- TRACKING ECO-FASCIST TRENDS 0029
- “This intriguing development is very much a part of the
- globalist restructuring of our world in the name of private
- profit and corporate despotism. This is another way in which
- private corporations are working hand in hand with local
- government to enslave the people and remove, arrest, charge
- and perhaps even beat or kill anyone who gets in the way of
- private profit.” WELCOME TO NIGHTMARE THAT IS “AGENDA 21”
- WHAT IS ECO-FASCISM?
- (1) The Very Definition of Eco-fascism
- http://www.infowars.com/environmental-fascism-the-ecofascists-are-slowly-but-surely-taking-over-america/
- (2) Dr. Patrick Moore Exposes Hysteria Surrounding Global Warming
- In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, host Marc Clair
- welcomes in co-founder of Greenpeace, Dr. Patrick Moore! Dr. Moore
- describes how he first became interested in the science of ecology,
- and how his concern with environmental destruction led him to
- co-found Greenpeace. Marc discusses with Dr. Moore just why he
- left Greenpeace, and gets into some of the ideological issues he
- has with many aspects of the environmental movement today. Dr. Moore
- goes on to explain the problems he sees with the hysteria surrounding
- global warming and climate change, and how he sees the future of
- energy unfolding.
- http://lionsoflibertypodcast.podbean.com/mf/web/sipcmn/LOLPEp45PatrickMoore.mp3
- (3) Why is Everyone Talking About UN Agenda 21?
- http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/uploads/4/4/6/6/4466371/why_is_everyone_talking_about_un_agenda_21.pdf
- (4) MIT Professor ; It’s About “Crony Capitalism”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhEdTW7hPRs
- Mirror here » http://upsto.re/tFv3a9
- AND HOW DOES ECO-FASCISM EFFECT POPULATIONS?
- (5) Ways Government Keeps Native Americans In Poverty
- If governments and their corporate-masters had their
- way, everyone would be forced to live in federalized
- “preservations” where every aspect of life is audited.
- http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/03/13/5-ways-the-government-keeps-native-americans-in-poverty/
- (6) “We need to reduce consumption by 80%!”
- http://www.iclei.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ICLEI_WS/Documents/events/gth/presentations/ICLEI_GTH_ICLEIeuropeansecretariat_20130412.pdf
- Mirror here » http://fileb.ag/gkeagsv1odmf
- (7) The Redistribution of Consumption
- http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1147/and_now_the_redistribution_of_consumption
- (8) The Growing Threat of an Economic Tyranny
- http://www.infowars.com/hollow-justice-and-courts-of-order-in-an-age-of-government-sanctioned-tyranny/
- (9) Obama Promises to Bankrupt US Coal Industry
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw
- Mirror here » http://f.lui.li/get_1506_4f4d.html
- (10) THE SECRET BEHIND THE “ENVIRONMENTAL” AGENDA,
- NATURAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO THE SUPER RICH!
- http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/06/374307/wall-streets-unprecedented-land-grab/
- (11) Neighborhood Property Seized ... FOR NOTHING
- http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/kelo-revisited_776021.html
- (12) ARMED ECO-FASCIST GESTAPO BEING USED TO CONFISCATE
- PRIVATE PROPERTY TO LEASE FOR CORPORATE ENERGY PROJECTS!
- The Bureau of Land Management’s eco-fascist gestapo is
- stealing American property and livestock. In attempt to
- rationalize their theft, they claim they will “save the
- tortoise.” The BLM is using environmentalism to confuse
- people to condone their theft of private property - yet
- the BLM cashed in with $1.27 million for fracking leases
- in Nevada!
- http://www.naturalnews.com/044670_BLM_lies_fracking_leases_Bundy_ranch.html
- http://www.naturalnews.com/files/Petroleum-Data-Clark-County-Nevada.pdf
- http://m.shalereporter.com/industry/article_0de547ba-8ca4-11e2-ab4e-0019bb30f31a.html
- http://www.8newsnow.com/story/4877010/nevadas-hidden-treasure-black-gold
- Similar to the Natural News investigation, Infowars has
- found and mirrored some evidence also confirming the BLM is
- being used to confiscate public property for new solar power
- generation facilities as well. Harry Reid and his oldest son,
- Rory are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant,
- ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel
- manufacturing plant on private property. Rory Reid was the
- chief representative for the Chinese energy firm.
- http://www.infowars.com/breaking-sen-harry-reid-behind-blm-land-grab-of-bundy-ranch/
- http://www.infowars.com/feds-back-down-from-bundy-siege-after-infowars-expose-of-chinese-land-grab/
- http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/reid-smelling-anything-but-rosy-in-ranch-fight/
- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Harry-Reid-s-Son-Representing-Chinese-Solar-Panel-Plant-In-5-Billion-Nevada-Deal
- (13) The EPA Wants To Kill Organic Food Production
- http://livegreatfeelgreat.com/2014/06/epa-expand-use-bee-killing-pesticides/
- http://www.naturalnews.com/047753_deadly_herbicide_environmental_groups_EPA.html
- (14) Vets Died as VA Obsessed Over Renewable “Green” Energy
- The sick and halt wait but the solar panels don’t.
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/19/editorial-strange-priorities-at-the-va/
- HOW HAVE ECO-FASCISTS TRASHED HUMAN RIGHTS SO FAR?
- (15) How Dare Kids Build Tree Forts!?
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX-u_fzIMFw
- http://www.infowars.com/cop-pulls-gun-on-fifth-graders-building-tree-fort/
- http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/06/georgia-cop-pulls-gun-on-black-children-because-building-a-tree-house-is-hazardous/
- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/government-tells-california-family-scale-back-your-treehouse
- (16) How Dare You Wash Cars for Money!?
- http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/high-school-cheerleader-car-wash-violates-environmental-laws/
- http://survivalbackpack.us/city-bans-washing-cars-driveway/
- (17) How Dare You Plant a Vegetable Garden!?
- http://www.infowars.com/florida-couple-sues-city-after-being-forced-to-uproot-family-vegetable-garden/
- http://www.offthegridnews.com/2013/11/23/city-forces-couple-to-uproot-17-year-old-organic-garden/
- http://survivalbackpack.us/fda-ban-organic-farming/
- http://wearechange.org/swat-team-raids-organic-farm-confiscates-blueberries/
- http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/indiana-ginseng-harvest-crackdown/
- (18) How Dare You Use an Old Wood Stove!?
- http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2013-12/documents/proposed_requirements_for_wood_stoves_and_pellet_stoves.pdf%20
- http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/17776-epa-wants-to-snuff-out-wood-and-pellet-stoves
- http://www.independentsentinel.com/epa-bans-most-wood-burning-stoves-in-a-corrupt-scheme-fireplaces-next/
- http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/the-epa-takes-an-ax-to-self-sufficiency-most-woodburning-stoves-will-soon-be-illegal-09282013
- (19) How Dare You Use Old Electric Meters!?
- http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/deferring-inevitable_781518.html
- (20) How Dare You Use Old Electrical Appliances!?
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11061538/EU-to-ban-high-energy-hair-dryers-smartphones-and-kettles.html
- http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/eu-bans-high-powered-vacuum-cleaners/
- http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/08/21/eu-kicks-up-dust-with-a-ban-on-vacuum-cleaners-that-sucks/
- http://joannenova.com.au/2014/08/eu-bans-good-vacuum-cleaners-next-big-kettles-hot-irons/
- http://www.infowars.com/holy-smoke-epa-wants-to-regulate-bbq-grills/
- (21) How Dare You Use Incandescent Lightbulbs!?
- http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/01/09/the-dumbest-new-ban-in-2014-incandescent
- (22) How Dare Gun Owners Buy Lead Ammunition!?
- http://www.nssfblog.com/epa-considering-ban-on-traditional-ammunition-take-action-now/
- (23) How Dare We Use Coal Powered Energy!?
- http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/16250-obama-epa-war-on-coal-to-shut-200-coal-fired-plants-devastate-economy
- http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/obamas-epa-coal-regulations-increasing-natural-gas-prices-150/
- http://govtslaves.info/high-prices-shortages-follow-new-epa-mandate/
- (24) How Dare We Use Plastic Bags!?
- http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Plastic-Bag-Ban-at-Large-Retail-Stores-Begins-in-Los-Angeles-Recyclable-Reusable--238356621.html
- (25) How Dare We Smoke Cigarretes!?
- http://voices.yahoo.com/smoking-ban-passed-illinois-lawmakers-325179.html
- http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TOWN_VS_TOBACCO
- (26) How Dare We Use Electronic Cigarretes!?
- http://lionsofliberty.com/2014/08/27/tmr-2014-08-27/
- http://mashable.com/2013/12/19/new-york-city-adds-e-cigarettes-to-smoking-ban/
- http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/05/democrats_call_for_ban_on_e-cigarettes_on_capitol_121470.html
- (27) How Dare We Buy Heirloom Seeds!?
- http://truthstreammedia.com/eu-to-ban-heirloom-seeds-and-criminalize-unregistered-gardens/
- http://www.infowars.com/agri-terrorism-feds-shut-down-seed-library-in-pennsylvania/
- http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/carlisle/department-of-agriculture-cracks-down-on-seed-libraries/article_8b0323f4-18f6-11e4-b4c1-0019bb2963f4.html
- (28) How Dare You Feed Wildlife!?
- http://govtslaves.info/jailed-without-bond-81-year-old-woman-left-birdseed-outside-animals-property/
- (29) How Dare There Be Prosperity!?
- http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/21/un-global-prosperity-is-causing-global-warming/
- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/19/co2-emissions-outsourced-rich-nations-rising-economies
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/8/power-grab-epa-wants-to-garnish-wages-of-polluters/
- http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/idaho-swat-team-storms-yard-sale/
- (30) How Dare Kids Set Up a Lemonade Stand!?
- http://theweek.com/article/index/255939/whatrsquos-the-point-of-regulating-lemonade-stands
- http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/05/bay_to_breakers_kiddies_lemona.php/
- http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/05/19/Police-Shut-Down-of-11-Year-Old-s-Lemonade-Stand-at-California-Race-Widely-Unreported
- http://www.infowars.com/neighbor-calls-cops-on-boys-lemonade-stand/
- (31) How Dare You Own Property!?
- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/14/Wyoming-Suing-Obama-s-EPA-for-Stealing-1-Million-Acres-of-State-Property
- http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2014/08/feds-shut-down-last-oyster-cannery-in-california-simply-because-they-want-to-no-humans-allowed-at-pt-reyes-video/
- http://wtfrly.com/2014/10/10/agenda-21-land-grab-obama-designates-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument/
- http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/12/proposed-water-rule-put-property-rights-every-american-entirely-mercy-epa/
- (32) How Dare You Collect Rainwater!?
- http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/illegality-of-rainwater-collection/
- (33) Need Water? Tough Luck!
- Unelected bureaucrats around the country are forcing laws to
- ration water and in some cases, completely shutting off public
- access to water - interesting most of these local unelected
- bureaucrats most often associate with “environmentalism.”
- http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/01/31/dwr-cuts-allocations-to-organizations-buying-water-from-the-state/
- http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/18278-to-protect-a-mouse-forest-service-cuts-off-water-access-in-n-mex
- http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/20/3451488/detroit-water-shutoffs-complaint/
- https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/18/detr-j18.html
- https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/17/wate-j17.html
- https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/07/10-5
- http://survivalbackpack.us/court-ends-private-property-rights-water-controlled-government/
- http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/03/24/the-agenda-21-water-police-are-making-their-move-to-enslave-american-communities/
- (34) How Dare There Be Gold Mining!?
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/28/epa-moves-against-major-alaska-gold-mine-could-sideline-project-over-salmon/
- http://www.lockedandloadednews.com/bundy-ranch-type-standoff-brewing-in-southern-oregon-between-miners-and-blm/
- http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/2015/04/13/bundy-ranch-type-standoff-brewing-in-southern-oregon-between-miners-and-blm/
- (35) How Dare You Live Off The Grid!?
- http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2014/02/court-rules-off-the-grid-living-is-illegal/
- http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/gov-swat-teams-target-rugged-individuals-who-grow-their-own-food-produce-their-own-electricity-01042014
- (36) How Dare You Live Near Water!?
- http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/biggest-land-grab-in-the-history-of-the-world/
- http://wealthydebates.com/epa-requesting-jurisdiction-public-private-streams-us/
- http://www.naturalnews.com/044912_EPA_land_grab_seasonal_streams.html
- http://govtslaves.info/epa-set-regulate-private-ditches-streams/
- http://wearechange.org/new-epa-land-grab-complete-control-private-land-america/
- http://www.thedailysheeple.com/epa-bullies-wyoming-family-and-threatens-them-with-massive-fines-over-a-duck-pond_032014
- http://survivalbackpack.us/mega-banks-monopolizing-control-water/
- http://survivalbackpack.us/court-ends-private-property-rights-water-controlled-government/
- http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/03/24/the-agenda-21-water-police-are-making-their-move-to-enslave-american-communities/
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/27/blueprint-for-water-control-pol-says-epa-secretly-created-maps-for-new/
- http://dailysignal.com/2014/08/30/maps-developed-secret-suggest-epa-may-expanding-regulation/
- http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/12/proposed-water-rule-put-property-rights-every-american-entirely-mercy-epa/
- (37) How Dare You Have an Alternative Opinion!?
- http://www.infowars.com/college-professor-calls-for-climate-change-deniers-to-be-imprisoned/
- http://www.infowars.com/liberal-fascist-calls-for-global-warming-skeptics-to-be-arrested/
- http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/04/07/gawker-says-arrest-climate-change-deniers-but-where-would-we-put-them/
- http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/16/al-gore-sxsw-punish-climate-deniers/
- (38) How Dare You Use a Gun On You’re Property!?
- http://www.guns.com/2014/05/02/florida-carry-saf-file-lawsuit-against-tallahassee-for-gun-restriction/
- (39) How Dare Farmers Have Livestock!?
- http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2014/04/holda_change_in_rules_for_mich.html
- http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/05/02/michigan-bans-animals-on-small-farms/
- http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/michigan-right-to-farm/
- http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/seaford-oyster-company/
- http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/its-a-bad-day-to-be-a-striped-pig-03282012
- (40) How Dare You Provide Organic Food!?
- http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/07/daisy-luther/the-food-stasi/
- http://govtslaves.info/food-nazis-attack-michigan-stealth/
- http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/michigan-dept-of-agri-forces-farmer-to-dump-248-gallons-of-organic-milk-and-break-1200-free-range-eggs-07222014
- (41) How Dare You Invite People Into You’re Home!?
- http://govtslaves.info/virginia-proposal-limit-many-people-can-visit-house/
- (42) How Dare You Sit on a Public Sidewalk!?
- http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/25453493/police-say-dont-sit-on-downtown-spokane-sidewalks
- (43) How Dare You Grow Blueberries in Police State USA!?
- http://wearechange.org/swat-team-raids-organic-farm-confiscates-blueberries/
- (44) How Dare We Use Natural Gas!?
- Natural gas - the thing that environmentalists lobbied for
- since the 1960s is now considered a threat. How ironic.
- http://www.science20.com/science_20/now_that_natural_gas_is_working_methane_is_being_called_more_damaging_than_co2-136356
- (45) How Dare You Give Away Books, You Slaves!?
- http://www.kmbc.com/news/leawood-shuts-down-boys-little-free-library/26552394
- http://boingboing.net/2014/06/19/boy-9-creates-library-in-his.html
- (46) How Dare You Not Have A Perfect Lawn!?
- http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/abilene-grass-length/
- http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/korte-brown-grass/
- http://www.fox10phoenix.com/story/26809043/woman
- http://thefreethoughtproject.com/protecting-serving-texas-man-thrown-jail-weeks-lawn-overgrown/
- http://www.infowars.com/family-threatened-with-government-force-for-building-cardboard-fort-in-their-own-front-yard/
- http://www.infowars.com/government-demands-father-demolish-cardboard-fort-he-built-for-his-kids/
- (47) How Dare You Take Pictures of Wilderness Areas!?
- http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/photography-permits-in-national-forests/
- http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/10/u-s-government-wants-to-charge-1500-to-take-a-photo-in-federal-wilderness-areas/
- TRACKING THE TRENDS OF ECO-FASCISM!
- (48) The EPA Can’t Even Keep Their Own Environment Clean
- Contractors built secret man caves in an EPA warehouse, an
- employee pretended to work for the CIA to get unlimited
- vacations and one worker even spent most of his time on the
- clock looking at pornography.
- It appears, however, that a regional office has reached a new
- low: Management for Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email
- earlier this year to all staff in the area pleading with them
- to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior, including defecating
- in the hallway.
- http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/shock-epa-cant-keep-environment-clean-employees-asked-stop-defecating-office-hallways/
- Well, this puts a new spin on the term “government waste”:
- confounded with the problem of an unknown individual leaving
- feces in public hallways, a regional branch of the Environmental
- Protection Agency hired an outside consultant to inform their
- employees that pooping in hallways is bad.
- Government Executive got their hands on an email from the
- management EPA’s Region 8 in Denver, Colo., in which a supervisor
- begged his employees to stop “placing feces in the hallway” and
- clogging up toilets with paper towels. While this is, obviously,
- a very disgusting matter, the story veers into pretty dumb
- territory soon:
- Confounded by what to make of this occurrence, EPA management
- “consulted” with workplace violence “national expert” John
- Nicoletti, who said that hallway feces is in fact a health and
- safety risk. He added the behavior was “very dangerous” and the
- individuals responsible would “probably escalate” their actions.
- According to his bio, Nicoletti is, indeed, a nationally-recognized
- expert on workplace and school violence prevention, with accolades
- from the National Science Foundation and numerous chairmanships.
- He’s even “a member of NASA’s team for developing analog’s for
- training astronauts for long duration missions, such as the
- Mars Mission.”
- Why such a distinguished mind was consulted by the EPA to reach
- the conclusion that “placing feces in the hallway” is bad, we’ll
- never know.
- http://www.mediaite.com/online/epa-hires-consultant-to-tell-them-that-pooping-in-hallways-is-bad/
- NOTE: these are the kinds of people who are calling for total
- micro-managment over all aspects of the American economy ...
- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/new-epa-regs-issued-under-obama-are-38-times-long-bible
- A new report reveals that the story is even more disturbing.
- http://www.mediaite.com/online/mystery-epa-poop-story-is-worse-than-we-thought/
- http://www.infowars.com/report-mystery-epa-employee-poops-spreads-menstrual-blood-around-office/
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- (49) Incandescent Ban to Bankrupt Bird Care Centre
- http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/incandescent-bulb-ban-leaves-bird-care-centre-with-dim-hope-1.2492890
- Ottawa’s Wild Bird Care Centre has put the call
- out for incandescent light bulbs, which it uses to
- provide warmth for injured and recovering birds,
- after the federal government banned manufacturers
- from making the bulbs.
- In Canada, the more energy-efficient compact
- fluorescent light bulbs are considered the norm.
- The incandescent light bulbs use more power, but
- they are also warmer and serve an important role
- inside incubators.
