Earth First! Movie: "Who Bombed Judi Beri?" In 1990 the FBI Bombed Activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Beri. The FBI was Fined $400,000 but Did Not ADMIT Guilt.

 Official Website: https://whobombedjudibari.com/

Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an American historical documentary about an assassination attempt on the life of Judi Bari, an American environmental and labor activist, which occurred on May 24, 1990 via a pipe bomb in her car.^[1][2] It was directed by Mary Liz Thomson and produced by Darryl Cherney. He is also an environmental activist and was traveling with Bari that day, but was not as severely wounded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Bombed_Judi_Bari

While driving through Oakland, California on their way to a benefit concert for the Redwood Summer campaign to save California's coast redwood trees, activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured when a pipe bomb detonated under the driver's seat of Bari's car.^[3] Bari, who was driving, was critically injured.

Oakland police and the FBI approached the explosion as a terrorist incident, and arrested Bari and Cherney. In their investigation, they tried to prove that the activists were transporting an explosive device that accidentally detonated. The two were never charged with a crime

They filed a civil rights lawsuit in 1991 against these law enforcement organizations for violation of their constitutional rights. In 2002 they won the lawsuit (Bari had died of breast cancer in 1997). Cherney and the late Bari's estate were awarded $4.4 million, to be paid by the FBI and Oakland Police Department.^[4] The authorities allegedly did not investigate any other suspects. Discovery during the lawsuit revealed crime scene photos that clearly showed the bomb was located under Bari's seat, not in the back seat as investigators had alleged.^[1]

https://www.northcoastjournal.com/Blogthing/archives/2015/05/19/who-bombed-judi-bari-25-years-later-we-may-find-an-answer Sorry, No Answers Found...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754621/

Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.

http://www.judibari.org/

Jury's message to feds in $4.4 million verdict for Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney
(revised 6/19/02)

On June 11, 2002, a federal jury returned a stunning verdict in favor of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney in their landmark civil rights lawsuit against four FBI agents and three Oakland Police officers. 

The jury unanimously found that six of the seven FBI and OPD defendants tried to frame Judi and Darryl in an effort to crush Earth First! and chill participation in Redwood Summer. That was evident in the fact that 80% of the $4.4 million total damage award was for violation of their First Amendment rights to speak out and organize politically in defense of the forests. 

"The jury exonerated us," said Darryl Cherney. "They found the FBI to be the ones in violation of the law. The American public needs to understand that the FBI can't be trusted. Ten jurors got a good, hard look at the FBI and they didn't like what they saw." 

"It's really beyond our wildest dreams," said Darlene Comingore, Judi Bari's friend and executor of her estate who stood in for her as co-plaintiff in this suit. "We hope the FBI and Oakland and all the police forces out there that think they can violate people's rights and get away with it are listening because the people of the state of California and Oakland today said, 'No, you can't. You can't get away with it.' "

Lead attorney Dennis Cunningham said the message he hopes the verdict sends is that: "Ashcroft is doing precisely the wrong thing to abandon the (Levi) guidelines and let the FBI go after dissent with a free hand. It's clear that their intention is not about fighting terrorism, it's about suppressing dissent. That's what the FBI has always been about. Hopefully it will make Congress think twice about giving them a free hand." 

Please click here to continue reading this article, with more interpretation of the meaning and importance of the verdict by the media as well as by individual participants and observers, including one of the jurors.

HAVE YOU SEEN ME? The FBI Needs Help Arresting TrumpNiks® That Stormed the US Capitol on January 6th 2021 - Look At These Photos and Call or EMAIL the FBI If You Know These People.

Click Here! https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/capitol-violence

You May Remain Totally Anonymous. Over Two Hundred Have Already Been Arrested. Including the Man Seen Beating a Policeman With The American Flag. I Guess He Didn't Believe That "Blue Lives Matter" After All!  

You can call ‪1-800-CALL-FBI (1-‪800-225-5324) to verbally report tips and/or information related to this investigation, or submit at tip online at tips.fbi.gov.

