By Tera Dahl – 5/2/2014

On a recent trip to Egypt with a delegation of national security experts and journalists we had the opportunity to meet with senior-level Egyptian security officials, as well as several members of the country’s various religious and civil society movements. The message being disseminated in the Western press about Egypt is contrary to the reality on the ground.

A recent Los Angeles Times article repeats the accusation that Egypt’s response to terrorism is in fact the reason Egypt is in such trouble. This narrative has become entrenched in some circles of the US foreign policy establishment. To quote directly from the article, “…some U.S. officials warn that the Egyptian actions may alienate civilians and spur anti-American sentiment.”

The inference is that the al-Qaeda-affiliated political movement known as the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), ousted from government, continues to be the most important “civilian” political entity in the Arab world’s most populous nation and that the MB is a legitimate political actor. This is despite the Brotherhood being removed as a result of what may have been the largest popular democratic revolt in history, with tens of millions of anti-Brotherhood protesters flooding the streets in the summer of 2013 in rejection of the Brotherhood’s theocratic regime.

Having spent an extensive amount of time in Egypt since the removal of President Morsi last June, I can say with confidence that “anti-American sentiment” is currently at a dangerously high level, but not for the reasons many in the press cite. The animosity stems from America’s policies of not backing the Egyptian people and their war on terrorism.

On our recent trip, members of Egypt’s civil society, that very backbone which any future democratic polity must be built on, asked us why Washington is supporting terrorism and not supporting the Egyptian people and military in their…Read more at breitbart.com …

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Some pictures from the Obama engineered – “Arab Spring Revolution”.

The military just sentenced over 600 of the Muslim Brotherhood to be hanged. The Egyptian military has a long, long, history with the MB which is likely why they let the street demonstrations go on so long. They wanted to put stress on their organization by making them keep people in the streets 24/7 for longer than they planned on so they could identify as many of them as possible. As things dragged on people who would have otherwise stayed in the shadows had to come out to deliver supplies or messages, pay people in person rather than through the usual Friday at the mosque subtle stuff, take a shift in the streets so others could work at their regular job,and so on…

That made it possible for the Egyptian Military to identify the majority of the dedicated supporters and leaders so they knew who to imprison, deport, or just intimidate by letting them know they were going to be watched from now on. The military owns at least one third of the Egyptian industry so they can many of these people from getting a decent job or let them know that if they step out of line and they’ll lose their job.

It’s what Nasser did back in the fifties. He let the demonstrations go on until the MB were having their people, who had not revealed themselves up to that point, writing articles, and giving speeches, in the hope of pushing things over the edge…they lost. And I hope they lose this time…

Published on Jul 10, 2012 – “Rep. Michele Bachmann says the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist movement that recently came to power in Egypt, has made “deep penetration” within the U.S. government, and she wants an investigation of its influence within five federal agencies.” – “Young Turks”.

Video: “The Young Turks” are ridiculing Congress Michelle Bachmann when she called out the the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood in this administration.

They have an interesting name to say the least: The Young Turks and the Armenian Genocide: http://www.armenian-genocide.org/young_turks.html

One keeps finding Turkey (EU/US – and all NATO countries) behind most of the horrendous events taking place in the ME.

It was identified later that Michelle Bachmann was correct! This administration is also funding both the MB and their terrorist wing…without money they’d be starved out of existence!

by Steven Ertelt | Dublin, Ireland | LifeNews.com | 5/3/14

Thousands of pro-life people lined the streets of Dublin on Saturday to protest abortion and tell the government the pro-life movement in Ireland still strongly opposes its bill that was the first step to legalizing abortions.

The Fine Gael party promised voters it would not legalize abortion and the party broke that promise, speakers lamented. The pro-life movement gave a commitment not to sit back and accept the new law and the National Vigil for Life was a clear sign that millions of pro-life people in Ireland will not be breaking that promise, they said.

Pro Life Campaign vice president Cora Sherlock complained that the abortion bill the government pushed, saying the limited cases when abortions are allowed are allowed up to birth and that it refused to listen to information showing abortion hurts women.

“There is no evidence to show abortion helps women who feel suicidal. Why did the government ignore this fact last year?” Sherlock asked. “We are sick and tired of this government breaking promises it makes to voters. Crowds have taken to the streets yet again to show the government their opposition to this abortion law. It’s time they started listening.”

Below are some of the pictures from the event (courtesy Pro Life Campaign and attendees)

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by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 5/2/14

President Barack Obama has a laundry list of a pro-abortion record. He has promoted and supported abortion at every turn. He’s stacked his administration with abortion advocates, including former employees of top abortion advocacy groups.

Obama asked God to bless the Planned Parenthood abortion business and celebrated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which has resulted in the deaths of 57 million unborn children. It’s no shock that a pro-life advocate like James Dobson would refer to him as The Abortion President.

But, apparently, that was too much for a Democratic lawmaker — who stormed out of a prayer event with Dobson after he referred to Obama as such.

As the Washington Times reports:

Rep. Janice Hahn stormed from the event shortly after Mr. Dobson spoke, the Huffington Post reported.

Mr. Dobson’s remarks: “President Obama, before he was elected, made it very clear that he wanted to be the abortion president. He didn’t make any bones about it. This is something that he really was going to promote and support and he has done that, and in a sense he is the abortion president.”

Ms. Hahn told the Huffington Post the speech was “inappropriate” and a direct conflict to what was supposed to be a day of unity and national faith.

“He goes on about health care and … providing abortions and at that point, I stood up and I pointed my finger at Dr. Dobson and I said, ‘This is inappropriate,’ and I walked out,” she told the Post. “James Dobson hijacked the National Day of Prayer — the nonpartisan, nonpolitical National Day of Prayer — to promote his own distorted political agenda.”

The Huffington Post reported Mr. Dobson also read from a letter that his group recently mailed that spoke of “the Creator” not holding America “guiltless if we turn a deaf ear to the cries of innocent babies. So come and get me, Mr. President, if you must. I will not yield to your wicked regulations.” Source

It wouldn’t surprise me in the least, if she didn’t go there intentionally, in order to make a scene by walking out. It did get her some attention in the MSM – mission accomplished. Calling Obama the “Abortion President” or a part of the “Culture of Death” isn’t off the mark when one looks at his record. He want’s a no to death row (which we can agree on) but continues to fund and promote abortions. One is either a part of a Culture of Death (population control) or a Culture of Life.

by Dave Andrusko | London, England | LifeNews.com | 5/2/14

Back in February British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he would investigate allegations by a retired doctor that sick children were being euthanized. That charge by Michael Irwin came literally hours after the Belgian legislature voted to make the country became the first nation in the world to legalize euthanizing children. (The King subsequently signed the bill into law.)

Appearing on LBC Radio this week, Mr. Hunt said, “An investigation is now under way by my department.” He added, “The police are not involved at the moment. I’m afraid I am not in a position to comment because it is highly sensitive.”

There was considerable skepticism about Dr. Irwin’s motives in making his allegations, which came during a debate on LBC radio. The 82-year-old Irwin has claimed to have helped multiple people die at the Dignitas clinic in Zurich, Switzerland.

According to The Mirror newspaper, Irwin said, “It has happened in this country, very quietly. I know of one or two children over the last few years.” He explained, “It has been done under the pretext of what we call Double Effect where the child has been given huge doses of painkillers and so on, in order to relieve discomfort, pain and other symptoms.”

Back in February, the Mirror’s Andrew Gregory wrote

“Pressed by host Nick Ferrari whether the parents consented, Dr Irwin said: ‘That’s what I’m told, yes.’ Stunned Ferrari replied: ‘Right. Good lord.’”

Another comment Irwin made to Gregory only added to questions about his motives. Gregory wrote, “Dr. Irwin admitted he was ‘not completely happy’ about the move in Belgium as he said some children could be pressured into it by their parents.

”Having made that semi-qualifying statement, Irwin added, “Many children do develop great maturity about their illness and have perhaps a really genuine request that if nothing more can be done, they would receive euthanasia.

”Bioethicist Wesley Smith wrote that Irwin’s “hope, of course, is to normalize euthanasia in all its manifestations.” Smith added,

“The way things are going with Brits flying to Switzerland for assisted suicide, if the answer to the probe is yes, the call will not be to punish the child-killing doctors, but rather, to legalize their dark practice so it can be done in the light of day.”

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared at National Right to Life News Today.

http://www.lifenews.com/2014/05/02/are-british-doctors-following-belgium-in-euthanizing-sick-children/

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King Phillip of Belgium – Honory Member of the Club of Rome-

http://www.clubofrome.eu/organisation/

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“…the predictive systems and models of the Club of Rome were used by the Chinese to set up their brutal one-child policy. In 1978, a group of Chinese scientists visited several scientific conferences in Europe, and readily picked up on the ideas distributed by the Club of Rome. At the head of this Chinese delegation was a man credited for introducing China’s notorious one-child policies, source of so much hardship suffered by the Chinese people in the last decades. Robert Zubrin, senior fellow with the center for security policy, published an op-ed in the Washington Times, reaffirming that Greenhalgh’s study is correct. Zubrin wrote:

“In June 1978, Song Jian, a top-level manager in charge of developing control systems for the Chinese guided-missile program, traveled to Helsinki for an international conference on control-system theory and design. While in Finland, he picked up copies of “The Limits to Growthand: Blueprint for Survival”- publications of the Club of Rome, a major source of Malthusian propaganda – and made the acquaintance of several Europeans who were promoting the report’s method of using computerized “systems analysis” to predict and design the human future.”

To illustrate that the Global Matrix was further developed, the 1991 publication The First Global Revolution: A Report to the Club of Rome shows us that early on the common denominator was invented around which the world could rally, thereby creating a common purpose:

“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution,the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”

http://explosivereports.com/2013/06/19/club-of-rome-founder-proposed-global-matrix-of-manufactured-consent/

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More info here: The Green Agenda: Club of Rome – Club of Budapest – Club of Madrid

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The Club of Rome inspired the Chinese’ one child policy. The Western Countries Eugenic Practices inspired Hitler’s Eugenic System and the Aryan master race. The Great Irish Famine of 1740–1741 or Bliain an Áir – means Year of the Slaughter) was blamed on a potato blight. Ireland was/is a farming country – there were loads of other agricultural products but they were denied the Irish Catholic indigents since the food belonged to the thieves that stole the land from the Irish - land settled by Cromwell a century earlier (and before that by Elizabeth I). The Irish were only permitted to work on this English stolen land as serfs – if they were lucky. Bypassing the starving Irish, their abundance of food was sent from Irish docks to English under armed guards…much of it was then sent to feed their invading armies abroad. One wonders if it inspired famines in other countries….certainly an easy solution to a problem of  an over abundance of the “wrong sort”.

Culture of Life vs Culture of Death

May 4, 2014

There is an incredibly incestuous relationship between the media and the administration.

Because of this, and because of the media’s puppy love crush on Obama and desire to see him re-elected, the seven-hour-long slaughter of the ambassador and three defenders at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi and the administration’s role in facilitating it and covering up their fecklessness never received the attention it deserved.

