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We the People Radio on Redding’s KNCR 1490 AM

Jun 9, 2012

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Our guest – Arkady Faktorovich

www.ArkadysWorld.com

“BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN Part II”

Today we’ll compare Obamacare and the Fed … did you know they were created in a similar fashion? How about socialism vs. communism? How about the guy who was much more powerful than Lenin?

Don’t miss this show! Catch it live or later in the archive!

ARKADY FAKTOROVICH

Born in Kiev, Ukraine.

Enrolled in Moscow State University of Technology and Design in 1965, graduated from Kiev State University of Technology and Design with MS in Engineering 1971.

After graduation, was drafted into the Soviet Army as a private, nine months later was sent to officers school for training, six months later graduated with the rank of the lieutenant. Following the discharge from the military, was working as an engineer, being involved in experimental projects.

Emigrated to the West in 1978. Lived in Austria and Italy, while my papers were being processed. After an interview with an American Embassy in Rome, received my entry visa and a work permit to come to the greatest country the world has ever known, our country, the United States of America.

I lived in Houston, Texas. When my English skills improved, was hired by Brown and Root, Inc. (later known as Halliburton, Inc.) as a field engineer at the construction of nuclear power plant in Bay City, Texas.

I moved to California and was hired by Bechtel Civil and Minerals, Inc. as a Senior Engineer, in San Francisco. I opened my own business in 1982. I married my wife in 1984 and became a US Citizen in 1985. My wife and I are blessed with three daughters and six grandchildren.

Life is good when one is free.

Thank you,

Arkady Faktorovich

NEWS

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.arkadysworld.com/newsandevents.html

Straight from Arkady Fatorovich’s website

From “Dutra’s The Paper” at Los Banos, California. February 18th 2011:

Life Behind the Iron Curtain… and America Through The Eyes of an Immigrant

By Arkady Faktorovich

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: I must tell our readers of my first meeting with this man you are about to become acquainted. During last fall’s Memorial Hospital Gala my wife and were sitting at the same table with Mr. and Mrs. Faktorovich, We got to know about each other’s history that evening. I believe you will enjoy his story, and his love for our country. It is a valuable reminder to those of us who may sometimes take for granted what we possess as natural rights. For myself his message is refreshing because I, too was an immigrant to our nation when I first came with my parents as a young child in the 1950′s. Please read his story and I am sure you will be reminded too what our country has been to the masses who have made the USA their home. Thank you, my friend for sharing your words.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Les and Sandra Palocsay of the Los Banos Tea Party Patriots organization. I am grateful to the Los Banos Rotary Club and its members for giving me a forum to tell the story of my life in the former Soviet Union and a life in America through the eyes of an immigrant. Great thanks to Tony Dutra for publishing it in his paper. Also, thanks to you, the reader, for your interest.

It began in Ukraine, where I was born and raised. I owe everything that I learned in my early years to my grandfather and my father, the wisest men I ever knew. They are responsible for instilling in me the ability to reason and have independent thought.

My grandfather was an illiterate shoemaker who was able to do complex computations in his head without pencil and paper. My father was an architect, a highly decorated combat veteran of the Soviet Army during World War II. He was in charge of vast construction projects in the Ukraine during peace time.

My grandparents, my parents and I lived in a tiny two room communal apartment (it was smaller than my garage here in Los Banos.) Before the communists took over, my Grandfather was able to occupy the entire floor (approx.. 5,000 square feet) in the same building, and a large shop in the basement, and was able to support a big family working by himself.

What I would like to say to you is something that we all mention in our daily conversations. We hear it from our politicians, broadcasters and writers and almost always take it for granted. What I am talking about is freedom.

Just imagine being born in prison. Since you only experience prison walls, guards and inmates, your perception of such surroundings seems normal to you. There are no questions, no thoughts of life beyond the barred windows. You have friends among your peers. You go to school where you are constantly reminded how wonderful life is inside the prison walls, how free you are and what a bright and wonderful future lies ahead for the prison system and its population.

