The Coast Guard has closed the Columbia River bar and most other entrances to coastal ports in Washington and Oregon because of dangerously high waves. An official at the command center in Astoria, says that 30-foot seas from the storm that hit the Northwest prompted the closures over the weekend. Swells are likely to continue after the winds subside, so the closures are likely to extend through today. Which calls to mind the alarming prospect of Q-Max tankers standing offshore waiting for the weather to settle down. LNG on the Columbia River? In Coos Bay? What can we possibly be thinking?
And from Toronto: Rachel Avery with AW@L reports that this past Saturdat G-20 defendent Alex Hundert was arrested for the third time since June. There is in fact, a gag order on the press release I recieved in an attemmpt to silence the voices of activists. Jonah Hundert: Each arrest is more pre[posterous than the last. The fact that this latest unbelieveable charge is coming from the Crown themselves reveals a clear political bias from the Attorney General's office to keep Alex in jail at all costs and to criminalize dissenters."
Which leads me to encourage KBOO listeners to celebrate with the Red & Black because it's places like the cafe where change is constantly fomenting - and not the kind of short change used as a poltical tool by political tool to manipulate political tools.
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