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Jan Jekielek: The proposal to create this system of natural asset companies was defeated and this has been celebrated as a victory. Please explain to us what this is and why it is important.
Margaret Byfield: In September 2021, the New York Stock Exchange partnered with a group called the Intrinsic Exchange Group [IEG] which was initiated and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. IEG is supported by the same entities that promote the climate crisis narrative, the 30 by 30 agenda, and net-zero decarbonization – all agendas that will lock down the earth and our productivity.
They are the entities that drive this new vehicle called natural assets company. This would allow for the enrollment of our protected resources with these companies, along with natural processes called ecosystem services that can be enrolled with these companies and then with private entities. In other words, the same people who are pushing the agenda to block our protected lands would then be the investors in the private vehicle they are registered in and would be able to profit from them.
It was a stealth attempt to gain control over American lands and resources. The second [U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission] issued the proposed rule on October 4, 2023, and allowed just 21 days for comment. Then they would make the decision on November 18th to list these natural asset companies. This would have started something extremely damaging to our nation.
The environmental movement is not about whether we will use resources. It’s about who will use the resources. The United Nations and the World Economic Forum have been pursuing this for years.
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Mr. Jekielek: Let’s hear about your experience to understand where you’re coming from.
Mrs. I was raised on a farm in Nevada, a large acreage of 1,100 square miles. It takes about 50 acres to feed one cow, which requires a lot of land.
Unless you live in the West, people don’t understand that 50% of the West is owned by the federal government. The East is privately colonized, and that was how our country was supposed to be colonized until we got to the West, and that’s when the policy changed. In Nevada, 87% of land is owned by the government.
We owned grazing and water rights. But because we owned that water, the U.S. Forest Service filed a claim about our water rights. If we gave up our water rights, they would acquire them and then use their regulatory powers to basically put us out of business.
We fought them for 13 years. Finally, in 1991, my parents filed the first federal land grazing lawsuit against the federal government.
We won every round except the last one. It was then appealed to the US-DC Circuit Court of Appeals and presented before three eastern judges who were clueless about federal land issues. They said we had no standing and threw the case out.
After 27 years in court, we lost the farm and were never compensated. The good thing is that we had a prominent place in the fight. I grew up with a different understanding of the power of the federal government when it owns the land and how much control it has over the people.
Our case is a good illustration of what is wrong with our system of government. There is a fourth branch of government, the administrative agencies. Congress will write a law like the National Forest Management Act, which gives the US Forest Service the directive to manage national forests, and then write regulations on how to implement that. Through this regulatory process, they are actually writing laws. They also control the administrative judges who enforce and execute the law. All these powers come together in these agencies, making them almost untouchable.
Mr. Jekielek: Please explain the 30 for 30 plan.
Mrs. 30 by 30 is an international agenda to permanently protect 30 percent of the world’s land and oceans by 2030. When they say permanently protect, they mean land that people cannot use. It has been implemented in other places, such as the Netherlands. Natura 2000 is basically 30 for 30 in the European Union, which has led to the farmer protests we are seeing.
When President Biden was elected, the 30 by 30 agenda was initiated six days after he took office through Executive Order 14008. The Biden administration is the first to go all-in on implementing the UN agenda.
Agendas like 30 by 30 will actually harm our food production. They will control what happens to protected lands. We will be the new servants. This goes back to something my father said 30 years ago: “You either have the right to own property or you are property.”
If you own land, it gives you the ability to grow your own food, raise your family, and produce something that contributes to the local economy. Allows people to be independent. Land and freedom are intrinsically linked.
The people behind the 30 by 30 agenda know this. In America, we don’t understand that they are trying to control our property through all these agendas and remove the private owner.
The key is to educate people. I believe that when they know this, they will do what is right and good for our country. I have a lot of faith in the American people and programs like yours bring these things to light.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
