'Thacker Pass: Mining the Sacred' (Trailer)

'Thacker Pass: Mining the Sacred' (Trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JafZGCfDKys

First look at a new documentary coming soon from Ricochet Media, IndigiNews and the Real News. Journalist Brandi Morin travels to Nevada to because a Canadian mining company — BC-based mining company, Lithium Americas — is trying to construct a lithium mine on a sacred Indigenous site, known to locals as Peehee mu’huh or Thacker Pass, who are told the lithium is needed for the coming "green boom" in electric cars. Meet the people pushing back on the destruction of ecosystems in the name of the energy transition, and those fighting to preserve the land for future generations. | video by Geordie Day.

Spy Balloon with U.S. Military Contract Passed above Indian Country, now over Canada

Photo courtesy Aerostar of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Today, on Monday evening, HBAL653 passed over New Foundland, Canada, after traveling across Indian country and the northern border in the U.S. Screenshot by Censored News.

A South Dakota company with a U.S. military contract has a surveillance balloon that passed over Indian country and has just passed above New Foundland, Canada.

By Brenda Norrell
Copyright Censored News
August 28, 2023

A balloon with a U.S. military contract passed over Indian country, including Oklahoma, Pueblos, Navajo, Hopi, Paiute Shoshone, and Fort Peck, before passing above the U.S. Canadian border. The surveillance balloon floated above Montreal, Canada, and Maine, and then offshore of New Foundland, Canada.

The balloon, owned by Aerostar of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, received a U.S. military contract on July 28 -- bundled in a $900 million Airforce contract for new technology. Aerostar said it carries out surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance. Documents filed with the FAA state surveillance balloons are searching for "threats to Homeland Security." The ACLU earlier expressed concern over this persistent surveillance.

This surveillance and data collection means spying on innocent people without a warrant.

Helium Balloons Launched over California Today, as U.S. Military Tests new Warfare Techniques

Flight Radar24 shows these high altitude balloons launched, August 28 between 9:30 and 12:30 UTC: HBAL654 (N874TH AC06E3) HBAL655 (N875TH AC0A9A) HBAL656 (N876TH ACOE51) and HBAL657 (N877TH AC1208.)

Helium Balloons Launched over California Today, as U.S. Military Tests new Warfare Techniques

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 28, 2023

A series of high-altitude balloons were launched today from Inyokern airport in the Indian Wells District of California, southwest of Death Valley, and are now above central California. 

This comes as a separate balloon has crossed Indian country and the northern border. It is owned by Aerostar of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which carries out surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance and received a new U.S. military contract on July 28.

Aviation Week reports on the U.S. Army's plans for high-altitude balloons:

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama—The U.S. Army has validated requirements for two types of uncrewed, high-altitude aircraft—balloons and solar-powered fixed wing—with the goal of using them not only for surveillance but also targeting, navigation and kinetic strikes.

The Army wants multiple types of platforms of both types that can be deployed and connected in a “daisy chain” to see beyond where its long-range systems can fire, such as the upcoming Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) and Mid-Range Capability. While the first push has been for long-range targeting, there are also annexes to the original capability document that are in various stages that call for active electronic warfare payloads, cyber operations, network extension, advanced precision navigation and targeting, and “launched effects,” Mulack said during the Space and Missile Defense Symposium here Aug. 8. https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/what-us-army-plans-high-altitude-balloons-solar-aircraft

Nevada Media Bias Reflects White Supremacy Exposed in Decades of Civil Rights Testimony

Protests in Farmington, New Mexico, in 1974 came after three Native Americans were tortured and murdered. In the 1990s, 20 years later, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in Shiprock, New Mexico, heard testimony that the racism, white supremacy and violence by whites in Farmington, New Mexico continued. Photo credit.

Herman D. Benally, Navajo, was tortured and murderd
in Farmington, New Mexico, in 1974.

Nevada Media Bias Reflects White Supremacy Exposed in Decades of Civil Rights Testimony

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 28, 2023
French translation by Christine Prat

https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8173

The bias of Google News, Nevada media, and the mainstream media is obvious in its coverage of Lithium Americas at Thacker Pass. The news articles accelerate the corporate profits for the Canadian company Lithium Americas and do not honor or uphold the voices of Paiute and Shoshone protecting the massacre site at Peehee Mu'huh.


https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/after-45-years-have-race-relations-improved-in-farmington/ Protests after Native Americans were tortured and murdered in the border town of Farmington, New Mexico.

The bias is a reminder of the longtime bias, censorship, and racism that have dominated news coverage in border towns. The civil rights testimony carried out in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, revealed that the media, police and courts were all complicit, or involved in, the racism and white supremacy in the border towns of Rapid City, South Dakota, Farmington, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona, and elsewhere, which resulted in the torture and murder of Native people.
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