- “As the light bulb is on, it will obviously warm
- things up and then the setting will turn it off to
- keep the right temperature,” explained Mireille
- Goguen, who works at the centre.
- She said they were caught off-guard by the bulb
- ban and they are already running short on
- incandescent bulbs. Now they are asking people
- to donate 100-watt bulbs.
- “(We will take) as many as possible. If people
- have them hanging around we will take them or if
- they want to buy them for us it would be much
- appreciated,” said Goguen.
- Donations can be dropped off at the centre,
- which is located on Moodie Drive in the city’s
- west end.
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- (50) Plastic Bag Ban is a TAX SCAM
- http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Opponents-Slam-Proposed-Plastic-Bag-Ban-236474401.html
- Opponents of a proposed plastic bag ban gathered
- Wednesday to call on the San Diego City Council to
- abandon the plan to remove plastic bags from local
- stores.
- Community leaders, including Mark Arabo, president
- of the Neighborhood Market Association, held a press
- conference in front of Rainbow Market on Federal
- Boulevard in which they called the proposed ban a
- tax scam that will negatively impact working-class
- San Diegans.
- “This is a terrible plan. It’s terrible because
- the solution is worse than the so-called problem,”
- said Arabo. “It’s a classic case of politicians
- attempting to do something for the environment,
- in part to appease some environmental groups,
- without seeing the bigger picture.”
- The proposed ban would remove plastic bags from
- stores while imposing a paper bag tax on customers.
- Shoppers would be charged 10 cents for each paper
- bag they might need at a store.
- “This ban will have reaching ramifications. It’ll
- cost taxpayers – mothers, fathers and brothers –
- more money when they go shopping for groceries,”
- said Arabo.
- Though the ban is designed to reduce waste and
- help the environment, Arabo argued that plastic
- bags only make up one-third of one percent of
- the waste stream.
- On the other end of the plastic bag ban debate,
- Sherri Lightner, San Diego City Council President
- Pro Tem, District 1, supports the proposed ban.
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- (51) Eco-fascists Want to Police Households
- http://www.chicoer.com/editorials/ci_24875035/editorial-toilet-police-dont-want-job
- The state mandates water-saving toilets and showers
- in all homes, but obviously didn’t think long about
- how to achieve that.
- First the city of Chico had the ban on nuclear weapons,
- then wood-burning stoves, then plastic bags. Now
- comes a ban on high-flow toilets. And if you think
- the city can’t enforce that, then you haven’t met
- the toilet police.
- OK, so the title “Toilet Police” probably doesn’t
- appear on any city worker’s business card, but
- that’s what they are.
- But let’s not blame city building inspectors for
- an odd law — or even the Chico City Council. For
- once, this ridiculous save-the-world concept doesn’t
- come from the council, but rather from the busybodies
- in the state Legislature. They passed a law that took
- effect Jan. 1 that requires water-conserving plumbing
- fixtures on any home built before 1994.
- How will that be enforced? Well, if a property has
- any work done that requires a building permit from
- a city or county, that entity’s inspector must verify
- that the home has low-flow toilets, showers and faucets.
- To make it even more disturbing, the low-flow
- inspection doesn’t occur if you’re getting plumbing
- work. It occurs if you’re getting any work that requires
- a building permit, such as getting a new heater, new
- windows or converting a garage into a den. Uh, maybe.
- So under the letter of the law, if a homeowner buys
- a new water heater or fireplace insert for a couple
- hundred dollars, he or she might spend considerably
- more than that converting all toilets, faucets and
- showerheads to low-flow devices.
- City and county building inspectors don’t want to be
- toilet police. We can’t imagine them wanting to spend
- time checking a person’s toilet when they’re there
- to check an air conditioner. They’re taking a loose
- interpretation of the law for now, and won’t inspect
- toilets during projects like repairs and maintenance
- that don’t involve plumbing.
- But there’s no guarantee the state, which passed
- the law, won’t require cities and counties to enforce
- a strict interpretation.
- With all the uncertainty, it entices a homeowner to
- ignore the government requirement to get a building
- permit for minor home improvement projects.
- Governments should be concerned if fewer people take
- out building permits. It means less revenue for
- cash-strapped local governments.
- The building industry is concerned that residents
- may put off rebuilding and home improvement projects
- because they would include this unwanted expense.
- With the building industry and contractors finally
- showing signs of recovery from the recession, we
- don’t want to see new obstacles.
- Once again the state passes a goofy law without
- thinking about the consequences, since somebody else
- has to enforce it. The city and county building
- departments urge residents not to be scared off by
- the new laws, to call and ask questions. It seems
- they are like the rest of us, trying to figure out
- how long they can ignore the fools in Sacramento
- before they get caught.
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- (52) DOE Eco-fascists Roll Out Household Spy Grid
- DOE says its energy-scoring spyware - called the
- Home Energy Scoring Tool - is like a vehicle’s
- mile-per-gallon rating because it allows government
- to compare the energy performance of individual homes
- to other homes nationwide. It also provides homeowners
- with suggestions (or mandates, in the near future)
- for “improving their homes’ efficiency.”
- The software is part of the government’s effort
- to reduce the nation’s energy consumption; but it’s
- also billed as a way to keep home-retrofitting going,
- at a time when stimulus funds for weather-proofing
- have run out - you see, the federated fascists care
- more about spying on our energy consumption rather
- than providing weather-proof options for our homes.
- Read the rest of the “trendy” PR garbage here,
- http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/doe-plugs-energy-rating-homes-similar-mpg-rating-cars
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- (53) “Sustainable Communities Investment Authority”
- Plan to Bulldoze Households for Corporate Projects
- http://benswann.com/californias-dangerous-idea-give-unelected-bureaucrats-the-power-to-confiscate-the-private-property-of-americans/
- California’s Senate Bill 1 is what the founding
- fathers fought against. Straight from the UN Agenda
- 21’s playbook, SB1 will give power to a county to
- form a “Sustainable Communities Investment Authority”
- (SCIA). These Authorities have the power of eminent
- domain and can confiscate private property to build
- “sustainable communities.” The bill essentially paves
- the way for the loss of any true private property in
- California, resulting in the loss of freedom and
- driving down home values. If the Senate passes the
- modified bill, only Governor Jerry Brown (D – CA)
- will stand in its way of becoming law.
- This means that city and county governments can
- create unelected bureaucracies with the power to do
- what’s necessary to create “sustainable communities.”
- It also means that the definition of “blight” will
- change from the original definition of abandoned
- and decaying buildings on residential lots to a
- much wider definition including anything the
- bureaucracies need to create sustainable communities.
- Not only would the government be able to use eminent
- domain to procure land for public transportation,
- it could take private homes within half a mile of
- that public transportation in the name of creating
- a sustainable community. A private home is not
- really private if it could be taken at any time
- to create low income, low energy housing.
- According to Lawrence J. McQuillan, “each Authority
- will be granted powers to build “Sustainable Communities”
- means jamming people into dense, urban centers using
- high-density residential housing and high-intensity
- retail and commercial buildings near mass transit
- corridors. To that end, SB 1 will grant each
- Authority unprecedented powers.”
- Eminent domain has gradually grown to be one of the
- most oppressive government policies. Since the
- SCOTUS’ decision in Kelo v. City of New London,
- eminent domain continues to be the enemy of property
- owners. Homeowners have lost their homes to private
- development projects. People have been paid less for
- their land than they originally paid for it. Businesses
- have even been forced to sell their buildings to
- corporations. It has become perhaps the most clearly
- identifiable example of crony capitalism and corruption
- in the country. The government has failed to protect
- citizen’s natural rights: protecting life, liberty,
- and property.
- In 2011, citizens voiced outrage over the ideas
- presented by activists, environmentalists and
- private developers. Property owners are worried
- that Senate Bill 1 will pass and the threat of
- increased taxes and possible property confiscation
- will become a reality in California.
- Read the full analysis of Senate Bill 1.
- http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_1_cfa_20130307_114042_sen_comm.html
- Sponsors ; Darrell Steinberg & Mark DeSaulnier
- http://legiscan.com/CA/bill/SB1/2013
- SB1 Declares Suburbs & Rural Areas “Blight”
- http://www.bayarealiberty.com/libertyblog/?page_id=942
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- (54) Eco-fascist Obama Forces New Trucker Regulations
- History is in the making today as the Obama regime
- has announced, for the first time ever, new regulations
- for medium- and heavy-duty trucks regarding both fuel
- economy requirements and emissions standards.
- The new standards are the result of a mandate first
- set in motion in 2007 by Congress, and later by an
- Executive Order issued by President Obama in May of
- last year. The regulations will apply to medium and
- heavy-duty trucks built in 2014 through 2018, aimed
- at reducing annual national fuel consumption by 530
- million barrels.
- The new regulations will be aimed at one of three
- specific subsets of trucks: combination tractors
- (commonly referred to as semi-trucks), heavy-duty
- pickup trucks and vans and vocational vehicles.
- Each category will have its own regulations, but
- the end goal is to reduce fuel consumption by as
- much as 20 percent by 2018, which is the case for
- semi-trucks.
- The category that will affect more than just freight
- companies and large business owners, heavy-duty trucks
- and vans, will require about a 15 percent improvement
- in required fuel economy, although standards will be
- unique based on fuel type.
- Vocational trucks, or delivery trucks, garbage trucks
- and buses, will be mandated to reduce fuel consumption
- by about 10 percent by 2018.
- http://www.leftlanenews.com/obama-reveals-mediumheavy-duty-truck-epa-regulations-for-2014-2018.html
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- (55) Eco-fascist Regulations to Shut Down 40 Percent
- of Nation’s Electricity
- http://wealthydebates.com/obama-regulations-to-shut-down-40-percent-of-nations-electricity/
- Obama administration regulations could force power
- plants that make 40 percent of the nation’s electricity
- to shut down.
- At issue are EPA restrictions on emissions that would
- close hundreds of coal-burning power plants which
- represent around 40 percent of the nation’s electricity.
- If that wasn’t bad enough, some observers think the
- regulations could double electricity rates for average
- households. The rates would increase because utilities
- would have to pass the cost onto ratepayers of replacing
- coal burning power plants or modernizing them to comply
- with the regulations.
- The EPA rules — Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power
- Plants — are part of Obama’s plan to reduce greenhouse
- gas emissions which the agency says contribute to global
- warming.
- Obama Admitted Plan Would Raise Electricity Rates
- There is some evidence that President Obama has a
- deliberate strategy of increasing electricity rates and
- destroying the coal industry.
- “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity
- rates would necessarily skyrocket,” Obama told the editorial
- board of The San Francisco Chronicle in 2008. “Even
- regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or
- bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power
- plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever
- the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would
- have to, retrofit their operations. That will cost money.
- They will pass that money on to consumers.”
- “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant,
- they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them,” Obama
- said, “because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for
- all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”
- Obama’s prediction about coal plants have been proven
- true. As Off The Grid News previously reported, in October
- 2013, FirstEnergy Corp announced that it would shut down
- two coal-fired powered plants in Pennsylvania because it
- said the cost of complying with EPA regulations was too high.
- Reuters estimated that coal-burning power plants capable
- of generating 15,000 megawatts of electricity have shut
- down since Obama took office in 2009. The news service
- also estimates that power plants that generate around
- 37,000 megawatts of power will close in the next 10
- years. One megawatt can provide electricity to up to
- about 1,000 homes.
- Awfully Expensive Electricity
- Those plants will be closing at a time when demand for
- electricity is increasing. That will force utilities to
- build power plants that burn other fuels such as natural
- gas. It will add additional cost to electricity rates at
- a time when the rates are already going up dramatically.
- “It could get awfully expensive,” Daniel Simmons of the
- Institute for Energy Research told World Net Daily. “Some
- people might see their electricity rates double. If there’s
- no backup power plants, that means electricity is going to
- get awfully expensive when you have shortages around the
- country.
- Another Obama Plan To Raise Your Electric Bill
- “We’re talking about dramatically increasing the cost of
- electricity all to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. I
- think that is the real goal,” Simmons said.
- Another Obama administration plan to reduce greenhouse
- emissions, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, or CSS technology,
- could raise electricity costs even more, Simmons predicted.
- He noted that a an experimental CSS power plant in the
- United States will cost an estimated $4.3 billion to build
- and the EPA doesn’t know if the technology would work.
- “The technology is awfully expensive because it hasn’t
- been tried anywhere, and that’s to try to capture the
- carbon dioxide as it comes out after they burn the coal.”
- Simmons said of CSS.
- CSS involves the use of filters to divert carbon emissions
- from the air – and every taxpaying American will pay. The
- CSS plants under construction will require $300 million in
- taxpayer subsidies.
- US Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has been critical
- of the Obama administration’s policy on coal.
- “This Administration is trying to hold the coal industry
- to impossible standards,” Manchin said. “Never before has
- the federal government forced an industry to do something
- that is technologically impossible. Forcing coal to meet
- nearly the same emissions standards as gas when experts
- know that the required technology is not operational on
- a commercial scale makes absolutely no sense and will have
- devastating impacts to the coal industry and our economy.”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw
- (UPDATE) Supreme Court Rules EPA Can Enforce Endless Limits
- In Power Plant Emissions
- In a 6-2 decision, the justices sided with a 2011
- regulation issued by the US Environmental Protection
- Agency that had been challenged by Ohio Attorney General
- Mike DeWine and officials in states which produce large
- amounts of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.
- Melissa McHenry, a spokeswoman for American Electric
- Power in Columbus, called the decision disappointing,
- but because the justices have returned the case to the
- federal appeals court “there is no immediate impact on
- AEP’s operations and we don’t expect the decision to
- change our plans for our coal-fueled power generation
- fleet.”
- McHenry said that “emissions of sulfur dioxide and
- nitrogen oxide from AEP’s coal-fueled power plants
- already have been reduced by more than 80 percent since
- 1990. Our mercury emissions have declined by nearly 60
- percent since 2001, and between 2005 and 2013, AEP
- reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 21 percent.
- AEP will retire nearly 6,600 megawatts for coal-fueled
- generation between now and 2016.”
- http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/04/29/supreme-court-epa-ruling.html
- So, get ready to live in a third-world country where
- many power plants will continue to shut down as America’s
- utility bills skyrocket ...
- http://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2014/04/29/epa-regulations-set-to-increase-natural-gas-prices-by-150-percent/
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- (56) Obama Admits Climate Agenda Has NOTHING To Do With
- “Global Warming” (It’s About Government Control Stupid!)
- Dictatorships always desire to control and ration
- countries’ natural resources and now it’s happening
- right here, in America.
- http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/23/obama-admits-his-climate-agenda-wont-curb-global-warming/
- President Barack Obama admitted in an interview with
- The New Yorker that his plan to lower US carbon dioxide
- emissions by banning new coal plants would do little to
- curb global warming since developing countries like
- China and India will still use coal power.
- The Obama administration published its proposed
- carbon dioxide emissions limits for new coal plants
- which would effectively ban coal power. That is,
- unless they use commercially unproven carbon capture
- and storage (CCS) technologies. Tighter emission
- controls for coal plants are part of Obama’s plan
- to fight global warming.
- Critics of the administration argue that banning
- coal plants won’t curb global warming because
- developing countries continue to build coal plants,
- frustrating US efforts to lower global carbon emissions.
- Obama conceded that fact, but argued that limiting
- emissions here will only help the US because other
- countries will come to us for the technology once
- we’ve developed it.
- “And so if we can figure out a carbon-capture mechanism
- that is sufficiently advanced and works, then we are
- helping ourselves, because the Chinese and the Indians
- are going to build some coal plants, and even if we
- don’t build another coal plant in this country, there
- are going to be a lot of coal plants around the world
- that are built,” Obama told the New Yorker.
- “And we have a huge investment in trying to figure
- out how we can help them do it more cleanly,” he added.
- Obama hopes that by requiring new US coal plants to
- use CCS technologies, the country could become a world
- leader and export the technology abroad when other
- nations can afford it. If the US doesn’t lead, Obama
- argues, other countries will not follow.
- “And it’s not sufficient for us to just tell them to
- stop,” Obama said. “We’re going to have to give them
- some help. We’re going to have to take some of our
- research and development on things like clean-coal
- technology and be able to export it to them or license
- it to them… There’s going to be a process where we
- help them leapfrog some of the development stages
- that we went through.”
- “This is why I’m putting a big priority on our carbon
- action plan here. It’s not because I’m ignorant of the
- fact that these emerging countries are going to be a
- bigger problem than us,” Obama added. “It’s because
- it’s very hard for me to get in that conversation if
- we’re making no effort. And it’s not an answer for us
- to say, ‘Well, since the Chinese and the Indians are
- the bigger problem, we might as well not even bother.’”
- Indeed, countries like China and India are set to
- ramp up their coal use dramatically. The World Resource
- Institute reports that 76 percent of the proposed
- coal-fired capacity is in India and China — nearly
- 1,200 coal plants have been proposed globally, totaling
- more than 1.4 million megawatts of power.
- The Chinese greenlit 100 million metric tons of new
- coal production capacity last year as part of the
- government’s plan to bring 860 million metric tons
- of coal production online by 2015.
- The US coal industry, however, says CCS is not yet
- proven technology as there are no commercial-scale
- coal plants in the country that uses the technology.
- In fact, when the Environmental Protection Agency
- wrote its rule limiting coal plant emissions it only
- cited CCS projects that were government funded and
- not in operation.
- “It is disingenuous to state that the technology is
- ‘ready,’” said Charles McConnell, former assistant
- secretary of energy in Obama. “Studies have verified
- that implementation of [CSS] technology is necessary
- to comply with EPA’s proposed [EPA carbon-emissions
- limits] regulation and meet the [greenhouse gas]
- targets necessary for limiting CO2 emissions to our
- atmosphere.”
- “However, commercial [CSS] technology currently is
- not available to meet EPA’s proposed rule. The cost
- of current CO2 capture technology is much too high
- to be commercially viable,” said McConnell, who now
- serves as the executive director of the Energy &
- Environment Initiative at Rice University.
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- (57) Eco-fascist Governments Love to Steal Property
- The builder of a fantastical fortress in the Mojave
- Desert has been sentenced to jail for failing to pay
- for the demolition of his life’s work. Why art isn’t
- sacred in the eyes of code enforcers.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonehenge_West
- The bearded builder of Phonehenge West, a structure
- that became a famed piece of Mojave Desert folk art,
- is heading to jail after a Los Angeles County judge
- found he wasn’t paying enough toward the demolition
- of the fortress.
- Los Angeles County charged builder Alan Kimble Fahey
- $82,000 last year to demolish the structure, which
- included a 70-foot tower, stained-glass windows, a
- working windmill, and a replica of a Viking house
- in Antelope Valley, some 50 miles north of Los Angeles.
- This week, LA County Superior Court Judge Daviann
- Mitchell sentenced him to 539 days in jail after
- raising doubts about his inability to make payments
- on the bill.
