LA public school district, superintendent Mohammed Z. Islam, assigns students to debate veracity of Holocaust

Robert Spencer  / Jihad Watch

 

The assignment asked students to write about whether the Holocaust was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain.” Has any reporter had the guts to inquire as to whose idea this was? Was Superintendent Islam aware of the assignment before it aroused controversy?

And now police are saying that Islam received death threats because of the assignment, even though we’re also told in this article that no parents complained about it. Have police actually seen the threats received? Are they sure that the threats themselves weren’t fabricated to deflect unwelcome attention and claim victim status, as we have seen in so many cases? In any case, they posted guards outside school district headquarters: threats or claimed threats to Muslims always get action, while death threats against counter-jihadists (I just got another yesterday) get scant law enforcement attention. They’re just business as usual.

“School District Officials Reportedly Threatened Over Holocaust Assignment,” CBS Los Angeles, May 5, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in):

RIALTO (CBSLA.com) — School district officials in Rialto have received death threats in connection to a class assignment instructing students to debate the veracity of the Holocaust, according to reports Monday.

Rialto Unified School District officials first responded last week to reports of the assignment, which asked students to compose a written debate over whether the Holocaust was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain.”

The controversial question in the assignment read: “…write an argumentative essay, based upon cited textual evidence, in which you explain whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth…”

The district initially defended the eighth-grade assignment – which was one part of an 18-piece essay – as an exercise to help students “evaluate the quality of evidence made by advocates or opponents of an issue.”

Rialto Police Captain Randy De Anda told KCAL 9′s Tom Wait the school district’s interim superintendent, Mohammed Z. Islam, received death threats in connection with the assignment. A district spokesperson was also threatened, De Anda said.

Officers were seen Monday standing guard outside district headquarters in response to the reported threats.

“We do not know who the suspect is at this time,” De Anda said. “However we do have some leads to follow up on.”

District officials – who say they have not received any complaints from parents about the project – are now revising the assignment, admitting it was a mistake, Wait reported.

“We are striking the sentence that claims, ‘Did the Holocaust occur?’ Absolutely the Holocaust occurred,” Rialto District spokesperson Syeda Jafri. “It was an error and we have to correct it,” Jafri added.

Jafri also said that the Education Services department was behind the assignment, and will be required to undergo sensitivity training….

65% of Americans Want Next President to Change Obama's Policies  

Heather Ginsberg / Townhall Tipsheet

  

It doesn’t really come as a surprise, but a new poll out today confirmed many of our suspicions. We can finally see that most Americans don’t like President Obama’s policies. In a new poll out today, it was revealed that almost two-thirds of Americans want the next president to change the current agenda.

The new Pew poll results show that Obama is truly in a second-term slump. 65 percent of Americans surveyed said they want the next president to have different programs or policies from those of President Obama. Only 30 percent said they wanted similar policies carried out when we get a new president in the White House.

Back in 2006, when President Bush was facing a similar slump, 77 percent said they wanted different policy initiatives. This desire for change was a big reason why Obama was elected, and now once again we are seeing the voters dissatisfied by their choices. Will we ever be happy with the choices we make for our leadership?

At the very least we can be pretty sure this is going to have a big impact on what happens in 2016. Perhaps this is something that the republicans will have to try and capitalize on come 2014 and again in 2016.

Half of Illinois Wants to Escape the State

John Ransom / Townhall Finance Editor

 

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. – Jonathan Swift

Even Illinoisans are ashamed.

The wickedness has become so obvious, so entrenched and so brazen, that the state that used to take pride in their corruption, because it “worked,” now understands the Faustian bargain they've made.

Last week it was revealed that half of all Illinoisans want to leave the state.

"Every state has at least some residents who are looking for greener pastures," says Gallup, "but nowhere is the desire to move more prevalent than in Illinois and Connecticut. In both of these states, about half of residents say that if given the chance to move to a different state, they would like to do so. Maryland is a close third, at 47%. By contrast, in Montana, Hawaii, and Maine, just 23% say they would like to relocate. Nearly as few -- 24% -- feel this way in Oregon, New Hampshire, and Texas."

A Gallup poll revealed previously that by a wide margin Illinoisans trust their government less than any other state in the union.
 

According to Gallup only 28% of people from Illinois have a great deal of trust in their government.

  The Land of Lincoln is followed by Rhode Island, Maine, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, California and Maryland-- all of which post numbers from 40% to 49% level of trust by resident.

