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75th Anniversary of the Code of Federal Regulations

6/22/2013

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75th Anniversary of the Code of Federal Regulations

June, 2013 marks the 75th anniversary of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).  The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is an annual codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal
Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The purpose of the CFR is to present the official and complete text of agency regulations in one organized publication and to provide a comprehensive and convenient reference for all those who may need to know the text of general and
permanent Federal regulations.

The CFR is divided into 50 titles representing broad areas subject to Federal regulation.

To locate the current regulations pertaining to CFR Title 20, Employees' Benefits, click here.

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I Spy Radio---Slaying the Monster: The EPA‏

6/22/2013

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Slaying the Monster: The EPA
 
I Spy can now be heard on two different stations at different times! 
Listen on Saturday: 11:00 to noon (Pacific time) on KYKN (1430-AM) or, if you’re outside of the Salem, OR, listening area, go to www.kykn.com and hit the "listen live" button.  Or on Sunday, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (Pacific time) tune to KAJO (1270-AM) or if you’re outside of the Grants Pass, OR, listening area, go
to
www.kajo.com and hit the listen live button at the top of the page.

Our Guests:  
Physicist, Dr. Gordon Fulks, & Shannon Goessling, Exec. Dir. of Southeastern Legal Foundation

 This week: There are a few essentials to any good story: a hero who won’t give up; a villain or  obstacle that seems impossible to overcome; and (if you’re writing in the classical vein) a wise mentor who gives the hero the weapon they need to slay the villain.  That’s just the case this week on the I Spy Radio Show. The EPA is a huge, immovable monster that is slowly devouring businesses. If it’s not stopped, it will shut down power plants all across the country and prevent America from using one of its most abundant resources—coal.
 
Along comes Shannon Goessling, the Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel for the Southeastern Legal Foundation, which took up the fight against the EPA. As with any good novel, they lost their previous round at the D.C. Appellate Court, but now they’re taking their case to the Supreme Court.  To aid them in their quest, Dr. Gordon Fulks and a group of highly qualified scientists have filed a brief with the court that challenges the underlying science of global warming, which could undo the EPA’s entire case. Incredibly, challenging the EPA’s bad science at the Supreme Court has never been done before.
 
Tune in to hear their inspiring story as they refuse to go quietly, and what it takes to go up against the monster. 
 
Have you heard our very popular “I Spy Minute,” aired weekdays at 10:00 a.m. during KYKN’s peak listenership? We’re looking for personal and corporate sponsorships to help keep these educational and informative minutes on the air. Are you a business owner (or know one) that would like “prime real estate” to
advertise? We have two :30 ad spots following the I Spy Minute available, but you need to contact [email protected] to take advantage of these. 

Saturday’s, 11:00 a.m. to noon, (Pacific time).  Listen live on KYKN(1430-AM), or, if you’re outside of the Salem listening area, just go to www.kykn.com and hit the listen live button. 

Or Sunday’s, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (Pacific time). Listen live on KAJO (1270-AM) or, if you’re outside of the
Grants Pass, OR listening area, go to
 www.kajo.com and hit the listen live button at the top of the page.

 Busy on Saturday or Sunday?  Not a problem.  Monday, after the show airs, you can go to our webpage www.ispyradio.com and download it from our “past shows” page.
Related Posts:
I Spy Radio---Suing the EPA‏
I Spy Radio---The Problem with Government "Planning"
I Spy Radio---The Fiscal Cliff: To Jump or Not to Jump‏
PERS---Worse than Fuzzy Math: It’s Fictional

ISpy Radio---Finding Our Way Out‏
ISpy Radio---The Inside Story
I-Spy Radio---No Change in the Next Four Years Puts Agriculture at Risk and Maybe Out of Business
I Spy Radio---Free Market Systems vs.Socialized Medicine‏

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I Spy Radio---Suing the EPA‏

6/7/2013

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This Week: Suing the EPA  -- In Two Weeks, Taking the EPA to the Supreme
Court with Dr. Gordon Fulks & Shannon Goessling

I Spy can now be heard on two different stations at different times! 
 
Listen on Saturday:
11:00 to noon (Pacific time
) on KYKN
(1430-AM) or, if you’re outside of the Salem, OR, listening area, go to www.kykn.com and hit the "listen live"
button.
 
Or on Sunday, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (Pacific time) tune to KAJO (1270-AM) or if you’re outside of the Grants Pass, OR, listening area, go to www.kajo.com and hit the listen live button at the top of the page.

 Our Guest:  Shannon Goessling, Executive Director of Southeastern Legal Foundation

 This week: Our host, Mark Anderson, is just coming off of a two-week residency program and he’s
anxious to get back into the swing of things in the real world.  But that also  means that this weekend on the I Spy Radio Show, we need to run a best of I Spy. We'll rebroadcast our show with Shannon Goessling. She is the Chief Legal Counsel for the Southeastern Legal Foundation, which argued last year before the 12th District Court against the EPA’s overreach on Carbon Dioxide. 

If you heard our show last week with Dr. Easterbrook, you know the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is almost zero and could not possibly cause global warming. As he said, if you double zero you still have zero.  So why is the EPA targeting CO2? If you’ve ever suspected that Obama is anti-business, and wants to control all
aspects of our life (think IRS and monitoring phone records), you need to listen to this week’s show. You’ll get a peek behind the scenes at his administration’s contempt for industry.


All of this is in preparation for our show on the weekend of June 22nd.  We’ll talk again with Shannon who is taking their lawsuit to the Supreme Court.  And with Dr. Gordon Fulks, who along with other scientists have filed a brief with the Supreme Court over the EPA’s bad science.

 Have you heard our very popular “I Spy Minute,” aired weekdays at 10:00 a.m. during KYKN’s peak listenership? We’re looking for personal and corporate sponsorships to help keep these educational
and informative minutes on the air. Are you a business owner (or know one) that would like “prime real estate” to
advertise? We have two :30 ad spots following the I Spy Minute available, but you need to contact [email protected] to take advantage of these.

Saturday’s, 11:00 a.m.  to noon, (Pacific time).  Listen live on KYKN(1430-AM), or, if you’re outside of
the Salem listening area, just go to
www.kykn.com and hit the listen live button. 

Or Sunday’s, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (Pacific time). Listen live on KAJO (1270-AM) or, if you’re outside of the
Grants Pass, OR listening area, go to
 www.kajo.com and hit the listen live button at the top of the page.

 Busy on Saturday or Sunday?  Not a problem.  Monday, after the show airs, you can go to our webpage www.ispyradio.com and download it from our “past shows” page.
Related Posts:
I Spy Radio---The Problem with Government "Planning"
I Spy Radio---The Fiscal Cliff: To Jump or Not to Jump‏
PERS---Worse than Fuzzy Math: It’s Fictional

ISpy Radio---Finding Our Way Out‏
ISpy Radio---The Inside Story
I-Spy Radio---No Change in the Next Four Years Puts Agriculture at Risk and Maybe Out of Business
I Spy Radio---Free Market Systems vs. Socialized Medicine‏

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Fishing Alert---The State is forcing a reduction in certain fish populations, Why?

