Today GFN was allowed a short segment in a taped interview on the John and Ken show from KFI AM 640. You can listen to it on June 17, 2006 at 4:00 PM Pacific time.

GFN was invited to speak regarding the relationship between the Avian Flu and Cockfighting. One of our Board of Directors, Mr. Jim Demoruelle, did the interview with John and Ken.

Naturally GFN was loaded for bear with facts, however, the show did not allow the facts to come out. We have another call into them to see if they are willing to hear the whole story. We'll just have to wait an see if we are invited back.

Remember, you can hear the interview online from their website if you are not in the southern California area to pick it up on the AM dial.

To hear the interview go online online at this link The John and Ken Show

Note: This is NOT a joke!

New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles Announced by Diverse Task Force ALBUQUERQUE (May 17, 2006)-In an unprecedented collaborative effort, 13 organizations jointly announced the release of the New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles that will reduce conflict and legal challenges for forest harvesting projects in New Mexico.

The 18-member New Mexico Biomass Evaluation Task Force announced today publication of 18 principles for the design and implementation of forest restoration projects that would produce small-diameter wood used to fuel biomass power plants and other wood utilizing facilities.

New Mexico Biomass Evaluation Taskforce Primary Contact List

• Patrick McCarthy
• The Nature Conservancy
• 505-988-1542, x 217
• Mike DeBonis
• Forest Guild
• 505-983-8992, x 14
• Dave Borland
• USDI Bureau of Land Management
• 505-438-7523

• Margot Wilson
• Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter
• 505-744-5860
• Jerry Payne
• USDA Forest Service
• 505-842-3391
• Todd Schulke
• Center for Biological Diversity
• 505-388-8799

• Kim Kostelnik
• NM State Forestry
• 505-476-3337
• John Waconda
• USDI Bureau of Indian Affairs
• 505-563-3360
• Bryan Bird
• Forest Guardians
• 505-988-9126, x 157

• John Tunberg
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
• 505-761- 4488
• Jim Norwick
• NM State Land Office
• 505-827-5095
• Brent Racher
• Restoration Solutions
• 505-627-7577

• Marc Christensen
• Public Service Company of New Mexico
• 505-241-2882
• Rosemary Romero
• Rosemary Romero Consulting (Facilitator)
• 505-982-9805

This "Taskforce" billed as "Diverse" and that has "announced the release of the New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles that will reduce conflict and legal challenges for forest harvesting projects in New Mexico" tells it all by what it does NOT say. It is a glimpse into a dark future, the future only imagined in science fiction novels like Fahrenheit 451 and the Orwellian 1984.

Just as Orwell observed in 1984 and Animal Farm, and Carroll noted in Alice in Wonderland "words mean no more and no less than I mean them to". To use the word "Diverse" about this "Taskforce" is like calling one of those old Mafia get-togethers a "cross-section of America." Where are the people directly affected by the "New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles"? Where are the ranchers and farmers and sheepmen and the hunters and the rural residents and rural town governments? Who spoke for the private landowner and the public land user? Who looked out for rural businesses and future road expansions and improvements? Who represented County governments? Who represented all the rural employment needs? Who represented government costs and private property rights? Bureaucrats, consultants, and the powerful Non-government organizations with all their radical agendas that run the show, that's who. The Founding Fathers knew the danger of giving power to elite rulers but decades of affluence and belief in a growing hodgepodge of nonsense that masks the hidden agendas of those who would rule us has led us to think the elites "know best".

Look at that "Contact List" and think about the future of hunting and ranching and fishing and farming and pet ownership in America. Soon enough it will be the USDA and HSUS and PETA setting the "New Animal Guardianship Rules". Then there will be Greenpeace and the Commerce Department setting the "New Fish Sanctuary and Boatpath Rules". Then based on "precedents" there will be the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Defenders of Wildlife and World Wildlife Fund setting the "New Native Ecosystem Preservation Rules" and the US Forest Service and the Wilderness Society and Sierra Club setting the "New Urban Corridor Connection Rules". All the while the papers and press releases will chirp about the "Diverse Task Force" and how it "will reduce conflict and legal challenges".

George Orwell and Ray Bradbury and Lewis Carroll were all correct and insightful in what they wrote. Only thing is we thought they were describing a future totalitarian society or Russia under communism or England during the Victorian period. Who'd a "thunk" they were talking about the USA in 2006?

Jim Beers 15 June 2006

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