KBC NEWS

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Christian Pastor executed by Nazi Germany 1945

* Klamath water task force to hold final meeting Tuesday December 3, H&N 11/28/13

*VIDEO: Author Holly Swanson: Set Up & Sold Out ~ Training for Treason @ Know Your Rights in Klamath Falls Nov. 16, 2013, filmed by Kevin Goodrich, posted to KBC 12/1/13. "Holly Swanson proclaimed a serious warning about the Green Agenda overtaking America's schools, thereby infiltrating the governmental infrastructure. Included was the Executive Order that's meant to prepare the United State for 'climate change.' " 15 minutes

* VIDEO: Ramona Hage-Morrison and Danny Martinez on Property Rights @ Klamath Falls 16 Nov 2013,  filmed by Kevin Goodrich, posted to KBC 12/1/13. Ramona Hage Morrison has been actively involved in a successful 22-year long case involving her family's ranch vs. the USFS and BLM...She served as a title witness in her family's case, U.S. v. Hage. She will talk about the landmark Hage litigation, and why an exhaustive chain of title was the key evidence necessary to defend their vested water rights, forage rights, range improvements and rights of ways.
     Danny Martinez was born into a first generation Arizona ranching family in 1944. He is the CEO of Liberty and Property Rights Coalition and is involved in the livestock industry in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. He currently has a property rights case involving his family's ranch before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Why Freedom is personal to me, by Igor Birman, 12/1/13. "For the thirteen years I lived in the Soviet Union, I saw first-hand a totalitarian government that brutally repressed dissent, created shortages and regulated every aspect of a citizen's life..."

Expansion of power of the Executive Branch of our federal government, by Oregon Senator Doug Whitsett, posted to KBC 12/1/13

Happy Thanksgiving! We have so much to be thankful for!

Klamath water task force to hold final meeting Tuesday December 3, H&N 11/28/13

Whitsett files for second term, H&N 11/28/13

ACTION ALERT - Another Big Green power player moves up in Obama's Washington, Washington Examiner, posted to KBC 11/27/13. "Those two large agencies have a track record of appalling behavior that ranges from massively coercing private property away from thousands of owners, to faking science for new regulations, to cozy sue-and-settle lawsuits with not-so-former green group colleagues." "Urgent: Call Your Senators Today To Stop Rhea Sun Suh Green Grab!"

State lawmakers confer in three-day session; Gail Whitsett in favor of independent OIT board. U.S. Rep Greg Walden addresses water quality rules. Klamath Tribes chairman Don Gentry visits White House, H&N 11/22/13. “President Obama has committed to following through with obligations to tribes and to honor treaties,” Gentry said. During the conference, Gentry spoke about the Mazama Forest acquisition at an economic tribal development breakout session. He said the session was an opportunity to open a dialogue about generating support and finding administrative consultants for the 90,000-acre acquisition, which is part of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement signed in 2010."

Crater Lake water crisis. Crater Lake faces significant cutbacks. Yearly budget trimmed by $150,000. Water quality worries, H&N, posted to KBC 11/23/13. "Because the park has a low priority among water users — it ranks 28th — calls for water last summer by the Klamath Tribes, which have priority water rights, created concerns the park might have to close. Ackerman said trucking water to the park was not feasible because it would have cost $900,000 a month."

Klamath County Water Crisis by Heather Smith Thomas, posted to KBC 11/23/13. "One of the most devastating government “takings” in the history of the U.S. is in progress in Klamath County, Oregon.  This movement to get farmers and ranchers off their privately owned lands has been brewing for many years but came to a head after a sequence of events this spring and summer shut off long-time water rights and deprived landowners of their ability to irrigate or water their livestock."

Hatchery Salmon - Progress seen in Hood River's spring chinook run; Starting to build a self-sustaining program, H&N, posted to KBC 11/23/13. "Beginning in the early 1990s, the tribes and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife started stocking the river with hatchery bred spring chinook, taken from Deschutes River stocks, to try to resurrect the wild run. Under the “supplementation” approach, when the hatchery fish return to the river, they’re allowed onto wild spawning grounds. When their offspring return, they’re counted as wild....We’re looking for a middle ground, where we can have both fish and farmers.”

Salvage logging planned on Oregon fire site. Miami Herald 11/21/13

* VIDEO Know Your Rights, United Nations Agenda 21, filmed by Kevin Goodrich. Michael Shaw was the keynote speaker in Klamath Falls on November 16th. Shaw took us through the history of Agenda 21 being forced into every gov't agency and into our lives, back to President Bush Sr. and President Clinton.  Policies include "sustainable development', world trade, training children to dislike private property and American values rather than global values, regulate resources and resource users, make wildlands inhabitable, monitor and control every person.... Klamath Basin is scheduled to be wildlands, which he illustrated on the wildlands official map. Local gov't will become controlled by unelected Council of Governments/ CODs, to prepare regional plans and set regional policy. There are 10,000 NGO's/non-governmental organizations, which are unelected special interests who are recipients of government funds. It's about reducing the rural population, abortion, wildlands project, wars, collapse economy. He explained how Agenda 21 effects Klamath Basin. 2 Klamath County commissioners and a state senator, along with more than 200 local citizens, attended the afternoon seminar, many who have had their water shut off in the Klamath Basin, and who have threats that their hydroelectric dams will be destroyed and surface and groundwater denied, forest roads closed, endangered species supreme, mining and logging banned. Goodrich is preparing videos of the other 3 speakers and Q&A to share with you on YouTube--thank you Kevin!

Cattle were not turned loose, but managed on wildlife refuge by Dave Danforth, Fort Klamath, followed by Drought year led to bending rules for grazing by Quinn Read, Oregon Wild environmental attorney, posted to KBC 11/18/13. KBC NOTE: Read's spin is mostly untrue. The Tule Lake wildlife refuge was quite full this summer. Lower Klamath, as acknowledged by Refuge Manager Ron Cole, was without water because of the high power costs that are borne by leaseland farmers, with over 2000% higher power rate. Tule Lake refuge was in a closed basin, but presently irrigators must pump uphill the water through a mountain and into Lower Klamath Refuge, then to Klamath River, at their own expense. Historically this water remained in Tule Lake.

County Supervisor (Brandon Criss) has hands full with regional issues; Criss took office in January, defeating incumbent Jim Cook, H&N, posted to KBC 10/6/13

Obamacare drives up health care cost, by Stephen Rapalyea, Chiloquin, H&N, posted to KBC 11/18/13

(Tulelake's) Batkid to the rescue
Batkid leaves people all a'Twitter, and
Back to normal life for Batkid?
printed in Herald and News 11/16&17, 2013.

How the federal government, through Obamacare and destroying the resource use of timber, has effected his and his family's lives, letter from Mark Johnson to Oregon State Representative Dennis Richardson 11/15/13
 

Top Government Scientist fired for telling the truth about Klamath dam destruction, YouTube, posted to KBC 11/14/13.

* Transcribed tour of the Klamath Project

For more November chronological news, see Archive 138.
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