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A horse owned by Steve and Carolyn Coburn of Topaz Lake has won 140th Kentucky Derby. California Chrome, based at Los Alamitos racetrack in Los Angeles, was the early 5-2 favorite for the race.

Coburn, who co-owns the horse with Perry Martin bred an $8,000 mare to a $2,500 stallion to win the world’s most famous race with their one-horse stable. He won four straight races by a combined 24 ¼ lengths under Victor Espinoza, who won the Derby in 2002 with War Emblem.

California Chrome pulled away down the stretch for a dominant win the Derby at Churchill Downs. Taking charge at the top of the lane, California Chrome and Espinoza made a decisive move and quickly sprinted clear.

They finished the 1 1/4 miles in 2:03.66, stretching his winning streak to five and making 77-year-old Art Sherman the oldest winning Derby trainer.

Nevada Congressman Steven Horsford says out-of-state militia groups have established an armed presence that is scaring people in his district caught in the middle of a feud between a rancher and the federal government. He made the claims in a letter to Clark County Sheriff Douglas Gillespie asking his office to investigate.

Horsford say armed militia groups have set up checkpoints where residents are required to prove they live in the area southwest of Mesquite before they are allowed to pass.

“I am greatly concerned about the safety and well-being of my constituents after meeting with local community members this past week,” writes Horsford. “I urge Sheriff Gillespie to investigate these reports, as this sort of intimidation cannot be tolerated.”

“We must respect individual constitutional liberties, but residents of and visitors to Clark County should not be expected to live under the persistent watch of an armed militia,” he adds. “Residents have expressed their desire to see these groups leave their community. I urge you to investigate these reports and to work with local leaders to ensure that their concerns are addressed in a manner that allows the community (to) move forward without incident.”

A spokeswoman for Clark County Sheriff Douglas Gillespie said while police are looking into Horsford’s request, there hasn’t been a criminal allegation to investigate.

“We would need a victim to come forward and file a complaint,” said Officer Laura Meltzer, department spokeswoman.

Bundy’s wife, Carol said Gillespie and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval has “ignored” the family’s calls for protection.

“Nobody has really backed down on either side,” she said. “We don’t plan on getting violent. We’re not out to overstep the bounds of our local government. But it’s our constitutional right to protect ourselves.”

Last week as Horsford toured the area, commented on Bundy’s supposed ‘racial’ comments made and recorded during a church service.

“Those words were hateful and belong in the dustbin,” Horsford said. “They were spoken by a man who doesn’t understand the Black way of life.”

Horsford is himself Black.

Bundy, in an interview in the New York Times said “Negros are enslaved by government subsidy, who abort their children and put their young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton.”

Horsford said Bundys’ comments were shocking.

“This district is a microcosm of our diverse country, and he is not a man who represents the American West’s way of life,” Horsford said. “It is beyond unfortunate that from this diverse community a loud voice of intolerance has been given a megaphone.”

Meanwhile, authorities in the nearby town of Mesquite also released a statement addressing safety concerns.

“During the Bundy and Bureau of Land Management dispute, there were indeed a few criminal incidents that did take place in Mesquite,” Chief of Police Troy Tanner wrote, “however they were few in number and never was anyone or their safety at immediate risk.”

Tanner added, “None of the events that occurred between the BLM and the Bundys occurred in Mesquite, Nevada, but rather along a stretch of Highway 170 where the Bundy Ranch resides and is counted as a part of the Bunkerville area.”

Finally, in Washington, D.C., Capitol Police are investigating threatening statements made against Nevada’s senior Senator, Harry Reid. Police declined to give further comment on the threats.

However Reid told reporters: “Each day that goes by, it’s hard for me to comprehend how ugly, vile, vulgar, and threatening people are sending letters to my home, and making other threats. So I don’t know who is mad at me. But it’s a long list, I guess.”

As for the battle between states and the federal government, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is accusing the BLM of overreaching as the agency updates its management plans for a 90,000-acre segment of land along the Texas-Oklahoma border.

“We are seeing unprecedented overreaching action by the federal government,” Abbott, who’s running for Texas governor. “Now we see, through the Bureau of Land Management, a hijacking of private property rights across the entire United States of America.”

