10.1 Top 100 coal waste storage sites in the U.S.
The mining process itself produces waste coal or solid mining refuse, which is a mixture of coal and rock.
The mining process also produces liquid coal waste, which is then stored in impoundments.
Pollution control equipment used for coal combustion produces coal ash or fly ash, as well as flue-gas desulfurization (FGD), a wet solid residue created by sulfur dioxide scrubbers.
Before burning, coal is crushed and washed, creating waste water filled with toxins. Another form of liquid coal waste is acidic mine runoff. Both forms of liquid coal waste are disposed of in a landfill at the mine site. Each year coal preparation creates waste water containing an estimated 13 tons of mercury, 3236 tons of arsenic, 189 tons of beryllium, 251 tons of cadmium, and 2754 tons of nickel, and 1098 tons of selenium.
The 1.05 billion tons of coal burned each year in the United States contain 109 tons of mercury, 7884 tons of arsenic, 1167 tons of beryllium, 750 tons of cadmium, 8810 tons of chromium, 9339 tons of nickel, and 2587 tons of selenium. On top of emitting 1.9 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year, coal-fired power plants in the United States also create 120 million tons of toxic waste. That means each of the nation's 500 coal-fired power plants produces an average 240,000 tons of toxic waste each year. A power plant that operates for 40 years will leave behind 9.6 million tons of toxic waste.
This coal combustion waste (CCW) constitutes the nation's second largest waste stream after municipal solid waste.
"Much power plant waste once went into the sky, but because of toughened air pollution laws, it now often goes into lakes and rivers, or into landfills that have leaked into nearby groundwater, say regulators and environmentalists... Some regulators have used laws like the Clean Water Act to combat such pollution. But those laws can prove inadequate, say regulators, because they do not mandate limits on the most dangerous chemicals in power plant waste, like arsenic and lead." Ninety percent of coal plants the EPA found in violation of the Clean Water Act since 2004 have not been fined or sanctioned in any way. Lobbyists and some politicians blocked the EPA from creating stricter regulations for power plant waste in 2000. Campaign finance reports from 2008 show power companies donated $20 million to campaigns of both Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
2009 New York Times map of Coal Fired Power Plant regulation violators and their sanctions: "Water Polluters Near You: Coal-Fired Power Plants"
In October 2009, Appalachian Voices released an analysis of monitoring data from coal waste ponds at 13 coal plants in North Carolina. The study revealed that all of them are contaminating ground water with toxic pollutants, in some cases with over 350 times the allowable levels according to state standards. The contaminants include the toxic metals arsenic, cadmium, chromium, and lead, which can cause cancer and neurological disorders. The study was based on data submitted by Duke Energy and Progress Energy to state regulators. The N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources is attempting to confirm the results before determining whether current state law can mandate corrective action.
Although nuclear power retains the stigma of producing dangerous radiation, "waste produced by coal plants is actually more radioactive than that generated by their nuclear counterparts" in addition to known problems such as polluting the air and causing acid rain. Coal contains small amounts of uranium and thorium, which are concentrated "up to 10 times" in coal ash, a waste product of burning coal. Coal ash can leech radioactivity into the surrounding groundwater and soil, depending on where it is disposed. Robert Finkelman, a former US Geological Survey (USGS) researcher, said that people living around coal plants will increase the amount of radiation they are exposed to by 5% every year. Finkelman thinks that radiation is "more of an occupational hazard than a general environmental hazard... The miners are surrounded by rocks and sloshing through ground water that is exuding radon." This is an additional reason some people support alternative forms of energy.
"The inspector general of the Tennessee Valley Authority... found groundwater contaminants leaching out of coal ash dumps at eight of the nine plants being monitored."
On June 27, 2012 the EPA released information revealing the existence of hundreds of previously unknown coal ash dumps across the country. The information was released after the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice filed a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA).
The data revealed there are at least 451 more coal ash ponds than previously acknowledged by the agency. Previously the EPA admitted there were 710 ponds that existed, however, the new numbers the FOIA request revealed increased that total to 1,161. Additionally, the EPA had previously not stated how many ponds were unlined. The data released indicated that at least 535 ponds currently operate without a liner to prevent hazardous chemicals from reaching drinking water sources.
In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute for Southern Studies looked into political contributions by the electrical utilities industry to the members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. According to data Sturgis gathered from the Center for Responsive Politics' OpenSecrets.org website, members of the Senate committee accepted a total of $1,079,503 from the electric utilities industry in the 2008 elections.
Senate Bill 1751 Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act , introduced in the 112th United States Congress by Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND). To amend subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act to facilitate recovery and beneficial use, and provide for the proper management and disposal, of materials generated by the combustion of coal and other fossil fuels.
The bill would allow construction of ash dumps that don't meet drinking water standards for arsenic, lead and other pollutants; allow indefinite operation of unstable and dangerous ash ponds; shut out citizens who live near coal ash sites from permitting decisions that affect their health and safety; allow states to waive any health and safety standards and require EPA to defer to those decisions, and prevent EPA from ever revisiting a coal ash rule, even in the event of increased risk from ash dumps.
The bill is nearly identical to HR 2273.
See Earthjustice's fact sheet for SB 1751.
EPA is holding public hearings and accepting public comments on its Coal Combusion Residuals - Proposed Rule through November 19, 2010.
Internet sign-on comment letters on EPA's Proposed Rule asking that coal waste be regulated as hazardous waste have been developed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility,Green America, Credo Action, and Sierra Club.
Democratic Rep. Ralph Howard of Greensboro introduced the bill.
On March 8, 2010 it was announced that the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control agreed to eliminate arsenic limits in a wastewater discharge permit for South Carolina Electric & Gas Company's (SCE&G) Wateree Station. SCE&G needs State approval for its coal ash ponds because wastewater from the site runs directly into the Wateree River. The ponds take waste from the company's 40-year-old coal-fired plant. Since the 1990s, high levels of arsenic, a carcinogen, have been found in groundwater and in seepage to the Wateree River from coal ash ponds at the power plant. Sierra Club and other environmental groups are posing to fight the permit on the grounds that arsenic ought not be eliminated from regulation.
In September 2010, a group of investors representing over $240 billion in assets under management sent in a public comment letter to the EPA reading: "The catastrophic coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) pond in December 2008 demonstrated that current regulations are not enough to mitigate environmental and financial risk for utilities and their shareholders." The investors go on to highlight the financial assurance requirement in the proposed regulations as a critical measure to assist shareholders in understanding the financial risks associated with coal ash and evaluating which companies are financially prepared to manage the costs of closing down coal ash sludge ponds or dealing with coal ash‐related impacts: "Beyond the TVA spill, the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico demonstrates that unforeseen accidents can occur that create unpredictably large environmental and financial risk for energy companies. We believe it is critical that utilities be required to assure shareholders and the public that they are financially prepared to manage the costs associated with a catastrophic coal ash spill or other ash‐related events that could require significant clean up costs."
In late August through October 2010 the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery scheduled seven public meetings across the country to discuss the agency's proposed regulation of coal ash. The meetings locations included Arlington, Virginia; Denver, Colorado; Dallas, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Louisville, Kentucky and Knoxville, Tennessee.
Supporters and opponents alike attended the public meeting held in Louisville, Kentucky on September 28, 2010. Industry workers argued that the ash can be recycled and used in the manufacture of drywall and concrete, but they argue stiffer environmental rules would hurt business by placing a stigma on the substance, also called fly ash. They said 15 million tons of the ash is used by the concrete industry each year.
Supporters of coal ash regulation stated that the substance was harming waterways and causing human health hazards. "It's destroying the health of the men, women and children of our communities," said Thomas Pearce, a Sierra Club member who used to live near a coal ash storage site in Louisville.
A report released in October 2010 by Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) and other environmental groups titled "State of Coal Ash Regulations in Tennessee" cited weak state regulations in Tennessee as an example of the need for federal reform regarding coal ash. As such, the report noted that regulation should not be left up to state governments.
"Given that states like Tennessee have failed to accept regulatory responsibility for coal ash in the past, it is unwise to rely solely on states to ensure that electric generators safely dispose of their coal waste," the report said.
For example, in Tennessee, the report noted, two years after the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill, the largest industrial spill in U.S. history, the state had not beefed up laws to handle toxic waste from its coal-fired power plants.
"Unfortunately, Tennessee has failed to become a leader in setting strong standards for coal ash disposal," the authors wrote.
A report released by DeSmogBlog and PolluterWatch released in late October 2010 stated that coal industry lobbyists held 33 secretive meetings with the White House to peddle their influence over proposed coal ash regulation. The report noted that this was over three times more meetings than the administration held with environmental groups on the same issue.
The report noted that the Utility Solid Waste Activities Group (USWAG) was one of the main front groups that represented the coal industry on coal ash regulation. USWAG, the report stated, operated out of the Edison Electric Institute and has argued that disposing of coal ash as hazardous waste could cost the industry $20 billion annually. USWAG lobbyists Jim Rower and Douglas Green were the only individuals granted two meetings with the White House on coal ash regulations. In addition, the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA), an umbrella group for all coal ash interests, including major coal burners Duke Energy, Southern Company and American Electric Power and dozens of other organizations, also argued that a hazardous designation would wipe out the so-called "beneficial-use industry" that used coal ash to produce construction and household products.
ACAA set up a front group during this period called Citizens for Recycling First to argue on the industry's behalf that using toxic coal ash as fill in products was safe. A review of lobbying disclosure records reveals at least 30 lobbyists representing ACAA member companies who reported lobbying White House, Congressional and agency staff on coal ash issues in the first half of 2010.
In December 2010 environmentalists stated that the EPA's report on cost-benefit analysis of coal ash waste was riddled with errors. As a result, environmentalists stated that they fear that the EPA's analysis would lead to less stringent standards for the substance, a move they said would disregard the potential health effects of coal-ash exposure.
