By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Early Sunday Release) Real estate expert Fabian Calvo thinks the recent standoff between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy is about much more than grazing rights. Even though this standoff is over, we find out It’s really about sweetheart deals for federal land. Calvo
says, “The hair on the back of my neck stood up when I was doing
research for this and speaking to some of my contacts on Wall Street.
The BLM is part of the Department of the Interior, and look at what they
have been doing? Through the BLM, the Department of the Interior
has been confiscating land and going after land, for example, in the
high desert in California and all over the place. What I am hearing is
they are categorizing this land for future collateralization or to sell
off. In the Weimar (Germany) hyperinflation, after the
hyperinflation, what did they back their currency with? They backed it
with mortgages and they backed it with land. This is a total
possibility here in America, but here’s the part that is more sinister
and crazy. The Department of the Interior and BLM have been providing sweetheart deals for Chinese investors. I
have a laundry list of deals that have been approved just in the last
year. Whether it’s Smithfield, a giant hog producer in America, and all
of the farm land, overnight, the Chinese became the number one employer
in a ton of cities across the U.S., but it doesn’t stop there. Chinese
investors are getting approval for solar fields. There are battery
companies they have taken over, and the list goes on and on. The USDA
gave the Chinese approval to import their chickens. Why is this
happening? It is an end of the road situation. It is just like where
America was with England when we were exercising leverage over them
around WWII because we were the largest creditor nation. Now, we are
the largest debtor nation, and we owe all this money to the Chinese.
In order to not have them dump our debt, we’re basically allowing them,
through the Department of the Interior who is stealing rancher land and
killing their cattle, they are selling out America.”
Fabian Calvo from TheNoteHouse.us
says, "Real investors are scared to death of the imploding U.S. dollar. .
. . Not everybody is a gold investor, and real estate is a tangible
hard asset that can be rented out. I think home prices could go up
until we have another full blown collapse. I think the collapse of the
housing market will be coupled with the stock market collapse, the bond
market collapse and the dollar collapse. Everything will blow at once."
As
far as the recent crisis between the federal government and the Bundy
ranch in Nevada, Calvo says, "I think this Bundy ranch situation could
be the Lexington and Concord of the Second American Revolution. Through
the BLM, the Department of the Interior has been confiscating land and
going after land . . . The Department of Interior and BLM has been
providing sweetheart deals for Chinese investors."
Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Fabian Calvo from TheNoteHouse.us.
Interesting how Americans standing their ground and fighting
back against an out of control government and their jackboot
thuggery are violating the law.
Yet the Politicians with their L.E. thugs who lie, steal , cheat and abuse the American People everyday are law abiding ?
Perhaps
it is time to teach these self aggrandized public servants what
Americans are capable of and just who they truly work for!!
You are right about one thing Mr. Reid, this is definitely not Over........
The
federal government’s over-the-top police action against the Bundy
family ranch is an ominous portent of more to come, as rogue agencies
and their corporate/NGO partners attempt to “cleanse” the West of
ranchers, farmers, miners, loggers, and other determined property
owners.
On Saturday, April 12, the federal bureaucrats backed
down. Faced with hundreds of men and women on horseback and on foot who
were armed with firearms and video cameras — as well as local television
broadcast stations and independent media streaming live video and radio
feeds across America — the Obama administration called off the Bureau
of Land Management’s (BLM) operation to confiscate hundreds of cattle
belonging to Cliven Bundy, the current patriarch of a respected pioneer
family that has been ranching in Nevada’s Clark County since the 1800s.
Supporters from all across the United States had converged on the Bunkerville, Nevada, area in support of Bundy, who is the “last rancher standing” in Clark County,
due to a decades-long campaign by federal agencies and allied
enviro-activists to drive all ranchers off of the range. After a tense
standoff, orders came down from above for the surrounded and outnumbered
federal agents to “stand down” and turn loose the Bundy cattle that had
been corralled.