Have You Seen Me?  FBI - Most Wanted -
US Capitol Insurrectionists -
Failed to Overthrow the US Government
on January 6th 2021

U.S. Capitol Violence 

The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying individuals who made unlawful entry into the U.S. Capitol building and committed various other alleged criminal violations, such as destruction of property, assaulting law enforcement personnel, targeting members of the media for assault, and other unlawful conduct, on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Pipe Bombs in D.C. 

A reward of up to $100,000 is available for information leading to the location, arrest, and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the placement of pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., on January 5, 2021. View videos, photos, and additional information.

and then a "Known" TrumpNik® Replied:

VK: Now post the images of hundreds of AntiFa corporate communists rioting, burning, looting, and KILLING (19 dead vs. ZERO) all summer long, because the FBI under Biden (and even under The Once and Future President Trump) seem spectacularly uninterested in the REAL insurrection (probably because they are part of it).

The ONLY death that occurred as a direct result of the Capitol incursion (not an insurrection, no matter what the propagandists say) is the murder by an unidentified congressional bodyguard of an unarmed woman: Ashley Banfield.

Say Her Name.

WHO? WHY?

Ashleigh Dennistoun Banfield^[1] (born December 29, 1967) is a Canadian-American journalist and anchor of Banfield. She is a former host of Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield and Early Start on CNN.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_Banfield

Images of AntiFa

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/dt

FBI Most Wanted Domestic Terrorists:
Antifa or BLM Yields Zero Results

Why aren't the FBI Even Looking For Antifa or BLM Terrorists? Could It Be That TrumpNiks® are Fighting an Imaginary Foe? Are "They" Lost in a Fantasy World?

Or could it be that the same Deep State FBI that tried to conduct a coup against a popularly elected president through the debunked Russia Collusion Hoax, the debunked Ukraine Phone Call Hoax, two Fake Impeachments using baseless accusations drawn from debunked Fake News lamestream media clickbait, is quite comfortable ignoring the legions of Marxist domestic terrorists because they are all pursuing the same end: the destruction of individual freedom and Constitutional protections under the banner of "equity" and the imposition of an elitist corporate fascist digital super-state?

Wouldn't it behoove a shadow government to avoid drawing attention to its shock troops?

and I Responded: 

However... Biden Is President and all your whining FAILS. No Matter How Many Times People Post CrazyTalk® Nonsense... Reality WINS! I Truly Hope Trump Runs Again in 2024... That Way He Can Lose a Third Time! and Kamala Will Be President...

KD Said: what you are saying is all delusional baloney. The truth is out and the majority knows it. They voted for Biden! Trump is a Liar and a crook who betrayed this country and the people who voted for him. There is no deep state and Antifa barely exists.

I Said: Paranoid Schizophrenia... Victor Shows the Symptoms... Imaginary Enemies Threatening Him... I'm sure Glad I Don't Live in His Nightmare World... Did you see George Bush the Son's Statement? The Insurrection mad him "Sick to My Stomach" - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/18/george-w-bush-condemns-attack-capitol-i-sick-my-stomach/4723510001/ #METOO... We Need to Arrest The TrumpNiks® That Tried and FAILED to Overthrow the US Government...

FBI Director Wray Makes Republicans Look Insane... Jim Jordan Reduced to Tears... "He's Such a Meanie... All I'm Trying to Do is Legalize Crime for tRUMP. Is That Really So Bad?"

FBI Director Christopher Wray called attacks on his character “somewhat insane” and pushed back on various conspiracies during Wednesday’s six-hour hearing...

Headline: Gone in 60 seconds: At FBI director hearing, Republican conspiracies about Biden go 'POOF!'

