Tribal request to halt Arizona copper mine work is denied

May 27, 2022

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request by Native American tribes to stop Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals Inc. from preparing a planned new Arizona copper mine’s site in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson.

U.S. District Judge James Soto refused to issue a temporary restraining order and dismissed the lawsuit filed by the Tohono O’odham, Pasqua Yaqui and Hopi tribes and the group Save the Scenic Santa Ritas, the Arizona Daily Star reported.

Soto’s ruling Monday said Hudbay’s surrender of a suspended Clean Water Act Permit for a nearby project named the Rosemont Mine removed the lawsuit’s legal basis because the projects were not legally related.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-toronto-arizona-environment-f4b4ad6a0d4dc233fc931c59917c00a6


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Hudbay maintains that the Copper World site on private land doesn’t include stream beds, which are mostly dry except when it rains, that are subject to Clean Water Act authority.


When it does rain those pollutants do get into the water supply .....there / this logic just defies sanity....like it will not run down stream .....

Serbia ignores EU sanctions, secures gas deal with Putin

Source: Associated Press

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC 22 minutes ago

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — As the war in Ukraine rages, Serbia’s president announced that he has secured an “extremely favorable” natural gas deal with Russia during a telephone conversation Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has refused to explicitly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Serbia has not joined Western sanctions against Moscow. Vucic, a former pro-Russian ultranationalist, claims that he wants to take Serbia into the European Union but has spent recent years cementing ties with Russia, a long-time ally.

Serbia is almost entirely dependent on Russian gas and its main energy companies are under Russian majority ownership.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-european-union-aleksandar-vucic-5a6bbab20373ef26829378c6a0eb6065

Victor Orban is an ....... fill in the blank....

Jennifer Rankin
The EU is debating whether to water down a ban on Russian oil imports to placate Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orbán, who is blocking the latest European sanctions against Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

Under a compromise, the EU could ban Russian oil arriving on tankers but allow pipeline imports, a proposal that would allow Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to continue being supplied via the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline that runs through Ukraine.

More than three weeks after the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed a complete ban on Russian oil imports to the EU by the end of the year, the bloc is stalled on the plans. Hungary, which is heavily dependent on Russian oil, has said it needs five years and billions of euros to upgrade its refineries.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/may/29/russia-ukraine-war-battle-in-donbas-indescribably-difficult-says-zelenskiy-live#block-629373c88f082b0174c57e17

Opinion / Right-wing snowflakes love to whine about free speech -- this socialist went to jail for it

By Matthew Rozsa, Salon- Commentary
Published May 29, 2022

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Nothing divides Americans like the question of free speech: What it means, who deserves it and who does not. Conservatives like to complain about being "censored" or "canceled" for their attacks on LGBTQ rights or mask mandates, but lately have started trying to impose all kinds of restrictions on speech in education, especially on issues of gender identity, sexual orientation and race.

When it comes to the legendary Eugene Victor Debs, however — a leading labor and political activist in the late 19th and early 20th century — there's just no question: He was a martyr for free speech and a case study in overcoming oppression. When Debs was sent to prison for speaking truth to "the man" — and in this case, it really was The Man, meaning President Woodrow Wilson — he fought back by deciding to run for president himself.

Our story begins on June 16, 1918, on a balmy afternoon in Canton, Ohio, where Debs was scheduled to speak at the state's Socialist Convention, and then at a picnic — in fact, one named for him. Debs was then a 62-year-old veteran of the labor movement, who had helped found the American Railway Union (ARU) and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and had gradually moved leftward out of the Democratic Party to various socialist organizations. In the 1900 presidential election, he was the Social Democratic Party's presidential nominee; after that party imploded, he was the Socialist Party candidate in 1904, 1908 and 1912. Voter turnout in that last election was so low that although Debs only got about 900,000 votes, that was about 6% of the total — probably the most impressive electoral performance by a left-wing independent in American history. (Ralph Nader got almost 2.9 million votes in the 2000 election, for example, but that was only 2.7% of the total.)

https://www.rawstory.com/free-speech/

Elon Musk welcomes global recession: 'it's been raining money on fools for too long'

Andrew Lawrence

Sat 28 May 2022 08.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 28 May 2022 08.01 EDT
The billionaire has received loans and tax breaks to help keep Tesla afloat, now he says other companies should go bankrupt for the good of the economy

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With the invasion of Ukraine and lockdowns in China putting added pressure on a supply chain that has yet to recover from the ongoing pandemic, many are predicting a global recession. Elon Musk says bring it on.

