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of October 19-21, 2018 1947 The House Un-American Activities Committee opens public hearings on alleged communist infiltration in Hollywood. Among those denounced as having un-American tendencies are: Katherine Hepburn, Charles Chaplin and Edward G. Robinson. Among those called to testify is Screen Actors Guild President Ronald Reagan, who denies that leftists ever controlled the Guild and refuses to label anyone a communist. Socorro Electric Cooperative water grab augustin plains ranchn | ||||
Weekend
Read: How
to make a can - YouTube
Saudi Arabia Financed
the Killers of American Troops I Commanded. TruthDig
What the Mainstream
Media Aren't Telling You About Jamal Khashoggi. TruthDig
At
the Heart of Global Woes, 157 of World's 200 Richest Entities Are Now Corporations,
Not Governments. ... From massive inequality to the climate crisis, these powerful
corporations "are able to demand that governments do their bidding"
CommonDreams Democratic
Autopsy: One Year Later. ... Progressive momentum could lead to historic breakthroughs
in the midterms and beyond. Realizing such potential will require transforming
and energizing the Democratic Party. The
Nation Robert
Reich: The Economy Is in Much Worse Shape Than It Looks. TruthDig
As
Trump Vows "A Lot of Cutting" After Midterms, Americans Urged to Protect
Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid at the Voting Booth. ... With Trump's
support, the GOP "has spent the last two years doing everything they can
to reach onto our pockets, steal our money, and give it to their pay masters on
Wall Street." CommonDreams
The
Giant Corporations Behind Your Burgers And Milk Have A Terrifying Climate Secret.
,,, Together, five companies have a climate footprint bigger than Exxon, Shell
or BP, but we don’t talk about it. HuffPost
Anti-Terrorism
Laws Increasingly Used to Target Indigenous Activists. TruthOut
As
Facebook Shows Off Its "Election War Room," A Massive WhatsApp Scandal
Hits Brazil. ... The timing of Facebook's announcement throws into question how
serious the company is about actually fighting misinformation in Brazil's election.
BuzzFeed
As
FBI Whistleblower Terry Albury Faces Sentencing, His Lawyers Say He Was Motivated
by Racism and Abuses at the Bureau. Intercept
October
18, 2018
Investigation:
As U.S.-Backed War in Yemen Raged, UAE Hired U.S. Mercenaries to Kill Yemeni Leaders.
DemocracyNow
A
History of Crushing Dissent: Before Khashoggi, Saudis Targeted Feminists Demanding
Right to Drive. DemocracyNow
Why
Israel’s - and America’s - Legal Justifications for Assassinations Don’t
Add Up. ... The expansion of legal rules around targeted killings by the United
States is one of the most consequential legacies of the post-9/11 era. Under both
the Bush and Obama administrations, the U.S. government arrogated itself broad
rights to kill individuals far from any battlefield. Intercept
Groups
To Sue Department Of Education For Information On Issue Of Arming Teachers
America
Is Authoritarian by Design.
October
17, 2018 Political
Violence Surges in Brazil as Far-Right Strongman Jair Bolsonaro Inches Closer
to the Presidency. Intercept
Brazil:
the First Republic under threat. The
Washington Post, as it Shames Others, Continues to Pay and Publish Undisclosed
Saudi Lobbyists and Other Regime Propagandists. Intercept
'You
Couldn't Make This Up': A Bunch of Mops, Cleaners, and Trash Bags Delivered to
Saudi Consulate Ahead of Khashoggi Murder Probe. ... As one reporter joked, "the
way to preserve the integrity of a possible crime scene and bolster confidence
in the investigation is to bring in a bunch of cleaners through the front door
before the detectives arrive." CommonDreams
Former
Saudi Political Prisoner: Khashoggi’s Disappearance Is Sending a Gruesome
Message to Critics. DemocracyNow
Facebook
Meddles in the 2018 Midterm Elections. CounterPunch
Facebook
Accused of 'Full-Frontal Suppression of Dissent' After Independent Media Swept
Up in Mass Purge. ... The massive shutdown affected many progressive sites devoted
to covering war, police brutality, and other issues neglected by the corporate
media. CommonDreams
Nation
Warned That Trump's "Horrifying" Medicaid Pick Hired With "Express
Purpose to Dismember" Program. ... Mary Mayhew "destroyed Medicaid in
Maine now she will destroy it in the whole country." Mitch
McConnell Eyes Entitlements After Tax Cuts Failed to Pay for Themselves. ... Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the budget deficit "disturbing."