Last Tuesday, I posted on Facebook, “I asked Assemblywoman Michele Fiore AD 4 if she has changed her position on Cliven Bundy’s supposed ‘racial’ comments. Earlier she posted “I strongly disagree with Cliven Bundy’s comments about slavery,” before the full video of his statement was released, thus distancing herself from him. My question has been yanked from her FB page by her or someone affiliated with her. Hmm…”

A couple of hours later, when I checked her campaign page again, I was surprised to see my comment had reappeared. So I wrote a follow-up post on Facebook: “Well — dammit — I have to eat crow because while it was there, then wasn’t, my comment and question has reappeared on Assemblywoman Michele Fiore AD 4’s FB page. It makes me wonder if the digital gods of social media are playing games or something.”

It was embarrassing at first – but not now after I read the response she posted on my page: “You know whats (sic) really pathetic, as I work hard to fight an overreaching Federal Government I get critics like you who said I deleted their comments but yet are still there. Maybe this is why my peers and other electes (sic) don’t publicly stand up because as they fight for the people we get braniacs (sic) like yourself. If you don’t like my stand please do something yourself. First unfriend me. Good night.”

Ouch!

I never said she wasn’t fighting the ‘good fight’ against an overreaching federal government as I happen to agree with her position. But unfortunately, my original question remains unanswered – has Assemblywoman Michele Fiore changed her position on what Mr. Bundy said, now that the full weight of the video has been released?

A ‘yes or no’ would have sufficed.

Another battle over land use in Nevada appears to be on the horizon. This time it doesn’t involve the desert tortoise – but rather a chicken-sized game bird the federal government wants to place on the endangered species list.

The long-term survival of greater sage-grouse that lives in sagebrush throughout much of Northern and central Nevada could soon become the next big fight between ranchers and the federal government. The decision whether to name the grouse as an endangered species could harm economic activity across 11 Western states, including 17 million acres of Nevada.

The Nevada Agriculture Department reported in 2011 that cattle and calves were Nevada’s leading agricultural industry, totaling $732 million, or 62.5 percent of all farm receipts. The agency said there were 470,000 cattle and 29,000 dairy cows in Nevada in 2012.

The Nevada Department of Wildlife estimated grouse numbers in the state at 85,778 in 2012, while the 2013 number is 10 percent to 15 percent lower due primarily to drought conditions. Despite the declining populations, hunting is allowed in Nevada in areas with enough populations with the limited to late September and early October.

As part of the season, hunters provide the state Wildlife Department with a wing from each harvested bird, which has given the agency a database to help it in monitoring the birds. In 2010 — 7,355 birds were harvested out of an estimated fall population totaling 141,996.

The birds, about two feet tall and weigh as much as 7 pounds, occupy about 56 percent of their historical range in Nevada, which includes much of Northern Nevada and central Nevada. There are also populations along the Nevada-California border.

Nevada Senator Dean Heller said it would make the battle over Cliven Bundy’s cattle and his use of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management grazing lands pale by comparison.

“Wait till they list the sage-grouse,” he said. “I’ll tell you, every cattleman here knows that their life span, their occupation, is short. Wait till the sage-grouse comes.”

That showdown came to a temporary end after hundreds of Patriots and Minute Men arrived at the ranch in Bunkerville to support the Bundy family. Heller also said ranchers have seen the lands they can graze on reduced by half over the past 30 years.

Nevada’s Congressman Mark Amodei recently introduced a bill to make federal agencies fund their conservation efforts.

“The number one threat to sage hen habitat in Nevada is wild land fire,” Amodei said. “Yet the federal land management agencies, who own the vast majority of the habitat, have not prioritized funding needed to undertake the necessary work to conserve the resource and prevent the ESA listing.”

“Instead, they point fingers in an attempt to saddle state and private landowners with the responsibility for funding projects that are absolutely the responsibility of the federal government,” he added. “This is nothing short of extortion and sadly adds another chapter to the war on the West story.”

A decision on how to proceed must come by September 2015 as a result of a court-ordered settlement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and environmental groups.

Meanwhile, Senator Harry Reid claimed climate change has decimated the range with wildfires, which is why there is less grazing land available in Nevada. However, National Interagency Fire Center statistics show only 163,000 acres in Nevada were blackened in 2013, while two years before, 226,853 acres burned.

