, a local farmer, said as tears ran down his face.<br />
“It wasn’t voluntary. They came and threatened us. The feds already came in my house two times and threatened me, saying that if I didn’t leave, they were going to confiscate all of my possessions,” he added. “I told them I didn’t have anywhere to go but they don’t want to hear it.”<br />
“There hasn’t been a single person who has been re-settled by government agencies –not a single person,” Moreira explained, contradicting government claims that it would assist certain small farmers as part of its “agrarian reform” policy.<br />
Another local farmer, Mamede Jordao, said a federal officer had threatened to take him in a helicopter and throw him out if he continued to speak out against the evictions.<br />
The communities’ were also forced to leave all of their dead behind in graveyards that includes plots decades old.<br />
Combined, residents of the area also owned hundreds of thousands of cows. Now they have nowhere to put them.<br />
Much livestock was left behind, too, as locals tried to save whatever animals – dogs, cats, chickens – that they could take with them to their new refugee camp “homes.”<br />
<strong>Charity</strong><br />
Some help has arrived.<br />
Christian preachers from hundreds of miles away have been gathering tons of food and assistance from their congregations to ship to the displaced victims.<br />
Concerned citizens throughout the region have been donating, too. And towns in the area have tried their best to help shelter as many families as possible with the few resources available to them.<br />
At least one local businessman has also promised to donate some land so people can rebuild their homes and try to eke out a meager living from the soil once again.<br />
One of the town people found temporary refuge in Alto da Boa Vista, where Mayor Nezip Domingues promised to help despite his people’s lack of resources.<br />
He thanked all of the concerned citizens in the region who sent assistance.<br />
“In truth, if it was not for the actions that these groups and society are taking – they are so moved by the situation in Siua Missu – we don’t know what we would have done,” Domingues said in a TV interview.<br />
“Our municipality does not have the resources to attend to these necessities, so we’re thankful from our hearts for everybody who has helped these families,” he added.<br />
Sources told WND that the people would be eternally grateful to God and to the pastors and congregations for the help being provided by Christians in the region.<br />
However, the refugees also feel a sense of humiliation. Once independent, they now must depend on donations just to feed their own children.<br />
<strong>Hope</strong><br />
Locals are still petitioning the government to undo the relocation, which they say has shattered thousands of lives, by returning the land and offering compensation for the loss of their houses.<br />
A few still cling to a small ray of hope, thinking God may intervene or that the federal government will realize the error of its ways.<br />
“There’s a small ray of hope, but it exists,” farmer Romão Flor told TV Araguaia in an interview after detailing the miserable living conditions evicted residents are suffering.<br />
“However, the government is very strong, the Indian agency is very strong, the pressure from foreign interests is very strong, and the NGOs are very strong,” he said.<br />
“It won’t be easy.”<br />
Others, however, have all but given up after seeing what remains of their former hardscrabble towns and homes.<br />
“I just got back from there, to see what had become of [the town of] Posto da Mata. It’s over,” sobbed a young mother and small farmer named Maria da Costa from her new “home” in a school gym, shared by eight other families. She broke down into tears before finishing her thought.<br />
An elderly woman next to her, also crying, added: “They destroyed our people. Our whole world is destroyed.”<br />
<strong>The lands</strong><br />
Brazilian officials told WND that the land in question had traditionally been occupied by the Xavante Indian tribe, which was expelled from nearby areas in the 1960s by government forces so settlers could move in.<br />
However, numerous documents obtained by WND, and testimony from Xavante Indians, show that the tribe never occupied the land in question.<br />
One Xavante Indian, for example, speaking at a local rally, blasted FUNAI for seizing the lands, saying the agency was operating at the expense of Indians and expropriating property in their name, but that it was not interested in the truth.<br />
“They know that the Xavantes live in the cerrado (savannah-type region as opposed to forest) and that you’re living here,” the elderly Indian exclaimed.<br />
“Now, help,” he continued, pointing his finger in the faces of some government officials at the gathering. “Give back everything you’ve stolen from the Indians and from the whole human race.”<br />
Turning to the crowd again, he concluded: “We want to stay in our place, and you stay in yours.”<br />
A Brazilian congressional delegation that visited the area quoted four Xavantes who all said the same thing: Their tribe has never lived in the area in question.<br />
FUNAI itself admitted as much in the 1970s, twice, when asked by a large landowner for development purposes to certify that no Indians had ever lived there.<br />
The tribe, which consists of around 14,000 members and already has about 3.5 million acres of land in Mato Grosso, was offered a better piece of land by the state government to avoid the forced evictions.<br />
<strong>The real reasons</strong><br />
While it is remains unclear whether the U.N. was involved in the most recent forced eviction, the actions are in line with an international agreement on indigenous people, analysts say.<br />
Local rancher Sebastian Prado told reporters that authorities were essentially running an extortion racket seeking millions of dollars in exchange for halting the land grab.<br />
Upon speaking out, he was personally attacked by a top federal official.<br />
“Mr. Sebastian Prado will be prosecuted for his lies against Secretary Paulo Maldos and will pay in the courts for his folly and irresponsibility,” Chief Minister Gilberto Carvalho with the General Secretariat of the President said in a press release.<br />
Numerous other possible motives, however, have also been identified.<br />
