U.S. Military Targets Southeast Colorado

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US MILITARY TARGETS SOUTHEAST COLORADOPART 1 of 3 Deanna Spingola May 11, 2008 Property seizures in other countries are considered totalitarian. When they occur at the hands of the corporate-controlled U.S. government they are apparently condoned and even facilitated by the courts whose job it is to reign in this kind of abuse. The monopoly media, including “conservative” talk radio, is an information filtering system masquerading as “news.” They habitually conceal government land grabs and other privatization schemes like the current controversy in southeastern Colorado. The army is attempting to seize property, claiming they need extra land to better prepare the troops. What’s really behind this patriotic-let’s-help-the-troops endeavor? Call it what they will, land seizure is land seizure and violates the public trust. What is it about Colorado and the military? In 1989, George H. W. Bush’s administration wanted to store dangerous radioactive waste at the Pueblo Army Depot but the state wisely objected.[1] Toxic waste disposal is no longer an unmanageable issue – well-connected arms manufacturers use it for bombs and bullets – kind of a double whammy – if the bullets and bombs don’t kill them, the lethal residue causes widespread cancer and horrific birth defects for future offspring of those who absorb, inhale or swallow the deadly dust. The Pentagon and their private contractors suppress the noxious nature of depleted uranium. Earlier, they didn’t tell troops about Agent Orange. And the citizens of Anniston, Alabama weren’t told about PCBs.[2] There are thousands of such examples. The government consistently protects corporate profits rather than citizens. Even though the Pentagon owns/occupies 31,700,692 acres in the U.S. and its territories and another 32,408,262 acres in foreign countries for a total of 64,108,954 acres, they claim to be strapped for a training area. The Department of Defense Base Structure Report (221 pages) dated September 30, 2006 (last report available) reveals that the Pentagon owns 577,519 structures worth over $712 billion situated on 86 bases in U.S. territories, 823 bases in foreign lands and 4402 military bases and/or military warehouses in the U.S. Their report boasts – “the Department of Defense remains one of the world’s largest ‘landlords.’”[3] As a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, we have added at least 13 new military bases in the Middle East, ostensibly for the Global War of Terrorism (GWOT). The U.S. has literally surrounded Iran. There are about 63 countries with U.S. bases and thousands of U.S. military personnel (out of about 1.5 million) in 156 countries.[4]According to another report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, dated April 10, 2008, the army claims they need to restructure and rebuild which will require at least $190 billion for equipment through fiscal year 2013.[5] In 2007 alone, in order of rank, the Pentagon paid the following, often no-bid contracts: (1) Lockheed Martin Corp. $12,679,523,202; (2) Boeing Co. $7,300,000,000; (3) Northrop Grumman Corp. $6,821,000,000; (4) KBR Inc. (a spin-off of Halliburton) $5,517,070,621; (5) Science Applications International Corp. $4,412,146,628; (6) Raytheon Co. $4,068,752,346.[6] Given these massive figures, one would justifiably trust that America is well-armed, impenetrable and protected. However, trust is not a word that one would associate with any government function. There are “151 current members of Congress” who have personally invested millions of dollars in companies that have received large defense contracts. Some of those companies are probably listed above or in any of the other top 100 companies. This provides some evidence of why “our representatives” favor corporations; it pays better and that’s in addition to hefty campaign contributions.[7]Currently, the military (all branches) occupies 483,440 acres in Colorado.[8] Fort Carson, an army post on 137,412 acres of range land located in southeast Colorado, is considered one of the world's premier locations to train and prepare soldiers for battle.[9] The post had a total population of 10,566 in the 2000 U.S. Census and is located in both Pueblo County and El Paso County, Colorado. The census also revealed that there were 1,679 households and 1,620 families residing on base. There were 2,663 housing units.[10] During World War II, the base functioned as a prison camp for non-threatening German, Italian and Japanese-American citizens whose lands had been seized.[11]The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was previously located one mile west of Fort Carson at the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center. NORAD provides selective response to air, missile, and space attacks over U.S. and Canadian airspace. A faulty system must have failed miserably on 9/11 because no one was reprimanded or fired for incompetence. But wait; there was an upgrade in 1987 at a cost of $968 million and another one by Lockheed in 1993.[12] Lockheed also received NORAD upgrade contracts in April 1999.[13] Then after 9/11, the government spent about $700 million to upgrade the early warning systems at Cheyenne Mountain.[14] By March 2005, thanks to Lockheed, NORAD had a newly refurbished, $14-million state-of-the-art control room – NORAD now “includes a station that receives Federal Aviation Administration data, flight plans and access to 50 FAA radars and 20 air-traffic control stations. NORAD can even tune into commercial airline radios and listen to chatter about unruly passengers.”[15] On July 28, 2006, it was announced that NORAD would relocate from Cheyenne Mountain to Peterson Air Force Base, also in Colorado. After the move, the government awarded another upgrade contract to Lockheed worth about $800 million.[16] Meanwhile the levees, the bridges and thousands of America’s roads are dangerously riddled with deepening pot-holes.With the implementation of the Department of Defense’s Military Housing Privatization Initiative of 1996,[17] Fort Carson was selected as the Army’s model for the development of the privatization initiatives.[18] Privatization is the process of transferring ownership of resources and land from the public and private sector to fat-cat corporations who usually pay no taxes.[19] Congress privatized the people’s money with the treasonous Federal Reserve Act of 1913, placing the control of money into the hands of international banking families who have deliberately debauched our currency. The FED, a private corporation and a complicit Congress, wishing to retain power and popularity, have spent America into bankruptcy – paid for by the people’s labor, land, resources and blood. On February 10, 1998, the Defense Department, the enforcement arm of Wall Street [20] notified Congress that they were transferring $15.82 million to the Fort Carson Family Housing Limited Liability Corporation, a division of J. A. Jones, a subsidiary of Philipp Holzmann AG, a Germany-based construction company that used concentration camp labor during World War II. The Fort Carson Family Housing Limited Liability Corporation of Charlotte, N.C. “won” this whopping contract worth more than $3 billion over the span of the contract.[21] See how much Philipp Holzmann AG and others were gifted just in 1999. Between October 1, 1997 and September 30, 2003, out of $900 billion authorized expenditures, Philipp Holzmann AG received pentagon contracts amounting to $1,723,275,972. “Half of all the Defense Department's budget goes out the door of the Pentagon to private contractors.”[22] Other funds, 25%, apparently cannot be accounted for. The private corporation built 840 new single and multifamily structures and revitalized existing structures. Rent for these ‘privatized” units, now paid to the contractor is set at the soldier's Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH). Philipp Holzmann AG also built and maintains the roads, day care centers, schools, parks, picnic areas – literally all the infrastructure. The 50-year contract came with a renewable option of 25 years.