Archive for September, 2011
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Democracy Costs. Republican form of government free. More woes for Quartzsite.
Not only do you have to pay big bucks to city governments, you gotta pay big bucks to be in city government. If you are unpopular, anyway. Apparently, DEMOCRACY in Arizona means the one with the biggest bucks, not the will of the people. At least in a Republican form of government, when you get elected, you get to take office. The Republican form of government is the one guaranteed by Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the way.
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This morning, something happened in the La Paz County Superior Court that few expected. Mayor Elect
Jose’ Lizarraga was determined to be “unqualified” if he failed to obtain and file a bond prior to taking office, as required by Quartzsite Town Code.This was only one of several allegations made against him by third place mayoral candidate Jennifer Jones, who contested Lizarraga’s eligibility for office.
Lizarraga had not filed the required response to the contest of the August 30th mayoral election, and did not show up to court today. Contestant Jones motioned for a default judgment, but Judge Michael Burke stated the law allowed for the hearing to proceed “ex parte”.
The DESERT FREEDOM PRESS
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Constitution Day Fireworks!
Constitution Day is September 17th–a day to celebrate the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America. Including the Bill of Rights which were ratified some months later. There were no fireworks, of course, over Washington and the United Nations building where the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are viewed with disdain.
There were fireworks on September 17th over the City of Williams in Arizona. In July, the fireworks are usually cancelled on Independence Day because of the dryness of the season and illegal dictates of the unconstitutional “National Forest Service.” It was good to see a thirty-minute display on the day that we celebrate the ratification of the “Law of the Land.”
On this occasion, we note that it is the law of the land and any laws that conflict with it are called “Unconstitutional” and do not have to be obeyed. After all, in Massachusetts, Federalist letters signed by Cassius (attributed to James Sullivan) expressed the opinion that:
You certainly cannot harbour an idea so derogatory to reason and the nature of things, as that men, who, for eight years, have fought and struggled, to obtain and secure to you freedom and independence, should now be engaged in a design to subvert your liberties and reduce you to a state of servitude. Reason revolts at the thought, … and none but the infamous incendiary, or the unprincipled monster, would insinuate a thing so vile.
Continue reading “Constitution Day in Williams” »
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Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Michael Hart (left) and Gregory Newby of Project Gutenberg at HOPE Conference, 2006 (Wikipedia)
We sadly note that the founder of
Project Gutenberg, Michael Hart, was found dead Sept. 6 at his home in Urbana, Ill. He had a heart attack, said his brother, Bennett Hart.
Mr. Hart is known as the father of the e-book credited with its invention in 1971. He conceived of Project Gutenberg nearly forty years ago from an incident on Independence Day.
“I stopped at the grocery store to pick up a snack to take to the computer room, and they’d stuffed a copy of the Declaration of Independence on fake parchment in my bag,” he told USA Today in 1999. “I was pawing around to look for something, found it and decided, ‘If I put this up online, it will last a long time.’ ”
The goal of Project Gutenberg was to post a million free books online and make them accessible to everyone. Thousands have donated books whose copyright has expired in the United States and are now in the public domain. The service has extended to making Kindle, Android and other versions of books available.
Mr. Hart’s obituary has joined the growing number of books available through the service.
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Friday, September 9th, 2011
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In a news release last week, the Environmental Protection Agency labeled hay a pollutant, according to the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA). A non-profit organization representing thousands of U.S. cattle producers, R-CALF USA says the EPA’s outlandish affidavit could potentially require farmers and ranchers to store hay in pollution containment zones.
The issue culminated from an EPA compliance order charging Callicrate Feeding Company with a list of environmental violations. The EPA’s Region 7 office detailed the violations in a news release:
An inspection in February 2011 identified significant NPDES permit violations, including failure to maintain adequate wastewater storage capacity, failure to meet Nutrient Management Plan requirements, failure to conduct operations within areas that are controlled in a manner capable of preventing pollution, and failure to maintain adequate records. The order requires the operation to comply with all terms of the Clean Water Act and its NPDES permit, and to coordinate with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment on its compliance. The order requires the operation to comply with the terms of its Nutrient Management Plan, including sampling and recordkeeping requirements. The feedlot has a permitted capacity of 12,000 cattle and was confining approximately 3,219 cattle at the time of the inspection.
During the 12th Annual R-CALF USA Convention held in late August, Kansas cattle feeder Mike Callicrate was asked, “Has the Environmental Protection Agency declared hay a pollutant?” Callicrate responded affirmatively, while he described the EPA’s enforcement action against his Kansas feedlot for failing to store hay in a pollution containment zone. “Now that EPA has declared hay a pollutant, every farmer and rancher that stores hay, or that leaves a broken hay bale in the field is potentially violating EPA rules and subject to an EPA enforcement action,” he charged. “How far are we going to let this agency go before we stand up and do something about it?”
