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Sustainable Development

Local Politicians vote “to Take” Use of Forested Parcels: No Compensation Expected

5/4/2007 – Most property owners affected by the Board of Supervisor’s future vote (May 22, 2007) to eliminate timbering on smaller (80 acre and less) forest lands have not been notified by Santa Cruz County of the plan to downzone their properties.This ordinance takes away current and future economic "use" of their properties, and also increases the risk of fire danger in the mountains.

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Climate Change

Government’s Push to Use Ethanol is Merely a Fascist Ruse

By R.P. Adamson, Jr., 5/2/2007 – The demand for ethanol didn’t arise legitimately on the open market. The demand for an oxygenated fuel originated in the halls of government where a mandate could be passed to ensure such a demand. Furthermore, the taxpayer or end consumer is not only coerced to pay for the scam through subsidies and tariff enforcement but is also forced to pay the longer-term cost of wasted resources and engineering inefficiencies.

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Private Property

New “Clean Water” Legislation Redefines The Term “Navigable”

By Jim Beers, 5/2/2007 – The Clean Water Authority Restoration Act (CWARA) moves the Clean Water Act (CWA) beyond protecting wetlands and waterways, and creates legislation that would regulate nearly every wet area in the nation. This could include ditches, farm ponds and possibly groundwater. "Navigable" is the one little word deleted from the Clean Water Act.

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Family Autonomy

U.S. Health Freedom on Verge of Collapse

By Byron J. Richards, 4/25/2007 – The World Health Organization and World Trade Organization (WHO/WTO) Codex Alimentarius, is attempting to put the vitamin and health supplement industry under the control of global pharmaceutical corporations. A Bill called the "Food and Drug Administration Revitalization Act" (S1082), sponsored by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), is on the Senate floor. This bill, S1082 allows the global pharmaceutical corporations to further their monopolistic agendas.

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Police State

Garbage Police: Red-Tagged Recyclables

By Wyatt Hull, 4/19/2007 – In America the garbage bins of domestic life are being inspected to assess what residents are throwing away and to fine those breaking recycling rules. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) monitoring and spy cameras are being installed at household rubbish dumps in Great Britain to monitor what residents are throwing away and to penalize those breaking the rules.

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Liberty - Legitimate Government

Happy Birthday, Thomas Jefferson

By Genevieve LaGreca, 4/13/2007 – Jefferson fought for a country in which the government had no power to encroach on the mind, the life, the liberty, or the property of the individual. He fought for a country in which the individual was unshackled for the first time in history and could live for the pursuit of his own happiness, instead of being a pawn in the hands of the state.

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Sustainable Development

Turn the Lights On Gore and Strong

By Judi McLeod, 3/23/2007 – The latest ambition of Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth) and Maurice Strong (Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference where Agenda 21 was unveiled) is to ban the incandescent light bulb worldwide. At the UN 1992 conference, Maurice Strong said, “….current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class, involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.”

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Climate Change

Global Warming Swindle

By Thomas Sowell, 3/16/2007 – While the public has been led to believe that "all" the leading scientists buy the global warming hysteria and the political agenda that goes with it, in fact the official reports from the United Nations or the National Academy of Sciences are written by bureaucrats — and then garnished with the names of leading scientists who were "consulted," but whose contrary conclusions have been ignored.

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