The environmentalists stated the EPA's cost-benefit analysis overstated the benefits of coal-ash recycling, a process by which coal ash is used to make a number of common products. In overstating the benefits, the agency was seen as perpetuating the idea that more stringent coal ash regulation will make it harder to recycle the substance.
A House committee approved legislation on July 13, 2011 that would bar federal regulation of coal ash as hazardous waste. The bill, passed 35-12 by the Energy and Commerce Committee, now moves to the House floor, where a Republican majority is expected to pass it. Six Democrats joined the committee's Republicans in voting for the bill. While barring the EPA from regulating coal ash, the legislation would allow states to treat the ash as municipal waste, placing it in the same category as household garbage and cleaning chemicals, wastewater and construction debris. It was reported that landfills and ponds holding coal ash generally would be subject to the same rules for design, lining and groundwater testing as landfills containing municipal garbage.
Current EPA regulations regarding coal waste: "Fossil Fuel Combustion Waste" and "Coal Combustion Residuals"
A study conducted by Duke University researchers found that contaminants from coal waste can linger in river sediment much longer than surface water. The study "documents contaminant levels in aquatic ecosystems over an 18-month period following a massive coal sludge spill in 2008 at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Kingston, Tennessee". The team also found different factors that could influence how much of the contaminants escape into the environment, including water acidity and oxygen levels. Avner Vengosh, a professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, believes "The take-away lesson is we need to change how and where we look for coal ash contaminants. Risks to water quality and aquatic life don't end with surface water contamination, but much of our current monitoring does... As long as coal ash isn't regulated as hazardous waste, there is no way to prevent discharges of contaminants from these facilities and protect the environment." The study is published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Scott Slesinger, legislative director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, believes that if the EPA labels coal waste as hazardous waste, recycling can function as cost savings. Slesinger explains, "If something is a hazardous waste, it has to go to a hazardous waste landfill. That is more expensive than what [the waste producers] had done before."
On June 27, 2012 language that would have barred Environmental Protection Agency regulation of coal-ash waste were dropped from a highway spending bill being negotiated by U.S. lawmakers.
A sweeping $54 million settlement against a Constellation Energy Group subsidiary was approved by a Baltimore judge in 2008. Anne Arundel County, Maryland residents and thier attorneys settled a two year class action claiming groundwater contamination by coal ash.
On December 1, 2009, Sierra Club, Earthjustice, and the Environmental Integrity Project filed a lawsuit to force the Environmental Protection Agency to release information including storage capacity, inspection results, and records of violations, for over 70 coal waste storage sites across the U.S. Some power companies, such as Duke Energy, FirstEnergy, and Southern Company subsidiaries Alabama Power and Georgia Power, have asked the EPA to withhold the data as "confidential business information." The environmental groups filed a complaint in federal district court under the Freedom of Information Act, arguing that access to the information is vital to the health and safety of the communities surrounding the potentially hazardous sites.
In December 2009, there was a Congressional hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on "Drinking Water and Public Health Impacts of Coal Combustion Waste Disposal." Dr. Donald MacGraw, the GOP's expert witness at the hearing, testified that arsenic is natural and coal waste benign, as seen in this video.
In 2003 and 2004, approximately 100 million pounds of toxic coal waste was dumped onto pristine beaches in Arroyo Barril and Manzanillo in the Dominican Republic by AES Corporation, ("AES") a multi-national, Arlington, Virginia-based power generating conglomerate with plants in 29 countries. The coal wastes dumped contained varying amounts of dangerous heavy metals including arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, nickel and vanadium.
The toxic coal ash immediately caused breathing problems and skin injuries to residents of Arroyo Barril who constantly were buffeted with onshore breezes loaded with wind-blown ash. Breathing and skin problems continue today. Much of the mountains of ash was taken away and the remaining material has been whittled down by being dissolved into the groundwater, flowing into the water's edge or being dispersed across the Samana region by the winds. Some of the coal ash was transported to another island location. The toxic coal ash that remains today is hidden in many areas by a thick growth of vegetation.
Following the dumping and its immediate consequences, an even more grotesque chapter is being written in this environmental horror story. The ash that islanders were told was harmless but caused acute and chronic health problems is a toxic time bomb causing horrendous birth defects.
In 2006 AES settled a federal lawsuit with the Dominican Republic for just the environmental consequences of the illegal dumping. The settlement including nothing to compensate Dominicans injured by the illegal coal ash dumping. Details of the settlement remain under seal.
On November 4, 2009, on behalf of eleven plaintiffs in Arroyo Barril, two of whom died after birth, a landmark Complaint was filed in Delaware Superior Court seeking damages from AES and its companies for the human toll the illegal dumping has caused. Law firms in New York City, Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware comprise the legal team prosecuting this case.
The Complaint also seeks to compel AES to provide a comprehensive medical monitoring regime for the plaintiffs during their lifetimes. Serious medical problems, including lung and other cancers which take decades to appear, are expected to develop from pervasive exposure to toxic coal ash.
insufficient to establish guidelines to protect groundwater and surface water and define prohibited ―open dumps‖ under RCRA (40 C.F.R. §§ 257.3-3 and 257.3- 4).
A January 2009 study by The New York Times following the enormous TVA coal ash spill found that there are more than 1,300 surface impoundments across the U.S., each of which can reach up to 1,500 acres. Shaila Dewan, "Hundreds of Coal Ash Dumps Lack Regulation," New York Times, January 7, 2009. Also in January 2009, an Associate Press study found that 156 coal-fired power plants store ash in surface ponds similar to one that ruptured at Kingston Fossil Plant. The states with the most storage in coal ash in ponds are Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama. The AP's analysis found that in 2005, 721 power plants generating at least 100 MW of electricity produced 95.8 million tons of coal ash, about 20 percent of which - or almost 20 million tons - ended up in surface ponds. The rest of the ash winds up in landfills or is sold for other uses.
Also in January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of CCW stored in surface impoundments like the one at TVA's Kingston Fossil Plant. Sturgis used data from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available. The following table represents the amount of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006 by the top 100 polluters. Sue Sturgis, "Coal's ticking timebomb: Could disaster strike a coal ash dump near you?," Institute for Southern Studies, January 4, 2009.
In 2009, As You Sow and Green Century Capital Management filed five proposals asking CMS Energy, First Energy, MDU Resources Group, Southern Company, and Xcel Energy to report on efforts to reduce environmental and health hazards associated with toxic coal waste (coal ash) and to protect utilities from financial and regulatory risk.
"University of Kentucky's Center for Applied Energy Research: Fly Ash Library"
The utilities industry has promoted the reuse of coal combustion waste because of the growing amount produced each year and because the industry can sell the hazardous waste as a "product" — providing a huge subsidy to coal. Over 136 million tons were generated in 2007 and over 60 million tons or 44.5% were used or sold for a wide range of so called "beneficial uses."
Uses for coal ash are unregulated by the EPA or FDA and coal wastes are used, without testing for toxics or lableing, in a huge range of cosmetics, consumer, and building products including toothpaste, construction fill, kitchen counter tops, dry wall, mine reclamation, bowling balls, carpet backing, utensils, and many other products.
In 2007, 50 million tons of fly ash was used for agriculture purposes, such as improving the soil's ability to hold water, in spite of a 1999 EPA warning about high levels of arsenic.
↑ What Is a Coal Sludge or Slurry Impoundment?, Coal River Mountain Watch.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Green Coal?," Rachel's Environment & Health News, November 6, 2008.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 /AspStories/story.asp?storyID=733185&category=REGION&TextPage=1 "Fly ash: Culprit at Lafarge? Residue of coal-burning is being examined as possible source of mercury pollution," Times Union, October 26, 2008.
↑ "Report: Contamination from coal ash waste is worse than EPA says" Mark Clayton, Christian Science Monitor, February 24, 2010.
↑ Mara Hvistendahl, "Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste," Scientific American, December 13, 2007.
↑ 32.0 32.1 Sue Sturgis"Bush administration hid coal ash dumps' true cancer threat," Instituted for Southern Studies, May 8, 2009.
↑ 33.0 33.1 Chris Knight, "Environmental group says Slate Belt coal-ash dump inadequately protecting against groundwater contamination," Express-Times, May 11, 2009.
↑ Rachel Kaufman, "Seeking a Safer Future for Electricity's Coal Ash Waste," National Geographic, August 15, 2011.
↑ "New EPA Data Show Coal Ash Problem Much Worse" Earthjustice, June 27, 2012.
↑ 47.0 47.1 Jeff Stant, "In Harm's Way: Lack of Federal Coal Ash Regulations Endangers Americans and their Environment," EarthJustice, Environmental Integrity Project, and Sierra Club report, August 26, 2010.
↑ 49.0 49.1 49.2 Shaila Dewan, "Hundreds of Coal Ash Dumps Lack Regulation," New York Times, January 7, 2009.
↑ 50.0 50.1 Dina Cappiello, "Toxic Coal Ash Piling up in Ponds in 32 States," Associated Press, January 9, 2009.
↑ "Senate Bill 1751" accessed December 12, 2011.
↑ [http://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/S1751-fact-sheet.pdf "Earthjustice Factsheet for SB 1751, accessed December 12, 2011.
↑ "U.S. EPA Coal Combustion Residuals - Proposed Rule Website"
↑ "Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) - Public Hearings," U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed September 29, 2010.
↑ "Opponents, supporters sound off on coal ash issue" Dylan Lovan, Forbes.com, September 29, 2010.
↑ "Study: Weak Coal Ash Regs in Tenn. Highlight Need for Federal Law" Stacy Feldman, Reuters, October 28, 2010.
↑ "Coal Lobbyists Wooed White House Staff to Influence Coal Ash Regulations Long Before Public Hearings" Brendan DeMelle, Huffington Post, October 27, 2010.
↑ "Greens say EPA analysis on coal ash riddled with errors" Andrew Restuccia, The Hill, December 29, 2010.
↑ Tim Lucas, "Duke Scientists Look Deeper for Coal Ash Hazards", Duke Today, November 29, 2010.
↑ "Keystone, Coal Ash Dropped From Highway Bill, Inhofe Says" Jim Snyder and Kathleen Hunte, Bloomberg News, June 27, 2012.
↑ "Baltimore judge approves $54M fly-ash suit settlement," Daily Record, December 31, 2008.
↑ "Communities Have Right to Know About Toxic Coal Ash Impoundments," Earthjustice, December 2, 2009.
↑ "Environmental Groups to sue EPA over coal ash" Spencer Hunt, The Columbus Dispatch, January 18, 2011.
↑ "Letter of Intent to Sue" Appalachian Voices et al, January 18, 2012.
↑ Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility,"Coal Combustion Waste - Coal Ash is Everywhere."
↑ 95.0 95.1 "Unlined Landfills?: The Story of Coal Ash Waste in our Backyard" Sierra Club North Carolina Report, April 7, 2010.
↑ Sue Sturgis, "'Dumpsites in Disguise:' Reuse of Coal Ash Largely Unregulated by Officials" truthout, May 27, 2010.
↑ 97.0 97.1 97.2 97.3 "Eco Risks of Coal Ash as Mine Fill Understated" PEER, Dec. 15, 2010.
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"Coal Combustion Waste, As You May or May Not Know...", March 27, 2008.


