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Trump
Pushes US Closer to War. ... Bombastic and self-absorbed narcissists
throughout history have meant what they said. And yes, they have
gotten many millions killed. CommonDreams
Who Will Pay
for Huge Pentagon Budget Increase?. CounterPunch
We're at the end of white Christian America. What will that mean?
... After accounting for eight out of 10 Americans in 1976, white
Christians are now a minority, a study has found. The political
implications could be profound. Guardian
Five
Basic Differences Between Education and War … and One Similarity.
CounterPunch
Intercepted
Podcast: ’Merican Psycho. ... Donald Trump appeared before
the United Nations General Assembly this week and read a belligerent
speech written by his vile little political adviser Stephen Miller
A
handful of ultra-rich dynastic families are bleeding the country
dry — and destroying American democracy. RawStory/Reich
Senate
Republicans Aren't Just Aiming to Destroy Obamacare and Medicaid;
They Want to Provide a Death Blow to Any Future Health Care Reform.
... Senator Lindsey Graham says, "Hell no to Berniecare"
as his bill takes aim. AlterNet
White
People Lack Empathy Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum, New Study
Reveals ... We can't keep attributing Trump's rise to economic
anxiety. AlterNet
You
Are Being Organized by Something: 10 Questions for Kathryn Lofton
on Consuming Religion. Religion
Dispatches What
Are ‘Juggalos’ and Why Are They Marching Against the
FBI? Lawfare
A
Major Jewish Philanthropist Just Published A Plan To Ethnically
Cleanse Palestinians, Forward
This "Charitable"
Foundation Is Waging an Attack on Labor Unions While Funding ALEC.
TruthOut
Bernie
Sanders: Saudi Arabia Is “Not an Ally” and the U.S.
Should “Rethink” Its Approach to Iran. Intercept/Sanders
Fight
From Below Seen From Above: New Map Details Fossil Fuel Resistance.
... "With the climate-denying Trump administration putting
the the health of Big Oil billionaires' bottom lines before anyone
else, the time to join your local fight to protect our air, water,
and planet is right now." Don't
Ask About Sean Spicer's Notebooks or He'll Call "Proper Authorities"
On You. ... Axios reporter Mike Allen no longer has permission
to ask former White House press secretary questions. CommonDreans
Trump Supporters Quietly Built A Massive List With The Personal
Information Of Thousands Of People. ... The list began traveling
the dark corners of the internet around April as a scattered collection
of names, addresses, phone numbers and social media accounts.
It's now a massive organized database of thousands of people.
BuzzFeed
September
21, 2017 Republican
Healthcare Bill Will Get Less Than 2 Minutes Of Debate Time. ...
Due to a manipulation of Senate rules, Republicans have created
a healthcare bill that will only be open for debate on the Senate
floor for about 90 seconds – possibly as long as 2 minutes
if things get crazy. This bill could strip more than 30 million
of their health insurance coverage and destroy Medicaid, and the
best the Republicans are willing to give us is 2 minutes. Hillary Clinton
Will Never Understand What Happened. Splinter
Government
by Goldman ... Gary Cohn Is Giving Goldman Sachs Everything It
Ever Wanted From the Trump Administration. The
Intercept Trump's
'election integrity' group is waging war on the right to vote.
Guardian
Trump
administration removes links to taxpayer-funded climate data on
USGS website ... You paid for U.S. Geological Survey climate data,
but the White House is making it disappear. Only
two countries think Trump is doing a better job than Obama did.
RawStory
A
handful of ultra-rich dynastic families are bleeding the country
dry — and destroying American democracy. RawStory
Income
inequality and offshore tax dodging: The rich are richer than
we thought. Like
it or not, the far right is heading for Germany’s Bundestag
... The AfD party has become increasingly nasty – and more
popular too. That nationalists will have a voice in the German
parliament once again is disturbing. How
Netanyahu’s Son Became the Poster Boy for White Supremacists.
... The eldest son of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
has found himself an unlikely poster boy for David Duke, a former
Ku Klux Klan leader, and the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer. CounterPunch
We
Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village.
