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    EPA chief Pruitt had office swept for surveillance bugs

    The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had his office professionally examined earlier this year to look for covert surveillance devices.

    The EPA paid $3,000 in March to Edwin Steinmetz Associates to do a “sweep for covert/illegal surveillance devices” in Administrator Scott Pruitt’s office at the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters, do ents provided to The Hill show.


    The EPA source who provided the do ents on the condition of anonymity said the sweep, which came weeks after Pruitt’s arrival at the agency, did not uncover any bugs.


    Pruitt, Oklahoma's former attorney general, has taken a number of steps to guard his security and privacy in his time as EPA head.

    http://thehill.com/policy/energy-env...veillance-bugs



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    E.P.A. Contractor Has Spent Past Year Scouring the Agency for Anti-Trump Officials

    One of the top executives of a consulting firm that the Environmental Protection Agency has recently hired to help it with media affairs has spent the past year investigating agency employees who have been critical of the Trump administration, federal records show.

    The firm,
    Definers Public Affairs, based in Virginia, specializes in conducting opposition research, meaning that it seeks to find damaging information on political or corporate rivals.


    A vice president for the firm,
    Allan Blutstein, federal records show, has submitted at least 40 Freedom of Information Act requests to the E.P.A. since President Trump was sworn in. Many of those requests target employees known to be questioning management at the E.P.A. since Scott Pruitt, the agency’s administrator, was confirmed.

    he was taking aim at “resistance” figures in the federal government, adding that he hoped to discover whether they had done anything that might embarrass them or hurt their cause.

    The contract, which was awarded this month, is part of an unconventional news media operation that Mr. Pruitt has set up at the agency as he tries to get a handle on the coverage of him by newspapers, including The New York Times, and criticism by Democrats in Congress and environmental groups.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/us/politics/epa-scott-pruitt-foia.html



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    E.P.A. Employees Spoke Out. Then Came Scrutiny of Their Email.

    One Environmental Protection Agency employee spoke up at a private lunch held near the agency headquarters, saying she feared the nation might be headed toward an “environmental catastrophe.”

    Another staff member, from Seattle, sent a letter to Scott Pruitt, the E.P.A. administrator, raising similar concerns about the direction of the agency.

    A third, from Philadelphia, went to a rally where he protested against agency budget cuts.


    Three different agency employees, in different jobs, from three different cities, but each encountered a similar outcome:

    Federal records show that within a matter of days, requests were submitted for copies of emails written by them

    that mentioned either Mr. Pruitt or President Trump, or any communication with Democrats in Congress that might have been critical of the agency.


    The requests came from a Virginia-based lawyer working with America Rising, a Republican campaign research group that specializes in helping party candidates and conservative groups find damaging information on political rivals, and which, in this case, was looking for information that could undermine employees who had criticized the E.P.A.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/u...er=rss&emc=rss



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    White House taking down pe ion website, pledges to launch new one

    The “We The People” website, launched by then-President Obama in 2011, will be taken down on Tuesday at midnight,

    The Associated Press reported Monday.

    Officials told the AP that platform will be replaced with a new website in late January and that

    all of the existing pe ions will be restored at that time.

    The Trump administration has yet to respond to any pe ions that have exceeded 100,000 signatures,

    which necessitate a response from the federal government.

    Trump officials told the AP that the administration will begin responding to the pe ions once the new website is live.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365521-trump-admin-to-temporarily-take-down-pe ion-website



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    For the CRAPICATION record


    Scott Pruitt is paranoid, preposterous, and absolutely out of control




    The EPA doesn’t have the task of promoting oil and gas.

    It doesn’t have the task of promoting anything outside the U.S.

    And yet, Scott Pruitt and his team of personal guards just got back from sampling the couscous at an extended Moroccan vacation.

    The purpose of the trip sparked questions from environmental groups, Democratic lawmakers and some industry experts, who noted that

    EPA plays no formal role in overseeing natural gas exports.

    Such activities are overseen primarily by the Energy Department and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.


    Pruitt took along seven aides and an undisclosed number of staff from his protective detail.