[23] The new and refurbished housing would provide housing for a total of 2,663 Fort Carson military families. Additionally, the Department of Defense has other privatization projects worth billions.[24]Even before 9/11, expansion of the military as well as increased corporate take-over of public military facilities was part of the game plan. “Since 1997, Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) has directed each of the Services to develop an installation-level plan to respond to the growing need for quality affordable housing for military personnel by the year 2010. The Army's initial plan, completed in September 1998, called for the privatization of about 85,000 Army Family Housing (AFH) units over 5 years at 43 US locations.” The army’s billions-of-dollars housing privatization program is known as the Residential Communities Initiative (RCI) and is worldwide.[25] See the entire program here, scroll down to view the full implications. Located 150 miles southeast of Fort Carson is the Piñon Canyon Manuvere Site (PCMS). The $26 million dollar “purchase” was completed on September 17, 1983 through the government’s use of eminent domain. It was opened in the summer of 1985 to provide critical maneuver lands for larger units.[26] The relocation of 11 landowners who refused to sell required an additional $2 million. Their land was acquired through the detestable process of condemnation, aided by the very people who are supposed to make us “secure in…our “houses.”[27] [28] The government’s eminent domain power, the Takings Clause (or the Just Compensation Clause), is part of Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution – …“nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” This clause is not a positive power grant allotted to the government. Instead, it imposes a strict limitation on the government. The Constitution was designed to protect individual rights from an abusive government. The founding documents clarify that “the government’s only legitimate power is to secure the rights that are guaranteed to the people.”[29]Just compensation means fair market value, moving expenses, and any “losses incurred while you establish yourself elsewhere.” “The victim must be ‘made whole’ meaning that he is economically no worse off as a result of the taking.” For decades, “public use” meant just that – use by the public. However, the Takings Clause has been “transformed and perverted. Today, ‘public use’ means ‘public benefit.’”[30]The eminent domain floodgate of abuses opened early in the twentieth century with the 1936 New York City Housing Authority v. Muller case which forever changed American property rights – public use became public benefit. The court, ignoring private property rights and apparently biased against the poor, decided that “slum clearance” was a public benefit. This “sociological experiment” established an “acceptable means of perverting the Takings Clause.” This was a “front for violating private property rights to acquire land for their pet projects.”[31]This led to the despotic condemnation process which later enabled the Rockefeller (one of the Federal Reserve banking families) land grab of a thirteen-block tract of Manhattan which was unlawfully condemned in order to erect the World Trade Center Complex. Read about it here. The Port Authority issued tax exempt bonds which would completely fund the project.[32] The Port Authority privatized the Center on July 24, 2001 for a fraction of its value by leasing it to Larry Silverstein’s private corporation – lucky for him that he heavily ensured them against terrorist attacks.[33]In 1981, General Motors, another wealthy corporation, directed the government to condemn the 465-acre community of Poletown, a suburb or Detroit, Michigan so they could build an assembly plant. GM got their plant while “3,468 people were displaced and had their homes confiscated by the government. The Constitution’s public use requirement was intended to protect against just this sort of usurpation.”[34] One thousand residences, six hundred businesses and numerous churches were bulldozed.[35]About half of the land for The Piñon Canyon Manuvere Site (PCMS) was seized through the condemnation process. “In 1983 the unwilling sellers were pretty much on their own, battling to hang on to their homes. They wrote letters and attended meetings for the procedurally required Environmental Impact Statement. But in the end they were just a handful of ranchers, forced to move off of their land by the power of the United States Army.”[36]Victims of eminent domain rarely receive “just compensation” and often face endless litigation fighting for the constitutional rights the government is supposed to regularly protect. Private property abuse is rampant! According to the Castle Coalition, there were 10,382 governmental attempts to condemn private property in the last ten years.[37]Apparently, because of the money-siphoning (626 billion dollars in 2007) [38] Global War of Terrorism, the Department of Defense wants to greatly expand the Piñon Canyon Manuvere Site (PCMS). In June 2007, the Army released the Phase I map identifying the first 418,000 acres they want to acquire. “When combined with the current 235,896 acres of training space there, the Piñon Canyon site would become the Army’s largest training ground.”[39] The Army indicates that they want as much as 2.5 million acres, the entire southeast corner of Colorado because it simulates some of the terrain in Afghanistan and Iraq.[40]On May 3, 2007 Governor Bill Ritter signed Colorado House Bill 1069 withdrawing the state’s consent to the federal government in their quest to acquire land through eminent domain for their expansion of Piñon Canyon Manuvere Site (PCMS).[41]Constitutional statutes were designed to “protect the citizens against the abuse of power” by government agents. Unfortunately, a majority of elected officials have shirked their constitutional, decision-making responsibilities to highly-paid private contractors, who have taken over much of the government’s responsibilities. The problem is, these contractors are not covered by constitutional laws – therefore they are not culpable. Federal agencies do not exercise oversight, demand accountability or set performance standards for federal contractors. Effective Congressional investigations are rarely convened.[42]This is a much bigger problem than the dedicated ranchers of Colorado. But for them, it is their life and their livelihood. The next time you are enjoying a hamburger or a steak (if you can still afford one), thank a rancher, the government didn’t produce it. If the government can target Colorado’s ranchers, they can target anyone! Oh and that land grab – it has nothing to do with training soldiers! For part two click below.Click here for part -----> 1, 2, 3,Footnotes: 1, U.S. Seeks to Store Nuclear Waste at Army Bases to Save Plutonium Plant, By Keith Schneider, November 10, 19892, Monsanto Knew About PCB Toxicity For Decades3, Department of Defense, Base Structure Report, FY 20074, U.S. Military Troops and Bases Around the World5, Restructuring and Rebuilding the Army Will Cost Billions of Dollars for Equipment but the Total Cost Is Uncertain, Highlights, April 10, 2008, United States Government Accountability Office, testimony before the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives6, Top 100 Federal Prime Contractors: 20077, Congress members invest in Defense Earn Millions From Companies With Military Contracts By Anne Flaherty8, Department of Defense, Base Structure Report, FY 20079, Fort Carson10, Fort Carson11, Fort Carson12, Cheyenne Mountain Complex13, Spacecom Upgrades for the Future by Daniel Verton, April 8, 199914, Military to Idle NORAD Compound Operations Will Move to Nearby Base, But Cold War Bunker to Stand Ready By T.R. Reid, July 29, 200615, Colorado Springs Independent, NORAD