Stop the FCC regulation of the Internet. We do not need more government regulation.
FCC to Move on Web Regulation
By KIM HART 11-18-2010
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is putting together a net neutrality proposal and plans to take action on the controversial issue as early as next month, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation.
Details of the proposal being developed by Genachowski’s office are unclear, but sources say it could be similar to the deal stakeholders tried to reach with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) earlier this fall.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45371.html#ixzz15poks1JX
Glenn Beck defends cable
http://videoshare.politico.com/singletitlevideo_chromeless.php?bcpid=309045726001&bctid=680533213001
FCC to Move on Web Regulation
By KIM HART 11-18-2010
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is putting together a net neutrality proposal and plans to take action on the controversial issue as early as next month, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation.
Details of the proposal being developed by Genachowski’s office are unclear, but sources say it could be similar to the deal stakeholders tried to reach with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) earlier this fall.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45371.html#ixzz15poks1JX
Glenn Beck defends cable
http://videoshare.politico.com/singletitlevideo_chromeless.php?bcpid=309045726001&bctid=680533213001
Demand your Senators say NO to U.N. small arms treaty.
"American gun owners might not feel besieged, but they should. This week, the Obama administration announced its support for the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. This international agreement poses real risks for freedom both in the United States and around the world by making it more difficult - if not outright illegal - for law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms."
More at:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/
"American gun owners might not feel besieged, but they should. This week, the Obama administration announced its support for the United Nations Small Arms Treaty. This international agreement poses real risks for freedom both in the United States and around the world by making it more difficult - if not outright illegal - for law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms."
More at:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/27/the-un-gun-grabber/
UN Agenda 21 - Coming to a Neighborhood near You By Scott Strzelczyk and Richard Rothschild
Most Americans are unaware that one of the greatest threats to their freedom may be a United Nations program known as Agenda 21. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development created Agenda 21 as a sustainability agenda which is arguably an amalgamation of socialism and extreme environmentalism brushed with anti-American, anti-capitalist overtones.
Read More:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_agenda
_21_coming_to_a_neigh.html
Most Americans are unaware that one of the greatest threats to their freedom may be a United Nations program known as Agenda 21. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development created Agenda 21 as a sustainability agenda which is arguably an amalgamation of socialism and extreme environmentalism brushed with anti-American, anti-capitalist overtones.
Read More:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_agenda
_21_coming_to_a_neigh.html
Integrity
Accountability
Responsibility
Transparency in Government
Accountability
Responsibility
Transparency in Government
Protecting America in the NEW Missile Age
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Kudzu: A Lesson in Big Government Failure
By Joseph Haas December 26, 2010
Wherever you may go in the southeastern United States, you will see a vine swallowing whole buildings and forests. It is as relentless as Sherman, destroying whole areas of the South. Chances are you've seen the plant before, even if you don't know exactly what it is. The vine is called kudzu, and it symbolizes all that is wrong with Big Government.
Native to Asia, kudzu was brought to the United States in the 19th century for an expo in Philadelphia. Renowned for its impressive growing abilities, the vine was distributed small-scale to private interests, particularly for garden use. While it is likely that kudzu would have spread in some areas, it is unlikely to have reached crisis levels had the government not negligently incorporated kudzu into its agricultural policy.
During the Great Depression, the farming industry was in shambles. Many farmers left their farms to wither away in the winter. In the Midwest and prairie states, winds snatched up the soil in giant sandstorms known as the Dust Bowl. In the Southeast, giant fields were eroded, leaving the farmland ruined.Read more >>
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/kudzu_a_l
esson_in_big_governme.html
By Joseph Haas December 26, 2010
Wherever you may go in the southeastern United States, you will see a vine swallowing whole buildings and forests. It is as relentless as Sherman, destroying whole areas of the South. Chances are you've seen the plant before, even if you don't know exactly what it is. The vine is called kudzu, and it symbolizes all that is wrong with Big Government.
