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Furious Coal CEO Lets It All Out: "Obama Is Nation's Great Destroyer"
Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray, who spoke to Republicans at the Lincoln Day Dinner on Wednesday, is "righteously mad" at President Barack Obama, who Murray says is to blame for the downturn in the coal industry.
The President, you see, is on a "bizarre personal and political" quest to destroy not only the coal industry, but the entire country and according to Murray, "radical environmentalists, liberal elitists, [and] Hollywood characters" aren’t doing anything to help the situation.
And make no mistake, this isn’t about money for Murray, this is all about the people. "Mr. Obama's actions are a human issue to me, as I know the names of many of the Americans whose jobs and family livelihoods are being destroyed," Murray said, adding that "these Americans are my employees."
Or at least they were his employees. Murray laid off 21% of his company back in May, with the majority of the cuts coming in West Virginia, which is staring down a $195 million budget gap thanks to the slide in coal prices.
Murray believes these job cuts are the fault of the Obama administration and, thankfully, he’s got some concrete arguments to support his contention that the President is colluding with Hollywood characters and certain "contributors" in an effort to "get control of the availability, reliability and cost of electricity."
from SNL:
[Murray] said President Barack Obama's administration has issued regulations that illegally bypass the states and their utility commissions, the U.S. Congress and the Constitution in favor of putting the U.S. EPA in charge of the nation's electric grid. Murray, speaking at a Republican gathering at the July 22 Lincoln Day Dinner, touted his company's four lawsuits being brought against the administration's Clean Power Plan, an effort to rein in carbon dioxide emissions.
Murray continued, saying that the coal workers affected by Obama's policies are among the highest paid in the regions where they live, but also have no one to sell their homes to when they lose their jobs.
"Thus, these people are prohibited from working and fall to the negative side of the economic ledger for the rest of their lives," Murray said. "This is not the America that I have always cherished. Well, I am obviously not giving up. Nor should you. We have the law, science, economics, cold hard energy facts and the Constitution on our side. Our cause is right. It is right for the coal industry and our communities and America. … We must continue to do whatever we can to overcome the insanity of our current government."
Murray goes on to say that the scope of EPA guidelines on coal boarders on the absurd. In support of this contention, he cites the fact that the agency's regulations are 38 times longer than the universally accepted standard for modern enviornmental law - the Bible: "EPA regulations alone total 25 million words, 38 times more than those in the holy Bible."
So who, you might ask, can fix the problem?
Well, Abraham Lincoln for one, but because that seems unlikely, Murray says West Virginia Republicans will have to do. Here's SNL again:
The CEO's plan to fix the problems he says fall on the shoulders of the Obama administration is to elect more Republicans. Calling Abraham Lincoln, the namesake of the event where he was speaking, the best president in U.S. history, Murray said Obama was 'by far, the worst.' In 2014, West Virginia's House and Senate both flipped to a Republican majority after decades of Democrats holding control of both chambers. Murray said the Democrat-led state Legislature provided 'huge opposition,' and he specifically called out some Democrats, including former Senate President Jeff Kessler, former House Speaker Timothy Miley and State Sen. Michael Romano, who was elected to represent Harrison County in 2014."
Murray said with Democrats out of the way in West Virginia, the Legislature was able to proceed with needed coal mining, tort law and other legislation. However, he said there is unfinished business in the form of changes to lower the coal industry's tax burden in the state.
"Currently, the coal industry accounts for 7% of the gross business product of the state, but our industry pays 60% of the business taxes in West Virginia," Murray said. "Oil and gas producers are not taxed to this extent. Relief must be given to the coal industry as our coal cannot compete with that from other states, all of which have lower coal severance taxes, or none at all."
Finally, Murray says that "most coal companies are cash-flow negative and many are approaching financial default. The result is that we will see the greatest restructuring of the coal industry in its history." In this regard, things haven't been all bad for Murray who, while laying of 1,400 employees has simultaneously spent at least $4.6 billion (enough to pay the annual salaries of 54,120 West Virginia coal miners, according to data from the National Mining Association) in the past two years acquiring competitors.
In any event, not everyone thinks the blame lies solely with Obama. Bo Webb (who is admittedly biased given that he's a campaign director for the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Campaign) suggests that Murray should blame cheap and abundant natural gas and by extension, free market forces: "Murray is not dealing with reality. It's not the Obama administration or Democrats. It's capitalism. It's the free market. It's that simple."
You decide.
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It is the warmist thugs pushing "renewable" energy that need to "STOP the simple minded hatred of those who do not agree with you". It appears you have not been paying attention as they demonise everyone who disagrees with them.
The warmists are thugs because they not only attack everyone of a different view but attempt to use the power of government to FORCE everyone else to comply with their views. Non warmists couldn't care less whether warmists use only solar or wind power or nothing. They are not attempting to use government to force their views on warmists.
While the real haters are warmists, the people who deserve hare are actually the warmists because they are authoritarians.
How appropriate Lincoln Day Dinner, states lost their rights with the Northern Agression against the South.
Coal bad,,, Nuclear good. According to the wacko environ Mental's.
Fukushima shows just how 'good' and 'environmental it is.
Lets look at this thing in a environ Mental way. Let's aSSume global warming is for real...
Coal plants pump the bad bad carbon into the air,,, heat the planet and much llife dissappears. (including human... win win)
Earth corrects the problem after a few millennium and regenerates life.