READ the full article:

http://www.arkadysworld.com/newsandevents.html

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Mark Baird comments on “California blackouts possible” Sac Bee article

Jun 9, 2012

Agriculture - California, Mark Baird, Op-ed, State gov

The environmental socialists want to spend 1.5 Billion to remove four perfectly maintained hydro electric dams on the Klamath River.

Power rates in Siskiyou county have already doubled to pay for this lunacy.

The Governor in his infinite wisdom says that hydro does not qualify as renewable power. Hydro is the cleanest, cheapest, greenest power on the planet.

Fran Pavley, Jarod Huffman and the rest of the socialists, vote for the idiots who come up with these idiotic programs. It is ironic that you will suffer from your own desire to save the planet.

A few fans on top of a hill are not the answer. California is semi arid. Our population is growing whether we like it or not. We need more dams, not less. We need more water storage not less. The cleanest greenest, cheapest power on the planet is hydro.

We put a man on the moon with a slide rule in 1969. Certainly we can figure out how to get fish to swim up a fish ladder.

It is time to take the state back from the environmental communists and start to build a responsible infrastructure, which at one time was capable of feeding the world.

Wake up California: Look down at your dinner plate tonight. Where do you think all of the food came from?

Can you afford to sit in the dark eating your $20 dollar apple and your $100 dollar steak, because that is what you environmental fools are condemning your children to?

Mark Baird, vice president

Scott Valley Protect Our Water

Go to Sac Bee article:

http://pienpolitics.com/?p=10453

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News, recap and comments from Klamath Basin Crisis.org

Jun 9, 2012

Klamath Basin Crisis.org

KBC STATS for May 2012: 12,100 visits, 6737 unique visitors, 51,540 pages, 85,363 hits

Rain helps irrigation, water year outlook, H&N 6/8/12.

” ‘If the irrigators are just a little bit careful, I think there’s going to be enough water.’ As of Wednesday, year-to-date precipitation was 95 percent of historical average.”

Fighting drought is Hollie Cannon’s No. 1 goal, H&N 6/8/12.

“The KBRA and a related water settlement aim to remove four Klamath River dams, provide reliable water supplies and affordable power for irrigators, restore fish habitat, and acquire a 92,000-acre tree farm for the Klamath Tribes.” KBC Editor: When asked recently about the KBRA, KWAPA director Cannon said, “What you’re giving up is water to get affordable power…I’d say 20-25%.” When asked if the affordable power rate was guaranteed in the KBRA, Cannon replied, “”We can’t guarantee it.” ALSO, at another KWAPA meeting, MBK engineer stated that ‘water certainty,’ or a “reliable” water supply means that every spring the farmer will be told on a certain date how much water they will be allowed to use.

Soros Spends Over $48 Million Funding Media Organizations, followed by, Soros Spends $400 Million On ‘Open Society’ Education, ‘Social Action,’ Colleges And Universities, CNS 6/8/12.

HERE for Soros Page, and links to Soros and the KBRA/Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and what “stakeholders” Soros funds.

Forest Service grants Tombstone work permit, SV Herald 6/8/12.

Judge Denies Tombstone Water, Townhall, posted to KBC 5/22/12.

Federal judge halts eastern Idaho logging project, Capital Press 6/8/12.

“A federal judge has halted a 7,000-acre eastern Idaho logging project in potential lynx habitat near Yellowstone…U.S. District Magistrate Judge Candy Dale’s decision Wednesday following a lawsuit by environmental groups over the Split Creek timber harvest also affects about 390,000 additional acres in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest…”

California Farm Bureau Federation Friday Review – legislative and governmental update,

posted to KBC 6/8/12: heat illness legislation, discrimination, metering, coho permits, more power to CDFG, marijuana on public lands, predator hunting restrictions, regulations and limits for trappers.

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Water, spotted owl and Tombstone, AZ.