Residents from small government, pro-market states North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas and Alaska rate their government's highest in terms of trust, posting numbers as high as 79% of residents saying they have a great deal of trust in their government.

And that's not really a coincidence is it?

“Even though Midwesterners are generally more positive about their states,” writes the Chicago Tribune, “Illinois residents are the exception, with 25 percent declaring that it is ‘the worst possible state to live.’ The particularly grim outlook of Illinois residents could be attributed to factors like high-profile scandals and high taxes.”

And it can also be attributed to the fact that the same bozo that is running the country right now, came from Illinois.

Or more succinctly, Chicago. And Chicago is certainly the worst thing that ever happened to Obama, in the same way that Obama is the worst thing that ever happened to Chicago.

So like a lot of stories these days, Chicago works its way in there as a burr buried deep in someone’s hair since the 1960s.

If you are like me, you’re about as tired of my hometown of Chicago as the Detroit Lions are of Soldier Field. You are as tired of being ruled by aging hippies from there—like Hillary Clinton-- as you are of seeing slobbering media try to prop up an administration that deserves no props.

Chicago’s become the punchline behind the joke on the Obama administration in the same way that Monica Lewinsky became the punchline for the joke on Bill Clinton’s administration.

Metaphorically, there’s a great big stain splotching up the frock Chicago’s wearing. And we don’t have to wait for the DNA test to show who the culprits are or what they are up to.

Let me tell you what the history books will say.

The history books will say that these were the days of the last hurrah for the Democrat party machine; they will say that Chicago took a corrupt machine politician, packaged him as the reform candidate, realizing that they either had to export their corruption or die.

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him," wrote Swift.

And that applies especially to the genius of smaller government.

At a time when technology has given citizens the ability to be better informed, better educated and lead better lives, the dunces are conspiring to take away choices, rather than truly empower citizens.

So far from being truly “progressive”, in any meaningful sense of the word-- as opposed to the ideological sense of the word-- the nation's experiment in Chicago type politics can be seen as reactionary rather than something new, honest and hopeful.

And it’s not just Illinoisans that are paying attention.

Young people are too.

Conservative is becoming counterculture thanks to organic mismanagement, petty opportunism and lies-- the cornerstones on which the liberal freemasonry rests.

We saw that same effect under Jimmy Carter, as counterculture icons like Saturday Night Live helped turn the peanut farmer’s administration into a real life parody of a Saturday Night Live skit.

From there SNL and liberalism had nowhere to go but the mainstream, thereby creating hordes of young people, like me, who looked at liberalism as a swindle, a contrivance and a fraud.

So prepare, my friends, for the next American Century-- a conservative one.

Illinoisans are.

And that says a lot.

Obama Officials to Israel: Like It Or Not, “Palestinians” Will Get State; “We Need Another Intifada”

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Obama’s jihad against Israel escalates. He is deeply, deeply anti-Israel. There was a time when he tried to mask his antisemitism; now he reveals it.

Summing up Obama’s approach to the conflict — freedom vs submission:

Muslim Brotherhood? Check!

Al Qaeda in Syria? Check!

Al Qaeda in Libya? Check!

Muslim Brotherhood in Syria? Check!

Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza (Hamas)? Check!

Jihad regime in Iran? Check!

Israel? Bully, threaten and humiliate the tiny Jewish state.

But the law of unintended consequences will surely kick in (as it has in everyone of Obama’s catastrophic foreign policy blunders). Israel will rely it on her own power. Israel will not look to America. Israel will no longer subjugate her national self-interest to the capricious whim of America.

“US officials: Even if Israel doesn’t like it, Palestinians will get state,” Times of Israel, May 3, 2014:

From left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Barack Obama and PA President Mahmoud Abbas during a trilateral meeting in New York, Sept. 22, 2009 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

American officials directly involved in the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace process over the last nine months gave a leading Israeli columnist a withering assessment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the negotiations, indicated that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has completely given up on the prospect of a negotiated solution, and warned Israel that the Palestinians will achieve statehood come what may — either via international organizations or through violence.

Speaking on condition of anonymity to Nahum Barnea, a prominent columnist from Israel’s best-selling daily Yedioth Aharonoth, the officials highlighted Netanyahu’s ongoing settlement construction as the issue “largely to blame” for the failure of Secretary of State John Kerry’s July 2013-April 2014 effort to broker a permanent peace accord.

They made plain that US President Barack Obama had been prepared to release spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard to salvage the talks. And they warned that “the world will not keep tolerating the Israeli occupation.”