“This is actually a good thing,” Musk said in response to a question from a Twitter user. “It has been raining money on fools for too long. Some bankruptcies need to happen.

“Also,” he continued, “all the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you don’t actually need to work hard. Rude awakening inbound!”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/28/elon-musk-welcomes-global-recession-its-been-raining-money-on-fools-for-too-long

Hey Musk, do you fucking realize that we had a fucking megalomanic narcissists telling people to inject bleach to get rid of Covid19, and also said it was a hoax, and some of his psychopaths, believed him, and he caused all by himself the deaths of over 950,000 with the help of his fellow jerks to run around and say this fucking nonsense, while the sane were staying home to stay alive from psychopaths even today.....because some of us have issues with our immune system with pre-existing conditions.....you know like heart disease.....for example....

“all the Covid stay-at-home stuff has tricked people into thinking that you don’t actually need to work hard. Rude awakening inbound!”


Your a grifter at my expense and millions of others that pay taxes that you don't pay, you pay at least 8.2 % if even that.... I really consider you and others like you deadbeats .......

'No way to prevent this': why the Onion's gun violence headline is so devastating

After the latest mass shooting in Texas, the site, known for satire, opted for a layout that was ‘not a belly-laugh type joke

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Matthew Cantor
Fri 27 May 2022 06.00 EDT

The Onion's homepage on 26 May was filled with different iterations of the same story. Photograph: The Onion/screengrab

After each mass shooting in the US come the familiar rituals: the thoughts and prayers, the presidential visits, the flood of media coverage – and a darkly memorable headline from a fake newspaper.

“No way to prevent this, says only nation where this regularly happens.”

The Onion’s reposting of its piece, with a few details localized to the latest shooting, has become an expected part of the cycle, underscoring the horrific toll of national paralysis.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/may/27/the-onion-gun-violence-texas-shooting

A bison range homecoming: Native tribes reclaim a Montana nature preserve

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes celebrate the restoration of lands they had stewarded for thousands of years

This piece was first published by Montana Free Press

by Sarah Mosquera for Montana Free Press

Fri 27 May 2022 04.00 EDT

The sound of drumming filled the rolling hills of the National Bison Range.

Members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes (CSKT) and neighbors gathered under a large tent to sing and dance in celebration of a historic event: the tribes’ reclamation of management of the bison range after more than a century of federal management and nearly two decades of negotiations.

“This all dates back to the treaty of 1855, when that agreement wasn’t honored and this land was taken by the government,” said Stephanie Gillin, wildlife biologist for the CSKT Natural Resources Department.

5 Supreme Court decisions from this term that are terrifyingly radical -- and not about abortion

By Jon Skolnik, Salon- Commentary
Published May 26, 2022

While it likes to pride itself as a paragon of impartiality, the Supreme Court, now stacked with a strong conservative majority that is willing to legislate from the bench, is sliding into a crisis of credibility. Public approval of the court has plummeted by 15% over the past three years, while nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that the Supreme Court is primarily motivated by politics.

Much of this crisis is informed by the body's confirmation process, which has in recent years become an open invitation for partisan histrionics of all kinds. The GOP's theatricality was center stage, for instance, during the confirmation hearings of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who they subjected to a medley of bad-faith questions like, "Can you provide a definition for the word 'woman'?" and "Do you agree with this book that is being taught to kids that babies are racist?"

Recently, Americans saw this spirit of partisanship carry over into the court's actual jurisprudence, when Politico reported on a leaked draft majority opinion revealing that the court had already informally voted to overturn Roe, effectively turning back the clock on reproductive rights by half a century. But while Roe's reversal will be incredibly consequential, the court has also handed down a number of separate decisions that similarly reek of political bias:

https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-2657394388/

Expand the courts.......

Hey Ted Cruz..... do you remember this.....

And down in Texas an indicted AG that has been going on for 7 years now said this BS

you know just like a psychopath selling his BS that school administrators should be prepared like in a combat situation at war.......and the whatever so called journalist asking about doing the Abbott thing and "harden schools".....why not just put up concrete walls and call them "green zones".....JFC.....same old tired BS that is causing people to get killed.....more fucking guns do not solve the problem....did not even ask if there should be universal background checks, or to end the US Senate filibuster on background checks......nope that fucked up state Texas has permit less gun carrying fucking laws... .......


Watch: Texas Attorney General suggests arming teachers after 15 shot and killed at elementary school

https://twitter.com/i/status/1529209566436655104