On Saturday, before the resolution of the standoff, The New American
talked to Richard Mack, the former sheriff of Graham County, Arizona,
and founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers
Association (CSPOA), as he headed from a meeting of public officials to a
press conference at the Bundy Ranch. He was very grave and worried at
the time that the situation could spin out of control, and that federal
agents might open fire on citizens. He also expressed his exasperation
at Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Clark County Sheriff Douglass
Gillespie. “If Governor Sandoval and Sheriff Gillespie were doing the
jobs they were elected to do, they would have stopped this from getting
to a dangerous point,” Sheriff Mack said. “There are lots of things they
could have done to defuse this situation, including telling the Feds to
‘stand down,’ and to assert their own jurisdiction and force the
federal authorities to obey the law, including the Constitution and the
laws of the state of Nevada,” he noted. “I have a very bad feeling about
this,” he continued, adding that he hoped the tensions would be
deescalated and a peaceful outcome negotiated.
Fortunately, most
likely due to the national attention that the Bundy situation was
receiving, federal officials backed off, the demonstrators and
supporters remained peaceful, and a violent confrontation was averted.
However, that does not end the affair. Members of the Bundy family and
supporters, such as Sheriff Mack, expressed concerns that the evacuation
of the federal police force might be a feint, and that there may be
plans for them to return the following day, or as soon as the supporters
and television crews had departed.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose personal financial stake in the Bundy eviction has been called into question, let it be known that he wants to see the matter pursued.
“Well,
it’s not over,” Reid told NBC’s Nevada affiliate KRNV on Monday, April
14. “We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just
walk away from it. So it’s not over.”
Senator Reid, Nevada’s senior senator, is very incensed when the American people,
i.e., ordinary citizens, “violate the law” — as he puts it — but he
says nothing about the more serious violations of the laws and the
Constitution by public officials, such as himself or the BLM officials.
This is the same federal BLM that Chief Judge Robert C. Jones of the Federal District Court of Nevada last year ruled had
been engaged in a decades-long criminal “conspiracy” against the Wayne
Hage family, fellow ranchers and friends of the Bundys. Among other
things, Judge Jones accused the federal bureaucrats of racketeering
under the federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corruption
Organizations) statute, and accused them as well of extortion, mail
fraud, and fraud, in an effort “to kill the business of Mr. Hage.” In
fact, the government’s actions were so malicious, said the judge, as to
“shock the conscience of the Court.” Judge Jones granted an injunction
against the agencies and referred area BLM and Forest Service managers
to the Justice Department for prosecution.
Has Attorney General
Eric Holder prosecuted any federal officials for criminal activity and
violation of the Hage family’s constitutionally protected rights? No.
Has Sen. Harry Reid denounced this lawlessness and criminal activity by
government officials and call upon President Obama and Attorney General
Holder to protect the citizens of his state from the depredations of
federal officials under their command? No. Huge Federal Footprint: And a Boot on Every Neck
With
attitudes such as those expressed above by Sen. Harry Reid, it is
almost a certainty that the recently defused Bundy Ranch standoff will
be replayed again — and in the not-too-distant future. And the outcome
could be much less amicable for all concerned.
And this is but one
of many incidents that can be expected, because the Bundy family are
not the only victims in the federal crosshairs. The BLM, U.S. Forest
Service (USFS), National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service (USFWS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and other federal
agencies own and/or control hundreds of millions of acres of the 12
western states. The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not
as large a landlord as some of these bigger agencies, but it exercises
enormous regulatory clout over both private and public lands, air, and
water. And while the EPA’s draconian, arbitrary, and costly regulations
affect the entire country, they fall especially hard on the states in
the West, where the federal impact is already massive due to the
outsized footprint of the federal agencies. As
the accompanying map graphically demonstrates, there is a striking
difference between the federal government’s claim to physical real
estate in the states of East and the Midwest versus those of the West.
In Maine, for instance, federal agencies occupy only 1.1 percent of the
state’s land area; in New York it’s a mere 0.8 percent. The federal
government claims only 1.8 percent of Indiana, 1.6 percent of Alabama,
and 1.7 percent of Ohio. But in the Western states, the federal
footprint covers from nearly one-third to over four-fifths of the area
of the states.
