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[Ross]

100 mile wide swath of land to control the borders and waterways of the US?

HR 1505 is greatest federal land grab in history

October 7, 2011

by Ed Berry

This massive federal land grab takes out the top 1/3 of Montana, and the top half of Washington and North Dakota (hey, we can't let 'em drill for oil in the Bakkan, can we). And look how it takes over Michigan, Ohio, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Main.

Here is the western part:

This is just the start. I will expose the real bad news of HR 1505 next week. The bottom line is it is insane. Since when do we need a 100-mile swath of federal police control to "protect our border"? If they can't do it in one mile then they are not doing their job.

Below is the text of the bill (with my emphasis). Note one very important thing: Part (2) waives 35 laws the fed previously claimed were necessary. This begs the question:

Why not simply waive all these laws in Part (2) for all of Montana and forget all the other parts of HR 1505?

Obviously, if the federal government is willing to waive all these laws for the top 1/3 of Montana for DHS, then the federal government should be willing to waive all these laws for all of Montana for the benefit of all the citizens of Montana.

This would solve most of our economic problems in one big whack. This is evidence all these federal laws are scams anyway.

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H.R.1505 — National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act

(Introduced in House – IH)

HR 1505 IH

112th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1505

To prohibit the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from taking action on public lands which impede border security on such lands, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 13, 2011

Mr. BISHOP of Utah (for himself, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, Mr. SMITH of Texas, and Mr. CARTER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

A BILL

To prohibit the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from taking action on public lands which impede border security on such lands, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act'.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON IMPEDING CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY RELATED TO BORDER SECURITY.

(a) In General- The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture shall not impede, prohibit, or restrict activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security on land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to achieve operational control (as defined in section 2(b) of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (8 U.S.C. 1701 note; Public Law 109-367)) over the international land and maritime borders of the United States.

(b) Authorized Activities- The Secretary of Homeland Security shall have immediate access to any public land managed by the Federal Government (including land managed by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture) for purposes of conducting activities that assist in securing the border (including access to maintain and construct roads, construct a fence, use vehicles to patrol, and set up monitoring equipment).

(c) Clarification Relating to Waiver Authority-

(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any termination date relating to the waiver referred to in this subsection), the waiver by the Secretary of Homeland Security on April 1, 2008, under section 102(c)(1) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note; Public Law 104-208) of the laws described in paragraph (2) with respect to certain sections of the international border between the United States and Mexico and between the United States and Canada shall be considered to apply to all sections of the international land and maritime borders of the United States within 100 miles of the international land and maritime borders of the United States for the activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security described in subsection (b), including the construction of infrastructure, to achieve the operational control described in subsection (a).

(2) DESCRIPTION OF LAWS WAIVED- The laws referred to in paragraph (1) are

    the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.),
    the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.),
    the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.),
    the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.),
    the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703 et seq.),
    the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.),
    the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.),
    the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.),
    the Noise Control Act of 1972 (42 U.S.C. 4901 et seq.),
    the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.),
    the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.),
    Public Law 86-523 (16 U.S.C. 469 et seq.),
    the Act of June 8, 1906 (commonly known as the `Antiquities Act of 1906′) (16 U.S.C. 431 et seq.),
    the Act of August 21, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 461 et seq.),
    the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1271 et seq.),
    the Farmland Protection Policy Act (7 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.),
    the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.),
    the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.),
    the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.),
    the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd et seq.),
    the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.),
    the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 U.S.C. 661 et seq.),
    subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the `Administrative Procedure Act'),
    the Otay Mountain Wilderness Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-145, 113 Stat. 1711),
    sections 102(29) and 103 of California Desert Protection Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 410aaa et seq.),
    the National Park Service Organic Act (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.),
    Public Law 91-383 (16 U.S.C. 1a-1 et seq.),
    sections 401(7), 403, and 404 of the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-625, 92 Stat. 3467),
    the Arizona Desert Wilderness Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; Public Law 101-628),
    section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403),
    the Act of June 8, 1940 (16 U.S.C. 668 et seq.), (25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.),
    Public Law 95-341 (42 U.S.C. 1996),
    Public Law 103-141 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.),
    the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.), and
    the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (16 U.S.C. 528 et seq.).

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Filed Under: DHS, DHS HR 1505, Ed Berry, Govt Land Grab
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Comments

    1
    frederick J. Hammel says:   
    October 8, 2011 at 4:18 pm

    (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any termination date relating to the waiver referred to in this subsection), the waiver by the Secretary of Homeland Security on April 1, 2008, under section 102(c)(1) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note; Public Law 104-208) of the laws described in paragraph (2) with respect to certain sections of the international border between the United States and Mexico and between the United States and Canada shall be considered to apply to all sections of the international land and maritime borders of the United States within 100 miles of the international land and maritime borders of the United States.

