Came across an interesting post on Facebook
The CBU Quarterly has been delivered. I wrote a hard hitting article on green decoy groups, specifically Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. My friend Paul Ellis called me to compliment me...my CBU email inbox is full of hate-mail...obviously the $$$ Green Groups $$$ receive the Quarterly. My good friend Kerry White sent me a message to "Endeavor to perceiver". Indeed
Here is my article in its entirety:
In August of 2014, the Environmental Policy Alliance filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) against the now Missoula, MT based group, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. At the time of the filing, BHA?s business address was listed as Joseph, Oregon.
BHA is registered as a 501(c)(3) entity, and as such, files a Form 990 tax return. The IRS has set instructions for completing Schedule B - ?organizations that meet the 33 1/3% support test and received a contribution greater than 2% of the amount on Form 990, Part VIII, line 1h must complete Schedule B?.
According to research by the Environmental Policy Alliance, BHA appeared to meet or exceed that requirement to complete Schedule B and failed to complete Schedule B in violation of IRS rules.
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers was founded as a voice for sportsmen but funding for this organization suggests that it is yet another, in a long-line, radical environmental group.
The complaint states that contributions from the Western Conservation Fund (WCF), the Wilberforce Foundation (WF) and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundations (HF) appear to violate the 2% limit. Specifically:
2011 BHA Revenue - $353,294, WCF Grants - $99,020, % of BHA Revenue ? 28.03%
2012 BHA Revenue - $537,195, WCF Grants - $179,403, % of BHA Revenue ? 33.04%
2011 BHA Revenue - $353,294, WF Grants - $30,000, % of BHA Revenue ? 8.49%
2012 BHA Revenue - $537,195, WF Grants - $34,275, % of BHA Revenue ? 6.38%
2012 BHA Revenue - $537,195, WCF Grants - $100,000, % of BHA Revenue ? 18.62%
Furthermore, both the Hewlett Foundation (HF) and the Wilburforce Foundation (WF) are both private foundations and file Form 990-PF. As a result, the HF grants exceed 2% of BHA?s public support while BHA claimed, for 2012, they received 99.96% of revenue from the public. Likewise, in 2011, WF exceed the 2% rule while BHA claimed 99.94% public funding.
The Western Conservation Foundation also funds the Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice. Just recently, the Natural Resources Defense Council has come under U.S. Congressional investigation and may need to register as a foreign agent due to relationships with Chinese Communist Party Officials .
Specifically, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, in a letter to the NRDC, stated:
?The committee is concerned about the NRDC?s role in aiding China?s perception management efforts with respect to pollution control and its international standing on environmental issues in ways that may be detrimental to the United States,?
Lawmakers on the committee have asked the NRDC for several documents and an explanation to why the group isn't registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act regarding its relationship with Chinese officials.
NRDC Strategic Engagement Director Bob Deans stated ?We?re proud of our work, in China and elsewhere, helping to create a more sustainable future for everyone, and we look forward to discussing that work with Chairman Bishop and the committee.? Lawmakers say the NRDC promotes ?the image of China as a global environmental leader.?
In the U.S., the NRDC takes a hostile approach in their fundraising efforts proudly claiming to sue the United States Government once every ten days since Trump became President.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, or more likely Switzerland and the sprawling 63-acre New York estate of Hungarian George Soros.
Hansjorg Wyss: According to the website Activist Facts, Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, thru his Wyss Foundation is:
?dedicated to funding radical environmentalist groups that lock off large sections of the American West from development or cattle grazing. In its most recent tax year, the foundation gave six-figure grants to the liberal ?sportsmen? group Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, the Center for American Progress, environmentalist law center EarthJustice, the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, and the Big Labor-tied Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. In December 2013, the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation?which has been widely criticized for taking foreign money while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State?announced it had received $5 million from Wyss.
Among the major projects of the Wyss Foundation is purchasing large tracts of rural wilderness and closing it off to resource development, including by handing the tracts over to the government. In 2003, Wyss funded a campaign led by The Wilderness Society to withdraw 26 million acres from productive uses in resource extraction, grazing, and outdoor recreation.
