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#8064
I'm sure you know this is a loaded statement, but for the rest of the forum who might not be familiar with the history of the four corners area I'll try to provide the backstory.
After the gold rush there was a large push to find anything worth mining in the rockies. There were numerous bores cut with blatant disregard for what was coming out of the earth. A lot of that had to do with a basic misunderstanding of toxicity and the drive to succeed in the pursuit of vast wealth.
The Gold king mine spill is a sh#tty situation. The bore was cut, very little of value was pulled out, and the miners left their sh#t show for later generations to clean up. In comes the EPA and a heavy handed excavator with orders to evaluate just how bad things were just beneath the bore plug.... and bam... the Gold king mine spill. It is kind of funny for anyone who skis at Silverton, because its obvious that heavy metals have been leaching out of the mine for decades now. Soooo do we blame the EPA? or maybe the short sighted miners? or maybe the earth for having bad stuff in it? I guess it depends on what gang color you associate with.
(Full disclosure: My family homesteaded in the Durango-Silverton area in the early 1800s and could very well have been involved in these unscrupulous activities :P)
After the gold rush there was a large push to find anything worth mining in the rockies. There were numerous bores cut with blatant disregard for what was coming out of the earth. A lot of that had to do with a basic misunderstanding of toxicity and the drive to succeed in the pursuit of vast wealth.
The Gold king mine spill is a sh#tty situation. The bore was cut, very little of value was pulled out, and the miners left their sh#t show for later generations to clean up. In comes the EPA and a heavy handed excavator with orders to evaluate just how bad things were just beneath the bore plug.... and bam... the Gold king mine spill. It is kind of funny for anyone who skis at Silverton, because its obvious that heavy metals have been leaching out of the mine for decades now. Soooo do we blame the EPA? or maybe the short sighted miners? or maybe the earth for having bad stuff in it? I guess it depends on what gang color you associate with.
(Full disclosure: My family homesteaded in the Durango-Silverton area in the early 1800s and could very well have been involved in these unscrupulous activities :P)
I work in powerplants and I have had to deal directly with EPA officials. We were starting up that day and they were there to "observe emissions." Their dumbass leader thought the cooling tower mist was emissions. They also had absolutely no idea how a powerplant works. So my perception of the competence of the EPA officials is extremely low and now they are just ******* criminals getting away with everything.
#8065
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Mufasa segregates undesirable members of the animal kingdom into a drab, uninhabitable section of the savanna, the elephant graveyard.
Scar brings the hyenas out of the ghetto and shares food with them. Scar is a civil rights hero.
Scar brings the hyenas out of the ghetto and shares food with them. Scar is a civil rights hero.
#8067
Even R2D2 is saying "screw it, I'm not going in there..."
Ya think???
https://www.engadget.com/2017/02/03/...e-fuel-breach/
Fukushima radiation skyrockets after possible fuel breach
Radiation levels inside the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor are over 100 times fatal levels, the highest they've been since the triple meltdown in March, 2011, according to operator Tepco. The company recently sent a camera-equipped robot into the reactor, which relayed images showing a meter-wide hole in the pressure vessel (above), with possible melted uranium fuel on a grating below. "It may have ... melted and made a hole in the [containment] vessel, but it is only a hypothesis at this stage," a company spokesperson told the AFP.
Tepco and its partners had been unable to locate the exposed low-enriched uranium fuel (LEU), a prerequisite to decommissioning the plant. So far, the levels of radiation made it impossible to get cameras and robots in close in close enough to gauge the damage -- of the five sent in, none returned.
#8069
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Googled antifa. Looks like jackbooted thugs. I guess the best way to not have people call you **** thug is to accuse them of being a **** first, which seems to be their M.O.
The pictures that popped up with that name are pretty disturbing to a freedom loving fellow like myself.
Examples:
The pictures that popped up with that name are pretty disturbing to a freedom loving fellow like myself.
Examples:
apparently they are scared of MMA fighters:
https://twitter.com/jakeshieldsajj/s...23984273219584
(video in link, since Internet Brands suck so bad the embedded link doesnt work again)
“The show got cancelled so I was kind of checking things out,” said Shields in an interview with Breitbart Tech. “Obviously it was a rough crowd, so I didn’t want to walk in the middle of it, and all of a sudden I see this guy running out completely covered in blood and these guys were chasing him with sticks, trying to circle him.”
“Mobs of people. Nobody helped, but people were yelling ‘get up, get up.’ Like fifteen people were trying to attack him and others were cheering them on,” he continued. “No one helped, no one had the ***** to step in, so my reaction was to run in and start picking people off.”
“They came in trying to fight back, and I started backing off, but I helped grab the guy and shove him into a store,” Shields explained. “I got a few punches, I was probably hit like ten times, but I don’t have a single mark on me. They were like, ‘he’s a **** too!’ but this other guy was like, ‘I don’t think he’s a ****,’ while I was still fighting people off. I was like, do you just get to choose who’s a **** and who’s not?”
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“I asked them ‘what did he say that made this guy a ****?’ and nobody knew,” said Shields. “They were like ‘oh, he said some racist stuff,’ and I asked, ‘what racist stuff did he say?’ and no one knew. They were just mindless… It was really insane.”
“More chaos started happening, so I went up to the police and tried bringing them back, but they were just like ‘we’re not really going over there. You should just stay away.'” he concluded. “I don’t know if they were taking orders from someone or if they were just being lazy. I don’t know what the situation was, but it was pathetic to watch. Our police, who are supposed to defend the citizens of Berkeley. It’s a sad scene that they would allow that.”
“Mobs of people. Nobody helped, but people were yelling ‘get up, get up.’ Like fifteen people were trying to attack him and others were cheering them on,” he continued. “No one helped, no one had the ***** to step in, so my reaction was to run in and start picking people off.”
“They came in trying to fight back, and I started backing off, but I helped grab the guy and shove him into a store,” Shields explained. “I got a few punches, I was probably hit like ten times, but I don’t have a single mark on me. They were like, ‘he’s a **** too!’ but this other guy was like, ‘I don’t think he’s a ****,’ while I was still fighting people off. I was like, do you just get to choose who’s a **** and who’s not?”
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“I asked them ‘what did he say that made this guy a ****?’ and nobody knew,” said Shields. “They were like ‘oh, he said some racist stuff,’ and I asked, ‘what racist stuff did he say?’ and no one knew. They were just mindless… It was really insane.”
“More chaos started happening, so I went up to the police and tried bringing them back, but they were just like ‘we’re not really going over there. You should just stay away.'” he concluded. “I don’t know if they were taking orders from someone or if they were just being lazy. I don’t know what the situation was, but it was pathetic to watch. Our police, who are supposed to defend the citizens of Berkeley. It’s a sad scene that they would allow that.”