MNN: CANADA’S UNDECLARED WAR ON INDIGENOUS
MNN. Feb. 17, 2013. Department of National Defense DND sees us Indigenous as foreign insurgents, according to their field manual on counterinsurgency for its soldiers and officers. Canadian Forces field manualThey obviously recognize our sovereignty. The Crown should be negotiating with us as their landlords. Under international accords that Canada has signed, all countries must resolve differences by diplomatic means. War and weapons used to dominate are illegal.
Lt.Gen. Tom Lawson, Chief of Defense, Peter Mackay, Minister of Defense.
The people and all resources belong to Mother Earth for future generations. We have the duty as caregivers for the future children. Nothing on Great Turtle Belongs to the multinational corporations and banks. They are corporate visitors. Prime Minister Harper has to be brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for declaring war against us illegally, putting many of us in danger.
The manual says, “Insurgent wars are characterized by their tendency to be local and often popular movements, rather than the traditional military conflicts between states. This type of irregular warfare has confounded US and NATO forces in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively”, and “successes are few and far between”. US and Canadian military need practice in reaching for their guns and riot gear by confronting unarmed Indigenous civilians here.
In the war on terror the enemy is the insurgent. We are labeled as insurgents, which is a declaration of war against us. When we are detained or stopped by police or military, we have no civil rights or due process.
Maj. D.J. Lambert, the lead author of the manual, points out that “Canadian Forces are actively engaged in various levels of confrontation with at least three ongoing insurgencies – in Afghanistan, Haiti and with domestic Indigenous organizations in Canada, such as the Mohawk Warrior Society”.
Left, right, left, right: “We are marching to Attawapiskat… “
The manual goes on, “Indigenous resistance in Canada are insurgencies because they are animated by the goal of altering political relationships with both the Canadian government and at the local level – within Indigenous reservations themselves – “through the threat of, or use of, violence”. We are trying to defend ourselves against their violence and make them obey their laws. This is a foreign army on our land, falsely criminalizing us and imposing their military law on us.
“Canadian Forces have been used by the federal government in high profile land confrontations with Indigenous communities and protestors in standoffs with the Mohawks of Kanehsatake in 1990 and with the Ojibway at Ipperwash in 1995”. DND admits the military was at Ipperwash. The sniper who murdered Dudley George might have been a soldier and not an Ontario Provincial Policeman. Corporal Deane and two other OPP key witnesses died in mysterious car crashes shortly before they were to appear as witnesses at the Inquiry.
The Canadian military is the aggressor delivering death sentences to defenseless civilians, including infants and children, without a charge or trial. We sense Canada wants to provoke a confrontation to justify attacking or killing us. We won’t give them that.
Gen. Leslie said, “The enormous resources invested by the government in the transformation of Canada’s armed forces are clearly not for Afghanistan alone. It is logical to expect that we will go somewhere fairly similar to Afghanistan and do much the same sort of activity.”
They plan to attack us. This is premeditated murder of innocent people by a corporate army. Peace loving people who are concerned about Canada’s war mongering and targeting of Indigenous people should contact the Canadian government harper.s@parl.ca, the Governor General gg@gc.ca, the Queenpress@royalcollection.org.uk and the Canadian military www.forces.gc.ca.
As CCR sang in “Fortunate Son”: “Some folks are born, made to wave the flag. Oooh, that red, white and blue. And when the band plays, “Hail to the Chief”, oooh, they point the cannon at you, lord. It ain’t me, it ain’t me. I ain’t no senator’s son. It ain’t me, it ain’t me. I ain’t no fortunate one.”Creedence: Fortunate Son
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go towww.mohawknationnews.com More stories at MNN Archives. Address: Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0
- Rockefeller: “We are going to create an endless war with no clear enemy”.
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Polar Plunge - Elders in Need program - Facebook
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Osiyo sharonkitchen@earthlink.net,
We think it's going to be a great weekend for the Polar Plunge! Come out this Saturday and support our Marshal Service as they raise money for Oklahoma Special Olympics by jumping in the Illinois River. The fun starts at Arrowhead Resort at 10 a.m. For more info or to help the Marshals with donations, call 918-207-3808.
Cherokee Nation’s Elders in Need program is accepting applications for utility payment help at locations across the 14-county jurisdiction today through March 1. You must be a low-income CN citizen 60 or older to qualify. Locations include Nowata (Cherokee Nation Elderly Nutrition Center) Feb. 19 and 21; Vinita (Cherokee Nation Health Center) Feb. 25-26; Bartlesville (Keeler Heights) Feb. 20 and 22; and Warner (Houston Johnson Heights) Feb. 28 and March 1. Tahlequah, Stilwell, Sallisaw, Jay and Locust Grove will accept applications every day. Info: Crystal Thomas at 918-453-5627 or Janell Smith at 918-453-5436.
Did you know you can follow the news, information and activities of several departments within the Cherokee Nation on Facebook? There is a listing of official CN Facebook sites on our website; it can be found here: http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation
P.O. Box 948
Tahlequah, OK 74465
918 453-5000
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Area eighth graders invited to tour Sequoyah on Feb. 20.
Sequoyah Schools will host its annual Eighth-Grade Day on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Area eighth-grade students who are interested in enrolling in Sequoyah as freshmen are invited to attend.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation honors Veterans in February.
The Cherokee Nation honored Iraq War, Vietnam War and Korean War veterans with the Cherokee Medal of Patriotism at its February Tribal Council meeting.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Vinita businessman Chris Carter confirmed to Cherokee Nation Tax Commission.
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council confirmed Vinita businessman Chris Carter to the Cherokee Nation Tax Commission Monday night. As the owner of Vinita’s popular Shout & Sack, Carter is a longtime businessman, as well as a Cherokee citizen.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Vinita businessman Chris Carter confirmed to Cherokee Nation Tax Commission.
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council confirmed Vinita businessman Chris Carter to the Cherokee Nation Tax Commission Monday night. As the owner of Vinita’s popular Shout & Sack, Carter is a longtime businessman, as well as a Cherokee citizen.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation expands concurrent enrollment to cover high school juniors and homeschooled students
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council voted Monday to broaden its concurrent enrollment program to include even more students seeking higher education credits in high school.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee citizens show love for veterans this Valentine’s Day.
More than 2,000 handmade Valentine cards by Cherokee citizens and the community will be delivered to U.S. veterans in time for Valentine’s Day.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation invites students to experience Cherokee history with education tours
Cherokee Nation Cultural Tourism is providing students with an exclusive look at Cherokee Nation’s rich history and culture with its education tour program. Students receive an up-close look at historical sites, visit museums and participate in traditional Cherokee activities and crafts.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation Foundation hosts Junior Achievement workshop at Kenwood Schools.
More than 120 students at Kenwood Schools participated in the Cherokee Nation Foundation’s financial literacy workshop on Thursday.
http://www.cherokee.org/
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Osiyo sharonkitchen@earthlink.net,
We think it's going to be a great weekend for the Polar Plunge! Come out this Saturday and support our Marshal Service as they raise money for Oklahoma Special Olympics by jumping in the Illinois River. The fun starts at Arrowhead Resort at 10 a.m. For more info or to help the Marshals with donations, call 918-207-3808.
Cherokee Nation’s Elders in Need program is accepting applications for utility payment help at locations across the 14-county jurisdiction today through March 1. You must be a low-income CN citizen 60 or older to qualify. Locations include Nowata (Cherokee Nation Elderly Nutrition Center) Feb. 19 and 21; Vinita (Cherokee Nation Health Center) Feb. 25-26; Bartlesville (Keeler Heights) Feb. 20 and 22; and Warner (Houston Johnson Heights) Feb. 28 and March 1. Tahlequah, Stilwell, Sallisaw, Jay and Locust Grove will accept applications every day. Info: Crystal Thomas at 918-453-5627 or Janell Smith at 918-453-5436.
Did you know you can follow the news, information and activities of several departments within the Cherokee Nation on Facebook? There is a listing of official CN Facebook sites on our website; it can be found here: http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation
P.O. Box 948
Tahlequah, OK 74465
918 453-5000
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Area eighth graders invited to tour Sequoyah on Feb. 20.
Sequoyah Schools will host its annual Eighth-Grade Day on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Area eighth-grade students who are interested in enrolling in Sequoyah as freshmen are invited to attend.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation honors Veterans in February.
The Cherokee Nation honored Iraq War, Vietnam War and Korean War veterans with the Cherokee Medal of Patriotism at its February Tribal Council meeting.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Vinita businessman Chris Carter confirmed to Cherokee Nation Tax Commission.
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council confirmed Vinita businessman Chris Carter to the Cherokee Nation Tax Commission Monday night. As the owner of Vinita’s popular Shout & Sack, Carter is a longtime businessman, as well as a Cherokee citizen.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Vinita businessman Chris Carter confirmed to Cherokee Nation Tax Commission.
