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“ALL tailings "ponds" are problems. If they don't breach and spill massive amounts of toxic sludge into the environment like at Mount Polley, they leach that contamination slowly, poisoning the waters and lands around them.” -- From: http://canadians.org/blog/update-mount-polley-mine-disaster-imperial-metals-and-government-focus-covering-instead;
Last year, the Duluth News-Tribune published a Local News article with the title “EPA signals its support for final PolyMet review”.
The article ended with what I regard as an intentionally deceptive and woefully insufficient sentence from the DNT journalist: “Critics say the project is likely to taint downstream waters with acidic runoff.”
With the persona of a maniacal Bond villain hell-bent on world domination who’s so unbelievable he’d be more at home in Austin Powers spy spoofs than in the 007 film franchise, Trump is a big, tempting, easy target. He’s a blowhard with perpetual bad hair days who can dish it out but can’t take it, the man you love to hate. Bashing Trump is big business, fodder for hosts of late night shows and comedy clubs, endless cable “news” programs, and along with Alec Baldwin’s impersonations on SNL, he has even spawned entire TV series: Comedy Central’s The President Show (the fate of Anthony Atamanuik’s hilarious send-up currently seems unclear) and Our Cartoon President, exec produced by Stephen Colbert, premiering Feb. 11 on
Showtime. Detractors are also taking shots at the tweeter-in-chief onstage, on the page and in workout videos. Here’s a few recent examples.
Onstage: The Final Frontier: Trump In Space
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine
Corps Gen. Joe Dunford has arrived in Bangkok after visiting
Australia, emphasizing the U.S. is "not a declining power" and will
improve military relations with Thailand's armed forces which seized
control in a 2014 coup.
He met on February 7 Thailand's coup-installed Prime Minister
Prayuth Chan-ocha, Gen. Dunford's counterpart Armed Forces Supreme
Commander Gen. Thanchaiyan Srisuwan, and Defense Minister Prawit
Wongsuwon.
Mr. Prawit is currently under investigation by the junta's National
Anti-Corruption Commission for possession of up to 25 expensive
wristwatches worth $1.24 million but is a lifetime colleague of the
prime minister and not expected to suffer punishment.
He denied wrongdoing, offered to resign, and said the timepieces
were "loaned" to him by friends, including a wealthy man who died one
year ago.
Critics did not believe that explanation and said even if it were
true, expensive loans should be illegal because it could result in a
Garry Davis was a young Broadway actor in 1941, an eager understudy for Danny Kaye in a Cole Porter musical called “Let’s Face It” about US Army inductees, when America entered World War Two and he found himself heading for Europe in an actual soldier’s uniform. This war would change his life. Davis’s older brother, also now fighting in Europe, was killed in a naval attack. Garry Davis was flying bombing missions over Brandenberg, Germany, but he could not bear the realization that he was helping to kill other people just as his beloved brother had just been killed. “I felt humiliated that I was part of it,” he later said.
People have a wide range of reasons for opposing a military Trumparade through Washington.
The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’.
The Executive Summary of the NPR is also available, if you prefer. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018 Executive Summary’.
The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’.
The Executive Summary of the NPR is also available, if you prefer. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018 Executive Summary’.
“I’m so honored to be alive at such a miraculous time in history. I’m so moved by what’s going on in our world today.”
This was 2003. The words were those of Robert Muller — the other one, the one from Costa Rica, former assistant secretary general of the United Nations — who was speaking just after George W. Bush invaded Iraq, to the horror and outrage of most of Planet Earth. Millions of people took to the streets, in the U.S. and around the world, to protest the invasion. Muller called this movement “the other superpower.”
“Never before in the history of the world,” he went on, “has there been a global, visible, public, viable, open dialogue and conversation about the very legitimacy of war.”