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Whistleblower’s! Is presented in coordination with Marcel Reid and the Whistleblower’s Summit taking place every July in Washington, D.C.
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Our guests this evening are Debbie Coffey (V.P.) and Carol Walker (Dir. of Field Documentation) of Wild Horse Freedom Federation. They are leading efforts to save America’s wild horses and burros from being managed into extinction by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), operating under the Department of the Interior.
They are going to detail the many ways the BLM is withholding important information from the American public. Debbie has filed about 150 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for records, and Carol has been “boots on the ground” in the West.
Recently, when a member of the public asked the BLM a simple question about the number of foals that had died at the BLM’s Bruneau, Idaho, feedlot, she got the run around. The BLM told her:
“We do not keep these records on file locally”
“You will need to file a FOIA to get that information.”
WHY? (The BLM already complains that their FOIAs are backlogged, and they just can’t keep up.) Debbie and Carol will fill you in on all the details of this, and more.
Dec 07, 2018 @ 01:27:57
THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA: NON-MILITARY FEDERAL AGENCIES PURCHASES OF GUNS, AMMO, AND MILITARY-STYLE EQUIPMENT FISCAL YEARS 2006 – 2014:
OVERSIGHT STUDY PUBLISHED: JUNE, 2016 By: Adam Andrzejewski – Founder and CEO of OpenTheBooks.com Thomas W. Smith – Chairman of OpenTheBooks.com
OUR REPORT MADE POSSIBLE BY: The “Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006” Sponsors: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) & Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) (Public Law 109-282, 109th Congress) “Is the spending in the public interest or the special interest?” – U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn
At OpenTheBooks.com we’re constantly pushing agencies at all levels of government -state, local and federal – to disclose their spending. Our motivation is simple: Taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being spent. The American experiment put government in the hands of the people, recognizing that our government exists at the pleasure and consent of the governed. It is a responsibility of an informed people to know and understand the inner workings of the government that they have placed in power. OpenTheBooks.com attempts to provide key information on the spending habits of our federal government as an important part of that responsibility. For the first time,
OpenTheBooks.com has catalogued and reported on the federal purchase of guns, ammunition and military-style equipment.
From FY2006-FY2014, $1.48 billion was used for this purpose within non-military agencies
Federal Agencies Purchasing Guns, Ammunition, and Military-Style Equipment Since 2006
1422: BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT $2,194,574.11
https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/7/Oversight_TheMilitarizationOfAmerica_06102016.pdf
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Dec 07, 2018 @ 01:07:00
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 25, 2018
OpenTheBooks Oversight Report – Harvesting U.S. Farm Subsidies Report maps fiscal year 2017 federal farm subsidies flowing to urban areas, wealthy zip codes, and individuals OpenTheBooks.com – a national transparency organization – today released its U.S. farm subsidies oversight report, quantifying all fiscal year 2017 subsidy payments flowing to urban areas, and wealthy zip codes. Research shows more than $626 million in federal farm subsidy payments during the last three fiscal years flowed to recipients in urban areas where there are no farms. Additionally, just last year, nearly 400 recipients across America pulled down $1 million or more in farm subsidies each. “Our data shows the farm subsidy program has become so lucrative that wealthy investors, corporations, and farm-estate heirs piggybacked on a growing government program and added farm subsidies to their investment portfolios,” OpenTheBooks CEO and Founder Adam Andrzejewski said. Residents in America’s five most populated cities received nearly $17 million in farm subsidies over a threeyear period, including Chicago ($7.7 million), Miami ($4.5 million), New York City ($2.8 million), Los Angeles ($1.6 million), and Philadelphia ($309,000). In Washington, D.C., more than 350 recipients received $1.7 million in fiscal year 2017 farm subsidies. In fiscal year 2017, $4.8 million in farm subsidies flowed to the upper-middle class elites in America’s most expensive zip codes. Recipients in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood received $139,080 and $94,090 over the last three years, respectively. Taxpayers even forked over $1.8 billion to pay farmers not to farm their land. Through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), farmers received rental payments in exchange for not farming their land – and these contracts can last 10 to 15 years. Last year, even billionaire businessman Glen Taylor – the owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves NBA team – received $116,502 in federal farm subsidies for his egg and dairy farm in Iowa. Additionally, twelve members of Congress collected up to $637,059 in subsidy payments last year alone. Read the report and search an interactive map to see all six-figure farm subsidy payments by zip code.
https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/7/Press_Release_Farm_Subsidies1.PDF
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Dec 07, 2018 @ 00:55:15
Harvesting U.S. Farm Subsidies
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Dec 07, 2018 @ 00:52:43
12 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS COLLECTED FARM SUBSIDY PAYMENTS – $637,059
FY2017 | U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE | When conducting research for our OpenTheBooks Oversight Report – Harvesting U.S. Farm Subsidies, released August 2018, our team found 12 members of Congress collecting farm subsidy payments in FY2017. These members of congress sit on the agriculture committee, craft farm policy, vote on the subsidies, and then collect the subsidies. Our Honorary Chairman Dr. Tom Coburn, while in congress, complained to the ethics committee.
https://www.openthebooks.com/the_wall_street_journal__usa_today_100_examples_of_federal_taxpayer_abuse/
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