Third World USA - Addendum

It has been pointed out to me how much the sulfur mine to extract copper and nickel from the ground around Ely, Minnesota falls into this Third World USA mold.  The mining companies who are the real puppet masters behind this mine are based in Canada, Brazil, Europe and China.  They have created a fake dummy Minnesota company to make it look like an American operation.

Sulfur mining is astounding in its environmental danger.  There is a mine in Montana from the 1800's where the pit of sulfur is still sitting there, threatening to overflow it's retaining walls.  That mine will not be safe for another 400 years.  In the history of sulfur mining, there has never, NEVER, been a clean, environmentally safe operation, something the pro mining people are insisting will be the case this time, but they also insist no rules or laws be enacted to ensure the international mining conglomerate is held accountable if an environmental clean up needs to happen.

The checks to political campaigns, ensuring this mine goes through with zero concern for the citizens of the state, are being written fast and furious, buying off the decision makers to do harm to the rest.  Union heads are screaming for approval even though the mining company has only implied it will use union workers.  No guarantees.  I would bet the same mining people are negotiating with federal regulators to allow them to ship cheap, temporary non-union workers from Oklahoma and Alabama up here to circumvent union hiring rules.

When the truth comes out years from now, long after the foreign companies have pocketed the money from Minnesota's ground and left a scarred earth behind, some Droopy of a mining executive will say "oops," followed by "we're bankrupt."  Then some Droopy politicians will get in front of some cameras and say "oops, I guess we shouldn't have trusted them."

If this sounds familiar, it's exactly what has been done in African, Asian, Central and South American countries.  In many of those places, if the locals dare protest the toxification of their land or the low sub-human wages, they get shot in the streets, or they just disappear.