OR
A nuclear plant radiates the world,,, kills all life which never returns.
Now,,, which is best?
I continue to be astonished at the stupidity of the climate change believers. They happily believe a fiction to feel superior -- only they care about the planet!! CO2 bad!! They wipe their brains clean of the basics they learned in school, that plants take in CO2 and release oxygen. In fact, the biggest emitter of CO2 - by far - are the algaes and plantons in the oceans. More plants, more oxygen. If the planet gets hotter, then more tropical plants. Colder, we get alpine plants. Biodiversity has never been static.
No wonder the Left and NWO finds them to be such useful idiots.
Most of them never actually learned any science in school.
"plantons"?... or planktons?
Ah, nothing like billionaire whining.
He pays his workers crap, for one of the most dangerous jobs in the nation - for his own enrichment.
Mining companies have opposed regulation for a hundred years. Worker safety - it costs too much. No strip mining - costs too much. Acid rain - a myth. Toxic runoff into rivers - not our problem.
Feel for the workers, not a whit for this bozo. Killing the U.S.,? If the future of the U.S. is tied to coal, we're in worse shape than I thought.
Stop calling them "workers" like this is Cuba or the USSR. They are employees. Another one to delete is "class" as in "middle class". We are not born into, or confined in a class. It used to be - and still is -- low, middle, or upper income groups. This is the socialists/communists changing words to indoctronate us into their ideology.
And "Feel for the workers" because they are slaves forced to work there? Yes I know its hard to move, but people do it every time a job ends or a new opportunity beckons elsewhere.
If it's such a lousy negative cash flow business, then where did he get the 4.6 billion to buy out competitors?
Only in America and its surfs, is it OK to rape and pillage the resources so some fat cat can get rich. All American resources should be heavily taxed, no ONE MAN should get rich from our nation's wealth.
Of course America exports this villainy around the world, installing puppet leaders, that will allow corporations to move in and rape the lands, and pay the governments nothing but bribes at the top.
Putin's first great act was to take the oil industry away from the filth that was owning it. Its not the rich man's kids who are fighting to protect our nations.
Nevertheless you need to leave immediately. You are new to ZH. Did you sign up just to troll with your nonsense? No other country pillages resources? Not even China, Russia? Go home, Putin lover.
Any leader's taking over of resources suggest that his/her backers and protectors get their shares and the leader takes the biggesst share... since before the time of Beowulf...
Let's get one fuckin thing straight. It's not just the Pres. It's a collaboration or aiding and abetting by the fake Congress/Scrotum SCOTUS whatever.
Russian scientist Dr. Dmitriev of the Russian Academy of Sciences indicates the earth is moving into an area of space with a much higher energy level. In the last 114 years the earth’s magnetic field has become over 200% stronger. The edge of the heliosphere is one of plasma which is becoming more luminous and excited.
We have all been treated to a litany consisting of rocket scientists on blogs, many who receive grants to espouse climate change denial, that nothing is going on, it is just Algore trying to impose that carbon tax on us. A snow storm in the midwest is generally used to deride any other type argument.
Anyway it is the Russian contention this is altering the DNA spiral and will bring in a new energy which will change all matter in the solar system due to expanding harmonic wavelengths. It is changing the planets and the type of life they are able to support.
Bear in mind the Russians say it is not related to global warming, fluorocarbon emissions or CFS.
Dr. Dmitriev refers to Natrium in the growing atmosphere of the moon, the changing poles of various planets of our solar system.
We belong to the Sagittarius galaxy which is joining up with the Milky Way. It is not our parent galaxy so what happens and what energy fields and space bodies encountered is anybody’s guess.
Link to the scientist's article? Sources - legitimate sources??
"will bring in a new energy which will change all matter in the solar system due to expanding harmonic wavelengths"
Sounds like nutty occultic, new agey delusions. Remember that whatever comes through a portal is demonic and certainly not friendly, benign "spirit guide", "star people", or "space brother".
Hittin' the pure a bit early today Mick?
Stalin had his Lysenko
Putin has his Dmitriev.
Improbable. We are in a very stable region of space. The solar plasma field is about 10.8B mile / 17.3B km deep. The scale of this is such that we live on the floor of the sun's atmosphere. Beyond the 10.8B mile solar halo lies the Local Bubble, a vast region of consistent energy, the remnant of a supernova. We are currently transiting a chord through the Local Bubble that passed close to the center. By the time we approach the edge of the Local Bubble, the only things left that you'd recognize will be plants. That is, if we don't sterilize this place. Maladjusted chimps are the problem - banksters, pols and their entourage of facilitators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Bubble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interstellar_Cloud
It was forgone Obama would destroy everything including our greatest and cheapest source of energy once he was elected. Little late for the eulogy but thanks for the flowers anyway, ye who had their heads in the sand.
How is "coal the greatest source of energy"? Coal IS the CHEAPEST, and today in America, cheap is what its all about.
Why is it that some just want to pollute, like it makes to a real conservative, "man", its pathetic. We are using the same form of energy they have using for hundreds of years, being a backwards fuck is NOT something to proud of.
The Russians report two more facts: On Earth, the overall volcanic activity increased 500 percent from 1875 to 1975, while the earthquake activity has increased by 400 percent since 1973. Dr. Dmitriev says that comparing the years 1963 to 1993, the overall number of natural disasters — hurricanes, typhoons, mud slides, tidal waves, etc. — has increased by 410 percent.