Native to Asia, kudzu was brought to the United States in the 19th century for an expo in Philadelphia. Renowned for its impressive growing abilities, the vine was distributed small-scale to private interests, particularly for garden use. While it is likely that kudzu would have spread in some areas, it is unlikely to have reached crisis levels had the government not negligently incorporated kudzu into its agricultural policy.
During the Great Depression, the farming industry was in shambles. Many farmers left their farms to wither away in the winter. In the Midwest and prairie states, winds snatched up the soil in giant sandstorms known as the Dust Bowl. In the Southeast, giant fields were eroded, leaving the farmland ruined.Read more >>
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/kudzu_a_l
esson_in_big_governme.html
Elimination of Private Land Ownership:
United Nations Agenda 21 here at the local level
Written by James Simpson Wednesday, 05 January 2011 08:14
Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts the environment. Agenda 21 was not ratified by the U.S. Senate. President Clinton then defied the Senate’s will by signing Executive Order 12852, which created the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.
Read more:
http://www.gawtp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=333:elimination-of-private-land-ownership-united-nations-agenda-21-here-at-the-local-level&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=37
United Nations Agenda 21 here at the local level
Written by James Simpson Wednesday, 05 January 2011 08:14
Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts the environment. Agenda 21 was not ratified by the U.S. Senate. President Clinton then defied the Senate’s will by signing Executive Order 12852, which created the President’s Council on Sustainable Development.
Read more:
http://www.gawtp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=333:elimination-of-private-land-ownership-united-nations-agenda-21-here-at-the-local-level&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=37
The "Green" Treason
01/25/2011 Energy Crisis, Global Warming Fraud, and the Environment
By Bill Wilson
It’s the same old story: The U.S. has abundant natural resources, but refuses to extract and produce them, as usual, because of environmental restrictions and regulatory costs. In the meantime, we are exporting our energy security, job security, and now, national security to China and other emerging markets.
Since 2002, the U.S. has not mined any rare earth elements (REEs) — today used in U.S. smart bombs, silent helicopter blades, night vision, missiles, and tank guns, as well as computers, cell phones, DVD players, and other civilian technologies.
These metals are not even that rare. The nation as a whole has about 13 million metric tons in reserves according to the U.S. Geological Survey. We could make them ourselves. But we don’t.
Read more>> http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=3015
01/25/2011 Energy Crisis, Global Warming Fraud, and the Environment
By Bill Wilson
It’s the same old story: The U.S. has abundant natural resources, but refuses to extract and produce them, as usual, because of environmental restrictions and regulatory costs. In the meantime, we are exporting our energy security, job security, and now, national security to China and other emerging markets.
Since 2002, the U.S. has not mined any rare earth elements (REEs) — today used in U.S. smart bombs, silent helicopter blades, night vision, missiles, and tank guns, as well as computers, cell phones, DVD players, and other civilian technologies.
These metals are not even that rare. The nation as a whole has about 13 million metric tons in reserves according to the U.S. Geological Survey. We could make them ourselves. But we don’t.
Read more>> http://blog.getliberty.org/default.asp?Display=3015
Spilled Milk
Thomas Sowell February 1, 2011
Despite the old saying, "Don't cry over spilled milk," the Environmental Protection Agency is doing just that.
We all understand why the Environmental Protection Agency was given the power to issue regulations to guard against oil spills, such as that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska or the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But not everyone understands that any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose.
In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file "emergency management" plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train "first responders" and build "containment facilities" if there is a flood of spilled milk.
Since there is no free lunch, all of this is going to cost the farmers both
money and time that could be going into farming-- and is likely to end up costing consumers higher prices for farm products.
It is going to cost the taxpayers money as well, since the EPA is going to have to hire people to inspect farms, inspect farmers' reports and prosecute farmers who don't jump through all the right hoops in the right order. All of this will be "creating jobs," even if the tax money removed from the private sector correspondingly reduces the jobs that can be created there.
