Baron Grey Of Werke Puns

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#Dirty empire

More than a third of Manchin’s net worth is reliant on the success of resource extraction. He still profits from a series of coal companies he founded during the 1980s, now under the control of his son, Joe Manchin IV. His stock in one of these companies, Enersystems, makes up 35% of his net worth and 71% of his total portfolio income. According to Manchin’s 2020 financial disclosure, his holdings in Enersystems are worth between $1 million and $5 million, bringing him an income of $492,000 for that year and over $5.2 million since becoming a senator in 2010.

• Compare his annual income for being a senator: $174,000. He’s making more than twice as much selling coal than he is serving as a representative for the people of West Virginia.

Enersystems functions by purchasing coal waste material from shuttered mines and reselling it to power plants as fuel. It relies on a network of environmentally harmful mines with unsafe work conditions across northern West Virginia. Humphrey No. 7 mine, Enersystems’ largest supplier, accumulated over 40 safety violations and two fatalities since 2000. The same mine, then managed by Consol Energy, dumped toxic wastewater into Dunkard Creek in 2009, killing every living creature within 30 miles downstream.

The power plants Manchin’s company sells waste coal to are just as dirty and dangerous to the public.

>At the Grant Town Power Plant, north of Fairmont, health impact reports produced by the EPA and analyzed by the advocacy group Clean Air Task Force estimate that emissions are associated with 18 annual deaths

I often think how terrible it must have bern to Helena Ravenclaw to ran away from his mother and then having this creepy guy who was in love with her chase her, AND THEN, after dying, deciding to become a ghost only for the creepy guy to become a ghost too, literally having to deal with him for the eternity

In the book the Baron managed to escape unscathed. I know this is meant to be philosophical or something about futility, but it still leaves a sour taste in my mouth when I think about it. In the movie, however, even though the Baron lives he still seems to get sick and has some indignities from having to hug the cieling to live. Same results, but at least this way we can feel that Leto managed to get in one solid "f*ck you" before he died.

im going to be very cruel and send all the crypto kiddie slaves i buy for a Mercury dime each to my silver mines. but there will be no silver, they are just digging their own mass grave

I have noticed junglers visit baron lane once or never. So if you're platinum like me or gold or whatever rank. Listen to this, pls