    The group included four political aides, including Samantha Dravis, associate administrator of the Office of Policy, and senior advisers Sarah Greenwalt and Lincoln Ferguson, as well as one career official, Jane Nishida, principal deputy assistant administrator of the Office of International and Tribal Affairs.

    The “undisclosed number” of bodyguards could be as many as 30, since Pruitt just added 12 more.

    That’s another $2 million in salaries alone, before you add on training, equipping, and flying them to Morocco for all-you-can-eat pastilla. It’s not clear how many of Pruitt’s staff are employed as food tasters.


    Like all Pruitt events, the news about his Moroccan adventure was only made public after his return, because Pruitt refuses to publish his schedule in advance out of “security concerns.” And

    Pruitt got special permission to upgrade his flights to business class, at a cost of several thousand dollars per ticket, also out of “security concerns.”


    Meanwhile, back at home Pruitt has demonstrated his obsessive paranoia not just with his ever-growing staff of bodyguards, but with his determination to make sure no one ever overhears a word he says.

    The EPA paid $3,000 in March to Edwin Steinmetz Associates to do a “sweep for covert/illegal surveillance devices” in Administrator Scott Pruitt’s office at the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters, do ents provided to The Hill show.

    The bug sweeps are on top of Pruitt’s custom made cone-of-silence which allows him to talk without being overheard. None of which makes the least bit of sense. Scott Pruitt is not only a public servant, he’s a public servant with a very domestic agenda.

    No other EPA official has ever felt any compulsion to ask for any of this. Just what is Pruitt hiding?

    What possible justification can the man in charge of enforcing the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act at an agency where there is almost no classified information have for putting in something literally called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility?

    Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is known for mandating note-free meetings,

    he's the only administrator to have requested his 24/7 own security detail and

    now he's about to have his own sound-proof booth.


    The EPA is spending close to $25,000 to construct a secure space for Pruitt within the agency, according to government contracting records first obtained and reported by the Washington Post.

    Scott Pruitt is doing … something.

    Something that requires that no one take notes.

    Something that requires that his office be swept for bugs.

    Something that requires he have a sound-proof booth in his office.

    And that’s just the start.

    Mr. Pruitt, according to the employees, who requested anonymity out of fear of losing their jobs,

    often makes important phone calls from other offices rather than use the phone in his office,

    and he is accompanied, even at E.P.A. headquarters, by armed guards, the first head of the agency to ever request round-the-clock security.

    These are precautions aren’t just unusual. They are insane. No EPA chief has ever had anything like these requirements.

    No president has ever had anything like these requirements.

    No director of the CIA has anything like these requirements.


    To support his continually expanding ranks of personal guards,

    Pruitt ignored a hiring freeze and budgetary limits,

    even though the enforcement budget of the EPA was being severely cut and scientists were being forced out.

    If you’re wondering, Pruitt’s personal security now costs about 63 percent as much as it costs to guard the Pope—and one of the two is working to cut that cost.


    This isn’t caution. If Republicans are genuinely concerned that someone in Washington is planning a coup, the guy who is

    obsessed with secrecy,

    meeting with foreign leaders for no apparent reason, and

    building a personal army might be a place to start.


    If you’re wondering about those other folks we know went to Morocco, ... and Jane Nishida actually has some environmental experience

    (including working for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, which Pruitt and Trump defunded).

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre


    ... and obviously, Trash and Repugs don't care WTF Pruitt is doing, as long as screws America and the environment as the Environmental Pollution Agency



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    Scott Pruitt admits new Superfund site rules were pulled entirely from his posterior

    Among Pruitt’s paranoid quirks is ordering that no minutes be kept of his meetings and banning the use of recording devices on an entire floor of the EPA. Which might help to explain this catastrophe.

    The Environmental Protection Agency says an internal task force appointed to revamp how the nation’s most polluted sites are cleaned up generated no record of its deliberations.

    That’s right. An eight-month effort to deal with the worst environmental sites in the nation has produced … nothing. Except that’s not quite true. It only took a couple of weeks for that task force to produce a set of recommendations.

