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May 2012

12th: Food Police active in Minnesota.

12th: United nations adds a new definition for "Social Justice".

5th: The United States should return stolen lands to the indians says the United Nations

Solar threatens Tortoise

April 2012

19thMinnesotans pay an extra $70 million more than necessary.

19thBig Brother will soon monitor when you can drive

16thObama defines a new inter agency taskforce for energy.

13th Republicans helping to implement Obamacare in Oklahoma

13thLawsuit filed against Tulsa County stating in State Court over tax protests.

11th:Battery explosion in General Motors testing laboratory.

A new group, Tulsans United For Fairness plan suit against the TARE Board Trash contract decision.

5th: A crowd at the Formed Based Code expansion in the Pearl District.

3rd: Form Based Codes in the Pearl District will prevent the building of Sonic, Quick Trip, and other convenience businesses in that district.

1st: The Federal Energy Department approves a green energy lightbulb for your home.

March 2012

27th: Fed bailed out Chrysler just in time to build an automobile plant in Russia.

26th: Senator Reid backing High Speed Rail

26th: Global Warming 500 years ago

24th: Generic Modified Foods in PERU?

24th: American Bridges built by the Chinese?

23rd:1,179 miles gap left in the Keystone XL Pipeline by the President

23rd:NYC to charge bicycle tolls on bridges.

3rd: The proposal you could not see until the bill passed.

3rd: New analysis of of CO2 global warming.

3rd: The Story of sea ice.

1st: Another Solar Failure!

February 2012

27th: Water prices may soon triple.

23rd:More Green Auto news.

22nd:Green Energy Car.

22nd:Fed War on hair dryers.

22nd:Feds: Fresh Milk 150 times more dangerous than pasteurized dairy.

21th:The current Transportation Bill in Congress includes all of the items below. Check out the link and contact your Senators and Representative. Today! Sen. John Cornyn addressed the Texas Transportation Forum last Friday and he lobbied for the sale of our sovereign Texas public roads to private corporations in PPPs (that result in toll rates as high as 75 cents PER MILE, the equivalent of adding $15 to every gallon of gas you buy!). He needs to hear from us on that. Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom

12th:Another solar company shuts down

12th:Feds shutdown sale of fresh milk.

8th: The truth of Global Warming takes a hit.

8th: Himalayas lost no ice in the last 10 years.

8th: "Polar ICE Melt" less than expected.

8th: Can confessions be used in courts>

8th: Farmers spied on by EU

7th: is the nation's founding document and sacred text. But its influence is waning.

6th: From the American Policy Center, You should feel very proud. As you know in the last few months we have been scoring against Agenda 21 in ways we never dreamed. My audiences are growing at each stop. Heritage has finally produced an article about it. The APA is now organizing boot camps to teach their people to fight us. We have achieved at last 54 cities getting out of ICLEI. We've been attacked in Mother Jones. the Washington Post, and yesterday The New York Times.

5th: "No one should live below a certain income level," stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. "Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water, sanitation and other essential services." These services were presented at the forum as basic human rights equal to the rights of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

4th: London, England-In yet another outrageous piece of social engineering from our coalition government, pensioners will be encouraged to downsize to smaller properties allowing local councils to rent their homes out as council houses and manage the tenancy.

Local authorities will 'help' older people move from their homes into 'more suitable accommodation'. Grant Schapps, the Housing Minister, who is a conservative member of parliament claims the scheme will solve a so called 'housing crisis' as well as creating a system that will 'permit access to various sources of wealth' that are currently not being used to pay for care. Read that as the elderly will have to raid their pension pots and hand over the equity in their homes - which they have spent a lifetime paying for - in order to put themselves into a care system which is notoriously unfit for purpose.

4th: Scientists declare sugar is a toxin.

4th: United Nations wants to impose a financial tax to help the poor have free housing and healthcare.

2nd: Resilient People, Resilient Planet:
A future worth choosing The report of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Global Sustainability

2nd: The world can no longer afford to ignore the environmental cost of economic growth and must redefine the very concept of national wealth, a UN panel of heads of state and environment ministers said Monday.

2nd: "Big changes in Tulsa trash service spawn new objections." Tulsans be careful what you wish for! According to an August 20, 2010 story in the Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, the City of Cleveland planned to sort through curbside trash to make sure that residents were recycling garbage. If someone were found to not be properly recycling, they would be subject to a $100 fine. The city ascertains this information from carts embedded with radio frequency identification chips (RFID) and bar codes.

January 2012

30th: The Resolution Exposing UN Agenda 21 passed unamended through the full RNC yesterday!

26th: Using taxpayer dollars to leave an event promoting clean-energy vehicles in a motorcade of twenty-two fossil-fueled vehicles: Priceless.

Interesting article on the current state of Federal Healthcare Exchanges and the relationship to state sponsored exchanges.

15th: Scientists want Climate Change in young minds

10th:The Fed fines the Oil Companies for not using a faux energy source.

1st: The Tulsa Authority for the Recovery of Energy is raising trash rates for new services on July 1, 2012 but not yet publishing the new rates for trash pickup.