Jun 9, 2012

Federal gov & land grabs, Forestry & USFS, Water rights, Water, Resources & Quality

Montague, CA is not the only small town with a threatened water supply. — City Councilman Jim Benson

Spotted owl could be game-changer in Tombstone water war – CNN.com

By Ann O’Neill , CNN

Sat June 9, 2012

Tombstone, Arizona (CNN) — The six Forest Service rangers suddenly crouched, whispering, on their way up the rocky mountain trail. It was early Friday afternoon, the first day of the Tombstone Shovel Brigade, and the rangers were out in force, hiking to the spot where dozens of volunteers worked with picks and shovels to move and bury Tombstone’s makeshift water line.

Shhh! Look! Do you see it?

The rangers stopped in their tracks. Binoculars emerged from pockets, and fingers pointed to a stand of trees.

And there it was, a Mexican spotted owl, perched high in a pine tree. It was a male, the rangers said, with his back turned to the intruders. He scratched and preened. But mostly, the owl seemed to be watching the nest in a nearby sycamore tree where his mate tended to an owlet.

The owl is a threatened species, and until a few days ago its presence in fire-scorched Miller Canyon was a matter of speculation. But now that it has surfaced, the owl could be a game-changer in the water war between the U.S. Forest Service and the Wild West city made famous by the 30-second gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Tombstone is trying to repair a 26-mile pipeline that has brought mountain spring water into the city since 1881. It was damaged during last summer’s Monument Fire and monsoon rains that brought mud, water and boulders crashing down the denuded slopes.

The Miller Peak Wilderness Area, where owls nest in the trees above Tombstone’s pipeline, was hit particularly hard. Sections of pipeline simply vanished, and Tombstone’s reservoir ran dry by August.

Kevin Rudd, project manager for the Tombstone pipeline, said the repaired pipeline needs to be shored up or it surely will be washed away when the monsoon rains return next month. Planned tasks for the shovel brigade include reinforcing the spring and diverting its flow by using boulders, sand, downed trees and other flood debris.

As for the owl, nobody could say for certain after the fire whether it would return. But it’s the big reason why the Forest Service wouldn’t simply hand Tombstone a permit to use heavy construction equipment to fix the pipeline. Tombstone responded by taking the feds to court. Since then, the conflict has escalated, taking on a life of its own.

Tombstone now asserts that it owns 25 springs in the Huachuca Mountains and shouldn’t have to ask anyone for permission to maintain its own water line. The Forest Service says Tombstone holds permits for just five springs, and it argues the city is trying to exploit a natural disaster to expand its water system.

With the conservative Goldwater Institute taking on Tombstone’s legal work, the court battle has blossomed into a full-blown states rights dispute. Tombstone is getting the attention of activists from Utah, New Mexico and other Western states who say the federal government has gone too far. It has become ground zero in a rekindled Sagebrush Rebellion.

“I’d love to say that this is a partisan issue and that if this administration changes, it’s going to be all sweetness and light,” said Caren Cowan, a Tombstone native who now heads the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association. “But I have 22 years of experience telling me otherwise. It’s not a partisan issue.”

Cowan said she has battled the Forest Service often on behalf of ranchers in her state and has found that “people in Washington just don’t understand the West. They don’t understand the wide open spaces and how we live and how we manage the land.”

The federal government controls millions of acres in the West, and some folks believe the feds have reneged on a promise to turn over large swaths to local control once statehood was achieved. It’s a battle cry once made by oilmen and ranchers, and now state and local governments are taking up the cause.

The leaders of the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade, which in 2000 used volunteer muscle power to move a boulder and reopen a wilderness road near Elko, Nevada, rallied to Tombstone’s side. A nonprofit organization was set up, and Tombstone so far has received $2,000 in donations and about 400 shovels.

