Ballot Initiatives Threaten Property Rights and Food Security

On August 7, 2024, Paula Sarlls, Rachel Gabel, Lorne Levy, and Trent Loos joined the show. Announced the memorial’s anniversary event on August 24th featuring Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix and Iwo Jima veterans, emphasizing the memorial serves as a place of healing and education Exposed how a Denver ballot initiative to ban slaughterhouses represents the tip of a nationwide campaign by animal rights extremists,.

Honoring Marine Veterans at 47th Anniversary Celebration

Start listening at 19:07 – Hour 1

Paula Sarlls, President of the USMC Memorial Foundation and Gold Star wife, announces the organization’s 47th anniversary celebration on August 24th. The event features Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix and a performance by Dave Bray USA. Sarlls emphasizes that the memorial serves as more than a monument, functioning as a place of healing and education for veterans and their families. The event will include Civil Air Patrol cadets and young Marines, with Iwo Jima veterans Jim Blaine, who turns 100 in November, and Al Jennings in attendance.

“And you’ll hear stories while you’re there of why it’s more than just a memorial. It’s a place of healing and education, and we’re going to have a lot of young Marines out there and Civil Air Patrol cadets.”

Paula Sarlls, President, USMC Memorial Foundation

Denver Ballot Initiative Threatens Lamb Industry and Property Rights

Start listening at 31:00 – Hour 1

Rachel Gabel, assistant editor at The Fence Post, warns that a Denver ballot initiative to ban slaughterhouses represents a direct assault on property rights. Superior Farms, the only remaining slaughterhouse in Denver, processes approximately 20 percent of lamb slaughter capacity in the United States. The extremist animal rights group behind the measure has stated this is merely the beginning of a nationwide campaign.

Gabel explains how Colorado’s ballot initiative process leaves agriculture vulnerable, requiring few signatures concentrated in Front Range cities to advance measures that devastate rural communities. She draws parallels to the wolf reintroduction ballot measure and the upcoming trophy hunting ban targeting mountain lions and bobcats. The jobs at Superior Farms provide generational prosperity for first and second generation Americans, and closure would deprive ethnic communities of culturally important lamb products.

“They’ve been very clear, like this is the tip of the iceberg for them. They would like to shut down Superior Farms in Denver and then they would like to go out into the rest of the state and the rest of the nation and continue to do the same thing.”

Rachel Gabel, Assistant Editor, The Fence Post

Mortgage Rates Drop as Economic Concerns Rise

Start listening at 64:11 – Hour 2

Lorne Levy of Polygon Financial Group reports that mortgage rates have settled into the middle to lower sixes, down from high sixes just days ago. Economic uncertainty and a 1,000-point Dow drop drove investors to bonds, pushing rates down. The Fed is now expected to cut rates in September. Levy explains that homeowners who purchased a year ago at rates near 7 percent can now refinance and save substantial money monthly.

“And that’s what we always talked about was, you know, dating, you know, marry the house, date the rate.”

Lorne Levy, Polygon Financial Group

Federal Land Control and Bee Population Decline Threaten Food Supply

Start listening at 72:23 – Hour 2

Trent Loos, sixth-generation farmer and rancher, reports on his meeting with Sweetwater County commissioners in Wyoming regarding a federal Bureau of Land Management plan to sequester CO2 underground across 600,000 acres. The federal government owns 73 percent of Sweetwater County, severely limiting local control over resource development. Coal production decline in the county has reduced assessed mineral values by $18 million.

Loos raises alarm about bee colony collapse potentially linked to electromagnetic frequencies from wind turbines and solar installations. Research at Oklahoma State University documents reproductive failures in livestock near such installations. Approximately one-third of human food consumption depends on bee pollination, including dairy production through alfalfa pollination. The convergence of federal land restrictions, CO2 burial, and pollinator decline threatens the entire food production chain.

“One in three acres in the United States is owned by the federal government, taxpayers of this country, and the taxpayers of this country can’t even have a say in how this land is being utilized.”

Trent Loos, Sixth-Generation Farmer and Rancher