Biden's handler[s] considering banning mining in New Mexico

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President Biden's handler[s] already banned uranium mining in Arizona because that would mean we'd be uranium independent and wouldn't have to depend on Russia for 12% of this valuable commodity, as we did last year.

But now the mystery person behind the curtain, that is, whoever is pulling Biden's strings, wants the Department of the Interior to ban mining and oil-drilling in New Mexico for 50 years, a mere 18,262 days. By doing so, the DOI plans to federalize 4,000 acres of "sacred Tribal lands" and promote "scenic integrity, cultural importance, recreational values, and wildlife habitat connectivity." 

Whoever it is who pulls his strings is supposedly "protecting" New Mexico's vast copper, silver, and lead deposits, as well as some of New Mexico's largest gravel mines. This will perpetuate our reliance on China and other foreign nations for these resources we already possess. 

Brilliant.

This will impact our energy security and independence from these countries and put us in a position where they can cut us off at any time. China would love to do that if they're planning something untoward. It will also encourage other countries to exploit their people to produce more of these limited materials, particularly those needed in electric vehicle supply chains.

The Biden administration is doing everything it can to hand over our self-reliance to foreign powers and make domestic mining more difficult. It's hard to understand the motivation for this, but whatever it is, it isn't good for the country and puts us in a precarious position and makes us unsafe for would-be aggressors.

As Barack Obama is alleged to have famously said, "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up." Snopes claims this statement is unproven, but what does it matter if it still it rings true.

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Selective leftist outrage

"After my election, I have more flexibility."--Barack Obama to Russian President Medvedev on 'hot mic'

It's almost laughable how the left sounds the alarm over an alleged relationship of the Trump administration with the Russians. 

They point out how Paul Manafort was an adviser to the Ukrainian president, a pro-Russian and how Carter Page, another Trump adviser, was involved in energy deals with Russian companies. And how Jeff Sessions actually spoke to a Russian official while on the Senate Armed Services Committee--even though it's a normal part of his job.

And of course, there's Michael Flynn and the speech he gave in Moscow as a private citizen . . . and so on.

As Peter Schweizer said, in an article for Fox News, it's important to examine these relationships, but "Still, those pushing the narrative of troubling ties to Russia lose all credibility by wholly ignoring the far deeper and more troubling relationships the Clintons and their closest aides have maintained with Russian government officials for years, including while they were in public office."

But the big difference here is that the Clinton deals involved enormous favors that benefitted Russian interests and involved hundreds of millions of dollars.

Like the speech Bill Clinton gave in Moscow in 2010 and received half a million dollars. Renaissance Capital, a Moscow firm paid the fee--a firm with close ties to Russian intelligence, and they admit it proudly.

No Russian donor was too embedded in Russian concerns to refuse. Schweizer mentions the following: 

Victor Vekselberg: a Putin confidant and head of Renova Group

Andrey Vavilov: a former Russian government official and Chairman of SuperOx, a research company that was part of "nuclear Cluster" at a government research facility

Elena Buturina: wife of a former Mayor of Moscow. She appeared to donate to the Clintons via JSC Inteco which she controls

And of course we have the 2010 Uranium One deal in which the Clinton Foundation received $145 million in "donations" from a Canadian uranium company that was sold to the Russian government. In order to seal the deal, several U.S. federal agencies needed to approve it, including Hillary's State Department. The Russians ended up with 20 percent of America's uranium which went to Rosatom, an entity that controls Russia's nuclear arsenal.

The fact that some of the Clinton Foundation donations were not disclosed by the Clintons should trouble all of us. President Obama required the Foundation to disclose all contributions as a condition of Hillary Clinton becoming Secretary of State, but she didn't. It was the Canadian tax records that uncovered the deal.

Then there's one of Hillary's closest aides, John Podesta who actually went into business with the Russian government while a Hillary Clinton adviser as Secretary of State.

