VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Otero Residents Forum is requesting concerned citizens contact the forum for the purpose of organizing letter writing and calling campaigns. If you're as concerned as we are, email the forum at spottedeagleboy@gmail.com. Let us know what your talents are and what you're willing to do to stop the erosion of American Sovereignty and private property rights.

Honor Our Veterans Today By Taking 7 Minutes To Call The List of Senators Below

Using the 800-828-0498 number I was able to give my opinion, and that of my parents, and voice our opposition of the Law of the Sea Treaty. Senator Coleman's lines were swamped, a good thing, so I left a voice mail and then had to redial the 800 number to go on to Senator Isakson (who opposed the LOST on the last vote) so my message was thank you and continue to oppose the LOST.

STOP THE LAW OF THE SEA TREATY

Urgent Request to Call Today - Law of the Sea
Senators to call to STOP THE LAW OF THE SEA TREATY. USE THE TOLL FREE NUMBER 800-828-0498 (you can transfer from office to office) or individual numbers. This must be done today.

** Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell. PUSH HARD!
Tel: (202) 224-2541
Fax (202) 224-2499

** Senator Corker
Tel: (202)224-3344
Fax (202)228-0566

** Senator Sununu
Tel: (202)224-2841
Fax (202)228-4131

** Senator Coleman
Tel: (202)224-5641
Fax (202)224-1152

** Senator Isakson
Tel. (202)224-3643
Fax (202)228-0724

Additionally, according to a staffer, the following may be persuaded to oppose the Convention, IF they hear from enough of us.

** Senator Lott
Tel: (202) 224-6253
Fax (202) 224-2262

** Senator Ensign
Tel: (202) 224-6244
Fax (202) 228-2193

** Senator Martinez
Tel: (202) 224-3041
Fax (202) 228-5171

** Senator Roberts
Tel: (202) 224-4774
Fax (202) 224-3514

** Senator Shelby
Tel: (202) 224-5744
Fax (202) 224-3416

** Senator Thune
Tel: (202) 224-2321
Fax (202) 228-5429

** Senator Cornyn
Tel: (202) 224-2934
Fax (202) 228-2856

** Senator Voinovich
Tel: (202) 224-3353
Fax (202) 228-1382

** Senator Kyl
Tel: (202) 224-4521
Fax (202) 224-2207

** Senator Coburn
Tel: (202) 224-5754
Fax (202) 224-6008

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Labels: LAW OF THE SEA TREATY, sovereignty, sustainable development, UNCLOS, United Nations


Brown Shirts? Oh, Now I Get It, Duh!

When State Department Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger III gave a controversial June 6 speech on the subject of “The United States and International Law,” he mentioned that the Bush Administration had “put forward a priority list of over 35 treaty packages that we have urged the Senate to approve soon, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.” The latter is now up for Senate ratification, with a vote scheduled on Wednesday, and one of its many controversial provisions is the regulation of land-based sources of pollution. This treaty covers the water and the land. But now we have discovered that the Bush Administration has asked the Senate to ratify a treaty that defines one of those land-based sources of pollution as toilet flushing. No kidding.


For Cliff Kincaid's complete story see:

http://www.aim.org/aim_column/5859_0_3_0_C/

Posted by Otero Residents Forum at 7:39 AM 1 comments

Labels: LAW OF THE SEA TREATY, sovereignty, sustainable development, UNCLOS, United Nations


Friday, October 26, 2007
Law of the Sea Treaty- Hunter's Position
From: Duncan Hunter
Date: 26 Oct 2007 09:14:04 -0000
Subject: Update: Hunter Calls on Congress: Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty
To: Friend

Hunter Calls on Congress: Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty

Washington, D.C. – Amid debate on the decades-old Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) in the Senate, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) urged his colleagues to follow the lead set by President Reagan by defeating the treaty.

Explaining the dangers of the treaty, Hunter detailed, "It is imperative that our nation does not surrender decision making power for military navigation or resource extraction, especially in this age of terrorism with technology and weapons proliferation. And adding a new set of UN bureaucrats with license to tax and adjudicate disputes is the last thing this country needs."

What is Representative Stevan Pearce's position on the Law of the Sea Treaty?

Posted by Otero Residents Forum at 7:31 AM 0 comments

Labels: LAW OF THE SEA TREATY, military, sovereignty, UNCLOS, United Nations


Sunday, October 21, 2007
Committee of Foreign Relations/UNCLOS
Twenty-one nominations, and what a fun group to research, and one itty-bitty treaty. Unless we step up to the plate, here comes the green weenie with the hot wire cluster. Call Sen. Biden at the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121
And while you are at it, have them transfer you to as many of these members as you can:

Ranking Member
Richard G. Lugar

Christopher J. Dodd
Connecticut

John F. Kerry
Massachusetts

Russell D. Feingold
Wisconsin

Barbara Boxer
California

Bill Nelson
Florida

Barack Obama
Illinois

Robert Menendez
New Jersey

Benjamin L. Cardin
Maryland

Robert P. Casey Jr.
Pennsylvania

Jim Webb
Virginia

Chuck Hagel
Nebraska

Norm Coleman
Minnesota

Bob Corker
Tennessee

John E. Sununu
New Hampshire

George V. Voinovich
Ohio

Lisa Murkowski
Alaska

Jim DeMint
South Carolina

Johnny Isakson
Georgia

David Vitter
Louisiana


HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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Time: 1:45 PM
Place: 419 The Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Biden

The Committee Will Consider and vote on the
Following Agenda Items:
Nominees:
1. The Honorable Henrietta Holsman Fore
to be Administrator of the United States Agency
for International Development
2. The Honorable Robin R. Sanders
to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
3. Mr. Barry L. Wells
to be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia
4. Mr. Mark M. Boulware
to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of
Mauritania
5. The Honorable James D. McGee
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe
6. Dr. Ronald K. McMullen
to be Ambassador to the State of Eritrea
7. Mr. P. Robert Fannin
to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
8. Mr. Christopher F. Egan
to be Representative of the United States of America
to the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development, with the rank of Ambassador
9. Dr. Louis J. Nigro
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chad
10. The Honorable David T. Johnson
to be Assistant Secretary of State
for International Narcotics
and Law Enforcement Affairs
11. Mr. Paul E. Simons
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chile
12. The Honorable Gail D. Mathieu
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia
13. Mr. Dan Mozena
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola
14. Ms. Eunice S. Reddick
to be Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic,
and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador to the
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
15. The Honorable Daniel V. Speckhard
to be Ambassador to Greece
16. Mr. Thomas F. Stephenson
to be Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic
17. Mr. Vincent Obsitnik
to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic
18. The Honorable William H. Frist
to be Member of the Board of the
Millennium Challenge Corporation
19. The Honorable George E. Pataki
to be U.S. Representative to the
United Nations General Assembly
20. Ms. Kelly G. Knight
to be Alternate U.S. Representative to the
United Nations General Assembly
21. Mr. Rodger D. Young
to be Alternate U.S. Representative to the
United Nations General Assembly
Treaty:
22. Convention on the Law of the Sea (T. Doc.103-39)


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Witness names in blue are links to the statement given.
Statements are only posted if provided electronically by witness.

