Property Rights
1/4/2011 | Property Rights, Radical Islam
Exempt info says more about mayor's support
OneNewsNow
A Christian attorney who has been front and center in the effort to stop the construction of the proposed "9/11 mega-mosque" in New York City says Mayor Bloomberg's office has refused to hand over important documents that reveal his inappropriate involvement with the mosque developers.
As previously reported on OneNewsNow, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office waited until two days before Christmas to respond to separate Freedom of Information Act requests from Judicial Watch and the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) for documents related to the mayor's communications involving the mosque project.
"What we learned from those documents, as we suspected, is that the mayor's office was very much involved in this process and that they were very much involved in helping the owners of this particular building shepherd through the political process," reports Brett Joshpe, the New York-based attorney handling the lawsuit filed by the ACLJ.
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Supreme Court meets Monday morning
Yahoo News
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court begins what almost certainly is its final week of work before its summer break with 10 cases left to decide. Among the big issues are gun rights and the death penalty for rape of a child. The court is meeting Monday morning to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases to argue during the next term. The justices still have not handed down decisions in a landmark Second Amendment case on the meaning of the right to keep and bear arms.
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Plan Would Let Seniors Work to Pay Taxes
My Way News
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) - Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn't want to leave Greenburgh. Greenburgh doesn't want her to leave, either. The town is pushing a program that would let seniors work part-time, for $7 an hour, to help pay off some of their property taxes. "People shouldn't have to sell their house, move away to a place with less taxes, leave behind their family and friends," said Town Supervisor Paul Feiner.
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Calif. Wildfires Death Toll Rising
CBS News
(CBS/AP) The death toll is mounting in Southern California, as hundreds of thousands of evacuees hope for the best, and firefighters push forward in a difficult and exhausting battle. At least 21 major fires are still burning, with 1,780 homes destroyed, 10 to 14 fire-related deaths, 52 injured firefighters, 30 injured civilians, and 12,465 people in 45 official evacuation centers. The fires, which began a week ago, have so far burned nearly half a million acres, including land on eight Indian reservations, with property damage overall estimated at well over a billion dollars. Four charred bodies - three men and a woman - were found Thursday afternoon at the site of what authorities say appears to have been a migrant camp just east of San Diego. The bodies were found in a wooded area near Barrett Junction, along the Mexican border in unincorporated San Diego County, said Paul Parker, a spokesman for the San Diego County medical examiner's office. It was not clear how long ago the victims died or if they were victims of the wildfires that have killed at least three other people. "They could have been out there a while," Parker said of the three, who were found just east of a Border Patrol checkpoint on Route 94.
10/25/2007 | Property Rights
Officials: Major California Wildfire Declared Arson
FoxNews.com
SAN DIEGO — A major wildfire that has scorched thousands of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes in Southern California has been declared an arson, according to Orange County law enforcement and FBI officials. Officials said that there is a $70,000 reward for information leading to an arrest for those responsible for the Santiago fire in the rugged eastern part of the county. Additionally, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced a $50,000 reward for information leading toward the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for setting the Santiago Fire. The FBI has become involved in the investigation because part of the fire was on federal land in National Forest. Orange County officials executed a search warrant Wednesday as part of a probe into whether one or more of the fires in that county were the result of arson. In the city of San Bernardino, police said they shot and killed a man who fled Tuesday night when officers approached to see if he might be trying to set a fire. After a chase, the man, whose name was not released, backed his car into a police cruiser and an officer opened fire, police said. Sixteen fires burning for four days across seven counties stretching from Malibu, north of Los Angeles, to the Mexican border, have killed five people, destroyed 1,500 homes, consumed 426,000 acres — or about 665 square miles — and forced almost one million people from their homes — the largest evacuation in the state's history. More than 70,000 homes remained threatened.
