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Image is from this article on the excellent Canadian environmental journalism outlet, The Narwhal.


The Giant Mine just outside of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada is one of the country's largest recognized environmental liabilities. The mine's 100 plus year history illustrates the continuity between resource colonialism in the late 19th/early 20th century and neoliberalism at the turn of the millennium.

There were several gold rushes in northern Canada/US in the late 19th century, such as the Klondike. The Giant gold strike on was first discovered by settlers about the same time as the Klondike, but as Giant is on Great Slave Lake (named for an Anglicization of the name of local peoples, not after slavery) instead of the Pacific Ocean, it is much less accessible and didn't take off like the Klondike. Parallel with displacement of local Yellowknives Dene people https://ykdene.com/, the town of Yellowknife sprung up around small mining operations through the 30s. It wasn't until after WW2 that the mine was developed at a large scale. Starting operation in 1948, Giant was owned by a Canadian mining conglomerate through the 80s, then some Australians, and for the last ten years of its operating life, by Americans, who went bankrupt and abandoned the property in 1999. The Canadian federal government is responsible for the site and its remediation now, similar to the way the EPA has Superfund sites in the USA.

The project is infamous for poisoning the people and environment of the surrounding area through arsenic poisoning. The ore at giant is arsenopyrite, an arsenic sulphide mineral that often contains gold. Roasting it in large furnaces or kilns releases the gold as well as fine arsenic trioxide dust. The most infamous arsenic poisoning incident was in 1951 when a Yellowknives Dene toddler in died after eating contaminated snow in the fallout area, 2 kilometers from the processing mill's smokestack. Over the years, improvements to the mill reduced the amount of toxic dust released to the environment. This is better than blasting it into the air wildly, but meant that the site accumulated hundreds of thousands of tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust that they chucked in empty mine workings underground. Unfortunately, arsenic trioxide dissolves in water as easily as sugar and so represents a tremendous risk to groundwater and waterbodies nearby, like Great Slave Lake and Yellowknife's water supply.

Arsenic issues contributed to labour disputes as well. In 1991 the union workers of the plant went on strike, refusing management's demand to reduce their salary and wanting better safety measures for workers . The company brought in Pinkertons and strikebreakers, backed by RCMP thugs. The situation escalated, culminating in a bomb planted on a train track deep in the mine. When it was triggered, it killed 6 scabs and 3 Pinkertons. For the next year, the RCMP interrogated mine workers, their family and community without determining who did it, supporting the company in their refusal to sign a new contract until an arrest was made. Finally a worker named Roger Warren confessed to doing it alone and was sentenced to life in prison. He was released in 2014 and died in 2017.

Since 1999, the site has been the responsibility of the Canadian federal government and is being every so gradually remediated. Operated through what are effectively private-public partnership contracts, environmental engineering companies are attempting to clean up and isolate the huge amounts of arsenic trioxide dust. The concept is move the dust into specially ventilated chambers of the underground mine, where it is frozen in place and thus prevented from leaching into groundwater. Active remediation is supposed to be finished in about 15 years at a cost of $1 billion CAD, but will surely take longer and cost more than this. Also, freezing material in place will definitely work because the climate isn't changing, and the Canadian north is definitely not seeing extreme levels of temperature rise.

After active works are complete, the site will require perpetual care.


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Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

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https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[-] SubstantialNothingness@hexbear.net 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Apparently the FBI foiled a right-winger looking to take out a power station in Tennessee.

https://archive.ph/YcmoA

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 77 points 2 days ago

This bears repeating: Western states cannot sustain support for Israel's carnage in Gaza unless they compromise democracy and the rights of their citizens.

Here's Prof. Haim Bresheeth, a child of Holocaust survivors, getting arrested in the UK for speaking against Israel's war.

Arrested under the terrorism act btw

https://nitter.poast.org/tparsi/status/1853624055812817154

Modern Zionists think Holocaust survivors are losers, just not as loseful (losted? loust?) as Holocausted unalivers

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 89 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

An American soldier has died in Israel. US military won't say how he was killed other than that it was non-combat related, which sure is interesting.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 68 points 1 day ago

Wow, so he died setting up a humanitarian aid pier?. That pier was used for humanitarian aid? Lots of humanitarian aid passed through that pier. HUMANITARIAN PIER!

No mention that that pier was used for that hostage rescue where 200+ Palestinians were murdered though when that the pier fulfilled its true purpose.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

No mention that that pier was used for that hostage rescue where 200+ Palestinians were murdered though when that the pier fulfilled its true purpose.

And they immediately ceased using it afterwards.

[-] Maturin@hexbear.net 70 points 2 days ago
[-] Bnova@hexbear.net 50 points 2 days ago

This always gets me.

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Bleeding out from bullet wounds technically isn't combat. Especially as they are likely friendly fire

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 60 points 2 days ago

did they get his cum in time?

