Posted on 11/13/2013 4:33:54 AM PST by bestintxas
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says she will recommend that President Obama act alone if necessary to create new national monuments and sidestep a gridlocked Congress that has failed to address dozens of public lands bills. Jewell said the logjam on Capitol Hill has created a conservation backlog, and she warned that the Obama administration would not "hold its breath forever" waiting for lawmakers to act. "The president will not hesitate," Jewell said in an interview in San Francisco last week. "I can tell you that there are places that are ripe for setting aside, with a tremendous groundswell of public support." Congress has not added any acreage to the national park or wilderness systems since 2010. Jewell blamed ramped-up rhetoric in Washington for the impasse. She said the appetite for preserving American historic and cultural sites remains high but some officials seek to avoid the appearance of publicly embracing more government protection. Jewell, who has been on the job scarcely six months, came to California to promote several intiatives and tour a site that could be added to a national monument along the Mendocino coast. She began with a meet and greet at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. On a bright day with gulls wheeling against a backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge — the velvety green Marin headlands in the distance — Jewell stood in one of the nation's most-visited national parks and made the case for the value of public lands. Among the public events on Jewell's schedule was a visit to the 1,255-acre Stornetta Public Lands site on the Mendocino County coast, north of Point Arena. Several members of the California congressional delegation have proposed adding the site to the California Coastal National Monument.
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Rare Film From 1932. Can It Happen Again?
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
NEWS VIDEO: 1932 - young Patton, young Eisenhower, young MacArthur,Pres Hoover, Walter Winchell reporting.
Do you think the military, acting on orders from a broken federal government won’t march against
it’s own??
Bonus Army: US military attacks demonstrating American War Veterans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sNOsIB5VMSQ
Rosa Delauro’s twin.
Taking Liberty, How private property is being abolished.
This should be watched by everybody.
takingliberty.us
What is a “conservation backlog”? A slowdown in government land grabs, perhaps?
emperor Baraq Hussein 0bama, TYRANT!
The agenda is to squeeze people out of one area into another while at the same time destroying private property rights. The eventual goal is to have everyone corralled into mega cities/ghettoes where control and disposal will be easier.
“A little secret: They don’t have the resources or ability to keep the people off the federal lands”
They seemed to be successful keeping people away during the shutdown. I didn’t see any Fed employees getting run off. in fact the Park Service got very aggressive in many cases.
I guess that we live in different worlds; but I’ve never lived in an Urban Environment so wouldn’t know reality there. Here in Alaska, I do believe we still retain much of the freedom everybody once had.
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