The Hidden Agenda in Oregon

The stand off in Burns, Oregon just ended. A couple of weeks ago, one of the protestors, rancher Lavoy Finicum, was shot nine times by federal agents as he attempted to travel to a public meeting to discuss their purpose. Two others, brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, were arrested and put in solitary confinement. The Main Stream Media has painted the occupiers as armed militia, even using terms like “unhinged.” These labels are untrue and unfair descriptions. The truth is this is a story with a long history of abuse by the federal government... Read more at American Policy Center Read More......

Telling On Themselves: Rural Cleansing in Idaho and Montana

PLEASE READ THIS! I just love it when someone slips up, and tells us country folk what’s really being planned for us. --Rural cleansing is the purposeful removal of rural citizens from the countryside and the relocation of rural populations into urban areas. Many public officials and media pundits scoff at the mere suggestion that rural cleansing is taking place, but the problem, you see, is that there are people who have inadvertently left tell-tale clues we can use to piece together things for ourselves. --One of the most startling clues I’ve run across lately comes from a July 1, 1998 newspaper article in The Montanian, which is published in Libby, a tiny rural town in Northwest Montana.

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Video: Australian Politician Exposes Agenda 21

In 2012, the Republican National Committee released the following resolution regarding Agenda 21:

RNC Resolution Exposing United Nations Agenda 21

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Oregon: How do you Commit Theft without Stealing?

I Spy Radio Guests: OSU Emeritus Professor of Forestry, Dr. Mike Newton & Senator Doug Whitsett
This week: How do you commit theft without stealing? You make it legal. But to do that, you need to pass a law or create administrative rules to give your agency legal "permission" to take what you want. And to create those laws or rules, you need to provide the justification for it -- hence, "best available science."

Last week we discussed how far-left environmental groups abuse laws like the Endangered Species Act to increase their bottom line. This week we discuss the abusive outcomes when they purposefully ignore good science for bad. First, with Dr. Mike Newton about his study that demonstrates a global, blanket policy currently in place to lower stream temperatures through shading may be harming fish production -- the opposite of their stated intention. But it does help prevent logging.

Then we talk with Sen. Doug Whitsett about what constitutes “best available science” from a legislator's viewpoint, which leads to governmental policies that take land from ranchers and give those lands to another group of people. And if ranchers don't take the deal the government tells them to take, they'll simply have their water shut off.

Call it environmental blackmail or legalized theft, it's the same effect. And all of this happens while a Governor -- who has the power to stop the administrators’ hands -- does nothing. And, in fact, advocates for it.

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For Earth. For Humanity. For Freedom.

For decades the Green Movement has claimed that Earth is threatened by the activity and even the existence of mankind. Green policies dictate that the noble response is relinquishing our liberties to "save" the planet from peril. Award-winning filmmaker JD King sets off on a cinematic journey to challenge these Green philosophies, and overturn the tables on issues like carbon emissions, climate change, over-population, natural resources, and unmasks the UN's Agenda 21 plan. BLUE casts a bold new vision: that through greater freedom we can realize a fuller potential for our fellow man and this beautiful blue planet we call home. BLUE BEATS GREEN.

Watch the official BLUE trailer at BlueBeatsGreen.com.

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Top public schools demand more than Common Core

By Joy Pullmann (Hat tip: Kristie Hernandez) - The best U.S. public schools — including those with high numbers of poor and minority kids — require more of students than state standards and Common Core, and school leaders attribute their success partly to these high expectations.

The Common Core lists what its creators think students should know in K-12 math and English. Forty-five states agreed to it under pressure from the Obama administration in 2010. The Core calls itself “rigorous” and “internationally benchmarked,” but investigation into actually rigorous and internationally competitive standards within the United States casts doubt on these claims. Read more at Watchdog.org... Read More......

