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Siskiyou County water users win against California Fish and Game

12/26/2012

Press Release from Siskiyou County Farm Bureau
Dec. 26, 2012
COURT RULING IN SISKIYOU COUNTY CASE BOLSTERS WATER RIGHTS
In an important decision that protects private water rights while maintaining environmental protections, a Siskiyou County Superior Court judge ruled that a state agency had overstepped its authority in trying to regulate farmers’ water use.
The ruling by Judge Karen L. Dixon determined that the California Department of Fish and Game had exceeded its authority by requiring farmers and ranchers to obtain a permit from DFG before they irrigate their crops. The Siskiyou County Farm Bureau filed suit against DFG last year, on behalf of members who farm along the Scott and Shasta rivers.
“This ruling establishes an important, statewide precedent,” Siskiyou County Farm Bureau President Jeff Fowle said. “There is no doubt that if DFG had been able to expand its authority here, it would have tried to regulate water rights elsewhere in the state. This decision reaffirms that water rights are administered by the courts and State Water Resources Control Board. Now, we can turn our attention to finding collaborative ways to improve conditions for fish while maintaining the sustainability of our farms and ranches.”
The case centered on Section 1602 of the Fish and Game Code, which requires individuals to notify DFG and potentially obtain a Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreement before conducting certain activities that alter a streambed. Permits have been required under the section for gravel mining, construction of push-up dams and other projects that physically alter streambeds—but DFG began notifying landowners along the Scott and Shasta that they would need to obtain permits simply to open an existing headgate or activate an existing pump in order to irrigate their crops.
In its lawsuit, the county Farm Bureau said the requirement would have been a “fundamental change” in the application of the code that would have jeopardized both water rights and property rights for farmers and ranchers.
“We understand that DFG wants to protect salmon in the rivers, but it has many other ways to do that already,” said Rex Houghton, the immediate past president of the county Farm Bureau. “Farmers will continue to work collaboratively with the agency to improve conditions for fish. The outcome does not change the notification requirement for activity that physically alters a streambed, but it is important to establish that DFG can’t require a permit for farmers simply to exercise their water rights.”
Because of the statewide implications of the case, the Siskiyou County Farm Bureau received support for the lawsuit from the California Farm Bureau Federation and county Farm Bureaus throughout the state. Attorney Darrin Mercier of Yreka argued the case on behalf of the county Farm Bureau.
The Siskiyou County Farm Bureau is a voluntary membership organization that works to protect and promote agricultural interests throughout Siskiyou County and to protect and improve the availability of food and fiber through responsible stewardship of natural resources.
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BABY, YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR...

12/26/2012

Here it comes. Besides the car that drives itself (see the Google vehicle in the photo) and hopefully takes you where you direct it, we've got a new surprise in store. From National Public Radio's Marketplace program December 21, 2012:

Here's the next big thing in car technology: biometric monitors. They could one day be used to track everything from a driver's stress level to blood-sugar levels. Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Lexus are among the carmakers that are busy doing research to take us down that road.

Ford technician Jeff Greenberg, who is leading the carmaker's research into the use of biometric monitors, says the car of the future could be equipped to keep track of you in much more intimate ways. Among the monitors that Ford has been researching, he says, are sensors embedded in the steering wheel that can measure galvanic skin response -- "basically how sweaty your palms are," he explains. Seat belt sensors can monitor breathing rates.

Based on what your car decides, Greenberg says, your cell phone might not ring through at just the moment you're likely experiencing sensory overload in heavy traffic. The trick to having your car second-guess your driving abilities is figuring out what's helpful, or could just be more distracting.

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THE WORLD HAPPINESS INDEX AND MASS MURDER

12/18/2012

This is a graphic expression of one of the many Happiness Indexes floating around on the web. Green is happy, red is miserable. Looks like the Central Americans, Ecuadorans, and Mexicans have the lock on happiness from this map... Have they had any school shootings? Or just wars and drug violence?

Everyone is asking 'Why are these kids going crazy and shooting up schools?'

Let's consider some potential reasons.

For the last 20 years, with increasing frequency and intensity, children have been taught that the planet is dying and that they are the cause.

They're also taught that they have the power to save the planet.

Considering the fact that children are the most powerless of all people, this is an irresponsible thing to teach a child. The pressure and responsibility of saving the planet is fierce.

Children are fearful, stressed, and learning non-violent communication at the same time that they are playing violent computer games. They are told that everyone is equal but that they are bad (unfair) if they have more than someone else. They're taught that bullying is bad and then they're uncertain about exactly what they can say and what they can't. Children are taught to trust community, and are also told that there are people who would steal them away--strangers who look just like everyone else.