Secretary of State Clinton’s refusal to provide the necessary security teams the ambassador repeatedly begged for, the murky arms dealings going on there, fallout from the unnecessary removal of the then-compliant Libyan head Kaddafi, and the refusal to send in troops to aid the beleaguered U.S. forces were all brushed aside by means of a dog-and-pony show about a barely viewed cockamamie video whose producer was quickly bundled off to jail before the paparazzi. Hillary, the president and even Colin Powell made appearances as the coffins of the 4 Americans slaughtered there arrived home and disingenuous expressions of sympathy and concern were uttered. All of this was a cheap show for the dummies. No one with any sense at all believed the official explanation even after Susan Rice — who had no operational part of the events nor firsthand knowledge of them — was trotted out with the fantastical story.

Efforts to get to the bottom of this have been routinely stymied and Congressional committees stonewalled by the malfeasants and their staffs. Judicial Watch, less constrained by law than the committees, finally got the smoking gun emails which establish beyond peradventure of doubt that the administration covered up the truth to boost Obama’s re-election.

As Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard reports:

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed last summer by Judicial Watch, the Obama administration last week released 41 documents related to the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012. An email from the deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, has received most of the attention. In it, Rhodes laid out four goals for Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who would be appearing on five Sunday talk shows 36 hours later. “To convey that the United States is doing everything that we can to protect our people and facilities abroad; To underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy; To show that we will be resolute in bringing people who harm Americans to justice, and standing steadfast through these protests; To reinforce the President and Administration’s strength and steadiness in dealing with difficult challenges.”

The Judicial Watch documents also included White House talking points for Rice, with possible questions and answers she might provide to meet the goals set out by Rhodes. These new White House talking points included a broad discussion of the Arab Spring and its challenges, as well as several specific references to the attacks in Benghazi — a mention of Ambassador Chris Stevens, a question on Benghazi intelligence, and a separate section under the header “Benghazi.”

The Rhodes email and new talking points went to many top Obama administration communications and political officials, including press secretary Jay Carney, communications director Dan Pfeiffer, and Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe.

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Top diplomats and intelligence officers in Libya offered assessments of the Benghazi attacks that were true when they made them and remain true today. But top Obama administration officials ignored those assessments. Six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, those officials — at the direction of White House communications and political strategists desperate to maintain the fiction that al Qaeda was “on the run” — lied to the public about how four Americans were killed in a sophisticated attack carried out, on the anniversary of 9/11, by terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda.

In case you missed it, Ben Rhodes’ brother, David, is the president of CBS who is reported to have stymied Sharyl Attkisson’s reporting of this and other Obama scandals.

To make matters worse for the administration, former NSC spokesman Tommy Vietor, who seems to have been awarded that slot because years before he volunteered to drive a press van for Obama’s senatorial campaign, appeared on Fox News, called Bret Baier “dude”, claimed to not recall his role in crafting the talking points as they were written ”like two years ago”, and conceded that Obama never was in the situation room when the battle in Libya was taking place.

In response to these disclosures, House Speaker John Boehner announced the formation of a select committee headed by Trey Gowdy (who does know how to ask questions of witnesses, unlike most of his colleagues) to investigate what happened at Benghazi and the administration’s handling of the incident. This seems to have compelled the Washington Post to cover the story. (Not on page one, however, where more important stuff like how Palestinian terrorists in Israel are smuggling out their sperm to impregnate their wives is covered instead.) Here, the story by Wesley Lowrey is cast as a Boehner concession to the far right and half the wordage is devoted to quotes from Democrats opposed to the expanded investigation for all the usual reasons — already investigated, old stuff, purely political — which the Clintons trailblazed. The paper didn’t use the expression “vast right wing conspiracy” though they said as much.

The NYT version of events (at page 11 below the fold) also pegged conservatives and political concerns as the impetus for Boehner’s move but was slightly more nuanced, noting: :

Conservative passion around the story is driven as much by the notion of a corrupt Obama White House as it is by a grievance that the news media has largely turned a blind eye.

Speaking of the unearthed email, Charles Krauthammer, the conservative pundit, said on Fox News recently, “To me, it’s the equivalent of what was discovered with the Nixon tapes.”

Maybe if we spread the word that one of the Kardashians was dating a guy named Ben Ghazi, low information ears would prick up at the sound of the name. Still, in both newspaper accounts the writers observe that, even with the full-blown lying and covering up and the media aid in concealing this mendacity, more than half of Americans believe the administration was hiding something even though a few percentage more thought the criticism was fueled by politics….

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/a_vocal_segment_of_the_right.html

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Journalism used to be an honorable profession, today there’s a revolving door policy where political hacks pretend to be journalists and journalists sell out to the highest political bidder – not unlike our politicians, revolving door with big business. They’re all lobbying each other and guess who isn’t in the sight of their greedy eyes…

50 per cent or more of our laws come from Brussels and it is vital that these decisions work in the interests of people and environment, and not just big business. Yet some of the most important people making decisions about how our lives are governed are too-cosy with big business. In recent years, a number of Commissioners, MEPs and top officials have walked through the ‘revolving door’ meaning that they have left their EU jobs and instead started working for big business. When this happens, big business gains inside-knowledge, vital contacts, and above all, powerful influence. This helps to make Brussels even more business-dominated and remote from citizens’ concerns and the public interest. With the European Parliamentary elections and a change in the Commission fast approaching, the EU revolving door is likely to start spinning again. Join us to block the revolving door and to prevent 2014 from becoming the ‘year of the revolving door’!

ALTER-EU demands the following:

• A revised Code of Conduct for Commissioners to include a three year cooling-off period for Commissioners taking lobby jobs (or any other job which provokes the risk of a conflict of interest) and a revamped Commission ethics committee
• Further changes to the EU’s Staff Regulations to better regulate the revolving door to include a two year cooling off period for officials

ALTER-EU has been campaigning for tougher rules to block the revolving door. See below for examples of the revolving door in practice.

Günter Verheugen was the former European commissioner for enterprise and industry who founded the European Experience Company, a consultancy firm together with his former head of cabinet Petra Erler. You can read more here.

Charlie McCreevy was the European commissioner for the internal market and later joined the boards of Ryanair, Sentenial and the bank BNY Mellon. You can read more here.

Jörgen Holmquist was Director-General of at DG internal market until June 2010. He then became a member of the European Commission’s task force for Greece, retiring from the Commission in June 2012. Four months later he started as an advisor at Brussels lobby consultancy Interel’s financial services practice. You can read more here.

Johan Gabrielsson worked at DG Enlargement for five years. He later became public affairs director at tobacco company Swedish Match since October. You can read more here.

To read about other revolving door cases, check out Corporate Europe Observatory’s RevolvingDoorWatch - http://www.alter-eu.org/revolving-doors/block-the-revolving-door

NY Daily News – May 5, 2014

Rahman Roslan/Getty ImagesMalaysian Acting Transport Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, shakes the hand of Chief Coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, on Friday in Kuala Lumpur. Houston told media the search for MH370 will continue in the Indian Ocean, but it could take a year to be located.

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A band of Al Qaeda-linked terrorists was reportedly being grilled Saturday over the disappearance of the missing Malaysian jetliner.

The 11 suspects — believed to be members of a terror group planning bomb attacks in Muslim countries — were arrested in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur and the state of Kedah last week, according to London’s Mail on Sunday.

The militants were rounded up at the request of international investigators, including the FBI and MI6, the paper reported.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/malaysia-al-qaeda-linked-terrorists-article-1.1778869#ixzz30pqd3uOR

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Comment from a poster at the NY Daily News site: “After all I have read about this mystery, I have come to a few conclusions that I want to share, especially after the Malaysian government issued their last statement.

Imagine this scenario…..Shortly after 1:00 a.m. the Malaysian military picks up a radar signal of an aircraft entering their National airspace. They initiate radio contact, but receive no response. Fighter jets are quickly scrambled to investigate. The fighter jets also fail to establish contact so after repeated threats to the aircraft to identify itself they are forced to shoot it down, as would any modern air force….that’s their job!

A few hours pass by and the military becomes aware of a missing passenger jet……..oops…….better start covering tracks………delay any word about seeing the aircraft for a week while sending search parties half a world away. Meanwhile, the Malaysian military has a week to clean up the debris from the shot down plane……

Any government would be hard pressed to admit that they had done such a thing. In this case, they seem to have gotten away with it. Only time will tell.” END

I can’t remember having heard that conjecture before…

So now it’s officially al-Qaeda – a little too convenient? I want to see the plane! And one can’t hekp be concerned about the possibility of a “false flag”.

Note: I still want to know about the 4 people who checked in but didn’t board the plane.

May 4, 2014

“A large number of terrorist Takfiri fighters in Syria, who bear Saudi and Chechnian nationalities and receive financial and military backup from the Saudi intelligence agency, have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, on several planes to help the Ukrainian army in its fight against the pro-Russian population,” an Arab security official told FNA on Sunday on the condition of anonymity due to the secrecy of the issue.

“The forces have been immediately dispatched to Kramatosk city in Eastern Ukraine, and are now fighting beside the Ukrainian army forces against the pro-Russians under the name of militias who support the government,” the source added.

The source explained that Saudi Arabia seeks to take revenge from Russia and pro-Russian people in Ukraine due to Moscow’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the war on rebel groups.

Last Summer, former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar reportedly offered Russian President Putin a deal, saying if Russia abandoned Syria, Saudi Arabia would protect the Sochi Olympics from Islamic terrorists. Putin angrily rebuffed the offer. In January, two terrorist bombings, for which the Saudis were blamed, happened only 400 miles away from the site of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

According to the leaked diplomatic account of last summer’s meeting, Bandar sought Russia’s cooperation on several Mideast concerns, including Syria, and told Putin, “I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us.”

Putin reportedly responded, “We know that you have supported the Chechen terrorist groups for a decade. And that support, which you have frankly talked about just now, is completely incompatible with the common objectives of fighting global terrorism that you mentioned. We are interested in developing friendly relations according to clear and strong principles.”

Besides safety for the Sochi Olympics, Bandar raised the potential of Saudi cooperation with Russia on oil and other investment matters, saying, “Let us examine how to put together a unified Russian-Saudi strategy on the subject of oil. The aim is to agree on the price of oil and production quantities that keep the price stable in global oil markets,” according to the diplomatic account.

A source close to the Russian government said in January that this mix of overt inducements and implied threats infuriated Putin who barely kept his anger in check through the end of the meeting with Bandar. Putin viewed Bandar’s offer to protect the Sochi Olympics as something akin to a Mafia don shaking down a shopkeeper for protection money by saying, “nice little business you got here, I’d hate to see anything happen to it.”

