Comments on: Federal officials to expand national marine sanctuaries on Sonoma, Mendocino coasts

By: R. B. Fish

R. B. Fish — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:16:27 +0000

Well said Skippy. I happen to have known a number of these types mostly at the upper levels and many with a lot of money. Brand names many people would recognize. They are and remain absolute hyprocrites simply masquerading as intellectual environmentalists. Pathetic phonies. Unfortunately, the street level eco-nazi’s are simply pawns doing the dirty work. One should not forgot there are billions of dollars to be made pretending to support the “turtle” deep ecology program.

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By: Skippy

Skippy — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 18:39:22 +0000

The “smaller footprint” fraud is based on the principle that, of all God’s creatures, only Man is a pestilence and a blight on the sacred planet.
Such homosapiensphobia is speciesist and intellectually indefensible.
These utopian fantasies have an endgame; namely the diminishment on humanity to insignificance.
The people-haters may be suffering from a terminal self-loathing, but it does not change the inarguable fact that everything Man does is perfectly natural, as we are native creatures of this Earth.

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By: MOCKINGBIRD

MOCKINGBIRD — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:06:19 +0000

Nora Gonzalez-nothing wrong with horses. If more of us AT LEAST TRIED to make a smaller footprint this whole planet would be in a lot better shape.

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By: Mac E. Velli

Mac E. Velli — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:02:49 +0000

from the Wildlands Project Revealed website
* The goal of the Wildlands Project is to set aside approximately fifty (50) percent of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as “wild land” for the preservation of biological diversity.
* The project seeks to do this by creating “reserve networks” across the continent. Reserves are made up of the following:
o Cores, created from public lands such as National Forest and Parks
o Buffers, often created from private land adjoining the cores to provide additional protection
o Corridors, a mix of public and private lands usually following along rivers and wildlife migration routes
* The primary characteristics of core areas are that they are large (100,000 to 25 million acres), and allow for little, if any, human use.
* The primary characteristics of buffers are that they allow for limited human use so long as they are “managed with native biodiversity as a preeminent concern.”
* Moral and ethical guidelines for the Wildlands Project are based on the philosophy of Deep Ecology.
* The eight point platform of Deep Ecology can be summarized as follows:
o All life (human and non-human) has equal value.
o Resource consumption above what is needed to supply “vital” human needs is immoral.
o Human population must be reduced
o Western civilization must radically change present economic, technological, and ideological structures.
o Believers have an obligation to try to implement the necessary changes.
* The Wildlands Project itself is supported by hundreds of groups working towards its long-term implementation. Implementation may take 100 years or more.
* The Wildlands Project has received millions of dollars in support from wealthy private and corporate foundations such as the Turner Foundation, Patagonia, W. Alton Jones Foundation, Lyndhurst Foundation, etc.

Conclusion:
The Wildlands Project exist within legal boundaries, however that should not prevent us from being concerned. At the very least, it advocates an extreme manifestation of environmental and public policy. Therefore, any claim the Wildlands Project makes toward public policy must be debated, and ultimately decided, in the public arena. Yet to date it has existed almost anonymously; beyond the knowledge of the wider public. It must be examined out from behind the cover of more general environmental concerns, held up for public scrutiny, and either accepted or rejected by a public fully aware of its implications. Failing to do so could have dire consequences, for as John Adams once wrote, “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge by the people.”

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By: Snarky

Snarky — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:14:01 +0000

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/dec/24/state-parks-department-mishandled-donations/

The link to a San Diego paper, above, is just ANOTHER important park story that the Press Democrat refuses to publish. Your news, Sonoma County, is being restricted and filtered by your “local” paper intent on manipulating your thoughts.

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By: Follower

Follower — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:07:58 +0000

In 1995 Bill Clinton vetoed Drilling in Anwar saying that it would take 10 years for that oil to even reach the market.

As with all liberal visionary ideas,
the “10 years to market” excuse is nothing new.

Why can’t you just have the courage of your convictions and admit that your disdain for “Big Oil” is the reason you won’t allow drilling?

“It’s okay, go ahead and say it, they know”

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By: Reality Check

Reality Check — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 18:22:14 +0000

“Drilling Oil of the California coast will NOT help in controlling our cost of gasoline as all oil is put into a world market . . .”

What you say is true. It also betrays a lack of knowledge of how the law of supply and demand works. You can lower prices two ways: reduce demand or increase supply.

While oil drilling off California’s coast will not increase world supply significantly, that attitude when widely adopted, and it is, drives up the price of oil.

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By: Elephant

Elephant — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:46:13 +0000

The single reason that our gasoline prices are so high is that we pay whatever they charge without EVER stopping. Pure and simple. If having offshore oil wells would make a difference, how come gas prices in Los Angeles are actually a bit higher than we have here?

