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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #195 on: January 26, 2017, 12:58:14 pm »
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Agelbert Note: The Fossil Fuel Industry Fascist POS POTUS STRIKES AGAIN!

Trump puts EPA's ethanol program on ice

By John Siciliano • 1/24/17 2:15 PM

SNIPPET:

The Environmental Protection Agency's renewable fuel program faces a temporary freeze as President Trump's regulatory chill kicks in this week.
 
The Trump administration will use that time to review the regulations and decide if any further action is warranted based on an executive order Trump signed after being sworn in as the 45th president on Friday, according to a notice that the EPA's acting administrator, Catherine McCabe, issued late Monday.
 
McCabe lists the fuel program among 30 regulations, issued from Oct. 28 to Jan. 17, that Trump has ordered the agency to freeze temporarily by delaying them all by one month.
 
"The temporary delay in effective dates until March 21, 2017, is necessary to give agency officials the opportunity for further review and consideration of new regulations," a pre-publication copy of the notice reads. The notice will be published in Thursday's Federal Register as a final rule.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-puts-epas-ethanol-program-on-ice/article/2612836


Ethanol was always a bad idea. My guess is Trump decides to let the conduit scheme continue, just because it makes sense to end it.

You are quite wrong about ethanol, Eddie. The only BAD idea, whitch was cleverly FOSTERED by the fossil fuel industry in cahoots with Big Ag, was making ethanol from CORN. I can give you chapter and verse on that (as I have done so in the past here) but it would probably do zip to convince you since you have swallowed the "food or fuel" propaganda from the fossil fuel industry.

RE appears to believe that falsehood too.

Ethanol was always a bad idea. My guess is Trump decides to let the conduit scheme continue, just because it makes sense to end it.

Feed people or feed carz?  Hmmmmm....

Every acre of land producing ethanol used in carz is one less acre of corn or sugar cane or beets to feed people.  It is a Zero Sum Game.

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At any rate, THAT is not the issue here; the ISSUE is the Trump Fascist Anti-science CRUSADE that you just avoided mentioning.

There is a LOT of Hidden History in this country that you refuse to acknowledge. Some of it comes out from time to time. I think it is time that you stop pretending what is in the history books is reality. And please spare me the ridicule of what people like me have lived with all their lives as a "conspiracy" theory. For you to ignore all this stuff because you are an, as you put it, "Old White Guy", is unprincipled. I urge you to be more open to facts which challenge your world view.

Here's an example of the TIP OF THE ROTTEN HISTORICAL ICEBERG you should pay more attention to:

AP/ January 26, 2017, 9:35 AM
Georgia police chief apologizing for agency's role in 1940 lynching

SNIPPET:
The unprecedented ceremony comes as the police profession across America wrestles with its tense relationship with the black community.

In 2015 the U.S. Department of Justice launched a program to build community trust with minorities. The program, which includes a reconciliation component, is in a pilot stage in six communities across the country, including Minneapolis and Birmingham.

And last fall the head of one of the largest police groups in the country, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, acknowledged and apologized for his profession’s historical mistreatment of minority communities. That came three years after a police chief in Montgomery apologized to Rep. John Lewis for his agency’s failure to protect Freedom Riders in 1961.

Dekmar is believed to be the first police chief in the South to apologize for his department’s role in the legacy of lynchings that claimed more than 4,000 black lives across the region between 1877 and 1950.

“It’s important for those agencies, those institutions that have been responsible for some very bad things that have never been acknowledged,” said David Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law who has studied racial profiling by police.

Police often played a role in lynchings across the region, even if they weren’t directly involved in carrying out the violence, said E.M. Beck, a University of Georgia sociology professor who is an expert in the history of lynching in America. Law enforcement routinely let lynch mobs take a person from their custody and after the person was killed there was often little effort to investigate or determine who carried out the violence.

He said he’s not familiar with another instance of a law enforcement chief going back into this history to admit the role their own agency played.

“It’s very significant,” said Beck. “There’s an acknowledgement that justice was not done.”

In Callaway’s case, little was known in LaGrange about the incident.