    I do not know if i am reading this right, but it says 100 miles from all international borders and maritime borders. If this means what I think it means, every state that borders the Atlantic and the Pacific, Mexico or Canada 100 miles from the borders will become federal land. This includes Maine both sides and all the states along the Atlantic Ocean, 100% of New Jersey, 100% of Connecticut, 100% of Delaware, 100% of Florida , 50% of California , all toll 28 States will lose a big chunk of land.
    2
    danielboone says:   
    October 8, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    They see a nail sticking up and they hammer it down. The Canadian Border has been a sieve for many years and there are many truck drivers that have their own set of keys to the Country. I have pictures. Let's not delude ourselves. This is the consummation of the North American Union. They also have RCMP working with USBP and vise-verso. You might ask why and other than the answer given, it is a futile and expensive waste of time and money. The RCMP is particularly brutal as well and regularly beat people to death at airports etc... Do we really need police who do not have the underpinnings of a Constitution and an understanding of Constitutional Rights to be dealing with us...especially while armed? No friends, this is far more sinister.
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    Elias says:   
    October 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    I'll bet that the next time a group of sovereign nation-state Republics, each with its own autonomy, each with its own Constitution, comes together in compact to form some kind of union to serve their common needs, they will look back on American history and be wary, more wary than our founders. I'll bet that they will write in "bold" the equivalent of our Ninth and Tenth Amendments, only lock in more tightly than did our founders in the American compact the necessary protections for retaining their sovereignty, in case the new union they create through their compact might at some future time decide that the created union somehow should end up owning the creators which created it.

    Here is this, my favorite line from Calhoun's 1831 "Ft. Hill Address" -
    -
    "The error is in the assumption that the General government was party to the compact."
    -
    The very Federal government which would take this sort of measure (un-Constitutionally I might add) is of course asserting an authority not granted or enumerated to it by the compact which created it. And the Federal behemoth is going to keep on redefining its intended powers, its granted powers, until the people stop it in its tracks.

    Thanks, Dr. Berry, for all you do.
    Salute!
    Elias
    4
    roger says:   
    October 12, 2011 at 10:20 am

    Fellow Patriots, our US Constitution is just fine as written by men of our Greatest Generation. John Adams warned America of its limitations when he said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

    When are we going to draw a line in the sand? Are we going to wait until the jack-booted thugs are knocking on our doors? We will lose that battle. Let's starve 'The Beast'. Just as soon as the city dweller's free Happy Meals stop, chaos will start. Yes Emanuel, let no crisis go to waste. That will be our opportunity to take our States back. Remember them?
    Roger in Montana
    5
    pat27 says:   
    November 9, 2011 at 9:10 am

    Before I saw this map and realized that the Federal government is sealing us in, not protecting the borders. This is clearly the beginning of Marshall Law. Remember I said this here.

    I wrote on another site:

    This is among several land grabs the government is perpetrating with cover from different organizations and energy companies. Another recent one is The Lake of the Ozarks. Now, there are several more suddenly appearing across the US.

    The public MUST come together to fight this insidious thievery led by whining "investors" who believe the masses should guarantee a monetary return/gain for them because they invested in a project with their buddies, the Federal government's politicians. As well, this viral government grab is using "environmental" organizations they infiltrated (Wonder how much they've paid them?) to cover their land grabs.

    From them we hear shouts of protecting wildlife and resources. This is privately owned land, some owned for generations! (Read other articles related to this one. Look up Montana Land Grab.)

    First, investing is not a guarantee you will receive a return. It's called RISK, learn it! Yet, those associated with the MT land and other land grabs across the US are being guaranteed a return by the Feds with support of law. And, although environmental concerns ARE at the top of my list, I'm not stupid! These large organizations such as the World Wildlife fund apparently have forgotten their purpose and become the mouthpiece for clandestine Federal lawlessness.

    It's beyond the word "exploitation" of their open statement of purpose these organizations were built upon. This is the most unconstitutional act so far by our government–doesn't matter who is in office these days. Since Bush created the US citizen" rights grab" through the Patriot Act, Obama then upheld that precedent by allowing the Act to pass back into law unnoticed. He simply allowed the paper to lay on his desk. Therefore, media was not alerted to his agreement with Bush and his buddies. Not that the media would say anything anyway with their hands off approach to him.

