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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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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

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English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
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.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

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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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 63 points 3 weeks ago

The possibilities of a US civil war lies in one place only, the factional rifts (potential and actual) among armed Federal agencies and the true identities of their capitalist suppliers, backers, investors and patrons; the 18 intelligence agencies of the United States would obviously form the nexuses of new leadership castes, absorbing or leveraging the 3,000 or so private intelligence companies active in the US

It's a path of least resistance that flows towards whatever government entities has the most guns, and these new power blocs will scramble to absorb the various branches of the US military (assuming of course the various officer corps of the US military don't somehow overcome the combined pull of 18 intelligence agencies)

The police will obey, or they'll be branded foreign infiltrated rogues and destroyed (this may have the unfortunate effect of confusing certain leftist radicals who may form incorrect assumptions about the new "cop-killing federal government")

Militias will either be absorbed a la Azov battalion-style or suffer a similar fate to the more uppity pigs

This picture is likely to emerge by the mid 2040s

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[-] Seasonal_Peace@hexbear.net 63 points 2 weeks ago

Rabid zionist Matan Ahlfeld parks his car with a child in it to attack pro Palestine demonstrators with a bat, gets beat and disarmed and promptly arrested.

https://twitter.com/Terrence_STR/status/1854572848238747833

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 63 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 62 points 3 weeks ago

Just shuffling chairs on the sinking Titanic:
https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1853859521565004053

BREAKING: Netanyahu fired War Minister Yoav Gallant.

Netanyahu nominated Yisrael Katz as the new War Minister.

He was the, until now, foreign minister.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 62 points 2 weeks ago

pflp-octoplushie via Resistance News Network Telegram

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: — Trump’s victory will reinforce the American anti-Palestinian approach, and the Democratic Party’s loss is a natural result of its direct involvement in the zionist war of genocide.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine affirms that Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s victory in the U.S. elections does not, in any way, signify a real change in the hostile approach that successive American administrations have pursued against our Palestinian people and their just cause. There is no fundamental difference between the Republican and Democratic parties; both have contributed to supporting the zionist entity and participated in the war of genocide against our people, whether through policies or unlimited military and diplomatic support.

Our people have never placed their hopes on any candidate from either the Democratic or Republican parties, as we have never witnessed any positive change in U.S. administration policies, which have consistently aligned fully with the zionist entity, providing it with military funding and all forms of political, legal, and diplomatic protection.

The Democratic Party’s loss is a logical result of its complicity with the zionist entity; it rejected calls from supporters of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian community, and Arab and Muslim communities in the United States to pressure for an end to the war of genocide in Gaza, continuing its support for aggression against our people. Today, the Democrats are paying the price for ignoring these demands at the ballot box.

We in the Popular Front do not expect any positive development from a Donald Trump administration; rather, we anticipate an escalation in hostile policies against our people, fully biased in favor of the zionist entity.

We call on supporters of the Palestinian people, as well as movements, organizations, and groups that stand with our cause in the United States, to intensify pressure on the new U.S. administration to end its support for the zionist entity.

We see in the popular and student movements that stand in solidarity with Gaza, along with the emergence of small, free voices and parties, a glimmer of hope that could contribute to even a slight change in the U.S. stance on our cause.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Central Media Department

November 6, 2024

[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 62 points 2 weeks ago

Massive floods in Spain again, in Girona this time

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[-] SupFBI@hexbear.net 62 points 2 weeks ago

"Joy" and "You won't have to think about politics" does not a vision make. Your average voter wants a vision for the future, even though they know it's a lie. Wheeling out establisment republicans ( of whom most liberals viscerally hated in the 00's) doesn't get out the vote? Who could have guessed? Why vote for republican lite when you can vote for the "real" thing? Misogyny and racism also played a role, no doubt about that.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 62 points 2 weeks ago

North Korea “blocks” GPS signals and affects navigation near South Korea. According to information from military authorities in Seoul, the jamming attack affected several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in the country

:troll:

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 62 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 62 points 2 weeks ago

Coming soon to Israel’s Hasbara channels:

Reports of babies baked in ovens and 40 beheaded babies found on the 7th of November attack in kibbutz Amsterdam, Netherlands.

[-] companero@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

https://nyenr.elections.ny.gov/

Write-ins got 1.28% of the vote in New York, or 101,340 votes. I don't know what the candidate breakdown looks like, but still, the total is pretty impressive.

For context, no third party presidential candidates got ballot access due to the Democrats' voter suppression efforts.

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[-] HonestMistake_@lemmy.ml 61 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

After getting owned in the Amsterdam front, the IOF takes it out on Gazans per usual:
https://xcancel.com/ytirawi/status/1854840901580861451

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[-] Thorngraff_Ironbeard@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

The checks notes Joker Guerilla Army and People's Defense Forces killed Junta Officers in Myanmar.

