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Cliven Bundy and the Origins of the American Abundance Revolution
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | April 19, 2014 | James P. Pinkerton

Posted on 04/20/2014 12:27:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Today, in the year 2064, as we look back over the last 50 years, it might seem as if the Abundance Revolution was inevitable, since so much wealth was involved. After all, it was wealth just waiting to be unleashed.

Yet paradoxically, on the eve of the Abundance Revolution, many of America’s leaders, on the right as well as the left, were preaching a strict doctrine of overall austerity.

Indeed, as we look back and study the events of 2014, we can see the results of the Green elite’s ideologically-driven effort to squelch even the relatively small amount of prosperity that Americans were then enjoying. That is, it was the Green elites who unwittingly opened the door to the Abundance Revolution and the fantastic increase in wealth that Americans have since realized over the last half-century.

We can point to three events, all occurring in April 2014.

The first triggering event, now the stuff of lore and legend, was the incident in Bunkerville, Nevada, in which Cliven Bundy, then an anonymous citizen, joined by several hundred supporters, faced down a federal army led by an ally of then-Sen. Harry Reid. The incident began on April 5, 2014, when the federal government attempted to seize Bundy’s property; that attempt, which struck many as overkill, led to a series of confrontations that ultimately inspired national news coverage.

What highlighted the incident further were the comments of Sen. Reid, who referred to Bundy and his allies as “terrorists.” That seemed such an excessive reaction that observers grew curious as to why Reid felt so strongly....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: blm; bundy; bunkerville; economy; nevada
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1 posted on 04/20/2014 12:27:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ol’ Jim Pinky Pinkerton.

Haven’t seen anything by him for a while.

Maybe I just missed it.


2 posted on 04/20/2014 12:30:34 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When the Article V constitution convention meets, they need to consider the following:

“The United States Government shall never use armed force against Citizens of the United States of American. When force is required, it shall be the responsibility, and administered under the authority of, the local sheriff.”


3 posted on 04/20/2014 12:43:05 PM PDT by impactplayer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People researching Bundy Ranch also need to read this thread, for my comments especially. Maybe a hot lead.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3146627/posts


4 posted on 04/20/2014 12:46:28 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: impactplayer

I’m real leery of a constitutional convention, for many reasons. What’s to stop OFA, Soros, Bloomberg, International ANSWER, Occupy and many other such people from showing up and obliterating the constitution? Remember: Hitler gained power through legitimate means, not a coup de etat.


5 posted on 04/20/2014 12:46:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad; your strength and power are well known throughout the civilized world, as well as the high and gallant bearing of your sons. It is from within, among yourselves, from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition, and inordinate thirst for power, that factions will be formed and liberty endangered. It is against such designs, whatever disguise the actors may assume, that you have especially to guard yourselves.

Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address 1837

6 posted on 04/20/2014 12:48:37 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

You know, this thing called “history” will be re-written before it will even be brought up, if ever, in school to be taught, much less be a lesson for future generations on how repulsive big government, whomever is in charge, gets to be...

It will be up to the citizens, here and now, to continue to stand up and be counted, and take the battle right back at this elected caste of liberal destructionists, and the feckless “so-called” conservatives who enabled it to get this bad, all in the name of being nice and desiring to be cast in a good way with the propaganda machine in our national media, who work directly for those destructive politicians...

Just my take on it all...


7 posted on 04/20/2014 12:50:14 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fiction. Jesus comes back in October 2014, the Raputure occurs and a signifcantly large number of people disappear all over the world. The ones left behind consist of over a billion Muslims, Harry Reid types, politicians, and former millennial agnostics and athiests who wondered where there parents disappeared to and later turned their lives over to the Lord after seeing He is real.


8 posted on 04/20/2014 12:51:28 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most people do not think that will happen, especially the ones that desire to promote this procedure...

Those people believe they can control the delegates, and therefore correct the problems by filtering the voice of the people...

