WHY GOD MADE BUMPER STICKERS

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  Socorro County Commissioner Danny Monette
(and his Ford pickup)

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Danny Monette got involved with the issue seriously

after the fund-raiser for the San Augustin Water Coalition

held at The Golden Spur Saloon in Magdalena

last February, which he attended.  Since then

he's done a LOT of GOOD for the cause.

He's a politician in the best sense.

He's got his eye out for what's real, and what's bullshit,

and has actively been educating people about the

 WATER GRAB, and what it means in the big picture.

We caught Danny yesterday, by luck, and he gave

us some encouraging news about things.

Here's just a small byte of an interview

we had with him.

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Danny, what's happend on the county level?

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"What the county did - they came out as a "Protestant" now in

the legal fight against the Water Grab, and our county attorney

has a ranch over by Alamo, and he's personally against it.

There's a LOT of people totally against this.

I'd say 99.9%. "

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Well, you've gotten new credentials since we saw you last.

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"Yeah, I got put on the Executive Board of the

New Mexico Association of Counties, and I represent five

counties in the area.  And at the state conference in Clovis,

I was elected to serve on the national board of the

WESTERN INTERSTATE REGIONAL CONFERENCE,

which includes all of the Western states.

It's involved with policies and procedures regarding

 public lands coming out of Washington, and their impact,

 and issues of importance to the West in general.

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Ninety percent of the people on this deal

are ranchers or farmers,

and they ask me about the BUMPER STICKER,

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 and they want to know what it "represents."

And I explain to them what's going on out at the

San Augustin Plains, and they are 100%

in favor of stopping it.

I'm getting a LOT of support.

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I'M LOVIN' IT! 

I think it's great, because these people have values,

and they have long histories of agriculture in their

background, and they realize what these people,

the foreigners here, are tryng to do to us.
To our industry.
It's good!"

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More from our interview with Danny Monette to come.

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The VLA, Very Large Array, out on the Plains of San Augustin.

  It's operated by the NRAO, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory,

funded with taxdollars through the National Science Foundation.

The NRAO is also one of the many "Protestants" in the legal fight

 against the Modena Organization.

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WATER MARKETS

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"There is a very good reason that so many companies

are getting in on the water business.  As the world's

freshwater supply dwindles, the need to find new

sources rises, creating a brand-new market in a

sector where there was none before.  The brand-new

market has created a brand-new investment  opportunity,

and suddenly water has become a hot property on

the stock market.  There are at least a dozen major

water indexes as well as new exchange-traded funds

dealing exclusively in water.  As water analysts note,

water is hot not only because of the growing need

for clean water but because demand is never affected

by inflation, recession, interest rates or changing

tastes.  "Water is a growth driver for as long and far

as the eye can see," Deane Dray, water adviser for

Goldman Sachs, told the New York Times.

Lehman Brothers predicts that the number of

people served globally by investor-owned

water companies is expected to rise 500

percent in the next decade."

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Maude Barlow

BLUE COVENANT

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