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“We have been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly just how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists. If this humility could be imparted to everybody, the world of human endeavors would become more appealing.” — Albert Einstein

Researched and Written by John Cox, MA, Cascade Mountains

We have problems today with our environment, our ecology, our wildlife throughout the United States. Global Warming is reaching proportions of destruction never before seen within our world previously, and yet. . . Like a festering gunshot wound, we wait for the wound to fix itself. We see the White Gorilla sitting in the corner of the room, yet, it has been there for so long, we simply ignore and no longer question its presence. And when asked? Well, we simply ignore its presence as well as the problems it causes and continues to cause. . .

And yet the wound, yes, the same wound and despite our attempts at ignoring it, still there. The victim bleeds–out. Death eminent! A slow death. Painful. Until the chest rises, one last time. The lungs fill with oxygen. Then fills with blood. A dark shroud develops around this body of life-no-longer. The fight – over. The final gasp. The body goes limp – the pupils in its eyes turns white – stares at the sky. A white-like mist envelopes the body; rises from the body, seemingly evaporates while rising toward the sky, and disappears.

We have problems today with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of Interior DOI), who manage our Public Lands – – as well as our intrinsic and very significant symbols of freedom in the United States. Our favored Icons of Nature itself, Our Nations Wild Horses. We use this microcosmic-world and its dynamics, and show the public these government agencies context of continuous false information, false narratives, and, indeed very expensive to taxpayers – their disinformation campaigns to persuade us of things that simply do not exist.

I say microcosm, as this is nation-wide now, and especially government and corporate non-profit wide, as well. We can define the situation much easier within this much smaller context, but make no doubt this information, even though different terms used for different titles, it is all the same and some on more vast of a scale and costly to taxpayers, and all based on fraudulent information to cover up something originated from government agencies or corrupted corporations – but in simple terms, escalates to something far worse. . .

They originated the problem, the DOI – BLM employees, and every attempt they made to cover up, or whitewash this problem of their creation, continues to be more and more costly to the American taxpayers – compared to simply leaving the wild horses alone on our public lands, and where they belong. The overpopulation does not exist – but what does exist are extreme and exaggerated numbers that make no-sense whatsoever within this universe, in regard to Wild Horse birthrates, and especially as a continuous flow of evidence to us shows very well, the destruction the Wild Horses blamed for doing, 98% of the time does not exist! Evidence? Yes, and a lot of it – yet ignored, for now anyway – But we see this changing in the near future. . .

When it started, we are not sure, because it is done so often, currently, there is nothing within the evidence that we are perusing, to show the very beginning and the reasons why Environmental Assessments, as well as other regulatory situations developed to safeguard taxpayers, and expenditures within federal government agencies, are ignored. What we do know is the fact it exists, and it is Federal Fraud, as outlined clearly in our United States Federal Legal Codes. And the second dynamic we know, of this type of corruption, is the fact it is not done innocently; which, has provided “an “Open Door” to us within an investigative capacity, to find much more evidence.

And yet, here lies the problem of this type of corrupted system. What may appear to be innocent on one level, simply copying a previous Environmental Assessment from years back, and changing the dates, is a tremendous lie – very expensive to the taxpayers, when data from these Environmental Assessments are used in Science and Technical Reports – often from 10, 20, and even 30 years ago. They then assimilate the information as accomplished recently, and the data gathered appropriately. But this is the furthest from the truth as possible.

They then use this information, as we have seen it during our investigation, where they contradict, and debate Global Warming, and from data supposedly gather within the last month, when we find a copy of the same data, from 30 years ago, but the dates changed, and the Researchers involved recent employees at DOI – BLM — as they know and we know, placing the original names on that document would stir-up and aggravate toward questions as to authenticity and time frame.

What’s the problem, one might ask? When we attempt to resolve the current issues within our environment, via putting together several Ecological Habitats, information-based attributes, as references and evidence within a technical format such as a science research report or technical paper to “manage” that same habitat correctly, the difficulties of approach and resolution to any problems – thereby, become non-existent.

