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Listed below are comments made by greentkendall between Saturday, 11th October 2008 and Saturday, 11th October 2008.

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Surface tension 5:17pm on 11 Oct 2008 I've seen first hand the devestation brought on West Virginia by mountain top removal, and it's one of the most tragic environmental issues I have ever witnessed. The giant holes where there used to be mountains are almost incomprehensibly big, making giant mining equipment look like miniature toys, and there is practically no chance for the ecosystem to recover. They dispose of the rock that is blasted out by dumping into the vally, where dangerous heavy metals like arsenic and mercury leach out of the rocks and is contaminating rivers in many rural communities all over West Virginia, making it as much a social injustice as an environmental one. The parallels to 3rd world conditions are all too evident when you examine the open pit mines for gold and copper that have many of the same effects in South America, displacing communities, contaminating water and destroying some very important pristine ecosystems.
Take me home, country roads 5:03pm on 11 Oct 2008 I don't know on what basis you make this claim about the people in the US, but we are well informed about our news and most of us also recognize its bias. Although fishing season can be an important piece of information, I am quite sure that you would be hard pressed to find anybody in the country who is of voting age who hasn't been following every bit of important election news since the primaries, and i can't see how the things that some extreme evangelical leaders say is at all important here. It is a shame that Rev Wright has spoken out the way he has, but there is nothing in Obamas political history that supports the accusations of him being a follower of Rev Wright's more extreme ideas.

I do agree however that we allow far too much lying in our politics and media, which is why i seek other sources outside our country, such as the BBC

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