To believe the GOP line of attack against the FBI and President Joe Biden, you have to believe that a Republican is at the center of a vast law-enforcement conspiracy.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/07/12/fbi-director-hearing-exposes-flaw-republican-conspiracy-theories/70406666007/

Headline: Fox Anchor Says GOP ‘Dropped the Ball’ During Hearing With FBI Director...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-anchor-says-gop-dropped-the-ball-during-hearing-with-fbi-director 

House Republicans are convinced the FBI and the Department of Justice and basically any law enforcement agency that hasn’t found President Joe Biden guilty of being a global criminal mastermind is corrupt – CORRUPT, I TELL YOU! – and in cahoots with Democrats.
But the steaming hot conspiracy bubbles belching up from the right-wing fever swamps are occasionally pierced by facts, and a rather thunderous bubble-popping took place Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The overall tenor of questioning from Republican lawmakers during the hearing was: “YOU GUYS TOTALLY FOMENTED THE JAN. 6 ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL, DIDNYA? AND YOU ALL HATE DONALD TRUMP TOO, DONTCHA?? AND YOU ALL LOVE JOE BIDEN TOO, RIGHT?!?”

Jim Jordan breaks down and cries - 

I'm not insane...

Headline: "This hearing has turned into absolute chaos": Dems call out Jim Jordan over "bananas" FBI hearing.

https://news.yahoo.com/hearing-turned-absolute-chaos-dems-191648106.html

TrumpNik® CIVIL WAR CANCELLED - STAND DOWN, WANKERS - Remember: The FBI is Looking for QuackAnon FREAKS and Has Already Arrested 610 Losers for the Failed Overthrow of the USA on 1/6/2021

Relax... Just Because the My Pillow Guy Failed is NO REASON to Start Shooting Off Guns and Rioting... GET USED to FAILURE... That's What Trump Does Best! 

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FBI Headquarters Building to Remain on Pennsylvania Ave because "POTUS Directed Action." - Obvious Cover-up by GSA Head.

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/08/27/trump-met-with-gsa-fbi-officials-before-hq.html

GSA may have misled Congress over FBI HQ cost, meetings with Trump, Inspector General says...

https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/office/report-trump-obsessed-with-fbi-building-micromanaging-headquarters-project-91239  


Report: Trump 'Obsessed' With FBI Building, Micromanaging Headquarters Project... The president has expressed strong opposition to plans to move the FBI out of D.C., instead arguing it should stay on Pennsylvania Avenue and be renovated, Axois reported. 



Echelon Keyword Data: NSA, CIA, DARPA, DIA, DoD, Total Information Awareness,
 Congress, corruption, FBI, fraud, GSA, Lied, oversight, real estate, Trey Gowdy, Trump

Learn Secret Writing At: https://www.who.ru 
a website devoted to Russian "THE WHO" Fans... 
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And now for something completely different. 

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Let's reduce the defense budget to half by ending CrazyWars...
I wonder what the Mission is for all these Crazy Wars? Obviously, It's not to defend the USA. The Military has not Defended the USA since 1945. There was a real attack on us on 9/11/2001 but the military failed to protect the country. Total Failure... So there must be some other reason we have invaded Vietnam, Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Is it simply to sell weapons to the Pentagon? Whenever we have a war we sell a lot of weapons, meals, tents, bandages, trucks, and airplanes... Corporations make a great profit. Soldiers die, civilians die, enemies die, but nothing is really accomplished. After all, what difference did it make who won the war in Nicaragua? None. It made a difference to the people of Nicaragua but it had no effect on life here in the USA. None of these Crazy Wars have made any difference to the people of the USA. NONE! The only military action that made any sense was the dozen men that assassinated Osama bin Laden. That was a worthwhile mission. 

Therefore, It's really important to remember to NOT VOLUNTEER for the military. I saw President Trump talking at a Wounded Warrior Event today and it reminded me that all those people VOLUNTEERED to go die for nothing. OOPS, they got wounded because ___________. Fill in the blank if you know why. Was it simply because they couldn't find a civilian job and the military was hiring? Was it because they saw a John Wayne movie and got all inspired? Was it because they were easily brainwashed? 

