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As Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Prepares to Meet Donald Trump, His Family’s
Close Ties to Notorious Paramilitary Gangs Draw Scrutiny and Outrage. Intercept
 Manning
and the New Inquisition. ... The U.S. government, determined to extradite
and try Julian Assange for espionage, must find a way to separate what Assange
and WikiLeaks did in publishing classified material leaked to them by Chelsea
Manning from what The New York Times and The Washington Post did in publishing
the same material. TruthDig/Hedges
Trump
administration ignoring human rights monitors, ACLU tells UN. Guardian
Saudis Join With
US to Kill EU Effort to Create Dirty Money Blacklist. ... "Governments must
ask themselves whether they are on the side of autocrats or their citizens!"
CommonDreams
The
Neoliberal Road to Serfdom. ... The oldest refrain of the Right is that socialism
leads to tyranny. Yet for the last four decades, it’s neoliberalism that’s
been inching us closer to a police state. Jacobin
Ricardo
Hausmann’s “Morning After” for Venezuela: The Neoliberal Brain
Behind Juan Guaido’s Economic Agenda. Gray
Zone
March
20, 2019 Fewer
Than 20 Percent Of Americans Say Trump Opposes White Nationalism. ... Most of
the president’s supporters said white Americans face a lot of discrimination.
HuffPost
'Why
Educate the Public When You Can Give Billionaires Tax Cuts': Trump Budget Would
Slash All Federal Funding for Media, Arts, Libraries, Museums. ... "We should
be spending more, not less," argued one critic. CommonDreams
Will
Decentralization of Neo-Nazism Spur More Right-Wing Terrorism? TruthOut
Brazil
President’s U.S. Visit Kicks Off With Steve Bannon-Sponsored Paranoia Fest.
... At the Trump hotel event, anti-globalist advocates pushed for even greater
influence over Jair Bolsonaro’s government. HuffPost 'One
of the World's Most Respected Intelligence Services': Bolsonaro's Bring-Your-Son-to-the-CIA
Day. ... "This is the perfect symbol for Latin America's far right, which
has for decades drowned the left in blood thanks to the help of its CIA benefactor."
CommonDreams
The
Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change
... A three-year UN-backed study from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform
On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has grim implications for the future of
humanity. HuffPost Social
Media Companies “Struggle” to Help Censors Keep us in the Dark. ...
According to CNN Business, “Facebook, YouTube and Twitter struggle to deal
with New Zealand shooting video.” CounterPunch
Saudi
Crown Prince’s Brutal Drive to Crush Dissenters Began Before Khashoggi. NY
Times Raging
white woman spits at black people as she spews the N-word — and quickly loses
her job. RawStory
Ilhan
Omar Speaks Out On Israel In New Op-Ed
March
19, 2019 Why
Trump’s comments about the New Zealand attacks are so disturbing.
AlterNet
Former
Neo-Nazi: Trump May Be Complicit in Growing Threat of White Supremacy.DemocracyNow
Despite
Crackdowns, White Supremacist And Neo-Nazi Videos Take Stubborn Root On YouTube.
... The ideas in a treatise by Brenton Tarrant, the alleged gunman responsible
for the massacres at two New Zealand mosques, are also circulating on many of
the world’s most popular social media platforms. HuffPost
America's
Economy Is Rigged From Top to Bottom. ... The children of working stiffs learned
a brutal lesson this week as federal prosecutors criminally charged rich people
with buying admission to elite universities for their less-than-stellar children.
The lesson is that no matter how hard you work, no matter how smart or talented
you are, a dumb, lazy rich kid is going to beat you. Don’t
Let Mueller Restore Your Faith in the FBI.
ICE
Is Illegally Detaining Kids As Young As 5, Who Are Suffering ‘Horrendous’
Effects. ... Lawyers said the children are experiencing depression, physical illnesses
and appetite loss. HuffPost
'Endless Trip to Hell': Israel Jails Hundreds of Palestinian Boys a Year. These
Are Their Testimonies. ... They’re seized in the dead of night, blindfolded
and cuffed, abused and manipulated to confess to crimes they didn't commit. Every
year Israel arrests almost 1,000 Palestinian youngsters, some of them not yet
13. Haaretz
Gold
King Mine wastewater contaminating the rivers once again. Navajo
Times Trump
2020: a huge war chest, a million volunteers and a revamped digital campaign.