- http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/1222/Phonehenge-West-creator-jailed-When-folk-art-and-building-codes-collide
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- (58) Eco-fascists Call for Ban on E-Cigarettes
- Several eco-fascist senators and a congressman want
- electronic cigarettes banned on the US Capitol grounds.
- In a letter sent yesterday to the House Office
- Building Commission and the Senate Committee on
- Rules, Dick Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Sherrod Brown,
- Ed Markey, Tom Harkin and Barbara Boxer, along with
- retiring Rep. Henry Waxman, said that e-cigarettes
- should be treated the same way as cigarettes. The
- latter are currently banned at the Capitol, nearby
- office buildings, and within 25 feet of the entrance
- of those buildings.
- http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/02/05/democrats_call_for_ban_on_e-cigarettes_on_capitol_121470.html
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- (59) Eco-fascist “Officials” Deny Farmers Water
- California officials announced last week they will
- not send any water from the state’s vast reservoir
- system to local agencies this spring, the first time
- that has happened in the 54-year history of the
- State Water Project. State Department of Water
- Resources Director Mark Cowin said there simply is
- not enough water in the system to meet the needs
- of farmers, cities and the “conservation efforts.”
- http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/01/31/dwr-cuts-allocations-to-organizations-buying-water-from-the-state/
- UPDATE! SAVE THE FAMILIES FROM THOSE ECO-FASCISTS!
- Men, women and children could die because arrogant
- politicians are not allowing water access to family
- farmers - which should be considered a crime against
- basic human rights.
- Jerry Brown has exposed himself as an Eco-fascist.
- http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/02/03/gov-jerry-brown-calls-congress-drought-bill-unwelcome-and-divisive/
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- (60) New Eco-fascist Regulations to Skyrocket
- Electric Bills
- http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/doe-coal-regs-hike-price-electricity-70-80
- During the House hearing, “Department of Energy
- Oversight: Status of Clean Coal Programs,” Joe Barton
- (R-Texas) asked Dr. Julio Friedmann, the deputy
- assistant secretary for clean coal at the Department
- of Energy, about the additional costs carbon capture
- and storage technology would bring to coal plants.
- “My generic question is pretty straightforward. All
- of these carbon capture sequestration technologies
- - add cost to these coal plants could y’all give
- the committee, or the subcommittee, kind of a
- baseline estimate of how much it adds to the cost,
- does it double the cost, does it increase it by
- 25%, 50%, what’s the generic estimate?” Barton asked.
- “The precise number will vary by plant, whether it’s
- sub-critical or supercritical, by coal rank, and by
- the kind of technology used,” said Friedman.
- Concerning the first generation of carbon capture
- and storage (CCS) technology to be implemented,
- Friedman added “we’re looking at something on the
- order of $70-90 a ton. In that context, that looks
- something like a 70-80% increase on the wholesale
- price of electricity.”
- In short, that’s a knife to the throat for the
- American middle class.
- http://www.infowars.com/obamas-war-on-coal-is-going-to-kill-jobs-and-sent-electricty-rates-skyrocketing/
- When Barack Obama was running for president in 2008,
- he stated that under his plan “electricity rates would
- necessarily skyrocket”. Well, now it looks like he is
- finally getting around to keeping his promise. New EPA
- rules that are designed to cripple the coal industry
- could send electricity rates soaring by up to 40 percent
- in many rural areas. And even though we have enough
- coal in the ground to provide hundreds of years of
- energy at current levels of consumption, Obama’s plan
- is going to force large numbers of coal plants to
- completely shut down because they are simply going to
- become too expensive to operate. If Americans living
- in rural communities didn’t care for Obama before, they
- really are not going to like him much when these new
- EPA regulations start kicking in.
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- (61) Eco-fascist Smart Meter Gestapo Raids Nevada Home ::
- Nevada is supposedly one of those states with a smart
- meter ‘opt out’ policy. On the ground, however, the
- reality is that Nevada Energy Inc. is raiding home
- owners who have legally opted out.
- http://www.activistpost.com/2012/09/smart-meter-or-no-power-at-all-nevada.html
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- (62) Eco-fascist Corporations Begin to Shut Off
- Electricity to Political Activists’ Homes
- http://www.activistpost.com/2014/02/utilities-desperate-to-quash-dissent.html
- On the heels of Northeast Utilities admitting that
- smart meters are “irrational”, we’re seeing the wheels
- of reason and logic further come off the centralized
- energy cart(el).
- In what is an illegal and thinly-veiled “psy-op”
- (psychological operation) attempting to stem the
- rising tide of awareness of the massive rights
- violations associated with their ‘smart’ meter
- deployments, Plumas Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative
- (PSREC) actually disconnected the electricity from
- the home of Joshua Hart, a leader in the movement
- and director of StopSmartMeters.org.
- http://stopsmartmeters.org/2014/02/19/disconnected/
- As documented in our boat-rocking film Take Back Your
- Power, so-called ‘smart’ meter deployments are beleagured
- on many levels, being linked to in-home surveillance,
- unjustified billing increases, extortive “opt-out”
- practices/fees, home and appliance hackability, health
- symptoms (from pulsed microwave radiation and high-frequency
- voltage transients), and a rather long list of home fires.
- Like hundreds of thousands, perhaps upwards of a
- million now in Western countries, Hart is choosing to
- not have a ‘smart’ meter installed, preferring to not
- to have his living quarters be surveiled, irradiated
- or made easily hackable. And like many, he is not
- contributing to his utility’s Punitive Opt-Out Fund
- for the insolence of exercising constitutional and
- human right. (There are many ways to retain your right
- and not pay a fee or penalty for doing so — we have
- written about one such method here. Under no
- circumstances are you obligated to pay a fee to keep
- your analog meter, though writing a well-written
- notice via registered mail is often required.)
- Joshua Hart said on his website: “This is the first
- disconnect by PSREC for failure to pay ‘opt out’ fees.
- No one in PG&E/ SCE/ SDG&E areas of California have
- been disconnected solely for refusal to pay ‘opt out’
- fees, and thousands have been ignoring toothless
- disconnect warnings and deducting the fees from their
- bill every month. Why are utilities going to such
- lengths to silence critics of their smart meter
- policies?”
- So-called ‘smart’ meters are not UL approved and have
- never been safety-tested. But according to grid
- engineering firms such as Raab Associates they are
- part of a technology roadmap which includes “mining
- data for intel” purposes, and “data mining and
- analytics” becoming core competency. What’s perhaps
- even more troubling is the connection between ‘smart’
- meters and military R&D funding.
- Thank goodness that huge numbers of people are
- realizing that, yes, our government is so corrupt,
- they would actually do deploy such technology upon
- their own people. Nipping the cognitive dissonance
- squarely in the bud is the starting point for things
- to change for the better.
- Of government/corporatist/utility desire to maintain
- domination over their awakening customers, when
- pondering the latest PR stunts, the word “desperation”
- doth cometh to mind.
- And when you watch the below video of PSREC’s General
- Manager Bob Marshall fighting with his conscience,
- you have to wonder how much he got paid off to
- disconnect, photograph and stalk Joshua Hart and
- his family. In an absurd demonstration of doublespeak
- -cronyism, Marshall actually accuses the individual
- whose electricity he illegally disconnected of being
- the bully. See for yourself:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33cjPZepb9c
- Re-mirrored here »
- http://www.uploadmini.com/index.php/files/get/BhgwS86E2I/eco-fascist-bob-marshall-psrec-general-manager.mp4
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- (63) EPA Gestapo Will Not Allow Prosperous Opportunity ::
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/28/epa-moves-against-major-alaska-gold-mine-could-sideline-project-over-salmon/
- The EPA gestapo on Friday moved against a massive mine
- project in Alaska which supporters say could contain
- billions of dollars in gold and copper, delivering a
- win for ‘environmentalists’ who claimed the mine could
- endanger sockeye salmon populations.
- The decision on Pebble Mine was highly anticipated,
- and comes after an EPA report in January found
- large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed posed
- significant risk to salmon and could adversely affect
- Alaska Natives in the region, whose culture is built
- around salmon.
- The gestapo will now examine whether to block or
- otherwise restrict the mine project. But that decision
- alone promises to significantly delay the project;
- whether the EPA decides to bar construction entirely
- remains to be seen.
- The action, announced Friday, is what supporters of
- the proposed Pebble Mine have feared. Backers have
- claimed the project could yield more than 100 million
- ounces of gold, 80 billion pounds of copper and other
- precious minerals. Companies have spent millions
- researching and monitoring the area in an effort to
- assure the EPA the mine would not cause ecological
- damage.
- It’s well over due for some class-action lawsuits
- against this gestapo who consistently interferes in
- just about everything in today’s society.
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- (64) Court Rules Off-The-Grid Living Is Illegal
- Speronis disconnected all the utilities from her
- modest home in Cape Coral for an experiment in
- off-the-grid living some time ago. City officials
- ignored her activities until she went public and
- discussed them with Liza Fernandez, a reporter for
- a local TV station. A code enforcement officer
- designated Speronis’s home as uninhabitable and gave
- her an eviction notice a day after the piece aired.
- http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/02/22/court-rules-off-the-grid-living-is-illegal/
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- (65) Grandmother Gets Eviction Notice for Colored Drape
- http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2014/03/25/grandmother-gets-eviction-notice-labeling-american-flag-a-colored-drape/
- Oregon woman who was threatened with eviction if
- she did not remove the American flag from her front
- window has now been asked to place the “colored drape”
- on a flag pole.
- Elodia Royce, 58, received a notice two weeks ago
- that she would face eviction after an eco-fascist
- neighbor complained to the landlord about the “colored
- drape” placed in her window. But the “colored drape”
- is an American flag she has displayed for six years
- in support of her family and friends who have served
- in the military, KGW-TV reports.
- http://www.kgw.com/news/Grandmother-faces-eviction-over-a-US-flag-251797901.html
- UPDATE: Another Grandmother Gets Eviction Notice for Flag
- An 86-year-old Ohio woman is currently fighting her townhome management
- after being ordered to remove an American flag from her front porch.
- Julia Lease, who has lived in the Whitehall complex for more than 36
- years, discovered the violation notice on her door earlier this week.
- “I thought, after all these years, how can they make me take my flag down?”
- Lease told the Columbia Dispatch. “I can’t see how an American flag can
- detract from anything.”
- http://www.infowars.com/townhome-management-orders-86-year-old-woman-to-remove-american-flag/
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- (66) Professor Calls For ‘Deniers’ To Be Imprisoned
- A professor with Rochester Institute of Technology
- has called for the incarceration of any American who
- actively disagrees that climate change is solely caused
- by human activity.
- Lawrence Torcello, a philosophy professor with a Ph.D.
- from the University at Buffalo, published the comments
- as part of an essay submitted to the academic website
- The Conversation.
- Torcello argues that malignant individuals, who he
- does not identify, are collectively organising a
- “campaign funding misinformation” about climate change.
- Torcello goes on to suggest that such activity “ought
- to be considered criminally negligent.”
- http://www.infowars.com/college-professor-calls-for-climate-change-deniers-to-be-imprisoned/
- Torcello’s America would also see countless scientists
- thrown into prison for continually presenting evidence
- that shows there is no scientific evidence that human
- activity is causing the planet to warm. The latest to
- be locked up would be Greenpeace co-founder Patrick
- Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee
- last month that “There is no scientific proof that
- human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant
- cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere
- over the past 100 years.”
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- (67) EPA Tested Deadly Pollutants on Humans to Push
- Their Eco-fascist Agenda
- http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/02/report-epa-tested-deadly-pollutants-on-humans-to-push-obama-admins-agenda/
- The Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting
- dangerous experiments on humans over the past few years
- in order to justify more onerous clean air regulations.
- The agency conducted tests on people with health issues
- and the elderly, exposing them to high levels of potentially
- lethal pollutants, without disclosing the risks of cancer
- and death, according to a newly released government report.
- http://www.scribd.com/doc/215909101/EPA-Human-Study-Subjects
- These experiments exposed people, including those with
- asthma and heart problems, to dangerously high levels of
- toxic pollutants, including diesel fumes, reads a EPA
- inspector general report obtained by The Daily Caller
- News Foundation. The EPA also exposed people with health
- issues to levels of pollutants up to 50 times greater
- than the agency says is safe for humans.
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- (68) Eco-fascist Cop Pulls Gun On Fifth Graders Building
- “Environment-hurting” Tree Fort
- http://www.infowars.com/cop-pulls-gun-on-fifth-graders-building-tree-fort/
- Police in Georgia forced a group of fifth graders to
- the ground at gunpoint this week as they attempted to
- build a tree fort in their own neighborhood.
- According to 911 records, Henry County Police were
- called after a neighbor noticed the children “chopping
- off tree limbs,” an activity she claimed was hurting the
- environment and creating “tripping hazards.”
- Police arrived on scene to find 11-year-old Omari Grant
- and his friends playing in a small patch of trees,
- prompting at least one officer to reportedly draw his
- firearm and force the boys to the ground.
- “I was thinking that I don’t want to be shot today,
- so I just listened to what they said,” Grant said.
- As the children lay face down, the officer allegedly
- screamed profanities as he forced them to spread their
- arms and legs. Grant’s mother, Janice Baptiste, detailed
- her son’s experience in an interview with WSB-TV.
- “All he could get out at the time was, ‘Mom, he had a
- gun in my face, he had a gun in my face,’” Baptiste said.
- “So my son was of course traumatized by that.”
- After the children were searched, Grant was taken back
- to his home by the officer, who also startled Baptiste
- with his unstable appearance.
- “He just came with such an attitude,” Baptiste said.
- “His whole physical appearance was one of, ‘I’m Mr.
- Big and bad.’”
- Grant says he is now hesitant to play outside in his
- own neighborhood, afraid of the very police he always
- looked up to.
- “I learned that they’re supposed to help you, not make
- you feel scared to even come outside,” Grant said.
- Edgar Dillard, whose wife made the 911 call, was
- reportedly stunned to hear of the neighbor boys’
- encounter with police.
- “Yeah, that’s pretty shocking to hear that a gun was
- pulled on a child,” Dillard said.
- Baptiste has filed an excessive force complaint with
- the department, which has now opened an internal
- investigation. When questioned about the officer’s
- actions, Sgt. Joey Smith remained relatively tight-lipped.
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- (69) ARMED ECO-FASCIST GESTAPO BEING USED TO CONFISCATE
- PRIVATE PROPERTY TO LEASE FOR CORPORATE ENERGY PROJECTS!
- http://www.independentsentinel.com/chilling-truth-siege-of-bundy-ranch-reaches-into-the-white-house/
- InfoWars has found a smoking gun in the case of embattled
- rancher Cliven Bundy. A lucrative contract – which will
- benefit Harry Reid and his son Rory Reid – specifically
- mentions the need to rid the land of Cliven Bundy. In
- addition, Natural News pointed out that the BLM is in
- the business of selling lucrative oil and gas leases.
- It does answer the question, Why now?
- There is a much bigger picture in all of this, however,
- and that is the fact Mr. Obama believes the government
- should control the land and water in the United States.
- He sees the government as the protector of the nation’s
- resources. It is his belief. He does not respect private
- property – it is the government’s to take. That should
- now be obvious to everyone.
- Mr. Obama is social engineering citizens off their land
- into congested hubs to preserve the land for nature and
- to have it available for government use, maybe even to
- share the resources with U.N. member nations such as China,
- because he believes in globalism, an extreme form of
- globalism. He has already expressed a desire to share
- the wealth from our resources with the world through
- treaties such as The Law of the Sea treaty.
- Natural News reported that the Bureau of Land Management
- is in the business of leasing government lands to energy
- companies. Significant exploratory drilling is being
- conducted in precisely the same area where the Bundy
- family has been running cattle since the 1870s. The
- “Gold Butte” area can be clearly seen in the map of
- areas drilled (purple demarcations).
- http://www.naturalnews.com/044670_BLM_lies_fracking_leases_Bundy_ranch.html
- http://www.naturalnews.com/files/Petroleum-Data-Clark-County-Nevada.pdf
- Oil has been found in nearby areas but oil and gas drilling
- have worked alongside ranching over the years without a
- problem. Of course, if the government can lease the land
- on which the cattle graze, it will be lucrative for them.
- In July 2011, the federal government agreed to allow
- China to buy up 600,000 acres of gas & oil fields in
- Texas. This is the same administration that would not
- allow new drilling; kicked Shell out of Alaska after
- billions of dollars of investments; shut down most
- offshore drilling; and tried to shut down Texas oil
- fields on the remote possibility that it might harm a
- tiny useless lizard that was most often known for being
- road kill.
- The acreage takes in the Gold Butte area where Bundy
- grazes his cattle.
- Mr. Obama prefers solar and windmills to oil and gas
- however.
- Bundy’s name came up in a solar project that the government
- currently wants to put in place with the Chinese communists
- using Nevada land This time.
- InfoWars posted documents found on the BLM website which
- BLM has since taken down. One document is titled, “Cattle
- Trespass Impacts” and it states that Bundy’s cattle
- negatively “impacts” solar development and would prevent
- the construction of utility-scale solar power generation
- facilities” on “public lands.”
- They are talking about a very lucrative “investment” of
- $5 billion by Chines communists who will set up an enclave
- – a Chinese communist enclave – on US land in Nevada.
- http://www.infowars.com/breaking-sen-harry-reid-behind-blm-land-grab-of-bundy-ranch/
- http://www.infowars.com/feds-back-down-from-bundy-siege-after-infowars-expose-of-chinese-land-grab/
- *** How the BLM Gestapo Conducts Land Theft ***
- http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fromaranchersmouth.html
- Now, for Cliven Bundy, he’s not fighting this for his
- cattle or his own livelihood. He recognizes that he
- will probably die before this fight is over. He has
- said multiple times that he is fighting this to wake
- people up about the tyranny of the Federal Government
- and also to help wake up the western states about
- getting the rights to their own land back from the
- federal government, which has repeatedly shut down
- ranchers and closed off land. (MO = 1st, get all the
- ranchers, farmers, Native Americans, and foresters
- that use the land for positive, sustainable production
- off of the land; 2nd, grab up all the resources; 3rd,
- close off the lands to public access including camping,
- hiking, horseback riding, hunting, fishing, boating,
- shooting, etc; 4th, sell off the resources to the
- highest bidder regardless of what that will do to the
- land, the local environment, or the economy; 5th,
- collect royalties on the resources in perpetuity;
- 6th, reduce and eliminate all SLS and PILT payments
- to the states, impoverishing them beyond belief.)
- HARRY REID IS AN EXPOSED TRAITOR! VOTE HIS ASS OUT!
- Harry Reid has now exposed himself as the fascist
- he really is - claiming Americans who try to protect
- their land from being confiscated from federal agents
- for corporate leases are “criminals.” Harry has now
- made it very clear - he has no respect for Americans’
- property rights at all. Having a vested interest with
- a Chinese corporation, why would he care about us? It
- looks as if Harry Reid would be willing to put civil
- lives at risk for offshore corporate interests.
