#petehegseth #defensebill #Venezuela

This is good , or at least partially good , I hope people can watch the videos;

“ The Senate gave final passage to an annual military policy bill Wednesday that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs while pressuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide lawmakers with video of strikes on alleged drug boats in international water near Venezuela. ”

https://apnews.com/article/defense-bill-boat-strikes-hegseth-a0886906eb50432c38a4d5bf08e6a719?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-12-17-Breaking+News

#Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of #Spy Powers in New #DefenseBill

The #NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct passed today, but lawmakers stripped language that would keep the #Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.
#surveillance #ndaa #privacy

https://www.wired.com/story/congress-spy-powers-fisa-ndaa-trump-702/

BREAKING: Federal court greenlights destruction of #OakFlat

#ApacheStronghold vows to appeal decision to U.S. Supreme Court

By Apache Stronghold, Censored News, March 1, 2024

WASHINGTON – "A divided federal court (6-5) today refused to protect an ancient #NativeAmerican sacred site from destruction by a multinational #mining giant, putting the case on a fast track to the Supreme Court. In Apache Stronghold v. United States, a rare 'en banc' panel of eleven judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government can transfer the #SacredSite Oak Flat to #ResolutionCopper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever. (Watch the short video linked below to learn more).

"The decision was by a bare majority, with five judges vigorously disagreeing and writing that the majority 'tragically err[ed]' in allowing the government to 'obliterate[e] Oak Flat' and prevent the '#WesternApaches from ever again' engaging in their religious exercise. With the help of Becket, Apache Stronghold has vowed to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Since time immemorial, Western Apaches and other native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been protected from mining and other harmful practices for decades. These protections were eliminated in 2014, when a last-minute provision was inserted into a must-pass #DefenseBill authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, a foreign-owned mining company that plans to turn the sacred site into a two- mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater. The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, recently sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old #indigenous rock shelters at one of #Australia’s most significant cultural sites.

"'Oak Flat is like #MountSinai to us—our most sacred site where we connect with our Creator, our faith, our families, and our land,” said Dr. Wendsler Nosie of Apache Stronghold. “Today’s ruling targets the spiritual lifeblood of my people, but it will not stop our struggle to save Oak Flat. We vow to appeal to the Supreme Court.'

Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/federal-court-greenlights-destruction.html

Link to video:
https://youtu.be/Zh68xOn0B_8?si=428-0_7qDRrLgQm7

#SaveOakFlat #RioTinto
#CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #CorporateColonialism #CopperMining #Mining #LandBack #WaterIsLife
#IndigenousLands #SacredSpaces #ReligiousFreedom #IndigenousRights

#GOP’s #defensebill tries to #restrict #interactions with #civilliberties #group.

The #Republicans' #NDAA includes a #provision to limit #troops' #interactions with the #MilitaryReligiousFreedomFoundation.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #AntiSemitism #Misogyny #Xenophobia #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-defense-bill-tries-restrict-interactions-civil-liberties-group-rcna94841

The fate of the annual #DefenseBill was in doubt on Fri, after #Republicans loaded the #legislation with a raft of #conservative social policy restrictions limiting access to #abortions, #GenderTransition procedures & #diversity training for military personnel, alienating #Democrats whose votes #GOP leaders had seen as crucial to passing the legislation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/us/politics/defense-bill-house-ndaa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare