As the editor of the Silver Bear Cafe, I spend most of my time researching current events. I explore the markets, the economic war that is being waged on the middle class, precious metals, the Federal Reserve, energy, and how to go about surviving financially. In this weekly column I will provide commentary, and attempt to condense the week's events and examine how the news might affect your pocketbook. - JSB

The Battle of Bunkerville

I have received quite a few emails in response to last weeks commentary. In an installment I entitled: I never learned from a man who agreed with me, I suggested that, as a result of a pandemic national apathy, that there were few free thinkers (less than 3% of the male population, and less that .01% of the female population in the United States) that would stand up for America.

In my ceaseless explorations, behind the curtains, I try to make sense of the motives of those whose actions provide for the seeming convolution of world events. For the last five days, we have been presented some high drama on the high western plains. What finally came to light was the "not so startling explanation", of the rapacious nature of the standoff between a Nevada rancher and the Federal Bureau of Land Management.

I have been dialed in on the standoff between Cliven Bundy and the BLM since it onset. We were told that Mr. Bundy was in arrears on monies owed the federal government for grazing his cattle on federal land. The rub here comes from the fact that there is no such thing as "Federal Land". There is only public land and the sovereign states retain ownership while, in certain instances, the Federal Gov. administers the use of the land, such as in the cases of National Parks and Military installations. The land in Clark County is neither. Bundy has an agreement, a contract, with the state of Nevada, to use that land designated as "open range" in perpetuity. This was a privilege that his family paid the State of Nevada for, in the late nineteenth century. The feds came along and tried to use the endangered species act to assert their jurisdiction over the land.

"I have raised cattle on that land, which is public land for the people of Clark County, all my life. Why I raise cattle there and why I can raise cattle there is because I have preemptive rights," he said, explaining that among them is the right to forage.

The first thing we need to make clear is – who owns this land? That's really not clear. We have a federal judge that says the United States owns this land. We have the United States Constitution that says Nevada owns this land.

"Who is the trespasser here? Who is the trespasser on this land? Is the United States trespassing on Clark County, Nevada, land? Or is it Cliven Bundy who is trespassing on Clark County, Nevada, land? Who's the trespasser?"

So this is where I'm at... Let's talk about my grazing fee... who am I supposed to pay my grazing fee to? Constitutional sovereignty of Nevada that owns this land?

No. The one I get the grazing fee bill from is the United States government.

I don't recognize them having any jurisdiction or authority over this land.

I do not have a contract with the United States government.

...I urge you, read the Constitution. Those founding fathers laid out how we're supposed to act. They have all the answers already laid out for us. Why don't we live that Constitution and be happy in America?

I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to do whatever it takes. The public and the protesters here... I think are ready to do whatever it takes, too.

In other words, this thing's not gonna' get over tomorrow. We're going to fight until we win this and get our public lands back.

According to mainstream media reports, the removal of the cattle is necessary because they are, allegedly, damaging the "fragile" habitat of the protected desert tortoise. The mainstream media has devolved into nothing more than a statist's propaganda dispenser.

What is really going on has nothing to do with the desert tortoise and a lot more to do with political wolves and snakes. From the New American:

On a closer examination, the case against Cliven Bundy is not the open-and-shut case the federal government, the media, and the environmental activist groups, such as the Center for Biological Diversity, make it out to be. As California State University criminology professor Jason Kissner pointed out in a column for American Thinker yesterday, it is the Obama administration's BLM and Attorney General Eric Holder that are engaged in "brazen lawlessness." Federal officials are exploiting the fact that few Americans understand the legal complexities of the "split estate," "prior appropriation doctrine," and other principles governing water rights, grazing rights, and other land use/property rights on "public" and private lands, that are different in the arid West than in other parts of the country.

Back in 2012, the New American reported that Harry Reid's son, Rory Reid, was the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to build a $5-billion solar plant on public land in Laughlin, Nevada.

And journalist Marcus Stern with Reuters also reported that Sen. Reid was heavily involved in the deal as well.

"[Reid] and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert," he wrote. "Reid has been one of the project's most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada."

"His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission."

Although these reports are in plain view, the mainstream media has so far ignored this link.