We are currently approaching this situation, in an attempt to decipher and exclude a lot of the BLM – DOI suppose current research from reference material and used as evidence. And we will eventually go to Federal Court to do so – if the BLM and DOI refuse to correct their fraudulent, and basically very bias and ignorant, illegal behaviors. Science and research within government can be our best friend – or, when ignorance and bias involved, can be America’s worst enemy.

No resolutions are ever developed from lies and disinformation campaigns. Today the grazing permit program, intermixed with the fertility programs on our public lands, remain excellent examples of how not to manage our Public Lands – with lies, false narratives, and continued misuse of taxpayer money. Accountability? There seems to be no accountability for federal employee’s illegal behaviors!

What’s brings-about an article like this? In this case, the amount of fraudulent activity conducted by the DOI – BLM continuously, based on fraudulent Wild Horse Over Population Counts (i.e. they originated the problem to develop increased budgets in their agencies), which created the problems of more false narratives and disinformation to the public, in order to cover up their fraudulent-behaviors, of their own doing and making.

Somehow or somewhere, greed developed, and the problems much worse, and grew out of manageable-proportion with reality, and actuality. Now we see, easily observed, out-of-control use of taxpayer money, unnecessarily! These falsified government documents, create a glut-of funds to be used to finance make-believe circumstances, and the serious circumstances that “need to be resolved” are left without financing, and destruction of our Natural Habitats develop – corruptly out of control, i.e. Wildfires and Habitat Destruction by polluted waterways, creeks and streams, or soil and dirt pollution, to the point of none-use!

The very root of this very false-problem, originated by DOI – BLM years ago, as truthful data and much more evidence accumulates, is the fact that overpopulation of Wild Horses does not exist; which, is directly contrary to the $-millions of dollars of taxpayer money used in Disinformation Campaigns conducted by the DOI – BLM yearly. The overpopulation counts, when the public takes time to read the material the DOI BLM puts out about the Wild Horse overpopulation, would see immediately these birthrates do not, cannot, exist within this Universe we live within.

These two agencies alone, spent millions of dollars a year to cover up a problem they had generated all by themselves, and to actually cover-up expenditures of $521 Billion Dollars in the past 20 years taxpayer’s money, to subsides Corporate Ranchers ranching on Public Lands — The only qualification to meet the requirements for receiving $-millions of dollars a year by already rich Corporate Ranchers, was to have a Public Lands Grazing Permits for cattle. And if they did not have a Grazing Permit for their Ranch near Public Lands, well, grab a DOI or BLM District Office Supervisor and take them for a short-ride in their helicopter, and by damn they will get you one. Grifter’s and scammers call this Greasing the Monkey!

There is no excuse for this. Accountability must be accomplished. And those in the DOI – BLM responsible not just for the origination of this problem, but for the ongoing fraudulent behavior and misuse of taxpayer money we see constantly now – the White Gorilla in the room, smiles, comfortably – as it knows, as we know, Americans today do not have the guts to make our government agencies accountable for their illegal activity.

(Photo — Mr. Cox is a Vietnam Veteran – Photographer – Writer – with 30+ years riding the trails in the Pacific Northwest, which also stirred a proper motivation to start writing about the things he has seen and experienced while in our Natural Environment. His writing is directly related to his experience and knowledge of the Wilderness in the PNW where he was born and raised, within the Cascade Mountains, and with his Horse – Babe, for the past 20 years.

John Cox, MA, Cascades

We done some fly-overs this last weekend, to go and see 100,000 Wild Horses decimate our Public Lands in America, or in the 11 Western States. We did not find 100,000 Wild Horses roaming the Range. We did not see the decimation, nor the Characteristics of lands being dominated, by neither Domestic Horses nor Wild Horses.

How did we get to the point of Wild Horse Overpopulation counts being so tremendously inaccurate, development of many false dynamic representations about Wild Horses, and so obviously based on piss-poor or downright erroneous base-data? We see the foundation material for data-sheets, erroneous statistical conversions leading to false conversations, and creation of false-narratives, as generic today; yet, still false, and very costly to taxpayers for things taxpayers receive no benefits from, compared to the wealth that Special Interests and corporate/government relationships provide.

Well, we must plunge-into the world of false information for specific purpose, and special interests, who mooch and thrive $$$ skimmed-off our Public Lands management paradigms – precisely. So, let us clarify statistics, or better yet, what we are seeing when we read DOI/BLM graphics and charts, excel sheets, and various amounts of other situations, that is nothing more than garbage-can-fodder.

We often jump to conclusions, as we assume the Base-Line Data gathered for the charts, graphics, or statistical excel sheets, are fundamentally sound, or correct. The simplistic question to ask is, “We disagree with the numbers you give us, as you state are reality-numbers. So, we need to see, or too confirm, the evidence from the data-gathered, used in the population counts.

As many of us see on our Public Lands, simply from observation while out there, DOI/BLM numbers are irresponsibly given to taxpayers, and fraudulently-erroneous. These false-numbers, or data, are then churned-up into a specific data-base. The false-numbers/data is then shoved into a Modeling Programs Application, rearranged to appear as reality. . . Keeping in mind, Modeling Program Applications are only as good as the data entered; which indeed, and in this case, obviously manipulated further, as well.

This neutralizes all Modeling-Data used in any type of  Lands Management decision making process. The Wild Horses simply takes the brunt of this fraudulent activity, in both the corrupted DOI/BLM and corrupted non-profits, to make money, while blaming the Wild Horses for the ultimate destruction such false-information generates.

With DOI/BLM information given to the public, as if reality, the very foundation of their percentages of “increased-based-math”, as well as data used for Wild Horse Population Counts, is erroneous. It is, truthfully, flawed to the point of being incorrect, in total; or, to describe it simply, 1+1=132 is simply not correct . . .

The photo here is far more correct than any information we are obtaining from DOI/BLM or the associated corrupted non-profits, who actively support the over-population of Wild Horse Data, via their being paid $-millions to Shoot Pesticide into Wild Horses, and get-away with it. The Tragedy of False-Narratives moves on, and apparently up to this point, no one the wiser – except . . . So, we’ll break it down.

 Let’s discuss Statistics. A or B when C or D may be as likely, when established upon a false-premise or incorrect data, then becomes no-option, or in statistics a “0” for false, with any numbers above “0” a truth, whether agreeable or not. We find the data-collected by DOI/BLM Wild Horse Counters, to be inaccurate, simply by counting the Wild Horses in each designated area, boots-on-the-ground counts, of 5 HMA’s before and after recent roundups. We find DOI/BLM counts very fraudulent, and the numbers increased, at times, X=10 the actual number on the range. We are also gathering more numbers in other HMA’s, and for future observation of the Fraudulent Activities by the DOI/BLM employees, in regard to Wild Horse Counts. All Wild Horse Advocates should be doing this, and all counts stored in a safe place – rather than, supporting the Shooting of Wild Horses with Pesticides, or giving Stallions GONACON Pesticide Sterilant!

For example, we are led to believe that a 20% birth rate increase over a one-year time period is a normal birth-rate for Wild Horses on our Public Lands. We are then being mis-led by false data. E.g. death rates overall of Wild horses on the range, roundup data, foal death at birth, yearling death rates, et al., are never assimilated as data within a foundational-statistical-set.