I know nothing about this conflict just thought the logo and name were funny.

Any good sources on the Myanmar civil war?

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, icc, hey how are you doing:

blob-sleepblob-sleepblob-sleep

-live reaction

Useless pieces of shit, absolutely no belief in anything

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[-] SubstantialNothingness@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

Thinking outside the box: Trump doesn't need the gusano vote anymore. If Cuba built a monument for Trump, or renamed a hotel to Trump Towers, do you think they could get him to end the embargo? Invite him to talks like North Korea and flatter him enough to make him consider normalizing relations.

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 61 points 2 weeks ago

It is kind of weird that Trump won though lmao.

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 60 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

nice !

german goverment is imploding ...

Finance minister Lindner just got kicked out by Scholz.

data-laughing

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 60 points 2 weeks ago

Will Trump appoint a gold bug to the fed?

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/business/inflation-trump-fed-judy-shelton/index.html

She also believes in having a target of zero for inflation. Which lol, Americans have too much debt for that. Maybe she wants communism, and will deflate prices to zero

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[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 60 points 3 weeks ago

True Promise 3 is the only thing that could revive this mega thread now, come on Iran! xi-plz

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[-] hellomao@hexbear.net 60 points 2 weeks ago

Finished reading Blackshirts & Reds. Such an amazing book. lets-fucking-go

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[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 59 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 59 points 2 weeks ago

@xiaohongshu@hexbear.net

Give us your take. Will Biden's masterful geopolitical and economic schemes be defeated by Trump, or will he and his disciples continue to work behind the scenes and deliver unto us a new century of American total dominance over the planet?

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[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 59 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

While this is breaking the containment measures a bit, it's at least news thread adjacent: I'll be quite interested to see how certain right wing anti Ukraine War commentators we occasionally source from will contort themselves to justify the reasons why Trump will (probably) just continue all the anti Russia, pro Zionist, anti China policies of the american state.

Likewise, as some others have mentioned - I'm looking forward to liberal opinion on the genocidal war against the gaza ghetto. Some think that Trump will give them a justification to emulate a conscience. I'm more of the opinion that they'll scapegoat muslim americans the same way they are scapegoating latinos now.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 59 points 2 weeks ago

I hope Gavin Newsom tries to pull some insane shit against Trump. He seems to hate Republicans even more than he hates homeless people, maybe partial balkanization isn't so far away

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[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 59 points 2 weeks ago

This is so far the best video I can find summing up the events in Amsterdam, and it's still not very good. They at least mentioned the anti-Arab slogans chanted by the Israeli holligans, but didn't bother translating them. They are also one of the few news outlets that actually reported on the Israelis disrupting the moment of silence for Valencia. Even Al-Jazeera English didn't report on that.

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 59 points 2 weeks ago

I'll believe it when I see it if Trump ends the Ukraine War.

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[-] someone@hexbear.net 59 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hurricane Rafael just formed yesterday in the Caribbean. Looks like Havana will be hit tomorrow evening. Hopefully there won't be the insane quick strengthening that we saw in the last few Caribbean hurricanes.

Update, it did strengthen quickly before landfall in Cuba, going from category 1 to 3 in just hours. Weather's getting weird out there, folks. I wonder what's causing it. thinkin-lenin

[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 58 points 2 weeks ago

Lovely footage from Amsterdam.

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[-] a_party_german@hexbear.net 58 points 2 weeks ago

However wild your day was, Gunther probably had it worse.

spoiler

Oh and he also went to an Austrian economics conference or something over the day.

I apologize for all those Gunther faces but someone had to tell you

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[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 58 points 3 weeks ago

I hope raising a comically large Israeli flag was worth getting BTFO by a Hezbollah ATGM:
https://xcancel.com/political_aya__/status/1853176982282158490

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Some news from Lebanon and occupied Palestine.

Lebanese resistance forces pounded many Zionist targets today, including Ben-Gurion Airport: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/06/736747/Hezbollah-strikes-Israeli-targets

Plus, video footage showing how anti-fascist resistance forces have started burning government buildings in the Ukraine.

Anti-fascist partisans burned a Kiev regime administrative building in Odessa oblast: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Partisans-in-Odessa-doing-their-bit-to-bring-down-Zelensky!!:c

Anti-fascist partisans have also burned Kiev regime administrative buildings in Vinnitsa and Kharkov oblasts: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,--Partisans-in-Ukraine-have-strengthened-their-Forces!:1

[-] Flaps@hexbear.net 57 points 2 weeks ago

With their reporting on the anti zionist actions in Amsterdam, western media is again showing its entire ass.

Poor zionazi 'victims'. Get outta here

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 57 points 2 weeks ago

Joe Biden has already spoken with Donald Trump after the Republican's election and says that the US will have a “peaceful transfer of power on January 20th”.

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