The BLM's official reason for encircling the Bundy family with sniper teams and helicopters was to protect the endangered desert tortoise, which the agency has previously been killing in mass due to "budget constraints."

"A tortoise isn't the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher; they want his land," journalist Dana Loesch wrote. "The tortoise wasn't of concern when [U.S. Senator] Harry Reid worked with BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise's habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore."

"Reid is accused of using the new BLM chief as a puppet to control Nevada land (already over 84% of which is owned by the federal government) and pay back special interests," she added. "BLM has proven that they've a situational concern for the desert tortoise as they've had no problem waiving their rules concerning wind or solar power development. Clearly these developments have vastly affected a tortoise habitat more than a century-old, quasi-homesteading grazing area."

So, let's call a spade a spade...

Okay, so now we begin to understand how useless it is to attempt to gain any valid understanding, of pretty much anything, from the mainstream media. They are all presstitutes and have, collectively, abandoned any semblance of journalistic honor or integrity.

But this exercise also exposes yet one more instance of the extent of corruption at the highest levels of the federal government. Harry Reid is a criminal and should be locked up, along with his son. Sadly it doesn't stop there. Barrack Obama and Eric Holder are criminals, and should be locked up.

Of course, to be fair, I shouldn't stop there either. I contend that fully 60% of our current crop of Senators and Representatives in the United States Congress are corrupt, are all guilty of violation of the public trust, and have committed felonies which would warrant incarceration. But it doesn't even stop there.

The "almost hidden" conspirators in politics, religion, education, entertainment, and the news media are all working for the banker-owned United States, in a banker-owned World under a banker-owned World Government! (This is what all the talk of a New World Order and Agenda 21 is all about.)

Unfair banking policies and taxes will continue to take a larger and larger part of the annual earning of the people and put them into the pockets of the bankers and their political agents. Increasing government regulations will prevent citizen protest and opposition to their control.

It is possible that your grandchildren will own neither home nor car, but will live in "government owned" apartments and ride to work in "government owned" buses (both paying interest to the bankers), and be allowed to keep just enough of their earnings to buy a minimum of food and clothing while their rulers wallow in luxury. In Asia and eastern Europe it is called "communism;" in America it is called "Democracy" and "Capitalism."

Battle of Bunker Hill circa 1776

The reaction in the Cliven Bundy incident by thousands of militia members from adjoining states is telling as it has exhibited that even 3% of the population can keep a rabid tyrannical government in check.

The bad guys are all about power and control and stealing the wealth of the middle class. They have already stolen the wealth of the lower class. The lower class has been reduced to burger flippers. The upper class will will be next. The Darkside is made up of maniacs.

America will not shake off her Banker-controlled dictatorship as long as the people are ignorant of the hidden controllers. Banking concerns, which control most of the governments of the nations, and most sources of information, seem to have us completely within their grasp. They are afraid of only one thing: an awakened patriotic citizenry, armed with the truth, and with a trust in God for deliverance. This material has informed you about their iniquitous system. What you do with it is in your hands.

Conclusion

You must first realize that there are, present in our lives, enemies. You must then know who those enemies are, and act accordingly.

Eliminate as much debt as possible, especially “variable rate” debt, such as credit cards and lines of credit. Interest rates will eventually rise, which will leave borrowers unable to repay loans. These borrowers include cities, states and countries. Rising interest rates will provide "the straw that breaks the camels back". If you are present, you will be taken down with everybody else. The elimination of debt offers a “real return” of escaping rising rates by creditors.

Get some control over some fresh water.

If you are depending exclusively on Social Security, stop.

Follow the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well...

Its not what you don't know that will screw you up, it's what you are absolutely sure of that is absolutely wrong. The spin you hear from the mainstream media is intended to mislead you. Open your eyes and face the future. If you leave your head in the sand and ignore it, you are only leaving your butt exposed for the world to kick. This all may sound like gloom and doom, but when you get a handle on what is going to happen, you will have a future filled with opportunity. Fortune favors the Informed.

More next week...

May the Great Spirit be with you always,

Johnny Silver Bear
Chief cook and bottle washer, The Silver Bear Cafe

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