- http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/harry-reids-last-roundup/
- http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/reid-smelling-anything-but-rosy-in-ranch-fight/
- http://www.infowars.com/sen-harry-reid-bundy-dispute-not-over/
- http://www.infowars.com/harry-reid-calls-cliven-bundy-supporters-domestic-terrorists/
- http://clashdaily.com/2014/04/inconvenient-rancher-blm-docs-show-feds-solar-plan-targets-bundy-elimination/
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- UPDATE! Scrubbed BLM Land Grab Info LEAKS
- https://www.quickleak.org/yjmMgmPP
- UPDATE! Reid’s BLM Land Grabber Contacts
- https://www.quickleak.org/I6XS36R1
- UPDATE! BLM Contingency Plan, Use of Drones
- https://www.quickleak.org/a3J0amsp
- UPDATE! BLM Info Action Pack
- https://www.quickleak.org/jay47iy6
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- Identifying Mercenaries Violating US Citizens’ Rights
- https://mercid.wordpress.com/
- Eco-fascists Pushed for BLM Bundy Ranch Standoff
- http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/21/environmentalists-pushed-bundy-ranch-standoff-over-endangered-tortoises/
- BLM WHISTLEBLOWER EXPOSES CLARK COUNTY LAND GRAB!
- It’s not only about Reid and one Chinese company.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWt2iNNchMA
- http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/blm-whistleblower-exposes-clark-county-land-grab-much-bigger-thought/
- http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/2014/04/21/blm-whistleblower-exposes-clark-county-land-grab-this-is-huge/
- The Long History of BLM’s Aggressive Cattle Seizures
- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/29/The-Long-History-Of-BLM-s-Aggressive-Cattle-Seizures
- BUSTED! Harry Reid Owns 93 Acres Next to Bundy Ranch
- http://www.truthandaction.org/busted-harry-reid-owns-93-acres-next-bundy-ranch/
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- BLM_Land_Grabbing_Exposed.zip
- (91 files | ZIP | 39.5MB)
- http://fileb.ag/opcvkiyjekaa
- http://redload.net/w5rgy94do2ng/BLM_Land_Grabbing_Exposed.zip.html
- http://directxex.com/index.php?a=download&q=30521
- http://files.wwqt.net/index.php/files/get/31-RlV038I/blm-land-grabbing-exposed.zip
- BLM_Info_Action_Pack.zip
- (180 files | ZIP | 182MB)
- http://fileb.ag/wyv069kodhid
- https://www.mediafire.com/?edq8578ri33dyda
- https://www.mediafire.com/?5jua9jlyahs9bja
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- HERE THEY GO AGAIN! BLM Claims 90,000 Acres Does Not
- Belong To Texas, Attempts To Seize Another Ranch
- http://wearechange.org/blm-claims-90000-acres-belong-texas-attempts-seize-ranch/
- http://misguidedchildren.com/domestic-affairs/2014/04/red-river-rumble-blm-wants-to-seize-90000-acres-of-texas-ranchers-land/18596
- http://thelastgreatstand.com/lgs/2014/04/13/blm-wants-to-seize-90000-acres-of-texas-ranchers%E2%80%99-land-red-river-rumble/
- http://www.americasfreedomfighters.com/2014/04/22/blm-eyes-90000-acres-of-texas-land/
- UPDATE ; BLM STEALING 90,000 Acres of Property From Texas
- US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Neil Kornze
- responded to the April letters from Texas Attorney General
- Greg Abbott (R) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) about the Red
- River land dispute between the federal government and the
- State of Texas. The letter comes approximately two months
- after the initial requests from Abbott and Cruz were
- submitted to the director and largely doubles down on
- broad claims of federal ownership. ... ...
- Kornze’s letter explains the BLM’s procedures for developing
- its new Resource Management Planning (RMP) process. To
- summarize, the RMP/EIS process is designed to establish
- general management goals, objectives, and directives for
- public resources,” Kornze begins in the letter, “including
- lands and minerals, managed by the BLM. The process involves
- numerous steps that allow for public input, analysis, and
- informed decision-making with regard to public resources.”
- http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/06/24/BLM-Doubles-Down-on-Texas-Land
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- (70) EPA Denies Any Scientific Basis for Regulations
- http://lastresistance.com/5403/shocking-news-epa-scientific-basis-regulations/
- I’m sure this will come as quite a shock to our
- faithful readers, but the Environmental Protection
- Agency (EPA) admitted that it can’t actually reproduce
- the “science” it has been using for years as the
- justification for its Clean Air Act.
- I remember very distinctly the attitude on the
- Georgia Tech campus toward the environmental “science”
- department. I’m sure that much of what was studied by
- environmental science majors was legitimate, especially
- as it concerned local phenomena and processes. But
- when it comes to the global aspects of environmental
- science (weather systems, causation, the long-term
- effects of pollution, etc.), it becomes obvious that
- environmental scientists are less reliable than
- weathermen and relying heavily on extremely speculative
- models of explanation.
- Pollution is defined by concentrations. Nothing that
- is considered a pollutant is necessarily bad intrinsically
- or necessarily. Even toxic elements occur naturally at
- low concentrations. The EPA determines what those
- concentrations are allowed to be in order to still
- be considered “safe.” And recently, the EPA has been
- narrowing those regulations even further, most recently
- in an attempt to force businesses to “go green.” But
- as it turns out, for years, the EPA has created and
- enforced regulations based on data that it pawned off
- as “hard science” that is impossible to reproduce
- independently. It was secret science. Pet science.
- Not hard science:
- ... The House Science Subcommittee on Investigations
- and Oversight, . . . issued its first subpoena in 21
- years last August after being stonewalled by the EPA
- for two years ...
- However, despite “multiple interactions with the
- third party owners of the research data in an effort
- to obtain that data,” [EPA Administrator Gina] McCarthy
- wrote, some of the data subpoenaed by the committee
- “are not (and were not) in the possession, custody or
- control of the EPA, nor are they within the authority
- to obtain data that the agency identified. ... The EPA
- acknowledges, however, that the data provided are not
- sufficient in themselves to replicate the analyses in
- the epidemiological studies, nor would they allow for
- the one to one mapping of each pollutant and ecological
- variable to each subject.”
- So, in other words, the actual particulars of how much
- particulate pollutants are considered dangerous are
- totally arbitrary. The EPA largely set those regulations
- how they wanted to, and supported their legitimacy with
- a thin fig leaf of “science.” What did you expect though?
- Politicized science is always suspect.
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- (71) EPA Requesting Jurisdiction Over All Public And
- Private Streams In The United States!
- http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/biggest-land-grab-in-the-history-of-the-world/
- http://wealthydebates.com/epa-requesting-jurisdiction-public-private-streams-us/
- In a move lawmakers and farmers are calling “the biggest
- land grab in the history of the world,” the Environmental
- Protection Agency is requesting jurisdiction over all
- public and private streams in the United States that are
- “intermittent, seasonal and rain-dependent.”
- The EPA and the US Army Corps of Engineers in late March
- jointly released a proposed rule, Waters of the United
- States, in an effort to clarify which streams and wetlands
- are protected under the Clean Water Act.
- A statement issued by the EPA says “the proposed rule
- will benefit businesses by increasing efficiency in
- determining coverage of the Clean Water Act.” ... ...
- But lawmakers and farmers express concern that this
- kind of regulation would allow the EPA in conjunction
- with the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of
- Energy and the Army to dictate on a never-before-seen
- scale everything from grazing rights, food production,
- animal health and the use of energy on private lands.
- “We’re hearing from farm groups throughout the United
- States about uncertainties regarding agricultural
- exemptions,” Murkowski said. “They say it’s not so
- farm-friendly as the statements that have been made
- by your administration.”
- UPDATE! ; EPA Declares War Against Property Owners
- New water way rules proposed by the EPA could devastate
- homesteaders, farmers, ranchers and other rural property
- owners, US Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) says.
- The agency’s attempt to expand its jurisdiction over
- wetlands and water ways could make it impossible or
- prohibitively expensive for property owners to make use
- of their own land, Thune says.
- Under the current rules the Clean Water Act only applies
- to large streams and rivers. The Environmental Protection
- Agency wants to rewrite the rules so the Act applies even
- to seasonal streams and creeks, and also to wetlands that
- are near protected rivers and streams.
- Critics like Thune charge that this will give the agency
- the power to fine property owners who build stock ponds,
- drainage ditches and even small hydroelectric systems
- without a permit. They also say it will expand the EPA’s
- power over private property and entangle regular everyday
- citizens in lengthy bureaucratic paperwork.
- http://govtslaves.info/epa-set-regulate-private-ditches-streams/
- UPDATE! Sacramento Superior Court Demands All Water To Be
- Controlled By Government, Attacks Private Property Rights!
- Democrat Senator Fran Pavley has a bill that would give the
- State the responsibility of “managing” all groundwater. That
- means the water projects and the groundwater will be controlled
- by government — which will pick the winners and loser. Government
- will decide if you can use your private property—water—to grow
- your crops or be forced at the barrel of a gun give your water
- to your neighbor that paid nothing for the well you dug and
- now he will use. Want to collapse agriculture in this State
- literally overnight, give control of water to government.
- Now a court may have decided the issue—against the free market,
- against private property and is ordering a county to take over
- control of water in its domain. This is like watching a car
- crash in slow motion—you see it but feel helpless to stop it.
- “Sacramento Superior Court Judge Allen Sumner just issued a
- preliminary ruling that Siskiyou County must regulate groundwater
- well permits along the Scott River in accordance with “Public
- Trust Doctrine.” This means the water now mainly used by hay
- farmers also will have to be divided among commercial sports
- fishing, kayaking, Indian Tribes and tourist-hotel interests.”
- If upheld, this is the how California will be shut down.
- Sacramento Superior Court Judge Allen Sumner just issued a
- preliminary ruling that Siskiyou County must regulate groundwater
- well permits along the Scott River in accordance with “Public
- Trust Doctrine.” This means the water now mainly used by hay
- farmers also will have to be divided among commercial sports
- fishing, kayaking, Indian Tribes and tourist-hotel interests.
- The result will be more water shortages as additional political
- special interests divvy up a limited supply. ... ...
- The Siskiyou County court case involves a recent lawsuit brought
- by the Environmental Law Foundation and the Pacific Coast
- Federation of Fishermen’s Associations against the State Water
- Resources Control Board and the County of Siskiyou. ELF charged
- that decreased water flows in the Scott River over the past 20
- years are due to excessive agricultural extractions of groundwater
- that flow into the river, which has harmed fish populations and
- the navigability of the river for recreational rafting and boat
- fishing.
- The Scott River runs 60 miles in Siskiyou County, located along
- the northerly state border with Oregon. The Scott River watershed
- is 800 square miles. About two-thirds is privately owned and a
- third publicly owned. Forty-five percent is used for forestry,
- 40 percent for grazing, and only 13 percent for cropland. The
- Scott River Groundwater Basin is still the only one in all of
- California that has surface water and groundwater legally defined
- as “interconnected” (Water Code 2500.5).
- The Scott River watershed was “adjudicated in 1980,” meaning the
- normal court system for water rights settled local disputes. The
- Siskiyou County Superior Court ruled that all groundwater within
- 500 feet of the river was subject to court monitoring and
- restrictions on pumping.
- http://survivalbackpack.us/court-ends-private-property-rights-water-controlled-government/
- EPA STILL PUSHING MASSIVE LAND GRAB, WANTS PROPERTY RIGHTS NULLIFIED!
- It seems incredible, but a single missing word could turn a water law into
- a government land grab so horrendous even a U.S. Supreme Court justice warned
- it would “put the property rights of every American entirely at the mercy of
- Environmental Protection Agency employees.”
- The missing word is “navigable.” The Obama administration is proposing a rule
- titled “Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’ Under the Clean Water Act,”
- which would strike “navigable” from American water law and redefine any piece
- of land that is wet at least part of the year, no matter how remote or isolated
- it may be from truly navigable waters, as “waters of the United States,” or
- WOTUS.
- The proposed rule would provide EPA and the Corps of Engineers (as well as
- litigious environmental groups) with the power to dictate the land-use decisions
- of homeowners, small businesses and local communities throughout the United
- States. There would be virtually no limit to the federal government’s authority
- over private property.
- The proposed rule has ignited a firestorm of protest. Agricultural and business
- interests, free-market think tanks, state agencies, attorneys general and governors
- have joined the “Ditch the Rule” movement and demanded it be withdrawn.
- The Obama administration is conducting an aggressive shield campaign to downplay
- the proposed rule’s huge negative impacts and paint critics as opponents of clean
- water, shills for development interests or anything other than concerned citizens.
- Obama’s own political shills for anti-development interests, such as Organizing
- for Action, Natural Resources Defense Council and Clean Water Action, are marching
- in lockstep with the agencies to discredit any opposition to the rule.
- But recently, a group of 25 U.S. senators called out the Obama administration for
- misleading Americans on the proposed rule. In a scathing letter to the EPA and the
- Corps, the senators detailed the administration’s deceptions and bias:
- • The Obama administration claims the proposed “Waters of the United States” rule
- responds to prior requests for a Clean Water Act rulemaking. It does not.
- • The Obama administration insinuates that opposition to the proposed rule is
- equivalent to opposition to clean water. It is not.
- • EPA has attempted to delegitimize questions and concerns surrounding the proposed
- rule. Concerns are legitimate.
- • EPA and the Corps have blatantly misrepresented the impacts of increased Clean
- Water Act jurisdiction. The impacts are real.
- • EPA’s social media advocacy in favor of the proposed “Waters of the United States”
- rule prejudices the rulemaking process. It kills debate.
- Affected parties are more credible in this battle than the administration. The
- American Farm Bureau started the “Ditch the Rule” movement with pictures that showed
- what the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers would regulate if the Waters of the United
- States rule takes effect: “wetlands” that are nothing more than low spots on a farm
- field, the decorative pond of a suburban home or even a vacant lot that the agency
- designates as possessing the requisite wetness.
- If the farmer fills in low spots or the homeowner builds a child’s playhouse by the
- pond, or a business constructs a new office on the vacant lot or anyone touches any
- bureaucrat-designated “wetland” in any way, the EPA or Corps may order the owners to
- cease activity, restore original conditions and abandon any use of the property.
- If the owners do not comply, they could be fined up to $75,000 per day—$37,500 for
- violating the rule and another $37,500 for violating the agency’s order. The property
- owner is blocked from going to court until sued by the agency, which could dawdle
- until fines have skyrocketed into the millions.
- That’s no exaggeration.
- It’s from Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s concurring decision in the 2012 case
- of Michael and Chantell Sackett, an Idaho couple who placed fill material on their
- property to build their dream home and suffered exactly the outrageous treatment
- the justice described.
- After failing in lower courts, the Sacketts finally won a Supreme Court ruling that
- they had the right to sue the EPA for exceeding the reach of the Clean Water Act. At
- least three other Supreme Court rulings have rejected parts of the administration’s
- interpretation of the Clean Water Act.
- The Supreme Court trumps the president of the United States, and in this instance
- shares the concerns of the “Senate 25.” But none of the high court’s decisions answer
- the exact question: What is the reach of the Clean Water Act?
- Therein lies the crux of the WOTUS menace: The reach of the Clean Water Act is
- notoriously unclear, and EPA and the Corps have kept it that way.
- The Farm Bureau is particularly concerned by EPA’s refusal to answer direct questions
- such as, “Name three things that get wet, like roadside drainages, irrigation ditches,
- and livestock watering ponds, that would not be regulated by WOTUS.” Dead silence. And
- a permit to do anything in a designated “wetland” can cost upwards of $250,000.
- The National Federation of Independent Businesses asserted in its official comments to
- the EPA, “The CWA is unconstitutionally vague because the regulated community cannot
- readily determine whether a given property is, or is not, a jurisdictional wetland.”
- The uncertainty helps the Obama shield campaign.
- Two weeks before the Senate 25 called out the EPA, the attorneys general of 11 states
- and the governors of six states sent a similar letter to the EPA and the Corps.
- “This rule should be withdrawn and replaced with a common-sense alternative that
- respects states’ primary responsibility over lands and waters within their borders
- while also giving land owners clear guidance,” the letter stated.
- Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general and a leader in drafting the states’ letter,
- told The Daily Signal, “The proposed ‘WOTUS’ rule unlawfully and unconstitutionally
- asserts federal control over local water and land by needlessly replacing state and
- local land-use management with top-down, federal control.”
- “Unlawful” and “unconstitutional” are not words attorneys general use lightly. When
- asked to size up the overall issue, Pruitt said, “The WOTUS rule appears to be another
- attempt by federal agencies to implement an agenda through regulations to affect
- land-use decisions that should be left to the states and private property owners.”
- In September, the House passed bipartisan legislation, H.R. 5078, that prohibits
- the EPA and Corps from finalizing the WOTUS rule. A companion bill is stalled in
- the Senate.
- With the coal industry overpowered, Obama’s rogue administration looks to have
- declared war on the rest of us.
- http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/12/proposed-water-rule-put-property-rights-every-american-entirely-mercy-epa/
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- (72) Family Forced to Sell Property - UN Agenda 21!
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/16/colo-eminent-domain-case-settled-with-115000-sale/
- A contentious eminent domain case in which a local
- government sought to take private backcountry land for
- open space has been settled, with the landowners agreeing
- to a $115,000 sale.
- “To me, what just came out of it is, you can’t win,
- you can’t fight the government,” landowner Ceil Barrie
- said Wednesday.
- She and her husband, Andy, owned ten acres of land
- perched at 11,000 feet elevation in Breckenridge. The
- property, with breathtaking views, was a private patch
- of land surrounded by White River National Forest.
- An old, uninhabited day-use cabin, an outhouse and a
- shuttered gold mine sit on it.
- The Barries’ legal troubles began when they worked to
- access their personal paradise with a utility vehicle.
- They traveled on an old mining road dating back to the
- 1880s and said the county did not even know about the
- road until they made them aware of it.
- The county asked to buy the land, but the Barries did
- not want to part with their piece of Colorado heaven.
- So Summit County condemned it, filed for eminent domain
- and petitioned for immediate possession.
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- (73) Energy Giants Caught in Green Tax Racket in UK
- Millions of households have missed out on a £50 saving
- on their energy bill because a green tax cut has been
- swiped by suppliers.
- All of the big six firms — British Gas, EDF Energy, Eon,
- Npower, Scottish and Southern Energy and Scottish Power
- — will save money this year after the Government slashed
- network charges and the cost of implementing green schemes.
- And they will no longer have to pick up the tab for a
- Warm Home Discount — which gives vulnerable customers a
- £135 reduction on their electricity bill.
- The Government says these changes would save households
- around £50 on their annual gas and electricity bill.
- However, four months on and millions of customers have
- not received a penny in discount.
- An estimated five million households have missed out
- on the reduction because they are on a fixed-rate deal.
- The energy companies claim most people have benefited
- by up to £35. But this still means they have pocketed
- the remainder — at £15 from each fixed-rate customer,
- that makes £75 million.
- Npower has told customers they would receive a bill cut
- from February only if they were on a standard or variable
- tariff and had been affected by a price rise last December.