Putin then redoubled his support for the Syrian government in response to Bandar’s blend of bribes and warnings. The source said Russia also issued its own thinly veiled threats against the Saudis. The Saudis may have substantial “soft power” – with their oil and money – but Russia has its own formidable “hard power,” including a huge military, the source said.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930214000824

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These are paid mercenaries, they’re being sent in to guard something important, maybe  gold mines? They did the same when they were looting in the Balkans – think the media jackals called them “freedom fighters”. Meanwhile NATO includes Turkey, Sauds, Qatar…are preparing for WWIII. It was NEVER in the hands of the people as has been shown in the Colored Revolutions, Cedar Revolution (not finished since they never got the water), Arab Spring, Thailand and so on…Ukrainians should hide their rare and expensive museum pieces…

Emily Letts featured in slasher film about children being slaughtered

Paul Joseph Watson – May 6, 2014

Widespread revulsion in response to a video in which a woman celebrates her abortion by putting the video on YouTube is very apropos given that its star, Emily Letts, is an actress whose most recent movie was a horror flick centered around the slaughter of children.

Posted on Youtube March 14, 2014

Letts’ story went viral today after she penned a Cosmopolitan piece describing her decision to film her abortion and post it on YouTube as an “inspiration” for other women who are scared or guilty about terminating their pregnancy.

However, the most common reaction to the clip was abject disgust given that in the video Letts virtually celebrates killing her baby, smiling and humming throughout the procedure while describing herself as “lucky,” enjoying what she later described as “a special memory for me”.

At the end of the abortion, Letts blithely exclaims “Yay!….Cool. I feel good,” before explaining how she kept a sonogram of the baby as a memento.

Letts’ treatment of the abortion, which at the very least should be undertaken in a somber and regretful manner, as some kind of positive achievement prompted widespread denunciation.

Many will find it ironic – or just plain sick – that Letts is an actress who most recently played a role in a late night horror flick called Hallows’ Eve, a low budget “slasher” movie in which teenagers are violently murdered by a vengeful killer.

She also took a role in a 2010 movie called Clap on Clap Off about a girl who “discovers that she has gonorrhea in her throat”. In a clip from the film, Letts states, “the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else”.

Posted on youtube March 6, 2011

The fact that Letts is an actress based in Philadelphia was also highlighted by PhillyMag.com.

Given that she’s an actress from Philly, some will even question the legitimacy of Letts’ story.

Was she put up to the publicity stunt by someone else or was the entire performance entirely of her own making?

Whatever the case, her story has attracted widespread condemnation even from many on the left, who are equally disgusted at the practice of abortion being celebrated even if they support a woman’s right to choose.

A Huffington Post poll is currently running 60-40 in favor of a majority who think that Letts’ PR stunt was “delusional” and that “an abortion is never a ‘positive experience”. source

Medical Illustrations of Abortion Procedures

Suction Curettage Abortion: Description and Diagrams

D&E (Dilatation and Evacuation) Abortion: Description and Diagrams

A nurse comments on the benefit of using these diagrams in a Pregnancy Care Center

Partial-birth Abortion Diagrams

Photos of some of the tools used in abortion.

“Out of all the video games I have played and all the movies I have ever seen, I have never seen anything more violent than the pictures of these aborted babies.” Chris Daly Age: 19 Orlando, Florida

Baby Body Parts

Priests for Life has known for some time of the grisly trade in baby parts taking place in abortion facilities throughout the nation. Through the efforts of our friends at Life Dynamics, Inc., the details of this trade have come to light. You may obtain from Life Dynamics (1-800-401-6494) copies of the actual order forms used. Some of the forms request that there be no abnormalities. Many mistakenly think that abortions in later stages of pregnancy are performed only in cases of fetal abnormality.

Fetal tissue wholesalers are companies which place employees in abortion clinics to harvest tissue, limbs, organs, etc. from aborted babies. This material is then shipped to researchers working for universities, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies. Although it is against federal law to sell human tissue or body parts, these organizations have devised a system to circumvent this restriction. Technically, all fetal material they harvest is “donated” to them by the clinics. However, they do pay a “site fee” to the clinics for the right to access the tissue. The tissue is then “donated” to the researchers who in turn pay the wholesalers for the cost of retrieval. Profit is realized by the wholesalers’ ability to set their own retrieval fees.

See order forms for baby body parts in PDF format [One] [Two] [Three] [Four]

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PS: It’s been posted on youtube since early March and was watched by a couple of hundred people and thereafter sat dormant until Cosmo picked it up. She now money is exchanged and her much yearned notoriety…who knows many it’ll lead to her being an actress after all. She’s to be pitied.

Former Secretary of State complicit in terror group’s expansion

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
May 8, 2014

While Hillary Clinton has been vocal in drawing attention to the plight of 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria, she was in fact complicit in aiding the militant group in a number of different ways, including delaying the designation of the outfit as a terrorist organization, arming its allies in Africa and ignoring the slaughter of hundreds of Christians when she was Secretary of State.

Clinton reacted to the news that 200 schoolgirls had been kidnapped by Boko Haram this week by blaming the Nigerian government. Clinton also took part in the viral #BringBackOurGirls Twitter campaign that was similarly backed by Michelle Obama.

However, when Clinton was warned in 2012 that the group had been responsible for slaughtering hundreds of Christians as part of a brutal attempt to Islamize Nigeria and obliterate Christianity, she did nothing and the State Department refused to add the group to a list of terrorist organizations despite massive pressure from Congress, the CIA and the FBI.

During Clinton’s visit to Nigeria in August 2012, she was addressed in an open letter by Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor of the Christian Association Of Nigeria. Oritsejafor is a prominent figure in Nigeria and testified in the U.S. at a congressional hearing in July 2012.

In his letter, Oritsejafor notes that the State Department, headed at the time by Clinton, resorted to “distortions, omissions and in some cases clearly misrepresent(ed) facts on the ground” in Nigeria in 2011 during a time when 700 churches were destroyed and hundreds of Christians were massacred by Boko Haram terrorists, representing the “largest single attack on Christendom in contemporary world history anywhere on the planet”.

Clinton’s State Department completely omitted these attacks from its 2011 report, which erroneously claimed that more Muslims than Christians died in the attacks. As Oritsejafor points out, 88.3% of the attacks targeted Christians, while just 2.9% were attacks on Muslims.

A potential motive for the State Department turning a blind eye to Boko Haram’s wave of terror in 2011 is the fact that the Obama administration was simultaneously arming and supporting the very Al-Qaeda groups allied with Boko Haram in Africa.

Last year, the Bipartisan Policy Center noted that Al-Qaeda groups were enjoying a “revival” as a result of their presence in Libya and Syria, partly thanks to western support for extremists fighting against both Colonel Gaddafi and President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime.

One of these Al-Qaeda groups, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which later appeared in Syria, was armed and supported by the U.S. government during the assault on Libya and the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi, whom Hillary Clinton infamously referred to with her crass remark, “We came, we saw, he died”.

LIFG and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are both close allies of Boko Haram and have provided the terrorist group with weapons (undoubtedly by way of the U.S. government).

As Nile Bowie writes, “It remains highly documented that members of Al-Qaeda (AQIM) and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who fought among the Libyan rebels directly received arms and logistical support from NATO bloc countries during the Libyan conflict in 2011″.

This means that Boko Haram was one of the Al-Qaeda groups in Africa to have hugely benefited from the U.S. government’s role in overthrowing Gaddafi, which was vehemently supported by Hillary Clinton. Boko Haram also receives arms directly from Saudi Arabia, one of the United States’ biggest allies.

The Obama administration’s proxy support for Boko Haram was almost certainly one of the reasons why Clinton’s State Department failed to include the group on a list of terrorist organizations for years despite overwhelming pressure and clear evidence that the group had carried out atrocities.

As the Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin reports, What Clinton didn’t mention in her heartfelt response to the kidnapping of the schoolgirls, “was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen senators and congressmen.”

Given that the Obama administration’s policy since 2011 has been to aid and not apprehend the growth of Al-Qaeda groups in Africa as a method of achieving regime change in Libya and Syria, a policy that led to the Benghazi attack and its subsequent cover-up, Hillary Clinton’s crocodile tears for the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram represent little more than an insult to the victims of a group which her own State Department helped to protect. Source

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She won an award from Chatham House last year for her aide to women and children in the ME. Yet tens of thousands of Christians are being murdered every year and not a peep.

Note: Chatham House giving her an award means she’s next in line for presidency by the International Bankster Gangster Mafiosia!

Terence P. Jeffrey
May 8, 2014

The Center for Reproductive Rights, a non-governmental organization that advocates for legalized abortion, is urging the United Nations Committee Against Torture to tell the Catholic Church that “the freedom of speech and of religion” do not give the church the right to advocate against abortion.

When the committee met in Geneva on Monday for a hearing on the Vatican’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture, Vice Chairperson Felice Gaer, an American, said in her opening statement that laws that ban all abortion—which is the position of the Catholic Church–may violate the convention. She also repeated verbatim some language that had been in a letter the CRR had sent to the committee on April 11.

Gaer, however, did not quote the section in CRR’s letter that urged the committee to tell the church that the freedoms of religion and speech did not give the church a right to advocate against abortion.

CRR’s letter included several recommendations for how the Committee Against Torture should deal with Catholicism.

CRR recommended: “Urge the Holy See to refrain from negatively interfering publicly or privately in women’s or legislators’ decisions concerning access to abortion and to support states as they attempt to align their policies on women’s reproductive rights with their obligations under the convention.”

CRR also recommended that in its upcoming report on the Vatican’s compliance with the Convention Against Torture, the committee should: “Note that the Holy See’s actions are a violation of Articles 1, 2 and 16 of the Convention Against Torture and that the rights of freedom of speech and of religion extend only so far as they do not undermine women’s reproductive rights.”

CRR further argued to the committee that the church’s moral prescription against abortion violates the Convention Against Torture.

“The Holy See’s canon law on abortion constitutes an absolute ban and thus violates its obligations under Articles 1, 2, and 16,” said the letter to the committee.

“As the Holy See’s policy on abortion does not permit abortion in any circumstances, it prima facie fails to prevent torture and ill-treatment of women who seek abortion,” says the letter.

At Monday’s hearing, Vice Chairperson Gaer used part of her opening statement to tell the Vatican’s representatives there that banning abortion in all circumstances could violate the convention.

Citing unnamed NGOs, she referred to instances of Catholic opposition to abortion that had been specifically cited in CRR’s letter to her committee and at one point she quoted verbatim a statement from the European Court of Human Rights exactly as it had been quoted in CRR’s letter.

“Now, the committee has found that laws–and this committee has found this repeatedly–that laws that criminalize termination of pregnancy in all circumstances can violate the convention,” said Gaer.

“I am wondering, first of all, if you are aware of the committee’s jurisprudence on this issue, whether there have been efforts to inform Holy See officials about this aspect of the committee’s work, and have you reviewed the information received by the committee from NGOs about therapeutic abortions to save the lives of the mother,” said Gaer.

“They presented cases of a nine-year old Brazilian girl victim of sexual abuse, a nine-year old Nicaraguan named Rosa, an El Salvadoran Beatrice, and the case of P in Poland,” said Gaer, referring to cases cited in CRR’s letter.