Barnea, who described his conversations with the American officials as “the closest thing to an official American version of what happened” in the talks, said the secretary is now deciding whether to wait a few months and try to renew the negotiating effort or to publicize the US’s suggested principles of an agreement.

Detailing how the US sought to solve disputes over the core issues of a two-state solution, Barnea wrote on Friday that, “Using advanced software, the Americans drew a border outline in the West Bank that gives Israel sovereignty over some 80 percent of the settlers that live there today. The remaining 20 percent were meant to evacuate. In Jerusalem, the proposed border is based on Bill Clinton’s plan — Jewish neighborhoods to Israel, Arab neighborhoods to the Palestinians.”

Op-ed: 

An open-letter to Rep. Trey Gowdy
By: Diane Sori

Dear Rep. Gowdy,

As expected, yesterday Speaker of the House John Boehner announced that he had appointed you to head a select committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attacks. Like he had a choice after your name lit up the airwaves and internet all weekend long. To back out of that appointment now would have been political suicide for Boehner what with his primary election today, but the good news is that you are the best there is to find...if it exists...a Boehner tie to the Obama cover-up of what happened that fateful night...after all one has to wonder why Boehner of all people opposed this committee for the longest time.

And Boehner's words that he decided to form the special committee “in response to the release of emails showing the White House was more involved in misleading the American people than previously known and the revelation that the Obama administration had withheld these documents from a Congressional subpoena," do NOT ring true for the only reason Boehner is doing this is because if he didn't the calls for his immediate resignation would have resounded within the party loyal...the party loyal NOT the party RINO.

As for the attacks themselves...'stand down' orders and all...Rep. Gowdy, you know as well as I that Benghazi was a cover-up of the first degree from start to finish...and the finish was to make sure Ambassador Christopher Stevens was silenced at all costs. You know as well as I that Stevens was a 'targeted kill'... Obama orchestrated and carried out by his 'people' and that Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty were collateral damage and NOTHING more to this most vile and cunning of men.

And you know why he had to be silenced for Ambassador Stevens had (I believe) found out about Barack HUSSEIN Obama's under the radar guns and weapons running operation to the al-Qaeda backed rebels in Syria. And I believe you have known this for quite some time as well for this to be discovered as truth right before the presidential election would have led to the election possibly having a vastly different outcome that even the media would NOT be able to cover for.

A silly nonsensical YouTube video...'The Innocence of Muslims'...'supposedly' defaming the 'supposed' prophet mohamed and his made-up equally 'supposed' false-god allah...and please note I capitalize NOTHING pertaining to these islamic bast*rds...was fed to the American people as the 'supposed' reason the muslims ran amok. Come on now Rep. Gowdy, did Obama and crew really think we'd believe that one...did he really think the American people are that stupid...maybe his sheeple are but the rest of us sure the hell weren't back then nor are we now...and if NOT for our continuing outcry Barack HUSSEIN Obama just might have made Benghazi go away.

“To underscore that these protests are rooted in [an] Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy,” wrote then White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes as the "goal" to be had in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi attacks...was the story concocted to blanket the truth of acts of 'aiding and abetting the enemy' that needed to be covered up...was the words in one of the e-mails that might, if you play the cards right, bring down the most corrupt and traitorous president these United States has ever known...and take down his accomplices and cohorts one by one starting with Hillary 'What Does It Matter' Clinton. Hillary Clinton...the woman who over the preceding months leading up to the attacks ignored Ambassador Stevens' many pleas for help and was the woman who hired the enemy to guard our consulate, and then closed her eyes and looked away when our people's blood was shed.

And Rep. Gowdy, the others involved and those who willingly perpetrated the LIES...like former U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice and Obama mouthpiece Jay Carney...are equally as guilty and too must be called to task. And if the establishment GOP power brokers and RINO turncoats allow you to do what needs to be done, and does NOT stop you in the name of 'political correctness' from getting what they deem too “mean spirited” with an election a mere six months away, maybe then the truth can be gotten and those killed that fateful day can finally 'Rest in Peace' knowing their deaths had some meaning beyond being dragged through the mud by Democratic islamic sympathizers who wish those four names would just go away.

And Rep. Gowdy it too must raise your ire and peek your interest as to why just days after the e-mails were made public that our ever-loving Traitor-in-Chief hired Neil Eggleston...a criminal defense attorney...as his legal counsel. Pray tell why would Obama need the very same criminal attorney who pulled Billy-Boy and Hillary's butt out of the Whitewater fire and who got former Obama Chief-of Staff-and current Chicago Mayor Rahm 'Dead Fish' Emanuel off the hook in the Blagojevich pay-to-play scandal...I think you know why as only a man with much to hide would call in the big guns to protect his nasty old self.

