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Friday, December 5, 2014
Congress gives Native American lands to foreign mining company with new NDAA
Via comment by Anonymous on Utah to seize own land from government, challenge ...
Congress is poised to give a foreign mining
company 2,400 acres of national forest in Arizona that is cherished
ancestral homeland to Apache natives. Controversially, the measure is
attached to annual legislation that funds the US Defense Department.
This week, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees quietly attached a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)
that would mandate the handover of a large tract of Tonto National
Forest to Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of the Australian-English
mining company Rio Tinto, which co-owns with Iran a uranium mine in
Africa and which is 10-percent-owned by China.
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Meanwhile Utah's clean coal is off limits to any mining company, foreign or domestic - ahh, the Enemies Within.
ReplyDeletethe Enemies Within.
DeleteIndeed.
Damnit! This is not their land to give away. Federal and state lands belong to tthe people not the govt.
ReplyDeleteAs my mother would say, money is the root of all evil.
DeleteMy dad said the same thing. Dad was born in 1923.
DeleteThanks. My birth mother was born in 1917, but I was actually quoting my aunt (1907) who adopted me after my mother died when I was 13 months old, although since they had the same upbringing, I am sure she would have said the same. :)
DeleteI think that this action is a sound one, and fair to the US people, the locals, and Rio Tinto. It is a land exchange, and the Resolution Project will develop hundreds and hundreds of new jobs in a depressed area. These won't be minimum wage service industry jobs, either. The average hourly wage plus benefits for miners, mechanics, and tradesmen in the minerals industry are in the $45 to $75 /hr range. Rio Tinto is one of the more responsible mining companies, and have a tremendous emphasis on worker and environmental safety. My understanding of this "Sacred Ground" is that it only got sacred after the tribe thought they could squeeze some money out of Rio Tinto, and the environmental obstructionists lobbied the tribe as a means of stopping the project.
ReplyDeleteThe people in the area really are the lucky ones on this action.
I'll comment when my Injun' friends reply to my email. Thanks,
DeleteDidn't your mama teach you that you can't do whatever you want with other people's property? It doesn't matter if the jobs are good, or any other specific detail, if you don't own it, don't touch it and keep your hands off of it.
DeleteThen there is the aspect of a foreign company owning US land, a company who is in business with countries that would destroy us if they had half a chance. Yeah, that's a good idea to help finance their efforts in that endeavor. Screw that, if the Apache's want to mine it themselves, that's their property and their business, but foreigners, hell no.
Sounds like andrewwest2003 works for the mining company in the PR department.
ReplyDelete:) We shall see.
DeleteI think its high time cowboys and Apaches joined forces to kick commie ass.
ReplyDeleteThat's a plan. :)
DeleteI have read everything on the web I could find on this matter this morning. I can find not one statement from any Indian representative (Apache or otherwise) that this is a good thing. I read several statements from Apache "Powers that be" that point very much to the contrary.
ReplyDeleteIn the soon to be 45 years that I have worked in American Indian activism, I have never ever once found any tribe willingly seceding "Sacred Grounds". I do not not understand some peoples hesitance to believe that all the earth is sacred to us, and that there are specific areas that are even more so. They go beyond the common belief of the earth Mother being sacred.
Sites that have been used for time immortal as foraging grounds, dances, sacred rites and especially burials have never been "on the market" for lack of a better term, at least not in my lifetime, and history shows it certainly was taboo in the olden days.
I will end with a verbatim quote from the book Wisdom Keepers written by my longtime friend Harvey Arden . it is a collection of conversations with American Indian Elders, I try and live each and everyday from the words of this wondrous book. Sometimes I am successful, sometimes I fail but, I always give it my best shot. The quote is attributed to Elder Mathew King Lakota. "It is time Indians tell the world what we know...about nature and about God. So I am going to tell you what I know and who I am. You guys better listen. You have a lot to learn. The government wants us to take one hundred million dollars for the Black Hills. But, a hundred billion wouldn't be enough. Not four hundred billion! That wouldn't even pay us for what has already been stolen and destroyed already." (end of quote)
In my humble opinion, no real Indian would be in favor of the desecration of a sacred site.
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Proves my point, stop voting GOP and expecting any change, they are all crooked and evil, every damn one of them in the Congress, the time for revolution is soon. How would you all feel if someone took your property and gave it to someone else. ?
ReplyDeleteMy trees and Sioux's rope as she is fond of saying. :)
DeleteAdditional info on this unlawful land theft. A couple of comments worth noting.
ReplyDeletehttp://willyloman.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/john-mccain-trying-to-use-ndaa-to-give-tonto-national-forest-to-a-british-mining-company/
Thanks and I like the first. :)
DeleteAnother Brother, on December 3, 2014 at 12:07 pm said:
When will someone come up with, the New Traitor trading cards!
For educational purposes of course! The abundance of sell-out mofos, could possibly make for a profitable venture as well as educating the so-called millennials!
BTW, what stinking think-tank came up with that new term?