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IRONICALLY THE LAST JAGUAR ( PART OF THE SUBJECT MATTER OF A SONG I WROTE VALLEY OF THE WANNING GIBBOUS MOON TWO YEARS EARLIER) NAMED EL HEFE ( WHAT THE GANG/CULT WHO RUINED MY LIFE IN SANTA CRUZ CALLED ME FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS) HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN ARIZONA

A Jaguar known as El Jefe—The Boss—was almost certainly born in the Sierra Madre of northwest Mexico. Chris Bugbee, a wildlife biologist who knows El Jefe better than anyone, guesses that his birthplace was in the 70-square-mile Northern Jaguar Reserve in the state of Sonora. A team of American and Mexican conservationists do their best to protect the dwindling jaguar population there, and it’s within range of the Arizona border, where El Jefe made his fateful crossing into U.S. territory.

The gorgeous leopard-like rosettes were there in his fur at birth. Each jaguar has its own arrangement of these patterns, making individuals easy to identify. El Jefe has a heart-shaped rosette on his right hip and a question mark over the left side of his rib cage. Like all newborn jaguar cubs, he came into the world blind, deaf and helpless, and gradually acquired his sight and hearing over the first few weeks. By three months, the cubs have been weaned from milk to meat, but for the most part stay in the den. "It’s a lot of waiting around for mom to get back from a hunting trip," says Bugbee.

By six months, the cubs are emerging under maternal supervision. Aletris Neils, a fellow biologist and Bugbee’s wife, studied a jaguar mother at the reserve in Sonora. "She would always stash her cubs on a high ridge while she hunted down in the canyons," says Neils. "When she made a kill, she would carry the meat uphill to her cubs, rather than invite them down into possible danger." Neils thinks El Jefe’s mother may have done the same thing, and that might partially explain his liking for high slopes and ridges as an adult, although all cats seem to enjoy a vantage point with a view.

At a year and a half, the young jaguars start making walkabouts by themselves. They leave and come back again, making trial runs. Neils compares them to human teenagers who come home with dirty laundry expecting a meal. For young male jaguars, it soon becomes impossible to return home. Bigger, stronger, older males will challenge them if they try. The young males have to disperse into new territory, and every few years, one of them will walk north from Mexico into Arizona.

We associate these sleek, swaggering, immensely powerful cats with Latin American jungles, where their populations are highest, but jaguars used to live all across the American Southwest, with reports of sightings from Southern California to the Texas-Louisiana border. They were hunted out for sport and their beautiful pelts and because they posed a threat to cattle. They were trapped and poisoned by semi-professional hunters who were paid a bounty by the federal government. The last recorded female jaguar in the United States was shot dead in Arizona in 1963.

El Jefe is the fourth documented male jaguar to make the border crossing in the last 20 years. Scenting the air for prey and threats and water, prowling through the night with the rocky ground under his cushioned footpads, conscious of the need for stealth and a safe place to sleep in the daytime, hyper­aware of sounds and movement, this young cat could never have known, or cared, that he was walking into a political firestorm.

El Jefe, found his way to good jaguar habitat in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, and there he took up residence. In theory, jaguars and jaguar habitat enjoy legal protection in the United States under the Endangered Species Act. That theory is now being put to the test, because a Canadian mining company, Hudbay Minerals Inc., intends to build a gigantic open-pit copper mine in El Jefe’s home territory. If the project goes ahead, the Rosemont Mine will be the third-largest copper mine in the U.S., with a dollar value estimated in the tens of billions.

For the environmentalists battling the mine, El Jefe has become a vital tool in the courts, and a rallying symbol in the battle to sway public opinion. In Tucson, a craft beer has been named after him, and a mural attests to his popularity. On the other side of the political spectrum, El Jefe has been demonized as a Mexican intruder and a menace to rural families, even though jaguar attacks on humans are incredibly rare.

Supporters of the mine are outraged that one lone Mexican jaguar could hold up such a beneficial project, promising at least 400 jobs and a $701 million annual boost to the local economy over 20 years. Those figures are considered outrageously inflated by opponents of the mine. They predict that most mining jobs would go to existing Hudbay employees, with the bulk of the copper being sold to China, and the profits banked in Canada.