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council confirmed Vinita businessman Chris Carter to the Cherokee Nation Tax Commission Monday night. As the owner of Vinita’s popular Shout & Sack, Carter is a longtime businessman, as well as a Cherokee citizen.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Statement by Principal Chief Bill John Baker on the Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Senate passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation expands concurrent enrollment to cover high school juniors and homeschooled students
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council voted Monday to broaden its concurrent enrollment program to include even more students seeking higher education credits in high school.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee citizens show love for veterans this Valentine’s Day.
More than 2,000 handmade Valentine cards by Cherokee citizens and the community will be delivered to U.S. veterans in time for Valentine’s Day.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation invites students to experience Cherokee history with education tours
Cherokee Nation Cultural Tourism is providing students with an exclusive look at Cherokee Nation’s rich history and culture with its education tour program. Students receive an up-close look at historical sites, visit museums and participate in traditional Cherokee activities and crafts.
http://www.cherokee.org/
Cherokee Nation Foundation hosts Junior Achievement workshop at Kenwood Schools.
More than 120 students at Kenwood Schools participated in the Cherokee Nation Foundation’s financial literacy workshop on Thursday.
http://www.cherokee.org/
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Local baseball team's mascot draws criticism from Chumash leaders
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/02/18/2398344/north-county-indians-templeton.html
Chumash leaders hope the team will replace its logo — a caricature of a Native American
Chumash leaders are asking a North County semi-pro baseball team to change its logo, which it says is demeaning to Native Americans.
The mascot for the North County Indians is a grinning, bright-red, Native American caricature that is based on the Cleveland Indians mascot, Chief Wahoo.
That mascot also has drawn criticism over the years, as have various similar logos from professional sports to Little League. The best-known pro sports teams that still have such logos are the Indians, Atlanta Braves, andWashington Redskins. All remain controversial.
Although the discussion has raged nationally for decades, it is new in San Luis Obispo County and was triggered by the North County Indians’ move from Santa Maria to Templeton.
The Indians played their first summer in Templeton last year but had been active in Santa Maria for more than 40 years.
The symbol is “degrading, immoral, racist, (and) disrespectful,” according to Fred Collins, tribal administrator of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council.
The Indians’ Facebook page has received similar comments, calling for a change in its “disrespectful” and “offensive” mascot.
The mascot of the North County Indians semi-pro baseball team, based in Templeton, has drawn criticism.
Collins said his council will ask local political leaders to disallow the use of publicly owned facilities to the team.
The owner of the Indians, Kevin Haughian, did not return repeated requests for comment. But the field manager, Dan Marple, said he was caught off-guard by the accusation.
Marple said the Indians are the oldest semi-pro baseball franchise in the state, and, to his knowledge, nobody has complained before. He said he didn’t see the logo as a problem and does not consider it offensive. He noted that such teams as college football’s Florida Seminoles use similar names and mascots.
But Collins said the imagery is not used as much as it once was and that he would like to see it disappear altogether.
He acknowledged that many people accuse Native Americans of being overly sensitive or politically correct over the imagery. What adherents of those points of view need to do, he said, is “look at it from a Native American perspective.”
“You could say, ‘Lighten up. It’s not that big of a deal.’ But it is,” he said.
“We look at the imagery as a race of people,” Collins said, adding that you won’t see Buddha or Mahatma Gandhi as mascots on some team’s hat.
“It’s really an educational process,” he said of his attempts to have the logo changed. “Times have changed.”
Collins also stressed that he supports the team. The council merely wants it to change symbols.
Collins added that the council is not just concerned about baseball team logos. It also wants to go after so-called “cigar store Indians” — wooden sculptures of Native American chiefs selling cigars that he said are sprinkled throughout the county.
Collins hopes the day will come when his grandchildren won’t have to look at those effigies.
“Our chiefs are sacred to us,” he said. “You don’t see Jesus selling cigars.”
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Breaking from Newsmax.com
Israel to Award Obama Prestigious Medal During Visit
Israel will award President Barack Obama the country's Presidential Medal of Distinction during his upcoming visit.
Israeli President Shimon Peres' office said Monday that Obama will be recognized for his "unique and significant contribution to strengthening the State of Israel and the security of its citizens."
Obama is scheduled to visit Israel in March — his first as president.
Obama has often had a tense relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Jewish state's West Bank settlement policies and the lack of peace process with the Palestinians.
But Peres and the committee behind the award noted Obama's overall friendship and backing of the Iron Dome missile defense system.
Israel's Presidential Medal of Distinction is comparable to the France's "Legion of Honor" or the "Order of Canada."
© Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.
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JOINT TASK FORCE, GOING TO END UP IN THE JOINT
MNN. Feb. 18, 2013. In 2007 the colonizer’s hired “saboteur”, Phil Fontaine of the Assembly of First Nations AFN. He got together with interim RCMP Commissioner Bev Busson, Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino, Jacques Chagnon of the Surete Quebec, and a US agency ATF. They created a Joint AFN/RCMP Response Team JTF-3, stating it was an “anti-violence agreement”. Fantino slipped in “no fly lists” and “terrorism” safeguards.
Fantino and the Boys!
Things are beginning to turn “ugly”. Corporate Canada has no claim to our land and resources, even through Harper’s illegal bills. International law determines that no people can be absorbed into a foreign state unless the majority give their informed consent through a free and fair vote. This never happened. AFN, RCMP, OPP and the SQ conducting diplomatic relations on behalf of the Crown constitutes international aggression.
We took no part in the British North America Act 1867. It was passed by Britain’s Parliament to set up the Dominion of Canada. BNA Act is the law for the settlers, not for us. Section 91[24] gives Canada the right only to negotiate WITH us. That’s all! Canada cannot make laws for us. Legally we can only deal with the Queen on any differences. It is an international relationship.
1924 corporate takeover of Canada.
On October 25, 1924, D.C. Scott, on behalf of the Corporation of Canada, initiated what amounts to a corporate hostile takeover bid of the legal crown obligations to the Indigenous people. Canada reneged on all their duties under international law. He legitimized the genocide by creating reserves, residential schools and usurpation of all of our land and resources, on behalf of shareholders,the corporate elite [the Crown].
The AFN does not represent us. The illegal Indian Act was passed by Canada’s Parliament and does not govern us.
The right of foreigners to live here must be negotiated with us. The ever growing Indian Trust Fund cannot be touched without our consent. Prime Minister Harper callously commented in Parliament, “We cannot deny that we have been mismanaging public funds and resources rightfully belonging to First Nations for years. Yet the best answers to these financial and human rights issues is to continue to allow things to get so bad that the voting public will eventually believe there is nothing that can be done save for doing nothing at all.” Harpers remarks on the stolen funds
No, Stevie, you are a criminal and going to Spandau Prison for carrying out war on us and stealing the whole of Canada from us. If Mark Carney lays a finger on our Indian Trust Fund, he’s sitting in the next cell with you.
Harper and the Gang!
As AC/DC’s Bon Scott sang in “Jail Break”: “There was a friend of mine on murder, and the judge’s gavel fell. Jury found him guilty. Gave him 16 years in hell. He said, “I ain’t spending my life here. I ain’t living alone. Ain’t breaking no rocks on the chain gang. I’m breaking out and heading home.”
You’re not going to make it, Stevie!
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to www.mohawknationnews.com More stories at MNN Archives. Address: Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0
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CANADA’S UNDECLARED WAR…
MNN. Feb. 17, 2013. Department of National Defense DND sees us Indigenous as foreign insurgents, according to their field manual on counterinsurgency for its soldiers and officers. Canadian Forces field manual They obviously recognize our sovereignty. The Crown should be negotiating with us as their landlords. Under international accords that Canada has signed, all countries must resolve differences by diplomatic means. War and weapons used to dominate are illegal.
Lt.Gen. Tom Lawson, Chief of Defense, Peter Mackay, Minister of Defense.
The people and all resources belong to Mother Earth for future generations. We have the duty as caregivers for the future children. Nothing on Great Turtle Belongs to the multinational corporations and banks. They are corporate visitors. Prime Minister Harper has to be brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for declaring war against us illegally, putting many of us in danger.
The manual says, “Insurgent wars are characterized by their tendency to be local and often popular movements, rather than the traditional military conflicts between states. This type of irregular warfare has confounded US and NATO forces in Iraq and Afghanistan respectively”, and “successes are few and far between”. US and Canadian military need practice in reaching for their guns and riot gear by confronting unarmed Indigenous civilians here.
In the war on terror the enemy is the insurgent. We are labeled as insurgents, which is a declaration of war against us. When we are detained or stopped by police or military, we have no civil rights or due process.
Maj. D.J. Lambert, the lead author of the manual, points out that “Canadian Forces are actively engaged in various levels of confrontation with at least three ongoing insurgencies – in Afghanistan, Haiti and with domestic Indigenous organizations in Canada, such as the Mohawk Warrior Society”.