Former
Texas Rep. Ron Paul was on “Your World” this afternoon to discuss the
battle between a Nevada rancher and the federal government.
The
federal government says Cliven Bundy owes $1 million in grazing fees,
and authorities seized many of his cattle. Bundy then declared a “range
war” on the government, prompting a standoff between Bundy’s supporters
and the government. The government has since pulled back.
Paul
said the government could come back with more force because it doesn’t
give up power easily, citing the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians'
compound in Waco, Texas. He said this issue poses the question of who
should own the land.
Paul said Bundy has virtual ownership of the land because his family has been using it for so long.
“I
think land should be in the states, and I think the states should sell
it to the people,” he said. “You need the government out of it.”
Hear more of Paul’s thoughts in the video above. Read more on the Nevada ranch standoff: Feds Pull Back in Nevada Ranch Standoff Nevada Rancher Renews Fight Against Big Gov: 'We're Standing Up for the Constitution'
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Sheriff Mack travels with other CSPOA members to stand with Nevada rancher against the BLM
Many
of you have called or emailed regarding the storm brewing between
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and the BLM. We all know how we feel about
the all-too-frequent bullying of individual citizens by various Feds
with their usurped, unconstitutional powers. It’s an epidemic that must
be stopped.Well, we want you to know we ARE doing something about it,
and thankfully this time we’re not alone. Sheriff Mack is leaving early
Saturday morning for an emergency trip to Bunkerville, Nevada, along
with other members of the CSPOA posse (hopefully that’s some of you!) to
stand vigil and find a peaceful resolution to this conflict (i.e., the
feds going home). AND this late-breaking news as per Lyle Rapacki today:
State Senate President Andy Biggs and House of Reps Speaker Dave Livingston have both agreed that Arizona should be involved in supporting CSPOA and Oath Keepers
in going to Bunkerville, NV to support the movement for freedom there
with the Cliven Bundy family. State Senators Al Melvin, Chester
Crandall, and Kelly Ward along with State Reps Brenda Barton, Bob
Thorpe, Kelly Townsend and Warren Peterson are all planning to be at the
Bundy ranch by Sunday morning. Furthermore, they all plan to attend the
Press Conference Monday afternoon with the CSPOA and Oath Keepers along
with the Bundys and other sheriffs and public officials from across the
country.
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We hope you understand how HUGE this is, that state senators and reps are supporting the CSPOA and the Oath Keepers! We are not alone!
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A
Delegation of state legislators, lead by Washington State
Representative Matt Shea, along with a delegation of current serving
Sheriffs, lead by Sheriff Richard Mack of the Constitutional Sheriffs
and Peace Officers Association, and military and police members of Oath
Keepers, are converging on the site of a stand-off between federal law
enforcement and Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy, to prevent bloodshed and to
stand in defense of hardworking rural Americans who are under assault
by a runaway federal government.
LAS VEGAS, NV, April 10, 2014
The
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA.org), led
by retired Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, and the Oath Keepers
organization (oathkeepers.org)
are assisting Washington State Representative Matt Shea in organizing a
delegation of current serving Western state legislators and Sheriffs to
travel to the site of a tense stand-off between Bunkerville, Nevada
rancher Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The
delegation is traveling to Nevada to support a coalition of current
serving Nevada legislators being organized by Nevada State Assemblywoman
Michele Fiore, of Las Vegas, to stand vigil at the Bundy ranch to
prevent Federal Government provocation of violence resulting in another
Ruby Ridge or Waco type incident. They also hope that their example of
oath-sworn public servants defending the rights of the people will
prompt Clark County, Nevada Sheriff Douglas Gillespie and Nevada
Governor Brian Sandoval to honor their oaths of office by taking real
action to defend the rights of the Bundy family, the rights of all
Nevadans, and the sovereignty of the State of Nevada.