“They cite the European Court of Human Rights, noting, and I quote, ‘the general stigma attached to abortion and to sexual violence has been shown to deter women from seeking medical care, causing much distress and suffering both physically and mentally.” Unquote. That is the European Court,” said Gaer. It is also exactly the citation quoted to the Gaer’s committee on page 8 of CRR’s letter.

“I am wondering how you respond to these concerns, and the concern of NGOs, that a ban in all circumstances puts women’s lives and health at risk and can cause women severe pain and suffering,” Gaer rhetorically asked the Vatican representatives sitting across from her.

In targeting Catholic teaching on abortion, the U.N. Committee Against Torture is following in the footsteps of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child. Earlier this year, that committee explicitly called on the Vatican to change Catholic teaching on abortion.

“The Committee urges the Holy See to review its position on abortion, which places obvious risks on the life and health of pregnant girls, and to amend Canon 1398 relating to abortion with a view to identifying circumstances under which access to abortion services may be permitted,” the Committee on the Rights of the Child said in a Feb. 25 report on the Vatican’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Catholic Association, a group of Catholic laypersons who defend the church and its teachings, has been sharply critical of U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child and the UN Committee Against Torture for targeting the moral teaching of the Catholic Church.

“The United Nations has becoming increasingly hostile to people of faith and particularly to Christians and specifically to Catholics and the teachings on life and marriage and family,” Maureen Ferguson, the senior policy advisor for The Catholic Association, told CNSNews.com.

“In this instance, regarding the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the UN not only lectured the Catholic Church, but told them to actually change Canon Law, to essentially tell the Catholic Church you can’t be Catholic,” she said.

“The U.N., of course, has no jurisdiction whatsoever to do this,” she added. “The Catholic Church is made up of a billion people worldwide. The Catholic Church is not the confines of the Vatican city state, which is a member of the U.N.

“The irony here is just unbelievable,” she said, “that in the name of the rights of the child, on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations is telling the church you have to change your position on the protection of children, on abortion.

“And now we are looking at this committee on torture,” she said. “What could be more torturous to a child than the literal dismemberment of a living human being that is abortion?” CNS News

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Related:

Abortion is Killing – Science says so

Pepe Escobar
May 8, 2014

The International Monetary Fund has approved a US$17 billion loan to Ukraine. The first $3.2 billion tranche arrived on Wednesday.

It’s essential to identify the conditions attached to this Mafia-style “loan”. Nothing remotely similar to reviving the Ukrainian economy is in play. The scheme is inextricably linked to the IMF’s notorious, one-size-fits-all “structural adjustment” policy, known to hundreds of millions from Latin America and Southeast Asia to Southern Europe.

The regime changers in Kiev have duly complied, launching the inevitable austerity package – from tax hikes and frozen pensions to a stiff, over 50 percent rise on the price of natural gas heating Ukrainian homes. The “Ukrainian people” won’t be able to pay their utility bills this coming winter.

Predictably, the massive loan is not for the benefit of “the Ukrainian people.” Kiev is essentially bankrupt. Creditors range from Western banks to Gazprom – which is owed no less than $2.7 billion. The “loan” will pay back these creditors; not to mention that $5 billion of the total is earmarked for payments of – what else – previous IMF loans. It goes without saying that a lot of the funds will be duly pocketed – Afghanistan-style – by the current bunch of oligarchs aligned with the “Yats” government in Kiev.

The IMF has already warned that Ukraine is in recession and may need an extension of the $17 billion loan. IMF newspeak qualifies it as “a significant recalibration of the program.” This will happen, according to the IMF, if Kiev loses control of Eastern and Southern Ukraine – something already in progress.

Eastern Ukraine is the country’s industrial heartland – with the highest GDP per capita and home of key factories and mines, mostly in the Donetsk region, which happens to be largely mobilized against the neo-fascist/neo-nazi-aligned regime changers in Kiev. If the current conflagration persists, this means both industrial exports and tax revenues will go down.

So here’s the IMF prescription for the oligarch bunch – some of them actively financing Right Sector militias: As long as you’re facing a popular rebellion in Eastern and Southern Ukraine, relax; you will get additional IMF cash further on down the road. Talk about a crash course in disaster capitalism.

We want you to invade

Meanwhile, the Obama administration’s juvenile delinquent school of diplomacy remains on track: the plan is to entice Moscow to “invade.” (2)

Benefits would be immense. Washington would destroy once and for all the emerging strategic partnership between the EU, especially Germany, and Russia, part of a more organic interaction between Europe and Asia; keep Europe perennially under America’s thumb; and boost Robocop NATO after its Afghan humiliation.

Well, they are not juvenile delinquents for nothing. Yet this brilliant plan forgets a key component: enough competent troops willing to apply Kiev’s designs. The regime changers dissolved the Berkut federal riot police. Big mistake – because they are pros; they are unemployed; and now, holding a monster grudge, amply supporting Ukrainians in favor of federalization.

What the Ministry of Truth script imposed on all Western corporate media insists on labeling “pro-Russian separatists” are in fact Ukrainian federalists. They don’t want to split. They don’t want to join the Russian Federation. What they want is a federalized Ukraine with strong, autonomous provinces.

Meanwhile, in Pipelineistan…

Washington is actively praying that the confrontation between the EU and Russia on the gas front spirals out of control. Natural gas will amount to 25 percent of the EU’s needs up to 2050. Since 2011 Russia is the number one supplier, ahead of Norway and Algeria.

The bureaucrat-infested European Commission (EC) is now concentrating its attacks on Gazprom on the South Stream pipeline – whose construction starts in June. The EC insists that the agreements already struck between Russia and seven EU countries infringe the laws of the EU (how come they didn’t find that out earlier?). The EC would like South Stream to become a “European,” not a Gazprom project.

Well, that depends on a lot of serious diplomacy and the internal politics of various EU member states. For instance, Estonia and Lithuania depend 100 percent on Gazprom. Some countries, such as Italy, import over 80 percent of their energy; others, such as the UK, only 40 percent.

It’s like the EC suddenly woke up from its usual torpor and decided that South Stream is a political football. Günther Oettinger, the EU’s energy commissioner, has been blaring the horn of EU competition laws called “the third energy package” – which would essentially require Gazprom to open South Stream to other suppliers. Moscow filed a complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Rigorous application of recently unearthed EU law is one thing. Facts on the ground are another. South Stream may cost up to 16 billion euros – but it will be built, even if financed by Russia’s state budget.

Moreover Gazprom, in 2014 alone, has already signed extra deals with German, Italian, Austrian and Swiss partners. Italy’s ENI and France’s EDF are partners from the start. Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria are deeply involved in South Stream. No wonder none of them are in favor of more sanctions on Russia.

As for any substantial move by the EU to find new supply sources, that’s a process that should take years – and should involve the best possible alternative source, Iran, assuming a nuclear deal with the P5+1 is struck this year. Another possible source, Kazakhstan, exports less than it could, and that will remain the case because of infrastructure problems.

So we’re back to the Ukrainian tragedy. Moscow won’t “invade.” What for? The IMF’s structural adjustment will devastate Ukraine more than a war; most Ukrainians may even end up begging Russia for help. Berlin won’t antagonize Moscow. So Washington’s rhetoric of “isolating” Russia is just revealed for what it is: juvenile delinquency.

What’s left for the Empire of Chaos is to pray for chaos to keep spreading across Ukraine, thus sapping Moscow’s energy. And all this because the Washington establishment is absolutely terrified of an emerging power in Eurasia. Not one, but two – Russia and China. Worse: strategically aligned. Worse still: bent on integrating Asia and Europe.

So feel free to picture a bunch of Washington angry old men hissing like juvenile delinquents: “I don’t like you. I don’t want to talk to you. I want you to die.”

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Shame, since the ousted democratically elected president made a good deal with Russia. Russia cancelled Ukraine’s debt, agreed to give low cost energy for a number of years, and giving Ukraine ? amount of $billions – less than the EU but still a substantial amount of money. I’m not saying Putin is the greatest but he’s a heck of a lot better than the International Bankers who’ve caused all the invasions, wars and famines throughout history without blinking as eye. We’re all working for these fiends – was hoping Ukraine didn’t put themselves in their cross-hairs.

Ramirez Group wins two hefty navigator contracts.

Democratic political consultant with ties to Senate majority leader Harry Reid has secured some of the most lucrative contracts in Reid’s home state.

Throughout the last year, Andres Ramirez, a former Reid aide, has won $2.5 million in grants to help sign people up for Affordable Care Act insurance in Nevada.

Ramirez’s wife Jackie, who is listed on the award notice as the fiscal contact, was also a Reid aide for nearly ten years.

Ramirez runs the Ramirez Group, a Nevada-based political consultancy. Know Your Care, a national 501(c)(3) non-profit that promotes the Affordable Care Act, hired the Ramirez Group as its representative for Nevada.

But Ramirez insists the award was competitive.

“Senator Reid had nothing to do with awarding us the contract,” Ramirez tells National Review Online. “We competed fairly with the other navigator programs.”

On July 3, 2013, the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange awarded Know Your Care a grant worth $1,027,665 to “provide Navigator and Assister program activities.” According to officials at Silver State, this grant included $36,084 of exchange fees. The rest of the grant came from federal funds.

But Know Your Care never received grant funding because on July 19, Ramirez changed the primary grantee for the award from Know Your Care to the Ramirez Group. Officials with the health exchange have said this decision has primarily to do with ensuring the labor laws and tax policies that applied were local; Know Your Care is based in Washington, D.C., and the Ramirez Group is based in Nevada.

Also, when Ramirez changed the grantee name, he listed Jackie Ramirez as the new fiscal contact for the grant.

The previous fiscal contact had been Tanya Bjork, an executive director at Know Your Care. According to Ramirez, Bjork left Know Your Care to pursue other opportunities. Her LinkedIn profile says she is now a partner at Capital Navigators Inc., a state-level lobbying firm in Madison, Wis.

In 2005, Bjork pleaded no contest to charges that she altered records and illegally solicited campaign funds while she was chief of staff to former Wisconsin state senator Brian Burke.

Know Your Care did not respond to an e-mail inquiry requesting an interview, and Tanya Bjork also could not be reached for comment.

On April 23, 2014, Silver State gave notice of another grant awarded to the Ramirez Group, this time for $1,563,054. This grant is entirely funded by the federal government, according to officials at Silver State. The grant is set to expire on February 15, 2015. This grant makes the Ramirez Group the largest navigator-contract grantee in the state so far this year.

Ramirez began his political career as a legislative aide to Reid. After working on Reid’s staff for a year and a half, he joined the Washington office of Nevada governor Bob Miller as a deputy director, promoting the state’s legislative agenda in Congress. The U.S. Strategies Corporation, a lobbying group, hired Ramirez as a Legislative Affairs Specialists after Miller’s retirement. In addition to political consulting, the Ramirez Group also specializes in public relations and community outreach.

When asked if there was a possibility that some of the grant money could leak to other areas of the business, Ramirez responded that “all government contracts in Nevada are part of the public record.”

