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  • Fly the United States Flags at Half-Staff on Tuesday, December 19, 2023

    12/18/2023 9:46:07 AM PST · by V_TWIN · 21 replies
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    A Proclamation on the Death of Sandra Day O’Connor Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was an American icon, the first woman on our Nation’s highest court. She spent her career committed to the stable center, pragmatic and in search of common ground. Defined by her no-nonsense Arizona ranch roots, Justice O’Connor overcame discrimination early on, at a time when law firms too often told women to seek work as secretaries, not attorneys. She gave her life to public service, even holding elected office, and never forgot those ties to the people whom the law is meant to serve. She sought to...
  • Seizing Private Land Is Next Step In Fight Against Climate Change

    12/16/2023 5:31:02 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 22 replies
    AMAC ^ | 15 Dec, 2023 | Kevin Stocklin
    The dream of net-zero carbon emissions—and its vision of blanketing hundreds of millions of acres of American land with wind turbines and solar panels—is running up against the reality that most of the land in America is still privately owned and many Americans don’t want these massive industrial installations near their homes. But that may prove to be a temporary impediment. “There is a major effort under the Biden administration to consolidate power over land and resources, because whoever owns the land and resources of a nation, controls the people,” Margaret Byfield, executive director of American Stewards of Liberty, a...
  • Alabama woman, 84, forced to sell home of over 60 years as land could be worth $20M

    11/16/2023 5:08:22 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 28 replies
    New York Post ^ | Nov 16, 2023 | Social Links forNicholas McEntyre
    An Alabama woman is being kicked out of her longtime home as investors are looking to buy the 40-acre plot from her family, which could be worth upwards of $20 million. Corine Woodson, 84, has been living in the same house on the outskirts of Auburn for over 60 years and is forced to leave the residence because the house sits on land with shared ownership throughout her family. “I would like to ask them why. You know, why, but I don’t. I can’t figure it out. Thinking about it, wondering about it. It’s not easy. I can tell you...
  • South Dakota Farmers Face Carbon-capture Land Theft

    06/02/2023 8:28:59 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 39 replies
    The New American ^ | June 1, 2023 | Rebecca Terrell
    Farmers in South Dakota are facing egregious intimidation tactics by a private company that wants to use eminent domain to confiscate valuable farmland for carbon-capture pipelines.Summit Carbon Solutions requested a restraining order against Brown County farmer Jerad Bossly. The company claims he threatened the lives of its representatives who showed up unannounced to survey his property, a farm that has been in his family for four generations. He told The New American that when they arrived, he was about 12 miles away, working in a field. His wife was home, recovering from gallbladder surgery, and was taking a shower when...
  • When Green Energy Comes For Your Farm

    06/02/2023 9:23:14 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 19 replies
    Para Bellum ^ | 6/1/2023 | GREG PRICE
    A few weeks ago, 42-year-old Jared Bossly ventured out into his farm to plant alfalfa. Bossly’s farm in Brown County, South Dakota has been owned by his family for four generations. They grow corn, beans, and alfalfa in addition to raising cattle. They also plant trees all over the property as a windbreak to protect the herd. Bossley has put his entire life into his work, and has passed those values along to his children. He and his 17-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son work on the farm daily to do the right things for the land. Every spare penny the...
  • JPMorgan CEO Suggests Gov’t Should Seize Private Property For Clean Energy Projects

    04/05/2023 2:59:33 PM PDT · by thegagline · 62 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 04/05/2023 | Brianna Lyman
    JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said in his annual shareholder letter Tuesday that the government may need to seize private property to advance clean energy initiatives. Dimon discussed the need to quickly begin investing in solar projects and other green initiatives and suggested that the government should use eminent domain to seize property for those projects. “At the same time, permitting reforms are desperately needed to allow investment to be done in any kind of timely way. We may even need to evoke [sic] eminent domain – we simply are not getting the adequate investments fast enough for grid, solar,...
  • Activists Upset as Black Family Sells ‘Reparations’ Land Back to Government

    02/20/2023 6:28:59 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 58 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/20/2023 | Joel B Pollack
    Activists are upset that the Bruce family, which received oceanfront property last year that was unjustly taken from its forebears by the government, has now sold it back to Los Angeles County for $20 million. As Breitbart News reported in 2021, the story of the Bruce family was a compelling case for restitution: The owners, Willa and Charles Bruce, purchased the land in 1912 and created a beach resort catering to black clients before the city used eminent domain to seize the property. The land was dormant for decades until the city built a park in 1960 and later renamed...
  • ‘Vanishing Habitats’ for Wildlife Greatly Exaggerated in Push for ‘Biodiversity,’ Biden’s ’30 by 30′ Land Grab

