Eeyores News and view

I'm not (or at least i don't think i'm a) big tinfoil hat kind of guy. But been hearing for years about all these diseases being engineered to be population control type devices. Been hearing for years about fringe elements planning population die off campaigns. I guess that would be ok if i got to pick who died off (just kidding) but here is an article about the government talking about it. Guess i need to go out and get a new roll of tinfoil. Could this be behind all these control the food and control the water bills going through Congress?
Earth population 'exceeds limits'
There are already too many people living on Planet Earth, according to one of most influential science advisors in the US government.
Nina Fedoroff told the BBC One Planet programme that humans had exceeded the Earth's "limits of sustainability".
Dr Fedoroff has been the science and technology advisor to the US secretary of state since 2007, initially working with Condoleezza Rice.
Under the new Obama administration, she now advises Hillary Clinton.
"We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people," Dr Fedoroff said, stressing the need for humans to become much better at managing "wild lands", and in particular water supplies.
Pressed on whether she thought the world population was simply too high, Dr Fedoroff replied: "There are probably already too many people on the planet."
GM Foods 'needed'
A National Medal of Science laureate (America's highest science award), the professor of molecular biology believes part of that better land management must include the use of genetically modified foods.
"We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven.
"We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops," she told the BBC.

THE MOST POPULOUS NATIONS
China - 1.33bn
India - 1.16bn
USA - 306m
Indonesia - 230m
Brazil - 191m

"We accept exactly the same technology (as GM food) in medicine, and yet in producing food we want to go back to the 19th Century."
Dr Fedoroff, who wrote a book about GM Foods in 2004, believes critics of genetically modified maize, corn and rice are living in bygone times.
"We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production."
In a wide ranging interview, Dr Fedoroff was asked if the US accepted its responsibility to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be driving human-induced climate change. "Yes, and going forward, we just have to be more realistic about our contribution and decrease it - and I think you'll see that happening."
And asked if America would sign up to legally binding targets on carbon emissions - something the world's biggest economy has been reluctant to do in the past - the professor was equally clear. "I think we'll have to do that eventually - and the sooner the better."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7974995.stm

More cameras for Canada border
WASHINGTON — The U.S. will expand its use of security cameras on the Canadian border to see whether it can set up an extensive monitoring system similar to what protects the Mexican boundary, the Homeland Security Department announced Tuesday.
The department this summer will position 44 cameras in Detroit along Lake St. Clair, which separates the city from Canada, and 20 cameras in Buffalo along the Niagara River. There are now about 20 cameras along the entire 4,000-mile border between Canada and the continental U.S.
The $20 million program marks the department's first major effort to see whether the northern border, which has large swaths of woods, hills and lakes, can benefit from the extensive camera network along the 1,900-mile U.S.-Mexican border, said Mark Borkowski, head of the department's Secure Border Initiative.
Although the federal government has focused security efforts on the U.S.-Mexican border, Homeland Security says "the terrorist threat on the northern border is higher," according to a November report by Congress' Government Accountability Office (GAO). That's because of the "large expanse of area with limited law-enforcement coverage," the report says.
In 2007, the GAO found that investigators could drive along Canadian roads near the U.S., walk 25 feet to the border and hand a duffel bag to an investigator on the U.S. side. The test aimed to simulate terrorists smuggling in radioactive material.
Northern-state lawmakers such as Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., have said that Homeland Security isn't doing enough to protect the U.S.-Canadian border. Two days after taking office in January, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano launched a review of strategy along the U.S.-Canadian border.
The cameras, mounted on trees and buildings, will be operated remotely by the Border Patrol, Borkowski said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-01-borderfence_N.htm
Also
Surveillance towers planned for Detroit, Buffalo
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9798C9O2&show_article=1

