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CFACT Undercover: Exposing radical UN sustainability conference

“Nobody wants to talk about population control…Well we can’t kill everybody…” David Terungwa, Executive Director, Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation. Hundreds of youth are attending the UN panels, where panelists call for extreme population control and centralized planning. “We need to change behavior at an individual’s level. We must start acting now,” Satay Tripathi, UN Assistant Secretary General. Those were just a few of the radical comments from speakers at the United Nations’ 68th Annual Conference for Civil Societies, taking place in Salt Lake City, Utah this week. CFACT’s on-the-ground operative is attending the conference under-cover, [...]

By CFACT Undercover |2019-08-27T11:50:36-05:00August 27th, 2019|Climate, Conferences, Property|Comments Off

Landowners in Fauquier County, Virginia battle severe restrictions on their property rights

The Fauquier County Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a radical overhaul of its existing Rural Lands Comprehensive Plan that would trample on local property rights.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2019-07-17T13:16:53-05:00July 10th, 2019|Property|Comments Off

Supreme Court dishes property owners a Fifth Amendment victory

The ruling restores rights under the Fifth Amendment, opening federal courts to property owners seeking “just compensation” for the taking of their property by government.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2019-06-27T10:46:58-05:00June 25th, 2019|Property|Comments Off

Supreme Court ditches Clean Water Act conviction posthumously

His crime? Building a firebreak ditch and some ponds on his Montana property.

By Duggan Flanakin |2019-04-29T12:38:14-05:00April 29th, 2019|Environment, General Information, Property|Comments Off

CA fines homeowners $4 million for blocking public access, but there’s no public access to block

It is yet another example of property owners being dragged through the mud by agenda-driven bureaucrats with nothing else better to do than throw their weight around.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2019-02-20T11:22:31-05:00February 20th, 2019|Property|Comments Off

Farmer settles $2 million lawsuit against high-flying Green realtors

Virginia farmer Martha Boneta has reached a settlement in her $2 million lawsuit against a husband-and-wife team of realtors whom she accused of colluding with an environmental group to drive her off her land.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2018-05-31T12:28:21-05:00May 31st, 2018|Property|Comments Off

Florida legislature smacks down land-grabbing county officials

Efforts by county officials in the Florida Panhandle to undermine both the property rights and the First Amendment rights of owners of a beachfront home came to naught March 23 when Gov. Rick Scott signed a law reaffirming key foundations of the U.S. Constitution.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2018-04-07T11:18:11-05:00April 7th, 2018|Property|Comments Off

Florida Keys “takings” property rights case before Supreme Court

The children of a Korean War veteran and his wife are hoping to realize the dream of their late parents and build a home in the Florida Keys, thereby undoing a government “taking” of the family’s property.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2018-01-30T22:16:52-05:00January 30th, 2018|Environment, Property|Comments Off

Virginia judge Jeffrey Parker tramples property rights

Martha Boneta: "It is my hope and prayer that no American citizen ever has to suffer the way we have on our family farm.”

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2017-01-06T12:46:08-05:00January 5th, 2017|Property|50 Comments

Property owners to Dominion: Pipeline YES, eminent domain NO

They didn’t expect Virginia property owners directly affected by the pipeline to show up, advocating for their rights. The property owners’ message was simple: “Pipeline yes, eminent domain no.”

By CFACT Ed |2016-12-16T23:10:12-05:00December 16th, 2016|Energy, Property|5 Comments

Support grows for right-to-farm

Many states have right-to-farm statutes, but right-to-farm constitutional amendments are something new.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2016-09-29T21:06:53-05:00September 29th, 2016|Property|9 Comments

Antiquities Act, eminent domain threaten American families

Some 500 families were relocated 80 years ago when the federal government used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create Shenandoah National Park. Today, a private company is seeking to use eminent domain (despite having an alternate route) to destroy farmland and displace or negatively impact about 2,700 families. There is a better way.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2016-09-18T09:35:27-05:00September 17th, 2016|Environment, General Information, Property|Comments Off

Eminent Domain revolt scuttles pipeline — Virginia next?

South Carolina and Georgia blocked pipelines when companies sought to intrude on private land via eminent domain. Will Virginians revolt over the Dominion pipeline?

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2016-08-16T09:11:34-05:00August 16th, 2016|Property|Comments Off

North Carolina town grabs beachfront property without compensation

The joy of owning beachfront property has become a nightmare for a North Carolina family embroiled in a nasty dispute with a local government intent on engaging is some old-fashioned land-grabbing.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2016-07-29T11:49:20-05:00July 29th, 2016|Property|Comments Off

Courts tackling Clean Water Act abuses

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the North Dakota-based Hawkes Co., which had planned to mine peat from property in Minnesota, could challenge in court a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) ruling declaring the property counted as “regulated wetlands” without first having to go through the costly process necessary to obtain a permit to disturb wetlands.

By h-sterling-burnett-ph-d |2016-07-22T08:33:09-05:00July 19th, 2016|Property|Comments Off