How NOT to argue with parents about Common Core

By Michelle Malkin - As an outspoken critic of the federal academic standards scheme known as Common Core, I’d like to offer some friendly advice to opponents. Stop insulting. Stop digging. Stop projecting. Start listening. ✧ Central planners in Washington have been caught off-guard by the grassroots revolt against the national standards/testing/curriculum juggernaut. Real input from the hoi polloi was never a part of the grand implementation process. So when parents and educators in dozens of states started challenging the privacy intrusions posed by and the constitutionality, cost, quality and validity of Common Core, its architects went on the attack. ✧ And now, the education control freaks are freaking out. Read More at Michelle Malkin... Read More......

Human population a plague on the Earth?

Rob Sloan of The American Vision takes on 16th Century Giovanni Botero, 18th Century Dr. Robert Wallace, 19th Century Thomas Robert Malthus, and now Sir David Attenborough, Bill and Melinda Gates, and hoards of environmentalists and NGO utopians claiming that earth cannot support high populations or that people are the scourge of the earth and strict population control is a necessity. Sloan disputes the dire warnings that worldwide famine and poverty is a certainty if human population is not drastically reduced. He writes,

It is quite simply a fallacy to equate large populations with famine and poverty and an even bigger error to propose population control as the means of dealing with the situation. As the economist Murray Rothbard pointed out, “A rising population is generally a sign of, and goes along with, prosperity and economic development.

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The fact is, Sir David Attenborough, along with Bill & Melinda, have no more idea what the maximum population of the Earth is than I do or Malthus did 200 years ago. Only God knows that. Nor do they know how much more abundance the Earth can bring forth than it presently does. Again only God knows that. What we do know is that where the gospel has prospered and where people have by and large been allowed to innovate and produce, blessing has followed, populations have grown and the people have been fed. And where the state has attempted to fill the role of God, centrally planning, disincentivising work and innovation, poverty and famine inevitably follow.

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Indoctrination in Common Core ELA Texts

Please watch! See Flyer for AFP and Capitol Watch Rally on Capitol Steps in Salem, 11AM-1PM, September 18, 2013

(Hat tip: Democrats Against U.N. Agenda 21, "This is Common Core. Common Core is Agenda 21.")

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U.S. Carbon Emissions Down Due to Increased Use of Natural Gas

The most underreported recent environmental story has been the dramatic decline in energy-related carbon emissions — nearly back to mid-1990s levels, and falling. ✧ Maybe it’s because that story just doesn’t fit the left’s mantra that traditional energy sources are destroying the environment. Read more at Outside the Beltway... Read More......

GT: OWEB weighs local conservation grants

Bennett Hall of the Corvallis Gazette-Times reports that, "A state agency will take comments on two grant requests to help fund conservation projects in the Corvallis area at a pair of public hearings this week." [That would be tomorrow, Thursday, January 31st from 10am-Noon at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library]. The state agency is Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board.

• Benton County is asking for $41,300 for an easement to protect habitat for an endangered butterfly
• The Greenbelt Land Trust is asking for $940,000 to complete the purchase of Bald Hill Farm.

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Corvallis wins "Porker Award"

From Oregon Capitol Watchdog Foundation - On October 1, the second Oregon Capitol Watch Foundation "Porker Award" was bestowed upon the City of Corvallis for spending $500,000 on encouraging people to use compact flourescent bulbs and ride their bicycles.

Corvallis Gazette-Times, 10/5/2012: Foundation hands 'pork' award to city (plus comments) - Public Works Department Director Mary Steckel defends money spent and money yet to be spent. Read More......

George F. Will: The sky, apparently, continues to fall

 Sometimes the news is that something was not newsworthy. The United Nations’ Rio+20 conference — 50,000 participants from 188 nations — occurred in June, without consequences. A generation has passed since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, which begat other conferences and protocols (e.g., Kyoto). And, by now, apocalypse fatigue — boredom from being repeatedly told the end is nigh. Read more at the Columbus Dispatch...