If we cut defense spending in half we could afford many wonderful things. We could prevent hunger 100%. We could pay for health care for all. We could pay for great school for all. We could pay teachers more... Not only is defense money wasted but people's lives are wasted also. The engineers that invented drone airplanes could have been designing better electric cars... BUT, they wasted their talents making drones... Most soldiers spend their entire career without once doing anything of value. What IF we hired them to rebuild our infrastructure? We have roads that need paving but no money to fund construction crews. WHAT IF WE STARTED BEING SMART? 


So, what can one person DO to end Crazywar? Vote Democratic... and write to your representatives and ask them to stop funding stupid stuff. For example: You could copy and paste this message and email it to them.  

Unsolved Mystery: WHERE ARE TESLA'S PAPERS? When He Died, All His Drawings and Notebooks Were Confiscated by the Office of Alien Property...

60 out of 80 Trunks Were Shipped to The Tesla Museum in Serbia... 20 Trunks Vanished. and the FBI Vault Has Nothing...

CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO SEE THEM BIGGER

FOIA - FBI says that the Nikola Tesla Deathbed Papers Were Confiscated by the Office of Alien Property -

The FBI Says: That's NOT US - WE GOT NOTHING... Here is a J. Edgar Hoover Letter...

I Looked at Every Page of The
PDF Files and... There Are
Many Memorandums About Tesla, Many Requests for Documents from Researchers, Many Newspaper and Magazine Articles ABOUT Tesla... BUT NO REAL DRAWINGS OR NOTEBOOKS... or ANYTHING WRITTEN BY TESLA...

There are LISTS of What Was Confiscated...
AND THEY GOT A LOT!
But... Where are They Now?
There is Nothing in the National Archives Either...  
LINK: https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla

However - Some Papers Were Shipped to Belgrade, Serbia. 
In 1952, after a U.S. court declared Kosanovic the rightful heir to his uncle’s estate, Tesla’s files and other materials were sent to Belgrade, Serbia, where they now reside in the Nikola Tesla Museum there. LINK: https://nikolateslamuseum.org/en/ 
But while the FBI originally recorded some 80 trunks among Tesla’s effects, only 60 arrived in Belgrade, Seifer says. “Maybe they packed the 80 into 60, but there is the possibility that…the government did keep the missing trunks.”  
https://www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi

and YES, The Office of Alien Property Was A Real Thing!
Not a Joke!

Created in October 1917 within the United States Department of Justice, the Office of Alien Property Custodian (OAPC) ceased to exist in 1934 and its functions were delegated to the Alien Property Bureau (APB) in the Claims Division of the Department of Justice. On December 9, 1941, the APB was superseded in the Justice Department by the Alien Property Division (APD). The APD was abolished in 1942 and its functions were passed along to the Office of Alien Property Custodian (APC) within the Office of Emergency Management. APC was abolished in 1946 and its functions were transferred to the Office of Alien Property, Department of Justice. It was abolished in 1966 and most of the functions related to foreign assets control were passed to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in the United States Department of the Treasury.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Alien_Property_Custodian

American History: The Humboldt County Timber Wars... A Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber Company and The Extreme Logging of Old Growth Redwoods in Northern California. MAXXAM SUXX

In 1985 Charles Hurwitz borrowed money (Junk Bonds) from Michael Milken and bought the company Pacific Lumber, located near Eureka, California. Then Hurwitz increased the rate of logging in the Redwood Forest and cut down all the highly profitable trees. Then he split his corporation MAXXAM into two divisions. One division was used to do actual logging and sawing of boards and the other division was used to hide the profits. When the bill came due on the Junk Bonds, Hurwitz declared bankruptcy and took the money back to Texas. Including the pension funds that paid retirement benefits for employees...

Photo of a Car in front of a Giant Pile Of Redwood Logs at A Lumber mill in Eureka CA - EARTH FIRST

Then the Pacific Lumber Company was purchased at a foreclosure sale by The Fisher Family. They had made a fortune selling clothes at a chain of stores called "The Gap". They reintroduced the business plan called "sustainable logging" where the Lumberjacks would only cut down as many trees as grew during the year. This plan was invented by the original owner of Pacific Lumber, Simon J. Murphy... The concept was to cut 1% of the forest every year and plant new trees so that in a hundred years the new trees would have grown big enough to harvest.