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On the Permitted Fascist Temper Tantrum That Caught the World's Eye: An Anarchist Response to the January 6th Melee in DC
So much could be said about the spectacle recently witnessed at Washington, DC's federal capitol building, however we will write a quick statement, hoping to further understand the situation as well as to assert a need on behalf of comrades in the States who face both imminent and ongoing grassroots violence and parallel state repression. Essentially, what we saw was not an insurrection or revolt; what the world witnessed was a permitted fascist temper tantrum.
A contibution from RadioFragmata on Athens Indymedia.
In the Greek context, for example, we witnessed the Macedonian-name-protests rushing the Parliament in Syntagma Square before the verdict on their stupid case, and police essentially functioning as minimally as possible in part to show their obvious bias and sympathy for those seizing Parliament, while also trying not to lose their jobs. The chants heard at the capitol building – such as "U-S-A" and "Trump is President, Christ is king!" – easily find Greek analogues.
On January 6th, 2021, the American government gathered for its ritual of certifying the Electoral College results, signifying the transfer of power to a new president. It is an archaic ritual that – because it began prior to modern travel, and faraway states needed the months after the election to travel across the country by horse and carriage to participate – is held in January rather than immediately following the election's outcome in November. This event was seen by both Trump and his followers as the last 'hoorah' to disrupt the transfer of power from the far-right Republican Party to the moderate right-wing Democratic Party.
The US security state's very different approach to the MAGA mob versus an antifascist, anarchist, or abolitionist demonstration was made quite overt on the 6th. It was so obvious, in fact, that mainstream media outlets have seized upon it, in their embarrassing public displays of trying to grasp just why the police put on their kid-gloves with these self-indulgent cowards seeking to reinforce the very worst of what already exists in the US, storming a building that has its very own police force (with an annual budget of more than $500 million).
The police tolerance exhibited for Trump's supporters was purposefully obvious. It has been public information that the extreme right in the US have chosen to infiltrate law enforcement and political positions of power (even cited in a report by the FBI) ever since the fall of the guerrilla neo-Nazi group The Order in the mid-1980s and white supremacist Timothy McVeigh's bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building in 1995 that killed 168 people. Both were inspired by the white supremacist bible at the time, the fictional novel The Turner Diaries (1978), which featured a similar assembling of fascists identifying as patriots. Apart from formally rampant white supremacy throughout the American police force, every single police union had endorsed Trump in the US in the run-up to the 2020 election. While police tend to be more diverse in the US compared to many countries around the world, the original purpose of the police in the US was to catch slaves and crush unions, so it is inevitable that regardless of race, there is an element of fascism in such a uniform.
If BLM, anarchist, or anti-fascist banners were raised on this day, there would have been mass arrests, far more intense brutality, and a likely massacre. While five people have died due to the events of the 6th (three due to self-inflicted injuries such as tasering themselves and causing a heart attack; falling off of scaffolding; and, being trampled to death while holding a "Don't Tread on Me" flag. One cop died due to assault*, and only one demonstrator due to police violence, and the other three literally died due to their own stupidity and maintained their white privilege even in their humiliating deaths. If this was not a white supremacist event—or an ostensibly fascist event – dozens would have been killed by the police.
Apart from the daily mass murder of people of color and poor people in the US by police, the fates of Kyle Rittenhouse and Michael Reinoehl, for some very recent examples, help to explain the behavior of the police on that day, how they acted in parallel to their grassroots fascist counterparts.
Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two people during a demonstration against the shooting of Jacob Blake—a Black man shot seven times in the back in front of his children by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The event left Blake paralyzed, but the officer who shot him will face no charges despite video evidence. Rittenhouse is currently on trial for his murders, and was allowed to move freely past the police line just shortly after killing people. Michael Reinoehl, on the other hand, was a self-proclaimed antifascist from Oregon, who in self-defense shot a fascist during a Trump protest. Reinoehl went on Vice News shortly after the event to proclaim the action was in self-defense, and one day later, he was shot over 50 times by federal police. Trump openly bragged about Reinhoel's assassination. With few exceptions, his fate was rarely discussed in the media, but shows the obstacles and struggle revolutionaries face versus the permitted 'rebellious' behavior of fascists and other fanatics for the misery of the world today. The courts are no different. The sentencing and investigations that inevitably follow the actions of the right are managed in a way resembling obligation, rather then the passionate and brutal judicial attacks by the state on revolutionary movements seeking liberation.
We watched this day as a liberal establishment shed spineless tears, a delusional grassroots fascist effort played coup games under the babysitter's gaze of the police, and the media desperately tried to explain the situation, with cautious laughter: 'it's only cosplay, nothing to see here.' What is certain is that those seizing the capitol by being invited into it, gates drawn, exhibited no courage and nothing that took place resembled an insurrection as the media and moderates try to claim.
When revolutionary movements that reject the system take to the streets, they are met with a very different situation. An established moderate right-wing party like the Democrats, or allegedly 'nuetral' law enforcement such as the FBI, will make an example of some of these right-wing delusional deadbeats, but it will be in the same way the New Democracy government in Greece made an example of the neo-nazi group Golden Dawn, or Facebook took down dozens of anarchist profiles to compensate for censoring an equivalent number of neo-Nazi profiles. It is a deceptive attempt to solidify an aesthetic of neutrality as they continue to impose the horrible society we reject.
The lengths the right went to in this action foreshadows the coming passive civil war already declared by the right, and is likely more emboldened than ever following January 6th. One thing that is unique about the American right, is that when they hold weapons it is not a crime until they are used to attack someone, and even then – in the case of Trayvon Martin or the recent shootings of antifascists at BLM demonstrations – the courts will show them a tolerance we would never get.
Apart from this obvious concern over the escalation of alternative and grassroots forms of violence by the extreme right, the incident has emboldened the equally dangerous American liberal establishment. The leaders of political "sanity" and moderation are the most victorious due to this fascist tantrum. The dictators of what is and is not politically appropriate, who have the audacity of pinning together liberationists, insurrectionists, and abolitionists with fascists and anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists have found true victory here, as you can see in their heinously ignorant references of insurrection and anarchy in regards to the events that took place at the US capitol building on January 6th.
For years, the Trump administration has forcibly established so-called antifa, anarchists, and BLM as terrorist organizations while refusing to denote the same status to neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups. Now, there is bipartisan support for delegating groups such as QAnon (a group that believes Trump, a man facing dozens of rape accusations including rape against minors, is saving the country from a Jewish conspiracy of celebrities and politicians using their power to traffic children) and the Proud Boys (self-identified Western chauvinist group founded by Vice Media founder Gavin McInnes) will undoubtedly be used to further the already existing harsh repression of anarchist and revolutionary abolitionist movements. Just a week before the 6th, Trump's administration drafted a bill barring all suspected antifascists and anarchists from entering the country. This bill comes from a history of recent expansions and advances in the power of border authorities under the Obama administration and the Patriot Act under the Bush administration, and will certainly go without much criticism from the Biden administration.
All of this comes as the Democrats have taken over the White House and Congress, while the far right remains in control of the Supreme Court, which has severe implications for revolutionary movements and the livelihoods of marginalized and excluded people. The recent popular support that has come out of years of Trump's far-right absurdity and the recent Black-led revolt following the death of George Floyd and others is already facing a huge assault by the deceptions of the democratic establishment since Biden's victory in November. It certainly will not help those facing years in prison for resistance related to the 2020 Black Lives Matter revolt.
The liberal establishment and the left that still maintain faith in the state and reform would like to refer to this event as a "failed coup" or an attack on the will of the people. These predominantly privileged calls come from a voice that sees the electoral system as one that listens to them. For most people in the US, their recent vote was motivated by guilt or a sad obligation to pick between two evils; they have been conditioned to expect nothing from a state that flaunts the motto "freedom isn't free." As anarchists, we reject the state's electoral process entirely, and see no "will of a people" ever possibly upheld in a system orchestrated through centralized power and coercion. The choices provided to us in their spectacle of democratic voting are not aligned with our path to freedom, so we reject such rituals. Besides, settler colonialist rituals such as voting for representation in a Eurocentric system can never grant freedom on stolen land.
As anarchists, abolitionists, and revolutionary movements continue ahead with a struggle more sincere than trending concerns performed by aloof citizens and pretentious celebrities, we must double down on solidarity in order to not remain isolated, as the violence intended by grassroots right-wing groups coincide with a brutal police crackdown under the smiling and deceptive face of the democratic liberal establishment.
Watching politicians huddle in fear, while police and the right scuffle, it's hard to not simply laugh at the absurdity of some of what transpired that day. However, in recent weeks, antifascists have been targeted and shot in the Pacific Northwest, and on the same day as the fascist tantrum at the capitol building, an attempted public lynching of a black woman took place at a neofascist rally in Los Angeles. These instances are what brings our laughter to a concerned pause.
The right has taken a fairly postmodern approach to racism in the US, feeling shackled by the grip of the moderate right-wing democratic establishment's PC identity politics (that seem to address everything other than systemic classism and racism, and see giving settler colonialist jobs to colonized people an ethical form of reparation and resolution). They have adapted to a deep-web world of cryptic far-right conspiracy theories that somehow lead the poor to follow billionaires and seek out Jewish lizard people 'pulling the strings' of global capitalism via 5G networks, as opposed to just saying the N-word out loud like they all want to, but still want the option of running for office. This is a global concern, as fascists of this approach have breached the borders of the world from the US, to Brazil, to Germany, and so on.
It is essential that we maintain our strength against the technocrats and liberal establishment, as well as remain on guard against the many, and at times, confusing faces of contemporary fascism. We also must recognize our emboldened movement. In the US, anarchist, antifascist, and abolitionist movements have grown drastically despite heinous repression, and a new generation of courageous youth has shown their strength throughout 2020 and to this day.
Revolutionary solidarity goes beyond borders and prison walls, and helps us to remain alert, connected, and never forget each other as another lockdown and a new era of moderate fascism approaches us.
Revolutionary solidarity for all those facing prison for the revolt against white supremacy.
Revolutionary solidarity for all those who engage in sincere struggle against the state and capitalism.
– RadioFragmata / January 2021
Post-Script
1. Brian Sicknick, the cop who died due to his injuries on the 6th has since had his online Parler account uncovered. Parler is a social media platform popular among the right. It was discovered that the officer was a follower of various far-right accounts such as Team Trump, Gavin McInnes, and Alex Jones.
2. While unsurprising, it has since been confirmed that various off-duty police officers and right-wing politicians were among the mob at the capitol on the 6th. Reports claim that some officers even showed their badges to on-duty officers during the melee.
Stay Up-To-Date with Repression against Revolutionary Movements and ongoing Struggles via the following websites:
