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Stratfor Files: State Dept says more than one person leaked Wikileaks data

2012-03-02T17:14:00.001-07:00

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Updated all evening

The Stratfor e-mails,published by Wikileaks, reveal a State Department source telling Stratfor thatmore than one person leaked files to Wikileaks and this concerned the USgovernment because it would expose "the underbelly of our role."
In other revelations, Stratfor e-mails state that Osama bin Laden's body wasflown in a CIA plane to Dover, Delaware. In other breaking news, an FBI sourcefor Stratfor is revealed, who resigns his 25 career after the exposure.
The Stratfor e-mails also reveal a discussion of the hacktivists Anonymous, andAnonymous' announcements in regard to Mexico's cartels.
The Stratfor e-mails further reveal advice to a spy on Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez, to take "financial, sexual and psychological" control of sources.
Stratfor spies insult those gathered at the Cochabamba, Bolivia, climate summit, which included Indigenous Peoples from around the world. In the same e-mail Stratfor says in the past way of doing things, a helicopter "accident," would have been planned for Bolivian President Evo Morales and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Stratfor also insults black Democrats, makes accusations about Rev. Jesse Jackson and question Clinton dollars and Russians.
Wikileaks and its partners are releasing 5 million e-mails of Stratfor globalintelligence.

Stratfor Files: State Dept said more than one person leaked Wikileaks files

U.S. State Department Michael Posillico, Special Agent-In-Charge DS FBI LiaisonProgram Diplomatic Security Service, tells Fred Burton at Stratfor that morethan one person was leaking files to Wikileaks.

Burton: "Did that one enlisted Army dude leak all that stuff?"

Posillico: "No but the G (government) is very concerned particularly onIraq traffic which will expose the underbelly of our role"

Burton: Subject: WikiLeaks question "Mike: How bad will the next round be?Got any idea? Thx"

Stratfor says Bin Laden'sbody was flown to Dover, Delaware: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-02-29-18-obl-s-body-transfered-to-delaware-with-cia.html

Stratfor's source at the FBI:

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2012/03/01/stratfor-source-james-casey-leaves-fbi/

Stratfor spies on Anonymous and announcement on cartels:

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-03-02.html

Spying on ChavezStratfor tells its spy on Chavez in Venezuela to take "financial, sexualand psychological" control of its sources. The same method is used onIndigenous activists. http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/now-wikileaks-releasing-stratfor-global.html

Stratfor spies on Chavez, hopes for coup
From: "Reva Bhalla"
To: watchofficer@statfor.com
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 9:13:24 PM
Subject: INSIGHT - VENEZUELA - Update on Chavez's health, power struggle,
etc. - VZ302
ATTRIBUTION: STRATFOR source
SOURCE DESCRIPTION: well-connected VZ source working with Israel
“guess who has been most cooperative with us lately? The military elite.
These guys have been living the good life. They love women... lots of
women. THey love booze. They love bora bora. They are easy to bribe. They
dont care about chavez. they care about maintaining their current
lifestyles. We've seen a lot of these military elite reach out to us
lately, trying to insulate themselves in a post-Chavez scenario.”
READ MORE: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/201547_re-insight-venezuela-update-on-chavez-s-health-power.html

Stratfor insults participants at Cochabamba climate summit, including Indigenous Peoples from around the world.
The e-mail also reveals how spies have dealt with leaders with helicopter "accidents," referring to Bolivian President Evo Morales and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez:
Stratfor's Fred Burton:
"in the day, we would have been planning his (and Chavez's)
helicopter "accident." Guess I'm getting old, I think its best to keep
these lads around for comic relief. Evo and Chevez belong in the US
Congress and could probably get elected."
Read more insults from Stratfor spy toward President Morales and the World Peoples Conference on the Rights of Mother Earth and Climate Change 2010:
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1142108_re-insight-bolivia-st-dept-source-s-take-on-morales-.html

Stratfor insults black Democrats, makes accusations about Rev. Jesse Jackson, questions Clinton and Russian money
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/339396_re-insight-the-dems-and-dirty-tricks-internal-use-only-pls.html

Stratfor spy files on Occupy and Deep Green Resistance
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-03-02-01-stratfor-occupy.html

Rights of Mother Earth Conference, Haskell, April 4-6, 2012

2012-03-02T13:10:00.000-07:00

Cochabamba conference by Michelle Cook, Navajo

RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH: RESTORINGINDIGENOUS LIFE WAYS OF RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT

International IndigenousConference APRIL 4 - 6, 2012
at Haskell Indian NationsUniversity, Lawrence Kansas

Posted at Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Cochabamba by Ben Powless, Mohawk

In April 2010, ahistorical moment occurred. More than 32,000 people, includingIndigenous Peoples, social movements, small farmers and some world governmentalleaders, converged in Cochabamba, Bolivia for the World People’sConference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Twooutcomes of this conference were the Cochabamba Peoples Accord and theUniversal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth. The Accord and Declarationgave voice to peoples of the world experiencing the effects of climate chaosand its many accompanying issues, including depletion of freshwaterand other natural resources and the problems of food security, poverty andenvironmental crises, along with the financial meltdown within the UnitedStates and globally.

Duringthe Cochabamba world conference, President Evo Morales of Bolivia officiallyproposed that the United Nations adopt a declaration that recognizes thatNature or “Mother Earth” has certain inherent rights that we humans mustrespect and defend. The adoption by the United Nations and national and localgovernments of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth wouldexpand the class of holders of legally rights and would initiate a globalprocess of transformation.
Ourprophecies and teachings tell us that life on Mother Earth is in danger and iscoming to a time of great transformation. As Indigenous Peoples, we areaccepting the responsibility designated by our prophecies to tell the worldthat we must live in peace with each other and the Earth to ensure harmonywithin Creation.

Our Indigenouslifeways are the original “green economies.” This is more than anabstract philosophy. Our Mother Earth is the source of life. Wateris her lifeblood. The well-being of the natural environmentpredicts the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual longevity of ourPeoples. Mother Earth’s health and that of our IndigenousPeoples are intrinsically intertwined. When our homelands are in astate of good health our Peoples are truly healthy. This inseparablerelationship must be respected for the sake of our future generations and forthe well-being of the Earth herself.

Alliancesare being formed, globally of Indigenous and non-indigenous groups andindividuals committed to creating a system of jurisprudence that sees andtreats nature and Mother Earth as a fundamental,rights bearing entity. A paradigm, that is based on Indigenous thoughtand philosophy needs to be forwarded which grants equal rights to natureand which honors the interrelation in all life.

Thisis the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st Century. How do were-orientate the dominant industrialized societies so that they pursue humanwell-being in a manner that contributes to the health of our Mother Earthinstead of undermining it? In other words – how do we live in harmony withNature?
A3 day conference has been scheduled at Haskell Indian Nations University, in Lawrence, Kansas, April 4-6,2012 with Indigenous Peoples together from the North and Global South tolearn more and to have a discourse about this Rights of Mother Earth, Rights ofNature movement.

Weinvite humanity to come together to improve our collective human behavior sothat we may develop a more sustainable world. We can preserve,protect, and fulfill our sacred duties to live with respect in this wonderfulCreation. We have the power and responsibility for change.
Tom B.K. Goldtooth
Indigenous Environmental Network
Dr. Daniel Wildcat
Haskell Indian Nation University

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Planning World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014

2012-03-02T07:42:00.001-07:00

Owe Aku International Justice Project: Planning and Strategy for World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014

Indigenous Peoples from across the Americas gather
in Puno, Peru for the 4th Continental Indigenous
Summit of Abya Yala (America).
Photo by: Ben Powless

March 1, 2012

Brothers and Sisters, Greetings from Owe Aku International Justice Project.

In preparation for next week's North American Indigenous Peoples' Caucus meeting being hosted by the Chiefs of Ontario in Niagara, Canada, Owe Aku is proud to submit the attached report and update on the preparations for the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples to be held in 2014. Due to health issues, I am not going to be able to attend the Caucus meeting in person, but Kenneth Deer will be able to answer any questions and feel free to contact me if you would like to make direct inquiries to myself or Owe Aku. We send you our best wishes for this important meeting and look forward to greeting you all in New York City for the Forum.

Because this is an issue of importance to Indigneous peoples around the globe, and in keeping with our responsibilities to try and share the information as widely as possibly, we are also sending the report to our Indigneous brothers and sisters around the world and encourage them to share it with their networks.

pila maya yelo,

Kent Lebsock

P.S. We are not sure that hard copies will be available at the North American Caucus so we encourage those who can to maybe make and take along an extra copy to share with someone who may not have received it via email. Thank you.

Kent Lebsock

Director

Owe Aku International Justice Project

for Lakota Treaty Justice & Advocacy

oweakuinternational@me.com

646-233-4406

646-395-1617

Preparation for Indigenous World Conference 2014

Pati Mai music video 'Shakhouse'

2012-03-01T20:20:00.002-07:00

Click arrow to watch music video from Pago Pago.

NEW: Stratfor's pathetic 'intelligence' on Occupy Movement

2012-03-01T18:39:00.001-07:00

Photo Reuters

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Wikileaks released e-mails about the Occupy movement today, revealing that Stratfor global intelligence forwarded news articles, gossip, and even a Tea Party blog about the Occupy Movement.
The selection of Stratfor e-mails also reveals the type of "intelligence" that the US Army, Navy and Airforce are all paying tens of thousands of dollars for, according to US government contracts. The "global intelligence" is based on readily available news reports, blogs and Stratfor's hyperbole.

Stratfor didn’t expect Occupy in China
China Director Jennifer Richmond explains whythe "Occupy Wall Street" movement failed to gain traction in mainland China.
“We really didn't expect to see this movementtransfer to mainland China; however, given the Jasmine protests earlier this year, there were many who were waiting to see whether or not this movement could be rejuvenated by the global call to action. The global Occupy movement
lacks a nucleus or leadership. Despite a common theme of corporate greed, there is very little direction on how to proceed and, under these circumstances, we have seen no contagion effect in mainland China.”
"...Also, many Chinese do not have access to the social Internet sites that have helped
to ignite these movements in Western countries, namely Facebook. And
those that do, find this information quickly scrubbed off of similar
Chinese sites." http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/52179_dispatch-mainland-china-s-occupy-wall-street-reaction-.html

Stratfor says Occupiers are rich
"Quick jump on the bandwagon! It's not coolunless you're protesting...or
a hipster....or angry for some reason that may have nothing to do with how
much you make....by the way South Park is mocking Occupy Wall Street
tonight on Comedy Central"
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/52322_-social-report-many-occupy-wall-street-protesters-live-in.html

Department of Homeland Security report on Occupy movement
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/157578_-alpha-occupy-wall-street-dhs-analysis-.html

Stratfor rambles about Occupy Austin and Deep GreenResistance:
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/184236_re-alpha-insight-us-occupy-austin-and-deep-green-resistance.html

Stratfor on Occupy and Iowa Caucus:
“Back to the protestors. Their plan has beendeveloping to ‘occupy’
candidate's offices. That really means protest in front of the offices,
which if you think of all the little shitty strip malls you see around,
one small section would be a campaign office.”
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/746568_re-ct-anonymous-and-occupy-divergence-in-the-iowa-caucuses-.html

Police move to shut down Occupy camps, Philly, Denver, SaltLake, more …
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/748498_-ct-police-move-to-shut-down-occupy-camps-.html

Stratfor forwards Tea Party documents and posts on Occupy:
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1096148_occupy-s-nerve-center-staffed-by-soros-activists-.html

Stratfor forwards news from India/South Asia on excessiveuse of force in Occupy roundup:
Xinhua 'Roundup': Concerns Rise AboutExcessive Use of Police Force in
Dealing With Occupy Protesters
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1495374_india-south-asia-xinhua-roundup-concerns-rise-about.html

Stratfor forwards articles from The Nation and CNN onOccupy:
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1576512_us-ct-occupy-wall-street-background-.html

Stratfor forwards Gawker’s post on ‘The guy who snitched onOccupy’ Thomas Ryan:
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1576594_us-ct-meet-the-guy-who-snitched-on-occupy-wall-street-to-the.html

Stratfor worries over Day of Rage and Islam

Stratfor: “No, we're not aware of anyconcrete connections between fundamentalist
Islamist movements and the Day of Rage, or the October 2011 movement at
this point.”

http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/5462138_re-fwd-question-.html

Read more Stratfor e-mails on the Occupy Movement: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-03-02-01-stratfor-occupy.html

Also see more news from the Stratfor files: FBI was source on Julian Assange indictment, resignation follows. Bin Laden body flown to Delaware: http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/03/01/live-blog-wikileaks-releases-the-stratfor-emails-day-4/

VIDEO: Tucson lockdown: Protest border militarization Feb. 29, 2012

2012-02-29T12:37:00.004-07:00

Activists block the entry to G4S parking lot, Tucson, 02.29.2012

Part of #F29 shut down the corporations day, activists in Tucson, AZ, blocked the entrance to a parking lot where buses that are used to deport migrants are parked. Workers of G4S taking down the own fence to let the buses out.
G4S is one of the biggest corporations in the world, it works includes privatization of prisons and deportations in the US, also they are part of the private companies that were contracted to privatized the check points in the West Bank in Palestine

BREAKING NEWS: LOCAL ACTIVISTS TAKING DIRECT ACTION AGAINST BORDER MILITARIZATION, PROFITEERING AND ALEC IN TUCSON, AZ
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Media Contact: Richard Magon
E-mail: feb29media@gmail.com
Phone: (520) 261 - 0292

This morning, local activists are using direct action to shut down the transportation headquarters of G4S in Tucson, Arizona. Responding to Occupy Portland's call to shut down the corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, this action is being taken to halt the profit-driven operations of ALEC member G4S. This massive company operates the buses used to transport those being deported or moved between immigration detention facilities, and contributes to untold strife and devastation for those criminalized by U.S. Immigration policy.
“The second largest multinational corporation after WalMart, G4S, a worldwide private security services provider, profits through the militarization of infrastructure along the U.S. Mexico border, aiding U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in the human rights crisis perpetuated through the daily seizure, detention and criminalization of undocumented people. G4S profits additionally from the private management of prisons, into which thousands of people are streamlined daily by the U.S. prison-industrial complex and its corporate, governmental and military investors,” explained Ben Lorber, a supporter of the action.
Ben Lorber further stated, “Well beyond our borders, G4S bolsters and profits from state-based terror worldwide. In occupied Palestine, to cite one of many examples, the company provides private security technology and personnel for Israeli prisons, where the systematic torture of Palestinian prisoners is regularly documented by human rights organizations, and for West Bank settlements, deemed illegal and in violation of international human rights law by the United Nations Security Council and the International Court of Justice.”
Jonah Clarke, one of the participants in today’s actions said; “Today's shutdown of G4S bus operations is part of a nation-wide day of action to shut down the corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization in which corporations who stand to profit from criminalization and militarization, such as G4S, work directly with politicians to craft model legislation that puts profit over people, and bolsters the military- and prison-industrial complex while human beings are trampled underfoot. Across the country, in all our struggles, ALEC's influence is present and representative of a failed system in which power and greed are dominant over everything else.
This day is part of a longer struggle against ALEC and against the white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy and the colonial state of which they are only a part. We use direct action to confront these oppressive structures and take back the power to shape our world.”
The G4S bus shutdown is expected to last several hours. In addition to this autonomous action, a rally in response to the Shut Down the Corporations call is scheduled for 4 p.m. today at the Joel D. Valdez library in downtown Tucson.
For video from this morning’s ongoing action, see http://www.youtube.com/user/shutdownalec
.High quality photographs are available by contacting feb29media@gmail.com.
More information on the national day of action available at http://www.shutdownthecorporations.org/
.

Western Shoshone challenge Te-Moak Tribal Council's member disenrollments

2012-02-29T11:16:00.000-07:00

WESTERN SHOSHONE CHALLENGE TE-MOAK TRIBAL COUNCIL’S MEMBER DISENROLLMENTS

By Lisa J. Wolf, Correspondent
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

Chief Temoke

February 28, 2012

Newe Sogobia

Of 2,448 enrolled Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone members in 2003, an estimated 413 were disenrolled (some 17% of the Tribe), and it is expected that the current disenrollment wave underway by Nevada’s Te-Moak Tribal Council will eliminate the membership of another 300 persons for a total disenrollment of approximately 29% of the Tribe.

In a letter dated January 23, 2012 to the Te-Moak Tribal Council in Elko, Lois Whitney and Myron Tybo informed Council Members a meeting had been held January 21, 2012 to discuss enrollment issues at which the “majority of the people in attendance expressed that the enrollment committee altered their family enrollment,” which the letter maintains is “unconstitutional and a violation.” The letter called on the Tribal Council to investigate its enrollment process.

Reminding the Te-Moak Tribal Council they are responsible to “promote the welfare of ourselves and descendants,” the letter claims the Council and Enrollment Committee “used malice to disenroll members,” and demands that disenrollment be dissolved “in its entirety, including the Enrollment Committee, and that the Enrollment Ordinance, characterized as not approved or enforceable, be abolished; and that all members’ documents be protected and that members be allowed to review their family enrollment files.

The letter maintains tribal members “were denied due process” and demands the Council “immediately reinstate” all federally-recognized enrolled Te-Moak Tribal members.

Joe McDade of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Agency; Bryan Bowker, Area Director of the BIA’s Western Regional Office; Ken Salazaar, Secretary of the Interior; and Larry Echohawk, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, also received a copy of the letter.

In addition, a Support Document, aiming for 1,000 signatures, being circulated opposing “altering Shoshone blood and disenrolling members,” notes that on February 1st, 2012, Tribal members “plead[ed] with the Te-Moak Council to cease tribal disenrollment and reinstate members’ status,” and called for a resolution for a referendum vote by the people to determine Tribal membership, which was defeated by the Council with Tribal Chairman, Brian Cassadore, casting the tie-breaking vote against the referendum. The Document characterizes the Tribe’s current review process as “equivocal to entrapment and denying membership cards takes away rights, privileges and membership.” Disenrollment cuts people off from tribal rights including homes, land assignments, health care and the right to vote and hold office.

The Support Document, based on the Tribal Constitution’s Bill of Rights which allows members “to seek redress of grievances;” notes “to avoid Tribal retaliation, signatures will be held under seal for only the Secretary of the Interior to witness.”

The Te-Moak Tribe blood-degree individuals have determines enrollment as outlined in the original Constitution and By-Laws of the Te-Moak Bands of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada approved August 24, 1938 under the auspices of the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs.