Earth First!

During this time there were many ecology protests in Humboldt County. Including "Tree Sits" where forest protectors would build a treehouse in the upper branches of a giant Redwood in order to prevent Lumberjacks from Chainsawing the tree down. It would be possibly fatal for a tree sitter to be in a tree that was falling and the corporations were not willing to risk actual Human Life for profit. (Bad Publicity)... At the Tree Sit I attended MAXXAM Hired a Local man to "Evict" the Tree Sitters by climbing the tree and wrestling with the people... eventually carrying them to the ground where the Police arrested them.

Others committed "Tree Spiking" where large metal nails were driven into the wood of a tree and then the heads of the nails were clipped off. That way, if a tree was at the sawmill and the blade hit the metal, the blade would explode killing millworkers. Once again the corporation was not willing to risk people's lives and so trees that were spiked, were not cut down. The Forest Protectors spray painted the spiked trees so that the Lumberjacks would be aware of the danger.

Still others went to the Offices of Political Leaders and staged "Sit-Ins" where they would handcuff themselves to each other and chant/sing songs while being filmed by TV Cameras... At one of these events the local police used pepper spray on the protestors who were young women. The young women screamed loudly... and it was filmed by TV Stations. When this was broadcast on the TV News it outrages the citizens of California... There is a biological reaction to young women being harmed... This Media Event lead to a massive protest Statewide and the California Legislature Bought a Large Tract of Land and created the Headwaters Forest Park... The park protecting a stand of Old Growth Redwoods near Fortuna, California. It is a pretty park with a paved trail that is popular with people that have wheeled vehicles like bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards and baby buggies. The hike from the parking lot to the Giant Redwood Trees is about five miles and simply too far for most people to walk but it's easy for people on wheels.

Another technique used to stop the logging was Scientific Ecology Studies that concluded that the Spotted Owl was losing it's habitat and it was in danger of going extinct. See Illustration below...

Two members of the Ecology Group Earth First! were bombed by the FBI in Oakland. There was a Trial and the FBI agreed to award the Survivor a large cash settlement but denied doing anything wrong. Judi Beri died and  Darryl Cherney Survived. He has retired from Activism but still performs as the leader of a musical group. They sing satire protest songs...

Interesting Movie: Who Bombed Judi Bari? 
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi742497305?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1

Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.

—Anonymous

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754621/

Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an American historical documentary about an assassination attempt on the life of Judi Bari, an American environmental and labor activist, which occurred on May 24, 1990.^[1]

While driving through Oakland, California on their way to a benefit concert for the Redwood Summer campaign to save California's coast redwood trees, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured when a pipe bomb detonated under the driver's seat of their car.^[2] Bari, who was driving, was critically injured. Oakland police and the FBI approached the explosion as a terrorist incident, arrested Bari and Cherney, and tried to prove that they were transporting their own explosive device which accidentally detonated. The two were never charged with a crime. In 2002 they won a lawsuit and were awarded $4.4 million for civil rights violations by the FBI and Oakland Police Department.^[3] The authorities allegedly did not investigate any other suspects.^[1] Discovery during the lawsuit revealed crime scene photos that clearly showed the bomb was located under Bari's seat, not in the back seat as investigators had alleged.^[1]

In 2012, a federal judge ordered the FBI not to destroy another pipe bomb that had only partially detonated at a lumber mill about a week before the car bombing, which investigators agreed had been built by the same bomber. Attorney for Darryl Cherney, Ben Rosenfeld, had requested that an outside lab perform DNA testing on the Cloverdale bomb, which the FBI claimed it had never performed, a request which the judge upheld.^[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Bombed_Judi_Bari

