FOX News…worth talking about…something Fishy...

[amicus]

Love it or hate it and most here hate it; however…

In the past several weeks, because of Fox News and talk radio, a Presidential appointment, Van Johnson, was forced to resign.

The community organizing agency, ACORN, has had millions of dollars of Federal Funding cut off and calls for a full Federal Investigation of the organization has been called for. All because of Fox News.

Most recently, tonight, 9/17/09, an entire program, Sean Hannity, aired from the valleys of Central California concerning water supplies cut-off by Federal edict to save a threatened species of Smelt.

Unemployment stands at 15% in Fresno, California as people stand in food lines for up to six hours to receive food from Food Banks to replace what they have lost from desiccated farms lands.

The accumulated effect of the idle farms has rippled across the nation as food prices has risen and the possibility of importing food from China and other areas becomes a necessity. California produces a tremendous amount of food for both US customers and for export around the world.

The reason for this insanity dates back to a 1978 Environmental law concerning ‘endangered species’.

An amusing sidebar in the law can create a so called, ‘God Squad’, that can determine if it is beneficial to allow a species to go extinct.

The left wing dominated Courts of California have rejected appeals from farmers and residents in the area to, ‘turn our water back on’. The Governor of California claims he is powerless to overturn the Federal Courts and Laws that are effectively committing domestic terrorism by destroying the livelihood of millions of Californians and Americans across the land that depend on the products of that fertile valley, ‘the breadbasket’ of America.

Thousands…no one gave a crowd estimate…attended the live appearance of Hannity; again, the result of Fox News and supportive talk radio stations in the area.

Love it or hate it, Fox News is having an effect and influencing decisions made in the Nation’s Capitol. It will be interesting to see if this latest Crusade produces any results.

Amicus

 

[Austin8]

Ami

I certainly hope so. Water is important as is sustainable farming operations. I'm hoping when hr 875 rears it's ugly 'Monsanto' head again the American people will help shoot it down, forever.

HR 875 is the beginning. This time, it is about handing over control of our food supply to enhance profits of the chemical industry. This time it is aimed with ferocity at farmers who keep animals. Next time it will be totalitarian control.

Good Post.

 

[amicus]

Ami

I certainly hope so. Water is important as is sustainable farming operations. I'm hoping when hr 875 rears it's ugly 'Monsanto' head again the American people will help shoot it down, forever.

HR 875 is the beginning. This time, it is about handing over control of our food supply to enhance profits of the chemical industry. This time it is aimed with ferocity at farmers who keep animals. Next time it will be totalitarian control.

Good Post.[/QUOTE]

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Hello Austin8 and thank you.

Following are links to the entire Bill and the second, an opinion piece that provides some understanding:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-875

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-End-o...R875-Could-Kill-the-Farmers-Market&id=2088965


regards...

Amicus

 

[Liar]

In the past several weeks, because of Fox News and talk radio, a Presidential appointment, Van Johnson, was forced to resign.

Jones.

 

[Austin8]

Vegetarians and vegans do not identify with farmers who raise animals but what is at stake here is critical for everbody. The overwhelming bureaucratic burdens, the record requirements, the warrantless inspections, the end of farmers' markets, the criminalization of seed banking, the ten years in prison for stepping out of line in any way -- this will next be applied not to animals breaking out of fence onto a neighbor's farm, but for such things as not spraying pesticides on an organic farm to eradicate earthworms (now listed as an invasive species) because the government's "food safety tsar" has deemed it necessary.

 

[xssve]

Vegetarians and vegans do not identify with farmers who raise animals but what is at stake here is critical for everbody. The overwhelming bureaucratic burdens, the record requirements, the warrantless inspections, the end of farmers' markets, the criminalization of seed banking, the ten years in prison for stepping out of line in any way -- this will next be applied not to animals breaking out of fence onto a neighbor's farm, but for such things as not spraying pesticides on an organic farm to eradicate earthworms (now listed as an invasive species) because the government's "food safety tsar" has deemed it necessary.

You're a little late, HR 875 was DOA, HR 2749 however, is already on it's way to the Senate.

 

[Austin8]

You're a little late, HR 875 was DOA, HR 2749 however, is already on it's way to the Senate.

Thanks X,

It's hard to keep up sometimes, but letters to my state reps are in the works.

 

[JamesSD]

Southern and Central California have HUGE water problems. We're almost entirely dependent on the Colorado river.

The main problems are public resistance to water retreatment facilities (aka "toilet to tap"), the cost of desalinization (although technology is getting better in that regard), and general public indifference. I personally favor a free market solution where water prices go up to match relative scarcity. I bet all my neighbors wasting gallons a day on their perfectly manicured lawns would let them die if water was priced at its true market value. A round of Golf can double in price to keep up their absurd water usage as well.

Here in San Diego we also don't even have systems in place to capture the rainfall we do get to store up. Our rainwater basically all just flows straight into the ocean, taking street pollution with it.

 

[amicus]

Free market concerns really have had no seat at the table since the Roosevelt water projects of the 1930's essentially predetermined the growth of agriculture in the region.

Even I am not old enough to remember the Depression/Dust Bowl days of soup kitchens and food shortages, but I can read history and understand the motivation behind contemporary statute creation and enforcement.

The 'green' contingent wants to decrease the population of California from the current 38 million plus, to what they call a 'sustainable' population of about 20 million.

It boils down to a political division between those who want the land used for growing food for humans and those who wish to preserve nature and animal species for their own goals.

Here are two links, one green...

http://current.com/items/90784503_water-shortage-wilts-californias-san-joaquin-valley.htm

http://www.newsweek.com/id/211381/page/1

good hunting...

Amicus