The Earth’s magnetic field has been decreasing. This decrease actually began 2000 years ago, but the rate of decrease suddenly became much more rapid 500 years ago. Now, in the last 20 years or so, the magnetic field has become erratic. Aeronautical maps of the world — which are used to allow airplanes to land using automatic pilot systems — have had to be revised worldwide in order for the automatic pilot systems to work. (This is very easy to check. Simply look at an aeronautical map prior to 1990 for any particular city airport, and then compare it to a present-day map.)
Late last year, the Arctic ice cap on the exact spot of the North Pole completely melted for the first time in known history. Green Peace reported that, relative to the winter ice pattern, the cap had previously melted over 300 miles toward the pole, and that late last year both military and civilian ships were able to actually pass directly over the North Pole. It was water. Until now, as far as we know, there has never been a time where the ice was less than ten feet thick.
In contrast, the South Pole has an ice cap that is about three miles deep, and yet huge pieces of ice continue to break off and melt.
What Is Going On?
The sun is about to flip it’s magnetic field, and if it can happen to the sun it sure can happen to us here in happy valley
The sun is about to flip its magnetic field, at the peak of its 11-year solar cycle or at the half-way point of what scientists call a solar maximum – when it is at its most violent in terms of solar flares and the Earth is most vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse.
"The sun is about to flip its magnetic field"
no, it is not.
But... the earth might be.
Soon Siberia will be like Florida and vice versa
Putin knows something?
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/01/05/polar-ice-caps-more-stable-than-predicted-new-observations-show/
Come on Mick. Magnetic sequencing of lava flows in the Hawaiian Islands indicates magnetic field 2,000 years, ~10% overdue to flip. Shift to occur at c*1/E0. Do not squawk tin foil hat nonsense.
Keep your head in the clouds and your feet on the pavement.
In the US everything is about Politics.
In this case Power, Control, Status, Wealth is effected by Coal Industry ability to get Cheap Financing to grow or expand.
Oil & Gas is Spanking Coal and the Bankers see the power shift to Oil & Gas, so why provide easy finance to Coal Companies.
Murray Coal... has had lawsuits, has damaged Water Systems and Housing Developments with very expensive Houses with Coal Ash.
Personally, I think we need coal energy, but I don't know what technology will cost for containment of Toxic Waste or for Scrubbers.
Its better to remove at least the metals from it first. They could also do a much better job of controling the combustion process temps.
You might be amazed at the things that could be done to maximize the return.
Actually do that to keep down the NOx and SOx. But can't do it well when they are dispatching into a varying load as the wind and solar plants cycle at the avoided cost. Damn clouds.
- Ned
There is still lots of room for improvment. Combustion air needs some clever lad to do some tweeks. Its a shame the hands on folks dont have more input.
I was saving this big word for the dutch thang: stoichiometry. It will make its paltry mind implode.
Science yes, but always has been an artform, since the goddamn coal is never as homoginized or homogenious as predicted by science.
Actually, the Supreme Court should pass a law against anti-homogenious coal.
All coal should be equal!!!
- Ned
Imagine if the choices made had to be made by people that actually know what they are talking about. Rather than some lame ass feel good policy that lined the same pockets every time.
Even a moron can see the beaches are disappearing due to sea level rise. The Al Gore skit is for room temperature types.
You are all going to lose you gold and silver and stacks.
When Ignorance Becomes Bliss-One Of The Best Explanations Of What Is Happening You Will Find
English Presentation Sponsored By:
THE MILLENNIUM GROUP
http://www.tmgnow.com/
January 8, 1998
PLANETOPHYSICAL STATE OF
THE EARTH AND LIFE
By DR. ALEXEY N. DMITRIEV*
Published in Russian, IICA Transactions, Volume 4, 1997
*Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, and Chief Scientific Member,
United Institute of Geology, Geophysics, and Mineralogy,
Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Expert on Global Ecology, and Fast -Processing Earth Events.
Russian to English Translation and Editing:
by A. N. Dmitriev, Andrew Tetenov, and Earl L. Crockett
Summary Paragraph
Current PlanetoPhysical alterations of the Earth are becoming irreversible. Strong evidence exists that these transformations are being caused by highly charged material and energetic non-uniformity’s in anisotropic interstellar space which have broken into the interplanetary area of our Solar System. This “donation” of energy is producing hybrid processes and excited energy states in all planets, as well as the Sun. Effects here on Earth are to be found in the acceleration of the magnetic pole shift, in the vertical and horizontal ozone content distribution, and in the increased frequency and magnitude of significant catastrophic climatic events. There is growing probability that we are moving into a rapid temperature instability period similar to the one that took place 10,000 years ago. The adaptive responses of the biosphere, and humanity, to these new conditions may lead to a total global revision of the range of species and life on Earth. It is only through a deep understanding of the fundamental changes taking place in the natural environment surrounding us that politicians, and citizens a like, will be able to achieve balance with the renewing flow of PlanetoPhysical states and processes.
INTRODUCTION
Current, in process, geological, geophysical, and climatical alterations of the Earth are becoming more, and more, irreversible. At the present time researchers are revealing some of the causes which are leading to a general reorganization of the electro-magnetosphere (the electromagnetic skeleton) of our planet, and of its climatic machinery. A greater number of specialists in climatology, geophysics, planetophysics, and heliophysics are tending towards a cosmic causative sequence version for what is happening. Indeed, events of the last decade give strong evidence of unusually significant heliospheric and planetophysic transformations [1,2]. Given the quality, quantity, and scale of these transformations we may say that:
I appreciate your comment "Dumblinmick", and it just astounds me that people actually "vote down" your comment, without having the respect or honesty to say why.