The Jarbidge contingent then traveled to Tombstone, hiked up the mountain and labored on the pipeline. So did Ken Ivory, a state representative from Utah, who won passage of legislation that seeks to turn over federal land to his state. He says the conflict playing out in Tombstone is an example of the Forest Service dictating to, rather than working with, local government officials. He says the feds suddenly cut off Tombstone’s access to springs and roads the city has maintained for 130 years under “an arbitrary and irrational federal policy.”

As a result, Ivory said, Tombstone “is minutes away from going up in smoke” because it is “a wooden town in the middle of the desert in the middle of a drought.”

At the center of the debate is the Mexican spotted owl.

“What is more important, owls or the people of Tombstone?” James Upchurch, a Forest Service supervisor who oversees the wilderness, was asked in court earlier this year.

Upchurch responded that there was no easy answer, which left jaws dropping on Tombstone’s side of the courtroom.

So far, the Forest Service had been winning in court; Tombstone’s request for an emergency injunction went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court but was turned down.

The feds seemed to be losing in the court of public opinion, though. Tombstone tells a compelling story, portraying the Forest Service as a rogue agency of obstructionist, tree-hugging bureaucrats. The Forest Service had offered little comment, and when it did say something, it sounded to the people of Tombstone, well, tree-hugging and bureaucratic.

But the rangers came out in force on Friday, presenting their helpful side. A group of Forest Service firefighters hiked up the mountain and used a two-man crosscut saw to take down a tree and clear a path for the pipeline.

While everyone agrees the relationship between Tombstone city officials and Forest Service rangers has improved in recent weeks, their differences simmer just below the surface. The agency is working with the city to come up with a plan to keep water flowing to Tombstone, but it isn’t standing down.

The Forest Service granted permits Thursday for the city to bring the all-volunteer shovel brigade into the canyon to shore up the pipeline. Tombstone has until 8 p.m. Saturday to finish the job.

And so, under an unforgiving desert sun, about 100 people — including Old West cowboy types with monikers such as “Whiskers” and “Cowboy Doug” — gathered at Tombstone’s old high school football field Friday for the first day of an event that was billed as part protest and part work party.

Cowan, who heads the cattle growers group, grew up in Tombstone and remembers playing powder puff football on that field during the 1970s. Her great-grandfather was among Tombstone’s first settlers and made a name for himself in banking and ranching, but she considers herself “an economic refugee from Arizona.” She says she knows all too well how difficult navigating Forest Service regulations can be.

“The idea that the Forest Service is trying to take water away from my hometown is just beyond words,” she said. “I’m very proud to be here today to help and to fight. We’re going to fix this, and the Forest Service is going to listen.”

The three-mile hike up the mountain was grueling in the 100-degree heat. The trail is steep and rocky, and some of the volunteers didn’t make it to the top. Those who did found themselves moving boulders, digging trenches and sliding on gravelly slopes. Soaked with sweat, they staggered down the mountain after a couple of hours of hard labor.

“It’s just a lot of manual labor,” said Ben Headen, president of Tombstone’s American Legion post. It was frustrating, he said, because “we shouldn’t be doing it by manual labor, we should be using equipment.”

His friend Tim Ferrick, a fellow veteran, said he considered it his “patriotic duty” to stand up for Tombstone’s water rights.

Meanwhile, Tombstone’s cause has found a champion in Washington. U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, recently introduced H.R. 5971, the Emergency Water Supply Restoration Act. It proposes to set aside Forest Service restrictions against the use of construction equipment during state-declared water emergencies. Flake and Nancy Sosa, Tombstone’s archivist, were among the witnesses who testified before a subcommittee of the House on Friday.

Flake said: “The unforeseen consequences of federal laws and regulations threaten to do something outlaws, economic busts and the Arizona desert couldn’t: Kill the town too tough to die.”

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Commission sets 2012 coastal coho, fall chinook salmon seasons

Jun 9, 2012

Salmon and fish, State gov

ODFW 2012 News Release

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2012/June/060812.asp

OREGON -

June 8, 2012

SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today set the upcoming coho and fall chinook salmon seasons for coastal rivers and streams.