And outdoor recreation?
Research by Green Decoys revealed Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, thru his Wyss Foundation, has pumped $22 million into the Western Conservation Foundation and the New Venture fund.
The Western Conservation Foundation funds the Missoula based Hellgate Hunters and Anglers. The New Venture Fund operates the Western Values Project, who, in turn, funds Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.
The Wyss Foundation has poured $25 million into the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund, Montana Wilderness Association, Montana Wildlife Federation and other Montana Groups. The Wyss Foundation also funds the Sierra Club.
George Soros: Billionaire George Soros funds the Open Society Foundations. Green Decoys, through public financial records, has reported the following relationships and financial contributions.
Resource Media is an Open Society client that manages Montana Mountain Mamas. One of the ?Who We Are? Montana Mountain Mamas is Patricia Dowd, who has worked for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Montana Water Stewards ? a group formed to pass the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes Water Compact. In Dowd?s words ? ?At first glance, people think it's only pertinent to the Flathead area, but once you start looking, it's a western Montana issue that affects people around Bozeman and all the way to Billings.? In other words, the majority of Montana?s adjudicated water rights will be subjected to the CSKT Water Compact. There is an old say in the West, ?Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting?.
Open Society also funds the Tides Foundation to the tune of $63 million. The Tides Foundation contributed $1.7 million to Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund, Montana Environmental Information Center, Western Organization of Resource Councils and Forward Montana.
Open Society sent $1.9 million to the New Venture Fund, who operates the Western Values Project who also funds Land Tawney?s Backcountry Hunter?s and Anglers, along with Hansjorg Wyss?s Wyss Foundation. The picture is developing and what the print shows is Backcountry Hunters and Anglers is funded by out-of-country billionaires Hansjorg Wyss and George Soros.
Klein Limited (Klein LTD). Green Decoys has tracked $23 million dollars from Klein LTD to Sea Change Foundation. The money trail after that is not specific, other than the $23 million was distributed to the U.S. Climate Action Network, Resource Media (Montana Mountain Mamas), the League of Conservation Voters Fund (Montana Conservation Voters) and the Energy Foundation. The Energy Foundation then distributed funds to the Montana Wilderness Association and the Montana Wildlife Federation.
The biggest financial contributor to Montana U.S. Senator Jon Tester, outside of Law Firms and Securities and Investment firms, is the League of Conservation Voters. To date, the League of Conservation Voters has nearly doubled the contributions of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs.
On July 12, 2017, the Washington Times wrote an article regarding Klein Ltd. According to the article, the U.S. House called for a probe into ?foreign funding of anti-fracking advocacy?.
In a June 29, 2017 U.S House letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Klein Ltd was singled out to investigate whether Russian oligarchs have used shell companies to fund environmental activism. The Washington Times continued ?The U.S. fossil-fuel boom, driven by technologies like hydraulic fracturing, increasingly presents a threat to Russia?s stranglehold on oil and natural gas exports to Eastern Europe. Last month, U.S. producers shipped for the first time liquefied natural gas from a Louisiana export terminal to Poland?.
Forward to 2018 and this week, after President Trump pressed for European NATO nations to pay their fair share, Poland was the first to step up and offer land for U.S. military bases.
Klein Ltd is a shell company registered in Bermuda. It conducts business from the law offices of Wakefield Quin. Wakefield Quin is a known attorney office that manages money for any one of several Russia state oil interests that has also been linked to Russian money laundering in the British Virgin Islands. Sea Foundation has donated to the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and the Energy Foundation.
This article is a synopsis to why CBU was formed. The threat to any form of recreation that we enjoy on our public lands, as well as private property interests, is very real and very present. We need to end divisions between user groups and form a united front to protect and preserve our multiple-use recreation on public lands, protect private property rights, support responsible resource development and insure agricultural lands are free to produce commodities the American public desires.
Ben Erickson ? CBU Principal
"Wildlife and its habitat cannot speak. So
we must and we will."