The fact is, the foundation-data corrupt, and positively-correlated with a higher income, more subsidies to ranchers, and more profits to corrupt non-profits. So this makes the very foundation of the Data-Base, erroneous, yet still input into the Modeling Programs as reality. Management decisions forced upon our Public Lands (paramount destruction) then made upon this false-data, run-through many processes, becomes corrupted in total. And this information is what the general public receives, and several folks in non-profits interpret to the general public as realities, and reasons to Shoot (for profits $$$) Wild Horses with Pesticides and other toxic chemicals via dart of pill form, into our Nations Wildlife and Wild Horses.

Did you know that those non-profits, I mention here, are doing the same things to our Wild Horses, that Wild Life Services is doing to much of our Wildlife in Wilderness areas? Let this “soak” in your mind for awhile.

We can then “conclude” that additional years of corrupted foundational-data-base information moves upward, never declines, moving to a much higher percentage-base, which “develops into” a greater wealth to the corrupt. However, there could also be a 3rd factor, such as a corrupt-willingness to mislead the taxpayer-base public in America, to believing an over-population of Wild Horses exists, which can also develop to experimentation, grants from public as well as private foundations for birth control use, or grants from government to accomplish both experimentation and experimental birth controls forced upon today’s guinea pigs, the Wild Horses – or deer, elk, coyotes, wolves, cougar, et al. . .

The more we accept the false-narratives, or the falsified foundation-data of Wild Horse over-population, we then observe more years of applied-misinformation as well as misinformation campaigns, driven by the corrupted non-profits, and achieved by the false foundation-data-base, which generates higher income for all the corrupted entities involved. In truth, or fact, it is the 3rd hidden variable that will lead us to incorrect conclusions about causality, or disruptions within out wilderness areas, or tremendous disruptions within Ecological Habitats.

Another inaccuracy with statistics is two variables may appear to be correlated, but really have nothing to do with each other. If you make enough comparisons between datasets, you are bound to find some interesting relationships that appear in-sync, yet, have no connection at all toward proper management or decisions based upon either circumstance. So once again, we find the correlation between statistical-data contrived, when false data-base material is used as if being  factual information. A or B when C or D may be as likely, or appear as truth, when established upon a false-premise or incorrect data, then becomes no-option, or in statistics a “0” for false, with any numbers above “0” a truth, whether agreeable or not. Taking a “0” ad making it a one, within a date set, put into a surveyor’s term of math, “. . . if one starts an inch off, or away from the actual boundary marker, the measurement can develop into a 4 ft. or 5 ft. et al., error, depending on how far the survey goes, and the survey would never come around to its starting point, nor confirmed as correct, for factual closure. . .

For example, when we hear over many years about over-population of Wild Horse, the  dynamics, we automatically associate Public Lands destruction by Wild Horses, or grass-lands devastated by them and due to over-population, as something factual (or to those unknowledgeable about Wild Horses). It then becomes much easier to believe; yet, conflicts with any type of credible foundation-base-dynamics of truthful data-gathering, or stated simply, conflicts with the reality about what a horse is and is not. However, there could also be a 3rd factor here also, such as destruction by an overpopulation of Cattle or Sheep on Public Lands, and the horses blamed for it . . . Indeed, this 3rd hidden-variable can lead us to incorrect conclusions about causality, yet appears as stable information within the statistical format.

“We’ve all heard the advice that correlation does not imply causation, but even when there is a causal effect, it’s often uncertain which way it goes. Many questions arise here . . . Questions of cause are answered by randomized controlled trials, not by observational studies where we cannot rule out additional factors that we do not measure. To avoid being misled, approach correlations between variables with skepticism by looking for confounding factors. Humans like neat, causal narratives, but that is usually not what the data is telling us. Ultimately, we see both DOI/BLM employees, as well as corrupt non-profit people, avoid truth within many ways, and then offer false-narratives to coverup their exploitative and corrupted behaviors. If you do not tell a person something that you should or just telling part of it when asked about it, so that they know a little bit, but not the whole truth and you call it hiding it. Is it just hiding or lying? In truth, it is deception, and deliberately misleading, and the result would be just the same as a lie.

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