The Commission meeting began yesterday with consideration of a number of wildlife issues, and continued today with Commissioners taking up a number of fish-related issues.

For the fourth year in a row, returns of coho salmon are strong enough for staff to propose opening 10 coastal rivers and one lake to the harvest of wild coho. Under the regulations adopted today, anglers will be able to keep one wild coho in the Nehalem, Tillamook, Nestucca, Siletz, Yaquina, Alsea, Siuslaw, Umpqua, Coos and Coquille rivers and Tenmile lakes. The season on most rivers begins on Sept. 15 and will continue through November, or until river-specific quotas have been met. All wild coho fisheries are also subject to NOAA approval.

The continued wild coho fisheries mark an important milestone in the recovery of coho salmon populations along the Oregon Coast, said Chris Kern, ODFW ocean salmon resources manager.

“Since coastal coho were listed as threatened in 1998, an enormous amount of work has been done to restore these populations,” he said. “Today we’re seeing the results of record returns in recent years in recreational fisheries that allow the harvest of a small number of those fish.

“As a result of restoration efforts by Oregonians and sustainable fish management, Oregon Coast coho are well on their way to recovery,” he added.

The Commission also approved the seasons for fall chinook, which have been rebounding since a significant downturn in 2008. For 2012, bag limits and area closures will return to permanent regulations for most South Coast rivers. Returns to North Coast rivers are improving but some continue to lag, so while the Commission did restore the historic two chinook daily bag limit on these rivers, the more recent 10 fish seasonal limit will continue.

A complete description of the 2012 coastal salmon seasons, including area closures and wild coho quotas, can be found on the ODFW website.

The Commission approved $767,010 in grants for 12 enhancement and 8 restoration projects through the Fish Restoration and Enhancement Program. Among the projects receiving funding are the addition of ADA fishing piers at St. Louis Ponds near Woodburn and enhancement of access at Vernonia Pond.

The Commission also approved a major re-organization of the commercial fishery regulations aimed at providing clarity and consistency to make them easier for user groups to navigate.

The Commission briefly took up trapping regulations, carrying over the agenda item from Thursday’s meeting. Today, the Commission made clear that new limits on trapping adopted yesterday apply only to state and federal land. The rules prohibit setting traps or snares on land within 300 feet of campgrounds, picnic areas and trailhead and within 50 feet of public trails. The restriction applies only to trails that are marked and maintained by state or federal agencies and are designated on agency maps. The rules were revised in response to a petition filed by the Humane Society of the United States, Predator Defense, Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club, Audubon Society of Portland and Cascadia Wildlands.

Finally, Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division Senior Trooper Adam Turnbo of McMinnville was awarded the state’s top conservation enforcement honor when he was recognized with the Shikar Safari Club International Wildlife Officer of the Year. Shikar-Safari representative Lynn Loacker presented the award.

In making the award, Loaker cited Turnbo’s innovative use of social media to identify and monitor the actions of wildlife violators.

The Shikar-Safari Club International, founded in 1952, is a group of international hunters who formed first as a social group and then became motivated to make a meaningful difference in wildlife conservation.

The agenda item regarding the sale of treaty caught Columbia River steelhead and walleye was withdrawn and will be considered at the August Commission meeting.

The Commission is the policy-making body for fish and wildlife issues in the state and usually meets monthly. The next meeting is Aug. 3 at ODFW Headquarters in Salem.

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Contact:

Jessica Sall (503) 947-6023

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Wolf study probes effects on cattle

Jun 9, 2012

Wolves

PNP comment: This is a pro-active project. — Editor Liz Bowen

Wolf study probes effects on cattle | capitalpress.com

http://www.capitalpress.com/orewash/ml-wolf-study-060812-art

By MITCH LIES

Capital Press

June 8, 2012

Oregon and Idaho ranchers are involved in a long-term study that could shed light on how wolves affect everything from cattle grazing patterns to labor costs, cattle weight gain and conception rate.