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Labels: LAW OF THE SEA TREATY, sovereignty, UNCLOS, United Nations


Saturday, October 20, 2007
Law of the Sea Treaty Update
LIBERALS WANT QUICK VOTE ON U.N. TREATY

By Cliff Kincaid

October 20, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

In new developments concerning the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had scheduled a quick vote on the pact for next Wednesday, October 24. But a member of the committee, Senator David Vitter, has reportedly requested?and received?a postponement of the vote. Vitter has been in the forefront of exposing the dangerous provisions of the measure.

October 24 just happens to be “United Nations Day,” which is probably why committee chairman and presidential candidate Senator Joseph Biden had scheduled a vote at this time. Biden, who once wrote an article titled, “How I Learned to Love the New World Order,” thinks his pro-U.N. credentials will help garner liberal votes in the Democratic primaries.

The announcement of the vote had been made on the website of the committee.

Vitter’s postponement is a temporary measure and it is not clear how quickly Biden could reschedule the vote.

Meanwhile, there is no indication at this point that the committee intends to hold a hearing to hear from a U.N. whistleblower, Nithi Sam-Thambiah, who is offering to provide the Senate with documentary evidence proving financial corruption in the treaty’s International Seabed Authority (ISA). The ISA stands to receive millions of dollars if the Senate ratifies the pact.

Complete commentary/links and sources: http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff181.htm

Library Town Hall Meeting Thursday at 6:00 pm

Willie Estrada Memorial Civic Center, Thursday, November 8. The assumption is that there will be a new library according to advocates. Is this what you want?

Yesterday's posting should raise hackles.

ALAMOGORDO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY HAVEN'T TOLD US THE ENTIRE STORY BEHIND GREEN TECHNOLOGY

NEW LIBRARY USHERS IN GLOBALIST AGENDA

Alamogordo Friends of the Library openly advocate for a new library building to be built at the location of 10th and Cuba. Their website describes funds allocated for the project and the benefits of a ‘green building’. Has anyone asked them what a green building entails and what comes with the ‘green agenda’?

If you’re curious, do the following links search.

Start with: http://aplfound.org/pages/lbp.html

Go down to: U.S. GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL. Click on the link.
This is the actual link: http://www.usgbc.org/

Click on ‘Policies and Guidelines’ at the bottom of the page.
This is the actual link: http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=1728

Click on the LEED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE MANUEL.
This is the actual link: http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=2040

On page 13 of this document, the green implementation into local zoning and building codes is explained.

“There are two ways in which LEED can accommodate local conditions: through LEED
Supplements or Adaptations of LEED.
LEED Supplements involve changes in point weightings, additional credits or modifications
outside of the flexibility mechanisms described above. Jurisdictions would undertake the
development of a LEED Supplement with the understanding that:
1. The provisions unique to the Supplement are scored by the entity itself and USGBC
would be under no obligation to assess or certify provisions within the addendum.
2. These provisions are not compared publicly to LEED, either favorably or unfavorably.
3. Projects submitted to LEED will follow only the requirements and documentation
required by the approved LEED credits/prerequisites and will not entertain requests to
evaluate modifications to LEED outside of the parameters established in this document.
USGBC considers it preferable and recommended that any adaptation to local conditions is done
by means of a supplement to the basic LEED standard which of itself remains intact. In this
way, either LEED or the supplement can be updated independently without having implications
for the other.”

On page 18 you will see the term ‘World Green Building Council’.
Google World Green Building Council.
This is the actual link: http://www.worldgbc.org/default.asp?id=34

Click on the websites ‘Links’, and you will find among ‘associated websites’:

Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI)
UN Commission on Sustainable Development
United Nations World Environment Day 2005
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP/SBCI)
United States Green Building Council
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Click on any of the above links, but do research the link to the:
WORLD BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
This is the actual link: http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD2/layout.asp?type=p&MenuId=NDEy&doOpen=1&ClickMenu=LeftMenu
Click on ‘PARTNERSHIPS’ , on this page.
You will be taken to a page with the following partnership organizations:
International organizations
• IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Geneva, Switzerland
• OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Paris, France
• CSD United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
New York, USA
• UNDP United Nations Development Programme
New York, USA
• UNEP United Nations Environmental Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
Paris, France
• United Nations Global Compact
New York, USA
• World Bank
Washington, D.C., USA

SUMMARY: The Alamogordo Friends of the Library are a globalist driven group, attempting to implement green technology, one building code change at a time.
It’s no accident the Friends of the Library are the spearhead of another globalist agenda attempting to replace New Mexico and Alamogordo customary law, in the form of building codes and eventually zoning, with globalist modern law.
They will scream conspiracy at the revelation of this linkage from their ‘friendly’ website to the globalist agenda of green technology, the United Nations and the World Bank.
Is Alamogordo ready to be deceived into signing on to the green globalist agenda?

PSA: People for Otero County Meeting

People for Otero County will meet Wednesday, November 21, 6;00PM at the Otero County Courthouse, room 253.
Election of officers and issues of interest will be disscussed. Mike Shinabery will be guest speaker.
For more information call 585-2412

Illegal Alien Sodomizer/Murderer Aided By International Court, You Decide

PRESIDENT BUSH SEEKS UN JURISDICTION OVER USA

By Jim Kouri
Posted 1:00 AM Eastern
November 3, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

In several speeches he gave across the country, former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton revealed that the President George W. Bush and his administration are buckling under pressure from this nation's Internationalists in the current controversy over Mexico and the International Court of Justice.

The Mexican government is attempting to save an illegal alien convicted of participating in the savage rape and murder of two teenage girls from being executed in Texas for his crimes.

Death penalty opponents in both the US and Mexico are trying to place this nation under the control of a world court, according to critics of the Bush White House.

"[President George Bush's position is] a bad mistake, but one of many mistakes, I'm sad to say, the administration has made recently," Bolton told syndicated radio talk show host Laura Ingraham.

Bolton believes that President Bush is helping Mexico and the International Court block the death sentence for a Mexican rapist-murderer. He called Bush's actions "ridiculous."

"Bolton is a true patriot. That's why the liberals in the Democrat Party and the phony conservatives in the GOP were so eager to remove him from his seat at the UN. Bolton believes the UN is corrupt and he's opposed to placing the United States under the jurisdiction of any international entity," claims conservative political consultant Michael Baker.

"When it comes to US sovereignty, Americans would be better served listening to Ambassador Bolton rather than our 'closet Internationalist' President," he added.

Baker points to phony conservatives such as Ohio's Senator George Voinovich who shed tears during Senate confirmation hearings for Bolton to serve at the United Nations. "Voinovich feared Bolton's anti-UN positions would hamper US involvement in the New World Order," claims Baker.

