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The Great Corporate and Government ('One Entity') Water Heist

Perhaps the greatest theft facing humanity today is
the corporate takeover of the world’s water.

Private water companies have
secured beneficial tax law changes and are persuading Congress to pass laws that
would force cash-strapped municipal governments to consider waterworks
privatization in exchange for federal grants and loans.

If we allow the
commodification of the world’s fresh water supplies, a 'water elite' will
determine the world’s water future in its own
interest.

August 8, 2010

The CLEAR Act: They Are
Stealing It All -- Land, Water, Minerals and the Air We Breathe
By The PPJ Gazette
August 5,
2010

Another assault on the American public is under way; this one will enlarge and increase the power of the
Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management to such a degree
that none of us will be safe from these corrupted and unlawful corporate federal
agencies operating under the public deception; “a public service agency.”
These are in fact, duly
authorized and chartered private corporations which have long since ceased to
function as public services, if in fact they ever did.

Those who ramble through
the halls of the District of Criminals -- who claim they have no time to write
the bills, no time to read the bills -- somehow found the time to vote to pass
this federal, land, asset and natural resource grab, including water rights,
through the House. The bill now rests in the
Senate, where there is little chance that the property rights of individuals or
states will survive.

HR.3534, Consolidated
Land, Energy and Aquatic Resources Act of 2010, will
effectively render a greater amount of land as owned or controlled for profit by
the federal government, along with minerals and water rights, to now be controlled by the federal government and
enforced through the BLM.

The Clear Act claims
control of the oceans, Great Lakes and, by extension, many other waterways and
freshwater resources, mineral mining, solar, geo-thermal, and gas and oil,
conducted on land or in the oceans, in, on or near the continental United
States. This bill passed the House on August 4, 2010. All of this as a result of the BP Oil gusher;
like we didn’t already have thousands of unused laws on the books to deal with
this.

Along with expanded control of land and
water, all mineral leasing in any state would now be controlled by the BLM,
depriving the states of much needed revenue and the right to conduct their own
business. And guess what!? We get the creation of more
corporate federal agencies empowered to write their own laws and to conduct
enforcement in the name of the new agencies, and against the individuals and
states.

Sect: 101 Creation of New Department of the Interior
Agencies

“The Bureau of Energy and Resource Management;” to be housed in the
ubiquitous Department of the Interior.

Now bear in mind, the “resources” the bill alludes
to exist within the geographical boundaries of the states, or exist on the
coastal waterlines, and rightfully belong to the states and their residents.

(I smell Jim Oberstar’s (D) MN, great stinking mess called the
Water Restoration Act,
which would seize all water from any source whatsoever, including dried
up lake beds and the rain off your roof, and claim it as owned by the federal
government.)

Yup! That’s what we need, another damn federal agency,
incorporated and working against the people. The truly sad part of
this is, there are far too many mercenary Americans who will happily ignore what
they know to be violations of individual and states rights, and who will perform
these assaults against other Americans, with vigor. These people need to be
shunned from our communities.

The CLEAR Act would establish a monthly auction in which fuel
producers would bid for “carbon shares.”

And this is how you
pass Cap & Trade without calling it Cap & Trade. Even our recent
research into the invasive species of Kiri trees slated to be planted across
northern Nevada revealed the added caveat of claimed “carbon credits.”

The Cap & Trade Act would do nothing to
curb pollution and instead would simply allow polluters to buy access to
increase pollution. It’s a cash cow and one
that will adversely affect every household in the country. Higher
energy costs that would be totally unregulated would force many families out of
their homes; there would be no “credits” for individuals -- just for
corporations! And
thanks to the CLEAR act, we now have a back door “Cap & Trade.”

Carbon credits issued to corporations could be traded and sold to other
polluters, creating a cash flow for the sellers of credit and extended pollution
credits to those companies who cause the greatest harm to the environment. There would be no reduction in the level of harmful
emissions. It is far cheaper to buy unused credits from another company
than to go through the process of paying fines and penalties or actually
reducing the amount of emissions.

Every U.S. citizen would receive a monthly check from the
government. A household family of four
would receive a rebate from the government totaling an average of $1,100 per
year or $21,000 between 2012 and 2030.

Nothing like throwing in some cash incentives
to get the American public to go along with this theft of states rights and the
overwhelming control of land, ocean and waterways to be performed under
new bureaucracies whose main functions would be to abrogate individual and
states rights. And just so you know: If you cash the check…..you
have agreed to the contract stipulated in the CLEAR Act: the right of the
federal government to seize your states assets and sell them for profit even if
it causes you harm.

Included in this latest theft
of state-owned assets, and of assets as owned by the nation at large, are these
special provisions:

Section 4. Fossil Carbon Limitation

This bill also includes a safety valve for
carbon share demand. If the maximum price is reached in any one auction,
the number of available carbon shares may be increased to exceed the aggregate
quantity in order to ensure that all legal bids at that price
are accommodated for that auction. However, these excess carbon shares must be
redeemed within 90 days, and all derived revenues from this safety valve auction
are deposited in the Clean Energy Reinvestment Trust Fund (CERT Fund) to be used
exclusively to curtail the
emission of non-carbon greenhouse gases and other
climate-affecting substances, such as black carbon, or to fund domestic and
international projects to reduce, avoid or sequester emissions through agriculture,
forestry, and land use practices (emphasis mine).

Here is where the “cow fart tax” will
most likely be implemented.

The bulk of the CLEAR act is simply the creation of
new bureaucracies and seizing of states assets and natural resources.
The bill simply lays the framework for the enlargement of the Department
of Interior, the Bureau of Land Management and, not surprisingly, the Coast
Guard*.

With the federal government now claiming it
“owns” or controls 64% of all lands west of the Mississippi -- in direct
violation of the Constitution, which prohibits the central government from
owning property other than forts, bases, and other necessary structures within
the sovereign states -- this latest bill is just
one more reason to declare the House and Senate a threat to the life and
viability of the nation.

History has shown us that allowing the
federal government to usurp states in the management of their natural resources
has produced massive environmental damage. The eleven westernmost states
are riddled with more than 550,000 abandoned mines which have resulted in sink
holes appearing spontaneously across these states. The holes fill with
groundwater that is polluted beyond reclamation with mercury, sulfur, selenium
and other toxins at levels so incredibly high, the water cannot be used, ever.
And this is just one aspect of this environmental damage that goes on daily
under the direction of the Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land
Management. The only
thing this department and agency are managing is the theft of resources
belonging to the people and the transfer of profits, at any cost, to the
government.

The CLEAR Act is nothing more than a system of
taxation, fines, fees, penalties and royalties perpetrated by theft of land,
water and natural resources from the states. More on this bill as
we get into other sections.

*As of 2003, and citing the 1944 provisions, the Coast Guard
ceased to be a civil service agency and is now a military branch and is
designated by Homeland Security as the “national police” force and empowered to
perform police functions not only on the water, but also on land.

Note http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/14C1.txt

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July 29, 2010

Private
Property Rights at Stake
The Clean Water Restoration Act (S.787) is a dangerous
infringement on private property rights. It would require farmers and ranchers
to obtain permits for common, everyday operations, like driving a tractor near
an irrigation ditch or grazing cattle near a mud hole.

By The
National Cattlemen's Beef Association
April 2009

What is the Clean Water Restoration Act?

Currently,
waters under the jurisdiction of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) are defined
as "navigable waters of the United States." Other waters are subject to
regulation by individual states, which are better equipped to manage their own
unique geographical concerns.

The Clean Water Restoration Act would
remove the word "navigable" from the definition, thereby drastically expanding
federal regulatory control over all wet areas. In addition, it would grant
sweeping authority to regulate all “activities” affecting those
waters.

This would amount to a massive land-grab by the government, not
to mention an infringement on Americans’ constitutional rights to own and manage
property without undue interference from the
government.

Unprecedented Expansion of Federal
Authority

The Clean Water Restoration Act for the first time
would give the federal government broad power to regulate all waters,
including:

* Ponds
* Small and intermittent streams
* Creek
beds
* Drainage ditches
* Mud holes

All would be subject to federal
regulation, including areas that only contain water during snow melts or the
rainy season.