So in closing, Rep. Gowdy, with your having served as a federal prosecutor you are just the right man to stay focused on the prize...to nail Obama and crew for NOT only the murders themselves, but for the planning, carrying out, and covering-up the LIES that ensued. The families of the slain and 'We the People' are in your corner NO matter that the truth is NOT wanted by some on the right who are as far right as some on the left are far left, for both fear the truth will tip the applecart on America's first 'supposed' black president and both fear the ramifications of the political and civil unrest that would surely follow.

But getting to the truth about what led up to and happened on that fateful day...what led to four brave Americans to lose their lives as they became awash in a sea of LIES trumps any and all obstacles the Democrats and RINOs throw in your path.

Good luck Rep. Gowdy, because with the likes of John Boehner and his fellow RINOs looking over your shoulder at every turn you need all the luck and best wishes that 'We the People' can send your way.

Diane Sori for The Patriot Factor

www.thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com  5/6/14

Florida Senate Passes Textbook Review Legislation to Stop Islamic Propaganda to our Children

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

This is a very good first step to purge our public schools of Islamic proselytizing and historical revisionism. Check your children and your grandchildren’s textbooks. Find like-minded parents. Pushback.

“Florida Senate Passes Textbook Review Legislation,” By Creeping Sharia

…to stop the stealth Islamic proselytizing of your children.

Aya Sewell, Sarasota Citizen Activist Protests

NER: Last Friday in Tallahassee, April 11, 2014, the Republican controlled  Florida Senate passed SB864 sponsored by Sen. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) by a narrow vote of 21 to 19. The measure would eliminate State Department of Education control over selection of textbooks returning that role to Florida’s 67 school districts, requiring open public hearing on texts used in courses.  The bill reflected in part concerns of conservative Groups over the Common Core Curriculum State Standards, sponsored by the National Association of Governors and Council of Chief State School Officers  seeking to impose national standards. Despite that criticism the Common Core has been adopted in Forty-four states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).

However, SB864 was largely prompted by a different issue; objections of parental groups in several Florida counties in about the treatment of Islam and Muslim culture in world history textbooks on the Florida State Department of Education list of approved texts.  A companion bill (HB 921) is working its way  through the Florida House sponsored by Rep. Matt Gaetz of Fort Walton.  That version would provide a local option to districts to review texts; however, the selections must still meet state standards.  Gaetz  was quoted in a News Herald  editorial saying: 

“I think there’s an increasing frustration by parents in our state, that they don’t have a lot of say regarding the content and materials their children use in the classroom.”

Local advocates here in Florida drew attention to misrepresentations of Islam in protests in Volusia,  Brevard and Sarasota Counties. Our  Iconoclast post on the subject, “Sarasota, Florida’s biased Islam textbook problem”,  highlighted the relentless efforts of citizen activist Aya Sewell. 

Ms. Sewell is of Iraqi Jewish  heritage, members of her family were  subject to a 1941 pogrom against the Jewish population in Baghdad, the Farhud.  Sewell led a campaign against such texts locally in Sarasota, as well as before the Florida Department of Education.  Elsewhere in the US, Tennessee parents have also raised objections to similar course material extolling Palestinian suicide bombers.     Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) in Boston accused the Newton, Massachusetts school board and superintendent for permitting use of texts and course materials that engage in promoting false information regarding both Islam and demonization of Israel.  

APT undertook content and bias analysis and promoted their findings that included placing ads in local area media and a petition campaign.

An article in the current edition of Education Week noted the debate over the pending Florida textbook legislation:

[Sen. ]Hays said the legislation was needed so that school board members will be accountable to parents and voters. He said school board members have blamed the state for the textbooks they picked.

“This bill imposes on the local school board members the responsibility and accountability to their citizens,” Hays said.

Opponents complained it would cost districts money to review textbooks. Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-Orlando, said she was worried that some districts would wind up censoring some books, while other senators raised questions about whether districts would pick textbooks aligned to the state’s current standards.

Even Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart questioned Hays’ bill.

“From a practical standpoint it lifts a burden from us,” Stewart said. “But we heard loud and clear from districts that they rely on (the state review). They need that. They don’t have the resources to be able to do that.”

The post Florida Senate Passes Textbook Review Legislation to Stop Islamic Propaganda to our Children appeared first on Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs.

