Good Morning,

The United States is leading what it described as the “largest military exercises in the Middle East in 10 years” in Jordan – which started yesterday.

Eager Lion 2012 “is the largest exercise held in the region in the past ten years,” Major General Ken Tovo, head of the US Special Operations Forces, told reporters in Amman.

“Yesterday we began to apply the skills that we have developed over the last weeks in an irregular warfare scenario … They will last for approximately the coming two weeks,” he added.

“The message that I want to send through this exercise is that we have developed the right partners throughout the region and across the world … insuring that we have the ability to … meet challenges that are coming to our nations,” Tovo said.

Over 12,000 soldiers are taking part in the war games, representing 19 countries, including Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Qatar, Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Australia.

Jordanian army operations and training chief Major General Awni Adwan said the military exercise “has been in the planning phase for the past three years.”

“No forces will be deployed north … the exercise is not connected to any real world event,” Adwan said when asked if the war games were related to the ongoing violence in Jordan’s northern neighbor Syria.

“This has nothing to do with Syria. We respect the sovereignty of Syria. There is no tension between the Syrians and us. Our objectives are clear,” Adwan said.

Israel – despite having extensive security agreements with Jordan – was not invited to participate in the exercises. Several Arab nations participating in the drill are still formally at war with the Jewish state.

Washington has granted Amman $2.4 billion in military and economic aid in the past five years, according to official figures. source – Israel National News

Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday vowed that the House will not wait until after November elections to find a way to avoid a year-end “fiscal cliff” – and that House Republicans will, again, refuse to raise the national debt limit, unless Congress offsets the hike with spending cuts. Democrats immediately charged that John Boehner’s renewed call for spending cuts as a condition to raise the debt ceiling is ‘dangerous,’ recalling the standoff last summer that drove consumer confidence – and Congress’s approval rating – sharply down. Now where have we heard all of this before?

Figures show at least 437,000 people donated to the Obama campaign and Democrats in April with 169,000 first time donors – for a total of more than $43 million in April. 98% of the donations the campaign received in April were less than $250, and the average donation was $50.

Yet – Our President Fundraised with Venture Capitalists the same day as attacking Romney as a Capitalist:

Well, this is interesting,

From The Western Center for Journalism in a piece entitled, “Spanish Company Will ‘Count’ American Votes Overseas In November,’ they state the following in this excerpt:

“When the Spanish online voting company SCYTL bought the largest vote processing corporation in the United States, it also acquired the means of manufacturing the outcome of the 2012 election. For SOE, the Tampa based corporation purchased by SCYTL in January, supplies the election software which records, counts, and reports the votes of Americans in 26 states–900 total jurisdictions–across the nation. …” Find the rest of the article @ http://www.westernjournalism.com/spanish-company-will-count-american-votes-overseas-in-november/

It just so happens that George Soros is closely associated w/one of Obama’s biggest contributors who, himself, is involved with SCYTL, the company that is going to count the votes!!

“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. 
Those who count the votes decide everything.” — 
Joseph Stalin

Just imagine if you lived here – this makes no sense:

Historic Tombstone, Ariz., long has been known as the “Town Too Tough To Die,” but that was before it encountered the Obama administration, which has refused permission for the town to repair the water system in the nearby Huachuca Mountains from which it has drawn H2O for more than a century.

That means the town is living on only a fraction of the water supplies to which it is accustomed, drawing only from several wells, some of which are poisoned by arsenic, town representatives say.

The mountain collection system was destroyed when a forest fire ravaged the hilltops last year and then monsoon rains washed mud and boulders across the collector channels and pipelines.

Now, a federal judge has affirmed the Obama administration’s position, and the Goldwater Institute, working to protect the town’s rights, says it already has filed an emergency appeal of the decision.

“Requiring Tombstone to seek federal permits to repair its municipal water supply is like demanding a federal permit before the city can make repairs to a fire truck,” said Nick Dranias, Goldwater Institute director of constitutional studies and lead attorney in the case.

“Under the Tenth Amendment, the federal government has no power during a state of emergency to stop a local government from repairing its own municipal property, which is essential to providing safe drinking water and adequate fire protection,” he said.

