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from Columbia Riverkeeper
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) reports that The Dalles Dam released approximately 200 gallons of turbine oil into the Columbia River where a sheen is seen. According to an oil spill notice from the Army Corps, the agency is in the process of containment and determining the exact amount of the release. Today’s oil spill comes over six years after the Army Corps agreed to stop violating the Clean Water Act and obtain required pollution reduction permits from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Yet the Corps continues to report large oil spills from dams, including Bonneville and The Dalles, in violation of state and federal laws. The Trump administration released draft permits in March 2020 but, to date, has failed to hold the Corps accountable for a long history of oil releases from federal dams.
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from Gateway Pundit News & Media Website
Questionable Source, Extreme Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Nationalism, Some Fake News
The mother – daughter team of ballot counters in Atlanta really overdid their fraud. We saw last night how they stuck around and counted ballots after kicking Republicans out of the State Farm Center on a fake water main break hoax.
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
When it came to solving the crisis, progressive policies took a back seat to the institutions and forces that actually got the job done. Assuming that the COVID-19 vaccines work, their development will be the biggest, most high-profile public-health success story since the polio vaccine in the 1950s. A weary world has waited many trying months for this. Yet in the media’s coverage, there are a lot of mixed messages about how this happened — because the story is not one that fits comfortably with liberal narratives. Consider the big, splashy New York Times story by six reporters (Sharon LaFraniere, Katie Thomas, Noah Weiland, David Gelles, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, and Denise Grady) on the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, and the Stat story by Damian Garde and Jonathan Saltzman on the technology behind them. When you dig into the details, the heroes are largely (1) big American pharmaceutical corporations, (2) the Trump administration, and (3) the U.S. military. The lessons to be drawn support the conservative view of government, business, and their proper roles and relationships.
Those looking for information about why the Constitution says what it says will find a treasure trove waiting for them in the archives. There is a well-organized set of notes from the Constitutional Convention, a less well-organized assortment of briefs from the subsequent fights over ratification, and the reams upon reams of newspaper commentary that was designed to illuminate, to obfuscate, and more. But the jewel in the crown is undoubtedly The Federalist Papers, an 85-entry compilation of contemporary missives that comprises the work done by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay to convince their fellow Americans that it was worth junking the existing Articles of Confederation and adopting a new constitution in its place. It is a tour de force that, among other things, helps us to understand why the American order — a mixture of humble mists-of-time traditionalism and elastic classical liberalism — ended up as it did.
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from PJ Media
News & Media Website
That which is rewarded is repeated. Apparently, the State of Oregon wants more antifa and Black Lives Matter rioting. At at time when violent rioters were setting fires, looting, and terrorizing the people of Portland, they were rewarded with U.S. CARES Act COVID relief funds. Repeating: When Portland was burning, the state of Oregon gave the arsonists gasoline. The group “SNACK BLOC” that received CARES ACT money designed to help people in need – or so we thought – is unabashedly antifa and BLM. It’s not even a semantical close call. Oregon’s Health Authority gave money to a group that came out of the shadows to support antifa and riots. I say out of the shadows because according to Willamette Week, the loosely formed “group” supposedly existed for three years, but has no webpage, and just started a Twitter account timed to the beginning of Portland’s 100-plus days of non-stop rioting.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Back in March when we all still agreed there was an emergency, a new cliché emerged in our standard farewell routines. “Stay safe,” said the checker at the supermarket. “Stay safe,” said the host of the Zoom meeting. “Stay safe,” said the governor at the end of press briefings. It was more annoying than “have a nice day.” There is no safe, risk-free option for living life. We can reduce or mitigate risks, balance risks with benefits or outsource risks to others, but there is no way for everyone to “stay safe.” Wouldn’t bother me a bit to walk through a smoky bar to use a restroom in Idaho, with or without masked patrons. The benefit outweighs the minor potential of exposure to any virus, as long as I reject offers to join a stranger on the dance floor. It’s a simple risk/benefit analysis. In my life, safety isn’t first. It’s third.
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