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Thursday, July 23, 2015
NAUGHTY-NAUGHTY! HAVE YOU BEEN DOUBLE BILLING ME?
How the West Is 'Owned'
HOW THE WEST IS
"OWNED"
AND MANIPULATED FOR PROFIT
Read the below report and keep this in mind while reading: The 'federal government' and the 'state governments' CANNOT OWN LAND!!! A FICTION CAN ONY HAVE PARITY WITH OTHER FICTIONS! Not the tangible. SEE: Penhallow v. Doanes Administrators 1795.
Read the below report and keep this in mind while reading: The 'federal government' and the 'state governments' CANNOT OWN LAND!!! A FICTION CAN ONY HAVE PARITY WITH OTHER FICTIONS! Not the tangible. SEE: Penhallow v. Doanes Administrators 1795.
Strange Map
by
The rough beauty of the American West seems as far as you can get from the polished corridors of power in Washington DC. Until you look at the title to the land. The 'federal government' owns large tracts of the western states: from a low of 29.9% in Montana, already more than the national average, up to a whopping 84.5% in Nevada.
This map, depicting the distribution and share of federal land per state, was first published on this blog way back in 2008. Nevertheless, it keeps accumulating comments and hits at a steady pace, and is still frequently shared around.
Unlike hundreds of other random maps, this one has become a perennial. That raises an interesting question for map geeks like yours truly: Which nerve, exactly, does this map strike with the Great Online Public?
Let's start with the most obvious answer: the map is stunningly effective at bringing home its message. And that message is: Federal land ownership out west is huge.
Few minds will stir when they learn that the 'US federal government' owns a grand total of 640 million acres of land. That figure is so vast that it becomes meaningless [1].
The sum of all that acreage adds up to about 28% of the nation's total surface, 2.27 billion acres. That sounds like a lot but, since it is an average and because we have nothing to compare it to, that percentage is, to use one of my favorite quotes, “the kind of information they conceal in books” [2].
Both issues – the blandness of averages, the lack of comparison – are eliminated by the map, which presents an immediate, jaw-droppingly clear frame of reference. In the blink of an eye, the contrast between the west and the rest becomes clear.
The clever device delivering that instant insight: 50 icons, each shaped like the particular state they are centered on and sized to reflect the percentage of the federal lands in each particular state.
Back east, but even in the Midwest, those icons – colored red for better contrast – barely amount to a distant mirror of the state they're modelled on. In those parts, the federal share of state territory rarely runs into the double digits. It even stays below 2% for the Top 10 states with the lowest percentage of federally owned land:
The largest splotches of red are all in the 11 western most states of the Lower 48. The 'federal government's' enormous share of Alaska is only less obvious because, as usual, the largest state in the Union is shown in an inset map, at a much larger scale [3].
These red icons look like parasites about to take over the body of the host. Take a look at poor Nevada where non-public land is pushed out to a narrow band skirting the state's borders – marginalized in the most literal sense of the word. Even in most other western states, that ledge is not much wider than a toehold.
The Top 10 list of states with the highest percentage of federally owned land on this map looks like this:
Both because of its enormous total size and its huge percentage of federal lands, Alaska alone represents almost half the government-owned area in the 10 most 'federalised' states combined. The only two western states falling out of the Top 10 are Montana (29.9%) and Washington state (30.3%).
What is all that federal land for? And exactly who is in charge?
According to the Congressional Research Service [4], a total area of just under 610 million acres – more than twice the size of Namibia – is administered by no more than 4 federal government agencies:
* The United States Forest Service (USFS), which oversees timber harvesting, recreation, wildlife habitat protection and other sustainable uses on a total of 193 million acres – almost the size of Turkey – mainly designated as National Forests.
* The National Park Service (NPS) conserves lands and resources on 80 million acres – a Norway-sized area – in order to preserve them for the public. Any harvesting or resource removal is generally prohibited.
* the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), managing 248 million acres [5] – an area the size of Egypt – has a multiple-use, sustained-yield mandate, supporting energy development, recreation, grazing, conservation, and other uses.