The institute is coordinating the fight with the federal bureaucracy over the property rights Tombstone holds to 25 mountain spring heads and all of the water rising and flowing in two canyons in the Huachuca Mountains.

Bundled with those rights are access roads and pipeline rights of way.

The institute said: “Until last year, the U.S. Forest Service recognized and respected those rights, which date back to the days of Wyatt Earp. Today, the federal government denies they exist and refuses to allow Tombstone to restore more than three of its spring water catchments.”

The decision came from U.S. District Court Judge Frank Zapata, who refused the town’s emergency request to restore its Huachuca Mountain municipal water supply.

The institute explained that despite “the burial of water reservoirs and water lines under boulders the size of Volkswagens and as much as 12 feet of mud, the court denied Tombstone’s request to allow it to use mechanized and motorized equipment to restore its water system.”

“In denying the request, the court ruled that the town did not exhaust efforts to obtain federal permits to use the equipment despite nine months of continuous efforts by the town to secure the U.S. Forest Service’s cooperation. The court was not moved by a state of emergency declared specifically for Tombstone by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer,” the institute said.

Christina Sandefur, Goldwater Institute attorney and litigation team member, said Tombstone “is making a stand for state sovereignty, property rights and public health and safety against federal overreach.”

“We all have a stake in stopping the Forest Service from killing the ‘Town Too Tough To Die,’” she said.

Dranias said that if the federal government can deny Tombstone’s water rights, “then nobody can rely on their water rights.”

“Because water is the lifeblood of Western states, the federal government is threatening jobs and economic growth across the West, not just the lives and properties of Tombstone residents,” he said.

The organization recently explained that Tombstone is just one of many cases in which the federal government is trying to take over water rights. The institute said it’s part of a trend in Washington to remove public land and resources from the reach of the public.

“The Goldwater Institute is asking the court to recognize that state and local governments have sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to freely respond to natural disasters without being forced to cut through federal red tape, and also to enforce property rights enjoyed by both citizens and local governments on federal lands,” the organization’s report said.

The institute earlier documented the developing attack on Western states in a letter that contradicts longstanding federal practice by asserting a claim to water in arid Western states, such as Utah, Montana, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona that supersedes all other authorities, including decisions by state water courts.

“Federal water rights are entitled to a form of protection that is broader than what may be provided to similarly situated state law rights holders,” stated a letter from Julie Decker, the deputy state director in the U.S. Department of the Interior to the Arizona Department of Water Resources.

The letter was objecting to state plans to do a routine “Designation of Adequate Water Supply,” which reviews water resources, rights and uses when changes are proposed.

Decker’s letter said water is not “legally” available for some users who may want to develop property in the area, because “the expressed federal reserved water right created by Congress is senior to all junior water users who initiate uses after the date of the establishment of the reservation.”

Dranias, who holds the Clarence J. and Katherine P. Duncan Chair for Constitutional Government and is director of the Joseph and Dorothy Donnelly Moller Center for Constitutional Government at theGoldwater Institute, called it an “existential threat to the Western states.”

“Water is the lifeblood of the arid Western states. Development would not exist without pretty intensive development of scarce water. That is only possible with the incentives created by ownership,” he said.

Without assurances that water is available, there is no possibility that economic development can occur, he said. In fact, some states have provisions, such as in Colorado, saying a homeowner cannot occupy a building unless a water right is documented for the structure.

He said it was only a few decades back that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a New Mexico case that the federal government deferred to states on water rights. Now, however, the policy is being repudiated, threatening virtually every water user west of the Mississippi River.

Tombstone, which can document through federal letters its ownership of the rights back 130 years, is in a far superior position to most water users in the West. Dranias told of Arizona ranchers who own specific spring-fed water rights but only leased rights-of-way for pipelines.

The federal government is demanding as a condition for renewing the pipeline permits that ranchers cede to the federal government all water ownership and rights, he said.

The radical “green,” or ecological, element appears to be playing a role, Dranias noted.

As part of the litigation over Tombstone’s water, he said, emails to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from various activists cheered the fires and floods that destroyed Tombstone’s water supply system.

“Hooray, the water’s running free again,” he said the emails expressed.