Podesta was on the executive board of an energy company called Joule Unlimited. The Russian government invested a billion rubles (about $35 million) in the company. The money came from an investment fund called Rusnano, a fund started in 2007 by Putin and described as "Putin's Child" by Russian Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko.

Rusnano investments could also have military applications and it would be surprising if it didn't.

When Podesta went to the White House in 2014, where he served as counselor to Obama, he did not disclose his board membership in one of the Joule entities on his financial disclosure form. 

But the hypocritical left isn't concerned about what appears to be an actual intimate relationship with the Russians because it had nothing to do with Donald Trump.


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Iran has it all: uranium, a great deal, Obama

Obama has basically sealed the nuke deal with Iran now that he has enough Democrats on board to ensure the deal goes through and Iran gets a bomb. The big surprise, however, is that Iran, the number one terror-sponsoring nation in the world, was supposed to be low on uranium, but low and behold, they found a crap-load of the raw material.

As you know, uranium is needed to build a nuclear weapon. It takes the inchoate form known as "yellowcake uranium," (not to be confused with what president Obama would be doing had he found his real calling, which would be installing urinal cakes in government men's rooms).

Jeepers creepers, what luck for Iran.

IRNA, the Iranian state news agency quoted Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's nuclear head, "I cannot announce (the level of) Iran's uranium mine reserves. The important thing is that before aerial prospecting for uranium ores we were not too optimistic, but the new discoveries have made us confident about our reserves."

Had Iran actually been low on uranium, that would make it easier for the world to monitor those Islamic terrorists. But now that they have a motherlode of bomb making material, it's going to be almost impossible to know when their bomb will be ready to lock and load.

But build a bomb they will, and lock and load they've promised.

Obama and his party have sold us out to Iran. They have also sold out Israel. If you have any doubts about that, I suspect you might be a liberal.




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Dealing with dingbats

 Having the Obama administration negotiate a deal is not so different than having a spoiled rich kid negotiate the price of a prostitute. All the Obama administration wants is the deal; all the kid wants is sex.

In the end, they will both be screwed.

But along with Obama, we also stand to lose a lot and Israel stands to lose it all. Iran has made their anti-Semitic intentions known worldwide and our so-called president seems to be on the wrong side on this issue.

Obama is saying that the skeptics and our allies should back the deal (which is really just a preliminary agreement without even a handshake) because it is a "forever agreement" that would block the steps for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, and it that it would allegedly set tough international inspections with no end date.

Energy Secretary and frustrated piano virtuoso, Ernest Moniz, made a White House appearance. "I want to say this is not an agreement for 10 years or 15 years or 20 years. It is a long-term agreement with a whole set of phases," said Moniz as he brushed back his Lord Fauntleroy quaff. "And if Iran earns over this time period trust and confidence in their peaceful objectives, well then over time the constraints will, in phases, ease up, but never get lower than the additional protocol and all of the access that it provides."

Think of Moniz, a nuclear physicist, as you would Sheldon Cooper of the Big Bang Theory. Imagine Sheldon negotiating with the likes of Iran, a country who calls for Death to America every Friday morning and seeks the total annihilation of Israel.

 "So that's the way we're thinking about it," Moniz said. "It's not a fixed-year agreement. It's a forever agreement in a certain sense, with different stages."

That 'certain sense' he speaks about, is likely dependent upon the time frame that Iran takes to violate the deal in secret.
 
So now you understand why this deal would in all probability end in a big bang, but not in theory.

In any case, the deal supposedly includes a) a commitment by Iran to reduce the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds and enrich uranium with 5,060 of these centrifuges for 10 years; b) a commitment by Iran not to enrich uranium at the Fordo facility (where they did so in secret) for at least 15 years; and c) a commitment by Iran not to build any new facilities to enrich uranium for 15 years.

I could go on, but my unicorn just arrived and I have to be heading out to Andromeda. 



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