Reduces our Ability to Keep Important Waters
Clean

Cattlemen don’t oppose efforts to keep our waters clean—in
fact, we rely on clean sources of water to feed our animals and nurture our
land.

The Clean Water Restoration Act would actually hamper the
government’s ability to maintain clean waters. They are already struggling to
handle a backlog of 15,000 to 20,000 permit requests.

At a time when our
resources are already stretched thin, it is ridiculous to expand the
government’s responsibility to mud holes and other wet areas with little to no
environmental value to the public.

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Senate
Approves Bill to Redefine the Power of the Clean Water Act
The White
Mountain Independent Online
July 28, 2009

Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick is
continuing her "Defending Arizona Values" campaign by fighting against big
government, as she announced her opposition to a bill (S.787: The Clean
Water Restoration Act) greatly expanding federal water
regulation.

The bill would
remove a critical limitation on the reach of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act), allowing Washington to infringe on property
use by farmers, ranchers and small businesses across the district,
Kirkpatrick's office said in a press release.

The bill eliminates the Clean Water Act's
critical requirement that regulated waterways be "navigable,"
which would give the government the ability to police
everything from creeks that run through
farms to standing water in ditches, the press release said, adding that federal
officials and courts would be able to hold up activities that do not affect any
actual rivers or lakes.

Kirkpatrick feels this bill's goals can be accomplished by enforcing laws
already on the books...

"In our communities we support clean water running through our
creeks, streams and springs, but we do not support federal regulation that
would make things tougher for folks in Greater Arizona... This sort of
legislation is exactly why folks in Greater Arizona feel Washington is out of
touch with our values. We understand the need to protect our water
supply better than any Washington bureaucrat, and we know how to take care of
ourselves. I am working hard to make sure that more of our leaders at
the national level understand that."
"The Arizona Farm Bureau
thanks Rep. Kirkpatrick for opposing this legislation. We all support
clean water, but this legislation puts all water under federal
control," said Kevin Rogers, president of the Arizona Farm Bureau.
"It could require me to get a federal permit to clean out an irrigation
ditch on my farm. It goes too far."

Fed
Moves to Control All the Water in the U.S.
By Nancy Matthis,
American Daughter
May 10, 2009

A bill to “clarify the jurisdiction of
the United States over waters of the United States” has been introduced in the
Senate — S.787, the Clean Water Restoration Act. To read the
text of this bill, we recommend using the Open
Congress version, which allows you to post citizen comments. Alternatively,
the Library of Congress copy is here.

Draconian interpretation of government control of
U.S. waters in the earlier Clean Water
Act had been somewhat limited by Supreme
Court decisions.

The bill was introduced by Sen. Russell
Feingold (D-WI). His remarks before the Senate on the occasion of introducing
the bill are here. In his opening statement, Feingold made it clear
that his purpose was to recover the Orwellian power that had been impaired by
the judiciary by means of legislation:

Mr. President, today I am introducing legislation to
restore Clean Water Act protections for the same waters that were covered by
the Act prior to two recent divisive U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Here is an enumeration of the waters included:

WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES - The term ‘waters of the United
States’ means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the
tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their
tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent
streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet
meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to
the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these
waters, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the
Constitution.
Congress justifies its power to
meddle in every aspect of American life through the “commerce clause” in the U.S.
Constitution (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3):

The Congress shall have Power … to regulate Commerce … among the
several States….

The founding fathers only intended that Congress
should provide a level playing field for interactions between and among the
states. In stark contrast to this original intention stands the
extension of “waters” to include “all … intrastate waters and their
tributaries. The language
of this bill enables Congress to come onto a private family farm and dictate
what a farmer can do with his duck pond, or even with his
cistern, which might conceivably be emptied into a ditch that might eventually
flow into an intermittent stream!
In short, Congress has the power to prevent any
citizen from relying on natural sources of drinking, cooking and bathing water,
and water to sustain a home garden.

This legislation, combined with
the Food Safety Modernization
Act of 2009, means
that every United States citizen may only eat and drink at the pleasure of the
government. Of course, most “reasonable” folk will
assume that, although the government has this stranglehold on our lives, it will
not actually be used for such a purpose.

As German history shows,
the extent of governmental social engineering depends on who is in
power. Recall that Hitler was elected, and for a time, very
popular.

The more fundamental question is whether we are willing
to give government such power over us, in the naive expectation that a
government proven incapable of protecting us against food-borne salmonella can
provide us with adequate food and water safety.

Do we want to take
responsibility for assuring our food and water safety ourselves, as informed
consumers, or do we want to trust a failed bureaucracy to protect us, at the
sacrifice of our fundamental freedom?

Oppose
Federalization of All Waters of the U.S.
Pennsylvania Firearm Owners
Association
June 25, 2009

Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) introduced S.
787 on April 2, 2009. The bill, known as the Clean Water Restoration
Act, would redefine the government’s control over water. The Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee approved the Clean Water Restoration Act
(S. 787) by a vote of 12-7 on June 18, 2009. As described below, this bill would place virtually
all the waters of the United States under federal
control.

U.S. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is a ranking
member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and has recently issued a
warning against the passage of S. 787. The legislation is the "biggest
bureaucratic power grab in a generation," Inhofe said.

Since
Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) moved to put a hold on S. 787: it cannot be
voted on the Senate floor until at least 60 Senators vote to remove the hold.
This adds an additional step to the process so the bill can't be rushed
through. Hopefully this will force more Senators to read the bill and
gain even more opposition to its passage.

Among other things, S. 787 would amend the
Federal
Water Pollution Control Act (enacted in 1972) by striking the term “navigable waters” from the
bill and replacing it with “waters of the United States.”
What does that mean to you? Simply put, it would federalize virtually
every water deposit (including private wells) in the nation, placing
restrictions on landowners and, therefore, threatening both private property
rights and states' rights.

Chilling New Law Gives
U.S. Government Ownership of All Water in Nation
By Sorcha Faal
May
8, 2009

Russian Military Analysts are reporting in the Kremlin today that
the United States is preparing to take over the ownership of all of the
water within its borders away from its citizens and states and outlaw
its use except as allowed by its Department of Homeland Security in a move these
analysts say will have a ‘chilling effect’ upon these once free
people.

According to these reports, the top elite
military-political and corporate classes currently ruling the United
States ordered the introduction into the US Senate this past week on
April 2nd a new law called the Clean Water Restoration Act
(S.787 IS) to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act
(Clean Water Act):

by striking 'navigable waters' each place it appears and inserting 'waters
of the United States'

and then adding:

WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES - The term 'waters of
the United States' means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide,
the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their
tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent
streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet
meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to
the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these waters,
are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.'

Russian legal experts in
these reports state that no other Nation or Empire, in all of modern history,
has sought to impose such a draconian law upon its peoples without it being a
part of a much larger plan intended to subjugate them into total submission to
the State's will.

Russian military experts, however,
point out that in a World where the most precious commodity for human life is
growing more scarce by the year, water must be looked at as a national, not
private, resource subject to the control of the state for the benefit of all and
not just those owning its legal rights...

To how the American
people will react to this new grab for power
by their government it is not known, other than to point out the fact
that these people are growing more desperate by the day with new reports from
the US showing that in the first three months of 2009 alone, they have bought
enough guns to equip the armies of both China and India combined, and are
continuing to ‘run into gun shows’ in panic buying of weapons and
ammunition.

But, to the most nefarious motives behind this
latest move by the US Government to take all of its nations waters away from its
citizens, it can be best understood by the US representatives to this past
March’s World Water Forum in Turkey
where they were ordered by the Obama Administration to “remove
language declaring water as a human right,” and which begs
the common sense question:

If these Americans don’t believe water, which a human being will
die within days if deprived of, is a human right, what exactly do they believe
is one?

The answer to that question is, and most sadly, that the only rights remaining to the once great
American people are those robbing them of their wealth for the benefit of
their government, military, propaganda news media and corporate masters
to whom they will now have to beg on hands and knees for even the merest sip
of water to sustain their lives.
Their forefathers must be
turning over in their graves in utter shame of the slaves they have truly
become.

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Not
So Private Property?: Clean Water Restoration Act Raises Fears of Land
Grab
Fox News
December 14, 2009

Upwards of 40 percent of all land in the
United States is already under some form of government control or ownership --
800 million to 900 million acres out of America's total 2.2 billion
acres.