It was July 4^th, 2013, when the ‘Bison Fire’ erupted in the Pine Mountains, south of Gardnerville. Now experts are saying the fire helped the grouse, by clearing the tree and opening the land to sage brush.

Furthermore, for years, the BLM knew about the need to thin the stands and applying a prescribed fire, but politics, policies and limited funding prevented that from happening.

“It needed to be done, but it was never able to be done,” Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist Carl Lackey told the Las Vegas Review Journal on July 21st. “Only recently has it started to happen, and only on a small scale.”

Lastly, newly appointed BLM director Neil Kornze is from Elko, Nevada. His father is the geologist who discovered major gold deposits near the which is now an open-pit mine operated by mining giant Barrick.

Kornze is a former senior adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He joined the BLM in 2011 and has been leading the agency as principal deputy director since March 2013.

He replaced acting director Mike Pool, who stepped in after Bob Abbey retired in May. But unlike other BLM directors, Kornze doesn’t have decades of natural resource experience, like Abbey who worked in various land management agencies for close to 30 years, as had his predecessor, Jim Caswell.

The BLM oversees more than 245 million acres of public lands nationwide, including 48 million acres in Nevada.

Last week radio and television show host Glenn Beck blasted Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after a video aired showing the cattleman making ‘bigoted’ and ‘racial’ statements about ‘the Negro.’ It was later learned the video was six-days old and released in time to deflect attention from a complaint filed against Senator Harry Reid by the Louisiana Republican Party.

“If he really thinks that slaves had a family life, just that (sic) shows you how unhinged from reality this guy is,” Beck claimed. “You’ve got to distance yourself, you must know who you are standing next to at all times.”

He was going by what he’d read in the New York Times and the accompanying video provided by the newspaper on their website. That video was so heavily edited, that the mention of ‘Mexicans’ and ‘Spanish people,’ was left out.

However, not once has Beck backed away from his criticism of Bundy, and though his comments aimed to warn Patriots and Minute Men about Bundy’s ‘wonderings,’ they had very little effect on supporters. And because of Beck’s vocal assassination of Bundy’s character, Conservative and Libertarian pundits around the country felt exceptionally free to pile on board with their criticism.

Then Tuesday morning, during his radio show, Beck told his audience, “This President is a slave…”

Now, this story could end here, and you could be lead down the same path Beck and other’s tried to get you to take with Bundy’s comments, but the truth always wills out in the end. There is more to this than what is pointed out in the above quote.

Beck and his sidekicks, Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere were discussing the speech Senator Ted Cruz made calling for Secretary of State John Kerry’s resignation after Kerry likened Israel to ‘Apartheid’ and of all the time to do so, on the eve of ‘Holocaust Remembrance.’ The conversation between the trio moved into a discussion about Ronald Reagan and the story behind how the iconic sentence, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” came to be spoken in June 1987.

It was during this part of the conversation, Beck stated our current president “is a slave…”

“(Reagan) was not a guy who was slave to the teleprompter,” Beck stated. “This President is a slave to the teleprompter. That’s all he knows. If it’s not on the teleprompter, he goes off. If he was off the teleprompter, we’d know at least who Barack Obama really is.”

There is no difference between what Bundy said last week and what Beck said this week, other than how its context is being presented. And this is where the disagreement with Beck and his comments about the stand-off between Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management can be found.

Beck and others fell directly in line with the Progressive primer “Rules for Radicals,” by Saul Alinsky. In the book, under ‘Tactics,’ Alinsky outlines a series of directives for disrupting an opponent.

In the case against Bundy, both the fourth and fifth rules were applied.

“The fourth rule is: ‘Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.’ You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity,” writes Alinsky. “The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: ‘Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.’ It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”

To put it in more practical circumstances, Monday evening, both ABC and NBC’s nightly news broadcasts trumpeted how Congressman Michael Grimm is under indictment for embezzlement and ‘kissing Congressman’ Vance McAllister isn’t going to seek reelection. But neither news agency mentioned the ethic’s complaint filed against Reid.

So we can either be divided because of such lopsided reporting by the national media, or we can do our own homework and seek out the truth behind stories presented to us.

