Wednesday, March 18, 2009

You know corporations have run amok...

posted by The Vidiot @ 3:28 PM Permalink

...when they start laying claim to rainwater.
But according to the state of Colorado, the rain that falls on Holstrom's property is not hers to keep. It should be allowed to fall to the ground and flow unimpeded into surrounding creeks and streams, the law states, to become the property of farmers, ranchers, developers and water agencies that have bought the rights to those waterways.

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At 5:44 PM, Blogger nunya said...

Ironic profits: Obama lines the pockets of gun makers
Today's Financial News - Posted March 2, 2009

I don't think your NRA 2nd amendment rhetoric is in any danger of being quieted any time soon.

Nevertheless, I simply must remind you that Obama wants to shift money, resources to SW border
By DEVLIN BARRETT and EILEEN SULLIVAN – 24 minutes ago

because

Mexico's Drug War Bloodbath: Guns from the U.S. Are Destabilizing the Country
By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet
Posted on March 18, 2009, Printed on March 18, 2009


Last month, the U.S. government’s own Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, released its policy-shaping “2009 International Narcotics Strategy Report.” As the bureau had to admit, “U.S.-purchased or stolen firearms account for an estimated 95% of the Mexico’s drug-related killings.”

Nowhere in the report was it emphasized, however, that there are at least 6,600 licensed gun dealers in the four states adjacent to the Mexico border. Or that legal loopholes grant thousands of other unlicensed gun "enthusiasts" and collectors across the country to sell their wares, without inspection or oversight, at weekend gun shows across the country.

“A vast arms bazaar is rampant along the four border states, enabled by porous to nonexistent American gun laws,” The New York Times editorialized on February 27, 2009, after the indictment of George Iknadosian, a gun-shop owner facing federal charges for knowingly providing weapons to members of the Sinaloa cartel. “There should be immense shame on this side of the border that America’s addiction to drugs is bolstered by its feckless gun controls.”

 

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