“A lot of this history of Austin was hidden,” said Ernest Ward, a local educator and president of the Troup County NAACP. “People didn’t want it to be told.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-police-chief-apologizing-1940-lynching/

Agelbert NOTE: The lynchings total is WAY OFF! Many lynchings were NOT even classified as "lynchings" (i.e. worse case of suicide ah ever did see  ), never mind the number of beatings and deaths where a rope wasn't used in the cities. The total EASILY exceeds 20,000 racist  murders. The convict lease program resulted in thousands of black deaths too. Carnegie got RICH from it! And YEAH, it was MOSTLY blacks that were worked to death. But, of course, they weren't 'lynched", eh? Too many white people in the USA WANT the TRUE RACIST HISTORY to REMAIN HIDDEN in Austin and EVERYWHERE ELSE!   

THEY ALSO want to PRETEND the POLICE are no longer "racist". 

THAT is a VERY CONVENIENT DENIAL OF THE PRESENT REALITY.   

NOW JUST WTF DO YOU THINK SESSIONS IS GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT U.S. Department of Justice program to build community trust with minorities?   

Yeah, I know; I'm just "too sensitive". 

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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #196 on: January 26, 2017, 05:42:11 pm »
 

Vermonters of good will are VERY ANGRY at Trump's latest RACIST empathy deficit disordered action.


Trump ready to close door on refugees bound for Rutland
Jan. 25, 2017, 6:33 pm by Adam Federman and Jasper Craven

Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program Director Amila Merdzanovic, left, and Stacie Blake, director of government and community relations at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, speak at a meeting in Rutland. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger


SNIPPET:

For members of Rutland Welcomes — a group that has organized to support Syrian refugee resettlement — the news of the president’s order was devastating.

“We’re really disappointed,” said Hunter Berryhill, a spokesperson for the group. Berryhill described the suspension of the program as “unjust, inhumane, shortsighted and heartless.”

Trump derives his power to unilaterally freeze immigration for broad blocs of people from section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. That law allows the president to curtail immigration of certain groups on various grounds, including national security and terrorism concerns.

https://vtdigger.org/2017/01/25/trump-ready-to-close-door-on-refugees-bound-for-rutland/


EXCELLENT COMMENT by Rob Williams!


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The one word solution to this federal/imperial overreach? NULLIFICATION.  The Vermont legislature can declare the Trump administration’s executive order to be “null and void” within the borders of our Green Mountains, and bring the Syrian refugees here as we have been planning to do for months. 

Both constitutional and historical precedent are on our side  see Vermont’s 1858 nullification of the Fugitive Slave Act as one example.

I hope our elected legislators will have the foresight and courage to consider this option.

Free Vermont, and long live the UNtied States!   

Agelbert NOTE: Please, spare me any babbling about Federal Law "pre-emption"  and a Republican Supine Supreme Court. In the case of Executive Orders, State Rights CAN override them LEGALLY (NO, the Civil War WAS NOT about State's Rights!). 


Here's another powerfully truthful comment:
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The military industrial complex dictates US foreign policy for profit. US foreign policy creates terrorists through regime change and illegal covert activities. Then US immigration policy bans victims of US aggression from seeking asylum. It’s no wonder the US is considered the greatest threat to world peace.

Yet the American people continue to be blind to the connection between our “strong military” and global instability.

Both major parties are to blame and so are the majority of the American people who continue to march blindly to the drumbeat of war.


Sadly, the bigots also commented with their typical doubletalk and closet racist comments disguised as, "We gotta take care of our own first" crocodile tears. Selfish, racist people always use duplicity to disguise their lack of compassion for fellow humans and other life forms in the biosphere.

I will post just one of these comments, which was countered by a Vermonter of good will.

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michael olcott 

a good person doesnt take food from their own to feed their neighbor when both are starving. im so glad that all who feel as you do and Mayor Chris Louras have managed to eliminate the homeless and all other poverty related issues down there,oh wait we need to take care of our own people first before we bring others that would consume our resources.


Richard M Roderick 

I don’t think resources are being diverted. The United States, Vermont and Rutland have the ability to take care of the number of refugees that are coming and take care of our own citizens. It often just lacks the political will. We are a country of immigrants.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #197 on: January 26, 2017, 06:07:26 pm »

Jan. 26, 2017, 5:31 am

Burlington police use of force data shows racial disparities

by Morgan True

SNIPPET:

BURLINGTON — Seven years of data released this week by the Burlington Police Department shows persistent racial disparities in the use of force by its officers.

Overall, the data shows that use of force incidents, which police define as everything from verbal commands to firing their gun at someone, have decreased in the last seven years, despite an increase in police responses and arrests.