The 10-year study involves documenting the movement of cattle when they come in contact with wolves and includes ranchers recording body condition scores, labor costs and other factors compared to historic conditions.

Scientists also have data from a collared wolf.

Preliminary data in the study, initiated four years ago, shows some surprising and some not-so-surprising results, researchers found.

Cattle, for example, don’t appear fearful of wolves when initially encountering the animals. After witnessing a wolf kill a cow, however, herds become skittish. Cows that have seen a wolf kill a cow bunch together and run as fast as 6 mph when a wolf is nearby.

The study is showing that calf yields in herds that graze near wolves aren’t nearly as high as yields in wolf-free zones.

It is also showing labor costs are up in areas where wolves are present.

And the study is showing that contrary to some thought, wolves aren’t afraid to go near houses, as the collared wolf often roamed within 330 feet of houses.

In the study, funded by USDA, Oregon State University, University of Idaho and the Oregon Beef Council, cows are fitted with GPS collars containing a secure digital, or SD, card. Scientists document animal movement after retrieving the SD card.

The idea behind the study is to provide scientific basis for wolf policy, and reduce wolf-livestock conflicts, said Doug Johnson, an OSU range scientist.

“What we’d like to do is come up with some tangible ways to reduce the impact of wolves on livestock,” Johnson said. “But it’s not going to be an easy problem to solve.”

The original concept was to compare cows that interact with wolves with cows that don’t. Scientists collared four sets of 10 cows in Oregon and four sets in Idaho, with the idea the Oregon cows weren’t interacting with wolves, and the Idaho cows were.

Johnson’s focus — originally to study grazing patterns — changed when wolves started killing cows in Oregon.

“Wolves are now the focal point of this study,” he said.

Scientists received a bonus when USDA Wildlife Services agents agreed to collar an Idaho wolf that was earmarked to be killed because of its predation. The collar showed the wolf’s location every 15 minutes for 200 days.

The wolf, identified as B446, was part of a pack of 13 that have since been eliminated by USDA Wildlife Services agents.

The data show B446 traveled often between his den and a highland pasture where heifers grazed, and the rancher involved in the study suffered heavy losses to depredation, even though he could prove just a fraction of the loss.

The rancher figures he lost between 40 and 45 calves to wolves, or 10 percent of the expected yield from a 450-cow herd, Johnson said.

In another herd, the rancher was able to show only an 80 percent yield on calves, Johnson said. In all, the rancher estimated he lost between 65 to 70 animals out of 800 head, but he was able to confirm the loss of just 17.

In addition to cattle lost through depredation, preliminary results show wolf presence reduces weight gain in cattle, reduces conception rates and changes a cow’s body condition score, a measure of whether an animal can be rebred.

Ranchers also are reporting that cattle preyed on by wolves don’t tolerate dogs, which often are vital tools in herding.

“The presence of the wolf is changing the behavior of these animals,” Johnson said.

Wolves, Johnson said, are unique among the many animals he has studied over his 20 years as a range scientist.

“They’re very smart animals, and they are amazing in terms of their ability to move,” Johnson said.

B446 traveled an average of 11 miles a day in the 200 days he was collared and covered more than 27 miles in one day. The wolf traveled primarily at night, according to data, shuffling between his den and cow herds.

“The wolves are going where the cows are,” Johnson said.

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Live on Sunday mornings 8 – 10 AM

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If you miss the show or reside outside the listening area:

Streaming live & chatting on Sundays -or- Listen to previous shows anytime

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Our guest – Arkady Faktorovich

“BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN Part II”

Today we’ll compare Obamacare and the Fed … did you know they were created in a similar fashion? How about socialism vs. communism? How about the guy who was much more powerful than Lenin?

Don’t miss this show! Catch it live or later in the archive!

ARKADY FAKTOROVICH

Born in Kiev, Ukraine.

Enrolled in Moscow State University of Technology and Design in 1965, graduated from Kiev State University of Technology and Design with MS in Engineering 1971.