    The task force in June issued a nearly three-dozen page report containing 42 detailed recommendations, all of which Pruitt immediately adopted.

    It’s just when it comes to backing up those recommendations with any sort of do entation that the task force responds with a shrug. After receiving a FOIA request for do ents used in developing those “immediately adopted” recommendations, the EPA had this to say:

    … a lawyer for EPA has written PEER to say that the task force had no agenda for its meetings, kept no minutes and used no reference materials.

    Congratulations to Pruitt’s team for admitting they pulled this plan right out of their collective asses.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1726210




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    Did the Wall Street Journal kill an editorial exposing Trump’s mob dealings?

    Rupert Murdoch’s loyalties to Trump, and the journalistic integrity of the WSJ, starts to blur

    Freeman wrote a strong attack on Trump’s Mob dealings, and had a second ready to go.

    But as Trump got closer to clinching the nomination, Paul Gigot kept delaying publication, saying “it needed work.”

    Once Trump became the likely Republican nominee, Freeman executed a neat volte-face.

    “The facts suggest that Mrs. Clinton is more likely to abuse liberties than Mr. Trump,” he wrote.

    “America managed to survive Mr. Clinton’s two terms, so it can stand the far less vulgar Mr. Trump.”

    Some commentators, such as conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, believe the Journal’s editorial page toes the ideological line of House Speaker Paul Ryan.

    Likewise, the Journal's writers tend to bite their proverbial tongue when it comes to criticizing Trump — at least since he became president.

    Recently, WSJ published an editorial questioning Robert Mueller’s “credibility” and suggested that he should resign from leading the Russia investigation.

    Rupert Murdoch, who owns both WSJ and Fox News, is a friend of the president, and reportedly advises Trump daily.

    “The president speaks to Murdoch now almost every day.

    And Murdoch speaks with Jared Kushner as well. Murdoch is one of the people who urges the president to stay focused on the economy narrowly and foreign policy more broadly,”


    https://www.salon.com/2017/12/20/did...-mob-dealings/

    Clearly Mort has Fox News sucking off Trash at every turn.



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    Betsy DeVos announces less relief for defrauded student loan borrowers

    Students ripped off by for-profit college loan programs may face a painful lesson in the workings of government thanks to the federal Education Department’s decision to change the rules about forgiving their debt.

    Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Wednesday that the department is altering the Obama Administration’s promise of completely erasing loans taken out by students defrauded by the Corinthian Colleges chain.

    DeVos said under the new standards, forgiveness will now be tied to students’ income as a way of measuring whether they did enjoy some benefit from their educations—even if they were deceived about the worth of their diplomas.


    "No fraud is acceptable, and students deserve relief if the school they attended acted dishonestly,” DeVos said

    “This improved process will allow claims to be adjudicated quickly and harmed students to be treated fairly,” ;lol

    an affected student making 70 percent of a peer's income would get just 30 percent loan relief.

    it's wrong to hold students responsible for loans when
    they were duped by the for-profit enterprises about job-placement rates and should be freed of their debt.

    "It is unlawful for @usedgov to collect Corinthian debt it already determined was fraudulent. #4profit borrowers deserve justice,

    Higher Ed, Not Debt@HigherEdNotDebt


    This morning, borrowers filed a nation-wide class action against @usedgov for illegally and unfairly denying relief to thousands of former Corinthian students who the Department already decided are en led to have loans discharged and payments refunded. https://buff.ly/2BdhfoM
    2:16 PM - Dec 20, 2017

    Those who stand to see less than full forgiveness are students who applied for refunds after President Donald Trump took office on January 20, according to the
    Associated Press,

    while those who had claims approved in full under the Obama administration will receive their money.



    So far, DOE officials say the agency has approved 12,900 claims submitted by former Corinthian students and denied 8,600.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/bet...oan-borrowers/

    An unending " all y'all to " from avaricious Repug kakistocracy to Americans. Repugs gotta Americans to enrich the oligarchy.


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    Just wait until Ryan pays Medicaid in block grants to the states to see the Repugs usinh the grants a political slush funds and letting poor people suffer and die without adequate care. God doesn't love the poor according to so-called Christians, so Repugs are justified in ing them over.