In early October, the US Supreme Court heard arguments regarding the impending execution of Jose Medellin, who confessed to police in 1993 to raping and murdering two Houston, Texas, teenagers -- Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena. The girls were sodomized and strangled with their own shoe laces, according to court records and police reports.

According to Houston Police detectives' reports, Medellin boasted that he kept one victim's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of his heinous crime. Medellin and four other attackers were convicted of capital murder and are awaiting execution on death row.

The intervention in the case by the Bush administration comes after the International Court of Justice in the Hague found Medellin -- who entered the United States illegally -- was not informed of his right to contact the Mexican Consulate for legal assistance.

"Bush's support of the World Court decision jeopardizes the cases of about 50 Mexican Nationals sitting on death row," said former NYPD Det. Sidney Francis.

"Once again, President Bush is stabbing law enforcement officers -- and the people they serve -- in their backs," said Francis.

Det. Francis points to the erosion of the enormous support of law enforcement officials and organizations enjoyed by President Bush in the 2004 election.

"President Bush was endorsed by the nation's largest police organizations including the 350,000-member Fraternal Order of Police, the Police Benevolent Association and other law enforcement and security organizations and unions," said Michael Baker.

"Now his popularity among cops has hit bottom because of his refusal to protect the US from illegal aliens who cross our borders at will," he said.

Ambassador Bolton told talk host Laura Ingraham that the U.S. has no obligation to the world court in this case.

"It is ridiculous," he said. "The Vienna Convention on consular relations does not create rights personal to the individual. It's a state-to-state agreement."

Lawmakers in Washington, DC, who signed the treaty, did not believe they were creating a way for criminals on death row to "get around our judicial system," Bolton explained to Ingraham. "They haven't had enough due process? They've had the full panoply of constitutional protection, and now they're trying to create something else."

The Bush Administration became involved in the Medellin case in 2003 when President Vicente Fox's government sued the US over the consular issue in the UN's world court.

The court ruled in Mexico's favor in late 2004 and ordered the US to reconsider the Mexican inmates' murder convictions and death sentences. In February 2005, Bush announced that while he disagreed with the decision, the US would comply. He ordered courts in Texas and elsewhere to review the cases.

The Supreme Court, which had agreed to hear Medellin's case, dismissed it in order to allow the case to play out in Texas. Then in November 2006, the all-Republican Texas Court of Criminal Appeals balked at the president's order, saying Bush had overstepped his authority.

The Texas court ruled that the judicial branch -- not the White House -- should decide how to resolve the Mexican cases. It also said Medellin wasn't entitled to a new hearing because he failed to complain at his original trial about any violation of his consular rights and had therefore waived them.

Then Medellin's defense attorney appealed again to the US Supreme Court, which announced last May it would hear the case. His lawyer, Donald Donovan of New York, argued that Bush was correct when he took action to comply with the world court's decision.

Recently, for his achievements in both international arbitration and international human rights, Donovan was awarded the Premio Nacional de Jurisprudencia by the Mexican Bar Association, the first non-Mexican so honored.

What the U.S. government wants in the Medellin murder case is "bizarrely grotesque," according to a statement by the chief counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.

The warning from ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull notes that the case, being pursued by President Bush through the Department of Justice, could result in US laws being subjugated to UN resolutions and rules to the point that local police officers will have to spend more time studying international law than catching criminals.

© 2007 NWV - All Rights Reserved
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news15.htm

Old News From a British Point of View on WHS

http://www.alamogordonews.com/news/ci_7344903

NPS Press Release Says We Are Still on WHS List

The notice was posted yesterday, October 31, 1007, in the Federal Register. See comments section.

The attached press release will be distributed to the media this afternoon and placed on our website tomorrow. I've included a PDF copy of theFederal Register notice for your review. (11/1/07)
Cliff Spencer
Superintendent
White Sands National Monument
(575) 479-6124, ext. 210
(575) 479-4333 fax


National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Communications
And Public Affairs
1849 C Street, N.W
Washington, DC 20240
202-208-6843 phone
202-219-0910 fax
National Park Service News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Gerry Gaumer: (202) 208-6843
Stephen Morris: (202) 354-1800

National Park Service Invites Comments on Draft
U. S. World Heritage Tentative List

WASHINGTON, DC – National Park Service (NPS) staff recommendations and those of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO regarding sites to be included in a new U.S. World Heritage Tentative List are being published today in the Federal Register for public comment. All comments received will be considered by the National Park Service and the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks and the Secretary of the Interior for their use in developing a final U.S. Tentative List to be submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre by February 1, 2008. The NPS staff recommendations, along with recommendations by the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, appear at the end of this release. Public comments will be accepted for 30 days.

In hopes of eventually being placed on the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List of the world's most significant cultural and natural treasures, the owners or authorized representatives of 35 sites applied for inclusion on the new candidate, or tentative, list of U.S. World Heritage nominations. If chosen for the Tentative List, they will be considered over the coming 10 years for formal nomination by the United States as World Heritage Sites.

Currently, only 851 places around the world, including 20 in the U.S., have this recognition. The preparation of a new Tentative List, led by the U.S. Department of the Interior, is the first such endeavor in 25 years and signals a new era in U.S. engagement with the World Heritage Convention, following on the re-entry of the U.S. to full membership in UNESCO in 2003.

Applications were received from a diverse collection of natural and cultural sites, located in 25 states and one U.S. territory. They included several that were proposed for both natural and cultural values. Their owners include several federal agencies, state governments, private foundations, and numerous private owners. In order to be included in the new Tentative List the proposed sites have had to meet several U.S. prerequisites in


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addition to appearing to meet the stringent UNESCO nomination criteria. The key U.S. prerequisites are the written agreement of all property owners to the nomination of their property, strong support from stakeholders, including elected officials, and a prior official determination of national significance. (The UNESCO nomination criteria can be found on the National Park Service Office of International Affairs website.)

The applications were solicited under the direction of the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, by the National Park Service’s Office of International Affairs (OIA). Applications were due by April 1, 2007. All applications were screened by OIA and Park Service specialists and underwent professional, technical review by independent experts. OIA then compiled the draft Tentative List at the end of August 2007. On September 27 a subcommittee of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, including representatives of relevant federal agencies, reviewed the draft Tentative List. The full Commission approved the subcommittee’s report on October 4, in a phone conference in which the public participated.

Since UNESCO requests countries to wait a year before submitting nominations from their tentative lists, the first U.S. World Heritage nominations drawn from the new List could go forward by February 1, 2009 and be considered by the World Heritage Committee in the summer of 2010. The Committee, composed of representatives of 21 nations elected as the governing body of the World Heritage Convention, makes the final decisions on which nominations to accept on the World Heritage List at its annual meeting.

The United States was the prime architect of the World Heritage concept and the first country to ratify the World Heritage Convention, in 1973. The National Park Service manages all or parts of 17 of the 20 U.S. World Heritage Sites, including Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Canyon, and the Statue of Liberty, and serves as the principal technical agency for the U.S. Government to the Convention. In 2005, the U.S. was elected to a fourth term on the World Heritage Committee and will serve until 2009.