“The state doesn’t give us all the grant money upfront,” adds Ramirez. “We submit reports of our work activity and costs, and request funds to cover those costs which have already been incurred. The state then evaluates those requests, and pending adequate documentation (receipts and such) then they issue a reimbursement of funds. The opportunity for me to use funds from this project on other activities does not exist.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/377574/former-reid-staffers-strike-gold-silver-state-alec-nixon

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Note: Jackie Ramirez was Regional Representative for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid – Legislative Office industry from 1992– 2001 (9 years)Las Vegas, Nevada Area. Responsible for community outreach and constituency services.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jacki-ramirez/2a/b0b/8a9?trk=pub-pbmap

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Marco Rauda, [Ramirez] Associate & Campaigns Manager

Marco Rauda is the organization’s political expert. An experienced political organizer for several years, Rauda handles several of the company’s political campaigns and political clients.Prior to working at Ramirez Group Rauda served as the Deputy Political Director for the Rory Reid for Governor Campaign in Nevada and was instrumental in organizing the Nevada Democratic Caucuses on behalf of the State Democratic Party. He later oversaw successful voter registration and mobilization programs by targeting and becoming an expert on Hispanic issues. His areas of political experience and passion lie in immigration, civic engagement and environmental issues although he enjoys learning about a variety of topics. His experience working in these fields enables him to take complex messages and issues, and develop concise language and strategies that will penetrate target audiences.

Currently, Marco serves as a Commissioner for the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority.

http://ramirezgroup.com/marco-rauda-associate/

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Justin McAffee, Associate & New Media Manager

From content writing, computer wiring and live stream video, Justin McAffee is the company maverick. His range of skills allow him to take part in a variety of the company projects and many clients. McAffee has several years of experience working on online marketing and promotion and new media for political consultants and nonprofit organizations. The majority of his work is in the political arena working on state-wide and local campaigns and also as a key organizer of one of the largest demonstrations in Carson City history.Justin is the publisher of a political blog called The Nevada View, which has earned the recognition of the Washington Post’s “Best State-Based Political Blogs,” as well as being awarded the “Most Valuable Blogger Award” by the local CBS affiliate in 2011. [MC - CBS managing director is a brother of WH advisor to Obama]

Always one to continue learning and growing professionally Justin recently graduated from the New Organizing Institute’s New Media Bootcamp in Washington D.C. McAffee studied political science at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the College of Southern Nevada. When not blogging or typing you can find Justin checking out the new downtown LV scene or trekking through the back country of some of Nevada’s breathtaking wilderness areas. Downloadable Media Kit (Includes Bio Text File, Photo, and PDF)

http://ramirezgroup.com/justin-mcaffee-associate/

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Ramirez Group member: Jennifer Fleischmann – Deputy Finance Director for Rory Reid for Governor -  January 2010– November 2010 (11 months)Las Vegas, Nevada Area. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jennifer-fleischmann/82/3ab/275

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Ramirez Group: Carolina Chacon provides a variety of public relations services, from managing social media to planning …Prior to joining Ramirez Group, Carolina worked for Obama for America, the President’s reelection campaign, starting as an organizing fellow and later becoming the state’s blogger and digital content manager. After the hard-fought but successful campaign, Carolina served in the Presidential Inaugural Committee, where she helped coordinate more than 40 non-profit organizations and 400 volunteers in Nevada for the 2013 National Day of Service. She brings years of writing, new media, advocacy and community outreach experience to Ramirez Group.http://ramirezgroup.com/carolina-chacon/

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Ramirez Group: Emily McIlveene provides campaigning and administrative services, drawing on her experiences from more than a decade in the political arena. She currently directs Ramirez Group’s largest client, Nevada Health Link, overseeing 40 Assisters who enroll Nevadans throughout the state into the new health insurance marketplace. She also acts as executive assistant to Andres Ramirez, our company’s president. http://ramirezgroup.com/emily-mcilveene/

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Ramirex Group: Christian Gerlach …he also coordinates events, builds partnerships and recruits volunteers on behalf of the firm. Fervently passionate about the environment, Christian devotes any spare minute of free time to defending Nevada’s water supply from fracking efforts. He works with the non-profit group Sierra Club and other conservation groups to champion the issue, and is frequently interviewed by local media to discuss the quality and protection of the state’s waters. http://ramirezgroup.com/christian-gerlach/

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Ramirez Group: Emily Sandoval is a community outreach specialist at Ramirez Group. With years of experience as a field volunteer in electoral campaigns, Emily knows how to engage and mobilize people around any cause or product. http://ramirezgroup.com/emily-sandoval/

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Comment at the site by Marc Jeric•a day ago

By Debbie Coffey

Investigative Journalist/PPJ

Copyright 2011 All Rights Reserved

“It’s ironic that this mining deal involves the words hope and liberty, because what this really represents is that we are losing both for our country. You can see it on the faces of the farmers and ranchers at this meeting.”

Part 1 – December 7, 2010

It seems like there’s not much hope for Mt. Hope in Nevada. A brave group of American farmers and ranchers (and so far, Eureka County, NV) are all that is standing between our valuable American resources and water rights, and a Chinese company that has taken a $745 million loan from a bank fully owned by the Chinese Government.

Mt. Hope is about 23 miles northwest of Eureka, NV, and contains the world’s largest and highest grade undeveloped molybdenum project, the Mt. Hope Project.

What is molybdenum? It has the 6^th highest melting point of any element, and is used in nuclear reactors, high temperature superalloys, aircraft parts, electrical components, high strength steel alloys, high pressure and high temperature applications, medical applications, gas and oil pipelines to prevent leaks, and as a catalyst in oil refining. It is also a catalyst in liquefaction (helping refiners meet EPA and EEU pollution emission standards) and co-processing, the process of liquefaction of tires and plastics. Demand is increasing in the green industry since it’s used in the production of pipes and tanks that transport biofuels, which are corrosive. Molybdenum is also used in thin film CIGS solar panels, which are less expensive than traditional solar cells.

General Moly is 25% owned by Hanlong USA Mining, a subsidiary of Sichuan Hanlong Group, a Chinese “private enterprise.” Sichuan Hanlong Group recently received a $1.5 billion loan from the Export-Import Bank of China (China Eximbank) to support its investments in overseas mining opportunities, with $745 million towards General Moly. The Export-Import Bank of China is fully owned by the Chinese government and under the leadership of the State Council. It’s a “government policy bank.” Hanlong mining’s website states “China is on a long term growth path to becoming the world’s largest economy” and that Hanlong is “undergoing a period of rapid international expansion.”

China is securing molybdenum resources. China has been the world’s largest producer of molybdenum, supplying almost a third of global supplies. Increasing global demand may prompt China to restrict exports. This may cause the price of molybdenum to rise significantly. In October, 2010, China’s Ministry of Land and natural Resources declared molybdenum a strategic metal.

Our National Academy of Science defines strategic metals as those that are important in use and subject to potential supply restrictions. Strategic metals are critical to our national security. If a foreign company owns OUR supply of a strategic metal, could this company potentially restrict our use of the metal and sell it elsewhere in the world? If Hanlong ever went “belly up,” would the Chinese government bank take over General Moly? If molybdenum is strategic for China, shouldn’t it also be strategic for the U.S.A.? Why are we letting a foreign country have any control of this resource?

General Moly (Idaho General Mines, Inc. in 2004) owns 80% of Mt. Hope Project, and the other 20% is owned by POSCO (Pohang Iron and Steel Company) of Pohang, South Korea. Mt. Hope has about 1.3 BILLION pounds of molybdenum.

General Moly also owns 100 % the Mt. Liberty Project on a royalty free basis. Mt. Liberty is a molybdenum mine 25 miles northwest of Tonopah, Nevada and contains 503 million pounds of molybdenum. General Moly claims these are the two best molybdenum projects in the world, and once production commences, General Moly is expected to become the world’s largest primary molybdenum producer.

It’s ironic that this mining deal involves the words hope and liberty, because what this really represents is that we are losing both for our country. You can see it on the faces of the farmers and ranchers at this meeting.

The only reason I heard about Mt. Hope was because I went to Tonopah, NV to observe the BLM rounding up our wild horses. The Paymaster Herd Management Area (HMA) is about 100,500 acres and the BLM removed 45 “excess” horses, leaving only 23 wild horses on 100,500 acres. The Montezuma HMA is 77,931 acres, and the BLM removed 78 wild horses and 61 burros, leaving only 3 wild horses and 10 burros on 77,931 acres. The BLM claims they rounded up “excess” horses to protect the range from degradation and to strive for a “thriving natural ecological balance.” I’d like them to explain how one horse per every 1,000 or 1,500 acres could possibly degrade the range. A horse only drinks about 15 gallons of water per day.

This is almost ludicrous in comparison to this: the Mt. Hope Project will need 7,000 gallons of water per minute (gpm) for the life of the mine (40-50 years) and will draw 11,300 acre feet annually (afa) from the aquifer. The project layout shows that one waste dump will hold 650 million tons, the tailings facility will hold 435 million tons, another waste dump will hold 125 million tons, and the Ultimate Pit, the open pit, will have 669 million tons of “resource” dug out of it, and will take 1,220 years to reach equilibrium. (In 44-50 years when General Moly finishes mining, and this pit fills with water, for every gallon that evaporates out of it, a gallon of water will be drawn from the aquifer beneath it.)

Considering the issues above, the BLM seems to be in violation of the Federal Land Policy & Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), which mandates them to manage public lands and various resource values so that they are utilized in the combination that will best meet the present and future needs of the American people…not necessarily to uses that give the greatest economic return.

A General Moly presentation claims the BLM has agreed not to protest General Moly’s water rights, and that the Battle Mountain BLM is “eager” to finish the EIS process and that “the Battle Mountain BLM office has full authority on Record of Decision (ROD).

Although the farmers and ranchers have asked to see a water drawdown map of 5 feet, the BLM has only required General Moly to provide a water drawdown map of 10 feet. The BLM has also not required General Moly to provide a water drawdown map of 20, 30 or 40 feet.

The Mount Hope Project and Liberty Project aren’t mentioned on any of the BLM Field Office websites.

As a matter of fact, it seems pretty hush hush. I tried to get a copy of the minutes of the Sept. 30, 2010 Northeastern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council (RAC) meeting (they advise the BLM), which had plans about mineral projects on the agenda. However, the Associate District Manager of the Elko Field Office told me the minute taker was “swamped” and they did not have a target date to get them completed. This meeting was over 2 months ago…so nobody else in that office can type?

I also asked the BLM if the public could attend the really important meeting that BLM is having with General Moly and other government agencies the week of Dec. 13, 2010 to discuss the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), but was told by the Battle Mountain Field Office that it was an “internal meeting.” Our tax dollars are paying for the BLM building and government employee salaries, but we aren’t allowed to attend this meeting? By the time the public is allowed to attend public meetings and has the “opportunity to provide feedback” this will pretty much be a done deal.

I happened to notice there was a meeting at the Nevada Division of Water Resources in Carson City, Nevada, regarding 88 water rights applications by General Moly subsidiary Kobeh Valley Ranch LLC. (General Moly also wants to buy up the water rights of nearby farmers and ranchers.) This decision rests on the shoulders of one man, Jason King, Nevada’s State Engineer.