    These land grabs that are going on now all over the US are the ultimate expression of the military/industrial complex's plans to continue to take from the public–every right we ever had is slowly fading–a great way to take something, just a bit at a time. The US citizen now, in reality, has NO BILL OF RIGHTS. 1000 pages of the Patriot Act is difficult to get through, but that's what it says, folks. You have no RIGHTS any longer. The Feds can do with you what they will.

    Better get together and fight this or no average American will have the right to own land, get water or even feed their children, eventually. We are slowing becoming the old Soviet Union. Have you not noticed? The 1% that has the money will have the only RIGHTS. This is not a joke. It's reality.

http://polymontana.com/hr-1505-is-greatest-federal-land-grab-in-history/

[Ross]

The Alamo II: Texans Up in Arms over TransCanada Land Grab

By Jen Alic | Thu, 18 October 2012 23:04

Texans are having nightmares of a Niger Delta nature, and while they have always been the friends of Big Oil, TransCanada is changing the rules of the game in a legally-aided land grab that will test just how tough Texans are.

Oil spills, the destruction of agricultural communities, impoverished farmers ... this is what Texans fear as TransCanada paves the way to build its 1,179-mile pipeline to transport Canadian tar sands to refineries in south Texas.

The lawsuits against TransCanada are piling up to the dismay of the Keystone XL pipeline project, which has been beleaguered by political, socio-economic, environmental and legal woes at every step from its US origins in Montana to its final destination point in south Texas.

No one thought Texas would be part of the problem: Texans love their pipelines. Why the change of heart, then?

The simplest answer is that Texans love their pipelines because Big Oil has been paying big bucks for the privilege of running them through Texas farmland, but TransCanada is bullying them out of their fair share.

This is how it works: TransCanada makes an unacceptably low offer for the land it needs; the landowner rejects the offer; TransCanada gets the land condemned in court; then it legally acquires the land for a fraction of its original offer.

Condemning land is not a new tactic by Big Oil, but while US oil companies have traditionally kept this to a minimum, TransCanada has taken far too much advantage of this legal loophole to get what it wants. According to CNBC.com, the Canadian company has so far condemned over 100 tracts of land out of the 800 tracts it has acquired for the pipeline in Texas.

Companies like TransCanada who enjoy what is known as "common carrier status" can demonstrate to a US court that their construction projects are for the common public good (it's called eminent domain). A landowner can of course appeal such a condemnation in the Supreme Court, and force the company to prove its claim more stringently, but in the end, Keystone XL generally wins.

For the most part, these appeal processes simply delay the inevitable.

Since Texans are being forced to give up their land for peanuts for the bigger picture "common good", let's look at why they aren't buying it and why they don't feel any less patriotic for their opinion. (Common good in this case meaning "national interest")

First of all, Texans point out that TransCanada is a foreign company that does not feel obliged necessarily to use American steel for its pipeline construction. According to media reports, a large percentage of the steel used for construction is imported.

They also balk at the idea that much of the tar sands oil refined it Texas will be exported via the Gulf of Mexico.

If the US is going to export its crude oil that should mean that it is producing more than it needs. In other words, the US must achieve oil independence before it starts exporting oil; otherwise it's moving away from rather than toward independence. Every good Texan knows this. The US is producing about 6.2 million bpd this year, and consuming twice that.

To the Texan mind, foreign-company plus exports does not add up to a reduction of US independence on foreign oil. It only adds up to revenues for TransCanada and Big Oil.

Also sitting uncomfortably at the back of the mind is the chance of an oil spill and the prospect of Canada's dirty tar sands damaging their farmland and water resources.

In 2010, a pipeline owned by Enbridge ruptured, spilling some 800,000 gallons of tar sands into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. A year later, the clean-up is ongoing and the damage vast.

Is there in fact any national interest here? Yes, but if most the refined oil is slated for export, the only "common good" is the creation of new jobs.

What is most interesting is that Texans will end up making Keystone XL a bipartisan issue. Previously, anyone who balked at Keystone XL environmental and socio-economic risks was a tree-hugging hippie. Anyone supporting Keystone XL was a Big Oil "yes man" with no respect for the environment. With Texans now up in arms over Keystone XL thanks to TransCanada, the debate will metamorphose into something more rational.

The Texans, in their own unique way, will bring legitimacy to this debate. After all, no one could accuse them of being tree-hugging liberals. Texans want Keystone, they want pipelines, but they won't stand for being cut out of the "common good" equation. To this end, some landowners are opening the gates to activists to stage protests, and this has so far ended in a handful of arrests.

And it is important that this debate is legitimized to ensure that when Keystone XL goes forward (and it will) it goes forward with a least a modicum of respect for the "common good".

Not only are Texans learning something new about Big Oil, but TransCanada is learning that Texans are proud and will command respect in the end. 