Left, right, left, right: “We are marching to Attawapiskat… “
The manual goes on, “Indigenous resistance in Canada are insurgencies because they are animated by the goal of altering political relationships with both the Canadian government and at the local level – within Indigenous reservations themselves – “through the threat of, or use of, violence”. We are trying to defend ourselves against their violence and make them obey their laws. This is a foreign army on our land, falsely criminalizing us and imposing their military law on us.
“Canadian Forces have been used by the federal government in high profile land confrontations with Indigenous communities and protestors in standoffs with the Mohawks of Kanehsatake in 1990 and with the Ojibway at Ipperwash in 1995”. DND admits the military was at Ipperwash. The sniper who murdered Dudley George might have been a soldier and not an Ontario Provincial Policeman. Corporal Deane and two other OPP key witnesses died in mysterious car crashes shortly before they were to appear as witnesses at the Inquiry.
The Canadian military is the aggressor delivering death sentences to defenseless civilians, including infants and children, without a charge or trial. We sense Canada wants to provoke a confrontation to justify attacking or killing us. We won’t give them that.
Gen. Leslie said, “The enormous resources invested by the government in the transformation of Canada’s armed forces are clearly not for Afghanistan alone. It is logical to expect that we will go somewhere fairly similar to Afghanistan and do much the same sort of activity.”
They plan to attack us. This is premeditated murder of innocent people by a corporate army. Peace loving people who are concerned about Canada’s war mongering and targeting of Indigenous people should contact the Canadian government harper.s@parl.ca, the Governor General gg@gc.ca, the Queen press@royalcollection.org.uk and the Canadian militarywww.forces.gc.ca.
As CCR sang in “Fortunate Son”: “Some folks are born, made to wave the flag. Oooh, that red, white and blue. And when the band plays, “Hail to the Chief”, oooh, they point the cannon at you, lord. It ain’t me, it ain’t me. I ain’t no senator’s son. It ain’t me, it ain’t me. I ain’t no fortunate one.”Creedence: Fortunate Son
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go to www.mohawknationnews.com More stories at MNN Archives. Address: Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0
- Rockefeller: “We are going to create an endless war with no clear enemy”.
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Actor Alec Baldwin Uses Racial Slurs And Assaults New York Post Crew
Alec Baldwin just can’t keep his mouth shut. This time he really put his foot in it. Baldwin was involved in an argument with a reporter for the New York Post, Tara Palmeri. According to the Post, Baldwin was approached by the reporter while he was in the midst of taking his dog for a walk. He was asked about the recent lawsuit brought against his wife for negligence at her yoga facility.
The reporter says that is when things turned ugly and Baldwin grabbed Palmeri’s arm saying, “I want to choke you to death.” According to The Post, Palmeri played an audio recording of the incident to authorities.
But the abuse did not stop there. Baldwin then turned around to a Post photographer ,calling him “a c0on”,“crackhead” and “drug dealer”. The photographer happens to be African American and a retired NYPD detective.
After the incident, Baldwin took to Twitter and thanked the NYPD, saying, “Thank u 2 NYPD officers who came to my home 2day so that I could file a formal complaint against NY Post ‘photographer’ who assaulted me.”
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Another child from Chicago from gun violence. Her sister attended President Obama's speech on gun violence.
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MNN: SWARMING
SWARMING
MNN. Feb. 17, 2013. When the European military came to Great Turtle Island, they met Indigenous warriors who did not meet them head on. They attacked and disappeared into the woods. Our men used swarming to attack and defeat the much larger and better armed British and French formations. Behind our fighting groups we had a democratic organization. There were natural loyalties among us that glued us together. It was defensive. The colonists ended up having to deal with us as equals.
Indigenous guerilla warfare.
Idle No More utilizes this strategy. Hierarchical governments cannot deal with this. They will break down. Soon Canada has to deal with the Indigenous people’s natural government formations.
Hierarchy is becoming powerless. The internet is changing the way people get information and communicate. It empowers smaller units. From the large to the few, to the small and the many! It is breaking the spell of corporate hegemony and capitalism over society.
Hierarchy works at controlling people. The Idle No More movement shows there is no way to control grassroots Indigenous people. Power is being devolved into small units, which are interconnected. Global conflicts are being reshaped. The existing order will be overturned because the power is in the people.
Swarmers know hierarchical power is artificial and against the natural way. Hierarchies need a target. There is none. One minute they are there and then they just disappear. Hitting back at nothing is not winning. We the people have power and are using it. We can be visible or invisible. Internet spreads information more effectively than mass media. New thoughts are being spread to the public independent of mass media, which has lost its brainwashing power. We can listen to anyone we chose. Swarmers can be unorganized or well organized. They are everywhere.
Ancient war games.
To combat swarming, like the “Idle No More” sudden formations in shopping malls and elsewhere, the US military is developing “BattleSwarm”. The military is broken down into small units. Pods operate in clusters. It won’t work because they are not based on natural affiliations.
Thinking for ourselves is a human survival spirit. Swarming reflects the human instinct to make connections. It demonstrates the social will in each of us to think and act for ourselves and to help our people. We work together, use our minds to help and defend ourselves from abusers. There is no mastermind. It strikes from all directions and then withdraws. The interconnection is on a subconscious level. They move from place to place, do something and disappear into the night. It is as though one mind is in control.
Corporate Canada has seen that their band and tribal council apparatus is totally ineffective in controlling us. We urge the councils, don’t coddle up to the powers that are out to kill us. Don’t stand in front of the enemy and ask for anything. We warn you, don’t put on the fascist uniforms and help the colonizers eliminate our people to save yourselves. Just get into their boat and be on your way.
One People. One Fire.
As The Anderson Shelter sang in “People Power”: “Give the power to the people now! Time for us to kill off the sole cash cow. Power People now”.The Anderson Shelter: People Power
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com For more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go towww.mohawknationnews.com More stories at MNN Archives. Address: Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L 1B0
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From the Eagle Watch #318
February 15, 2013
FYI We are posting this person's message to the list with a special focus on those of you in the Manitoba region. If you have well informed suggestions, please write to Veronica at the addy included. In any case, read on. We already know that violence against Indigenous women goes on ALL THE TIME. We are vulnerable. We must continue to document incidents and compile our cases until such time as a fair court can judge. The HRW report on the RCMP is just the tip of the ice berg. This issue cannot go away. The spirits of our brutalized sisters walk the land until they find peace and justice.
Kittoh
We welcome your feedback! Forward, post and consider printing for your cyberphobic friends and relatives.
The Eagle Watch Newsletter is sent to interested individuals, both Indigenous and nonNative, politicians especially the Canadian ones and an assortment of English language media.
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February 15, 2013
FYI We are posting this person's message to the list with a special focus on those of you in the Manitoba region. If you have well informed suggestions, please write to Veronica at the addy included. In any case, read on. We already know that violence against Indigenous women goes on ALL THE TIME. We are vulnerable. We must continue to document incidents and compile our cases until such time as a fair court can judge. The HRW report on the RCMP is just the tip of the ice berg. This issue cannot go away. The spirits of our brutalized sisters walk the land until they find peace and justice.
Kittoh
We welcome your feedback! Forward, post and consider printing for your cyberphobic friends and relatives.
The Eagle Watch Newsletter is sent to interested individuals, both Indigenous and nonNative, politicians especially the Canadian ones and an assortment of English language media.
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if your mailing list has other Indigenous persons from Manitoba/Winnipeg on it and you want to pass this message to them, please feel free to do. your decision entirely
We are attempting to get as much support as we can to get a public inquiry into the events and injustices that have happened to this family
thank you
We are attempting to get as much support as we can to get a public inquiry into the events and injustices that have happened to this family
thank you
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to eaglewatch
This is very timely for me as one of my tasks was to contact the human Rights Watch organization about the following.
i am writing to find out what support and assistance you can provide with respect to a attempt to get justice for a matter here in Winnipeg. The family is seeking advice and support to obtain an inquiry or another form of satisfactory resolution.
The victim is an Aboriginal woman is Manitoba who's calls for help were not responded to by the Winnipeg Police. Today she could be among the murdered Aboriginal women.
Because of a series of events that occurred due to that neglect, a man died and this women's brother is not in prison. Although the brother and this man did have an altercation, the man died not from his injuries but from hypothermia. However, the Winnipeg Police services has never acknowledged their role or were never held accountable for his death.
In the events that followed, this women was treated disrespectfully and held for 11 hours without regard for her basic needs of food, hygiene and communication with family, by officers of the Winnipeg Police Service
In an attempt to deal with these misconduct she appealed to the Law Enforcement Review Agency. We believe that she did not get a fair and just review. The response of LERA to the complaintant states that the information submitted by police consists documents with include a :heavily censered copy if an investigative report"
I would appreciate a response by email as to what support you can offer or whether these are any plans to do similiar reports or investib=gations in Manitoba
Thank You
Veronica Walsh vw.reallifelessons@qkstream.com “The eyes of the world are on Canada to see how many more victims it takes before the government addresses this issue in a comprehensive and coordinated way.”