In today’s meeting, Dwight Smith, owner of Interflow Hydrology, Inc. while testifying on behalf of his client, General Moly, referred to the BLM as a “stakeholder.” What is BLM’s stake?

This small group of our farmers and ranchers didn’t sell out for money offered. They’re standing strong. They use words like “community” and “our future” when talking about this issue. If you’d like to support them:

Attend a meeting on Dec. 9 and 10, 2010 (9 a.m. – 4 p.m.) at Nevada Dept. of Water Resources, 901 S. Stewart Street, room #2002, Carson City, NV 89701

Or call BLM Battle Mountain District Office: Gerald Miller, District Manager (775) 635-4000

BLM Nevada: Ron Wenker, State Director (775) 861-6590

SOURCES:

www.generalmoly.com

www.hanlongmining.com

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40252546/

www.criticalstrategicmetals.com

www.strategicmetal.com

www.metal-pages.com

www.chinamining.org

http://english.eximbank.gov.cn/profile/intro.shtml

http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/res/resource_advisory.html

www.blm.gov

www.thefederalregister.com

www.wealthdaily.com

http://www.e-mj.com/index.php/news/us-a-canada/297-general-moly-gets-major-investment-for-mt-hope.html

http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/reser092205.html

Source – http://ppjg.me/2010/12/07/chinese-government-money-is-buying-one-of-u-s-a-%E2%80%99s-biggest-mines/

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Part II  – January 1, 2011

Nevada is one of the most seismically active states in the U.S.A., ranking third after California and Alaska. Nevada’s many faults are found at the base of almost every mountain range.

A proposed molybdenum mine at Mt. Hope, near Eureka, Nevada, (owned by General Moly) seems to be located near the Diamond Valley Fault zone, the Western Diamond Mountains Fault zone and the Diamond Mountains Fault zone.

On Feb. 21, 2008, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook Wells, Nevada and caused extensive building damage. This earthquake occurred on a previously unmapped fault.

The U.S. National Park Service states “While earthquakes don’t occur at any regular interval, historically the frequency of an earthquake of magnitude 6 or higher has been one every 10 years, and for magnitude 7 or higher, one every 27 years.”

Even the drilling from geothermal projects causes little earthquakes. A magnitude 4.5 was reported at The Geysers in Lake and Sonoma counties in California.

Could an earthquake cause Mt. Hope’s tailings pipeline to rupture, or damage buildings, equipment or the lining of the pit tailing pond?

Eureka Moly (a consolidated subsidiary of General Moly) sent brochures to Eureka residents declaring “A Eureka Moment! Eureka Moly will protect water resources in the region”

How can Eureka Moly promise this?

Even without an earthquake, there are potential problems. In an article titled “False Promises: Water Quality Predictions Gone Wrong: Large Mines and Water Pollution” (Earthworks/MPC 2004) it states that “Water quality impacts from hard rock mines are very difficult to predict. Despite modern technology, government and industry predictions are often wrong, and the long term environmental and fiscal implications are often severe.”

The article gives ten examples, including Rain Gold Mine, near Elko, Nevada, “which has had a serious acid mine drainage problem since 1990, when surface water drainage from the mine’s waste piles began generating acid, contaminating two miles of nearby Dixie Creek. The drainage also contained elevated levels of mercury and arsenic.” Newmont mining, the mine’s owner, supposedly didn’t anticipate an acid mine drainage problem.

Another example is the Thompson Creek Molybdenum Mine in Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains. There were concerns because processed mine waste in the tailings contained pyrite, and earthquakes, landslides, erosion or water system failures could expose pyrite to air and water, causing Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) to form, sending acid and dissolved metals towards the Salmon River. The Forest Service knew there was AMD in 1988, and recommended that the mine needed to address AMD problems in 1989. The revised operating plan to address AMD wasn’t released until 1998. Nine years later.

Earthworks, a non-profit organization protecting communities and the environment from “the destructive impacts of mineral development,” describes acid mine drainage: “At metal mines, the target ore is often rich in sulfide minerals. When the mining process exposes the sulfides to water and air, together they form sulfuric acid. This acid can and does dissolve other harmful metals and metalloids (like arsenic) in the surrounding rock. Acid mine drainage can be released anywhere on the mine where sulfides are exposed to air and water, including waste rock piles, tailings, open pits, underground tunnels and leach pads.”

Also, acid mine drainage “can occur indefinitely – long after mining has ended. Many hardrock mines across the western United States may require water treatment in perpetuity.”

There was inadequate bonding at the Thompson Creek Mine. The mine’s bond was only $19 million, which was low considering the mine’s size and what would be required for reclamation. The bonding didn’t include the cost to construct a water treatment plant(s), or the high cost of water treatment. The bond also didn’t include the cost of rock and soil needed for capping the tailings facility and waste rock dumps. (This alone was estimated at $108 million.)

In General Moly’s 2009 10k form, it states that “Mining is inherently dangerous and subject to conditions or events beyond our control, and any operating hazards could have a material adverse effect on our business” and “Mining at the Mt. Hope Project will involve various types of risks and hazards, including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, metallurgical and other processing problems, unusual or unexpected rock formations, structure cave-in or slides, flooding, fires and interruption due to inclement or hazardous weather conditions.”

Then, more importantly, it is stated that “We may not be able to obtain insurance to cover these risks at economically feasible premiums and some types of insurance may be unavailable or too expensive to maintain.”

If they balk at the insurance being too expensive, what will they do about paying to fix any problems? They also state they could “suffer a material adverse effect on our business and the value of our securities may decline if we incur losses related to any significant events that are not covered by our insurance policies.”

This isn’t the only thing General Moly seems to balk at. General Moly hasn’t even granted the simple requests of local farmers and ranchers for 1 foot and 5 foot water drawdown maps. This wouldn’t cost much or take long. General Moly representatives claim that the Bureau of Land Management instructed them to ONLY do a 10 foot water drawdown map. Why would the BLM do that if they’re acting in the best interests of the American people? It seems that the BLM and General Moly are not doing 1 foot or 5 foot water drawdown maps because these maps will show a greater area of impact. These maps are important because even a 1 foot water drawdown could dry up streams.

General Moly’s 2009 10k form also states that surface rights on the Mt. Hope mining project “include BLM open range grazing rights and stock water rights.” This is OUR land and OUR water. What about other mines near other earth quake fault lines in other states? The Nevada Bureau of Land Management and General Moly seem to be gambling with our future.

SOURCES:

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/chinese-government-money-is-buying-one-of-u-s-a-%e2%80%99s-biggest-mines/

http://www.nps.gov/grba/naturescience/faults.html

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8494

“False Promises: Water Quality Predictions Gone Wrong – Large Mines and Water Pollution” http://www.bristolbayalliance.com/mines_and_water.html

http://www.earthworksaction.org/amd.cfm

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/116-40.html

http://www.wildwhiteclouds.org/news_mining_ThompsonCreek.html

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090627/ARTICLES/906279915/1350

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/aug/14/nevada-gaining-in-development-of-geothermal-energy

www.generalmoly.com

Source: http://ppjg.me/2011/01/01/general-moly%E2%80%99s-mt-hope-mine-let%E2%80%99s-hope-the-%E2%80%9Ceureka-moment%E2%80%9D-doesn%E2%80%99t-spell-disaster/

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PART III – 2011

Mining companies are buying up ranches left and right, just to get the water rights. Then all they have to do is get a permit to change the use from irrigation to mining. Once appropriated, the water rights are not available for any other development, even if the mine never opens, unless the mine is willing to sell the water rights.

At a Nevada Division of Water Resources hearing in December, 2010, an admirable group of Nevada farmers and ranchers, who’ve had water rights in their families for generations, protested the appropriation of water rights of Kobeh Valley Ranch, owned by mining company General Moly. General Moly wants to change the use of water rights on Kobeh Valley Ranch from irrigation to mining for their Mt. Hope mine. This is in addition to other water rights General Moly has already purchased from other farms surrounding the valley.

To give you some background, General Moly is 25% owned by Hanlong USA Mining, a subsidiary of Sichuan Hanlong Group, a Chinese “private enterprise.” Sichuan Hanlong Group recently received a $1.5 billion loan from the Export-Import Bank of China (China Eximbank) to support its investments in overseas mining opportunities, with $745 million towards General Moly. The Export-Import Bank of China is fully owned by the Chinese government and under the leadership of the State Council. It’s a “government policy bank.”

Black Rock Trust Company, which is associated with billionaire George Soros, seems to be the 2nd top owner of shares in General Moly.

BlackRock Trust is also the 5^th top owner of shares in agricultural company Monsanto.

Interestingly, Black Rock Trust’s parent company, Black Rock, Inc., is the world’s biggest money manager (and a fund related to George Soros) and has acquired stakes in the Far East Energy Corp., a Houston company that’s raising cash to develop natural-gas properties in China.

Mt. Hope is about 23 miles northwest of Eureka, NV, and contains the world’s largest and highest grade undeveloped molybdenum project, the Mt. Hope Project. The Mt. Hope plan of operations is on 260 acres of private land, and 8,000 acres of public land.

The farmers and ranchers (irrigators) are worried because KobehValley water is believed to flow into Diamond Valley, where many of them need water for farms and ranches. Some worry that if the mine’s tailings ponds were ever breached, it could pollute surrounding hydrographic basins. Mt. Hope straddles 3 hydrographic basins (KobehValley, Diamond Valley and PineValley).

B.G. Tackett, who has been a field engineer with California’s Dept. of Conservation, was concerned because the entire flow system was not studied. Antelope Valley was not included. No applications to drill wells are needed in non designated basins. Antelope Valley and South Monitor and North Monitor are not designated. Will water ever be taken from these valleys?

Farmers and ranchers have a big concern with head charge – whether water in Kobeh Valley is “confined” (by geological bodies that are less permeable than the aquifer), or if Kobeh Valley water flows to Diamond Valley and other valleys.

General Moly created hypothetical models that claim that Kobeh Valley water is confined and doesn’t flow to other valleys, and that the mine’s use of 7,500 gallons per minute of water for the next 40-50 years (the life of the Mt. Hope mine), will not effect Diamond Valley and other valleys.

However, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, many aquifers are intermediate between being completely unconfined or confined.

The farmers and ranchers know they won’t be able to truly tell, until the passage of time, if there IS interconnectivity between the valleys. If there is interconnectivity, it will be too late to stop what could be disastrous effects on their farms and ranches.

Also, when mining stops in 44-50 years, the development of a cone of depression from the open pit that had 669 million tons of “resource” dug out of it, can result in an overall decline in water levels over a large geographic area, change the direction of ground-water flow within an aquifer, reduce the amount of base flow to streams, and capture water from streams or from adjacent aquifers. As it is, they know it will take 1,220 years for the pit lake to reach equilibrium.

Do these farmers and ranchers have reasons to worry?

