Hope I’m around to see brat #MeghanMcCain, who has more negative characteristics of doucebag LindsayGraham than her real father icon #JohnMcCain, walk back the “I’m never sending my children to college” bullshit statement. https://l.smartnews.com/p-iyXTr/5t8XTp

2008: America’s West Bank: #McCain’s Forced #Navajo Relocation

"S 1003, sponsored by Senator #JohnMcCain (R-AZ), comes as #PeabodyCoal, the world’s largest coal company, is planning to expand its strip mining of American Indian lands, drawing down another high-quality residential #BlackMesa in the process. Only one thing stands in Peabody’s way: indigenous people live on the land below which lies billions of tons of low-sulfur coal. As with their ancestors, the land is the basis for the #BlackMesa people’s traditions, spirituality, and livelihoods."
#WaterIsLife #Thackerpass #EnvironmentalRacism #Mining #NativeAmericans

http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/176

Last night, I had looked for this website that I remember from 2004 (it was not in my current bookmarks). A good night's sleep and a DuckDuckGo search got me the results I was looking for. Page bookmarked now. This page also has links to .wmv files with the documentary "Vanishing Prayer".

2004: #NativeAmericans: #Navajo Indians targeted for brutal genocide, in #Arizona, #USA ...by Sen. #JohnMcCain, the #BIA & a few greedy Politicians

"To facilitate his special interests, namely: Peabody Western Coal Company (the largest coal group in the US) and the Mohave Generating Facility in Laughlin (operated by Bechtel) delivering low cost coal produced electricity to Las Vegas's Casinos in exchange for Beer Distribution Contracts afforded his wife's business, Hemsley Inc., John McCain personally, over the course of 25 years in the state legislature and federal senate introduced and arranged for the enforcement of unethical and constitutionally unlawful legislations which brutally displaced thousands of Navajo farmers onto a #Nuclear Waste Dump, Church's Rock, #NewMexico to live after brutalizing them for two decades in peaceful resistance. McCain assembled support to modify existing laws and produce new ones (Navajo Resettlement & Navajo Accommodation Agreement, Navajo Settlement, and amendments to PL 93-531, PL S.1003), illegal and unethical enactments designed to force Native American Navajo of the Dineh Band off their Arizona lands, moving them onto Church's Hill in New Mexico, depriving them of lands they've owned since 1500 AD. As a result, thousands of aboriginal elders passed away from shock associated with displacement into urban apartment settings and on to uranium contaminated waste sites such as Church's.

"Using a phony #Hopi tribal counsel composed of paid stooges, and Rangers comprised largely of BIA police, McCain and Peabody Western Coal Company progressively stole and exploited the Dineh's lands for mutual personal gain, brutalizing the natives, terrorizing #elders and engaging in thuggery, forcing these peaceful people to leave 'or else'. They even bulldozed their sacred sites and sweat lodges, beating their members physically and abusing their elders to the point of terrorizing them and causing health failure and heart failures and worse. Fake Hopi Rangers (BIA Police) organized by McCain allies arrested and beat any peaceful resistors on their own lands and while celebrating holy days at their sacred sites. Three Presidential runs by McCain have been backed by the Mining, Power company and its Nevada Casino clients through street names organized in Nevada. McCain's wife has been granted huge Beer distribution contracts at her liquor company, Hemsley, by Nevada gaming interests. Two faced political favor banking has robbed the Dineh of any political support. The supposed 'new lands' at Church's Hill are a #Superfund Nuclear Waste Dump landfill site where children in schoolyards play among openly dumped uranium tailings! Children born in these communities have twice the national average of birth defects!"

#EnvironmentalRacism #PeabodyCoal #McCainShame #NativeAmericans #ThackerPass
Read more: http://www.acsa.net/cain2004.org/

One of the first stories I reported on back in the 1990s was #PeabodyCoal's #genocide of the #Dineh peoples -- forcibly removing #elders from their land (which is how I began corresponding with Brenda Norrell, who was working for Indian Country Today back then). I learned that #JohnMcCain was in cahoots with Peabody Coal and did their bidding. In addition to #EnvironmentalRacism, Peabody Coal also relocated "341 Navajo and Hopi ancestors from their burial place" as part of their "tools for genocide, oppression and relocation.

The Long Journey Home, by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, February 14, 2023

#NativeAmericans #Genocide

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-long-journey-home-peabody-coal.html

Never Forget: Your hero #JohnMcCain fought against establishing the #MLK holiday, and against extending voting rights protections.

What a pack of self-serving lies. #KyrstenSinema seems to have a very high opinion of herself and a warped desire to be the reincation of #JohnMcCain, but nobody she seek to emulate a modern #Conservative #Republican. At some point, the #DemocraticParty is going to have to suck it up and cut ties with people like #Sinema even though it will be painful at the time. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2022/12/09/sen-kyrsten-sinema-of-arizona-why-im-registering-as-an-independent/69712395007/