Among the most frequently cited: pressure from foreign NGOs like Greenpeace and religious persecution of the conservative and devout evangelical communities there by powerful Catholic “liberation theology” forces.<br />
Victims and analysts who spoke with WND also identified as a probable cause the effort to advance socialism in Brazil and the broader region by eroding property rights and attacking independent citizens like farmers and ranchers, a process that is already well underway in Latin America led in large part by senior PT officials.<br />
Finally, mega-corporations from abroad and foreign governments hoping to extract rare minerals have been cited as well.<br />
<strong>United Nations agreement</strong><br />
A little-known U.N. agreement dubbed the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People,” approved by the global body’s General Assembly in 2007, has been cited as a justification for expropriating the land.<br />
While the U.S. originally rejected the controversial U.N. scheme, which purports to require the surrender of lands “traditionally” occupied by natives, President Obama signed on to it in late 2010.<br />
Last year, in a move that drew a mix of ridicule and alarm from critics, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous People James Anaya visited the U.S.<br />
He concluded, among other points, that Mount Rushmore and vast tracts of land should be returned to Native Americans to put the U.S. government closer to compliance with the global agreement.<br />
Several lawmakers contacted by WND were aware of the situation in Brazil, but none were willing to comment publicly about it at this time.<br />
Still, analysts say that with the U.N. and authoritarian-minded governments seeking to exploit past injustices against indigenous people to advance their agenda, the danger will continue to grow – at least without international pressure on Brazilian authorities, who are desperately trying to polish their image on the global stage.<br />
<strong>Socialism</strong><br />
The march of socialism in Latin America, meanwhile, continues, backed by foreign powers and largely under the radar of the Western media.<br />
It is making great progress through the Foro de São Paulo (FSP), a shadowy socialist and communist political organization founded by former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva with the PT, Marxist despot Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas and others.<br />
Marxist narco-terror groups like the FARC have also been intimately involved in the group, including by providing funding from the drug trade to advance the cause.<br />
Today, political parties that are part of the FSP, such as the Brazilian PT, control most national governments in Latin America. Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, for example, is a prominent participant, as are other, less-known socialist strongmen.<br />
Current Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, a “former” communist guerrilla and revolutionary, is also playing an increasingly important in the network.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048072250866865548.post-84559464648220047292012-06-04T11:54:00.001-07:002012-06-04T11:54:31.147-07:00Armed Police Officers Shut Down Ice Cream Stand<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ESEUo9P5gms?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048072250866865548.post-47486115161557289932012-05-17T07:00:00.000-07:002012-05-17T07:00:13.317-07:00Armed Environmental Police Shut Down And Guard Ice Cream Stand Over Building PermitsA Massachusetts ice cream stand was shut down last weekend by armed Environmental Police, causing the loss of 13 high-school and college students’ jobs.<br />
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The stand, owned and operated by Mark Duffy for the past 26 years in Great Brook Farm State Park, was shut down for making improvements to the building without the proper permission. According to the <a href="http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_20635020/ice-cream-spot-hits-rocky-road" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lowell Sun,</a> Duffy has made “countless improvements to the farm over the years without permission.” He told the Lowell Sun, “The reason I’m here and the purpose of having me here is to improve the facility and operate a commercial dairy farm.”<br />
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Edward Lambert, the commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, said the stand closed because construction was proceeding without local or state permits. “I like ice cream as much as anybody, so it pains us to even temporarily close what is an iconic property, but we have to make sure people eating ice cream there are safe,” Lambert said.<br />
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The improvements to the building were to “create an area to show an instructional video produced by the Massachusetts dairy industry.”<br />
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Duffy said armed Environmental Police showed up Friday evening of Mother’s Day weekend to shut down the stand, and even stood guard throughout the weekend to turn away customers.<br />
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http://www.ijreview.com/2012/05/5687-armed-police-shut-down-and-guard-ice-cream-stand-over-building-permits/<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048072250866865548.post-88993372858978646112012-05-15T07:51:00.000-07:002012-05-15T07:51:38.385-07:00'Existential threat' to Western U.S. states<em>by</em> <span class="fn"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/author/runruh/">Bob Unru</a></span><br />
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<span class="fn">The Obama administration has launched a new battle over water rights
that threatens not only the the economies of arid Western states, which
largely voted against him in the 2008 election, but their very
existence.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wnd.com/?p=167873">WND reported last month</a>
that the federal government was creating obstacles for Tombstone, Ariz.,
to restore its water supplies following last year’s forest fire and
monsoon-triggered floods in the nearby mountains. The federal government
said crews could not use machinery to rebuild pipelines and
spring-water collection systems.<br />
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Now, a letter contradicting longstanding federal practice asserts a
