buffalo_bill Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Mr Unit , your broken alarm clock is still causing a lot of concern to me , did the Chinese ever respond in an acceptable way ? Offer compensation , send a new one or at least promise to do their best ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 Selling Off Apache Holy Land Tucson - ABOUT an hour east of Phoenix, near a mining town called Superior, men, women and children of the San Carlos Apache tribe have been camped out at a place called Oak Flat for more than three months, protesting the latest assault on their culture. Three hundred people, mostly Apache, marched 44 miles from tribal headquarters to begin this occupation on Feb. 9. The campground lies at the core of an ancient Apache holy place, where coming-of-age ceremonies, especially for girls, have been performed for many generations, along with traditional acorn gathering. It belongs to the public, under the multiple-use mandate of the Forest Service, and has had special protections since 1955, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower decreed the area closed to mining — which, like cattle grazing, is otherwise common in national forests — because of its cultural and natural value. President Richard M. Nixon’s Interior Department in 1971 renewed this ban. Despite these protections, in December 2014, Congress promised to hand the title for Oak Flat over to a private, Australian-British mining concern. A fine-print rider trading away the Indian holy land was added at the last minute to the must-pass military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. By doing this, Congress has handed over a sacred Native American site to a foreign-owned company for what may be the first time in our nation’s history. The Apache are occupying Oak Flat to protest this action — to them, a sacrilegious and craven sell-off of a place “where Apaches go to pray,†in the words of the San Carlos Apache tribal chairman, Terry Rambler. The site will doubtless be destroyed for any purpose other than mining; Resolution Copper Mining will hollow out a vast chamber that, when it caves in, will leave a two-mile-wide, 1,000-foot-deep pit. The company itself has likened the result of its planned mining at Oak Flat to that of a nearby meteor crater. The land grab was sneakily anti-democratic even by congressional standards. For more than a decade, the parcel containing Oak Flat has been coveted by Rio Tinto, Resolution’s parent company — which already mines on its own private land in the surrounding area — for the high-value ores beneath it. The swap — which will trade 5,300 acres of private parcels owned by the company to the Forest Service and give 2,400 acres including Oak Flat to Resolution so that it can mine the land without oversight — had been attempted multiple times by Arizona members of Congress on behalf of the company. (Among those involved was Rick Renzi, a former Republican representative who was sent to federal prison in February for three years for corruption related to earlier versions of the land-transfer deal.) It always failed in Congress because of lack of support. But this time was different. This time, the giveaway language was slipped onto the defense bill by Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona at the 11th hour. The tactic was successful only because, like most last-minute riders, it bypassed public scrutiny. It’s worth noting that Rio Tinto affiliates have been McCain campaign contributors, and that Mr. Flake, before he made it to Congress, was a paid lobbyist for Rio Tinto Rössing Uranium (a huge uranium mine in Namibia). Mr. McCain and others assert that the mining project will be a boost to the local economy, though it’s unclear how many of the 1,400 promised jobs would be local; a Superior-area miners’ group, in fact, opposes the swap on the basis that it won’t help the local people or economy. Rio Tinto, incidentally, has been called out in the past for environmental devastation. “Why is this place sacred?†said Wendsler Nosie Sr., a former chairman of the San Carlos Apache, in a recent interview with Conrkite News. “No difference to Mount Sinai. How the holy spirit came to be.†If you don’t want to take his word for it, the archaeological record at Oak Flat contains abundant evidence that the Apache have been here “since well before recorded history,†according to congressional testimony by the Society for American Archaeology. If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site, or for that matter Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill — no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion. Clearly the Arizona congressional delegation isn’t afraid of a couple of million conquered natives. The truth is that for Mr. McCain, Mr. Flake and others who would allow this precious public land to be destroyed, it’s not only the Indians who are invisible. The rest of us are also ghosts, remnants of a quaint idea of democracy. Oak Flat may still be saved, albeit with difficulty, since the bill’s language stipulates quite simply that 60 days after the federal “environmental impact statement†is complete, the land will belong to Resolution — in other words, that the swap will occur no matter what the environmental study says. But, like all laws and pieces of laws, it can be reversed by new legislative language. The deal is an impressive new low in congressional corruption, unworthy of our country’s ideals no matter what side of the aisle you’re on. It’s exactly the kind of cynical maneuvering that has taught the electorate to disrespect politicians — a disdain for government that hurts everyone. If ever there was a time for Congress to prove its moral mettle to the public, this is that time. The rider should be repealed. ............................................... Lydia Millet is the author, most recently, of the novel “Mermaids in Paradise,†and a contributing opinion writer. http://mobile.nytime...