    02/15/2023 9:41:43 AM PST · by sleepy_hollow · 19 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | 02/15/2023 | Rob Gordon
    Decades-long mantras about “vanishing habitat” and ever-growing threats to wildlife have long been used to justify locking up more land through federal ownership or other restrictive measures. The perfect example is the Biden administration’s proposal to conserve 30% of the nation by 2030—aka “30 by 30.” Exactly what the administration envisions is ambiguous, as it hasn’t defined words like “conserve” and “protect,” although insiders at the Department of the Interior say the 30% language is being incorporated into many Interior Department documents.
  • Freer man: Gov't to force $67K land sale after he nixed $750K deal

    05/23/2022 5:39:30 PM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 9 replies
    LMT online ^ | 22 May | Christian Alejandro Ocampo
    Jacob Cantu says he nixed a major land deal due to plans for an open-field gun range which would have impacted his business and family's safety. The government reportedly plans to use eminent domain to take the land and build it anyway. A Freer man is accusing the federal government of potentially using eminent domain to take his land for "pennies on the dollar" after negotiations to buy the land fell through. Jacob Cantu, the owner of J.A. Cantu Ranch, told Laredo Morning Times the government is potentially planning to force the sale of 30 acres of his land for...
  • In Presenting Bill for Interstate Compact with Arkansas and Tennessee, Mississippi Senator Omits Unelected Quasi-Governmental Entity’s Broad Powers Including Eminent Domain, Passes Senate Unanimously

    03/06/2022 4:40:30 PM PST · by Twotone · 10 replies
    The Tennessee Star ^ | February 26, 2022 | Laura Baigert
    During his presentations of a bill that would enter the state of Mississippi into an interstate compact with Arkansas and Tennessee, the Senate sponsor completely omitted that, if passed, the law would create an unelected quasi-governmental entity with very broad powers, including eminent domain. The bill went on to pass the state Senate unanimously on February 3. SB2716, sponsored by Republican Senator David Parker (R-DeSoto), is a 17-page document that creates the RegionSmart Development District (District) and the RegionSmart Development Agency of the Greater Memphis Region (RegionSmart Development).
  • Climate alarmists plan to destroy a whole village

    11/13/2021 9:53:15 AM PST · by rktman · 49 replies
    Americanthinker.com ^ | 11/13/2021 | Pandra Selivanov
    Fairbourne is a tiny Welsh village of only 700 people, tucked between mountains and the Irish sea. Founded around 1865, the pace is so slow that "Dragon's Teeth" tank traps from World War II still dot the beach to fend off a German invasion that never came. There's nothing particularly outstanding about Fairbourne to attract visitors. It's just a lovely little place to live. Or it was. In 2014, the authorities decided that Fairbourne was at high risk of flooding from climate change. Let's just ponder that for a moment. Seven years have gone by since the arbitrary decision that...
  • Landlord sues L.A. for $100M, alleging eviction moratorium caused ‘astronomical’ losses

    08/10/2021 5:15:34 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 44 replies
    LA Times ^ | AUG. 9, 2021 | BY DAVID ZAHNISER
    One of the region’s most prolific apartment builders has sued the city of Los Angeles over its COVID-19 eviction moratorium, saying his companies have experienced “astronomical” financial losses and are legally entitled to compensation from the city. Palmer’s companies allege that the moratorium...violated the “takings clause” established in the 5th Amendment, which says private property shall not be taken for public use without “just compensation.” “While the eviction moratorium ostensibly protects tenants who are unable to pay rent due to circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it arbitrarily shifts the financial burden onto property owners, many of whom were already...
  • Affidavit: FBI feared Pennsylvania would seize fabled gold

    06/26/2021 12:39:56 PM PDT · by Bloodandgravy · 34 replies
    AP ^ | June 25 2021 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM
    An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a fabled cache of U.S. government gold he said was “stolen during the Civil War” and hidden in a Pennsylvania cave, saying the state might take the gold for itself if the feds asked for permission, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.
  • Under Biden, dozens of eminent domain cases continue in courts

    04/29/2021 12:20:44 PM PDT · by BeauBo · 8 replies
    Border Report ^ | Apr 29, 2021 | Brice Helms
    President Biden halted construction on the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border shortly after taking office in January. However, ongoing eminent domain cases were not paused... ...hundreds of eminent domain cases were brought to take the land (during the Trump Administration)... In the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, McAllen Division, there are currently 60 active cases, according to federal records.
  • Why Is the Biden Administration Still Seizing Land for a Border Wall if He's Not Going to Build It?