Full Text of a Newspaper Article I wrote for The Humboldt State University Lumberjack Newspaper about a Tree Sit in Freshwater, California
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/freshwater-tree-sit-near-eureka-ca-2003.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-headwaters-forest-coloring-book.html
Link to the Headwaters Forest Coloring Book.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mill-creek-trip-with-save-redwoods.html
Photographs and Description of events at the Dedication Ceremony of the Mill Creek Park with the Save the Redwoods League.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/two-pinecones-in-humid-weather-and.html
Photographs of a Hike in the Headwaters Forest.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/photographs-of-clearcut-logging-in.html
Photographs of Clearcut Logging in Arcata, California on Fickle Hill Road up in the mountains behind town...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Lumber_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headwaters_Forest_Reserve

https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Forest-Californias-Redwood-Timber/dp/0816653259

Photo of a Clearcut a couple of years later. Once You Cut Down the Redwood Trees, It's Sunny and the Pampas Grass Thrives... Greenwood Heights, CA Near Arcata

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A Newspaper Article: American History: Junk Bonds and Redwood Trees in Humboldt County

Milken's Unpardonable Redwood Felonies - 
BY J.A. SAVAGE
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/milkens-unpardonable-redwood-felonies/Content?oid=16723085
Some crimes cannot be forgiven. There's Harvey Weinstein's sexual assaults, the Sackler family's (alleged) opioid proliferation and, for Humboldt County, Michael Milken's junk bonds.

So when President Trump pardoned "Junk Bond King" Milken for his criminal offenses last week, the message to Humboldt was clear: No matter how many ancient forests you plunder, it's an admirable undertaking — as long as it makes money.

Milken's felonious financing was a primary cause for Maxxam's massive clearcutting of big redwoods in the 1980s. Maxxam used Milken's junk bonds to leverage a hostile takeover of Pacific Lumber Co. But junk bonds have huge interest rates because they're deemed risky investments and the exhausting interest on those takeover bonds was repaid with the hard currency of ancient trees.

When Milken started using investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert to create the financial underpinnings for forest destruction, Humboldt was already reeling from nearly a decade of Enviro v. Logger politics. The attitude toward forests was tearing apart the social fabric of Humboldt County at the time. It was a one-industry economy, logging, and it was tanking. Jobs were scarce. The community grew polarized. The factions got violent. It got bloody. Entire watersheds were denuded.

Enviromentalists were in fist fights with loggers in Eureka's streets. The timber industry, backed by Humboldt State University and the Times-Standard, was promoting giant clearcuts. In the name of "silviculture," clearcuts were followed by dropping napalm for controlled burns after logging, then helicopters spraying the components of Agent Orange – 2,4,5-T (until it was banned) and 2,4-D. The herbicides' aim was to kill all wide-leaved vegetation before it could compete with the next softwood cash crop.

Humboldt's reality in the early 1980s sounds like the plot to a horror film or perhaps, an insufferable documentary. But that wasn't bad enough. No, Michael Milken's junk bonds entered the scene and made it much, much worse.

Until Milken premiered his rapacious financing scheme in Humboldt, junk bonds had been a finance mechanism of last resort. His criminal actions changed the industry to parlay those bonds into huge investment opportunities and enormous profits. Through the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, Milken's junk bonds were specifically channeled by the newly formed Maxxam corporation to Pacific Lumber's 1985-1986 takeover. Until then, Pacific Lumber was a family-run business that cut and milled redwoods in relative sustainability.

As a result of Milken's maneuvering, vast swaths of ancient trees were clearcut in order to pay off debt. To service junk bonds' enormous interest rate, Maxxam immediately doubled or tripled (depending on which data to believe) Pacific Lumber's previous rate of cutting down ancient forests. For those of you who can translate, that was 285 million board feet a year to pay off $900 million in debt, with much of that in Milken's junk bonds.

Repaying the enormous interest rates on Milken's junk bonds led to the devastating of entire watersheds. Ancient redwoods, once cut and milled, could wholesale for $100,000. And that, according to the former chief executive officer of Maxxam, Charles Hurwitz, was the reason behind Pacific Lumber's acquisition.

After Maxxam started paying off Milken's junk bonds with ancient forests, tree-sitters moved in to offer redwoods their personal protection. Julia Butterfly Hill was the most well known but forests were secretly scattered with dozens like her. Conflict escalated with the deaths of forests activists like Judi Bari (car bomb) and David Gypsy Chain (felled tree).