Meanwhile, El Jefe sleeps away the days under shade trees, rock outcroppings and in caves. He comes out to hunt in the star-studded Arizona nights, stalking his prey with precise micromovements, and then charging with overwhelming force and crushing their skulls in his jaws. White-tailed deer are abundant, and smaller, slower animals make easy meals. Following discreetly in the jaguar’s footsteps, Chris Bugbee often comes across the remains of luckless skunks. El Jefe eats everything except the rear end, which contains the noisome scent glands, and the fluffy tail.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/return-great-american-jaguar-180960443/#q6jc8S3AM7F26Xx8.99

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THE WILD TIGERS NEED YOUR HELP AND PROTECTION TOO

The wild tiger is under severe threat from habitat loss and the demand for tiger parts in traditional Asian medicine. Once abundant throughout Asia, today the species numbers only 3,000-5,000 animals in small fragmented groups.

As a result, tigers are protected as endangered under the ESA and under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) – the highest levels of international protection.

Tigers readily breed in captivity, however, and the number of captive tigers in the United States alone likely exceeds the numbers found in the wild, although the exact number is currently unknown.

The Service is working with multiple partners to conserve tiger populations, supporting groups engaged in efforts to fight poaching, establish nature reserves, manage human-wildlife conflict and raise public awareness.

In 2015, the Service awarded funding to 24 projects benefiting tiger conservation in 10 countries totaling more than $1.2 million, which was matched by $993,330 additional leveraged funds. To learn more about the Service’s International Affairs program, visit: http://www.fws.gov/international/animals/tigers.html.

Reprinted from the US Fish Wildlife Service Rep Vanessa Kauffman Newsletter

TEST

TEN VITALS THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW TO HELP YOU EVERYDAY

LINKS

1. Your mind body and spirit.

2. How You Can Help Save The Big Catz Of The World Today ?

A. Use this form email, copy, cut and paste and send to it to save the big cats of the world.

If your clever you can re edit it after you help save the catz and use the same basic form to engage political agencies of your choice in other environmental and/or other personal political and social concerns as well.

Send this email to a friend and ask them to do the same.

Believe that this does make a difference and manifests a positive effect.

Dear  (insert name, committee, organization)

I am a tax paying voting concerned citizen and consumer of goods and services in the United States of America. I am an advocate and supporter of governmental policies and business practices that protect and preserve the natural habitats and the widest variety of trees, plants and animals that inhabit the last remaining undeveloped and minimally impacted open spaces in my state, in the USA, and the world.

I am writing you today about a specific concern for the health, safety, wellbeing, and reproductive capabilities of the large and small wild cats that inhabit various niches in a variety of eco systems in the USA and through out the world.

I am asking you in your duties of office, professionally and personally, your staff, and all legal, and political committees and entities that pertain to habitat protection, remediation, and direct protection of species that you are involved with, focus your time, energy, and resources to insure the preservation of the Tigers, Lions, Jaguars, Leopards, Ocelots, Pumas, Bob Cats and other wild felines that are rapidly dwindling in numbers on Earth.

I am sure you recognize that these species are keystone and top food chain predictors. That the loss of key species is indicative of the collapse of the health and integrity of ecosystems all over the world. As such are predictive of the continued success or failure of human habitation and existence on earth as well.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

B. Please take ten minutes out of your day and send an email to one or all of these governmental bodies and entities. Your opinion does matter and the expression of it strengthens the muscles of democracy here at home and throughout the world.

A few basic  Email links:

The White House 

US Senate 

US House of Representatives

Environmental Protection Agency

US Dept. of Interior:

Our Mission: Protecting America's Great Outdoors and Powering Our Future - The U.S. Department of the Interior protects America's natural resources and heritage, honors our cultures and tribal communities, and supplies the energy to power

US Wild Life Service:

Agency manages National wildlife refuges, protects endangered species, manages migratory birds, restores nationally significant fisheries and enforces federal wildlife laws.

National Park Service:

The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Brazil

China

India, Countries of the African National Park Service ent, Countries of South America, Former Soviet Union.

C. Here are the Worlds Best Conservation Organizations with specific programs to preserve big catz and there habitat.

World Wildlife Fund:

World Wildlife Fund - The leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species. Learn how you can help WWF make a difference.

Natural Resource Defence Council:

A Legacy of Impact. NRDC has helped pass our nation's bedrock environmental laws. We continue to ensure those laws are enforced and polluters are held accountable.

The Nature Conservancy:

The Nature Conservancy protects Earth's natural resources and beauty. Our conservation efforts are driven by our members.

World Conservation Society

National Geographic Society

3. Think about and act on; How You Can Save The Natural Environment Today ?

A. Additional links to Environmental Organizations that protect and effect positive change in the  environment and environmental policy locally, regionally and nationally.