Theadore Roosevelt
The CBU Quarterly has been delivered. I wrote a hard hitting article on green decoy groups, specifically Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. My friend Paul Ellis called me to compliment me...my CBU email inbox is full of hate-mail...obviously the $$$ Green Groups $$$ receive the Quarterly. My good friend Kerry White sent me a message to "Endeavor to perceiver". Indeed
Here is my article in its entirety:
In August of 2014, the Environmental Policy Alliance filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) against the now Missoula, MT based group, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. At the time of the filing, BHA?s business address was listed as Joseph, Oregon.
BHA is registered as a 501(c)(3) entity, and as such, files a Form 990 tax return. The IRS has set instructions for completing Schedule B - ?organizations that meet the 33 1/3% support test and received a contribution greater than 2% of the amount on Form 990, Part VIII, line 1h must complete Schedule B?.
According to research by the Environmental Policy Alliance, BHA appeared to meet or exceed that requirement to complete Schedule B and failed to complete Schedule B in violation of IRS rules.
Backcountry Hunters and Anglers was founded as a voice for sportsmen but funding for this organization suggests that it is yet another, in a long-line, radical environmental group.
The complaint states that contributions from the Western Conservation Fund (WCF), the Wilberforce Foundation (WF) and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundations (HF) appear to violate the 2% limit. Specifically:
2011 BHA Revenue - $353,294, WCF Grants - $99,020, % of BHA Revenue ? 28.03%
2012 BHA Revenue - $537,195, WCF Grants - $179,403, % of BHA Revenue ? 33.04%
2011 BHA Revenue - $353,294, WF Grants - $30,000, % of BHA Revenue ? 8.49%
2012 BHA Revenue - $537,195, WF Grants - $34,275, % of BHA Revenue ? 6.38%
2012 BHA Revenue - $537,195, WCF Grants - $100,000, % of BHA Revenue ? 18.62%
Furthermore, both the Hewlett Foundation (HF) and the Wilburforce Foundation (WF) are both private foundations and file Form 990-PF. As a result, the HF grants exceed 2% of BHA?s public support while BHA claimed, for 2012, they received 99.96% of revenue from the public. Likewise, in 2011, WF exceed the 2% rule while BHA claimed 99.94% public funding.
The Western Conservation Foundation also funds the Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice. Just recently, the Natural Resources Defense Council has come under U.S. Congressional investigation and may need to register as a foreign agent due to relationships with Chinese Communist Party Officials .
Specifically, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, in a letter to the NRDC, stated:
?The committee is concerned about the NRDC?s role in aiding China?s perception management efforts with respect to pollution control and its international standing on environmental issues in ways that may be detrimental to the United States,?
Lawmakers on the committee have asked the NRDC for several documents and an explanation to why the group isn't registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act regarding its relationship with Chinese officials.
NRDC Strategic Engagement Director Bob Deans stated ?We?re proud of our work, in China and elsewhere, helping to create a more sustainable future for everyone, and we look forward to discussing that work with Chairman Bishop and the committee.? Lawmakers say the NRDC promotes ?the image of China as a global environmental leader.?
In the U.S., the NRDC takes a hostile approach in their fundraising efforts proudly claiming to sue the United States Government once every ten days since Trump became President.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, or more likely Switzerland and the sprawling 63-acre New York estate of Hungarian George Soros.
Hansjorg Wyss: According to the website Activist Facts, Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, thru his Wyss Foundation is:
?dedicated to funding radical environmentalist groups that lock off large sections of the American West from development or cattle grazing. In its most recent tax year, the foundation gave six-figure grants to the liberal ?sportsmen? group Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, the Center for American Progress, environmentalist law center EarthJustice, the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, and the Big Labor-tied Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. In December 2013, the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation?which has been widely criticized for taking foreign money while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State?announced it had received $5 million from Wyss.
Among the major projects of the Wyss Foundation is purchasing large tracts of rural wilderness and closing it off to resource development, including by handing the tracts over to the government. In 2003, Wyss funded a campaign led by The Wilderness Society to withdraw 26 million acres from productive uses in resource extraction, grazing, and outdoor recreation.