    04/17/2021 12:50:18 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 37 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 04/17/2021 | Rick Moran
    The Biden administration is still seizing land along the U.S. southern border for Donald Trump’s border wall despite announcing that he was not going to finish it. The administration insists they’re in the midst of a “review of federal resources to build the wall” and are allowing Trump-era court cases to proceed, including land seizure cases. That review was supposed to be concluded 60 days after Biden’s inauguration — March 20. The president made the announcement of the wall cancellation with great fanfare and publicity. And yet land has continued to be seized. “I’m … very, very disappointed in Joe...
  • Did the FBI Find $400M in Civil War Gold in a Pa. Forest? Harrisburg Lawyer Says He Has New Clue in the Case

    01/28/2021 10:51:21 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    PENNLive ^ | 1/28 | Matt Miller
    A Harrisburg attorney said Thursday that a state appeals court has just given him the next clue toward hopefully solving the mystery of whether the FBI dug up a cache of lost Civil War gold worth about $400 million from a remote Pennsylvania forest nearly three years ago. That clue, William J. Cluck said, is the name of the federal magistrate judge who ordered all records of the March 2018 excavation in the Dent’s Run area of Elk County to be sealed from public view. Cluck said he can use that information, secured through his latest Right-to-Know Law appeal to...
  • Did The FBI Steal Tons Of Civil War Gold?

    03/10/2021 11:34:29 AM PST · by Red Badger · 78 replies
    https://hotair.com ^ | March 10, 2021 | JAZZ SHAW
    This is a rather odd story that I’ve been following for a while now, so bear with me. It’s been featured on a couple of the Travel Channel’s conspiracy theory shows and you’ll see why in a moment if you’re not familiar with it. But a recent development may bring it out of the tinfoil hat column and at least into the realm of possibility. The tale starts in the 1860s when legend has it that a large wagon full of gold bullion was either stolen or “went missing” in a remote area of western Pennsylvania. The shipment had supposedly...
  • Emails: FBI was looking for gold at Pennsylvania dig site

    03/10/2021 11:53:32 AM PST · by Red Badger · 82 replies
    AP ^ | March 8, 2021 | By MICHAEL RUBINKAM
    Go for the gold? The U.S. government went for it. FBI agents were looking for an extremely valuable cache of fabled Civil War-era gold — possibly tons of it — when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago this month, according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case. On March 13, 2018, treasure hunters led the FBI to Dent’s Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend has it an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia....
  • D.C. warns a maglev stop at Mount Vernon Square would bring disruption

    01/30/2021 4:35:01 PM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 45 replies
    The Washington Post Bezos Adware Farm ^ | January 25, 2021 | Luz Lazo
    Construction for a maglev train line that would take passengers from Washington to Baltimore in 15 minutes could alter a D.C. neighborhood and affect nearby properties for years, District officials said Monday. A maglev station in the Mount Vernon Square area has the potential to change the character of the neighborhood and bring “substantial construction and long-term operational implications on nearby properties,” Andrew Trueblood, director of the D.C. Office of Planning, said in a statement that urged residents and city leaders to engage in the federal review of the multibillion-dollar project. The 40-mile “superconducting magnetic levitation train system,” commonly called...
  • Parler Calls for ‘Twexit’ Twitter Exodus in ‘Declaration of Independence’

    06/20/2020 9:58:30 PM PDT · by bitt · 29 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 6/20/2020 | david ng
    The free speech social media platform Parler is calling for “Twexit” — a mass exodus of Twitter users — in its recently issued tech “Declaration of Independence” and “Bill of Rights,” in which it takes a stand against acts of censorship and data abuse by Silicon Valley giants like Twitter and Facebook. Parler said this week that Silicon Valley “technofascism” is threatening Internet freedoms as companies crack down on speech they don’t like and engage in acts of censorship and blacklisting. “Twitter long ceased to be a public square. They are now merely a publisher. And a bad, biased publisher...