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Up against the law legal collective
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Michigan Solidarity Bail Fund
Tilted Scales Collective
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pity sex – "burden you"
February 11, 2016 February 10, 2016 samplestiltskinLeave a comment
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ann arbor quartet pity sex has long been skilled at pairing fuzzed-out walls of sound with dreamy, vulnerable vocal dialogues, and they'll continue to hone that craft on white hot moon. the band's sophomore full-length is due out april 29th via run for cover records; after teasing "what might soothe you?" all the way back in september, pity sex has returned with "burden you," an intricately-crafted single that effortlessly toggles between the band's two extremities with greater frequency than ever before. it's easily their best yet. listen to "burden you" below.
Posted in news, singlesTagged ann arbor, burden you, dream pop, indie rock, michigan, pity sex, pop punk, punk, run for cover, shoegaze, white hot moon
listen to a new song from pity sex
September 28, 2015 September 28, 2015 samplestiltskinLeave a comment
those that have been reading dimestore saints since this site's earliest days may remember that we were quite enamored with ann arbor quartet pity sex throughout most of 2013. their debut full-length feast of love coincided with what felt like the apex of the so-called emo revival, though the band's penchant for gloomy shoegaze taken at punk tempos set them apart from their peers. pity sex recently wrapped up work on their sophomore effort, white hot moon; it's due out this coming spring via run for cover records, and today the band shared its lead single. "what might soothe you?" finds co-vocalists brennan greaves and britty drake furthering the gloomy, hopelessly romantic dialogue drummer and lyricist sean st. charles crafted across feast of love while the underneath accompaniment veers towards the extremes, with clean passages suddenly juxtaposed by fuzzed-out guitar smears. take a listen to "what might soothe you?" below.
Posted in newsTagged emo, michigan, pity sex, punk, run for cover, shoegaze, what might soothe you?, white hot moon
listen to a new song from diet cig
August 20, 2015 August 19, 2015 samplestiltskinLeave a comment
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there's probably a diet cig full-length album in the works somewhere, and it'll probably be very, very good. in the meantime, alex luciano and noah bowman are offering up a new 7″ on the heels of their excellent debut ep over easy. "sleep talk" b/w "dinner date" is due out on vinyl via father/daughter records and art is hard records on september 18th; we heard the a-side last month and earlier this week the duo shared "dinner date," a surging mid-tempo anthem that culminates in luciano's strongest vocal hook to date. take a listen below.
Posted in newsTagged 7", alternative, art is hard records, diet cig, dinner date, father/daughter records, pop, punk
listen to a new song from all dogs
July 13, 2015 samplestiltskinLeave a comment
the debut full-length from all dogs feels long overdue. the columbus, ohio outfit, led by maryn jones, has released a small series of splits and 7″ singles, building anticipation with whip smart pop-punk sensibilities that at times echo their salinas label-mates radiator hospital and swearin'. today, all dogs officially announced the release of kicking every day, due out august 28th via salinas records. the announcement was coupled with "that kind of girl," the album's cacophonous lead single that has been spun no less than ten times here in the dimestore office this morning. the general consonance of the song's melodic structure is occasionally undercut by searing dissonance, a reflection of the duality in jones' lyrics as she tries to suss out her prevailing opinion of the subject. watch an early live video of the song here, courtesy of our good pals at heartbreaking bravery, and stream the studio version below.
Posted in newsTagged all dogs, kicking every day, maryn jones, ohio, pop, punk, salinas, that kind of girl
July 9, 2015 July 9, 2015 samplestiltskinLeave a comment
new paltz duo diet cig has already rustled up one of our absolute favorite eps of this year with their debut, over easy, a release soon to be augmented by a new 7″. "sleep talk" b/w "dinner date" is out jointly via father/daughter and art is hard on september 18th, and today the band let go of its a-side. like its predecessors, "sleep talk" is simple and concise in construction – although the guitar's higher end is noticeably more pronounced this time around – a foundation built to support a lyrical set from alex luciano that fluctuates between self-deprecation and hesitancy and a prevailing shoulder-shrugging, fuck-it mentality. it's the coda that really sells this track, though; a poignant, cyclical line delivered in half-time quickly becomes a mantra of sorts for all of the preceding fragments. take a listen to "sleep talk" below.
Posted in newsTagged 7", art is hard, diet cig, father/daughter records, new paltz, pop punk, punk, sleep talk
diet cig – over easy
February 24, 2015 February 23, 2015 samplestiltskin2 Comments
diet cig crams a lot of material into just ten minutes of music. the new paltz duo is still green and a bit rough around the edges, but that rawness lends itself well to the bevy of emotions contained inside their over easy ep, out today via father/daughter records.
five tracks is just enough space for alex luciano to run the gamut from sarcastic to shameless to sheer loathing. "breathless" immediately showcases her wit ("i don't have any kitchenware / but i can walk around in my underwear / in my first apartment / where i pay so much for rent"), and while a murmuring delivery initially suggests a quaint apathy, the true dichotomy of the duo's dynamic range is unveiled towards the end of the song. noah bowman's floor tom-centric drumming may be an underlying condition but luciano's unabashed wail is the true catalyst of diet cig's peak volume, her voice clearly piercing through an otherwise-grainy mix.
"scene sick" is the most sonically polished track on over easy, and for good reason: it contains luciano's most relevant commentary. besides airing her grievances pertaining to local music scenes, luciano ruthlessly takes an ex to task on "harvard" ("fuck your ivy league sweater" yelled repeatedly might be the best moment on the entire ep) and shows a similar aversion to inflated egos on "cardboard."
diet cig sets the bar at just the right height with over easy. the tempo rarely fluctuates from song to song, easily allowing a cohesive enjoyment of the ep and a general understanding of what the duo stands for. like almost any act dabbling in pop-punk, diet cig does not abstain from poop references (see: "pool boyz") nor from taking swipes at exes, but the meat of luciano's lyrical content is so gloriously tongue-in-cheek and ridiculously on-point that those juvenile transgressions are somehow even more amusing in contrast. new paltz has been an interesting microcosm of the east coast music scene for some time now, and diet cig only adds to the intrigue. block out twenty minutes for over easy.
Posted in album reviewTagged bedroom pop, diet cig, diy, ep, father/daughter records, new paltz, over easy, pop, punk
January 26, 2015 July 9, 2015 samplestiltskinLeave a comment
new paltz duo diet cig drop their debut ep, over easy, next month via father/daughter records, and they've roared back into focus with their latest single. "harvard" is a two-minute bitter middle finger directed at a nameless ex-boyfriend, culminating in alex luciano screaming "fuck your ivy league sweater / you know i was better" repeatedly until the song exhausts itself. take a listen to the track below.
Posted in newsTagged bedroom, diet cig, diy, father/daughter records, harvard, indie pop, new paltz, new song, over easy, punk
January 10, 2015 February 23, 2015 samplestiltskinLeave a comment
if you missed the diet cig party this week, now's your chance to get all caught up. alex luciano and noah bowman have been honing a twee-infused craft of solid garage rock up in new paltz, surrounding themselves with folks that have contributed to bands like lvl up, porches., and site favorites quarterbacks. the duo is offering up their over easy ep on february 24th via father/daughter records and recently shared their debut single, "scene sick," a two-minute anthem of apathy supercharged by bowman's drumming and an extremely catchy, surprising outro. blink and you'll miss it. with "scene sick" obviously just scraping at the levels of emotion diet cig is capable of dissecting and conveying, over easy has suddenly become one of this winter's hottest commodities. familiarize yourself below.
Posted in newsTagged alex luciano, diet cig, father/daughter records, garage rock, indie, indie pop, lvl up, new paltz, noah bowman, over easy ep, porches., punk, quarterbacks, scene sick, twee
listen to a new song from the goodbye party
December 2, 2014 samplestiltskinLeave a comment
our good pal over at heartbreaking bravery steered us towards the goodbye party, the solo project of michael cantor, who used to play with philadelphia-based pop-punk band the ambulars. cantor released silver blues, his first full-length as the goodbye party, yesterday via bandcamp; it's a twelve-track effort that finds him straddling the line between earnest power-pop and more atmospheric, bluesy experimentations. the album's lead single, "crossed out," falls into the former of those two camps, with distorted jangly guitar work pushed towards the forefront of the song's mix. despite its sunny instrumental disposition, "crossed out" lyrically reflects the somber side of cantor's output, with lyrics like "i couldn't make a fist to punch out / the light glowing over my head as i sleep" retaining an especially hopeless quality. silver blues will see a vinyl release via salinas later this month; take a listen to "crossed out" below.
Posted in newsTagged crossed out, diy, indie music, indie rock, lo-fi, michael cantor, philadelphia, punk, salinas, silver blues, the goodbye party
most anticipated albums of 2014
December 12, 2013 December 12, 2013 samplestiltskinLeave a comment
2013 has provided a wealth of new music and incredibly important albums for a multitude of genres, but as i reflect on the year's best offerings i can't help but to peak ahead and see what 2014 potentially has in store. here's my short list of bands i'm excited to hear a new album from.
adelyn rose – i guess it's been less than two years since mezzanine, but it feels like i've been waiting on a new adelyn rose record forever. the eau claire outfit has been holed up at justin vernon's april base for the latter half of this year, perfecting a new batch of tracks. i've heard a couple at various live shows, but i'm excited to finally hear another finished project from addie and company.
cloud nothings – remember when cloud nothings was on both editions of my "most anticipated" lists this year? oops. the good news is that the now-power trio posted a short video of them working on new songs in the studio, hinting that dylan baldi will probably dominate my headphones again in 2014. bring it, dude.
foxes in fiction – warren hildebrand enlisted owen pallett to write the string parts for his new album, so i have to hope that the end result will be good. the new york by way of toronto ambient act has had my attention for sometime, and i'm excited to hear a long-overdue full length album from him. the thing could drop tomorrow or in six months; i like a project that keeps me on my toes.
gem club – the boston chamber pop trio's sophomore album in roses is due out january 28th on hardly art records. if you've heard the gorgeous lead single "polly," you'll know why i'm looking forward to this record. if you haven't, head over to their soundcloud and fix that problem.
memoryhouse – memoryhouse played some new songs on npr's world cafe last month and prefaced them with the announcement that their sophomore album will be out sometime in the spring. i'm always game to see what those two have to offer.
pillar point – i can't tell you what got me hooked on pillar point, but i can tell you that scott reitherman's moody synth-pop gave me an entirely new appreciation for the genre. after a strong showing on his debut 7″ single "diamond mine" b/w "dreamin'," reitherman stepped out of anonymity and announced the release of his self-titled debut full length album, out february 25th via polyvinyl. if that wasn't enough, he offered up another single, "eyeballs," which might just be his best work yet.
tenement – get to know tenement. i've been following them since they used to play dingy basements and coffee houses around central and eastern wisconsin when i was in high school, but now they've signed to don giovanni records and are prepping their first release for that label sometime next year.
tennis – the small sound ep may have served as a filler in between tennis' second and third album, but it also hopefully forecasted the continuation of sharp songwriting and irresistible pop hooks i've come to expect from the band.
vancouver sleep clinic – my favorite new artist of 2013 hasn't even released a full body of work yet. in fact, seventeen year-old tim bettinson has only announced an ep for vancouver sleep clinic, due out early next year, but that's enough for me. both "collapse" and "vapour" highlighted his skill as a songwriter and his ability to evoke entire landscapes through three or four minutes of song.
wye oak – a recent feature over at spin revealed that wye oak is working on their fourth album, and that it will be totally different than their previous output. guitars have been swapped for bass guitars, and the keyboard pads will be replaced with more melodic lines. no word on a title or release date, but look for it sometime next year via merge records.
Posted in banterTagged 2014 albums, 2014 in music, adelyn rose, ambient, atmospheric, cloud nothings, foxes in fiction, gem club, indie, indie music, indie rock, memoryhouse, most anticipated 2014, most anticipated albums, most-anticipated, pillar point, punk, synthpop, tenement, tennis, vancouver sleep clinic, wye oak


