8/3 News Roundup & Open Thread
Liz Cheney blasts native tribes for “destroying our Western way of life.”
The GOP lawmaker is upset that the tribes successfully got grizzly bears placed back on the endangered species list https://t.co/kJyjHROa1F
— Sophia Tesfaye (@SophiaTesfaye) August 2, 2019
RIVERTON, Wyo. — On a momentous day for Tribal Nations, Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY), the House Republican Conference Chairwoman, stated that the successful litigation by tribes and environmentalists to return the grizzly bear in Greater Yellowstone to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) “was not based on science or facts” but motivated by plaintiffs “intent on destroying our Western way of life.”
One of the largest tribal-plaintiff alliances in recent memory prevailed in the landmark case, Crow Tribe et al v. Zinke last September, when US District Judge Dana Christensen ruled in favor of the tribes and environmental groups after finding that the Trump Administration’s US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) had failed to abide by the ESA and exceeded its authority in attempting to remove federal protections from the grizzly. Tuesday, USFWS officially returned federal protections to the grizzly.
How tone deaf can a person be? Tribal nations are “intent on destroying our” our? “Western way of life”?
“So, in striving to protect our culture, our religious and spiritual freedoms, our sovereignty and our treaty rights – all of which are encapsulated in the grizzly issue – we are ‘destroying’ Cheney’s idea of the ‘Western way of life’?” questioned Rodgers. “I would remind the Congresswoman that at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition an estimated 100,000 grizzly bears roamed from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. That was all Indian Country. Now there are fewer than 2,000 grizzly bears and our people live in Third World conditions on meager reservations in the poorest counties in the US. Does she really want to talk about ‘destroying’ a ‘way of life’?” asked Rodgers.
Uh oh, there’s that word ‘Halliburton’ we are all too familiar with. So is this really about grizzly bears? Or is it more about the Cheney family fronting for the oil and gas industry? I’m going with the latter.
Tribal Nations, including the Oglala Sioux Tribe which petitioned for a Congressional inquiry into the influence of multi-national fossil-fuel corporations on FWS’s grizzly delisting decision, previously exposed the role of extractive industry in the process. USFWS engaged multinational oil and gas services group, Amec Foster Wheeler, for the peer review of its grizzly delisting rule that tribes and environmental groups deconstructed in court. Amec Foster Wheeler appointed Halliburton executive Jonathan Lewis as CEO in the same timeframe as USFWS contracted the company.
I hope Rodgers is right!
“There’s more chance of her father receiving the Nobel Peace Prize than her Grizzly Bear State Management Act reaching the House floor,” said Rodgers of Cheney’s bill.
More news and analysis below.
Tip Jar for the seemingly growing power of Native Americans and they’re allying with environmentalists to use the courts to help wildlife, limit the reach of oil and gas companies, and preserve their lands and way of life.
The only people who do not benefit from such actions are those who would destroy our Earth for their own greedy profit.
One more quote (the whole piece is full of info):
The Presidential Front-Runners Flamed Out at Last Night’s Debate
Biden Wants to “Restore” This Country’s Soul. Sounds Strangely Like MAGA.
T and R, mags!! 🙂 Liz Cheney…..still another example of a FRightwing bad joke who never applied for a job in her life. Her criminal fruitcake Daddy “Bear” made sure of it. Bubonic Plague POX on the whole worthless bunch!
https://publicserviceforum.com
Thanks la58!
Bernie Sanders Dominates as Analyses of Fundraising Data Show Vermont Senator With Widespread Support Across Nation
Why in the world is information about donors giving $200 or less not available to the NYT?? It’s almost as though only big donors ‘matter’.
Under federal law, all contributions of more than $200 to federal candidates, PACs, or parties must be itemized and disclosed to the Federal Election Commission. Donors must report their name, address, employer and occupation, and these records are publicly available from the FEC and several other websites.
Ahhhhh, thank you jcitybone! One of those laws meant to root out shenanigans, but now being used to skew the donor results to the establishment’s ends.
i thought this waa as reported by ActBlue, and they didn’t show Contributions that people sent directly to the campaign, not through act blue.
That would be a much smaller group.
so if I want to give $750 to a candidate, it is 200,200,200 150
that also makes it 4 contributions!
yes. but does not count towards unique individual donations. i send multiple small donations. bad me.
Sanders, Warren top second-quarter fundraising among Democrats in Oklahoma
“information about donors giving $200 or less directly to a campaign is not available”
Matt Stoller continues his excellent econ work and political commentary
This is the first part of a thread. Maybe someone who knows how to get whole threads can get it
I can’t find that one yet Don! But I did find this:
Interesting how Biden’s so called “base” of donations is real close to DC- the land of corporate lobbyist’s
The knives are certainly out for Tulsi now!
This is a relatively old attack (from last March), but the writer retweeted it yesterday.
also advisers are Dennis Kucinich and Andrew Bacevich both of whom I respect (so far)
I watch the Met Opera at the theater and it is also funded by the Koch Brothers as well as other billionaires using charity to cover up their sins and in the mean time, shaping the charities
lots of bad stuff around conservative Catholics and of course the Koch brothers. But peace is important. Guess Kochs are not making enough money in military hardware, or some other wild ass guess.
CSS council of advisors
She is not experienced enough to be POTUS. The Koch connection is enough for me to skip her. Plus, she’s a devout pro-Modi Hindu supporter. No thanks!
Tulsi supporters are hard core.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if dems could win the whole show and follow through with this
All 83 Ethics Complaints Against Justice Brett Kavanaugh Have Been Dismissed For Good
Now the only way Kavanaugh could be investigated is if Congress decided to do something about it — and so far, lawmakers haven’t
Even his lies at confirmation hearing could lead to impeachment
Wouldn’t it be a great day if dems could impeach a bunch of judges
Won’t happen until Beijing Mitch is driven out of office.
Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash ‘could pay for green transition’
hope Bernie reads this.
have you no decency?
attack a teenage girl…
from a column in NYT – it is OK to have a diversity of views, but this shows a new level of trying to save the carbon economy
The Problem With Greta Thunberg’s Climate Activism
Her radical approach is at odds with democracy.
Juan Cole and others — climate emergency again and again and again
Be Afraid, Very Afraid: Greenland Ice Sheets Cascading into Ocean 50 Years Ahead of Schedule
do you recall the ads for clean coal?
or all the hype that natural gas is a clean fuel?
well
Stop It! Fracking Can’t be Done in a way that doesn’t Threaten Human Life
And indigenous people are in the way.
On our local low power leftist radio station, they put on a program called Nuclear Hot Seat.
Driving around since can’t get over the air unless in a car which serves as a good antenna, there was a program about radioactive waste in NM. On native land. A spill 40 years ago that has not been cleaned up completely, if ever. Denied for decades and people played in the area and at old mines. This is the first time I went to their web site and on top is the link for the program I heard.
Uranium Mining Disaster – Church Rock Uranium Tailings Pond Breach – 40th Anniversary SPECIAL, Pt. 2: Navajo Nation Elders & Activists Speak Out on Cancers, Contamination, Slow-Motion EPA Clean-up – NH #423
This looks like audio part 2.
Gaia is an actor that we denied representation for too long.