I certainly think it is reasonable to believe global warming is occurring, what is sad it that people have lined up "politically" on one side of the issue of the other. What is the harm with taking precautions against global warming? These people are such idiot pawns, they would sell their own mothers down the river (like they are doing to their children's future), if it could be seen as damaging to Obama or democrats, pathetic.
Americans are done with, they have allowed themselves to hate their fellow American, left hate right and visa verse. And once the powers that be, have established this divide, they can exploit it to no end. Instead of democrats being critical of HR Clinton, its all about beating the republicans. We get the corrupt government we deserve.
Fuck this fat pig Coal miner, the fact that he is getting rich of America's resources is pathetic. He wants more money, so he will donate to those who vote against global warming issues, what a great nation.
Nevertheless
They have run off the high I.Q. posters around here. We have a lot of one trick ponies who can't see past the piggy bank. Their very neurons at this point have been lasered into right and left and liberal versus conservative. I just stop in for a wake up call once in while.
This continues to hold true.
Sometime around 23 hundred years ago we see in the Mahabharata Ydhishthira has a vision of the age to come: I see the coming of another age, where barbaric kings rule over a vicious, broken world, where puny, fearful men live tiny lives, white hair at sixteen, copulating with animals, their women perfect whores, making love with greedy mouths. The cows dry, trees stunted, no more flowers, no more purity, ambition, corruption, the age of Kali, the black time."
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/tnawa2/key-and-peele-obama-s-meeting-with-...
Thanks for the link, very interesting, all sorts of cosmic secrets they've been keeping from us.
http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/global/planetophysical.html
Wow, the things we don't know! With references yet... ;-)
Interpreted by many as: God is fucking with us because we were bad.
When the reigns of power are handed over to the lowest of the IQ range such as niggers, communism ensues and the country falls into disarray.
Look at S. Africa for a stellar example. mandella (not worthy of capitalization) crept in and the country went to shit.
...and the kikes are pulling the strings behind it ALL.
Who owns hollywood?
Who runs the FED?
Who owns/runs every TBTF bank that are full of fraud and no one ever goes to jail?
Who owns all of the influential websites concerning networking and "information" (Wikipedia, facefuck, et al )
Who runs our foreign policy?
Who owns the 6 media corporations that controls everything you see and hear?
Who invented political correctness and COMMUNISM?
Look at the last names of these people, it is not because they're smarter than the GOY they loathe.
This is NOT coincidence!
It's the FUCKIN KIKES!!! WAKE UP!!!
They have been ejected over a 100 times over the last 1000 years and there is a reason for it... Usury, fraud and meddling into stable societies...
You GOY need to read their own words from their own websites. I have and the facts are revealing to see how they are fucking up every country they lay their hands on. This COMES FROM ONE OF THEIR OWN WEBSITES! THE TRUTH HURTS! ----->> http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/faxes/mmOnNachriim.pdf <<----- "If a Jew is chasing a gentile in order to murder him, it is forbidden to kill the Jew in order to save the gentile, even if there is no other way to save the gentile's life. A person who kills the Jewish pursuer in order to save the gentile's life must be put to death. But if a gentile (or a Jew) is chasing a Jew in order to murder him, one must kill the pursuer in order to save the pursued person (if there is no other way to save his life). This law applies to a ger toshav as well. Sources: Minchat Chinuch commandment 600" "2.2) In a commercial transaction, if a Jew charges an exorbitant price or conceals the low quality of the goods from a gentile customer he does not owe the gentile any compensation (as he would owe a Jewish customer). According to some opinions, it appears that this law is not applied to a ger toshav; it is forbidden to cheat him and therefore he must be compensated if he is cheated. In any case, it is clear that if a gentile charges an exorbitant price or conceals the low quality of the goods from a Jewish customer, he owes the Jew compensation. Sources: Babylonian Talmud Tractate Bechorot 13b Maimonides, Laws of Sales 13:7 Tur Choshen Mishpat 227:30 Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 227:26 Minor Tractates, Tractate Gerim chapter 3 Palestinian Talmud Tractate Yevamot chapter 8 8d:1" "2.3) When a Jew owes money to a gentile who has passed away, the Jew is not obliged to repay the debt to the heirs, provided the latter do not know about the debt. If the heirs ask the Jew whether he owed money to the deceased, it is even permissible to lie to them and deny the debt (provided the Jew knows for sure that they do not know about the debt, so that the name of G-d will not be profaned by his lie). Sources: Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat 283:1 Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 182:4 (uncensored edition included on the DBS version 9 CD)" There are many more enlightening things on that PDF file for you (the GOYIM) to read Read ALL of it to understand how deceptive and knifing they really are.
...and you will know your masters as those whom you are forbidden to criticize.
I fully support your opinion, but I don't think it ever helps to use terms like "nigger", it is counter productive to your overall message.
Today in the NYTimes, on the front page is talked about the man who shot those people Louisiana, the heading read: "Portrait of a Louisiana killer: Liked Hitler, hated liberals". What the zionist NYTime is doing of course is associating as mass murderer to those who like Hitler and hate liberals, which is par for the course. For the zionists its all about divide and conquer, especially liberals and conservatives.