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Lake Roland sewage leaks spur calls for development moratorium
Environmentby Fern Shen3:10 pmJan 24, 20180
Chow challenged on Baltimore County sewage flowing into city system
Activists call on DPW chief to take action on a neighboring system they said is overwhelmed
Above: Baltimore County's Lake Roland is pretty in the fall, but is awfully polluted year-round, environmentalists say. (Mark Reutter)
The public was asked last night to go to the back of the room and talk to staffers at "learning stations" after city officials gave a status report on their efforts to stop sewage overflows and bring Baltimore into compliance with federal law.
But three people made a beeline for the front of the room to press Rudy Chow, director of the Department of Public Works, on the issue of Baltimore County's sewage, a portion of which flows into Baltimore's system.
"We estimate that about 50% of the sewage that overflows in the city originates from the county – and the county is growing," said Larry Fogelson, of the Green Towson Alliance (GTA).
Like Baltimore City, the county is under a federal consent decree to stop sanitary sewer overflows that pollute area waterways and back-up into basements.
The trouble is that the city, which accepts sewage from its surrounding neighbor, is not exercising its authority under a cross-jurisdictional agreement, Fogelson said.
"How are you assuring that the county is holding up its end of the bargain and not exacerbating your problems?" Fogelson asked Chow.
Larry Fogelson (center) of the Green Towson Alliance, question Baltimore DPW's Rudy Chow. (Fern Shen)
High levels of fecal bacteria at Lake Roland indicate that the county's sewage flow already exceeds system capacity, said another GTA member, Roger Gookin.
"The county's data indicate a severe back-up going into the county sewer lines that goes into the feeder under Lake Roland. That pipe underneath Lake Roland can't handle [the sewage] the county is already providing," Gookin told Chow.
"Does the city have any plans to expand that pipe so there won't be a back-up?" he continued. "Because if there's a back-up, that goes right into the Jones Falls" and down to the Inner Harbor.
"We want to make sure our methods are methodical and we don't have any knee-jerk reaction," Chow replied.
About 50% of the sewage overflows in Baltimore City are caused by sewage flowing down from the county, the Green Towson Alliance says.
Chow thanked the men for their information and promised to look into the issues they raised.
But then he added, "There's no reason for me to be doubtful about whether the county is providing us proper information."
"There is [doubt]," Fogelson shot back, "if citizens provide to you detailed information, chapter and verse, indicating that the county's data is not, in fact, accurate."
$1 Billion in Upgrades
The exchange took place at the Maryland Department of the Environment's headquarters in Baltimore. Notices described it as DPW's "first annual public meeting to discuss the city's Modified Consent Decree."
Sued by the federal government, Baltimore agreed in 2002 to eliminate "structured overflows," intentional sewage releases via pipes that allow human waste to flow into waterways when heavy rains threaten to overwhelm the system.
The agreement was modified and extended after the city failed to meet a 2015 deadline to complete the work.
Now the consent decree has been extended to 2030, as the city copes with roughly $1 billion of upgrades to its sewer lines and the Back River and Patapsco wastewater treatment plants.
Phase I of the agreement calls for sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) to be eliminated by January 1, 2021.
More SSOs Discovered
Last night, DPW officials promised that the $430 million "Headworks" project to increase capacity at the Back River Treatment Plant, scheduled to be completed in 2020, would eliminate 80% of the overflows.
Sewage, meanwhile, is still overflowing.
Amid heavy rains in August, over 7 million gallons of waste-mixed with-rainwater poured into the Jones Falls, primarily from structured overflows.
Officials last night discussed the number of SSOs, but not the size of them. They said 60 of the 62 original SSOs have been eliminated.
But they also noted the presence of "additional SSO structures," which they said have been discovered over the last 12 months.
As a result, there are now 15 SSO structures being monitored for sewage overflows, according to Paul DeSantis, DPW's chief of legal and regulatory affairs.
The Jones Falls yesterday, after a brief downpour, with the requisite warning: "Contact with the water should be avoided." (Fern Shen)
CommentaryAug 30, 2019
Sewage spill at Lake Roland poses a test for Johnny Olszewski
Baltimore County has a stinky Achilles heel that its chief executive needs to address quickly and publicly if he is to sustain his reputation as a reformer.
EnvironmentAug 27, 2019
An obscure manhole is an outsized source of sewage pollution in Baltimore
BREW EXCLUSIVE: What's been popping off, releasing millions of gallons of sewage this summer? A single manhole stack in Herring Run Park.