- Its fixed-rate customers get no price cut. They are
- effectively still paying the green tax because it is
- priced into their bills.
- Customers on fixed tariffs with ScottishPower also missed
- out. The firm said it would cut their bills only if customers
- ended up worse off than those who are on variable deals.
- EDF Energy and Eon have similarly neglected customers
- locked into fixes. Their customers have had potential
- price hikes lowered instead of receiving reductions to
- their current bills — but this affects only those on
- variable deals.
- British Gas, Scottish and Southern Energy have reduced
- bills for all their customers — both on fixes and variable
- deals.
- The suppliers are also hiding behind a baffling array of
- price hikes and cuts. READ THE REST ...
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/bills/article-2610842/Energy-giants-pocketed-75m-green-tax-cuts.html
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- (74) California Water Gestapo to Spy on Homeowners
- The drought in California has caused 45 water agencies
- in the state to enforce mandatory limits on water use.
- Citizens are encouraged to turn in neighbors who are
- suspected of wasting H2O to water-waste patrols.
- These water patrols teach people to avoid wasting water
- on driveways, lawns and swimming pools, but can also
- cite residents for repeated violations.
- “We do have the stick if people don’t get it,” Kim Loeb,
- a Visalia, Calif. natural resource conservation manager,
- told the Associated Press.
- Sacramento has deputized 40 government employees, from
- building inspectors to meter readers, to stop water waste.
- Six employees patrol full time for violations.
- http://www.infowars.com/california-cities-start-water-waste-patrols-encourage-residents-to-snitch/
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- (75) Thanks to An Endless Avalanche of EPA Regulations,
- Electricity Prices Are Going to Get Much More Expensive
- The problems confronting the electricity system are the
- result of a wide range of forces: new federal regulations
- on toxic emissions, rules on greenhouse gases, state
- mandates for renewable power, technical problems at
- nuclear power plants and unpredictable price trends for
- natural gas. Even cheap hydro power is declining in some
- areas, particularly California, owing to the long-lasting
- drought.
- “Everywhere you turn, there are proposals and regulations
- to make prices go higher,” said Daniel Kish, senior vice
- president at the Institute for Energy Research. “The trend
- line is up, up, up. We are going into uncharted territory.”
- New emissions rules on mercury, acid gases and other toxics
- by the Environmental Protection Agency are expected to result
- in significant losses of the nation’s coal-generated power,
- historically the largest and cheapest source of electricity.
- Already, two dozen coal generating units across the country
- are scheduled for decommissioning. When the regulations go
- into effect next year, 60 gigawatts of capacity — equivalent
- to the output of 60 nuclear reactors — will be taken out of
- the system, according to Energy Department estimates.
- Moeller, the federal energy commissioner, warns that these
- rapid changes are eroding the system’s ability to handle
- unexpected upsets, such as the polar vortex, and could
- result in brownouts or even blackouts in some regions as
- early as next year.
- http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-power-prices-20140426,0,6329274.story
- http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/obamas-epa-coal-regulations-increasing-natural-gas-prices-150/
- The EPA is conducting legislative warfare tactics to force
- an incremental shutdown of our current electric grid. In
- the meantime, Americans are being forced out of their homes
- when not being connected to the electric grid or for simply
- choosing to live off-the-grid.
- http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/02/22/court-rules-off-the-grid-living-is-illegal/
- UPDATE ; State Regulators Warn New EPA Regulations Could
- Harm America’s Electrical Grid
- http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/12/report-state-regulators-wont-let-epa-harm-electrical-grid/
- “Congress never intended for the Clean Air Act to authorize
- EPA’s extraordinary policy decisions to phase out entire
- sources of energy in this proposed rulemaking,” the American
- Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) and the American
- Petroleum Institute alleged in comments to the EPA. The
- organizations were commenting on proposed new rules for
- power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities.
- “Mandating the use of specific energy sources will only
- serve to drive up US manufacturers’ costs,” Charles T.
- Drevna of the AFPM said. “Our nation is on the verge of
- a manufacturing renaissance, but this and other all-cost,
- little-to-no-benefit rules will threaten our tremendous
- opportunity, erode our competitive advantage and drive
- business overseas.”
- The proposed rules could drive coal-fired power plants
- and many oil refineries out of business, the two groups
- alleged. This could lead to energy shortages and higher
- energy costs, particularly for electricity.
- http://govtslaves.info/high-prices-shortages-follow-new-epa-mandate/
- ▲ UPDATE! YOU WERE WARNED! Price of Electricity Hit Record
- for May - Thank New EPA Regulations and the Eco-fascists
- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/price-electricity-hit-record-may
- The electricity price index and the average price for a
- kilowatthour (KWH) of electricity both hit records for May,
- according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor
- Statistics.
- The average price for a KWH hit 13.6 cents during the month,
- up about 3.8 percent from 13.1 cents in May 2013.
- The seasonally adjusted electricity price index rose from
- 201.431 in May 2013 to 208.655 in May 2014—an increase of
- about 3.6 percent.
- If the prevailing trend holds, the price of electricity will
- hit an all-time record high this summer, when demand for
- electricity is at its peak.
- Electricity will continue to rise in price thanks to new
- EPA regulations that are forcing power plants to shut down,
- http://govtslaves.info/high-prices-shortages-follow-new-epa-mandate/
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- (76) Eco-fascist Governor Forces Carbon Tax Through
- Executive Order (The War Against Prosperity Continues)
- Washington Democrat Governor Jay Inslee is not waiting
- for the state legislature to regulate carbon dioxide
- emissions, but instead has issued an executive order
- to implement a cap-and-trade program, eliminate coal
- power and fund green energy projects.
- Eco-fascist control freaks like Jay Inslee are
- determined to bankrupt both middle and lower class
- Americans in the name of fraudulent politicized science.
- The only way they can enforce this (of-course) will
- be through corrupted power-craven fascist gestapo
- agencies through a barrel of a gun.
- http://www.governor.wa.gov/office/execorders/documents/14-04.pdf
- http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/29/washington-governor-imposes-cap-and-trade-through-executive-order/
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- (77) Eco-fascists In Virginia Pushing Zoning Ordinance
- To Outlaw Social Gatherings at at Household Residences
- http://govtslaves.info/virginia-proposal-limit-many-people-can-visit-house/
- A plan to ban “frequent and large gatherings at neighborhood
- homes” is a lawsuit waiting to happen, a Fairfax County
- supervisor predicts.
- Officials will get an idea Wednesday when public-comment
- hearings begin in Virginia’s most populous county.
- “I believe the county is risking a lawsuit and/or
- aconstitution challenge by interfering with peoples’
- right to assemble,” Supervisor Pat Herrity said in a
- statement.
- The proposed zoning ordinance limits “group assembly”
- at residences to 49 people a day. Such gatherings “shall
- not occur more frequently than three times in any 40-day
- period.”
- County officials say they have received complaints about
- group meetings at homes. But Herrity said “they haven’t
- even reached 1 percent of the thousands of complaints
- our Department of Code Compliance investigates a year.”
- “This is yet another instance where we appear to be
- punishing the many for the actions of the few,” said
- Herrity, who reported a total of six complaints were
- received last year.
- Church groups, scouting organizations or even sports
- fans drawn to a home’s big-screen TV during playoffs
- could be potential targets of the proposed county law.
- Realtors worry that even open houses would invite civil
- penalties.
- John Whitehead, an attorney and president of the civil-
- libertarian Rutherford Institute, calls the Fairfax plan
- “nefarious.”
- “Broad enactments like these have governments assuming
- that private property is their property,” Whitehead said
- in an interview with Watchdog.org.
- “If you can’t determine what goes on at your own residence,
- you have surrendered your rights. The Constitution is
- founded on property rights.”
- Nevertheless, some courts have upheld aggressive zoning
- restrictions. In Phoenix, a minister was sentenced to 60
- days in jail for conducting Bible study classes with 10
- people at a home.
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- (78) Congressional Investigation Into Secret EPA Gestapo
- A rogue group within the Environmental Protection Agency
- (EPA) that is run out of the White House is operating outside
- the law and for years has “blocked independent investigations
- by the EPA’s inspector general,” according to an Associated
- Press account of an EPA investigator’s prepared congressional
- testimony.
- In testimony at a hearing of a House oversight committee
- scheduled for Wednesday, May 7, Patrick Sullivan, an
- assistant EPA inspector general for investigations, is
- expected to provide compelling evidence of an extraordinary
- abuse of power — even for Barack Obama — by the all but
- unknown EPA Office of Homeland Security.
- The Associated Press reports:
- The office of about 10 employees is overseen by EPA
- Administrator Gina McCarthy’s office, and the inspector
- general’s office is accusing it of impeding its independent
- investigations into employee misconduct, computer security
- and external threats, including compelling employees
- involved in cases to sign non-disclosure agreements.
- “Under the heavy cloak of national security, the Office
- of Homeland Security has repeatedly rebuffed and refused
- to cooperate with the OIG’s ongoing requests for information
- or cooperation,” Sullivan wrote in prepared testimony
- obtained by The Associated Press. “This block unquestionably
- has hamstrung the Office of Inspector General’s ability to
- carry out its statutory mandate to investigate wrongdoing
- of EPA employees.”
- In other words, a unit within the EPA that is under the
- direct control of the White House and its political associates
- is using the “national security” trope to actively prevent
- investigations into EPA violations of the law. Given the
- high profile of their benefactor, this group fears no
- repercussions. ... ...
- Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif), a frequent foe
- of the Obama administration, is advantageously positioned
- to put the screws to the president in this scandal, as
- well. As chairman of the House Oversight and Government
- Reform Committee, Issa will be heading the investigation
- in the White House’s secret EPA squelch squad. “It’s
- disturbing that even investigations by this administration’s
- own nonpartisan watchdogs are being blocked by political
- appointees,” Issa said, as quoted by the AP.
- Given the EPA’s egregious disregard for the Constitution
- and the formerly unalienable rights of life, liberty, and
- property, it is little wonder that the president’s political
- team has spiked any investigation that might expose to the
- light of public notice the truth of the agency’s reign of
- terror. The evidence is overwhelming.
- Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed the EPA (and the
- Obama administration) an unfavorable ruling in the case of
- Sackett v. US, but it’s the events leading up to that high
- court hearing that boil the blood of constitutionalists
- and property owners. As reported by William Jasper, senior
- editor of The New American:
- How long would your bank account hold out if an agency of
- the federal government were fining you $75,000 per day? A
- couple of hours, maybe — or a few minutes? Not many
- homeowners could handle that kind of crushing financial
- blow. Even a Bill Gates, a Warren Buffett, or a George
- Soros might blanch at such astronomical fines.
- But that was the potential cost facing Idaho couple Mike
- and Chantelle Sackett ... who ran into the iron fist of
- the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) when they began
- building their home in 2007 on a two-thirds acre parcel in
- a residential neighborhood of Priest Lake. Like their
- neighbors who had already built homes next door, the
- Sacketts got their permits from the county and began
- laying gravel and preparing the ground for building.
- That’s when the EPA came in and, without hearings or
- notice, declared that the property is “wetlands” and
- ordered the Sacketts to restore it to the EPA bureaucracy’s
- satisfaction.
- The Sacketts, having good reasons to believe their
- property is not a wetlands, were determined to contest
- the EPA order. However, the EPA denied their request for
- a hearing. They sought judicial relief, but the US Ninth
- Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the EPA, ruling that
- the Sacketts had no right to immediate judicial review
- of the matter. The Ninth Circuit held that the couple
- would first have to go through the EPA’s years-long
- wetlands permit process, which would end up costing the
- property owners many times the value of their land!
- Basically, a group of unelected and unaccountable federal
- officials has shattered the dreams of the Sackett family,
- robbed them of the due process of law guaranteed to every
- citizen by the Constitution, and charged them $75,000 a
- day for the privilege.
- The Sacketts understood the enormity of the issue raised
- by their pouring of a little gravel on less than an acre
- of land. Said Mrs. Sackett in the days leading up to the
- Supreme Court decision, “The EPA can come in and turn your
- life upside down. They can make you feel really small and
- insignificant. And they take away from you your sense of
- America.”
- The EPA is not content to obliterate property rights,
- however. Recent actions taken against the country's last
- lead smelting facility will affect the right to keep and
- bear arms, as well, by substantially impacting the production
- of ammunition. On December 31, 2013, the lead refining plant
- closed for good.
- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported just before the
- shuttering of the plant:
- About 145 employees of the Doe Run lead smelter [in Herculaneum,
- Missouri] learned they will lose their jobs at the end of
- December because of the plant’s closure, the Doe Run Co.
- said Wednesday. An additional 73 contractor jobs also will
- be eliminated.
- By forcibly closing this plant, the Obama administration
- took yet another unconstitutional step — one that will
- severely impinge on the nation’s ammunition-manufacturing
- capability.
- Why would the Doe Run Company, the owners of the Missouri
- lead smelting facility, agree to being run out of business
- by the EPA? One word: extortion.
- In a document published on its website, the EPA explains
- that in order for Doe Run to continue its operations, the
- company would have to agree to pay “$65 million to correct
- violations of several environmental laws at 10 of its lead
- mining, milling and smelting facilities in southeast Missouri.
- The settlement also requires the company to pay a $7 million
- civil penalty.”
- In a statement to the press, Doe Run said the fine and the
- required upgrades to its facilities were “too financially
- risky.”
- In cases such as those of the Sacketts, the Doe Run smelting
- facility, and scores of others nationwide, the EPA’s heavy
- handed, unconstitutional tactics should have been investigated
- and the nearly unbounded power should have been reined in.
- They carried on without oversight, however, and perhaps
- now we know why.
- Many who have felt the wrath of the dictators’s shadowy
- EPA division are hopeful that the House’s committee hearings
- will finally expose the group’s many misdeeds.
- http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/18204-are-obama-linked-operatives-covering-up-epa-abuses
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- (79) “Eco-friendly” Venture Capitalist Vindo Khosla to
- Testify in Court After Blocking Access to Public Property
- A Silicon Valley billionaire will be forced to testify
- on Monday as surfers battle venture capitalist Vindo Khosl
- over access to a popular northern California beach. The
- case may be the most significant challenge to the state’s
- public access laws.
- According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Surfrider
- Foundation has accused Khosla “of flouting the California
- Coastal Act when he blocked the only road into Martins
- Beach” from the public.
- A lawyer for Khosla’s company countered and said that,
- “Surfrider, in this lawsuit, is asking to protect an
- access right that simply doesn’t exist.” But they were
- denied their motion to prevent Khosla from testifying in
- the matter, and Khosla will have to do so on Monday as
- the trial resumes.
- As the Chronicle noted, a 1972 “California Coastal Zone
- Conservation Initiative” made the “entire coast public
- property, including beaches below the mean high tide,”
- and the lawsuit presents the biggest challenge to that
- initiative.
- Khosla “is famous for his backing of bold, eco-friendly
- projects and is a darling of Democratic politicians,” and
- is company paid “$37.5 million for the property, which
- includes 45 leased cabins along the coastal cliffs.”
- Surfrider is claiming that since the “closed gate means
- the only way people can get there is from the ocean,”
- Khosla is in violation of the “public access provisions
- in the coastal act.”
- Lawyers for Martins Beach have also weighed in, saying the
- previous historic $5 “beach fees prove that the public never
- had a right to access that beach.”
- http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/05/12/Venture-Capitalist-Forced-to-Testify-as-Surfers-Battle-Silicon-Valley-in-Beach-Access-Fight
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- (80) Agenda 21, The Plan for a Global Fascist Dictatorship
- http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/05/13/agenda-21-plan-global-fascist-dictatorship/
- One of the most popular films of 2012 was The Hunger Games
- which portrayed a post-apocalyptic nation called Panem in
- which a super-rich, super-pampered, super-callous ‘elite’
- lived in high-tech luxury while the rest of the population
- daily battled to survive in abject poverty locked away behind
- prison fences in intensively-populated ‘people zones’. Panem
- comes from the Latin phrase panem et circenses or ‘bread and
- circuses’ – a term derived from Rome and meaning to give the
- people diversions and distractions to hide what is being done
- to them. Exactly what is happening today.
- The Totalitarian Tiptoes to just such a world are happening
- all around us, although most people can’t see this because
- they don’t connect the dots. People tend to live in their own
- ‘little world’ and focus on only a few subjects and interests.
- This gives them a distorted view of what is happening because
- they are so busy concentrating on the strands that they cannot
- see the tapestry. The world of The Hunger Games is already
- well on the way to fruition unless humanity has a fundamental
- reassessment of reality.
- The foundations, structure and ‘must haves’ of a Hunger Games
- society are detailed in a plan being imposed through the United
- Nations called Agenda 21 which encompasses two related themes
- of ‘sustainable development’ and ‘biodiversity’. Sustainable
- development – as in don’t use more than can be replaced – sounds
- sensible enough at first until you realize what this and
- biodiversity really mean in the context of the conspiracy.
- Agenda 21 was established at the United Nations Conference on
- Environment and Development in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, in 1992,
- hosted by Maurice Strong, a Canadian oil and business billionaire
- and long-time front man for the Rothschilds and Rockefellers.
- Strong has been a leader of their exploit-the-environment-to-
- scam-the-people programme which is now in full flow. Strong is
- a member of the Club of Rome, the environmental Hidden Hand in
- the Round Table network that includes the Bilderberg Group,
- Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations.
- Strong said in support of Agenda 21: ‘Isn’t the only hope for
- this planet that the industrialised civilization collapse? Isn’t
- it our responsibility to bring that about?’ This is a man who
- became mega-rich through the oil industry. He now lives in
- billionaire luxury in China where carbon-emitting industry is
- booming and he is a director of the Chicago Climate Exchange
- (largest shareholder, Goldman Sachs), which is ‘the world’s
- first and North America’s only legally-binding greenhouse-gas
- emission registry reduction-system for emission sources and
- offset projects in North America and Brazil’. The Exchange was
- established with funding from the Joyce Foundation where Barack
- Obama was once a director. Strong and Al Gore make money through
- the Carbon Exchange and other means from the lies they promote
- about climate change and the solutions they propose. Kate
- Johnston wrote on the Globalresearch.cawebsite: ‘The same men
- that sold us the myth of man-made global warming are the same
- men that sold us the “solution” of a Carbon Tax and Emissions
- Trading Scheme and now they’re profiting off their lucrative
- investments which are based on lies.’ Strong fled to China in
- 2006 after being accused of corruption with respect to the UN
- oil for food program.
- Climate change propaganda is a No-Problem-Reaction-Solution
- technique to justify Agenda 21 and its stable-mate the Biodiversity
- Treaty. This is an internationally-binding document involving
- nearly 200 countries. The United States signed the treaty, but
- it was not ratified by the Senate after people like ecologist
- and ecosystem scientist Dr. Michael Coffman exposed its true
- consequences and implications. He said that he realized during
- the 1980s and 1990s that the plan was to use the excuse of
- protecting the environment to confiscate half the land of the
- United States. Similar plans exist for every other country.