claim to water in arid Western states, such as Utah, Montana, Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona and others, that supersedes all other authorities,
including decisions by state water courts.<br />
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“Federal water rights are entitled to a form of protection that is
broader than what may be provided to similarly situated state law rights
holders,” states a letter from Julie Decker, the deputy state director
in the U.S. Department of the Interior to the Arizona Department of
Water Resources.<br />
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The letter was objecting to state plans to do a routine “Designation
of Adequate Water Supply,” which reviews water resources, rights and
uses when changes are proposed.<br />
<br />
<a href="http://goldwaterinstitute.org/sites/default/files/TN%20attachment.pdf"> Decker’s letter</a>
said water is not “legally” available for some users who may want to
develop property in the area, because “the expressed federal reserved
water right created by Congress is senior to all junior water users who
initiate uses after the date of the establishment of the reservation.”<br />
<br />
Nick Dranias, who holds the Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan Chair
for Constitutional Government and is director of the Joseph and Dorothy
Donnelly Moller Center for Constitutional Government at the <a href="http://goldwaterinstitute.org/article/tombstone-v-united-states">Goldwater Institute,</a> called it an “existential threat to the Western states.”<br />
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The institute is fighting on behalf of Tombstone for its right to repair its water supply system and use the water.<br />
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A statement from the institute said the city of Tombstone “is no
longer the only one fighting the federal government for water rights.”<br />
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“The latest move by the federal Bureau of Land Management appears to
herald a bigger and much more comprehensive effort to seize water and
access rights on federal lands throughout the Western states,” the
statement said.<br />
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The newest dispute is the federal government’s letter concerning
water rights in Arizona’s San Pedro Riparian watershed. The letter came
in response to a request by Sierra Vista’s Pueblo del Sol Water Co.,
which claims water rights in the area but is being told it cannot use
the water without the federal government’s permission.<br />
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“This new federal policy not only defies decades of deference to and
accommodation of state sovereignty over water law, but it throws a noose
around Arizona’s neck, for which water is life,” the institute said.<br />
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“The growing federal stranglehold over water rights in Arizona is a
direct assault on state autonomy. There is perhaps no better way for the
federal government to quell restive Western states, like Arizona, that
dare to resist federal immigration, health care, and unionization
policies.”<br />
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Dranias explained the situation to people in regions of the country where water is more plentiful.<br />
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“Water is the lifeblood of the arid Western states. Development would
not exist without pretty intensive development of scarce water. That is
only possible with the incentives created by ownership,” he said.<br />
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Without assurances that water is available, there is no possibility
that economic development can occur, he said. In fact, some states have
provisions, such as in Colorado, saying a homeowner cannot occupying a
building unless a water right is documented for the structure.<br />
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He said it was only a few decades back that the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled in a New Mexico case that the federal government deferred to
states on water rights.<br />
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Now, however, the policy is being repudiated, threatening virtually every water user west of the Mississippi River.<br />
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Dranias cited the Tombstone dispute, in which federal officials won’t
give the city permission to take equipment into a protected region to
repair damage from a forest fire and monsoon-induced flooding. The city
has obtained its water from the area since Wyatt Earp helped build a
pipeline.<br />
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“The federal government doesn’t care about a direct threat to human
life, a direct threat to property, a direct threat to the economy. It is
will to risk all of that in pursuit of whatever they’re trying to claim
as a superior position of water rights,” he said.</span><br />
Tombstone, which can document through federal letters its ownership
of the rights back 130 years, is in a far superior position to most
water users in the West. Dranias told of Arizona ranchers who own
specific spring-fed water rights but only leased rights-of-way for
pipelines.<br />
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The federal government is demanding as a condition for renewing the
pipeline permits that ranchers cede to the federal government all water
ownership and rights, he said.<br />
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The radical “green,” or ecological, element appears to be playing a role, Dranias noted.<br />
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As part of the litigation over Tombstone’s water, he said, emails to
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from various activists cheered the
fires and floods that destroyed Tombstone’s water supply system.<br />
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“Hooray, the water’s running free again,” he said the emails expressed.<br />
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“Any state like Arizona … is facing the same situation,” he said.<br />
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Dranias said the fight over Tombstone’s water simply cannot be lost,
because of the implications that could ripple across the nation, even