The forces of liberalism/socialism are just sitting back waiting for that opportunity, and the welcome mat will be rolled right out there in front of them and by then it’ll be too late...

Kiss the BoR’s away, and anything else that stands in the way of the Fabian socialists and their ilk...

But again, some people just do not see that potential...

And to be honest the desire to “filter” the delegation reeks of liberalism and it falls right into their template of how they conduct business in the first place...

But Nooooooo, “Steve, you need to lighten up!!! We can fix this!!!”


9 posted on 04/20/2014 12:55:07 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: stevie_d_64

The Articles of Confederation people thought they were going to “control” the Constitutional Convention. Remember?


10 posted on 04/20/2014 12:56:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: jsanders2001

Huh?


11 posted on 04/20/2014 12:57:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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.....the standoff between the government and the Nevada ranching family got rough as the govt flexed its federally financed muscle. Members of the Bundy family were physically assaulted by armed federal officers, numerous cows were shot dead, and protesters faced threats of federal gunfire for merely expressing their outrage. But the national perception is that a resounding victory against a tyrannical federally financed agency took place on the Bundy ranch.

Nevada Dimocrat Sen. Harry Reid had the audacity to call the peaceful pistol packers, ranchers, cattlemen, patriots, flag bearers, cowboys and cowgirls "domestic terrorists."

Keep in mind, the Reid family has enormous financial interests in the area. Harry seems to have access to billions of federal dollars that he spends as he pleases....with no accountability.

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At first glance this episode (below) looks like money-laundering tax dollars----with Reid, aiding and abetting Obama's desperation to use tax dollars to buy aye votes for Obamacare.

NOTE THAT Landrieu was willing to take $200 million for her aye vote------but Harry "accidentally" gave her $4.3 BILLION. The spread is enormous....what exactly happened to the rest of the money?

The billions could have been laundered through Landrieu then redeposited elsewhere.

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THE GRUESOME DETAILS: In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass Obamacare. He needed every Dimocrat on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage.

In Sen Mary Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars.

Obama complied. Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare. Not $200 million---but $4.3 billion for Landrieu was attached to the Obamacare bill.

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Where'd the money go? How $4.3 billion to Landrieu was attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Reid connived to get it there, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity.

The Reid/Obama payoff to Landrieu should be investigated:

(1) as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare in an historic straight party line vote,

(2) how federal monies might have been laundered into the campaign coffers of Dummycrats,

(3) how federal monies came to be used as Harry's personal piggy bank.

12 posted on 04/20/2014 1:00:52 PM PDT by Liz
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To: missnry
"...How then shall we perform it? At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

Abraham Lincoln, The Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838

13 posted on 04/20/2014 1:01:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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BLM Whistleblower Rusty Hill uncovered corporations and shady land deals connected to Reid Bunkerville LLC, Zion Bank Corp, and BLM lands surrounding the Bundy properties.

Every account held by Reid Bunkerville LLC (essentially secret bank accounts), and Reid-related energy/land accounts at Zion Bank Corp need to be unveiled ASAP.

Nevada flag bearers, pistol packers, ranchers, cowboys, cowgirls, militias, cattlemen, landowners/taxpayers, Bundy sympathizers, Oathkeepers, and other patriots, must demand the Bank Secrecy Act be employed to uncover and prosecute all of Reid's shady dealings.

Under the Bank Secrecy Act, banks are required to establish, implement and maintain programs designed to detect and report suspicious activity indicative of money laundering, and that might be indicative of govt fraud, embezzlement, and other financial crimes.

“The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted to protect the public from harm by identifying and detecting money laundering from criminal enterprises, terrorism, tax evasion, govt fraud, bank fraud, or other unlawful activities,” the special agent in charge for Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, explained.

L/E needs to examine the above-referenced bank and Reid-related accounts. ASAP.

<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer of govt funds. Govt monies may pay for personal and private expenses, credit cards, real estate subsidies and vehicle purchases.