The government now appears poised to wield
greater control over private property on a number of fronts. The battle
over private property rights has intensified since 2005, when the Supreme Court
ruled in the Kelo v. City of New London case that the government could take
property from one group of private landowners and give it to
another.

Outraged over that ruling and a series of recent efforts by
government to wield greater control over private property, citizens are fighting
back. Fox News' Shannon Bream takes a fair and balanced look at the controversy
in a three-part series.

The
Clean Water Restoration Act currently pending in the U.S. Senate could reach to
control even a "seasonal puddle" on private
property.

Eleven senators and 17 representatives in the
U.S. House have sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy
Pelosi blasting the measure as one of the boldest property grab attempts of all
time.

This bill is described by opponents as a sweeping overhaul
of the Clean Water Act that could threaten both physical land and jobs by wiping
out some farmers entirely.

"Right now, the law says that the
Environmental Protection Agency is in charge of all navigable water," said Sen.
John Barrasso, R-Wyo., chairman of the Senate Western Caucus and an opponent of
the bill.

"Well, this bill removes the word 'navigable,' so for
ranchers and farmers who have mud puddles, prairie potholes -- anything from
snow melting on their land -- all of that water will now come under the
regulation of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection
Agency," he said. Barrasso said the federal government's
one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work in the west where the Rocky Mountain
states have gone even further than Washington to protect land, water and the
environment.

"The government wants control of all water -- that also
means that they want control over all of our land including the private
property rights of people from the Rocky Mountain west, the western caucus and
the entire United States," he said.
But Jan Goldman-Carter
of the National Wildlife Foundation said fears by ranchers and farmers are
unfounded.

"That amended language is very clear that it preserves long
standing exemptions for ongoing agricultural practices, forest roads. There
are a number of very generous exemptions in there particularly for ranchers
and farmers that I know have been worried about the effect of this
legislation, but in fact those worries are largely unfounded," she said.

Goldman-Carter added that the United States has long regulated
streams and other waterways that aren't 'navigable' by boat because to do
otherwise would be to allow dumping into smaller water sources that lead to the
larger ones used for drinking water and other purposes.

"I can't imagine anyone wanting to walk down to the stream and
dump their oil or paint," she said. "Even if they did they're not going to be
enforced against now and they never were, there simply isn't the ability to do
that."
Aside from striking "navigable," the bill defines U.S. water
as "all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas and
all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes,
rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands,
sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds and all
impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these
waters."

It adds that any "activities affecting these waters are
subject to the legislative power of Congress under the
Constitution."

The legislation, introduced by Wisconsin
Democratic Sen Russ Feingold, has the support of 24 senators. It passed the
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in June but has not been scheduled
for a floor vote, though it could be tacked onto other legislation as an
amendment.

Click here to read the bill.

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July 28, 2010

National
Ocean Council
The new National Ocean
Council’s goals are based on its 32-page report... The stated goals of the
Council include regulating investments, collaborating with unidentified
international agencies, controlling public access to oceans and “protecting”
ecosystems. This means that commerce and trade will be controlled by the
Council, the UN will gain power over American oceans and the Great Lakes through
UN subagencies, public access will be limited and the Endangered Species Act
will be unleashed with heavy regulations... The targeted areas for Endangered
Species Act regulations are the the Great Lakes, the Gulf Coast, Chesapeake Bay,
Puget Sound, South Florida and the San Francisco Bay (the Bay Delta is where the
irrigation water for farmers was was cut off using the Endangered Species Act,
causing food shortages, an increase in food imports and massive economic
devastation). While this report does not
clearly outline how the National Ocean Council’s schemes will be financed,
regulatory permits for all activity on the water and mining (oil) leases will
play a part, along with tax increases. The report does indicate that grants and
assistance programs will be available so that state, local and tribal
authorities will support the Council’s “efforts.” In other words, the Council
will try to buy off the state and local governments to “collectively use” them
for a base of support and influence.

By Cassandra Anderson,
Infowars.com
July 28, 2010

Thirty states will be encroached upon by
Obama’s Executive Order establishing the National Ocean Council for control over
America’s oceans, coastlines and the Great Lakes. Under this new council,
states’ coastal jurisdictions will be subject to the United Nations’ Law Of Sea
Treaty (LOST) in this UN Agenda 21 program. America’a oceans and coastlines will
be broken into 9 regions that include the North East, Mid-Atlantic, South
Atlantic, the Gulf Coast, West Coast, the Great Lakes, Alaska, the Pacific
Islands (including Hawaii) and the Caribbean.

Because of the decades of difficulty that the collectivists have had trying
to ratify the Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST), Obama is sneaking it in through the back
door, by way of this Executive Order establishing the Council. Because LOST is a
treaty, Obama’s Executive Order is not Constitutional as treaty ratification
requires 2/3 approval from the Senate. Michael Shaw said that the Agenda 21
Convention on Biodiversity treaty of 1992 failed to pass Congress so it was
executed through soft law and administratively on local levels, and Obama’s
Executive Order is a similar soft law tactic to enact the LOST treaty.

In fact, our Constitutional form of government is being completely destroyed
because buried in the CLEAR Act (HR 3534) there is a provision for a new council
to oversee the outer continental shelf- it appears that this Regional Outer
Shelf Council will be part of the National Ocean Council. This means that if
Congress makes the CLEAR Act into law, then the implementation of the UN Law Of
Sea Treaty, as part of the National Ocean Council’s agenda, will be “ratified”
in a convoluted and stealth manner, in full opposition to the Constitution and
its intent.(1)

The excuse for this extreme action is because of the emergency in the Gulf of
Mexico. Obama and Congress have always had the legal and military power to force
BP Oil to take all necessary action to stop the gusher and clean the oil spew.
While there is evidence that the problems in the Gulf have been a result of
collusion and planned incompetence, it begs the question, why in world should
America’s oceans and resources be controlled by Obama appointees? ...

THE SMOKING GUN:

Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is the overarching blueprint for
depopulation and total control, and the National Ocean Council is clearly an
Agenda 21 program:

The National Ocean Council is headed by John Holdren, an avowed eugenicist
which is selective breeding through brutal means like forced abortion.

The National Ocean Council’s own report (Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning)
incorporates a section of the 1992 Rio Declaration which is an original Agenda
21 document!

In fact, the report says that it will be guided by the Rio Declaration in
cases “Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full
scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective
measures to prevent environmental degradation.” This means that regulations will
be imposed even if the science is not understood or if the science is based on
global warming manipulated data.(6)

The 3 primary tools of Agenda 21’s phony environmentalism are global warming,
water shortages and the Endangered Species Act; the National Ocean Council
intends to exploit all of these tools to their full extent.

The National Ocean Council’s main objective is to sink American sovereignty
through the United Nations Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST) with the intended result of
domination by the UN over our coasts and the Great Lakes. LOST originated in the
1970s as a wealth redistribution plan to benefit Third World countries. LOST
sets rules for commercial activity beneath the high seas and establishes new
international bureaucracies and a tribunal to interpret and apply rules to sea
activity. And LOST can proceed with those rules, even against US objections!
LOST threatens to complicate deep sea mining. LOST sets a precedent that US
rights are dependent upon the approval of international entities. LOST also
extends to ocean flowing rivers. (7)

REGIONALISM:

Michael Shaw pointed out that non-elected councils are increasingly expanding
their jurisdiction through air quality boards, water quality boards, sewer
systems, transportation districts, metropolitan planning, etc. to gain control
over resources. Often, large corporations and financial interests form Public-
Private Partnerships with the government within these councils.

Breaking areas into regions and placing authority with non-elected councils
is a Communist trick used to hijack resources, thereby usurping local and state
power by re-zoning the areas that do have Constitutional authority. Appointed
bureaucrats are untouchable because their jobs are not dependent upon serving
the voting population. And they are usually inaccessible to the public and do
not have to face those who are affected by their “insider” decisions. When state
and local governments become corrupt, the public is able to confront them eye to
eye, but distant bureaucrats can avoid accountability. Regionalism is used as a
psychological tactic to intimidate state legislatures into creating the system
for a new political and economic order. (8)

Obama’s Executive Order that has created the 9 new regions amounts to
re-zoning, and his appointed bureaucrats are answerable only to him. In David
Horton’s testimony in 1978 on regionalism, he said that the State of Indiana
made this declaration, “Neither the states nor Congress have ever granted
authority to any branch or agency of the federal government to exercise regional
control over the states.” Horton further stated that Congress holds all
legislative power that is granted in the Constitution, as opposed to Executive
Orders that are not legislative. Therefore, Obama’s Executive Order for
re-zoning and appointing a governing body to usurp state and local power is
Constitutionally invalid. (9)

The public must become aware of state sovereignty and the Tenth Amendment to
demand that state and local governments assert these Constitutional laws and
principles.