beyond the West.<br />
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The state has declared the Tombstone situation an emergency, but,
even so, federal officials refuse to allow repairs. Losing the case
could set a precedent that emergency measures needed to mitigate oil
spills and other environmental problems might not be allowed because of
restrictions by the federal government, he said.<br />
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Federal officials have declined to answer questions about the court case.<br />
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by <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Audrey+Hudson">Audrey Hudson</a></div>
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Planning a vacation this summer to Miami’s Biscayne Bay for a little fishing?<br />
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Think again, because the National Park Service wants to set aside a large swath of the pristine area as a marine reserve zone, so you might have to leave the fishing poles at home. And the boat.<br />
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Perhaps horseback riding is more your speed and the family plans to ride through California’s Sequoia or Kings Canyon National Parks? Sorry, but all of the permits were pulled for those activities this summer.<br />
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<strong></strong>Or maybe you just want to lounge on the soft sands of North Carolina’s Outer Banks and read a novel, fly a kite with the kids, toss a Frisbee to the dog, and watch dad catch some fish?<br />
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Beachcombers along specific stretches of those legendary shores are seeing signs telling them to leave their kites and pets at home, and to watch where they step.<br />
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<strong></strong>“Leave no footprints behind. Walk in water where footprints wash away,” read the signs posted in February by federal officials. <br />
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Beaches that once welcomed fisherman to drive up to the water’s edge are also off-limits to the vehicles, and so is fishing.<br />
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These vacation destinations are all national parks that once encouraged such recreational uses and enjoyment but their new “no trespassing” attitudes have angered the local communities, and some in Congress as well.<br />
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<strong></strong>In March, Rep. Walter Jones (R–N.C.) challenged the restrictions imposed by the beach signs, which were the result of battles with environmentalists to protect certain species.<br />
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The park service that operates the Cape Hatteras National Seashore pledged to replace them, and the new signs will read: “Walk near water’s edge. Stay below high tide line.”<br />
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Still not allowed: kites, pets, vehicles, or fishing. Sunbathing is permissible if you don’t mind getting hit by the waves every few minutes.</div>
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<strong>Beach access</strong>“The federal government needs to remember that Cape Hatteras was established to be a recreational area for the American people,” Jones said. “But taxpayers can’t recreate without access to the beach. The goal of management ought to be a balanced approach between visitor access and species protection.”<br />
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Roping off national parks to the public and limiting opportunities for recreation, which in some cases were at the request of environmental groups, is a growing trend that lawmakers say they will examine during an oversight hearing of a House Resources subcommittee on April 27.<br />
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Florida’s Biscayne National Park is one of the largest urban recreational fishing and boating parks in the United States, but federal park employees say the coral reef is declining; so, boating and fishing must be restricted in certain areas.<br />
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Florida Republican Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart and David Rivera are challenging the proposed rule, which would close off 20 percent of the park to boating and fishing.<br />
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“The park service appears to have decided that it knows best, and that allows it to ignore the public in the pursuit of its own notions of sound conservation,” a group of Florida marine and fishing organizations said earlier this month in a letter to the editor of <em>Soundings Trade Only Today</em>.<br />
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<strong>Companies fold and jobs lost</strong><br />
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In California, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes says that by eliminating horseback rides to the backcountry, the National Park Service has essentially blocked the only access that many Americans, including those with disabilities and the elderly, have to wilderness areas. The new restrictions are the result of a lawsuit brought by environmentalists who say the activity may be a threat to nature.<br />
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Losing the permits means that at least 15 companies that provided horseback rides are out of work this summer, along with an estimated 500 employees. <br />
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“This is just another example of the Obama administration actively killing jobs,” Nunes said. “They have the authority to seek permission from the courts to put these folks back to work, yet they have so far refused to entertain the option.”<br />
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“Ironically, the Obama administration is pushing backcountry horsemen out of business at the same time it is urging Americans to ‘get outdoors.’ The White House could demonstrate an interest in protecting these outdoor jobs with a simple act,” Nunes said.<br />
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Nunes wrote to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar April 17 asking that the administration intervene to reissue the permits.<br />