People of color account for 23 percent of police interactions where force was used but they are only 13 percent of the population — based on 2010 U.S. Census figures — according to presentation by Eric Fowler, a crime analyst for the department.

When the sample is limited to just people who were arrested, and not the population as a whole, people of color are still overrepresented, Fowler said, but only by a margin of 2 percent instead of 10 percent.

People of color are also 37 percent more likely to have a gun pointed at them than a white person, even though they are less likely to actively resist an officer, the data shows.

https://vtdigger.org/2017/01/26/burlington-police-use-force-data-shows-racial-disparities/

Agelbert NOTE: All the above progress for equal treatment will come to a screetching halt under a Racist Bigot Sessions DOJ  AND go in the OTHER DIRECTION. 
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #198 on: January 27, 2017, 11:49:39 pm »
Statue of Liberty Weeps: President Targets Mexicans, Muslims

Thursday, 26 January 2017, 1:20 pm
Press Release: Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect 

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WEEPS AS PRESIDENT TRUMP TARGETS MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS

Statement of Steven Goldstein, Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, the U.S. civil and human rights organization among Anne Frank organizations worldwide:

As President Trump prepares orders to wall out Mexicans and shut out refugees from America, today marks one of the most hateful days in our nation's history. Donald Trump is retracting the promise of American freedom to an extent we have not seen from a President since Franklin Roosevelt forced Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II. Today the Statue of Liberty weeps over President Trump's discrimination.

President Trump is beyond the wrong side of history. He is driving our nation off a moral cliff.

When President Trump uses national security as a guise for racism, he doesn't strengthen our national security. He compromises our national security by engendering disrespect for America by people around the world.

Make no mistake, suspending visas for citizens of Middle Eastern and African countries is not called national security. It's called prejudice.

President Trump is now exacerbating the largest global refugee crisis in history. His slamming America's doors on the starving, the wounded and the abused is a grotesque blot on our nation's history of freedom. The President's actions are an embarrassment to the timeless vision of America as inscribed by Emma Lazarus to "give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

Demonizing refugees and immigrants, and spending billions of taxpayer dollars to keep them out of our nation, will go down in American history as one of the most tragic deviations from our national conscience.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1701/S00049/statue-of-liberty-weeps-president-targets-mexicans-muslims.htm


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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #199 on: January 28, 2017, 10:32:11 pm »
The woman responsible for Emmett Till's death admitted he did nothing to her 


By wagatwe   

Friday Jan 27, 2017 · 12:02 PM EST

SNIPPET:

If you have problems with high blood pressure, you might  want to do a few deep breaths before reading this. In a new book by Timothy Dyson titled The Blood of Emmett Till, the author reveals a bombshell fact about the case surrounding the 14-year-old boy’s murder in Mississippi: the woman made up the most damning parts of her testimony.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/27/1625973/-The-woman-responsible-for-Emmett-Till-s-death-admitted-he-did-nothing-to-her
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #200 on: February 10, 2017, 08:08:32 pm »


With Executive Order on Policing, Trump Declares Racialized War on Dissent

Flint Taylor, Truthout:

SNIPPET:

President Trump's recent executive order on policing can be read as an official authorization from one white supremacist (Steve Bannon) to another (Jeff Sessions) to pursue the most racist and reactionary criminal legal policies in recent memory.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39445-with-executive-order-on-policing-trump-declares-racialized-war-on-dissent
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #201 on: February 13, 2017, 09:45:31 pm »

John Pilger - Apartheid Did Not Die

Published on Nov 21, 2013

An analysis of South Africa's new, democratic regime.

 
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #202 on: February 15, 2017, 09:44:45 pm »
John Pilger - The Secret Country - The First Australians Fight Back [1985]

Published on Feb 24, 2013

1985. The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia.





Agelbert Comment: 1988 came and went. Has there been real progress? You be the Judge.


John Pilger - Welcome to Australia [1999]

Published on Feb 24, 2013

1999. An examination of the exclusion of Australia's Aborigines.


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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #203 on: February 19, 2017, 05:03:43 pm »

The Year in Hate and Extremism

2017   Spring Issue
 
February 15, 2017

SNIPPET of this lengthy, fact filled article:

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NEO-NAZI GROUPS

Aside from the rise of Andrew Anglin’s Daily Stormer site and its real-world “clubs” — new chapters that profited directly from the Trump phenomenon — the year on the neo-Nazi scene was marked by a number of attempts to build new coalitions among groups. Several of them, like the Coalition of Aryan Organizations and the United Aryan Front, collapsed almost as quickly as they appeared.

