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My Colorado Thoughts

5/8/2022

 
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The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
Robert Ballard

Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
John F. Kennedy

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Deep Sea Mining
We actually know about the surface of Mars than we do about the bottom of the ocean. The little that is known is that there are exceedingly large ecosystems teeming with all sorts of animals and plants.

Mining corporations are lining up to get permission to set up deep sea mining operations on the ocean floor. They will use heavy machinery to extract minerals which will destroy sea life, plants and animals g and ancient  coral beds. Scientists are investigating the  possibility of mining contributing to climate change problems.

We still have time to stop international to stop deep sea mining before it starts. Many companies are refusing to use minerals and other material that were obtain from the ocean floor. The list includes: Volvo, BMW, Samsung, and Philips among numerals others. The growing group of companies voicing concerns to warn of the risks associated with deep sea mining also includes science and policy experts from forty-four counties.

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Kremlin / Colorado Connection
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, of Pueblo, Colorado, was purchased by Evraz a company headquartered in London whose largest stockholder is Romanov Abravoich a Russian billionaire who is one of the oligarchs closest to Putin.

Abravoich, in 2008 paid $36 million for a 12,900 square-foot Snowmass, Colorado home. (13 bathrooms)
Additionally he bought a nearby property. It is estimated that the two properties combined would sell for 
$42 million.  Another Russian friend and fellow Evraz stockholder owns a Snowmass home worth $51 million.

One day of skiing at Snowmass costs $179 for the ski lift ticket. It is obvious who can afford to ski there.
 
Dearly Beloved
At my funeral, take the bouquet off my coffin and throw it into the crowd to see who is next.
I thought growing old would take longer.
Scientists say the universe is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. They forgot to mention morons




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