2016-2017
P3 COMMENTARY AND NEWS
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
 June
28, 2017 - Can
private money solve public water problems?
As facilities age and public funding
declines, private companies may step in. High
Country News 
June
22, 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
A
Grain of Truth: RCEP and the Corporate Hijack of Indian Agriculture. ... The plight
of farmers in India has been well documented. A combination of debt, economic
liberalisation, subsidised imports, rising input costs and a shift to cash crops
(including GM cotton) has caused massive financial distress. Counter
Punch Neoliberalism
– the ideology at the root of all our problems. ... Financial meltdown, environmental
disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its
part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?
Guardian
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
Update
on the 500 Infrastructure Project list
(initially 50), one of which was the APR (See below for details) ...
Rob MacGregor,
Legislative Director, office of Steve Pearce (NM-02) contacted the white house
and the list is “not something from the White House and not something
we support.”. Download
the story and NM projects list
June 19, 2017 -
Lessons from the Charter School Disaster in Indianapolis. ... A teacher in
Indiana's thoughts on returning to teaching in the public schools.
AlterNet
Trump's infrastructure
plan is a pillar of his agenda. It also isn't very smart Guardian
Stealth Logging
in the National Forests.
Counter
Punch
June
8, 2017 - The
thing about Trump's infrastructure plan is: it doesn't really exist. ... The Republican
leaders of Congress killed off that plan months before Trump ever reached the
Oval Office. What we are left with is a farce. Guardian
From
2015:
What
the heck is a P3? Conservation Voters New Mexico
or download it here June
8, 2017 -
Correspondance related to the new 500 infrastructure project list
from Gail Armstrong (R-NM Dist. 2) to the NM Governor's office Click
here.pdf And read the next paragraph for more information - Related:
State requested projects:
I-10 corridor improvement
DHS Interoperability
New crime lab
Santa
Teresa Intermodal facilities
Remediation of Carlsbad brine well Not
requested by the state:
Southline Transmission Project
SunZia Transmission
Project
Augustin Plains Ranch Related:
More
than 500 infrastructure projects are pitched to Trump, who will favor private
money and speed. ... States, unions, presidential advisers and consultants flood
the White House with proposals. The president's pledge to cut regulations and
his condition for funding — "If you have a job that you can't start
within 90 days ... it doesn't help us" — risks leaving critical construction
and repair behind. (Full list of the projects at the bottom of the article). APM
Reports
Download
the story and NM projects list
NM
DHS Interoperability
NM New crime lab Public Safety
NM Santa Teresa
Intermodal facilities
NM Augustin Plains Ranch Water $600 million
NM
Remediation of Carlsbad Brine well Water
AZ, CA, NM, TX I-10 Corridor Improvement
AZ, NM Southline Power Transmission
AZ, NM SunZia Power Transmission How
Business “Partnerships” Flopped at America’s Largest University,
...recent “partnerships” with private businesses have been far less
productive.
Counter Punch Robert
Reich: Trump’s Infrastructure Scam. ... What Donald Trump is proposing is
nothing but a huge and unnecessary tax giveaway to the rich. AlterNet
Trump’s
privatisation plans 'would hand America's most important assets to special interests'.
... Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer asserted that financiers would profit
while average citizens will be stuck with the bill for infrastructure projects.
Independent
Trump’s
“America First“ Infrastructure Plan: Let Saudi Arabia and Blackstone
Take Care of It. ...
Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump blasted
his rival for taking money from Saudi Arabia, which, he regularly charged, has
a horrific human rights record and was behind the attack on
September 11
Intercept
This
Land is Your Land. ... America's public lands are under threat. The Guardian is
seeking contributions to support our series on the great public land giveaway.
Thanks to your generosity, we hit our $50,000 goal in just 31 hours. Additional
funds will be used to support our coverage of critical environmental issues. Guardian
More
than 500 infrastructure projects are pitched to Trump, who will favor private
money and speed. ... States, unions, presidential advisers and consultants flood
the White House with proposals. The president's pledge to cut regulations and
his condition for funding — "If you have a job that you can't start
within 90 days ... it doesn't help us" — risks leaving critical construction
and repair behind. (Full list of the projects at the bottom of the article).