COASTAL AND MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING REPORT:

This is a general overview of the new National Ocean Council’s goals based on
its 32-page report that uses indirect language and acronyms in order to confuse
the public and local lawmakers. Depopulation advocates, globalists and
collectivists, like John Holdren, faced opposition a few decades ago when they
clearly expressed their objectives, so now documents are written in complicated
and clouded language to fool those they wish to control. (10)

This report states that the Council’s jurisdiction will extend from the
continental shelf to the coast AND additional inland areas will be involved. The
National Ocean Council identifies “partners” as members of each regional
planning body that will include federal, state, local and tribal authorities,
with a top-down hierarchy of control.

The intentions of the Council are stated on page 8 of the report that include
implementing LOST and other international treaties. The report also states that
the Council’s plans shall be implemented by Executive Orders, in addition to
federal and state laws. This section mentions ‘global climate change’ which is a
new term substituted for ‘man made global warming’ after manipulated data and
lies were exposed in numerous global warming scandals. ‘Climate change’ is
blamed for sea level rise and acidification of oceans; evidence exists that
these are global warming deceptions. (11)

The stated goals of the Council include regulating investments, collaborating
with unidentified international agencies, controlling public access to oceans
and “protecting” ecosystems. This means that commerce and trade will be
controlled by the Council, the UN will gain power over American oceans and the
Great Lakes through UN subagencies, public access will be limited and the
Endangered Species Act will be unleashed, with heavy regulations. Incidentally,
the Endangered Species Act is based on 5 international treaties. It has never
had a successful result: of the 60 species that have been de-listed, not a
single species was saved as a result of any restrictions stemming from the
Endangered Species Act! (12)

The targeted areas for Endangered Species Act regulations are the the Great
Lakes, the Gulf Coast, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound, South Florida and the San
Francisco Bay (the Bay Delta is where the irrigation water for farmers was was
cut off using the Endangered Species Act, causing food shortages, an increase in
food imports and massive economic devastation).

While this report does not clearly outline how the National Ocean Council’s
schemes will be financed, regulatory permits for all activity on the water and
mining (oil) leases will play a part, along with tax increases. The report does
indicate that grants and assistance programs will be available so that state,
local and tribal authorities will support the Council’s “efforts”. In other
words, the Council will try to buy off the state and local governments to
“collectively use” them for a base of support and influence.(pg. 28) Strings are
always attached to federal money. The federal government and the Council are
reliant on state and local governments for implementation through state and
local legal authority, which means that state and local authorities hold the
power to implement or refuse the Council’s directives, especially under the
Tenth Amendment.

However, the report does state that disputes will be settled by consensus, if
consensus fails, then the decisions will ultimately be made by the President. He
is Commander in Chief of the Navy and has the power of the military behind him.
Further, the report indicates that legislative changes and more Executive Orders
may be necessary to achieve control.

An important point is made on page 5, which states, “Strong partnerships
among Federal, State, tribal and local authorities, and regional governance
structures would be essential to a truly forward-looking, comprehensive CMSP
effort.” This means that the states, local governments and tribes have power.
Our collectivist government needs the consent of the state, local and tribal
authorities, to implement this scheme, otherwise, the feds wouldn’t bother to
include these Constitutional authorities. If the state, local and tribal
authorities are aware of, and willing to act on their Constitutional authority,
then they can limit this federal power grab through the Tenth Amendment.

The report further states that signing onto the Council’s plan would be an
“express commitment by the partners to act in accordance with the plan…” (pg.
20) Therefore, it is imperative that all of the states be aware of the Council’s
intended usurpation and carefully protect their Constitutional jurisdictions and
sovereignty. There are 30 states that will be affected by this new council. (pg.
12)

The Council’s strategy plan will go into effect immediately, fully developing
Agenda 21 objectives and undue UN influence within 5 years. Interestingly, one
article said that if state, local and tribal authorities choose not to
participate in in writing the plans, the plans would be written without them.
Therefore, it bears repeating that state and local governments must protect
their Constitutional authority when dealing with the Council. The Constitutional
authority that states and local governments have can only be taken if the power
is given away.

SAVING OUR COUNTRY:

If your freedom is important to you, the most effective action that you can
take is to e-mail this article and Michael Shaw’s “Understanding Agenda 21
Sustainable Development” booklet to all of your State Legislators, County
Commissioners/ Superintendents and City Council members.

Here is the the link for the Agenda 21 downloadable booklet:

http://www.freedomadvocates.org/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,127/Itemid,81/

Tell all of your friends, co-workers and neighbors about Agenda 21
Sustainable Development and how it is destroying our country. The National Ocean
Council is detrimental on so many levels and the time to act is now. If state
and local officials refuse to stand up against this federal incursion, they must
be thrown out of office in favor of representatives who support the Constitution
and the Tenth Amendment.

For more information about local action, visit http://www.freedomadvocates.org/.

Visit http://www.morphcity.com/ for a
special video presentation on July 30th for an interview with a local official
who upheld the Constitution against encroachment by the federal government.

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May 29, 2010

Agenda 21
Alert: Science and Sewage
Cassandra Anderson
May 29, 2010

Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is the overarching blueprint for
depopulation and total control, using the environment as the excuse for that
control. The three major tools that are used are:

— Global warming

— Water Shortages

— Endangered Species Act

In the case of the California Delta, man made water shortages have been
imposed on farmers by way of the ESA (Endangered Species Act) for the last three
years. Still, the Delta smelt populations have declined, despite the
restrictions. While the federal government refused to acknowledge that the cause
for the decline in smelt populations was due to up to 1 BILLION gallons of
partially treated sewage being flushed into the Delta per day, they blamed the
water pumps for the decline in smelt. Their disastrous solution was to cut the
water flow to farmers (who supply our country with 50% of its produce and nuts),
thereby increasing the water levels in the Delta to dilute pollution.

This didn’t work, smelt populations declined. In fact, California had a
wetter-than-usual winter, and instead of allowing more water to be delivered to
farms, when the Shasta Reservoir filled to its safe capacity level, the water
was bled out into the Pacific Ocean. Due to mounting pressure against the
corrupt Department of Interior and obvious waste of water, the federal pump’s
water delivery was increased in some areas. Many allege that this was also in
part due to Central Valley Congressmen Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa voting in
favor of Obamacare in trade for water to the farm areas. Ironically,
the farms were promised 25% of the amount of water that had been contracted (40%
is what is needed to keep the farms viable). Further, the farmers were promised
a delivery up to 25% but they were only guaranteed a 5% increase, thereby making
it difficult for them to get loans because the farmers, in turn, couldn’t
guarantee a harvest with only a 5% increase of water.

Last week, Patricia Gilbert, a professor of ecology and oceanography from the
University of Maryland, concluded that the smelt decline was a result of high
ammonium levels from urine and feces. Specifically, she cited that the pollution
was coming primarily from Sacramento, which doesn’t fully process its sewage
before it is dumped into the Delta. Dr. Patricia Gilbert was then forced to
resign from the National Academy of Sciences panel. The Academy forced her resignation because she went public with the information, and
they found it a conflict of interest for her to review her own work. This is
incredibly hypocritical, given the profound conflicts of interest within the
National Academy of Sciences.

The National Academy of Sciences is a quasi-governmental agency, created
during Lincoln’s administration. The Academy advises the government in
scientific matters in order to set public policy and law. The NAS is also a tax
exempt private corporation (they do not publish their financial records on their
website, nor do they list their donors). NAS is subsidized by federal grants and
other “contributions” from undisclosed donors. New members are elected by
current members, thus ensuring cronyism, a depopulation agenda and fraud.