General information about the Tentative List process is posted on the Office of International Affairs website at http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/worldheritage/tentativelist.htm. The National Park Service staff report, including summaries of information on each site referenced in the draft Tentative List being published in this notice, is posted in its entirety on the Internet at: http://www.nps.gov/oia/TLEssayFinal.pdf. If you would like to review the original Applications submitted to the National Park Service for these candidate sites, please go to
http://www.nps.gov/oia/NewWebpages/ApplicantsTentativeList.html.

To request a paper copy of the staff report on the draft U.S. World Heritage Tentative List, please contact April Brooks, Office of International Affairs, National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street, NW (0050). Washington DC 20005.
E-mail: april_brooks@nps.gov .

For further general information, please contact¬ Stephen Morris, Chief, Office of International Affairs at (202) 354-1800 or Gerry Gaumer¬¬¬¬ in the National Park Service’s Office of Public Affairs at (202) 208-6843.

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Please provide all comments directly to Jonathan Putnam, Office of International Affairs, National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street, NW (0050). Washington DC 20005 or by E-mail to: jonathan_putnam@nps.gov . Phone: 202-354-1809. Fax 202-371-1446. All comments will be a matter of public record.


DRAFT U.S. WORLD HERITAGE TENTATIVE LIST:
SUMMARY OF NPS STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS*

*Where the U.S. Commission for UNESCO’s Recommendations Differ from those of the NPS Staff Report, they are indicated with the following numbers:

1 Recommended for Future Consideration by the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO

2 Recommended to be placed in “Other Properties Considered” by the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO

Natural Properties Recommended for Inclusion (3):
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
White Sands National Monument, New Mexico
Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia

Mixed Property Recommended for Inclusion (1):
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Hawaii

Cultural Properties Recommended for Inclusion (13):

Poverty Point State Historic Site, Louisiana
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, Ohio
Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings, Arizona, California, Illinois, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
Civil Rights Movement Sites, Alabama

Serpent Mound, Ohio
San Antonio Franciscan Missions, Texas
1 French Creole Properties of the Mid-Mississippi Valley, Illinois and Missouri
1 Eastern State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania
1 Olana (Home of Frederic Church), New York
1 Dayton Aviation Sites, Ohio
1Gamble House, California
1 Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota
2 Mount Vernon, Virginia

Recommended Extensions of World Heritage Cultural Sites (2):

Thomas Jefferson Buildings: Poplar Forest and the Virginia State Capitol, Virginia

1 Moundville Site, Alabama


Cultural Properties Recommended for Future Consideration (4):

Moravian Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Colonial Newport, Rhode Island
Shaker Villages, Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Kentucky
Underground Railroad Sites (John Parker and John Rankin Houses, Ripley, Ohio)


Other Natural Properties Considered (2):
1 Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa
1 Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts


Other Cultural Properties Considered (9):
Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1, New Mexico
Meadowcroft Rockshelter, Pennsylvania
SunWatch Village, Ohio
Historic Center of Savannah, Georgia
New Harmony, Indiana
Central of Georgia, Savannah Shed and Terminal Facility, Georgia
Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island
Shenandoah-Dives Mill, Colorado
Columbia River Highway, Oregon

-NPS-

EXPERIENCE YOUR AMERICATM
The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.

GUATEMALA NATIVE CHARGED WITH ARSON IN CALIFORNIA WILD FIRES

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_7289634
Copy/paste link to read article.
From the San Jose Mercury News
Winess leads police to man who was seen intentionally setting fire to brush on California hillside.
"Pineda is currently on probation for making excessive false emergency reports to law enforcement, police said."

ENVIRONMENTALISTS BLAMED FOR CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES

From WorldNet.Daily: Copy/paste link to read article.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58441

11 OF 18 BURN VICTIMS IN CALIFORNIA FIRES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20071031-9999-1n31burn.html
From the San Diego Union-Tribune. 11 of 18 burn victims in the California fires are illegal immigrants. Copy/paste the link to read the article.

LA RAZA: CHILDREN IMPACTED BY RAIDS ON ILLEGAL FAMILIES

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5736068,00.html
From the Rocky Mountain News. I'm waitng for La Raza to march through the streets of Greeley carrying little coffins on their shoulders. Copy/paste the link to read.

This photo of 'Marina' appeared with the story in the Rocky Mountain News.









Here is Marina in a similar story in the Denver Post.

COLORADO LEGISLATOR: DISARM COPS WHEN DEALING WITH ILLEGALS

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/11/01/110107_5b_King_letter.html]LINK
Steven A. King, Grand Junction, CO. legislator wants to take away tasers in any jail illegals are incarcerated in. Copy/paste link to read article.

Major Faux Pas At The Very Least

The plan was to bring you the lawsuit filed by Henry Morgan Smith v. Otero County, Sheriff's Department, etc. See the ADN's frontpage story of Tuesday, October 30: Suit filed against county http://www.alamogordonews.com/news/ci_7317365

We checked and checked the court records - nothing, nada, zip, zilch.

Tuesday, I asked the author of the ADN story for the court case number and where it was filed. He admitted that he did not have a copy of the filed complaint and did not know in which court it was filed.

I made a trip to the county courthouse this morning. The results were the same. Meanwhile, Alamogordo Times was doing the same drill and the result was: http://alamogordotimes.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=104

To add insult to injury, the AP picked up the story and reprinted it on the frontpage of the Metro section of the Albuquerque Journal today.

You decide and let me know what you want me to do. It is your county, too.

Urgent Request to Call Today - Law of the Sea

Senators to call to STOP THE LAW OF THE SEA TREATY. USE THE TOLL FREE NUMBER 800-828-0498 (you can transfer from office to office) or individual numbers. This must be done today.

** Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell. PUSH HARD!
Tel: (202) 224-2541
Fax (202) 224-2499

** Senator Corker
Tel: (202)224-3344
Fax (202)228-0566

** Senator Sununu
Tel: (202)224-2841
Fax (202)228-4131

** Senator Coleman
Tel: (202)224-5641
Fax (202)224-1152

** Senator Isakson
Tel. (202)224-3643
Fax (202)228-0724

Additionally, according to a staffer, the following may be persuaded to oppose the Convention, IF they hear from enough of us.

** Senator Lott
Tel: (202) 224-6253
Fax (202) 224-2262

** Senator Ensign
Tel: (202) 224-6244
Fax (202) 228-2193

** Senator Martinez
Tel: (202) 224-3041
Fax (202) 228-5171

** Senator Roberts
Tel: (202) 224-4774
Fax (202) 224-3514

** Senator Shelby
Tel: (202) 224-5744
Fax (202) 224-3416

** Senator Thune
Tel: (202) 224-2321
Fax (202) 228-5429

** Senator Cornyn
Tel: (202) 224-2934
Fax (202) 228-2856

** Senator Voinovich
Tel: (202) 224-3353
Fax (202) 228-1382

** Senator Kyl
Tel: (202) 224-4521
Fax (202) 224-2207

** Senator Coburn
Tel: (202) 224-5754
Fax (202) 224-6008

Brown Shirts? Oh, Now I Get It, Duh!