    Growing number of US hospitals can’t treat kids

    A growing number of children who show up in US emergency rooms can’t get the treatment they need at their local hospital and need to be transferred elsewhere for care, a new study suggests.

    Overall, in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and New York—four of the most populous US states—pediatric transfers surged 25%: from roughly 64,000 in 2006 to close to 80,000 in 2011,

    “When kids are taken to their local hospital’s emergency department, they are increasingly likely to be transferred to more distant referral centers for care they used to be able to get at home,” McManus said by email.

    “We now know that pretty much the same thing is happening across the country.”

    https://www.mdlinx.com/urology/medic...rooms/7498537/

    The most expensive, inefficient, for-profit health care in the world s over citizens.


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    You know the drill. President Donald Trump’s ongoing crusade against regulations reportedly includes changes to offshore oil exploration safeguards.

    Enacted after the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico environmental disaster, the federal rules said to be on the chopping block include required third-party inspections of critical equipment and regulator access to real-time production data.

    The Interior Department,

    which enforces exploration rules,

    might also delete the word “safe” from certain regulations for its ambiguity.

    If made, the changes could save oil companies an estimated $900 million per year.

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    US should prepare for a ‘big-ass’ war, general warns



    Marines stationed in Norway should be prepared for a “big-ass fight” with a foreign adversary, perhaps Russia,

    a four-star general said during a Christmas visit.

    "I hope I'm wrong,

    but there's a war coming,"

    Robert Neller, a four-star who currently serves as the 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps, told the Marines in Trondheim, Norway.

    "You're in a fight here, an informational fight, a political fight, by your presence."

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/us-...e+Raw+Story%29

    Apart from the career-padding, medal-chasing Generals loving wars (Generals don't get killed, only cannon fodder is killed, having been stupid enough to enlist for "freedom and American vales"), MIC profiteering, bloodthirsty neocon imperialists, what's the point of this war?



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    ‘It was the Lord’: Megyn Kelly says God can help black men forgive dirty cops who lie to put them in jail




    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/it-...-them-in-jail/

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    Trash’s Five Biggest Energy Blunders in 2017


    Forsaking global leadership

    Propping up coal

    Energy Secretary Rick Perry submitted a notice of proposed rulemaking that would essentially subsidize power plants that can stockpile more than 90 days’ worth of fuel on site—which was another way of saying coal and nuclear plants.

    Vehicle mileage standards


    China, France, and Britain take steps to outlaw combustion-engine vehicles altogether in the decades ahead, the Trump administration is trying to roll back fuel economy standards.

    Clean Power Plan

    Defunding energy research

    The White House’s fiscal 2018 budget proposal slashed research funding for the Department of Energy by more than $3 billion and eliminated the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, the department’s moonshot energy investment arm

    https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609631/trumps-five-biggest-energy-blunders-in-2017/




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    Five Things to Know About the Recently Changed Migratory Bird Act

    A new rule prevents industry from being prosecuted for killing birds under the 100-year-old conservation law




    Late last week, the Interior Department issued a legal memorandum ruling that

    businesses which accidentally kill nongame migratory birds during their operations are not in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.


    The opinion is a reversal of the policies of previous administrations that sometimes prosecuted industries for accidentally killing or failing to safeguard migratory birds in their operations, reports Jennifer A. Dlouhy at Bloomberg.

    Whatever your opinion on the current change, there’s no debating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act has made a huge impact on birds in North America.

    Here are five things to know about the embattled statute:

    Hats Made the Law Necessary

    The Scope of Enforcement Changed in the 1970s

    Wind Farms Have Been Fined Too

    The Law Has Screwed Up Your Favorite Movies

    The Treaty Still Makes Children Outlaws

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...E4MzI4MjQ0OQS2

    Another HUGE problem for BigCorp that Zinke was paid to solve



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    The Repug kakistocracy running Dept of Labor will certainly not fight for workers' stolen wages.

