#ApacheStronghold: U.S. Give-Away would Destroy Spiritual Home of #Apache

By Wendsler Nosie, Apache Stronghold, March 13, 2025, via #CensoredNews

"In the heart of #TontoNationalForest in #Arizona lies a place that my people, the #WesternApache, still hold above all others. This place is Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, also known as Oak Flat. To us, it is more than a stretch of land; it is sacred and holy. It is where our ancestors walked, where we gather to pray, to carry out ceremonies passed down through generations, and to speak to our Creator.

"This land is part of who we are as a people, and its spirit is bound to our own.
Now, the federal government plans to give our sacred Oak Flat to a multinational #mining #corporation owned by the Chinese Communist Party. This will not just scar the land; it will destroy it, poisoning the environment and trampling on our tribal rights. But the deepest wound will be the loss of our spiritual home, a place our people cannot exist without. We are fighting this in the courts, all the way to the #USSupremeCourt. But this is about more than law and policy—this is about survival of our way of life and the spirit of this sacred land.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/03/apache-stronghold-us-give-away-would.html
#SaveOakFlat #ChichilBiłdagoteel #CorporateColonialism #ProtectOakFlat #ReaderSupportedNews #SCOTUS #DefendTheSacred #CopperMine
#WaterIsLife #ResolutionCopper #RioTinto #RecycleCopper #CulturalGenocide #NoMiningWithoutConsent #RecycleCopper

Yes: respond to #USA breach of trade deals (imposition of import tarriffs), by revoking #Monopoly #Patent and #Copyright for #USA corporations, to the benefit of one's own country.

#IntellectualTheft (monopolies on culture) keeps medicine from the poor, keeps education from the needy, keeps science from those who will benefit. Now the trade deals are violated, no need to continue protecting USA #Corporation #rentier profits.

This is a great idea, I would love to see #Australia do this also.

Ironically, this article arguing for the social benefits of free use of information, is not on the open web (it's locked behind a login-wall).

https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/03/04/canada-patents-trump-tariffs-medicines-pharma/

Says every major corporation.
#privacy #corporation #update #policy

Do you know what a continued angry customer, and a paying protester, have in common?

They're all empowering the corporation by giving them their time and money. So ultimately, your grievances mean shit.

Corporations speak only 1 language with 1 united voice, and that is, money. You want change? Stop giving them money, and you'll see a world of difference.

#Protest #Corporation #Capitalism

Randomly thinking about this the other day, still think it's crazy that #Java was this huge important #ProgrammingLanguage when I was first learning to program back in the 2000s, then #SunMicrosystems was bought by #Oracle in the 2010s when I was teaching for the certifications, and now in the 2020s it's become this depreciated legacy language. The success of the less-portable and less-learned copycat .Net and staying power of the older #Python shows there was clearly a market for Java to continue, but the large #corporation was so much more interested in filing lawsuits against people who were doing things with the language than actually developing it further with modern features, they actually managed to push it into obscurity.

And we can't forget that this was a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR LOSS. BILLIONS OF DOLLARS had been spent to build up infrastructure to support the widespread use of this language across the industry, so when they dropped all support, and all of that became obsolete for no other reason.

@elilla @fuchsiii @LunaDragofelis yeah...

#PayPal being a greedy garbage #corporation is nothing new to anyone who had to deal with them.

• They conveniently flip-flop between #US #tech firm and #Luxembourg "legally but not really" #bank however they feel like to maximize #inconvenience and minimize #ConsumerRights or means for clients to get their money.

AFAIK the #CSSF (Luxembourg's financial regulator) had to employ additional Staff dedicaded to complaints re: PayPal.

• And I'm not shure PayPal pays even remotely enough taxes there to offset that cost...

I'd rather want to switch to #Monero for everything than having to deal with PayPal...

Woolworths getting the so called Fair Work Commission to say picketing is "undermining" the union's bargaining position shows how corporations have far too much power in Australia.

People need to stop voting for the major parties, we're not the USA other parties can gain power here, there's no such thing as a wasted vote.

Everyone everywhere support your unions.

Oh Great! /s Now the Toronto Star has joined the chorus amplifying BKsy with free advertising

I wonder if they realize investors are confusing the Social media platform with the Canadian crypocurrency company.

copied and pasted from the Toronto Star

"TorontoStar: Looking for a new social media platform because X, Threads and Mastodon just aren’t cutting it?

One Tech Tip: How to get started with Bluesky. https://t.co/dUsNloWKtZ "

Ok y'all...if you are an #indi #contractor who uses a business tax ID, or a business owner with an #LLC, #S_corp or registered #corporation...did you realize there's a whole bunch of filing you need to do before the end of the year, lest you start facing $500 a day fines?

I hadn't paid attention when the #CorporateTransparencyAct was passed, because it was immediately challenged.

Basically, if you are a small business with less than millions of dollars in revenue, you need to report the names, home addresses and upload photo IDs of "beneficial owners" to #FinCEN (Treasury Department).

Public, large, high earning companies are exempt. It's just contractors and small business under 20 employees. People, police and governments can request data from the government via FinCEN.

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Evreything leads back to Big Corporations taking over the world
(and democracy)

"The Problem with Mass-Produced ‘Urban Solutions’
Geographer Rachel Bok investigates the deep-pocketed players setting the agenda for the future of cities."
"hey are hosted by deep-pocketed multinationals like Shell and philanthropic organizations like Bloomberg and Rockefeller, but also global groups like the United Nations and the World Bank. They’ve attracted financial institutions, consultancies, think tanks and corporations — tech giants in particular — each with their own visions of how cities should be shaped."
Read more in article:

#NEws #Design #UrbanPlanning #FossilFuel #City #Corporation #Shell #Google

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/14/Problem-Mass-Produced-Urban-Solutions/

When will people stop believing high minded #billionaire rhetoric?

#Google is, in fact, evil despite *saying* "Don't be evil."

#WaPo is, in fact, draped in #democracy killing darkness despite saying "democracy dies in darkness."

You are not, in fact, "in good hands" with Allstate. You're in cold, methodical, deny your coverage for any excuse hands.

#Facebook does not, in fact, "bring the world closer together." It isolates people while bringing them closer to advertisers and extremist content.

X does not, in fact, allow you to "Blaze your glory" whatever that #AdderalAddledNazi owner was thinking the motto meant when he thought it up in an amphetamine haze.

Pro tip: Every #corporation shares the same motto: "Maximize shareholder profit by any and all means."