For example, some of the prestigious members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) include
Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren, Gene Likens and Frederick Bormann, and Mario J.
Molina.

John Holdren (Obama’s current science czar) and Paul Ehrlich are rabid eugenicists -- supporters of selective breeding often through
brutal means like genocide and forced sterilization, who co-authored
‘Ecoscience’, which advocates a “global police force” to enforce totalitarian
measures of population control that includes forced abortions and mass
sterilization programs conducted via the food and water supply, among other
horrors. It is interesting to note that Ehrlich’s work also appears in the
United Nations Agenda 21 Global Biodiversity Assessment Report.

Gene Likens, along with Frederick Bormann, invented acid rain. In 1980, the
NAS predicted acid rain would double the number of acid-dead lakes within 10
years, so a $600 million dollar study by the US government, that spanned 10 years,
discredited Liken’s theory. Dr. Ed Krug found that acidity in the Adirondack
lakes was not caused by coal processing in Pennsylvania (as theorized by Likens)
but by local plants and soil. Because of the enthusiasm of policy makers, this
scientific scandal was hidden until 60 Minutes got hold of it and it
became widely publicized. After awhile, people forgot about Liken’s and
Bormann’s science fraud and acid rain regulations were written into the federal
Clean Air Act. The EPA trashed Dr. Ed Krug’s career thereafter.

Mario J. Molina, a professor at MIT, won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for creating alarmism over the ozone hole in the Antarctic, for which he blamed
CFCs (chlorofluorocarbon gases from refrigerants and aerosol products like
hairspray). Freon refrigerants were vilified as a major cause of the Arctic ozone depletion. It later came to light that ozone
over the Arctic cyclically thins for a brief period of time, and there is no
hole. However, corporate-controlled policy makers rushed to ban freon because
the DuPont patent was expiring on it, and DuPont would lose the monopoly because
other companies could manufacture freon cheaply. DuPont did own a patent on an
alternative product that was more expensive and more difficult to produce, so
freon was banned.

There is an obvious lack of easily accessible information about who funds the
National Academy of Sciences in addition to the US federal government; clearly,
the ruling-elite monopoly owners have an overwhelming amount of ‘influence’.
There is evidence of financial ties to the Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation, who are cohorts in depopulation of the
planet, as evidenced by the support of Rockefeller’s Population
Council.

The lawsuit to save the California Delta smelt and to close down the water
pumps, based on the corrupt Endangered Species Act, was brought by the Natural
Resources Defense Council and is funded by the Ford Foundation (the annual
budget is $87 million dollars). The California Delta smelt debacle is a model of
how the globalists plan to create water shortages via the Endangered Species Act
in order to pursue the objectives of Agenda 21 (depopulation and control).
Therefore, science should be scrutinized.

Valid science is independent and does not have a political or economic agenda
attached to it.

Valid science considers ALL data, as opposed to ignoring
that which does not fit in its paradigm.

Valid science has reproducible
results.

Valid science freely provides information to the public without
the necessity of the Freedom of Information Act.

The good news: Federal Judge Oliver Wanger ruled on May 25, 2010, that the
biological opinion, provided by the National Marine Fisheries Services, a sub
agency of the Department of Interior, failed to consider the impact that turning
off the federal pump (owned by the Department of Interior) had on humans.
Therefore, he allowed the pump to be reactivated at 40% -- enough to irrigate
farms until June 15th, and then the case will be revisited. It is important to
remember that the Department of Interior also determines which species are ‘endangered’.

While there are many good scientists out there, when public policy is
concerned, or an economic agenda is at stake, we can see what happens to them as
evidenced by Dr. Ed Krug and Dr. Patricia Gilbert. The NAS wanted to wait until
Fall 2011 to issue their recommendation on the Delta issue, but now their advice
is becoming irrelevant. In fact, this is a perfect model of how we can rid
ourselves of tyranny. Because Dr. Patricia Gilbert took her results public,
which clearly pointed the finger at the sewage issue, a condition that can be
easily remedied, the Academy’s scientific edict may no longer matter. We can win
against environmental tyranny through exposure -- it worked with ‘Climategate’,
and it is unfolding in the Delta right now. Massive exposure of fraudulent
science is an effective way to end Agenda 21; when respect for authority (of
science) disappears, people stop following corrupt leaders.

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March 14, 2010

‘Peak
Water’ Could Flush Civilisation
January 23, 2010

Irish Times - Forget peak oil. Forget climate change. Peak water is where
it’s at, according to Scottish journalist and broadcaster, Alexander Bell, who
has just written a fascinating book, Peak Water (Luath Press,
Scotland).

“It’s the coming issue of our age,” says Bell. “Civilisation is
thirsty. It has never stopped to think about what would happen if the water
ran out.”
And while Bell acknowledges tackling climate change is
important, he firmly states peak water would have happened with or without it
...

The idea of valuing water as a precious resource links right into the
same issues raised by climate change.

In fact, the idea of an individual water footprint has already been raised. A
water footprint encompasses the reality that we affect water beyond our borders
when countries that have a short supply of water grow and make things that have
a heavy demand on water.

Bell suggests that revaluing water across the globe would take a radical
shift. He explains how, because water is growing scarce in traditional wheat-,
rice- and maize-growing areas of the US, India and Pakistan, it should be
possible that the wet north could replace production, in part.

He also suggests that the north European (and now North American) model of
industrialised, liberal, capitalist society may be best suited to wet countries.
Secondly, he suggests we are quite used to making naturally occurring materials
such as coal or oil into assets, so why not water? There is already a price on
water in some places but putting a price on water that changes people’s usage
habits (both personal and agricultural) is a broader issue. Bell says:

“We should be the ones who build new houses with composting
toilets and reed beds to clean the waste water. We should instigate rainwater
collection on a large scale . . . We should ensure that more food is grown for
local consumption. The wet world should grow vital food for the dry world.”

Bell also brings up the widely held belief that the next wars to be
fought in the world will be over water. In fact, he states that such wars have
already occurred in some places – for example, between Pakistan and India. And
the investment bank Goldman Sacks has dubbed water the petroleum for the next
century.

“With the Cold War over and the threat from mass nuclear
deployment apparently gone, we have switched our fears to a water war,” he
writes.
According to Bell, what both threats show is that we fear
our capacity to self-destruct (many would argue that much of the rhetoric around
climate change comes from the same place).

He adds: “the reality of changing our water use is colossal. It
calls for a new kind of civilisation built on global co-operation. The penalty
for not doing this will be widespread social chaos.”

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Food
Security Threat: Goverment Set to Ban Public Fishing, Individual Food
Production
By Mac Slavo, SHTFplan.com
March 10, 2010

In yet
another example of government overstepping its bounds, the Obama
administration is preparing to ban fishing in coastal areas around the country,
as well as the Great Lakes and other inland water resources:

This announcement comes at the time when the situation
supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task
Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these
waters.

That’s a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry
insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council
on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These
angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was
a charade from the beginning.

“When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their
successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best
scientifically managed big game hunts in North America (spring bear), the
results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses
and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario,”
said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.

“Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration) and the administration planning the future of
recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same
groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an
Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction
with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The
negative economic impacts on hard working American families and small
businesses are being ignored.

“In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President’s
concern for jobs and the economy, and contrary to what he stated in the June
order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task
force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any
priority.”

Banning “recreational” fishing isn’t
just an issue of economics, but is a threat to the personal liberty of each
individual’s right to produce their own food. And
banning fishing is just one of several policy changes the government is looking
at.

In Federal Food Police Coming Soon To A Farm Near
You, Tess Pennington points
out the risks of letting the government oversee individual food production
methods under HR Bill 875 and The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which
specifically target agricultural goods, including crops and livestock on
personal, non-commercial farms:

What is to stop the government from
defining a small home garden as a food facility? Because of
the vagueness of this bill, it is not only the micro farmers that are affected
by this. Anyone who has a garden, or shares their produce with
neighbors or even owns a local restaurant that supports local farmers and buys
their produce could be affected. We could all be affected and pay the
price dearly for not speaking up. Many
say that this bill is unconstitutional in that state rights will be stripped
away. If passed, the
state cannot go in and take care of the problem. It is
a federal issue, thus will have federal repercussions.

