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DoomsdaysCW<p>In the Dirty Business of Faking Green, a Third <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> Tribe Sues <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DebHaaland</span></a> for Desecration</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> <br>August 13, 2024</p><p>"In the dirty business of faking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenEnergy</span></a>, Interior Department head Deb Haaland is being sued by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hualapai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hualapai</span></a> Tribe for approval of a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMine</span></a> targeting their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSpring</span></a>. It is the same lithium mine where an Australian company has hired the head of a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> enterprise to lead the drilling for lithium and violating the sacred.</p><p>"Deb Haaland, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LagunaPueblo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LagunaPueblo</span></a>, is now being sued by three tribes in Arizona for ongoing destruction of religious and historic places, sacred places where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TohonoOodham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TohonoOodham</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SanCarlosApache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanCarlosApache</span></a> , and Hualapai have offered their prayers since time immemorial.</p><p>"In the lawsuit, Hualapai tell of the drilling for lithium, and the way the Interior's Bureau of Land Management concealed the plans for the lithium mine."</p><p>[...]</p><p>"The Tohono O'odham and San Carlos Apache Nations filed for a restraining order on Haaland, which was denied by a Tucson federal judge, but the tribes continue the legal battle. Haaland, present at the groundbreaking of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PatternEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PatternEnergy</span></a>'s wind project, is promoting the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SunZia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SunZia</span></a> transmission line to take wind energy from New Mexico to California, now cutting a path of destruction across pristine regions of the Southwest. Pattern Energy in San Francisco is owned by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanadaPensionFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadaPensionFund</span></a>. </p><p>"The mainstream media is also concealing the fact that the CEO of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a> enterprise which claims to be transitioning to green energy is heading the project to desecrate Hualapai's sacred ceremonial place. The so-called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoTransitionalEnergyCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoTransitionalEnergyCompany</span></a> also owns <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoalMines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoalMines</span></a> in Wyoming and Montana.</p><p>"The Navajo Transitional Energy Company stated in March that it had signed the mining agreement and its CEO <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vern</span></a> Lund would lead the mining operation for the Australian company."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/in-dirty-business-of-faking-green-third.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08</span><span class="invisible">/in-dirty-business-of-faking-green-third.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateGreed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaKamwe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HaKamwe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChollaCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChollaCanyon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourCorners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FourCorners</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArizonaLithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArizonaLithium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigSandy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigSandy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HawthornResourcesLtd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HawthornResourcesLtd</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HawthornResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HawthornResources</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GinaRinehart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GinaRinehart</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vestals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vestals</span></a> </p><p>Young women from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Patrician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patrician</span></a>-only families (later expanded to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Plebian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plebian</span></a> families) were chosen to serve as Vestals. They had to remain celibate for 30 years, but after their service, were free to marry. Unlike most Roman women, they “were free to own property, make a will, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a>.”</p><p>They were given the responsibility of maintaining <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vesta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vesta</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredFire</span></a>, “collecting water from a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSpring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSpring</span></a>, preparation of food used in rituals and caring for sacred objects in the temple's sanctuary.”</p><p>They made a special flour, “mola salsa,” that was “sprinkled on all public offerings” to the gods. They were also in charge of the safekeeping of wills and testaments of prominent people, such as Casear and <br>Marc Antony (Connelly, 219).</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VestalVirgins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VestalVirgins</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RomanPriestesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanPriestesses</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RomanWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanWomen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RomanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AncientHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autonomy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomenVoting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenVoting</span></a></p>