Here's something good to counter act the bad on this very busy news day. The Supreme Court is allowing the full enforcement of Trump's travel ban even as objections from lower courts are mouldering in queue. That means you People's Democratic Republic of Hawaii.
The ban restricts travel from six countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. What do those six countries have in common? The US has bombed four of them and placed crippling economic sanctions on another. That's a good indicator that people from those six countries hate our guts and likely harbor terrorists. Unlike the original ban, this third revised edition has no set end date.
Trump is not banning Muslims from entering the US, he is banning people from countries that the US has bombed and who would probably be really pissed off and might try to enact revenge.
If Trump were trying to ban Muslims he would have banned people from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, India, and Pakistan, the most populous Muslim countries. Anyone who thinks this is a Muslim ban is either a complete moron or is lying to try to paint Trump as "literally Hitler".
All the news not mystical or urban enough for page 1
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Trump Guts National Parks
Trump has decided to give two million acres of land in Utah that had been protected because Ovomit. That's literally the reason. Ovomit placed these lands under protection, so Trump has to automatically undo everything Ovomit did, good or bad, so he's giving the land to international oil conglomerates and timber corporations.
Staircase-Escalante National Monument will be reduced by 50 percent and Bear Ears National Monument will be reduced by a staggering 77-92 percent!
Governor of Utah Gary Herbert, who belongs to a crazy UFO cult started by a serial con artist, and may be collecting kickbacks from the big five multinational oil conglomerates who control trillions of dollars and are accountable to no jurisdiction, had "requested" President Trump to give the land over to his nice oil buddies out of total altruism and his belief in state's rights (even though the issue wasn't put up to the vote). Trump complied.
Of course fake conservative Fucks News, who mercilessly attacked Trump all during the campaign, now hail this as the greatest move any president has ever made. Of course, as all snakes and liars do, they have to couch their real motives behind what's good for the people whom they don't really know or care for:
"We don't want to lock people out [of the national park land]." Bullshit. No one is being locked out except the corporations, and corporations are only people in the same way that Soylent Green is people. "But the poor Indians had to go in on foot because the National Parks Service couldn't afford to build roads with their meager $12 billion budget!" So? They've been worshiping the land on foot for thousands of years. What's the problem? They can still take an ATV if they want. In fact, the Navajo Nation, along with conservation groups, are bringing this new executive order to court, so the Indians don't care about roads being built on the protected land.
"We don’t have to put further strain on federal land management budgets." Since when does Fucks News care about federal land management budgets? Just cut spending from something totally useless and give it to the parks service, or whoever manages the land. Nearly all of federal welfare spending ends up in the pockets of bureaucrats instead of going to the poor, so just redirect some of that money. Or cut defense spending by a tiny little bit. Just a few billion. The US will still spend twice as much as every other country combined, it will just be a little smaller.
"All of us will be the beneficiaries of this decision." In what sense will I personally benefit from this decision? I've never been to Utah. The culture of the people creeps me out and the salt air of the high desert can't be good for my health. I won't be making any money from these corporate multinational oil conglomerate jobs. I won't be driving my Land Rover over the newly made government roads to gather herbs and berries. In what sense will I benefit? And remember, if I don't benefit then ALL OF US don't benefit, only some of us, and those some already have half the money in the world. They don't need any more.
Staircase-Escalante National Monument will be reduced by 50 percent and Bear Ears National Monument will be reduced by a staggering 77-92 percent!
Governor of Utah Gary Herbert, who belongs to a crazy UFO cult started by a serial con artist, and may be collecting kickbacks from the big five multinational oil conglomerates who control trillions of dollars and are accountable to no jurisdiction, had "requested" President Trump to give the land over to his nice oil buddies out of total altruism and his belief in state's rights (even though the issue wasn't put up to the vote). Trump complied.
Of course fake conservative Fucks News, who mercilessly attacked Trump all during the campaign, now hail this as the greatest move any president has ever made. Of course, as all snakes and liars do, they have to couch their real motives behind what's good for the people whom they don't really know or care for:
Monument designations – particularly the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument – have been routinely abused in an effort to lock down resource-rich areas that do not meet objective criteria for preservation.Notice the loaded language: "otherwise unremarkable areas." Other than what? We know what, don't we. They are "resource-rich" and in need of "resource extraction." That says it all. That's all you need to know. Everything else is flannel. Trumpery, if you will. These lands "do not meet objective criteria for preservation" because they contain oil and other mineral resources. The land is "unremarkable" because your oil buddies want to drill in Teddy Roosevelt's head. These "high-paying resource extraction jobs" will "reduce US dependence on foreign imports" my ass. Most oil will still come from Canada. It's a red herring.
By unlocking these otherwise unremarkable areas, President Trump enables high-paying resource extraction jobs to return to rural communities – a process that not only helps local economic development, but reduces U.S. dependence on foreign imports.
Protecting our most beautiful places is important. But we don’t have to lock people out to do it. We don’t have to put further strain on federal land management budgets. We certainly don’t need to decimate rural economies. President Trump has done the right thing. All of us will be the beneficiaries of this decision.
"We don't want to lock people out [of the national park land]." Bullshit. No one is being locked out except the corporations, and corporations are only people in the same way that Soylent Green is people. "But the poor Indians had to go in on foot because the National Parks Service couldn't afford to build roads with their meager $12 billion budget!" So? They've been worshiping the land on foot for thousands of years. What's the problem? They can still take an ATV if they want. In fact, the Navajo Nation, along with conservation groups, are bringing this new executive order to court, so the Indians don't care about roads being built on the protected land.
"We don’t have to put further strain on federal land management budgets." Since when does Fucks News care about federal land management budgets? Just cut spending from something totally useless and give it to the parks service, or whoever manages the land. Nearly all of federal welfare spending ends up in the pockets of bureaucrats instead of going to the poor, so just redirect some of that money. Or cut defense spending by a tiny little bit. Just a few billion. The US will still spend twice as much as every other country combined, it will just be a little smaller.
"All of us will be the beneficiaries of this decision." In what sense will I personally benefit from this decision? I've never been to Utah. The culture of the people creeps me out and the salt air of the high desert can't be good for my health. I won't be making any money from these corporate multinational oil conglomerate jobs. I won't be driving my Land Rover over the newly made government roads to gather herbs and berries. In what sense will I benefit? And remember, if I don't benefit then ALL OF US don't benefit, only some of us, and those some already have half the money in the world. They don't need any more.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)