touts readiness Officials show off new control room, March 10, 200516, Seabrook, MD--- Lockheed Martin Team Wins Primary Role on NORAD-USNORTHCOM Contract Vehicle, July 9, 200617, The Residential Communities Initiative (RCI)18, Military Housing Privatization Initiative: A Guidance Document For Wading Through The Legal Morass by Capt. Stacie A. Remy Vest, and Chapter 169. Military Construction And Military Family Housing, Approved February 28, 200819, How to earn $3.5 trillion and pay zero taxes By David R. Francis, April 19, 200420, The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order by Michel Chossudovsky, pg 1121, Fort Carson Awards Housing Privatization Contract22, Outsourcing the Pentagon, Who benefits from the Politics and Economics of National Security? By Larry Makinson, March 31, 200623, Office of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Military Housing Privatization Initiative24, Fort Carson Awards Housing Privatization Contract25, Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, Army Family Housing Master Plan, February 200326, Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS)27, Bill of Rights28, Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS)29, Constitutional Chaos, What Happens When the Government breaks its Own Laws by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, pgs. 65-7830, Ibid31, Ibid32, Bonds: Port of New York Authority to Raise $100-Million by John H. Allen, The New York Times, February 28, 1968.33, Killing Several Birds With One Stone By Deanna Spingola, February 12, 200634, Constitutional Chaos, What Happens When the Government breaks its Own Laws by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, pgs. 65-7835, Landmark Eminent Domain Abuse Decision, July 31, 2004, John Kramer or Lisa Knepper36, Army Threatens the Seizure of Private Property by Doug Holdread, June 29, 200637, Constitutional Chaos, What Happens When the Government breaks its Own Laws by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, pgs. 65-7838, The Worldwide Network of U.S. Military Bases by Prof. Jules Dufour, July 1, 200739, Squeeze over a Colorado canyon, October 29, 200740, Army Threatens the Seizure of Private Property by Doug Holdread, June 29, 200641, Ritter Signs Piñon Canyon , school safety bills, Rocky Mountain News, May 3, 200742, Shadowboxer by Jason Peckenpaugh, 11/15/03 who was quoting The Shadow Government by Dan Guttman and Barry Wilner, 1976 http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna90.htm~~~US MILITARY TARGETS SOUTHEAST COLORADOPART 2 of 3 Deanna Spingola May 11, 2008 Between 1980 and 2000, Colorado lost 1.5 million acres of ranchland. The 1960s per-acre price went from “less than $200” to thousands per acre.[1] Land doesn’t spontaneously increase in value but is a function of calculated inflation (the hidden tax) – driven by sudden surpluses of Federal Reserve Notes that decrease the value of currency already in circulation while escalating all prices. Evidenced by the acreage figures cited in part one of this multi-part article, the Pentagon does not “need” more land. The army’s proposed expansion would give them a total of 2, 577,304 acres (thousand square miles), just at the Piñon Canyon Manuever Site, as shown on the map or this map. The federal government owns more than 5.1 million acres classified as “vacant.” U.S. land dedicated to military purposes equals 2.4 percent. U.S. land owned by the federal government, as of September 30, 2004, is 653,299,090.2 acres or 28.8 percent of the country. Most of Nevada, 84.5 percent, is owned by the federal government.[2]Obviously, land is not the issue. It is however, a huge issue to the ranchers and is fundamental to their livelihood. If their land is seized, ranchers cannot pack up their cows and move elsewhere. Ranchers still become emotional when they reflect on the first and supposedly the last time that the army “took” their property, lands that had belonged to families for generations. Courts have distorted the law, and have become “instruments of plunder,” seizing land from the citizens they have pledged to protect.[3] Given these desperate circumstances, “between 2000 and 2004, 19 percent of Colorado farm and ranch deaths were reported as suicides.”[4]The army’s Colorado land grab, a scheme to cleanse the area, is merely the tip of the globalist iceberg which concerns, not only ranchers, but the entire middle class. The army, literally acting against American citizens, is not alone but merely the first offense – the patriotism ploy! Others are involved – smug, obedient bureaucrats, environmentalists and tax-exempt foundations. Investigative Congressional committees attempted to halt the powerful influence exerted by private foundations (4,162 of them in 1951).[5] Foundations have no voters, no clientele, and no investors. They enable the elite to reshape civilization using billions of tax-exempt dollars. Congressman Cox’s investigation, starting in 1952, failed as most of the witnesses were “officers and trustees of large foundations” and their associates. Cox unexpectedly fell “gravely ill during the investigation and died before a report could be filed.” The Reece Committee, facing obstacle after obstacle, resumed the investigation with Norman Dodd as research director. Almost immediately, instructions from a complicit “White House” to “kill the committee” ended all inquiries.[6]In June 1998, Ron Arnold, then executive vice-president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise gave congressional testimony that resulted in a detailed report entitled Battered Communities, followed up by a comprehensively-researched book – Undue Influence. Arnold confirmed “Rural communities are suffering unprecedented social and economic losses. All segments of natural resource goods production – water development, farming, ranching, mining, petroleum, timber, fishing, transportation, and manufacturing projects – are being systematically attacked, thwarted, and eradicated. Natural resource production and related jobs are being forced offshore.”[7]In The Law, Bastiat stated: “Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man.”[8] “Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.”[9] In addition to land-seizure concerns, ranchers are at the mercy of huge monopolies which control the market and manipulate cattle prices without the expense of owning production. They sometimes finance a few “large feedlot owners who lease ranches and run cattle for them,” a way of controlling prices through “captive supply.” Independent ranchers, with ever-increasing overhead, get less and less of every retail dollar. Justifiable resistance to this corporatism could result in retaliation and economic ruin, an object lesson to silence other ranchers.[10]Price fixing and profit manipulation, as John D. Rockefeller discovered, was best achieved by refining and selling oil rather than extracting it from the ground. Skilled carpenters, factory workers, ranchers, farmers, and meatpacking workers labor for decreasing returns while monopoly capitalists, comfortable in luxurious boardrooms, control markets to enhance their personal fortunes without loyalties or consideration for America’s economy. Consider construction – individuals cut lumber, assemble fixtures, pour cement, install a roof, paint and together build a house. Who benefits the most? Not the producers – rather the fractional-reserve banker who extorts usury on a paper-only loan. Congressional leaders, financial benefactors of corporatism, broke up the Chicago-based beef trust (Armour, Cudahy, Morris, Swift and Wilson) through the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 – an example of Hegelian Dialectics. Create a crisis and then fix it with pre-determined government regulations that typically only burdens small business firms. Reasonable competition existed until Reagan’s Administration. In 1972, a 200 member Business Roundtable, through the merging of the March Group, the Construction Users Anti-Inflation Roundtable and the Labor Law Study Committee, was established. The group was comprised of the heads of major industrial corporations, commercial banks, insurance companies, the largest retailers, and the biggest transportation and utility companies. This forum of corporations dismissed their “competitive differences” to arrive at a “consensus on issues of social and economic policy for America.” Members of this elite group rejected national interests in favor of the prospective profits of economic globalization. Members organized “aggressive campaigns” to gain political support for their agenda. They enrolled 2,300 U.S. corporations in their newly-created front organization, USA*NAFTA. They furtively promoted the trade agreement despite widespread opposition.