    Workers won back $2 billion in 2015 and 2016, but that's just the tip of the wage theft iceberg

    a recent Economic Policy Ins ute paper shows, and we know that most workers never get back what they’re owed.


    • In 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor recovered $246.8 million for 240,340 workers, and in 2016 the number was $266.6 million for 283,677 workers.
    • In 2015, state departments of labor and attorneys general recovered $170 million, and $147.5 million in 2016. That’s $317.5 million over two years, but here’s the thing: that’s only 39 states.
    • Class actions also got back a lot of money for workers: “The top 10 wage and hour class action settlements in 2015 totaled $463.6 million; in 2016, they totaled $695.5 million, for a total of $1.2 billion over both years (Seyfarth Shaw LLP 2017).”


    Cooper and Kroeger (2017) find that workers suffering minimum wage violations are cheated out of $64 a week—$3,300 annually for year-round workers.

    These workers lose almost one-quarter of their earnings, receiving on average only $10,500 in annual wages instead of the $13,800 they should have received.

    Furthermore, Cooper and Kroeger find that while minimum wage violations affect workers broadly across demographic categories,

    disproportionate shares of wage theft victims are people of color, women, immigrants, young people, workers from modest-income households, nonunionized workers, and workers who have do not have a bachelor’s degree.

    And $3,300 a year is real money, especially if you’re making less than $20,000 to begin with.

    If one of those workers stole $3,300 from their boss, it would be considered a crime worth some prison time.

    But when the boss steals a half hour’s pay at a time every day and every week, he probably gets away with it, and if he doesn’t, he usually just has to pay what he stole.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1724361

    Just another way America is ed and un able.



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    Closure of US coal study marks an alarming precedent

    The Trump administration has stepped up its assault on environmental protections by halting a US$1-million study on the health risks of coal mining — casting a pall on academic freedom.

    three days before the NASEM committee working on the study was due to meet in a Kentucky mining town, the DOI ordered a stop to the study, with immediate effect.

    The agency says it is reviewing spending on all projects that cost more than $100,000.

    “The Trump administration is dedicated to responsibly using taxpayer dollars in a way that advances the department’s mission and fulfils the roles mandated by Congress,”

    DOI spokeswoman Heather Swift said in a statement to Nature.

    She did not respond to questions about which other projects are under review.

    http://www.nature.com/news/closure-of-us-coal-study-marks-an-alarming-precedent-1.22512

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    Halt Ordered on Study of Health Threat From Surface Mines

    Federal mining regulators have told the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to halt their study of the health risks for people living near Central Appalachia surface coal mines.

    The Interior Department's Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, which announced last year it was funding the $1 million study, said in an Aug. 18 letter that the department has begun

    reviewing grants over $100,000 largely
    for budget reasons.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...-surface-mines

    How mountaintop mining affects life and landscape in West Virginia


    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mountaintop-mining-affects-life-landscape-west-virginia



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    Trump Reportedly Terminated All Members Of HIV/AIDS Council Without Explanation

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0b0e5a7a5ffb5

    Trash pandering to the so-Christian Taliban haters of LGBTQ with Bible-humping Christian Sharia.



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    AL Racist Jeff Sessions Takes a Stand for Debtors' Prisons

    A wave of attention spurred the Justice Department to address debtors' prisons in 2016, but things could change for the worst.

    Sessions, on the other hand, decided just before Christmas to rescind a guidance meant to protect low-income Americans.

    The 2016 guidance, issued by former President Obama’s Justice Department, urged state and local courts nationwide to abide by cons utional principles prohibiting the jailing of poor people who cannot afford to pay court fines and fees.

    Jeff Sessions’ action makes clear that he and his Justice Department are unconcerned by courts trampling on the rights of poor people.

    https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/jeff-sessions-takes-stand-debtors-prisons

    Racist Sessions knows many of those poor people in debtors' prisons are black, and for him, the only good knitter is dead or jailed knitter.


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    Trump revives plan to separate immigrant children from parents — a tactic used by Nazi Germany



    the guise of stopping illegal immigration from Central America

    he Department of Homeland Security is evaluating separating detained children from their parents as one of several anti-immigration measures in response to an increase in migrants crossing the Mexican border.