Slowly but surely, the federal
government is moving towards eliminating the ability of individual Americans to
produce their own food -- a direct attack on our lives, liberty and
pursuit of happiness.

For an administration with so much focus on “sustainability” it is ironic
that they are attacking the very core of the sustainability movement -- the
individual. As more restrictions on the public are cemented through use
of Congressional mandates and Presidential Executive Orders, the rights of
individuals to take their well being into their own hands is further
impeded.

Of course, under recent administrations,
government is the answer for everything. The
rugged individual or neo-survivalist is now becoming the fringe extremist. Why
would someone need to produce their own food when they could drive down to the
local Walmart or Super Target and pickup up all the genetically modified
food they need, manufactured under pristine conditions in one of
several centralized processing plants?

All of these proposed changes aimed at our ability to produce our own
food seem to fall, in part, under the United Nations’ Agenda 21
initiatives, which are touted as “sustainability
development” programs. It seems, however, that the UN’s ideas for sustainable
living focus more on collectivists ideologies than they do on the
individual.

Rather than teaching individuals to become self sustaining,
the goal of the UN’s Agenda 21 initiative is for the government to provide
sustainability to the population. And according to
Michael Shaw, president of Freedom Advocates, Agenda 21 can be summarized by
three points and are supported by the documents prepared by the United Nations.

The goals of the UN include the abolition of rural and
suburban private property, global citizenship education, and population
control. It sounds scary, perhaps even unbelievable.
But
don’t take our word for it, read the Agenda 21 Core Publications at the United Nations
Division for Sustainable Development.

Based on this evidence, it is important
to note that it is not only Barrack Obama that is pushing for restrictions on
your ability to fish, or grow food, or manage your own livestock for personal
use. This is a global
effort with the dictates coming from the United Nations, and it has been
happening for several decades.

Terrorism against our food supply and unsanitary conditions during food
production are only minor issues to our food security when compared to what may
be the greatest threat facing sustainable living -- our very own
government.

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March 2, 2010

Texas County Restricts
Well Water
By Regina Dennis, Tribune-Herald
March 1, 2010

A
few county water suppliers are concerned that water-pumping restrictions being
set by the county’s groundwater management district will prevent them from being
able to serve future water consumers.

Well owners will have to apply for
permanent historic-use-production permits through the Southern Trinity
Groundwater Conservation District.

The permits will grant each well owner
a maximum amount of water that may be pumped each year based on the well’s
historic water use and the total number of wells in McLennan County.

The
county’s combined water usage must not exceed 20,194 acre-feet — about 6.6
billion gallons — of water each year, an allowance set by the Texas Water
Development Board.

Purdis Medlin, president of the Levi Water Supply
Corp. in the Lorena area, told the district’s board at its biweekly meeting last
week that limiting well owners’ water usage to historic levels could leave them
unable to meet water demands if any new development occurs.

“We have people that were planning on developing some land in our
area. But I’m concerned that if all we get is [based upon] our historic use,
then we won’t be able to issue any more meters,” Medlin said.
James
Smith of the Texas Rural Water Association attended the meeting with
Medlin.

Smith monitors the rules mandated by different
groundwater-conservation districts across the state and said Medlin’s concerns
are shared by numerous other small water suppliers.

“If there’s new development, there will be an increased need for
water. But if the suppliers can’t exceed their historic use, what we’re
looking at is how restrictive that may be in providing water to consumers,”
Smith said. “I think it’s something that the districts will have to consider
as this progresses.”
Possible solution

Al Blair, an
Austin-based civil engineer who has served as a consultant for the district on
its groundwater-management plan, said one solution is to have water suppliers
apply for additional, nonhistoric use production permits. That would guarantee
them more water for their customer base.

However, those permits will be
awarded only after the historic-use permits have been issued.

“I think it’s too early in the process to make that claim, that
there won’t be enough water,” Blair said. “What our goal is right now is we
want to protect the water being used now.

“We want to protect it and
make sure you maintain that water and that it is not diminished. Then I
believe we may have some room after that to guarantee water providers
additional water for their future use.”
Blair said the Texas Water
Development Board also is likely to review those water allowances in the next
five years. The board potentially could increase the amount of water allotted to
each region and grant more water to well owners.

The water district will
have a meeting at 6 p.m. March 18 at the Hewitt Community Center, 208 Chama
Drive, to answer well owners’ questions about the permit application.

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February 5, 2010

Pennsylvania
State Capital Mulls Bankruptcy as a Budget Option
By Dunstan McNichol,
Bloomberg
February 4, 2010

Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania,
will consider Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection along with tax increases
and asset sales as options to address $68 million in debt service payments due
this year, the chairwoman of a City Council committee said last
night.

Every option, including tax and fee increases, bankruptcy
and a state takeover through Pennsylvania’s Act 47 municipal oversight program
will be considered, said Susan Brown-Wilson, chairwoman of the Budget
and Finance Committee, which began a week of hearings last night to consider a
2010 spending plan.

The $68 million in debt service payments that
Harrisburg faces in connection with the construction of a waste incinerator this
year is four times what the city of 47,000 expects to raise through property
taxes, and $4 million more than the city’s entire proposed operating budget.

“We need to see, what does Act 47 do for us; what does bankruptcy
do,” Wilson said in an interview during a break in the opening budget hearing
at Harrisburg City Hall. “You have to have all of them on the table.”

Harrisburg skipped more than $3.5 million in debt-service and swap
payments last year, prompting draws on reserves and back-up payments by Dauphin
County, where Harrisburg is located. The county has sued the city to recover its
payments.

Wilson was among five Council members who voted last year to
reject a 2010 budget proposal by former mayor Stephen Reed, who left office last
month after 18 years. The proposal would have attempted to cover the
debt service costs by selling assets such as an historic downtown market, an
island in the Susquehanna River that includes the city’s minor-league baseball
stadium, and the city’s parking, sewer and water
systems.

Selling
Assets

The plan to raise $69 million by selling downtown
features was reinstated last month by Linda Thompson, the newly elected
mayor, in a substitute budget. The seven-member council has until Feb. 15 to
approve a final 2010 budget.

Brown-Wilson said she would support
leasing only city assets that don’t generate revenue, as the parking and water systems do.

Carol Cocheres,
bond counsel for the incinerator’s operator, the Harrisburg Authority, told the
city council at a Dec. 14 hearing that the city is already in danger of legal
action for payments that were missed last year on $288 million in debt it has
guaranteed with its full faith and credit.

“There’s never been a default like this in Pennsylvania
municipal history,” she said. “This is all new territory.”

Risking Suit

Cocheres told council members
that by skipping payments that are made on behalf of the authority, the city
risks being sued and ordered to raise taxes or fees by Assured Guaranty
Municipal Corp., formerly FSA Insurance, which has insured the bonds, or by the
deal’s trustee, TD Bank.

City Controller Dan Miller, who was vice
president of the council until January, has
advocated bankruptcy as an alternative to selling
assets.

Harrisburg’s credit rating was lowered two levels
below investment grade to Ba2 by Moody’s Investors Service in October. The city
faces a $164 million deficit over the next five years, mostly because of debt
created by the incinerator, according to Management Partners Inc. of Cincinnati,
a consulting firm hired to study the city’s finances as part of a state review.

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January 16, 2010

EPA's Plan to
Set Water-Quality Standards in Florida, a National First
The Miami
Herald
January 16, 2010

In a move cheered by environmental groups, the
federal government on Friday proposed stringent limits on "nutrient'' pollution
allowed to foul Florida's waterways.

The ruling -- which will
cost industries and governments more than a billion dollars to comply -- marks
the first time the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has intervened to set a
state's water-quality standards.

"I'm thrilled,'' said Linda Young, director of the Clean Water
Network, an advocacy group. "It is something that will ultimately start
restoring Florida's waters.''
The agency issued the
proposed regulations after reaching a settlement in August with five
environmental groups that sued the federal government in 2008 for not enforcing
the Clean Water Act in Florida.

The caps on phosphorus and
nitrogen levels in Florida's lakes, rivers, streams, springs and canals would
replace the state's vague "narrative'' approach to monitoring the effects of
waste and fertilizer runoff, which the EPA deemed insufficient. The proposed
rule includes provisions giving the EPA oversight authority to enforce the
standards.