* the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) manages 89 million acres – an area slightly bigger than Germany – to conserve and protect animal and plant species.
The first agency is part of the Department of Agriculture, the latter three of the Department of the Interior. The Department of Defense manages an additional 20 million acres – a bit larger than the Czech Republic – as military bases, testing and training grounds, etc. (National forests, lakes, streams, waterfalls, grazing and crop production lands, mining???)
Back to the map – apart from making its point in such an excellent manner, why is it so popular? The aforementioned Congressional Overview of Federal Land Ownership provides a broad outline of the answer:
“47% of the 11 coterminous western states [is federally owned]. By contrast, the federal government owns only 4% in the other states. This western concentration has contributed to a higher degree of controversy over land ownership and use in that part of the country”.
“Throughout America’s history, federal land laws have reflected two visions: keeping some lands in federal ownership while disposing of others. From the earliest days, there has been conflict between these two visions. During the 19th century, many laws encouraged settlement of the West through federal land disposal. Mostly in the 20th century, emphasis shifted to retention of federal lands.”That conflict came to a head very publicly last year with the case of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher whose conflict with the Bureau of Land Management over grazing rights led to the federal government impounding his cattle [6].
But the federal government's extra-extra-large involvement in the management of western lands is far more than a conflict about grazing, water, mining, logging and other development. It pits the principle of good stewardship of the land for the welfare of present and future generations, against one of America's foundational axioms: That government is best which governs least [7]. (What a bunch of bunk especially when their plan is to outright MURDER more than 3/4tha of the population of the criminal corporate USA - so for WHO and for WHAT purpose are the lands being 'preserved for' by the criminal phony 'government?)
The former attitude requires a central government to assume authority, restrict access, punish rule-breakers – and increasingly so, since resource depletion is a growing threat. (Let's point out the TRUTH here: reasons being HAARP, chemtrails, radiatioin poisoning, forced GMO 'food' production.)
The latter viewpoint holds 'government' intervention to be the problem, not the solution, and the stated reasons for it – be it conservation or climate change – as convenient cover stories at best.
Two quotes from the story's comments section illustrate the gap between the two extremes:
“It's too late [to take back our country]. Jump ship and buy land in a poor undeveloped country, Start a farm and build a new community.”Ultimately, this map reverberates and keeps bouncing around the internet because it touches a divide in American politics and wider society that is about much more than land use. It pits libertarians versus federalists, with the gap between them increasing to such an extent that the former often seem to the latter to be no more than right-wing vigilantes, the latter to the former nothing less than world-government-promoting socialists.
“Or we could stop wasting time with this nonsense and get back to the real issues.”
Until some middle ground emerges to bridge that divide, this map (and other incendiary devices) will continue to add fuel to the ideological fire.
Many thanks to Jonathan Leblang and Adam Hahn for signaling this map, which appeared as an illustration to ‘Can the West Lead Us To A Better Place?‘, an article in Stanford Magazine, a periodical for and about alumni from that university. Update: the map can be found in higher resolution – and with a long, long comments section – here on Reddit.
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Strange Maps #291, first published on June 16, 2008 as Federal Lands in the US, updated on February 3, 2015.
[1] Remember the Joseph Stalin quote: “One death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic”. Not that one acre is a tragedy. But you catch our meaning.
[2] Oliver Platt as Hector Cyr in Lake Placid (1999).
[3] Contrary to intuition, map objects shrunk to fit in with others are shown at a larger, not a smaller scale. See the scales at the bottom: Alaska's 500-mile line is 4 times shorter than the Lower 48's. Meaning (a) that Alaska is shown 4 times smaller than the Lower 48; and (b) that if Alaska's scale would have been as long as the other, it would have measured 2,000 miles – i.e. would measure a larger distance.
[4] Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data
[5] The BLM is also responsible for subsurface mineral resources in areas totaling 700 million acres.
[6] The sentiment is often attributed to Jefferson, but the quote as such is from the opening lines of Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience.