[11]The Roundtable “bombarded Americans” with assurances, editorials, news releases, editorials and radio and television commentaries claiming that NAFTA would prove beneficial, stop Mexican immigration, provide high-paying jobs and raise environmental standards. “Roundtable members enjoyed privileged access to the NAFTA negotiation process through representation on advisory committees to the U.S. trade representative.” NAFTA went into effect on January 1, 1994. However, during the prior twelve years, nine Roundtable corporations had already outsourced about 180,000 jobs to Mexico.[12]Public Relations firms produced “facts,” opinion pieces, expert analyses, and managed public polls, telephone solicitation, direct mail, and created “citizen” advocacy groups and “public-image-building campaigns for their corporate clients. One firm, Burson Marsteller, enjoyed net billings in 1992 of $204 million. “The top fifty public relations firms billed over $1.7 billion in 1991.” Public relations employees, who outnumber news reporters, manipulate the news “to serve the interests of paying clients.” By 1990, almost 40 percent of the news originated from public-relations press releases.[13] Public Relations firms continue to influence public opinion according to who purchases their unique services. Booz, Allen, & Hamilton, Inc. (hereafter Booz Allen),[14] a public relations firm has been paid $500,000 a year for their Piñon Canyon “expansion planning” including managing invitation- only meetings with southern Colorado residents. Booz Allen, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, has clients such as the Air Force, Federal Transit Administration, Labor Department, the Navy and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Ex-CIA director and Rhodes Scholar, James Woolsey, became Vice President of Booz Allen on July 15th, 2002.”[15] He served as counsel for major corporations in both commercial arbitrations and the negotiation of joint ventures and other agreements. Woolsey is one of the signers of the January 26, 1998 Project for the New American Century (PNAC) letter to Clinton urging military action against Iraq. Dov S. Zakheim (CFR), Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004 also became a vice president at Booz Allen on May 6, 2004. This was after he was unable to explain the loss of $1 trillion dollars at the Pentagon (in addition to the $2.3 trillion on September 10, 2001).[16] [17]PNAC, promoters of American imperialism and “Full-spectrum” dominance, is funded by the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation and the Bradley Foundation.The expanding cozy relationship, known as “contract bureaucracy,” between the federal government and Booz Allen began with the Nixon administration. In 1969 Donald Rumsfeld was appointed as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity with Dick Cheney as his assistant. Rumsfeld brought in Booz Allen to reorganize the agency. The government uses contractors for policy advice and management services, a taxpayer-supported, multibillion-dollar giveaway to private management consultants, experts and think tanks.[18]Reagan, and his globalist handler/vice president G. H. W. Bush, ignored anti-trust legislation and allowed corporate mergers to devour smaller firms. In 1970, the top four meatpacking firms slaughtered about 21% of the nation’s beef. By 2000, ConAgra, Iowa Beef Processors (IBP, nation’s largest red meat producer), Excel Corporation and National Beef (fourth largest processor) slaughtered about 84% of the nation’s cattle and consequently controlled prices.[19] Since 1979, Excel Corporation has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cargill, infamous for animal abuse.[20]Many meatpacking plants have returned to the exploitative, dangerous conditions described in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Wages, once protected by organized labor, have plummeted. By 1983, worker’s wages “fell below the average U.S. manufacturing wage” and had further declined by 25 percent in 2002. Immigrants, willing to work for less, have replaced many middle class laborers. Rather than outsourcing labor to Third World countries, the meat and poultry industries are importing Third World laborers and “reproducing developing country employment conditions here.”[21] Transnational corporations enhance their profits by exploiting labor and sales elsewhere. Earlier this year, Tyson Foods announced that they were “forming a joint venture with Jiangsu Jinghai Poultry Industry Group Co. Ltd., to raise, process and sell chickens in east China under the Tyson brand name. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but Tyson will own 70 percent of the venture.”[22]In 1991, President George H.W. Bush authorized an eligibility verification pilot program for foreign laborers with nine participating companies. Clinton expanded this program in 1995 to the “Basic Pilot” program with 1,000 employers.[23] Non-enforcement of immigration laws allowed IBP and other corporations to “import” cheap labor. The Basic Pilot program, now complete with federal database, was “designed to help big employers of foreign labor.” Additionally, Clinton’s “Bosnian refugee resettlement efforts” supplied 6,000 refugees to IBP in Waterloo, Iowa. A total of 80,000 Balkan refugees settled in the Midwest. Bombing foreign countries to smithereens evidently provides cheap labor to corporate America.[24]Tyson Foods targeted competitor, Hudson Foods, but Hudson wasn’t serious about selling until Clinton’s Department of Agriculture swat team descended on Hudson Foods with a beef recall (August 12, 1997). The USDA illegally closed a plant and destroyed their business. Then Tyson Foods, a huge Clinton contributor, purchased Hudson’s chicken operation at a fire-sale price. “Tyson's buyout bid” was an offer Hudson couldn't refuse. That purchase complemented “Tyson's distribution and production system.” IBP, “a major supplier to the Hudson,” bought the beef operation.[25] By 2001, Tyson, the world’s largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork combined, won the bidding war against Smithfield, to purchase IBP, the nation’s largest beef producer.[26] A Smithfield purchase would have encountered more “regulatory delays” than the Tyson deal.[27]John Munsell, a small businessman and agricultural whistle-blower, discovered E.coli in an order of ConAgra hamburger and informed the USDA which had an “aggressive see-no-evil, non-interference policy” with powerful agribusiness corporations who prefer and lobby for self-regulation. Rather than investigating ConAgra, the USDA shut down Munsell’s operation for four months and investigated his business.[28] The beef, 19 million pounds, was recalled in July 2002. In September 2002, ConAgra began transferring their meatpacking operation to HM Capital Partners LLC, a Dallas-based private (corporate raider) equity firm owned by Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, and Booth Creek Management Corporation becoming the second largest processor of beef and pork in the world. The deal was completed in 2004; the resulting joint venture was called Swift & Company. Then in July 2007, Swift & Company was purchased by JBS, S.A., the acronym of the founder, José Batista Sobrinho. J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. brokered the massive transaction.