Additional recommendations· The Canadian government should develop and put into operation a national action plan in cooperation with indigenous communities to address the violence against indigenous women and girls, with attention to the current and historical discrimination and the economic and social inequalities that increase their vulnerability to violence, as well as the need for accountability for government bodies charged with preventing and responding to violence;
· The British Columbia provincial government should expand the mandate of the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) to include authority to investigate allegations of sexual assault by police;
· The RCMP, in cooperation with indigenous communities, should expand training and monitoring of training for police officers to counter racism and sexism in the treatment of indigenous women and girls in custody and to improve police response to violence against women and girls in indigenous communities; and
· The RCMP should eliminate searches and monitoring of women and girls by male police officers in all but extraordinary circumstances and require documentation and review of any such searches by supervisors and commanders. It should prohibit cross-gender strip-searches under all circumstances.
Statements about police abuse“I feel so dirty….They threatened that if I told anybody they would take me out to the mountains and kill me, and make it look like an accident.” – Gabriella P. (pseudonym), who told Human Rights Watch that in July 2012 four police officers took her to a remote location and raped her. She said that police officers had raped her in similar circumstances on previous occasions.
“‘Here’s your choice, you either get charged with assaulting an officer or you take the beating,’ [said one of the officers.] Stupid me I said, ‘I’ll take the beating.’ She grabbed me, slammed me up on the wall and I hit my head. Then she slammed me on the ground. A male cop drove his knee into my back while she stripped earrings out of my ears and elastics out of my hair. ‘Have you had enough?’ ‘Yes, I’ve had enough. I’m sorry.’ ” – Anna T. (pseudonym) who spat on a police officer when she was arrested.
“I had a woman about two years ago who decided to report [a sexual assault] to the RCMP – very rare. I have worked with many women sexually assaulted and only a handful go forward with charges. She was made to feel that she was to blame….You have a system of authority that puts the blame on the victim.” – Community service provider in northern British Columbia
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Breaking News: February 14, 2013
Pope Benedict to seek immunity and protection from Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on February 23 - International Tribunal calls on Napolitano to not collude in criminality, and announces global campaign to occupy Vatican property and launch human rights inquiry in Italy Media Release from The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State - Brussels Rome (9 am local time): Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, has scheduled a meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano for Saturday, February 23 to discuss securing protection and immunity from prosecution from the Italian government, according to Italian media sources. Ratzinger's meeting follows upon the apparent receipt by the Vatican of a diplomatic note from an undisclosed European government on February 4, stating its intention to issue an arrest warrant for Ratzinger, who resigned from his pontificate less than a week later. In response to the February 23 meeting, the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS), through its field Secretary, Rev. Kevin Annett, has written to President Napolitano, asking him to refrain from assisting Ratzinger in evading justice. The ITCCS letter states, in part, "I need not remind you, Mr. President, that under international law and treaties that have been ratified by Italy, you and your government are forbidden from granting such protection to those like Joseph Ratzinger who have aided and abetted criminal actions, such as ordering Bishops and Cardinals in America and elsewhere to protect known child rapists among their clergy. "Your obligation to the Vatican through the Lateran Treaty does not negate or nullify the requirements of these higher moral and international laws; nor does it require that you give any protection or immunity to a single individual like Joseph Ratzinger, especially after he has left his papal office." A copy of the complete text of the ITCCS letter follows. In response to the documented crimes of child torture, trafficking and genocide linked to Pope Benedict and Vatican officials, the ITCCS will be sponsoring a series of ongoing protests and occupations of Roman Catholic churches and offices through its affiliates around the world beginning in Easter week, March 24-31, 2013, and continuing indefinitely. These actions will accompany the legal efforts to bring Joseph Ratzinger and other Vatican officials to trial for their proven complicity in crimes against humanity and criminal conspiracy. The Easter Reclamation Campaign will seize church property and assets to prevent their use by child raping priests, who are protected under Catholic canon law. Citizens have this right to defend their communities and children when the authorities refuse to do so, under international law. Rev. Kevin Annett and an official delegation from the ITCCS Central Office will also be convening a formal human rights inquiry in Rome commencing the week of May 13, 2013, to consider further charges against the Vatican and its new Pope for crimes against humanity and obstruction of justice. Rev. Annett and his delegation will be working with organizations across Italy in this investigation. In 2009 and 2010, he held rallies outside the Vatican and met with media and human rights groups across Italy to charge the Vatican with the death of more than 50,000 aboriginal children in Canada. For more information contact ITCCS and Rev. Annett at itccscentral@gmail.comand see www.itccs.org Copy of letter to President Napolitano An Open Letter and Appeal to Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Republic of Italy from Rev. Kevin D. Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State 14 February, 2013 Al Presdente della Repubblica Italiana Giorgio Napolitano Presidenza della Repubblica c/o Palazzo del Quirinale 00187 Roma Italia Dear President Napolitano, On behalf of our Tribunal and people of conscience everywhere, and of the millions of victims of church abuse, I am making an appeal to you regarding your upcoming meeting with Joseph Ratzinger, who will retire soon as Pope Benedict, the Pontiff of the Church of Rome. Our understanding is that, in the wake of pressure to have him resign his office because of his proven complicity in concealing child trafficking in his church and other crimes against humanity, Joseph Ratzinger is seeking the assistance of the Italian government in securing protection and immunity from legal prosecution. I need not remind you, Mr. President, that under international law and treaties that have been ratified by Italy, you and your government are forbidden from granting such protection to those like Jospeh Ratzinger who have aided and abetted criminal actions, such as ordering Bishops and Cardinals in America and elsewhere to protect known child rapists among their clergy. Your obligation to the Vatican through the Lateran Treaties does not negate or nullify the requirements of these higher moral and international laws; nor does it require that you give any protection or immunity to a single individual like Joseph Ratzinger, especially after he has left his papal office. The need for you to abide by international law and not be seen to collude with Joseph Ratzinger is even more true when one considers the enormity of the crimes of which the Vatican and its highest officials are clearly guilty, according to considerable evidence gathered and documented by our Tribunal and other groups, and acknowledged by many governments. In Canada alone, the Roman Catholic Church and its Vatican agents have been found guilty of responsibility for genocide and the deaths of at least 50,000 aboriginal child children in the Jesuit-initiated Indian residential school system, that operated until 1996. In Ireland, more than 10,000 women suffered and were exploited in the Catholic-run Magdalene Laundries, where many of them died. Similar church-run institutions all over the world have caused enormous mortality, disease and ruination for millions of children. And yet the church has never been held accountable or prosecuted for these deaths and the theft of enormous wealth from entire nations. With the recent initiative of at least one European government and a host of lawyers to bring Joseph Ratzinger and other church officials to trial for these crimes, we feel it is incumbent on you neither to assist nor to be seen to assist or condone the attempt by him to evade, obstruct or delay justice, lest you open yourself to a charge of being an accessory to a crime. On behalf of our Tribunal and of many people who cannot speak, I call on you to stand on the law of nations and humanity, and offer no support or protection to Joseph Ratzinger or his accessories in their efforts to evade responsibility for their proven crimes. I look forward to your reply, and to discussing this with you more when I visit your country in May with a human rights delegation to investigate this matter more closely. Sincerely, Kevin D. Annett, M.A., M.Div. Secretary, The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State Central Office, Brussels cc: world media ........................... See the evidence of Genocide in Canada and other crimes against the innocent at www.hiddennolonger.com and at the website of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State at www.itccs.org .
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From the Eagle Watch
February 14, 2013
FYI - We received this note from Manitoba, Communist Party of Canada. It includes the link for the Human Rights Report as well as other related material. If you're not on the streets today, take the time to pass this posting along. NiaWeh/Miigwech
Kittoh
http://www.hrw.org/sites/
Dear Friends, Sisters and Brothers,
On this day of action for murdered and missing Aboriginal women in Canada, we are circulating yesterday's report from Human Rights Watch on the issue. It focuses on B.C., but the brutal racist and sexist realities are no different in this part of Canada, reported and unreported.
This is a systemic problem, connected to the oppression of both women and Aboriginal nations in Canada by the dominant, English-speaking nation and Quebec, a nation which itself is in an unequal union with the nonAboriginal "rest of Canada." Like war, the inequality of nations is an inherent part of capitalism in its late stage of development.
Solving the problem will require fundamental social change, curbing and ultimately ending the immense power of the corporate elite who benefit from all forms of discrimination and inequality, dividing working people and creating pools of super-exploited labour that drag all wages down.