Yurok Tribal Elders signed a memorandum of understanding last month with state and federal agencies and a condor conservation group, allowing for test releases to if the Redwood Coast can support the birds.

Seven sites are under consideration on Redwood National and State Parks and private land within about 50 miles of each other, primarily south of the Klamath River. The first releases could come in the next one to three years.

Over the last five years, the Yurok Tribe Wildlife Program has performed studies to decide whether the endangered bird could be reintroduced back to the North Coast. Officials say Yurok land in Del Norte and Humboldt counties offers an “excellent” area for release because of lower contaminant levels in the region’s marine mammals, among other reasons.

To provide the greatest genetic diversity possible, birds would come from breeding programs in Oregon, Idaho and California, with the first releases coming in the next one to three years.

The large bird is sacred to the Yurok Tribe, whose history includes is stories of “Prey-go-neesh,” a condor that carries prayers to the sun. Regalia for the Jump Dance and White Deerskin Dance also rely on condor feathers, which are taken as “gifts” from living birds.

The condor once flew the entire length of the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Canada. Today there are 407 condors, including 128 in California.

“Think Globally, Act Locally” isn’t just a slogan. It is a one-line manifesto for environmental purists, pushing Agenda 21 and it’s one of the greatest threats to U.S. freedom.

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development created Agenda 21 as a mixture of socialism extreme environmentalism and anti-capitalism. The Southern Poverty Law Center recently complained Agenda 21 is losing public support because of several grassroots movements to end the program.

The report entitled, “Agenda 21: The U.N., Sustainability and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory” points to a number of states planning to block some or all of Agenda 21.

“At least three states — Arizona, Missouri and Oklahoma — have considered laws, each of which passed one chamber of their legislatures, to halt the purportedly noxious effects of Agenda 21; Alabama went all the way, passing a 2012 law that was signed by Governor Robert Bentley. Major political battles have broken out over it in Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Montana, Ohio and Texas.”

“Even the Republican National Committee, in January 2012,” the report adds, “denounced Agenda 21 as a destructive and insidious scheme to impose a socialist/communist redistribution of wealth.”

The United Nations program is voluntary and reportedly focused only on sustainable development, meaning in theory, it would abolish poverty and protect “fragile environments” by “properly” managing cities. And because the U.S. is only a signatory country, Congressional approval isn’t required, leaving the plan non-binding.

To overcome this, the U.N. created the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) to push their plan on the U.S. Now more than 1,100 large and moderate-sized U.S. cities support Agenda 21.

Because a majority of the unsuspecting American public is still-undereducated about Agenda 21, the ICLEI’s language, which on the surface sound innocuous, must be recognized.

Some of those words and phrases include: action, affordable housing, balanced, benefit of all, best management practices, collaborative, collective, common good, consensus, down-zoning, endangered species, environment, economy, equity, facilitator, friends of…, government-sponsored, historic preservation, hub city, in-fill, inter-disciplinary, international baccalaureate, invasive specie, multi-family, off-conveyances, old growth, open space, outcome based, protect, preserve, public/private partnership, quality of life, regional, renewable, restoration, sanctuary, school-to-work, single-family, smart, social, stakeholder, social justice, sustainable, traffic calming, up-zoning, vision, and watershed.

Along with Agenda 21s language, local officials, often at the urging of state government, revise laws to fit a “smart code” zoning template. These include things like: rezoning agricultural farmland and protecting residential conservation land by creating office parks; rezoning agricultural lands to prevent future subdivision by farmers; rezoning residential land to permit construction of affordable, multi-family housing units; and government funding to ensure healthier, balanced neighborhoods.

The over-all effect of these plans will create highly urbanized population centers throughout otherwise-rural counties, limiting the availability of land for suburban and estate subdivisions, which are considered a waste of land. Furthermore, federal and state agencies can deny grant funds to states and cities that do not adopt smart growth plans.

By do this, Agenda 21, in essence, forces zoning changes for lowering property values without compensation to the property owner. It also lets both federal and local governments to curtail the use of gas-powered engines, by restricting off-road vehicles and creation of bicycling and walking lanes.