AlterNet
October
16, 2018 American
History for Truthdiggers: Lies We Tell Ourselves About the Old West. ... “They
[the Sioux Indians] are to be treated as maniacs or wild beasts and by no means
as people.” —Gen. John Pope, in instructions to his officers during
an Indian war in Minnesota (1862). TruthDig
Israel
Is Captive to Its 'Destructive Process' . TruthDig/Hedges
The
Saudi Atrocities in Yemen are a Worse Story Than the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
CounterPunch/Cockburn
GOP
Lawmaker Rips Mic From Democratic Candidate’s Hands During Debate. ... When
he was done talking, Rep. Duane Quam just tossed the mic in front of her. HuffPost
Republican
Official Caught Purging Tens of Thousands of Black Voters from His Own Election
for Governor. ... Running for governor against a black woman, Brian Kemp has instituted
a new voter verification system that just happens to flag a lot of black voters.
AlterNet
Calves
in Confinement. ... Gruesome Footage of Dairy Calves Exposes a Gaping Loophole
in California’s Landmark Animal Welfare Law. Intercept
Trump’s
Aggressive Plans to Stifle Democracy. Trump's administration is aggressively
pushing measures to restrict public protest and citizen participation. Military
Officials Aren’t Supposed to Associate With Hate Groups. So Why Are These
Generals Speaking at Frank Gaffney’s Confab? Intercept
Nearly
Every Member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Still Takes Corporate PAC
Money. Seed,
Pesticide and Banking Monopolies — Not Immigrants — Are Destroying Farm
Country. An Iowa Insurgent Hopes That Message Can Dethrone Steve King. Intercept
October
15, 2018 When following the news on the Main Stream Media (MSM), or better described as Lame Stream Media (LSM), always keep in mind those talking head "experts", "consultants", or "analyst" are probably not what they seem. All MSM/LSM news outlets bring on paid consultants to explain the story of the day. Some are x-government officials, associated with one political party or the other, corporate shills or military water-boys. For example: The Washington Post has writers on staff who write news articles, OpEd, and opinions and may even appear on TV as experts on particular issues. Their job is to control the conversation on behalf of their clients In the case of WaPo, two of those paid staff members are Ed Rogers and Carter Eskew who do work for the Saudi government. Eskew
is Founder and Managing director of probably the biggest Saudi lobbyist firm,
Glover Park. Glover
Park was founded by Clinton aides, Joe Lockhart, Carter Eskew and others. Glover
Park firm is all about steering "... the conversation where our
client needs it to go. Ed Rogers is a paid registered agent of the Saudi government. He works for the BGR Group. Rogers has a new contract worth $80,000/month. But
wait, there's more: -
WaPo's Carter Eskew Bonus point: Eskew just wrote a piece in the WaPo about how 'medicare for all' is not feasible while representing healthcare giants -like CVS Health- through the Glover Park Group. The relation between Eskew, GPG and the healthcare industry were undisclosed, of course.
Watch:
The Stunning Rise of Brazil’s Far Right and What It Shows About Western Democracies.
Intercept
'Flowering of hate': bitter election brings wave of political violence to Brazil. ... Supporters of presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who is leading i Trump
‘poses the single greatest threat’ to our climate, bombshell UN report
makes clear... Trump team approves landmark climate report -- and then rejects
it. ThinkProgress
At
Largest ICE Detention Center in the Country, Guards Called Attempted Suicides
“Failures” Intercept
The
Deceptive Contrast Between Trump and Kavanaugh. ... Last week, the impetuous President
and the thoughtful Supreme Court nominee seemed very different, but they share
an agenda for the country. How
Trump Voters View the President Now. Trump
hints that he plans to seriously obstruct justice after the midterms. ... "I
want to get the elections over with, we'll see what happens." ThinkProgress
Dianne
Feinstein Finally Agrees to “Debate” Senate Challenger, While Ensuring
Almost No One Watches It. Intercept
Women
aren't united against Kavanaugh. That's a dangerous myth. ... Women
aren’t a singular demographic. There are myriad differences between us –
and ignoring that is harmful for our politics.
