Posted on 04/10/2014 9:13:18 AM PDT by Nachum
Protestors at the Bundy Ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada take on the Feds and stand their ground.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
I wouldn’t argue with anything you just said.
Seems its complicated as well. I just read another piece that asserts that the chicoms want to build a huge wind turbine field costing billions and dingys kids could benefit as middlemen big time. Seems dingys hand picked men are already in mgmt. positions in the area.
Probably a lot more to this story. Too bad FNC is running 3-5 days behind on discovering news.
Funny you should mention that. A friend sent me some info on how they trains/brainwash obama devotees to go door to door soliciting voters to shill for zero.Its amazingly stupid for anyone with a brain. Never once do they mention platforms or anything hard,only hate pubbies all the time.
Yes I heard Utah won’t even let them in the state and the auctioneer in CO won’t touch those cattle with a 10 ft pole.
I am thinking the BLM will just start killing the cattle soon if they can’t ship them off to market.
It looks like you information is now on Drudge and InfoWars.
I am convinced that the partisan agenda on both sides of the political aisle is corrupt, all about money and power, from the lowest dunce of a campaign worker to the top level politician.
Outstanding. Well done
Not just follow the money as in profits...but also follow the money in terms of debt enslavement.
When your sugar daddy says he wants to stop by, you can’t say no.
These democrats have gotten us into such debt servitude to the ChiComs that they are now...as i predicted more than five years ago, forced to offer them our natural resources to pay down our debt.
I hope all of these treasonous bastards rot in hell for what they have done to this once great nation and to the American citizen.
I actually read about it on the Drudge Reort that contained a link to this article on FreeRepublic.
Indeed. And as Charlie Daniels has posited, they are also testing US military actions against the US citizenry. The BLM has no law-enforcement arm as far as I am aware, and yet they are heavily armed and acting like LEO.
This is the purpose behind the militarization (a civilian defense force just as powerful, just as well funded...) of the bureaucracies and why DHS needed five hollow-point bullets for each US citizen.
Did you come across any info on the BLM website that the land is earmarked for utility scale solar?
additional background: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/dec/23/zones-data-plentiful-almost/
see the photo gallery too.
And oh, download & save EVERYTHING.
start here http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3142972/posts?q=1&;page=81 and read to the end of thread
then go here http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3143026/posts?q=1&;page=301 and read to the end of thread
U.S. Senator Reid, son combine for China firm’s desert plant
Fri, Aug 31 05:06 AM EDT
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By Marcus Stern
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Harry Reid recognized nine years ago that connections between his official duties and the lobbying activities of his relatives could lead to ethical questions.
In 2003, the Nevada Democrat publicly banned relatives from lobbying him or his staff after newspaper reports showed that Nevada industries and institutions routinely turned to Reid’s sons or son-in-law for representation.
Now, questions surrounding family ties are flaring again in Nevada around the Senate majority leader. He and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert.
Reid has been one of the project’s most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.
Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the non-partisan advocacy group Public Citizen, said the senator is dealing with “an iffy ethical landscape” because of the family connections and should recuse himself from the project. “Is this just happening because ... it benefits the Reid family, or did Harry Reid actually believe in this?” Holman said.
The senator has supported numerous clean energy projects in Nevada. Rory Reid cites energy as one of his specialty areas at the law firm.
The two Reids deny discussing the ENN project.
“I have never discussed the project with my father or his staff,” said Rory Reid. Kristen Orthman, a spokeswoman for the senator, said he had not discussed the project with his son.
The Langfang, China-based ENN Energy Group hopes to build what would be the largest solar energy complex in America. The site chosen with Rory Reid’s guidance is in tiny Laughlin, Nevada, a gambling town of 7,300 along the Colorado River, 90 miles south of Las Vegas.
County officials have said that they were so thrilled to recruit a company to the area, with the prospect of thousands of new local jobs, that they were eager to negotiate.
ENN is headed by Chinese energy tycoon Wang Yusuo, who made a fortune estimated by Forbes at $2.2 billion distributing natural gas in China. Wang escorted Reid and a delegation of nine other U.S. senators on a tour of the company’s clean energy operations in Langfang, and Reid featured Wang as a speaker at his 4th annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas last year.
NEVADA’S LARGEST LAW FIRM
To advance the Nevada project, ENN retained the state’s largest and most prestigious law firm - Lionel Sawyer & Collins, where Rory Reid works. It is headed by Richard Bryan, a former Nevada attorney general, governor and member of the U.S. Senate.
Rory Reid faced a one-year cooling off period from lobbying the Clark County commission after leaving his post in January 2011, and Bryan took the lead on ENN’s negotiations with the county.
Since the one-year ban expired, Rory Reid has been ENN’s primary representative before the county, according to Steve Sisolak, the board’s vice chairman.
Rory Reid acknowledged representing ENN at both the county and state levels since January. He declined to discuss the project otherwise.
