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Investigators believe they have found the source of allergic-like symptoms that forced an evacuation of a Jefferson County school Monday and sent children to the hospital.
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Well, we all know the next looming crisis or diversion requiring immediate government intervention is the total collapse of the nation's power grid.
For what it's worth, Putin used snipers in Kiev to ratchet up the violence, and threatens to turn off the natural gas. Appears to be something of a pattern.
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OK, so its over for now. Or a tactical pause, so to speak. Now is the time to really look into these issues.
First is the Bundy family, sure they are breaking the law. This is a window into a 20 plus year fight so the words are harsh. His home and ranch are destroyed, on his private property. Was he being treated fairly? Was the policy on the lands placed in an effort to run the ranchers off the land? His point of the fed making the policy and the fed judging him is valid. A fair trial is questionable. Next step for Bundy would have been to appeal to the UN for peacekeepers...
Second, The BLM had a pretty heavy hand on this. They sent in armed teams. Not defensive teams, but offensive teams. They had snipers. Were these snipers BLM employees? Is it appropriate for the BLM, a regulatory and policy agency to maintain sniper teams? Is it legal/constitutional? These teams were there to shoot Americans! Farmers and ranchers, the salt of this earth. Do they have the authority to threaten and intimidate Americans with snipers? Reports are they were contracted, from where? Other agencies or were they mercenaries?
Free speech zones? Since when? This was not some spur of the moment thought put up by some dumbass officer on site. The signs were metal meaning they were planned. This indicates to me anyway that they knew it was going to get interesting and they wanted to control free speech. A bit over reaching to say the least. This also falls in line with the shutting down of cell towers to limit communications. And then they closed the airspace to limit news aircraft from showing what was going on. Remember that this is without local police or sheriff support. A bull blown military operation run by the BLM. I guess all the FEMA site conspiracy guys were on to something.
Third is the contracts for the land once this is over. The big lie was turtles. The truth came out yesterday over the solar farms deal between Harry Reids son and the Chinese power firm. 24 hours after that was published this thing was all over.
Last but not least in this rant is the state of the American citizen. Americans were a bit torn on this one. Mostly from disbelief that the government could be so wrong or conspire to drive someone out over the years for political gain. The willingness of people from their states to converge on this place, some armed, to protect what they saw as heavy handed over reaching by the feds is a pretty good indicator that Americans are about done with the way DC is running things. When they closed the parks last year DC was over run with protests, most remained peaceful. Now this, it was close.
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Do they have the authority to threaten and intimidate Americans with snipers? Reports are they were contracted, from where? Other agencies or were they mercenaries?
Politicians and bureaucrats don't get kickbacks from employees, they get kickbacks from contractors. So yes, they have contracted killers and they are most likely making a lot of money on the kick backs of your tax dollars being spent on killing American taxpay
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Feds Abruptly End Cattle Roundup in Nevada
LAS VEGAS April 12, 2014 (AP)
By MARTIN GRIFFITH Associated Press
Associated Press
Federal land managers abruptly ended a roundup of cattle on public land in southern Nevada from a rancher who has refused to recognize their authority, citing a "serious concern" for the safety of employees and the public.
Bureau of Land Management chief Neil Kornze made the announcement Saturday morning at the same time militia members and others gathered near the roundup site to protest the removal of hundreds of Cliven Bundy's cattle.
Some 400 cows were gathered during the roundup that began a week ago, short of the BLM's goal of 900 cows that it says were trespassing on public land.
Bundy didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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"Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public," BLM Director Neil Kornze said.
"We ask that all parties in the area remain peaceful and law-abiding as the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service work to end the operation in an orderly manner," he said.
Translation: Kornze got the call from the Champ to "put a fork in it, it's done."
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First is the Bundy family, sure they are breaking the law.
Depends upon who is making the law. SCOTUS has several occasions sided with Indian tribes for commitments made in the 19th Century that were subsequently altered by law. There are still actions pending on laws that invalidated the obligations under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo from the Mexican-American War. A lot of Anglo judges and lawyers were big on land grabs on that one. There is something called 'grandfathering' in law. So, what is really happening under what principles?
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Reid/BLM Collusion Damage Control AKA CYA:
BLM has agreed to release all confiscated cattle back to the rancher this afternoon in a meeting with armed Bundy Family members.
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I'm glad it's over. One... I thought he was reaching for a gun, or an accidental discharge and it would have gotten out of control fast. I'd love to see the BLM/Fed LE after action report on this one.
