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House Republicans approve amendment authorizing the sale of federal lands : NPR

House Republicans approve amendment authorizing the sale of federal lands

After initially excluding it from a budget bill, House Republicans approved a controversial late hour amendment Tuesday that authorizes the

Most of the proposed land sales or exchanges appear to be aimed at building affordable housing on U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land outside Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada and in fast growing southwestern Utah around the tourist town of St. George, Utah.

"Many of the difficulties we face at a local level are of course related to the fact that the county is surrounded by federal land," said Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-Utah).

Maloy told the committee there are sixty targeted parcels amounting to about 10,000 acres in her district, totaling less than a third of a percent of all the federal land in her state.

"The high percentage of federal lands impacts the local government's ability to work on economic and transportation development, manage natural resources and fully take advantage of recreational activities," she added.

Maloy is related to the rancher Cliven Bundy, whose family led armed standoffs over control of federal land in Nevada and Oregon.

Democrats and environmentalists say the amendment is part of a broader far right push for a wholesale transfer of federal public lands.

"Congress is considering selling off our public lands to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy," said Tracy Stone-Manning, president of the Wilderness Society. "What we're seeing from this administration is no balance at all."

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10 years after armed standoff with federal agents, Bundy cattle are still grazing disputed rangeland | News - KVNU - News for Northern Utah

BUNKERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — The words “Revolution is Tradition” stenciled in fresh blue and red paint mark a cement wall in a dry river wash be

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Perspectives: From the president to the Bundys, the political press is becoming obsolete

…Closer to home, that lack of trust in the self-styled “legitimate” media can be seen in the information divide that has emerged in the trial of Cliven Bundy, his sons and a handful of supporters currently underway in Las Vegas. NPR recently bemoaned that “parallel universes” were emerging in which established news outlets reporting on the case are being upstaged by Bundy family supporters using…

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Perspectives: From the president to the Bundys, the political press is becoming obsolete

“…Closer to home, that lack of trust in the self-styled “legitimate” media can be seen in the information divide that has emerged in the trial of Cliven Bundy, his sons and a handful of supporters currently underway in Las Vegas. NPR recently bemoaned that “parallel universes” were emerging in which established news outlets reporting on the case are being upstaged by Bundy family supporters…

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Baker Creek A.K.A. rareseeds.com is run by some pretty shady fucks. In 2019 they invited Cliven Bundy to present at their spring festive. Who's Cliven Bundy? He's that guy who decided to hole up with some armed disciples instead of paying the federal gov't for grazing rights on federal land. Here's a link to the Vox explainer from 2014. He's also said some pretty racist stuff about black people and slavery which is in the above article.

They did dis-invite him after enough people pointed out he was a horrible dude but issued an extremely non-apology about it. Link to a seed-blogger with the non-apology inside.

In any case, I'm just mentioning this here so people know not to buy heirloom seeds from Baker Creek, since the name wandered across my dash recently. There's some folk who just don't know, and that's fine! Now they do.

I don't have better places to buy seeds at my finger tips - but maybe check the next link down in the search for 'heirloom seeds' when everybody is ordering seeds next year!

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There Outta Be A Law!

There Outta Be A Law!

There is currently no law in the U.S. that says a convicted felon cannot run for public office all the way up to the presidency.  Crazy, right?  You’ll likely remember the Bundy brothers – Ammon and Ryan – and their father, Cliven, who came to fame in 2014 when they engaged in an armed standoff with Bureau of Land Management agents at their Bunkerville, Nevada, ranch amid a dispute over the…

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Anti-government extremists champion Tucker Carlson's 1/6 conspiracy theory: "These are the things we've been saying"

Payton Armstrong at MMFA: 

After Fox News host Tucker Carlson pushed the conspiracy theory that the FBI was involved in instigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection, anti-government extremists connected to previous standoffs with the government appear to be using Carlson’s comments to validate their long-standing conspiracy theory that the FBI, not armed militias, was responsible for the Bundy ranch and Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoffs, instigating others to commit crimes.

On the June 15 edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson pushed the conspiracy theory that “in potentially every single case,” those listed as unindicted co-conspirators in January 6 charging documents “were FBI operatives.” The ridiculous claim has been widely debunked, and it’s been highlighted that the conspiracy theory relies on flimsy logic that the term “unindicted co-conspirator” is synonymous with FBI operative (it’s not). On his June 16 broadcast, Carlson doubled down on his baseless narrative, saying events of January 6 were “at least in part organized and carried out in secret by people connected to federal law enforcement.”

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the Capitol, some anti-government extremism experts drew comparisons of the riot to the armed standoffs between extremist groups and the federal government near Cliven Bundy’s ranch in Nevada in 2014 and at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016, calling those events precursors to and “dress rehearsals” for the January 6 insurrection.

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Range Squatter Cliven Bundy Prepared To 'Walk Towards Guns' In Biden Administration

Rancher says he's ready to make another stand over his right to stiff taxpayers for fees and fines he owes for grazing his cattle on public lands.

Notorious Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy says he is ready to “walk towards guns” if the Biden administration takes action to force him to pay up for decades’ worth of rent and fines or seize his cattle that graze for free on public lands, he said in an interview.

Observers believe it might not be the best time for Bundy to make an armed stand on government land in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol by extremist Donald Trump supporters. Bundy’s refusal to pay grazing fees on public land or remove hundreds of his trespassing cattle triggered a standoff between him and armed supporters and federal officers in 2014.

Bundy believes that Joe Biden’s administration will make a move on him and on others, he told right-wing shock broadcaster Pete Santilli in an interview earlier this month.

The rancher claimed: “They’ve just been waiting for this. The day that they change this administration ... everything changes, the danger. But it’s not only for Bundy Ranch, it’s for all Americans. We’re in trouble.”