In serious denial, the largest oppressor nation (or its political, corporate class) doesn't have a name for itself, because it refuses to recognize the genocidal crimes it continues to commit. It calls itself "Canada," claiming we have a "multi-cultural" society with no other real nations, except Quebec which Harper recognized because it is an equal opportunity oppressor of Aboriginal nations. Je me souviens Oka.
Human Rights Watch is playing a useful role by helping expose the crude police stateAboriginal peoples are resisting in Canada, although I disagree with the role it has played in other parts of the world.* The Aboriginal rights struggle requires the full solidarity of Labour and other popular movements. May Aboriginal nations win full rights and equality, and soon.
For a Commonwealth of Toil where the nightmare of the present fades away,
The meek are getting impatient,
Darrell Rankin
Manitoba office, Communist Party of Canada
*About HRW's role elsewhere, see for example
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
PS I recommend Eagle Watch as a consistent source of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist news in Canada, my source this morning:
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013
From: "Mrs. Stanley"
To: eaglewatch@npogroups.org
Subject: [eaglewatch] Fwd: Human Rights Watch Alleges RCMP Officers Raped, Abused Aboriginals In BC
From the Eagle Watch
FYI - pass it on - Kittoh
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Full report http://www.hrw.org/reports/
Before getting to the HRW news release, here are related reports with thanks to Eagle Watch:
1. Harper brushes off calls for inquiry into violence against Aboriginal women, Feb. 13, 2013 (Published widely today across Canada)
http://o.canada.com/2013/02/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
* * * * * HRW news releaseCanada: Abusive Policing, Neglect Along ‘Highway of Tears’
Set Up National Inquiry Into Murders, Disappearances of Indigenous Women, GirlsFebruary 13, 2013
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/
(Ottawa) – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in northern British Columbia has failed to protect indigenous women and girls from violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.Women and girls Human Rights Watch interviewed also described abusive treatment by police officers, including excessive use of force, and physical and sexual assault.
The 89-page report, “Those Who Take Us Away: Abusive Policing and Failures in Protection of Indigenous Women and Girls in Northern British Columbia, Canada,” documents both ongoing police failures to protect indigenous women and girls in the north from violence and violent behavior by police officers against women and girls. Police failures and abuses add to longstanding tensions between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and indigenous communities in the region, Human Rights Watch said. The Canadian government should establish a national commission of inquiry into the murders and disappearances of indigenous women and girls, including the impact of police mistreatment on their vulnerability to violence in communities along Highway 16, which has come to be called northern British Columbia’s “Highway of Tears.”
“The threat of domestic and random violence on one side, and mistreatment by RCMP officers on the other, leaves indigenous women in a constant state of insecurity,” said Meghan Rhoad, women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Where can they turn for help when the police are known to be unresponsive and, in some cases, abusive.”
Human Rights Watch conducted research along Highway 97 and along the 724-kilometer stretch of Highway 16 that has become infamous for the dozens of women and girls who have been reported missing or were found dead in its vicinity since the late 1960s. In July and August 2012, Human Rights Watch researchers interviewed 50 indigenous women and girls, and conducted an additional 37 interviews with families of murdered and missing women, indigenous leaders, community service providers, and others across 10 communities.
Indigenous women and girls told Human Rights Watch that the RCMP has failed to protect them. They also described instances of abusive policing, including excessive use of force against girls, strip searches of women by male officers, and physical and sexual abuse. One woman said that in July, four police officers took her to a remote location, raped her, and threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
Women who call the police for help have been blamed for the abuse, shamed over alcohol or substance use, and have found themselves at risk of arrest for actions taken in self-defense, women and community service providers told Human Rights Watch.
“I will never forget that day,” said “Lena G.,” whose 15-year-old daughter’s arm was broken by a police officer after the mother called the police for help during an argument between her daughter and her daughter’s abusive boyfriend. “It’s the worst thing I ever did. I wish I didn’t call.”
Despite policies requiring active investigation of all reports of missing persons, some family members and service providers who made calls to police to report missing women or girls said the police failed to investigate the disappearances promptly.
Women and girls have limited recourse when they experience police abuse or when police fail to provide adequate protection, Human Rights Watch said. They can lodge a complaint against the police with the Commission for Public Complaints. But the process is time consuming and the investigation of the complaint is likely to fall to the RCMP itself or to another police force.
Human Rights Watch researchers were struck by the fear expressed by women they interviewed. The women’s reactions were comparable to those Human Rights Watch has found in post-conflict or post-transition countries, where security forces have played an integral role in government abuses and enforcement of authoritarian policies.
In September 2012, Human Rights Watch wrote to the RCMP to advise the national headquarters and the “E” Division in British Columbia of the results of the research and seek information about questions raised by the research. The RCMP responded in November. Human Rights Watch did not include details of specific incidents of abuse in the September 2012 letter because of victims’ fears of retaliation if the officers they accused were able to identify them.
British Columbia’s legislature recently established the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) to provide independent civilian “criminal investigations regarding police-related incidents involving death or serious harm.” The law’s definition of “serious harm” would exclude most cases of police rape and other forms of sexual assault, however, sending a strong message that assaults on women and girls are not important, Human Rights Watch said.
“The lack of a reliable, independent mechanism to investigate allegations of police misconduct is unfair to everyone involved,” Rhoad said. “It is unfair to the officers who serve honorably. It is unfair to the northern communities that deserve to have confidence in their police forces. And it is especially unfair to the indigenous women and girls, whose safety is at stake.”
United Nations human rights bodies have criticized Canada for the inadequate government response to violence against indigenous women and girls. The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women announced in December 2011 that it was opening an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. In 2008, the committee called on the government “to examine the reasons for the failure to investigate the cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women and to take the necessary steps to remedy the deficiencies in the system.”
The government of Canada has taken some steps to address the murders and disappearances, Human Rights Watch said, but the persistence of the violence indicates a need for a national public commission of inquiry.
“The high rate of violence against indigenous women and girls has caused widespread alarm for many years,” Rhoad said. “The eyes of the world are on Canada to see how many more victims it takes before the government addresses this issue in a comprehensive and coordinated way.”
Additional recommendations· The Canadian government should develop and put into operation a national action plan in cooperation with indigenous communities to address the violence against indigenous women and girls, with attention to the current and historical discrimination and the economic and social inequalities that increase their vulnerability to violence, as well as the need for accountability for government bodies charged with preventing and responding to violence;
· The British Columbia provincial government should expand the mandate of the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) to include authority to investigate allegations of sexual assault by police;
· The RCMP, in cooperation with indigenous communities, should expand training and monitoring of training for police officers to counter racism and sexism in the treatment of indigenous women and girls in custody and to improve police response to violence against women and girls in indigenous communities; and
· The RCMP should eliminate searches and monitoring of women and girls by male police officers in all but extraordinary circumstances and require documentation and review of any such searches by supervisors and commanders. It should prohibit cross-gender strip-searches under all circumstances.
Statements about police abuse“I feel so dirty….They threatened that if I told anybody they would take me out to the mountains and kill me, and make it look like an accident.” – Gabriella P. (pseudonym), who told Human Rights Watch that in July 2012 four police officers took her to a remote location and raped her. She said that police officers had raped her in similar circumstances on previous occasions.
“‘Here’s your choice, you either get charged with assaulting an officer or you take the beating,’ [said one of the officers.] Stupid me I said, ‘I’ll take the beating.’ She grabbed me, slammed me up on the wall and I hit my head. Then she slammed me on the ground. A male cop drove his knee into my back while she stripped earrings out of my ears and elastics out of my hair. ‘Have you had enough?’ ‘Yes, I’ve had enough. I’m sorry.’ ” – Anna T. (pseudonym) who spat on a police officer when she was arrested.
“I had a woman about two years ago who decided to report [a sexual assault] to the RCMP – very rare. I have worked with many women sexually assaulted and only a handful go forward with charges. She was made to feel that she was to blame….You have a system of authority that puts the blame on the victim.” – Community service provider in northern British Columbia
February 14, 2013
FYI - We received this note from Manitoba, Communist Party of Canada. It includes the link for the Human Rights Report as well as other related material. If you're not on the streets today, take the time to pass this posting along. NiaWeh/Miigwech
Kittoh
http://www.hrw.org/sites/
Dear Friends, Sisters and Brothers,
On this day of action for murdered and missing Aboriginal women in Canada, we are circulating yesterday's report from Human Rights Watch on the issue. It focuses on B.C., but the brutal racist and sexist realities are no different in this part of Canada, reported and unreported.
This is a systemic problem, connected to the oppression of both women and Aboriginal nations in Canada by the dominant, English-speaking nation and Quebec, a nation which itself is in an unequal union with the nonAboriginal "rest of Canada." Like war, the inequality of nations is an inherent part of capitalism in its late stage of development.
Solving the problem will require fundamental social change, curbing and ultimately ending the immense power of the corporate elite who benefit from all forms of discrimination and inequality, dividing working people and creating pools of super-exploited labour that drag all wages down.