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TradeIndia : The journey so far
By	Tradeindia Editor	on	September 12, 2018	in	Announcement, Editor's Desk	with	7 Comments
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." – Steve Jobs
Mr. Bikky Khosla, C.E.O. TradeIndia.com, truly believed in this vision when he left his well-established business in the USA to lay the foundation of Infocom Network Ltd. in the year 1990. The story ahead will take you back in time and give you a glimpse of the foundation history of India's largest B2B marketplace, TradeIndia.com.
In 1980s, right after college, Mr. Bikky Khosla ventured into a career in the International trade. He was running a successful import business in the United States of America but was having a tough time finding Indian manufacturers & exporters. Further, coordinating with them on a regular basis was a far cry from being hassle free. This is when he realized the need for a platform which can help the global export-import community and most importantly can provide Indian manufacturers & exporters an opportunity to present their products to global buyers.
In order to transform this vision into reality, he came back to India and with a handful of people in a very small room in the national capital of India, he started an organization, Infocom Network Limited which started publishing Exporters Yellow Pages. Back in those days when communication was a big challenge, the company faced a tough time in finding right data to compile a publication. But, as they say when you are determined, things are bound to fall at the right places. With Mr. Khosla's focus and team's hard work, all obstacles were conquered and 1st edition of the directory came out.
After quite a few successful editions of Exporters Yellow Pages, Mr. Khosla conceptualized a common and reliable platform that would assist manufacturers, suppliers, importers & exporters to trade with each other in a hassle-free way and thus, TradeIndia.com came into existence in the year 1996. India's first B2B portal was established with a mission to make business easy for the Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The portal was started at the time when the people of the country were still coming to terms with computers, let alone internet. In such an era, selling an e-business concept to sellers who were not confident about how things are going to work was a gigantic task.
Year 2000, when the dot-com bubble burst, companies based across the globe started speculating that internet is not for future, Mr Khosla started investing his resources and time to make the portal, TradeIndia.com more user friendly. He realised during that period that in future internet will change how businesses operate in India and globally. TradeIndia started offering various services which a B2B platform should offer such as "3 Page Website", Trade Leads, Directory Listings etc. at pocket-friendly prices which were much less in comparison to their cost in the market at that time.
With the arrival of broadband connection in the country during 2007-2008, TradeIndia, which was growing at a moderate pace witnessed a tremendous surge in popularity and the number of registered users. That was the time when users with access to internet starting realising that TradeIndia is the way forward for them. With each passing day traffic to our platform started to grow. More and more users who used to think that internet is just a buzzword started realising that it is the game changer which will change how businesses operate.
However, the real journey of transformation started with the advent of smartphones around 2011. The rise of mobile devices combined with affordable internet access via broadband served as the key factor in propelling the tremendous growth of TradeIndia. Smartphones & lower data costs resulted in the higher participation of SMEs from both metro and non-metro cities. TradeIndia launched its mobile app in the year 2015 to stay abreast with the market developments. This app further helped the SMEs to spread their business on the move.
As they say, "A dream doesn't become reality through magic, it takes sweat, determination & hard work."
From a humble beginning to becoming India's largest B2B marketplace, from a small office to branch offices in 43 cities across India with over 1800 dedicated professionals working in them, the cherished journey of 28 years was full of amazing rides and hard-hitting challenges. It is 28 years of existence for the company but it is still a start as the scale at which things are changing, in years to come, the organization along with its competent team is poised to grow by leaps and bounds & become a name to reckon with and this is and will only be possible with support of millions of our users. These users are the ones which fuel our growth, their visits propel us to make our platform better with each passing day and with this objective of 'serving them the best', we are tirelessly working to make TradeIndia.com the most trusted platform for all buy & sell needs of people based not only in India but across the globe.
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        double toRubles()const override
        {
            return amount*rate;
        }

