Is uranium at the heart of the Oregon Malheur federal-protestor
standoff? That's the question I'm asking. It isn't a flippant
question.
I realize there are many other issues swirling around this event. The
Hammonds, the Bundys, militias, the feds, cattle grazing on federal
lands, federal land grabs, and so on. This article isn't meant to take
apart those matters.
It's meant to follow up on my previous article,
"The Clintons: how Putin grabbed a fifth of all US uranium,"
(embedded in full in the blog post of this article (see link above)) in
which I present a circumstantial case for the Clintons' heavy
involvement in a scheme that's transferred 20% of US uranium production
to Putin and Russia. And the key company in that piece is Uranium One.
Remember the name. It's apparently a major clue in what I'm about to
discuss.
I also want to say, at the outset, that I don't know how many
independent news outlets and websites are covering the uranium question,
or which outlet initiated this line of investigation. I'm relying on
one provocative January 23 article at intellihub, by Shepard Ambellas:
"Clinton Foundation took
massive payoffs, promised Hammond Ranch and other publicly owned lands
to Russians, along with one-fifth of our uranium ore."
Down in the body of that article, the author provides a link to a page
at the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which is a federal agency
under the Department of the Interior.
On that BLM page, in a section titled,
"Uranium on BLM-Administered Lands in OR/WA," is the following statement:
"In September 2011, a representative from Oregon Energy, L.L.C.
(formally Uranium One), met with local citizens, and county and state
officials, to discuss the possibility of opening a uranium oxide
('yellowcake') mine in southern Malheur County in southeastern Oregon.
Oregon Energy is interested in developing a 17-Claim parcel of land
known as the Aurora Project through an open pit mining method. Besides
the mine, there would be a mill for processing. The claim area occupies
about 450 acres and is also referred to as the 'New U' uranium claims.
"On May 7, 2012, Oregon Energy LLC made a presentation to the BLM outlining its plans for development for the mine.
"The Vale District has agreed to work with Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife on mitigation for the 'New U' uranium claims, which are
located in core sage grouse habitat. Although the lands encompassing the
claims have been designated core, the area is frequented by rockhounds
and hunters, and has a crisscrossing of off-highway vehicle (OHV) roads
and other significant land disturbance from the defunct Bretz Mercury
Mine, abandoned in the 1960s.
"However, by the fall of 2012 the company said that it was putting
its plans for the mine on hold until the uncertainty surrounding sage
grouse issues was resolved."
The first sentence in that BLM section ties together several key
elements of the story: Uranium One; a uranium mine; southern Malheur
County. Southern Malheur is the general area of the federal-protestor
standoff. Let me give you that first sentence again:
"In September 2011, a representative from Oregon Energy, L.L.C.
(formally Uranium One), met with local citizens, and county and state
officials, to discuss the possibility of opening a uranium oxide
('yellowcake') mine in southern Malheur County in southeastern Oregon."
What does this have to do with Hillary and Bill Clinton? I'll reprint
my previous article so you can read the details, but the short version
is: there's a case to be made that they, through Uranium One and the
Clinton Foundation, facilitated the sale of Uranium One to Putin and the
Russians. And if so, and if this area of Oregon is projected to be
part of that uranium mining deal, then we are looking at a stunning
"coincidence": the US federal government is coming down hard on a group
of protestors who are occupying, for their own reasons, a very valuable
piece of territory that goes far beyond the issue of private cattle
grazing on government land.
It comes under the heading of those old familiar lines: you have no idea
what you're involved in; you have no idea who you're messing with; this
is way over your head; you just stepped into the middle of something
that's bigger than you can imagine.
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