-land.html?_r=0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 Did not know about this one Flash...thanks. My old girl friend was Yurok and I got a close look at the results of the destruction of Indian culture. Man she was a stunner but I never got used to her sleeping with her 45 cal so close... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 Yoko Ono: “I Had an Affair with Hillary Clinton in the ’70s†Los Angeles - Yoko Ono shocked reporters yesterday when she responded to a question concerning the presidential run of Hillary Clinton and the possibility that she could become the first woman President of the United States in American history. The artist and widow of John Lennon, who is in Los Angeles to present a collection of cups and saucers she is exhibiting at the Museum of Modern Art, totally took reporters by surprise by admitting she had not only met the former First Lady at various times during a series of protests against the Vietnam War in New York in the 1970s but also knew her “intimatelyâ€. The celebrity admitted laughingly to having “a fling†with her at the time and acknowledged her election “would be a great advancement for LGBT and Women rights in America†she added. Yoko Ono when asked about her thoughts about Hillary’s run for the presidency completely took reporters by surprise. “We met many times during the New York Vietnam War protests in the 1970s, and became very intimate. We shared many of the same values about sexual equality, fighting against the authoritarian, patriarchal, male-dominated society we were raised in†she explained. “We had a brief romantic fling when I lived with John in Manhattan and Hillary was studying at Yale, but eventually we lost touch. I am amazed how things are going well for her and wish her the best for her campaign,†she told reporters during the press conference. Experts believe the statement could affect the presidential candidates bid for the presidency, but previous allegations of Hillary Clinton’s lesbian past have not seemed to play against the front runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential race yet. http://worldnewsdail...ton-in-the-70s/ The next First Lady? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 I had heard rumors some years back that Hillary swung both ways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 A work colleague in the States had a brother who was an Arkansas state trooper assigned to the Clinton governor's mansion. The brother said he'd sneaked women into the mansion for both Bill and Hillsie. (Nobody wanted to believe it at the time. Be harder not to now.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted June 3, 2015 Report Share Posted June 3, 2015 I also have some nasty very personal shit on them-sall I will say Bad People Also to keep you awake really late at night wondering about our "leaders".... Disgusting pigs that they are. Google Paul Bonacii and The Franklin Cover up Watch the early interviews on youtube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Hmmmmm on this.... Man Decides World's Busiest Airport Is A Good Place To Openly Carry A Loaded AR-15 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/03/gun-atlanta-airport-_n_7505422.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592 A Georgia man openly carried a fully loaded AR-15 semiautomatic rifle into Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the busiest in the world. Jim Cooley was armed with the weapon -- complete with an extended capacity 100-round drum -- when he went to drop his daughter off for a flight last Friday. Following the enactment of new state legislation in 2014, it's actually legal to carry a rifle in the open in the airport, so long as the holder doesn't attempt to pass through airport security. Multiple police officers approached Cooley while he was in the airport and asked about the weapon, after which he replied he was carrying it for safety. Officers can be heard talking with Cooley in videos of the interactions he later uploaded to YouTube. "You have quite a few people afraid because calls are coming in left and right," an officer tells Cooley in one of the videos. "People's fears are not my responsibility," he replies. "If you're detaining me, then I'm going to have to file a lawsuit."... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted June 5, 2015 Report Share Posted June 5, 2015 Mr Unit , your broken alarm clock is still causing a lot of concern to me , did the Chinese ever respond in an acceptable way ? Offer compensation , send a new one or at least promise to do their best ? I am still patiently waiting for the for the return of my alarm clock from the wonderful Chinese alarm clock factory. Thank you for your gracious concern. At what point should I send another letter to the Chinese factory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Be careful if you visit Noo Yawk ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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