For instance, the Lake Tahoe Regional Plan Update, “Mobility 2035, approved in December 2012, calls for a reduction in motorized transportation, creation of walkable communities, and alternatives to driving around the historic, tourist attraction.It also has a target date of 2035 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions using a $1.6 billion grant from California’s Strategic Growth Council

The SGC’s blueprint includes creating more biking and walking opportunities to help reduce of obesity and asthma, lower road infrastructure costs and greenhouse gas emissions as well as improve neighborhood safety.

“Implementing shared parking strategies can reduce the cost of infrastructure and maintenance for both local government and private developers while potentially increasing the profitability of a development project by allowing for more square footage of housing, retail, or commercial space,” reads the 2010 Governor’s Office of Planning & Research report. “Both of these examples have numerous economic, social, and environmental benefits.”

Also included in Agenda 21 is the outcome-based education system known as Common Core, which seeks to teach sustainable development, zero-population philosophies and the dangers of humans impacting the environment. It is designed to teach your child what kind of action should be taken globally, nationally and locally by the U.N., governments, and other approved groups.

To halt this planning, you must educate yourself, learning not only the language of Agenda 21, but also by understanding how it directly assaults the U.S. Constitution and your civil liberties, then speak out at your local planning meetings.

It took six-days for the national press to release the video showing Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy ‘testifying’ about whether ‘the Negro’ or ‘Mexican people’ are any happier because of government subsidies. There is a reason the complicit media held that tape as long as it did.

They are protecting the Democratic Party – which should have received another black-eye, but didn’t. Instead the progressive media tried to discredit Libertarians and Conservatives by painting them as ‘racists’ and ‘bigots’ for supporting what amount to a fight over federal overreach.

The video hit the airways the same day the Republican Party of Louisiana filed a formal complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics against Senator Harry Reid. The subject of the complaint was “Senator Harry Reid’s Use of Tax Payer Resources for Campaign Purposes” and deals with the use of Senate staff and facilities for support of political candidates and for campaign programs aimed against the Koch brothers with false and misleading attack ads in the last election cycle.

Chairman Roger Villere, of the LAGOP, sent a letter to the heads of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics — Senator Barbara Boxer, and Johnny Isakson — calling on the lawmakers to investigate whether Reid has engaged in “campaign activities using staff, equipment and facilities paid for with public funds.”

“Specifically, Senator Reid has violated Senate rules that prohibit Members of the Senate from using websites located on the Senate.gov host-domain for partisan political campaign purposes as well as the prohibitions regarding using official resources for political purposes,” Villere wrote. “Therefore, we respectful request that the Committee investigate Senator Reid’s misuse of taxpayer resources and sanction him appropriately.”

Reid is accused of using his official Senate website and Twitter account to attack the Koch’s, who are helping to finance TV ads against Senate Democratic candidates, including Mary Landrieu, and Louisiana GOP Executive Director Jason Dore says people have had enough of Reid.

“Americans are fed up with the type of hyper-partisan campaigning, and it is appalling that Harry Reid would use taxpayer resources to breach Senate ethics rules and pursue this kind of activity in his official capacity as Senate Majority Leader,” Dore said. “The Senate Ethics Committee needs to make clear this type of behavior has no place in the United States Senate and no one is above the rules, even the Senate Majority leader. It’s time Harry Reid is held accountable for his actions.”

Reid has criticized the Koch brothers on the Senate floor several times over the last few months, calling them “un-American” for spending millions of dollars on ads attacking vulnerable Senate Democrats for their support of the Affordable Care Act.

Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson said the GOP’s latest tactics show that Republicans have a “blind obedience to the shadowy, billionaire Koch brothers.”

“Republicans rushing to defend the billionaire Koch brothers is just further evidence that when the Koch brothers say, ‘Jump,’ Republicans ask, ‘How high?’” Jentleson said.

These new charges fall on top of allegations about the senior Nevada Senator funneling $31,000 in campaign money to Ryan Elisabeth for holiday gifts. It was ultimately revealed Ryan Elisabeth is actually Ryan Elisabeth Reid, the Senator’s granddaughter.

Reid decided after the allegations surfaced to reimburse the campaign.

“I thought it would be nice to give supporters and staff thank-you gifts that had a personal connection and a Searchlight (Nevada) connection, but I have decided to reimburse the campaign for the amount of the expenditures.”

