#johnmccain — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #johnmccain, aggregated by home.social.
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AMERICAN IDIOT: Former #TEAparty Governor from #Alaska And Senator #JohnMcCain's #Republican Vice President nominee #SarahPalin tells her followers on #ElonMusk's X New Disccision Platform... #WTF...Not cooperate if there is a #Hantavirus outbreak...
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/former-vp-nominee-sarah-palin-1828671
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AMERICAN IDIOT: Former #TEAparty Governor from #Alaska And Senator #JohnMcCain's #Republican Vice President nominee #SarahPalin tells her followers on #ElonMusk's X New Disccision Platform... #WTF...Not cooperate if there is a #Hantavirus outbreak...
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/former-vp-nominee-sarah-palin-1828671
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AMERICAN IDIOT: Former #TEAparty Governor from #Alaska And Senator #JohnMcCain's #Republican Vice President nominee #SarahPalin tells her followers on #ElonMusk's X New Disccision Platform... #WTF...Not cooperate if there is a #Hantavirus outbreak...
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/former-vp-nominee-sarah-palin-1828671
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AMERICAN IDIOT: Former #TEAparty Governor from #Alaska And Senator #JohnMcCain's #Republican Vice President nominee #SarahPalin tells her followers on #ElonMusk's X New Disccision Platform... #WTF...Not cooperate if there is a #Hantavirus outbreak...
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/former-vp-nominee-sarah-palin-1828671
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Iran-US war latest: Tehran to respond to Trump’s peace plan as Rubio criticises Nato allies
Trump says ceasefire still in place despite trading Hormuz strikes with Tehr…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #arizona #breakingnews #BusinessFinanceandIndustry #colorimage #Economy #FinanceandEconomy #horizontal #Iran #JohnMcCain #MarkKelly-Astronaut #Photography #Politics #politicsandgovernment #Senator #Transportation #USA #veteran #VeteransofForeignWarsoftheUnitedStates
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/104956/ Iran-US war latest: Tehran to respond to Trump’s peace plan as Rubio criticises Nato allies #Arizona #BusinessFinanceAndIndustry #ColorImage #Economy #FinanceAndEconomy #Horizontal #Iran #JohnMcCain #MarkKellyAstronaut #Photography #Politics #PoliticsAndGovernment #senator #Transportation #usa #Veteran #VeteransOfForeignWarsOfTheUnitedStates
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Doing my taxes. There's still an option to "...contribute $3 to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund." But there hasn't been a publicly-funded presidential campaign since #JohnMcCain in 2008. His opponent, #BarackObama, chose private financing, and so has every candidate since. #USPol #History https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/21/barackobama.uselections2008
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UN food chief Cindy McCain to step down over health concerns – POLITICO
Carl Skau, No. 2 at WFP, will temporarily helm the agency while a successor is named. McCain’s final…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #cindymccain #Foodcrisis #Foodsecurity #Gaza #Headlines #Israel #Israeli-Palestinianconflict #JohnMcCain #Russia #TopStories #UnitedStates #WarinUkraine
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@MarvinTheMartian @realjakebroe.bsky.social In the *updated* words of the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” ✅
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@markmetz #Russia is not an ally. It’s not even a country!
“Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” - late U.S. Senator #JohnMcCain *updated*.
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@MarvinTheMartian @realjakebroe.bsky.social *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain ; “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” 🇷🇺 ⛽️🔥 ✅
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Meghan McCain Shuts Down Tucker Carlson Guest Who Claimed Her Dad Was Gay: 'He Dated a Stripper'
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I believe Senator Mark Kelly is one of the most patriotic people in the existence of this country. Not only did he serve 25 years in the Navy (in combat) and NASA, his wife took a bullet to the head while meeting with her constituents. This is Senator John McCain levels of patriotism.
His biggest critic, a mandarin colored pedophile sex pest rapist sociopath who never served in any office or service until he was 70 and only out of personal gain.
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@SocraticEthics Updated quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob, masquerading as a country.”
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@tangledwing #Russia is a dying country soon to be carved up by a #SinoFinnishBorder. But in a final #PsyOp by #Kremlin propagandists, they have managed to convert the ‘rock-ribbed’, ‘Better dead than red’ #Republican Party of Ronald Reagan and John McCain* into a cult of red hat-wearing, ‘#Putin is a genius’ party of spineless #BananaRepublicans.
Updated quote from late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain “Russia is a burned-out gas station run by the mob, masquerading as a country.”
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@SocraticEthics *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@SocraticEthics *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@MarvinTheMartian *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@gimulnautti The devolution of the #Russian language reminds me that we should update the description of #Russia by the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain to “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.”
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@MarvinTheMartian @realjakebroe.bsky.social *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@MarvinTheMartian @JayinKyiv *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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TIL on @wikipedia that #MotherRussia is deteriorating and at risk of collapsing. This toot is about the crumbling and tilting statue in Volgograd, #Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls
But it also applies to what the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain called “A gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” 🤷🏻♂️
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@MarvinTheMartian @JayinKyiv *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@SocraticEthics *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@SocraticEthics *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@meduza_en *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@MarvinTheMartian @Officejjsmart *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@MarvinTheMartian @realjakebroe.bsky.social *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@JayinKyiv *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@benroyce *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@Gehtso *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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@JayinKyiv *Updated* quote from the late #UnitedStates Senator #JohnMcCain : “#Russia is a *burned-out* gas station run by the mob masquerading as a country.” #truth #Resist #TrumpRussiaCollusion to #SaveAmerica.
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Some straight talk advice for Pete Hegseth
Oct. 1 (UPI) — While Pete Hegseth prefers the title of secretary of war, he really needs to…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #ArnauddeBorchgrave #DonaldTrump #Død #HarlanUllman #HaroldBrown #JamesSchlesinger #JohnMcCain #LeonPanetta #pentagon #petehegseth #Politics #RobertF.Kennedy #RobertGates #SecretaryofDefense #warinukraine #XiJinping
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#politics #murkowski #LisaMurkowski #BBB #JohnMcCain #Alaska #Alaskans #Vote
ALASKANS, CALL LISA MURKOWSKI AND TELL HER TO A JOHN MCCAIN. BE THE REPUBLICAN THAT STOPS THE BILL.
Phone: (202)-224-6665
SPREAD THE WORD
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#SanCarlosApache Tribe welcomes Federal Court ruling delaying trade of sacred Oak Flat to Chinese-backed #ResolutionCopper
By San Carlos Apache Tribe, Censored News, June 9, 2025
#SanCarlosApacheNation, #Arizona — "The San Carlos Apache Tribe welcomes Friday’s federal court ruling preventing the Trump Administration from trading sacred Oak Flat to Chinese-backed Resolution #CopperMining no sooner than 60 days after the government releases an environmental report expected to be published later this month.
"The #Trump Administration had indicated that it intended to trade 2,422 acres of #TontoNationalForest 70 miles east of #PhoenixAZ that includes Oak Flat to Resolution Copper immediately upon publication of the mine’s updated environmental report.
U.S. District Court Judge Dominic W. Lanza’s order 'preclude(s) the United States Forest Service from proceeding with the challenged land exchange until 60 days after the issuance of the Final Environmental Impact Statement, which is anticipated to be issued on June 16.'
" 'We are grateful that Judge Lanza has provided us an opportunity to be heard,' said San Carlos Apache Tribe Chairman Terry Rambler. 'The two-month window provides the Tribe an opportunity to file an amended lawsuit challenging the legality of the pending environmental report and request an injunction to stop the land exchange until the merits of our case are settled.'
"The Oak Flat land transfer was mandated by a last-minute amendment to the FY2015 #NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct that was added by the late Arizona Senator #JohnMcCain and former Arizona Senator #JeffFlake. The land transfer provision, which failed to pass Congress in previous years, avoided the normal course of business and was not debated before it was added to the mustsign [#NDAA] defense spending bill that was signed into law by President Barack #Obama.
" 'The bill that authorized the land exchange is not in the best interest of the American people, Arizona or the San Carlos Apache Tribe,' Chairman Rambler stated. 'We have filed this lawsuit because of our concerns of the mine’s massive use of groundwater, which will be devastating for both Arizona
and eventually the Tribe. We are also deeply concerned about the environmental destruction and the obliteration of Oak Flat will have on Apache culture and religion.'"Resolution plans to collapse Oak Flat, known as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel in Apache, into a two-mile wide, 1,100-foot-deep crater. Chi’chil Biłdagoteel is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a Traditional Cultural Place.
"Resolution Copper is owned by Melbourne-based #BHP (45%) and London-based #RioTinto (55%), the two largest mining companies in the world. The Chinese state-owned Aluminum Corporation of China, which spearheads China’s acquisition of strategic minerals worldwide, is Rio Tinto’s single largest investor with a 14.6% stake. Both BHP and Rio Tinto rely on China for the majority of their revenue.