        void print(const Dollar& dollar)
        {
            cout << "Dollar:\n";
            cout << "\t amount  = " << dollar.GetA() << endl;
            cout << "\t rate = " << dollar.GetB() << endl;
            cout << "\t Rubles to Dollar = " << dollar.toRubles() << endl;
        }
};
class Euro: public Currency
{
    private:
        double amount;
        double rate;
    public:
        Euro(double A, double B)
            :amount(A)
            ,rate(B)
        {}
        Euro()
            :amount(0)
            ,rate(0)
        {}
        double GetA()const{return amount;}
        double GetB()const{return rate;}
        void SetA(double A){amount=A;}
        void SetB(double B){rate=B;}

        double toRubles()const override
        {
            return amount*rate;
        }

        void print(const Euro& euro)const
        {
            cout << "Euro:\n";
            cout << "\t amount  = " << euro.GetA() << endl;
            cout << "\t rate = " << euro.GetB() << endl;
            cout << "\t Rubles to Euro = " << euro.toRubles() << endl;
        }

};

int main(){
    double a,b,c,d;
    cout << "Amount for DOLLAR:" ;
    cin >> a;
    cout << "Rate for DOLLAR:" ;
    cin >> b;
    cout << "Amount for EURO:" ;
    cin >> c;
    cout << "Amount for EURO:" ;
    cin >> d;
    Dollar dollar(a,b);
    Euro euro(c,d);

}

an error undefined reference to vtable for Currency and  ld returned 1 exit status occurs when compiling. without virtual functions, everything works, and when they are called, the program gives an error with the print method
the program must convert a specific value from Dollars and Euros to Rubles. The class Currency must have two virtual functions for conversion toRubles and then output print .

A: You need to override virtual void print()const; in Dollar and Euro classes exactly as it was declared in Currency. Also in Currency class that function must be defined or pure (= 0).

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Officially Stefan Kuntz New Turkish National Trainer
The Bundesliga (German: [ˈbʊndəsˌliːɡa] (listen); lit. Federal League ), often referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga ([ ˌfuːsbal-] or 1. Bundesliga ([ ˌeːɐ̯stə-], is an expert association football organization in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany s primary football competitors. The Bundesliga makes up 18 teams and also runs on a system of promotion and also relegation with the 2. Bundesliga. Seasons run from August to May. The majority of games are played on Saturdays and Sundays, with a couple of games played on weekdays. Every one of the Bundesliga clubs get approved for the DFB-Pokal. The winner of the Bundesliga gets the DFL-Supercup.
Fifty-six clubs have competed in the Bundesliga since its founding. Bayern Munich has won the title 30 times, the most among Bundesliga clubs. Nonetheless, the Bundesliga has seen various other champions, with Borussia Dortmund, Hamburger SV, Werder Bremen, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and also VfB Stuttgart most popular among them. The Bundesliga is among the leading national leagues, ranked 4th in Europe according to UEFA s league coefficient position for the 2020– 21 period, based on performances in European competitors over the previous five periods. The Bundesliga led the UEFA ranking from 1976 to 1984 and also in 1990. It has actually additionally created the continent s premier club six times. Bundesliga clubs have actually won 8 UEFA Champions Organization, 6 UEFA Europa League, four European Mug Champions Mug, 2 UEFA Super Cup, two FIFA Club Globe Mug, and 3 Intercontinental Cup titles. Its gamers have actually collected nine Ballon d Or honors, one The most effective FIFA Guys s Gamer honors, 3 European Golden Footwear, and also three UEFA Men s Gamer of the Year awards consisting of UEFA Club Footballer of the Year.
The Bundesliga is the number one football league worldwide in terms of standard presence; out of all sports, its standard of 45,134 fans per game during the 2011– 12 period was the second-highest of any type of sports league in the world after the American National Football League. The Bundesliga is relayed on tv in over 200 countries.The Bundesliga was started in 1962 in Dortmund and the very first season started in 1963. The framework as well as organisation of the Bundesliga, in addition to Germany s various other football organizations, have actually undertaken regular modifications. The Bundesliga was started by the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (English: German Football Organization), yet is now run by the Deutsche Fußball Liga (English: German Football League).
U21 Success Trainer Stefan Kuntz is the new Turkish national coach. This announced the Turkish Association TFF on Sunday.
New challenge for Stefan Kuntz: The U21 Success Trainer leaves the DFB after more than five years towards Bosporus and becomes the new coach of the Turkish football national team. Welcome, wrote the national association in an official communication on Sunday.
The signing of the contract should be done on Monday at 15.00 clock. On Sunday, the 1996 European champion rose in the plane towards Turkey to negotiate the last details, shortly thereafter took place the agreement. Already in recent days, Kuntz had traveled to Turkey for talks with the new national team director and ex-Bundesliga professional Hamit Altintop.
Kuntz will compete the successor of the Senol Günes recently dismissed after several failures. At the European Championship in the summer, Turkey left the defeats against Italy, Wales and Switzerland loseless in the group stage. Most recently, in the World Cup qualifier, it was a tower 1: 6 swatter in the Netherlands.
The order: Turkey leads to the World Cup 2022 in Qatar. The opportunities for this are still intact in the qualification group G. Turkey has only two points behind the Netherlands and Norway as a third party, but only the group first qualifies directly.
DFB dismisses Kuntz from U21 for Turkey Office
The Bureau of the DFB had unanimously granted the release on Friday in the event of an agreement. Due to the successes of Stefan Kuntz with the German U21 national team and his special relationship with Turkey, the DFB does not want to install him this next career step, the association had written in a message.
After the EM triumph this summer with the U21 the former goalkeeper Kuntz had also been traded as the national coach of the German national team. Under the direction of the native Saarländer, the German U21 team last reached the EM final three times in a row and brought the title twice.
However, after the disappointing performance at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, when many professionals had pronounced in advance against participation, the speculation increased by the future of the success trainer. His contract at the DFB ran until 2023.
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Perhaps one of the most energetic 8 piece bands at the moment, Rubblebucket is based in Brooklyn and Boston and is certainly known for their live show. People often walk out trying to re-count what they just witnessed; between Robot puppets that come out and dance, LED lighting tricks, and a crowd-surfing horn-section – there's something for everyone with Rubblebucket. Omega La La, the band's sophomore album was produced by Eric Broucek (LCD Soundsystem, !!!, etc) at the DFA Studios. Live in Chicago was recorded at the Double Door in Chicago fall of 2011. The Forthcoming EP, Oversaturated, was recorded at Bear Creek Studios with Ryan Hadlock (The Gossip, Fleet Foxes, etc.), and marks a new era for Rubblebucket.