[29] JBS is acquiring National Beef Packing and Smithfield Foods’ – No. 3 and 4 of the five largest beef companies in the United States. JBS will then control 10 percent of the world’s beef supplies with only two major U.S. competitors – Tyson and Cargill.[30]Beef trade, by JBS Swift & Company, to South Korea will resume in May 2008 after a four-year ban due to the 2003 mad-cow scare which closed most Asian doors to U.S. beef. JBS intends to penetrate global markets anywhere they can – Asia, Russia and elsewhere.[31] For part three click below.Footnotes: 1, Fast Food Nation, the Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, Harper Perennial, 2002, pp. 133-1472, Federal Land and Buildings Ownership, Updated: May 19, 20053, The Law, the Classic Blueprint for a Just Society by Frederic Bastiat, pg. 84, Colorado State Program Receives $800,000 To Assist Farmers And Ranchers With Disabilities, September 5, 20065, Foundations: Their Power and Influence by René A. Wormser, 1958, Devin-Adair, New York, pg. 516, Ibid, Appendix B, pgs. 328-3837, Battered Communities, How Wealthy Private Foundations, Grant-Driven Environmental Groups, And Activist Federal Employees Combine To Systematically Cripple Rural Economies, A Report By The Center For The Defense Of Free Enterprise8, The Law, the Classic Blueprint for a Just Society by Frederic Bastiat, pg. 19, Ibid, pg. 610, Fast Food Nation, the Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, Harper Perennial, 2002, pp. 133-14711, When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten, Kumarian Press, Inc., 1996, pp. 141-14812, Ibid13, Ibid14, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Privatizing Combat, the New World Order By Laura Peterson, October 28, 200215, The Real Saudi Ties are U.S. Ties16, Following Zakheim and Pentagon Trillions to Israel and 9-11 by Jerry Mazza, July 31, 200617, Political Research Associates, Dov Zakheim18, Shadowboxer by Jason Peckenpaugh, 11/15/03 who was quoting The Shadow Government by Dan Guttman and Barry Wilner, 197619, Fast Food Nation, the Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser, Harper Perennial, 2002, pp. 133-14720, More Slaughterhouses Cited For Abuse, CBS News, April 30, 200821, Blood, Sweat and Fear, Historical Background22, Tyson to open chicken processing plant in China by Bloomberg AP and Staff Reports, 2/2/200823, The Impact of Employment Verification, September 12, 2006, Statement of John M. Keeley, Center for Immigration Studies24, Tyson Foods Victorious in IBP Bidding War Now Nation's No.1 Beef, Poultry Processor, Agribusiness Examiner N.101, January 11, 200125, The President's Favors to Tyson and IBP: Consolidation, Perks and Cheap Labor26, Ibid27, Tyson Foods Victorious in IBP Bidding War Now Nation's No.1 Beef, Poultry Processor, Agribusiness Examiner N.101, January 11, 200128, Working Paper for the UNIS-UN Student Conference29, JBS S.A. Completes Acquisition of Swift & Company, IN Food Service, July 12, 200730, To Justice Dept: Brazil beef packer would harm U.S. by North Platte Bulletin Staff - 3/25/200831, JBS Swift hopes to move in as South Korea opens doors to U.S. beef by Sharon Dunn, April 19, 2008, The Tribune http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna91.htm~~~US MILITARY TARGETS SOUTHEAST COLORADOPART 3 of 3 Deanna Spingola June 1, 2008 After the $1.4 billion purchase of ConAgra by HM Capital Partners LLC (formerly Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated) they retained ConAgra’s president, John Simons, and named the newly-acquired company Swift & Company to honor “one of ConAgra’s ' premier brand names.” ConAgra, still extant, has a huge product line.[1] In 1989, Thomas O. Hicks co-founded Hicks, Muse & Company, a private equity firm specializing in leveraged acquisitions.[2] HM has acquired media, food, oil, gas, energy, and financial services and benefits from numerous government contracts through Sodexho. Reinventing Government (REGO), both state and federal, has enabled well-connected corporations to amass fortunes and power at the expense of the taxpayers, especially independent middle-class citizens who produce tangible goods. Private property rights, via numerous tactics, have been abused, altered and are in the process of being abolished (the first plank of the Communist Manifesto). The U.S. Constitution, a protective document, has been surreptitiously supplanted by the U.N. Charter, the vehicle to global governance – the real objective of the dismantling of the middle-class through property, job and lifestyle seizure. With the consent of the leadership of both morally bankrupt parties, the U.S. adopted the following recommendations from the first United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I), held in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1976: a national policy on population distribution according to available resources; public land control or ownership in the public interest with equitable distribution of benefits while assuring environmental impacts. Land, a scarce resource, should be subject to public surveillance or control for the common interest. Governments must exercise full jurisdiction over land and freely plan the development of human settlements.[3] Habitat II was in 1996.[4] When you see the words public or common interest, think Communism, a political system wholly financed and supported by international bankers.Agenda 21, also endorsed by the leadership of both parties, was created at the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) also known as the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from June 3 to June 14, 1992 under the direction of Maurice F. Strong, Conference Secretary General.[5] [6]An objective of Agenda 21 “is to improve the social, economic and environmental quality of human settlements and the living and working environments of all people, in particular the urban and rural poor.” The government will make all lifestyle decisions. A follow-up meeting, called World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) convened from August 26 through September 4, 2002. Agenda 21 is a very well-organized plan to reinvent and regionalize government beginning with the “rural-cleansing” of America and those referred to by the elite ruling class as resource-draining, expendable useless eaters.[7] The concept of sustainable development came from the constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1977), Chapter 2, Article 18 where it discusses the need “to protect and make scientific, rational use of the land and its mineral and water resources, and the plant and animal kingdoms to preserve the purity of air and water, ensure reproduction of natural wealth, and improve the human environment.”[8]Bill Clinton’s Executive Order #12852 of June 29, 1993 established the President’s Council on Sustainable Development which consisted of not more than 25 members chosen by the president.[9] This council, under Al Gore, functioned until June 1999 and successfully implemented the U.N.’s Agenda 21.[10]REGO, said Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton, means “to change the way our governments work to fit a different time and…come together behind our common purpose.” To facilitate change, The Government Performance and Results Act became law on January 5, 1993 establishing the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR), also known as the National Performance Review, similar to the Republican’s Grace Commission of 1982. Peter Grace founded Citizens Against Government Waste in 1984. It sounds good; taxpayers would not oppose ending government waste. Al Gore, convening with a group of 250 unelected civil servants later presented, to congress, 384 recommendations with 1,250 specific actions which required bureaucratic agencies to implement two-thirds of the recommendations.