Children are taught sustainable development principles from the time that they're in kindergarten. These principles are in every course and continue on until post-graduate school. I was sent a book that is used in third grade: Rethinking Mathematics. This book teaches students that every point of view is valid and should be considered, even when it is mathematically incorrect. Is two plus two equal to five? Let's give that some consideration because no one should be made to feel wrong. What this does is to destroy certainty. Mathematics is beautiful because no matter how many times you do a calculation, if it's done correctly you'll get the same answer every time. Certainty. The joy of certainty is destroyed for children, and rigidity is substituted in its place. Rigidity in thinking 'sustainably.'

Just like most people, children are on drugs. Mind altering, psychotropic drugs that many of them expect to be on for the rest of their lives. Many of these anxiety drugs have 'side-effects.' What is a side effect? The risk that psychological collateral damage may result from taking something to make you feel better---it's a mind-altering Russian roulette.

And sometimes the guns are real.

The world is a dangerous place. Artificial scarcity, panic over global warming, fear that farmland and water sources are disappearing--all of this is UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development. Fear is a vital element of this plan. Panic is necessary to block your ability to think clearly and to question. You must act. How can you be happy when you're taught that children are starving in Ethiopia and baby wolves are being killed and it's because you're using too much water when you're brushing your teeth? Children are being used as levers to change society and manipulate their parents.

UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the green mask--the vision of the glorious future. The joy of future sustainability--how beautiful it will be when we all ride bikes and take the train and live in apartments on the train line and work at non-profits that operate on the Triple Bottom Line: Planet, People, Profit. We will no longer think about gross national product; we will think about our Gross National Happiness. Oh, glorious day when we will beat our swords into plowshares and return to peasantry. Oh, the Neo-Feudal state we will enjoy when 'education' is openly and totally about behavioral modification and training.

We are there. This is the state of the 'educational system' now with Direct Instruction, Common Core, Mastery Learning, Outcome Based Education. Children are being manipulated. Their open and impressionable minds are being taught to think in consensus, to be manageable and measurable and predictable and to answer the question the right way and to value sustainability above all else or the planet will die. They must be HAPPY. It's the New Poverty! It's the Peace on Earth! You must analyze every feeling and then share it with everyone in your class, children, because how will we know that you're HAPPY?

Children are being driven insane in schools.

The following is from the Malaysian Happiness Index.

THERE IS NO SWITZERLAND IN THIS FIGHT

12/12/2012

Musing on the question posed by Ernest Hancock at Freedom's Phoenix: Should one stay and fight or flee? This is my article for his magazine:

As you can imagine I've thought about this a lot. It's a bit like asking whether you'd like to eat a nice meal or dig a ditch. Of course you'd rather eat, but there's that work that must be done.

In the case of fighting to expose and stop UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development in your city and nation, the truth is that there is nowhere to go that isn't implementing it, now. UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan implemented worldwide to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world. INVENTORY AND CONTROL. You won't see it called Agenda 21--it is a stealth plan in plain sight; a global plan that is implemented locally. When you're looking for it remember: Inventory and control.

We're not quite at square one anymore and people all over the world are speaking out and identifying what Agenda 21 looks like in their town. Whether it's called Horizon 2025 or PlanNY or OneBayArea, or Imagine Calgary or Hanoi Center Regional Plan 2030, it's the same plan. And the same Delphi mind-control technique is used to get you to accept the plan for regional governance: visioning. Visioning techniques are designed to indoctrinate you with a pre-determined viewpoint while giving you the impression that your input was taken and that you crafted the plan. This is manufactured consensus. Regional governance is the stepping stone to global governance.

You might see UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development as an internet 'protection' law like Bill C-30 in Canada--supposedly designed to protect children from internet predators--a domestic spying bill. When the same sort of thing was announced in the UK objectors were accused of having something to hide.

Where else would you find it? Agenda 21 looks like Smart Meters and the Smart Grid forcibly installing meters on your home or, if you're lucky, charging you not to do that. You'll see the Happiness Index, which is a mental health assessment that is being conducted without parental consent. Or how about genetically modified crops being sold without your knowledge? Carbon taxes are beginning to wend their way into your life, slowly, and you'll find that you'll be paying more to fly or to drive (vehicle miles traveled taxes) until you can't afford it. Asset based community development will measure your willingness to volunteer and eventually penalize you if you don't.

You'll see Agenda 21 as 'green jobs' that don't materialize unless mandated and paid for with your taxes or fines; green energy loans that enrich a few manipulators; non-recourse loans for green energy---like Solyndra and all of the other solar panel companies that took the money and ran. Let's not forget about land use restrictions that change the game right in the middle, right after you've spent every penny you had on a dream that evaporates in fees, fines, penalties, and studies.