The 1937 Constitution’s Article II states membership “shall consist” of “[a]ll persons of at least one-quarter degree of Shoshone Indian blood whose names appear on the official census roll of the Elko Colony as of January 1, 1937” and “[a]ll persons of at least one-quarter Shoshone Indian blood residing in the territory of the Bands whose names appear on the official census roll of the Carson Indian Agency as of January 1, 1937” who “make written application to the Te-Moak Western Shoshone Council” as well as “[a]ll children of at least one-quarter degree of Indian blood born to any member.”

In addition, the 1937 Constitution allowed admittance “to membership” of “any other person whose name appears on the official census roll of the Carson Indian Agency as of January 1, 1937.”

The Constitution permitted the Council to cancel membership upon application by any adult person “to sever his tribal relations.” In addition, the Tribal Council was given authority to “promulgate ordinances subject to review by the Secretary of the Interior governing adoption and compulsory loss of membership.”

In 1982 the Constitution was amended and likewise mentions “the official census roll of the Elko Indian Colony as of January 1, 1937, hereinafter called Base Roll 1.” However, there is and never has been, an Elko Indian Colony official census roll.

The Amended Tribal membership section also includes “descendants of members of the Tribe born after the effective date of this Constitution, provided, such descendants possess at least one-quarter degree Te-Moak Indian Blood” and “[a]ny person who does not appear on either Base Roll 1 or 2, who has at least one-quarter degree Shoshone Indian blood and who can establish residency for himself or his ancestry in the Te-Moak census area as of January 1, 1937.”

In 2003 when members began to be disenrolled by the Te-Moak Council, the U.S. DOI BIA wrote to the Chairman expressing that the BIA office had been receiving calls and visits from individuals who themselves or their children were being disenrolled by the tribe “due to a blood degree decrease initiated by the Tribe.”

Acting Superintendent Robert R. McNichols told the Chairman the BIA had not “received any official documentation” regarding Tribal “correction to blood degrees of individuals” and informed the Tribal Council “you may be making blood degree changes without authority for those listed on the Indian Census of 1937, an official federal document.”

McNichols acknowledged the Tribe could make changes to an “individual’s blood determination if a mathematical error is made or if an error is apparent on the record” but “must provide our office with documentation to support the change so that we can make an official request to the Regional Office to have the record changed,” as well as requiring that “all individuals and their heirs” be notified about the correction on their blood degree and provided “with a hearing and their appeal rights prior to taking action on any disenrollment.” Absent such a hearing, the tribe would be denying individuals “due process.” Further, McNichols told the Chairman, “Any action taken by the tribe illegally will not be honored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and our records will remain the same.”

Further, in August of 2005, the BIA informed the Acting Enrollment Officer for the Te-Moak Tribe that the Tribe’s request for 18 individual blood degree changes required additional documentation. Again the BIA letter cautioned, “Because blood degree changes may have an adverse effect on numerous descendants involved; all persons who would be affected by the changes should be notified by the tribe in writing of the change being considered and given the opportunity to show evidence why the change should or should not be made.”

The BIA pointed out that as the Te-Moak Tribe “does not have an official base roll or a reconstructed base roll the Tribe does not have the authority to change any individual’s blood degrees that are listed on the Northeastern Nevada Indian Census of January 1, 1937” which is “the official record of the Bureau of Indian Affairs” and that all blood degree requests for changes must be approved by the BIA “prior to the Tribe changing their official records.”

Further correspondence from the BIA directed to the Chairman in 2008, related that “individuals are enrolled under the laws that are in effect at the time the application is filed;” meaning new membership requirements contained in the amended Constitution would “affect only those individuals who submit an application on or after the date of approval of the new membership provisions.”

In addition, the BIA informed the former Chairman the new requirements cannot be applied to individuals “who were enrolled under the old membership requirements.”

Joe McDade of the BIA in Elko, himself a Te-Moak Tribal member, said by phone February 27, 2012, “I know what you’re referring to about the BIA letting them know about their concerns with the disenrollment. I’m not really sure that that process isn’t a Tribal issue providing they’re not doing it violating people’s rights or in conflict of their Constitution. If they’re doing it in violation of people’s rights and in violation of their Constitution then there’s probably going to be an issue with that. The problem comes in interpretation: what the Tribal Council interprets as being what their Constitution says and what other entities say it is, that’s where the problem comes in.”

McDade said he supported the statements made by McNichols in his letter of 2003 but said, “The Tribe has a different interpretation sometimes than what the Bureau has.”

Regarding the Tribe contacting people and telling them they have to return their membership cards with threat of litigation without confirmation of disenrollment criteria from the BIA, McDade said. “All of their enrollment meetings are closed meetings, I think; and it’s difficult to determine what happens. We haven’t seen anything official here on any of the actions that they’ve done.”

“That enrollment issue is pretty much a local matter with the Tribal Council. The only thing when the BIA would be involved; and that’s if they were notified that there were changes to the official blood quantum that’s listed on one of those census rolls. If they’re changing those, it has to come to the federal agency to make the change; and then if it’s a mathematical error or something like that because those are federal records.”

“I know it’s a contentious issue. The Superintendent hasn’t been involved in those issues. Number 1: we haven’t been asked; and number 2: we haven’t seen any official actions that’s been taken that’s come through here.”

“Until something comes through here and I’m officially able to take a look at it, I really can’t comment one way or the other on that.” McDade acknowledged that changes to the official census have to come through the BIA “if we are made aware of it.”

The information would have to come from a Tribal group. “Officially, it would have more weight if it came from a Tribal Council; certainly an individual can ask us about that and we would have to respond one way or the other; but if I don’t have the documentation in front of me, I wouldn’t know what to ask.”

McDade said his membership in the Te-Moak Tribe “has nothing to do with my position here.” McDade said official actions “if we’re made aware of those and they come through here then we’ll have to respond one way or the other. Nobody’s asked. We hear this stuff going out there; and the Tribe’s reluctant to ask the Bureau to be involved in things like that, especially matters of enrollment; that’s pretty much a local issue.”

The Council in order to act on disenrollment is required to have resolutions of support from all the Bands, including the Battle Mountain and South Fork Bands. However, in 2006 the South Fork Band “voted in favor of a resolution in opposition of the disenrollment by the Te-Moak Tribal Council of Western Shoshone” and demanded that the Te-Moak Council “stop and desist any further actions of disenrollment of the Te-Moak Tribal members” and resolved that members disenrolled should be re-enrolled “back to their original status as members of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada.”

Likewise, the Battle Mountain Band Council on December 14, 2007 and on May 6, 2010 issued resolutions opposing the “disenrollment procedures of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone.” The Wells Band and Elko Band are both being contacted to ask for resolutions in opposition to disenrollment.

Moving the process forward, 12 concerned Western Shoshone met February 25th at the Battle Mountain Band Council offices to discuss resolving the disenrollment issue. Some present had themselves been disenrolled.

Western Shoshone at the meeting contend that the Enrollment Committee is indeed going backwards in time and disenrolling people ex post facto or retroactively. Ex post facto laws are expressly forbidden by the United States Constitution.

Members are being disenrolled because of charges of lack of blood degree, in some instances only using one side of their parentage despite both parents being Western Shoshone; and being sent letters threatening criminal charges if they don’t return tribal membership cards. Apparently, members are being disenrolled on the basis of “errors.”

Rhonda Hicks and her daughter were disenrolled. When she confronted Enrollment Committee members, Lita Jim and Lavona Johnson, “they were really rude.” Hicks feels disenrollment happens “if you don’t know the right person or they’re mad at you.” Hicks said if you’re “not in with their crowd, they won’t do anything.” She found it odd that her daughters were disenrolled and her son was not. A prevailing impression is that certain connected families are behind disenrollment. Hicks said, “If you can’t be fair, then what’s the point? They don’t want to hear anything.”

Hicks wondered, “How many know your blood has been changed?”

Apparently, other Constitutional violations include the entire Tribal Council being present at meetings of the Enrollment Committee and voicing opinions rather than simply listening and gathering information.

In addition, Enrollment Committee members, the Tribal Enrollment Officer and Tribal Administrator bear close family ties and appear to be violating nepotism principles. Enrollment Committee members Lydia Sam and Lavona Johnson are sisters and Committee member Lita Jim is their cousin. The Tribal Administrator, Pat Stevens, is Lita Jim’s sister.

Bernice Lalo believes some 80% of the Battle Mountain Western Shoshone have been disenrolled. The Enrollment Committee says they can’t give out the names of dis-enrolled persons due to confidentiality.

Lalo said the BIA “needs to come over here and consult with the Newe people until all this gets so big that we don’t have a Newe nation anymore.” Lalo observed, “We’re like an abusive family. We’re letting it air out.”

The BIA can’t step in on their own, but must be invited.

Members share concern the tribe is being written into extinction while enrollment should be boosted. One member observed with so many disenrolled, only the big families can get in the high seats and believes they are protecting their own families and the non-members who work around them.

Myron Tybo has said, “Why Te-Moak is disenrolling people, we don't know” and “that is why we are involved because they are violating members’ rights without due process of how they are disenrolling them. They are in violation of the Te-Moak Constitution because there is no clause in the Constitution that calls for disenrollment. The only way a member dissolves his membership is if they relinquish and put it in writing according to the Constitution. And, the disenrolled members have not officially been disenrolled because they have not received anything in writing from the Department of the Interior stating they have been disenrolled, only at the Te-Moak level.”

He also stated, “No one has this so-called ‘Te-Moak blood’ that tribal members are being disenrolled by. It is not a federally recognized blood. Who is going to be disenrolled next? No one is safe from this Enrollment Committee.” When the 1982 Constitution was amended, a US Department of the Interior letter dated April 30, 1982 stated regarding the one-quarter degree Te-Moak Indian blood that “we have eliminated the language dealing with the source of that blood.”

Contacted at the Tribal Office, Enrollment Officer, Sharla Dick, rather than answering questions, referred the inquiry regarding disenrollment to Tribal Manager Pat Stevens. Stevens likewise wouldn’t answer, saying, “The only person who can give that information or make a response--the employees cannot respond to anything like that--it has to be the Chairman.” Thus far, Chairman Cassadore has not responded.

Disenrolled Western Shoshone Lois Whitney characterizes disenrollment as “a tribal genocide against their own people. Why would they take away those people who are Western Shoshone people?”

Asked about the problem of the quarter degree blood component diminishing as the generations unfold, Whitney described “what they did in my situation. Both of my grand-parents are full Western Shoshone and my mother was born here in Elko; so she’s full Shoshone. My dad was raised in the Owyhee Reservation, which is just 100 miles away in Elko County, and where the Eastern Agency was located at one time; and that reservation was created for the Shoshone people when they signed the Treaty of 1863; so what they did is they took away half of my blood. They said, ‘We can only count the blood of one parent even though they were full Shoshone’” and “they took away the blood of my daughter because her father is not Shoshone; he’s of another tribe” and “when it came to my grand-children then they were wiped out: they didn’t qualify for the one-fourth even though they had their great-grandparents who were four-fourth’s Shoshone on both sides.”

Whitney added, “We object to the fact that we were having to establish blood degrees like pedigree, like animals. We’re not animals: we’re people. We’re descendants of the aboriginal people that were here. This is our territory and we have to prove who we are.” Whitney considers it “cruel and mean to do this,” and says the Council and Enrollment Committee “are not protecting the Constitution; as a matter of fact, they are violating the Constitution” and “violating the rights of the people.”

On February 29th, Whitney and the group will present on disenrollment to the Elko Band Council. In addition, another public meeting on disenrollment will take place March 3rd at 9:30 a.m. at the Elko Public Library.

The issue will likely go to federal court if the problem can’t be resolved. Asked about funding for a court case, Whitney said if they have to they will find funding as they “look at saving our Tribe” and speak “out for the Elders and those who passed away who were disenrolled.”

8 California disenrolled Pala Band of Luiseno Indians were recommended by the BIA for re-entrance on the Tribe’s membership roll. As reported January 4, 2011 in the Original Pechanga’s Blog, “The Picayune Rancheria, near Fresno, eliminated almost 50% of their tribe. Pechanga at about 25%. The Redding Rancheria even terminated the family of their FIRST Tribal Chairman, Robert Foreman.” Again, the disenrollments are characterized as genocide. As Original Pechanga says, “It has been discussed that tribal disenrollments in Indian Country is nothing short of genocide of families. It's nothing compared to the horrors in Rwanda or Armenia of last century, however, tribes are eliminating large percentages of their people.” Original Pechanga says, “Disenrollment is tribal genocide.”

Money is involved in Pechanga disenrollment. “In the case of Chukchansi Gold, the casino had been averaging $5 million per month in payments to the Tribe over the past 48 months (as reported to me by a former Tribal Council member). The tribe disenrolled 625 members whose share would be $3,200 per month. This equates to $104,000,000 stolen. They are now disenrolling an additional 300 members.”

The North County Times posted an editorial by Rick Cuevas that says, “Tribal governments are using sovereignty as a weapon to beat the weak and helpless. Our federal and state governments are happy to stay out of the issue by saying that membership is a tribal matter. Fair enough, but what about the government's trust responsibility to Indians, to see that tribal constitutions are followed?”

Cuevas observes, “Good governance requires fair legal frameworks that are enforced impartially. It also requires full protection of human rights. Impartial enforcement of laws requires an independent judiciary and an impartial and incorruptible police force. That simply is not what is happening on tribal reservations.”

Cuevas says, “Tribes are using fear tactics, and yes, terrorism, to keep members in line for fear of losing their land, homes, per capita shares and health benefits. More critical, they also lose their rights to choose a representative government and to vote on issues that pertain to them. Imagine if the Republicans were able to eliminate 25 percent of the Democratic vote.”

Disenrolled Te-Moke Tribe members have reason to fear. Says Cuevas, “Currently at Pechanga, the tribal council is threatening allottees with fines, banishment and restricted access to their property. One family is taking it upon themselves to try to force a family ---- who was given an allotment with the creation of the reservation ---- off their land.”

The Chukchan Tribal Council is now in a war over the recent election which was reported on by ABC, Channel KSEE24, February 28th. The recent Council voting included disenrolled members and a new anti-disenrollment council was elected, ousting the pro-disenrollment council. The installation of the new council is being opposed by the previous Council and the BIA has been saying, as did McDade at Elko’s BLM, that it is an internal tribal matter. The dispute between Chukchan tribal members has turned violent with a teenager stabbed, and a woman and security guard injured, Tuesday, February 28th, in the dispute among the Councils. The BIA is being asked to step in and assist.

The drama in Chukchan may serve as a cautionary tale to the Te-Moke Tribal Council as their members seek to stop disenrollment.

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TUCSON ALEC action underway to shut down G4S border profiteers

2012-02-29T08:25:00.000-07:00

BREAKING NEWS: LOCAL ACTIVISTS TAKING DIRECT ACTION AGAINST BORDER MILITARIZATION, PROFITEERING AND ALEC IN TUCSON, AZ

BREAKING NEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Media Contact: Richard Magon
Email: feb29media@gmail.com
Phone: (520) 261 - 0292
This morning, local activists are using direct action to shut down the transportation headquarters of G4S in Tucson, Arizona. Responding to Occupy Portland's call to shut down the corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, this action is being taken to halt the profit-driven operations of ALEC member G4S. This massive company operates the buses used to transport those being deported or moved between immigration detention facilities, and contributes to untold strife and devastation for those criminalized by U.S. Immigration policy.
“The second largest multinational corporation after WalMart, G4S, a worldwide private security services provider, profits through the militarization of infrastructure along the U.S. Mexico border, aiding U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in the human rights crisis perpetuated through the daily seizure, detention and criminalization of undocumented people. G4S profits additionally from the private management of prisons, into which thousands of people are streamlined daily by the U.S. prison-industrial complex and its corporate, governmental and military investors,” explained Ben Lorber, a supporter of the action.
Ben Lorber further stated, “Well beyond our borders, G4S bolsters and profits from state-based terror worldwide. In occupied Palestine, to cite one of many examples, the company provides private security technology and personnel for Israeli prisons, where the systematic torture of Palestinian prisoners is regularly documented by human rights organizations, and for West Bank settlements, deemed illegal and in violation of international human rights law by the United Nations Security Council and the International Court of Justice.”
Jonah Clarke, one of the participants in today’s actions said; “Today's shutdown of G4S bus operations is part of a nation-wide day of action to shut down the corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization in which corporations who stand to profit from criminalization and militarization, such as G4S, work directly with politicians to craft model legislation that puts profit over people, and bolsters the military- and prison-industrial complex while human beings are trampled underfoot. Across the country, in all our struggles, ALEC's influence is present and representative of a failed system in which power and greed are dominant over everything else.
This day is part of a longer struggle against ALEC and against the white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy and the colonial state of which they are only a part. We use direct action to confront these oppressive structures and take back the power to shape our world.”
The G4S bus shutdown is expected to last several hours. In addition to this autonomous action, a rally in response to the Shut Down the Corporations call is scheduled for 4PM today at the Joel D. Valdez library in downtown Tucson.
For video from this morning’s ongoing action, see http://www.youtube.com/user/shutdownalec.
High quality photographs are available by contacting feb29media@gmail.com.
More information on the national day of action available at www.shutdownthecorporations.org
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VIDEO: Totem Pole honors slain woodcarver John T. Williams

2012-02-28T18:58:00.000-07:00

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Stratfor Files: US issued sealed indictment against Julian Assange