5/2/2013

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Letter to Editor Eel Lake trade by Bob Main 12-07-2012
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EPA---Victims of Government: The Case of Steve Lathrop, Sounds Fimiliar

3/28/2013

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Hey Folks,
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has a new program to get people to tell how they were victims of the government and government bureaucracy.  Please click the link below and tell the Senator about your story. 
Unless you speak up you will continue to be a victim and you will set a bad example to other, especially the young.......Rob T.

Victims of Government: The Case of Steve Lathrop

The root cause of our economic and fiscal problems is the size, the scope, and the cost of government - all the rules, all the regulations, and all the government intrusion into our lives. Over-regulation consumes massive amounts of the people’s money, too often lacks common sense, has no heart, costs jobs and economic growth. Stephen Lathrop has spent 23 years mired in bureaucratic red
tape, been shuttled between agencies, and been the victim of government miscommunication and inefficiency. You can raise awareness about over-regulation and encourage oversight by sharing Steve's story. You can also share your own  experiences with the federal bureaucracy on this site.
Read my letter to the Corps about Steve's problem.

 Click here to share your story.
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EPA---Merkley and IUCN & UPEACE
The Federalization of Local Urban Renewal Agencies
Congressman Peter DeFazio & The Land and Water Conservation Fund
USFWS---Land & Water Conservation Fund---National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
USFWS---Three Articles relevant to the LWCF and the NFWF
EPA---Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012
EPA---What Do Wolves Have To Do With Agenda 21?
WANTED:  Examples of Economic Hardship Due to ESA Critical Habitat
More EPA Abuse.....
Is the EPA superagency bigger than the President & Congress?
Preserve the Waters of the US Act
House Committee: EPA Overstepped Its Authority

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EPA---Merkley and IUCN & UPEACE

3/9/2013

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from a Watchdog in Myrtle Point

Hey Rob,
I am on Merkley's e-mail list.  Not sure if you are.  He is very proud of this.   I do not agree with him.  I googled league of conservation voters. other group for the environment  Working with the EPA and our tax dollars to clean it up.  http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/DCFEE4736819171785257B0F00635930
  has to do with wetlands.  They are all connected to the United Nations.

 If you are a member of Linkedin you can search Amy Mehta.  She is the Programme Management Officer for the Permanent Missions of IUCN and UPEACE to the United Nations, Greater New York City Area  International Affairs.  expert in everything unbelievable.
 
Tressa
Related Links:
The Federalization of Local Urban Renewal Agencies
Congressman Peter DeFazio & The Land and Water Conservation Fund
USFWS---Land & Water Conservation Fund---National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
USFWS---Three Articles relevant to the LWCF and the NFWF
EPA---Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012
EPA---What Do Wolves Have To Do With Agenda 21?
WANTED:  Examples of Economic Hardship Due to ESA Critical Habitat
More EPA Abuse.....
Is the EPA superagency bigger than the President & Congress?
Preserve the Waters of the US Act
House Committee: EPA Overstepped Its Authority

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The Federalization of Local Urban Renewal Agencies

2/13/2013

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Hey Folks,
The link below will take you to an article about the Federalization of local Urban Renewal Agencies.  Through HUD and EPA matching Grant programs, the fed plans on implementing their agenda with local property tax dollars.  This is the idea of Private-Public Partnership and taken to its extreme, it becomes fascism....Rob T.  

Beaverton to host first of 100 White House meetings on federal-city cooperation

Federal officials will kick off a series of visits to 100 cities around the nation Thursday as part of a White House program to support urban revitalization. First stop: Beaverton. 

The city will host the feds at a daylong symposium to discuss how government agencies, nonprofits and businesses can help the city. 

The event is the first in a new White House "Connecting Your Community" program, in which national leaders plan to meet with representatives of 100 cities to pair federal programs with local needs. The next 99 cities in the program have not been named. 

Beaverton's agenda includes revitalizing its downtown urban renewal district, redesigning Southwest Canyon Road and constructing a community health center.

Here is a comment on the article:

tombdragon
   How  fitting that they will meet at a place - the Beaverton Round - that serves as a metaphor for the failure of our local Urban Renewal, and the failed idealism of the Obama Administration.
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Measures Would keep voters Involved and help control "Economic Fascism"
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Possible Nike site could be added to Enterprise Zone next week
Urban Renewal gone bad---read the stories
Coos Bay---New Information added to the Visitor's Center page...
Coos Bay---What's a measly $120,000 to $180,000 over 6 years, eh?  
 
Coos Bay---Just a "Slight" Conflict of Interest Here. Or did ANYONE notice?
Coos Bay---Padding City of Coos Bay Salaries With Urban Renewal Tax Dollars
See the Cash Cow of Coos Bay----Hear it eat your money---The Coos Bay URA
Coos Bay Urban Renewal Minutes from 1/2/2000 to  5/15/2012 as shown 
Must See Documentary---"Battle for Brooklyn" 
Vote NO Bandon Pool!
A Photo Inquiry Into The Egyptian Theatre and Complete Fiscal
Incompetence In Coos Bay Oregon‏

Here is a good Example of Bad Planning and Density Control....
Email Alert from a Watchdog in Myrtle Point
MGX---ORC, does it still get its enterprise zone exemptions???

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Congressman Peter DeFazio & The Land and Water Conservation Fund

2/2/2013

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Hey Folks,
Below are a few stories about DeFazio's land acquisition requests.....Rob T.

Congressman Peter DeFazio & The Land and Water Conservation Fund

FY 2008 Land Acquisition Requests
 http://www.fs.fed.us/land/staff/LWCF/purchases08/docs/PNWstreams_project_fy08.pdf 
 
Appropriation History:

 FY 2002-2006 Appropriations     $10,980,896     3,770 acres

 FY 2007 Appropriation                 $0 0

 FY 2008 Request                         $1,000,000         280 acres
             
Future requests                             $6,925,000        2,340 acres


Overlook named for DeFazio

http://democratherald.com/news/local/article_22d86e8c-f041-11e0-94c3-001cc4c002e0.html 

In 1983, Congress established the Bandon Marsh as a national wildlife refuge to protect the largest remaining tidal salt marsh in the Coquille River Estuary. In 1999, DeFazio led the effort to pass the refuge expansion to include the Ni-les’tun Unit. This area includes an intertidal marsh, a freshwater marsh, and riparian areas for migratory birds and salmon, steelhead and cutthroat
trout.

DeFazio also helped secure $765,000 in land acquisition funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and $4.2 million in transportation act money for North Bank Lane improvements.