NKorea threatens to shoot down spy planes
April 1, 2009 - 8:08am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea accused the United States of spying on the site of an impending rocket launch and threatened Wednesday to shoot down any U.S. planes that intrude into its airspace.
North Korea says it will send a communications satellite into orbit on a multistage rocket between April 4 and 8. The U.S., South Korea and Japan suspect the reclusive country is using the launch to test long-range missile technology, and they warn Pyongyang would face sanctions under a U.N. Security Council resolution banning it from ballistic activity.
Pyongyang's state radio accused U.S. RC-135 surveillance aircraft of spying on the launch site on its northeastern coast, according to South Korea's Unification Ministry, which is in charge of monitoring the North.
"If the brigandish U.S. imperialists dare to infiltrate spy planes into our airspace to interfere with our peaceful satellite launch preparations, our revolutionary armed forces will mercilessly shoot them down," the ministry quoted the radio as saying.
It was unclear what capability North Korea has to shoot down the high-flying Boeing RC-135, which can reach altitudes of nearly 10 miles (15 kilometers). The threat came a day after the North claimed the U.S. and South Korea conducted about 190 spy flights over its territory in March, including over the sea off the launch site.
The U.S. military in South Korea declined to comment on the spying allegations or the North's threat.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said at a summit Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak that Pyongyang's launch would breach the U.N. resolution, and he pledged to respond in step with Seoul, Lee's office said.
Lee, in London for the G-20 summit, told Brown it was important for the international community to show a concerted response to the North's move, his office said.
Lee and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso also agreed at a summit Wednesday to "work together to make sure the international community shows a united response" to a North Korean launch, a statement from Lee's office said.
Aso said he will push for new U.N. sanctions if the launch takes place, while Lee "stressed the need to clearly show to North Korea, through close coordination of the international community, that it cannot always have its own way," South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted Lee's spokesman Lee Dong-kwan as telling South Korean reporters.
In the Netherlands, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called Pyongyang's move "an unfortunate and continuing example of provocation by the North Koreans."
"There will be consequences, certainly, in the United Nations Security Council if they proceed with the launch," she said.
Clinton also strongly backed Japan's plans to shoot down any incoming North Korean rocket debris, saying the country "has every right to protect and defend its territory from what is clearly a missile launch."
Japan has deployed battleships with antimissile systems off its northern coast and stationed Patriot missile interceptors around Tokyo to shoot down any wayward rocket parts that the North has said might fall over the area.
Tokyo has said it is only protecting its territory and has no intention of trying to shoot down the rocket itself, but North Korea said it is not convinced and accused Japan of inciting militarism at home to justify developing a nuclear weapons program of its own.
If Japan tries to intercept the satellite, the North's army "will consider this as the start of Japan's war of re-invasion ... and mercilessly destroy all its interceptor means and citadels with the most powerful military means," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday.
The International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank that provides detailed analysis about North Korea _ said in a report that the country is believed to have "assembled and deployed nuclear warheads" recently for its medium-range Rodong missiles, which are capable of striking Japan.
But its Seoul-based expert, Daniel Pinkston, said it is unclear if it has mastered the technology necessary to miniaturize the warheads and put them on Rodong missiles, which have a range of 620 to 930 miles (1,000 to 1,500 kilometers).
Adding to the complexity of the situation, the North announced Tuesday it will indict and try two American journalists accused of crossing the border illegally from China on March 17 and engaging in "hostile acts."
http://wtop.com/?nid=105&sid=1591296

It is amazing to me that we think when we gain a small victory and that government actually corrects some of it's wrongs, that we get over joyed. when we should be mad that they still stop you from doing what you want with your property. Have you ever considered how much control they have over your life now. When you buy a piece of property in Maryland and try to develop it, it is absolutely crazy what you have to give up. If you have a wet spot on your land that is called a "wetlands" don't interfere with that or you will get fined (it is your land but you can't do anything with it). If you want to cut down some trees and clear an area you have to deed a save tree area, that is your land and you pay taxes on it, but you can not do anything with it anymore. It is crazy, these people think they won a victory, they just have been given a fraction of their rights back and they are happy with just that small piece.
Some Coloradans Can Now Legally Collect Rainwater Reporting
Terry Jessup DENVER (CBS4) ―
The bill's sponsors figure about 300,000 people statewide will now be permitted to harvest rainwater, mostly the in rural areas who already have exempt wells for household and domestic use.
Colorado lawmakers have passed a bill that loosens a 19th century ban on people who want to collect rainwater.
Many people were surprised to learn they're not entitled to snow and rain that falls on their homes. A state senator recently found that out when he tried to conserve rainwater for his flower garden.
In New Mexico it is common practice to harvest rainwater and store it in cisterns. That's what Sen. Chris Romer had hoped to do in Colorado.
"I truly wanted to collect the rainwater off my roof to use in my garden, because I love gardening, but unfortunately, I got in big trouble," Romer said.
That's because Colorado law dating back to the 19th century said every drop of rain must flow unimpeded into surrounding creeks and streams, that it was the property of farmers and ranchers and anyone else who had purchased the rights to those waterways.
"You've got to be kidding. You're breaking the law if you put a rain barrel in to capture rain?" said Rep. Marsha Looper, R-Calhan.
That was the reaction of Looper's constituents, prompting her and Romer to get the 120-year-old law changed. They did it by presenting a study that showed 97 percent of rainwater never makes it to streams because it evaporates.
The bill that has passed says residents can now collect it with certain restrictions.
"You can capture enough rain or snow to be able to put in a garden, to be able to irrigate up to an acre of land, to be able to possibly put out a small fire," Looper said.
Residents still can't harvest rain without a permit from the state engineer's office, and the permits are targeted for those who live in rural areas, not people living the suburbs.
"If you're tied to some type of commercial water system, or municipal water system, you may not be able to put a rain barrel in," Looper said.
"This is actually a great new concept, and given climate change, and given where we're going, we need new ideas to help us deal with our water shortages in the future," Romer said.
The bill's sponsors figure about 300,000 people statewide will now be permitted to harvest rainwater, mostly the in rural areas who already have exempt wells for household and domestic use.
There is now a second bill up for consideration that would expand rain collection to new developments in urban areas. That would allow for a pilot program and the bill will be heard on Friday.
Colorado's rainwater bill has gotten a lot of attention. Along with CBS4's reporting, including trips to New Mexico, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal have picked up the story.
http://cbs4denver.com/local/rain.water.collecting.2.971880.html