Op-ed:
Government Land Grabs: The Truth Exposed - Part 4
By: Diane Sori 

In Part 1 of our series, “Government Land Grabs: The Truth Exposed,” my Right Side Patriots radio partner Diane Sori and I laid out the groundwork behind the federal government’s seizing of land in the western United States over decades of a take an inch…take a mile agenda used by administrations from both sides of the aisle and how the current regime has labeled PRIVATE landholdings in the west as an “ACUTE” problem.

We were able to convey that information thanks to congressman Rob Bishop’s discovery of long buried emails and documents which help expose NEW land grabs in progress along with this regime’s plans, via the BLM and the Department of the Interior pressuring Obama to use his pen and the Antiquities Act of 1906 to not only steal land from private landholders but, to move some 140 MILLION acres (an area the size of the states of Colorado and Wyoming…COMBINED) from “mixed use” to “TREASURED LANDS” status thus rendering it completely off limits to American citizens.

In “Government Land Grabs: Exposing The Truth Part 2,” we proved that the seizing of western lands has virtually NOTHING to do with the liberal call to “protect the environment” and virtually EVERYTHING to do with government control of natural resources in order to control the people.

The maps we show eliminate the possibility of coincidence in that those lands are rife with coal, oil shale and other fossil fuel deposits that the current regime wants to keep off limits to private landholders and we provided evidence of how Obama and his ilk want to keep us dependent on foreign sources for our energy needs.

In “Government Land Grabs: The Truth Exposed Part 3,” we took our investigation passed oil, gas and coal to provide clear evidence of where our nation’s reserves of URANIUM rest and...

Again it’s no coincidence that the maps correspond directly with the government land grabs in the western United States. We also provide in that article, details as to whom the recipients are of our most volatile natural resources. It’s stunning to say the least.

Now in this, our final part of this investigative series, we will floor you with a few more resources that lie under the ground of the western lands being seized, unconstitutionally by our federal government and how those other resources play into your lives, because of the agenda and ideology of the Obama regime, in a most disturbing and dire way.

Of the other resources buried beneath the hijacked lands in the west is none other than helium. Yes, helium and if you think it’s just for party balloons…think again but, before we get into the true and most disturbing part of this, you need to know a few things about our helium reserves.

Our government has a long history of maintaining control over our deposits of helium and, from 1929 until 1960, the U.S. government was the ONLY domestic producer of the gas at which point, the Helium Act OF 1960 directed the Secretary of the Interior to ACQUIRE and conserve helium using funds ‘borrowed’ from the United States Treasury.

As demand for helium increased through the 1990’s,‘incentives’ were  offered to PRIVATE natural gas producers to distill the gas and sell it to the GOVERNMENT but privatization of the process was retooled in 1996 when, guess who…The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was put in charge of providing crude helium to refiners, regulating helium withdrawal from the federal pipeline…the very same government entity also in charge of grabbing western lands and running private landholders OFF the land. Interesting isn’t it?

For a decade, between 1996 and 2006, congress was able to maintain privatization of the helium in our western states, selling off vast reserves of it until April of 2008, just scant months before the nomination of Obama when Department of the Interior, (the BLM) and the National Research Council formed a committee to revisit the issue of selling off most of the reserve. Then, in August of 2008, just before Obama’s election, the US Dept. of the Interior Inspector General's Office of Inspections and Office of Investigations found the BLM helium program vulnerable to fraud, abuse and large losses stemming from its less-than-arms-length relationship with a contractor representing several large helium refiners on the pipeline.

Compare the image above where everything in red is controlled by the federal government to the other map image that shows uranium deposits (and anywhere one finds uranium, one also finds helium) to see they match almost to a tee.

So, why is it now, that the corrupt BLM is tasked with the seizing of more and more western land where oil shale, coal, natural gas, uranium and…HELIUM are situated? Yes, it’s a simple scientific fact that where one finds natural gas and uranium one also finds helium (and other resources) buy why would this regime be so hell bent on controlling HELIUM of all things?

Remember…they who control the land control the resources on and under it. Those who control the resources control the energy from its extraction to its production to its price and to its consumption. When the government controls our most important energy deposits…it controls the people and a key component of controlling the people, to this regime specifically, is control over the lives of the people as in who gets to keep on living at all.

That’s correct…HELIUM as well as a few other resources found widely on the lands the Obama regime is making inaccessible to any and all private landholders plays a KEY role in…

OBAMACARE!!!