- America may not have ratified the treaty, but it is being
- implemented by the day. Agenda 21 demands the central global
- control of all land; all private property; all water sources
- and distribution; all other resources which includes people
- in its definition; all energy supplies and distribution and
- all food production and distribution.
- Agenda 21 is called ‘the agenda for the 21st century’ and that
- refers to global fascism / communism. This is a summary of what
- Agenda 21 / Sustainable Development / Biodiversity is seeking
- to impose:
- • An end to national sovereignty
- • State planning and management of all land resources, ecosystems,
- deserts, forests, mountains, oceans and fresh water; agriculture;
- rural development; biotechnology; and ensuring ‘equity’
- • The State to ‘define the role’ of business and financial
- resources
- • Abolition of private property (it’s not ‘sustainable’)
- • ‘Restructuring’ the family unit
- • Children raised by the State
- • People told what their job will be
- • Major restrictions on movement
- • Creation of ‘human settlement zones’
- • Mass resettlement as people are forced to vacate land where
- they currently live
- • Dumbing down education (achieved)
- • Mass global depopulation in pursuit of all the above
- Learn more of the history of the UN’s Agenda 21 here ...
- http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/05/13/agenda-21-plan-global-fascist-dictatorship/
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- (81) US Department of Agriculture Prepping For War
- A May 7th solicitation by the US Department of Agriculture
- seeks “the commercial acquisition of ballistic vests,
- compliant with NIJ 0101.06 for Level IIIA Ballistic
- Resistance of body armor.”
- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/15/Dept-of-Agriculture-Orders-Ballistic-Body-Armor
- A May 7th solicitation by the US Department of Agriculture
- seeks “the commercial acquisition of submachine guns [in]
- .40 Cal. S&W.”
- http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/14/Dept-Of-Agriculture-Orders-Submachine-Guns-With-30-Round-Magazines
- UPDATE! MEET THE NEW FASCIST ANTI-ORGANIC FOOD STATSI
- Michigan Department of Agriculture Forces Farmer to Dump 248
- Gallons of Organic Milk and Break 1,200 Free Range Eggs
- While Americans in the nearby city of Detroit face life
- in third world conditions, unable to even afford running
- water, the state of Michigan decided to direct its resources
- towards cracking down on a small food co-op in Standish for
- having the utter audacity to provide milk, butter, cream
- and eggs to people who bought shares in the organic dairy.
- The Michigan Department of Agriculture must be so proud of
- their deeds, after they forced Joe and Brenda Golimbieski,
- the owners of Hill High Dairy and Jenny Samuelson, the owner
- of My Family Co-op, to dump out 248 gallons of milk, to break
- 100 dozen eggs, and to destroy an undisclosed amount of fresh
- cream, butter and cheese.
- http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/07/daisy-luther/the-food-stasi/
- http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/michigan-dept-of-agri-forces-farmer-to-dump-248-gallons-of-organic-milk-and-break-1200-free-range-eggs-07222014
- UPDATE! Department of Agriculture Shuts Down Organic Seed Library
- In yet another example of the federal government’s war on
- self-sufficiency, the US Department of Agriculture shut down
- a seed library in Pennsylvania, claiming that a system whereby
- residents could borrow heirloom seeds and then replace them at
- harvest time was a violation of the 2004 Seed Act, while a
- commissioner warned that such behavior could lead to “agri-
- terrorism.”
- When the Cumberland County Library System set up the facility
- at Mechanicsburg’s Joseph T. Simpson Public Library back in April,
- they thought it would be a useful way for locals to borrow seeds
- and replace them at the end of the growing season, encouraging
- residents to learn more about growing their own food and acquiring
- key self-sufficiency skills.
- Following in the footsteps of similar initiatives across the state,
- the library system was careful to check that they were doing
- everything by the book and not breaking any laws as well as meeting
- with the county extension office.
- http://www.infowars.com/agri-terrorism-feds-shut-down-seed-library-in-pennsylvania/
- http://cumberlink.com/news/local/communities/carlisle/department-of-agriculture-cracks-down-on-seed-libraries/article_8b0323f4-18f6-11e4-b4c1-0019bb2963f4.html
- UPDATE! WHY THE ECO-FASCISTS ARE DECLARING WAR ON FARMERS
- A recent review carried out by the organization GRAIN revealed that
- small farms produce most of the world's food and are more productively
- efficient than large farms.
- Facilitated by an appropriate policy framework, small farmers could easily
- feed the global population. However, small farmers are currently squeezed
- onto less than a quarter of the world's farmland. The world is fast losing
- farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of the
- rich and powerful. The report concluded that if nothing is done to reverse
- this trend, the world will lose its capacity to feed itself.
- One major reason why small farms are disappearing is the rapid growth of
- monoculture plantations. In the last 50 years, 140 million hectares - well
- more than all the farmland in China - have been taken over for soybean,
- oil palm, rapeseed and sugar cane alone. By definition, peasant agriculture
- prioritizes food production for local and national markets as well as for
- farmers' own families, whereas corporations take over scarce fertile land
- and prioritize commodities or export crops for profit and markets far away
- that cater for the needs of the affluent.
- This process impoverishes local communities and brings about food insecurity.
- GRAIN's Camila Montecinos concludes that the concentration of fertile agricultural
- land in fewer and fewer hands is directly related to the increasing number
- of people going hungry every day. While industrial farms have enormous power,
- influence and resources, GRAIN's data review showed that small farms almost
- everywhere outperform big farms in terms of productivity.
- On the heels of the review by GRAIN is a new report from the policy think
- tank the Oakland Institute which states that the first years of the 21st
- century will be remembered for a global land rush of nearly unprecedented
- scale. An estimated 500 million acres, an area eight times the size of Britain,
- was reported bought or leased across the developing world between 2000 and
- 2011, often at the expense of local food security and land rights.
- The Oakland Institute indicates how a new generation of institutional investors,
- including hedge funds, private equity, pension funds and university endowments,
- is eager to capitalize on global farmland as a new and highly desirable asset
- class. Financial returns, not food security, are what matter.
- And this trend is not confined to the much publicized buying up of valuable
- agricultural land in low-income by foreign concerns. The Institute's Executive
- Director, Anuradha Mittal, argues that although media coverage tends to focus
- on land grabs in these countries, there is also a new rush for US farmland.
- With rising interest from investors and surging land prices, giant pension
- funds like TIAA-CREF are committing billions to buy agricultural land.
- She states that one industry leader estimates that ten billion dollars in
- institutional capital is looking for access to US farmland, but that figure
- could easily rise as investors seek to ride out uncertain financial times by
- placing their money in the perceived safety of agriculture. The US will
- experiences an unprecedented crisis of retiring farmers over the next 20
- years, leading to ample opportunities for these actors to expand their
- holdings as an estimated 400 million acres changes generational hands.
- Mittal argues that for all their size and ambition, virtually nothing is known
- about these new investors and their business practices. Who do they buy land
- from? What do they grow? How do they manage their properties? She concludes
- that in an industry not known for its transparency, none of these questions
- have a satisfactory answer.
- The corporate consolidation of agriculture is being felt just as strongly in
- Iowa and California as it is in the Philippines and Mozambique. Mittal notes
- that some of the most powerful players involved in these major land acquisitions
- include: UBS Agrivest, a subsidiary of the biggest bank in Switzerland; the
- Hancock Agricultural Investment Group (HAIG), a subsidiary of the biggest
- insurance company in Canada; and the Teacher Annuity Insurance Association
- College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), one of the largest pension funds
- in the world.
- Mittal argues that this is crucial to look at the motives and practices of
- these major players because although institutional investors only currently
- own an apparently tiny one percent of all US farmland and farmers are still
- the biggest buyers of farmland across the country, the writing is on the wall
- in terms of the long-term trends that threaten US agriculture.
- Investors believe that there is roughly 1.8 trillion dollars' worth of farmland
- across the US. According to the Oakland Institute, of this between 300 and 500
- billion dollars is considered to be of “institutional quality,” a combination
- of factors relating to size, water access, soil quality, and location that
- determine the investment appeal of a property. This makes domestic farmland
- a huge and largely untapped asset class. Some of the biggest actors in the
- financial sector have already sought to exploit this opportunity by making
- equity investments in farmland. Frequently, these buyers enter the market
- with so much capital that their funds are practically limitless compared with
- the resources of most farmers.
- Anuradha Mittal notes that they have made an impressive foothold and that
- this is the beginning, not the end, of a land rush. Not only is there space
- in the market for institutional investors to expand, but there are also major
- financial incentives for them to do so. She argues that if action is not taken,
- then a perfect storm of global and national trends could converge to permanently
- shift farm ownership from family businesses to institutional investors and other
- consolidated corporate operations.
- A September 2013 report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- stated that farming in rich and poor nations alike should shift from monoculture
- towards greater varieties of crops, reduced use of fertilizers and other inputs,
- greater support for small-scale farmers and more locally focused production and
- consumption of food. The report stated that monoculture and industrial farming
- methods are not providing sufficient affordable food where it is needed. The
- system actually causes food poverty, not addresses it, something which people
- like Vandana Shiva have been saying for some time.
- Numerous high level reports from the UN and development agencies have argued
- in favor of small farmers and agro-ecology. However, the bedrock of food
- production and food security - the small farmer - faces marginalization and
- economic distress. The trends in favor of ‘asset-based’, corporate-dictated
- agriculture do not bode well, especially for low-income (rural-based) countries.
- That type of system does not exist to address food security or support local
- economies. Based on speculation, the ring-fencing of commodities for markets
- and the control of subsidies, prices and inputs, it exists to satisfy shareholders
- and investors elsewhere.
- http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/08/06/374307/wall-streets-unprecedented-land-grab/
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- (82) Virginia Oyster Farmers Being Zoned Out of Existance
- http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/seaford-oyster-company/
- The York County Board of Supervisors is threatening the
- livelihood of oyster farmers. Zoning is a popular way for
- counties to control where and how things are bought and
- sold. Zoning ordinances can often dictate whether people
- can work, live and play in the same neighborhood. The
- details of zoning are excruciatingly complex leaving people
- unable to respond in a timely manner. The enforcement of
- zoning regulations involves heavy fines and/or incarceration.
- In short, zoning has been a terrific way for counties to
- control people’s lives.
- Such is the story of oyster farmer Anthony Bavuso and his
- family. After years of working corporate and office jobs,
- Bavuso and his wife took a short hiatus from the day-to-day
- drudgery and returned with a new perspective: they wanted to
- become contributors to the economy of raw materials by producing
- something that people needed.
- Bavuso moved his family back to their home state of Virginia
- with the dream of becoming food producers. Having access to a
- waterfront property, and a background in oyster gardening, it
- made sense to start an oyster farm. Like other types of farming,
- oyster farmers have to manage the growth of their oysters — a
- labor-intensive process requiring a high level of experience.
- An added benefit, for Bavuso, was the knowledge that oysters
- clean the water. As a lifelong Virginian, the health of the
- Chesapeake Bay is never far from his mind. (Oysters eat algae,
- which proliferates in the pollution of the bay, and turn the
- algae into usable protein for humans.) So the Bavuso family
- started Seaford Oyster Company in Seaford, Virginia.
- York County maintains a set of zoning ordinances regulating
- various aspects of farming. There are a list of things that
- are allowed, and if an activity is not on the list, the county
- prohibits it. Penalties include steep fines and possible
- incarceration. Small changes to the zoning ordinances can
- easily disrupt industries and people’s livelihoods.
- In 2010, Bavuso followed regulatory procedure within his zoning
- district for an oyster farm. He established a lease with the
- Commonwealth of Virginia that gave him the “rights” to the
- section of the bottomland in the Poquoson River adjacent to
- his property. (The bottom lease gives farmers access to
- shellfish only.) Additional regulations and permits involved
- food safety. Wanting to show his interest in producing the
- safest food possible, Bavuso complied with the entire permitting
- process.
- Prior to starting the farm, the family looked at this list of
- zones and restrictions. In the Bavuso’s zone, farming is “permitted
- by right.” This means for people to farm the land, they need no
- additional land use permits from the county. According to the
- definition of aquaculture in the code, what Bavuso is doing is
- considered part of what is “permitted by right.”
- By 2011, after more than a year of farming, refining his expertise
- and growing his customer base, Bavuso read in a local newspaper
- that the county was planning on rezoning to remove agriculture
- activities from Bavuso’s “zone.” A “zone” is any area that the
- county designates. Within each zone, the county stipulates what
- particular activities can take place. Once designated, the county
- applies regulations and restrictions. For example, one common
- zoning requirement is that if an area is zoned for residential
- building, there are restrictions and regulations determining
- how from the property line a structure can be built.
- Bavuso wanted to make sure that he would be grandfathered in and
- that these changes would not affect his farming operation. He
- didn’t know it at the time, but the ordinance was crafted to
- punish a fellow oyster farmer by the name of Greg Garrett. The
- rezoning effort was a actually a political vendetta to punish
- Garrett for supporting a challenger to a currently elected
- member of the York County Board of Supervisors (BOS). Bavuso
- has gotten caught up in that because he does not agree with
- the agenda of the BOS either. And so began what would be at
- least 3 years of limbo for a peaceful man and his family. After
- his vocal opposition, Mr. Bavuso is now is convinced that they
- are attacking him, personally.
- Read more about the repressive tyranny against mankind here,
- http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/seaford-oyster-company/
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- (83) Mega Banks Monopolizing Control Of Water for Oligarchs
- http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274
- http://survivalbackpack.us/mega-banks-monopolizing-control-water/
- A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide.
- The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist
- multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at
- unprecedented pace.
- Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman
- Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit
- Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group,
- Allianz, and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their
- control over water. Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens,
- former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong’s
- Li Ka-shing, Philippines’ Manuel V. Pangilinan and other
- Filipino billionaires, and others are also buying thousands
- of acres of land with aquifers, lakes, water rights, water
- utilities, and shares in water engineering and technology
- companies all over the world.
- The second disturbing trend is that while the new water barons
- are buying up water all over the world, governments are moving
- fast to limit citizens’ ability to become water self-sufficient
- (as evidenced by the well-publicized Gary Harrington’s case in
- Oregon, in which the state criminalized the collection of
- rainwater in three ponds located on his private land, by
- convicting him on nine counts and sentencing him for 30 days
- in jail). Let’s put this criminalization in perspective:
- Billionaire T. Boone Pickens owned more water rights than any
- other individuals in America, with rights over enough of the
- Ogallala Aquifer to drain approximately 200,000 acre-feet
- (or 65 billion gallons of water) a year. But ordinary citizen
- Gary Harrington cannot collect rainwater runoff on 170 acres
- of his private land.
- It’s a strange New World Order in which multibillionaires and
- elitist banks can own aquifers and lakes, but ordinary citizens
- cannot even collect rainwater and snow runoff in their own
- backyards and private lands.
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- RELATED ; EPA is Working for the Mega Banks to Seize American Land
- http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/biggest-land-grab-in-the-history-of-the-world/
- http://wealthydebates.com/epa-requesting-jurisdiction-public-private-streams-us/
- http://www.naturalnews.com/044912_EPA_land_grab_seasonal_streams.html
- http://govtslaves.info/epa-set-regulate-private-ditches-streams/
- http://wearechange.org/new-epa-land-grab-complete-control-private-land-america/
- http://www.thedailysheeple.com/epa-bullies-wyoming-family-and-threatens-them-with-massive-fines-over-a-duck-pond_032014
- http://survivalbackpack.us/mega-banks-monopolizing-control-water/
- http://survivalbackpack.us/court-ends-private-property-rights-water-controlled-government/
- http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/03/24/the-agenda-21-water-police-are-making-their-move-to-enslave-american-communities/
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/27/blueprint-for-water-control-pol-says-epa-secretly-created-maps-for-new/
- http://dailysignal.com/2014/08/30/maps-developed-secret-suggest-epa-may-expanding-regulation/
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- UPDATE! EPA’s Water Control, Land Grab Blueprints Leaked!
- http://dailysignal.com/2014/08/30/maps-developed-secret-suggest-epa-may-expanding-regulation/
- A map developed by the EPA and released to a US House committee
- investigating controversial proposed water regulations should have
- citizens concerned, says U.S. Rep. Kevin Cramer. “It is certainly
- alarming the EPA would develop these maps in secret and only release
- them after being confronted by members of Congress,” Cramer, a
- Republican, said in a news release accompanying his office’s release
- of the maps. “The EPA has been hiding information which could upset
- the public and jeopardize its massive power grab of unprecedented
- authority over private and public water.”
- The maps were released by the EPA to the House Science, Space, and
- Technology Committee, on which Cramer serves. One map shows perennial
- bodies of water in blue and intermittent bodies of water in yellow.
- A second regional map including North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana,
- Wyoming, Colorado and Utah uses blue to show each state’s “wetlands
- inventory.” On that map, nearly the entire state of North Dakota is
- in blue. Critics of the proposed rule have suggested the EPA intends
- to use it to expand regulation far beyond permanent bodies of water
- to lands that hold water only some of the time. “It doesn’t take
- much of a leap to conclude these highly detailed maps developed
- with taxpayer funds are for the purpose of enforcing this rule,”
- Cramer said. But EPA officials say the maps have nothing to do with
- the Waters of the US rule.
- “Let us be very clear — these maps have nothing to do with EPA’s
- proposed rule or any other regulatory purpose,” EPA spokeswoman Liz
- Purchia told Fox News. The EPA claims they have “regulatory authority”
- over “US waters,” but it’s unclear how that “authority” extends to
- non-permanent bodies of water. In New Mexico, one landowner has
- already experienced the federal government attempting to regulate
- wetlands that aren’t always wet. In 2013 a landowner was prohibited
- by federal authorities who cited the Clean Water Act from cleaning
- out a dry creek bed.
- Ultimately federal authorities backed down after the Pacific Legal
- Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of the property owners. But that
- may not happen in North Dakota. “It is a gall darn can of worms opening,”
- Pete Hannebutt, the director of public policy for the North Dakota Farm
- Bureau, says. “They’ve been trying to reinterpret the rules for years,
- and we’ve been jumping up and down saying it’s not right.” Hannebutt is
- concerned about the EPA’s maps. “It could impact everything that we do
- in generally accepted farming practices, including digging a fence post
- hole, including running fence, including growing hay. It could have a
- huge impact on us,” he said. He’s worried EPA’s regulations could be
- so broad as to hinder a farmer’s ability to access his land.
- Blueprint for water control? EPA made secret maps for new land grabs.
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/27/blueprint-for-water-control-pol-says-epa-secretly-created-maps-for-new/
- A top House Republican is charging that the Environmental Protection
- Agency secretly drafted highly detailed maps of US waterways to set
- the stage for a controversial plan to expand regulatory power over
- streams and wetlands, a claim the EPA strongly denies.
- Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House Science, Space, and
- Technology Committee, released those maps on Wednesday, while firing off
- a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy voicing concerns over why they
- were created in the first place.