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USFWS---Three Articles relevant to the LWCF and the NFWF
Senators Wyden and Reid Planning 2013  Omnibus Federal Lands Bill
USFWS & USDOT---North Bank Lane Project
Coos County Today---Sign the "NO Bandon Marsh Petition"   
USFWS---Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge
American Policy Center---news on more Federal Land grabs
The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
The US Forest Service Is Involved With Another Land Grab in Coos County 
“Coos County Today”
Keep the Lights ON in Bandon
Congress wants answers on Oregon farmer crackdown   
Land Acquisition Green Group Gets $2.4 Billion from BP Settlement
RMP's for Western Oregon
Urgent, Urgent, Urgent, House May Cave On LWCF. Call Now.
Oregon Fish & Wildlife Meeting Subject: EEL LAKE/COQUILLE VALLEY LAND EXCHANGE
NO BME

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USFWS---Land & Water Conservation Fund---National Fish & Wildlife Foundation

2/1/2013

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Hello,
Below are the definitions of two different Federal Programs designed to procure private property and take it out of production and off the tax roll----all in the name of Environmental Restoration.  Rob T.  

Land and Water Conservation Fund

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United States' Land and Water Conservation Fund(LWCF) is a Federal program that was established by Act of Congress in 1964 to provide funds and matching grants to federal, state and local governments for the acquisition of land and water, and easements on land and water, for the benefit of all Americans.[1] The main emphases of the fund are recreation and the protection of national natural treasures in the forms of parks and protected forest and wildlife areas. 

The LWCF has a broad-based coalition of support and oversight, including the National Parks Conservation Association, The Wilderness
Society
, and the Land Trust Alliance.

 The primary source of income to the fund is fees paid to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement by companies drilling offshore for oil and gas. Congress regularly
diverts most of the funds from this source to other purposes, however.  Additional minor sources of income include the sale of surplus federal real
estate and taxes on motorboat fuel.[1]

 Funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund have been utilized over the years on projects both large and small. LWCF has helped state agencies
and local communities acquire nearly seven million acres (28,000 km²) of land and easements controlling further land, developed project sites including such
popular recreational areas as Harper's Ferry in West Virginia, California's Big Sur Coast, and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in Montana, helped maintain Yellowstone National Park, and helped to build and maintain "thousands of local playgrounds, soccer fields, and baseball diamonds."[2]

 Though LWCF is authorized with a budget cap of $900 million annually, this cap has been met only twice during the program's nearly four decades of
existence.

 The program is divided into two distinct funding pools: state grants and federal acquisition funds. The distribution formula takes into account population density and other factors.

 On the federal side, each year, based on project demands from communities as well as input from the federal land management agencies, the President makes recommendations to Congress regarding funding for specific LWCF projects. In Congress, these projects go through an Appropriations Committee review process. Given the intense competition among projects, funding is generally only provided for those projects with universal support. Initially authorized for a twenty-five-year period, the LWCF has been extended for another twenty-five years, its current mandate running until January
2015.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) was created by the U.S. Congress in 1984 to protect and restore fish and wildlife and their
habitats. NFWF directs public dollars to critical environmental needs and matches those investments with private contributions. NFWF supports
science-based, results-oriented projects across the United States and the world.

 NFWF provides grants on a competitive basis to protect imperiled species, promote healthy oceans and waterways, improve wildlife habitat, advance
sustainable fisheries and conserve water for wildlife and people. Birds, freshwater fish, marine and coastal ecosystems, wildlife and habitat are focal
areas. NFWF’s Congressional mandate is to connect government agencies, non-profit organizations, corporations and individuals to combine federal funds
with private donations for effective, results-oriented conservation projects.  Since its establishment in 1984 through 2011, NFWF has awarded over 11,600
grants leveraging $576 million in federal funds into more than $2 billion for conservation.
 
As part of its Congressional charter, NFWF also serves as a neutral, third-party fiduciary to receive, manage and disburse funds that originate from
court orders, settlements of legal cases, regulatory permits, licenses, and restoration and mitigation plans. The funds are managed under NFWF’s
Impact-Directed Environmental Account (IDEA) program. NFWF works with federal agencies, regional, state, and local organizations, corporations and philanthropic institutions to apply these funds to conservation projects.

 NFWF has no membership and does not advocate or litigate.

NFWF is a public charity under the IRS tax code and treated as a private corporation established under Federal law. Under the terms of its enabling legislation, NFWF is required to report its proceedings and activities annually to Congress.

Final Report to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation: 
Profile of grantees. The Foundation has tended to make grants for land and easement acquisitions to larger, more established organizations with experienced staff who have the know-how to put together a grant proposal and complete an easement project.  These organizations include: The Nature Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, Natural Resources Conservation Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and large regional land trusts.  These major organizations received about two-thirds of the 73 grants for interests in land reviewed by the consultants under the General Applications program between 1986 and 2002.

Federal Private Lands Programs for Bird Conservation
Funding By Federal Programs Department 
Agency Program FY 2002 Approp. M
 MULTIPLE AGENCY 
Land and Water Conservation Fund           $450.0             (FY2001)

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation       $ 17.1             (FY2001)



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American Policy Center---news on more Federal Land grabs
The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
The US Forest Service Is Involved With Another Land Grab in Coos County 
“Coos County Today”
Keep the Lights ON in Bandon
Congress wants answers on Oregon farmer crackdown   
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NO BME

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USFWS---Three Articles relevant to the LWCF and the NFWF

2/1/2013

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Hey Folks,
The links below are to three different articles with some historic relevance to the LWCF and the NFWF.  Both agencies function to destroy local economies through the proccess of acqusition from "willing sellers" and use the land for mitigation purposes.....Rob T.  

View from Sapsucker Woods

Since 1965 the recorded balance in offshore oil revenues credited to, but not appropriated from, the LWCF is $17 billion. Imagine the scale of conservation that could be accomplished if we decided to “settle up” and expend these technically already conservation-committed dollars! Much more realistic and urgent, however, is the need to begin committing the full, legally authorized LWCF amount every year within our federal budget. Since taking office, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced repeatedly his commitment to “fully funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund,” but previous administrations have made similar statements, without result.  Today signs are again promising: the proposed fiscal year 2011 federal budget requests more than $600 million in LWCF funding (including $384 million for federal land acquisition, $100 million for the USDA Forestry Legacy Program, $85 million for the cooperative endangered species fund, and $50 million for state transfers and grants, according to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation), and bills are being discussed in Congress that would mandate fully funding the LWCF.


Senators Introduce Package of Sportsmen's Bills

 "I am pleased that this amendment significantly advances the cause of making public lands more accessible for multiple uses including hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreation," said Senator Thune.   "Our amendment reauthorizes the North American Wetlands Conservation Act and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. This amendment also includes language that I've advocated for in the past which would ensure that the EPA cannot regulate the use of lead ammunition and lead in fishing gear."
 
One provision within the legislation would direct 1.5 percent of Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) dollars towards priority recreational access projects.  The “Making Public Lands Public” provision is intended to improve access to Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands where access is blocked by private land. Priority access easements and acquisitions often do not fare well when directly competing for limited LWCF funds with large-scale habitat conservation efforts. Dedicating a small percentage of LWCF dollars towards these small but critical projects has the potential to significantly improve sportsmen’s access.