2012-02-28T17:21:00.002-07:00

Press release: US issued sealed indictment against Julian Assange
Tuesday 28th February 2012 18:30 GMT
http://wikileaks.org/Stratfor-Emails-US-Has-Issued.html
Reposted at Censored News
Updated with statement by US Center for Constitutional Rights
Confidential emails obtained from the US private intelligence firm Stratfor show that the United States Government has had a secret indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for more than 12 months.
Fred Burton, Stratfor’s Vice-President for Counterterrorism and Corporate Security, is a former Deputy Chief of the Department of State’s (DoS) counterterrorism division for the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).
In early 2011, Burton revealed in internal Stratfor correspondence that a secret Grand Jury had already issued a sealed indictment for Assange: "Not for Pub — We have a sealed indictment on Assange. Pls protect." (375123) According to Burton: "Assange is going to make a nice bride in prison. Screw the terrorist. He’ll be eating cat food forever." (1056988) A few weeks earlier, following Julian Assange’s release from a London jail, where he had been remanded as a result of a Swedish prosecutor’s arrest warrant, Fred Burton told SkyNews: "extradition [to the US is] more and more likely". (373862).
Emails from Fred Burton reveal that the US Government employs the same counterterrorism strategy against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as against Al Qaeda: "Take down the money. Go after his infrastructure. The tools we are using to nail and de-construct Wiki are the same tools used to dismantle and track aQ [Al Qaeda]. Thank Cheney & 43 [former US President George W. Bush]. Big Brother owns his liberal terrorist arse." (1067796)
Ten days after the CIA reportedly assassinated Osama bin Laden, Burton writes in an email sent to Stratfor’s "Secure" mailing list that he "can get access to the materials seized from the OBL [Osama bin Laden] safe house." (1660854)
Burton states: "Ferreting out [Julian Assange’s] confederates is also key. Find out what other disgruntled rogues inside the tent or outside [sic]. Pile on. Move him from country to country to face various charges for the next 25 years. But, seize everything he and his family own, to include every person linked to Wiki." (1056763)
Along with the FBI, the Diplomatic Security Service and the Department of Defense (DoD) form a multi-agency US Government outfit seeking to criminally indict and prosecute WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. According to the Department of State, the DSS handles the investigation of all leads that involve the DoS and assists the DoD in forensic analysis of hard drives seized by the US Government in its ongoing criminal investigation.
Burton also says he "would pursue [c]onspiracy and [p]olitical [t]errorism charges and declassify the death of a source someone which [he] could link to Wiki" (1074383). Burton’s strategy is to: "[b]ankrupt the arsehole first," Burton states, "ruin his life. Give him 7-12 yrs for conspiracy." (1057220)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said: "For over a year now, the US Attorny General Eric Holder has been conducting a "secret" Grand Jury investigation into WikiLeaks. This neo-McCarthyist witch hunt against WikiLeaks may be Mr Holder’s defining legacy. Any student of American history knows that secret justice is no justice at all. Justice must be seen to be done. Legitimate authority arises out of the informed consent of the governed, not Eric Holder’s press secretary. Secret Grand Juries with secret indictments are apparently Eric Holder’s preferred method of dealing with publishers who hold his administration to account. Eric Holder has betrayed the legacy of Madison and Jefferson. He should drop the case or resign. Should he continue, however, the Obama administration may not — Democrats and Republicans alike believe in the right to tell the truth."
As early as June 2010, after the release of the Collateral Murder video but prior to the Afghan War Diaries release, the emails talk of a sealed indictment. In an email conversation between Shane Harris, a National Security journalist, and Burton, Harris is surprised that Assange was reporteded to be attending a Las Vegas Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) conference. Burton remarks: "As a foreign national, we could revoke [Julian Assange’s] travel status and deport. Could also be taken into custody as a material witness. We COULD have a sealed indictment and lock him up. Depends upon how far along the military case is" (391504). Julian Assange cancelled his appearance at the IRE conference due to security concerns.
In another email to Stephen Feldhaus, Stratfor legal counsel, about Ronald Kessler, a "pro-FBI journalist", Burton remarks: “I look forward to Manning and Assange facing a bajillion-thousand counts [of espionage]." (1035283)
In July 2010 alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning was moved from Camp Arifjan, Kuwait to the Quantico Brig in the Military District of Washington at the request of Maj. Gen. Terry Wolff, then Commanding General of the 1st Armored Division/US Division – Center in Iraq.
Wolff requested Manning’s move, the Pentagon reported, "due to a potentially lengthy pre-trial confinement because of the complexity of the charges and an ongoing investigation.” Three days before Manning arrived at Quantico Brig, Burton wrote to George Friedman, Stratfor CEO and founder:
“We probably asked the ASIS [Australian Secret Intelligence Service] to monitor Wiki coms and email, after the soldier from Potomac was nabbed. So, it’s reasonable to assume we probably already know who has done it. The delay could be figuring out how to declassify and use the Aussie intel on Wiki... The owner [Julian Assange] is a peacenik. He needs his head dunked in a full toilet bowl at Gitmo.” (402168)
The GI Files: http://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html
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WHO TO GO TO FOR COMMENT
--Wikileaks– Kristinn Hrafnsson, Official WikiLeaks representative: +35 4821 7121
Julian Burnside, Australian barrister and Human Rights expert: +61 412 157 230 or +61 03 9225 7488, burnside@vicbar.com.au
Jennifer Robinson, Legal adviser in Australia and available for interviews now: +61423871773
Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): +1 2126146449, press@ccrjustice.org
Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression +502 23 680-021
Scott Ludlam, Australian Senator: +61 6277 3467
Geoffrey Robertson, Australian-born Human Rights barrister, academic, author: +44 020 7404 1313, g.robertson@doughtystreet.co.uk
Glenn Greenwald (salon.com), Columnist/blogger/Constitutional lawyer: +1 (646) 400-5600, ggreenwald@salon.com
Ben Wizner, Litigation Director at ACLU’s National Security Project: +1 (212) 519 7860, bwizner@aclu.org
Oliver Spencer, Article 19, Global Campaign for Free Expression: +44 (0)20 7324 2517
John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): +1 415 436 9333 and +1 202 797 9009, barlow@eff.org
Cindy Cohn, Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation: +1 415 436 9333 x108, cindy@eff.org
Tala Dowlatshahi, Reporters without Borders (US): +1 917-239-0653
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Important Statement by the US Centre for Constitutional Rights regarding reported sealed Assange indictment

Leak of Private Intelligence Firm Documents Confirm Existence of Secret Indictment by Secret Grand Jury. Important Statement by the US Centre for Constitutional Rights regarding the reported secret Assange indictment:

"A sealed indictment against Julian Assange would underscore the very thing Wikileaks has been fighting against: abuses the government commits in an environment of secrecy and expansive, reflexive calls for 'national security.' "

Journalist Julian Assange, the founder and editor of WikiLeaks

CCR Condemns Reported Sealed Indictment Against WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange.

February 28, 2012, New York – Leaks published today from Stratfor, a private intelligence corporation, indicate the United States Department of Justice has issued a secret, sealed indictment against Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. In response, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement:

A sealed indictment against Julian Assange would underscore the very thing Wikileaks has been fighting against: abuses the government commits in an environment of secrecy and expansive, reflexive calls for "national security." From the shocking, inhumane treatment of Bradley Manning, to secret grand jury proceedings, to Stratfor's apparent knowledge of the existence of a sealed indictment before either Mr. Assange or the American public had such knowledge, the government's conduct in this case reveals why more transparency, not more secrecy, is essential.

This would also mark perhaps the first time a journalist has been prosecuted for allegedly receiving and publishing “classified” documents. Indicting Julian Assange would represent a dramatic assault on the First Amendment, journalists, and the public's right to know.
Rather than promoting transparency as promised, the Obama administration has aggressively pursued whistleblowers and dissenters, launching Espionage Act prosecutions twice as many times as all previous administrations in the last century combined. Attorney General Eric Holder should rethink this dangerous course. Instead of pursuing Julian Assange, Mr. Holder should investigate the serious crimes and abuse of government authority exposed by Wikileaks.

The Center for Constitutional Rights legally represents Wikileaks and Mr. Assange in the Bradley Manning hearings.

The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.

Visit www.ccrjustice.org. Follow @theCCR.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recovering satisfactory

2012-02-28T17:07:00.000-07:00

President Hugo Chávez Is Recovering Satisfactory

Office of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Censored News

As is publicly known, in recent days, during a medical check-up of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, doctors detected a lesion requiring corrective surgery.
In that sense, the medical team, after the necessary tests, performed the surgery in the briefest time possible. The surgery was carried out as expected, producing satisfactory results and a recovery plan was established for the coming days.
President Chávez is in good physical condition, is joined by his family, and constantly in touch with the executive vice president and the Bolivarian Government. He is always attentive to keeping the Venezuelan people and the international community properly informed, with accuracy and transparency, about the details of the medical treatment he is receiving.
The president has asked that the results of his recent surgery be made public. As soon as the surgery concluded, the results were presented by the medical team in the following terms:
The pelvic lesion was totally removed, as well as the surrounding tissue. There were no complications with regard to adjacent organs. Immediate post-surgery has been clinically stable, without systemic complications. He is adequately recovering with the post-operative rehabilitation. In the coming hours the histology tests will be available, which will determine the optimum medical treatment for the lesion.
President Chávez thanks, from the bottom of his heart, the warm wishes he has received from the Venezuelan people, as well as innumerable messages of solidarity from men and women from other parts of the world.
Additionally, he offers his thanks for the several messages and phone calls he has received from heads of state and government, as well as from international leaders and representatives of important grassroots organizations in the world.
On behalf of the Venezuelan people, the President wishes to thank Fidel, Raul, the Cuban people, and the medical team that led this surgery and is conducting with scientific wisdom and human warmth the treatment for his full recovery.
For its part, the Bolivarian Government expects the sentiments of solidarity and support from the Venezuelan people for their president be respected by those international and national right-wing political sectors that are at the service of imperial interests, and asks that they stop their perverse campaign against Venezuela.
Finally, President Chávez ratifies the call to all men and women of our homeland to continue working in the daily struggle to consolidate independence and build socialism, which is the supreme dream of our Liberator, Simón Bolívar.
Our people know that they can always count on the loyalty and commitment of Commander Chávez, leading the homeland, just as he trusts the love and loyalty of the people.
Toward victory always! We shall live and overcome!
Office of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Comunicado
Presidente Hugo Chávez se recupera satisfactoriamente
Como es del conocimiento público, en días pasados, durante el más reciente control médico del presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, le fue detectada una lesión que ameritó una intervención quirúrgica correctiva.
En ese sentido, el equipo médico, tras las correspondientes evaluaciones, fijó la operación en el tiempo más breve posible. Ésta se llevó a cabo según lo previsto, obteniéndose un resultado satisfactorio tras lo cual se ha programado un plan de recuperación a cumplir en los próximos días.
El presidente Chávez se encuentra en buena condición física, en compañía de sus familiares y en contacto directo y permanente con el vicepresidente Ejecutivo y el Gobierno Bolivariano. Siempre atento a mantener oportunamente informados al pueblo venezolano y a la comunidad internacional, con exactitud y transparencia, acerca de los pormenores del tratamiento que está recibiendo.
El presidente ha ordenado hacer públicos los resultados de la reciente intervención quirúrgica. Éstos fueron expuestos por el equipo médico, tan pronto concluyó la operación, en los términos siguientes:
Se realizó la extracción total de la lesión pélvica diagnosticada, extirpándose además, el tejido circundante a la lesión. No hubo complicaciones relacionadas con los órganos locales, El post operatorio inmediato ha sido estable, clínicamente sin complicaciones sistémicas. Se recupera adecuadamente colaborando con la rehabilitación post quirúrgica. En las próximas horas se dispondrá de los estudios histológicos, que determinarán el tratamiento óptimo de la lesión
El presidente Chávez agradece, desde su corazón, el cálido acompañamiento que ha recibido del pueblo venezolano, así como también las innumerables expresiones de solidaridad venidas de hombres y mujeres de todas las latitudes del planeta.
Igualmente, desea expresar su agradecimiento por los numerosos mensajes y llamadas recibidos de parte de jefes de Estado y de gobierno, así como de líderes internacionales y representantes de importantes organizaciones sociales del mundo.
De manera especial, quiere, en nombre del pueblo de Venezuela, agradecer a Fidel, a Raúl, al pueblo cubano y al equipo de especialistas de la salud que han dirigido esta operación y mantiene, con sabiduría científica y calor humano, el tratamiento para el pleno restablecimiento de la salud del comandante Chávez.
Por su parte, el Gobierno Bolivariano manifiesta su aspiración para que el sentimiento de solidaridad y apoyo del pueblo venezolano hacia su Presidente sea respetado por parte de aquellos sectores políticos y de la derecha nacional e internacional, al servicio de intereses imperiales, y que cesen en su campaña perversa contra Venezuela.
Finalmente, el presidente Hugo Chávez ratifica su llamado a todos los hombres y mujeres de nuestra Patria a mantenerse en el trabajo y la lucha diaria por consolidar la independencia y construir el Socialismo, que no es no es otra cosa que el sueño supremo de nuestro Libertador, Simón Bolívar.
Sabe nuestro pueblo que puede contar siempre con la lealtad y el compromiso del comandante Chávez al frente de la Patria, así como él tiene la confianza de que cuenta con el amor y la lealtad de todo un pueblo.
¡Hasta la victoria siempre! ¡Viviremos y venceremos!
Presidencia de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Alaska's Big Village Network protesting sHELL drilling in Arctic!

2012-02-28T03:19:00.000-07:00

Alaska's Big Village Network

http://akbigvillagenetwork.blogspot.com/2012/02/alaskas-big-village-network-resist.html

Protesting

sHELL drilling in the ARCTIC!!!

supporting the international days of action........

Thanks to Real People in Alaska

Thanks to Earl Kingik for publicly standing up to Shell

Thanks to US Constitution for allowing this freedom of speech against a foreign multi-national corporation set to seize on America's Arctic.

Thanks for the Bowhead Whale for providing thousands of years of beauty, food, culture and sharing with the Iniut.

Thanks to Human Beings to Save the Arctic.

Photos by Alaska Big Village Network. Thanks for sharing with Censored News!

NOW: Wikileaks releasing Stratfor 'Global Intelligence Files'

2012-02-26T23:00:00.015-07:00

Wikileaks releasing Stratfor e-mails
Posted at Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Updated Monday Feb. 27, 2012

Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files, e-mails released: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-02-27.html
Ustream: Wikileaks press conference today, watch archive video:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/frontline-club

Wikileaks is now releasing five million e-mails from Stratfor global intelligence. The e-mails were turned over to Wikileaks by the hacktivists Anonymous.
Censored News is happy to report that we, as a collective of writers and activists at Censored News, are among the first mentioned in the leaked Stratfor Global Intelligence Files.
Although we are not yet mentioned by name, those of us at the Cochabamba climate summit are incorrectly categorized by US State Dept. sources as "anti-US, anti-Capitalism (specifically targeting Coca Cola), anti-UN, pro-coca (sic cocaine) and narco-trafficking platform that was embraced by 22,000 anti-US, left-wing anarchists in as a result of the recent Climate Change Summit in Cochabamba."

Scroll down for some of the first e-mails leaked, selected by Censored News: Bolivian President Evo Morales and those attending the Cochabamba climate summit; Chavez' illness; report on ICE hit in Mexico; payment to informant 'Geronimo'; 'Insight McCain Pls do not forward' and Coca Cola spied on PETA.

A large number of oil companies were Stratfor clients seeking global spiex. Around the world, oil companies target activists defending the land, resulting in abuse, rapes, tortures and assassinations of Indigenous Peoples.
Client list:
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1429763_client-working-list-.html

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Wikileaks, Yes Men and Stratfor release statements

Wikileaks said, "On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor's web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods"(Scroll down for full statement.)
The Yes Men, the subject of Stratfor e-mails, also released a statement. "CEO Friedman recently to an employee, Reva Bhalla, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on Chavez's cancer. (Stratfor's 'confidential intelligence services" clients include, besides Dow and Union Carbide, the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon.)
Yes Men said, "Perhaps most entertainingly of all, the email trove reveals that Stratfor's 'Confederation Partners"—an unethical alliance between Stratfor and a number of mainstream journalists—are referred to informally within Stratfor as its 'Confed Fuck House.' (Another discovery: Coca Cola was spying on PETA. More such gems are sure to surface as operatives sift through the 5.5 million emails.)" Scroll down for Yes Men statement.
Meanwhile, Stratfor, in a released statement, said it will neither confirm or deny the authenticity of the e-mails: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/599356

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Insight Bolivia: State Dept. source's take on Morales
April 27, 2010

".... Finally, the nomination of Evo for the Nobel Peace Prize
was just formally accepted yesterday as a result for his "Mother Earth" Summit [aka, vehement anti-US, anti-Capitalism (specifically targeting Coca Cola), anti-UN, pro-coca (sic cocaine) and narco-trafficking platform that was embraced by 22,000 anti-US, left-wing anarchists in as a result of the recent Climate Change Summit in Cochabamba."
READ MORE:
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1142108_re-insight-bolivia-st-dept-source-s-take-on-morales-.html

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Coca Cola asked Stratfor to spy on PETA (one of four e-mails released so far from June 2009)
"Hi Ben,
As we discussed, I'd like to put a really good research-oriented intern on
the case to find the following information.

- How many PETA supporters are there in Canada?
-- How many of these are inclined toward activism?
-- To what extent is PETA in Canada linked to PETA in the US or elsewhere?
--What sort of attacks has PETA carried out in Canada?
-- To what extent could non-PETA hangers-on (such as anarchists or ALF
supporters) get involved in any protest activity?

To put some context onto this request, our client is looking forward
toward the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and is somewhat concerned that PETA
affiliates might be interested in carry out direct action against Olympic
sponsors and events during that time frame ..."
READ MORE: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releasedate/2012-02-27-12-coca-cola-contracting-stratfor-to-spy-on-peta.html

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INSIGHT - VENEZUELA - Update on Chavez's health, power struggle

Dec 6, 2011

"It does check out with what I heard in caracas but that increases the
chance its gossip.

If this is a source you suspect may have value, you have to take control
od him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control to the
point where he would reveal his sourcing and be tasked. This is difficult
to do when you are known to be affiliated with an intelligence
organization. The decision on approach would not come from you but from
your handler. This is because you're position is too close to the source
and your judgment by definition suspect. Each meeting would be planned
between you and your handler and each meeting would have a specific goal
not built around discussing the topic of interest which would ideally be
hidden but in analyzing him personally and moving toward control.
The justification for the op would be specific classes of information and
on gaining control the first step would be determining his access. If he
failed the test contact would be terminated."

READ MORE: (continues with discussion of Chavez’ cancer) http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/202526_re-insight-venezuela-update-on-chavez-s-health-power.html

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Mexico ICE hit:

Feb 17, 2011

"According to STRATFOR sources with knowledge of the investigation and
details surrounding the attack, the working theory behind the attack
against the two ICE agents was that they were the target of a "hit"
sanctioned by the top ranks of the Los Zetas cartel. Originally it was
thought that the men were targeted because they were driving in (according
to sources) a high-profile, fully-armored navy blue Suburban SUV, a valued
commodity amongst cartel members.

While a carjacking may have been the original intent once the vehicle was
first spotted, according to STRATFOR sources, the two agents stopped for
lunch at a Subway fast-food restaurant along the route before the
incident. While the distance between the restaurant and the roadblock
where the shooting took place is not yet known, it is possible that
stopping while in route from Mexico City to Monterrey may have led to them
to be identified as U.S. law enforcement and provided time for Zetas
associates to put an operation in place to target the two agents at the
roadblock (we believe a rolling roadblock) along Hwy 57. This is
especially possible since according to sources, the vehicle they were
driving had diplomatic mission license plates. As the agents stopped (or
were forced/boxed in) at the roadblock (which they thought was that of the
military), it would be difficult for the gunmen not to have noticed the
specialized plates indicating the vehicle as that of U.S. federal law
enforcement. There is a specific two-letter code issued on license
plates to federal agents inside Mexico."