4. Get and keep a global perspective. Investigate all the amazing features on this site as well as be prepared for changes in the weather:

The National Weather Service: The Best Weather Service In The World.

A couple other sites to engage you globally:

World meters Realtime World Statistics

The Global Incident Map

Meteo Earth ( check this out )

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5. This Month In the World:

A. The Hope:

Mexico Establishes Largest Marine Protected Area in North America. The nation will fully protect 57,000 square miles around the Revillagigedo Islands from fishing and resource extraction Today, Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, signed a decree creating a massive marine reserve, spanning 57,000 square miles around the four Revillagigedo Islands—a volcanic archipelago 240 miles southwest of the Baja Peninsula. 

The reserve is the largest marine protected area yet created in North America.Though the islands have been a biosphere reserve for over 20 years, the new status greatly expands and fully protects the region from fishing, mining and other extractive industries.  

The Revillagigedo Islands are currently uninhabited, and the new status will prevent the development of hotels or other tourism infrastructure. Commercial dive operators, however, will still be permitted to run trips to the area.

While the Revillagigedo Islands themselves support many species of endangered birds and plants, the declaration is aimed at preserving the waters offshore, which support 366 species of fish, including 26 endemic to the islands, as well as 37 species of rays and sharks, including the behemoth whale sharks.  

The islands also function as calving grounds for humpback whales and support coral gardens and a range of other relatively pristine marine ecosystems."It’s an important place biologically for megafauna, kind of superhighway, if you will, for sharks, manta rays, whales and turtles," Matt Rand, director of the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Legacy Project, which worked with Mexico in support of the reserve, tells Smithsonian.com. "It’s a pretty biologically spectacular location. 

The idea of expanding the sanctuary zone around the Revillagigedos has been kicked around for years. But it took a push by Pew working with local conservation groups Beta Diversdad, CODEMAR and the Mexican Ministry of the Environment to move the project forward.Rand says the reserve has all of the elements identified to make a great ocean sanctuary. "There was a key study in Nature three years ago that found the five key elements to successful marine reserves are that they are large, fully protected, old, well-enforced and isolated," Rand says. "This marine reserve will have all of that except age, and that will come."Of course, a successful reserve is only as good as its enforcement, and Rand says he currently doesn’t have many details on how the Mexican government will implement the no-fishing rules. 

In recent years, however, technology has greatly improved and with it the ability for conservationists to police marine reserves, he says. For instance, Oceana’s Global Fishing Watch platform uses satellite signals from vessels on the ocean to track the fishing fleet around the world and the conservation organization OceanMind uses satellites and other technology to monitor marine protected areas as well.

The new reserve is part of a wave of recent ocean preserves. In 2016 then-President Barack Obama expanded the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii, which now clocks in at some 582,500 square miles. This same year, President Obama also established the 4,913-square-mile Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off New England shores. Also that year, an international body declared a 600,000-square-mile reserve in Antarctica’s Ross Sea.  

In 2015, Great Britain declared the 322,000 square miles around the Pitcairn Islands a fully protected reserve. In October, Chile created two new reserves the size of France.Rand tells Smithsonian.com that these recently established reserves, as well as proposed projects in places like the South Sandwich Islands, are an encouraging sign.

The current scientific consensus is that at least 30 percent of the ocean needs to be fully protected to conserve biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. Less than 10 percent is currently protected, says Rand, and less than two percent is highly protected."We have a long way to go," he says. "But there’s been incredible growth in the concept of large-scale marine protected areas. It’s almost becoming a race. Hopefully it’s starting to snowball."

By Jason Daley Smithsonian MagazineNovember 2017Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mexico-declares-north-americas-largest-marine-reserve-180967309/#kFRgFXjuVHz0WvUo.99

B. The Good:

Wind turbine project nexed to protect rare Falcons and habitat. A project to erect nine wind turbines near Kibbutz Ein HaShofet in northern Israel, about 18 miles from the city of Haifa, in an ecologically sensitive area where the rare red falcons live, have been cancelled by the District Committee over the exceptional and disproportionate damage it would cause the environment, Haaretz reported Sunday.

Or, in conceptual terms, an environmentally friendly program was killed on account of endangering the environment.