Hopefully, this can be done without another Alamo or an armed Texan equivalent of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). But if worse comes to worse, and TransCanada persists in its bullying, Texans are not averse to a bit of brawling.

By. Jen Alic of Oilprice.com

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Alamo-II-Texans-Up-in-Arms-over-TransCanada-Land-Grab.html

[Ross]

It just doesn't get much better than this photo...

Thanks Charley

[Warph]

4 Dead Among At Least 36 Shot In Chicago In 36 Hours

(Aw yes.... Spring time in Chicago)

Via Chicago Tribune


At least 36 people were shot in Chicago, four of them fatally, in as many hours over the weekend, with more than half of the shootings occurring over a half-day period stretching into early Sunday.

Officers responded to at least 27 incidents, starting at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side involving an attack that left a 17-year-old girl dead and two other people wounded, police said. There were also fatal shootings in the South Shore neighborhood Friday night and the Washington Park neighborhood early Sunday, both on the South Side.

Late Sunday, police announced charges in one of the killings.

Chicago Police Department spokesman Adam Collins declined to comment on whether the weekend's temperatures — Saturday reached 80 degrees, the city's warmest day so far this year — contributed to the number of shootings, though criminologists have said that weather does play a role in violent crime.

"While the city continues to see reductions in crime and violence, there's obviously much more to be done, and we continue to be challenged by lax state and federal gun laws," Collins said, reiterating a position that police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has expressed when discussing the department's crime-fighting efforts.

"No one will rest until everyone in Chicago enjoys the same sense of safety," he said.

Shontell Brown, mother of the 17-year-old girl killed Friday, called the situation on the city's streets "an ongoing war," saying that her daughter Gakirah Barnes was not the first teen from the South Chicago neighborhood to die violently.

"This is something that has become all too normal to everybody, and it needs to stop," Brown said in a phone interview. "We need to come together as a community and just unite to get our children and our streets back."

Barnes, of the 8000 block of South South Shore Drive, was pronounced dead at 5:43 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Cook County medical examiner's office said. An autopsy done Saturday determined that she died of multiple gunshot wounds and her death was ruled a homicide, the office said.

Barnes was a distant cousin of 13-year-old Tyquan Tyler, who was shot to death in June 2012, but the two were close enough that Barnes referred to Tyquan as her brother.

Tyquan's "mother is related to me through marriage so we've kind of raised our kids together once her family married my family," Brown said.

Barnes has four siblings, two older brothers and a younger brother and sister, her mother said.

About two hours before she was fatally shot on a porch in the 6400 block of South Eberhart Avenue, Barnes was leaving home to meet up with friends at a barbecue, her mother said.

"I told her that I loved her and to be careful — which is something that I told her every day when she went out on the Chicago streets," Brown said.

Nearly 34 hours later, a 20-year-old man was fatally shot outside a home in the 3000 block of West 53rd Place in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. He was identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Joshua Martinez, of the 4900 block of South Karlov Avenue.

Shards of glass from the home's front door littered the steps early Sunday morning. Martinez's body lay facedown on a sidewalk in front, covered by a white sheet, his feet resting on the bottom steps of the bungalow, a home that is common to Gage Park.

Police said Sunday night that a 17-year boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing around 1 a.m. that day, noting it stemmed from an argument during which the suspect retrieved a handgun from his residence and shot Martinez several times.

An hour and a half later, two people were shot in the 6000 block of South Indiana Avenue in Washington Park, police said. A 32-year-old man was hit in the chest and died at Stroger Hospital. A 27-year-old woman was shot in the leg and also was taken to Stroger.

The medical examiner's office identified the man as Corey Brownlee, of the same block where he was shot. He was pronounced dead at 3:26 a.m.

Friday's second fatal shooting occurred on the porch of a frame home in the 6800 block of South Crandon Avenue. Shannon Mack, 34, of the same block, was pronounced dead at 10:45 p.m. An autopsy determined that he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.

[Warph]

Bundy Family: We're Not Afraid of Harry Reid – He Needs to Be Kicked Out of Office

Posted Monday, April 14, 2014, 10:10 PM

After a very tense standoff between rancher Cliven Bundy supporters and the Bureau of Land Management this past weekend, government officials finally released the cattle backto the Bundy family and pulled their armed agents from the area.

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his two sons were on Hannity on Monday. The sons told Sean,
"We're not afraid of Harry Reid."

Here's the transcript:
Sean Hannity: What is your response to Harry Reid saying tonight that this is not over? It seems to me like he's making a threat that they're going to come for your dad.

Ammon Bundy: Well, if he doesn't have enough moral fiber in his bones at all to see what happened, that 'We the people' got together and made something right, then I don't think there's any hope for him. He needs to be kicked out of office even if he is the Senate Majority leader. It doesn't matter.