Yesterday,
April 9, 2014, Nevada State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore served the
first watch in this vigil shortly after Cliven Bundy’s son, Ammon Bundy,
was tazered by BLM “Rangers” during a heated confrontation. [The video
of that confrontation can be seen with the full article on the Oath
Keepers web site, www.oathkeepers.org]:
The
courage and resolve displayed by Ammon Bundy and his relatives is
inspiring, and may well go down in history as a watershed moment – a
turning of the tide. But the above video also amply demonstrates the
heavy-handed behavior of the BLM that risks escalating an already
volatile situation into open bloodshed, that, once begun, may spiral out
of anyone’s control.
It
is necessary that current serving public servants step in-between the
protesters and the BLM, to protect the rights of the people and to
prevent violence against them by the militarized federal law enforcement
that are massing near the ranch to continue the forced confiscation
(theft) of Bundy’s cattle, while they also restrict all access to huge
tracts of public land, and attempt to restrict the free speech of
protesters with their absurd “First Amendment Area” (which the
protesters are ignoring, to their honor).
The
Oath Keepers organization, comprised of 40,000 current serving and
former military, police, and first responders, is also calling on its
members and all other patriotic Americans to join the vigil at the Bundy
ranch under the leadership of the current serving legislators and
sheriffs. The goal is to have at least one current serving state
legislator and at least one sheriff on the ground at all times until
this is over. And they will be backed by a large number of military and
police veterans, as well as dedicated patriotic Americans from all
walks of life, to interpose and defend the rights of the protesters and
to keep an eye on the actions of the BLM and any other federal law
enforcement present, to prevent a recurrence of the horrid abuses seen
at Ruby Ridge and Waco, and to hopefully pressure the Clark County
Sheriff and the Nevada Governor to step up and do their constitutional
duty.
Regardless,
please tell everyone you know to be praying for a peaceful resolution
to this situation and for the safety of the brave patriots headed there
and on the ground there right now.
When
most Americans think about organic meat or eggs, they picture animals
on small farms, allowed to root in the soil, feel sun on their backs,
and engage in their natural behaviors. What they don't picture is tens
of thousands of hens crammed into massive sheds with no access to soil
and extremely limited outdoor access.
Unfortunately, the USDA stamped its seal of approval on the latter scenario by refusing to implement its
own advisory board's animal welfare recommendations, which would have
created a level playing field for the hundreds of small organic farms
that were the basis for the standards. These recommendations would not
have required "good" conditions, but they would have set a reasonable
floor by requiring improvements from the five massive "organic" egg
farms that provide the worst hen welfare.
The USDA's decision
doesn't just violate our moral intuitions and the expectations of
organic consumers; it also violates the Department's legal mandate in at
least two distinct ways.
First, USDA is statutorily required "to establish national [organic guidelines that] meet a consistent standard." In 2005 and again in 2010, USDA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that
animal welfare standards were applied inconsistently, in violation of
the Act's legal requirement that USDA ensure "that [organic] products
meet consistent, uniform standards."
By requiring improvements
from the five mega-farms such that their hen welfare standards would
align with that of the hundreds of smaller farms, adopting the advisory
board's recommendations would create this statutorily-mandated
consistency. Ignoring those recommendations places USDA in violation of
its legal mandate.
NSA is after industrial spying – Snowden to German TV
Published time: January 26, 2014 09:44 Edited time: January 27, 2014 08:15
The
NSA agency is not preoccupied solely with national security, but also
spies on foreign industrial entities in US business interests, former
American intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, has revealed in an
interview to German TV.
Edward Snowden chose the German ARD
broadcaster to make his first TV interview ever since he became a
whistleblower. The interview was made in strict secrecy in an
unspecified location in Russia, where Snowden is currently living under
temporary asylum. “There is no question that the US is engaged in economic spying,” said Snowden.
If an industrial giant like Siemens has something that the NSA believes “would
be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security, of
the United States, they will go after that information and they'll take
it,” the whistleblower said, giving an example.
Edward
Snowden disavowed participation in any future publications of the
documents he withdrew from the NSA databanks, saying in the same
interview that he no longer possesses any NSA data. The information has
been distributed among a number of trustworthy journalists, who are
going to decide for themselves what to make public and in what sequence.
The full 30-minute version was aired at 11pm local time (22:00 UTC) on Sunday.