Reid has also been in the news recently after stating that the ongoing struggle between Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management wasn’t ‘over,’ then calling Patriots and Minute Men who came to ranch to support the embattled cow herder “domestic terrorists.”

The recent uproar over armed Bureau of Land Management agents descending on small ranch operation in Southern Nevada is shedding light on the fact that 40 agencies, including some not typically associated with law enforcement, have armed divisions. Agencies like the Library of Congress and Federal Reserve Board now employ armed officers.

Flashback to 2008, when then-presidential-candidate Barack Obama announced his plan to build a massive “civilian national security force,” claiming it would be just as well-funded as our military forces. Today, there are over 120,000 armed federal agents who work for those 40 same agencies.

Following the Bundy Ranch stand-off in Nevada, Texans are becoming concerned about the Bureau of Land Management’s focus on 90,000 acres along a 116 mile stretch of the Texas/Oklahoma boundary. The BLM is reviewing the possible federal takeover of privately held lands which have been deeded property for generations of Texas landowners.

Sid Miller, former Texas State Representative and Republican candidate for Texas Agriculture Commissioner, is making the matter a campaign issue.

“In Texas, the BLM is attempting a repeat of an action taken over 30 years ago along the Red River when Tommy Henderson lost a federal lawsuit,” Miller says, “The Bureau of Land Management took 140 acres of his property and didn’t pay him one cent.”

Miller is talking about the 1986 case where the BLM attempted to seize some of Henderson’s land. Henderson sued the BLM and lost 140 acres that had been in his family for generations and is now looking at using the case to claim an additional 90,000 acres.

When the BLM made the claim on Henderson’s land, their position was that Texas never had the authority to deed the land to private parties and it would fall under federal control. Since 1803 when the Louisiana Purchase was completed, there has been a controversy over the boundary between Oklahoma and Texas.

The boundary is supposed to be the vegetation line on the south side of the Red River. But the river has moved over time. And the BLM is trying to exploit this natural fact to seize the land.

In 1922, the U.S. Supreme Court attempted to settle the boundary dispute in Oklahoma v. Texas and declared the boundary to be defined by wooden stakes set on the river bank. That boundary apparently lasted no longer than anyone could expect wooden stakes to last in the shifting sands of a meandering river.

In 2000, Texas and Oklahoma’s legislatures agreed to a “Red River Boundary Compact” which defined the border between the states as the southern vegetation line. However, Congress must ratify agreements of this kind between the states according to Article 1, Section 10 (Clause 3) of the U.S. Constitution.

The Texas Farm Bureau produced a video explaining the problems left open by the current border definition from Texas’ perspective. The TFB claims Oklahoma believes when the river shifts south, the state line moves south.

But when the river moves north, the line remains in place. Meanwhile, as the two states squabble over the definition, the BLM is positioning itself to move in and confiscated all the land in question.

This federal overreach is not isolated to the lower 48 states.

Take the tiny mining town of Chicken, Alaska, home to 17 residents, which was raided by armed officers from the Environmental Protection Agency and Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force in late August 2013. The two agencies claim they were looking for possible violations of the Clean Water Act.

The task force’s methods are being questioned by Alaska Senators Lisa Murkowski

“Their explanation — that there are concerns within the area of rampant drug trafficking and human trafficking going on — sounds wholly concocted to me,” said Murkowski.

“This seems to have been a heavy-handed and heavy-armor approach,” she added. “Why was it so confrontational? The EPA really didn’t have any good answers for this.”

The EPA continues to refuse explain why it used armed officers as part of what it called a “multi-jurisdictional” investigation of possible Clean Water Act violations.  The task force was made up of members of the EPA, FBI, Coast Guard, Department of Defense, the Alaska Department of Public Safety and Department of Environmental Conservation.

Meanwhile the EPA is in the process of seizing control over all private land in the U.S., following the United Nations blueprint, Agenda 21. Last Tuesday, the agency unveiled proposed changes to the Clean Water Act that will extend their regulatory control to temporary wetlands and waterways.

The new definition consists of any water, including seasonal ponds, streams, runoff and collection areas and irrigation water. It will also include runoff from watering your lawn, or puddles on your own property.

