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Comment on Major protests against Mining Bill set for Madison, WI this week by aunteedahlia

aunteedahlia — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:28:01 +0000

http://www.wnpj.org/node/7697

Yes, there is an Idle No More Solidarity Rally in Madison this Sunday!

Comment on Major protests against Mining Bill set for Madison, WI this week by Jessie

Jessie — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:51:37 +0000

NPR (National Public Radio) aired a program regarding this situation this evening. Although it was an old program they mentioned that it was all happening again and there would be a rally this Sunday at 4:00 at the capital in Madison, WI. I am trying to figure out if this information in correct. Does anyone know.

Comment on Mining exploration near Kenton, Michigan – a personal view by Jack Parker

Jack Parker — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:20:57 +0000

Thanks for bringing this matter to the forefront folks;

I was reading NYT a couple of days ago, with much philosophy about the morality of “Just war”. One of the most poignant comments from a philosopher (lover of wisdom) was that he really enjoyed his philosophy but that philosophy doesn’t resolve problems. It’s like upscale gossip.

I in turn enjoy my engineering, old school, wherein we were taught that our job was to take science, make the necessary corrections, then apply it to real-life problems for the benefit of mankind.

Accordingly I have spent 60-some years trying to do that, with some success, but find that the forces of evil have the money and the power to simply ignore such efforts. As one example I hold up the mining activities in Marquette County, and elsewhere. The perpetrators blatantly ignore the Mining Law (Part 632 in particular), and the severe penalties prescribed, and nobody will act – all the way up the law-enforcement ladder, from local police to the highest authority in the land – the U.S Attorney General and the FBI. All of them decide not to prosecute, despite absolutely clear evidence of the crime.

But why should they bother? There is no strong public demand for justice, only philosophies of various kinds. Right?

The geologist in me suggests that we are well on the way to the same
conclusion as that which faced the last of the dinosaurs. Morally constipated, they too didn’t give a coprolite.

Jack Parker, Mining Engineer
Baltic, MI 49963

Comment on Mining exploration near Kenton, Michigan – a personal view by Mohawk Guy

Mohawk Guy — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:11:57 +0000

I think you need to go to a true CHRISTIAN CHURCH – one that follows the true doctrines of Jesus Christ – and find out what Christianity truly is – - The Bilble says “and you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free”

Comment on Mining exploration near Kenton, Michigan – a personal view by Sara Culver