Read more at The New American
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
“Everybody here has a vote, If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to America where we belong.”
Hoffa’s Labor day celebratory statement is causing consternation of the press without revealing the stupidity of his statement.
We could first point out that Labor Day is a holiday formed to celebrate communism installed by Woodrow Wilson. You know, “Worker’s of the world, Unite!”
Secondly, the statement that he made refers to the very object of the original concept of the TEA Party. The TEA party is NOT an extension of the Republican party which is no more Republican than the Democrats. The TEA party is a grassroots group of people who are fighting to restore the Constitution of the United States of America; NOT the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
“I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers,” he is quoted as saying in the Death+Taxes web site. How are you fighting for the American worker? The tactic of destroying companies and sending jobs to foreign countries because you’re too lazy to get a real job doesn’t seem to be working.
“My comments on Labor Day in Detroit echo the anger and frustration of American workers who are under attack by corporate-funded politicians who want to destroy the middle class.” I didn’t see any corporate-funded politicians beating up protestors against unconstitutional Obamacare. Union members were. Corporate-funded politicians were voting it into law.
Our forefathers fought a war to ensure our protections against those tyrannic principles listed in the Declaration of Independence. The Federalists wrote volumes of letters to assure us that our freedoms and rights would be secure with the ratification of the Constitution. The TEA Party simply supports the Federalist Union.
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Thar’s Gold in them thar banks!
by: Ellen Brown, YES! Magazine | News Analysis
Bank of North Dakota
In an article in The New York Times on August 19th titled “The North Dakota Miracle,” Catherine Rampell writes:
Forget the Texas Miracle. Let’s instead take a look at North Dakota, which has the lowest unemployment rate and the fastest job growth rate in the country.
According to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, North Dakota had an unemployment rate of just 3.3 percent in July—that’s just over a third of the national rate (9.1 percent), and about a quarter of the rate of the state with the highest joblessness (Nevada, at 12.9 percent).
North Dakota has had the lowest unemployment in the country (or was tied for the lowest unemployment rate in the country) every single month since July 2008.
Its healthy job market is also reflected in its payroll growth numbers. . . . [Y]ear over year, its payrolls grew by 5.2 percent. Texas came in second, with an increase of 2.6 percent.
Why is North Dakota doing so well? For one of the same reasons that Texas has been doing well: oil.
Oil is certainly a factor, but it is not what has put North Dakota over the top. Alaska has roughly the same population as North Dakota and produces nearly twice as much oil, yet unemployment in Alaska is running at 7.7 percent. Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming have all benefited from a boom in energy prices, with Montana and Wyoming extracting much more gas than North Dakota has. The Bakken oil field stretches across Montana as well as North Dakota, with the greatest Bakken oil production coming from Elm Coulee Oil Field in Montana. Yet Montana’s unemployment rate, like Alaska’s, is 7.7 percent.
A number of other mineral-rich states were initially not affected by the economic downturn, but they lost revenues with the later decline in oil prices. North Dakota is the only state to be in continuous budget surplus since the banking crisis of 2008. Its balance sheet is so strong that it recently reduced individual income taxes and property taxes by a combined $400 million, and is debating further cuts. It also has the lowest foreclosure rate and lowest credit card default rate in the country, and it has had NO bank failures in at least the last decade.
If its secret isn’t oil, what is so unique about the state?
Read more at Truthout.
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Manassas, VA --(Ammoland.com)- On August 24, 2011, federal agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service raided offices and production facilities of the Gibson Guitar company.
They sent workers home and confiscated several pallets of wood along with computer files and numerous guitars (amounting to about $2 million in lost production and property).
This was the second raid on Gibson in as many years over questions about some of the wood the legendary guitar makers use in their products. The timing of the latest raid is convenient for the government as they are currently trying to convince a federal judge to indefinitely delay a lawsuit from Gibson demanding the return of some half-million dollars worth of ebony wood seized by federal agents back in 2009. No charges have ever been filed against the company regarding that raid, but the government has continued to refuse to return the seized wood which they suspected might have been illegally harvested in Madagascar.
The object of the August 24 raid appears to have been wood imported from India. Gibson says that they have been extra careful to document all of the wood they import since the 2009 federal assault and that the particular wood in question was acquired from a supplier certified by the Forrest Stewardship Council, an environmental organization set up to protect endangered trees by identifying legally harvested wood and closing markets to illegally cut products. The particular wood in question was purchased and imported from India with an extensive paper-trail from the Indian government and the US Customs Service. According to Gibson, the Fish and Wildlife Service is claiming that the wood violates an Indian requirement that wood exported from the country must be processed to a certain degree by Indian craftsmen prior to export. Gibson says this requirement was either met or waived by the Indian government as demonstrated by India’s export authorizations. The Indian government did not sanction or participate in the August raid.