We need to focus on the real villains, not get side tracked with hating those who are simply pawns.
well said.
Yep its all about focusing on the actual issues.
Yep, the jews are the foundation of much that is wrong in this culture and country. They are the fundamental issue.
Dont you have a rally to go to or something? Baseball is on all summer. Them fish aint gonna catch themselves.
The demonization of the word NIGGER in the name of the kikes "political correctness" is just another stepping stone to cover up uncomfortable truths, facts and to divide the GOY so the kikes can control us.
Nigger stems from classic latin and it means BLACK. Look it up in any *unrevised by jews* latin dictionary.
Hell, in many european languages various connotations of nigger is in their language and still means black.
Get over the political correctness and see it for what it really is...
THE DESTROYER OF TRUTH
Kikes hate the truth.
here a documentary on jews in nonjewish countries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go_LIz7kTok
Regardless of the latin root, almost all words in English have a latin root, it is the connotation of the word that matters! Like " kill them niggers" "hang that nigger" " back of the bus, nigger" and on and on. Would you like your mother or daughter to be called a cunt? I'm sure there is an innocuous story about the root of the word.
The etymology of "cunt" is a matter of debate,[8] but most sources consider the word to have derived from a Germanic word (Proto-Germanic *kunt?, stem *kunt?n-), which appeared as kunta in Old Norse. Scholars are uncertain of the origin of the Proto-Germanic form itself.[9] There are cognates in most Germanic languages, such as the Swedish, Faroese and Nynorsk kunta; West Frisian and Middle Low German kunte; Middle Dutch conte; Dutch kut & kont; Middle Low German kutte; Middle High German kotze ("prostitute"); German kott, and perhaps Old English cot. The etymology of the Proto-Germanic term is disputed. It may have arisen by Grimm's law operating on the Proto-Indo-European root *gen/gon "create, become" seen in gonads, genital, gamete, genetics, gene, or the Proto-Indo-European root *g?neh?/guneh? "woman" (Greek: gunê, seen in gynaecology). Relationships to similar-sounding words such as the Latin cunnus ("vulva"), and its derivatives French con, Spanish coño, and Portuguese cona, or in Persian kun (???), have not been conclusively demonstrated. Other Latin words related to cunnus are cuneus ("wedge") and its derivative cun?re ("to fasten with a wedge", (figurative) "to squeeze in"), leading to English words such as cuneiform ("wedge-shaped"). In Middle English, cunt appeared with many spellings, such as coynte, cunte and queynte, which did not always reflect the actual pronunciation of the word.
The word in its modern meaning is attested in Middle English. Proverbs of Hendyng, a manuscript from some time before 1325, includes the advice:[10]
"Kike" yes. "Nigger" No.
I'm guessing your IQ is in the high 30's
I have documentation that you should add 100 to your ill advised number.
It is a universal reaction that those who relay something that the receiver deems appropriate to react emotionally to information they do not understand and proceed to attack the persons IQ level.
It is the democrat/communist way.
It is universal.
"I'm guessing that my IQ is much higher than yours." - Joe "Bite-me" Biden
The next President will be less coy about being a dictator.
The puppet masters tire, it seems, of the ritual of bribing or threatening dozens of congress critters, etc.
Wouldnt be a bad idea for people to begin promoting the idea of state nullification of federal law.
Not a thing in the Constitution manadates that SCOTUS is only or final word on constitutionality.
Arizona should have told SCOTUS to go fuck itself, and should have continued to inquire of legal residency/citizenship status of people arrested for other crimes, where there are objective elements that add up to reasonable suspicion of illegal presence [like no english + no license or valid ID].
It should also put its national guard on the border, and refuse to let its national guard be federalized or used by the feds for any war or 'kinetic action' not on its face related to the security needs of these United States.
It's not just Obama: http://www.vdare.com/articles/a-guilty-elite-immigration-beyond-economics
Moar job losses will be very Bullish; it's 21st century Western economics. Must be a sold-out course at princeton.
Well, Obama is in Africa now congratulating all the locals on their advancements in technology and in moving forward in excepting same sex, sex..
I don't know about the same sex; sex, but I found this video on Youtube showing one of their great leaps forward in aviation.
https://youtu.be/SVqQKF7xgTQ
Hahahaha! 1:30 Guy welding an airplane with a stick welder and without any eye protection.
2:16 "But just when the plane was about to leap into the air." Hahahahahahaha! The only thing that leaped into the air was everything on my desk from me pounding on it and laughing so hard.
Oh Wait! They built a Helicopter too!
https://youtu.be/ybgQJlYRrZs
He looks like Mel Brooks twin brother.
"May the coal be with you!"
http://i.imgur.com/7Yyk8yD.png
Talk is cheap, coal is cheap. Room to roam profits. Room to roam; nice nick. Hey asshole, we're all debtors to the system, but you are exceptional huh?
wait - this guy is in the news again?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crandall_Canyon_Mine
The same guy that was fined big bucks for faulty mine, killing 6 people, is now claiming the government is destroying lives?
o the irony.....
Not much actual irony in some corrupted capitalist fuck killing people for money and walking away from it. That's just BAU, more so in some places than others, maybe.
I would be looking forward to this whole capitalist carnival side show devouring itself in a fit of cannibal fury, except one of those currupted fucks is currently paying my salary.