Landmark Legislation Will Benefit America's Lands, Water, and Wildlife

May 11, 2000
 https://forms.house.gov/defazio/pf_051100ENRelease.htm 
 
CARA provides $2.8 billion in annual funding for important conservation and recreation programs. Since 1965, revenues from offshore oil and gas drilling have been earmarked for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (L&WCF), which now has an unspent surplus of $13 billion.  The bill would provide full funding for the L&WCF which supports federal and state open space protection and park improvements.  In addition, the bill allocates oil and gas revenues for coastal  conservation, fish and wildlife, urban parks, historic preservation, federal and Indian lands restoration, farm and forest land protection, and endangered species recovery programs.

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USFWS---Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge
American Policy Center---news on more Federal Land grabs
The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
The US Forest Service Is Involved With Another Land Grab in Coos County 
“Coos County Today”
Keep the Lights ON in Bandon
Congress wants answers on Oregon farmer crackdown  
Land Acquisition Green Group Gets $2.4 Billion from BP Settlement
RMP's for Western Oregon
Urgent,  Urgent, Urgent, House May Cave On LWCF. Call Now. Oregon
Fish & Wildlife Meeting Subject: EEL LAKE/COQUILLE VALLEY LAND EXCHANGE

NO BME 

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The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation

12/14/2012

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December 11, 2012
 
While  the media is currently blitzing Americans with rapid fire warnings of a Fiscal Cliff looming at the end of the year, there are many news stories that have been intentionally underreported or unreported to the public.  
  
Take for instance the lack of exposure of the Department of Justice, which just successfully negotiated and secured $2.4 Billion in new land acquisition funding for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Not to be mistaken for the US Fish & Wildlife Service, this quasi public/private non-profit organization is responsible for the money used to buy private property for mitigation purposes, such as the property inside the Bandon Marsh planned expansion area.   Once purchased the real-estate market will lose this property forever.  The market functions on the ability to sell and resell to generate revenue for the economy. 
   
The Foundation could invest this money as a way to buy property in perpetuity.  After the foundation purchases any new  territory it will relinquish it to the authority of one of the agencies in the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Interior.  The group has a website at www.nfwf.org.  Unlike most organizations this entity has to be mandated by congress, because the foundation deals with public purchases and handles public funding.
 
Back  in June of 2012 the US Congress was debating over the highly contentious Highway Transportation bill, which contained earmarks of over $1.4 billion designated to go to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) for the purchase of more private property.   The Republicans successfully thwarted efforts of the Democrats, led by Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, to retain this money.  They were able to pass the bill, yet blocked the funds from going to the  LWCF, thus defeating the Senator’s amendment to the legislation.  
  
Since  that defeat in July the Obama Administration has tried to find new revenue streams for these private land acquisitions--- all under the direction of radical environmentalism. The Attorney General, Eric Holder, was able to
negotiate for more of this type of funding as part of the settlement agreement with BP Oil.  The feds now plan on
using a percentage of the money from the settlement agreement on unnecessary land acquisitions.    The
AG’s legal maneuver is a betrayal to the people of the gulf coast as well as a disaster for the local economies of rural America.  It is a two-fold calamity.  
  
Currently,  there is a bill in congress titled “HR 6441,” The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2012.   There is a similar bill with the same name in the Senate titled, “S 1494.”   If passed, this legislation would reauthorize the NFWF.   It would also give funding in the amount of $15,000,000 to the Secretary of the Interior, $5,000,000 to the Secretary of Agriculture and another $5,000,000 to the Secretary of Commerce,
which would be another $25,000,000 mistake.  
 
The people can stop this legislation and put a stop to the funding of the NFWF.  Call your Senator at (202) 224-3121 and tell them to STOP giving money away to organizations that have the intentions of creating new wetlands through the destruction of farms, ranches, and other private property.  Tell your Representative to hold up the funding to the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation.  Then call your Congressman at (202) 224-3121 and repeat the message.  

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EPA---Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012

12/12/2012

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Hey Folks,

Check out the legislation that had to be enacted, so medical companies could sell their remaining stock of inhalers.  This would not be important, except these are the people who will be in control of our healthcare.
Rob T........
H.R. 6190: Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012
 
112th Congress, 2011–2012

 To direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to allow for the distribution, sale, and consumption in the United States of remaining inventories of over-the-counter CFC epinephrine inhalers.
 
Sponsor:
Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX26]
Status:    Reported by Committee
Schedule: The House Majority Leader indicated on Dec 06, 2012 that this bill may be considered in the week ahead.
Dec 12, 2012 5:16 p.m. — Vote

 H.R. 6190: Asthma Inhalers Relief Act of 2012 (On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass)
  Failed 229/182


Rep. Peter DeFazio [D-OR4]: Yea

 Rep. Ronald “Ron” Paul [R-TX14]: Yea

 Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR2]: Yea

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EPA---What Do Wolves Have To Do With Agenda 21?

11/24/2012

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What Do Wolves Have To Do With Agenda 21?

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WANTED: Examples of Economic Hardship Due to ESA Critical Habitat

11/18/2012

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From: Lauren Montgomery 
To: [email protected] 
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 4:59 PM
Subject: WANTED: Examples of Economic Hardship Due to The Endangered Species Act (ESA) Critical Habitat
  
Members,
  Please read the below call to action.  PLC and NCBA need your examples of economic hardship suffered due to ESA Critical Habitat designations.  You’re participation is crucial in preventing unnecessary and burdensome regulations on working landscapes. 
___________________________________________________________________
 
Subject: Affiliate Call to Action: Send Examples of Economic Hardship Due to ESA Critical Habitat

TO:PLC and NCBA Affiliates
FROM:Dustin Van Liew and Theo Dowling, PLC/NCBA Staff
DATE:November 7, 2012
RE:Examples of Economic Hardship Due to ESA Critical Habitat – by Tuesday, November 13th 
  
 
PLC and NCBA are looking for examples of economic and regulatory hardship to members brought on by the designation of critical habitat under the ESA. In light of the recent unprecedented ESA settlement between U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and radical environmental groups, the federal government will be forced to make 1,201 decisions on proposed listing, listing and critical habitat designations for 1,053 species in the next 7 years. The USFWS’ FY 2013 budget request includes an increase in funding that could result in 88 more species being listed and critical habitat being designated in just this year alone. As USFWS struggles to meet the settlement deadline, little analysis—including economic impacts—is being done on large bundled decisions. For example, in Hawaii, cattlemen are currently being faced with at least five critical habitat designations that will directly impact them, and they are looking for specific examples to make the argument that the designations will have negative impacts on them (if they don’t come up with specific predictions of negative impacts, the agency won’t count any).

Furthermore, the agency has begun using broader strokes in designating critical habitat, defining “occupied” areas as areas that are used only intermittently by the species, or in some cases proposing CH in areas where the species is not even known to exist (such as with the jaguar of Arizona and New Mexico).