The truth is that there is no Switzerland in this fight. No easy way out, no Shangri-La that you can run to. You can stand tall and know that when the time came, you were right here, where you should be. Standing up for yourself and the future of your world. Because you don't buy the rhetoric that says that if you don't give up your rights you'll kill the planet. You understand that the environmental movement has been hijacked. And you know that it isn't sustainable to suck the life out of people and turn their world into a museum--or a gulag. You also understand that global governance is a recipe for the destruction of individual liberty, and that is not the legacy you will leave this world.

It's better to engage in this struggle now than to wait. Every one of us needs to educate ourselves and each other and join in. We don't know what it will take to reach critical mass on awareness, but it looks like 2013 will be the year that we achieve it. Throwing the blinders off and having the courage to dissent is far more than our duty. It is our life.

Rosa Koire is the executive director of the Post Sustainability Institute. Rosa speaks across the world and is a regular blogger on her website Democrats Against UN Agenda 21. She is the author of BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: UN Agenda 21.

NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T...WHAT HAPPENED TO THE UN'S SITE?

12/11/2012

A few days ago we started getting emails from you saying that the 1992 Rio Declaration (Agenda 21) had disappeared from the UN's website.

We checked and it was gone.

Yes, we do have it here and on the Post Sustainability Institute website. Both sites have source pages with links to pdf copies that we have on our server. Please copy it and then email the link to your local copy place if you want a paper copy.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE SOURCE PAGE ON THIS WEBSITE FOR A COPY OF UN AGENDA 21.

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE SOURCE PAGE ON THE POST SUSTAINABILITY WEBSITE FOR A COPY OF UN AGENDA 21.

Call the United Nations in New York and ask them why they took the site down.

UPDATE: I called the UN in New York and talked to several people including the UN librarian. The 'consensus' was that things change on the sites and 'disappear sometimes.' Here's the email I received:
Greetings from the UN Reference Team.

In response to your query, we refer you to:

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)

Outcome document in 3 volumes: A/CONF.151/26/Rev.1
- Vol.I + Corr.1: Resolutions adopted by the Conference;
- Vol.II: Proceedings of the Conference;
- Vol.III + Corr.1: Statements made by Heads of State or Government at the summit segment of the Conference;
Three major agreements adopted (found in Vol.I + Corr.1)
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, a series of principles defining the rights and responsibilities of States;
- Agenda 21, a global plan of action to promote sustainable development;
- Statement of Forest Principles, a set of principles to underpin the sustainable management of forests worldwide;

Commission on Sustainable Development page about 1992 Rio: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=1130
This links to the original website for the conference: http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html

If you experience any problems opening the above link, please copy and paste the web address into your browser.

Best regards,

Susan Kurtas

UN Library Reference Team
Dag Hammarskjöld Library: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/
United Nations Headquarters, New York
E-mail: [email protected]
UN Documentation Research Guide: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/
UN Pulse: http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unpulse/index.htm

DEBATE: TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THE ARGUMENT FOR COMMON GOOD

12/2/2012

If you've read my book you know that I discuss the National Park Service's intense dedication to removing Drakes Bay Oyster Company from the Point Reyes National Seashore including falsifying claims. The Oyster Company, under various ownerships, has been operating for nearly 90 years in this location, which was made a National Seashore about 30 years ago. They farm sustainably, are local, and family-owned. Drakes Bay Oyster Company had a long term lease with the National Park Service---which expired two days ago. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar decided not to renew the lease. This political drama has played out on the national stage as more and more people recognize UN Agenda 21 when they see it.

I've been a member of a local gay women's email list for about 15 years and am often at odds with Communitarians posting on it. Over the past few weeks I responded to women who were urging others to sign an online petition to get Drakes Bay Oyster Company out of the bay to 'save the bay.' We fought it out online.

Here's the exchange (I'm blue and they're green):

The petition to save the estuary, and end the commercial oysterfarm,isat:http://www.change.org/organizations/turtle_island_restoration_network_2 Time to return this area, so close to SF, to most wilderness possible. There are other places to buy oysters.

Drakes Bay Oyster Company produces 40% of the oysters consumed in California. I'm sure you see yourself as protecting the environment, but you are being misled. From my book BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: UN Agenda 21;
"Drake’s Bay is in northern California on the Point Reyes Peninsula. This gorgeous ocean front peninsula is part of the Point Reyes National Seashore. The Drake’s Bay Oyster Company has harvested oysters from the bay for over 70 years. Their lease with the National Park Service is about to expire in 2012 so they asked for an extension. Unfortunately for them, the National Park Service wants to declare the area a ‘designated wilderness area.’ According to the National Forestry Service, US Department of Agriculture, a ‘designated wilderness area is defined this way:

Wilderness is “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.” An area of wilderness is further defined in the Wilderness Act to mean “an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or
human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation; (3) has at
least five thousand acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value.”