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Were the rounded up cattle taken to market, or destroyed?
Not that it matters to the ranchers, who just witnessed the equivilant of King George's soldiers torching the farms. They find out its all for some Earl to make a few dollars selling American Farmland...to the Chinese...for a solar project?
Growing a herd is like cultivating farmland (thats a very large garden); it takes a long time and requires 5-9 hours and the ability to learn. Generations of ranchers (and you can tell those who would mock their Faith that Darwin also smiles on this) means they are not just doing something right, they are doing many things right, and in an arid land. Its all they know, commanding a group of cowboys to care and raise calves into cattle, to protect them from predators and disease, they supposed to go work at big box ... or worse collect unemployment and a phone?
Have you heard this one? A nomadic people of nature were chased from their ancestral home by the US Government and forced to live in a distant land to collect compensation from the US Government. You think cowboys have forgotton the story of Crazy Horse? When he said have your affairs in order you get the feeling it ain't rhetoric.
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I am by no means a China scholar, but om my grand tour of China, our Chinese born American tour guide explained how "development" was organized there. A government "announcement" is made that a highway is to be built in a certain direction- often to no where. By the time of the announcement, special "land rights" have already been divied up for the choice parcels along the highway- Frontage, exit areas, potential business parks. There is an "excellerated" building plan put activated- all shovel ready. The "locals" who have been farming or at least squatting and scraping by in peace for 5-10 generations are told "You Go Now"... we don't care where, but you can't stay here.
It is how the Beijing international airport was opened within 24 months from "announcement" to grand opening.
It is also how the Shenzen Industrial Area was developed. Driving along it you think you have been transported to Campbell in the Silicon Valley- except with no parking spots:
http://www.cistc.com/englishversion/China_ST/China_STAdd4.asp?column=162&id=1028
Harry Reids masters must be saying "Why we pay this man again?"
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Appears the fellow on the left in #11 may be providing counter-sniper security from the elevated overpass. Also appears he's focused, ready, and possibly well trained.
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Yep Besoeker, looks exactly like special forces in Afghanistan before the main invasion. May well be one of those guys itching for justice against this marxist regime.
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This is an excellent thread, dealing with some fundamental issues concerning the survival this country.
Government has grown exponentially with no internal controls
The three branches of government have not lived up to nor obeyed the tenants of the Constitution, our country's bylaws
Half of the potential taxpayers do not pay taxes, so their own skin in the game is maintaining guaranteed dependence.
Government is protecting itself, at any means,
and the actions and policies will morph as the perceptions of the public change and go against government.
We are in the beginning skirmishes of a great battle between government and the people.
We have big government on one side, people who believe in the values delineated by the Founders in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution on the other side----
And a buttload of people in the middle who have not had to put their butts on the line---yet.
This conflict between the government and the people can not be avoided. The stage is set. There is no turning back. I hope we do not have bloodshed.
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A full blown military operation run by the BLM.
Back in the ol' fUSSR, I used to wonder why the Ministry of the Interior had it's own troops. I get it now.
The anti gun zealot Major Robert Bateman (USA), who just can't seem to make his Silver Leaf, complains about all the concealed guns he is now seeing in public. The blogger's response to Bateman's remarks refers to "law abiding gun owners" which is another term for serf, so I stopped reading. Bateman has been on about the 2nd attack on unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood. When I was there many moons ago, I heard people refer to Hood as the armpit of America. I guess that's really true now.
The latest about Aeres Armory in California is that the BATF has filed for civil forfeiture of the receivers that agents stole in a raid two weeks ago. Aeres Armory is saying they will contest it, but this is a rigged game in federal courts. It was the courts which permitted the BATF raid as a result of an ex parte proceeding.
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I hesitate to ever say anything in favor of gun control other than suggest more practice. However, maybe some thought should be given at this time by the good people of this country to disarming the feral govmint. They are out of control.
#4
What is not working, as Secretary Hagel formulated it, is Americas gun culture.
Its a bit troubling, one might even say Orwellian, for the Secretary of Defense to suggest that civilian behavior needs to be changed to insure the safety of the military.
#6
So I guess super bateman can see concealed weapons with his x-ray vision, as well as achieving the rank of master chef because we all want to know if he has good crabs or bad crabs.
No context of where he was traveling, would that not make a difference? If he was seeing (LOL) conceal carry in NYC that would be different say Mobile eh? And in a bar, I'm no expert but even here in better allow open carry Kansas a CC cannot (last I checked) go into a bar.