Yeah. Conflicted. But only a little because I'm willing to see it all go away if it means I get a free rein to -- well mishandle -- some of these pukes.
"this whole capitalist carnival side show"
ooof. It's always funny when imbeciles that have enabled and voted for ("I'm a commie/pinko/lib/fascist") this not-quite-yet-completely-totalitarian-fascist system we have and then they call it a capitalist carnival. How dumb do you have to be not to be able to put a cause and effect analysis of YOUR beliefs into play while you people proudly stamp your feet and proclaim that liberalism is everywhere and the reality is that liberalism controls this country..
This system has nothing to do with capitalism and you'll notice that your liberal system is in collapse.
The mythic "capitalism" has never existed on any meaningful scale in this country or anywhere else for that matter. There has always been rules for markets, always some form of governing and enforcing mechanism, and always someone who controlled those 3 things to their benefit.
"Murray is not dealing with reality. It's not the Obama administration or Democrats. It's capitalism. It's the free market. It's that simple."
---Bo Webb Director of some such
(AKA The answer to the long-asked question: I wonder what ever happened to Baghdad Bob)
This fckwad CEO is just setting up his receiving a multimillion dollar payoff when he closes down the company.
They care nothing about anything except themselves.
Coal businesses have been caught in a 2-pronged 'pincer' by QE and ZIRP-fuelled natgas fracking and questionably legal taxation/.gov regulation. Neither of these factors represents 'capitalism'. They are both politically fuelled.
The 'pincer' is cheap, not-gonerment-sponsored natual gas from fracking, the collapse of overseas demand, especially China (for many reasons), and the gradual reduction of US coal use in manufacturing and smelting.
All of these ARE capitalist, market-based causes. Coal's coffin was already built before Obama started his regulations.
Wake up! Coal is over
Yep! Unless we want to be like China and filter every building and every room and still not be able to see out the window.
Coal has been in trouble for a while.
1) Cheap Natgas priced in $/MBTU is just cheaper and cleaner then Coal.
2) That slackening demand lowers coal prices.
3) Electriicity demand has been stagnating for years.
4) Cheap PV is destroying the peak market hours for generators.
5) Multiple toxic spills in the coal industry have enraged consumers.
Bob Murray just needs to line up with the Buggy Whip and whale oil companies.
Item 1 is a lie.
I'll stop there.
Squid
Yeah the Coal Industry has been so good for West Virginia and the country at large. Fuck this guy. The production and use of his prodect kills people. If we'd started investing just a little R&D money in energy alternatives back in the 70's, we'd have all this energy shit solved by now. We wouldn't be burning anything for energy. Certainly not coal. And BTW there is no such thing as "clean coal". The coal issue reminds me of the Tobacco issue 20 years ago. Execs from both industries think we should all keep smokin'. It won't do no harm, and lives will be ruined if we stop!
It's difficult to say whether the Dems hate the Middle Class or small businesses more since Piglosi, Barry, Reed, Boxer, Finesteen, Klintons and so on have done their best to destroy both.
Damn.
Last I looked it was a pretty nice day outside and why people get their knickers twisted over some economic/political reality evades me.
The shit will work its way out somehow; your duty is to make it work for you and yours.
That's all. Except for that John Stuart Mills part about shared responsibilty, community, civilaztion and such, but really not so much of a big deal at the base of it all.
Deal with it. Quit fucking bitching about it. Its' getting old.
Push Trump to the presidential top. I mean, seriously, can we do worse? Easily.
So, get a fucking grip and a fucking life.
Billions have been spent to upgrade power plants to comply with the FEDS who have now acted illegally. It is not your money and jobs that is being stolen here.
"So, get a fucking grip and a fucking life."
It appears that your brains reside in your penis.
And your life revolves only around that
Time to get a rope yet?
Any free country, in order to remain free, must spill the blood of those who want to take away that freedom. We have not had to make that choice since WWII. Honestly is was probably 1776. Soon some of us will have to make that choice because many will not.
What? Big coal can't compete with natural gas and wants tax payer money to prop them up?
Denial is running out of road, and America is being forced to wake up to the grim reality of the fact that you can't have it both ways.
Nice tribe hand flash. Pimp that pillar and divide.
Dangit! If we just had a republican in office, we could fix all of this mess.
lol
Dang! If we just raise 200,000 men, 300,000 guns, 500 million rounds, 20,000 8' lengths of 1/2 #40 chain, 1000 pairs of bolt cutters and 2000 cellphone jammers, we can lock all the core federal employees in their buildings. Then all the traitors in Washington can do is talk. There are over 800,000 Boy Scouts in the US, with many veteran leaders. Dang! I Have A Dream.
In a future quake on the New Madrid Faultline, one which happens just about every 200 years, coal plants would not mean the end of life on earth. Presently there are 19 nuclear power plants on the Madrid which would melt down during a quake like the one which happened in 1817. The Mississippi ran backwards and pictures fell off the walls in New York State.
Lets put on our thinking caps now, every two hundred years, 1817, 1917 .......... 2017. That is two hundred years. Do you feel lucky?
Not only that but gas lines, power lines and bridges cross the New Madrid and the Mississippi River. It would put a crimp in the five day food supply chain. Andy food you received after that would be radioactive anyway. A slip of the New Madrid would make Fukushima seem like a walk in the park.
This would be rough on a portfolio
https://dublinsmick.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/the-worlds-most-dangerous-d...
