Senate Bill 2109 Seeks to Extinguish Navajo and Hopi Water Rights - Say No to SB 2109 HR Bill 4067 and the further raping of Native American rights.

When a Supreme Court judge leans to far right or left politically it hurts all citizens of our country. We have in the past seen the extremely elderly judge sleeping instead of listening to very important issues, refusing to retire when he no longer should be sitting on the bench. Judge Roberts, himself, at one time believed no judge should have a life time position as a Supreme Court Justice. That of course was before he became one himself and now the right wing leaning Roberts changed his mind since he is one and now believes it should be a lifetime position. No job other than this one comes with a lifetime guarantee, and niether should this one. In order to keep our country fair and our constitution safe we must occasionally clean house. When a judge asks if he is expected to read the many paged Obamacare health plan we have a problem. When a judge refers to the 'Healthcare for all" as 'Obamacare,' doesn't want to read it ,how can we rely on these judges not to be biased? No job should automatically be a lifetime position and certainly not one that affects all Americans as does the position of a Supreme Court Judge.

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By Ed Becenti Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUBA CITY, ARIZONA -- Arizona Senators Jon Kyl (R- AZ) and John McCain (R-AZ) are coming to Tuba City on Thursday, April 5, 2012, to persuade Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribal leaders to give up their peoples’ aboriginal and Treaty-guaranteed priority Water Rights by accepting a “Settlement Agreement” written to benefit some of the West’s most powerful mining and energy corporations. Senate Bill 2109 --the "Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement Act of 2012" was introduced by Kyl and McCain on February 14, 2012, and is on a fast track to give Arizona corporations and water interests a “100th birthday present” that will close the door forever on Navajo and Hopi food and water sovereignty, security and self-reliance. S.2109 asks the Navajo and Hopi peoples to waive their priority Water Rights to the surface waters of the Little Colorado River “from time immemorial and thereafter, forever” in return for the shallow promise of uncertain federal appropriations to supply minimal amounts of drinking water to a handful of reservation communities. The Bill -- and the ‘Settlement Agreement” it ratifies – do not quantify Navajo and Hopi water rights – the foundation of all other southwestern Indian Water Rights settlements to date – thereby denying the Tribes the economic market value of their water rights, and forcing them into perpetual dependence on uncertain federal funding for any water projects. Senators Kyl and McCain know well that without Water, life is not possible. Yet, their Bill and the ‘Settlement Agreement” close the door forever to any possibility of irrigated agriculture and water conservation projects to heal and restore Navajo and Hopi watersheds (keeping sediment from filling downstream reservoirs); to grow high-value income and employment-producing livestock and crops for Navajo, Hopi and external markets; and to provide once again for healthy, diabetes- and obesity-free nutrition and active lifestyles for all future generations of Navajo and Hopi children. Kyl and McCain Senators Kyl and McCain demand that the Navajo and Hopi people waive and give up all their rights to legal protection of injury to surface and ground water supply and quality in the past, present, and future -- yet the Navajo and Hopi peoples do not even know the full extent and nature of the rights they are being pressured to waive because the details of the “Settlement Agreement” are not being shared with the public. This is wrong. Navajo and Hopi water and public health have already been damaged severely by past uranium and coal mining in and upstream of Navajo and Hopi communities. Senators Kyl and McCain are trying now to take away all rightful legal protections against the present and real danger of such contaminations occurring again. S.2109 and the “Settlement Agreement” deny the Navajo and Hopi people the resources and means to assess comprehensive long-term water needs of every community, village, and watershed; and deny the resources and means to plan for, and develop sufficient domestic, municipal, industrial and agricultural “wet water” projects essential to the permanent well-being, prosperity and health of their homelands and children’s children. This is absolutely counter to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1908 Winter’s Doctrine that explicitly reserves and safeguards the water needed for that permanent well-being and prosperity. S.2109 and the “Settlement Agreement” deny the Navajo and Hopi people the resources and means to bank their own waters, or to recharge their aquifers depleted and damaged by the mining and energy corporations that S.2109 benefits. S.2109 and the “Settlement Agreement” require Navajo and Hopi to give Peabody Coal Mining Company and the Salt River Project and other owners of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) tens of thousands of acre-feet of Navajo and Hopi water annually – without any compensation – and to force the extension of Peabody and NGS leases without Navajo and Hopi community input, or regard for past and continuing harmful impacts to public health, water supplies and water quality – as necessary pre-conditions to Navajo and Hopi receiving Congressional appropriations for minimal domestic water development. This is coercive and wrong.

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I am petitioning against the many homes and properties in P.G. County that have been foreclosed and have also incurred very high property tax. This situation has resulted in many home owners' mortgages becoming upside down. Our homes have been devalued more than half, however; we continue to incurr very high property tax that is not equivalent to the low assessed value that has been assessed by our Tax Assessment Office in Annapolis. Why should people care about this issue? Why will people signing the petition make a difference? People should be concerned about this issue because it is bringing about an awareness of the very high taxes that have been assessed to our homes, and once added to our monthly mortgages has resulted in home owners not being able to meet their monthly mortgage obligations. This result later leads to foreclosure. If the home owners sign the petition and present these concerns at the state level, the state Senator and the state house will have to decrease our property taxes so they will be equivalent to the assigned assessed value. Mortgages will become affordable and save homes. We need an enormous amount of signatures in order to receive positive action in lowering the property tax in the state of Maryland, and especially P.G. County. Senator Hoyer has an opportunity to save our homes in the State of Maryland and put an end to these outrageous property taxes that have burdened and inundated our homeowners in the state of Maryland. We are summoning Senator Hoyer to stand up for the home owners in the state of Maryland and seal the American Dream for All Home Qwners in the state of Maryland.

Let's de-fund Israel's colonies on the West Bank. They provoke terrorism against our homeland. We're funding them with 1. direct appropriations, 2. tax deductibility for gifts to them, and 3. home-loan guarantees.

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Some of the most hateful,mean, dispicable and greedy atrocities ever inflicted upon human beings, are being inflicted quietly in dialysis centers, against patients all accross this nation. I have spoken to many lawyers and politicians in reference to these excesses in treatments, pharmaceuticals and surgeries, many which are prescribed unnecessarily in order to bill the patient's insurance companies more-this is especially true for the poor, elderly and many patients who do not have private insurance, who rely on Medicare and Medicaid for their treatments. However, in over 8 years of contacting these legal experts and professional politicians, I have yet to get one positive response about a plan to minimize or eliminate these corrupt practices by this industry. I am hoping that this petition will give millions of dialysis patients in this country a voice, so that these unnecessary excesses will no longer be inflicted upon people who are already in pain, suffering and afraid as a result of this dreaded and painful disease. Thank you for your humanity and your consideration.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) currently inspects all chicken and turkey carcasses for things like bruises, bile and feces before they are sent to further processing. However, the UDSA is now considering a pilot program that would eliminate that inspection and allow private poultry processing plants to do whatever they want. The USDA is holding a public commenting period on this proposed change right now. Please sign the petition opposing the privatization of poultry inspection before the public commenting period ends.