It’s my opinion that most likely the announcement of the “State Investigation” had more to do with shaking the unconscious city council members back to reality. They continue to toot control of the entire Verde Valley because they’ve gotten away with it and their shenanigans with the “regional” Chamber – with City of Sedona taxes footing the entire bill.

If that anti-NM group that was given so much credit decides to become a coalition with KSB, a once well respected organization, all they will do is subject themselves to the same deception that KSB bought into and probably be controlled by the same unknown sources that have ruined Keep Sedona Beautiful.

Keep your creative ideas to yourself until such time you will honorably present them to the public without using the lame Sedona City Council as a crutch. They are hopeless in spite of how the vote went last night.

Not, Steve Segner I think you are all idiots, the city vote last night went the way I said it would 90 days ago, they are smart and get it , all you B.S they also saw through.

steve Segner

KSB’s Sedona-Verde Valley Red Rock National Monument designation proposal to the Sedona City Council was voted down tonight, 6-1. The only “nay” vote was Councilor Angela LeFevre.

JRN

Rick, you have to wonder about these people – why and how do they NOT see the man behind the curtain? I guess the food network, ebay, and Project Runway do not run headline news, so it’s up to us to recap for those sleeping sheeple.

In light of recent shootings, the White House has been preaching gun control, but even the casual observer, the United States government is in fact spending tens of millions to arm even benign agencies like the EPA with military-style weapons and armaments. Why would they do this? So they can ‘enforce the rules’ of the new ‘Climate Change‘ regulations?

“Our report discovered that when the EPA comes knocking they are armed with a thousand lawyers, arrest/criminal data, credit, business and property histories, plus a ‘Special Agent’ with the latest in weaponry and technology,” said Adam Andrzejewski, founder of Open the Books and the author of the report. “Protecting the environment just got real. With millions of dollars spent on military style weaponry, the EPA is now literally ensconced with all institutional force.”

Among the weapons purchased are guns, body armor, camouflage equipment, unmanned aircraft, amphibious assault ships, radar and night-vision gear and other military-style weaponry and surveillance activities, according to a new report by the watchdog group Open the Books.

The EPA estimates that each Special Agent costs taxpayers $216,000 per year in salary, travel, equipment, training and other expenses, according to the report. The special agent “enforces the nation’s laws by investigating cases, collecting evidence, conducting forensic analyses and providing legal guidance to assist in the prosecution of criminal conduct that threatens people’s health and the environment,” according to the EPA’s website.

The report also reveals that seven of 10 EPA employees make more than $100,000 a year and more than 12,000 of its 16,000 employees were given bonuses last year despite budget cuts.

The EPA also employs more than 1,000 attorneys, making it one of the largest law firms in the country. The agency also sent over $50 million since 2000 to international organizations, including groups in Mexico and China.

There’s a much bigger picture here. They have hidden there out of control EPA spending on a something much more sinister. They have squirreled away guns, ammo, heavy artillery, food, water, etc. This is not for the EPA it is for when martial law is ordered by this president. We are just one calamity or riot away.

Every federal agency seems to have a similar story. It seems pretty clear the feds are infamously “not letting a crisis go to waste” in order to seize authoritarian if not totalitarian control over our lives. We’re no longer the land of the free. Mystery Babylon.

KSB, the Sierra Club, and the Democrats of the Red Rocks still insist, in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary, that the SVRRNM is a good idea, because they believe that federal land and resource stewardship of our lands portends better care and stewardship than state management. Have you ever noticed how many runaway forest fires in the western U.S. occur on federally managed land as opposed to state managed land and parks?

TTO GET THEIR SVVRRNM DESIGNATION PROPOSAL PASSED, KSB IS TRYING TO RIDE THE COAT TAILS OF THE GRAND CANYON WATERSHED NATIONAL MONUMENT DESIGNATION PROPOSAL BECAUSE THEY KNOW HOW BADLY THE FEDS WANT THAT LAND UNDER THEIR CONTROL! (see below…keep reading). But environmental protection is NOT the Fed’s main goal for wanting NM designation for the GCWNM watershed area. The games never end, so consider this:

The U.S. holds top place for global nuclear energy, producing about 30% of the world’s total, according to the World Nuclear Association. Last year, 100 reactors generated over 19% of the country’s electricity. The U.S. now has 99 reactors in operation and another five under construction.

Kazakhstan is now the United States’ top supplier of uranium for the country’s nuclear power plants, after overtaking Australia last year, figures published by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reveal.

According to the EIA, 23% of the uranium acquired by the U.S. — 12 million pounds— was of Kazakh origin, while 20% came from Australia and 18% from Canada.

Not coincidentally, the proposed 1.7 million acre Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument contains the largest uranium deposit in the U.S. Yet, the Sierra Club still can’t admit that the Colorado River is already contaminated by uranium tailings washing into the river from its shores while federal land resource management let it happen. The DOE claims it won’t have the money to pay for a clean up until 2030.

So much for federal land and resource stewardship! How astute does one have to be to figure out what the real motivation of the Department of the Interior is? The want that uranium under Fed control for EMERGENCY MINING purposes, not state control. Kazakhstan borders Russia and is under the Russian sphere of influence.

JRN