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Friday, September 2nd, 2011
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Alex Jones of Infowars.com talks with Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, about the Fast and Furious scandal, the resignation of ATF boss B. Todd Jones, and an increasing number of guns provided by the U.S. government showing up at Mexican crime scenes. In addition to founding Gun Owners of America, Pratt has founded a variety of other organizations, including English First, U.S. Border Control, and Committee to Protect the Family.
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Friday, September 2nd, 2011
EL PASO, Texas — Border Patrol officials are investigating an incursion by Mexican federal police into the United State on Thursday morning.
U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said armed officers with Mexico’s Secretaria de Seguridad Publica federal police were in the incursion, which took place in El Paso, near the Border Patrol’s Ysleta station.
The Mexican government, Border Patrol and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are investigating the incident. U.S. authorities responded to the incident.
An ABC-7 viewer contacted the station early Thursday, saying her son, husband and friends were hunting on the Rio Grande levy on the U.S. side when men on the Mexico side fired shots, narrowly missing them. She said more men on the Mexico side drove up with automatic weapons and into to U.S. side. She said the armed men fired weapons and stole hunters’ chairs and drove back into Mexico.
Read more and see video at ABC7/KVIA
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
By George Bennett
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.”
In a Category 4 torrent of official communications during the approach and aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has repeatedly used the phrase “federal family” when describing the Obama administration’s response to the storm.
The Obama administration didn’t invent the phrase but has taken it to new heights.
“Under the direction of President Obama and Secretary Janet Napolitano, the entire federal family is leaning forward to support our state, tribal and territorial partners along the East Coast,” a FEMA news release declared Friday as Irene churned toward landfall.
The G-word — “government” — has been nearly banished, with FEMA instead referring to federal, state and local “partners” as well as “offices” and “personnel.”
“’Government’ is such a dirty word right now,” says Florida State University communication professor Davis Houck. “Part of what the federal government does and any elected official does is change the terms of the language game into terms that are favorable to them.”
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Cynicism rises to surface in director’s ‘The Ides of March’
VENICE, Italy — Idealism loses out to cynicism in George Clooney’s political drama “The Ides of March,” which opened the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday.
Mr. Clooney directed, wrote and acted in the political drama that features Ryan Gosling as a gung-ho press secretary swept into a sex scandal in the final days of a Democratic presidential primary in Ohio. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti are rival campaign managers who use loyalty as a weapon in their epic battle for victory.
Marisa Tomei plays a New York Times reporter angling for scoops on the campaign trail. And Evan Rachel Wood, a pretty campaign volunteer eager to play in the big leagues, is yet another figure giving female political interns a bad rap.
Mr. Clooney’s idealistic presidential candidate, Pennsylvania Gov. Mike Morris, has a straightforward platform: He’s nonreligious but defends the freedom of religion. He also opposes the death penalty and wants to phase out internal combustion engines to reduce American dependence on foreign oil.
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
The filming of government officials while on duty is protected by the First Amendment, said the Court
The First Circuit Court of Appeals reached a crucial decision last Friday allowing the public to videotape police officers while they’re on the clock.
The decision comes after a string of incidents where individuals have videotaped police officers and were arrested. Police officers across the United States believed citizens didn’t have the right to videotape them as they conducted official duties, but issues like police brutality put the issue up for debate.
One instance where a citizen was arrested for videotaping an officer was when Khaliah Fitchette, a law-abiding teenager from New Jersey, boarded a bus in Newark. Two police officers boarded the bus as well to remove a drunken man. Fitchette began taping the police officers because of how they were handling the man, and a police officer instructed her to stop recording them. When Fitchette refused, she was arrested and placed in the back of a cop car for two hours while the officers took her phone to delete the video. Fitchette was then released, but she and her mother then filed suit against the Newark Police Department with the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Another example involves Simon Glik, a passerby on the Boston Common. He used his cell phone to tape police officers when the Boston police were punching a man. Citizens surrounding the scene were saying, “You’re hurting him.” Glik never interfered with the police officers’ actions, but recorded the entire incident. The police officers ended up charging Glik with violating a wiretap statute that prohibits secret recording, even though the police officers admitted that they knew Glik was recording them. He was also charged with disturbing the peace and aiding the escape of a prisoner.
Read more at Daily Tech.
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