The committee heard testimony last week that the rotating blades of the nine 540 ft. tall turbines could decimate the red falcon population in the area. The red falcon (Falco naumanni), a small bird of prey, 11–13 in. in length with a 25–28 in. wingspan, breeds from the Mediterranean across Afghanistan and Central Asia, to China and Mongolia. It is a summer migrant, wintering in Africa and Pakistan and sometimes in India and Iraq. It is rare north of its breeding range, and declining in its European range.

The area slated for the turbines, south of Kibbutz Ein HaShofet, is not officially a nature preserve, but has a status of an ecologically sensitive area, recognized by UNESCO.

According to Smithsonian.com, the statistics about bird deaths from wind turbines run between 10,000 birds a year that are killed by turbine blades worldwide, to 600,000, with the scientifically accepted number set at between  140,000 and  328,000  birds that die each year from flying into wind turbines. It also appears that taller turbines kill more birds, which is a big problem, as the taller turbines are more efficient at generating energy.

More information about technology and bird mortality

National Wind Watch

From: The Jewish Press | November 26, 2017 | www.jewishpress.com

www.jewishpress.com 

C. The Bad:

China Lays Off Five Million People that is equivalent to the amount of regular marijuana smokers in the state of California and half the population of the state of Michigan losing there jobs and livelihood. Wait isn't that what happened when we began to transform our economy from manufacturing, to drug dealing, social engineering, and hacking. The marijuana cash crop in California is twenty billion annually.

D.The Ugly:

All Over The World: The Hottest February In The History of Mankind Since The Beginning Of Keeping Weather Records and CO2 Level Reaches All Time High In 2015.

6.This Month in the USA:

A.The Good: 

Harvard Researchers Discover One Of The Keys To Happiness

B.The Bad: 

Kelvin Cochran, former Atlanta Fire Rescue Department Chief has filed a lawsuit against the city and Mayor Kasim Reed said that he was terminated in 2015 because of his religion. Cochran is being represented in court by Kevin Theriot who is an attorney with the non-profit, faith-based Alliance Defending Freedom. Theriot argues that his client was suspended because of his religious beliefs, but the city attorneys dispute that. Atlanta Fire Chief Claims He Was Fired For Being A Christian 

This whole stir was created after Cochran published his book Who Told You That You Were Naked? which he says he penned specifically for Christian men. 

Although Cochran’s lawyers say that he was fired because of his faith, Mayor Reed maintains that the reason the former Atlanta Fire Chief was terminated was because of his judgment. In 2014, an assistant chief who had read the book raised concerns that the book had controversial statements about homosexuality. City Attorney David Gevertz said on Friday that the book categorizes gay people and those having sex outside of marriage with pedophiles, murderers, rapists and those practicing bestiality. It collectively refers to them as ‘ungodly’.

 In 2015, Cochran was sent on a 30-day unpaid suspension by Reed in order to discipline him for selling his book without getting proper approval or even giving notice of his intention. Reed then fired Cochran because of his violation of the terms of his suspension when he publically said that he was fired because of his religious views. Gevertz added that the book could bring problems to the city since fire department employees who were fired or denied promotion would attribute it to Cochran’s beliefs.

Cochran has received support not only from Alliance Defending Freedom but also from Georgia Baptism Opportunity Commission and the Family Research Council among other organizations. Theriot told the judge that Reed was clearly retaliating against Cochran based on what the mayor thought as inflammatory matters presented in his book. He argued that punishing Cochran for expressing his viewpoint was a violation of his right to free speech. The judge plans to give a ruling in the coming week.

World Religion News

By Corey Barnett

November 2017

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B. THE BADEST:

A Pennsylvania school district capitulated to the demands of a militant atheist who filed a federal lawsuit demanding the district remove a Ten Commandments monument erected on a public high school campus.

New Kensington-Arnold School District agreed to remove the massive monument within 30 days – ending a lawsuit filed in 2012 by self-avowed atheist Marie Schaub.

Schaub claimed the 6-foot stone monument erected outside Valley High School was a religious symbol and therefore was a violating of the U.S. Constitution.

“It’s unfortunate that many people in my community don’t understand or appreciate the separation of church and state, but I hope this settlement serves as an important lesson,” she told the Valley News Dispatch.

Schaub also claimed the monument was offensive to her and her daughter. I can only imagine which commandment she found to be most offensive. Maybe it was the one about graven images.

Anyway, the school district must also pay $164,000 in legal fees.

“We’re very pleased,” Freedom From Religion Foundation attorney Patrick Elliott told the Valley News Dispatch. “It means that the Constitution is being followed by the school district.”