" 'We fully expect Resolution’s copper to be exported to China, which poses a national security threat,' Chairman Rambler said. “The United States already exports 30 percent of the copper produced by U.S. mines because of a lack of copper smelting capacity.
"'The Trump Administration’s Oak Flat appraisal concludes that Resolution’s copper will be exported to southeast Asia,' Chairman Rambler added. 'It’s clearly in the best interest of the United States to withhold publication of the Resolution environmental report at least until there is a change in the ownership of this project to companies that are not reliant on China for more than half their business.' "
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06/san-carlos-apache-tribe-federal-court.html#Fight4OurExistence #ProtectOakFlat #LandBack #sacredland #OakFlat
#SaveOakFlat #SanCarlosApache #Apache #ReligiousLiberty #NativeAmericans #FirstNations #CensoredNews #ReaderSupportedNews
#ProtectTheSacred #ApacheStronghold #NativeAmericanNews #NativeAmericans #RioTinto #CopperMining #Arizona #LeaveItInTheGround #ChichilBildagoteel #WesternApaches #BecketLaw #ResolutionCopper #USPol #MiningTheSacred #NationalForests #CorporateLandGrabs #CorporateColonialism #CulturalGenocide #McCainShame -
Now Showing Online! #BigMountain Film Featured at Tokyo Global Film Festival
By NaBahii Keediniihii, via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com, May 28, 2:33 PM
"Greetings All.
I hope your late Spring is going well.
The ONLY film festival so far that
selected the Big Mountain Film is Tokyo Liff Off Global Film Festival.Big Mountain feature documentary will end streaming on June 1st which is night time Saturday in the U.S., 5/31.
https://liftoff.network/tokyo-lift-off-film-festival-2025/
Sorry that you have to purchase a Ticket (cost is $12), in order to Vote. GO DOWN TO THE 'FEATURES' Category. Find the title: "BIG MOUNTAIN LEGACY, LAST STORIES OF DÍNEH." More Votes = More Exposure about Big Mountain Legacy!!
Let's hope that other Film Fests judge to select this Big Mountain Legacy film.
What more can I say, this documentary is not about myself. Understand that I am only the MessenJah.
Thank you, again.Sincerely,
Kat Bahe"
Watch the film trailer
https://vimeo.com/848932137Big Mountain Legacy Film: SYNOPSIS / Re-enactments / A Dream of a Man
Director: Bahe (Naabaahii) Katenay (Keediniihii), October 2023 (75 minute featured documentary)Background:
"In the 1970s, Dineh (Navajo) families around Big Mountain were notified that their communities would be uprooted and that they may never see their ancestral homelands ever again. Now 50 years later, less than 20 home sites remain and the once strong #resistance leaders like #PaulineWhitesinger, #HaastinNiizBegay, #JohnKatenay, and #RobertaBlackgoat (#KleeBenally's grandmother) have all passed on.
How should the future remember the legacies of such wise teachers? What gave their community the will to defy U.S.
Congressional Legislations that were nothing but anti-Indian which was forcing them to give up hundreds of years of cultural existence?
The Congress of the United States passed Public Law 93-531 in 1974 and it was signed by the President. It is an Executive Order, a declaration to exterminate, a declaration of war. The justification for this law was to “resolve” a supposed “land-dispute” among the Hopis and Dineh, and the lands were divided.
The 2023 Video Documentary:
The original impetus for resisting the federal mandate was the sacredness of the lands, ancestral ties and natural features which were dwelling places of Deities. The elder interviewees knew the future will not be the same way as they had lived and the same childhood experience. The video put aside much of the effective resistance against the most powerful, #capitalistic country in the world, instead the video presents stories about their ancestors’ teachings. A Dineh ritual existence which was basically daily living, ceremonies and nutrition. An indigenous atmosphere long before the Europeans’ arrival with its brutal conquest. The video narrowly touches on a 400-year history of cultural survival and maintaining identity. And how that history overlaps with so-called modern America.One grandmother’s story become an intense chapter, and it is about her direct clan ancestry facing near annihilation as one little girl survives which resulted in re-establishing a Clan at Big Mountain.
"This story comes from a massacre site with two mass graves. Then stories about decades of intense state of fear and which lead into the US’s late 1800s war policy of random killing, starvation and captivity. The modern times the 1920s and 30s when these story tellers were born, a different state of fear had re-emerged, and then again at their elderhood in the late 1900s. All the stories in this documentary program are messages for the future because, as these elders have predicted, the lands maybe empty of indigenous culture which once thrived for centuries."