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Geronimo source payment

Dec 6, 2011

"... Can you send us an "approved" email for the source that Marko left with you=
. Geronimo, $1200 monthly payment.=20

Since this is a recurring payment, you can also send us something like "I a=
pprove this expense for the remainder of the term, or until I say otherwise=
.=20"

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Insight McCain #5 -Internal use only-Pls do not forward

Nov 5, 2008

"... Curiously, there are whispers of McCain being set up by the Cheney/Bush
crowd, because McCain was never liked by either. Some are shocked he did
so well. Coupled with serious errors in tactics. Some made no sense.
For example, the Hispanics in Florida loved Palin but his camp would never
send her there when easy money was to be had. My guy said Rove and
company want to bring in someone they can control next go around. McCain
was not controllable. Jeb Bush's name is being discussed. Source
advised Rick Davis was an arsehole and McCain's econ team had no clue,
trusting in academics vice business-people. The Jewish crowd was split
and money never flowed. For example, McCain staff only gave $3000.00 for
nationwide ads, when Obama put in $500,000 targeting the Jewish community
in Florida alone.

I'll see what more I can collect on this."

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Wikileaks release statement

LONDON—Today, Monday 27 February, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files – more than five million emails from the Texas-headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal’s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defense Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor’s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods, for example :
"[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control... This is intended to start our conversation on your next phase" – CEO George Friedman to Stratfor analyst Reva Bhalla on 6 December 2011, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on the medical condition of the President of Venezuala, Hugo Chavez.
The material contains privileged information about the US government’s attacks against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Stratfor’s own attempts to subvert WikiLeaks. There are more than 4,000 emails mentioning WikiLeaks or Julian Assange. The emails also expose the revolving door that operates in private intelligence companies in the United States. Government and diplomatic sources from around the world give Stratfor advance knowledge of global politics and events in exchange for money. The Global Intelligence Files exposes how Stratfor has recruited a global network of informants who are paid via Swiss banks accounts and pre-paid credit cards. Stratfor has a mix of covert and overt informants, which includes government employees, embassy staff and journalists around the world.
The material shows how a private intelligence agency works, and how they target individuals for their corporate and government clients. For example, Stratfor monitored and analysed the online activities of Bhopal activists, including the "Yes Men", for the US chemical giant Dow Chemical. The activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India. The disaster led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.
Stratfor has realised that its routine use of secret cash bribes to get information from insiders is risky. In August 2011, Stratfor CEO George Friedman confidentially told his employees : "We are retaining a law firm to create a policy for Stratfor on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I don’t plan to do the perp walk and I don’t want anyone here doing it either."
Stratfor’s use of insiders for intelligence soon turned into a money-making scheme of questionable legality. The emails show that in 2009 then-Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz and Stratfor CEO George Friedman hatched an idea to "utilise the intelligence" it was pulling in from its insider network to start up a captive strategic investment fund. CEO George Friedman explained in a confidential August 2011 document, marked DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS : "What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor’s intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like". The emails show that in 2011 Goldman Sach’s Morenz invested "substantially" more than $4million and joined Stratfor’s board of directors. Throughout 2011, a complex offshore share structure extending as far as South Africa was erected, designed to make StratCap appear to be legally independent. But, confidentially, Friedman told StratFor staff : "Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral... It will be useful to you if, for the sake of convenience, you think of it as another aspect of Stratfor and Shea as another executive in Stratfor... we are already working on mock portfolios and trades". StratCap is due to launch in 2012.
The Stratfor emails reveal a company that cultivates close ties with US government agencies and employs former US government staff. It is preparing the 3-year Forecast for the Commandant of the US Marine Corps, and it trains US marines and "other government intelligence agencies" in "becoming government Stratfors". Stratfor’s Vice-President for Intelligence, Fred Burton, was formerly a special agent with the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service and was their Deputy Chief of the counterterrorism division. Despite the governmental ties, Stratfor and similar companies operate in complete secrecy with no political oversight or accountability. Stratfor claims that it operates "without ideology, agenda or national bias", yet the emails reveal private intelligence staff who align themselves closely with US government policies and channel tips to the Mossad – including through an information mule in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Yossi Melman, who conspired with Guardian journalist David Leigh to secretly, and in violation of WikiLeaks’ contract with the Guardian, move WikiLeaks US diplomatic cables to Israel.
Ironically, considering the present circumstances, Stratfor was trying to get into what it called the leak-focused "gravy train" that sprung up after WikiLeaks’ Afghanistan disclosures :
"[Is it] possible for us to get some of that ’leak-focused’ gravy train ? This is an obvious fear sale, so that’s a good thing. And we have something to offer that the IT security companies don’t, mainly our focus on counter-intelligence and surveillance that Fred and Stick know better than anyone on the planet... Could we develop some ideas and procedures on the idea of ´leak-focused’ network security that focuses on preventing one’s own employees from leaking sensitive information... In fact, I’m not so sure this is an IT problem that requires an IT solution."
Like WikiLeaks’ diplomatic cables, much of the significance of the emails will be revealed over the coming weeks, as our coalition and the public search through them and discover connections. Readers will find that whereas large numbers of Stratfor’s subscribers and clients work in the US military and intelligence agencies, Stratfor gave a complimentary membership to the controversial Pakistan general Hamid Gul, former head of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service, who, according to US diplomatic cables, planned an IED attack on international forces in Afghanistan in 2006. Readers will discover Stratfor’s internal email classification system that codes correspondence according to categories such as ’alpha’, ’tactical’ and ’secure’. The correspondence also contains code names for people of particular interest such as ’Hizzies’ (members of Hezbollah), or ’Adogg’ (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad).
Stratfor did secret deals with dozens of media organisations and journalists – from Reuters to the Kiev Post. The list of Stratfor’s "Confederation Partners", whom Stratfor internally referred to as its "Confed Fuck House" are included in the release. While it is acceptable for journalists to swap information or be paid by other media organisations, because Stratfor is a private intelligence organisation that services governments and private clients these relationships are corrupt or corrupting.
WikiLeaks has also obtained Stratfor’s list of informants and, in many cases, records of its payoffs, including $1,200 a month paid to the informant "Geronimo" , handled by Stratfor’s Former State Department agent Fred Burton.
WikiLeaks has built an investigative partnership with more than 25 media organisations and activists to inform the public about this huge body of documents. The organisations were provided access to a sophisticated investigative database developed by WikiLeaks and together with WikiLeaks are conducting journalistic evaluations of these emails. Important revelations discovered using this system will appear in the media in the coming weeks, together with the gradual release of the source documents.
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Public partners in the investigation
Comment
Current WikiLeaks status
How to read the data

Public partners in the investigation:

More than 25 media partners (others will be disclosed after their first publication) :
Al Akhbar – Lebanon – http://english.al-akhbar.com
Al Masry Al Youm – Egypt – http://www.almasry-alyoum.com
Bivol – Bulgaria – http://bivol.bg
CIPER – Chile – http://ciperchile.cl
Dawn Media – Pakistan – http://www.dawn.com
L’Espresso – Italy – http://espresso.repubblica.it
La Repubblica – Italy – http://www.repubblica.it
La Jornada – Mexico – www.jornada.unam.mx/
La Nacion – Costa Rica – http://www.nacion.com
Malaysia Today – Malaysia – www.malaysia-today.net
McClatchy – United States – http://www.mcclatchy.com
Nawaat – Tunisia – http://nawaat.org
NDR/ARD – Germany – http://www.ndr.de
Owni – France – http://owni.fr
Pagina 12 – Argentina – www.pagina12.com.ar
Plaza Publica – Guatemala – http://plazapublica.com.gt
Publico.es – Spain – www.publico.es
Rolling Stone – United States – http://www.rollingstone.com
Russia Reporter – Russia – http://rusrep.ru
Ta Nea – Greece –- http://www.tanea.gr
Taraf – Turkey – http://www.taraf.com.tr
The Hindu – India – www.thehindu.com
The Yes Men – Bhopal Activists – Global http://theyesmen.org
Nicky Hager – New Zealand

Comment:

WikiLeaks – Kristinn Hrafnsson, Official WikiLeaks representative, +35 4821 7121
Other comment :
Bhopal Medical Appeal (in UK) – Colin Toogood : colintoogood@bhopal.org / +44 (0) 1273 603278/ +44 (0) 7798 845074
International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (in India) – Rachna Dhingra : rachnya@gmail.com, +91 98 261 67369
Yes Men – mike@theyesmen.org / +44 (0) 7578 682321 - andy@theyesmen.org, +1-718-208-0684
Privacy International – +44 (0) 20 7242 2836
Twitter tag : #gifiles

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The Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has repeatedly attacked WikiLeaks this week in a bizarre manner (http://ferrada-noli.blogspot.com/20... ).
An alleged WikiLeaks US military source, Bradley Manning, has been in pre-trial detention for 639 days (http://bradleymanning.org/ ). His arraignment took place on 24 February 2012. In December 2011, Manning’s attorney revealed in the preliminary hearing that the US government is attempting to enter a plea deal with Manning in order to "go after" Assange. Manning has 22 charges against him, including violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and aiding the enemy. Manning has deferred entering a plea. Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are legally represented in the Manning hearings by the US Centre for Constitutional Rights (http://ccrjustice.org/ ). WikiLeaks was denied full access to Manning’s hearing after appeal (http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/pres... ). WikiLeaks put out a statement relating to Manning’s trial ahead of the Article 32 Hearing : (http://www.wikileaks.org/Statement-... ).
The alleged WikiLeaks-supporting hacktivists known as the "PayPal 14" were arrested in 2011 following co-ordinated online demonstrations against the financial services companies that are carrying out the unlawful financial blockade on WikiLeaks (VISA, MasterCard, Paypal, Western Union, Bank of America). They are represented by attorney Stanley Cohen and will go before court in May 2012 (http://www.cyberguerrilla.org/?p=4644 ).
WikiLeaks is about to launch a distributed, encrypted "Facebook for revolutionaries" (https://wlfriends.org/ ).
Julian Assange is currently directing interviews, from house arrest, for a programme on the future of the world that is syndicated to various broadcasters. The first show will be broadcast in March (http://www.wikileaks.org/New-Assang... )

HOW TO READ THE DATA

This is a glossary and information on how to understand the internal terms and codes used by Stratfor in their emails. It is not a complete list. We call on the public to add to this list by tweeting #gifind
To see a list of the terms George Friedman considers useful for his staff to know please download this PDF : The Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms.

OPEN SOURCE VS. "COVERT"

As you browse through the content, you will notice that a large set of it is what is classified as "open source" (subject lines which include [OS]). These are basically email threads that start with someone posting a published and accessible source, such as news sites, and follow with commentary by the staff. In one of the emails, Joseph Nye is referenced saying :
"Open source intelligence is the outer pieces of the jigsaw puzzle, without which one can neither begin nor complete the puzzle"

CODES IN SUBJECT LINES

Many of the emails have codes in the subject lines as well as in the body, to make it easier for the staff to "quickly identify when we need to go back and have a look-see." [*] :
Examples : INSIGHT - COUNTRY - Subject - SOURCE CODE INSIGHT - CHINA - Trains and planes - CN1000
Please refer to the glossary for the code names of subject and country tags, as well as mailing list names.

SOURCE CODES

A lot of interesting stuff comes from "sources". Sources are either informal contacts or people they have a formal relationship with. The IDs for sources have the format of CN120 or ME001. In terms of the character part, it refers to a region or a country :
A) Regions ME - Middle East region EU - European Union EE - Eastern Europe LA- South America SA- South Asia
B) Countries or Orgs CN - China PK - Pakistan IN- India ML - Malaysia VN - Vietnam NP- Nepal
US - United States VZ - Venezuela CO- Colombia BR-Brazil NC- Nicaragua MX- Mexico CL/CH- Chile AR- Argentina PY- Paraguay BOL- Bolivia
RU - Russia UA - Ukraine GE - Georgia TJ - Tajikstan MD - Moldova BG -Bulgaria CR/CZ- Czech Republic PT- Portugal
ZA - South Africa AO - Angola SO - Somalia NG- Nigeria CD- DR Congo CI- Cote D’Ivoire ZW- Zimbabwe ZM- Zambia RW- Rwanda KE- Kenya ET- Ethiopia SD -Sudan MA- Morocco SN- Senegal GN- Guinea SL- Sierra Leone
IR - Iran IQ- Iraq IL or IS- Israel SA- Saudi Arabia SY- Syria KU- Kuwait Y or YN - Yemen HZ - Hizbollah TK - Turkey LN- Lebanon LY- Libya UAE- UAE EG- Egypt (etc.)
C) Odd codes OCH - Old China hand, a finance insider. Stick - Scott Stewart, high level employee Z’s - Zetas, Mexican drug gang

INSIGHTS FORMAT

When "insights" are sent, they usually have the following header information :
SOURCE : The ID of the source, say CN123. Sometimes this is left "no source ID" when it’s a new source.
ATTRIBUTION : How the source is to be attributed, i.e. "Source in the pharma distribution industry in China", Stratfor source, etc.
SOURCE DESCRIPTION : Describes the source, for example : "Source works with Mercator Pharmaceutical Solutions, distributing pharma to developing countries." These include concrete details on the source for internal consumption so that there’s a better understanding on the source’s background and ability to make assessments on the ground.
PUBLICATION : Yes or No. If the option is yes it doesn’t mean that it would be published, but rather that it _can_ be published.
SOURCE RELIABILITY : A/B
SOURCE RELIABILITY : A-F, A being the best and F being the worst. This grades the turnaround time of this source in responding to requests.
ITEM CREDIBILITY : 1-10, 1 being the best and 10 being the worst (we may change the range here in the future). this changes a lot based on the info provided. 1 is "you can take this to the bank" and 10 would be an example of maybe - "this is a totally ridiculous rumor but something that is spreading on the ground"
SPECIAL HANDLING : often this is "none" but it may be something like, "if you use this we need to be sure not to mention the part about XXX in the publication" or any other special notes
SOURCE HANDLER : the person who can take follow-up questions and communicate with the source.

MAILING LISTS

alpha@stratfor.com Discussions circulated exclusively among analysts, writers and higher-ups, including ’insights’ and discussions about sources and source meetings. secure@stratfor.com Discussions circulated exclusively among analysts and higher-ups, and only for use within continental US (analysts traveling ’overseas’ are removed from the list for the duration of their journey). analysts@stratfor.com - Discussion among analysts only, who manage sources, gather and analyze intelligence. ct@stratfor.com Ongoing discussions to collect and analyze counterterrorism intelligence, circulated among select group of analysts. tactical@statfor.com Non-time sensitive discussions for internal training on technical and tactical matters within field of counterterrorism. intelligence@stratfor.com gvalerts@stratfor.com - Related to Gas ventures clients military@stratfor.com Military list for pre-approved staff africa@stratfor.com eastasia@stratfor.com mesa@stratfor.com Middle East/South Asia list for pre-approved staff. eurasia@stratfor.com os@stratfor.com List with information from the public domain circulated and discussed among all employees. adp@stratfor.com List for ADPs. See Glossary. translations@stratfor.com alerts@stratfor.com responses@stratfor.com dialog-list@stratfor.com

GLOSSARY

a) Industry and other misc. tags :
HUMINT - Human intelligence OSINT- Open source intelligence DATA FLU BIRDFLU ECON TECH ENERGY MINING GV - Gas Venture CT - Counterterrorism G1-G4 B2-B4 S1-S4 MILITARY or MIL PENTAGON AQ- Al Qaeda AQAP - Al Qaeda in the Arabia Peninsula SF- Special Forces CONUS- Continental US
b) Special internal codewords :
Hizzies or HZ - Hizbollah Izzies or IZ - Israel A-dogg - Mahmoud Ahmadinajad, Iranian President Baby bashar - Bashar Al-Assad, Syrian President Uncle Mo - Moammar Gaddhafi ADP- Analyst Development Program. Four-month program at STRATFOR from which candidates— mostly recent college graduates— are selected for hire. Strictly protect and protect - Often mentioned in the ’subject’, means that the source is protected. Played- A term used for procuring sensitive information from sources. E.g. from one of the secure list messages circulating the ’complete scenario for the Israeli team in Centcom’s war game,’ the analyst who procured the data wrote : "I played the head of the Mossad which was great fun." Excomm- Appears to be ’executive committee’ of STRATFOR.
c) Regions and Orgs
AFRICOM - African countries LATAM - Latin American MERCOSUR NATFA ASEAN APEC FSU - Former Soviet Union countries MESA or MIDDLEEAST - Middle East EASTASIA OPEC EURASIA SA - South Asia FSB- Federal Security Service (Russia)

ATTACHED DOCUMENTS

Attached documents can be searched by Filename or part of the file name. Preliminary searches for filenames using the terms ’lists’, ’source lists’ or ’insight lists’, coupled with the names of source handlers (e.g. Reva for Turkey, Brazil or Venezuela) produced Excel lists of the source names, contact info and source descriptions which correspond to the source codes (e.g. ME1315).

