What's it take to get conservatives in Tennessee fired up about blowing up mountains? China, apparently.
On Tuesday, the Tennessee Conservative Union, which bills itself as the state's "largest and oldest conservative group," started running anti-mountaintop removal coal mining ads on television throughout the state. Their complaint? The Chinese company Guizhou Guochuang Energy Holding Group announced last year that it is acquiring Triple H Coal Mining, which does mountaintop removal. The Tennessee Conservative Union ad warns that they will become "the first state in our great nation to permit the red Chinese to destroy our mountains and take our coal."
"We're proud that Tennessee is a red state," the ad concludes. "But just how red are we willing to go?"Mother Jones
Conservatives Outraged About Mountaintop Removal in Tennessee... By Chinese Company
Kate Sheppard
Neoliberalism stops at the border.
3 comments:
Wanna bet? Check to see who the majority non-Chinese investors, contractors and beneficiaries in that project are.
Don't be surprised if they're NeoLiberals already penning their "No one could have predicted this" letters.
Traitors never stop at borders.
"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff138493.html
How can we be independent without inter-dependencies?
LOL.... this is getting too easy for you Tom ;)
Blowed up a mountain top in Tennessee,
The reddest state in the Land of the Free.
Hurry up, Pappy, better get your gun,
Or we'll be eatin' coal dust in our chow fun.
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