When State Department Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger III gave a controversial June 6 speech on the subject of “The United States and International Law,” he mentioned that the Bush Administration had “put forward a priority list of over 35 treaty packages that we have urged the Senate to approve soon, including the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.” The latter is now up for Senate ratification, with a vote scheduled on Wednesday, and one of its many controversial provisions is the regulation of land-based sources of pollution. This treaty covers the water and the land. But now we have discovered that the Bush Administration has asked the Senate to ratify a treaty that defines one of those land-based sources of pollution as toilet flushing. No kidding.

For Cliff Kincaid's complete story see:

http://www.aim.org/aim_column/5859_0_3_0_C/

EU REFORM TREATY: ONE WORLD GOVERNANCE TAKEN A STEP CLOSER

Click on title to go to comments section to read story.
Articles from BBC internet service.

FUGITIVES FLEE TO MEXICO: LIST FROM FBI MOST WANTED FUGITIVES

Click on title to read article in comments section.

NY STATE AND HOMELAND SECURITY AGREE ON LICENSE FOR ILLEGALS

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=75021&search_result=1&stid=1
Is this the first of a multi-tiered system of national identification? Why issue them a license? Is this for human traceability?

Story of planned protest:
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=75036

FOREIGN BORN CHIEFS OF POLICE GLOBALIZE LAW ENFORCEMENT

Click on title to read story in comments section.

HUMAN RACE WILL SPLIT INTO TWO DISTINCT SPECIES

Click on title to access link to entire article. Hurry, you might devolve and forget how to read.

FROM CALIFORNIANS FOR POPULATION STABILIZATION

Alert! HR 3531 would deny funds to sanctuary cities!

At long last, the federal government is demonstrating some tepid increase in attempts to provide interior enforcement of our immigration laws. Yet, even these mild efforts are hamstrung by local cities that declare themselves sanctuaries from immigration enforcement.

The Accountability in Enforcing Immigration Laws Act of 2007 (Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-FL) would tackle the troubling trend of local governments to require their police officers to ignore the immigration status of suspects they encounter while performing their jobs.

HR 3531 would:

Affirm and clarify that state and local law enforcement officials have the authority to apprehend and arrest illegal aliens encountered in the course of their routine duties.
Provide additional federal funding to cooperating law enforcement agencies for the costs of apprehension and detention.
Revoke 25 percent of non-emergency federal Homeland Security funding for sanctuary cities that refuse to change their policies.
ACTION NEEDED

Ask your Representative to support and co-sponsor this measure.

http://capwiz.com/caps/issues/alert/?alertid=10482106&type=CO

Property Rights Protest Tomorrow - Alamorosa

RALLY/PROTEST CONCERNING VIOLATION OF
PROPERTY RIGHTS!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27th STARTING AT 9am

AT THE ALAMOROSA TRAVEL CENTER HWY 54/70 NORTH

AT MTN. MEADOW ROAD.

JOIN US IN A NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO PROTECT OUR CIVIL
RIGHTS AND STOP GOVERNMENT POWER!!! OTHER RIGHTS PROBLEMS CAN BE DISCUSSED ALSO!

THERE WILL BE SPEAKERS IN THE MORNING AND LIVE BANDS LATER IN THE DAY.

IT WILL BE HELD IN FRONT OF THE GRUBSTAKE RESTAURANT===FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL
575-585-9638 ASK FOR MORGAN OR DESIREE!

Law of the Sea Treaty- Hunter's Position

From: Duncan Hunter
Date: 26 Oct 2007 09:14:04 -0000
Subject: Update: Hunter Calls on Congress: Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty
To: Friend

Hunter Calls on Congress: Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty

Washington, D.C. – Amid debate on the decades-old Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) in the Senate, Republican presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) urged his colleagues to follow the lead set by President Reagan by defeating the treaty.

Explaining the dangers of the treaty, Hunter detailed, "It is imperative that our nation does not surrender decision making power for military navigation or resource extraction, especially in this age of terrorism with technology and weapons proliferation. And adding a new set of UN bureaucrats with license to tax and adjudicate disputes is the last thing this country needs."

What is Representative Stevan Pearce's position on the Law of the Sea Treaty?

World or National Heritage Areas - Assaults on Rights

House approves 6 new national heritage areas
By DAVID DISHNEAU | Associated Press Writer
5:59 PM EDT, October 24, 2007
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Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Single page view Reprints Reader feedback Text size: HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill Wednesday that would create six new national heritage areas, including the Journey Through Hallowed Ground, a 175-mile Civil War commemorative route that crosses parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

The measure now goes to the Senate. It also would create national heritage areas in parts of Alabama, Arizona, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Hampshire and New York, and extend for 15 years the authorization of nine existing heritage areas set to expire in 2012.

Thirty-seven such areas have been established under a program that provides federal matching grants to public-private management groups for tourism promotion.


"We're thrilled," by the House vote, said Cate Magennis Wyatt, president of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground partnership, based in Waterford, Va. The area would feature at least 10 Civil War battlefields between Gettysburg, Pa., and Charlottesville, Va., and include Harpers Ferry, W.Va.

The House approved the resolution 291-122. All the "no" votes were cast by Republicans, including Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, R-Md., and Virginia Republicans Virgil Goode and Bob Goodlatte, whose districts include parts of the Hallowed Ground area.

Bartlett supported an earlier Hallowed Ground bill but said the $15 million version approved Wednesday "tramples over taxpayers' interests and private property rights." He also complained that his constituents' input would be limited by a Journey management entity controlled by Virginians.

Bartlett cited a report by the conservative Heritage Foundation, which said the bill would "give a handful of Virginia environmentalists and wealthy landowners extraordinary powers over how private property can be used."

Note that Raul Grijalva (D) Arizona introduced this bill and also has his hands all over proposed wilderness area for Arizona which would preclude a border fence.

The rest of the AP story can be viewed at: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--heritageareas1024oct24,0,2622773.story


And now the Heritage Foundation's analysis of National Heritage Sites:

October 22, 2007
National Heritage Areas: Costly Economic Development Schemes That Threaten Property Rights
by Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D. and Cheryl Chumley
WebMemo #1671
The House of Representatives is now considering the Celebrating America's Heritage Act (H.R. 1483), as amended by Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ). The bill would expand the cost and scope of federally sanctioned and financed economic development entities known as National Heritage Areas (NHAs). Although there is no specific provision in federal law that defines or authorizes the existence of such entities, Congress has been authorizing their "designation" on a case-by-case basis since 1984. Thirty-seven NHAs now operate throughout the United States.