Look at a few things that have happened:

The “Sustainability Trust”

In August, 2010, General Moly announced that their subsidiary, Eureka Moly, would fund a “Sustainability Trust” for $8-$12 million, in exchange for the cooperation of the Eureka Producers Cooperative (EPC) not opposing Eureka Moly’s water rights and the permitting of the Mt. Hope Project.

Co-op members were kept in the dark about meetings between Eureka Moly (EMLLC) and two individuals from the co-op (Jim Gallagher and Andrew Marshall) being conducted in secret (excluding the rest of the co-op members as well as the rest of the Eureka farming community). It seems that Gallagher and Marshall signed a Confidentiality Agreement and they also seem to be included with EPC on the “Agreement,” which stipulates that EPC:

“not oppose, directly or indirectly, any of EMLLC’s mining and milling plans or operations, as set forth in its Plan of Operations filed with the Bureau of Land Management or water applications for EMLLC’s present water usage requirements and agrees not to participate in any way or manner, directly or indirectly, in any protests, petitions, or activities of others which are designed or intended to delay, adversely effect, or interfere with EMLLC’s mining and milling plans or operations as set forth in the Plan of Operation, including EMLLC’s efforts to obtain any regulatory approvals or permits for the Mount Hope Project from federal, state or local authorities.”

And also: “It is acknowledged that Jim Gallagher and Andrew Marshall , members of EPC also serve on the Eureka County appointed NEPA Committee (the “Committee”). Those EPC members may continue to serve on the Committee and fulfill their duties and responsibilities to the Committee in a neutral and impartial manner without said service violating the terms and provisions of this Agreement.”

BOTH Gallagher and Marshall are ON THE NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) COMMITTEE reviewing General Moly’s plan of operations with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Does this sound like a huge conflict of interest to you?

NEPA responsibilities are those of a trustee of the environment for current and succeeding generations, to assure for all Americans safe, healthful, productive, and esthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings, and to attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences.

How can Gallagher and Marshall possibly fulfill their duties and responsibilities on the NEPA committee if they’ve agreed to be “neutral and impartial” in the meetings? They’re in meetings with the BLM for the environmental assessment of Mt.Hope. Are they just sitting in chairs like lumps on a log?

The rest of the EPC members were only given part of one afternoon meeting to consider the complicated Agreement, which was developed in secret. They realized they were not going to be able to access the proceedings or be informed of the decisions until AFTER the contract was executed and filed with the SEC. They weren’t sure if they had the most current copy of the Mt. Hope Plan of Operations, or if, from vague wording in the Agreement, they’d be sued in ten years if they exercised their 1^st Amendment rights and commented on the operations of the mine. It seems that many EPC members found these restrictions to be unacceptable.

With the influx of that Chinese government money, General Moly got themselves a big lobbyist: Pete Ernaut

Pete Ernaut was a former three-term Republican state assemblyman. He ran political campaigns for Sen. John Ensign and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval. Ernaut is a close advisor to Gov. Sandoval, who recently met with Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. And guess what? Gov. Sandoval asked that permitting times be reduced for Mt. Hope (along with some other mines).

The BLM has told General Moly to ONLY do a 10 foot water drawdown map

Why? This masks the impact of the water used by the mine. The farmers and ranchers have repeatedly asked for 1’ and 5’ water drawdown maps. A stream can dry up with even a 1’ water drawdown. The area of impact will show a much greater area on a 5’ water drawdown map than on a 10’ water drawdown map.

So, if the BLM is acting impartially, as they are supposed to do according to their own ethics rules, why are they directing that only a 10’ water drawdown map be done? How could this possibly benefit the farmers and ranchers? It wouldn’t cost General Moly much or take very long to do the 1’ and 5’ water drawdown maps. If General Moly is as ethical as they claim to be, why don’t they just ask Pete Ernaut to lobby the BLM or Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to let them do it?

The farmers and ranchers are very concerned because they still haven’t been able to see a mitigation plan, and they depend on water from the aquifer for their livelihood and for the future of their community.

The mitigation plan and monitoring plans may be part of the final Plan of Operations, and this is not available to the public until it’s released in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). There is supposed to be a 45 day period for the public to comment before the BLM Battle Mountain District Office manager issues a Record of Decision (ROD). Then it’s a done deal. Do you think the DEIS process should be open to the public, since it concerns our public lands and private lands, and involves our tax dollars?

These farmers and ranchers have been growing this community for generations. Please support them.

Send an e-mail to BLM Director Bob Abbey at RVAbbey@blm.gov (with a copy to dfurtado@blm.gov, Doug Furtado, Battle Mountain District Manager) and ask that the BLM Battle Mountain District Office have 5’ and 1’ drawdown maps done on General Moly’s Mt. Hope Project in Nevada for the DEIS.

Or, attend a meeting on May 10, 2011, 9 a.m., at Nevada Dept. of Water Resources, (second floor, Tahoe Hearing Room), 901 S. Stewart Street, Carson City, NV89701. Check here http://water.nv.gov/hearings/ to make sure the date and time hasn’t changed.

Sources:

http://elkodaily.com/mining/article_9a4ba564-4502-11e0-a5f6-001cc4c002e0.html

http://elkodaily.com/mining/article_9c34c2f0-ac02-11df-adc1-001cc4c002e0.html

www.generalmoly.com

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275229/000110465910045992/a10-16212_2ex10d1.htm

http://rrpartnersfoundation.org/board-ernaut.html

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/AppCF/Lobbyist/reports/ListLobbyists.cfm?Paid=1

http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1217/html/boxa.html

http://www.elr.info/Fedlaws/statutes/Nepa.pdf

http://www.monsanto.com/investors/Pages/ownership-profile.aspx

http://www.dailyfinance.com/company/general-moly-inc-common-stock/gmo/ase/institutional-ownership

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/blackrock-soros-fund-buy-stakes-in-far-east-energy-seeking-gas-in-china.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/business/worldbusiness/15iht-soros.4.9237343.html

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=119943&p=irol-SECText&TEXT=aHR0cDovL2lyLmludC53ZXN0bGF3YnVzaW5lc3MuY29tL2RvY3VtZW50L3YxLzAwMDEwODYzNjQtMTEtMDA0NjMzL3htbA%3d%3d

Nevada Division of Water Resources hearings

(C) 2011 Debbie Coffey

Source: PPJ Gazette

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General Moly Announces Water Rights Approval for Mt. Hope Project

LAKEWOOD, COLORADO – July 15, 2011, General Moly, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE Amex and TSX: GMO) announced that the Company, through a subsidiary, received approval of its water applications for the Mt. Hope mine.

On July 15, 2011, the Nevada State Engineer issued ruling 6127 granting the Company’s water right applications for the use of 11,300 acre-feet annually (afa) of water for mining purposes, which will facilitate the pumping of approximately 7,000 gallons per minute. The specific water right permits are anticipated to be issued following payment of statutory fees, and, following the State Engineer’s approval of a Monitoring, Management, and Mitigation Plan (3M Plan), prepared in cooperation with Eureka County, the water will be available for consumptive use.

Bruce D. Hansen, Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are extremely pleased that once again the State Engineer has granted our water applications, representing a major milestone for the development of the Mt. Hope mine. Separate from the legal and administrative process, we are also continuing discussions with area stakeholders who may have legitimate concerns to hopefully mitigate their issues. We have been working closely with Eureka County to develop a 3M Plan, which will be submitted to the State Engineer’s office prior to water use, which will provide additional protection for other water consumers in the Kobeh and Diamond valleys through an open and transparent process. We maintain our commitment to the Eureka Producers’ Cooperative through the establishment of the Sustainability Trust to help Diamond Valley conserve water and enhance the viability of the agricultural community.”

WATER RIGHTS HISTORY

The Mt. Hope mine will require a net of approximately 7,000 gallons per minute of makeup water to facilitate ore processing, dust control, and other uses.

In 2006 and 2007, the Company, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, acquired more than 15,630 afa of groundwater rights, primarily in the Kobeh Valley groundwater basin, through the purchase of ranches owning senior agricultural water rights. Those water rights require conversion to mining use as well as a change in location from existing well locations and places of use spread throughout Kobeh Valley to a more concentrated well field and place of use located near the Mt. Hope project. These actions require applications to the Nevada State Engineer’s office, which were initially submitted in 2007.

In April 2009, the Nevada State Engineer issued Ruling 5966 granting the Company’s applications for 11,300 afa, satisfying the Mt. Hope project’s makeup water requirement. That ruling was appealed by the County of Eureka and some local growers, including the Eureka Producers’ Cooperative (EPC). In April 2010, a Nevada District Court overturned the State Engineer’s decision on a procedural issue, remanding the decision back to the State Engineer to reconsider in a new hearing.

In December 2010 and May 2011, the State Engineer held public hearings where the Company presented, among other things, its hydrology model to the State Engineer and protestants, allowing for discussion and testimony related to predicted impacts to existing water users.

In the meantime, the Company has continued to work on resolving concerns with the protestants. In August 2010, the Company announced the creation of a Sustainability Trust in cooperation with the EPC, which is tasked with developing and implementing programs that will serve to enhance the sustainability and well-being of the agricultural economy in the Diamond Valley groundwater basin. In conjunction with the creation of the Trust, the EPC withdrew its protests and appeal and has since cooperated with the Company. The $4 million trust will be funded by Eureka Moly LLC, the Company’s 80%-owned subsidiary.

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General Moly is a U.S.-based molybdenum mineral development, exploration and mining company listed on the NYSE Amex (formerly the American Stock Exchange) and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol GMO. Our primary asset, our interest in the Mt. Hope project located in central Nevada, is considered one of the world’s largest and highest grade molybdenum deposits. Combined with our second molybdenum property, the Liberty project that is also located in central Nevada, our goal is to become the largest primary molybdenum producer by the middle of the decade. For more information on the Company, please visit our website at http://www.generalmoly.com.

http://investor.generalmoly.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=181598&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1610030&highlight=

Board members of General Moly have connections to “Canadian” Yukon Zinc Corp

Corporate History

Yukon Zinc, formerly Expatriate Resources, sharpened its focus on the emerging Finlayson District in the Yukon by establishing StrataGold Corporation and Pacifica Resources Ltd. The sale of the gold assets to StrataGold in 2003 and public financing of StrataGold created significant value for Expatriate shareholders. In 2004 Pacifica Resources Ltd. (now Selwyn Resources) received Non-Finlayson District exploration properties.

In July 2008, Jinduicheng Molybdenum Group Co. Ltd. and Northwest Nonferrous International Investment Company Ltd. acquired all of the public shares of Yukon Zinc Corporation. Currently Yukon Zinc is private and no longer publically listed, and JDC is the majority shareholder. In 2011, Yukon Zinc secured four key shareholders including Fosun Gold Holdings Limited, Arich Investments Ltd., Silvercorp Metals Inc., and Northern Mineral Investment Corporation. In June 2012, the shareholders named Yukon Zinc’s parent company, Jinduicheng Canada Resources Corporation Limited….http://www.yukonzinc.com/en/company_management_index.cfm

What happened to Yukon Zinc (Canada) being bought out by the Chinese will probably happen to both of these huge mines in Nevada. The Chinese Government are buying public land esssentially for water rights, then comes the buyouts by the Chinese which then becomes privately owned. Thousands, if not millions of acres are going this way – bottomline it’s all about life sustaining Water. Will we eventually depend on the Chinese for our own water one might wonder.