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

Community note: He's not jewish, so this joke is incorrect :nerd:

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago

What if they jacked his corpse out of habit and then realized their mistake only after turning in the cum to the cum bank?

[-] NPa@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Israeli Tom Cruise rappelling down from the ceiling of the Cum Vault to retrieve the American sperm before it's discovered and potentially corrupting the sacred gene pool.

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago

They claim his injury was non-combat related. He died in what sounds like a long-term acute care hospital.

[-] scarcity_of_the_self@hexbear.net 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

US contamination news, perhaps someone should maintain a column on that here, we have surely missed some delicious muckraking

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use any drugs made by a compounding pharmacy in California after regulators realized the pharmacy was making drugs that need to be sterile—particularly injectable drugs—without using sterile ingredients or any sterilization steps. The products made by the pharmacy, Fullerton Wellness LLC, in Ontario, California, include semaglutide, which is intended to mimic brand-name weight-loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. Fullerton also made tirzepatide, which is intended to mimic weight-loss and diabetes drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro. The FDA became aware of the problem after a patient submitted a complaint to the regulator that a vial of semaglutide from Fullerton Wellness had an unidentified "black particulate" floating in it. Semaglutide, like tirzepatide, is injected under the skin and is intended to be sterile.

Source is Conde Nasty's AssTechnica

[-] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

actually yelled out loud at this part

The FDA became aware of the problem after a patient submitted a complaint to the regulator that a vial of semaglutide from Fullerton Wellness had an unidentified "black particulate" floating in it. Semaglutide, like tirzepatide, is injected under the skin and is intended to be sterile.

everyone is having to inject themselves for this new weight-loss fad?!? and omfg a bunch of these patients did it with nonsterile materials

jesse-wtf

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

It's not an IV injection but similar to insulin

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

It's subcutaneous: you inject it into the fat layer in-between your skin and muscles.

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago

Spanish-speaking newsheads, how terrible is AOC's Spanish? I've noticed the subtitles are in Spanish, which means her Spanish is probably not that good lol:
https://xcancel.com/AOC/status/1853294592818303174

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

I don't speak Spanish so no idea, but I would assume the subtitles are for people who are hearing impaired.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

It’s the accent. Very American and makes words sound funny. Also seems to have Americanized English grammar in it as well. I joke about it being terrible but it’s understandable, just sounds funny

It's not so much that her Spanish is fake, it's that she is fake.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not gonna rag on her too much for her accent because its probably close to what I sound like when I'm talking to strangers in Spanish side-eye-1

I can tell she's probably trying hard to annunciate everything to sound as clear as possible. I do the same thing and as a 1st gen. Am*rican I get it. I do wonder what she'd sound like in a less formal setting though. That's where you could probably tell a bit more about how close she is to the language. I usually get a bit looser with my pronunciation and speak closer to the localized Spanish that my parents speak.

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

as a portuguese speaker she sounds pretty good, which probably means she sounds terrible

[-] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There’s obvious influences in her accent and prosody that give her away as a heritage speaker whose dominant language is English, but she speaks Spanish clearly. I’m curious if her speaking skills would break down if she were speaking off the cuff instead of giving a scripted rehearsal though

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 72 points 2 days ago

https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1853484155834679509

⚡️|🇵🇸 MUST WATCH: The Al-Qassam Brigades published a magnificent footage showing the total destruction of a Merkava tank with a powerful explosive device, in the Qasasib neighborhood, Jabalia.

4 Israeli soldiers were observed getting into the tank, they were all killed.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

It's fascinating how they're repurposing so much tech, such as the backing-up camera from a vehicle as a surveillance camera.

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[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 59 points 2 days ago

Regarding the Lebanese man that the zionists kidnapped with the assistance of the German "peacekeeping forces" last week.

Dr Marwa Osman, South Lebanese journalist (telegram)

The Amhaz family clarifies the identity of their kidnapped son by Zionist Israeli enemy forces.

The father of Lebanese citizen Imad Fadel Amhaz, who was abducted in Batroun, wrote: “My son is a civilian maritime captain, currently attending a course at the Mersati Institute of Maritime Sciences in Batroun. This is not his first course there—he has taken several at the same institute since 2013. He usually works on civilian ships transporting either livestock or vehicles and spends most of his time at sea. He has no affiliation with any political parties and does not engage in politics. As for the reports circulating in the media about multiple SIM cards found with him, he purchases a SIM card in each country he reaches to stay in touch with his wife, children, and mother. He is a father of three.”

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Is anyone worse at posting than Washington DC? I just can't stand it. Same shit about urging Iran not to respond again. No points for guessing where this leads.

https://en.irna.ir/news/85649897/US-urges-Iran-not-to-respond-to-Israeli-aggression

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