Sean Hannity: What is your position, Ryan?

Ryan Bundy: Well, I think that's pretty easy. I think 'We the people' have spoken, haven't we? What is one man's word? It doesn't matter what position he has. We the people have spoken and we said this is no longer going to take place. So, we don't fear Harry Reid. The people here said we're going to have our freedom. So that's going to happen.

[...]

BREAKING: Bundy Family Still Missing Over 100 Head of Cattle Taken By Feds

Posted Monday, April 14, 2014, 8:29 PM

After a very tense standoff between rancher Cliven Bundy supporters and the Bureau of Land Management this past weekend, government officials finally released the cattle backto the Bundy family and pulled their armed agents from the area.

But, as FOX News reported on Monday, the Bundy family is still missing over 100 head of cattle after federal agents released the cattle back to the family on Sunday. The family said the feds took around 400 cattle and returned only 260.

William La Jeunesse reported:

[...]

The Truth About the Nevada Rancher's Standoff

Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy - of Bundy Ranch - is locked in a standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over illegal cattle grazing, endangered tortoises and property rights. It gets even better...

The fight involves a 600,000-acre area under BLM control called Gold Butte, near the Utah border. The is the habitat of the protected desert tortoise, and the land has been off-limits for cattle since 1998.

Five years before that, when grazing was legal, Bundy stopped paying federal fees for the right. Bundy stopped paying grazing fees in 1993. He said he didn't have to because his Mormon ancestors worked the land since the 1880s, giving him rights to the land.

"We own this land," he said, not the feds. He said he is willing to pay grazing fees but only to Clark County, not BLM.

"Years ago, I used to have 52 neighboring ranchers," he said. "I'm the last man standing. How come? Because BLM regulated these people off the land and out of business."

Nevada, where various federal agencies manage or control more than 80 percent of the land, is among several Western states where ranchers have challenged federal land ownership.

[...]

BREAKING: Militia Arrives at Bundy Ranch

by NextNewsNetwork
We bring you now the latest from the Bundy Ranch, where the militia has arrived in support of Cliven Bundy in his stand off against the Federal Government, where the Bureau of Land Management has surrounded his ranch with snipers, helicopters and heavy equipment.

Governor Sandoval and Sen. Dean Heller have condemned the actions of the BLM:

The governor has released a statement: "No cow justifies the atmosphere of intimidation which currently exists nor the limitation of constitutional rights that are sacred to all Nevadans."

Sheriff Richard Mack, of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, has declared the Governor's words to be, just that - WORDS - and that immediate action on the part of the Governor should be take to call off the pending Range War.

Radio Host Pete Santilli of Guerrilla Media Network, is standing by on the scene where the Militia has arrived to support the Bundy Family.

Rusty Hill a former Land Broker who worked in that area for nearly 20 years issued this to our news room,

"It is not about turtles it is about water. There are developers working for military contractors that want that land and water for mining weapons grade minerals for industry... they want to sell the land by the highway for real estate development because it's close to I-15 and the Bundy's have been refusing to sell what they actually own directly for over 20 years. Many buyers sent me out there with crazy offers for that land for many years. It is prime real estate not worthless desert. There is a natural gas pipeline going through there and lots of water under ground too. Somebody connected to a military corporation is using political power and the BLM to muscle those people out."

We go now to Pete Santilli on the scene where the Militia has arrived.

[...]

Unexpected Visitor at the Bundy Ranch

NextNewsNetwork:
The protestors at the Bundy Ranch Standoff received an unexpected visitor yesterday. An anonymous supporter from Austin TX took credit for dispatching 8 large pizzas to feed the hungry mix of militia and protesters who have been holding a line against federal agents from the Bureau of Land Management - who tasered a pregnant woman and cancer patient just days ago.

The order originated from the Pizza Hut in Mesquite, NV and came to a total of $98.13 cents.

Despite the Bundy Ranch being outside the normal delivery area - Pizza Hut delivered to the front line anyway and was not impeded by authorities.

I confirmed the order after speaking with Josh, the evening Manager who stated Operation Doughboy was carried out without incident at 1300 hours on the 10th of April.

This is just one of many small events revealing the great outpouring of support for the Bundy Family from all over the nation.

Donations and supporters are flowing in - to feed and reinforce the front line at the Bundy Ranch.

In hopes of preventing another Waco Texas incident - where the Federal Government murdered 76 Americans - including women and Children - A delegation organized by Nevada State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore is traveling to the Bundy Ranch to stand with them.

