“the biggest federal land grab in American history”

‘..What exactly, we should ask, is a National Blueway? In short, it’s the focus of the biggest federal land grab in American history.
Physically, a National Blueway is an entire watershed, including its municipal, county and tribal governments, private property, businesses and everything else within the ridge line of the watershed. Consider the first Blueway, the 410-mile Connecticut River, along with its 7.2 million-acre watershed, which stretches into Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. It wouldn’t take too many grabs like that for the federal government to control all the water in the nation…’
And it gets worseMuch worse

The arrogance of B-grade has-beens

and their media sycophants:
‘A HIGH-powered alliance of top Australians has unveiled a new national sporting flag and plans to use it to gatecrash major sporting events.
…The not-for-profit group’s directors include businesswoman Janet Holmes a Court, former Australian of The Year Patrick McGorry, television journalist Ray Martin and author and former Wallaby Peter FitzSimons.
…The new flag is pitched at sporting events only, but the group hopes to use it to help change attitudes and eventually knock the Union Jack off the official flag with another design…’

“Top Australians”??  Heaven help us if this is how top Australians are now defined. These self-important bastards trot their garbage out in the lead-up to every Australia Day. We mere peasants LIKE our sporting flag and see no need to change it. The fact that you don’t like that attitude is just tough titty, you arrogant twerps. Fuck off and find a worthwhile cause, if you’re so desperate for attention.

Wake up, Kiwis!

Consti3
‘The government’s constitutional review is a major threat to New Zealand’s democracy. A biased constitutional advisory panel and a consultation process that locks out non-Maori threatens to permanently put power and privilege into the hands of the tribal elite…’

You can sign the petition HERE      (Thanks Mawm for the heads-up)