Robert Kennedy Snr & Jnr vs Mountain top mining & more?

[daeron]

I just googled the term 'mountain top mining', bless their hearts, several members of the Kennedy family have embraced public service and listened to their better angels;e.g. The Last Mountain trailer. But I wonder how many of us have? We cheer others on, we vote, but as a community have voters heard what the Presidents have been asking of them?

Last week we heard advice that "it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades" and "those of us who carry on his party’s legacy should remember that not every problem can be remedied with another government program or dictate from Washington" so I suspect "ask what you can do for your country" is still being asked today. Every President needs to maintain their moral compass, and I suspect President Eisenhower asked for help too late, he asked a disbelieving public to help recognize the Industrial Military Complex - not the military industry, but the complex of trans-national corporations that use fear & national security as a tool to get what they want at the nation's expense.

If you google mountain top mining, you can see Robert Kennedy Jnr lend his hand; but mining in America is only a small part of an industrial complex. For more, look at this satellite photo of an American mine in a remote colony. In 1961 the NSC kept asking President Kennedy to sacrifice our Pacific war allies of West New Guinea to foreign colonial rule, eventually JFK & RFK drafted what is known as a "trusteeship agreement" - in resolution 1752 the Dutch colony became a United Nations colony administrated by Indonesia which promised to allow an "act of self-determination" by 1969 otherwise the UN would begin to pressure Jakarta to allow the act.

But Robert F Kennedy was killed before he could remind the United Nations in 1969 that the colony was a "trust territory", since 1994 the RFK Memorial Center has tried to champion the plight of West Papua (the colony's chosen name for itself since 1961), as part of his swan-song Patrick Kennedy in 2010 re-introduced a West Papua text back into the Foreign Relations Authorization bill; but the trans-national corporations have too much influence in Washington. For sixty years a complex of transnationals has profited from questionable US policies from Indonesia to Iraq to South America.

Should America remind the UN about the trusteeship agreement? And might that shine a much needed light on transnational corporations that until now have been able to influence Washington from the shadows?

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	America should remind the UN
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	Somebody else should remind the UN
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	Lets forget about UN resolution 1752 (XVII) and West Papua
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[daeron]

1. I'd love to hear any thoughts from the public

Because at the end of the day it is public interest or lack there of which drives such issues..