Senator Murkowski’s Fishery Aide – Is Fuglvog Still Active?
Senator Murkowski’s Fishery Aide – Is Arne Fuglvog Still Active
after Plea Bargain on Lacey Act violation?
Hooked by the Lacey Act
This is an expansion of a draft that was submitted for publication on the East Coast, but considered “too Alaskan” in focus. Today, August 24, greater insight compels us to post it.
Fuglvog was allowed to keep his U.S. passport despite signing a plea agreement. Groundswell wrote Canadian border officials to deny his entry — suspected to be for purposes of fishery policy. Today’s National Fisherman editorial shed new light.
See also: Arne Fuglvog CV and http://www.thedutchharborfisherman.com/article/1051bering_sea_cod_co-op_wins_approval And listen (04:25 to 09:45 min.) to downloadable MP3 to hear all the usual suspects bafflegab to mitigate the effects of Fuglvog’s case at
http://www.alaskapublic.org/2011/08/25/alaska-news-nightly-august-25-2011/
Catch Shares – Nils Stolpe on Conspiracy, Cooperation, or Coincidence
Call it conspiracy, cooperation or coincidence, but no matter what you call it, the public record isn’t going to change
Nils E. Stolpe/Fish Net USA — May 08, 2011
The following link will carry you to a great article about the framework of Catch Shares promotion — which is a long-term, coordinated effort by a select few to convert Public Commonweal into Privatized Property.
http://www.fishnet-usa.com/Black%20helicopters%20in%20Boston.pdf
The following page contains some federal guideline discussion, which may illuminate the legal underpinnings that favor Stolpe’s perceptions…
And if you have any doubts that a Conspiracy (and the related Damage Control) happened in Alaska’s Crab Rationalization (privatization) regime, just read the Addendum at http://groundswellalaska.com/2010/03/15/catch-share-oversight-hearing-groundswell-taufens-comment-31610/#more-347
Catch Shares Not the Panacea that Senator Olympia Snowe Believes
March 25, 2011 – by Richard Grachek
“The Days-at-Sea program had plunged our fishing industry into a downward spiral, decimating fish stocks and diminishing prospects at sea from 65 days to as few as 14 in 2010.” — Sen. Olympia Snowe, March 25, 2011 Press Herald opinion.
Blaming the Days-At-Sea system is a cover for the mismanagement of the entire fishery for the last twenty or more years and a blatantly disingenuous oversimplification of an enormously complex eco-system and its dynamics. — Richard Grachek
The following reply by Grachek debunks Snowe’s opinion and the EDR-backed falsehoods… read on:
Resistance Builds Against EDF and NOAA’s Catch Share Proponents
February 16, 2011 – Recreational Fishing Alliance News Release: blasts the NOAA & Environmental Defense Fund push for Catch Shares by noting again that if the Agency can’t fund these Public Larcenies, it can’t commit them. The heart of Catch Shares is privatizing once Public Commonwealth – and in order to do that, NOAA must first destruct local sustainable fishery economies. The result will be the implementation of “high rents” for those few who get to own the quota shares (Catch Shares) as tradeable properties; and to take existing independent businesses and turn them into mere wage earners. This corporate-serving “rationalization” model has served the greedy well for over 150 years, worldwide. But here, now, it is time to take a vital industry and finally say NO! Below is a FishNet email content, then the RFA presser… thanks to Nils, Amanda and all… But we’ll have to do something ‘repo’ about Alaska, too…
Senator Lisa Murkowski – one way of Stealing an Election is revealed
Thank you very much, Senator...
"I didn't promise anything in return" (wink, nod...)
January 14, 2011 — In an earlier article on this website, Groundswell revealed its reasons why Alaskan voters should not vote for Lisa Murkowski as U.S. Senator. We noted her desire to do special legislation to grant the for-profit subsidiaries of Community Development Quota non-profits an exemption from federal income taxes. Since the certification of Murkowski to the Senate, again, she has — along with Alaska’s Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Mark Begich and two Washington State Democratic U.S. Senators (Maria Cantwell and Patti Murray), forwarded a Ted Stevens like end-run legislation on fisheries law, S.1609, to establish a Cooperative for Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Cod Longliner Catcher Processors. Talk about a payback system working quick! With a little sleight of hand — no thanks to Maria Cantwell for sponsoring S.1609 — the direct kickback nature got washed a little. But anyone on the ground in Alaska prior to the general election is fully aware of the role played by the Native organizations and Seattle and Tokyo-owned fish companies in providing Murkowski with the money to wage an all out write-in campaign.
“Alaskans Standing Together” — Native organizations gave $895,000 to Murkowski campaign.
In our earlier article, we linked you to the website for the campaign contributions received by Murkowski. Media across the nation noted the role of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow corporate money to be spent lavishly and largely unrestricted for such campaigns, and Murkowski’s run as a write-in candidate was noted as one of the first major outcomes of that decision. We’d like to update readers in a simple way, today. Just take a look at the following table of which “contributors” gave to Alaskans Standing Together, and then ask yourself if it is really fair to steal an election by funneling monies from groups who are large recipients of government no-bid contracts and other special deals, where that very Senator has a lot of pull in Congress.
SEC Complaint on Catch Shares revealed by Groundswell
Sometimes, I feel like a Ratz...
Many true harvesters and participants (not the mailbox fishermen) in the fishing industry have expressed their concerns about the ‘asset commoditization’ of fish species, or Catch Share programs that create tradeable quota shares, owned by private individuals or institutions.
