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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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.” _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ ------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------- 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/ ------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------- 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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. ---------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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 _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. ------------------------------------------------- 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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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.” _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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.” _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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. _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (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/ _________________________________________________ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