The
former NSA contractor’s revelations about US global spying activities,
including snooping on its closest allies, put transatlantic ties “to the test,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel last November and demanded that Washington give Germany clarity over the future of the NSA in the country.
Snowden’s
revelation hit Berlin particularly hard because Germany is a
non-Anglophone country, and therefore is not a member of the ‘Five eyes’
intelligence alliance that incorporates NSA-equivalent agencies in
Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Deutsche Welle points out.
While members of the ‘Five eyes’ were exchanging intelligence on a
regular basis, Berlin had to consider itself satisfied with less data,
while both Washington and London,
for example, were blatantly listening to German Chancellor Angela
Merkel’s cell phone right in the middle of Germany’s capital.
The Germans - according to polls – have lost confidence in the US as a trustworthy partner, and the majority of them consider NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a hero.
NSA's big nose in big business: Snowden says agency spies on industry
Published on Jan 27, 2014
The NSA agency is not preoccupied solely with national security, but also spies on foreign industrial entities in US business interests, former American intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, has revealed in an interview to German TV.
We noted in 2012 that there are serious questions as to whether the Fed and other central banks really have the gold holdings which they claim.
This story is starting to go mainstream.
The Financial Times writes today (h/t Zero Hedge):
A year ago the Bundesbank announced that it intended to repatriate 700 tons of Germany’s gold from Paris and New York.
Although a couple of jumbo jets could have managed the transatlantic
removal, it made security sense to ship the load in smaller consignments. Just how small, and over how long, has only just become apparent.
Last month Jens Weidmann, Bundesbank president, admitted that just 37
tons had arrived in Frankfurt. The original timescale, to complete the
transfer by 2020, was leisurely enough, but at this rate it would take
20 years for a simple operation. Well, perhaps not so simple. While he
awaits delivery, Herr Weidmann is welcome to come and look through the
bars in the Federal Reserve’s vaults, but the question is: whose bars
are they?
In the “armchair farmer” fraud you are told: “Look, this is your pig, in the sty.” It works until everyone wants physical delivery of their pig, which is why Buba’s move last year caused such a stir.
After all nobody knows whether there are really 260m ounces of gold in
Fort Knox, because the US government won’t let auditors inside.
What have we done: after a series of reports
in late 2012 in which we showed, with no ambiguity, that not only might
the Bundesbank's offshore held gold be severely "diluted" (follow our
2012 exposes on German gold here, here, here, and here), but that on at least one occassion, the Fed and the Bank of England conspired against
the Buba in returning subpar quality gold, the Bundesbank shocked
everyone in early January 2013 when it announced it would repatriate 300
tons of gold helt in New York and all of its 374 tons of gold held in
Paris. But convincing the Bundebsbank to demand delivery was peanuts
compared to changing the tune of the Financial Times - that bastion of
fiat "money", and where the word gold is mocked and ridiculed, and those
who see the daily improprieties in the gold market as nothing but
"conspiracy theorists" - to say the magic words: "Learn from Buba and
demand delivery for true price of gold", adding that "one day the ties that bind this pixelated gold may break, with potentially catastrophic results."
In other words, precisely what we have been saying since the beginning.
Welcome to the 'conspiracy theorist' club, boys. From the FT's Neil Collins: "Learn
from Buba and demand delivery for true price of gold: One day the ties
that bind the actual and the traded commodity will snap: A year ago the Bundesbank announced that it intended to repatriate 700 tons of Germany’s gold from Paris and New York.
Although a couple of jumbo jets could have managed the transatlantic
removal, it made security sense to ship the load in smaller
consignments. Just how small, and over how long, has only just become apparent.
Published time: November 12, 2013 17:16 Edited time: November 12, 2013 18:14
A
former Federal Reserve employee responsible for managing the agency’s
quantitative easing program has written an op-ed apologizing for what he
called “the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time.”
