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and it starts with copper, the mineral copper. there s copper in brass. there s copper in bronze. the statue of liberty is sheathed in a layer of copper. that s about the thickness of two pennies. pennies themselves used to be copper, but now they re just copper-covered zinc, which sort of seems sad. it makes financial sense, because copper over time became too valuable to use in something as cheap as a penny, because most of what we use copper for now is conducting electricity. we use copper for wiring. there is a massive global appetite for copper. and the world s largest producer of copper is an american company. it s a company that used to be based in new orleans but now the mining company freeport is based in phoenix, arizona. and the freeport mining company of phoenix, arizona, they do still mine copper in arizona and they mine copper in new mexico and in colorado. but they are a gigantic firm. and they re a global operation. in south america, they mine copper in chile, ....
The hack you just heard who dishonored himself as a lawyer wasn t doing legal advocacy and wasn t saying anything that any honest legal expert would describe as advocacy that would help his side win. he was saying things ant threatcal to the known law because as a hack he wasn t really practicing law this week. he was trying to please donald trump and throw red meat to the base and live in the outside courtroom arguments about who is tough and autocratic and who can take over and who can kill. so i understand the instinct to look away or give it time or even laugh it off. these are all types of coping mechanisms. but we are not just in the homestretch of 2024 s iowa race coming monday. we are in a pitched battle over the future of american democracy ....
: Heritage Foundation hosts meeting of GOPers and Orba n associates on ending US support for Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting Tuesday with President Joe Biden and congressional leaders as the administration intensifies its push for Congress to approve billions of dollars in additional military aid for Ukraine before funding runs out. It s outrageous that Biden had to invite Zelenskyy to visit Washington, but congressional Republicans have spent months blocking the aid that s urgently to help Ukrainians defend themselves against Russian aggression. And it s disgraceful that some Republican lawmakers will be attending a closed-door, two-day meeting in Washington that started Monday with allies of Hungary s autocratic Prime Minister Victor Orba n to push for an end to U.S. military support for Ukraine. It s an unholy alliance. ....
Fundraising, two more billionaire donors dropping him over his, quote, severe abortion position and his fight with disney. also not sitting well with former republican governors and lawmakers who filed a brief in disney s federal lawsuit against desantis according to the ap calling his autocratic retaliation against disney, quote, severely damaging to the political, social and economic fabric of florida. for his part desantis doesn t seem bothered enough to change course, he is still on track to drive his campaign into the ground. here he is with nbc s dasha burns, again, defending the widely criticized outrageous new requirement for middle schoolteachers in his state to instruct that in some cases slavery was beneficial. so that means they developed skills in spite of slavery not because of slavery. it was them showing resourcefulness and then using those skills. if this was a different state and the governor wasn t running for president no one would have said anything about that. ....
Tried to game the system and/or jay had he listened because he has money, peep around him had he listened and said, look, if you do the typical announcement window, even if they re fast, seven months, it s going to run right into the primaries. you re not going to have an attorney general sign off on something going into the primary. it s going the look unfair and the legal rules, standard in doj includes the perception of fairness. what does it tell you about his tragic law he can t listen in his own interest? i was going to say, does he listen? number one, does he have people around him willing to tell him the truth? i think there s some question around that. number two, does he listen to expert counsel? seems to me like many with with autocratic tend sis, trump seems to surround himself with sycophants, and i wonder if ....