All the while, USFWS commonly underestimates the economic impacts of critical habitat designations. We have
insisted that all economic impacts be considered, using sound economic data, so as to allow for the exclusion of certain areas from CH designations.  Gathering your examples of economic/regulatory hardships due to Critical Habitat will help us argue against sweeping CH designations in the aforementioned Hawaii case and in inevitable future cases. Examples could include not just financial impacts, but negative impacts such as additional compliance time, cost and paperwork for every-day practices.

Thank you in advance for taking a few moments to supply us with the backing we need to fight this damaging and misguided overreach. We’d appreciate your response by Tuesday, November 13th.

Thanks, 
Theo

Theodora Dowling
Manager of Legislative Affairs
Public Lands Council/ National
Cattlemen’s Beef Association
(202) 879-9135


Lauren Montgomery
Administrative Assistant Oregon Cattlemen's Association
503-361-8941 ext 10
http://www.orcattle.com/
www.facebook.com/orcattle

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More EPA Abuse.....

10/27/2012

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From Trude,

If you hear a candidate use the word  "sustainable",  ask what he/she means :
 
http://epaabuse.com/9519/videos/to-the-epa-sustainable-energy-means-socialism/?utm_source=EPA+Abuse&utm_campaign=4065b0ea81-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email‏

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CG912 Project---Lane Co. commissioners delay terminal discussion‏

10/7/2012

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CG912 Project Members and friends,
  
EUGENE, Ore. — Lane County commissioners have delayed for two weeks their consideration of a proposed resolution supporting a coal cargo terminal at Coos Bay, Ore.

 Such a terminal would handle coal trains shipped through Eugene.

The Register-Guard reports (http://is.gd/HEUBAN ) that all five commissioners said Wednesday they supported the delay to give the public more time to comment.  Interested parties will be able to comment at commissioners' meetings Oct. 16 in Florence and Oct. 17 in Eugene.

Environmental groups are fighting several proposals for terminals at Northwest ports that would ship coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia. Supporters include business and labor groups.
 http://www.registerguard.com/web/updates/28844478-55/coal-public-board-commissioners-trains.html.csp


 Congressional District 4 Calendar: http://bit.ly/Oregon-CD4LibertyCalendar

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Pacific Legal Foundation & the Sacketts win in the Supreme Court....

9/29/2012

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PLF and the Sacketts: an important win at the Supreme Court 
Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Damien M. Schiff
www.pacificlegal.org

Status: The U.S. Supreme Court issued an unanimous decision in favor of the Sacketts on March 21, 2012. The judgment is reversed and case is remanded back to the district court.

Summary: In an unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court rules that landowners have a right to direct, meaningful judicial review if the EPA effectively seizes control of their property by declaring it to be "wetlands."
The Court rules in favor of PLF clients Mike and Chantell Sackett, of Priest Lake, Idaho, who were told by EPA -- and by the Ninth Circuit -- that they could not get direct court review of EPA's claim that their two-thirds of an acre parcel is "wetlands" and that they must obey a detailed and instrusive EPA "compliance" order, or be hit with fines of up to $75,000 per day.
www.pacificlegal.org
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Is the EPA superagency bigger than the President & Congress?

9/28/2012

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Is the EPA superagency bigger than the President and  Congress?
Sep 23, 2012 05:05 pm | Breaking News

So much for the separation of powers. Thanks to federal court rulings, even if Mitt Romney prevails in Nov., he  will be hard-pressed to unilaterally rein in regulatory   overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).       
The problems at the agency are fixable, but they will require decisive action by Congress and the president —    and [...]

Read  More and Comment: Is the EPA superagency bigger than the President and Congress?


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I-Spy Radio---No Change in the Next Four Years Puts Agriculture at Risk and Maybe Out of Business

9/28/2012

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No Change in the Next Four Years Puts Agriculture at Risk and Maybe Out of Business 
 

Saturday, 11a.m.-noon (Pacific time). Listen live on KYKN (1430-AM) or, if you’re outside of the Salem
(Oregon) listening area, go to
 www.kykn.com and hit the listen live button. 
  
Our Guest: Caren Cowan, Executive Director of New Mexico Cattle Growers Association,  New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc., and Publisher for New Mexico Stockman Magazine and the Livestock Market Digest 

This week: We continue our look at Obama’s second term--focusing on natural resources. Farmers and ranchers have quietly been under assault by far left environmentalist who are quietly supported by the Obama administration’s policies.  Slight of hand has been occurring in many governmental departments including the Forestry Department, Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the EPA.  Road closures in national forest that were to be decided with input from the public are now being decided behind closed doors.

Find out the reality of living on the border and the dangers that ranchers deal with daily--and protection and land grabs for animals that don’t even live in the state.  If you think Oregon has been used as a Petri dish, you're right. But the
entire West is truly under assault.  Water rights, grazing rights, forget big corporations—find out what it’s really like to be a rancher now—and four years from now if this continues.  This is a national dilemma. 
 

Join us tomorrow for the I Spy Radio Show, 11:00 a.m. to noon p.m., Pacific Coast Time and get a little more intelligence on big government.

Register today for the Basic American Rights Series at http://barsor1.eventbrite.com go here for a flyer
www.ispyradio.com!  Bring some friends! Get a Group Rate when you're in a group of four or more.

 Have you heard our very popular “I Spy Minute,” aired weekdays at 10:00 a.m. during KYKN’s peak listenership? We’re  looking for personal and corporate sponsorships to help keep these educational  and informative minutes on the air. Are you a business owner (or know one) that would like “prime real estate” to  advertise? We have two :30 ad spots following the I Spy Minute available,  but you need to contact [email protected] or
[email protected] to take advantage of  these. 

The show will be aired on KYKN(1430-AM), this Saturday at 11:00 a.m., West Coast time.  If you’re outside of the Salem listening area, just go to www.kykn.com and hit the listen live button.  Busy on Saturday?  Not a
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Basic American Rights Series About Key Note Speaker Ann McElhinney‏

9/6/2012

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See the Trailer Below for Not Evil, Just Wrong -- Come Hear Her in Person "I  can not believe that Al Gore has great regard for people. Real people." -- from the trailer.


 Ann  McElhinney is an Irish journalist and documentary filmmaker.  Ann and her husband directed and produced the documentary Not Evil Just Wrong, as a direct challenge to Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. Be sure to check out the trailer below.

 Ann will be one of four dynamic speakers at the 2nd Annual Basic American Rights Series, in Eugene, Oregon, on Sept. 29th.

 Save 30% by registering early!
Early registration ends on Sept. 10th. http://barsor1.eventbrite.com/

See  the movie trailer here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHMOEVRysWE and
then come hear this dynamic speaker talk about the devastating consequences of global warming hysteria on
September 29th in Eugene
.