H.R. 1483 would add an additional six NHAs to the fold (including the controversial Journey Through Hallowed Ground NHA), expand the boundaries of three now in operation, and increase by 50 percent the amount of federal funds available to NHAs by way of the National Park Service (NPS) budget.

If enacted, H.R. 1483 would cost taxpayers an additional $135 million, jeopardize the property rights of private citizens, and distract the NPS from its core mission. The benefits of H.R. 1483 would fall almost exclusively to a small number of businesses within the boundary of the NHAs. Rather than push a costly expansion of federal involvement in local affairs, Congress should limit existing NHAs to their initial federal funding caps and enforce the statutory requirement that they become financially self-sufficient within 15 years.

Funding and Process

As the Government Accountability Office has reported, the funding that NHAs receive from the NPS is only a fraction of the federal funds they receive each year. Between 1997 and 2002, NHAs also received funding from the Departments of Transportation, Education, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce. Other sources of federal funding include the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Amtrak. Together with the required match of state and local funding, non-NPS funds amount to nearly 70 percent of the costs associated with the NHAs. If this pattern of broad public subsidies continues, H.R. 1483 would lead to an additional $270 million in NHA spending by federal, state, local, and not-for-profit entities.

The process of forming an NHA begins with an individual or group identification of a property perceived as being historically significant. An NHA-eligible region is defined by the NPS as "a place designated by the U.S. Congress where natural, cultural, historic and recreational resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally-distinctive landscape ... [to] tell nationally important stories about our nation." Critics have noted the vagueness of this definition. Nearly any parcel of land, or long-standing structure, could be touted as an intricate part of someone's history, thereby opening the door to all sorts of subsidy opportunities from state, local, and federal governments.

Hurting Property Owners

Although other NHAs have generated controversy in the past, the most contentious has been the proposed Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, which would span significant chunks of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Legislation (formerly H.R. 319, but now incorporated in H.R. 1483) to create and subsidize the NHA was introduced during the 109th and 110thCongress. The effort was sponsored and promoted mainly by two factions: Virginia-based environmental groups with a long history of opposition to most residential and commercial development in the region; and wealthy estate owners looking to profit from the cachet and exclusivity that the designation might bring. The opposition includes local property owners and a large minority in Congress.

Chief among the opponents' concerns was the likely impact on the rights of property owners in the region. The sponsors and would-be managers of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground NHA have a long history of restricting the rights of property owners to develop their land. For the most part, these efforts aim to preserve the rural charm of the region for the benefit of wealthy estate owners.

As research into some of the 37 existing NHAs reveals, other NHAs have used their federally acquired authority to impose restrictive zoning requirements on the region's property owners to limit development and/or to force it into directions agreeable to those who guide the management of the NHA. In a recent case in Arizona, some property owners were so concerned with the plans of an NHA established in their region that they persuaded a majority of the United States Congress to amend the authorizing legislation to reduce the land area comprising the NHA.

The Case Against NHAs

Of the many problems associated with NHAs, the following three should be the most compelling for Congress:

NHAs divert NPS resources from the agency's core responsibilities. The NPS confronts significant and worsening problems in the parks and historic sites for which it is currently responsible. The administrative burdens imposed by NHAs hamper its ability to tackle these problems.

Federal costs for NHAs are increasing at a rapid rate. To date, no NHA has achieved the required financial independence; they have remained dependent upon federal largesse beyond their scheduled termination date. H.R. 1483 would increase federal costs directly by 50 percent. Past patterns indicate that the new NHAs would require even more funding from other federal departments, state and local governments, and earmarks.

NHAs threaten private property rights. Many management agreements negotiated between the NPS and different NHAs require local governments to adjust their zoning laws to conform to NHA objectives. In turn, these more restrictive zoning laws increase the number of "regulatory takings," as property owners are increasingly limited in how they can use their land.
Conclusion

H.R. 1483 would worsen the existing problems with NHAs. The process for designating NHAs is dubious to begin with, and creating more would benefit a few wealthy businesses at the expense of many taxpayers and private property owners.

NHAs should become financially independent of the federal government. Toward that end, Congress should limit existing NHAs to their initial federal funding caps and enforce the statutory requirement that they become financially self-sufficient within 15 years. Congress should also encourage local communities to establish their own heritage-based tourist and economic development programs that are independent of federal oversight and funding.

Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D., is Herbert and Joyce Morgan Senior Research Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institutefor Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Cheryl Chumley is a Virginia-based journalist with a focus on land use issues.

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm1671.cfm

Otero County Ordinances - Full Text

All Otero County Ordinances are on the website at: http://co.otero.nm.us/Ordinances/OrdNdx.htm

This includes the newly passed U.N. World Heritage Site (07-05) and No Release of wolves, jaguars and grizzly bears (07-06) Ordinances.

Please note that the National Park Service was in violation of three (3) Otero County Ordinances PRIOR to the passage of 07-05.

U.N. Biosphere Reserve Next Door

UNESCO MAB Programme

Biosphere Reserve Information
United States of America

JORNADA

General Description

Jornada Biosphere Reserve is one of three biosphere reserves representing the Chihuahuan Desert (among Big Bend Biosphere Reserve in western Texas and Mapimí Biosphere Reserve in Mexico). The area extends from the crest of the San Andres Mountains, which are dominated by shrub woodlands, to the Jornada Plains characterized by semi-desert grasslands.

All three biosphere reserves in the Chihuahuan Desert are located in areas traditionally dominated by a livestock raising economy. Today, they face a variety of resource management issues relating to the sustainable development in desert ecosystems. Problems are associated with grazing of livestock, air pollution, and water quality, poaching of plants and animals, and loss of habitats.

Jornada Biosphere Reserve, while in a rural area, is becoming more and more influenced by the urban economies of Las Cruces (New Mexico) and El Paso (Texas). It focuses on long-term experimental research directed toward range management and maintenance of healthy desert ecosystems.

In nominating three biosphere reserves in the Chihuahuan Desert it was expected that cooperation would develop the knowledge and skills needed to manage the ecosystems of the Chihuahuan Desert for conservation and sustainable economic uses. Today, mainly research and environmental education projects characterize this cooperation.
Major ecosystem type Warm desert
Major habitats & land cover types
Location 32°37'N; 106°45'W
Area (hectares)
Total 78,297
Core area(s)
Buffer zone(s)
Transition area(s) when given
Altitude (metres above sea level) +1,260 to +2,830
Year designated 1976
Administrative authorities Jornada Experimental Range U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

http://www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?mode=all&code=USA+14

Wolf Update

Scroll down to previous story for Wolf Recovery Area Map.