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Note: these Chinese mines are supposedly to employ Americans – check out Yukon where the whole board and management are Chinese. I haven’t checked but wouldn’t be surprised if they brought their own workers as well – all on h-1 visas approved by the government. Never mind that Nevada is facing a huge water crisis. Water from the aquifer bordering California is being drained and piped out to Southern California. Lake Meade is down 132 feet and it isn’t being replenished. Las Vegas is estimated to be out of water by 2012. 7,000 gallons per minute (gpm) for the life of the mine (40-50 years) and will draw 11,300 acre feet annually (afa) from the aquifer. I wonder how many taps will shut down behind that one?

And how hypocritical when the BLM authorizes tremendous water wasting and toxifying mines but objects to a relatively few wild horses on the public lands, claiming there is not enough water for them, these healers of the ecosystem!

Denver Post
May 10, 2014

Recapture Canyon is a calm place of cottonwood shade, sinuous streams, beaver ponds and bird song. Ancient cliffside dwellings and ground dotted with potsherds lend it an aura of quiet mystery.

But this canyon — so close to Blanding, Utah, that locals there consider it their wild backyard — is also the site of a long-standing but escalating anti-federal government, Cliven Bundyesque furor.

On Saturday, protesters plan to drive their ATVs past a “closed to motorized use” sign and into the 11-mile-long canyon to show their disdain for the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to keep that area off-limits to vehicles. Read more

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Youtube – Published on Jan 4, 2014

That’s how that game is played – the Feds-BLM have their appointed insiders. The Feds-BLM tighten the noose around everyone’s neck with more laws, and then call it unlawful conduct if people don’t like it. They apparently feel they even have the power to shut down roads willy nilly. A Police State Tactic.

“IWRM is the (planning) process which promotes the co-ordinated development and management of water, land and related resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.”

At water rights hearings at the Nevada Department of Water Resources, farmers and ranchers of Eureka, Nevada seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place. Several articles have been written about their plight (links below).

But it seems like something “bigger” is happening. It is, and it’s probably happening to you, too.

After the most recent hearing, I saw a flyer on a bulletin board in the hallway. On it, the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) described a conference about Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The flyer linked IWRM to the Global Water Partnership and the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

Does this sound as “American” as apple pie to you? Or does it sound multi-national and make you wonder how this might relate not only to our water rights, but to our constitutional rights here in the U.S.A.?

The conference aims were to explore IWRM in detail from both “US and international perspectives” and ask questions like “Can the USA implement IWRM?” and “How can IWRM best be implemented?”

However, the bigger question should be, do you want your property (and our United States) to be governed by international laws?

So what exactly is INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IWRM)?

On the AWRA website, it states “Participants in the national collaboration process spearheaded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers defined IWRM in this manner: ‘IWRM aims to develop and manage water, land, and related resources, while considering multiple viewpoints of how water should be managed (i.e. planned, designed and constructed, managed, evaluated, and regulated). It is a goal-directed process for controlling the development and use of river, lake, ocean, wetland, and other water assets in ways that integrate and balance stakeholder interests, objectives, and desired outcomes across levels of governance and water sectors for the sustainable use of the earth’s resources’.”

So, it’s also about managing the land and “related resources?” Does this mean ALL land and ALL resources? And who exactly will be offering the “multiple viewpoints” that IWRM aims to consider while CONTROLLING the development and use of river, lake, ocean, wetland and other water assets?

Who are the stakeholders?

Does the “stakeholder” group include PROPERTY OWNERS?

What exactly are the “desired outcomes” of earth’s resources and who is desiring these outcomes?

Whatever it is, IWRM wants everybody to do it: “The American Water Resources Association calls on policy makers, planners and managers at national, tribal, interstate, state and local levels to encourage collaborations, policies, programs and plans that embrace Integrated Water Resources Management.”

February, 2010, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Ken Salazar, (the BP disaster in the Gulf happened with his oversight) signed an Executive Order establishing a water sustainability strategy for the United States called WaterSMART.

What a coincidence!

The United Nations has a WaterSMART campaign, and this campaign includes Integrated Water Resources Management.

Doesn’t this seem like something that should’ve been run by Congress before Salazar just declared it a policy?

Our tax dollars are paying for U.N. programs to be implemented in the United States. Are we paying for the demise of our Constitution?

A couple of reasons that United Nations programs are dangerous to our Republic is because our U.S. laws could be superceded by international laws, and also because other governments (“members”) and organizations (“partners”) including multi-national corporations (including private water companies) influence and form United Nations policies.

AGENDA 21

The U.N.’s Agenda 21 (Chapter 38) states: “All agencies of the United Nations system have a key role to play in the implementation of Agenda 21.”

It seems that while Americans debate whether global warming and climate change are real or not, and while the U.N. fools people into believing its programs are about protecting the environment, there is one fact that is true for all Americans:

Michael Shaw of www.freedomadvocates.com notes that the U.N. programs are about individual rights vs. community rights. The U.S. Declaration of Independence protects the unalienable rights of each individual, but the U.N Declaration of Human Rights states that “Rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations…”

ICLEI

One of the most important organizations to watch is ICLEI (also called Local Governments for Sustainability), established at the U.N. It’s an international association of local governments pushing U.N.’s Agenda 21 (also called Local 21) into many U.S. local governments. ICLEI has a water program.

In Nevada, ICLEI USA members include Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Clark County and Washoe County. ICLEI has “Cool Mayors.” In fact, the mayor of Las Vegas is on the Board of Directors of ICLEI USA.

Do you think this is “cool” or do you think this is unconstitutional?

On ICLEI’s website, it states that its International Goals are to promote:

• Agenda 21,
• the Rio Conventions:
  • The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,
  • The UN Convention on Biological Diversity,
  • The UN Convention to Combat Desertification
• the Habitat Agenda,
• the Millennium Development Goals,
• the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

Do you think the “Cool Mayors” have read all of the documents relating to all of this?

THE U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

You might also want to keep an eye on whatever the Army Corps of Engineers is spearheading. The U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources has aMemorandum of Understanding with the Global Water Partnership.

The Sept. 12, 2008 Federal Register states that Sec. 2031 of Water Resources Development Act of 2007 requires that the Corps use the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). And “There are many definitions of IWRM. One of the most accepted is that of the Global Water Partnership. IWRM is the (planning) process which promotes the co-ordinated development and management of water, land and related resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.”

“Equitable”for whom?

Who would benefit from this “economic and social welfare?”

Could “related resources” be your property?

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is a “COLLABORATING SUPPORTER” and “IN-KIND SPONSOR” of the American Water Resourses Association Conference mentioned in the 3^rd paragraph of this article. This conference is sponsored by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and ICIWaRM (International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management under the auspices of UNESCO).

GLOBAL WATER PARTNERSHIP

The Global Water Partnership was founded with the support of the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank, to foster Integrated Water Resources Management

NEVADA’S STATE ENGINEER

Getting back to Nevada, Jason King, Nevada’s State Engineer, is on the Board of Directors of the Nevada Water Resources Association (a non-profit corporation). Other Board members include representatives of several mining companies (Barrick, Newmont & Kinross) and the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA). The Southern Nevada Water Authority will be presenting a WaterSMART Innovations Conference in Las Vegas in October, 2011.

When I called the Nevada Water Resources Association to ask if it was a subsidiary of or associated with the American Water Resources Association, the woman who answered the phone told me it wasn’t.

But guess what?

If you go to the Nevada Water Resources Association website, they provide a link to the American Water Resources Association (which then leads you back to IWRM and the U.N.).

Nevada Assembly Bill 419 further threatens the water rights of farmers and ranchers by giving the State Engineer even more authority. Marti Oakley of the PPJ Gazette noted that in A.B. 419, in Section 2, #4: If the State Engineer “believes” the water has been abandoned, he does not have to have evidence or proof. He can end vested water rights. Sec. 3, #7 (b) “says that even private domestic wells can be targeted if they are using too much water.

Compared to what?

Industrialization?”

TO LEARN MORE

About ICLEI and Agenda 21, http://morphcity.com/agenda-21/iclei for excellent articles written by Cassandra Anderson

Read these two (also excellent) articles by Marti Oakley of the PPJ Gazette:

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/just-another-brick-in-the-wall-un-agenda-21-in-us-law/#more-16780

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/05/30/epa-and-corps-plan-to-seize-control-of-all-water/#more-16645

About the farmers and ranchers in Eureka, Nevada:

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/chinese-government-money-is-buying-one-of-u-s-a-%E2%80%99s-biggest-mines/

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/general-moly%E2%80%99s-mt-hope-mine-let%E2%80%99s-hope-the-%E2%80%9Ceureka-moment%E2%80%9D-doesn%E2%80%99t-spell-disaster/

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/is-a-mining-company-giving-the-shaft-to-farmers-and-ranchers/

SOURCES:

http://awra.org/policy-statements.html

http://www.nvwra.org/links/

http://www.nvwra.org/directorsstaff/

Nevada A.B. 419 –http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB419_R1.pdf

http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/2010_02_22_release.cfm/index.cfm

http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/upload/WaterSMARTOrder.pdf

http://www.doi.gov/budget/2011/11Hilites/DH019.pdf

http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/watersmart.html

http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/iwrm.html

http://www.unwater.org/members.html

http://www.watersmartinnovations.com/index.php

http://www.icleiusa.org/

http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/

www.iclei.org

http://local2012.iclei.org/

http://www.usace.army.mil/CECW/Documents/pgr/15Oct2008_PaulKirshen.pdf

http://www.gwp.org/en/Our-approach/Strategic-Allies/Institute-for-Water-Resources-of-the-US-Army-Corps-of-Engineers-IWR/

http://www.gwp.org/en/About-GWP/History/

http://www.freedomadvocates.org/articles/private_property/

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The nonprofit Nevada Water Resources Association…Board of Directors – And the Friends or Donors of this nonprofit is a Private Company called Hydro Resources, Inc.

http://www.nvwra.org/friends-of-nwra/ – http://www.nvwra.org/board-of-directors/

They’re having the 6th International Limnogeology Meeting in 2015

http://ilic6.org/

What is Limnogeology – a couple of universities probably got a Rockefeller grant…

http://lrc.geo.umn.edu/laccore/

http://www.ohio.edu/geology/ial/limnogeology.html

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Bottomline: It’s all about Water (and food via Monsanto) both eventually fully controlled by the Global Mafia if they have their way. Most of them live thousands of miles away but in time will have the say in who lives and who dies around the globe. And we’re paying for all of it like good little serfs. How “cool” is that…

Published on May 9, 2014

Published on Apr 16, 2014 –

April 14, 2014 CBC News http://MOXNews.com

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Follow the money – BigPharma loves it!

Unfortunately these medications are producing some very crazy men and women on the outside…many of them young.

Published on Apr 22, 2014