More about Ann

 Continuing her work her next documentary FrackNation will discuss the truth about fracking and the exaggerations used by the far left to try and stop fracking.   Ann is an inspiring and humorous speaker and at CPAC 2009 was voted most popular
speaker after Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.   She is a regular contributor to  an array of international media organizations including the Sunday Times, Irish Times, ABC, BBC, CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia), RTE (Ireland) and Fox News.  You won’t want to this dynamic speaker.  

Go here http://barsor1.eventbrite.com/ to  purchase your tickets today!  Early registration saves you 30%.  Don’t miss it!!


 To get information on all our speakers download the BARS flyer at
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Preserve the Waters of the US Act

9/6/2012

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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 3:31 PM
Subject: Preserve the Waters of the US Act
   
( excerpt from information below )
-----The Preserve The Waters of the US Act (S-2245) would  stop Washington overreach and block any further attempt to   issue “guidance” to agency bureaucrats that says it is OK to  regulate non-navigable water in people’s backyards and  farms.

*Preserve the waters of the u.s. Act (S-2245)*
 ----------------------------------------
Land Rights Network
American Land Rights  Association
PO Box 400 – Battle Ground, WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 –
Fax: 360-687-2973
E-mail: [email protected]
Web Address: http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office:  507 Seward Square SE – Washington, DC 20003
Block EPA & Corps  Wetlands Jurisdiction Over Your Water & Land
  *Do You Want The  EPA &Corps In Your Backyard?*

Do you want the EPA & Corps  jurisdiction over all forest roads?
 If Not, Here’s Why You Need  The *“Preserve The Waters Of The US Act” (S-2245)*

Below are  action items to protect your water and your land as well as
roads on Federal  land. But first, read this:

-----The EPA wants to lift the ban that  prevents Washington, DC bureaucrats from regulating non-navigable
waters.

-----Lifting the navigable ban, passed by Congress to  protect families, small businesses and farmers from federal 
bureaucrats seizing their water or their land, would devastate economic   and recreational activity as well as small communities across the U.S.


------You need to insist that Congress not remove the requirement  set by Congress in the original Clean Water Act that said the EPA  and Corps *can only regulate “navigable waters”*. The EPA and Corps want  to eliminate the
word “navigable” and give the EPA and Corps jurisdiction  over “all waters of the United States and all activities affecting all waters  of the United States.”

-----If the ban is lifted, when it rains,  your backyard or farm becomes a minefield of Washington red tape and  taxes.

-----If you’re a farmer, when it rains, your backyard  becomes a bonanza for Washington, DC bureaucrats to go on your property  to force you from doing activities like building a swimming  pool, installing a bird bath, running rainwater away from your  home, irrigating your fields, installing stock watering ponds and  many more.

-----If you’re a suburban homeowner, when it rains,  the water in your backyard allows Washington, DC bureaucrats on your property  to block you from doing basic things without a permit that can  cost thousands of dollars and long delays causing great damage.  

-----Congress blocked attempts by former Congressman James  Oberstar (D-MN) and former Senator Russ Feingold (R-MN) from passing the  Clean Water Restoration Act, which would have lifted the “navigable” ban.  As with the EPA and Corp, Oberstar and Feingold tried to remove the word “navigable” from the Clean Water Act.

-----Despite Congress not  changing the law, the Obama EPA and Army Corps of Engineers are attempting to remove this key protection for families, small business and farmers by  issuing an internal guidance document to agency bureaucrats telling them it is now OK to regulate non-navigable waters on people’s property throughout  the United
States. The Obama folks seem to care less about how they are ignoring two Supreme Court decisions.

-----The Preserve The Waters  of the US Act (S-2245) would stop Washington overreach and block any further  attempt to issue  “guidance” to agency bureaucrats that says it is OK to  regulate non-navigable water in people’s backyards and  farms.

*Preserve the waters of the u.s. Act  (S-2245)*

*Purpose:* To preserve existing rights and  responsibilities with respect to waters of the U.S.

* **Background:*  In May 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of  Engineers (Corps) issued draft guidance on “Identifying Waters Protected by  the Clean Water Act.”

This guidance document, which was sent in  final form to OMB on February 21, 2012, significantly changes and expands  what features are considered protected under the Clean Water Act and  makes substantial additions, such as a first time inclusion of ditches  and other water features that may flow, if at all, only after a  heavy rainfall.

EPA and the Corps received over 230,000  comments from the public on their guidance, discussing the potential  consequences of the draft guidance to governments, businesses, and landowners. They have not responded to the comments.

EPA and the  Corps estimate that between 2 – 17% percent of non-jurisdictional  determinations under current practice would be jurisdictional using the  expanded tests of the new guidance.
This guidance  has  clear regulatory consequences and goes far beyond being simply advisory guidelines.

*The legislation (S-2245) prevents EPA and the Corps  from using this /guidance/ to change legal responsibilities under the Clean Water Act.*

*-----Regulation through Guidance:* By issuing a  guidance document as opposed to going through the rulemaking process, EPA and  the Corps are bypassing the necessary public outreach required under  the Administrative Procedures Act and failing to fully consider the legal,  economic, and unforeseen consequences of their actions.
* *
*-----Applies  to all Clean Water Act (CWA) Programs:* In addition to the Corps §404 dredge and fill permits, the guidance applies to all CWA programs including §303  water quality standards, §401 state water quality certifications, §311 Oil  Pollution Act (including SPCC), and §402 program (including NPDES permits,  pesticide general permit, and storm water).

*-----Increasing  Permits: *EPA and the Corps affirm that this guidance will result in an  increase in jurisdictional determinations that will result in an increased  need for permits. In addition to more Corps §404 permits, State-permitting  authorities will be faced with more NPDES permits and more entities will be  subject to CWA requirements.

*-----Economic and Job Impacts:*  Additional regulatory costs associated with changes in jurisdiction and  increases in permits will  erect bureaucratic barriers to economic growth,  negatively impacting farms, small businesses, commercial development, road  construction and energy production, to name a few.

*-----Impact  on State on Local Governments:* Changes to the “waters of the U.S.” definition may have far-reaching effects and unintended consequences on a  number of state and local programs. The guidance creates significant unfunded  mandates and preempts state and local authority.

*-----Conflicts  with Supreme Court Rulings:* The guidance uses an overly broad interpretation  of the  /Rapanos /decision. The effect is virtually all wet areas that connect  in  any way to navigable waters are jurisdictional. Both the plurality opinion  and Kennedy rejected this assertion in /Rapanos/.

*-----Private  Property Rights:* Expanding federal control over intrastate waters will  substantially interfere with the ability of individual landowners to use  their property.

*-----Action Items:*

*-----1. It’s critical  to get some of the Senators below as co-sponsors of the Preserve The Waters  Of The US Act (S 2245). *You need to call, fax and e-mail your Senator (s)  listed below to urge them to cosponsor the Preserve The Waters Of The US Act.

-----2. For more information about S 2245 type in to Google  the following search term: Preserve The Waters Of The US Act. 
 