From the Gila, Glenwood, Silver City area: 10/21/07 The Aspen pack
has left the Diamonds at Beaverhead and are located on the Adobe and
they have had two confirmed calf kills within a week. AM863, AF667 and
F1046. On 10-15-07 the third strike was put on AM863 and F1046, but it
was confirmed all three killed the call and there was three different
canine spreads, tracks, and scat, plus all three were received on ground
telemetry near the carcass. On 10-21-07 another calf was confirmed, all
three wolves just across the valley from the carcass (ground telemetry),
canine spreads and hemorrhage. This should be a fourth strike for the
whole bunch, but we will see the manipulation of "strike shuffle" to
protect one and not another. It was recommended a lethal take for AM863
and F1047, a free pass for the pup producer, this was put on hold and it
went up to the directors for a decision.....more calf losses and still
no action. Folks something has broke down in the wolf recovery program
when the SOP's and guidelines are set aside for directives from the
higher ups, why even have SOP's or guidelines when at every turn they
keep changing the game rules to benefit the wolves at a cost of the
impacted rural folks. When are they going to realize that their wolves
are going to keep killing livestock, come to peoples homes and endanger
our children, keep killing family pets. You do not need a degree from
some university to figure this out. Also the habituated Durango AM973 is
teaching his pup and the Luna F1047 to become habituated. AM973 has been
to 2 homes 24 times, 17 times at one home and 7 times within 10 days at
another home. Whats the decision to remove them? Still up in the air,
why? The recommendation was to trap all three and put them in jail, (for
later release, hopefully Santa Fe) then it went upstairs to the
directors and now they want to use outer edge hazing. I got some news
for them boys, these wolves are to far gone to haze them away with any
results, it will only prolong the problem and this will continue to
endanger our children. They will just go to the next home, then the
next, then the next. AM973 is flawed beyond repair and he is teaching
his pup, who has been to homes 9 times and the Luna F1047 at homes 3
times. So you can see how how one wolf can educate the rest of them very
quickly.

Wolves are dispersing, young females are taking off on their own and
taking up with other wolves or whatever. Watch for any sign of wolves in
your area, take photos with a ruler, document whatever you find even
wolf scat. I have been "Plaster Casting" wolf tracks at complaints, I
got tired of them saying it was a dog track. Now I have an exact replica
of the track and they do not say it is a dog track anymore because you
can see what you cannot see in a photograph. (if anyone wants to learn
how to make plaster castings let me know, simple tools, simple
procedure). I have been told that the Alpine office is not telling some
ranchers where the wolves are. A hunter reported seeing 9 wolves killing
a calf south of elk mountain...NO COLLARS..2 adults and 7 pups...you
cannot put a strike on an un-collared wolf, they get a free pass, but
the guidelines say they are suppose to trap these wolves, have they
ever????...NO.

I was informed the other day that 2 months ago changes were made in the
guidelines documenting a confirming wolf kill...there is no "probable"
finding anymore. taking away a possible reduce the number of wolf
related incidents. So if the evidence isn't enough for a "Probable", but
"possible" they get a free pass. I have not received the changed
guidelines so I don't know what else has changed if anything. I get
information 3rd or 4th hand so I cannot keep you informed on anything
that is going on, also they do not give me all the wolf frequencies
which makes my job that harder.

Be Proud of Otero County But There Is More To Do

Always irreverant. Always documented. If you care to leave your head in the sand, DO NOT READ this: http://alamogordotimes.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=103

One has to wonder just how far down the line Otero County would be without this. Who in their right minds, and for what reasons, would approve of the status quo?

Letter to Otero Commissioners 10/22/07 WHS

Dear Dr. Moore, Commissioners McGuinn, Moore and Nivision:

On behalf of many, many constituents I wish to express my appreciation for your unanimous approval of Ordinance 07-05 prohibiting U.N. World Heritage Sites in or adjacent to Otero County.

It is my understanding that the National Park Service violated Ordinances 96-01, 92-03 and 93-04 prior to the passage of Ordinance 07-05. Will Otero County take any action or do an investigation regarding these older ordinances? I am asking you to do so by way of this letter.

Also, according to the Provisional Timetable for Preparation of the New U.S. Tentative List http://www.georgewright.org/tentativelist.html White Sands National Monument's application status will be in the Final Review and Clearance by Secretary of the Interior. Is Otero County monitoring this application? Has a site inspection occurred? If not, will it?

I have good reason to believe that the National Park Service/Department of Interior will ignore your history-making Ordinance 07-05 and claim that it does not apply because it was passed after the submission of the application. That is the purpose for my request for Otero County to take action on the prior ordinances. If we do nothing, it is at our peril.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Janet T. White

Please make hard copies of this letter for the commissioners' inboxes and for County Attorney, Dan Bryant.

WOLF RECOVERY AREA MAP

Committee of Foreign Relations/UNCLOS

Twenty-one nominations, and what a fun group to research, and one itty-bitty treaty. Unless we step up to the plate, here comes the green weenie with the hot wire cluster. Call Sen. Biden at the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121
And while you are at it, have them transfer you to as many of these members as you can:

Ranking Member
Richard G. Lugar

Christopher J. Dodd
Connecticut

John F. Kerry
Massachusetts

Russell D. Feingold
Wisconsin

Barbara Boxer
California

Bill Nelson
Florida

Barack Obama
Illinois

Robert Menendez
New Jersey

Benjamin L. Cardin
Maryland

Robert P. Casey Jr.
Pennsylvania

Jim Webb
Virginia

Chuck Hagel
Nebraska

Norm Coleman
Minnesota

Bob Corker
Tennessee

John E. Sununu
New Hampshire

George V. Voinovich
Ohio

Lisa Murkowski
Alaska

Jim DeMint
South Carolina

Johnny Isakson
Georgia

David Vitter
Louisiana


HEARING
before the

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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Time: 1:45 PM
Place: 419 The Dirksen Senate Office Building
Presiding: Senator Biden

The Committee Will Consider and vote on the
Following Agenda Items:
Nominees:
1. The Honorable Henrietta Holsman Fore
to be Administrator of the United States Agency
for International Development
2. The Honorable Robin R. Sanders
to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
3. Mr. Barry L. Wells
to be Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia
4. Mr. Mark M. Boulware
to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of
Mauritania
5. The Honorable James D. McGee
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe
6. Dr. Ronald K. McMullen
to be Ambassador to the State of Eritrea
7. Mr. P. Robert Fannin
to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
8. Mr. Christopher F. Egan
to be Representative of the United States of America
to the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development, with the rank of Ambassador
9. Dr. Louis J. Nigro
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chad
10. The Honorable David T. Johnson
to be Assistant Secretary of State
for International Narcotics
and Law Enforcement Affairs
11. Mr. Paul E. Simons
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chile
12. The Honorable Gail D. Mathieu
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia
13. Mr. Dan Mozena
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Angola
14. Ms. Eunice S. Reddick
to be Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic,
and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador to the
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
15. The Honorable Daniel V. Speckhard
to be Ambassador to Greece
16. Mr. Thomas F. Stephenson
to be Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic
17. Mr. Vincent Obsitnik
to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic
18. The Honorable William H. Frist
to be Member of the Board of the
Millennium Challenge Corporation
19. The Honorable George E. Pataki
to be U.S. Representative to the
United Nations General Assembly
20. Ms. Kelly G. Knight
to be Alternate U.S. Representative to the
United Nations General Assembly
21. Mr. Rodger D. Young
to be Alternate U.S. Representative to the
United Nations General Assembly
Treaty:
22. Convention on the Law of the Sea (T. Doc.103-39)


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Witness names in blue are links to the statement given.
Statements are only posted if provided electronically by witness.

