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1 posted on 05/16/2003 2:55:10 PM PDT by farmfriend
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To: marsh2; dixiechick2000; Mama_Bear; doug from upland; WolfsView; Issaquahking; amom; ...
Rights/farms/environment ping.

If you want on or off this list, just let me know.

2 posted on 05/16/2003 2:56:04 PM PDT by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: farmfriend
Mega Bump...
3 posted on 05/16/2003 3:42:30 PM PDT by tubebender (.)
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AlRIGHT!!! F. Lee Levin to the rescue, aGAIN!!
4 posted on 05/16/2003 3:59:02 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: farmfriend
Why are these guys getting grants anyway? I have to send more money to Landmark Legal Foundation.
5 posted on 05/16/2003 4:22:22 PM PDT by hattend
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To: holdonnow
Wooohooo! D00d, you are a steely eyed patriotic American from heaven for doing this. I'm not being colloquial when I say that God will bless you for taking this up.

TNC is nothing but an abusive socialist real estate investment conglonmerate, I hope to God that you take the largest chunk possible out of their ass. I'm imagining that as we speak you're finding out exactly the monster they are.

GO GET 'EM MARK

Yeah baby.

7 posted on 05/16/2003 7:24:26 PM PDT by AAABEST
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To: Carry_Okie; backhoe; Black Agnes; countrydummy; newriverSister; brityank; forester; marsh2; ...
Big-time land rights ping.

Mark Levin of Landmark Legal is a FReeper, this is great news for people on our side. It's about time someone went after TNC.

8 posted on 05/16/2003 7:33:38 PM PDT by AAABEST
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Wasn't the Nature Conservancy the outfit that was trying to get the Klamath farmers off their land for cents on the dollar with that phony water shortage scam last year?
9 posted on 05/16/2003 7:33:40 PM PDT by nightdriver
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To: farmfriend; holdonnow
Thanks for the ping!

MEGA MARK BUMP!

Give the enviro-fascists holy hell!

10 posted on 05/16/2003 8:03:35 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Never have so many been so wrong about so much.)
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To: farmfriend
According to a recent series of articles in the Washington Post, the Nature Conservancy spent millions to purchase parcels of undeveloped land and then resold the land to Conservancy backers and officials at greatly discounted prices, in exchange for limitations on future development of the land.

Every so often we see eco-terrorist attacks on property, like the torching near Aspen. I suspect that none of these Nature Conservancy backers and officials have had their opulent properties attacked by eco-terrorists!

11 posted on 05/16/2003 8:28:09 PM PDT by F-117A
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To: farmfriend; Ethan_Allen; BeforeISleep; Sir Gawain; detsaoT; TonyRo76; Nephi; alancarp; ...
This is wonderful news! About Da*m time!

There was a 3 day series in the Washington Post earlier this month, exposing them. Here are some links from Ethan_Allan's post on them:

TODAY'S ARTICLE - HOW A BID TO SAVE A SPECIES CAME TO GRIEF
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13933-2003May4.html

Cover page for all articles is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/natureconservancy/


BIG GREEN : Inside the Nature Conservancy Nonprofit Land Bank Amasses Billions (thread)

17 posted on 05/17/2003 8:17:19 AM PDT by madfly
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To: farmfriend
How does one donate???
21 posted on 05/17/2003 8:26:12 AM PDT by Imagine
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To: farmfriend
source

The Senate Finance Committee's chairman, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and the ranking Democrat, Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, are drafting a letter to the Conservancy seeking answers to a range of concerns about the land deals.

"Taxpayers have the right to know how The Nature Conservancy conducts its business," Grassley said in a statement May 9 to the Washington Post. "I'll be overseeing the charity's actions, asking tough questions and following through until satisfactory answers are given."

Some of the prominent families that have given to the Maine chapter include Richard G. Rockefeller of Falmouth, son of David Rockefeller Sr. of New York; and Leon and Lisa Gorman of Yarmouth.


34 posted on 05/17/2003 11:51:56 AM PDT by madfly
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To: farmfriend
The IUCN: From the UN to Your Back Yard ©1998, Sovereignty International

(snip)

The IUCN: From the UN to Your Back Yard
©1998, Sovereignty International

Why is it that Biosphere Reserves, World Heritage Sites, Sustainable Development Programs, The Wildlands Project, and Convention on Biological Diversity all call for greenways, protected areas, wilderness reserves and natural corridors surrounded by regulated "buffer zones"? And why do federal agencies, the Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, and other environmental groups strongly promote the same "sustainable" development agenda?

It is no coincidence. All of these programs, treaties, and organizations have one thing in common; the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Through the IUCN, government agencies such as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the US Forest Service, the EPA and other federal agencies can huddle in private with the Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, Society of Conservation Biology, UNEP, UNDP, UNESCO and many others to develop strategies to implement their "ecospiritual" agenda on the ground by changing US policy -- without any knowledge of Congress or the people who will be affected.

Making US policy is constitutionally the exclusive right of Congress, by the consent of the people, and not federal bureaucrats. Nonetheless, an August, 1993 EPA Internal Working Document states,   "Natural resource and environmental agencies... should...develop a joint strategy to help the United States fulfill its existing international obligations (e.g. Convention on Biological Diversity, Agenda 21).... The executive branch should direct federal agencies to evaluate national policies...in light of international policies and obligations, and to amend national policies to achieve international objectives." (Bold and italics added)

35 posted on 05/17/2003 1:20:57 PM PDT by madfly
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bump
37 posted on 05/17/2003 10:29:32 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: farmfriend
BTT
38 posted on 05/18/2003 7:46:52 AM PDT by jokar (There I said it)
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bttt
39 posted on 05/18/2003 8:13:45 AM PDT by madfly
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