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WSJ: UN Ends Arms Trade Treaty Talks Without Deal

[Excerpts]  Talks at the United Nations over a potential treaty limiting the illicit flow of weapons ended last week without a deal. [...] For the deal to be struck, all 193 U.N. nations had to agree on the text of the agreement. The New York Times reported that the U.S. faced internal pressure from gun-rights groups to walk away from the talks.  Read more at the Wall Street Journal Blog by Samuel Rubenfeld...

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July 27: Last Day for UN Gun-Banners to Hammer out Small Arms Treaty

A dangerous threat to our Second Amendment right to 'keep and bear arms.'

Pledge Your Opposition to Hillary's Global Agenda

Will Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorse the end product? Yes.
Will President Obama sign it? Yes.
Will the U.S. Senate ratify it? Uncertain, it may depend on you.
Call your senators today and encourage them to man up and vote against ratification. Our Democrat senators will be under extreme pressure to support ratification.
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Law of the Sea Treaty now dead, DeMint says

The United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty now has 34 senators opposed to it and thus lacks the Senate votes needed for U.S. ratification, a key opponent of the treaty announced Monday. ✧ But the treaty’s main Senate proponent denies the treaty is sunk, saying plenty of time still exists to win support before a planned late-year vote. Read more at Washington Times... Read More......

Congressmen urge the UN to trample the US Constitution

Chris Cox, Executive Director of NRA-ILA - Today [Monday, July 2] begins the most important 26-day period for our Second Amendment freedoms in recent history. ✧ That’s because today, representatives from many of the world’s socialist, tyrannical and dictatorial regimes will gather at United Nations headquarters in New York for a month-long meeting, in which they’ll put the finishing touches on an international Arms Trade Treaty that could seriously restrict your freedom to own, purchase and carry a firearm. Read more at DC Caller...

Also read:
NRA-ILA - International Firearm Abolitionists Prepare to Draft Arms Trade Treaty
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Millennial Generation not so 'green'

On March 15, the Corvallis Gazette-Times published Study: Young people not so 'green' after all based primarily on the research of Jean Twenge, who was "shocked" that the Millennial Generation trusted others less, showed less interest in government, social problems and concern over the environment than their preceding generations, baby boomers and Gen Xers. ✧ In the comments section of the Salt Lake Tribune (online) Liberated Jim responded to the study's findings:

This is actually good news. Those boomers who were out to change the world that didn't need changing, out to save a world that didn't need saving, and all the other CRAP that came from the 60's are now seeing their stupid ideas falling short. I love the line, "I was shocked!, We have the perception we are getting through to these people." I would say that they are getting through to these people and their message is being ignored as a stupid, over-bearing hand-wringing message of doom and gloom. Perhaps the new generations will find better, more positive and constructive methods of solving the problems their elders foisted upon them. [Emphasis added]

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Climate-change scepticism must be 'treated', says Oregon enviro-sociologist

Scepticism regarding the need for immediate and massive action against carbon emissions is a sickness of societies and individuals which needs to be "treated", according to an Oregon-based professor of "sociology and environmental studies". Professor Kari Norgaard compares the struggle against climate scepticism to that against racism and slavery in the US South. ✧ Prof Norgaard holds a B.S. in biology and a master's and PhD in sociology. Read more at The Register and the University of Oregon Statement...

 So then, in a Telegraph [UK] article, Global Weirding: the new Big Lie, James Delingpole has a word or two about  Professor Norgaard. Read More......

Road closure plan for Oregon's largest national forest targets a nearly 4,000-mile network

LA GRANDE (3/15/2012) -- Starting in June, passenger cars, ATVs, dirt bikes and four-wheel-drive rigs can no longer travel on almost 4,000 miles of roads in Oregon's largest national forest.  ✧ The final plan for Wallowa-Whitman National Forest -- to be entered today into the Federal Register -- is already drawing opposition. People have 45 days to appeal.  ✧ Earlier versions of the policy triggered one of the most vocal resistance efforts in the state, with more than 6,000 people signing petitions urging the U.S. Forest Service to leave all the forest's roads open. Read more: OregonLive.com Read More......