- “These maps show the EPA’s plan: to control a huge amount of private property
- across the country. Given the astonishing picture they paint, I understand the
- EPA’s desire to minimize the importance of these maps,” he wrote, in the letter
- obtained by FoxNews.com.
- But an EPA spokeswoman said the maps, from the US Geological Survey and
- Fish and Wildlife Service, do not depict which waters are subject to EPA
- control.
- “Let us be very clear -- these maps have nothing to do with EPA’s proposed
- rule or any other regulatory purpose,” Liz Purchia lies, claiming they were
- initially created years ago and subsequently updated.
- At issue is a proposal that Smith and fellow Republicans, as well as farmers
- and other groups, say could endanger private property rights by giving the
- EPA a say over temporary waterways like seasonal streams, under the Clean
- Water Act. That the agency had highly detailed maps drawn up has raised
- suspicion about their purpose.
- “While the Agency marches forward with a rule that could fundamentally
- re-define Americans’ private property rights, the EPA kept these maps hidden,”
- Smith wrote in his letter. "Serious questions remain regarding the EPA’s
- underlying motivations for creating such highly detailed maps.”
- He added: “The EPA's job is to regulate. The maps must have been created
- with this purpose in mind.”
- The high-resolution maps of each state depict a dense and veiny web of
- intertwining waterways. They're color-coded to distinguish everything from
- canals and ditches to reservoirs to marshes to various types of streams.
- The maps show permanent streams, but also those that contain water for
- only part of the year.
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- (84) Obama Regime Wants EPA to Force Unlawful Carbon Taxes
- http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/05/29/epa-obama-administrations-new-legislative-branch/
- Will the Environmental Protection Agency resurrect the
- defunct Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, a 1,428-page
- behemoth that threatened to slam the brakes on the US
- economy before it died in the Senate in 2010?
- That may seem unbelievable but it’s the likely end game if
- courts uphold EPA’s draconian carbon “pollution” rules for
- new and existing fossil-fuel power plants, which are almost
- fully upon us. And American democracy will also suffer if
- EPA goes ahead.
- EPA’s carbon rule, proposed last September, would use the
- existing Clean Air Act to establish a new source performance
- standard (NSPS)—a limit, in plain English—for carbon dioxide
- (CO2) emissions that no commercial coal-fired power plant
- can possibly meet.
- The proposed standard is 1,100 pounds of CO2 per megawatt
- hour of electricity produced. Today’s most advanced commercial
- coal power plants emit 1,800 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour.
- New plants could comply only by installing carbon capture and
- storage (CCS) technology – a capability that can add 80% to
- the cost of building a new coal plant.
- To make the proposal look reasonable, EPA has to bend reality
- a lot. Under section 111(b) of the Clean Air Act, NSPS are to
- reflect the “best system of emission reduction” that has been
- “adequately demonstrated.” EPA claims CCS is adequately
- demonstrated -- but there are no commercial-scale power
- plants operating anywhere with CCS, and none is being built
- without heavy taxpayer and/or consumer subsidies.
- In short, a utility that builds a new coal plant with CCS,
- as required by EPA’s ruling, risks going bankrupt. The rule
- is thus an informal ban on investment in new coal power
- generation.
- When did Congress approve that policy? Never!
- FLASHBACK ; Obama Promises to Bankrupt US Coal Industry
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpTIhyMa-Nw
- Mirror here » http://f.lui.li/get_1506_4f4d.html
- UPDATE ; The EPA Claims They Will Force Carbon Taxation,
- Commences Financial Warfare Against Power Plants and the
- Consumers Within the United States of America!
- Total lawlessness by an agency granting themselves
- dictatorial power to create and enforce their own laws!
- NO LEGISLATION PASSED. NO EXECUTIVE ORDER. JUST SANCTIONS.
- Get ready to live the life of a third world dictatorship.
- The Obama regime took aim at the coal industry on Monday
- by mandating a 30 percent cut in carbon emissions at fossil
- fuel-burning power plants by 2030 -- despite claims the
- regulation will cost nearly a quarter-million jobs a year
- and force plants across the country to close.
- http://www2.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-05/documents/20140602proposal-cleanpowerplan.pdf
- The 645-page rule, expected to be final next year, is a
- centerpiece of the UN’s Agenda 21, and a step that the
- Obama regime hopes will get other countries to “act” when
- negotiations on a new international treaty resume next year.
- If you would like to live a more prosperous life in the
- future, you may have no other choice but to consider
- leaving this country. America is damned to collapse.
- http://www.infowars.com/obamas-epa-coal-plant-regulations-obamacare-for-the-atmosphere/
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- (85) EPA To EXPAND Use Of Bee Killing Pesticides
- The EPA wants to expand the use of two pesticides that
- could be a major threat to America’s bee population, farms
- and the nation’s food supply. That’s the charge being made
- by the Center for Food Safety and beekeepers.
- The agency is proposing more uses for thiamethoxam,
- apesticide that has been banned in the European Union
- because it is considered a threat to bees. A letter from
- the Center to the Environmental Protection Agency raises
- some serious concerns about thiamethoxam and another
- pesticide, sulfoxaflor.
- “Peer-reviewed scientific studies have consistently shown
- that these systemic chemicals are highly toxic to honeybees,
- other pollinators and beneficial insects,” the letter
- states. “Pollinator losses represent a serious threat to
- the agricultural industry and food security. Furthermore,
- these systemic pesticides have also been shown to negatively
- impact beneficial insects and contaminate water bodies and
- soil.”
- The Threat from Neonic Pesticides
- Thiamethoxam and sulfoxaflor are neonic or neonicotinoid
- pesticides which studies have tied to bee deaths, as Off
- The Grid News has reported. Last year scientists from Health
- Canada (Canada’s Department of Health) found 70 percent of
- bees that died from colony collapse tested positive for
- neonicotinoids. AHarvard study this year also tied bee
- deaths to neonicotinoids.
- “They’re taking in something that they will ultimately die
- from, and they’re taking this into the hive and feeding on
- it all winter, then we wonder why we have winter mortality,”
- Madeline Chagnon, an environmental scientist at the University
- of Quebec, said of bees and the pesticides.
- Chagnon says the pesticides enter the soil when they are
- coated on seeds. The soil then becomes dusty and is stirred
- up during agricultural processes. The dust exposes the bees
- to the pesticides and eventually kills them. Bees can also
- become exposed to the chemicals while pollinating crops.
- http://livegreatfeelgreat.com/2014/06/epa-expand-use-bee-killing-pesticides/
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- (86) EPA Bullies Wyoming Family and Threatens Them With
- Massive Fines … Over a Duck Pond
- http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/epa-bullies-wyoming-family-and-threatens-them-with-massive-fines-over-a-duck-pond-03252014
- A Wyoming family is being threatened with massive fines for
- building a stock pond on their eight-acre farm.
- Andy and Katie Johnson built the pond in 2012. They stocked it
- with trout, ducks, and geese.
- Of course, the government is why we can’t have nice things.
- Naturally, the EPA has found a reason to come around and harass
- the Johnsons and prevent them from enjoying their property.
- Johnson said the EPA has engaged him in a power play and is
- threatening him with massive civil and criminal penalties over
- the pond, which they claim is actually a “dam.”
- Fox News reports:
- http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/14/wyoming-welder-faces-fine-for-building-pond-on-his-own-property
- The agency claims Johnson violated the Clean Water Act by
- building a dam on a creek without a permit from the Army Corps
- of Engineers. Further, the EPA claims that material from his
- pond is being discharged into other waterways. Johnson says he
- built a stock pond — a man-made pond meant to attract wildlife
- — which is exempt from Clean Water Act regulations.
- Johnson said that his pond is exempt from the law, and he
- followed state regulations in building it. He has an approval
- etter from the Wyoming State Engineer’s Office as proof, which
- states:
- “Said permit is in good standing and is entitled to be exercised
- exactly as permitted,” says the letter.
- The agency is threatening to hit the family with up to $75,000 a
- DAY in fines. Johnson said he’s not paying them a cent:
- “I have not paid them a dime nor will I. I will go bankrupt if I
- have to fighting it. My wife and I built [the pond] together. We
- put our blood, sweat and tears into it. It was our dream.”
- Of course, the EPA isn’t backing down. They argue that Johnson
- needs to either restore the land or pay the fines. On January 30,
- the agency gave Johnson 30 days to hire a consultant to assess the
- impact of the supposed unauthorized work and to create a restoration
- proposal. That proposal has to be approved by the EPA, of course,
- and it must contain a schedule. All work would have to be completed
- within 60 days of the plan’s approval.
- Sounds like they are setting him for failure, doesn’t it? Even if
- he DID violate the law and agreed to make things right, would meeting
- those terms even be possible?
- If Johnson does not comply with those terms, the EPA is going to
- fine him $37,500 per day in civil penalties, along with $37,500 more
- every day for statutory violations.
- Johnson is fighting back and has gained the support of three Republican
- senators – John Barrasso and Mike Enzi, who both represent Wyoming —
- and Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, Fox News reports:
- The Republican lawmakers sent a March 12 letter to Nancy Stoner, the
- EPA’s acting assistant administration for water, saying they were
- “troubled” by Johnson’s case and demanding the EPA withdraw the
- compliance order.
- “Rather than a sober administration of the Clean Water Act, the
- Compliance Order reads like a draconian edict of a heavy-handed
- bureaucracy,” the letter states.
- The letter also questions the EPA’s claim that Johnson’s pond is
- actually a dam:
- “Fairness and due process require the EPA base its compliance order
- on more than an assumption,” they wrote. “Instead of treating Mr.
- Johnson as guilty until he proves his innocence by demonstrating his
- entitlement to the Clean Water Act section 404 (f)(1)(C) stock pond
- exemption, EPA should make its case that a dam was built and that the
- Section 404 exemption does not apply.
- “If the compliance order stands as an example of how EPA intends
- to operate after completing its current ‘waters of the United States’
- rule-making, it should give pause to each and every landowner throughout
- the country.”
- Johnson said his battle with the EPA is serving as a learning
- experience for his children:
- “This is showing them that they shouldn’t back down. If you need to
- stand up and fight, you do it.
- “This goes a lot further than a pond. It’s about a person’s rights. I
- have three little kids. I am not going to roll over and let [the government]
- tell me what I can do on my land. I followed the rules.”
- The infringement on Johnson’s property rights under the veil of
- protecting the environment is bad enough, but some say that the
- astronomical fines are perhaps an even bigger issue – and may even
- be unconstitutional, as Evan Bernick of The Foundry explains:
- But the eye-popping aspect of this story is the severity of the
- penalties threatened. It’s absurd to threaten someone with tens of
- thousands of dollars in fines because he or she lacks a permit. And
- it might also be unconstitutional.
- The Framers of our Constitution recognized that, at a certain point,
- penalties become unconstitutionally disproportionate. The Eighth
- Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause reflects that understanding. In
- Austin v. U.S. (1993), and again in U.S. v. Bajakajian (1998), the
- U.S. Supreme Court explained that “[t]he Excessive Fines Clause
- limits the government’s power to extract payments, whether in cash
- or in kind, as punishment for some offense,” and held that civil
- sanctions that do not serve solely remedial purposes are subject
- to the Excessive Fines Clause. It is impossible to understand the
- threatened fines as serving a purely remedial purpose—surely,
- repairing any damage that Johnson inflicted would cost less than
- $75,000 a day. But, under the terms of the CWA, he is potentially
- subject to such penalties as a consequence of his failure to obtain
- a permit.
- This is just another sad case of big government stomping all over
- the little guy. Hopefully the EPA won’t get away with destroying the
- Johnsons’ hard work and are stopped from sending the family into
- financial ruin.
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- (87) 2,827 New EPA Regulations Ready to Gut Economic Growth
- Since President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, the
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued 2,827 new final
- regulations, equaling 24,915 pages in the Federal Register,
- totaling approximately 24,915,000 words.
- http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/new-epa-regs-issued-under-obama-are-38-times-long-bible
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- (88) Vets Died as VA Obsessed Over Renewable “Green” Energy
- The sick and halt wait but the solar panels don’t.
- The administrators at the Veterans Administration have
- apparently been busy while old soldiers waited to see a
- doctor, after all. Serving those who served is not necessarily
- a priority, but saving the planet is Job 1. Solar panels and
- windmills can be more important than the touch of a healing
- hand.
- The department early on set up an Office of Green Management
- Programs designed to “help VA facilities nationwide recognize
- opportunities to green VA, and to reward innovative ‘green’
- practices and efforts by individual facilities and staff within
- the VA.” This sometimes means paying more attention to greening
- the department and saving the polar ice caps than to health care.
- In the department’s words, it adopted a far more important
- mission to “become more energy efficient and sustainable, focusing
- primarily on renewable energy, energy and water efficiency,
- [carbon-dioxide] emissions reduction, and sustainable buildings.”
- The green office isn’t merely a desk and telephone tucked away
- in the dark corner of a nondescript government building. It’s a
- substantial undertaking, with all the luxury, bells and whistles
- of a bureaucracy that means business. Eric K. Shinseki, who
- resigned as secretary in the wake of the VA scandal of the sin
- of omission, traveled the country to boast of the green initiative.
- In one instance, he traveled to Massachusetts to flick the switch
- at a half-million-dollar windmill project at the Massachusetts
- National Cemetery. “Nationally,” he said, “VA continues to expand
- its investment in renewable sources of energy to promote our
- nation’s energy independence, save taxpayer dollars, and improve
- care for our veterans and their families.
- VA facilities have become littered with every scheme to banish
- carbon dioxide short of requiring visitors to hold their breath.
- Calverton National Cemetery spent $742,034 on solar panels. Fort
- Rosecrans National Cemetery spent $787,308. Not to be out-greened,
- the Riverside National Cemetery spent $1.3 million on its solar
- system.
- At the Phoenix VA Health Care System, where 20 Americans died from
- incompetence and cover-up, the department spent $20 million putting
- solar panels on the hospital roofs. That would have been more than
- enough money to provide the veterans with the health care they deserved.
- Some administrators won’t be satisfied until every federal building
- bears a green stamp. In military parlance, the VA is practicing
- “mission creep,” the expansion of a project well beyond its intended
- goals. While the rest of the government continues to waste taxpayer
- funds trying to become carbon-dioxide neutral, the VA should be
- spending every available dollar to relieve pain, cure the sick and
- restore the deserving to health. That’s more important than any fad,
- environmental or otherwise.
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/19/editorial-strange-priorities-at-the-va/
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- (89) THE EPA GETS READY TO LOOT CIVILIANS’ WAGES!
- Far time people pull money out of the banks and start investing
- in hard tangible assets and firearms to protect property!
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/8/power-grab-epa-wants-to-garnish-wages-of-polluters/
- The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly floated a rule
- claiming authority to bypass the courts and unilaterally garnish
- paychecks of those accused of violating its rules, a power currently
- used by agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service.
- The EPA has been flexing its regulatory muscle under dictator Obama,
- collecting more fines each year and hitting individuals with costly
- penalties for violating environmental rules, including recently
- slapping a $75,000 fine on Wyoming homeowner Andy Johnson for
- building a pond on his rural property.
- “The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority. It seems
- like once again the EPA is trying to take power it doesn’t have
- away from American citizens,” Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican,
- said when he learned of the EPA’s wage garnishment scheme.
- Others questioned why the EPA decided to strengthen its collection
- muscle at this time.
- Critics said the threat of garnishing wages would be a powerful
- incentive for people to agree to expensive settlements rather than
- fight EPA charges.
- EPA officials did not respond to repeated questions by The Washington
- Times about why they thought it was necessary to garnish people’s wages.
- The EPA announced the plan last week in a notice in the Federal
- Register, saying federal law allows it “to garnish non-Federal
- wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed the United States
- without first obtaining a court order.”
- The agency cited authority under the Debt Collection Improvement
- Act of 1996 that centralized federal collection operations under
- the Treasury Department, which oversees garnishments of wages or
- tax refund checks.
- Under the law, every federal agency has the authority to conduct
- administrative wage garnishment, provided the agency adopts
- approved rules for conducting hearings where debtors can challenge
- the amount of debt or terms of repayment schedule, a Treasury
- official said.
- Still, the rule would give the EPA sweeping authority to dictate
- how and whether Americans could dispute fines and penalties, even
- as the amount of EPA fines collected from individuals, businesses
- and local governments steadily increase.
- The amount of fines raked in by the agency has jumped from $96
- million in 2009 to $252 million in 2012, a more than 160 percent
- increase, according to EPA annual reports.
- Putting the collection powers on a fast track, the agency announced
- it in the Federal Register as a “direct final rule” that would take
- effect automatically Sept. 2, unless the EPA receives adverse public
- comments by Aug. 1.
- The EPA said it deemed the action as not a “significant regulatory
- action” and therefore not subject to review.
- The negative reactions began almost immediately.
- In a comment letter submitted to the EPA, the conservative Heritage
- Foundation faulted the rule for giving the government “unbridled
- discretion” in controlling the process for challenging fines and
- wage garnishment, such as dictating the site of a hearing without
- consideration of the time and travel expense placed on the accused
- debtor.
- The rule allows the EPA to decide whether a debtor gets a chance
- to present a defense and then picks whomever it chooses to serve as
- a hearing officer, even someone not trained as an administrative
- law judge, wrote David S. Addington, group vice president for
- research at The Heritage Foundation.
- It also puts the burden of proof on the debtor, not the EPA,
- he said.
- The EPA has been on the front lines of the battle over Mr. Obama’s
- climate change agenda, including issuing proposed rules that would
- require coal-fired power plants to cut carbon dioxide emissions by
- 30 percent over 15 years.
- Critics say it will cause massive increases in the cost of electricity,
- lead to power shortages and eliminate jobs, while making scant impact
- on the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted worldwide.
- The agency has been a magnet for criticism over new rules on things
- such as wood-burning stoves and small streams or ponds on private
- land, including waterways on farms and golf courses.
- Due Process? Trial by Jury? Innocent until proven guilty?
- Those outmoded ideas from the Magna Carta and Constitution get
- in the way of efficiency. UK Members of Parliament are “horrified”
- at the loss while the usurpation of power in America quietly moves
- from the IRS to the EPA and every other bureaucracy.
- http://www.infowars.com/epa-tramples-800-years-of-recognized-rights/
- Fascists @ EPA Want to Land Grab And Garnish Wages
- “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking direct final
- action to amend EPA's claims collection standards to implement the
- administrative wage garnishment provisions of the Debt Collection
- Improvement Act of 1982, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement
- Act of 1996 (DCIA). The direct final rule will allow the EPA to
- garnish non-Federal wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed
- the United States without first obtaining a court order.”
- https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/07/02/2014-15578/administrative-wage-garnishment
- http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-07-02/pdf/2014-15578.pdf
- BACKUP! EPA Land Grab And Wage Garnishment Coming.doc
- http://f.lui.li/get_2333_57bc.html
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- (90) Fascists Exempt Themselves From Regulations! What a Surprise!