Certainly here in America when it comes to managing a flooding Mississippi valley, power is going to be of the utmost concern and crucial to say the least. (Sorry make it Bernard) Shanks warns there could be a flood of biblical proportions should the Fort Peck Dam give way. http://plainsdaily.com/entry/possible-ft-peck-dam-failure-major-threat-to-missouri-flooding/ http://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2011/06/controlled-power-cuts-...I'll just toss this out into the aether and see what sticks. Ideas I've had along the way while I continually marvel at the idiocy of mankind. Yes, it's a rant as well.
The Mississippi flooding could most certainly be controlled. If you can pipeline oil/natural gas/whatever, why not pipeline the water. And pump it where it needs to go when it needs to go there. Notably Texas and westward when conditions get like they are now...(namely an ongoing drought). Does this strike you as too great an engineering project? Sure it does, because over the course of years big projects are deemed too costly. (But yet we can build a $13 billion dollar aircraft carrier, and some very expensive fighter jets which in reality serve only one purpose...more war and destruction). Creating a couple of large lakes along the way wouldn't hurt either. Call them fresh water reserves, I don't care... (You have to think big here, like Hoover Dam big, like the TVA big) Otherwise it is going to be the same shit for years to come. Seriously, the Army Corp of Engineers blowing up levees? I didn't think the level of stupidity could get much higher than that.
Here's another one... as others have pointed out, heating and cooling make up a lot of the energy costs on the planet. Yet we continue to build skyward rather than down into the ground. Earth housing has a lot of advantages. Yes, you can google it, so I don't have to waste bandwidth. I know this will draw a lot of Eloi vs Moorlock comparisons and possibly some but I dont want to be a fucking hobbit comparisons, but ultimately it makes sense in areas prone to devasting tornadoes and some of the other plces that are hit by what mother nature throws at us. Do I recommend this for coastline areas or areas prone to flooding? Of course not. But why the fuck do you live in a flood plain to begin with? The last time I checked into one of these earth homes that were for sale, I asked the guy his energy costs. Less than $50 a month...
I actually watched DutchBoy's rather tedious infomercial about solar polar, and the only decent point made was one by a German guy who said that a lot of surface area in Germany are the rooftops of buildings. Even though I have been saying that almost since the inception of solar power, his "idea" is neither new or innovative, just common sense. Of course you stick the solar panels on the rooftops, anywhere else is a waste of valuable agricultural land.
Recycling of nuclear fuel. France does it. The U.S. is being particularly retarded by the mere fact they don't do it, but instead are creating the next generation of Superfund sites with all the coolant pools across the country. Again, stupidity, if not borderline insanity.
Okay, time for another beer. And while this may be the best verbal fight club on-line, keep in the back of your minds what the fight is really about. Your right to live as free men unencumbered from the tyrannies of others.
Look at the Nile and Salt River Project for examples of the benefits, past mistakes and unavoidable consequences of conforming the environment to mostly childish, entirely self absorbed, psychedelicized chimpanzees with thumbs.
Well, I down voted you for the solar power thing, makes no sense above a certain latitude (like Germany).
Or Wind. All expensive losers, designed to cripple the poor.
But up voted you for the nuclear fuel recycle thing.
Your site's interesting, to say the least.
Fire and Ice Fire and IceBy Robert Frost 1874–1963
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.70 y/o of observation tells me People who know something important mostly are ignored by authorities. Save yourself, move out of the path of destruction if you're in it.
Coal is an industry about 100 years past it's sell-by date - time to close it all down and put whiners like Murray in retirement.
Because in the future, coal gasification will never be needed... short-sightedness is not required when it comes to meeting the energy requirements of the entire planet.
http://www.elmiraohio.com/Gasifier%20Docs/dg_knowledge_gained.pdf
What is past its "sell -by date" is America. We will rally to defend bankers and fat cat mine owners, before we defend workers and America's poor.
America is over, we elect a monster like Bush , who starts a war based on lies, and where is he now, in jail, nope, probably out playing golf with his oil buddies.
America's ignorance is only exceeded by our aggressiveness. We pay for a military that defends the world, but leaves our borders wide open. And do we do anything about it, nope...
It is not just Bush, but Clinton.... look at all of the deregulation done during his terms..
Clinton is responsibe for Glass-Stegall Act being repealed....
Dem or Rep it doesn't really matter, the same whore with different make-up and clothes.
Nope, it was Don Regan, Reagan admin.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/05/how-we-ended-glass-steagall/
Bullshit... I am no fan of coal!! But, base load coal power plants are very important to our electrical grid... 39% of our electrical production comes from coal... so be very careful what you wish for.
Companies should NOT be allowed to externalize their cost... and that includes "environmental" cost to clean up the MESSES these assholes leave behind...
Doesn't matter if it is coal, natural gas... (oh yeah NG might burn "clean" but extracting it from the ground ain't so pretty...) etc etc.. When you price these forms of energy with the "externalized costs" rolled in and you might find coal is the prettiest ugly sister. The coal industry needs to smarten up and start pointing to the messes made with fracking etc etc.. Natural gas is what is putting these boys out of business, the coal industry should take the lead and start researching and investing (something Amerika has forgotten how to do) into the technology that could be used to clean up their act and improve the efficiency of the dinosaurs that were built more than half a century ago!!! Instead they have "industry leaders" who have callouses on their knuckles... and an IQ to match...