Writing
in the Wall Street Journal, Andrew Huszar detailed his concerns about
the Fed’s massive bond-buying measures. He argued that while the Reserve
initially claimed the program would lower borrowing rates for average
citizens, the trillion-dollar initiative primarily ended up lining the
pockets of Wall Street executives. “Despite the Fed's rhetoric, my program wasn't helping to make credit any more accessible for the average American,” Huszar wrote. “The
banks were only issuing fewer and fewer loans. More insidiously,
whatever credit they were extending wasn't getting much cheaper. QE may
have been driving down the wholesale cost for banks to make loans, but
Wall Street was pocketing most of the extra cash.”
What’s
more, Huszar claimed that several Federal Reserve managers expressed
apprehension over the effects of quantitative easing (QE) only to find
their concerns ignored. “Our warnings fell on deaf ears,” he wrote. “In
the past, Fed leaders—even if they ultimately erred—would have worried
obsessively about the costs versus the benefits of any major initiative.
Now the only obsession seemed to be with the newest survey of
financial-market expectations or the latest in-person feedback from Wall
Street's leading bankers and hedge-fund managers.”
Forget the Government Shutdown -- It's About Shutting YOU Down!
Americans are being treated to political theater at its finest. It's
not a theater of entertainment, however, but a coliseum of enslavement
where in the world of deception, perception becomes reality. This
theater requires audience participation, where we, the theater-goers,
become part of the play. We are a truly captive audience, entranced into
mindlessly choosing sides at the frenzied urging of the corporate media
and partisan cheerleaders firmly seated behind the microphones and
television cameras of the nationally syndicated media.
The government is red, the middle class is dead & they want us all dead
Americans
are being treated to political theater at its finest. It’s not a
theater of entertainment, however, but a coliseum of enslavement where
in the world of deception, perception becomes reality. This theater
requires audience participation, where we, the theater-goers, become
part of the play. We are a truly captive audience, entranced into
mindlessly choosing sides at the frenzied urging of the corporate media
and partisan cheerleaders firmly seated behind the microphones and
television cameras of the nationally syndicated media.
As the play
progresses, we, the American people, become part of each act, believing
that we actually have a voice in this pre-scripted performance. We are
bombarded with lie after lie, each worse than the previous in an attempt
to convince us that we can making a difference by choosing and cheering
seemingly opposing sides on the stage before us. The biggest lie of
them all is that there are not two sides, but just one. It’s “them
versus us” in a fight to the death playing out before us in this 21st
century Shakespearean tragedy. It’s not just death, but the premeditated
murder of the middle class and anyone without a reservation at the
globalists’ table. And the space at that table is limited.
The
actors of this play are ostensibly at odds over funding the Affordable
Care Act while a peek behind the curtain tells a different story
altogether. Like any play, the ending of this has already been
determined. The ending, however, is not the same as written in the
commemorative program you were given upon your arrival at this theater.
The
house lights have been dimmed not just for the performance, but to
induce us into a hypnotic trance further enabled by the media
mouthpieces of malice. As you gradually become accustomed to the theater
lighting, you’ll see that it’s not just a play, but you’re being played.
You’re being manipulated into believing that the government shutdown is
the actual plot of the play, while it is merely the method to continue
the lie of a fictitious political paradigm.
Ask your local police, sheriffs, lawyers, judges the following questions:
1)
If I place my money with a lawyer as a stake-holder and he uses the
money without my consent, has the lawyer committed a crime?
2) If
I store a bushel of wheat or cotton in a warehouse and the owner of the
warehouse sold my wheat/cotton without my consent or authority, has the
warehouse owner committed a crime?
3) If I place monies with my
broker (stock or commodity) and the broker uses my monies for other
purposes and or contrary to my instructions, has the broker committed a
crime?
As
the accompanying map graphically demonstrates, there is a striking
difference between the federal government’s claim to physical real
estate in the states of East and the Midwest versus those of the West.
In Maine, for instance, federal agencies occupy only 1.1 percent of the
state’s land area; in New York it’s a mere 0.8 percent. The federal
government claims only 1.8 percent of Indiana, 1.6 percent of Alabama,
and 1.7 percent of Ohio. But in the Western states, the federal
footprint covers from nearly one-third to over four-fifths of the area
of the states.