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“The national parks are funded by these taxpayers who have the right to access these parks,” Nunes said.<br />
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A spokeswoman for the National Park Service said they have received Nunes’ letter but have not issued a response. They are also aware of the congressional hearing, but no testimony has been drafted.<br />
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A statement from the park service office in North Carolina said the new rules there “will protect and preserve the unique natural and cultural resources of this dynamic barrier ecosystem while permitting the use of vehicles on seashore beaches and provide a variety of safe visitor experiences while minimizing conflicts among various users.”<br />
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Additionally, the park superintendent of Biscayne National Park says that restricting fishing to 7 percent of that park will increase opportunities for snorkeling and promote a healthy coral reef. <br />
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“Biscayne’s coral reef is its Old Faithful, the signature feature that draws visitors time and again,” Mark Lewis said in an April 9 letter to <em>Soundings Trade Only Today</em>. “Let’s showcase the reef and make this the wonderful tourism destination it should be,” Lewis said.<br />
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Jones has authored legislation specifically to address the situation in North Carolina, which he says would preserve access to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.<br />
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Jones’ bill tells Salazar that pedestrian and vehicle access for recreation should be restricted on small portions of the beach and for a shorter period of time.<br />
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<strong>Park service ‘heavy-handed’</strong><br />
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John Couch, who owns the Red Drum Tackle Shop in Buxton, N.C. and is president of the Outer Banks Preservation Association, said the community supports protections for the birds and turtles, but that the park service is being unreasonable and “heavy-handed” by cutting off miles and miles of access to the beaches and the recreation it provides.<br />
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“Experiences that visitors expect are now closed off because of hugely excessive and unprecedented buffer zones that just closes off the beach,” Couch said. “These are immense obstacles.”<br />
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Couch says the restrictions have already proven to be bad for the tourism industry.<br />
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“These overzealous restrictions have taken a heavy toll on the tackle shop; business is off by 30 and 50 percent. It’s bad,” Couch said.<br />
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“On the other side, the environmentalists have good intentions, but this plan is not working. I’m suffering as a member of the business community. I have no expectation of what to expect,” Couch said.<br />
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“It’s fine and dandy to protect the environment, but at the same time we have a mandate to provide protection of resources, as well as enhance the future and present recreational opportunities. But that’s not what’s going on. Now it’s a single mandate which is to protect the environment,” Couch said.<br />
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Couch said humans are not the threat to the birds and turtles, but severe storms and predators such as foxes, possums, raccoons, otter, mink and nutria are its natural enemies.<br />
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“Man doesn’t have a hand in this,” Couch said.<br />
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During one outing with the Park Service to the beach to discuss the new human restrictions, Couch said he and others watched as a ranger pulled out a rifle and killed a nearby fox <br />
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“They shot the thing right there in front of us,” Couch said.<br />
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“We’re all for the birds and the turtles, but when government and pressure from environmentalists close down the beach access in an inequitable favor to these birds at the expense of the economy and the visitors, that’s wrong,” Couch said. “We can protect the birds and provide for the sustainability of the island community.”<br />
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“We’re trying to sell the beach, we’re trying to sell family fun, and all our visitors want to do is fish, sun, and pick up some seashells.”<br />
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GLOUCESTER, Mass. — Standing on the deck of his rusted steel trawler, Naz Sanfilippo fumed about the latest bad news for New England fishermen: a decision by <a href="http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/">Whole Foods</a> to stop selling any seafood it does not consider sustainable. </div>
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Starting Sunday, gray sole and skate, common catches in the region, will no longer appear in the grocery chain’s artfully arranged fish cases. Atlantic <a class="meta-classifier" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cod_fish/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about Cod (Fish).">cod</a>, a New England staple, will be sold only if it is not caught by trawlers, which drag nets across the ocean floor, a much-used method here. </div>
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“It’s totally maddening,” Mr. Sanfilippo said. “They’re just doing it to make all the green people happy.” </div>
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Whole Foods says that, in fact, it is doing its part to address the very real problem of overfishing and help badly depleted fish stocks recover. It is using ratings set by the <a href="http://www.blueocean.org/home">Blue Ocean Institute</a>, a conservation group, and the <a href="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/">Monterey Bay Aquarium</a> in California. They are based on factors including how abundant a species is, how quickly it reproduces and whether the catch method damages its habitat. </div>