And outdoor recreation?
Research by Green Decoys revealed Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, thru his Wyss Foundation, has pumped $22 million into the Western Conservation Foundation and the New Venture fund.
The Western Conservation Foundation funds the Missoula based Hellgate Hunters and Anglers. The New Venture Fund operates the Western Values Project, who, in turn, funds Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.
The Wyss Foundation has poured $25 million into the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund, Montana Wilderness Association, Montana Wildlife Federation and other Montana Groups. The Wyss Foundation also funds the Sierra Club.
George Soros: Billionaire George Soros funds the Open Society Foundations. Green Decoys, through public financial records, has reported the following relationships and financial contributions.
Resource Media is an Open Society client that manages Montana Mountain Mamas. One of the ?Who We Are? Montana Mountain Mamas is Patricia Dowd, who has worked for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Montana Water Stewards ? a group formed to pass the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes Water Compact. In Dowd?s words ? ?At first glance, people think it's only pertinent to the Flathead area, but once you start looking, it's a western Montana issue that affects people around Bozeman and all the way to Billings.? In other words, the majority of Montana?s adjudicated water rights will be subjected to the CSKT Water Compact. There is an old say in the West, ?Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting?.
Open Society also funds the Tides Foundation to the tune of $63 million. The Tides Foundation contributed $1.7 million to Montana Conservation Voters Education Fund, Montana Environmental Information Center, Western Organization of Resource Councils and Forward Montana.
Open Society sent $1.9 million to the New Venture Fund, who operates the Western Values Project who also funds Land Tawney?s Backcountry Hunter?s and Anglers, along with Hansjorg Wyss?s Wyss Foundation. The picture is developing and what the print shows is Backcountry Hunters and Anglers is funded by out-of-country billionaires Hansjorg Wyss and George Soros.
Klein Limited (Klein LTD). Green Decoys has tracked $23 million dollars from Klein LTD to Sea Change Foundation. The money trail after that is not specific, other than the $23 million was distributed to the U.S. Climate Action Network, Resource Media (Montana Mountain Mamas), the League of Conservation Voters Fund (Montana Conservation Voters) and the Energy Foundation. The Energy Foundation then distributed funds to the Montana Wilderness Association and the Montana Wildlife Federation.
The biggest financial contributor to Montana U.S. Senator Jon Tester, outside of Law Firms and Securities and Investment firms, is the League of Conservation Voters. To date, the League of Conservation Voters has nearly doubled the contributions of investment banking giant Goldman Sachs.
On July 12, 2017, the Washington Times wrote an article regarding Klein Ltd. According to the article, the U.S. House called for a probe into ?foreign funding of anti-fracking advocacy?.
In a June 29, 2017 U.S House letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Klein Ltd was singled out to investigate whether Russian oligarchs have used shell companies to fund environmental activism. The Washington Times continued ?The U.S. fossil-fuel boom, driven by technologies like hydraulic fracturing, increasingly presents a threat to Russia?s stranglehold on oil and natural gas exports to Eastern Europe. Last month, U.S. producers shipped for the first time liquefied natural gas from a Louisiana export terminal to Poland?.
Forward to 2018 and this week, after President Trump pressed for European NATO nations to pay their fair share, Poland was the first to step up and offer land for U.S. military bases.
Klein Ltd is a shell company registered in Bermuda. It conducts business from the law offices of Wakefield Quin. Wakefield Quin is a known attorney office that manages money for any one of several Russia state oil interests that has also been linked to Russian money laundering in the British Virgin Islands. Sea Foundation has donated to the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council and the Energy Foundation.
This article is a synopsis to why CBU was formed. The threat to any form of recreation that we enjoy on our public lands, as well as private property interests, is very real and very present. We need to end divisions between user groups and form a united front to protect and preserve our multiple-use recreation on public lands, protect private property rights, support responsible resource development and insure agricultural lands are free to produce commodities the American public desires.
Ben Erickson ? CBU Principal
"Wildlife and its habitat cannot speak. So
we must and we will."
Theadore Roosevelt