Be a Blood Donor – Give Life for the Holidays and New Year
Nov. 27, 2010 - Groundswell would like to remind readers that one of the most rewarding things you can do is to give blood. It’s a gift that can save a life, at any time of year. On Tuesday, November 9th I was medevac’d out of Kodiak and received a life-saving 5 units of concentrated red blood cells and 5 units of plasma. Somewhere out there are the donors who had the foresight and grace to give selflessly of themselves to help others who would never be known to them. The dictionaries do not contain words sufficient enough to acknowledge them - ’Thank You!’ will have to do. Wherever the donors are, may the holidays be all the more joyous for these givers.
So fishermen, while the economic treasonists in fisheries are busy bleeding you dry economically and attempting to isolate you from living well, please remember that they can’t take away your dignity and care for fellow humankind. The real blood you willingly give can save the life of a child or other loved one, and may help remind you that no head is to be held higher than your own or anyone else’s. Together, you can defeat the elitists, by acting in positive ways for the sake of all others — especially those in need.
Groundswell asks you to please, with dignity, donate a pint of life-saving blood for the holidays.
I’d also like to personally thank all the staff and doctors at Providence Kodiak and Anchorage, and especially the crew of the King Air B200 from LifeFlight Alaska — Mitch and Mike, in particular — and the ambulance crews. I promised them we’d help put out the call for donors, so we hope you take a spare moment to visit the blood bank soon. Thank you!
Lisa Murkowski’s elitism keeps Alaska from self-sufficiency – vote for a real Alaskan.
Plea Bargaining with the Voters ... Lisa Murkowski
Tomorrow is shaping up to be the most interesting voting day in Alaska — one so dominated by a U.S. Senate race that it seems nothing else is on the voters’ minds, at least over the coffee table. I can’t vote for Lisa Murkowski for at least four important reasons. She’s an elitist who supports low value resource extraction from Alaska, who willingly plunged toward real estate sweetheart profits hoping to gain personal advantage from taxpayer funds, while protecting foreign corporations who practice global tax evasion that greatly harms the state and nation. She also leads legislation for Community Development Quota non-profit firms to make only their for-profit subsidiaries free from federal taxes, and is blind to how that will eventually decimate the fishing industry economy. Murkowski’s right up there leading the GOP goons who are crushing the middle class and more than just dabbling in poverty creation. It’s her kind of politician that keeps Alaska under the knuckles of a Resource Curse global beast and held back by the jackboots of its limited corporate membership. She isn’t a Marxist, just one of those who supports and helps set up all the conditions of disenfranchisement, disillusionment and peonage that ensures anarchy will soon arise because the People tire of living debt flattened lives so a few elitists can live the money fattened life.
What kind of Outside money buys an election?
Nov. 2 UPDATE: I McVoted today, have you? The polls close soon… drive carefully.
Nov. 3 UPDATE: 0130 hrs. - write-ins strong enough to force a recount or a hand count? Wonder how many in the US Senate and Justice Department will be interested in fact that Alaska Native Corporations spent $1.2 million backing Murkowski, when so much of their profits derived from government funded programs? But the yet-to-be-contested ballot counts are not even going to be tallied up until possibly November 21st!
UPDATE: Nov. 3rd, 0845 hrs. AST – Write-ins in total have pulled ahead of Joe Miller by 7%. Amazing, Lisa’s backers disingenously complained that outside money (Tea Party) caused her to lose the primary, but it is now clear that Outside money may help her squeeze out a win. It’s been nothing but a business transaction for the Seattle fish companies and beneficiaries of privatization in federal fisheries, the K-streeters whose cut comes from running legislative sales through Murkowski’s office, and the major oil companies who want to continue to ripoff Alaskan crude cheaply. Then add in the circular laundering of pay-to-play no-bid contractors who cling to federal purse strings and one thing becomes clear:
The final Public Integrity crackdown on Alaska’s remaining political dung is going to be tougher than the Fifth Labour of Hercules - Cleaning up the Augean Stables.
Abusive Transfer Pricing – 1 – Groundswell in the 1990′s
Shipping Profits Offshore in Products
A Transfer Price is a controlled price between related firms that is charged for a product or service. When the transaction fails to follow acceptable “arm’s length pricing” principles, and varies from a “comparable, uncontrolled price” to such an extent that it violates established tax codes, it can be termed an “Abusive Transfer Price” (ATP). The PDF file below contains pages from Groundswell’s earliest efforts to resolve problems of such profit-shifting across international borders between “host nation” U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-controlled corporations (FCC) whose parent firms are domiciled in Japan or Korea, their home nation.
TRANSFER PRICING basic diagrams & articles – for you to read in support of the primary discussion below:
ATP_Binder_1 …And… ATP_Binder_2
Genetically Engineered Fish Subject of FDA Hearings
- Picture by vectomega.com
“FDA Considers Approval of GE Salmon–the First GE Food Animal –Yet Fails to Inform the Public of Environmental and Economic Risks.”
Please Get Involved! Go to www.ge-fish.org Deadline for letters is this Wednesday at 9 pm Pacific time. Organizations may contact Heather Whitehead, True Food Network Director, THE CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY – to let the Center know which letter(s) to sign your organization(s) on to.
“On August 25, 2010, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials announced their process for making a decision on an application relating to the first genetically engineered (GE) animal intended for human consumption, the AquAdvantage Salmon produced by AquaBounty Technologies (Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0001). … Genetically engineered fish pose serious risks to wild populations of fish and our marine environment. Each year millions of farmed salmon escape from open-water net pens, outcompeting wild populations for resources and straining ecosystems.”
Groundswell Letter to Center for Food Safety: GE-Salmon-CFS-Sept2010