The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
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AP/Luis M. AlvarezOne sign at the United We Fish rally at the Capital summed up the feelings of recreational and commercial fishermen.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.
That’s a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning.
“When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario,” said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.
via Obama moving to limit fishing access – ESPN.
March 07, 2010, Sandrine Rastello and Omar R. Valdimarsson
March 7 (Bloomberg) — International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss Kahn said the lender is “committed to help Iceland” and its deposit guarantee dispute with the U.K. and the Netherlands is a “private” matter.
Icelanders rejected a bill that would saddle each citizen with $16,400 of debt in protest at U.K. and Dutch demands that they cover losses triggered by the failure of Landsbanki Islands hf in October 2008. With 98.3 percent of votes counted, 93.5 percent rejected the bill which would have obliged the island to take on $5.3 billion in loans from the U.K. and Netherlands to compensate the two countries for depositor losses.
via Strauss-Kahn Says Wants to Aid Iceland, Calls Dispute ‘Private’ – BusinessWeek.
Mar 5 2010, 3:40 PM ET
Why is the national security community treating the “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010,” introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration’s choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt? A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity. Read the bill here, and then read the summarized points after the jump.
According to the summary, the bill sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning.
(There is no distinction between U.S. persons–visa holders or citizens–and non-U.S. persons.)
It would require these “belligerents” to be coded as “high-value detainee[s]” to be held in military custody and interrogated for their intelligence value by a High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team established by the president. (The H.I.G., of course, was established to bring a sophisticated interrogation capacity to the federal justice system.)
via A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully – Politics – The Atlantic.
The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.
McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He’s the nice-seeming guy who’s willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate the federal bureaucracy for his own ends, while coming off like a straight shooter to those who are not in the know.
When he was head of the country’s national intelligence, he scared President Bush with visions of e-doom, prompting the president to sign a comprehensive secret order that unleashed tens of billions of dollars into the military’s black budget so they could start making firewalls and building malware into military equipment.
And now McConnell is back in civilian life as a vice president at the secretive defense contracting giant Booz Allen Hamilton. He’s out in front of Congress and the media, peddling the same Cybaremaggedon! gloom.
And now he says we need to re-engineer the internet.
via Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet | Threat Level | Wired.com.
The most widely used sweetener in the world, found in fizzy drinks and sweets, is being made using a secret genetic engineering process, which some scientists claim needs further testing for toxic side-effects.
The use of genetic engineering to make aspartame has stayed secret until now because there is no modified DNA in the finished product. Monsanto, the pioneering GM food giant, which makes aspartame, insists that it is completely safe. But some scientists fear that not enough is known about the process of making it. One of the two elements that make up the sweetener can be produced by genetically engineered bacteria, and scientists say that they cannot rule out toxic side-effects.
via Aspartame – World’s top sweetener is made with GM bacteria Independent 20jun99.
In 2005, McDonald became active in the pro-gun lobby when Illinois lawmakers were considering an assault-rifle ban. He worried that type of restriction might outlaw hunting rifles. He started attending gun rallies in Springfield and was “the only black guy” he saw. He met people who introduced him to Alan Gura, the lead attorney in the suit against Chicago, who at the time was searching for prospective plaintiffs. After a few conversations with Gura, McDonald agreed to be the lead plaintiff.
via Chicago man explains challenge of city’s handgun ban :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State.
A CAMERAPHONE application that finds names and addresses of total STRANGERS was blasted as a “stalker’s dream” last night.
The facial recognition “app” instantly identifies snaps by matching them to photos on websites like Facebook and Twitter, where personal info is accessed.
Horrified security experts claim BURGLARS taking secret snaps of revellers could find out their addresses.
Unsuspecting strangers fooling around on nights out could also fall prey to BLACKMAIL.
And women could be stalked by PERVERTS.
via Stalker fear over facial recognition phone app | The Sun |News.
Cass Sunstein, an Obama regime official, has a solution for the 9/11 skeptics: Infiltrate them and provoke them into statements and actions that can be used to discredit or to arrest them. But get rid of them at all cost.
via VDARE.com: 02/25/10 – The Road to Armageddon.
