NDAA rider: Apache tribal lands to be given to Rio Tinto

[Winehole23]

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/12/08/san-carlos-apache-leader-seeks-senate-defeat-copper-mine-sacred-land-158181

[Winehole23]

petition here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-apache-land-grab/rnMfH0WL

[boutons_deux]

Obama has to veto NDAA with riders like this BigCorp shit.

[Wild Cobra]

http://www.mining-law-reform.info/congressional%20report.htm

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/113th-congress/house-report/167

[Winehole23]

http://www.mining-law-reform.info/co...l%20report.htm (http://www.mining-law-reform.info/congressional%20report.htm)did you find any good reasons for giving away public land to a foreign company @ the link, if it is in fact true that the lands in question are "sacred," but not strictly speaking tribally held?

[Wild Cobra]

did you find any good reasons for giving away public land to a foreign company @ the link, if it is in fact true that the lands in question are "sacred," but not strictly speaking tribally held?
I'm just adding to the information.

I am not OK with this unless it is the decision of the Indians, then it should also be their deal to negotiate.

[Winehole23]

Under a section entitled “Read the Bill” in the Pledge to America (http://pledge.gop.gov/resources/library/documents/pledge/a-pledge-to-america.pdf) that Republicans penned up in 2010, the GOP promised:



We will ensure that bills are debated and discussed in the public square by publishing the text online for at least three days before coming up for a vote in the House of Representatives. No more hiding legislative language from the minority party, opponents, and the public. Legislation should be understood by all interested parties before it is voted on.


Nevertheless, the 1,648-page NDAA (http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=926D63B6-5E50-49FC-99EF-A59B98825265) was voted on in the the GOP-majority House on Dec. 4, less than two days after the final text of the bill was posted online on Dec. 2 at 10:32 pm (http://docs.house.gov/floor/). The NDAA passed the House by a largely bipartisan vote of 300 to 119 (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll551.xml).
There were 32 Republicans who voted against the bill. Meanwhile, there were 194 Republicans who voted in favor of passing the NDAA. The Republican-controlled House required the help of 106 Democrats to pass the defense authorization act.



In the pledge, under a section titled, “Advance Legislative Issues One at a Time,” Republicans promised to “end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with ‘must-pass’ legislation to circumvent the will of the American people. Instead, we will advance major legislation one issue at a time.”



Yet, an unrelated public lands package that Sen. Ted Cruz (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/12/04/Land-Grab-Provisions-Attached-to-NDAA-Draw-Ire-From-Cruz-and-Coburn) (R-TX) called a “disservice to members of the Armed Forces” was attached to the NDAA, which is considered “must-pass” legislation.
According to Sen. Cruz, the “extreme land grab” provisions in the NDAA, include: “250,000 acres of new wilderness designations” and a “study to begin the National Women’s History Museum.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/12/07/House-Passage-of-NDAA-Violates-GOP-Pledge-to-America