... He came into 2016 as an outsider but now he has the Republican party
support, big money donors and a new digital guru to power his 2020 campaign. Guardian
Establishment
Democrats Are Undermining Medicare for All. TruthOut
Trump
is cornered, with violence on his mind. We must be on red alert. ... Investigators
close in, the president invokes the support of the military, police and vigilantes.
This is a perilous moment. Guardian
March
18, 2019 “A
Fundamentally Illegitimate Choice”: Shoshana Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance
Capitalism. Intercept
Venezuela
Coup Leader’s Oil Plans Revealed: Guaidó Hopes to Privatize State-Controlled
Industry. ... US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó and his
right-wing economic advisers drafted plans to privatize Venezuela’s oil industry
and open up the oil-rich country to foreign corporations, Reuters reported. Gray
Zone US
official reveals Atlantic drilling plan while hailing Trump’s ability to
distract public. ... Revealed: Interior department official says he is ‘thrilled’
by Trump’s ‘knack for keeping the attention of the media and public
focused somewhere else’ Guardian
‘Jesus
didn’t come to make us rich’ — and Trump’s popularity among
evangelicals exposes them for what they really are: Chris Hedges. RawStory
Don’t
Just Condemn the New Zealand Attacks — Politicians and Pundits Must Stop
Their Anti-Muslim Rhetoric. Intercept
GOP
congressman releases statement that appears sympathetic to the New Zealand shooter’s
motives. ... Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) suggests the New Zealand shooter had reasonable
concerns about immigrants. ThinkProgress
If
the Filibuster Remains, the Progressive Agenda Is Doomed. .. It takes 60 votes
for Democrats to build something, but only 50 for the GOP to tear it down. US
to deny visas for ICC members investigating alleged war crimes. Washington
also threatened economic sanctions if war crimes court goes ahead with inquiry
into US troops in Afghanistan. Guardian
Did
Dallas Police and Local Media Collude to Cover Up Terrorist Threats against Journalist
Barrett Brown? CounterPunch
Weekend
of March 15-17, 2019 Weekend
Read: Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set
On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself - by David Talbot. The
election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to
many Americans. How could a man so lacking in capacity, so void of any intellectual
heft, become the president of the United States? How did Trump, a man with no
detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate,
appeal to millions of Americans and win the highest office in the land? The American
right has spent decades turning away from reasoned discourse toward a rhetoric
of pure resentment—it’s this shift that laid the groundwork for Trump’s
ascendency. Related: Numb to corruption: How Republicans trained
their base to ignore Trump's criminality. How we got here: Republicans spent decades
indoctrinating their supporters to ignore scandal and corruption. Salon
Regime
Change Via Sanctions? U.S. Uses International Finance System to Strangle Venezuelan
Economy. DemocracyNow
Tribunal
Declares Trump and Duterte Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity. ...Philippine President
Rodrigo Duterte and his government committed war crimes and crimes against humanity,
aided and abetted by U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration, according
to a recent ruling from the International Peoples’ Tribunal on the Philippines.
TruthOut
Will
New Mexico’s Historic Labor Win Spark Change in Other States?. TruthOut
The
Boeing 737 Max 8: a Case Study in Uncreative Destruction. CounterPunch
Animal
Right is the Nex Frontier for the Left. ... As the left hardens its commitment
to fighting climate change, social injustice, and rampant capitalism, the question
of what to do about animals will become inescapable. Brazil
to Open Indigenous Reserves to Mining Without Indigenous Consent. ... For many
years, international and Brazilian mining companies have dreamed of getting access
to the mineral wealth lying beneath indigenous lands. Finally, the government
of Jair Bolsonaro seems determined to give them that opportunity. Who
ordered Marielle Franco's murder? Republican
congressman says Green New Deal is ‘tantamount to genocide’. ... Calling
the Green New Deal resolution a “fantasy-land proposal” and “tantamount
to genocide,” House Republicans said they want to have a public debate on
the plan in order to “pull the curtain back.” ThinkProgress
Archived
News:
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WATER GRAB - SEC - LOCAL ENVIRO. & NEWS March
9, 2019 - March
2, 2019 - February
22, 2019 - Friends
of the Bosque Winter Newsletter February
20, 2019 - February
15, 2019 - February
15, 2019 - PLEASE NOTE that I am NOT an attorney, and that these comments are as I understood the proceedings. Any errors are mine and should e considered in context...I tried to get it as error-free as possible. - Eileen Dodds There
were approximately 80 people (including the attorneys) in the small courtroom
in Reserve for the hearing. Judge Reynolds opened the proceedings... He called