<><> To cover their tracks, the principled might create fake invoices to show that money deposited into accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.

The scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from federal and state sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for the principles own use.

<><> L/E is directed to get ahold of: (1) copies of Reid checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) correspondence including e-mail, contracts, loan agreements, and, (8) any other books or records. L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.

<><> L/E should scrutinize bank accounts for suspicious activities: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.

<><> Bank records might also show diversions to other LLcs, secret offshore accounts, to operate personal businesses. Fraud can also be facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intrabank transfers from seemingly legit accounts into personal accounts on orders of the accountholders.

<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, vehicles, offshore travel and so on.

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REFERENCE When Madoff went to jail, investigators found Ponzi King Bernie had stashed billions offshore---into a labyrinth of financial and business entities.

COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACIES GALORE Some $8.9 billion was funneled to Madoff through a dozen so-called feeder funds based in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America......a labyrinth of hedge funds, management companies and service providers that, to unsuspecting outsiders, seemed to compose a formidable system of checks and balances. But the purpose of this complex architecture was just the opposite: the feeder funds provided different modes for directing money to Madoff in order to avoid scrutiny.

14 posted on 04/20/2014 1:01:26 PM PDT by Liz
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jsanders2001:".. a signifcantly large number of people disappear all over the world. The ones left behind consist of over a billion Muslims,
Harry Reid types, politicians, and former millennial agnostics and athiests who wondered where there parents disappeared to
and later turned their lives over to the Lord after seeing He is real."

iS THAT CALLED THE "RAPTURE "of God's return ??
..or the "rupture" of Statism and Socialism ??

15 posted on 04/20/2014 1:01:50 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can’t blame him for wishful thinkun’, hehehe...

We do not know when the Lord will come again...

Maranatha!!!

Sorry 2DV...I had to kinda throw this out there...

Mkayyyyy???

;-)


16 posted on 04/20/2014 1:03:04 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Liz

How is any of that money changing hands legal? Does it come from their political campaign contributions or is it somehow taxpayer dollars (which would be illegal use)?


17 posted on 04/20/2014 1:03:05 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Socialism cannot exist in abundance, because anything in abundance automatically becomes an alternative currency, which subverts the control of the state over things.

It can be said that the only place socialism can actually work is on the Moon, where *nothing* exists in abundance, so everything *must* be rationed.

Socialists realize this, so work very hard both to create shortage even in the middle of abundance; or at least the *appearance* of shortage. So they constantly campaign to “raise public awareness” that shortage exists in abundance.

As in, here we sit on a raft in the middle of a fresh water lake, full of potable water; yet they try and convince us that drinking water is in shortage, so we must do what they want and they will ration it for us. They then angrily attack anyone trying to get water for themselves by reaching overboard with a cup.

Look at food in America for a moment. One of the biggest problems that farmers have is that while a scant crop can be financially hard on them, a bumper crop can wipe them out. Even at the height of the Dust Bowl, when thousands of farms were destroyed, the farmers outside the region still produced so much food that it was not worth it to ship to market.

So even today, we have vastly more food than we could eat. So why is there the prospect of high inflation in food prices soon? Well, it has nothing to do with the food itself, and everything to do with bad government.

One final note is that “austerity” is often a lie. When the problem is that a government is too large and spends too much money, an “austerity” program that hurts the public but leaves the government untouched is the height of hypocrisy.


18 posted on 04/20/2014 1:04:32 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

WHAT IS A PATRIOT?

PATRIOTS are not “Revolutionaries” trying to overthrow the government of the United States.

PATRIOTS are “Counter-Revolutionaries” trying to prevent the government of the United States,
from overthrowing the Constitution of the United States. - Unknown Author


19 posted on 04/20/2014 1:09:27 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I WANT IT!!! for my children, my grand children and chillins everywhere!


20 posted on 04/20/2014 1:10:41 PM PDT by null and void (...if you are too sure of your place in heaven you might be too arrogant to actually get there.)
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