Update
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EOG Resources is the unnamed company teaming with ZaZa Energy to develop assets in Texas' Eaglebine trend, an SEC filing says. For acreage 100% owned by ZaZa, EOG will be the operator and earn a 75% working interest, while ZaZa will retain 25%; for acreage currently owned 75% by ZaZa and 25% by Range Resources, EOG will earn 50% while ZaZa and RRC each will retain 25%.
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Arizona, Napolitano, Ammo, Assault Vehicles
It's All Starting To Make Sense
On a completely different note, there have been several articles of the Department of Homeland Security buying excessive numbers of rounds of ammunition. It is being reported that DHS is not acknowledging the purchases, and is stonewalling Congress when asked about the purchases. I have posted the news items, noting them, but not really getting any feel for the story: whether there might be a reason or simply the government buying lots of ammunition for no particular reason.
Now, these photos, videos, and story from Infowars.com:
Footage of hundreds of armored trucks, similar to ones reportedly purchased recently by the Department Of Homeland Security has appeared online, raising more questions over their intended use.
The video was uploaded to YouTube last week by a user who stated that it was shot in the middle of the desert between Hackberry and Peach Springs, Arizona.
It shows hundreds of military style trucks loaded on to a train, presumably in the process of being delivered domestically for law enforcement or military purposes.I think the dots are starting to connect.
- The director of Homeland Security is Janet Napolitano. She was the governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009.
- The US federal bureaucracy moves very, very slowly. The decision to buy large amounts of ammunition and large number of assault vehicles for domestic use would have taken a fair amount of time from considering the issue to executing the plan.
- I don't know if folks remember what the big story in Arizona was between 2003 and 2009 that would relate to the subject at hand.
- This article was posted in 2009. I personally don't care for this type of "scare" article. I did not read the entire article, and it is linked here solely for demonstration, to help folks connect the dots.
- In the 2008 time period and into 2009, the US economy experienced a severe recession; the Mexican economy did not implode; and, there was no mass migration of Mexicans across the border. But I do recall the hysteria was pretty rampant, between 2003 and 2009, about the Mexican economy collapsing, and hordes of Mexicans streaming across the border.
The risk seems to have completely gone away; perhaps it has, perhaps it hasn't. But the bureaucracy moves slowly, and once the plan -- to buy weapons, ammunition, and assault vehicles -- was hatched some years ago, it would have taken a few years to execute.
It all fits very nicely. It doesn't bother me one way or the other. I don't think the arming of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is all that big a deal. I truly doubt arming the ICE is for the purpose of preventing armed revolt in the street by American citizens upset about losing their social security or having to pay for ObamaCare. The dots connect, and if arming the ICE is for the purpose suggested, it sounds more than appropriate. The whole plan seems a bit crazy, but I'm sure the government has done a lot crazier things over the years. But, wow, it sure makes sense.
Janet Napolitano was governor of Arizona in 2003 - 2009, ground zero (time and place) for impending hordes of Mexicans flooding across the border. She probably lost sleep thinking about the very real possibility. If so, that fear never left her. Once in a job where she could do something about it, she acted with laser-like focus.