After graduation, was drafted into the Soviet Army as a private, nine months later was sent to officers school for training, six months later graduated with the rank of the lieutenant. Following the discharge from the military, was working as an engineer, being involved in experimental projects.

Emigrated to the West in 1978. Lived in Austria and Italy, while my papers were being processed. After an interview with an American Embassy in Rome, received my entry visa and a work permit to come to the greatest country the world has ever known, our country, the United States of America.

I lived in Houston, Texas. When my English skills improved, was hired by Brown and Root, Inc. (later known as Halliburton, Inc.) as a field engineer at the construction of nuclear power plant in Bay City, Texas.

I moved to California and was hired by Bechtel Civil and Minerals, Inc. as a Senior Engineer, in San Francisco. I opened my own business in 1982. I married my wife in 1984 and became a US Citizen in 1985. My wife and I are blessed with three daughters and six grandchildren.

Life is good when one is free.

Thank you,

Arkady Faktorovich

Straight from Arkady Fatorovich’s website

From “Dutra’s The Paper” at Los Banos, California. February 18th 2011:

Life Behind the Iron Curtain… and America Through The Eyes of an Immigrant

By Arkady Faktorovich

It began in Ukraine, where I was born and raised. I owe everything that I learned in my early years to my grandfather and my father, the wisest men I ever knew. They are responsible for instilling in me the ability to reason and have independent thought.

What I would like to say to you is something that we all mention in our daily conversations. We hear it from our politicians, broadcasters and writers and almost always take it for granted. What I am talking about is freedom.

READ the full article:

The environmental socialists want to spend 1.5 Billion to remove four perfectly maintained hydro electric dams on the Klamath River.

Power rates in Siskiyou county have already doubled to pay for this lunacy.

The Governor in his infinite wisdom says that hydro does not qualify as renewable power. Hydro is the cleanest, cheapest, greenest power on the planet.

Fran Pavley, Jarod Huffman and the rest of the socialists, vote for the idiots who come up with these idiotic programs. It is ironic that you will suffer from your own desire to save the planet.

A few fans on top of a hill are not the answer. California is semi arid. Our population is growing whether we like it or not. We need more dams, not less. We need more water storage not less. The cleanest greenest, cheapest power on the planet is hydro.

We put a man on the moon with a slide rule in 1969. Certainly we can figure out how to get fish to swim up a fish ladder.

It is time to take the state back from the environmental communists and start to build a responsible infrastructure, which at one time was capable of feeding the world.

Wake up California: Look down at your dinner plate tonight. Where do you think all of the food came from?

Can you afford to sit in the dark eating your $20 dollar apple and your $100 dollar steak, because that is what you environmental fools are condemning your children to?

Mark Baird, vice president

Scott Valley Protect Our Water

Go to Sac Bee article:

KBC STATS for May 2012: 12,100 visits, 6737 unique visitors, 51,540 pages, 85,363 hits

Rain helps irrigation, water year outlook, H&N 6/8/12.

” ‘If the irrigators are just a little bit careful, I think there’s going to be enough water.’ As of Wednesday, year-to-date precipitation was 95 percent of historical average.”

Fighting drought is Hollie Cannon’s No. 1 goal, H&N 6/8/12.

Soros Spends Over $48 Million Funding Media Organizations, followed by, Soros Spends $400 Million On ‘Open Society’ Education, ‘Social Action,’ Colleges And Universities, CNS 6/8/12.

HERE for Soros Page, and links to Soros and the KBRA/Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement and what “stakeholders” Soros funds.

Forest Service grants Tombstone work permit, SV Herald 6/8/12.

Judge Denies Tombstone Water, Townhall, posted to KBC 5/22/12. Federal judge halts eastern Idaho logging project, Capital Press 6/8/12.

posted to KBC 6/8/12: heat illness legislation, discrimination, metering, coho permits, more power to CDFG, marijuana on public lands, predator hunting restrictions, regulations and limits for trappers.