Sourcing Criteria

The following are the proposed criteria for analyzing both sources and insight.
1. Source Timeliness 2. Source Accessibility/Position 3. Source Availability 4. Insight Credibility 5. Insight Uniqueness
Source Timeliness : This is the average grade on how long this particular source turns around tasks and replies to inquiries. It may change but is more of a static indicator.
Source Accessibility : Accessibility weighs the source’s position to have certain knowledge in a particular field. So, for example, if we are looking for energy insight and the source is an official in an energy agency, his or her Accessibility would be ranked higher than if s/he was a banker giving insight on energy. While we would welcome a banker giving his/her insight, a good source may not have a high accessibility ranking if they aren’t in a position to offer reliable insight on a certain topic. The source’s access to decision makers, specific training or education in the desired topic area, specific knowledge of events/situations/incidents can also be considered.
Source Availability : How often can we go to this source ? Are they someone we can tap daily, weekly, monthly, yearly ?
Insight Credibility : This is our assessment of the veracity of the insight offered. Here we need to consider whether or not this is disinformation, speculation, correct data or knowledgeable interpretation. Any bias that the source is displaying or any specific viewpoints or personal background the source is using in the assessment provided should also be considered.
Insight Uniqueness : Is this insight something that could be found in OS ? If it is but the analysis of the information is unique, it would still have a high uniqueness ranking. Or, if it is concrete data, but is something that is only offered to industry insiders, i.e. stats that aren’t published but that aren’t secret, it would still have a high uniqueness score.
Scoring
All of the above factors will be scored on an A-F scale, with A being exemplary and F being useless.
Source Timeliness : A = turnaround within 24 hours B = turnaround within 48 hours C = turnaround within a week D = turnaround within a month F = lucky to receive a reply at all
Source Accessibility : A = Someone with intimate knowledge of the particular insight B = Someone within the industry but whose knowledge of the topic is not exact (e.g. if we were asking someone in the oil industry about natural gas) C = Someone working close to the industry who doesn’t have intimate knowledge of a particular topic but can speak to it intelligently (e.g. a financial consultant asked to gauge the movement of the stock market) D = Someone who may know a country but doesn’t have any concrete insight into a particular topic but can offer rumors and discussions heard on the topic F = Someone who has no knowledge of a particular industry at all
Source Availability : A = Available pretty much whenever B = Can tap around once a week C = Can tap about once a month D = Can tap only several times a year F = Very limited availability
Insight Credibility : A = We can take this information to the bank B = Good insight but maybe not entirely precise C = Insight is only partially true D = There may be some interest in the insight, but it is mostly false or just pure speculation. F = Likely to be disinformation
Insight Uniqueness : A = Can’t be found anywhere else B = Can only be found in limited circles C = Insight can be found in OS, but the source has an interesting take/analysis D = Insight can be found in OS, but still may not be common knowledge F = Insight is accessible in numerous locations
Daily Insight Scoring
SOURCE : code ATTRIBUTION : this is what we should say if we use this info in a publication, e.g. STRATFOR source/source in the medical industry/source on the ground, etc SOURCE DESCRIPTION : this is where we put the more concrete details of the source for our internal consumption so we can better understand the source’s background and ability to make the assessments in the insight. PUBLICATION : Yes or no. If you put yes it doesn’t mean that we will publish it, but only that we can publish it. SOURCE RELIABILITY : A-F. A being the best and F being the worst. This grades the source overall - access to information, timeliness, availability, etc. In short, how good is this source ? ITEM CREDIBILITY : A-F. A = we can take this info to the bank ; B = Good insight but maybe not entirely precise ; C = Insight is only partially true ; D = There may be some interest in the insight, but it is mostly false or just pure speculation ; F = Likely to be disinformation. SPECIAL HANDLING : often this is "none" but it may be something like, "if you use this we need to be sure not to mention the part about XXX in thepublication" or any other special notes SOURCE HANDLER : the person who can take follow-up questions and communicate with the source.
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YES MEN Press release
MASSIVE LEAK REVEALS CRIMINALITY, PARANOIA AMONG CORPORATE TITANS
Dow pays "strategic intelligence" firm to spy on Yes Men and grassroots activists. Takeaway: movement is on the right track!
WikiLeaks begins to publish today over five million e-mails obtained by Anonymous from "global intelligence" company Stratfor. The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs (see below), also include several discussions of the Yes Men and Bhopal activists. (Bhopal activists seek redress for the 1984 Dow Chemical/Union Carbide gas disaster in Bhopal, India, that led to thousands of deaths, injuries in more than half a million people, and lasting environmental damage.)
Many of the Bhopal-related emails, addressed from Stratfor to Dow and Union Carbide public relations directors, reveal concern that, in the lead-up to the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the Bhopal issue might be expanded into an effective systemic critique of corporate rule, and speculate at length about why this hasn't yet happened—providing a fascinating window onto what at least some corporate types fear most from activists.
"[Bhopal activists] have made a slight nod toward expanded activity, but never followed through on it—the idea of 'other Bhopals' that were the fault of Dow or others," mused Joseph de Feo, who is listed in one online source as a "Briefer" for Stratfor.
"Maybe the Yes Men were the pinnacle. They made an argument in their way on their terms—that this is a corporate problem and a part of the a [sic] larger whole," wrote Kathleen Morson, Stratfor's Director of Policy Analysis.
"With less than a month to go [until the 25th anniversary], you'd think that the major players—especially Amnesty—would have branched out from Bhopal to make a broader set of issues. I don't see any evidence of it," wrote Bart Mongoven, Stratfor's Vice President, in November 2004. "If they can't manage to use the 25th anniversary to broaden the issue, they probably won't be able to."
Mongoven even speculates on coordination between various activist campaigns that had nothing to do with each other. "The Chevron campaign [in Ecuador] is remarkably similar [to the Dow campaign] in its unrealistic demand. Is it a follow up or an admission that the first thrust failed? Am I missing a node of activity or a major campaign that is to come? Has the Dow campaign been more successful than I think?" It's almost as if Mongoven assumes the two campaigns were directed from the same central activist headquarters.
Just as Wall Street has at times let slip their fear of the Occupy Wall Street movement, these leaks seem to show that corporate power is most afraid of whatever reveals "the larger whole" and "broader issues," i.e. whatever brings systemic criminal behavior to light. "Systemic critique could lead to policy changes that would challenge corporate power and profits in a really major way," noted Joseph Huff-Hannon, recently-promoted Director of Policy Analysis for the Yes Lab.
Among the millions of other leaked Stratfor emails are some that reveal dubious financial practices, including an apparent insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz, who joined Stratfor's board of directors and invested "substantially" more than $4 million in the scheme, called StratCap. "What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor's intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments," wrote Stratfor CEO George Friedman in September 2011. StratCap was designed through a complex offshore share structure to appear legally independent, but Friedman assured Stratfor staff otherwise: "Do not think of StratCap as an outside organisation. It will be integral... It will be useful to you... We are already working on mock portfolios and trades." (StratCap has been due to launch in 2012, though that could now change.)
Other emails show Stratfor techniques of a truly creepy Spy vs. Spy sort: "[Y]ou have to take control of him. Control means financial, sexual or psychological control," wrote CEO Friedman recently to an employee, Reva Bhalla, on how to exploit an Israeli intelligence informant providing information on Chavez's cancer. (Stratfor's "confidential intelligence services" clients include, besides Dow and Union Carbide, the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon.)
Perhaps most entertainingly of all, the email trove reveals that Stratfor's "Confederation Partners"—an unethical alliance between Stratfor and a number of mainstream journalists—are referred to informally within Stratfor as its "Confed Fuck House." (Another discovery: Coca Cola was spying on PETA. More such gems are sure to surface as operatives sift through the 5.5 million emails.)
A number of the remaining Yes Men-related emails take the form of reports on public appearances by the Yes Men, such as one that describes one audience comprised of "art students on class assignments and free entertainment." Another notes that "The Yes Men tweeted about the US Chamber of Commerce 'plotting forged emails, documents to trick (AND smear) opponents,'" a reference to an apparent plot to discredit Chamber opponents using forged documents, as revealed when thousands of emails were recently leaked by Anonymous from cyber-security firm HB Gary. Yet another discusses Alessio Rastani, the Wall Street trader widely mistaken for Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum, who proclaimed, live on the BBC, that "governments don't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world."
"Rastani was right," said the real Andy Bichlbaum five months later. "But it's now very clear that it doesn't have to be that way anymore."
The Yes Men and representatives from the Bhopal Medical Appeal will join Julian Assange of Wikileaks at a press conference at noon today, Feb. 27, at the Frontline Club in London. test

Top earth scientists warn of global ecological emergency

2012-02-26T19:26:00.000-07:00

Top Earth Scientists Warn of Global Ecological Emergency

Press statement
Posted at Censored News
Ecological Internet – leading provider of Internet biocentric ecology news, action and analysis – joins with Earth’s best scientists in warning the human family faces imminent collapse of the biosphere – the thin layer of life organized into ecosystems – that makes Earth habitable and human well-being possible.
Contact: Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet, glen.barry@gmail.com, +1 (608) 381-5865 for interviews
(Madison, WI) - Ecological Internet (EI) reiterates its declaration of a planetary ecological emergency [1], first issued two years ago. Since then abrupt climate change has revealed itself in all its fury, habitat loss and extinction have intensified, food and water have become increasingly scarce, and human inequity and injustice have grown. Yet there have also been promising signs of a global awakening regarding global ecology, rights, and workers – seeds of revolutionary social change necessary to sustain global ecology.
“There is no question global ecological systems are collapsing, as important planetary ecological boundaries have been – and continue to be – crossed. The human system’s fantastical growth, based upon liquidating nature, has finally caught up with us, and key ecosystems necessary to sustain global ecology are failing,” explains Dr. Barry. “An Eco-Earth Revolution to overthrow the industrial economic growth machine destroying ecosystems may well be the only option left to sustain global ecology.”
This past week the world’s leading international Earth scientists issued their own similar warning – that we face a perfect storm of ecological and social problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption and environmentally damaging technologies – in a paper prepared for the upcoming Rio+ 20 Earth Summit to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June. They noted the failures of the economic “perpetual growth myth” and called for “dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization” [2].
Ecological Internet’s first declaration was based upon scientific findings in “Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity,” published in 2009 in the journal Ecology and Society [3]. Humanity was found to have already overstepped three of nine planetary boundaries – biodiversity loss, climate change and nitrogen cycle – and to be approaching boundaries for the use of fresh water and land, and ocean acidification. An overwhelming amount of other scientific knowledge supports these warnings.
Dr. Barry continues: “Ecological Internet calls for an immediate people’s power Earth Revolution on behalf of Earth, all life, and the human family. Revolutionary actions – composed of billions of acts of personal resistance to the industrial growth machine – are required to end coal use and tar sand growth, dismantle industrial agriculture, and protect and restore old forests and other natural ecosystems. These are some of the requirements for living well within the biosphere’s carrying capacity.”
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[1] First made on April 13, 2010, “Planetary Ecological Emergency Declared”, http://www.ecoearth.info/blog/2010/04/release_planetary_ecological_e.asp
[2] Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82268857/Blue-Planet-Synthesis-Paper-for-UNEP
[3] Journal Article: Planetary Boundaries: A Safe Operating Space for Humanity
http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/docfeed/planetary_boundaries.pdf
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Trial for two Peaks Defenders Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

2012-02-26T14:27:00.002-07:00

Trial for Two Peaks Defenders Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Support Needed!

What: Trial for Two Peaks Defenders

When: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
8:30 AM and 1:15 PM

Where: At Flagstaff Justice Court
200 N. San Francisco St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Flagstaff, Ariz. -- On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at Flagstaff "Justice" Court, two Peaks Defenders will be facing trail for charges resulting from protests to protect the Holy San Francisco Peaks from ski area expansion and wastewater snowmaking.

The two individuals, including Rudy Preston, are facing charges ranging from criminal trespass to disorderly conduct.
The protests occurred on August 8th and & August 13th, 2011.

On August 8th, 2011, nine people took direct action blockading the ongoing destruction and desecration of the Peaks. The nine individuals directly confronted the ecocidal actions of Arizona Snowbowl, halting their daily clear-cutting and pipeline excavation plans for eight hours. Responding sheriffs deputies immediately arrested Rudy Preston, the group’s police liaison, who was ensuring the safety of demonstrators. More than 50 law enforcement officials used industrial saws and a jack hammer to forcefully break apart the blockade.

On Saturday, August 13th 2011, after a prayerful gathering on the Holy San Francisco Peaks, Mary Sojourner, Rudy Preston and Klee Benally were arrested for standing against desecration and eco-cide caused by Arizona Snowbowl ski area.

During Preston's arrest on August 13th, the police office was witnessed stating his reason for arresting Mr. Preston was "for talking."

Mr. Preston states, "the August 8th direct action blockade was an incredible event to witness. I was amazed to see our police forces mobilized in greater numbers than one would expect in a manhunt for an escaped murderer. We really should expect better behavior from the police in situations of civil disobedience.""August 13th is a day I will never forget. I lost a lot of faith in our local law enforcement that day. I have every right to speak out against the illegal and dangerous actions of Arizona Snowbowl and the US Forest Service. It really makes me wonder who the police are protecting. It certainly was not me or my first amendment." Stated Mr. Preston.

Nearly 30 arrests have been made during protests since Snowbowl started furthering desecration and eco-cide on the Holy Peaks last year.
Many of those arrested have already taken plea deals that have resulted in community service.

Trials for others arrested on August 7th, 2011, when Flagstaff police disrupted a peaceful protest, and Klee Benally who was also arrested August 13th, are still pending.

Tuesday's trial comes as Scottsdale, AZ based multi-millionaire and Snowbowl owner, Eric Borowski threatens to resume desecration and destruction of the Holy Peaks this week. Nearly half of the 14.8 mile pipeline has been constructed and approximately 30-40% of planned clear-cuts have occurred out of approximately 30,000 targeted trees in the rare alpine ecosystem of the Peaks.

Recently the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Save the Peaks Coalition in a case against the Forest Service over environmental and human health concerns. The Hopi Tribe still has an appeal in court to stop the City of Flagstaff's contract to sell wastewater to Snowbowl.

Additionally, the City of Flagstaff has until March 12th to determine if it will once again lock the public out of the decision whether or not to renew Snowbowl's contract with the city to sell up to 180,000,000 gallons of treated sewage effluent for snowmaking on the Peaks.

More info on the issue and further background on the actions: www.truesnow.org,www.indigenousaction.org.

Please show up to the court proceedings and support Peaks Defenders!

You can also donate online at www.truesnow.org

Video: Russell Means 'My people want to be free'

2012-02-26T08:34:00.003-07:00

Click arrow below for 2012 video interview

Rusell Means: Nazi labor camps, Apartheid in South Africa and Palestine, and Guantanamo were based on "reservations" in the US.
"The United States is evil to its own people. It is pathetic, and they don't see it," Means said.
"We are prisoners of war."
The selection of George Bush for president was a joke, laughed at by other countries.
Then, Obama's accpetance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize was to justify war.
"Only when we stand up for ourselves to people begin to hear and listen," Means said.

Oakland cop identified who shot Scott Olsen

2012-02-24T14:26:00.000-07:00

Video by Oakland police identifies Oakland police officer R. Roche in the shooting of Marine Scott Olsen, hit by a police projectile in the head. After Oslen was shot in the head at close range at Occupy Oakland, police then threw flash grenades at Olsen, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, and those who came to his aid.

Anonymous donates forensic software to Occupy Oakland

2012-02-24T13:28:00.000-07:00

Press release from Anonymous:

http://pastebin.com/9Ucs8WUu
Anonymous donates forensic video enhancement software kit to Occupy Oakland in order to assist the Oakland community by holding police officers accountable for violent and illegal acts.

International, February 21, 2012

Anonymous has announced the recent donation of it's OccupyCSI forensic video software system to Occupy Oakland, in the interest of the Oakland community at large, with the purpose of enhancing and analyzing video footage from the Occupy Oakland protests in order to find the forensic truth in the recorded footage of the Oakland Police Department's handling of protesters.

The OccupyCSI software kit is comprised of many unique software programs including Amped Five® video forensic software, Faces 4.0® facial composite software, the Izotope RX advanced audio forensic software 2.01, organizational tools like Maltego Case Files and Treesheets, and encrypted chat and VPN, for private, encrypted communications during investigations.

The three elements of the OccupyCSI Video Forensic Package:
The InvestigatorBoy™ tool-set is the first and most comprehensive forensic video/image processing software environment in the world. It has over nine thousand proprietary designed, user-friendly plug-ins and facilities that enhance, denoise and deblur. Including is the recent additions that create the ability to perform unprecedented hexa-resolve vector-zooms of forensic video micro-evidence (e.g. faces, badge numbers).

The VideoCrystalz™ tool-set is the first real-time forensic video processing software with the world’s only (Anonymous' U.S. Patent) fully automatic real-time double-universal de-multiplexing, including real-time track zone and real-time ultra-universal DVR capture. VideoCrystalz™ allows for patented lossless video capture with encoding that doubles video storage, and the ability to perform a video search (e.g. cars and people).

Anonymous' PeenMeasure™ tool-set is the world’s only fully-automatic photogrammetronic software that allows the user to perform accurate bio-metric neo-measurements of a suspect’s dimensions (e.g. height, width, area), including measurements from video surveillance and photographs during police actions. This software is important to the work of Occupy as it allows the user to know the suspected officer's biometric measurements based on the PeenMeasure™ calculations which in turn helps the user eliminate and narrow down individuals who might have been considered suspect.

Anonymous CEO Dr. David Davidson said, in regards to the donation, “It is our sincere hope that in donating our forensic video OccupyCSI software to Occupy Oakland, we are helping to assist the entire community through the forensic video enhancement and 3D super-analysis of numerous videos that were recorded during the Occupy Oakland protests. Pictures tell the truth and when enhancing these videos and photos forensically, unlawful acts committed by police officers will be seen and analyzed clearly and scientifically, no matter what rank of the officer who committed them.”

About Cignatech, the company who recently donated software to the Oakland Police Department:
In 2010, Cignitech, Inc. received the Advertising Genius Award for excellence in the field of Revolution-based Capitialism. Cignitech is the only forensic video company in the world that, free of charge, armed an out-of-control police state with both proprietary forensic video acquisition hardware and scientific forensic software. In 2012, Cignitech, Inc. was the first company in the world that tried to vampirically capitalize on the Occupy Movement for the free advertising the company would receive in the press.
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Luiseno and Mission Indians: Halt Palomar College from disturbing burial site

2012-02-24T08:06:00.001-07:00

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/protect-tomkav/
Pauma Band Joins San Luis Rey Band In Objection To Grading Permit That
Authorizes Palomar College To Continue To Disturb Ancestral Burial Site And
Human Remains

Luiseno historical archive

Press statement
SAN DIEGO -- Today the Pauma Band of Luiseno Indians joined the San Luis
Rey Band of Mission Indians in its formal request to stop Palomar College
from grading activities that are sure to disturb and irreversibly damage
ancestral cultural resources, archaeological data and unnecessarily unearth
human remains.
The San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians filed a lawsuit and a temporary
restraining order on Friday against Palomar College in San Diego County
Superior Court in Vista. The injunction requests Palomar to cease
construction on the college’s main road, Horse Ranch Creek Road, to the
Fallbrook campus and some three large housing and commercial projects that
are planned at the intersection of Highway 76 and Interstate 15. San Luis
Rey filed the injunction just after grading activities resulted in
inadvertent discoveries of human remains, significant archaeological
resources and distinct archaeological sites.
Despite the knowledge of the site’s well-documented historical
significance, San Luis Rey’s filing and new “inadvertent discoveries” of
human remains and significant archaeological features during grading,
Palomar College continued its construction activities. Palomar did not
cease disturbances, did not consult with tribes, and did not revise its
plans or agreements despite the new “discoveries.”
The Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) issued a Section 404 Permit which allows
the project to proceed despite potential impacts to wetlands within the
project’s footprint. Because the project relies on a federal permit,
federal law applies to the project.
“We have no choice but to join the San Luis Rey Band and halt this illegal
and immoral action of unearthing our ancestors without following the law
and protocol that applies to these types of projects,” said Bennae Calac,
Pauma’s Repatriation Officer and Secretary/Treasurer of Pauma’s Tribal
Council. Ms. Calac further explained that “[i]n this case we have the
domino effect of poor project management and compliance: failed tribal
consultation, insufficiently scoped archaeological assessments, erroneous
conclusions in the Environmental Impact Report (EIR), data recovery based
on an unapproved, unofficial Data Recovery Plan, zero evidence of a
curatorial services agreement that complies with the Archaeological
Resources Protection Act of 1979 that governs the repository and long term
curation of the archaeological resources collection and Section 110 of the
National Historic Preservation Act which governs the federal agency duty to
observe historic preservation practices, and the list goes on and on.
Despite the fact that we have Native American monitors onsite, we remain
concerned that the licensed archaeologists that have given the green light
to continue grading and cause irreparable harm to the site are acting too
hastily. The grading and resource extraction is occurring more quickly
than the archaeologists can identify and assess the resources. Further,
the resources are being boxed and left onsite. If archaeologists are unable
to keep up with the inventory and assessment of the collection as it is
being discovered and if archaeologists opt to use a repository or curation
facility not properly staffed or otherwise inadequate (such as a
temperature controlled environment), then those very archaeologists and
perhaps even Palomar College have done a great disservice to the people of
California, the tribes that have and continue to provide guidance, and the
descendents of those buried. The Palomar project sets a dangerous
precedent in the archaeological profession that is contrary to local,
state, tribal and federal regulations drafted to protect and learn from the
archaeological record.”
The proposed injunction would allow an appropriate modification of the
grading permit, in the least, to address the inadvertently found human
remains and resources, as well as allow for overdue tribal consultation to
take place and an appropriate curatorial services agreement be secured.
Ms. Calac concluded “[i]f the process was conducted correctly, an
injunction would not be necessary.”