Coal power plants are probably going to be the most efficient and cost effective places to reduce emissions... lots of room for improvement... and very little time left...
But that ain't going to happen... we are going to drive this bitch into the wall with our foot on the pedal....lol
The Latin's named us wrong homosapien.... are not the "intelligent ape"... we are the "clever ape"....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEq8DBxm0J4
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/09/17/first-american-nuke-pl...
Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape, or hope of better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for death when so unwilling to live. Let it be our constant care to get ready for another world, and then leave it to God to order our removal thither as he thinks fit.
He might want to consider where Obozo get his orders. He is just a lacky after all.
Not meaning to defend Obama, but where's this guy been for the last 150 or so years? The government has a long history of destroying industries that it doesn't like, or that it's bribed to destroy by the competition. Murray Energy should have learned the lesson that A&P Grocery learned 80 years ago: give the president's kid a job and they'll leave you alone.
I'm reading the tactical shooter on scribd. So you believe in God. Do you realize that if he wasn't real, the church would be the most corrupt institution on the planet earth? Besides that, if you believe "God is holy", why would he make most people's lives ****? It's funny, because what brings people together isn't the act of worshiping God, but instead the fundamentals that church leaders mix in the koolaid. I am a student of progress. I know the ubermich, that who's soul is tainted by the scourge and taint of religion, has yet to save the world. Screw your dogmatism.
sorry cheap natural gas in the US.
http://static.cdn-seekingalpha.com/uploads/2014/11/4/470666-141515509541...
and collapsing demand for coal globally
http://2sdyuft3m8u44r50x3q3y1b1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploa...
is resulting in reduced demand and prices.
Murray was an idiot, bet that high prices from 2008 would be the future instead of the last call.
He went and bought all the coal producers.
They shut down the coal power plants in my town long before the natural gas prices collapsed...
Yes, King Coal started going downhill when they switched the trains and ships from coal-fired steam to diesel -- about 1930. Environmental regulations are just administering the final mercy cut to an industry that's been dying for 80 years.
Makes these guys feel good when "they yell down the well....."
Hillary Clinton Exposed, Movie She Banned From Theaters Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYW5nmS9ps
Guy interviewed: " People ask me, 'do we have to go thru all these old Clinton scandals again?' "
"Well, I've good news for you. You don't. Because you can look at the new ones. Hillary Clinton scandals are a gift that keeps on giving."
lol.
Practice saying "President Hillary."
So says the man so concerned about people and not profits. Murray has single-handedly been responsible for open pit mining and mountain-top destructions and producing rivers of coal sludge that can't be cleaned. His operations cause untold envionmental damage. People like him should be in prison, not given the opportunity to publicly dispense crockodile tears over 'his people', the ones he has oppressed through his single-industry economy in areas where people haven't the means to fight back. I put people like him in the same class as the Kochs, the other billionaires and the Zionists - human sludge that should be disposed of at the earliest opportunity.
Well said “Victor”, and I get a kick out of the intellectual cowards who “down vote” you without making an argument as to why.
It is just sad how SOME on the right (I say some, because you never know when it is hasbara trolls, spamming hate for liberals and the environment, posing as conservatives, it’s all about divide and conquer for that filth), act like caring for the environment is “liberal”, simply astounding.
The gig MAY be up in America, if we can’t get past fighting each other instead of fighting the parasite in our midst.
And you should live in a cave with no electricity! You are "single-handedly" responsible for people loosing their jobs!
What's up with the war criminal Lincoln references?
Notwithstanding this guy, Obama is still a fucking moron
Unlike noted GOP genius W.
I quit reading as soon as he called Lincol the best president ever.
If blatently shitting on not just the text but also spirit of the constitution makes someone a great president, then Lincol is certaily a contender.
Off your meds, Mr. Jeff Davis?
Mountain topping is done to get at the filthy coal. Wash water is put into streams that are now just ditches or heavy metals, including Hg. This man new this was coming but just wanted to ignore the facts. Now he pretends to be some great crusader for those poor employees he cares so much about.
Anyone who believes this plight must be living in Virgina and have black lung desease.
Just remember that coal is what powered America industry (back when we had any) and coal is what is powering China now as they make nearly every product sold on the planet today. So stopping American coal is hardly helping the 'clean' planet if you own anything Made in China. I could even argue that our entitlement society was built on cheap coal power - and when coal dies the entitlement society is right behind it.
and what exactly is going to replace coal fired elec generrating capacity?
I can hardly wait till the NE runs out of electicity during a winter cold wave.
Slavery powered America. You wanna bring back slavery?
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/40-less-mercury-in-fish-shows-success-of-...
I gotta breath polluted air so Mr. Murray can make money?
Don't think so.
Happy bankruptcy!
Well, coal or no coal, Bath House Barry was installed to Destroy America.
Go into those Walt-Mart Gas Chambers, Americans!
This dude is an idiot if he thinks Obama, Bush, Cheney, Reagan, Clinton or any other presidental puppet is allowed to 'destroy' anything without the oligarch's approval. Simple. They are pasties as Oswald put it, or front men, talking heads etc. The more things seem to change, the more they remain the same... only the names have changed to confuse the herd... which this dude seems to be.
Seek and ye shall find. Seek not, find nothing but the usual cycle of cataclysmic destruction as Mother Nature sweeps in to clean house and restock the store for the next turn of the wheel.
Becuz a Homo cant think straight