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“Stewardship of the ocean is so important to our customers and to us,” said David Pilat, the global seafood buyer for Whole Foods. “We’re not necessarily here to tell fishermen how to fish, but on a species like Atlantic cod, we are out there actively saying, ‘For Whole Foods Market to buy your cod, the rating has to be favorable.’ ” </div>
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The company had originally planned to stop selling “red-rated” fish next year but moved up its deadline. The other fish it will no longer carry are Atlantic halibut, octopus, sturgeon, tautog, turbot, imported wild shrimp, some species of rockfish, and tuna and swordfish caught in certain areas or by certain methods. (Whole Foods has already stopped selling orange roughy, shark, bluefin tuna and most marlin.) </div>
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Although the new policy will affect fishermen nationwide, the reaction from Gloucester and other New England ports may be the unhappiest. New England has more overfished stocks than any other region, according to federal monitors, and its fishing industry has bridled — and struggled to survive — under strict regulations. </div>
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“We’ve been murdered,” said Russell Sherman, who sold his entire catch to Whole Foods for the last six years and is seeking new buyers. “It’s not fair at all.”</div>
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Jim Ford, who said he sold 700,000 pounds of fish to Whole Foods over the past year, declared, “It’s a marketing ploy, that’s all.” Mr. Ford said he would now sell to the <a href="http://www.legalseafoods.com/">Legal Sea Foods</a> restaurant chain instead. </div>
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Whole Foods has had a fish processing plant here since 1996, the oldest of four around the country, and has processed about 10,000 pounds of fish a day here in recent years. A number of local boats have worked with Whole Foods, including a handful that sold exclusively to the company. </div>
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Still, Whole Foods is only one buyer, and there will be “plenty of other market demand,” said Vito Giacalone, policy director for the <a href="http://www.northeastseafoodcoalition.org/">Northeast Seafood Coalition</a>, a trade group here. </div>
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“It’s the precedent and the message it sends out that’s really unfortunate,” said Mr. Giacalone, whose family runs a fish auction that sells to Whole Foods. “Whole Foods is a reputable, credible food source for a big community of people, and so when their headquarters makes this kind of statement, it’s not good for the industry.” </div>
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Some question the need for grocery stores to reject certain American-caught fish when the government has already imposed its own conservation measures. Many of the nation’s fishermen now operate under federally created systems that allocate a yearly quota of fish. </div>
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And for some stocks, the quotas are being reduced; fishermen are facing a 22 percent cut in the amount of Gulf of Maine cod they can catch. In New England, some areas are closed to fishing for part or all of the year; in others, only certain kinds of gear can be used.</div>
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“We have the strictest management regime in the world,” said David Goethel, a fisherman from Hampton, N.H. and a member of the <a href="http://www.nefmc.org/">New England Fishery Management Council</a>. “So using the word ‘sustainable,’ maybe it looks good in your advertising. But, without being too harsh, it means absolutely nothing.” </div>
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But Ellen Pikitch, director of the <a href="http://www.oceanconservationscience.org/">Institute for Ocean Conservation Science</a> at Stony Brook University, said Whole Foods was doing the right thing.</div>
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“Whole Foods is setting a good example by offering fish from relatively well-managed fisheries,” she said. “It’s too bad that more New England fish don’t qualify, but over time, such market forces should help bring these fish back — both in the ocean and to the Whole Foods seafood counter.” </div>
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Whole Foods is not the first supermarket chain to limit the kind of seafood it sells in the name of sustainability. Last month, BJ’s Wholesale Club announced a plan to sell seafood only from suppliers “identified as sustainable or on track to meet sustainability standards by 2014.” Other chains are making similar moves. </div>
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But in Gloucester, anyway, some fishermen are taking the Whole Foods decision more personally. </div>
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Whole Foods will continue to sell New England catches like haddock, pollock, scallops and hake. And it will still sell Atlantic cod that is caught by gillnets or, preferably, hook and line, Mr. Pilat said. While Whole Foods will still sell Pacific cod, he said, it will not appear much in the company’s New England stores for cultural reasons. </div>
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“The number of local fish that we will have to discontinue is minimal,” he said, “and we will be replacing those species with other very similar species, such as buying more flounder instead of the gray sole.” </div>
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The company is developing relationships with more hook boats, he said. But there are few such boats in the cod fishery, according to the fishery council. </div>
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Some fishermen questioned why Whole Foods would approve net-caught fish, as marine mammals are known to get entangled in gillnets, and hook-caught fish, as hooks often end up catching undersize fish. Last week, federal regulators announced that they would ban gillnet fishing for part of the fall in coastal waters from Maine to Cape Ann, Mass., because too many porpoises had been dying in the nets. </div>
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“There’s no immaculate fishing gear,” said Mr. Goethel, the fishery council member. </div>
