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DoomsdaysCW<p>This is probably why <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> WILL NOT pardon <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LeonardPeltier</span></a>. Instead he awards <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HillaryClinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HillaryClinton</span></a> !!!👿 </p><p>Hillary Clinton Awarded <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MedalOfFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MedalOfFreedom</span></a>. Clinton Targeted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mohawks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mohawks</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mapuche" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mapuche</span></a>, Presidents <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EvoMorales" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EvoMorales</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HugoChavez" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HugoChavez</span></a>, with U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Espionage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Espionage</span></a>. </p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, January 6, 2025</p><p>WASHINGTON -- &quot;President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Biden</span></a> awarded Hillary Clinton with the Medal of Freedom on Saturday. </p><p>&quot;Clinton, while serving as Secretary of State during the Obama administration, targeted Mohawks, Mapuche, and world leaders with U.S. espionage.</p><p>&quot;The U.S. Embassies in Montreal and Toronto targeted Mohawks with surveillance at the border and in their communities in Canada. The U.S. used illegal wiretaps to track Mohawks and documented the actions of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AkwesasneMohawks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AkwesasneMohawks</span></a> at the border of New York and Canada. </p><p>&quot;The U.S. surveillance is revealed in the U.S. State Department cables, exposed by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wikileaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wikileaks</span></a>, during the time Clinton served as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013. Venezuela&#39;s President Hugo Chavez was under heavy surveillance, as revealed in the cables. </p><p>&quot;It was during this time of Clinton&#39;s espionage that delegations of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanIndianMovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanIndianMovement</span></a>, Mohawks, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRightsActivists</span></a> were in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Venezuela" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Venezuela</span></a> in 2011. The solidarity and support resulted in free heating oil from Venezuela for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> in need.<br /> <br />&quot;In this deadly web of the United States government&#39;s secrecy, the United States was part of a coalition to promote mining and fight against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> in Peru. A core group of diplomats -- from U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and South Africa -- formed an alliance with mining companies to promote and protect mining interests globally, the cables reveal.<br /> <br />&quot;The U.S. led the coalition and fought the rights of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> near the border of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Peru" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peru</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecuador" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ecuador</span></a>. Indigenous Peoples were being killed defending their land from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> in bloody battles with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MiningCompanies</span></a> and the military.</p><p>&quot;The U.S. State Department cables reveal that Clinton told U.S. Ambassadors to collect DNA and iris scans on leaders in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Africa</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paraguay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Paraguay</span></a>. <br /> <br />&quot;Biden, however, claimed during the award ceremony at the White House on Saturday that Clinton carried out a &#39;sacred effort.&#39;&quot;</p><p>Read more:<br /><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/hillary-clinton-awarded-medal-of.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/hillary-clinton-awarded-medal-of.html</span></a> <br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClemencyForLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClemencyForLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmnestyForLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmnestyForLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningInterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MiningInterests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Opinion: Why the birthplace of the Western <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apache</span></a> religion shouldn’t be destroyed by a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CopperMine</span></a> </p><p>by Luke Goodrich<br />February 6, 2024·</p><p>&quot;A federal court is poised to decide whether a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sacred</span></a> site will be destroyed by a massive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>copper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mine</span></a>. Mining proponents claim that destroying the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SacredSite</span></a> is necessary for the development of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreenEnergy</span></a>. That claim is both factually wrong and morally repugnant. And recent polling shows that the vast majority of Americans agree with what the constitution requires: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Native" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Native</span></a> sacred sites deserve the same protection as all other houses of worship.</p><p>&quot;Since before European contact, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WesternApache</span></a> and other Native tribes have lived and honored their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Creator" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Creator</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OakFlat</span></a>, or &#39;Chi’chil Bildagoteel.&#39; The site is the birthplace of Western Apache religion and the site of ancient religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Because of its religious and cultural significance, Oak Flat is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other destructive practices for decades.</p><p>&quot;That changed in 2014, when several members of Congress, supported by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>corporate</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lobbyists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>lobbyists</span></a>, slipped an amendment into a must-pass defense bill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to a foreign-owned mining giant. That company, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResolutionCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ResolutionCopper</span></a>, announced plans to obliterate the sacred ground by swallowing it in a mining crater nearly two miles wide and 1,100-feet deep, ending Apache religious practices forever. That was no surprise given the company’s sordid history dealing with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a>. The majority owner of Resolution Copper is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioTinto" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RioTinto</span></a> (the world’s second largest mining company), which sparked international outrage in 2020 when it destroyed a 46,000-year-old rock shelter with some of the most significant <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Aboriginal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Aboriginal</span></a> artifacts in all of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Australia</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;The Apache and their allies, represented by my firm, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BecketFundForReligiousLiberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BecketFundForReligiousLiberty</span></a>, have been fighting in court to ensure that such an atrocity won’t repeat itself at Oak Flat. After initial court rulings against the Apache, a full panel of 11 judges at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reheard their appeal last spring. A decision on whether the government can execute the land transfer is expected any day.</p><p>&quot;Resolution Copper and its backers want the public to believe that building the mine is essential for developing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/renewable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>renewable</span></a> energy. Extracting the copper beneath Oak Flat, they say, will help to build batteries necessary for powering <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectricVehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ElectricVehicles</span></a> and thus fight <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>. In other words, we have to destroy Oak Flat in order to save the planet.</p><p>&quot;These claims, however, are false — and they are specifically designed to obscure the physical and cultural destruction the project would wreak on the land.</p><p>&quot;The mine will destroy the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>environment</span></a>, not save it. It is undisputed that the mine will swallow the ecologically diverse landscape of Oak Flat in a massive crater, decimating the local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ecosystem</span></a>. It will also leave behind approximately 1.37 billion tons of &#39;<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tailings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tailings</span></a>,&#39; or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MiningWaste</span></a>, which, according to the government’s own environmental assessment, will pollute the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>groundwater</span></a> and scar the landscape permanently. And the mine will consume vast quantities of water at the time it is most needed by drought-stricken towns and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>farmers</span></a>.</p><p>&quot;Supporters of the mine are also at odds with the majority of Americans. According to this year’s Religious Freedom Index, an annual survey conducted by Becket, 74% of Americans believe that Native sacred sites on federal land should be protected from mining projects, even when the projects are purportedly pro-jobs and pro-environment.</p><p>&quot;That conclusion is both sensible and humane. America can transition to renewable energy without blasting the cradle of Western Apache religion into oblivion. And it should. For too long, our nation has made excuses for taking advantage of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> and their land. Indeed, our nation drove the Western Apache off Oak Flat and surrounding lands in the 1800s precisely to make way for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MiningInterests" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MiningInterests</span></a>. It shouldn’t repeat that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>injustice</span></a> again.</p><p>&quot;It is past time to protect Indigenous sacred sites from further destruction. Basic fairness and our constitutional commitment to religious freedom require no less. And, happily, most Americans agree.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/opinion-why-birthplace-western-apache-200000087.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.yahoo.com/opinion-why-bir</span><span class="invisible">thplace-western-apache-200000087.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOakFlat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SaveOakFlat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a></p>