APM
Reports
Inequality
in the United States, which began its most recent rise in the late 1970s, continues
to surge in the post–Great Recession era. During similar eras -
such
as the New Deal - many of the public goods and services we value today were created
to deliver widespread prosperity. But the way in which cities, school districts,
states, and the federal government
deliver things like education, social
services, and water profoundly affects the quality and availability of these vital
goods and services. In the last few decades, efforts to privatize public goods
and services have helped fuel an increasingly unequal society. This report examines
the ways in which the insertion of private interests into the provision of public
goods and services hurts poor individuals and families, and people of color.
How
privitization increases inequality May
30, 2017 -
How Business “Partnerships” Flopped at America’s
Largest University, ...recent “partnerships” with private businesses
have been far less productive.
Counter
Punch Inequality
in the United States, which began its most recent rise in the late 1970s, continues
to surge in the post–Great Recession era. During similar eras -
such
as the New Deal - many of the public goods and services we value today were created
to deliver widespread prosperity. But the way in which cities, school districts,
states, and the federal government
deliver things like education, social
services, and water profoundly affects the quality and availability of these vital
goods and services. In the last few decades, efforts to privatize public goods
and services have helped fuel an increasingly unequal society. This report examines
the ways in which the insertion of private interests into the provision of public
goods and services hurts poor individuals and families, and people of color.
How
privitization increases inequality May
18, 2017 -- (April
24, 2017) The Incoming Privatization Assault.Get ready for everything from private
infrastructure and private prisons to voucherized schools and Medicaid.
American Prospect May
13, 1027 -
'This is our land': New Mexico's tribal groups gear up to fight
for their home. ... President Trump’s decision to review the designations
of 27 national monuments has raised fears of a corporate giveaway – and the
pueblos of the Rio Grande valley are worried. ... New Mexico’s Republican
congressional representative Steve Pearce has proposed reducing the 490,000-acre
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks national monument to 54,800 acres, and described
Obama’s expansion of the national monuments as an abuse of power.
Guardian
May
3, 2017 - Reclamation
Seeks Information on Water Infrastructure Alternative Financing and Public-Private
Partnerships. Press
Release
Agenda
May,
2 2017 -
Study: Livestock Grazing on Public Lands Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion
Over Past Decade. Center for Biological
Diversity
Report
and BLM and USFS livestock grazing stats Apruil
13, 2017 -
Shocking Education Report Shows Taxpayers Paying Hundreds of Millions
for Unneeded and Inferior Charter Schools. .. California's dismal record serves
as a warning as Trump administration gears up for massive K-12 privatization.
AlterNet
March 15, 2017 -
Congressman Steve Pearce
is hosting a Town Hall for constituents of New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District.
When:
Saturday March 18, 2017 at 12:00 pm MST
Where: New Mexico Farm & Ranch
Heritage Museum
Download
information and questions to ask Pearce
A report
on how a foreign political movement promotes charter schools in the U.S.: Scores
of state lawmakers took trips subsidized by controversial Turkish opposition movement.
(including NM Rep George
Munoz ... Public
Integrity Pigs
at the Trough: Privatization of the Public Good. ... Donald Trump has assembled
a Cabinet distinguished by capitalist oligarchs, hedge-fund scammers and failed
military officers. However, these officials – some have yet to receive Senate
approval – share a common belief that the federal budget is a bottomless
pig’s feeding trough to be plundered for private corporate and, ultimately,
management and shareholder personal enrichment.