Law of the Sea Treaty Update

LIBERALS WANT QUICK VOTE ON U.N. TREATY

By Cliff Kincaid

October 20, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

In new developments concerning the U.N.’s Law of the Sea Treaty, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had scheduled a quick vote on the pact for next Wednesday, October 24. But a member of the committee, Senator David Vitter, has reportedly requested?and received?a postponement of the vote. Vitter has been in the forefront of exposing the dangerous provisions of the measure.

October 24 just happens to be “United Nations Day,” which is probably why committee chairman and presidential candidate Senator Joseph Biden had scheduled a vote at this time. Biden, who once wrote an article titled, “How I Learned to Love the New World Order,” thinks his pro-U.N. credentials will help garner liberal votes in the Democratic primaries.

The announcement of the vote had been made on the website of the committee.

Vitter’s postponement is a temporary measure and it is not clear how quickly Biden could reschedule the vote.

Meanwhile, there is no indication at this point that the committee intends to hold a hearing to hear from a U.N. whistleblower, Nithi Sam-Thambiah, who is offering to provide the Senate with documentary evidence proving financial corruption in the treaty’s International Seabed Authority (ISA). The ISA stands to receive millions of dollars if the Senate ratifies the pact.

Complete commentary/links and sources: http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff181.htm

National Heritage Sites are Inbred Cousins of WHS

APC SLEDGEHAMMER ACTION ALERT
From the American Policy Center
Tom DeWeese - President
Kathy Lehman - Editor
70 Main Street, Suite 23
Warrenton, VA 20186
www.americanpolicy.org



Action Alert! Action Alert!



URGENT!!


Stop H.R. 1483, the "Celebrating America's Heritage Act"


We wrote you last August asking you tell your U.S. Senators not to approve a series of bills establishing new National Heritage Areas, while establishing a national program. Unfortunately, the Senate did not listen. According to Peyton Knight, Director of the Center of environmental and Regulatory Affairs at the National Policy Center, "On Wednesday or Thursday of next week (October 24th or 25th), the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a massive national heritage area bill, H.R. 1483, the "Celebrating America's Heritage Act." This bill would create six new national heritage areas, including the highly controversial "Journey Through Hallowed Ground" heritage area. "If this bill is passed, there will be nothing and no one, except the U.S. Park Service, standing between the serious threats these NHAs pose to local communities and private landowners across the nation. And we all know how good a friend and neighbor the U.S. Park Service is! Of some encouragement, the House of Representatives is more responsive to, and considerate of, ordinary everyday Americans. Yet you must make sure they hear your message loud and clear - NO MORE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS, period, end of sentence!

H.R. 1483 would create the following six new national heritage areas at a total initial cost of $90 million: Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia; Niagara Falls National Heritage Area in New York; Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area in Alabama; Freedom's Way National Heritage Area in Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area in Illinois; and the Santa Cruz National Heritage Area in Arizona.

It would reauthorize and increase funding for the following nine existing National Heritage Areas through FY 2012 at an additional cost of $45 million: National Coal Heritage Area; Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area; Augusta Canal Heritage Area; Steel Industry Heritage Project; Essex National Heritage Area; South Carolina National Heritage Corridor; America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership; Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor; and Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area.

H.R. 1483 extends the authorization and funding for nine NHAs that have almost tapped out their funding authorization. Then Committee Democrats tacked on an additional $5 million funding to each of six new NHAs above what supporters requested. Add that to the funding extensions of the existing nine, and you have a whopping $135 million in pork and earmarks to special interest groups. Most of these groups, if not all, are known for their rigid anti-property rights agenda. This outrage would take all the federal taxes paid by over 33,000 average Americans, and use them to rob similar Americans of their private property and their God-given right to determine its use.

Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) introduced a common sense amendment allowing property owners the choice to remove their land from any NHA boundaries and require the management entity of a heritage area to obtain written consent from an owner before their property is conserved, preserved, or promoted. Additionally, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (MD-6) and Rep. Virgil Goode (VA-5) requested their affected districts be removed from these NHA designations altogether. Both efforts were rebuffed. This is amazing hubris on the part of the Democratically-controlled Committee, intending to force designations on Congressional districts where the duly-elected representatives state they're not desired or welcome.

Committee Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) asserts "protections are there for (people) to opt in or opt out." Yet a dissent filed by 15 members of the House Resources Committee questions, "Why would private property owners believe they will be able to 'opt out' when two Members of Congress could not have their districts removed? We believe a Member's wish to be included in a Federal designation is an essential qualification to its creation. It is distressing that a federal designation, especially a controversial Heritage Area, which is typically billed as 'voluntary,' is being forced on two Congressional districts..."

One of the new NHAs proposed in H.R. 1483 is the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area (NFNHA). The NFNHA is especially troubling; it lacks a local managing entity to support and administer the designation AND plans to build and operate a casino as part of a redevelopment scheme. The U.S. government would be not only promoting gambling, but the Secretary of the Interior would be administering the facilities. Perhaps the Secretary intends to use the gambling proceeds to repay the plundered tax dollars ... in a robbing-Peter-to-pay-Paul scam.

This latest effort to establish more NHAs is still pork barrel politics at its worst. Special interest groups are relying on deceit and outright lies to gain approval, hoping to pad their pockets at the expense of property owners and local economies. Again, if H.R. 1483 passes, and old NHA designations are extended, and new ones are created, it will likely then make establishment of a national program unstoppable. This will result in a FLOOD of new National Heritage Areas, each of which will DEVOUR private property rights, CONTROL local land use, and DESTROY local businesses. If a national program is created, the march will be on. Virtually every square inch of these united States could soon be within an NHA boundary, subject to the iron-fisted regulatory rule of the National Park Service and its green partners. We must make a stand and not let this happen!

ACTION TO TAKE

Contact Chairman Grijalva. You can phone his office at (202) 225-2435, or by fax at (202) 226-6846, or by email at raul.grijalva@mail.house.gov
It is also urgent you call your Congressmen NOW. Tell them all:



Oppose H.R. 1483, and any other creation or extension of any National Heritage Area.

This is a massive federal land grab and must not pass.

114 Groups and local leaders recently called on Congress to NOT support the creation of any additional NHAs. The letter can be viewed here: www.nationalcenter.org/NHACoalitionLetter0907.pdf

Congress can help you "protect" your private property rights best by keeping greedy federal (and allies') mitts off your land.

This is pork barrel politics and must not be passed, especially in the dead of night!


Tell them you'll be watching, and will remember, their vote!

If you don't know your Congressmen's phone numbers, call the Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121. Ask for your Representatives by name, or tell the switchboard what state and city or town you're in, and you will be directly connected with the desired offices.


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