What we lose when someone close to us passes can never be replaced. Their touch, their voice, their support, their counsel, their everything.
What we can gain in the days that follow loss is something that the prophet Elisha received when he lost his mentor, Elijah: a double portion of God's Spirit. If we are conscious and aware, there will be times and circumstances where we will sense, perhaps, an extra strength or an extra calm that we can't explain any other way than that we felt our loved one's spirit with us.
In the redwood forests of California, you'll find this process at work. When a giant falls, new trees rise up around it, using its trunk and roots as the source for their new lives.


Firms that supply temporary nurses to the nation's hospitals are taking perilous shortcuts in their screening and supervision, which is putting seriously ill patients in the hands of incompetent caregivers. There is a chronic nursing shortage which makes nursing homes look towards temp agencies for help. However, these agencies have become havens for nurses who hopscotch from place to place to avoid the consequences of their misconduct. The agencies have skimped on background checks or ignored warnings from hospitals about sub-par nurses on their payrolls. Fill-in nurses have histories of falling asleep on the job, failed to perform critical texts and stolen drugs from the nursing home. Sometimes the nurses lie on their application. Studies have found that nursing homes with high staff turnover are more likely to have nursing home negligence. To read more about the temp nursing agencies, please click the link.


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Divorce story: 'I loved someone else' • Sisemore Law Firm, P.C.
If you are reading this family law blog post, it is likely that you are contemplating or already in the process of divorce. The Guardian is publishing a series of people's stories about when they knew it was time for a divorce. Their stories vary.
Your story is undoubtedly uniquely yours. Maybe you are like one subject in the series whose decision basically came down to this confession: "…I loved someone else." This can be a hard truth to admit to oneself and even harder to admit to your spouse.
The woman's story is her own, but there are likely others out there who can relate to her emotional circumstances. She and her ex-husband met and fell in love while they were young. They got married with relatively little relationship experience. When life grew and they moved from one goal to the next, a romantic opportunity arose.
A lot of life, changes and growth happens in people's twenties. In this case, a work relationship grew into a romantic relationship. That romance grew into a new love for the woman. She chose to not deny that truth and told her husband.
The Guardian piece doesn't detail the specifics of the woman's life now. Is she with the new love? Is she single now and experiencing life like she couldn't before?
Just as everyone's reason to divorce is different, life after divorce varies from person to person. If you choose to end your marriage, how do you want your life be afterward? Talk to a divorce lawyer about your goals and they can discuss how to best chase them.


How much profit do newsagents make on newspapers?
The October newspaper ABC figures were recently published and revealed that the core daily sales were 9.6 million Monday to Saturday, and 10.3 million on Sundays. A further decline and nearly 5 million copies per day less than 1995.
Newspaper are sold from around 54,000 and this means that the average newspaper retailer sells 177 papers each day. That's 55 copies of the Sun, 35 Daily Mails, and 29 Daily Mirrors.
The annual gross profit for the average newsagent for newspapers sold Monday to Friday is just over £5000 a year with Saturday's contributing £1400 and Sunday's £2500. So for 364 days of selling newspapers, the average retailer shows a gross profit of £9250.
They then have the costs of running their business such as staff, rent, rate, lighting etc. In my shop, the daily cost of providing a space for one facing of a national newspaper is around 50p, or £190 per year. With 12 facings that's £2200 - nearly a quarter of the average newsagents' gross profit.
The recent reduction in the cash per copy terms of the Sun coupled with the continued falls in newspaper sales figures has forced me to evaluate how newspapers work in my business. I would suggest that any retailer that wants to stay in the business of selling newspapers should take a look at what they are really worth to them.
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The English Football League One, often shortened to just League One, or sometimes Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons, is the second highest football division in England, and the third highest football league overall. The division was previously known for a long time as the Football League Third Division; however, after the invention of the Premier League in 1992, it was renamed Football League Second Division, later being renamed English Football League One, starting with the 2004 football season.
As of the 2018 – 2019 season, Walsall has held the longest tenure in League One, only having been moved out of the division for the 2006 to 2007 season, but managing to get promoted back into League One after then. Currently, seven teams are competing in League One which are former premiership teams: Barnsley, Blackpool, Bradford City, Charlton Athletic, Coventry City, Portsmouth, and Sunderland.
24 clubs compete in the league, with each club playing every other club twice during a season, once at home and once away. At the end of the season, the top two clubs are promoted up a division, and the bottom two clubs are demoted.
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What Mickey Mouse means to EHS students
Mickey Mouse has been an icon of childhood for generations of people. Photo by Meliha Anthony.
Meliha Anthony
It's that time of the year, everybody: Mickey Mouse's birthday!
It has been 92 years since Mickey first appeared on television, in a movie called "Steamboat Willy" in 1928. Minnie Mouse also made a brief appearance in this movie, making Nov. 18 her birthday as well. Over the years, Mickey Mouse has become a symbol of our childhood, as a character who has provided entertainment and hope to generations of children everywhere.
Bailey Tietz, a senior at Emmaus High School, has been visiting Disney World with her family her whole life.
"I've gone at least once a year for as long as I can remember," Tietz said. "My family has stayed there on Christmas three times now, and there's nothing really like it. The decorations are insane."
Disney has played an important role in her life up to this point. Mickey Mouse reminds Tietz of her favorite childhood memories, times of simple enjoyment and fun, free of stress.
"He resembles everything great that I associate with Disney," Tietz said. "Growing up, it's been my happy place."
Ellie Urenko, another EHS senior, recently returned from a trip to Disney World. Despite the new COVID-19 restrictions, she had a fun-filled trip there with her family.
"It was definitely different because of the restrictions," Urenko said. "But it was a lot of fun."
Like Tietz, Disney has been a defining aspect of Urenko's childhood.
"When you go there, you kind of get taken to a different place," Urenko said. "You kind of forget about all your problems and are just immersed in all the excitement there."
Mickey Mouse has become an icon over the years, synonymous with youthfulness and laughter and fun.
"Mickey Mouse is just a symbol of childhood," Urenko said. "As I get older, it'll continue to be a symbol of happiness."
Tietz, like many others, finds inspiration through Disney and the character of Mickey Mouse. The stories send a message that anything is possible.
"My mom sometimes reminds me that 'it all started with a mouse,'" Tietz said. "I know that wherever I want to go, there's always a starting point. I think there's some really great lessons that can be learned from Walt and Mickey's stories."
Happy 92nd birthday, Mickey Mouse!
Photo by Meliha Anthony.
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