-----3. Please forward this message to at least 10 other people.  Your whole list if possible.

The best thing to do is write a  letter with your letterhead and either fax it or e-mail it to your Senator  (s).
They don’t like attachments so call ahead to ask for the staff person  who handles the Clean Water Act and Wetlands issues. Ask for his personal  e-mail and send him your letter.
...................................
 
Thank you for your help.
Chuck Cushman, American Land  Rights
[email protected]

Look  Chuck Cushman and American Land Rights up on Google by typing in the  following search terms: Chuck Cushman, Charles Cushman,  Charles S.  ushman,  American Land Rights Association, National  Inholders
Association and League  of Private Property Voters.

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You can also find American Land Rights Association  and Chuck Cushman on LinkedIn.com. We are especially
active on LinkedIn.com  so send an nvitation to connect and sign up. 
 
American Land  Rights is on Twitter as AmLandrights. Chuck Cushman is also on Twitter under  ccushman98604

To unsubscribe please send an email with “Unsubscribe” in the
Subject Line to [email protected].
 
Please forward this urgent message widely.

“Potential Indirect Economic Impacts and Benefits  Associated with Guidance Clarifying the Scope of Clean Water Act  Jurisdiction.” April 27, 2011
http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guidance/wetlands/upload/cwa_guidance_impacts_benefits.pdf

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Sign the Petition to Keep the Lights ON in Bandon---Vote NO on the Bandon Outdoor Lighting Ordinance 1594

8/8/2012

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Picture
Hello

The Bandon city council passed a very restrictive lighting ordinance on Monday August 6, 2012 and several of us residents have filed a Referendum Petition on this measure.  The group, “The Committee to Keep the Lights ON in Bandon” will be gathering signatures until the 5th of September and we need your help.

We need you to sign the petition.

We need people to gather more signatures.

We need businesses to sponsor a petition site.

We need help from our fellow citizens.  

Only Bandon voters can sign the petition, but
anybody can gather signatures.  

For a copy of the Ordinance and a petition please contact:
Rob Taylor
PO Box 973
Bandon OR 97411
[email protected]
541-347-9942


IMPORTANT:
Time is of the essence, so we have to get started NOW! 
Please join us in the fight against the local intrusion onto our private property.  This is a matter of safety and comfort and your right to choose what’s best for your home.  Technology will improve existing lighting fixtures and these products will become more efficient on their own and with better quality, without the force of more government regulation.  
 
The Bandon outdoor lighting ordinance, Ordinance 1594, gives the authority for city officials to determine what type of lighting fixtures can be used on your property.  This law will give the city the right to fine people arbitrarily, or because neighbors have a grudge.  You could pay a fine if your property has lighting that faces the forest or the
  beach or if it can be seen.   These new local regulations will add 5 new pages to the City Code and the cities analisys of the fiscal impact is officially“Undetermined.”  The recommendation by the City Manager to the city council was to adopt Ordinance No. 1594.  Do we need more bureaucracy and government control?

The law should be suspect since it is promoted by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, which is the same agency involved with the Bandon marsh expansion.  No federal agency should be influencing local law and the public should worry when they do.  The other non-governmental agency involved is the International Dark –Sky Association www.darksky.org, which has an environmental extremist agenda. I like wildlife, but this law goes too far in the name of protectionism over the free choices of the individual.  The environment will be saved through education and advancement, not administrative intervention.  
 

Here a link to Ordinance 1594
 http://www.ci.bandon.or.us/council/council-08-06-2012/5-b-2.pdf
 


Here is what the Dark Sky’s group wants to do internationally:  
 
Outreach to the Environmental Protection Agency 


International Dark‐Sky Association Policy Statement:
 Recommended Protected Areas



All of these regulations were designed and constructed for a specific agenda from the United Nations group International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives or ICLEI. 

Sample Ordinances and Warranting
 
An ICLEI Community Meeting on Dark Skies Suitable Lighting
 
Lighting, Safety & Crime According to ICLEI



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House Committee: EPA Overstepped Its Authority

6/3/2012

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House Committee: EPA Overstepped Its Authority

Despite the absence of administrators from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Republicans and Democrats on the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Oversight sparred today over the EPA’s January 2011 retroactive withdrawal of a permit issued to the Spruce Coal Mine in Logan County,West
Virginia. In March 2012, a Federal District Court rejected the EPA’s action stating that the EPA had overstepped its authority and resorted to, “magical thinking” in its attempts to apply the Clean Water Act as a means to revoke the permit.

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THE U.N. & LOCAL AGENDA 21

8/31/2011

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Picture
 August 26, 2011
 
THE U.N. & LOCAL AGENDA 21
 
In my last article I explained the first two sections of Agenda 21 and how the U.N. created an international bureaucracy to control the global economy under the guise of environmental and economical “sustainability.”
 
Most U.S. citizens do not know that this international agency is developing into a global government and that it has meticulously infiltrated the legitimate governments of the world, both nationally and locally.  
 
Agenda 21 is the title for this international action plan.  The Agenda has 4 sections.   The first two sections define how commerce and the natural resources from every country will be controlled and regulated.  Sections III and IV deal with how this universal kingdom will indoctrinate governments and their people into a new
global system using international financial institutions, non-governmental organizations, and finally, a socialization process promising a new worldwide egalitarianism and Local Agenda 21.  
    
Section III is STRENGTHENING THE ROLE OF MAJOR GROUPS.  In order for The U.N. to be able to
save anyone, it will first have to make victims out of everyone, with special emphasis on workers, woman, children and indigenous people.    Divide and conquer is their strategy.  They will use age, race, sex, and class
warfare as one means to achieve the Agenda.  The categorization and  compartmentalization of all humans into a minority or special interest group will be necessary to create the need for U.N. protections from discrimination.   
  
Chapter 28 of this section is the most menacing to local communities.   It sets up Local Agenda 21 and the auxiliary bureaucracies that will regulate and indoctrinate this new conglomerate of local governments.  They have created “The International  Council for Local Environmental Initiatives” (ICLEI), specifically designed to
form alliances with local municipalities.  This agency will establish contracts with local communities legally
obligating them to this new international authority, which basically supersedes their own national governments.   
 
Section IV  is MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION.   This is the final section of the agenda.  The U.N. will establish financial institutions with unlimited monetary resources and the mechanisms to provide this funding.  One such
institution, The International Monetary Fund, will use the U.S. currency as the global standard.  The IMF will make loans in large amounts to third world countries that lack the economic ability to ever pay back the debt. 
Garnering control of obligated collateral is essential to establish dominance over those countries and their assets, which mainly consists of natural resources.  
  
Under the guise of cooperation, the U.N. will force the transfer of environmentally sound technology and capacity-building, using science derived from the data collected as described in the first two sections. 
They will promote education, public awareness and training on environmental and economical sustainability”according to their new-age, new-found, new-world teachings.
 