on all attorneys to introduce themselves and state whom they represented. Mr. Lindeen, representing the Office of the State Engineer, was in favor of the discovery request, but also wanted a fully-developed record and all issues (including anti-speculation) argued. Jamie Park, representing some 80 clients of the NM Environmental Law Center, cited Article 16, Section 5 of a code, which limits the court to decisions based on OSE statutes. She said the facts in the application itself were enough for the court to decide on the Motion for Summary Judgment which the NMELC filed 60 days ago. She requested a hearing on that motion by March 15th. Mr. Dominici, representing Catron County, opposed the discovery request, saying the court has already reviewed everything, and that the OSE was comfortable with their decision. He supported the decision on summary judgment to be made sooner than later. Ms. Davidson, representing the Hand Family Trust, asked for a full argument on anti-speculation. Then
Judge Reynolds addressed the proceedings. He did not limit what anyone could file
on summary judgment if it was brought up in the OSE's denial and issues in the
ORIGINAL application. He said he thought this new application was different enough
from the original to allow it. BUT he expressed aggravation about the length of
time this has been going on (12 years), and by the LLC's request for discovery
at this time. He said they have had 12 years to discover everything, and they
should have raised the issue before. (Rule 56 ?) He said he needs to resolve Rule
56 to be able to consider "dismissing with prejudice", as it is a drastic
issue, and the APR is entitled to the benefit of doubt. He cautioned care on everyone's
responses. He told the LLC that just because the OSE may not have followed their
own statutes with other drilling applications, it was no reason to disregard the
statutes, and he would be looking at the LETTER of the law. He wants to see the
argument on the question of commercial sale of water proving "beneficial
use" in New Mexico. He said the LLC does NOT need an evidentiary delay. He
cautioned all attorneys against asking for continuances, and he set the calendar
for coming proceedings.
1 - By 3/15/19 - Amended Motion for Summary
February
15, 2019 - Your
Voice is Needed to Defend Clean Water! COPPER MINE ACTION
2. TAKE ACTION NOW BY CONTACTING THE HB 220 Will Be Heard in this Committee Next Week See
the full alert with House Judiciary members contact information February
12, 2019 - February
11, 2019 - TAKE ACTION TODAY! Download
full press release here Tell our legislators that you support HB220 and HB255 that will protect our community, our water supplies and environment from the impacts of copper mining! See the full press release for list of representatives. HB255
would phase out corporate guarantees from an affiliated corporation in Mining
Act permits, closing a loophole in the law that lets mining companies shift up
to 75% of the financial burden and environmental risk for cleanup and reclamation
onto the taxpayer and local communities. Download
HB 255 HB220
would nullify those provisions of the Copper Mine Rule that allow copper mines
to pollute groundwater above NM water quality standards. Donwload
HB 220 February
11, 2019 - February
9, 2019 - February
1, 2019 - February
1, 2019 - January
31, 2019 - February
1, 2019 - January
22, 2018 - January
16, 2019 - January
15, 2019 - January
14, 2019 - January 7, 2019 - APR, LLC Update: ab) APR LLC filed an appeal to the State Engineer’s decision to deny their application to mine water in the Plains of San Augustin. That appeal was made to the 7th Judicial District Court. Judge Reynolds is the water Judge. Their action required a reaction and that has indeed occurred. Doug Meiklejohn of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center has filed a Motion for Summary Judgment. That kind of Motion requests the Judge to throw out the appeal and deny the application as did the State Engineer. Download the motion below. Judge Reynolds has responded by setting a date for a hearing. The hearing announcement is also attached. PLEASE NOTE THE DATE: February 13, time 11:30, place Courthouse in Reserve. Your attendance is urgently requested, so please put this date on your calendar. The Judge needs to know we care as a community about this dreadful proposal to take 54000 acre feet of water every year from our aquifer. Related
documents: January
4, 2019 -
December
6, 2018 -
December
3, 2018- December
3, 2018 - Last
Ditch Standing: A tale of water inequality in the West. River
of Lost Souls November
16, 2018 - October
8, 2010 - November
1, 2018 - November
1, 2018 - October
23, 2018 - October
22, 2018 - PROTEST COPPER FLAY MINE - 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 -
New
Mexico Legal Notices website September
4, 2018 - August
1, 2018 - June
26, 2018 - New
Analysis Demonstrates Importance of Gila National Forest-Northern Arizona Wildlife
Corridor for Mexican Wolf Recovery. NM
Wild 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
Water Grab Archive: 2017 - 2016
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