The delegation includes a Coalition of Western State Legislators, Sheriffs, and Veterans who are maintaining watch over the Bundy Ranch - and Assemblywoman Fiore said yesterday, "we are here because the Governor is not."

Meanwhile The Oath Keepers organization and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, totaling over 40,000 current serving and former military, police, and first responders, have called on its members and all other patriotic Americans to join the vigil at the Bundy ranch.

If this keeps up Pizza Hut is going to need a lot more pizza.

[Warph]

Guardian and Washington Post Win Pulitzer Prize for Leaks on US Spy Program

Posted Monday, April 14, 2014, 7:21 PM

The UK Guardian and Washington Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories on the Edward Snowden leaked documents.
The BBC reported:
The Guardian and Washington Post have shared the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for a series of stories on US electronic spying.

Their reporting was based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Among other winners of the top prize in US journalism was the Boston Globe, for breaking news reporting.

Two staff writers of the Reuters news agency were awarded the prize for international reporting.

The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded by the Columbia University journalism school.

In giving the top prize to The Guardian US and the Washington Post, the Pulitzer committee said the Guardian helped "through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy".

It said the Post's stories were "marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security".

Mr Snowden, in a statement published by The Guardian, called the award "a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government.

"We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation," added Mr Snowden, who has been charged with espionage in the US and is currently a fugitive in Russia.

[Warph]

STUFF

There used to be a TV sit com in the 80s called "The Jeffersons."  The central characters were a married black couple, George and Louise.  George had worked hard and parlayed one dry cleaning store into a successful chain, enabling them to move into an expensive apartment in a luxurious high-rise.  Success quickly went to George's head, turning him into a blowhard and a bigot.  Critics referred to him as the black Archie Bunker.

When I look at Barack Hussein Obuma, aside from the hard work, I unfortunately see a lot of George Jefferson in him, when what the nation needs is a president more reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson.

Like George, there is nothing Obuma finds more enchanting than the sound of his own pomposities.  But whereas Mrs. Jefferson was a kind and sensible woman who did her best to keep her husband from floating off on his own hot air emissions, Obuma's wife Mooch is not only an enabler, but is a royal pain in her own right.

For instance, in the tradition of people named Obuma to trash America when they're in foreign lands, Mooch Obuma told the Chinese that it wasn't long ago that there were laws on the books that discriminated against people like her and her husband.  It was bad enough that she didn't play up the fact that it was also thanks to America that she, as a beneficiary of Affirmative Action, went to an Ivy League school, and, oh, by the way, her husband has twice been elected President.  But even worse is that she chose to whine in a country where couples are prohibited from having two children, regularly abort females, and where people are required to have internal passports before they can move from a rural area to a nearby city.

However Mooch feels about the past, it would only be good manners if just once she expressed a word of gratitude to the American people for picking up the tab so that she, the kids and her mother, could scratch so many items off their respective bucket lists.

One final thing Mooch neglected to mention was that all of those vile discriminatory laws were written, enacted and enforced, by Democrats like Orval Faubus, George Wallace, Albert Gore, Robert Byrd and "Bull" Connor.

Speaking of Democrats, I began referring to Harry Reid as "The Undertaker" because he looks and sounds like the stereotype we all grew up with, but the other day it occurred to me that the moniker is even more appropriate because his chosen role as the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate is to bury any piece of legislation passed by the House Republicans, while at the same time deriding them as do-nothing obstructionists.

Until she killed herself, I had never heard of fashion designer L'Wren Scott, 70 year old Mick Jagger's 49 year old lady friend.  I don't have a basis upon which to condemn her act.  Without knowing what led her to hang herself, I simply assumed she felt she had a good reason to commit what I have heard described as a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

But, being nosy, I decided to check her out.  It seems her real name was Laura Bambrough, and that she invented that cockamamie name with the apostrophe all on her own.  Perhaps the explanation is that having been 6'3", she had banged her head once too often on low-hanging branches.

However, what I found unpardonable was that a woman had reached middle age and was so unconcerned with other people or charitable causes that instead of leaving her $9 million estate to friends, relatives, medical research, wounded British soldiers or even an orphanage for cats and dogs, the dingbat left it to Mr. Jagger, who is already worth $328 million!

I'm getting to where I despise college athletics because they are so rife with corruption.  Now, the National Labor Relations Board, which never met a union it didn't adore, has decided that the football players at Northwestern are free to unionize.  So it is no longer enough that the ability to play a game garners these guys free college tuition, food, health care and an unlimited number of cheerleaders; now the NLRB thinks they should also get a paycheck.