Read more >>
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2011/02/01/spilled_milk/page/full/
Thomas Sowell February 1, 2011
Despite the old saying, "Don't cry over spilled milk," the Environmental Protection Agency is doing just that.
We all understand why the Environmental Protection Agency was given the power to issue regulations to guard against oil spills, such as that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska or the more recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But not everyone understands that any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose.
In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file "emergency management" plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train "first responders" and build "containment facilities" if there is a flood of spilled milk.
Since there is no free lunch, all of this is going to cost the farmers both
money and time that could be going into farming-- and is likely to end up costing consumers higher prices for farm products.
It is going to cost the taxpayers money as well, since the EPA is going to have to hire people to inspect farms, inspect farmers' reports and prosecute farmers who don't jump through all the right hoops in the right order. All of this will be "creating jobs," even if the tax money removed from the private sector correspondingly reduces the jobs that can be created there.
Read more >>
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2011/02/01/spilled_milk/page/full/
Rolling Back Red Tape: 20 Regulations to Eliminate
January 26, 2011 by Diane Katz
Abstract: As the new Congress assembles, many legislators are considering how to lessen the regulatory burden on Americans. President Obama, too, now says that he wants to root out unnecessary government rules. With regulatory costs at record levels, relief is sorely needed. But it is not enough to talk about fewer regulations. Policymakers must critically review specific rules and identify those that should be abolished. This paper details 20 unnecessary and harmful regulations that should be eliminated now.
Read more >> http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/01/Rolling-Back-Red-Tape-20-Regulations-to-Eliminate
January 26, 2011 by Diane Katz
Abstract: As the new Congress assembles, many legislators are considering how to lessen the regulatory burden on Americans. President Obama, too, now says that he wants to root out unnecessary government rules. With regulatory costs at record levels, relief is sorely needed. But it is not enough to talk about fewer regulations. Policymakers must critically review specific rules and identify those that should be abolished. This paper details 20 unnecessary and harmful regulations that should be eliminated now.
Read more >> http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/01/Rolling-Back-Red-Tape-20-Regulations-to-Eliminate
Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson
Awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just won’t read detailed reports or watch long videos. “Can you give us something that is quick, and easy to read that we can hand out,” I’m asked.
So here it is. A one page, quick description of Agenda 21 that fits on one page. I’ve also included for the back side of your hand out a list of quotes for the perpetrators of Agenda 21 that should back up my brief descriptions.
A word of caution, use this as a starter kit, but do not allow it to be your only knowledge of this very complex subject. To kill it you have to know the facts. Research, know your details; discover the NGO players in your community; identify who is victimized by the policies and recruit them to your fight; and then kill Agenda 21. That’s how it must be done. The information below is only your first step. Happy hunting.
What is Sustainable Development?
According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.
Read more>>
http://americanpolicy.org/sustainable-development/agenda-21-in-one-easy-lesson.html/
Awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just won’t read detailed reports or watch long videos. “Can you give us something that is quick, and easy to read that we can hand out,” I’m asked.
So here it is. A one page, quick description of Agenda 21 that fits on one page. I’ve also included for the back side of your hand out a list of quotes for the perpetrators of Agenda 21 that should back up my brief descriptions.
A word of caution, use this as a starter kit, but do not allow it to be your only knowledge of this very complex subject. To kill it you have to know the facts. Research, know your details; discover the NGO players in your community; identify who is victimized by the policies and recruit them to your fight; and then kill Agenda 21. That’s how it must be done. The information below is only your first step. Happy hunting.
What is Sustainable Development?
According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.
Read more>>
http://americanpolicy.org/sustainable-development/agenda-21-in-one-easy-lesson.html/
Report Lists Most Corrupt Members of Congress
The Christian Post > Politics|Wed, Sep. 21 2011 08:19 PM EDT
By Napp Nazworth | Christian Post Reporter
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a nonprofit government watchdog organization, released its annual report this week of the most corrupt members of Congress. The list includes 10 Republicans and four Democrats.