Or was he talking about the bartender having a CC? The safest I felt in Kansas City KS - there one night for an art exhibition in one of those ghost neighborhoods where there are all these large buildings but no people - was at a quick shop where they had an employee whose sole job was to stand guard with an open carry. He had that look like he had already practiced on me a couple times. First time that whole deal I knew there was somebody else looking where my back was turned. Good people at that art show, too good perhaps, I'm no billy B.A. but take me out and that place could have been robbed by one dude with a baseball bat; especially after a couple examples were made.
#7
That was in Wyondotte County Kansas, which was discussed earlier this week and I confused with the happenings around Wichita Kansas for which I apologize. Wyondotte's deal was banning open carry, and in such urban paradises there are outposts of commerce but the business cannot afford private security, cannot afford to get robbed, cannot afford to wait for the police, and cannot afford the couple extra seconds to brandish from a conceal rather than the hip.
The arguement I heard from my gun grabber friends (well they were until I disagreed tha Sebelius is an effective leader and needed a second term as Governor) was the only reason for such a low was to Gary Cooper a twelve pack of used beer bottles. An article over at This Ain't Hell (can't find link now, kids crawling up the pantlegs) nailed with a paraphrase "The very question of whether someone is armed or not is deterrent in and of itself; open carry automatically makes you a target."
*you want to make a head explode this worked for me: Pulp Fiction, great movie, opening scene with the restaurant robbery, awesome. That robbery was thwarted by two guys conceal carrying. Give the look like "challenge its ok because they were gangsters, try it."
#8
To finish, the question in Wichita. Current law basically states that any public and government run property which cannot be safely secured should allow conceal carry. Opponents chose the zoo as an example, stating that a zoo, unlike a park, has walls and proper entrances/exits.
#10
So much to say about the confrontation taking place in Nevada that I would probably not be helpful in my remarks, as predictable as they may be.
Let me try something simple.
Recently we watched a relatively obscure department of the Federal Government send an armed force against private citizens under dubious authority against private citizens in order to seize their property and enforce their will. In the process, the government enacted a 1st Ammendment Zone. How many of the Ammendments in the Bill of Rights may have been violated during this action? Which of the remaining Ammendments allow effective recourse to those violated Ammendments?
[TIME] A 14-year-old Nigerian girl confessed Friday to poisoning and killing the man she was coerced into marrying, police said.
Police in the northern Nigerian state of Kano said Wasilu Umar admitted putting rat poison in her husband's food, BBC reports. Three of her husband's friends who ate the same food were also killed, and 10 were hospitalized. She is likely to be put on trial in a juvenile court.
Police Superintendent Musa Magaji Majia said that the marriage between Umar and 35-year-old Umaru Sani had taken place the previous week. The poisoning happend during a celebratory gathering in his village 60 miles north of the city of Kano.
So they tried the sushi did they...
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[Beirut Daily Star: Region] Kuwait has imposed a news blackout over an investigation into reports of a recording that allegedly reveals a plot to overthrow the Gulf state's ruling system, state news agency KUNA said.
Kuwait's public prosecutor opened a case in December after receiving a legal complaint that demanded an investigation into tweets about the recording.
The topic has featured extensively in local media and prompted a rare statement this week from the ruler's office, which told people to stop discussing the case in order to preserve national unity.
A major OPEC oil producer and U.S. ally, Kuwait has a lively press and the most open political system in the Gulf region, thanks to its elected parliament. The 50-member assembly can question government ministers and block legislation, while the emir has the final say in state affairs.
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"Paris and London possess four missile boats apiece, compared to America's 14. The Western subs are more reliable than China's Jins." In addition to being less reliable, it appears that they are a whole lot noisier.
[AnNahar] Planned four-way talks on the crisis in Ukraine between the U.S., EU, Russia and Ukrainian government will take place in Geneva on April 17, a U.S. official confirmed Friday, as Washington unveiled sanctions against a number of Crimea breakaway leaders.
U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... will attend the meeting to "continue efforts to de-escalate the situation in Ukraine and find a diplomatic path forward," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
"The United States is committed to mobilizing the international community in support of Ukraine, and helping the Ukrainian people build the stable, democratic and prosperous country," she added in a statement.
The talks were first mooted at the beginning of the week, but US officials admitted it had been challenging to coordinate the schedules of four ministers.
Kerry is likely to join Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as well as the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
On the Ukrainian side, it is believed that Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya will attend, but there has been no confirmation of that.