Back in the day, there was a joke going around that college all stars like Kyle Rote (SMU), Hugh McElhenny (U of Washington) and Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice (U of North Carolina), all had to take pay cuts when they turned pro.  Thanks to the chowderheads over at the NLRB, it could soon be reality.

Bruce Braley, who's running for the Senate in Iowa, dissed Sen. Chuck Grassley as a farmer who, unlike himself, never attended law school.  Knocking farmers in Iowa strikes me as a very goofy campaign strategy.  But even goofier, it would seem to me, is actually bragging about being a lawyer.

Finally, the world's diplomatic buffoons are running victory laps after signing yet another of those absurd nuclear non-proliferation pacts, even though among those not signing were Russia, China, India and Pakistan.

Still, I'm sure we'll all be sleeping better tonight knowing that Lichtenstein, Luxembourg and Papua, will not be nuking anyone in the near future.

[Ross]

'If You Have a Boehner Lasting More Than 23 Years...': GOP Candidate Releases Hilarious Ad About 'Electile Dysfunction'

With the 2014 midterm elections less than seven months away and primary elections just around the corner, campaign ads are starting to appear on radio, television and the Internet. Lesser-known candidates challenging incumbents have been known to use ads that might be considered less-than-traditional.

Enter JD Winteregg, one of the three GOP primary challengers to House Speaker John Boehner. Boehner is vying for a 13th term in the House of Representatives. The primary election for the seat he has held since 1991 will be on May 6. Winteregg is a self-described political newcomer who currently teaches high school. He has been a leader in local Tea Party groups and received the endorsement of the Tea Party Leadership Fund, a political action committee.

On Monday, Winteregg's campaign released a clever ad that parodies the myriad erectile dysfunction commercials that populate the television airwaves. The ad, titled "When The Moment Is Right," points out Boehner's apparent close relationship with President Obama. The two are seen playing golf, laughing, smiling at each other and shaking hands.

Embedded inside the clever commercial, Winteregg manages to mention some of the issues he believes to be important to voters in Ohio's 8th District.

    Protecting the Second Amendment
    Securing American borders
    Defunding Obamacare and Planned Parenthood

The ad then goes on to skewer Boehner, saying things like, "Other signs of electile dysfunction include extreme skin discoloration, and the inability to punch one's self out of a wet paper bag."

See the entire ad offering a solution to "elective dysfunction":
"When The Moment Is Right,"

[Ross]

Raid and shoot: This ain't your grandpa's PD

By Rob Nikolewski  /   April 15, 2014

SHOCK AND AWE: The Hobbs, N.M., Police Department is looking for a few bad asses to join their ranks. Or are they really just showing off all their cool toys in their new recruiting commercial?

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog

SANTA FE, N.M. — It's a commercial that's been playing across New Mexico for weeks now: A 30-second spot encouraging people to apply to the Hobbs Police Department, offering high pay and good benefits.

But the images in the commercial — of  cops shooting guns, helmeted officers bursting into a home, an armored vehicle turning a corner and a canine straining on a leash — has some wondering what kind of image the booming oil patch town of 43,000 is actually showcasing.

"It's kind of disturbing, the way they play up these militaristic tactics," said Tim Lynch, director of the Project on Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. "It seemed more like they were looking for people who wanted to join the Army instead of a police department."

Here's the commercial:

Hobbs Chief of Police Chris McCall told New Mexico Watchdog the images in the commercial were not intended to send out an overly aggressive image of the department.

"I think that was the production company that came in and wanted to look and see what kind of equipment we had to offer," McCall said in a telephone interview. "It's a representation of an aspect of the Police Department that is there, what we do every day, the tools that we use and work with."

But Lynch, who has been a critic of what's been called an over-militarization of police forces across the country, says the commercial sends the wrong signals to potential recruits.

"The message seems to be, we're looking for aggressive, confrontational interactions with the public and that is not what the police should be looking for," Lynch said. "We should be looking for officers that are just fine with a peaceful day at work ... But this is all about a very aggressive and confrontational type of policing that most communities don't want or need."

The commercial includes a shot of the Hobbs PD's armored personnel vehicle, which is also featured on the department's website.

McCall said the vehicle is used "any time we have a call-out involving a high-risk incident where we're concerned about the safety of our officers or the safety of the citizens in our area." McCall said it also provides cover because it's armor-plated.

ON PATROL: A photo from the Hobbs PD website features the department's armored personnel carrier and its 14-member SWAT team.

Hobbs also has a 14-member SWAT team, which in addition to being featured in the commercial has a page on the department's website dedicated to it with a video attached to the page. The video opens with a man's voice, intoning, "The rules of engagement of SWAT are simple: Defeat the enemy ... any way you can," and is accompanied with heavy metal music and shots of Hobbs SWAT team members going through exercises with guns blazing.