In Florida, 16 percent of rivers, 36 percent of lakes and 25
percent of estuaries are considered impaired, according to a 2008 report.
Nutrient pollution is the most prevalent water-pollution problem in the state,
contributing to algae blooms that kill fish and cause respiratory problems and
infections among boaters and beachgoers. It also causes economic damage to
property values, tourism and commercial fishing.

"New water-quality standards will help protect and restore inland
waters that are a critical part of Florida's history, culture and economic
prosperity,'' said Peter S. Silva, assistant administrator in the EPA's Office
of Water, in a statement.
More than 10 years ago, the EPA told
states to set limits on nutrient pollution.

The Florida
Department of Environmental Protection spent eight years collecting data and
planned to present a draft proposal to a group of scientists and industry
representatives last August. But the department
abandoned the effort when the federal government
interceded.

The EPA proposed standards based on geography
and the type of water body using the state's data but its own methodology, which
was reviewed by an independent authority, according to the 197-page
report.

The agency's numbers don't deviate too greatly from what state
regulators intended, though the federal standards are tougher when it comes to
pollution in rivers and streams.

Take, for example, the Suwannee River
basin: the state wanted to allow 1.730 parts per million of total nitrogen but
the EPA set the number lower at 1.479 parts per million.

The EPA
also went further than state regulators by proposing water-quality standards for
South Florida canals and creating more rigid standards on upstream nutrient
levels to protect downstream lakes and estuaries.

In other
areas, the rules would give Florida flexibility by establishing a procedure for
gradual compliance and allowing the state to set limits in certain
areas.

Federal analysts estimated it would cost polluters $1.1 billion to
$1.5 billion to comply -- but emphasized the state's draft proposal would have
cost nearly the same amount. The cost estimates don't include the price tag for
upgrading municipal stormwater systems.

A spokesman for Florida
Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Sole said the
department was still reviewing the report late Friday and didn't have a
response.

'WATER TAX'

But a
coalition of agriculture and industry groups -- which formed two months ago to
oppose the EPA rules -- responded quickly by calling the proposed limits a
"water tax.''

"This terrible regulation is not needed because Florida
nutrient standards are perfectly adequate,'' said Jim Alves, a
lobbyist who represents power companies and wastewater utilities. "The
science isn't there to do this regulation.''
Barney Bishop, the president of Associated Industries of
Florida, said the cost -- which his group estimates at more than $50 billion --
would hurt business recruitment and job creation.

"It's onerous, stupid, ridiculous and idiotic,'' he said.

Ever since the lawsuit settlement, political officials and special
interests have waded into the debate. Gov. Charlie Crist, Attorney General Bill
McCollum and Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Bronson previously voiced strong
objections and suggested the state might sue the EPA.

The issue is
expected to generate intense political debate ahead of three public hearings
throughout the state in February. The final rule takes effect in October.

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November 10, 2009

City's
Water Problems Test Great Lakes Agreement
By Joe Barrett, The Wall
Street Journal
November 9, 2009

WAUKESHA, Wis. - After studying its
water woes for years, this former spa city of 68,000 has decided its best bet is
to tap into Lake Michigan, 20 miles away.

But to get there, the city must pass through eight state capitals and get
directions from two Canadian provinces, then it must route the treated water
back. Waukesha must also win over skeptics in nearby Milwaukee, where it wants
to buy the water.

"Everybody knows better than us how to solve our water problems,"
says Dan Duchniak, general manager of Waukesha's water utility, which plans to
apply for the water through a new compact designed to protect the Great Lakes
for generations to come.
As water becomes a bigger issue around the
globe, Great Lakes states have moved aggressively to protect their most precious
natural resource. A little over a year ago, President George W. Bush signed the
Great Lakes Compact, which forbids any diversion of water outside the Great
Lakes basin, the area where surface water flows into one of the lakes.

Places like Waukesha, which sits just outside the basin but within a county
that straddles its edge, can apply for the water, but any of the Great Lakes
states can veto the application. Ontario and Quebec also can weigh in. The
compact is designed to assure that the door isn't wide open for thirsty cities
outside the basin to drain the lakes.

If this first application isn't handled properly -- or ends up in a lengthy
legal dispute -- the compact itself could come under fresh scrutiny.

"It's about the precedent," says Rich Bowman, director of
government relations in Michigan for the Nature Conservancy. "Does Waukesha
set a precedent that then allows Phoenix to say, 'You did it for Waukesha, you
ought to do it for us?' That's what everyone is ultimately concerned
about."
Waukesha, once called the Saratoga of the West for its
spring waters and resort hotels, is today a mix of old and new neighborhoods
surrounding a historic downtown.

The city's water troubles started in the 1980s, when the Environmental
Protection Agency tightened its standards for radium, a naturally occurring
radioactive element. After battling unsuccessfully against the regulation,
Waukesha agreed to come into full compliance by 2018, under a deal with state
officials.

When Mr. Duchniak was hired in Waukesha in 2003, his task was to study
long-term options while tackling some near-term challenges.
The city gets most of its
water from a 2,200-foot-deep aquifer that runs beside Lake Michigan from
southern Wisconsin to northern Illinois. Overpumping has lowered the aquifer's
level near Waukesha as much as 600 feet. As the water level in the aquifer fell,
radium and sodium levels rose.

Mr. Duchniak responded by gutting an old pumping house in a historic
neighborhood and converting it into a radium-treatment facility. The utility
also drilled shallower wells to tap into ground water, diluting the radium from
the deeper wells.

He pushed for a new water-rate structure, restrictive sprinkler laws, and
rebate programs for residents to update their fixtures -- among the best
conservation programs in the state, said Melissa Malott of Clean Wisconsin, an
environmental group.

Mr. Duchniak considered several options to meet the city's water needs and
allow for modest growth. The city looked at recycling its waste water, damming
the Fox River and turning to the springs that once made Waukesha famous. But
besides tapping into the lake, Mr. Duchniak said the only viable option is to
buy up land and water rights to the city's west.

With a plentiful water supply in Lake Michigan and the ability to recycle the
water back into the lake, "Why go develop some other area?" he asks.

So the city is forging ahead with its application to secure its water from
the lake, preferably through Milwaukee's water system, which has excess
capacity. The $78 million project would involve about 30 miles of pipes -- one
bringing in lake water via a Milwaukee treatment plant and a second delivering
treated waste water to a stream that leads back to Lake Michigan.

Ms. Malott of Clean Wisconsin praised the city's "thoughtful process" under
the compact rules but said the application would be scrutinized heavily.

Milwaukee officials also are uneasy about using the city's water system to
help another community grow.

"There will be pushback," says Milwaukee Alderman Robert Bauman.

He wants to be sure any deal rewards his city financially and
fosters cooperation on issues like transportation.

Mr. Duchniak says Waukesha is preparing studies on the environmental impact
of the project. He also says the city expects to pay Milwaukee about $2 million
in annual water fees.

Waukesha expects to have its application before governors of the Great Lakes
states by early summer. While he is optimistic about the city's chances, Mr.
Duchniak says Waukesha is prepared to go to court if the application is turned
down "for the wrong reasons."

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October 13, 2009

Water Wars: Mr. Universe Poses as a Populist
By Cassandra
Anderson, Infowars
October 13, 2009

On Thursday, October 8, 2009,
Arnold Schwarzenegger strong armed the California State Legislators to agree to
a package to ‘fix’ the state’s aging water system, by threatening to veto over
700 bills on his desk. He has since backed down and called a Special Legislative
Session.

Arnold pledged he would not take in special interest money, but
he has accepted over $129 million dollars to date.

The parties who will
determine the water package are the “Big 5″, which includes Arnold, Karen Bass
(D), Derrell Steinberg (D), Sam Blakeslee (R),and Dennis Hollingsworth (R). At
this time negotiations are secret and it is unclear whether the Peripheral Canal
(with an estimated cost of $8 to $ 14 billion dollars) will be
included.

Could this be Agenda 21 Sustainable Development on steroids,
regarding the potential financial fiasco and new regulatory committees that will
cause California to go on dialysis?

Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is
happening in your community, too. Ask any builder whether it is more difficult
now to get permits than it was prior to 1992. Ask any local realtor about zoning
and land use changes in rural areas. Find out if your major water sources are
privatized or owned by the federal government.