[11]By September 7, 1993, official guidelines were established. Gore transferred many government activities to the private sector and attempted to corporatize the federal government while allowing profit-motivated corporations, “trusted partners in enforcing laws,” to “comply voluntarily with federal laws and regulations” actually a ploy to demolish food-safety, clean air regulations and other consumer safety measures.[12]REGO uses Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) composed of corporations, tax-exempt foundations and Non Government Organizations (NGOs) to alter the balance of power and diminish congressional responsibility while enlarging executive power and downsizing and shifting power from the federal to the local level.[13] Shifting power to the local level almost sounds constitutional – but has nothing to do with states’ rights. Rather a plethora of authoritarian agencies, staffed by unelected, decision-making low-level smug bureaucratic minions, function under the direction of the Executive Branch with little, if any, oversight from Congress. In a Public-Private Partnership public assets are surrendered to corporations. Occidental Petroleum “funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars ($470,000) [14] in campaign contributions” to Clinton and Gore. To reward their generosity, Gore facilitated “Occidental’s acquisition of oil drilling rights in the Elk Hills National Petroleum Reserve, part of the Kitanemuk people’s traditional lands, outside of Bakersfield, California” a federal oil resource. It was the largest surrender of “public lands to a private corporation in American history. It tripled Occidental’s U.S. petroleum reserves.” Within five years, Occidental had destroyed 100 native archaeological sites, “including ancient burial grounds.” However, Gore, the self-serving professed environmentalist “authority”, benefited through his control of “between $250,000 – $500,000 worth of Occidental shares through a family held trust.”[15]Hooker Chemicals, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Company, one of the worst corporate polluters in the world, refused to accept liability for the 21,000 tons of chemical waste that they buried at Love Canal.[16] Ultimately, Occidental Petroleum Corporation was sued by the EPA in 1995 and agreed to pay $129 million in restitution.[17] Given their abundant assets and political clout, it was a small price to pay. Gore paved the way for whatever environmental crisis we face today. That is what globalists do best – they create a crisis and then offer a predetermined solution that citizens would have previously rejected. In 1996, the Clinton Administration passed a bill privatizing the U.S. Enrichment Corporation (USEC), a government-owned corporation. William Rainer, a large donor to the Presidential Inaugural Committee in 1993, headed USEC’s board of directors when they decided to accept $1.9 billion from private investors in 1998. Rainer was rewarded – he was appointed chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Gore’s biggest contributors enjoyed a “$75 million bonanza. Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Company, Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Company collectively raked in at least $42 million in underwriting fees.” However, it placed the management of contaminated facilities into private hands.[18]Gore claims that he turned the Pentagon into a “well-run business.”[19] Actually REGO simply intensified the Pentagon accounting debacle and nicely benefited well-connected military contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin (repeatedly upgraded NORAD) – another example of Public-Private Partnerships. In 1998, the General Accounting Office and the War Department discovered that “the Pentagon had made more than $2.3 trillion worth of bookkeeping errors. The Pentagon has likewise misplaced “nearly $120 billion worth of equipment,” including trucks, tanks and ships. Financial crimes at the Pentagon were/are rampant.[20]On January 14, 1999, Gore held the first global REGO council which “included high-level representatives from nearly 40 countries.” Gore promoted “three key government reinvention initiatives – civil service improvement, children's well-being and measuring customer satisfaction.”[21] Customer satisfaction is an interesting phrase unless you consider Public-Private Partnerships. Global councils have been held, since then, on a yearly basis. Gore’s fix-all inspiration for the crisis/solution globalist tactic came from David Osborne and Ted Gaebler, co-authors of Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming the Public Sector. Osborne presented his paper at the UN’s 7th Global REGO forum, Building Trust in Government, held in Vienna from June 26-27, 2007.[22] Recently, Osborne wrote a paper Reinventing the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism to assist Louisiana in their post-Katrina transformation. An expanding global network of NGOs successfully operates as strident hired mobs to apply pressure to politicians and “provide the appearance of popular support” for “world governance.” Their “orchestrated clamor” is deliberately designed to appeal to political and corporate leaders. “The political and corporate leaders – according to plan – then ‘respond’ to the ‘will of civil society.’”[23] Actual community essentials which do not generate profit are sacrificed as public monies are appropriated by profit-minded, consumer-seeking corporations. REGO is now on the Republican fast track, the party most adroit at initially deceiving the masses by their conservative claims. The concept of a Public-Private Partnership was thoroughly tested on the taxpayers of Arlington, Texas by George W. Bush. Later, Bechtel, Halliburton, Blackwater, HM Capital Partners LLC and the coffers of a multitude of other candidate-contributing corporations would be greatly enriched through their cloaked Public-Private Partnerships. Karl Rove, the power-loving master manipulator, early-on urged Bush to run for the Texas governorship. Rove claimed that ownership of the Texas Rangers would be Bush’s 1994 “ticket to the big time” giving him widespread “exposure” and credibility after a series of business failures (a family characteristic? – Neil (scroll down) and Jeb, here and here).[24] The Bush brothers were frequently rescued by rich family friends, apparently intent on exploiting political connections.[25] They are also regularly absolved by “thoughtful” government agencies. Bush’s share of any team profits would later increase to 11 percent when the other syndicate members had recouped their investment – doubtless an indulgent elite-by-birth benefit?[26]George Bush and a group of investors, including Spectrum 7 business partner, William O. DeWitt Jr. (father once owned the St. Louis Browns and the Cincinnati Reds) and Fort Worth financier Richard E. Rainwater, bought the Texas Rangers for $86 million on April 21, 1989 from Eddie Chiles, a Bush family friend. Bush paid $606,302 for 1.8 percent of the Rangers after borrowing $500,000. He repaid that loan when he “fortuitously” dumped Harken stocks in June 1990, one week before Harken announced an overall loss of $23.2 million. For 34 weeks, he failed to inform the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about this transaction despite the law that requires prompt disclosure of insider sales. On March 8, 2002, while campaigning to get brother Jeb re-installed as Florida governor (January 5, 1999 – January 2, 2007), Bush said: “Corporate officials should not be allowed to secretly trade their company’s stock. Every time they buy or sell, they should be required to tell the public within two days.”[27]No charges were filed against the U.S. president’s son. The SEC general counsel, Texas Attorney, James Doty, handled the Bush syndicate’s 1989 purchase of the Rangers. Harken and Arbusto (Bush’s first company) had some interesting investors – like Ghaith R. Pharaon, the second largest shareholder in CenTrust Bank which failed in 1990 costing the taxpayers $1.7 billion. He is wanted for questioning for his role as front man for the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).