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Going now to sign that petition & I hope MANY others do too. Its hard to believe something like this would pass into law, but its a crazy world now where things like making "Made in the USA" labeling illegal(in the TPP) and deregulating Wall Street again after a MAJOR economic meltdown caused by lack of regulation are getting passed.

In one of the few things he ever did that I would applaud, he designated the 140,000 square mile Papahānaumokuāke (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) Marine National Monument:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papah%C4%81naumoku%C4%81kea_Marine_National_Monument

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...or owned by the state. The energy companies found 3 days worth of natural gas, maybe some oil, a bunch of Bundy-type ranchers who sweat the public land they've grazed on for years is now theirs.
There are a bunch of these crazies, from 14 stated and they are organized. We need to be vigilant.

Agenda 21.

They have a devil on both shoulders.

It happened during the Bush administration, with the help of 'green NGOs' in my state. Hit all the right liberal buttons, too.

It was a land swap to unite an area of mountains, forest and waterfalls that were patchworked with private parcels between park parcels. It was going to create another park, but that didn't really happen in any meaningful way.

What did happen was that the land was all privatized and sold off to extremely wealthy people as part of 'preserves' that required a several millions per piece to build huge homes and look down into the valley. They had nothing to do with the communities nearby, nor did they show any responsibility. They didn't interact with them in any way.

The local seats of power moved from the majority of residents to those living in these lovely 'preserves' who didn't do a thing when their clear cutting flooded those below. The people in the valley lost police services, medical and community centers. It was all abetted by radio and print media along with conservative officials and churches, to support the idea that those who had benefited from mass transportation, local parks and subsidized housing and services, were all moochers who should be shoved out the door.

That included long-tme local businesses and housing that was privately owned but no longer up to millionaire standards. There were a lot of other things done at that same time and in each case the population that fought back were simply run over.

And so it goes.

know what is under those lands. I know they have tested.

Keep on top of elections for Land Commissioners and agencies that decide the use of land or resources. A nice PR campaign like we had here to sway the masses, and it's a done deal, painted to look like a great thing, like all grand thefts. They'll call it a 'reform' which is a big lie. More like 'deform.'

important!

It didn't get anywhere then, either.

and made their opposition known?

It wasn't major news. Matter of fact, doing a google search for "MAST Act" will net you links to the texts of both bills, and zero news reports on it.

Fringe bills get submitted ALL the time. Most don't make it very far.

but was defeated in the Senate. Now that the Republicans control both chambers, all bets are off. I would not dismiss anything as "fringe" in the current political environment.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/26/1302062/-As-Obama-designates-his-11th-National-Monument-Republicans-seek-to-strip-away-his-power-to-do-more#

The president can still do that, right?

That would be a ridiculous assertion.

If the media doesn't report something its is usually because their corporate owners don't want you to know.

So.... Its good we have OP's that educate us what GOP, Inc. is up to.

I'm suggesting that if a bill is presented and then disappears quietly that it's a fringe issue.

Just wondering.

They're fundraising on our dime. They've hung out a free ad ensuring support from oil and mining interests, all the Bundy types and who knows what other anti-society nutters.

It will be proposed again if it fails this year. This has pretty much flown under the radar, with minimal press coverage, and one poster above suggested that this wasn't anything to be concerned about because apparently if it was, the mainstream media would be all over it. I wish more people knew about it now and would hold their representatives accountable.

And pound somebody for this.

He'd chew his own ass if he could reach it.

Hell, there still are.

They also want to use it for hydroelectric power like Hoover Dam on steroids.

kicked the Havasupai off their traditional lands to make it pristine enough to be a national team ark.

They just won back their land rights a few years ago.

So I'm sort on the fuck Teddy Roosevelt bus.

That these people are called "conservatives"? The only thing they want to conserve is their right to exploit for profit, whether it is the commons or human beings.

I cringe every time I have to refer to them, in either party, as "conserv atives". They're against conservation, whether it be our planet or regulations that protect us like Glass-Steagal.

Civil War battlefields.