[7] Mr. Bundy refused to pay $1.2 million in grazing fees to the BLM, arguing that the land his cattle uses belongs not to the federal, but the state government. In the spring of last year, BLM officials agreed to leave his property and release his cattle after hundreds of armed supporters showed up at the Bundy ranch. As the Washington Post recently reported, the conflict remains unresolved.
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/291-federal-lands-in-the-us
Traficant - How to be framed and imprisoned in the USA for exposing tyranny
US CITIZENS AND THEIR PROPERTY COLLATERAL FOR USA DEBTS
Hasn't changed except to get worse
September 19, 2012
"In 1933, the federal United States
hypothecated all of the present and future
properties, assets and labor of their
"subjects," the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen,
to the Federal Reserve System."
If what former Rep. James Traficant (left) said in 1993 is true, Americans should get their wealth out of IRS reach.
Democracy and nationhood are a charade, I wrote Monday. The IRS is a private collection agency. It reflects our true status in life: interest-bearing cattle and collateral for the Masonic (Illuminati) central banking cartel.
Nathan replied:
After reading the following you will begin to see why James Traficant was set up on false charges and sent to prison, and had his career and name destroyed by the presstitutes.
When you become a real threat to the Money Masters plantation, you get dealt with and that's the bottom line. The IRS and just-us system are the strong arm of the Federal Reserve Bank and used as a weapon against people who tell the truth and stand against their corruption.
[Traficant was expelled from the House after being framed for "taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and houseboat in Washington, D.C." He was sentenced to prison and released on September 2, 2009, after serving a seven-year sentence.]
Below is an example of one of the many instances of Traficant's exposing the tyranny of the IRS and Federal Reserve:
The Bankruptcy of The United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993
Vol. 33, page H-1303
The Speaker is Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:
"Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11... Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth, hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner's report that will lead to our demise.
It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congressional session, June5, 1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend the Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices,
Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.
The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers.
With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of
government is known as a Democracy, being an established
Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America.
This actwas instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: "The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States?'.....
. . . Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to
property, free and clear of any liens or mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913) "hypothecated" all property within the federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title.
The U.S. citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a "beneficiary" of the trust via his/her birth certificate.
In 1933, the federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets and labor of their "subjects," the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen, to the Federal Reserve System.
In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United States corporation all the credit "money substitute" it needed.
Like any other debtor, the federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan.
Since the federal United States didn't have any assets, they
assigned the private property of their "economic slaves", the U.S. citizens as collateral against the unpayable federal debt.
They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.
Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property.
Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master for another."
First Comment from Dan -
While he was a Congressman, Jim Traficant got an alleged WW II concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk released from Israel. He says they never forgave him for his interference, and that's how the IRS and AIPAC conspired to put him in prison for bribery, racketeering, and tax evasion in 2002. He claims he's innocent. Traficant served a seven year sentence and was released in 2009.
Since his release he's continued to speak his mind on television and talk shows that will have him. He said he was "the hottest interview in the country" till he remarked that "Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the US government. They have us involved in wars in which we have little or no national interest.".
Since his release he's continued to speak his mind on television and talk shows that will have him. He said he was "the hottest interview in the country" till he remarked that "Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the US government. They have us involved in wars in which we have little or no national interest.".
Now Traficant says, "After I made that statement, you don't see me on TV no more". Traficant, former Congressman, said at his Congressional inquisition in 2002: "When Federal judges remove God from the Pledge of Allegience, Federal judges welcome satan. I hate the 'government' and love America. And the part of the 'government' I hate is that Executive Branch which scares the American people, and let me close by saying the American people should not be afraid of our 'government'. It is our 'government', and you (addressing the committee) should help take it back."
James Traficant on the IRS before Congress (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Remember all this if you hear a news story that Traficant was "killed in a shootout with Federal authorities" like Bill Cooper or other old school American men who would not shut up.
Once anybody could speak their mind, but since the Clinton Administration killed David Koresh and 80 Christian women and children in Waco Texas in 1993, people who speak their mind have turned up dead in droves.
Here's another one - Alex Jones - the Waco Massacre
Chattel slavery was expensive. With the usurious fractional reserve system which necessitates the income tax that never pays on principle, the enslaved pay for their own slavery. ad nauseum.
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