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a group of perpetually offended atheists, agnostics and self-professed free-thinkers based in Wisconsin. They intentionally bully and intimidate small towns and communities in their quest to eradicate Christianity from the public marketplace.

They are truly an unpleasant bunch of people, folks.

Schools Superintendent John Pallone told the local newspaper they agreed to settle the lawsuit “in order to take the high road.”

“We compromised and agreed to remove the monument,” he said.

The superintendent went on to tell the newspaper he believed the district “had a winnable case.”

“We’re in a position where we just can’t continue to fight this distraction,” he said.

The plaque had been in place since 1957.

Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentar

MO BAD:

J K Rawlings Writes the History of Witchcraft in North America ( continual use of my stolen intellectual property.) 

EDITORS NOTE - 11.26.17 I have been working for four hours trying to input two new stories into this section of ziggysurfcatz.simdif.com. Twice now after a visit by Tim May and " Curtus," the gentlemen Gardner, and the serial UCSC professor, Steve Posthuma, OrlaMacKlainevokers and other stolen intellectual property users before mentioned in schatemongers.simdif.com and a look alike of Peter Garrett, this entire section along with the two new stories have disappeared just as I apply them to this section. This is Crime Inc. aka " the party," " pot farmers magic," techno - witchcraft. To compound the extreme stressors and waste of time I had planned to use to document similar techno-witchcraft applied stressors from yesterday on my other web-site schatemongers.simdif.com see THIS WEEKS HARASSMENT AND HIGH-TECH TORTURE over twenty-five SC locals, staff and the manager of Peets Coffee demonstrated prior knowledge of the cyber poisoning that has taken place over a four hour period at Peets Coffee in Santa Cruz California.

The jest of there comments included, " your our only leak," " we do this to whoever we want," " he's trying to take our party down," " it's Tim May," " you can't work in here," " commit suicide," " it's only going to get worse," " use different stories," " your already dead." This harassment included the usual UCSCfood poisoner from Zoccolies, and the SCPD driving by broadcasting, " they do it to us too," See photo on schatemongers.simdif.com one serial harasser drug dealer buddy said, " your a schitzophrenic," and " it's all about the money," " the police don't care," " now go back to LA. " now go home," " you'll never prove it," " it's a joke," " the police don't care," " kill yourself."

In the process of rebuilding this section and having to search Apple News for the two stories I copied and credited to the writers and publications. The stories were buried and each time I finely found them my screen " blacked out repeatedly, along with have to scroll endless stories were EXTREMLY abusive photographs, headlines and story content used as a psychological torture device and Nureo Linguistic Programing/Priming device. This is cyber-torture used to block the progress, and happiness of targets,victims and witnesses (TVW(s) to the felonies and sadism of the Crime Inc.criminal monopoly that owns and operates Santa Cruz California and operates throughout the Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Region of Californai with impunity.  Please see schatemongers.simdif.com for more details about what took place.

By the way the use of Service Dog placards by fakes like the manufacturing and distribution of counterfeit goods is epidemic in the (MBSCSVSFBRC.)

C.The Ugly:

:Bogus Service Dogs Create Dangers For Genuine People. For the first three decades of her life, Liz Freyseth watched her independence disappear along with her sight. Born with severe vision impairment, by the time she had given birth to her third child she was legally blind and reluctant to face the world.

I was afraid to leave my own house," said Freyseth, 35, of La Crosse. "I was scared and slower than molasses." When Freyseth traded in her cane for a spunky guide dog named Ellie in 2016, she discovered a new sense of freedom and confidence — and yeteveryoutingisapproached with a hint of trepidation, knowing her safety and that of her dog could be jeopardized at any moment thanks to the rise in impostor service animals.

In the little over a year that Freyseth has had the golden retriever andyellow Labrador mix, she has encountered countless people accompanied by untrained "service" dogs, an abuse of both the laws meant to protect people like herself and a potential threat to their rights.

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, a service animal is defined as "a guide dog, signal dog or other animal individually trained to do work or provide assistance to an individualwith a disability, regardless of whether they have been certified or licensed by a state or local government." It is legal to ask whether the dog is a service animal but not to require proof of certification or training.

The ADA takes priorityover less-inclusive Wisconsin statute 174.056, which states that entry or accommodations cannot be denied if "such dog is wearing a harness or a leash and special cape and the person has presented, for inspection, credentials issued by a school fortraining dogs for the blind, deaf or mobility-impaired."