Sara Culver — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:19:58 +0000

Dear friends, I have just finished reading a book I should have read when it came out in 2006 (wanted to, but was overwhelmed) It’s Christopher Hedges’s book: American Fascists; The Christian Right And The War On America. Please bear with me; Hedges’s book is central to understanding the world view of those destroying our biosphere!
American Fascists traces in scholarly detail and compelling prose the origins and rise to power of the “Dominionist” offshoot of the fundamentalist “born again” church (not to be confused with the Evangelicals under whose aegis they seem to be slinking). I thought the tevangelists (sp?) were simply buffoons from the luntic fringe of a particulary disgusting cult. I was horrified to learn that they believe they are mandated by God to “establish dominion” over the entire planet and the creatures on it and they are preparing to use miitary force in order to bring this about. They are entrenched in every branch of government and the military. Hedges has apparently disscussed his book on some of the more receptive news stations, but I had not understood the real threat these nutcases represent. Their doctrine insists that the resources of the earth are infinite, that God has provided ample resources for everyone on the planet, that the resources are there to be extracted and used, that there is no such thing as global warming, that everyone who does not believe as they do should be enclaved or killed. It is a savagely cruel belief system: cold, macho, controling, sadistic, anti-life, anti-woman, ridgedly patriarchal and procorporation.It glorifies wealth and power and tells its followers that if anyone is poor or sick or homeless it’s because they have not accepted Jesus Christ as their personal savior and they deserve their wretchedness.
It’s Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel Handmaids Tale come to life, with a generous debt to 1984.
What is particularly troubling is that while Hedges was in divinity school, he had as a professor a man who had been in Germany as a visiting professor and watched the rise of the Nazis and their methods. He told Hedges class about 40 years ago that what they would be fighting would be the Christian fascists: AS one of our colleagues used to say: “When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
Not from any other public intellectual besides Hedges have I heard what these self-described “Christians” have in mind, probably because most thinking people could not stomach the ignorant blather. Christopher Hedges was able–perhaps because he was a theology student at Harvard before he became a war correspondent–to pose as someone willing to become a convert. His book is scholarly and meticulous (over 12 pages of notes and eight pages of bibliography), but compelling reading. His authority comes from extensive study and from on-the-ground interviews. Those within this movement do not announce their intentions outside of their closed groups; their belief is that lying is perfectly legitimate because they are doing “God’s will.” Some of them seem to be nothing more than extremely slick charlatons, but the desperate, gullible people who are “true believers,” who send these TV evangelists a tithe of their meager earnings are prepared to follow the orders of their “preachers,” who have amassed billions of dollars and used it to subvert every kind of govenment public service, environmental laws, public schools, and now–through the tea party–the Congress, the US Chamber of Commerce, the the various branches of the military. Apparently Todd Aiken (Pregnancy from rape is God’s will) and Rick Santorim–who was perfectly willing to have his wife bear the baby when doctors said the childbirth might very well kill her.And Senator Inhofe is now head of the committee that oversees the EPA. Blackwell in Ohio is one, and so are the people making the electronic voting machines. And Hedges’s has written a scathing piece for Nation of Change, excoriating liberals; whose tolerance of the intolerant make them powerless. These fanatics will not compromise. They hate democracy. They look forward to the second coming, when they will be “raptured” into heaven. They really believe this crap and are williing to kill everyone who does not believe as they do.
If you haven’t read this book, please do…and take Hedges’s warning seriously.

Comment on Mining exploration near Kenton, Michigan – a personal view by Jack Parker

Jack Parker — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:18:23 +0000

Good folks; ‘Tis a nice write-up. But muttering about it to each other will do as much good for us as it did for the Natives when we moved in.

Why not ask the Kenton Rangers and the Canadians what they are doing and what they anticipate finding? They have to disclose that.

It is not an unreasonable request. Methinks that you will get a reasonable response. Not everybody is as crooked as Kennecott/RT/DEQ.

Cousin Jack

Comment on Mining exploration near Kenton, Michigan – a personal view by Judi Cornfoot-Musolf

Judi Cornfoot-Musolf — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:21:39 +0000

It is going to get worse. Rep. Benishek was re-elected. He has destroyed the clean water act, and has cut many regulations for mining with him being on a natural resource committee. Rep. Benishek is doing this to create jobs for the UP . there are other ways .

Comment on Mining exploration near Kenton, Michigan – a personal view by rosa musket

rosa musket — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:28:13 +0000

the “jobs” is a sales pitch to the unwashed masses/constituents who live on desperate hope and fear and react on the bases of their belief in limited options…in other words if there is a cliff straight ahead and they are told to continue on straight ahead they go for it.
Largely however are as Jeffry would say; 1st the lobbyists and I contend the 2nd water systems corporations, who without which none of the 3rd resource extraction companies would be able to do their dirty deeds.
Richard your empathy/you may not have been there none the less you do feel the pain, comes from your honest heart.
This was very well; presented and written. The work you and Catherine are doing is appreciated.

Comment on Mining exploration near Kenton, Michigan – a personal view by Margee Comfort

Margee Comfort — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 03:50:31 +0000

Well thanks so much for being vigilant, Rich and Catherine!
As Jon Saari said at LSBF, mining may be the UP’s “legacy”, but it does not have to be its destiny.

Comment on Mining exploration near Kenton, Michigan – a personal view by aunteedahlia

aunteedahlia — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:17:45 +0000

After seeing the cable, the Ontario plates, and the equipment in the park, we started up the bluff and I thought to myself, possibly mixing two scriptures: “They roam over the earth like locusts, seeking whom they may devour.” I actually did get the second part right. The first part warns us to be sober and vigilant.