Kerry spoke again by phone Friday with Lavrov and also with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Psaki said.
The United States said earlier this week that it had only low expectations for the meeting which will be the latest step in a flurry of diplomacy aimed at de-escalating the worst European security crisis in decades.
"I have to say that we don't have high expectations for these talks, but we do believe it is very important to keep that diplomatic door open and will see what they bring," Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland told politicians.
Later on Friday, the United States unveiled sanctions against six of Crimea's breakaway leaders, including the official who signed the deal with Moscow to split the peninsula from Ukraine.
The new Treasury sanctions also targeted the former vice speaker of Ukraine's parliament who helped pave the way towards a referendum in Crimea on separating from Ukraine, and a gas company whose assets were seized by the Crimean parliament and are now being managed by Moscow.
Earlier on Friday, Putin said the United States had no business interfering in Russia's talks with Europe over Kiev's debt.
"We certainly guarantee the fulfillment of our obligations before our European customers in full," Putin said in comments released by the Kremlin. "The issue is not about us, the issue is about securing transit through Ukraine."
Putin on Thursday sent a letter to the heads of 18 European countries that receive Russian gas, saying Moscow could turn off supplies because Kiev has so far failed to repay its $2.2 billion energy bill. He urged immediate talks, suggesting that Europe help pay Ukraine's debt
Putin on Thursday sent a letter to the heads of 18 European countries that receive Russian gas, saying Moscow could turn off supplies because Kiev has so far failed to repay its $2.2 billion energy bill.
He urged immediate talks, suggesting that Europe help pay Ukraine's debt.
Washington condemned Russia's efforts to use energy as "a tool of coercion against Ukraine."
But Putin on Friday suggested that Washington had no business meddling in European affairs.
"It's strange because reading other people's letters is not good. I did not write to them, I wrote to the consumers of gas in Europe," he said at a meeting of his Security Council.
"Everyone is used to the fact that our American friends are eavesdropping but peeping is really not nice (too)," he quipped.
Putin said the fact that Ukraine has not yet settled its gas debts was "absolutely intolerable."
The Russian strongman also suggested that Washington follow up its promises of support with real action.
"Pies on the Maidan will not be enough," Putin said. "This is not enough to deter the Ukrainian economy from slipping into complete chaos."
The assistant U.S. secretary of state, Victoria Nuland, was seen in December distributing cookies to pro-Western Ukrainian protesters in Kiev in a gesture of support.
Moscow has repeatedly slammed Washington for publicly supporting the protesters who in February ousted pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych from power.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs said Friday they were alert to risks to the global economy from the Ukraine crisis in a draft statement at talks in Washington.
"We are monitoring the economic situation in Ukraine, mindful of any risk to economic and financial stability," said the draft seen by Agence La Belle France Presse.
The draft confirmed the concerns that tensions over Ukraine are causing a stir in the leading 20 powers, which include the United States, Europe's major countries and Russia.
The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the U.S. and European Union have pledged some $27 billion to shore up the Ukrainian economy, but threatening posturing by Russia on the country's eastern border has raised the risks for that plan.
"We are monitoring the economic situation in Ukraine, mindful of any risks to economic and financial stability," the G20 said in the draft.
The group praised the IMF and World Bank for leading the economic rescue of the country.
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Putin continues his "mentoring program" of President Obama, showing Barak how a real Party Communist operates as opposed to a faculty lounge Communist
[Beirut Daily Star: Region] Turkey's constitutional court dealt another blow to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... Friday by annulling sections of a controversial law tightening his government's control over the judiciary.
So long as PM Erdogan has a pen and a phone, he's good to go. As our president would never say in public, it's about riding the train to the right station, then getting off.
The decision came a week after the court overturned a ban on Twitter and piled more bad news on Erdogan's graft-tainted government hours after Moody's downgraded its outlook on Turkey to "negative."
The court said the most controversial clause of the law, which gave the justice ministry greater control over the appointment of prosecutors and judges, was unconstitutional.
The ruling was the result of an appeal by a politician from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) who said it violated the principles of the separation of powers and the independence of courts.
CHP Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrikulu hailed the court's decision, saying: "With its recent decisions, the Constitutional Court has turned into a body championing freedoms, which unsettles the regime."
"This law includes so many unconstitutional elements that it would be strange if [the court] gave another decision," he told AFP.
But Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said he disagreed with ruling.
"The legislation was constitutional. The court's decision has not changed my opinion in that regard. But we will of course abide by the ruling," he said.
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