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Mr. Sherman said that Whole Foods told him it would still buy pollock and hake from him, but that he could not even offload cod and gray sole at its docks unless it was quickly removed. “They’re talking about my fish like it’s atomic,” he said. “Believe me, they are a great outfit to work for, but they are corporate, and this is a corporate move.” </div>
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Mr. Giacalone, while disappointed, did not waste an opportunity to talk about some of the New England-caught fish that will still be available at Whole Foods, starting with pollock. “It’s a great eating fish,” he said. “Almost like the dark meat on a turkey.” </div>
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Note: This isn't really pertinent to the "Use of Governmental Agencies" category even though the fishermen are severely regulated. The destruction of their livelihood is being accomplished through the buyers of their product. Did you catch that line about sustainability and fisheries? They almost always tell you where they're going with all this and, remember, the end result of Agenda 21 is to have dense population centers sustained by local food in a post-industrial America. It's all closing down choices, much as Michele Obama did with her getting restraurant chains to offer only certain types of food; i.e., a minor having to have parental permission to order milk, the Olive Garden, et al, to cut calories and fat in their menus, her deal with Walmart to change the choices available in food at their stores.<br />
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<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fishermen-upset-with-whole-foods-for-refusing-to-sell-unsustainable-fish-attempt-to-placate-the-green-people/">More info</a>.<br />
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I am a Commercial fisherman, None of you not in the industry understand what all this is doing to the local fisherman. The regulations we have to follow only serve to increase IMPORTS from unregulated foreign markets while running most of the small fisherman out of business leaving only the corporate giants to harvest fish in this country. Most wholesale fish markets have gone to imports only because its to much trouble to comply with NOAA regulations when buying local caught fish.</div>
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Whoaaaa!!! They've shut down 10% of our power plants. I've got a video on this site that shows they've shut down over 800 of our dams and are working on 4 more hydroelectric dams up in northern California. They took 20% of our fo<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span><span class="text_exposed_show">od supply when they made a desert out of the San Joaquin Valley. They cut off 61% of Washington state's farm land by creating buffer zones around the waterways. If Obama is elected again, we're going to start feeling more pain than that we're feeling at the gas pump. Even if Romney is elected, this could go on because it's been going on under administrations since Clinton. I've been collecting these stories and putting them here under "Use of Governmental Agencies. I don't have all the stories, but I've got enough to give you understanding of the big picture. Take a look. See what their plans are for your children and grandchildren...you, too, if you're young. I used to think I wouldn't live long enough to see the results of all this. But then Obummer got elected and it's all going so fast that I now think I'm going to have to spend my end years in a world of oppression and lack of human necessities.</span></div>
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Well, San Francisco people have discovered the Delphi Technique being used on them. I saw this a while back. Here's the link. I don't think I'd have handled it this way. I'd have waited until the facilitators had identified "the loud mouths" and started picking on them. Then I'd have my turn speaking or passed out info on the Delphi Technique. The way this was done, it looks like the facilitors, their plants, and the plants against Agenda 21 all know what's going on, but the people who aren't aware look confused.<br />
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Here's where I recognised the Delphi Technique being used. I think in there somewhere I've put links tracking back on the people used as table facilitators and they all tracked back to UN associations.<br />
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Link to entire plan <a href="http://e-govmail.com/jbin/pages/Sustainability_Jan_12/index.htm">here</a>.<br />
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A plan of local actions....future generation needs...<br />
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Sounds good. But they really have some strange ideas about implementing them. Wait til Hermosa Beach finds out what some other cities have found out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048072250866865548.post-19586718645538811092012-01-09T17:55:00.000-08:002012-01-09T17:56:35.196-08:00Richard Rothschild: The dark side to sustainabilityPosted: <span class="posted" title="2011-01-22T01:00:00-05:00">Saturday, January 22, 2011 1:00 am</span> | <em><span class="updated" title="2011-01-25T03:07:48-05:00">Updated: 8:07 am, Tue Jan 25, 2011. </span></em><br />
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<span class="bookmark hide"><a class="url entry-title" href="http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/richard-rothschild-the-dark-side-to-sustainability/www.carrollcountytimes.com/news/opinion/columnists/richard-rothschild-the-dark-side-to-sustainability/article_676f0d0a-24a2-11e0-984e-001cc4c03286.html" rel="bookmark">Richard Rothschild: The dark side to sustainability</a></span> </div>
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<span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">By Richard Rothschild</span></span> <span class="hide source-org vcard"><span class="org fn">Carroll County Times</span></span> | Maryland</div>
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I found Neil Ridgley's Jan. 15 column on sustainability misleading. He ignores the costly means employed by sustainability activists to achieve their goals.<br />
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How many more jobs will be lost because of costly sustainability mandates that destroy America's industries? How many of our constitutional rights will be trampled by government to promulgate sustainability?<br />