10/24/2007 | Property Rights
Bush Promises California Fire Aid
CBS News
(CBS/AP) Federal emergency officials are assisting California in the fight against wildfires that have forced evacuation orders for 500,000 people, with five fire-related deaths, injured 45 others including 21 firefighters, destroyed 1,800 homes, with tens of thousands of other houses still in danger. Tuesday, Mr. Bush briefly departed from his scheduled war on terror speech at the National Defense University to offer prayers for those who have lost houses and businesses, or are about to. "All of us across this nation are concerned for the families who have lost their homes and the many families who have been evacuated from their homes," he said. "We send the help of the federal government." Late Tuesday, authorities began evacuating Lake Arrowhead and the communities surrounding that mountain resort town, where flames have destroyed over 400 homes and are menacing 10,000 other houses. President Bush spoke Monday with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and early Tuesday declared a federal emergency for seven California counties, a move that will speed disaster relief efforts.
10/23/2007 | Property Rights
CA Wildfires Force Mass Evacuation
Time
(SAN DIEGO) — Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced hundreds of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous orange over the drought-stricken region. Firefighters described desperate conditions that were sure to get worse in the days ahead, with hotter temperatures and high winds forecast for Tuesday. At least 16 firefighters and 25 others were reported injured since the blazes began Sunday, and one person was killed. At least 655 homes burned — about 130 in one mountain area alone — and 168 businesses and other structures were destroyed. Thousands of other buildings were threatened by more than a dozen blazes covering at least 240,000 acres, the equivalent of 374 square miles. "The sky was just red. Everywhere I looked was red, glowing. Law enforcement came barreling in with police cars with loudspeakers telling everyone to get out now," said Ronnie Leigh, 55, who fled her mobile home in northern Los Angeles County as smoke darkened the sky over the nearby ridge line. Early Tuesday, President Bush declared an emergency for the seven-county region, speeding federal disaster relief.
5/24/2007 | Governmental Control, Property Rights
North American union plan headed to Congress in fall
WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc. The final report, published in English, Spanish and French, is scheduled for submission to all three governments by Sept. 30, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies. CSIS boasts of playing a large role in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 – a treaty that set in motion a political movement many believe resembles the early stages of the European Community on its way to becoming the European Union.
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Bush to pressure Senate to revive U.N. sea treaty
WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – In a move that has already angered some of his most ardent supporters, President Bush has asked the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate to revive a proposal for ratification of the United Nation's Law of the Sea Treaty, an international agreement defeated two years ago by Republican leadership in the upper house. Critics say ratification would compromise U.S. sovereignty and place 70 percent of the Earth's surface under the control of the U.N. – even providing for a "tax" that would be paid directly to the international body by companies mining in the world's oceans.
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Ariz. Seeks New Check on Eminent Domain
Boston Globe
PHOENIX --Union Pacific Railroad's expansion projects across southern Arizona are drawing complaints, prompting a state Senate panel to call for new state regulatory oversight of use of eminent domain by railroads. The Senate Natural Resources and Rural Affairs Committee voted 6-0 Wednesday for a previously unrelated bill that the panel rewrote to require that railroads obtain approval from the state Corporation Commission to use existing eminent-domain authority to compel sales of land.
2/5/2007 | Property Rights
Land Acquisition Must be Humane
Financial Times
compulsory purchase of land for development and industrial projects. In Nandigram in West Bengal, disturbances caused by rumours of imminent land acquisition by the government for a foreign investment project led to violent deaths. Earlier in Kalinganagar, Orissa, some tribal people died in police shootings over land acquisitions for a foreign mining project. As India has started acquiring more land for special economic zones, this has become a controversial political topic, sometimes leading to odd political alliances. Parties on the right, allied with Maoists and environmental activists, have been agitating against projects launched by the pro-industrialisation left and other parties. The Indian government has just put clearance of SEZs on hold until a comprehensive plan governing land acquisition is put in place.
1/28/2007 | Property Rights
Street of Dreams
Las Vegas Sun
We hear so often that there's no culture in Las Vegas, what with the neon overkill of the Strip, and the metal, stucco and asphalt of strip malls walling Fremont Street, Horizon Ridge or Maryland Parkway. It's true. It's who we are. It is our culture. But wouldn't it be nice to have something organic, a place full of coffee shops and bookstores and restaurants that doesn't have the feel of a pressed-and-starched outdoor mall and - here's the important thing - would not be on the Strip? It's also one of the first places that Neilsen and Dave Fackler, Tempe's former Development Services Department director, bought using eminent domain to force the owner to sell to the city. Today, a multistore, two-level, caramel-brick commercial structure sits in its place.