In serious denial, the largest oppressor nation (or its political, corporate class) doesn't have a name for itself, because it refuses to recognize the genocidal crimes it continues to commit. It calls itself "Canada," claiming we have a "multi-cultural" society with no other real nations, except Quebec which Harper recognized because it is an equal opportunity oppressor of Aboriginal nations. Je me souviens Oka.
Human Rights Watch is playing a useful role by helping expose the crude police stateAboriginal peoples are resisting in Canada, although I disagree with the role it has played in other parts of the world.* The Aboriginal rights struggle requires the full solidarity of Labour and other popular movements. May Aboriginal nations win full rights and equality, and soon.
For a Commonwealth of Toil where the nightmare of the present fades away,
The meek are getting impatient,
Darrell Rankin
Manitoba office, Communist Party of Canada
*About HRW's role elsewhere, see for example
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
PS I recommend Eagle Watch as a consistent source of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist news in Canada, my source this morning:
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013
From: "Mrs. Stanley"
To: eaglewatch@npogroups.org
Subject: [eaglewatch] Fwd: Human Rights Watch Alleges RCMP Officers Raped, Abused Aboriginals In BC
From the Eagle Watch
FYI - pass it on - Kittoh
* * * * *
Full report http://www.hrw.org/reports/
Before getting to the HRW news release, here are related reports with thanks to Eagle Watch:
1. Harper brushes off calls for inquiry into violence against Aboriginal women, Feb. 13, 2013 (Published widely today across Canada)
http://o.canada.com/2013/02/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
* * * * * HRW news releaseCanada: Abusive Policing, Neglect Along ‘Highway of Tears’
Set Up National Inquiry Into Murders, Disappearances of Indigenous Women, GirlsFebruary 13, 2013
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/
(Ottawa) – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in northern British Columbia has failed to protect indigenous women and girls from violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.Women and girls Human Rights Watch interviewed also described abusive treatment by police officers, including excessive use of force, and physical and sexual assault.
The 89-page report, “Those Who Take Us Away: Abusive Policing and Failures in Protection of Indigenous Women and Girls in Northern British Columbia, Canada,” documents both ongoing police failures to protect indigenous women and girls in the north from violence and violent behavior by police officers against women and girls. Police failures and abuses add to longstanding tensions between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and indigenous communities in the region, Human Rights Watch said. The Canadian government should establish a national commission of inquiry into the murders and disappearances of indigenous women and girls, including the impact of police mistreatment on their vulnerability to violence in communities along Highway 16, which has come to be called northern British Columbia’s “Highway of Tears.”
“The threat of domestic and random violence on one side, and mistreatment by RCMP officers on the other, leaves indigenous women in a constant state of insecurity,” said Meghan Rhoad, women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Where can they turn for help when the police are known to be unresponsive and, in some cases, abusive.”
Human Rights Watch conducted research along Highway 97 and along the 724-kilometer stretch of Highway 16 that has become infamous for the dozens of women and girls who have been reported missing or were found dead in its vicinity since the late 1960s. In July and August 2012, Human Rights Watch researchers interviewed 50 indigenous women and girls, and conducted an additional 37 interviews with families of murdered and missing women, indigenous leaders, community service providers, and others across 10 communities.
Indigenous women and girls told Human Rights Watch that the RCMP has failed to protect them. They also described instances of abusive policing, including excessive use of force against girls, strip searches of women by male officers, and physical and sexual abuse. One woman said that in July, four police officers took her to a remote location, raped her, and threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
Women who call the police for help have been blamed for the abuse, shamed over alcohol or substance use, and have found themselves at risk of arrest for actions taken in self-defense, women and community service providers told Human Rights Watch.
“I will never forget that day,” said “Lena G.,” whose 15-year-old daughter’s arm was broken by a police officer after the mother called the police for help during an argument between her daughter and her daughter’s abusive boyfriend. “It’s the worst thing I ever did. I wish I didn’t call.”
Despite policies requiring active investigation of all reports of missing persons, some family members and service providers who made calls to police to report missing women or girls said the police failed to investigate the disappearances promptly.
Women and girls have limited recourse when they experience police abuse or when police fail to provide adequate protection, Human Rights Watch said. They can lodge a complaint against the police with the Commission for Public Complaints. But the process is time consuming and the investigation of the complaint is likely to fall to the RCMP itself or to another police force.
Human Rights Watch researchers were struck by the fear expressed by women they interviewed. The women’s reactions were comparable to those Human Rights Watch has found in post-conflict or post-transition countries, where security forces have played an integral role in government abuses and enforcement of authoritarian policies.
In September 2012, Human Rights Watch wrote to the RCMP to advise the national headquarters and the “E” Division in British Columbia of the results of the research and seek information about questions raised by the research. The RCMP responded in November. Human Rights Watch did not include details of specific incidents of abuse in the September 2012 letter because of victims’ fears of retaliation if the officers they accused were able to identify them.
British Columbia’s legislature recently established the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) to provide independent civilian “criminal investigations regarding police-related incidents involving death or serious harm.” The law’s definition of “serious harm” would exclude most cases of police rape and other forms of sexual assault, however, sending a strong message that assaults on women and girls are not important, Human Rights Watch said.
“The lack of a reliable, independent mechanism to investigate allegations of police misconduct is unfair to everyone involved,” Rhoad said. “It is unfair to the officers who serve honorably. It is unfair to the northern communities that deserve to have confidence in their police forces. And it is especially unfair to the indigenous women and girls, whose safety is at stake.”
United Nations human rights bodies have criticized Canada for the inadequate government response to violence against indigenous women and girls. The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women announced in December 2011 that it was opening an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. In 2008, the committee called on the government “to examine the reasons for the failure to investigate the cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women and to take the necessary steps to remedy the deficiencies in the system.”
The government of Canada has taken some steps to address the murders and disappearances, Human Rights Watch said, but the persistence of the violence indicates a need for a national public commission of inquiry.
“The high rate of violence against indigenous women and girls has caused widespread alarm for many years,” Rhoad said. “The eyes of the world are on Canada to see how many more victims it takes before the government addresses this issue in a comprehensive and coordinated way.”
Additional recommendations· The Canadian government should develop and put into operation a national action plan in cooperation with indigenous communities to address the violence against indigenous women and girls, with attention to the current and historical discrimination and the economic and social inequalities that increase their vulnerability to violence, as well as the need for accountability for government bodies charged with preventing and responding to violence;
· The British Columbia provincial government should expand the mandate of the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) to include authority to investigate allegations of sexual assault by police;
· The RCMP, in cooperation with indigenous communities, should expand training and monitoring of training for police officers to counter racism and sexism in the treatment of indigenous women and girls in custody and to improve police response to violence against women and girls in indigenous communities; and
· The RCMP should eliminate searches and monitoring of women and girls by male police officers in all but extraordinary circumstances and require documentation and review of any such searches by supervisors and commanders. It should prohibit cross-gender strip-searches under all circumstances.
Statements about police abuse“I feel so dirty….They threatened that if I told anybody they would take me out to the mountains and kill me, and make it look like an accident.” – Gabriella P. (pseudonym), who told Human Rights Watch that in July 2012 four police officers took her to a remote location and raped her. She said that police officers had raped her in similar circumstances on previous occasions.
“‘Here’s your choice, you either get charged with assaulting an officer or you take the beating,’ [said one of the officers.] Stupid me I said, ‘I’ll take the beating.’ She grabbed me, slammed me up on the wall and I hit my head. Then she slammed me on the ground. A male cop drove his knee into my back while she stripped earrings out of my ears and elastics out of my hair. ‘Have you had enough?’ ‘Yes, I’ve had enough. I’m sorry.’ ” – Anna T. (pseudonym) who spat on a police officer when she was arrested.
“I had a woman about two years ago who decided to report [a sexual assault] to the RCMP – very rare. I have worked with many women sexually assaulted and only a handful go forward with charges. She was made to feel that she was to blame….You have a system of authority that puts the blame on the victim.” – Community service provider in northern British Columbia
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NCAI Supports D.C. Mayor Gray in Calling for Redskins Name Change
Redskins name deemed ‘racial slur’ as Smithsonian panelists discuss stereotypes in sports
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AIMFLCH] NCAI Supports D.C. Mayor Gray in Calling for Redskins
NCAI Supports D.C. Mayor Gray in Calling for Redskins Name Change
ICTMN Staff
January 16, 2013
Invoking such historically-significant moments as the civil rights movement and the integration of professional sports, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) has released a statement in support of comments made recently by Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray regarding the name of the city's NFL franchise. Last week, following the Washington Redskins' season-ending playoff loss, the mayor suggested the organization would need to have serious discussions about a name change if a move back into the city (the Redskins currently plays its games in Maryland) were to be considered.