Continue reading at: Sheep Dog Nation Media
https://sheepdognationmediarockswisdom.blogspot.com/Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/05/now-showing-online-big-mountain-film.html#BigMountainResistance #Activism
#Dineh #Dineteh #Hopi #JohnMcCain #PeabodyCoal #BigCoal #PeabodyEnergy #Resistance #WaterIsLife #CorporateColonialism #HumanRights #LandDefenders #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #DirectAction #DefendTheSacred #IndigenousAction -
The Price Of Fear (2008) | Retroactively, this nicely pinpoints the moment where things really started going south for the US.
#curated #johnmccain #palin #politics #power #stochasticterrorismhttps://johnhenry.us/blog/2023/10/02/the-price-of-fear-2008/
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"Those of us privileged to hold a public office have ourselves to blame for the sickness in American public life today. And we are the defenders of a campaign finance system that is nothing less, than an elaborate influence peddling scheme, in which both parties conspire to stay in office by selling the country to the highest bidder."
Senator #JohnMcCain
https://www.levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporations-became-people/
#podcasts #TheLever #TheMasterPlan #PowellMemo #ElectionFunding #USPolitics
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#Trump supported the #Republican #Congress’s effort to roll back most of Obamacare, including undoing some of the regulations for #PreexistingConditions & making major #cuts to #Medicaid. It failed because of #JohnMcCain.
Trump dramatically cut funding for #enrollment outreach. He tried to introduce Medicaid work requirements for people covered by the #ACA’s expansion (but was stopped by the courts).
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>230 fmr ofcls for #Republican presidents #GeorgeHWBush & #GeorgeWBush have also backed #Harris, in addition to campaign staffers for Republican presidential noms #JohnMcCain & #MittRomney. #Biden received a similar amount of #GOP support in his 2020 run against #Trump.
Fmr #Reagan staff backing Harris includes Ken Adelman, the US ambassador to the #UN & #US #ArmsControl dir under Reagan, as well as B.Jay Cooper, the special asst & deputy press sec to Reagan.
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"We hope that those visiting this sacred site understand that there were real people who sacrificed for our freedom & that they are #honored & #respected & treated accordingly," they said in a statement.
Jimmy McCain, a US Marine whose father was the late Sen #JohnMcCain, also condemned the visit.
#Trump has a history of controversial remarks about the <military - he insulted Sen John McCain for being a #POW. He called dead soldiers "suckers" & "losers,"
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More than 200 former #Republican staffers who worked for former president #GeorgeWBush, and senators #JohnMcCain and #MittRomney, have signed a letter endorsing vice-president #KamalaHarris for president. – #US elections live - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/aug/26/trump-harris-election-debate-updates
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So, #WhatMagazineOnine was not only one of the first home-grown webzines, it was also the place where I told the world about #McCainShame and #BigMountain -- and how I connected with the Benally family (including #KleeBenally's grandmother #RobertaBlackgoat) and #BrendaNorrell of #CensoredNews.
Here is a snapshot of my #BigMountainResistance page -- courtesy of the @internetarchive !
https://web.archive.org/web/20060506003525/http://www.whatmagazine.org/bigmtn1.html
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Brought to you by #RioTinto and #McCainShame!
The #ApacheStronghold standing in the way of a massive #CopperMine
‘If they want to remove me, they’re going to have to remove me, forcefully.’
by Brandi Morin May 17, 2024
"Apache Stronghold has been waging their fight against these giants [#RioTinto and #BHP] in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In late April, the court rejected an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from 2021 that found the mine wouldn’t threaten the First Amendment religious practice rights of the #Apache. Now, the group is taking their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Chi’chil Bildagoteel was once protected. In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower listed the area on the National Register of Historic Places as a Traditional Cultural Property. That designation stood until 2014, when former U.S. Senator #JohnMcCain slipped a rider onto a must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to allow the sale of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper."
#NDAA #BigMountain #CulturalGenocide #Genocide #Arizona #ChichilBildagoteel #RioTinto #CopperMine #SanCarlosApache #Arizona #ProtectOakFlat #protectthesacred #DefendTheSacred #IndigenousActivism #SCOTUS #SaveOakFlat
#WaterIsLife #SacredSite #CopperMining #RecycleCopper #MiningWithoutConsent
#ProtectTheSacred #CulturalGenocide #Ecocide #NativeAmericanNews
#IndigenousNews
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…#JohnMcCain seriously considered making #JohnLieberman his running mate, but his advisers warned that #Lieberman’s Democratic history & voting record, particularly his stand in favor of #AbortionRights, would anger convention delegates & split the party. McCain instead chose the #RightWing #populist gov of Alaska, Sarah Palin, a decision he later said he regretted.