CounterPunch
Read
All About the Biggest Snowden Reveal. A
Sense of Proportion - The Establishment is fast losing its grip
on the loyalty of the populace. That decline in the respect of
the population for their masters has coincided with the rise of
the importance of the internet and social media, and the corresponding
decline in consumption of traditional print and broadcast news
and current affairs media. Craig
Murray |
[NEW] September 21, 2017 -REMINDER: THERE IS A HEARING ON THE WATER GRAB (APR) PROJECT AT MACEY CENTER, AT NEW MEXICO TECH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 6PM.
PLEASE COME!!! WE NEED TO SHOW UP AND MAKE IT CLEAR THAT OUR INTERESTS
ARE IMPORTANT.
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NEW WATER GRAB ISSUESOctober
2012 - Groundwater
in NM Report August
4, 2017 - Next
stop for Texas-NM water dispute: Supreme Court. NM
Political Report City
(Jal, NM) gave ranch million-dollar water discount, documents
show. NM
Political Report Maps
of declared groundwater basins home page - home page
Map
of NM Basins Over
view of basins in NM. |
NOTICE
As readers no doubt notice, the national news items rely heavily
on several "progressive" (meaning truth to power) websites.
Now Google is censoring access to those specific websites we use
from their search engine. Aggressive censorship started long before
Trump, as censorship was considerably ramped up under Obama.
Read
more here
Private
Prison Demands New Mexico and Feds Find 300 More Prisoners in
60 Days or It Will Close. ... Core Civic isn't making enough money
after sentencing reforms.
AlterNet
August
2, 2017 -
Socorro Electric Co-op member survey -
In the upcoming months, SEC will be conducting a phone survey
with members to received input on a variety of issues. We are
interested in how we are doing as your provider. The SEC has hired
a professional firm to conduct this survey, with the hopes of
giving honest feedback about the service. The survey will ask
questions on a variety of topics, such as the price of electricity,
renewable energy, responsiveness to inquires, and internet service.
July
27, 2017 -
Letter
from Socorro Mayor, Ravi Bhasker, to the
SEC board 
Call
to the Wild - Mexican gray wolf recovery program faces challenges.
Chieftain
Landowners
support (SunZiaw) road restructions -
Chieftain
July
21, 2017 -
Goals discussed at wolf recovery meeting ... If the Mexican gray
wolf population averages 320 in the wild in the United States
over an eight-year period, the animal could be removed from the
endangered species list.
Chieftain
July
17, 2017 -
Speak up for Wolves - Attend upcoming meetings:
July
20th - T of C - 6 - 9pm
Civic Center, Ralph Edwards Auditorium, 400 W 4th
July
22nd - Albuquerque, NM (Facebook
Event) -
Crowne Plaza Albuquerque 1901 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque,
NM 87102
(Prep
at the Wolf Den: 11 am - 12:45 pm
Rally: 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm
FWS Meeting: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
July
16, 2017 -
25 Percent of Australian Homes Have Switched to Solar, and Other
Green Triumphs This Week TruthDig
July
13, 2017 -
Co-op defends situation with TDS - Chieftain
or downlaod
pdf version
July 7, 2017 -
Mexican
Wolf Draft Revised Recovery Plan released Chieftain
PDF
version
Release
range and spotting map:
Could
SunZia supply SEC? Chieftain
pdf
version
Albuquerque
Journal - Boarder Aquifers
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Why
Killing Coyotes Doesn't Make Livestock Safer. TruthOut
July 6, 2017 -
Court
Throws Out Feds’ Misguided Policy Limiting Prosecution of
Killers of Endangered Wildlife. ... Late yesterday, a federal
judge threw out the Department of Justice’s flawed ‘McKittrick
Policy’ under which the government only prosecuted killers
of animals on the Endangered Species Act’s (ESA) list of
imperiled species when it could prove the killer knew the exact
biological identity of the species s/he was harming. The decision
came as a result of a challenge brought by WildEarth Guardians
and the
New
Mexico Wilderness Alliance in 2013.
July 5, 2017 -
The
new west: why Republicans blocked public land management . ...