No one is demanding
accountablility for the federal government’s ‘ownership’ of 48% of California’s
usable water; instead, the focus is on collecting more water as opposed to
efficiently using what is available.

The Peripheral Canal would siphon
water from the Sacramento River and would circumvent the Delta. It appears that
the biggest complaint in the Delta is pollution, however, it seems that urban
pesticide runoff,agricultural pesticide and artificial fertilizer runoff and up
to one billion gallons of partially treated sewage is not being
addressed.

Arnold is pushing to have the agreement hammered out within
one week. If the Legislators can come to an agreement, the proposed package will
then hearings in both state houses, committees and a final vote that will
require a 2/3 majority vote.

The voters of California will then be
presented with a choice on funding the bonds for the new facilities and/or
improvements.

Is Arnold a Populist, dedicated to the citizens’ interests,
or is he a collectivist, committed to special interests? To answer that
question, you may recall this photo of Arnold with banker Jacob de Rothschild
and Warren Buffet:
http://www.911omissionreport.com/people_in_charge.html

You
may recall Arnold entered into a Public Private Partnership (PPP), with funding
from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, co-funders of the Peripheral
Canal report. This PPP is ostensibly to ‘protect’ crucial water supplies. (http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/10760/).

You may recall
Arnold pledging that he would not take in special interest money, but he has
accepted over $ 129 million dollars to date.

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October 7, 2009

Water
Wars: Corruption! Collusion! Scandal!
Cassandra Anderson,
Infowars
October 7, 2009

The world is immersed in a dark bureaucratic nightmare, while
lulled by the dream of a green sustainable future. This can be best illustrated
by the Hegelian Dialectic, when simplified, is described as Problem >
Reaction > Solution, wherein a Problem is created with an ulterior motive, a
Reaction is provoked as a result of the Problem, and a predetermined Solution is
then implemented. In the case of the California drought, the federal government
created the Problem by cutting off water to farmlands, which has led to water
shortages, dying farms and rampant unemployment. Now that a crisis has been
established, people are beginning the Reaction phase, and looking for the
Solution.

The predetermined Solution appears to be building the Peripheral
Canal, which would collect water from the Sacramento River, instead of the Bay
Delta, home of the ‘threatened’ smelt and salmon, thus bypassing the Delta. As
the Reaction blooms, attention will be focused on the exterior drama instead of
the convoluted hidden liaisons of the power elite, and the ultimate goal of
control over water and food resources.

The plot line of the big picture is to implement Agenda 21
Sustainable Development, and it’s not just happening in California; you can see
it in your own community!

The California man made drought,which affects the American food
supply, was caused by the federal government enforcing the Endangered Species
Act, which has a rich history of robbing landowners of their rights. A closer
look is warranted at the parties involved.

The lead Plaintiff in the water cut off is the Natural Resources
Defense Council (NRDC), a false environmental agency, with an $ 87 million
dollar budget, funded by the Ford Foundation, which is infamous for their
affiliation with eugenics during WWII. The NRDC is operating against freedom and
toward control of the masses as evidenced by their website; the legislative
bills that visitors are encouraged to support include the Clean Water
Restoration Act, which could federalize all water and the Law of Sea Treaty
which would hand over unprecedented power to the United Nations on American
marine waterways. Further, the NRDC works with the UN World Bank, which is
notorious for water privatization (1). The NRDC is a proud member of the
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

The IUCN was created by the UN (Sir Julian Huxley of UNESCO, the
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to provide a more
scientific base), advises the UN and develops treaties. The IUCN is active in
identifying endangered species and one of their members include the US Fish and
Wildlife Service, which is the agency that has the power to list endangered
species. The IUCN frequently collaborates with the UN World Bank.

Laurance Rockefeller is named on the Board of Trustees of the
NRDC. His family and the tax exempt Rockefeller Foundation have created and
financed countless UN agencies and programs. The Rockefeller Foundation has
gifted grants to the UN Population Council, which has its roots in eugenics, the
CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and the UN World Bank. Read the transcript
from Senator Norm Dodds’ interview with G. Edward Griffin for more information
on the traitorous Rockefeller and Ford Foundations (http://www.realityzone.com/hiddenagenda2.html).

The Robert Redford Building houses the NRDC office in Los Angeles,
and he is on the NRDC Board of Trustees. Robert Redford incessantly promotes man
made global warming (which is based on corrupt science from the UN’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control), as well as Sustainable Development
which, through the UN Global Biodiversity Assessment report, advocates erasing
humans from 50% of the landscape and massive depopulation. Further, he is on the
Global Council on Awakening Arts and Entertainment, which is closely related to
the Club of Budapest, a branch of the Club of Rome, an organization famous for
writing that they would use pollution, the threat of global warming, water
shortages and famine to unite them, and then named humanity as the enemy
(2).

The Solution supported for this manufactured crisis is the
Peripheral Canal. The ’scientific’ report for the Peripheral Canal was funded by
Sephen Bechtel and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (3)

The Bechtel Corporation is well known for privatizing a major
water source in poverty stricken Bolivia after it had defaulted on a World Bank
loan, and then they reportedly raised the water utility rates by over 50%. You
can read a long history of their crimes and shoddy workmanship here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel).
Interestingly, Stephen Bechtel served on the Board of Trustees for the Ford
Foundation from 1961- 1970!

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the other sponsor of the
Peripheral Canal Report, has ties with the Rockefeller Foundation’s eugenics
movement and funded their Population Council, as did the Ford Foundation
(4).

Arnold Schwrzenegger enthusiastically endorses the Peripheral
Canal Solution; it is interesting to note that he has received $ 190,000 dollars
in campaign contributions from Bechtel and $ 346,000 dollars from Hewlett
Packard. Astonishingly, he has accepted over $ 129 million dollars in
‘donations’, with almost $ 5 million dollars from agriculture and farming and
over $ 20 million from real estate, development and construction. He has been
quoted as saying, "Any of those kinds of real, big, powerful special interests,
if you take any money from them, you will owe them something" (5).

Arnold also entered into a Public Private Partnership (PPP) deal
with the Northern Sierra Partnership to ‘preserve’ over 25 million acres of land
that provides 60% of California’s water. The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
gifted $ 10 million dollars toward this project. PPP’s are a tool of Agenda 21
Sustainable Development to control land use and water rights (6). Read this
excellent article by Tom DeWeese for more details (http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=234).

Arnold does have the power, as Governor, with the State
Legislators, to assert the 10th Amendment to eradicate federal intervention (as
there is no provision in the Constitution for federal oversight of wildlife), to
declare sovereignty and State ownership of the land and water, to reassess water
usage allotment (48% is taken by the federal government for the environment), to
keep the pumps running and to repair the entire water infrastructure of the
State! Will he and the State Legislators do the right thing…..Or will he let the
federal government control the water, food and people? Will he build the
Peripheral Canal (at an estimated cost of $10 – $ 50 billion dollars) and allow
it to be privatized by Bechtel? Or the Wold Bank? Or will he allow the federal
government to finance it, from fiat money, and then take total control over it
like they did with the CE Jones water pump?

The other zealous supporter of the Peripheral Canal is Senator
Dianne Feinstein, who is in favor of allowing the Department of Interior to lead
the State on the drought issue, which is ironic as the Department of Interior
caused the drought, and it is a conflict of interest because they are being sued
for the biological opinions that they provided. Watch this video and see her
admit to not understanding what is going on
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaghV-OuU5k).

Feinstein is currently involved in turning more state land and
resources over to the federal government by declaring a lake area in the Mojave
desert into a National Monument from which no resources (like water) shall be
extracted. The Wildlands Conservancy bought the acreage for $ 40 million dollars
(6).

Interdependency of nations is on a fast track with our food and
water supply. How long will we ignore Agenda 21 Sustainable Development and
contribute to our own demise?

Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is a complicated, bureaucratic
program by design! With a clearer understanding of what it looks like, it is
easy to spot all around you. Watch this video with Michael Shaw to learn how to
get rid of it in your State: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5cgOkwW23Y .

(1) http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/209/43398.html

(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_of_Rome

(3) http://www.calsport.org/7-19-08.html

(4) http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5268&category=79

(5) http://www.arnoldwatch.org/special_interests/index.html

(6) http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2009/2009-09-18-091.asp

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