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20121117 Florida: Gardener fights back against Agenda 21 and wins.

20120705 Illinois: Illinois (i.e. Chicago) Dept. of Agriculture stole beehives from beekeeper studying the effects of Monsanto’s Roundup.

20120611 Land rights: The EPA makes an unprecedented power grab “to control land alongside ditches, gullies, and other ephemeral spots by claiming the sources are part of navigable waterways.”

20120525 Australia: Australians that blame price rises on carbon taxes are threatened with fines of over $1 million dollars.

20120517 LA County has unleashed door-to-door raw milk confiscation teams to threaten and intimidate raw dairy customers into surrendering raw milk products they legally purchased and own.

20120516 Group attacks cattle grazing.

20120514 Nevada: U.S. sues Southern Nevada rancher in grazing dispute.

20120502 Bill stops EPA from mis-using the Clean Water Act.

20120501 Ron Paul announces he will, if elected, end the EPA’s harassment of Americans on his first day in office. “If I am elected President, I will end the EPA's harassment of Texans, and all Americans, on my first day in office. My Plan to Restore America not only cuts one trillion dollars of spending and balances the budget by the third year of my presidency, while cutting taxes, but it also imposes a moratorium on all new federal regulations.”

20120429 EPA has a long history of crucifying businesses.

20120422 Nevada: Putting county’s last cattle rancher out of business.

20120417 Obama plans to regulate the ocean “basically taking the notion of urban planning and putting it into the water column, as well as the estuary systems that connect it to everything that impacts ocean ecosystems.” Oil and gas, wind farms, ports, shipping, marine commerce, mining, timber, even farming could be affected. “So you could have a snowflake land on Pikes Peak and ultimately it’s going to wind up in the water, so as a result they could regulate on every square inch of U.S. soil.”

20120413 Feds threaten the very existence of Tombstone, Arizona by denying them water. The town is fighting for its life.

20120329 Long-time resident dies during police assault following years of abuse over chickens.

20120327 Michigan: Insane Michigan government orders “the mass murder of ranch animals based on the color of their hair.”

20120321 U.S. Supreme Court decides in favor of the Sacketts. This is a very important ruling in helping to reign in out-of-control agencies. ► the decision, article1, article2, article3, article4

20120223 California: AB2179 legislative proposal would have breathtaking negative consequences for ranchers, farmers, and others. ► the bill, Jim Neilsen discusses

20120213 Feds shut down Amish farmer for selling fresh milk.

20111228 California: Gov. Jerry Brown appointed the husband of Secretary of State Debra Bowen to be director of the California Department of Conservation.

20111123 Missouri: Senators seek to rein in FERC. “When FERC granted Ameren a new license in March 2007 to continue operating its Osage Hydroelectric Project at Bagnell Dam, the commission insisted that the utility draw up a plan to manage the 1,150 miles of lake shoreline.” Translation: the removal of more than 1,200 residences as well as 2,800 docks, gazebos, and patios. This “unleashed a hornet’s nest of political dissent in mid-Missouri” and prompted Missouri’s two senators to introduce legislation that “would change current law to insure that FERC includes the consideration of ‘private land ownership and private land use’ within a power project’s boundaries.

20111121 Attorneys fees reform passes the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

20111119 H.R. 3432: And now they come for the cows, by Marti Oakley. “As a nation we are being systematically, incrementally and intentionally driven to the point where we cannot feed our own people. The quickest way to collapse the economic viability of a nation is to destroy its agricultural sector.”

20111118 Big government hijacks Clean Water Act.

20111114 Idaho needs protection from heavy government.

20111111 Federal courts must be reined in.

209111109 USFWS wants credit for creating jobs. The article fails to point out the agency spends billions destroying the things it spent billions to build in the first place, and does nothing to actually produce food or manage the lands. This is done by the hard-working people of rural America.

20111107 Do we need the US Forest Service?

20111021 HSUS has infiltrated California Fish and Game. (John M) “The DFG has been infiltrated by HSUS, which is dedicated to outlawing hunting of all types, and is even now focusing on outlawing the raising and hunting of game birds, using dogs for hunting, and even having farm animals and household pets.”

20110926 New EPA regulations will require 230,000 more employees and $21 billion per year.

20110923 EPA to property owner: “Your land is our land.” “The regime we have operating now allows the EPA to take property without having to pay for it, or giving the owners the right to their day in court.”

20110918 Sustainable Growth: Forward-thinking state mandate or misguided environmental mantra?

20110702 White House takes aim at rural America.

20100713 EPA wants to regulate dust.

20080613 Native American speaks out: You are a slave to the Government.

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