The NCAI calls on the NFL and its Washington franchise to "leave the mockery and racism of the past where it belongs, in the past." Below is the full text of the statement:
NCAI Statement on Washington, DC Mayor Gray’s Position on
Washington NFL Football Team Name Change
Washington, DC – The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) released the following statement following the reported comments by Washington, DC’s Mayor Gray outlining criteria that conversations on a name change are central to the return of the NFL’s Washington football team to RFK Stadium and the District of Columbia:
NCAI supports Mayor Gray’s statement that the NFL’s Washington football team should only return to the nation’s Capital when the team’s name is changed. It’s time for the NFL and the Washington football team to join the 21st century and leave the mockery and racism of the past where it belongs, in the past.
Mayor Gray joins a chorus of common sense voices in the Washington, DC area and beyond, who view the archaic and outdated mascot and name of the team as a blemish on the otherwise outstanding reputation of the people of the DC region, and the players and fans of the team.
Fans of the civil rights movement who called for desegregation saw the Washington football team be the last to integrate African Americans into their sports business. However, the relics and racial stereotypes of the past still linger, keeping the Washington team’s brand stuck in the past.
This is the moment for the team, the NFL, and the community, to address the misappropriation of Native identity and honor the true historic and contemporary place of Native people and tribal nations in American society. NCAI would be pleased to offer our assistance in those discussions and decisions in the lead up to a name change. We look forward to ushering in a new era with the NFL, the team, its players, and the Washington region.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Mayor Gray suggested a name change, or a discussion of the name change, would be a criteria for the NFL football team to return to nation’s Capital.
In the article “Redskins name change should be discussed, Vincent Gray says” by the Washington Post’s Mike DeBonis, the Mayor said the following:
“I think that if they get serious with the team coming back to Washington, there’s no doubt there’s going to have to be a discussion about that,” he said after a news conference, “and of course the team is going to have to work with us around that issue.”
Gray noted that many sports team — including the Washington Bullets — have discarded offensive names and/or mascots.
“I think it has become a lightning rod, and I would be love to be able to sit down with the team … and see if a change should be made,” he said. “There’s a precedent for this, and I think there needs to be a dispassionate discussion about this, and do the right thing.”
Mayor Gray joins other prominent figures in the DC area that have called for at least an open consideration of a name change. Following the recent loss by the team in the first round of the playoffs, Courland Milloy recently wrote about the issue in his Washington Post column “What’s in a name? The Redskins’ bad karma.” Jim Vance, a popular NBC affiliate evening news host made the following points last year in a commentary about considering a name change, and specifically one fan who he met last year who would not even consider the change:
“His was the kind of single-minded intransigence that mirrored George Preston Marshall, that vile, evil man who once owned the team, and who swore there would never be a Negro playing on his team. Fifty years ago, because of George Preston Marshall, the Redskins [were] the last team in the entire NFL to hire a black player. Marshall wanted Bobby Mitchell, who was the player, to play not for Old D.C., but for Old Dixie.”
“Fifty years later, do we really want to be the only team in the league with even a question about the appropriateness of our name? Can’t we at least talk about that, without somebody wanting to start a fight for goodness sake?”
About The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI):
Founded in 1944, the National Congress of American Indians is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization in the country. NCAI advocates on behalf of tribal governments and communities, promoting strong tribal-federal government-to-government policies, and promoting a better understanding among the general public regarding American Indian and Alaska Native governments, people and rights. For more information visit http://www.ncai.org/
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AIMFLCH] Redskins name deemed 'racial slur' at Smithsonian
Redskins name deemed ‘racial slur’ as Smithsonian panelists discuss stereotypes in sports
By Associated Press,
Feb 08, 2013 12:41 AM EST
APPublished: February 7
WASHINGTON — Hurtful names and racial stereotypes of all types were discussed and dissected Thursday in a daylong symposium at the Smithsonian, and the Washington Redskins were at the top of the list for nearly all those who spoke.
“I can only imagine what it would be like to be at a football game at FedEx Field in a crowd of close to 90,000, all screaming at the top of their lungs, when what they are screaming is a racial slur,” said Judith Bartnoff, a deputy presiding judge in District of Columbia Superior Court.
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By the time the day was over, they had a convert.
Unaware of what the presentation was all about, Andre Holland wore his burgundy and gold Redskins hat, ear muffs and key chain to the National Museum of the American Indian. He was on a field trip with his Sports in America class from Anne Arundel Community College.
When the sessions ended, the 20-year-old student had removed the hat and disavowed the nickname of his lifelong favorite NFL team, having been persuaded that it’s as racist as the worst names he might be called as an African-American.
“I really don’t feel right wearing this stuff now,” Holland said. “And now I can’t even say ‘HTTR’ — which is ‘Hail to the Redskins’ — because that’s chanting something racist. I’m going to be a fan of Washington — a ‘Washington football team.’ Not the ‘Washington Redskins.’”
Panelists and audience members explained why they felt the name was offensive and offered all sorts of ideas — including a protest at training camp and the need to get franchise quarterback Robert Griffin III to speak out — that might persuade team owner Dan Snyder that a change is needed.
Holland was convinced. He was one of the few in the partisan crowd who showed up liking the name. As he listened, he started tweeting — and he said the feedback he got opened his eyes, along the panels’ presentations about the history of insensitive mascots such as “Little Red,” who used to dance at University of Oklahoma games. Also under scrutiny was a red-skinned image named “Mr. Yakoo” used by the North Quincy Red Raiders at a high school in Massachusetts.
Near the end of the final session, Holland went to the microphone and compared Redskins to the n-word, then turned around and gave a hug to the Native American standing next in line.
“A serious day for me,” Holland said.
Organizers say the Redskins did not respond to an invitation to participate, and no one stood up to defend the Redskins name when the audience was invited to participate.
There has been momentum toward changing names deemed offensive, although Snyder has been adamant about that he’s not going to join the trend. On Tuesday, Washington Mayor Vincent Gray specifically avoided saying the name of franchise in his State of the District speech and instead referred to “our Washington football team.”
In 2005, the NCAA announced it would ban the use of American Indian imagery and nicknames at postseason tournaments. Some schools have since been granted exceptions with the support of tribes, such as the Florida State Seminoles.
The latest to make the switch are the students at Cooperstown high school in upstate New York, who voted this week to ditch their “Redskins” nickname. The school, located in the hometown of “The Last of the Mohicans” author James Fenimore Cooper, is considering “Deerslayers,” ‘’Hawkeyes” and “Pathfinders” as alternatives.
Suzan Shown Harjo, president of the Washington-based Morning Star Institute, an advocacy group, said there are some 900 troublesome nicknames and mascots across the country, down from a peak of more than 3,000 when “Little Red” was taken off the field in the early 1970s.
“We consider it racial profiling,” former Colorado Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell said. “I think more and more people are recognizing it.”
The best chance to change Snyder’s mind would likely be to hit him in the pocketbook by getting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to void the Redskins trademark. A group of American Indians made progress on that front during a 17-year court battle that came to a halt in 2009 because it was ruled that the plaintiffs waited too long to file their original case. There is now a new case filed by younger plaintiffs that is due for a hearing next month.
