[independentmind]

There is a clear double standard when the government may have planted fake information it can use to shut down the economy of a rural community out west while in its own backyard it finds it too burdensome to have several trucks a day haul the sediment through an affluent neighborhood inhabited by government officials and influential Washingtonians," Gordon said.

I am afraid I don't know that much about environmental issues out West. Outside of the federal government itself, do you know of any private interests (land developers, utilities, etc) that could actually benefit from shutting down local rural communities?

[brityank]

Snuck a peek from work -- coffee break, dontcha know!

Take a read on this thread from three months ago. This attitude among the envcirals and the bureaucracy is endemic across the country. Check out my bookmark file too; much more than just this.

[Carry_Okie]

Youbetcha.

There is huge investment going on to move our meat industry offshore, primarily to Brazil, and Argentina. How would they increase that return? Does restricting domestic cattle production accomplish that end? 9The situation is worse than it looks because of how they designate what constitutes American beef.) I don't want to go into that now, but it is a huge story. See if you can get a copy of the Western Livestock Reporter.

Meanwhile, the dirty little secret in the world's forests is that they produce more wood than people can use. Of course they produce a lot of other things THAT COULD BE WORTH ECONOMIC VALUE (but for price-fixing by government monopoly), but heck, who really cares about that? (which is why I wrote the book). To hold prices up we burn it and destroy our own forests or cal them "protected areas," much to the delight of the historic owners of old timber corporations such as Weyeryauser or International Paper whose private forests are in fine shape. Who cares if they end up over-run with weeds (another reason I wrote the book). Then there are the bankers who are seeking to prop up those international loans, and the advocates of Global Governance seeking to use the Tobin Tax on currency transfers...

There are a lot of players engaged in a feeding frenzy on the American rancher and farmer and from what I can tell the real goal is to bring the United States to heel and has been for a very long time. That noose is tightening. Unbeknownst to many, we are a nation that is a net importer of food (not ag, food) and it is getting worse VERY fast. It is intentional and a matter of policy (pleases the IMF). Every other communist takeover in history has used starvation to bring its victims to heel so why should global socialism be any different? Isn't control of food, water, and energy a source of coercive power???