Two months after Harry Reid’s China trip, Lionel Sawyer registered ENN Mohave Energy LLC as an American subsidiary of the Chinese company. The firm negotiated with the county to buy the land rather than lease it, as the county’s staff had recommended.
In December, Clark County commissioners voted unanimously to sell up to 9,000 acres of public land to the subsidiary at pennies on the dollar.
The deal spurred local controversy. Separate appraisals valued the land at $29.6 million and $38.6 million. The commission agreed to sell it to ENN for $4.5 million.
The county did build in certain conditions before the project could begin, including milestones for jobs creation and investment. ENN also must assure the county that it has a power company willing to commit to buying energy from the solar farm. But in the eight months since the commissioners approved the deal, no utility has signed a power purchase agreement.
However, Harry Reid stepped up again.
The Democrat recently used an online discussion related to his annual energy summit for an as-yet unsuccessful effort to pressure Nevada’s largest power company, NV Energy, to sign up as ENN’s first customer.
In the July 30 discussion, Reid said the project “would start tomorrow if NV Energy would purchase the power.” The utility controls “95 percent of all of the electricity that is produced in Nevada and they should go along with this.” Reid’s online comments were first reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal.
The power company responded by saying it had exceeded its minimum renewable energy requirements both last year and this year, though it would consider buying power from ENN in the future. A spokesman for NV Energy declined to discuss the matter further.
Bryan, the head of the law firm, did not return repeated phone calls and emails.
An official with ENN in Langfang did not respond to emails.
In 2007, after a controversy over the number of lawmaker relatives engaged in lobbying, Congress passed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, sharply restricting the lobbying activities of close relatives of members of Congress.
The law only applies to registered lobbyists and Rory Reid is not registered as a federal lobbyist in Washington or a state lobbyist in Nevada, according to records in both jurisdictions.
(Reporting By Marcus Stern; Editing by Marilyn W. Thompson, Martin Howell)
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBRE87U06D20120831?i=1&irpc=932
“What do the so-called ‘animal rights activists’ have to say about that?”
They only get outraged about things the TV tells then to get outraged about.
If der schuhe, fits, let him wear it!
That has EPA thuggery all over it!
You can bet Harry Reid is “bringing the money home” for his pet projects (wind farms).....wonder what % gets siphoned off the top!
Paladin...I don’t have the time to dig on HArry Reid’s “investments, on and off the books there...which may very well relate to Bundy’s ordeal....but I ran across this interesting bit of work from several years ago....might help you and those who are researching on Bundy’s case....
As Follows:
In 2004, the senator made $700,000 off a land deal that was, to say the least, unorthodox. It started in 1998 when he bought a parcel of land with attorney Jay Brown, a close friend whose name has surfaced multiple times in organized-crime investigations and whom one retired FBI agent described as “always a person of interest.”.........
...... Three years after the purchase, Reid transferred his portion of the property to Patrick Lane LLC, a holding company Brown controlled. But Reid kept putting the property on his financial disclosures, and when the company sold it in 2004, he profited from the deal — a deal on land that he didn’t technically own and that had nearly tripled in value in six years.
When his 2010 challenger Sharron Angle asked him in a debate how he had become so wealthy, he said,.... “I did a very good job investing.”.... Did he ever......On December 20, 2005, he invested $50,000 to $100,000 in the Dow Jones U.S. “Energy Sector Fund” (IYE), which closed that day at $29.15. The companies whose shares it held included ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, and ConocoPhillips....... When he made a partial sale of his shares on August 19, 2008, during congressional recess, IYE closed at $41.82. Just a month later, on September 17, Reid was working to bring to the floor a bill that the Joint Committee on Taxation said would cost oil companies — including those in the fund — billions of dollars in taxes and regulatory fees. The bill passed a few days later, and by October 10, IYE’s shares had fallen by 42 percent, to $24.41, for a host of reasons. Savvy investing indeed.
He had managed to get $18 million set aside to build a bridge across the Colorado River between Laughlin, Nev., and Bullhead City, Ariz., a project that wasn’t a priority for either state’s transportation agency....... His ‘ownership of 160 acres of land’ nearby that stood to appreciate considerably from the project had nothing to do with the decision, according to one of his aides.....
....The property’s value has varied since then. On his financial-disclosure forms from 2006, it was valued at $250,000 to $500,000. Open Secrets now lists it as his most valuable asset, worth $1 million to $5 million as of 2010.
How Reid acquired that land is interesting,..... He put $10,000 into a pension fund his friend Clair Haycock controlled, to take over the 160-acre parcel at a price far below its assessed value........ Six months later, Reid ‘introduced legislation’ that would help Haycock’s industry, ....a move many observers said appeared to be a quid pro quo, though Reid and Haycock denied that the legislation was the result of a property deal.
(Nat’l Review)
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