Also see:
News article: Sacred site bulldozed:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/fallbrook/fallbrook-sacred-tribal-burial-ground-bulldozed-early-thursday-tribes-say/article_6f3d38a9-c57f-56b7-b636-9b6135fd14e9.html

Seneca Hawk Elder Edna Gordon speaks out!

2012-02-24T07:24:00.000-07:00

http://vimeo.com/12519099

SENECA HAWK ELDER

EDNA GORDON SPEAKS OUT

Hawk Elder EDNA GORDON with Harvey Arden
VIDEO courtesy of WORLD HARMONY UNLIMITED
Producer/Videographer Perry Finkelstein
worldharmonyunlimited.com
From Edna's earlier book: VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER
Available at www.haveyouthought.com
~
WE NEED CHANGES in this world, really big big changes. I'm prayin' they'll be peaceable changes, not violent and bloody ones.
I'd like to see a peaceable revolution, a revolution of broomsticks instead of guns.
Call it a Broomstick Revolution.
That's right. We the People pick up our broomsticks and march together and Sweep Injustice Out! Make a clean sweep, a big cleanin' like's never been seen before.
Broomsticks against Injustice. Now that'll be the day!
We'll take our broomsticks and we'll sweep Leonard Peltier right out o' prison, along with all the other innocents.

Yep—a Broomstick Revolution! That's what we need!
From Edna’s forthcoming book A BROOMSTICK REVOLUTION

YOU CAN'T JOIN the Broomstick Revolution.

You're already PART of it if you believe in peace and Mother Earth and respect for all living things.

The Broomstick Revolution is NOT an organization.

The Broomstick Revolution is inside of each of us, a sacred place where we listen to the Creator and follow Creator's Instructions to sweep out injustice and violence.
NEVER raise a broom in violence; your broomstick is a symbol of PEACE. Peace is our purpose. Peace is our method. Peace is our philosophy.
Broomstick Day is not some particular date. Broomstick Day is TODAY and EVERYDAY.

Sweeping out injustice is an everyday ongoing task for each and ALL of us.
How do you do that? You are the one to determine that. No one else can tell you. There are no followers in the Broomstick Revolution. We are ALL LEADERS!

Become the Leader you are! Inspire others to their own responsibility of Leadership. Each of us is responsible for sweeping out injustice and violence from our world--and from our own hearts.
Look around you, right where you are now--that's where you begin.

Heed the Instructions that arise within you.

Only PEACE will be effective.

Love all people, even--especially--your perceived 'enemies'. We want to save the world, not destroy it.

My love and encouragement to each of you.
Some advice: Stay out of big mobs. Work alone or in small groups, groups of Leaders. Let your actions be peaceful and non-destructive.
Blessings, /Grandma Edna as spoken to Harvey Arden
~
PS: If you wish to preorder Grandma Edna’s new book, Broomstick Revolution, reply to this email with ‘YEP’ on the subject line. Send no money now.
I’ll notify you when the First Edition comes out this Spring 2012. /Harvey

http://vimeo.com/12519099

Calif: Russell Means at Pre-Oscar Screening

2012-02-23T16:42:00.002-07:00

Red Nation Films is proud to present

Red Nation Film Festival Pre-Oscar Screening Series

American Indian Cinema Leading Up to the Oscar

Friday February 24th, 2012 at The Sacred Space
6:30 pm to 10:00pm
An Intimate Evening with Legendary Russell Means & Award-winning Film
“Holy Man: The USA vs Douglas White"
Russell Means an Oglala/Lakota and long time AIM activist, civil rights,
Author and Actor was diagnosed with terminal cancer and he has defeated
the cancer. The Washington Post called Means “one of the biggest, baddest,
meanest, angriest, most famous American Indian activists of the late
twentieth century.” Star of Pocahontas, Last of the Mohicans, Black Cloud,
and so many notable films and television appearances.
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Reserve Your Seats
Admission: $20 – *Limited Seating*
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Benefiting Artists for “NATIVE YOUTH MATTER” Ending Youth Suicide on
Reservations One Life at a Time.
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DETAILS
Opening Traditional Blessing by Red Hand Group
6:30 pm Red is Green Carpet Arrivals,
7:00 pm to 10:00 pm and 2 Films: “LOOKS TWICE” and “HOLY MAN: THE USA vs DOUGLAS WHITE”,
Red Nation Film Lab Conversations with Filmmakers Russell Means
(Actor/Activist/Author); Jennifer Jessum (Director, Producer), Simon
Joseph (Writer, Producer). All will be in attendance.
VENUE:
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Native American Forum on Nuclear Issues Feb. 27 -29, 2012

2012-02-23T16:25:00.000-07:00

Updated

Monday, February 27, 2012
9:00 am Native Community Action Council Board of Directors Meeting

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

8:00 am Meet and Greet-Coffee served

8:20 am Opening Prayer

8:30 am Greeting Margene Bullcreek, NCAC President

8:40 am Introductions/Agenda Overview Ian Zabarte, Vice President

9:50 am Congresswoman Shelley Berkeley (invited)

9:10 am Irene Navis, Clark County Emergency Management/Nuclear Waste Division

9:40 am Allison Cook, National Cancer Institute Extramural Program Specialist

10:00 am BREAK

10:15 am Dr. Marty Mifflin, Technical Selection of a Nuclear Waste Repository

11:00 am Susan Lynch, Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects-Technical Issues

11:30 am Professor Bret Birdsong, UNLV Law School-Yucca Litigation

12:00 LUNCH

1:00 pm Mannetta Braunstein 21st Century Perception of Risk: Pre-Columbian Case Study

1:30 pm NCAC Board Members Present: Study Guide Curriculum Presentation

2:40 pm Susan Gordon, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability-ER/WM

3:00 pm Steve Frishman/Judy Triechel, Nevada Nuclear Waste Task Force

3:20 pm Linda Cohn, US Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration

4:00 pm Mary Palevsky, UNLV-Nevada Test Site Oral History Project

4:20 pm Closing

Wednesday February 29, 2012

Department of Energy/Nevada National Security Site Tour

8:00 am Shuttle Leaves

Navajo president says he didn't pay to attend Obama's million dollar fundraiser

2012-02-22T15:09:00.000-07:00

Navajo president says he didn't pay to attend Obama's million dollar fundraiser

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Navajo President Ben Shelly said he did attend President Obama's million dollar political campaign fundraiser focused on Native Americans in Washington on January 27, but President Shelly said he did not pay for his ticket.

The tickets were $15,000 to $35,000 for the thirty minute gathering with Obama. Higher fees were charged for those who had their photographs taken with Obama.

Ernie Zah, spokesperson for President Shelly, told Censored News on Wednesday, "President Ben Shelly attended the dinner you asked about. He was invited and didn't pay for the tickets. He went as a member of the Native American Leadership Committee."

It was estimated that about 70 people attended the fundraiser, but most Native American leaders have been silent about the gathering. So far, no photos of the event have been located on the Internet. It was sponsored by the Native American Leadership Committee, but so far the membership has not been made public.

Questions remain about whether the general funds of Native American tribes were used by tribal leaders to attend the costly political campaign fundraiser.

While many Native Americans suffered from the cold, homelessness and even hunger this winter, the campaign fundraiser focused on Native Americans and was expected to raise between $1 million and $2 million dollars for Obama's campaign.

Censored News led the call for Obama to give the money back directly to American Indians who are living in desperation.

Mohawk Nation News 'Evil Stepchild'

2012-02-22T10:00:00.001-07:00

EVIL STEPCHILD

By Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com

MNN. Feb. 21, 2012. For over 400 years the Vatican, Europe,Britain, Africa and other nations have used Great Turtle island and beyond as the dumping ground for their undesirables. Through deliberate betrayal and extermination, over 300 million Indigenous became less than 10 million within two generations. The worst holocaust on earth is still not talked about.

Mathew Kristin Kiel [Reaping the Genetic Whirlwinds] writes that these crimes were to satisfy the lusts of the invaders and their descendants for our sacred land and possessions.

Millions were off-loaded here, Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth nations: their psychopaths, bastard nobility,unwanted royal sons who were greedy, arrogant and ruthless, violent inmates from prisons and workhouses, flop houses, brothels, thieves, con-artists, ne’do’wells, their unfit and uncivilized. [We apologize if we missed anybody.]

Many psychopaths stayed behind to pull the strings.

African-Americans,they owe you! The white slave traders profited. The Black African royalty, village chiefs, elders, warrior societies, shamans and religious leaders did the dirty work. [Like the colonial Indian tribal and band councils here.] They rounded up their people in exchange for money and weapons to become filthy rich. They became the rulers and leaders of African society. Today they sit in the UN [International Department of Indian Affairs] and decideeverybody’s fate. They never stopped the oppression and abuse by the European American psychopaths.

Well, British, French, Dutch, Spanish and others, we survivors have a message for you.

The US junta is your fully-grown ugly, unwanted, dangerous, diseased stepchild.

Their direct descendants are now the wealthy powerful elite rulers of the US and the globe. Their war economy threatens wholesale annihilation of all, from which Europeans are benefiting.

You profited from the rape, pillage and genocide of our sacred lands, nations and peoples. Stop your evil spoiled brats. They need more than a good spanking.

According to WHO, you have the highest rate of sociopathic and psychopathic disorders of any race in the world. We noticed that right from the beginning.

Take your great-grandchildren home. Or you will realize your worst fears, “We shall be cast down from whence we came for all eternity”. Everyone knows that children will follow your example instead of your words.

These great-grandchildren are born of your genetics with human ills inflicted on us to fester like a cancer.

The bills have come due for past and present crimes against humanity. These must paid until we are satisfied.

Santana sang: “You’ve got to change your evil ways, baby, before I stop loving you … and every word I say is true. You’ve got me running and hiding all over town. You’ve got me sneaking and peeping and running you down. This can’t go on. No, no. Lord knows you’ve got to change.”

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Harlan goes out with bang on Native America Calling!

2012-02-21T16:03:00.002-07:00

By Brenda Norrrell

Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Koahnic Broadcast Corp. announced today it is seeking a new host for Native America Calling, the national live daily radio broadcast, and moving headquarters from Albuquerque to Alaska.

Harlan told Censored News on Wednesday, "Going to chase my dream to start a Native TV channel ... stay tuned."

Censored News wants to be the first to congratulate Harlan McKosato, Sac and Fox, for his recent programs with cutting edge truth.

From the poisons of coal fired power plants in Indian country and the banned books by Tucson public schools to the disenrollment of tribal members by American Indian Nations, Harlan’s recent programs have carved a place for him in history. He exposed the hard hitting truths in Indian country that others are censoring.

Censored News would especially like to thank Harlan for featuring Censored News and our guests on the New Years Eve show. The show included Debra White Plume, Lakota of Bring Back the Way; Kahentinetha Horn of Mohawk Nation News; Klee Benally, Navajo of Save the Peaks and Ofelia Rivers, O’odham, of the O’odham Solidarity Project.

Harlan also featured Louise Benally of Big Mountain and Moapa Paiute Chairman William Anderson recently to speak out against the ongoing genocide of coal fired power plants. Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz was featured on the subject of Native American books banned by the Tucson Unified School District.

Thank you Harlan from all of us! Brenda Norrell, publisher Censored News

KOAHNIC BROADCAST CORPORATION ANNOUNCES CHANGE IN HOST FOR NATIVE AMERICA CALLING AND MANAGEMENT OF DISTRIBUTION SERVICE MOVES TO ANCHORAGE

Anchorage, Alaska:

Jaclyn Sallee, President and CEO, announced today that Koahnic Broadcast Corporation will be opening a search for a new host for Native America Calling, with Associate Producer, Tara Gatewood to serve as the main host during this period. Sallee said, " we have a strong staff of associate producers who will keep the quality of the program and topics at the level our stations and listeners have come to expect".

In addition, the management of Koahnic's NV1 national distribution service, which has been housed in Albuquerque, will be moved to its Anchorage office. Recruitment for the network manager will begin in March. Koahnic sees this as a way of consolidating its oversight of the network, having moved the billing and contracting to Anchorage last year.

Serving as Interim NV1 Manager is Nola Daves Moses who has been working with the network's stations and producers as Station Relations Representative since 2008.

Contact: Carol Schatz
Chief Operating Officer
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
907-793-3517

cschatz@knba.org

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Native America Calling: Coal fired power plants poisoning Native Americans

Navajo Generating Station on the Navajo Nation
near Page, Ariz.

Native America Calling: Coal fired power plants poisoning Native Americans

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

On Native America Calling today, Louise Benally, Dine' of Big Mountain and Moapa Pauite Chairman William Anderson said coal fired power plants are poisoning Navajos, Paiutes and the people of the Southwest. Callers to the national live radio show from across the west agreed and said it is time for the toxic legacy of dirty fuel to end.

Program host Harlan McKosato of the Sac and Fox Nation, asked Benally about the term "clean coal."

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“It is a dirty lie. Nothing is clean about coal or extraction," Benally said. "There is no such thing as clean coal. Clean coal is not a reality.”

Benally described Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl's current attempts to steal Navajo water rights to the Colorado River and Little Colorado River. She also described the devastation from the Navajo Generating Station at Page, Ariz., fired by coal from Black Mesa, on Navajoland.

"They are killing the earth. There is no respect for the earth, they are killing the earth in the name of greed," said Benally, among those who have resisted relocation for decades on Black Mesa, where Peabody Coal continues to mine coal and poison the air, water and land.

Moapa Paiute Chairman William Anderson said there are widespread health problems, including respiratory problems and thyroid problems, because of the Reid Gardner coal fired power plant in Nevada.

Chairman Anderson said the brown cloud over the power plant "is what we breathe everyday." He described how the dirty industries try to buy off the people with the promises of money, roads and more, while ignoring the longterm and devastating health results of coal fired power plants.

"This is one of the dirtiest power plants in the nation," Chairman Anderson said, adding that "fugitive dust" is what Paiutes breathe from the evaporation ponds.

McKosato said the devastation is described in the new film, "An Ill Wind Blows in Moapa," about the Reid Gardner coal fired power plant and what it is doing to the Moapa Paiutes. http://earthjustice.org/blog/2011-july/an-ill-wind-blows-in-moapa

Benally pointed out that Navajo President Ben Shelly sent Navajo Attorney General Harrison Tsosie to Washington in February to try and do away with US EPA clean air laws on the Navajo Nation.

Benally said jobs are not the reason for these coal fired power plants. "It is the need for greed," said Benally, referring to the leases signed by elected Navajo leaders. Benally said because of these power plants, Navajos on Black Mesa are now the victims, with respiratory diseases, diabetes, heart problems, cancer and birth defects.

"It is not regulated," Benally said. She said those jobs, resulting in poisoning Navajos, could be green jobs. "But the Navajo government opposes that openly." Recently, Navajo President Ben Shelly's line item veto of green jobs in the Navajo Nation budget.

Meanwhile, while elected Navajo leaders block the Dine' movement for green jobs, Benally said the medicine plants are being poisoned by the coal fired power plant emissions. The air in the region, once pristine, is now heavy with the dark haze.

"If you drive over the ridge to look over Navajo country, you see the brown cloud," she said. "It is toxifying the earth like we don't have a future. We want a future."

"We will continue to fight for what we believe, Mother Earth and Mother Nature."

One caller from Zuni Pueblo, N.M., said Zunis are being sickened and poisoned by the nearby Coronado Generating Station in St. Johns, Ariz., because they are in the wind's path from this power plant.

Another caller from Taos, N.M., pointed out that Peabody Coal is "the main culprit," poisoning people across America.

One Hopi caller described how the Mohave Generating Station depleted the Navajo aquifer, beneath the Hopi and Navajo lands, before it was shut down along with one of the two Peabody coal mines on Black Mesa. Pointing out the loss of pristine water and the diseases cause, he described how the Mohave power plant, which depleted the aquifer with a coal slurry to Nevada, was shut down in 2005.

Still, Peabody Coal's Kayenta mine remains open, and sends coal to Navajo Generating Station in nearby Page, Ariz., which poisons Navajoland and the Southwest. The Navajo Generating Station is operated by the Salt River Project in the Phoenix Valley, which was protested by Navajo and O'odham during the American Legislative Exchange Council gathering in November.

McKosato said neither the Navajo Nation nor the coal industry responded to requests to be on today's show.