[28] George Soros was also an investor.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) sued Richard Greene (Arlington’s mayor 4/4/1987-5/6/1997) for his participation, as president of Sunbelt’s Arlington branch, in the Sunbelt Savings Association scam which lost between $2 and $3 billion for American taxpayers and had cost the Feds $297 million just to investigate. Sunbelt’s owner, Edwin T. McBirney, agreed to plead guilty to fraud for his four-year lending spree.[29] In October 1990, Greene, in writing, guaranteed that Arlington taxpayers, rather than the owners, would pay $135 million towards the larger, more elaborate stadium that the team’s new owners wanted in order to maximize their profits, the whole reason for their venture. The FDIC lawsuit quickly evaporated and all Mayor Greene paid was a paltry $40 thousand – no more questions and apparently no long-term consequences.[30] It’s not what you know but who you know. Rules differ for certain segments of society. Greene was appointed EPA Regional 6 Administrator, effective March 31, 2003, by George W. Bush.[31]Consequently, on October 24, 1990, the syndicate announced their sweetheart deal, for a Public-Private Partnership, with the city of Arlington for a new state-of-the-art facility. A Master Agreement was entered into on December 4, 1990 between the City of Arlington, Texas, a municipal corporation of the State of Texas and the Texas Rangers, Ltd., a Texas limited partnership.[32]On November 13, 1990, the “City” called a referendum vote to authorize the levy and collection of an additional one-half cent sales and use tax within the City to be used to repay the Bonds amounting to $135 million. Arlington would hold the Referendum on January 19, 1991. A favorable vote was essential to enact the enabling legislation to authorize the transactions.[33] Arlington spent $150,000 on a public relations campaign with brochures, telemarketing and a “Hands Around Arlington Day” to convince the voters to approve of this tax increase. Greene and Bush spoke from the pulpit of Arlington’s Mount Olive Baptist Church. Bush claimed “A vote for the tax would be a vote for contracts for African American businesses.” No minority contracts were ever awarded.[34] With minimal opposition, citizens voted two-to-one for approval of the tax increase. “Between the sales tax revenue, state tax exemptions, and other financial incentives, Texas taxpayers handed the privately owned Rangers more than $200 million in public subsidies. Taxpayers didn't get a return from the stadium's surging new revenues. The profits went almost exclusively to the team's already wealthy owners.”[35] That is how Public-Private Partnerships work. For his managerial and spokesperson efforts, Bush was paid an annual salary of $200,000.[36]Additionally, according to the legal agreement, the Rangers retained all monies from “the concessions, parking, signage, sublease revenues, naming allowances, and any and all other revenue produced within the Facilities and would assume ownership of the stadium for $60 million after the bonds were paid. The City agreed that the Facility Lease Tract would be exempt from the sign ordinance of the City for signs within the Facilities.”[37] Baseball, a government-protected monopoly, has an exemption from all federal antitrust laws.Legislation, signed by Democratic Governor Ann Richards, was enacted to create the Arlington Sports Facilities Development Authority ASFDA (incorporated April 11, 1991) a quasi-governmental entity, a component of the City of Arlington which would give power to issue the necessary bonds and exercise eminent domain. ASFDA hired Hutchison Boyle Brooks & Fisher, P.C. to plan strategy, financing and to figure out how to minimize the amount of cash Bush and his partners had to spend. According to documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity the owners simply had to target the land they wanted. Then Mike Reilly, hatchet man real estate broker and Rangers investor, would offer to purchase the parcels of land at prices well below their market value. If the owners rejected his offer, AFSDA could seize their private property and a government court would determine the price.[38] Condemnation of private property, especially since the Kelo decision of June 23, 2005, is rampant. Although the foregoing seems irrelevant to the attempted land grab in southeast Colorado (or any other state) – it isn’t. Bibliography: Reinventing The Government Corporation by A. Michael FroomkiinFootnotes: 1, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst And Booth Creek Management Complete $1.4 Billion Acquisition Of Fresh Meat Business Of ConAgra Foods2, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Names Three New Partners, Adopts New Firm Name3, United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, See also HABITAT: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements4, Human Settlements (Habitat II)5, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)6, United Nations' Local Agenda 21 (LA-21) and Communitarian Development Programme by Niki Raapana7, National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) - April 19748, Prince Charles, the Sustainable Prince by Joan Veon9, Federal Register / Vol. 58, No. 126 / Friday, July 2, 1993 / Presidential Documents10, President’s Council on Sustainable Development11, National Partnership for Reinventing Government (formerly the National Performance Review), A Brief History by John Kamensky, January 199912, Al Gore: A User’s Manual by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Verso 2000, pgs. 172-18713, The United Nations’ Global Straightjacket by Joan Veon, 2000, pgs. 62-10414, Al Gore's Teapot Dome by Alexander Cockburn, July 17, 200015, Some Inconvenient Truths About Al Gore by Stephen Marshall, May 26, 200616, The Love Canal Tragedy by Eckardt C. Beck, January 197917, Occidental To Pay $129 Million In Love Canal Settlement18, The Buying of the President 2000 - Albert Gore, Jr., The Center for Public Integrity19, Al Gore: A User’s Manual by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Verso 2000, pgs. 172-18720, Hold the Oven Cleaner by Alexander Cockburn; See also: Al Gore: A User’s Manual by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, Verso 2000, pgs. 172-18721, 1st Global Forum on Reinventing Government, January 14, 1999, White House Press Release22, 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government23, The United Nations Exposed, the International Conspiracy to Rule the World by William F. Jasper, 2001, pgs. 79-8124, How George W. Bush Scored Big With the Texas Rangers by Charles Lewis, January 18, 200025, Bush Name Helps Fuel Oil Dealings By George Lardner Jr. and Lois Romano, Washington Post, July 30, 199926, One Thing is Crystal Clear: Clear Channel is a Subsidiary of Bush, Inc., April 18, 200327, The Buying of the President 2004, Who’s Really Bankrolling Bush and his Democratic Challengers – And What They Expect in Return by Charles Lewis and the Center for Public Integrity, pg. 13228, George W Bush: ‘War on Terror’ aka ‘War for Oil’29, Business Digest: Saturday, December 22, 199030, Joe Conason’s Journal, Bush expresses confidence the SEC will clear Cheney, but could that be seen as applying pressure on the agency? July 17, 2002, See also: Big Lies by Joe Conason, Thomas Dunne Books, 2003, pgs. 146-17031, Richard E. Greene Appointed EPA Region 6 Administrator32, Master Agreement Regarding Ballpark Complex Development33, Ibid34, Team Player, Texas Monthly By Joe Nick Patoski, June 199935, Right on the Money: The George W. Bush Profile, The Buying of the President 2000, Part 2 of 336, Team Player, Texas Monthly By Joe Nick Patoski, June 199937, Master Agreement Regarding Ballpark Complex Development38, Right on the Money: The George W. Bush Profile, The Buying of the President 2000, Part 2 of 3 © 2008 Deanna Spingola - http://www.newswithviews.com/Spingola/deanna92.htm