Montague, CA is not the only small town with a threatened water supply. — City Councilman Jim Benson

Spotted owl could be game-changer in Tombstone water war – CNN.com

By Ann O’Neill , CNN

Sat June 9, 2012

Shhh! Look! Do you see it?

The rangers stopped in their tracks. Binoculars emerged from pockets, and fingers pointed to a stand of trees.

And there it was, a Mexican spotted owl, perched high in a pine tree. It was a male, the rangers said, with his back turned to the intruders. He scratched and preened. But mostly, the owl seemed to be watching the nest in a nearby sycamore tree where his mate tended to an owlet.

Tombstone is trying to repair a 26-mile pipeline that has brought mountain spring water into the city since 1881. It was damaged during last summer’s Monument Fire and monsoon rains that brought mud, water and boulders crashing down the denuded slopes.

The Miller Peak Wilderness Area, where owls nest in the trees above Tombstone’s pipeline, was hit particularly hard. Sections of pipeline simply vanished, and Tombstone’s reservoir ran dry by August.

Cowan said she has battled the Forest Service often on behalf of ranchers in her state and has found that “people in Washington just don’t understand the West. They don’t understand the wide open spaces and how we live and how we manage the land.”

The leaders of the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade, which in 2000 used volunteer muscle power to move a boulder and reopen a wilderness road near Elko, Nevada, rallied to Tombstone’s side. A nonprofit organization was set up, and Tombstone so far has received $2,000 in donations and about 400 shovels.

As a result, Ivory said, Tombstone “is minutes away from going up in smoke” because it is “a wooden town in the middle of the desert in the middle of a drought.”

At the center of the debate is the Mexican spotted owl.

“What is more important, owls or the people of Tombstone?” James Upchurch, a Forest Service supervisor who oversees the wilderness, was asked in court earlier this year.

Upchurch responded that there was no easy answer, which left jaws dropping on Tombstone’s side of the courtroom.

So far, the Forest Service had been winning in court; Tombstone’s request for an emergency injunction went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court but was turned down.

But the rangers came out in force on Friday, presenting their helpful side. A group of Forest Service firefighters hiked up the mountain and used a two-man crosscut saw to take down a tree and clear a path for the pipeline.

The Forest Service granted permits Thursday for the city to bring the all-volunteer shovel brigade into the canyon to shore up the pipeline. Tombstone has until 8 p.m. Saturday to finish the job.

“The idea that the Forest Service is trying to take water away from my hometown is just beyond words,” she said. “I’m very proud to be here today to help and to fight. We’re going to fix this, and the Forest Service is going to listen.”

“It’s just a lot of manual labor,” said Ben Headen, president of Tombstone’s American Legion post. It was frustrating, he said, because “we shouldn’t be doing it by manual labor, we should be using equipment.”

His friend Tim Ferrick, a fellow veteran, said he considered it his “patriotic duty” to stand up for Tombstone’s water rights.

Flake said: “The unforeseen consequences of federal laws and regulations threaten to do something outlaws, economic busts and the Arizona desert couldn’t: Kill the town too tough to die.”

OREGON -

June 8, 2012

SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today set the upcoming coho and fall chinook salmon seasons for coastal rivers and streams.

The Commission meeting began yesterday with consideration of a number of wildlife issues, and continued today with Commissioners taking up a number of fish-related issues.

The continued wild coho fisheries mark an important milestone in the recovery of coho salmon populations along the Oregon Coast, said Chris Kern, ODFW ocean salmon resources manager.

“Since coastal coho were listed as threatened in 1998, an enormous amount of work has been done to restore these populations,” he said. “Today we’re seeing the results of record returns in recent years in recreational fisheries that allow the harvest of a small number of those fish.

Judge Denies Tombstone Water, Townhall, posted to KBC 5/22/12.

Federal judge halts eastern Idaho logging project, Capital Press 6/8/12.