- Pelosi’s Home City Exempted From Eco-fascist Regulations
- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/20/lawsuit-asks-san-francisco-to-share-pain-on-green-/
- The Endangered Species Act has wreaked havoc for decades on rural
- communities, but a newly filed lawsuit could force San Francisco
- urbanites like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to share their pain.
- A federal complaint filed this week contends that the Hetch Hetchy
- Project, which supplies water to San Francisco and the Bay Area, has
- unfairly enjoyed an exemption from the “severe cutbacks” required in
- rural California in order to save endangered fish species.
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- (91) Eco-fascist Federal Gestapo Thugs Shut Down Last Oyster Cannery
- in California ... Simply “Because They Want To”
- http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2014/08/feds-shut-down-last-oyster-cannery-in-california-simply-because-they-want-to-no-humans-allowed-at-pt-reyes-video/
- We at ACC care very much about the environment. I personally love to
- hike, surf, and enjoy the great outdoors in all sorts of ways. I love
- wildlife. A broad empty vista is a beautiful thing to me. I revel in a
- starry sky devoid of human light.
- But I am not about to flush the property rights of my fellow human beings
- just because I enjoy these things. I am certainly not willing to give power
- to disconnected bureaucrats who have little regard for the welfare and
- livelihoods of people who make their living from the land (or ocean) just
- because I happen to want to take a stroll without being impacted by others.
- I believe that capitalism is in many ways more “sustainable” (especially
- when accounting for “externalities” and when incorporating sound money)
- than heavy handed, top down socialism. I’ve written about this in the past.
- There is no greater enemy of the environment than the state. There is no
- greater enemy of personal liberty than the state either.
- With so called “public lands” a balance must be struck between the people
- who mix their efforts with the land to produce wealth, and “sustainability”
- concerns. Just because someone in Washington DC decides that a pretty piece
- of land should be devoid of human impact doesn’t mean that the state suddenly
- has the moral authority to kick people out. They did that to the people who
- lived on the Blue Ridge Mountains just to my west during the Depression. The
- feds sometimes burned houses down as families watched their meager possessions
- (including dogs which were ordered to be locked inside of houses) go up in flames.
- Now instead of just burning homesteads down the Feds send in the BLM or
- crush people with unending legal bills.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HmOvUvEkJ4
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- (91) Eco-fascist Control Freaks Target Old Electrical Appliances
- The European Union is considering pulling the plug on high-wattage hair
- dryers, lawn mowers and electric kettles in a follow up to its controversial
- ban on powerful vacuum cleaners.
- The power of hairdryers could be reduced by as much as 30 per cent in order
- to be more eco-friendly, a draft study commissioned by Brussels suggests,
- threatening many of the models favoured by hairdressers and consumers for
- speedy blow-dries. ... ...
- Paul Nuttall MEP, UKip's deputy leader, said: “This is being done in the name
- of tackling climate change but the reality is it won't help one iota and will
- just make life harder for house-proud householders. I am perfectly sure grown-ups
- can decide which hair dryer, kettle or vacuum cleaner they want to buy without
- nannying EU interference.” ... ...
- The fact is this is part of the UN’s Agenda 21 at work.
- Current EU legislation covers televisions, washing machines, refrigerators
- and vacuum cleaners but not most smaller electrical appliances.
- EU bans on powerful vacuum cleaners and incandescent light bulbs have provoked
- a popular backlash across Europe including in traditionally pro-European countries
- such as Germany.
- On Monday many of the best vacuum cleaners available for sale in the UK will be
- banned as a result of the EU energy efficiency rules that prohibit the manufacture
- or importing any vacuums with motors above 1,600 watts.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11061538/EU-to-ban-high-energy-hair-dryers-smartphones-and-kettles.html
- Read about the EU eco-fascist banning vacuum cleaners!
- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/21/anger-as-eu-bans-most-powerful-vacuum-cleaners
- http://joannenova.com.au/2014/08/eu-bans-good-vacuum-cleaners-next-big-kettles-hot-irons/
- http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/08/21/eu-kicks-up-dust-with-a-ban-on-vacuum-cleaners-that-sucks/
- Five of top selling vacuum cleaners on Amazon.co.uk that will be banned when
- the new Agenda 21 regulations come in:
- 1. Numatic HVR200A Henry A1 Bagged Cylinder Vacuum Cleaner.
- BANNED BY 2017
- 2. Vax W90-RU-P Rapide Ultra 2 Pre-Treatment Upright Carpet and Upholstery
- Washer.
- BANNED BY 2017
- 3. Vax U90-MA-R Air Reach Multicyclonic Upright Bagless Vacuum Cleaner.
- BANNED BY 2017
- 4. Sebo X4EXTRA Automatic Upright Vacuum Cleaner.
- BANNED BY 2017
- 5. Hoover Smart Pets SM1901 Bagless Upright Vacuum Cleaner.
- BANNED BY SEPTEMBER
- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2730642/Buy-powerful-vacuum-cleaner-BANNED-New-EU-rules-ban-best-models-September-warns-Which.html
- It’s not a bad idea to stock up on other utilities as well.
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- AN UPDATE FROM THE ECO-FASCIST GESTAPO IN POLICE STATE USA!
- EPA Eco-fascists Wants to Ban BBQ Grills!
- http://www.infowars.com/holy-smoke-epa-wants-to-regulate-bbq-grills/
- Hide your wieners. And your burgers, and your chicken quarters and
- your T-bones. It appears the EPA has funded a $15,000 grant geared
- at among other things “limiting the overall air pollution … and
- alleviating some of the acute health problems” associated with
- backyard barbecue grills.
- Students at the University of California Riverside received the
- grant as part of the federal agency’s People, Prosperity and Planet
- (P3) Program. Isn’t that just peachy?
- Doesn’t the People, Prosperity and Planet (P3) Program have an oddly
- Cold War-ish sound? Kinda like the “Peoples Republic of China” or
- Soviet gulags being called “re-education camps.”
- The Cali kids want to develop a “catalytic filtration system” that
- prevents grease fire flareups using metal shields between the grub
- and coals. The overall pointyhead plan also calls for a filter and
- fan setup used to dissipate the smoke and noxious fumes generated
- by the grilling process. The students feel their designs have the
- “Potential for global application.”
- Oh great, along with the Speech Police, the Thought Police and the
- Nobody Should Have Fun Anywhere at Anytime Police, we now have the
- Backyard Grill Police. Isn’t anything sacred anymore?
- http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/progress/2015/03/28/holy-smoke-epa-wants-regulate-bbq-grills/70497210/
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- (92) Additional Three Dollar Gas Tax To Take Effect in 2015
- An environmental bill long championed by the Obama administration and
- environmental groups was quietly signed into law this week. The bill,
- initially expected to fail, was bolstered by last-minute support from a
- group of RINOs seeking reelection in predominantly Democratic leaning
- states. The bill strengthens environmental pollution penalties, emission
- standards and creates a surprising new three dollar a gallon tax increase
- on gasoline.
- http://nationalreport.net/additional-three-dollar-gas-tax-take-effect-jan-1st-2015/
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- (93) Fascist Obama Usurps San Gabriel Mountains National Monument
- This is a massive land grab for Agenda 21. The resource taken? Water.
- http://wtfrly.com/2014/10/10/agenda-21-land-grab-obama-designates-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument/
- Prez Barack Obama declared a national monument on almost 350,000 acres
- of land in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles. In a climate-change
- world, those resources would be important to control under federal law
- and other Agenda 21 initiatives.
- The mountains represent about 70 percent of the open space in Los Angeles
- County and provide about a third of the area’s drinking water. Some 17
- million people live within an hour’s drive of the 10,000-foot mountains,
- which naturalist John Muir once described as “pure and untameable as the sea.”
- Rossman said the monument designation will help combat a growing litter
- problem by increasing staffing and enforcement and will open the door to
- more federal funding. The activist hopes the monument will give momentum
- to broader efforts to protect open space in the “growing asphalt quilt of
- Los Angeles.”
- Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of Twin Peaks announced plans to protest
- the monument on Friday, calling it a “federal land grab.”
- But Andre Quintero, the Democratic mayor of the 115,000-resident city of
- El Monte in the San Gabriel Valley, welcomed the news, saying the monument
- designation “would help augment the resources in that area.”
- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the designation “will ensure its
- resources are managed properly and protected for future generations to
- enjoy.”
- In a statement, he called the San Gabriel Mountains “a vital natural and
- cultural resource.”
- 100% of the state is in drought.
- The banana-republic puppet-in-command POTUS stated:
- “The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument will be managed by the US
- Forest Service and will be the eighth national monument under Forest
- Service management. There are more than 100 national monuments across the
- country managed by the Forest Service, National Park Service, US Fish and
- Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and National Oceanic and
- Atmospheric Administration.”
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- (94) Eco-fascists Want to Monitor How Long Hotel Guests Spend
- in the Shower (for Future Taxation and Spying)
- http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-wants-to-monitor-how-long-hotel-guests-spend-in-the-shower/
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor
- how much time its guests spend in the shower.
- The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that
- will track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to “modify
- their behavior.”
- “Hotels consume a significant amount of water in the US and around
- the world,” an EPA grant to the University of Tulsa reads. “Most
- hotels do not monitor individual guest water usage and as a result,
- millions of gallons of potable water are wasted every year by
- hotel guests.”
- “The proposed work aims to develop a novel low cost wireless device
- for monitoring water use from hotel guest room showers,” it said.
- “This device will be designed to fit most new and existing hotel
- shower fixtures and will wirelessly transmit hotel guest water
- usage data to a central hotel accounting system.”
- “This technology will provide hotel guests with the ability to
- monitor their daily water online or using a smartphone app and
- will assist hotel guest in modifying their behavior to help conserve
- water,” the grant said.
- The project was filed under “Water conservation,” “Urban water
- planning,” and “Sustainable water management.”
- The EPA also has a WaterSense program that challenges hotels to
- track their water use and upgrade their restrooms with low-flow
- toilets and showerheads.
- http://www.epa.gov/watersense/docs/ws_h2otelchallenge_flier_508.pdf
- MIRROR » http://upstore.net/rAWQzZ
- “The method requires three steps: 1) turn on water to rinse body
- and hair; 2) turn off water while shampooing hair and washing body
- with soap and washcloth; 3) resume water flow and rinse off all
- shampoo and soap,” the group said. “Using this technique, the
- total duration of water flow can easily be reduced to 5 minutes
- or less.”
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- (95) Eco-fascist Billionare Al Gore Wants to Criminalize Dissent
- Al Gore, well known for his support for carbon taxation and Agenda 21
- micro-management policies wants to jail people who do not agree with him.
- This just goes to show that many of the people who support Agenda 21
- will result to tyranny to further their illusions of creating some kind
- of utopia - much like Stalin, Mao and Hitler jailed their dissentants.
- http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/16/al-gore-sxsw-punish-climate-deniers/
- NOTE: This is not the first time eco-fascists have called for a
- rollout of gulags against those who have not commit any crime:
- http://www.infowars.com/college-professor-calls-for-climate-change-deniers-to-be-imprisoned/
- http://www.infowars.com/liberal-fascist-calls-for-global-warming-skeptics-to-be-arrested/
- http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/04/07/gawker-says-arrest-climate-change-deniers-but-where-would-we-put-them/
- These people show no respect for our 1st Amendment right to free speech.
- I’m sure these are the same kinds who want to disarm the public too.
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- (96) OREGON GOLD MINING STANDOFF WITH BLM! ECO-FASCIST GESTAPO TRYING
- TO SEIZE MORE AMERICAN LAND AND RESOURCES!
- BLM issued a cease and desist order without a court order and without
- 'Coordination Authorization' ... with local authorities. Federal officials
- acting lawlessly. Possible federal land grab to seize gold rich property
- on behalf of Chinese government.
- http://agenda21radio.com/?p=16435
- Galice Mining District, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON - The next Bundy Ranch
- incident is developing in Josephine County, Oregon. The BLM has served
- notice to gold miners that they have until April 25, 2015 to stop gold
- mining…. Oath Keepers are on site… Militia on the way. BLM DID NOT seek
- ‘Coordination Authorization’ with the local community….Sheriff Dave
- Daniel is NOT considered to be a Consitutional Sheriff.
- FROM THE SHASTA LANTER facebook
- Potential situation building in Southern Oregon/Central Jefferson. BLM
- has issued a cease and desist order to a group of miners in Josephine
- County 10 miles West of Grants Pass in the Galice Mining District. BLM
- has given the miners until April 25th to cease and desist all mining
- operations, remove all buildings and mining equipment. This order by
- BLM is not accompanied by a legal court order and has been issued on
- BLM supposed authority alone. Many of these claims have existed in
- perpituity since the 1870’s. The miners have issued a statement
- declaring they will resist what they believe to be an illegal order.
- The State of Jefferson will respond and arrive to support the miners
- if required. Stay tuned for updates as further information becomes
- available.
- Galice Miners Will Do Battle With Bureau of Land Management
- ~ Executive Committee; Galice Mining District
- There have been many questions about rumors of a battle brewing between
- the Bureau of Land Management and several miners within the Galice
- Mining District. While we cannot yet divulge any fine details (and
- ultimately must keep legal tactics completely private), at this time,
- we can confirm the following:
- 1. BLM recently (3/18/15) issued two Stop Orders on a mine, citing
- authority under their 3809 regulations, despite the fact that this
- is one of the oldest active claims in the country. The location date
- of this mine is so old that one of the location notices (the legal
- title to the mine) was actually first recorded in the original Galice
- Mining District Recorder’s book in 1876 and then later transcribed
- into the Josephine County Clerk’s records once the county assumed
- recording duties. Under the 1955 Surface Resources Act, claims of
- this age have exclusive surface rights unless the Department of
- Interior utilized a mechanism outlined in that Act to severe those
- surface rights. Demands to BLM to produce evidence of their surface
- authority in accordance to the 1955 Act have thus far garnered only
- “because we say so” answers and numerous stonewalling tactics. The
- Stop Orders came after several months of back and forth maneuvering
- from both sides, and are clearly retaliatory in nature.
- BLM are in active violation, on multiple counts, of federal Freedom
- of Information Act statutes. (By contrast, certain mine records in the
- possession of the State of Oregon have been provided in a prompt and
- professional fashion when requested). Similar documents secured by
- another miner have appeared to have been “heavily parsed” of key file
- documents, raising suspicion that BLM is either actively suppressing
- the release of documents that could be very damning or has been
- actively destroying documents which they are obligated under Federal
- Law to maintain and provide on request. One of the BLM employees
- suspected of parsing the records in question has apparently left
- BLM in the last few days.
- 3. What few documents have been produced by BLM to date (many of which
- are in no way very legible) have displayed a long history of non-compliance
- with federal and state laws, as well as their own regulations, as well
- as instances of suspected forgery, fraud, extortion of real estate
- and other issues that suggest a well organized conspiracy that divested
- thousands of miners and others of their property rights, which in
- turn has allowed the BLM and the USFS to exercise ruthless control
- over the entire Public Domain of the Far West, including rights of
- ingress and egress.
- 4. A BLM mineral tech involved in this case remarked (4/8/15) to the
- attorney who is handling this case that he is aware that the BLM position
- is not “open and shut” and is proceeding on shaky ground. Ultimately,
- BLM’s attack on the mine is a rolling of dice in the hope that they
- can get their way opposed to anything grounded in reality.
- Where is this all headed?
- This case is headed in a direction that presents what is probably a
- once-in-a-generation prime opportunity to strike at the heart of the
- very surface management authority of the DOI and USDA and to restore
- the “as patent” rights of every mining claim owner in the United States
- by striking down the actual source of that intrusive authority.
- Regardless, we intend to take BLM fully to task and will not feel
- sorry for any civil or criminal consequences that may be leveled upon
- any BLM employees who are found to be negligent of wrong doing. We
- are actively pursuing these individuals through a wide range of
- tactics with the intent to reign in these wrong doers.
- At this early stage, approximately $10,000 and countless hours have
- been expended on research and related fees in regards to this case,
- which could have far reaching benefits to every miner in the country.
- Thus far, this effort has been taken on by several miners who have
- sacrificed their personal funds and their personal time to the cause.
- The claim owners have since retained attorney James Dole, who has
- successfully defeated BLM in court on numerous mining issues.
- Considerably more work must be done on this case and many more records
- must be obtained to expose this issue on a wider level.
- For those who would like to contribute to the cause of unraveling
- BLM’s surface authority, please make a donation below. Even small
- amounts help!
- Thank you for your consideration.
- ~ Executive Committee; Galice Mining District
- “BUNDY RANCH” TYPE STANDOFF BREWING IN SOUTHERN OREGON BETWEEN MINERS AND BLM
- LOCKED & LOADED
- April 11, 2015
- For the past several years, the miners from the Galice Mining District,
- about 3o minutes west of Grants Pass, Oregon, have been arguing over who
- has the rights to the minerals in the ground around Galice Creek. The
- Galice mining district is compiled of a number of claims, owners and
- miners and has been in continuous operation since the early 1870’s,
- which makes it one of the longest running operations in the US. This
- specific operation predates the BLM bureaucracy by many decades in fact.
- The area in question has produced in excess of 10 million ounces of gold
- since its conception, and geologists estimate that only 10% of the gold
- in the ground has been removed, which makes this area highly sought after
- by any standard. It is said that children find gold with their hands in
- the creeks to this day.
- BLM has made several attempts to disband the operation through violations
- that claim improper paperwork filing, ruling changes over time, and other
- unsubstantiated claims. The miners of this district have spend tens of
- thousands of dollars to date to fighting the BLM in the courts and other
- avenues. The district has made requests to produce the official rulings
- that show they are in violation which have gone unanswered. They simple
- reason given by the BLM is that “they say so.”
- Late last week, BLM officials accompanied by Josephine County Sheriff
- deputies issues a cease and desist order to the district without any
- official ruling by the courts. Specifically, the issue is not even
- scheduled to be heard in court until later in the year. The order has
- given the miners until April 25th to remove all equipment, buildings
- and supplies from the mine. Local BLM officials have threatened to burn
- the buildings down if they are not removed by the date.
- The people in this district have stated that they will fully disobey
- the order as they claim that it is illegal and invalid. A call for
- assistance to the Oath Keeper’s and other State Militia groups has
- been made and there is no intention to leave the area by the deadline.
- This issue has far reaching implications. The outcome from this issue
- and the court ruling to come will effect all of America. The issue at
- hand is not just about the Galice Miners and the gold in the ground,
- but more about what the government says you can do with the ground
- in your control. These miners have the rights to the minerals in the
- ground and the government wants that changed. What comes next could
- effect every American. What if your backyard has a specific mineral
- that the government values. By any means, can come in and tell you
- that you can not grow your broccoli on your land because it absorbs
- this “special” mineral? The bigger picture would effect farmers.
- What if gold, oil, or something like uranium was found under a
- farmer’s corn crop. Does the government have the right to those
- minerals and have the ability to over ride your use of your own land?
- This issue will have the ability dictate the future use of our public
- and private lands.
- http://www.lockedandloadednews.com/bundy-ranch-type-standoff-brewing-in-southern-oregon-between-miners-and-blm/
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