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by Dan Bacher

In the most absurd episode in the bad action flick that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has starred in since being elected Governor in 2003, the “Fish Terminator” on Saturday morning spouted off about the need for “transparent” government in his weekly radio address.

“Ever since I became Governor, I have pushed to make California government more transparent,” Schwarzenegger claimed. “Now, I don’t have to tell you that this is a time of deep recession, all around the world.”

“It is more critical than ever that government be held accountable for every dollar it spends, that it live within its means, and that it show total transparency at all levels: at the local level, the state level and the federal level,” said Schwarzenegger.

This is coming from the guy who has demonstrated more of a penchant for secrecy than any other Governor in California history. This is coming from the corporate-controlled political hack who was a keynote speaker on July 30, 2010 at the highly secretive Bohemian Grove near Monte Rio on the Russian River (http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100728/ARTICLES/100729459).

The Bohemian Grove is an exclusive, men’s only club where the heads of global corporations, select politicians, bankers and the elite members of the ruling class from throughout the globe “relax” and network to devise their schemes to pillage the world’s resources, launch wars and control the population while making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

On the first night of the annual encampment, the members of the club perform a bizarre ritual called the “Cremation of Care.” “This ceremony involves the poling across a lake of a small boat containing an effigy of Care (called ‘Dull Care’). Dark, hooded figures receive from the ferryman the effigy which is placed on an altar, and, at the end of the ceremony, set on fire,” according to wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremation_of_Care). “This ‘cremation’ symbolizes that members are banishing the ‘dull cares’ of conscience.”

Many believe that the elite, meeting at Bohemian Grove, picked Schwarzenegger to run for Governor in order to plunder the California economy and resources through increased privatization of public trust resources to benefit the super-rich.

On July 21, 2003, Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, “From what we’ve heard, the Republican hierarchy — especially those close to former Gov. Pete Wilson — would favor Schwarzenegger. At least that’s the word that came out of the Bohemian Grove this past weekend, where a number of state and national GOPers, including presidential adviser Karl Rove, happened to have gathered at a club getaway.”

However, we’ll never know exactly what transpired in Schwarzenegger’s annual appearances at the Grove because all proceedings, events and speeches are kept secret, even though the lives of billions of people throughout the world are greatly impacted what is discussed behind close doors at the annual event.

Schwarzenegger’s speech on “transparent” government then devolved into an attack on the Senate for refusing to pass a bill that would require them to post their salaries and expenditures online, followed by a shameless rant praising all of his alleged initiatives for “transparency” in Government.

“I opened my own calendar to the public,” Schwarzenegger gushed. “No other sitting Governor has ever done that.”

Schwarzenegger sure didn’t open his calendar to the public on July 31, when he spoke along with Rupert Murdoch, media magnate and owner of Fox News, to the gathered elite at the Bohemian Grove! In fact, he didn’t even disclose what topic he was speaking about.

According to Mary Moore, an organizer of yearly protests in front of the Grove’s gates, Schwarzenegger’s appearance was described as follows on the Grove’s program: “Friday, July 30: Topic undisclosed: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger” (http://dailycensored.com/2010/08/06/speakers-at-the-2010-bohemian-grove-include-rupert-murdoch-david-gergen-and-arnold-schwarzenegger/).

My experience with covering water and environmental politics under Schwarzenegger administration is the exact opposite of his claims that he is the “Transparent Governor.”

In contrast with the Governor’s claims of “transparency” in government, Schwarzenegger’s Delta Vision and Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) officials went out of their way to exclude the input of California Indian Tribes, anglers and environmentalist justice communities, the groups most impacted by the Governor’s plan for a peripheral canal and new dams, from these rigged fiascos. Only after an action alert went out complaining about the lack of tribal and recreational fishing representation was one lone tribal representative and one lone recreational fishing representative appointed to Delta Vision Stakeholders Group.

Likewise, the Governor, the Legislative leaders, Westlands Water District, the Metropolitan Water Agency and corporate environmental NGOs met in secret, back door negotiations last year to craft the water policy/water bond package that creates a clear path to a peripheral canal and new, unneeded dams. The Governor and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg did everything they could to ram this package through the Capitol without input from California Indian Tribes, fishermen, Delta farmers and residents, and environmental justice communities.

Fortunately, the massive opposition by the public to the water bond forced the Governor to go to the Legislature and get the bond delayed until November 2012. However, the Governor is still pushing his plans to build the canal and new dams through the BDCP process and the Delta Stewardship Council created by last year’s legislation.

Another process that the Governor and his collaborators claim is “open, inclusive and transparent,” the privately funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative, is anything but. It was only after outrage by First Amendment advocates and the Newspapers Publishers Association over the arrest of David Gurney at an MLPA “working session” in April that MLPA Executive Director Ken Wiseman was forced to allow the sessions to be photographed and filmed, as is required by the Bagley-Keene Public Meetings Act.

The Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, a shadowy organization that is totally unaccountable to the public, has funded this illegitimate process since Schwarzenegger launched the MLPA Initiative in 2004. Schwarzenegger has appointed oil industry, real estate, marina development and other private operatives with conflicts of interest to the MLPA’s Blue Ribbon Task Forces that choose the marine reserve proposals that are submitted for approval by the Fish and Game Commission.

If the MLPA is such an “open, transparent and inclusive” process, why did 300 Tribal members, fishermen, immigrant workers and environmentalists feel so left out of the process that they had to organize a march and direct action to take over a MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force meeting in Fort Bragg on July 21 so their voices would be finally heard?

Schwarzenegger’s regular appearances at the Bohemian Grove and his pushing of rigged processes including the Delta Vision, BDCP, MLPA and the water policy/water bond fiascos show that his call for “transparency” in government is a hypocritical lie. His claim that he is the “Transparent Governor” rings just as hollow as his claim that he is the “Green Governor.”

Schwarzenegger’s 2-minute, 52-second radio address is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fb0yv_5rS8.

How much money is spent on California and US waterways that could be spent on say…helping out of work Americans?
Did you know that Sea Otters,(that are NOT endangered), just got a $ 25,000,000 bill approved for MORE studies. Right now, we are forcing litigation to stop the lie about Sea Otters. Sea Otters NEVER were endangered! They were listed under “threatened,” the threat coming from the possibility of an oil spill that could threaten their habitat. They were NEVER in any danger of becoming scarce.
THIS IS A MYTH!!!
Sea Otters are doing too well in fact. They have passed the required number of animals allowed to have a sustainable food supply. It is a DOCUMENTED FACT that Sea Otters are starving themselves, due to OVERPOPULATION!!! Just like the Wolves in Yellowstone Park. The US Fish and Wildlife Service still created a new law to allow more Otters…Why? It is a documented FACT that Otters have eaten ALL of the abalone,scallops,clams that are in their “Otter Range.”

The Big Green Machines poster child isn’t the harmless fuzzy little creature they want you to believe, and the truth and the proof of this is now available to the public.

Well the good news is..the White House Office of Science and Technology has announced the new policy to make available the scientific research funded by the Fed. This would mean that you and I could go on the internet and read scientific research results, then watch the peer reviews of this research. This would prompt the private research community to the obligatory transparency required to meet the needs of data to determine any decisions being made in the MLPA process. Full disclosure?…Transparency? Well, maybe.

The bad news is…the back door of the White House is busy with the traffic of Obamas “special appointees” to widen the control of the federal government. Obama has set up EVERY drop of water in this country to be under federal jurisdiction. Do you know how many different entities of government, state and federal, that control the same drop of water? Redundant is an understatement!!!

This is a typical far left Democratic agenda of taking away control from states and building federal control.
There is already too many redundant controls. Occams Razor would apply well right now!!!

Pro Tem Senator Darrell Steinberg, an employee of the Packard foundation(?), the man who squashed the investigation of private money from the Packard Foundation financing the MLPA allowed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, is disregarding the thousands year old subsistence fishing by some small local tribes of California natives. This MLPA process that claims involving all of the people in the decision making did not even consider these tribes. They were only acknowledged after they showed up to voice themselves. Still this had no importance in the non-science based random cookie cutter mapping for the MPAs. The entire port of Pt.Arena is in jeopardy of collapse. Taking away from what little these folks have left is outrageous. Environmentalists take their lessons from these people who are well known for using mother earth with respect and conservation, yet they now seem to be irrelevant. That is just wrong!

Plastidectomy; (pla’-ste’-dek’-ta-me’) n.,pl.mies.
1. An outpatient surgical procedure not covered by most insurance policies(cosmetic).
Procedure consists of removing the bellybutton, then replacing it with a piece of clear plexyglass.
The patient can then see what they’re doing when they have their head up their ass.

Green has two meanings, green like eco-friendly, or green like money.
Some environmentalist groups have combined these greens to create a camouflage.

The “Big Green Machine” is a brilliant conception, no matter how crooked. It is a zygote of the noble cause to preserve and conserve our environment and the manipulating greed, irresistible to the weak and evil. Whether this has been conscious and deliberate or manifested on it’s own is unapparent. One thing for sure, it is bigger than you can imagine.

MBA-101… To find the motivation in an act, one only needs to follow the money trail.
How many jobs are created by the Big Green Machine?, millions! The money from giant corporations is “donated” to charities consisting of non-profit organizations, employing this as a tax shelter. Funny, the corp. and the non-profit have the same name. This non-profit then donates to “special interest” groups. In turn these special interest groups lobby politicians to create just causes for their existence. This of coarse must be validated by scientific research, right? So, the non-profit creates grants for this science, all this time, the scientist knows if the results aren’t favorable to the investor, the grant may be terminated.