And as for Lynn Woolsey, after 20 years, it’s nice that she finally did something directly for her constituents.

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By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:45:20 +0000

Drilling Oil of the California coast will NOT help in controlling our cost of gasoline as all oil is put into a world market and is sold to the highest bidder. Just Google it and do not fall into that trap.

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By: Frank Matyus

Frank Matyus — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:37:40 +0000

IF IT CAN’T BE GROWN…IT MUST BE MINED
Raw materials for electronics don’t spring from the ground in the same way trees do for books. Cell phones, Flat screens, and Solar all need oil.
Farmers need to replenish their soil. Every time you harvest crops, you remove minerals along with the food, such as phosphorus, sulphur, calcium, potassium. These are replaced with minerals which are mined.
Anybody give a thought when brushing teeth
The cleaning is done with abrasives (from rocks) that rub the plaque away. Abrasives are minerals like silica,
limestone, aluminum oxide (also used in
sandpaper), and various phosphate minerals.
Fluoride, used to reduce cavities, comes from a mineral called fluorite. It is sometimes changed into stannous fluoride (tin fluoride).
Most toothpaste is made white with titanium dioxide which comes from minerals called rutile, ilmenite, and anatase. Titanium dioxide also is used to make white paint.
The sparkles in some toothpaste come from
mica, a mineral common in many rocks.
Unfortunately California is doing everything it can to outlaw the two most important industries we have farms and mining, both with rules, regulations and Yaxes

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By: James Bennett

James Bennett — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:06:16 +0000

Jorge is sharing the soft pedal version of the UN’s Biodevesity Wildlands Project.

The ultimate goal is self explanitory if you search it online. The little black dots indicate where humans would be allowed to reside.

Like the rest of this enormous oppression it is rooted in contrived “problems”,lack and shotages.

Too many people.

Not enough.

Not enough land (5% of America is developed), not enough water, oil, energy, food, money.

It’s all BS. It’s not about the environment. It’s about good old fasioned oppression.

An ICLEI charter next to the Great Lakes would have a water shortage, Nestle Corp. sells their water to China. Guess their local governmental traitors have a “Public-Private Partnership”.

The only “problem” we have is one of loyalty.

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By: Snarky

Snarky — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:30:22 +0000

Speaking of OIL, Nora Gonzales, Chevron Corp is moving a full EIGHT HUNDRED jobs out of California from its HQ in the East Bay.

800 well paying jobs with full benefits lost to another state.

Notice the Press Democrat did not report on that ?

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By: Nora Gonzales

Nora Gonzales — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:34:51 +0000

Oil is the basis of our economy. Oil comes from drilling in the oceans and on the land where oil is found. This simple concept is lost on the progressives who want this society to revert to a horse drawn, very dark society.

Well, many of us do not want to return to that backward way of life enjoyed in much of the third world.

Coastal oil drilling could go along way toward solving the financial crisis in California. It is just stupid that a few can stop progress in the name of the new religion, environmentalism.

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By: Jorge Soto

Jorge Soto — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 02:52:19 +0000

The goal of the Wildlands Project is to set aside approximately fifty (50) percent of the North American continent (Turtle Island) as “wild land” for the preservation of biological diversity.
The project seeks to do this by creating “reserve networks” across the continent. Reserves are made up of the following:
Cores, created from public lands such as National Forest and Parks
Buffers, often created from private land adjoining the cores to provide additional protection
Corridors, a mix of public and private lands usually following along rivers and wildlife migration routes
The primary characteristics of core areas are that they are large (100,000 to 25 million acres), and allow for little, if any, human use.
The primary characteristics of buffers are that they allow for limited human use so long as they are “managed with native biodiversity as a preeminent concern.”
Moral and ethical guidelines for the Wildlands Project are based on the philosophy of Deep Ecology.
The eight point platform of Deep Ecology can be summarized as follows:
All life (human and non-human) has equal value.
Resource consumption above what is needed to supply “vital” human needs is immoral.
Human population must be reduced
Western civilization must radically change present economic, technological, and ideological structures.
Believers have an obligation to try to implement the necessary changes.
The Wildlands Project itself is supported by hundreds of groups working towards its long-term implementation. Implementation may take 100 years or more.
The Wildlands Project has received millions of dollars in support from wealthy private and corporate foundations such as the Turner Foundation, Patagonia, W. Alton Jones Foundation, Lyndhurst Foundation, etc.

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By: James Bennett

James Bennett — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:37:45 +0000

You don’t suppose that aside from stealing and ultimately restricting access.
That these traitors would calateralize our natural treasures do you?

That’s right, use them to pay off foreign debt from our stolen money?

No, they wouldn’t do that.

Would they?

No one’s that evil.

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