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Land is keen to show
how information and rumors travel through the militia and the towns they come to control: photos of beheaded citizens pop up on smartphones; at impromptu
public forums held in town squares, citizens both praise and condemn Mireles's usurping of
federal authority; his soldiers, meanwhile, pick up suspected criminals on hunches, and won't relent without a confession.
For more on the $ 7 billion per year in taxpayer money currently being given away to the oil, gas, and coal industries to extract on
public lands, see our recent report: «Unequal Exchange: How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on Federal Lands.&r
lands, see our recent report: «Unequal Exchange:
How Taxpayers Shoulder the Burden of Fossil Fuel Development on
Federal Lands.&r
Lands.»