The agenda will force international institutional contracts by means of international legal instruments and mechanisms.  These arrangements come in the form of Free-Trade Treaties between nations. They will
construct international courts that will have the power of enforcement, backed by U.N. troops. The U.N. will provide information for decision-making to all the member countries to control economic and environmental policies.   
 
“Sustainability”  is the collectivist code word for conquest. The relenting use of this word will make it a worldwide cultural axiom.    The  U.N. prints millions of pages of propaganda littered with this profanity.  The very definition of the word is  “central planning” and “central planning” is the core principle of good old  fashion “socialism.”   
Replace the word “sustainability” with the word “socialism” and learn the fraudulent meaning hidden in its twisted terminology.   
 
It would be nice to be able to blame an evil organization bent on total domination for the ills of the world, but Americans do not want to face the awful truth. Lifting the veil of the UN Conspiracy reveals the reality of our own American“central planning.”   Most of what is in the Agenda came from American Planners and it was they who used the U.N. as the utensil of universalism.   
 
Almost a century before Agenda 21, America had already fallen down the path to the centralization of government power through “central planning.”    Now, it is these planners and “Big Government” that is our largest export.  Agenda 21 is an American agenda and it would be better to fight this “central planning” plague from within and on a local basis.  
  
Still, Agenda 21 and Local Agenda 21 are more than the imaginary hobgoblins of the suspicious mind.  The cities of Portland and Eugene both have entered into legally binding contracts with the (ICLEI), and
this ideology is filtering down throughout the surrounding areas.  Ideas, even bad ones, are easily transmissible and it will eventually infect the entire state, unless, we find a cure, or are able to inoculate ourselves from its capacity to absorb our freedoms.
 
Fortunately, there have been some success stories in thwarting The Agenda.  Carroll County, MD, Amador County, CA, Montgomery County, PA, Edmond,  OK, Las Cruces, NM, Spartanburg, SC, and Albemarle County, VA are the first of  many places that are fighting back and breaking away from their contracts with the U.N.’s (ICLEI).  Check the website at ICLEI.org, click the Members tab and do a search for your city or county’s name.   
 
An unlisted local government does not mean you are safe.   Watch your local officials carefully. City Planners and County Planners are “central planners,”and they will always have a tendency to over-regulate the property owner.   In Bandon, the taxpayer is under attack from local City Planners and there is little time before……  
 
“Rob Taylor was  the original organizer of the TEA Parties in Coos County and is currently an independent activist working to promote the rights of the individual.”

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THE U.N. & AGENDA 21:
 Imagine a scenario, where the place, the time and the participants have the allure of an international thriller, involving leaders of countries from around the globe, including a U.S. President, conspiring with an evil organization bent on total world domination and the destruction of the American way of life.
 
The place was Rio de Janerio in June of’92.   There were 108 heads of state that came to the sunny beaches of Brazil to betray the allegiances of their governments. A total of 172 countries had representatives at the United Nations conference on Environment and Development,  also known as, “Earth Summit”.   President George Bush (senior) was the presiding president representing the U.S. at this summit of sedition.  
   
It only took 10 days, but the U.N. and these evil-doing dignitaries ingeniously concocted the most authoritarian plan to control the world ever seen.   They were going to execute this diabolical task by convincing the global
population that the earth is in the midst of an environmental apocalypse, that we are doomed to certain destruction, and that they have the plan to “SAVE THE WORLD.”  All the world would have to do is capitulate.  Their collectivist code word to complete this objective is “sustainability,” economically and environmentally.  
  
There were five major documents to come out of this conference:
The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
The Statement of Forest Principles
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
 Agenda 21

 
On many differing levels these new agreements induced leaders and non-governmental organizations into this scheme to usurp the authority of legitimate governments and the rights of the individual.   Immediately, all of these declarations had obvious positive results, until the negative effects became evident to citizens in local communities. Modernized Nations noticed a loss in industry and economic freedom concerning trade, production, and consumption. The most menacing of the five binding works is the comprehensive plan on sustainability, titled “Agenda 21.”  
  
“A21” is the document formatting the framework that will be the foundation of a new and very powerful international bureaucracy, which will regulate everything.  Trade, manufacturing, development, lifestyle, and all natural resources will be the domain of this newly constructed and centrally controlled global government.  This new entity will be to the U.N. what the Commerce Clause is to the U.S. federal government.   The U.N. calls it their Comprehensive Action Plan.    
 
Most people do not understand the consequences of obligating ourselves to international treaties.  The impact of this summit alone threatens the sovereignty of our country.   Treaties ratified by the U.S. Congress, and signed by our president, are legally contractually binding on our people. Congress ratified, and Bush signed this informal treaty to come out of “Earth Summit” called, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change “UNFCCC.”  However, that nonbinding treaty set the precedence for future environmental agreements that are legal obligations.  
    
Agenda 21 has 40 chapters broken up into 4 sections, with each section defining the progression of levels designed to slowly erect this “New World Order.”   
 
Section I is SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS.   This section establishes international agencies to redistribute wealth from the first world nations to the third world nations.  It also deals with keeping records on consumption patterns on the populations of the different countries involved in the plan. When this data is collected it will then be used to change the consumption habits and develop what the U.N. believes is a
more “sustainable”way to feed, clothe, and house a nations people using international welfare& healthcare programs.  There will be set standards for what every individual can and cannot consume and how much.  
The world’s population will change through demographic relocation.   Global systems will use the data derived from all the corresponding agencies to make everyone in the world socially and economically equal.  
 
Here is a direct quote: “The resulting systems of integrated environmental and economic accounting (IEEA) to be established in all member States at the earliest date should be seen as a complement to, rather than a substitute for, traditional national accounting practices for the foreseeable future.”
 
The U.N. will institute new intrusive mechanisms to measure and analyze poverty and its relations to the environment. Those of us in wealthy countries will have to forfeit some of our hard earned wealth to our brethren who live in poor countries---all because of the U.N.’s perverse sense of fair.  People are going to lose control of their property, the public lands and the natural resources of their home country---all to serve and sacrifice as global citizens in this new global village.    
 
Section II is CONSERVATION & MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPMENT.     This section describes the political apparatus the U.N. will use to apply control of Earth’s atmosphere.  They have developed an integrated approach to the planning and management of land resources, deforestation, desertification, while promoting “sustainable”  agriculture, mountain and rural development and the conservation of biological
diversity.  They will assume charge of protecting the oceans, all enclosed and semi-enclosed seas, and all coastal  areas.  The Agenda mentions “broad and multidimensional” means to achieve these goals without precisely laying out the details.  
  
Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, and Mining are the base industries of any economy. The real purpose of Section I & II is to regulate commerce and the four base industries of every country, thus taking full control of their economy.  Whoever controls a country’s economy controls that country.   This is the first step in their action plan.   The next step will be to accomplish these goals by infiltrating governments on the local level, such as your city or town, using section III & IV and another U.N. initiative called “Local Agenda 21” or “LA21”. In part two of this series I will describe...............
 
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