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People say, "Isn't sustainability about windmills and solar panels?" Well, no.</div>
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Sustainability invokes government power to enforce activists' views of environmentalism. They want to replace farmers', ranchers' and other landowners' concept of stewardship with government-centric control. It merges environmentalism and socialism to expand government into every aspect of our lives, including land use, food production, housing, transportation, manufacturing, energy rationing and even health care.</div>
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It adopts a de-facto UN bias that capitalism is bad and government is good, while ignoring the inconvenient truth that countries with government-centric economies are usually the most environmentally irresponsible.</div>
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The UN views the world as a zero-sum game. If people are hungry in Haiti or Somalia, it's because you drive a Ford F-150, eat beef and live too long. During the 1992 UN conference on environment and development, UN undersecretary Maurice Strong proclaimed, "...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home- and work-place air-conditioning and suburban housing - are not sustainable."</div>
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This blows Ridgley's theory that UN sustainability dogma applies only to Third World countries.</div>
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Government already tells us what kind of light bulbs to buy, requires flush taxes, builds subways without parking lots, tells farmers how to farm and determines what our kids eat in school. It takes away property rights, and now appears determined to eliminate single family homes and private vehicles.</div>
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Sustainability employs smart growth zoning templates that preserve land by cramming Americans into dense developments funded with government subsidies to create social equity where others are stakeholders in your property. It's called communitarianism.</div>
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And what happens with preserved land? Millions of acres of wildlife corridors and wildlands would eliminate or severely restrict human use, especially in national forests and open range administered by the Bureau of Land Management. This will prevent lumber harvesting and beef production.</div>
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Ridgley supports the ICLEI, an organization with extreme beliefs on global warming that promotes United Nations' big-government socio-economic policies. The UN Millennium Papers caution activists not to mention the UN Agenda because of potential American backlash, and instruct, "So, we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management, or smart growth."</div>
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In another bid for expansion, government auctions off imaginary carbon credits. The 2008 northeast auction raised $600 million in hidden taxes that are passed on to struggling families through higher utility costs.</div>
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Sustainability disciples use euphemistic terms like "environmental justice," and collude with government to enforce oppressive regulations at any cost. Don't believe me? Google "EPA TMDL lawsuits" and see the list of activists that sue the EPA and obtain federal court opinions that embolden oppressive regulations.</div>
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Why does the EPA advertise these lawsuits on its website? Ironically, every time the EPA loses to an environmental group, it grows stronger as courts direct the EPA to enforce. The courts have become unwitting accomplices to government overreach. One Maryland county faces $1.8 billion in regulatory mandates, possibly enough to push them to the brink of insolvency.</div>
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Adverse sustainability policy affects everyone, everywhere, and increases taxes.</div>
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Luckily, Americans are waking-up. On Jan. 12, the American Farm Bureau Federation sued the EPA alleging excessive overreach. I expect Carroll and several other counties may file amicus briefs supporting our farmers.</div>
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In Spokane and Virginia, citizens demand withdrawal from the ICLE. Last week, Carroll's Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to terminate our ICLEI membership.</div>
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I encourage everyone to learn about this troubling movement by reviewing the UN Agenda 21 document. Note the emphasis on government control and wealth transfer. My democratic friends may wish to Google "Democrats against Agenda 21."</div>
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<em>Richard Rothschild, of Mount Airy, is a member of the Carroll County Board of Commissioners representing District 5.</em></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6048072250866865548.post-30027825876994699432012-01-09T09:59:00.000-08:002012-01-09T09:59:51.763-08:00Agenda 21 Projects in Odessa-Midland AreaStarting to dig for Agenda 21 projects that are local. I'll update this post as it goes. Here's the first one I've come across:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.rlc6.dcccd.edu/weeklyupdates/2010/12/18/odessa-college-officials-tour-rlc-campus-for-sustainable-building-ideas/">Odessa College officials tour RLC campus for sustainable building ideas</a></span></h1>
"It is Odessa College’s plan to engage in designing new buildings on their campus adhering to LEED criteria for sustainability and energy- and cost-efficiency. SHW Group, Inc. was the architectural firm that designed Medina Hall on the college campus in 1995."<br />
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Ah, crap!! I'm having to do and learn more stuff than it would take to get a doctoral degree on this junk!!! I know LEED is tied to the UN, but when I went over to document it, the dang NDAA bill is ALSO tied to it. <br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design">Here's a link to what LEED is</a>. My head hurts.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0