The commercial is running as New Mexico law enforcement authorities try to cope with at least two incidents that have drawn negative attention to the state.

The first was a $1.6 million settlement in the case of a man in southwestern New Mexico who was forced to undergo anal cavity searches and a colonoscopy after he was suspected of possessing narcotics. No drugs were found.

"This case took my breath away," said Jonathan Turley, a nationally recognized legal scholar and professor at the George Washington University Law School.

The second and most recent story that made national news was the shooting death of a homeless man in the Albuquerque foothills. The incident was caught on tape and marked the 23rd fatality at the hands of the Albuquerque Police Department in the past three years, prompting protests, including one that turned into a near-riot. Last Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice declared that APD has engaged in a pattern of excessive force and called for an overhaul of the department.

"By coming on the heels of the findings about the city of Albuquerque, this is another indication that one of the problems seems to be this culture of the style of policing that's become all to common — of disregarding rules, confronting people and taking them down as the military does," Lynch said. "That's exactly the type of culture that leads to problems."

McCall said that wasn't what the ad tried to convey.

"Really, what we're doing (in the commercial) is demonstrating some of the equipment and things that we have available," he said. "We've never really put it into that context. It's meant to protect the public."

Spurred by a bursting energy sector, Hobbs has gone through a boom cycle. According to U.S. Census figures from 2012, Hobbs is the nation's eighth-fastest growing community of between 10,000-50,000 people.

Just three murders were reported in 2012, but overall statistics show the crime rate in Hobbs is higher than the national average in just about every major category, including violent crimes.

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[Ross]

Dick Morris: Democrats
Conspiring to Rig Electoral College,
Law
Passed in 9 States
So Far

Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014

A plan, now stealthily making its way through state legislatures with astonishing speed, would junk the Electoral College and award the presidency to the winner of the popular vote.

The plan involves an Interstate Compact where states would commit to select electors pledged to vote for the national popular vote winner regardless of how their own state voted. When enough states pass this law -- sufficient to cast the Electoral College's majority 270 votes --  it will take effect.

The Electoral College will become a vestigial anachronism.

So far, nine states and the District of Columbia -- casting 136 electoral votes -- have joined moving half way to the 270 needed to put the compact into effect. The ratifying states are: Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington, Massachusetts, DC, Vermont, California, and Rhode Island.

Both houses in New York have passed it and its on Governor Cuomo's desk.

And, it has already passed one house in: Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon. These states, plus New York represent 107 votes. Combined with the others they are up to 242 votes . They need 270.

Who is pushing this?

All of those ratifying voted for Obama as did eight of the 10 one-house states.

The Movement is funded, in part, by the Center for Voting and Democracy, a George Soros-funded election group.

Essentially, it is an end run around the regular constitutional amending process. Rather than get a two-thirds majority of each house of Congress and three-quarters of the states, this proposal would take effect when a simple majority approve it.

Why are Democrats pushing this plan?

Democrats usually see a smaller percentage of their people go to the polls than Republicans do.

Under the electoral vote system, they figure why beat the drums to get a high turnout in New York City when the state will go Democrat anyway? But, if its the popular vote that matters, the big city machines can do their thing -- with devastating impact.

And think of the chances for voter fraud! Right now, the biggest cities, the ones most firmly in Democratic control (e.g. Washington DC, New York, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.) are all solidly in blue states. Not only does this make it unnecessary to maximize turnouts there, but it also makes it unnecessary to promote double voting, fraudulent voting, and all the other tricks of the trade at which Democrats excel.

But if the popular vote determines who will be the next president, we can bet that the machines will be out in force lining up voters, real and phony, to pad their statistics.

Some Republicans, particularly in non-swing states, are inclined to back the proposal simply so that they get their fair share of attention. They are tired of delegating to Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Virginia, et al the power to choose the president. And they can't remember when a candidate for that office last favored their state with his presence.

But don't let our Attention Deficit Disorder lead us to give away the store. The popular vote is what the Democrats do best. Fighting them on it is, in Winston Churchill's words, "like going into the water to fight the shark."

Republicans need to kill this proposal and they better get busy doing it. Some small states are backing it because they are tired of all the attention being focused on swing states. But Republicans must stand firm and not yield to the temptation to back it.

How can we stop the Democrats from ravaging our political system? The key battles are coming up in Arkansas and North Carolina. In both states, one house has passed the Compact. We need to stand firm in these two red states and block the Compact from taking effect. Republicans in Minnesota and Wisconsin, both blue states, need to stop ratification in their states.

And, Republicans should focus on stopping the second house from ratification in those states where only one house has acted.

Our democracy depends on it.

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