Now, normally this would be a really good situation, BUT, the research and the results are not favoring the presumptive ideas that originally justified the cause. Simply put… They’ve FAILED!, and now their empire is at risk of imploding. Meanwhile, these groups are scrambling franticly. Recklessly striking at any thing that moves, just like a wounded animal. I can show you endless, obviously desperate attempts to slander any information on the internet with their poorly written and misleading websites. These sites serve no other purpose than to saturate the internet with lies and propaganda.

The nice thing about the truth is, when it comes you can’t deny it.
Watch out Mr. Green, I’m coming to do your laundry

These Marine Mammals are the super stars of the marine world. Along with their other aquatic mammalian counterparts, Dolphins, Orcas, and Whales, they command the most focus from curious humans. These animals are also federally protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act(MMPA). Because of this protection, They are not considered a factor in California’s MPAs.
Their massive consumption of fish and shellfish are not being addressed in the “balance of the ecosystem.”
“Retired CDFG biologist Doyle Hannon (2003) reported to the Congressional Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans that California sea lions, on average, consume 20 pounds of fish per day. There were at the time, an estimated 100.000 sea lion on San Miguel Island. Times 20 pounds, that is 2,000,000 pounds of fish per day. There are no human use fisheries operating in that region at anywhere near these numbers!
Kenyon (1969) found urchin consumption at 1,600 urchins per otter per day. Not a lot of calories in an urchin.
A reasonable estimate is 25% of body weight per day. They excrete waste a couple times per hour. Total biomass is about 5 times consumption. So, if it’s a 100 pound otter, 25 lbs goes down the throat. Hard shells (like abalone, clams, mussels) do not. Ebert (196*) estimated 100 otters would consume 500,000 to 1,000,000 per year. Otters begin to take invertebrates at about 21/2 inches. There goes the breeding populations.” (SR)

The enviros are celebrating their victory in the long, hard fought battle for Marine Protected Areas. WOW. What have they won? They have won more time on the railways of the big green propaganda machine. They have stoked the bellows with more free money and a secure future of employment. The only job they have to do is keep you convinced that they are saving things that don’t need saving.

Soon the United States Fish and Wildlife Service will be forced to concede that the Southern Sea Otter programs have failed. Then what will justify the 25,000,000 dollars Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi have just arranged for the next five years. This from the bill just passed to do yet more “studies” on the Otter. It’s funny that the Sea Otter is the most expensive study animal we have today. Seems we should have quite a handle on this animals biology.

I’ll be showing you some more facts and fakes. This time, about the Southern Sea Otter. You will have your eyes opened about many things you don’t know about this animal, and the people that are “studying” them. This section will outrage you, or at least it should.

The Environmentalist Community, California Department of Fish and Game, and the United Sates Fish and Wildlife Service are aware of the necessity for a case by case evaluation of all the current and proposed MPAs. They are telling you that they are “removing human activity” from these areas. THIS IS NOT TRUE !

The USFWS translocated Sea Otters from the designated, protected “Otter Range” to San Nicholas Isl. This was illegal as per the Marine Mammal Protection Act. They then created a law to make what they did “OK.”

This is not leaving the ocean to heal on it’s own, as they profess to you. This is manipulation of life as they see fit for their agenda.

In a recent TV interview at the Blue Ribbon Task Force meeting in Long Beach,Ca., Charlotte Stevenson, a scientist for the Heal the Bay org. in Santa Monica, candidly stated…”We’ve done it on land, now it’s the waters turn.” This referring to the Marine Life Protection Act established in 1999.They are trying to tell you that if you leave the ocean alone, it will heal itself. This is unfortunately not true. Let us look at a quick comparison of the California Coniferous Forest and the Kelp Forest.
The trees are infested with a devastating “bug” named the Western Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus brevicomis).
It destroys large areas of coniferous trees. The outbreaks are believed to be spurred on by the lack of predators, namely the Three Toed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus). Left unattended, this bug can and has destroyed forests.
The Kelp forest is infested with a “bug” named the Red Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus).This bug destroys large areas of Kelp Forest. These outbreaks or \"Urchin Barrens\" are spurred on by the lack of predators and if left unattended will and “ARE” destroying the Kelp Beds off the california coast.
If we leave it to the current MPAs’ outline, there will be nothing to keep these “bugs” from devastating the bio-diversity necessary for a healthy ocean. We need to establish a case by case study for each fishery and each “area” proposed in this Act.
The trees and kelp are each a necessary “host” to a bio-diverse ecosystem.