    “These measures, described on condition of anonymity because they have not been publicly disclosed, would also crack down on migrants living in the United States illegally who send for their children,” Miroff wrote.

    “That aspect of the effort would use data collected by the Department of Health and Human Services to target parents for deportation after they attempt to regain custody of their children from government shelters.”


    “The most contentious proposal—to separate families in detention—would keep adults in federal custody while sending their children to HHS shelters,”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/tru...e+Raw+Story%29



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    Trash/Repug base in OH, emboldened to go public by Trash's blatant racism.

    Mother wants teacher removed for telling black son he might be lynched for not focusing

    https://www.yahoo.com/gma/mother-wan...opstories.html

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    More racism from racist OH

    Ohio coach insists player’s ‘coon’ jersey isn’t racist — and demands refund after team banned

    An Ohio youth basketball coach shocked recreation league officials with his reaction to his team getting banned for wearing racist jerseys.

    Emails obtained by the newspaper show

    “Wet Dream Team”
    coach Walt Gill

    was unhappy with the league’s handling of the decision and asked for a partial refund of fees paid by teen players and their families.

    players wore racist words like “Knee Grow” and “Coon”

    instead of their names on the back of their jerseys.

    racially charged language was just a variation on the players’ surnames,

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/ohio-coach-insists-players-coon-jersey-isnt-racist-and-demands-refund-after-team-banned/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29




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    How a Chilean billionaire could poison a Minnesota wilderness

    And how a tiny D.C. real estate investment put him in touch with the Trump family

    Trump’s Interior Department is reinstating two 1966 leases, written before today’s federal environmental laws, that could allow a Chilean mining company to build a giant copper-and-nickel mine adjacent to the Boundary Waters wilderness area in northern Minnesota.

    The mining company is controlled by Andrónico Luksic, whose family controls a mining, banking and industrial empire that Forbes estimates is valued at $13.1 billion. Luksic also dabbles in Washington, D.C., residential real estate and has a business relationshipwith the Trump family.

    He is First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner’s and First Daughter Ivanka Trump’s landlord.

    The Boundary Waters is a 1.1 million-acre wilderness beloved by canoeists and hikers in the Superior National Forest along Minnesota’s border with Canada. Mining in the area could result in acid damage that can last for centuries.

    There’s a reason that the Boundary Waters is one of the most visited wilderness areas in America: It’s an incredible place,”

    https://www.salon.com/2018/01/14/how...rness_partner/


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    Cotton’s Office Confirms Cease And Desists ‘Under Extreme Cir stances’

    Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) office sent cease and desist letters to cons uents, demanding that

    they stop any communications with the senator’s office,

    Cotton’s office explained that it does send such letters.

    Cotton’s office only sent the cease and desist letter to one cons uent, and that the cons uent called an intern a “ .”

    1. This went out to a single cons uent, not a group.
    2. That cons uent called a 19 year old intern a cunr.
    3. Cons uent had multiple warnings.
    4. Letter went out in October.
    5. We have a very different understanding of “BREAKING” https://t.co/SHlFEII7hp

    — John Noonan (@noonanjo) January 18, 2018

    update: tone was threatening, no threats made. But c-word invoked.
    — John Noonan (@noonanjo) January 18, 2018

    Activists with Ozark Indivisible published a tweet Wednesday night revealing what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from Cotton’s office.

    The exact recipient of the letter and the cir stances leading up to the letter are unclear.

    #TraitorTommy @TomCottonAR scared of his cons uents calling so he’s sending out cease and desist letters. You’re too to lead CIA if you can’t even listen to cons uents! #arpx pic.twitter.com/N1HAGCmbW6
    — Ozark Indivisible (@OZRKIndivisible) January 18, 2018

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...desist-letters

    And if one tons targets doesn't "cease and desist"?

    If Rexxon Tillerson gets scalpled, and Pompeo moves to State, Cotton is rumored to move to CIA.

    Cotton VERY BADLY wants war with Iran. (his LIES will be PRECEDENT-ed by Repug lies in 2002/03 about Iraq)



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