That left what was first called the Aryan Nationalist Alliance and then was rebranded as simply the Nationalist Front. The unity effort was spearheaded by Jeff Schoep, leader of the National Socialist Movement, Josh Steever of the Aryan Strikeforce, and Matthew Heimbach of the Traditionalist Worker Party.

The coalition peaked at 26 mostly tiny groups, but that had fallen by year’s end to 16, reflecting the perennial infighting that characterizes the neo-Nazi scene.

The “Unity Statement” of the Nationalist Front, which describes Schoep and Heimbach as its leaders, is a fairly typical neo-Nazi screed emphasizing hatred of “the globalists and the Jewish banking elites” and calling for the creation of an all-white homeland within the current United States. What is most interesting about it is that it essentially adopts the so-called “third position,” meaning that it opposes both communism and capitalism.       Using anti-imperialist and pro-worker language that sounds almost as if it came from the left, it describes its goal as an ethno-state based on “economic Social Nationalism” (national socialism, or Nazism, in reverse).

The document is reminiscent of the early days of the German Nazis, when the so-called Strasserites emphasized the “socialism” in national socialism. Later, the German Nazi Party completely changed course, allying with major capitalists. One Strasser brother was murdered, another fled, and the Strasserites were purged.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/year-hate-and-extremism


PLUTOCRATIC DYSTOPIA


Dystopia has consequences:

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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #204 on: February 20, 2017, 09:30:32 pm »
James Baldwin and the Meaning of Whiteness

Posted on Feb 19, 2017

By Chris Hedges

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/james_baldwin_and_the_meaning_of_whiteness_20170219


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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
« Reply #205 on: February 26, 2017, 04:31:53 pm »


The US Has Always Had Black Inventors -- Even When the Patent System Explicitly Excluded Them

Shontavia Johnson, The Conversation: One group of prolific innovators has been largely ignored by history: Black inventors born or forced into American slavery.

Though US patent law was created with colorblind language to foster innovation, the patent system consistently excluded these inventors from recognition.



http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39576-america-s-always-had-black-inventors-even-when-the-patent-system-explicitly-excluded-them
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« Reply #206 on: February 28, 2017, 03:56:07 pm »


Brazilian Indians parade and protest at Rio Carnival

27 February 2017

Raoni Kayapó and other indigenous leaders parade and protest at Rio Carnival © Rodrigo Gorosito/G1

Brazilian Indians paraded and protested at the renowned Rio Carnival, to raise global awareness of their land struggle and the serious threats they face.

17 indigenous leaders, including Kayapó leader Raoni Metuktire, paraded with the Imperatriz Leopoldinense samba school in its ensemble which focussed on the destruction of tribal territories in the Amazon rainforest.

The lyrics of the school’s songs expose the destruction Indians have faced since the colonization of Brazil, and criticize the ongoing theft of tribes’ land for the Belo Monte mega-dam and other projects.

The music has provoked outrage and anger among anti-indigenous politicians, and has led to racist comments by a TV presenter who said that Indians will “have to die of malaria.”


Brazilian Indians from the Xingu support the samba school's ensemble, Carnival 2017 © Imperatriz Leopoldinense

Indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara said at Carnival: “Thanks to the samba school for giving us another tool in our struggle, as we face powerful economic and political interests. Carnival can strengthen our fight.”

Attacks on indigenous peoples in Brazil are intensifying: Violence against their communities has increased, and Congress is debating several proposals which would drastically weaken indigenous peoples’ control of their lands. Tribal people and their allies, including Survival supporters around the world, are fighting the proposals.

Babau Tupinambá, an indigenous leader, said: “Indigenous peoples will not stop fighting for our rights. We will not stop fighting to exist.”

Around the world, industrialized societies subject tribal peoples to genocidal violence, slavery and racism so they can steal their lands, resources and labor in the name of “progress” and “civilization.” The theft of tribal land destroys self-sufficient peoples and their diverse ways of life. It causes disease, destitution and suicide. The evidence is indisputable.

http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11597
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"A Sermon to White America" (w/Guest Michael Eric Dyson)


Thom talks with Michael Eric Dyson (Professor of Sociology at Georgetown, Contributing Opinion Writer - The New York Times, and Author - Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America) about race relations in America, white privilege, and more. (Part 1)

http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/sermon-white-america-wguest-michael-eric-dyson
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... the Republican anti-information crusade is not limited to big ticket items that capture national attention, such as gun violence or climate change.