YES ObamaCare...for under the grounds already owned or currently wanted by the BLM sits our nation's deposits of both helium and vanadium...and while most think of helium as just the stuff that fills balloons and probably no one ever heard of vanadium, both are critical to nuclear power plant operations and to the medical industry, and therefore critical to ObamaCare with its dreaded 'death panels.'

Helium (there are two forms of helium, helium-3 and helium-4) is commercially recovered from natural gas deposits in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas with some of the richest resources under the Texas Panhandle...under land the feds want. And there are helium extraction operations on BLM land in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, and BLM processing 'facilities' in Texas and Kansas. And here's something of interest, the Federal Helium Stockpile is located outside Amarillo Texas, is owned by U.S. citizens but is inaccessible to all but the feds...hmmm...

Helium-3 is primarily used as cooling medium for our nuclear reactors and thus comes under the control of the federal government. So while it's bad enough that Obama has put a moratorium on building new nuclear power plants, just remember that even if NO moratorium was in place he could just order the processing to be stopped on lands where BLM processing plants are located.

Controlled by the feds...and if that's NOT enough to raise your ire just consider helium's other uses in high-tech applications like in microchip and flat panel display manufacturing; in particle accelerators and fiber optics manufacturing; in providing a nitrogen-free, oxygen-rich controlled atmosphere for deep-sea divers trying to avoid 'the bends;' as a protective gas for welding applications and growing silicon and germanium crystals; for lifting (blimps); and for heat transfers...but the most critical of applications could affect one's very life and it now comes under the control of the ObamaCare 15 fat-cat DC bureaucrats with the power to decide who lives and who dies...who gets medical treatment and who does NOT.

Let me explain. The health care industry uses helium-4 to detect, diagnose, and treat many diseases and conditions (heart, asthma, cancer, and burn patients for example), and is used in the field of cryogenics with its primary use as a coolant for both the magnets in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...as in MRI machines used to detect disease or injury...and for cooling laboratory cryostats used to freeze tissue during surgery (frozen sections) so it can be used for diagnosis. And there's NO substitute for helium-4 in any cryogenic applications...period. Now think who needs MRIs and surgery the most...except for those injured in an accident it's the elderly and the seriously ill. Now under ObamaCare the use of MRIs and the amount of surgical procedures allowed...both dependent on helium...has been cut. Cut MRI testing...cut the number of surgical procedures...or simply cut the supply of helium needed for both...and you basically have just doomed the elderly and the seriously ill to death.

And so the culling of the herd continues.

Even if the feds were to privatize helium what with current government reserves running low, and with delays in new helium gathering plants coming online because of restrictions on helium withdrawals from the government’s gas pipelines...new areas where helium is found must be grabbed up post haste...areas like in Colorado and Texas. And isn't it a happy coincidence that a helium gathering plant is being built in Wyoming on BLM owned land. 

And with new sources of helium now being found under NOT yet acquired but wanted lands, the feds are working fast to grab up said lands. And let's NOT forget that by doing so they would in essence be privatized something for themselves that we could NOT access, thus the feds can control the price of even the helium sold to hospitals.

So as the demand for helium grows for medical applications and concerns about adequate supplies increase, the feds need to grab up as much helium rich land as possible and then they get to decide who is worthy of using some of that supply... nice huh...and before I forget, helium deposits gotten through natural gas deposits most time sit alongside uranium deposits...a two-for-one punch land grab wise.

Now as for vanadium...American Vanadium is developing the only 'vanadium only' mine in the US (usually vanadium is mined along with uranium) and 'surprise'...it's on BLM land south of Eureka, Nevada...again a mine on 'supposedly' environmentally protected lands.

And while vanadium as a metal is important in nuclear applications and as a steel additive, it's vanadium's medicinal uses where vanadium will be effected by ObamaCare. Used in the treatment of diabetes, low blood sugar, high cholesterol, heart disease, and a number of other medical conditions as well as a nutritional supplement...and with the only vanadium mine in the US on BLM land...if too many people need vanadium-based medicines, rationing of it cannot be far behind...rationing courtesy again of the 15 ObamaCare bureaucrats deciding who is worthy of said medicine and who is NOT...and guess who the NOTS will be...the elderly for sure.

And the culling of the herd continues on yet a again.

So now you know there's more to these federal land grabs than trespassing cattle and endangered tortoises, and some of it...if NOT all of it...is for very nefarious purposes. And while it's bad enough that the feds have kicked Americans off American land, these land grabs are the federal government doing what they do best...lying and subterfuge that only the Benghazi scandal can match. 

Diane Sori www.thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com 5/5/14

Craig Andresen www.thenationalpatriot.com 5/5/14