As ‘permanent tourists’ move to the western US, the
oil and gas-captured Republican party is fighting to keep locals
out of managing public lands. Guardian
Private
Money Goes After Trump’s Public Infrastructure Projects TruthDig
(Note: this is not the infrastructure list that incluses the APR)
July 4, 2017 -
Water
and National Security - Council on Foreign Relations Discussion
Paper.
Note: CFR
is a neo-liberal "think
tank" (sic). These are not supporters of honorable values.
June 29, 2017 -
City
releases electric utility feasibility study -
Chieftain
In
light of the Socorro City Council's recent release of its long
awaited electric feasibility study, Mayor Ravi Bhasker issued
a formal letter to the Socorro Electric Cooperative at its regular
bi-monthly meeting. Chieftain
Download
the full report
or visit the Socorro city website. City
website.
Navajo power plant likely to close
despite Trump’s promises to save coal. Raw
Story
Climate
change is shrinking the West’s water supply ... Three new
studies show dry times ahead.
High
Country News
Can
private money solve public water problems?
As facilities age and public funding declines, private companies
may step in.
High Country News
June 26, 2017 -
Hundreds
file protests against water application.
Chieftain
I
would like to post a reminder of a meeting of the San Augustin
Water Coalition (SAWC) in Datil on June 27th at 6:00pm at the
Datil Baptist Church. Everyone is welcome.
Thank you, Linn Kennedy Chair
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As you are aware from the recent meeting of the San Augustin Water
Coalition, well monitoring is a good idea for all of us. Monitoring
will give us data that we will need to show "impairment"
if the APR get their project approved (heaven forbid!). Below
is a message from the folks in the East Mountains who are also
fighting a water grab attempt. I thought you might like to know
their take on monitoring. Note that the Office of the State Engineer
is reluctant to use the data. By joining the well-monitoring effort
we become added pressure to force the OSE to pay attention.
Carol Pittman P.S. If you need another copy of the Well Monitoring
flyer from NM Tech, let me know and I will send it. pittray@gilanet.com
From
the Deep Well Project: -
Sara Chudnoff was with Bernalillo County, hired by Dan McGregor
to expand the well monitoring program here - and expand it she
did. She is great to work with and I'm really glad she will be
putting together a well monitoring program around the state. Here,
she expanded the program to 200 wells, which are monitored at
least twice a year using proper methods. And that program has
documented a reduction in water levels all over the area of about
2 feet per year - a number which should qualify us for being a
Critical Management area, according to the Morrison Criteria.
In any case, I hope many people in your area will get their wells
monitored - it's really good data to have (although we find that
the OSE is still reluctant to use the data. They would rather
use well drilling data, which may be very old and is certainly
from a wide variety of dates. Janet Winchester Silbaugh. Download
this accouncement
NMT
- Aquifer Maping Program
Well
monitoring brochure
North
14 Deep Well Protest (E. Mountains)
The schedule hearing on July 19, 2017 at the Office of State Engineer re: APR, has been postponed.
[NEW]
Border Water at Risk - Report on aquifers along the US/Mexico
Border. Albuquerque
Journal
or Download
the report
Building
on Regional Trend, Reading, Pa. Passes Anti-Privatization Measure.
Food
& Water Watch.
June
21, 2017 -
How privatization could spell the end of democracy. ... Between
Trump and tech, never before have so many powerful people been
so intent on transforming government into a business. Guardian
Neoliberalism turned our world into a business. And there are
two big winners. ... Fearmongering Donald Trump and optimistic
Silicon Valley seem to epitomize opposing ideologies. But the
two have far more in common than you think. Guardian
(June
9, 2017) Congressional Progressive Cacus white paper on "21
Century New Deal for Jobs" including concerns regarding infrastructure.
Download
Proposed
House Bill by Juan Lujuan: "To rebuild and modernize the
Nation’s infrastructure to expand access to broadband internet,
rehabilitate drinking water infrastructure, modernize the electric
grid and energy supply infrastructure, redevelop brownfields,
strengthen health care infrastructure, create jobs, protect public
health and the environment, and for other purposes"
Download
March
21, 21017 - New Mexico Lobbyists report spending nearly $292K
during session. New
Mexico In Depth