A little-known bill introduced last month by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) —  called the “Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017” —
would prohibit the use of federal funds “to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing.”

We don’t know what such a database would show but we also see no reason why there shouldn’t be one. Republicans obviously feel differently.


http://whowhatwhy.org/2017/02/12/republican-war-facts/

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Race is the biggest indicator in the US of whether you live near toxic waste

THIS LANDFILL IS YOUR LANDFILL 

Written by Zoë Schlanger

March 22, 2017

Go looking for the local landfill or toxic waste treatment facility in any US county with a mostly white population, and you’ll likely find it in the black or Latino neighborhoods. That’s because in the US, your race is the single biggest factor that determines whether you live near a hazardous waste facility.

In 2016, a study published in Environmental Research Letters found “a consistent pattern over a 30-year period of placing hazardous waste facilities in neighborhoods where poor people and people of color live.”

“In fact, places that are already disproportionately populated by minorities, and where their numbers are growing, have the best chances of being selected  ,” Paul Mohai, a professor and the founder of the environmental justice program at the University of Michigan who coauthored the paper, wrote in an email.

The paper followed decades of reports finding much the same: As reported by The Nation, in 1983 the Government Accountability Office found that black people made up the majority of communities near landfills, and a 2007 report, authored by a group of university-affiliated experts in environmental policy and published by the United Church of Christ, found that things had actually gotten worse since the 80s: “[M]any of our communities not only face the same problems they did back then, but now they face new ones because of government cutbacks in enforcement, weakening health protection, and dismantling the environmental justice regulatory apparatus.”

Any remaining environmental justice regulation in the US is likely to be further dismantled in the near future. The Trump administration’s proposed budget for the US Environmental Protection Agency would gut the agency’s environmental justice work by 78%, and likely cut into the EPA’s civil rights office‘s resources, which was set up to handle disparities in geographical distribution of pollution. Mustafa Ali, the head of the environmental justice program at the EPA, has already resigned.

It’s worth pointing out that the EPA’s civil rights office doesn’t exactly have a robust history of reform; the EPA denied 95% of civil rights claims they received since the mid-1990s. When the agency made a formal finding of discrimination on the day before Trump’s inauguration, it was just the second such finding in the office’s history—the first was a preliminary finding in 2011.

Now it appears the federal government will completely take itself out of the business of addressing environmental discrimination.

Living near a hazardous-waste landfill is not just a gross nuisance; it makes you sicker. Air pollution from these sites can lead to a range of health problems.

People of color in the US are also exposed to a 38% higher level of nitrogen dioxide, on average, than white people.
Nitrogen dioxide is pumped out of power plants and exhaust pipes on cars and trucks, and is linked to asthma, bronchitis, and a host of other respiratory problems. And when a power plant emits nitrogen dioxide, it likely also emits sulfur dioxide, another respiratory irritant.

Chronic respiratory diseases make daily life harder and shorten life spans
. Children are especially susceptible; air pollution exposure has been shown to cause cognitive delays in children, and when expecting mothers are subjected to air pollution, it increases their child’s risk for early birth and low birth weight, both of which risk for impaired brain development down the road.
Detroit is a good example for how the racial disparities in pollution exposure play out in America. Much of Detroit’s heavy industry—steel making, oil refining, and coal-fired power plantsis clustered in the majority-black neighborhoods in the southwest part of the city. In 2011, Mohai mapped Detroit’s public schools over air pollution data. He found 82% of black students went to schools in the most polluted parts of the city, while 44% of white students did. And the children in those pollution-exposed schools scored lower on standardized tests.

https://qz.com/939612/race-is-the-biggest-indicator-in-the-us-of-whether-you-live-near-toxic-waste/

Agelbert NOTE: Only a racist, privileged, clueless moron (e.g. a Trumper) would be surprised at the above, ESPECIALLY the irrefutable Mens Rea involved in selecting the LOCATION of past (and future) hazardous waste dumps and toxic industry infrastructure by BIGOTED Town council zoning boards ALL OVER THE USA.

The Trumpers would then immediately react, OF COURSE, by calling it "Soros backed fake news".  ::)
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

 

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