CALIFORNIA: Jim Brown: Reject settlement agreement for Elem Pomo

2012-02-20T19:15:00.001-07:00

Monique Sonoquie (Chumash/Apache),
Jim Brown III (Elem Pomo),
Gail Brown (Yokáya Pomo)

February 20, 2012

PRESS STATEMENT Jim Brown III, Elem-Modun Tribal Member: 2012 DOJ-EPA-ELEM-BRADLEY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT

RE: 30 Day Public Comment Period/ DOJ-EPA-ELEM-BRADELY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT:

As a part of the Public Comment period On behalf of the Elem families residing on the Elem Reservation, I will formally submit testimony to the Department of Justice and formally notify the federal government agencies and U.S. Citizen’s that the true living Elem Reservation residents and community members formally reject and totally disagree with the current Department of Justice Settlement Agreement as prescribed, for the following reasons.

If the current settlement agreement is approved it will be a travesty of the Federal Justice System, violation of Indian Civil Rights Act and Indian Self-determination while undermining the protection of natural resources and tribal sovereignty and is a set-back of Environmental Justice, a denial of fair and equal compensation to the living surviving Elem members & families for their lifelong pain and suffering and loss of tribal lifeway’s (Gathering of healthy foods and fish). The 380 acres is only a small fraction of the tribe’s total aboriginal lands that were directly lost due to the Mining operations. Further, the $50,000 thousand dollars is a financial insult, and should be viewed as bribe money, so the tribe will not file another law suit for EPA’s 2006 106 violations, that damages has been estimated at ten million dollars. The Settlement Agreement will cover-up and deny the direct trusteeship of the BIA and the environmental responsibilities of our own so called premier agency the U.S. EPA. Ironically, these two federal agencies, The Bureau of Indian Affairs are formally the tribes Trustee and the EPA is the premier Environmental Agency, must take responsibility for their direct violations!

BACKGROUND:
In 1971, the BIA/Central California Agency while providing the Elem tribe with a new housing, road & water project purchased the toxic mine tailings from the Bradley Mining Company! and in addition did not comply with section 106! The BIA/CCA agency has politically created division in the tribal leadership, for example since 2008 over an election dispute, and audit has shut down all services to the Elem tribal members and Community, We have a newly funded HUD (2005) community center that is totally shut down since 2010, along with no existing Tribal health or social services available to the Elem members residing on the Reservation lands and community.

Note: Most of the current officials who agreed to this illegal settlement agreement don’t even live on the Elem Reservation or even in live in the County and they appear only to want to divide up non-gaming funds. While Elem members who live on the Elem Reservation who disagree, have been formally barred from attending Elem General Council tribal meetings addressing this settlement and have been plus have been formally excluded from exercising their voting rights, excluded from sharing tribal non-gaming funds, which is a direct violation of our tribal and civil rights.

In 2006, the U.S. EPA’s Superfund Cleanup Project at Elem, Sub-Contractor (CH2MHill) also, did not comply with section 106! 70 cubic yards of pre-historic and historic Cultural soils and cultural artifacts were destroyed. They want us to only except $50,000 to not file another law suit? In, addition the U.S. EPA Superfund manager illegally interfered with tribal sovereignty and government operations, when he created a conflict of interest by hiring the EleAdvocate, NAGPRA Coordinator and Tribal Historic Preservation Officer , in 2005 I was appointed Elem Tribal Historian. I have also served my tribe as an elected official and in 1999 as Tribal Chairman signed the California Gaming Compact. I was the Tribal Administrator (Elem Tribal Member) in 2006, who informed the office of Historic Preservation of the U.S. EPA violation, and then once I exposed the conflict of interest created between the US EPA Superfund Manager and the Elem Tribal Chairman, I was terminated by the tribal Chairman in 2007. I will be formally submitting and requesting this immediate amendment to the settlement. In addition, I considering requesting formal compensation for my loss of employment that resulted from the EPA Superfund Manager’s conflict of interest!

On behalf of the Elem tribal members and residents of Elem Indian Colony, We formally request the following financial amendments to the Elem settlement agreement.

Respectfully,
Jim Brown III, Elem-Modun Tribal Member

NEW SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT:
$3. Million to purchase Rattlesnake Island (To forever preserve the ancient homeland tribal village and sacred site for the tribe)
$1.5 Million Build Elem Museum/Cultural Center (Fund, operate Museum & Cultural center for tribe & public)
$1.5 Million Elem Health/Wellness Center (Fund Health & Wellness center for Tribal members)
$2. Million for Elem tribal members ($50,000.00 each) financial compensation for lifelong pain, Suffering and loss of life. ($500,000 Higher Education, Employment & Training fund).
$1. Million for Sacred Site protection and development of a tribal land trust organization and for the purchase & operations of Anderson Marsh State/Tribal Park for Public access.
$1. Million to payment to and for the Lake County citizen’s benefit (Food kitchen, Homeless Shelter, Farmers Markets, organic gardens, etc.)
Grand Total: $10,000.000. Million Settlement

Contact Info:

For more information please contact Jim Brown III, Elem-Tribal Member at P.O. Box 610 Clearlake Oaks, CA 95423, E-mail at jbrowneagle@gmail.com

News article: Mining settlement gives land to Elem Colony, pays for cleanup http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23705:mining-settlement-gives-land-to-elem-colony-pays-millions-for-cleanup&catid=1:latest&Itemid=197

Arizona: Save Oak Flat from land exchange

2012-02-20T13:35:00.001-07:00

On Feb. 8, Miss San Carlos, Desirae Rambler (left)
and San Carlos Apache Youth Council President (right),
support the testimony given by Shan Lewis (center),
President of the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona,
in his testimony against passage of H.R.
Courtesy photo.

ITCA PRESIDENT SHAN LEWIS TESTIFIES AGAINST H.R. 1904 TO SAVE OAK FLAT

By Sandra Rambler
San Carlos Apache

Censored News
WASHINGTON -- On Feb. 8, Shan Lewis, President of the Inter-Tribal Council provided testimony to the members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, in Washington, D.C. regarding opposition against H.R. 1904, also known as the proposed Southeastern Arizona Land Exchange Act. President Lewis was accompanied by Terry Rambler, Tribal Chairman, Steve Titla, Tribal Attorney, Wendsler Nosie, Sr., Peridot District Councilmember, Vernelda Grant, Tribal Archaeologist, Tanayia White, Executive Assistant to the Chairman, Desirae Rambler, Miss San Carlos and some members of the Youth Council and their parents including Lanea Burdette, Youth Council President. Other various tribal leaders from tribes within the U.S. were also present, namely Ben Shelly, President of the Navajo Nation.

Mr. Lewis began his testimony, “Good morning, Chairman Bingaman, Ranking Member Murkowski and other member of the committee. My name is Shan Lewis, President of the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona and Vice-Chairman of the Fort Mojave Tribe. On behalf of the 20 member tribes of ITCA, thank you for letting me testify.”

“I would like for all of the tribal leaders here today to stand. We are here to bring a united front in strong opposition to H.R. 1904. Tribes from New Mexico, the Great Plains, the Northwest, California, the South, the East, the Midwest, the Navajo Nation, and many other tribes join us against the bill.”

“With the Committee’s permission, I would like to include in the record tribal letters and resolutions opposing this bill. Also, I would like to include a statement from a San Carlos family about its upcoming sunrise dance t Oak Flat, celebrating a young woman’s coming of age. This is just one example of great significance of Oak Flat to families who have held ceremonies there for centuries.”

“I have three fundamental points in my remarks, destruction of sacred sites, federal protections that no longer apply if this land becomes privatized and regional water resources that will permanently be altered, depleted and contaminated.”

Since 2004, Resolution Copper has done everything it can to pass this legislation that would direct the Forest Service to transfer sacred land in the Tonto National Forest so that it can develop a massive block cave copper mine.”

“To protect our holy places, it saddens us that we have to defend their legitimacy. Oak Flat is one of the holy places of Western Apache and Yavapai tribes where Gaan, or spiritual beings reside. The Gaan are considered Angels. Just as a Church is a special place to Christians, Oak Flat is the equivalent for Apaches, Yavapais and others. Many tribes go to these special for prayer, ceremonies, to gather ceremonial items, or for peace and personal cleansing. These places are holy.”

“Federal laws and policies that protect sacred sites currently protect Oak Flat. But, if this land is transferred to Resolution Copper where it would become private land, federal protections would disappear and this sacred area will be destroyed. To give you an idea of the federal land that would be conveyed to the company, I have some maps. The first map shows the Tonto Forest in relation to the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. These lands are ancestral tribal lands. Here, the second map shows Oak Flat in the Forest outlined in red. The black outline shows land withdrawn from mining by President Eisenhower.”

“Resolution Copper wants these sacred lands to extract one cubic mile of ore located over one mile beneath the surface. To give a mental picture, it would take over 1400 Cowboys Stadium to hold a cubic mile of ore. The company plans to use the block cave method to extract this ore because it is far cheaper than other methods.”

“Here, this diagram depicts what the block cave mining process is. The company would dig a tunnel downward over a mile long and then dig another tunnel to the ore body. Once at the ore, they would blast away and extract massive amounts of ore using robotic technology a mile deep – technology that has not been developed.”

“The next diagram shows what happens once they start pulling out all this ore. At some point, the surface starts to cave in – this is called the “intact zone.” Given the massive amounts of earth that the company plans to extract, the surface will eventually collapse and the area will become an open pit. This is called the “cave zone.” We think the cave zone would be about 2 miles in diameter. This open pit will be visible from outer space. We have requested federal or independent studies on this project since 2005 without success.”

“Another grave concern is the permanent damage to surface and ground water. This mine will deplete enormous quantities of water and pollute it, which will devastate our communities. This water is a sacred element in tribal religious ceremonies. Arizona is a desert, and we all have a right to know what happens to our water. Again, there have been no federal or independent studies on this issue.”

“Here is a picture of a perennial spring at Oak Flat. Mining here will dry up or contaminate this spring and other water sources at Oak Flat. Here is a picture of the Oak Flat Campground and an ancient oak tree that has nourished us for centuries with its acorns. This area is protected under the Eisenhower Withdrawal Order. This area is in the cave zone and would be destroyed.”

“I would like to make three last points, this bill is a special deal or earmark for one company is foreign-owned. The company claims that this project will create many jobs. However, no money can replace the loss of sacred sites. The company claims that this mine will be an extension of the old Magma mine in the area. This is not true. Magma was developed in the 1880’s with a much smaller blueprint. Nevertheless, Magma destroyed our holy places. Back then, we were POW’s until the early 1900’s and didn’t have the right to vote in Arizona until 1948. We can’t turn back the clock, but we can say “NO” to this mine.”

“This bill would violate our government-to-government relationship and result in the destruction of a holy place. Senators, you simply will not be able to mitigate that this mine will destroy,” concluded President Lewis.

Some of the tribes and national organizations that support the San Carlos Apache Tribe include the largest Indian National Organization, the National Congress of American Indians, which comprises of over 560 federally recognized Indian tribes, the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, the United Southern and Eastern Tries, Jicarilla Apache Tribe, Pueblo of Tesuque, Pueblo of Zuni, White Mountain Apache Tribe, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Yavapai-Apache Nation, Susanville Indian Reservation, Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona Mining Coalition, Concern Citizens and Retired Miner’s Coalition, Religious and Human Rights Organization, Concerned Climbers of Arizona, Mescalero Apache Nation, All Indian Pueblo Council, Eight Northern Indian Pueblos, Hopi Tribe, Save the Scenic Santa Ritas Association, Tohono O’Odham Nation, Azee Bee Nahagha of Dine Nation, Karuk Tribe, Affiliated Tribes of the Northwest Indians, Navajo Nation, Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association, Picuris Pueblo, Ramona Band of Cahuilla and others.

Media Watch: The good, the bad and the ugly, Feb. 19, 2012

2012-02-19T12:25:00.007-07:00

Gwich'in Sarah James battling to
protect the caribou during the
Cancun climate summit.
Photo Brenda Norrell.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Media promotion of destruction of Mother Earth
While many traditional grassroots Native Americans sacrifice to halt the destruction on their lands, and protect Mother Earth, tribal elected leaders were in Washington last week pushing for more mining and destruction. The majority of the media tells their one-sided story, without quoting Native Americans protecting the land.
Among those pressing for more energy development: Navajo Nation, Southern Ute and Fort Peck in Montana: http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/16/tribes-back-bill-to-ease-federal-oversight-of-indian-land-energy-projects
In related news, the US House passed a bill to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which Native Americans oppose. The new House bill approves expanding oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the homelands of the caribou which Gwich’in are fighting to protect.
The media fell for a scam this week, a ploy by Arizona Senators Jon Kyl and John McCain to steal Navajo water rights to the Little Colorado River. The paternalistic senators offered Navajos on Black Mesa a trickle of water to give up their water rights to the Little Colorado.
In other news, the hacked e-mails of Mexico's Camimex mining industry reveal Mexico targeting the sacred lands of the Wixarika, Huicholes, with silver mining. Further, the e-mails reveal the efforts in Mexico to manipulate climate change facts so that coal and other dirty industries could avoid taxation in Mexico.
See articles on grassroots Native Americans struggle to protect Mother Earth, and end the destruction, and the Camimex e-mails at Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

AP exposes New York police spying on students, Muslims, whitewater rafters
AP in the west often fails human rights activists. However, AP’s Chris Hawley exposes the New York Police Department spying on Muslims in the Northeast. It reveals how police infiltrate student organizations, and even go whitewater rafting with students to spy them.
Muslim students across Northeast monitored by NYPD
By CHRIS HAWLEY, Associated Press
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i8-1HKW_EexxXiQ-9atQirlNU3Ew?docId=a6d3d91ee3ce47adba87959643181c5c

Tucson TV station promotes militarization of high school students, while district bans Mexican American studies and Chicano and Native American books
One Tucson television station’s promotion of ROTC in a local high school reveals how the militarization of youths in the schools is aided by the media.
The Tucson Unified School voted to forbid Mexican American Studies and banned Chicano and Native American books in January. The vote came after Arizona school superintendent John Huppenthal threatened the district with the loss of millions of dollars in funding if the district did not forbid the program. The issue has been a focus in national news.
What did Channel 9, KGUN TV, focus on, and promote, in Saturday night’s broadcast? ROTC and its 200 ROTC students at one of the high schools. It reveals the role of the media in the militarization of schools, and the misconception that it is better to send young people off to fight and die in bogus wars, than provide them with a real education, so they can set their sights on jobs and hope.
Further, military recruiters in Tucson high schools were arrested in a sting operation for drug smuggling in 2006. So many Army, AirForce and Marine soldiers wanted to smuggle cocaine from Nogales to Phoenix, that Operation Lively Green was halted after nearly 100 arrests.

Whistleblower's Conference in Berkeley, Nov. 17 -- 19, 2012
http://www.freshjuiceparty.com/occupy-the-truth-whistleblower-conference-feb-17-to-19/

Occupy Wall Street organizes 'Op Book Bomb Tucson'

2012-02-18T22:02:00.001-07:00

Peoples Library Occupy Wall Street
photo by David Shankbone 2011

OccupyEducated.org was created as a response to the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street Library in Zuccotti Park (see below video). We knew other governments would collapse their libraries — for purposes of both repression of ideas or simply the results of hard decisions required with restricted budgets.

http://youtu.be/O6viSEztPc0
Looks like Arizona (surprise, surprise) is vying to be a leader in this sort repression as well; apparently legalizing racism wasn’t a badge of honor shiny enough. The powers that be have no interest in letting children know where they come from. Perhaps it’s because those kids may not like those powers so much, once educated.

Below is a plea from amazing The People’s Library. Step up; this one will be fun!

REQUEST:
In response to the disgraceful decision of the Tucson Unified School District to end the Mexican-American Studies program and to ban books from the school curriculum The People’s Library is holding a series of book drives (Operation Book Bomb Tucson) to support the students and teachers of Tucson.
■The first book donation event will be held at the next Occupy Town Square on Sunday, February 26 in Tompkins Square Park from 11AM to 5PM.
■The second book donation event will be held at Word Up Community Bookshop 4157 Broadway at 176th St in Washington Heights on Thursday, March 1 from 7PM to 9PM http://wordupbooks.wordpress.com
■The third book donation event is TBA but will be held in Sunset Park, Brooklyn in conjunction with the Sunset Park General Assembly (Sunset GA contact me at franceslikespeace@gmail.com)
For these events we are asking people to bring any Spanish language books, books on Mexican history, or books on Latino culture to donate to Tucson. In addition to this we would like to have teach-ins and readings on topics such as educational oppression, immigrant rights, and Mexican-American history. We are reaching out to you our friends and allies to support us in the following areas. Here is some of what we need:
■Speakers/Teachers willing to share their time on Sunday, February 26 in Tompkins Sq and or on Thursday, March 1 in Washington Heights. Chris Hedges is already scheduled to speak on March 1, but we are looking for additional people to help educate us and the visiting public on issues regarding Immigrant rights and education in our society. If you are knowledgeable or know someone who is knowledgeable on these issues, and would be willing to hold a teach-in please contact us ASAP at owspeopleslibrary@gmail.com
■Outreach and Press We want to spread the word to the Latino community throughout New York City. I have written to Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez regarding this event but I have not yet heard back from his office. If anyone has a contact within his office please let us know. Additionally we would like to have announcements made on WBAI 99.5FM as well as the Spanish language radio station MEGA 97.9FM. If anyone has contacts for these stations please pass them onto us. Also we would like to let our friends at Democracy Now know about this campaign. Please let us know if you are willing to contact your colleagues there on our behalf. If you are in the press or on the media team and would like to highlight our campaign please do so!
■Transportation & Storage We could really use a friend with a van. We need to transport our donated books from Tompkins Sq Park on Sunday, Feb 26 and from Washington Heights on Thursday, March 1 and get them into storage. Anyone who wants to volunteer to help us with that wins huge hugs from very grateful librarians!
■Translation Since our goal here is to outreach with the Spanish speaking community we need translation. We would like our flyers to be printed in English and Spanish and we would like to have our teach-ins conducted in both languages as well. If you are willing to translate copy for our flyers, or to translate on site on either Feb 26, or March 1, or both please let us know.
■Design We need flyers printed up for the March 1 event in Washington Heights. We would like to get them to Word Up Bookshop ASAP so that they can begin letting people in the neighborhood know about the event. Again we want them to be in English on one side and Spanish on the other. If anyone from our design and printing teams wants to get on that we would be very appreciative.
We have already received donations of books from:
■Richard Delgado the author of the book Critical Race Theory
■The SouthWest Organizing Project which publishes 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures by Elizabeth Martinez
■And Arte Publico Press which sent us Zoot Suit: A Bilingual Edition by Luis Valdez, Y no se lo tragó la tierra… / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him by Tomás Rivera, Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz by Mona Ruiz and Geoff Boucher, Message to Aztlán by Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, and Chicano! The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement by F. Arturo Rosales. Additionally Arte Publico is offering us a 50% discount on any books that we order from their catalog for the campaign.
We are very excited about this action and we are thrilled to be able to help the students and teachers of Tucson and to defend the Mexican-American community from this continued injustice. We hope that you will join us in our fight. Please contact us to help with any of these areas at owspeopleslibrary@gmail.com and thank you so much for your continued support.
Warmest Regards,
Frances Mercanti-Anthony
The People’s Library
photo credit: Glenn Beck’s propaganda hit piece “The Blaze”