They are expanding the same kind of California fish-based drought or Nevada tortoise land restrictions or Oregon spotted owl ‘protection’ to every square inch of this nation. The EPA’s proposal extends their authority to include “pollution regulations” to “intermittent and ephemeral streams and wetlands” — which are created temporarily during wet seasons or following rainfall.

Their position is in direct violation of the Supreme Court rulings in 2001 and 2006, restricting the EPA to flowing and sizeable, “relatively” permanent bodies of water such as “oceans, rivers, streams and lakes.”  The proposed rule change is now in a 90 day comment period during which they will assess just how much they can get away with, based upon public outcry and pushback.

If this goes through, they will control your right to the water and your actions about water upon your own land, leaving them open unlimited abuse.

When I first read about this, I was sorely disappointed — Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy making offensive comments about Black people to the New York Times. But Progressives, Libertarians and Conservatives have been far to quick to jump on the statement, either blasting him publicly or back-off their support for the embattled cattleman.

Lawmakers who have in the past voiced their support for the rancher, including Senators Dean Heller and Rand Paul, have quickly distanced themselves from the comments.

“Senator Heller completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way,” Heller’s spokesman wrote in an email.

Paul’s spokesman said in a statement, “His remarks on race are offensive and I wholeheartedly disagree with him.”

Even die-hard supporter, Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore got ahead of herself, posting on her Facebook campaign page:

“I strongly disagree with Cliven Bundy’s comments about slavery,” she wrote. “Mr. Bundy has said things I don’t agree with; however, we cannot let this divert our attention from the true issue of the atrocities BLM committed by harming our public land and the animals living on it.”

But there is one thing to consider before jumping ship – the article printed in the NYT and used as ‘race-bait’ by pundits and politicos, is out of context. Bundy said much more and not all of it is about Black people.

Bundy spoke at what appears to me to be an outdoor church gathering last Saturday, after all he had on what my Grandpa called ‘Sunday-go-to meeting,’ clothes.  Finally, after watching the three-minute, 13 second grainy video several times, I did what the rest of the media should have done and transcribed it in its entirety:

“… and so what I’ve testified to you — I was in the Watts riot, I seen the beginning fire and I seen that last fire. What I seen is civil disturbance. People are not happy, people are thinking they don’t have their freedoms, they didn’t have these things, and they didn’t have them.

Let me tell, talk to you about the Mexicans, and these are just things I know about the Negroes. I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro. When I go, went, go to Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and I would see these little government houses, and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there’s always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch. They didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

And because they were basically on government subsidy — so now what do they do? They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never, they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered are they were better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things? Or are they better off under government subsidy?

You know they didn’t get more freedom, they got less freedom — they got less family life, and their happiness — you could see it in their faces — they wasn’t happy sitting on that concrete sidewalk. Down there they was probably growing their turnips — so that’s all government, that’s not freedom.

Now, let me talk about the Spanish people. You know, I understand that they come over here against our Constitution and cross our borders. But they’re here and they’re people — and I’ve worked side by side a lot of them.

Don’t tell me they don’t work, and don’t tell me they don’t pay taxes. And don’t tell me they don’t have better family structures than most of us white people. When you see those Mexican families, they’re together, they picnic together, they’re spending their time together, and I’ll tell you in my way of thinking they’re awful nice people. And we need to have those people join us and be with us not, not come to our party.”

Then yesterday, Bundy spoke to radio talk show host Peter Schiff, setting the record straight about what the NYT’s had published.

“That’s exactly what I said,” Bundy stated. “I said I’m wondering if they’re better off under government subsidy, and their young women are having the abortions and their young men are in jail, and their older women and their children are standing, sitting out on the cement porch without nothing to do, you know, I’m wondering: Are they happier now under this government subsidy system than they were when they were slaves, and they was able to have their family structure together, and the chickens and garden, and the people had something to do?”

“And so, in my mind I’m wondering, are they better off being slaves, in that sense, or better off being slaves to the United States government, in the sense of the subsidies,” he added. “I’m wondering. That’s what. And the statement was right. I am wondering.”

It’s sad to think that so many intelligent people tend to believe the first thing they hear or read and never  look any further than what has been spoon-fed to them by a lazy press and political system that operates on half-truths. Only with ALL the facts can you really begin to know the truth.