CounterPunch
Trump's
infrastructure plans will hamper access to clean water. ... Since Donald Trump
unveiled his infrastructure plan, many have written that it should be called a
privatization plan, and rightly so. The
Hill Beyond
the Mirage The Future of Water in the West -
Video on YouTube January
5, 2017 -
The Great Public Land Heist Has Begun Without
demonstrable public will and with strong opposition from environmentalists, hunters,
anglers, the Department of the Interior, and the outdoor recreation industry,
among others, Republican lawmakers are attempting to transfer control of your
public lands from federal to state governments in a thinly-veiled attempt to force
their sale for purposes of resource exploitation. Now, the first blow has been
struck. -
Under
current Congressional Budget Office accounting rules, any transfer of federal
land that generates revenue for the U.S. Treasury - whether through energy extraction,
logging, grazing or other activities - has a cost. If lawmakers wanted to give
such land to a state, local government or tribe, they would have to account for
that loss in expected cash flow. The
immediate impact of the rules change is that lawmakers cannot raise a budgetary
point of order if a land transfer bill comes to the floor. Under existing House
rules, any measure that costs the U.S. Treasury money must be offset by either
budget cuts or a revenue-raising provision. The
culprit, UT Congressman Rob Bishop:
"Bishop's initial act upon his appointment
as Chairman Natural Resources was his decision to hire several oil and gas industry
officials to work on the subcommittee that oversees oil and gas leases on public
lands. Press coverage that highlights industry insiders working for the chairman
contributes to the impression that Washington D.C.’s revolving door is alive
and well at the Natural Resources Committee...."
Rest of the story -
WestWise
:
115THCONGRESS
- 1ST SESSION - H. RES. 5. The Bill, HR-115
Related News
Articles: April
9, 2015 - Republicans just voted to sell off your national forests
Gizmo
January
3, 2017 - House GOP rules change will make it easier to sell off federal land
WaPo
January
4, 2017 - Selling off public lands. The House rule change that went unnoticed.
DailyKos
December
6. 2016 -
Tar Heel Heist: How the Charter School Industry is Hijacking
Public Education. ... NC offers a harrowing preview of what American classrooms
might look like under President Trump. AlterNet
November 21, 2016 -
Paul
Krugman: Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan is one big scam - Trump's plan
to rebuild the country's infrastructure is really a scheme to enrich wealthy people
Salon/Krugman
October
18, 2016 - Ute Tribe declares political war with Rep. Rob Bishop. SLTrib
June
22, 2016 -
House
bill to sell national forests passes committe The
above article here
May
26, 2016 - A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The
new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires
— are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented
pace. Website
here
or PDF
version here 042516-
"Nestlé Is Trying to Break Us": A Pennsylvania Town Fights Predatory
Water Extraction -more-
March
14,2016 - Cashing in on Kids: Corporate Lobbying Powerhouse ALEC Pushed 172 School
Privatization Bills Last Year. Click
Here March
2016 - State of Public Water in the US - Report by Food and Water watch. Click
here February
2016 - Landmark Survey Shows For-Profit Water is a Risky Rip-Off. Click
here
February
13, 2016 - From London - "The spiritual wellbeing of our cities is being
eroded by the creeping corporatisation and privatisation of its public spaces,
the author Will Self has warned." Rest of the story click
here 2012
Right Wing Watch report on privatization
Click
Here February
22, 2016 - GOP advances water privitization (in WI) CLick
here February
3, 2016 - Privatization on Steroids: Emergency Manager Who Switched Flint Water
Resigns from Detroit Schools. Click
here January
13, 2016 - Netflix Founder Drops $100 Million to Join Billionaire Crusade to Privatize
Our Public Schools Click
here January
24, 2015 - Obama Administration Enables Billionaire Takeover of US Public Schools
Click
here
Nov
18, 2015 -
Here's how funding for the Purple Line will work - A rail transport
line in DC Click
here November
2, 2013 - Washington Post -
Opposition
to D.C. public-private land deals imperil library, other projects By
Mike DeBonis November 2, 2013January 20, 2016 - Obama
Administration Enables Billionaire Takeover of America's Public Schools January
16, 2016 -
Emergency for Democracy: Unelected Manager Who Caused Flint Water
Crisis Now Runs Detroit Schools (Video
and transcript) January
2016 -
Philanthropic Power and Development - Who shapes the agenda ....examines
the role and impact of philanthropic foundations in development. It addresses
the impacts and side effects of philanthropic engagement by taking a closer look
at the priorities and operations of two of the most prominent foundations, the
Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in two crucial
sectors, health and agriculture.
Click
Here
Story
on the report here
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