"It led to many years of timber wars," Sharon Duggan, the Environmental Protection and Resource Center's attorney during that time, said in retrospect.

While "wars" is military glib, those facing down a phalanx of Milken-financed Maxxam D9 Caterpillars could understandably describe it as one.

The "wars" only lasted a few years before the trees, and their profitability, were plundered and Humboldt reeled. The rapacious harvesting left Humboldt's economy a wreck. Maxxam was facing bankruptcy. Milken and his ilk started being picked off by prosecutors for violations of all sorts of financials laws enforced, at the time, by the federal government. Humboldt's tree-sitters wobbled back to earth.

It was 1990 when Milken pleaded guilty to six felonies. That was on the heels of the federal government's 1988 takeover of Maxxam, at a cost of $1.6 billion. (A resulting deal created the Headwaters Forest Reserve.) To round off the failures surrounding Milken, illegal activities forced Drexel Burnham Lambert, Milken's junk bond bank, into bankruptcy in 1990.

Milken suffered just a little for the criminal behavior. Trump's pardon last week wasn't necessary to get him out of prison — he's been out for a long time. He only served two years of a 10-year sentence for his criminal activities surrounding junk bonds. He is still a wheeler-dealer, hosting international conferences for capitalists. He's the kind of man who networks openly at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His net worth was $3.8 billion as of the day of his pardon, according to Forbes.

When the White House announced Milken's pardon, it defended him as "one of America's greatest financiers. [He] pioneered the use of high-yield bonds in corporate finance. His innovative work greatly expanded access to capital for emerging companies."

J.A. Savage witnessed forest destruction as USFS Six Rivers post-clearcut crewmember, a forest firefighter and an Los Angeles Times stringer. She prefers she/her pronouns.

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FBI Raids Paul Manafort's House [Trump's Campaign Manager] looking for evidence in a criminal case..

In order for the FBI to make a raid they must get a search warrant signed by a Judge stating that there is probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime is located at the residence. The Trump=Russia investigation has increased intensity to a whole new level.

FBI raid on Manafort's home shows Russia probe ramping up.

Manafort's lawyers have said he is cooperating with congressional probes and special counsel Robert Mueller, but the FBI raid indicates that Mueller's office may not believe it is getting full cooperation.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who this week got into a public spat with Trump, called the Manafort search “a significant and even stunning development.”
“This kind of raid — in the early morning hours with no advance notice — shows an astonishing and alarming distrust for the president’s former campaign chairman. It seems to decimate his claim that he is cooperating with law enforcement,” Blumenthal said.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/09/fbi-raid-paul-manafort-virginia-home-241441

Feds sought cooperation from Manafort's son-in-law.

The former Trump campaign chairman is the focus of inquiries into his business dealings as well as Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Federal investigators sought cooperation from Paul Manafort’s son-in-law in an effort to increase pressure on President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, according to three people familiar with the probe.
Investigators approached Jeffrey Yohai, who has partnered in business deals with Manafort, earlier this summer, setting off “real waves” in Manafort’s orbit, one of these people said. Another of these people said investigators are trying to get “into Manafort’s head.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/09/manafort-fbi-son-law-241464

Be Aware of Propaganda: "The Bottom Line with Boris" and Trump TV "Real" News. They are lying to you.

Sinclair Broadcasting forces their Stations to play Boris. Sinclair is a giant media conglomerate and they own 70% of the local TV Stations. They engage in Brainwashing so "Conservative" Candidates will be elected and appointed. http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/08/be-aware-of-propaganda-bottom-line-with.html

Our war in Afghanistan has increased the production of opium therefore increasing US deaths due to heroin overdoses.

The USA consumes 80% of the world's heroin. If we simply got out of Afghanistan and let the people there run their own country the Opium Crop would be reduced as it's against the Koran to grow it...

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/08/our-war-in-afghanistan-has-increased.html