[Guest guest]

Dear NWRaven,

 

I read Deanna Spingola's article that you posted on the list (thank

you!)

 

I found Deanna's e-mail address online and sent her the following note.

 

Mary Jo

Madison, Wisconsin

 

>>>

Hi Deanna,

 

I saw the extensive work you did for your article on the News With

Views site and it's impressive!

 

[u.S. Military Targets Sourtheast Colorado]

 

I'm a writer in Madison, Wisconsin where I'm also a Weston Price

chapter leader. Price was a dentist who lived in Cleveland in the

1930s and he's considered to be a nutrition pioneer

(www.westonaprice.org). The purpose of the chapters (450 in the

country) is to put people in touch with farmers who sell high-quality

food directly to the public.

 

Wisconsin and Michigan are forerunner states for the USDA's National

Animal Identificiation System (NAIS) and the first step was to force

farmers to sign a " Premises ID, " an agreement which essentially

federalizes all farmland. In response to that and other draconian

measures, we are holding legal self-help meetings (e.g. the local

county health department has recently passed an egg rule that

requires farmers who sell eggs at farmers' markets to sign up for a

commerical food processor's license—regardless of the size of the

flock).

 

We're reading J. Jay Evenson's free e-book called Break the Rules and

Win (http://sfamerica.net/index2.html).

 

On the subject of federalization of land (or any other type of land

grab), here's an example of an important fact that Martha (Weston

Price co-chapter leader) presented at a recent self-help legal meeting:

 

Section 14 of the Wisconsin State Constitution declares that all land

is " Alloidal. " This concept is related to land patents and it means

that the farmers of Wisconsin who own their own land—have a

Constitutional right to their property.

 

See: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?

type=goto & id=WI.WIBlueBk1905 & isize=text & submit=Go+to+page & page=22

http://americansbulletin.blogspot.com

 

" …Alloidal title is when real property (i.e. land, buildings and

fixtures) is owned free and clear of any encumbrances, including

liens, mortgages and tax obligations. It is inalienable, in that it

cannot be taken by any operation of law for any reason whatsoever. "

 

We're focusing on Wisconsin's constitution (the most recent version)

and I'm wondering if Colorado's Constitution has a similar clause

that refers to " alloidal " land.

 

I did a Google search on " Alloidal " and found this article:

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=59270

 

I thought you might like the link.

 

Mary Jo

Madison, Wisconsin

 

 

 

 

U.S. Military Targets Southeast Colorado

 

Posted by: " NWRaven " NWRaven mm121elaine

Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:33 pm (PDT)

 

US MILITARY TARGETS SOUTHEAST COLORADO

PART 1 of 3

 

 

Deanna Spingola

May 11, 2008

 

Property seizures in other countries are considered totalitarian.

When they occur at the hands of the corporate-controlled U.S.

government they are apparently condoned and even facilitated by the

courts whose job it is to reign in this kind of abuse. The monopoly

media, including “conservative” talk radio, is an information

filtering system masquerading as “news.” They habitually conceal

government land grabs and other privatization schemes like the

current controversy in southeastern Colorado. The army is attempting

to seize property, claiming they need extra land to better prepare

the troops. What’s really behind this patriotic-let’s-help-the-troops

endeavor? Call it what they will, land seizure is land seizure and

violates the public trust.

What is it about Colorado and the military? In 1989, George H. W.

Bush’s administration wanted to store dangerous radioactive waste at

the Pueblo Army Depot but the state wisely objected.[1] Toxic waste

disposal is no longer an unmanageable issue – well-connected arms

manufacturers use it for bombs and bullets – kind of a double whammy

– if the bullets and bombs don’t kill them, the lethal residue causes

widespread cancer and horrific birth defects for future offspring of

those who absorb, inhale or swallow the deadly dust. The Pentagon and

their private contractors suppress the noxious nature of depleted

uranium. Earlier, they didn’t tell troops about Agent Orange. And the

citizens of Anniston, Alabama weren’t told about PCBs.[2] There are

thousands of such examples. The government consistently protects

corporate profits rather than citizens.