There’s a problem there, as you can see. The Drake’s Bay Oyster Company has been at that location for seven decades, about three decades more than the National Seashore has been in existence. The area is now a ‘potential designated wilderness’ so the Park Service wanted to do its inventory and see if it could further restrict uses to ‘visitors who do not remain.’ If they could remove all permanent improvements in the National Seashore they’d be able to change the status to ‘designated wilderness.’ To that end they planted a surveillance camera on the bay and recorded the movements of the employees of the oyster farm hoping to find violations. Although they recorded more than 250,000 images none of them showed damage to the harbor seals or the environment. So what did the Park Service do? They hid that information so that they could say that the oyster farm was a threat to the environment and should lose their lease. The San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reported on March 24, 2011 that:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein accused the U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday of downplaying evidence of misconduct by National Park Service scientists who apparently wanted to get a popular shellfish operation kicked out of Drakes Bay.
The Interior Department's office of the solicitor released a report Tuesday outlining what it termed biased, improper, mistake-ridden work by scientists. But it concluded that the behavior did not rise to the level of intentional "scientific misconduct" - and that nothing criminal occurred.
The headline called it a “mistake” but it wasn’t, was it? It was deliberate, and it was done in order to declare an area ‘wilderness.’ Untrammeled. Primeval. Primitive. Wildlands.
---Behind The Green Mask: UN Agenda 21 available on Amazon, Kindle, and Nook.
Rosa Koire

GET THE OYSTER FARM, a major polluter of Point Reyes, OUT OF DRAKE'S BAY NOW!!!!!!!

Drake's Bay Oyster Company has lost their lease. This operation has been in existence at this location for over 80 years. It is a sustainable, local, food producer.

Watch this video on Drake's Bay Oyster Company. Believing dogma without facts does no credit to those who seek the truth. We all need to be conscious of efforts to manipulate those of us who identify as environmentalists.
http://vimeo.com/52331881

For those of you who are not knowledgeable about the National Park Service I suggest you do some research. And for those of you who believe that no one should have a business or make a profit you might want to re-examine your belief system. This manipulation of data by the National Park Service is a crime.
Rosa Koire

I think this is a very complicated subject, with no clear right or wrong. Drake's Bay Oyster has been in the area for decades, and I enjoyed going there regularly for many years.

But the company was sold about 7 or 8 years ago to a company that knew the lease was poised to expire. It didn't make a lotta business sense to me.

I think the best upshot of this discussion has been to underscore the need to examine issues from multiple perspectives, and to avoid being entrenched in a position without doing the research.

Does it matter who owns the lease? The terms were designed so that it was renewable, and the land originally belonged to farmers and ranchers in the area, including the Lunny family, who had granted it to the National Park Service with the understanding that they could continue. This fight is predicated on fabricated information and an agenda. That should concern everyone concerned with social justice and the environment. If you can't trust your government you are vulnerable. It may be 'complicated' but we are sharp, intelligent members of our community and we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it leads us. I agree with you: things that sound good to us may be designed that way for a reason--and with the hope that we will not look further.

Rosa Koire

Jeez I'm getting tired of this. Get over it! The decision has been made, for the greater good I might add. It was not decided on fabricated info. It was predicated on an agreement 40 years ago! Also did you bother to read Salazar's decision?
http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=332286

Yes, Judi, of course I did. And you may say it was for the common good or the greater good but I bet you want to be the one to define what that is. I'm sure someone could point to your life and identify things that don't forward the common good.

That 40 year old agreement was a lease that was renewable. The terms were favorable, that was why the owners of the Oyster Farm and all of the ranchers agreed to it in the first place. It just knocks me out that those of us who are out there fighting for rights, social justice, the 99% , local food, non-GMO, no WTO, etc don't see it when the rhetoric is twisted in the government's favor on an issue that sounds good to us. It's not that hard to do some research and see what this is about. Inventory and control.

Investigating issues of justice can be tiring but that is the task of an informed electorate.
Rosa

As a kayaker, I am rejoicing. The rays you can see while kayaking won't have to deal with the silt desturbed when their oyster metal envelopes are dragged on the bottom. The leopard sharks will appreciate it too! Now if we can just get rid of the COWS in our parks!

I can see that you are not disturbed by the idea of violating property rights. I can imagine you being in favor of denial of building permits on someone's property because you can see it from a trail while riding your bike.

Rosa,
Thanks for your persevering and tireless work of educating all of us stubborn folks in denial. Though we may not always speak up, we do appreciate. You have educated me about Agenda 21, and I will pass it on!
much love & blessings

Siskiyou County water users win against California Fish and Game

BABY, YOU CAN DRIVE MY CAR...

THE WORLD HAPPINESS INDEX AND MASS MURDER

THERE IS NO SWITZERLAND IN THIS FIGHT

NOW YOU SEE IT, NOW YOU DON'T...WHAT HAPPENED TO THE UN'S SITE?

DEBATE: TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THE ARGUMENT FOR COMMON GOOD

And the winner is...

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