While it ensures theirrights, the looseness of the law is a source of frustration for Freyseth, who has been forced to contact police when untrained service or therapy animals have attacked their own dogs, which can be scarring to the animals and cause them tolose focus on the task at hand. 

A particularly traumatizing incident could render the dog unable to continue working, an especially harsh loss given the $40,000 and several months invested in training.

"The hardest part is when we run into fakes,"Freyseth said. "We don’t know where they are, and one attack can change our dog forever. I get scared.

The police don’t know how to respond," she added. "They don’t really know the law."

While unauthorized service capes and harnesses can beeasily purchased online, Johnson says an animal’s manner is a clear indicator of its legitimacy. Growling, lunging, excessive barking and energetic playfulness are hallmarks of untrained animals, as is the language the owner uses for discipline. 

LACROOSE TRIBUNE

NOVEMBER 2017  

D.The Hope:

There's been a lot of recent talk about privatizing air traffic control (ATC), and in response to this talk, both US Senators and Mayors have recently voiced opposition to the idea, in letters to the leadership of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi) and Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), and Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) voiced their concerns with any legislation "that would separate the air traffic control functions of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from critical safety and other programs within the agency and remove those functions from the congressional appropriations oversight process."

They go on to say that "The public would not be well-served by exempting any part of the FAA from annual congressional oversight. A privatized system would provide consumers with no recourse for complaints or mistreatment, as it currently does through the Department of Transportation or their members of Congress. The annual appropriations process provides the oversight of agency resources necessary to ensure accountability for program performance and a sustained focus on aviation safety."

They conclude that the annual oversight also makes sure that the FAA maintains a system that works in all the different areas of the aviation industry, from commercial airlines to general aviation, and small rural communities to large metropolitan cities, and add that they are ready to work with them committee to improve the national aviation system.

They ask that the leadership reject any "risky plans" to privatize the air traffic control system and remove congressional oversight, noting that over the last year, there have been proposals put forward that would "put this vital infrastructure under the control of a private entity dominated by the commercial airlines. On behalf of the tens of thousands of communities around the country, we are concerned about the very real and dire ramifications of eliminating Congressional oversight of this public air transportation infrastructure." 

They say that tens of thousands of communities around the country depend on their "local airport and all sectors of transportation to reach far off markets and access critical services such as law enforcement, disaster relief, and medical care," adding that small aircraft and airports are used daily to help with these important concerns.

They conclude by noting that while modernizing the air traffic control system and investing in American infrastructure is a high priority, that "privatization is not the answer."

Extracted from article written by Anders Clark in  Discples of Flight Magazine. Cool Magazine. 

E.More Hope: 

The Endangered Species Act provides a critical safety net for fish, wildlife and plants and has prevented the extinction of hundreds of imperiled species, as well as promoting the recovery of many others. The Federal Wildlife Service is actively engaged with conservation partners and the public in the search for improved and innovative ways to conserve and recover imperiled species. 

For more information on the Endangered Species Act listing process, go to www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/listing.pdf. To learn more about the (ESA) and foreign species, visit our Branch of Foreign Species webpage at: www.fws.gov/endangered/what-we-do/international-activities.html.

7.This Month in California:

A.The Good: 

B.The Bad:

Former California State Representative SF Leland Yee Gets Five Years In Prison. Should be twenty years to set an example to the endless list of corrupt Bay Area Officials

C.The Ugly:

D.Hope:

"California is all in." In late 2015, Governor Jerry Brown signed landmark legislation regulating the state’s energy sources—setting a 2030 deadline to get half of the state’s electricity from renewables. What he didn’t expect was that last year, each of the state’s three largest utility companies (known as investor-owned utilities, or IOUs) would exceed the intermediate goal of achieving 25 percent renewable energy by 2016. 

8.Help the USA Today.

Strange as it seems to me as I search for websites and organizations to help America - I could find only one: Renew America which is a Christian orientated website. There were hundreds of American Organizations being of service to all segments of American and Global Societies but only one that is actually focused on helping America.

America needs our help!!!! Today, right now. Send me an email and tell me how your going to help her

A.The Good:

Want th help America? She needs it. Get smarter. Here is an easy place to start: Stanford Online Courses

B.The Bad:

C.The Ugly:

D. Hope: Renew America ( please read this with an open mind )

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10. After all of that seriousness something to make you laugh. After all of that check out The Good News Network.

Here is a little sample from the Good News Nerwork:

In a groundbreaking stance against climate change, over 40 different Catholic institutions have announced a collective divestment of oil, coal, and fossil fuels.