Most observers, including Lieberman, doubted that his presence on the ticket would have saved McCain from defeat by Obama….
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ICYMI from 2023: #Biden Moves Forward With #Mining Project That Will Obliterate a Sacred #Apache Religious Site
In court, the feds said #OakFlat would be in the hands of mining giants #RioTinto and #BHP by early summer.
“This is a people matter. This is about the people and their freedom: freedom to be Apache, to be Indigenous, to be Americans.”by Ryan Devereaux
March 22 2023"Biden administration attorneys were in court this week to defend a mining project that will obliterate one of the most sacred Apache religious sites in the American Southwest.
"In oral arguments Tuesday, the U.S. Forest Service said it was nearing completion of an environmental impact study that will transfer land east of Phoenix to two of the world’s largest mining companies for the purpose of building one of the largest #copper mines on the planet. The massive project will hinge on the destruction of Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, a plateau otherwise known as Oak Flat, that is sacred to many Native American tribes, particularly the #SanCarlosApache, who consider the area among their most holy of sites.
"In a nearly two-hour hearing, an 11-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, peppered lawyers on both sides of the high-stakes legal fight with an array of complex case law questions raised by the project. Begun nearly two decades ago, the battle for Oak Flat sits at the intersection of Indigenous rights and dispossession, religious liberty, public lands and private sales, and a growing demand for so-called green energy solutions in an era of #ClimateCatastrophe.
"'As the court is aware, this case is not about an agency action. It’s about an act of Congress, in which Congress considered demands on a piece of property, balanced those interests, and made a decision,' said Joan Pepin, an attorney for the Forest Service, the agency that exchanged the land in a controversial deal nearly a decade ago. 'It decided that Oak Flat should be transferred to #ResolutionCopper so the third-largest copper ore deposit in the world can be mined.”
"The legislation in question — the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act — was the product of a proposal then-Arizona Sens. #JohnMcCain and #JeffFlake added to a must-pass defense authorization bill late one night in 2014. The addendum, known as a rider, incurred no congressional debate.
"Described by the San Carlos Apache as a 'midnight backroom deal,' the law transferred Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a British-Australian concern jointly owned by the extractive giants Rio Tinto and BHP, both of which had sought access to the wildly lucrative ore deposit for years.
"The project centers on a 2,200-acre area known as Oak Flat Campground, part of the #TontoNationalForest, that has served as a centerpiece of Apache #ReligiousCeremony and #cosmology since before settler expansion into the West. To access the ore underneath, Resolution Copper will use a technique known as block cave mining, which over several years will turn the sacred mountain into a two-mile-wide crater deep enough to hide a skyscraper.
"Initiation of construction hinges on the publication of an #EnvironmentalImpact study from the Forest Service, which, under the law passed in 2014, starts a 60-day countdown before the transfer of the land from the federal government to the mining company must happen.
"Luke Goodrich, the lead attorney for Apache Stronghold, an Arizona-based nonprofit that brought the lawsuit to stop the transfer, told the panel of judges that the destruction of Oak Flat was a direct and flagrant violation of the #ReligiousFreedomRestoratioAct. Violation of the statute requires the imposition of a “substantial burden” on a person or group’s ability to practice their faith.
"'A fine is a substantial burden, but here the government is doing something far worse,' Goodrich said, 'not just threatening fines, but authorizing the complete physical destruction of Oak Flat, barring the Apaches from ever accessing it again and ending their core religious exercises forever.'
"In January 2021, five days before leaving office, the administration of President Donald #Trump released a study supporting the creation of the #OakFlatMine. #ApacheStronghold had filed a federal lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction to stop the project.
"Unsuccessful in the attempt, the group filed an emergency appeal to the 9th Circuit the following month. Six hours before its deadline to respond passed, the Forest Service — by then, in March 2021, under the leadership of President Joe Biden — announced that it was withdrawing the environmental impact study and postponing the land transfer.
"A three-judge panel of 9th Circuit dismissed Apache Stronghold’s case in October 2021 but agreed to hear the case again before a full panel last winter. The unusual decision set the stage for Tuesday’s hearing.