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WATER GRAB - SEC - LOCAL ENVIRO. & NEWS 
October
18, 2018 - October
17, 2018 - October
16, 2018 - October
12, 2018 - Santolina - This is a very complex set of cases and filings. For the Level A Master Plan (which covers the entire proposed development), we appealed the County Commission approval of the Plan to the Court of Appeals and the paperwork on that by all the parties may be complete. Also in the Court of Appeals is an appeal by Bernalillo County of the 2nd Judicial District Court's decision voiding the Zone Map change for the Santolina development. The developer, Western Albuquerque Land Holdings (WALH), also filed an appeal of that decision and our Answer brief to their appeal is due October 30th. For the Level B Master Plan approval (Level B is for a sub-section of the whole Level A Master Plan), we have filed in District Court our Statement of Appellate Reasons and are waiting for the Agustin
Plains Water Grab -
San Augustin Water Coalition Meeting Tuesday, October 9th 6 p.m. at the Datil Baptist Church. New
Mexico Legal Notices website
October
4, 2018 - October
4, 2018 - October
1, 2018 - September
25, 2018 - September
19, 2018 - September
17, 2018 - August
14, 2018 - (2012)
Protecting Resources
for Land-Based People: The New Mexico Water-Transfer Conundrum. September
20, 2018 - September
20, 2018 - September
17, 2018 - September
16, 2018 - September
13, 2018 - September
6, 2018 - September
4, 2018 - September
3, 2018 -
August
23, 2018 - August
5, 2018 - June
26, 2018 - New
Analysis Demonstrates Importance of Gila National Forest-Northern Arizona Wildlife
Corridor for Mexican Wolf Recovery. NM
Wild July
2018 - June
4, 2018- Standoff
Over Mexican Gray Wolf Continues in Southwestern U.S. NatureNow
New
Analysis Demonstrates Importance of Gila National Forest-Northern Arizona Wildlife
Corridor for Mexican Wolf Recovery. New
Mexico Wild May
30,2018 - APR watr grab update from Carol Pittman:: The proposed project by the Augustin Plains Ranch LLC (APR LLC) is one which we, the community, must fight on three fronts. 1) The legal front. We have twice won on this front because we have had top-notch representation by the New Mexico Environmental Law Center. NMELC continues to represent us and should you have a couple of bucks to spare, a donation would help us meet our expenses (travel, court filings, copying, mailing). Here is a link to their website: http://www.nmelc.org/ You can also send a check to NMELC, 1405 Luisa St., Suite #5, Santa Fe NM 87505. In either case be sure to indicate that your donation if for the “Augustin Plains account.”
2) The second front we must fight on is the technical front. As you may know,
the APR LLC has engaged Occam Engineering to conduct a hydrological study of the
Plains. Occam Engineering
We, therefore, must do our own hydrological study. If you’d like to contribute to our hydrology fund, there are two ways to do that. Make a donation to the San Augustin Water Coalition, PO Box 613, Datil NM 87821. Designate your donation for the “Hydrology Fund.” OR, go on line to the Southwest Research and Information Center http://www.sric.org/ and contribute to the Augustin Plains account. SRIC administers our grant funds, but also takes individual donations. The investment you make to save our community will also protect the investment you’ve made in your home and/or business. 3)
The third front in our water battle is political. While I'm not suggesting that
anyone be a one-issue voter, I do suggest that you consider voting for those who
stand with our community on this issue. If this project is approved it will set
a precedent that can harm all of New Mexico's rural communities. May
3, 2018 - April
26, 2018 - April
26, 2018 - April
18, 2018 - APRIL
17, 2018 Alex
Reinhart presentation slides.
April
6, 2018 - (East
Mountain) Water dispute has statewide implications. Mountain
View Telegraph April
5, 2018 - April
5, 2018 - April
4, 2018 - April
4, 2018 - April
2, 2018 -
March
24, 2018 - VIDEOS March
15, 2018 - March 15,
2017 - Bhasker
vows to go after the electric cooperative
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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.