The Republican House members who made the list are Charles Bass (N.H.), Vern Buchanan (Fla.), Stephen Fincher (Tenn.), Michael Grimm (N.Y.), Frank Guinta (N.H.), David Rivera (Fla.), Hal Rogers (Ky.), Jean Schmidt (Ohio), and Joe Walsh (Ill.).
The Democratic House members on the list are Gregory Meeks (N.Y.), Nick Rahall (W.V.), Laura Richardson (Calif.) and Maxine Waters (Calif.).
Only one Senator made the list, David Vitter (R-La.). Vitter was also on CREW's 2007 list for soliciting prostitutes, but was re-elected in 2010.
Since CREW only accounts for behavior for the past year for each year's list, Vitter's sexual misconduct was not taken into account in this year’s report. Instead, Vitter made the list for improper use of office personnel and funds to aid a legislative assistant with personal legal matters. The assistant had been charged, on two separate occasions, with drunk driving and physically abusing his girlfriend.
A member of Congress does not need to violate the law to make the list. CREW's definition of corruption also includes unethical, yet legal, behavior, and placing personal or special interests before the interests of the public. Read more>>
http://www.christianpost.com/news/report-lists-most-corrupt-members-of-congress-56199/
THE HIGH COST OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM
By Investigative Journalist Barry R. Clausen
October 7, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
There are many radical elements of the environmental community and the Center for the (Earth First Southwest) Center for Biological Diversity (SWCBD) is probably the most despised. In recent years the SWCBD has received tens of millions of dollars (as has many others) from numerous entities including the American government to further their radical agendas. Their obvious goals are to shut down logging, mining, ranching, water usage and recreational use of not only America’s public lands but management of private property has also been in their sights.
Read more>>
http://www.newswithviews.com/Clausen/barry101.htm
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By Investigative Journalist Barry R. Clausen
October 7, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
There are many radical elements of the environmental community and the Center for the (Earth First Southwest) Center for Biological Diversity (SWCBD) is probably the most despised. In recent years the SWCBD has received tens of millions of dollars (as has many others) from numerous entities including the American government to further their radical agendas. Their obvious goals are to shut down logging, mining, ranching, water usage and recreational use of not only America’s public lands but management of private property has also been in their sights.
Read more>>
http://www.newswithviews.com/Clausen/barry101.htm
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Government overreach at the breakfast table
By Dan Jaffe, Executive Vice President for Government Relations,Association of National Advertisers - 10/11/11 01:34 PM ET Four major federal agencies with responsibilities for regulating food, beverage and restaurant products and overseeing marketing and advertising have placed thousands of companies throughout America in an impossible regulatory bind. The Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children (IWG), made up of USDA, CDC, FDA and the FTC, has just produced an elaborate set of new standards for the content of food products. These powerful agencies have said that no company should advertise food products that fail to meet the rigid standards to anyone under 18 years of age.
Of the 100 most popular foods consumed in America, only 12 would meet the new proposed standards. Foods like whole wheat bread, yogurt, 2%milk and thousands of others fail to pass muster.
But it gets worse.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/labor/186771-government-overreach-at-the-breakfast-table
By Dan Jaffe, Executive Vice President for Government Relations,Association of National Advertisers - 10/11/11 01:34 PM ET Four major federal agencies with responsibilities for regulating food, beverage and restaurant products and overseeing marketing and advertising have placed thousands of companies throughout America in an impossible regulatory bind. The Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children (IWG), made up of USDA, CDC, FDA and the FTC, has just produced an elaborate set of new standards for the content of food products. These powerful agencies have said that no company should advertise food products that fail to meet the rigid standards to anyone under 18 years of age.
Of the 100 most popular foods consumed in America, only 12 would meet the new proposed standards. Foods like whole wheat bread, yogurt, 2%milk and thousands of others fail to pass muster.
But it gets worse.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/labor/186771-government-overreach-at-the-breakfast-table