Roberto Rodriguez 'Crouching while Mexican: TUSD escalates militarization of its meetings'

2012-02-17T21:01:00.001-07:00

CROUCHING WHILE MEXICAN
TUSD escalates militarization of its meetings

By Roberto Rodriguez
Censored News

TUCSON -- A high school student who addressed the school board this Tuesday about the Tucson Unified School District-Mexican American Studies, TUSD-MAS, controversy was reportedly pulled out of his classroom yesterday by security personnel. There is more to the story (and this will be updated soon), but to be sure, him being pulled out of his classroom was a direct result of his participation at the school board meeting.
At the same meeting, the issue of armed guards at TUSD school board meeting was brought up. School board member Adelita Grijalva requested an inquiry into how many armed guards are being deployed at each meeting , at what cost, and how long this will last? There may have been 30 audience members at the meeting Tuesday, along with perhaps 20 TUSD officials, employees and school board members. On Tuesday, 9 armed security personnel were visibly present at the meeting. At the recent White House Summit in Tucson, (which was at least 10 times bigger) with many White House administration officials present, there may have been 6 visible officers present.
However, the real travesty has to do with security coming into a classroom for the student during class time.
UPDATE TO STORY
Board member Adelita Grijalva has confirmed that 2 TUSD security officers went into the student's classroom at Tucson High School as a direct result of the "crouching incident" at Tuesday's board meeting.
Initially, the student gave a firm critique of the TUSD Governing Board board and the superintendent for dismantling the district's Mexican American Studies Department. One by one, he criticized their conduct, including, not paying attention to speakers during call to the audience.
After the critique, he went back to his aisle chair.At a certain point he decided not to sit, but instead chose to crouch in the aisle next to his chair. For this the security in the board room took an alert position, and approached. He told the student to sit. The student asked why at which point the officer said it was against district policy for anyone to crouch in the aisle. The student asked to see the regulation.
On Thursday, that same TUSD officer, along with another TUSD security officer, went into the student's classroom and removed him from class. Apparently, the administration complied and directed the officers to his classroom.
Grijalva said it was mind-boggling that the Tucson High administration complied, but even more so for the officers to have been there in the first place. The officers purportedly went to show the regulation to the student during class time.
The unresolved question is who authorized and directed these two officers to go into Tucson High and pull the student out of class.
THE STUDENT IS BEING REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY.
MORE UPDATES AS IS KNOWN.
They first came after the department, the discipline, then the books... and now the students? Amazing the lack of outrage. Perhaps what's needed is a few thousand petitions to explain to this district that it is not acceptable to ban departments, thrash disciplines, ban books and now go into classrooms to yank out students... for the SERIOUS FELONY OF CROUCHING WHILE MEXICAN...

Outta Your Backpack Media: Empowering video of Native media makers!

2012-02-17T14:44:00.001-07:00

Great new video from Navajo, Hopi, and Indigenous youths telling their own stories, with Native youth mentors describing video making in Flagstaff, Ariz.
http://youtu.be/F2F85d7iGX8
Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBM) is an Indigenous youth response to the need for media justice in our communities. We offer free movie making workshops, resource access and distribution. Learn more at www.oybm.org

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Laguna Pueblo Film Festival: The real stories of uranium mining in Indian country Feb 2012

2012-02-17T13:02:00.002-07:00

Navajos appeal Peabody's Kayenta Coal permit

2012-02-17T11:59:00.003-07:00

Navajos protest Peabody to protect homelands
in Navajo capitol of Window Rock, Ariz.
Photo Sierra Club.

Navajo and Environmental Organizations Partner to Appeal Peabody’s Kayenta Coal Permit

Appeal aims to protect critical drinking water below Black Mesa

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Feb. 17, 2012
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NIZHONI VALLEY, Ariz. -- A group of five organizations, To Nizhoni Ani, Black Mesa Water Coalition, Dine C.A.R.E, Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity filed an appeal yesterday that challenges the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (OSM) decision to renew a permit for Peabody Coal Company's dirty Kayenta mine. The appeal charges that OSM revised a permit without considering data and analysis demonstrating how Peabody's pumping of the Navajo Aquifer for coal mining operations is linked to declining water levels, springs and groundwater quality in Navajo communities. The appeal also charges that OSM ignored these signs of material damage and changed the criteria that the agency has used for evaluating the mine’s impact on Black Mesa’s Navajo Aquifer since 1989.

Photo Mano Cockrum
Denver protest of Peabody coal

“With this appeal we are ensuring that Peabody is held accountable to the federal laws that protect our communities, environment, water, sacred places and cultural resources,” states Jihan Gearon of Black Mesa Water Coalition. “It's time for OSM to stop facilitating the destruction of our lands and instead support us in holding the corporations who operate on our lands accountable."

The Navajo Aquifer is the primary source of drinking water to thousands of Navajo and Hopi residents and has a central role in each tribe's cultural practices. For nearly 40 years Peabody has mined the Kayenta Mine, which has supplied approximately 8.5 million tons of coal annually to the Navajo Generating Station in northeastern Arizona. Both the Kayenta

Mine and the coal plant operations have significantly impacted several indigenous communities, particularly in the Black Mesa region, by damaging community health and polluting water resources.

“Drinking water wells in our community have declined over a hundred feet. Sinkholes and cracks near Forest Lakes have occurred where the surface is subsiding. Water quality has deteriorated and our sacred springs are disappearing. For OSM to just ignore this and say there are no significant impacts is a violation of their trust responsibility to our people,” states Marshall Johnson of To Nizhoni Ani.

Between 1969 and 2005 alone, Peabody pumped over 4,000 acre-feet of water annually from the Navajo Aquifer and continues to pump approximately 1,200 acre-feet for use at its mine operations. Peabody has historically been the largest pumper of regional groundwater, which is also used by local indigenous communities as their primary source of drinking water. Moreover, OSM’s permit allows Peabody to expand their operations into new areas that will force Navajo families to relocate, losing their ancestral homes for more coal development. “Four families will be relocated to make way for the mine expansion,” states Anna Frazier of Dine CARE. “How many more communities must be uprooted before OSM believes the impacts of this mine operation are significant?”

The appeal also argues that OSM failed to comply with several environmental laws and has not kept Peabody from posting adequate bonds to help pay for reclamation of the mine areas. "Peabody has gotten another rubber stamp from OSM and local residents' health and homes have been sacrificed in the name of cheap coal. OSM must do better a better job to protect the communities of Black Mesa,” states Andy Bessler of the Sierra Club.

The organizations are represented on appeal by attorney Brad Bartlett of the Western Energy Justice Project and Margot Pollans of the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University.

Contact:
Marshall Johnson, To Nizhoni Ani

(928) 675-1852

Jihan Gearon, Black Mesa Water Coalition

(928) 380-6684

Anna Frazier, Dine C.A.R.E.

(928) 401-0382

Taylor McKinnon, Center for Biological Diversity

(928) 310-6713

Andy Bessler, Sierra Club

(928) 380-7808

Dine' CARE opposes Kyl, McCain, legislation on water claims

2012-02-16T22:16:00.004-07:00

Diné CARE Opposes Kyl, McCain legislation settling water claims with Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe

By Dine' CARE

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French translation: http://www.chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=648

Dilkon, Arizona (Navajo Nation) -- Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, a Navajo organization, strongly condemns the Big Business Salt River Project (SRP), Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and Central Arizona Project (CAP) bill portrayed as providing water to the Navajo Nation and Hopi to make life better.

In reality this is a death sentence where the Indigenous Peoples will be forever giving up their water rights to Lower Colorado River.

The bill will “occur if and when the tribes agree to extend the leases and other agreements associated with the Navajo Generating Station.” “It brings us one step closer to addressing the significant water needs of impoverished areas on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, while also providing certainty for non-Indian communities trying to plan for their water future.” Stated Sen. Jon Kyl, R-AZ, when he introduced the settlement Tuesday from the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Dine' CARE gathering

Translation: "The 1970s Salt River Project lawyer, Senator Jon Kyl, is still carrying out SRP and CAP’s priorities to take the water rights from aboriginal water owners in northern AZ. To add insult to injury, not only has the Navajo Tribe suffered from receiving discounted value for water but suffer from consequences of pollution from Navajo Generating Station, who provides power for SRP and ensuring that Navajo Nation provide cheap electricity. A fair value is needed in this deal to not steal Navajo water and condemn the people to poor health from NGS pollution.

The Navajo Nation is already an energy and water colony for Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, and southern California. If passed, signed, and enacted, Kyl bill would guarantee 34,000 plus acre-feet a year to NGS for the proposed extended life of the power plant. It also favors Peabody Coal Company since its Kayenta Mine fuels NGS.

And of course, the Winter's Doctrine water rights of the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe would be extinguished.

Diné CARE opposed the Kyle and McCain’s legislation because it has no mercy for the Dine and Hopi people. Instead, it will continue the “improvised state” created by Kyl and his corporate partners on the Navajo people.

“It is important for native communities to unite and oppose this legislation”, said Dine’ CARE president Adella Begaye. “We cannot afford to be idle as our future generations are robbed of their heritage and lifeline.”

In sum, the KYL bill must be KILLED before it KILLS us.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Contacts: Anna M. Frazier (928) 401-0382 E-mail: frazierannm@gmail.com

Lori Goodman (970) 759-1908 E-mail: kiyaani@frontier.net

Oxymoron: Homeland Security seeking intelligence on Facebook

2012-02-16T11:18:00.001-07:00

The Oxymoron: Homeland Security seeking intelligence on Facebook
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Feb. 16, 2012

What could be more fun today than following the hearing on Homeland Security spying on Facebook and Twitter?
It is a sad state of affairs that Homeland Security admits that it seeks intelligence on Facebook.
Further, it spies on news reporters on Facebook and Twitter, according to its written testimony. It also admits that its operatives use fake identities on Facebook and Twitter.
Homeland Security, however, stops short of being totally honest. The ACLU makes it clear that Homeland Security is also spying on peace activists and veterans on Facebook and Twitter.
Who is spying on you on Facebook and Twitter? General Dynamics won the contract.
Hearing testimony:
http://homeland.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-dhs-monitoring-social-networking-and-media-enhancing-intelligence
ACLU: Facebook, Twitter and DHS, which one of these things is not like the others: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/facebook-twitter-and-dhs-which-one-these-things-not-others
Hearing: Ooops! Ms. Mary Ellen Callahan, Homeland Security's chief privacy officer, make a slip during the testimony: "We don't care about First Amendment speech ..."
Watch today's hearing on YouTube videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVcv-u9TNug&feature=player_embedded

Mohawk Nation News 'Helter Skelter'

2012-02-16T09:06:00.001-07:00

HELTER SKELTER

Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com

MNN. FEB. 14, 2012. This is the culture of the invaders to Great Turtle Island. Gold has an objective value. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at us resource owners and the workers. Checks are made by the looters, soon to bounce. They run the artificial world corporatocracy.

The upper crust is bankers, bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, empty-headed media blabber mouths, psychiatrists, sociologist nut jobs, some teachers, mainstream journalists and professional politicians.

Abusive power, wealth and property is in the hands of a few. The middle class neutralizes the masses. The masses work, breed and die, in poverty, sedated by alcohol, porn and lotteries.

The looters fear a free society without whips in their hands. They want jail without trial, slavery, public executions, torture, hostages and deportation.

Their mandate is total surveillance, to crush the opposition, manufacture lies, create ignorance and complete obedience to the state.

Like Indian tribal and band councils on reservations, the administrators tattle on their people and fill their pockets.

Rulers perpetuate their in-bred blood line. The Catholic Church spreads 'virtue', reaps money and keeps their flock in line.

Foreign enemies and internal traitors are vaporized.

To keep the lie ahead of the truth, history is continually revised. We Indigenous were declared as non-persons who were ‘disappeared’, with no record of our existence. The biggest holocaust in all humanity was thrown down the memory hole, followed by 500 years of hatred of the survivors.

Raping,looting, killing of children, enslaving populations and abusing prisoners, happened to us and now to others. We still hear the screams and cries of our ancestors.

War is controlled insanity, created contradictions, over produced goods without sharing. Planned warfare is fighting,bargaining, treachery, bases around the world facing each another and secret friendship pacts.

War creates cheap labor and wealth for a few to wage more wars. Products are wasted to keep the world hungry, poor, controlled and to protect the hierarchy.

Perverted specialists dream up war scenarios, to kill billions in a second without warning, to produce artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by hitting the earth’s centre. Human life is extinguished by bombs, bigger explosives,impenetrable armor, deadlier gases. Animals and vegetation are destroyed and diseases are created without cures. Cars are promised that go underground or overhead and the sun’s rays will be controlled.

Rulers are Intoxicated by power. They foresee jack boots stamping on helpless human faces forever.

War is everlasting without victory. War is peace. Peace is war.

The land is still here. We are part of it. We’ve never done harm to creation. We never fell for the fiction that was created by the invaders.

George Orwell’s ‘1984’, written between 1944 and 1948, describes such a scenario.

This destruction will stop. Those responsible will be brought to justice. All our stolen and desecrated possessions will be returned to us until we feel the debt is paid plus interest.

Bob Dylan said: “Let me ask you one question. Is your money that good? Could it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find, when your death takes its toll, all the money you made will never buy back your soul.”

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Media conned by Sen. Kyl's scam to steal Indian water rights

2012-02-15T22:48:00.000-07:00

Little Colorado River

Media falls for Sen. Kyl's Indian water theft scheme, as Navajo president sells out the people

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

The media fell for a scam today, a ploy by Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl to steal Navajo water rights to the Little Colorado River. The paternalistic Sen. Kyl offered Navajos on Black Mesa a trickle of water to give up their water rights to the Little Colorado.

Navajo President Ben Shelly has been on a roll, wanting to give away Navajo water rights to non-Indians, pressing to halt clean air standards to benefit corporate coal fired power plants, line item vetoing Navajo green jobs, and signing a deal with the war machine in search of uranium.

The Navajo Nation signed a three agreement with the war machines Lawrence Livermore, Sandia and Los Alamos labs. Although the Navajo Nation prohibits uranium mining, Navajo President Shelly told Scientific American that "the tribe would monitor technology and techniques to extract the ore, as well as market conditions, to determine whether it might be viable in the future."

The media played its role in the ongoing abuse of Native Americans, cheerleading for the theft of Indian water rights and the promotion of coal fired power plants.

With the collapse of the media, the easily conned media today again regurgitated press releases. The armchair journalists spun their stories from the comfort of their easy chairs, and never went out to Black Mesa to ask Navajos for the facts.

It was the worst case scenario: The media depended on press releases and phone calls to lying politicians.

It was a dark day for journalism, and a death roll for the air, land and water.

Countering these attacks by elected Navajo leaders, on Native America Calling today, Louise Benally, Dine' of Big Mountain resisting relocation on Black Mesa, said greed is the reason that elected Navajo leaders are pushing for coal mining and power plants that are poisoning the environment and making the people sick.

Benally said the term "clean coal" is a dirty lie.

"They are killing the earth. There is no respect for the earth, they are killing the earth in the name of greed."

Sen. Kyl's water theft agreement with assistance from the Navajos' non-Indian attorney:
http://ktar.com/6/1501598/AP-Exclusive-Kyl-to-introduce-tribal-water-deal

More media promotion of the paternalistic theft of water rights by Sen. Kyl:
http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-news/2012/02/14/deal-could-bring-running-water-to-navajo-hopi-homes/

Selling out to the war machine: Navajo teams up with lab on tribal energy policy
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57370417/navajo-teams-up-with-lab-on-tribal-energy-policy/

Native America Calling: Coal fired power plants poisoning Native Americans

2012-02-15T16:50:00.003-07:00

Navajo Generating Station on the Navajo Nation
near Page, Ariz.

Native America Calling: Coal fired power plants poisoning Native Americans

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Mohawk Nation News: 'Hungry for Power'

2012-02-14T18:51:00.001-07:00

HUNGRY FOR POWER

By Mohawk Nation News
http://www.mohawknationnews.com

MNN. Feb. 13, 2012. Whites are hardwired for insane power.

We learn about these crazy people by watching television, movies, playing video games and walking around the mall. Visual depictions of bombings, murders, rapes, perversions, child abuse and other violence comes from their minds.

As they become the minority, they still think Indigenous and other people of color should sit at the back of the bus, so to speak.

We’vebeen killed and oppressed by them to steal our land and resources to finance their economy and debt. They got mad over not being able to domesticate us. We just wouldn’t suck up to them. They found no reason to not murder us.

New genocidal laws [Arizona] forbid learning true Indian history and the memories of who we are.

They’ve shown no guilt over these killings. They think they’re not sick because they said they’re sorry.

Their depression is due to their detachment from nature. They’re missing melanin, a genetic factor in people of color, plants, animals and the earth. They can’t empathize. White farmers are the closest but they don’t get it.

These whites want to belong. Some have come among us and wild animals to imitate our connection with the natural world. They tame or kill. Predators trying to tame predators!

Animals in their natural state teach us about life. Wolves are cunning. They teach us to stick together to take care of our families and the power of one mind even when miles apart. The bear shows us how to develop our strength through the foods we eat. The turtle shows us how to deliberate wisely and carefully.

Animals want to live in the wild. They watch,wait and attack when agitated or to defend themselves, their territory, their young and their food source.

There are two recent separate cases of whites living among wild animals, treating them like tabby cats. They started to pull rank on them. One held back on the food for the bears. The other tried to discipline the wolf, who practically lived in her house.

Money means nothing to animals and hierarchy is not a natural state. These two women were no longer their servants. Both animals did what comes naturally. The women got ate. The chubby traditionally attired non-native medicine man couldn’t understand why the wolf would eat such a nice old lady.

The invaders tried to make us and the animals depend on them, make us all into something we’re not. They murdered over 100 million of us and 60 million buffalo.

Can’tthese ignoramuses see the harm they’ve done to the environment, plants, animals and people? A carbon tax can’t fix it!

No one is speaking for the animals, who need to be heard. That’s what they told us. The whites may expect the animals to thank them if they help them.

Just like Tweety Bird sang when Sylvester the Cat tried to devour him: “I did. I did. I taw aputty tat creeping up on me”. They’re so conditioned to think they’ll always get saved.

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