"While the postponement of the project had given opponents of the mine a moment of respite in the long-running battle, the government’s testimony this week confirmed that the Biden administration is moving forward with a new environmental impact study and stands behind the controversial land swap."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2023/03/22/oak-flat-mine-arizona-biden/#HumanRightsViolations #CulturalGenocide #CopperMining #Mining #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousNews #SaveOakFlat
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2008: America’s #WestBank: #McCain’s Forced #Navajo Relocation
"S 1003, sponsored by Senator #JohnMcCain (R-AZ), comes as #PeabodyCoal, the world’s largest coal company, is planning to expand its strip mining of American Indian lands, drawing down another high-quality residential #BlackMesa in the process. Only one thing stands in Peabody’s way: indigenous people live on the land below which lies billions of tons of low-sulfur coal. As with their ancestors, the land is the basis for the #BlackMesa people’s traditions, spirituality, and livelihoods."
#WaterIsLife #Thackerpass #EnvironmentalRacism #FreePalestine #Mining #NativeAmericans #CulturalGenocide #CorporateColonialism
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CW: Long post, mentions Environmental Racism and Birth Defects
Last night, I had looked for this website that I remember from 2004 (it was not in my current bookmarks). A good night's sleep and a DuckDuckGo search got me the results I was looking for. Page bookmarked now. This page also has links to .wmv files with the documentary "Vanishing Prayer".
2004: #NativeAmericans: #Navajo Indians targeted for brutal genocide, in #Arizona, #USA ...by Sen. #JohnMcCain, the #BIA & a few greedy Politicians
"To facilitate his special interests, namely: Peabody Western Coal Company (the largest coal group in the US) and the Mohave Generating Facility in Laughlin (operated by Bechtel) delivering low cost coal produced electricity to Las Vegas's Casinos in exchange for Beer Distribution Contracts afforded his wife's business, Hemsley Inc., John McCain personally, over the course of 25 years in the state legislature and federal senate introduced and arranged for the enforcement of unethical and constitutionally unlawful legislations which brutally displaced thousands of Navajo farmers onto a #Nuclear Waste Dump, Church's Rock, #NewMexico to live after brutalizing them for two decades in peaceful resistance. McCain assembled support to modify existing laws and produce new ones (Navajo Resettlement & Navajo Accommodation Agreement, Navajo Settlement, and amendments to PL 93-531, PL S.1003), illegal and unethical enactments designed to force Native American Navajo of the Dineh Band off their Arizona lands, moving them onto Church's Hill in New Mexico, depriving them of lands they've owned since 1500 AD. As a result, thousands of aboriginal elders passed away from shock associated with displacement into urban apartment settings and on to uranium contaminated waste sites such as Church's.
"Using a phony #Hopi tribal counsel composed of paid stooges, and Rangers comprised largely of BIA police, McCain and Peabody Western Coal Company progressively stole and exploited the Dineh's lands for mutual personal gain, brutalizing the natives, terrorizing #elders and engaging in thuggery, forcing these peaceful people to leave 'or else'. They even bulldozed their sacred sites and sweat lodges, beating their members physically and abusing their elders to the point of terrorizing them and causing health failure and heart failures and worse. Fake Hopi Rangers (BIA Police) organized by McCain allies arrested and beat any peaceful resistors on their own lands and while celebrating holy days at their sacred sites. Three Presidential runs by McCain have been backed by the Mining, Power company and its Nevada Casino clients through street names organized in Nevada. McCain's wife has been granted huge Beer distribution contracts at her liquor company, Hemsley, by Nevada gaming interests. Two faced political favor banking has robbed the Dineh of any political support. The supposed 'new lands' at Church's Hill are a #Superfund Nuclear Waste Dump landfill site where children in schoolyards play among openly dumped uranium tailings! Children born in these communities have twice the national average of birth defects!"
#EnvironmentalRacism #PeabodyCoal #McCainShame #NativeAmericans #ThackerPass
Read more: http://www.acsa.net/cain2004.org/ -
One of the first stories I reported on back in the 1990s was #PeabodyCoal's #genocide of the #Dineh peoples -- forcibly removing #elders from their land (which is how I began corresponding with Brenda Norrell, who was working for Indian Country Today back then). I learned that #JohnMcCain was in cahoots with Peabody Coal and did their bidding. In addition to #EnvironmentalRacism, Peabody Coal also relocated "341 Navajo and Hopi ancestors from their burial place" as part of their "tools for genocide, oppression and relocation."
The Long Journey Home, by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, February 14, 2023
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-long-journey-home-peabody-coal.html