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The Rat Scurries from the Vat: The Latest Coup in Rome
by Kevin D. Annett The Ex Pope and the New Pope? Joseph Ratzinger (l) and the palace coup-master, Cardinal Bertone Theories are abounding this week now that the first pope in seven centuries is resigning his office. But as always, the most direct way to the truth behind the world's oldest corporation is simply by following the money: and specifically, Vatican Bank money. Let's put to rest, first of all, the fallacy that "looming scandals" about child rape and coverup are behind Joseph Ratzinger's resignation. That's just the cover story. Nobody in the church hierarchy is losing much sleep over their standing, canon-law endorsed policy of concealing and protecting child rapists in their ranks. Even the International Criminal Court application about such crimes has been stymied by catholic-run legislators and jurists. What pronounced the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal implication in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank, comically known as The Institute of Religious Works (IOR); and how that dirty connection gave the anti-Ratzinger faction in the College of Cardinals the lever they needed to dump the obstinate German from the papal throne. We had a whiff of that dump-Rat Boy agenda last year, when "Vatileaks" broke into the news with a ludicrous story of how Ratzinger's loyal butler Paolo Gabriele disclosed the pope's dirty secrets to the Italian media. In fact, the damning documents detailing Ratzinger's secret rewarding of Vatican contracts to his friends and family members originated in the Vatican Secretary of State's office, which the fall-guy butler could not have had access to. The Secretary of State and the real power behind the papacy is Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, an old insider who also engineered the sacking of Gotti Tedeschi, head of the Vatican Bank, last May. Tedeschi had taken seriously the call of the European Parliament for "greater transparency" by the Vatican Bank /IOR, and was about to disclose to Brussels how his bosses had been laundering money for the mob for decades. The last Pope who had tried such a disclosure, John Paul 1, died from poisoning in September, 1978 after less than a month in office. But even with Tedeschi silenced, the IOR house of cards kept tumbling, as the European Parliament seized from it 300 million Euros fraudulently acquired, and even the American Securities and Exchange Commission declared the IOR's assets and practices "insecure". A major Vatican housecleaning was required; or at least, the appearance of one. It was the pivotal Cardinal Bertone who leaked the pope's diary and other incriminating papers to a catholic-friendly journalist in Rome last year the same month that Tedeschi was sacked, to prepare the world for Ratzinger's removal. For it is Bertone who is now reaping the benefits of the papal housecleaning; he is not only a primary contender for the pope's position but a key player in the IOR. During my second speaking tour in Rome, in the spring of 2010, I met with several senior Italian senators and officials of the parliamentary Radical Party. They all said the same thing about why Joseph Ratzinger had been made pope, and what awaited him. To quote one of those politicians, "Nobody becomes pope without a sordid past, because only with such liabilities can he be controlled by the Curia. It's the same in any big company. Well, Ratzinger made many indiscretions as a Cardinal and made many enemies. His signing letters ordering criminal concealment was just one sin. He was to be the scapegoat for all of the trash that the church knew would surface" So now, the papal scapegoat is gone, pensioned off to wherever ex-popes end up; and the time for the big face life has arrived. The idea of applying cosmetic surgery to a decaying facade like the Church of Rome reminds me of Shirley Maclaine trying to look forty at the age of ninety. And yet appearances are everything in show business as well as in religion. Tarcisio Bertone is about as institutional as you can get, and represents the old Italian crowd of the Curia and are part of the Mob-government-papal clique that run the country and the Roman catholic church. In the words of one of the Roman Senators I spoke with, "You must understand that in my country, the Mafia and the government and the Vatican are all the same people, and they really have only one concern: protecting their assets." Bertone, or whoever from the victorious ranks of his faction does assume the papal tiria, cannot be expected to do much but maintain the assets and security of the church, and that means by continuing the policies of silence and dissimulation that keeps the cash flowing. But their position is more difficult now in the wake of the enormous rifts developing within the wider church, where Cardinals are facing criminal prosecution for shielding child rapists, and talk of disaffiliating from Rome is widespread among Irish, American and German Bishops. "We have all the grounds for a second Reformation now. That's how serious is the crisis. The church will either rid itself of itself or face collapse" said an Italian media commentator recently. It was easy to despise Joseph Ratzinger: the Hitler Youth raised, reactionary bigot who sacked liberal and independent thinkers in his church as the Cardinal-head of the Vatican Inquisition, and who told American Bishops that purgatory awaited any of them who did not cover up priestly child rape. Even among fellow Cardinals, he was known as "Joe the Rat". But Ratzinger was a made to order object of hatred, and put there to play out the oldest game in politics: the venting of popular rage on a disposable figurehead so that the institution itself could proceed unscathed. I doubt that it's totally coincidental that Ratzinger was forced out of office so quickly barely ten days after our Common Law court published online hard evidence of the Pope's involvement in crimes against humanity. Any new Pope will face the same charges, of colluding in a massive criminal conspiracy. But the real issue is not who or what will replace Joseph Ratzinger as the latest figurehead, but how to displace the Vatican itself as a criminal power unto itself. And that struggle is just commencing. ............................. See the evidence of Genocide in Canada and other crimes against the innocent at www.hiddennolonger.com and at the website of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State at www.itccs.org . Messages for Kevin Annett can be left at 250-591-4573 (Canada). Watch Kevin's award-winning documentary film UNREPENTANT on his websitewww.hiddenfromhistory.org "I gave Kevin Annett his Indian name, Eagle Strong Voice, in 2004 when I adopted him into our Anishinabe Nation. He carries that name proudly because he is doing the job he was sent to do, to tell his people of their wrongs. He speaks strongly and with truth. He speaks for our stolen and murdered children. I ask everyone to listen to him and welcome him." Chief Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind Elder, Turtle Clan, Anishinabe Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba -- Help us turn the world upside down! https://www.youtube.com/watch? See the evidence of Genocide in Canada and other crimes against the innocent at www.hiddennolonger.com and at the website of The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State at www.itccs.org . Messages for Kevin Annett can be left at 250-591-4573 (Canada). Watch Kevin's award-winning documentary film UNREPENTANT on his websitewww.hiddenfromhistory.org "I gave Kevin Annett his Indian name, Eagle Strong Voice, in 2004 when I adopted him into our Anishinabe Nation. He carries that name proudly because he is doing the job he was sent to do, to tell his people of their wrongs. He speaks strongly and with truth. He speaks for our stolen and murdered children. I ask everyone to listen to him and welcome him." Chief Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind Elder, Turtle Clan, Anishinabe Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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From the Eagle Watch
February 11, 2013
FYI This highly radioactive material HEU will be shipped through our territories, possibly past an Anishnaabe or Ongwehonweh community where you live. We don't get to know the route of these deliveries or how many trucks it will take to empty the tank. If the tank holds 24,000 litres, then how many truckloads would that be?? How many litres in an 18 wheeler truckload???
Questions, so many questions. What is the purpose of this bomb grade material going to the US???
Kittoh
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>February 11, 2013
FYI This highly radioactive material HEU will be shipped through our territories, possibly past an Anishnaabe or Ongwehonweh community where you live. We don't get to know the route of these deliveries or how many trucks it will take to empty the tank. If the tank holds 24,000 litres, then how many truckloads would that be?? How many litres in an 18 wheeler truckload???
Questions, so many questions. What is the purpose of this bomb grade material going to the US???
Kittoh
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| Subject: | Liquid bomb-grade uranium to be shipped secretly from Chalk River to U.S. |
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| Date: | Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:06:20 -0500 |
| From: | Gordon Edwards |
| To: | Gordon Edwards |
See "Action Alert" following the article.
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Liquid bomb-grade uranium
to be shipped secretly
from Chalk River to U.S.
By Ian MacLeod, Ottawa Citizen February 10, 2013
http://tinyurl.com/a655m65
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OTTAWA — Nuclear officials are preparing to secretly transport a toxic stew of liquid bomb-grade uranium by armed convoy from Chalk River to a South Carolina reprocessing site.
The “high priority” mission marks the first time authorities have attempted to truck highly-enriched uranium (HEU) in a liquid solution, prompting nuclear safety advocacy groups on both sides of the border to sound the alarm for greater government scrutiny.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has confirmed the plan to the Citizen. It follows Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s commitment at last year’s global nuclear security summit to return HEU inventories to the United States to lessen the risk of nuclear terrorism.
Officials with CNSC and Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., which operates Chalk River Laboratories, say federal law prohibits publicly releasing details about the mission, including the number of transport truck trips involved, the routing through Eastern Ontario and the timing.
But documents filed with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) suggest many truck trips will be required and could begin in August.
“This does seem to be an unprecedented, cross-border shipment of liquid high-level waste and, for that reason alone, it needs the highest order of environmental review on both sides of the border,” says Tom Clements, a South Carolina campaign co-ordinator for Friends of the Earth and former executive-director of the Nuclear Control Institute in Washington.
Small amounts of HEU in solid form have long been exported, without incident, by the U.S. to Canada for the production of medical isotopes at Chalk River’s NRU reactor.
What’s different this time is the HEU to be transported for reprocessing at the U.S. government’s Savannah River Site is in liquid form and believed to from Chalk River’s controversial Fissile Solution Storage Tank, or FISST.
The 24,000-litre waste tank is largely unknown outside the nuclear establishment, but within the industry in Canada and internationally, it is a source of persistent unease.
The double-walled, stainless-steel vessel contains 17 years’ worth of an intensely radioactive acidic solution from the production of molybdenum-99, a vital medical isotope produced by irradiating HEU “targets.”
The liquid must be carefully monitored, mixed and warmed to prevent it from solidifying and — in a worst-case scenario — potentially achieving a self-sustaining chain reaction of fissioning atoms called criticality.
The energy and heat from such a chain reaction could potentially rupture the tank, release the solution into the environment and endanger anyone nearby. There would be no danger of a nuclear explosion.
Not surprisingly, FISST is under constant surveillance by the International Atomic Energy Commission for any hint of an accidental atomic chain reaction.
Taken out of service around 2003, FISST is believed to be near-full and sitting inside a thick, in-ground concrete vault in a building two hours northwest of Ottawa. In the years since, HEU-bearing liquid waste produced during isotope production has been solidified and placed in secure storage.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has confirmed the plan to the Citizen. It follows Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s commitment at last year’s global nuclear security summit to return HEU inventories to the United States to lessen the risk of nuclear terrorism.
Officials with CNSC and Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., which operates Chalk River Laboratories, say federal law prohibits publicly releasing details about the mission, including the number of transport truck trips involved, the routing through Eastern Ontario and the timing.
But documents filed with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) suggest many truck trips will be required and could begin in August.
“This does seem to be an unprecedented, cross-border shipment of liquid high-level waste and, for that reason alone, it needs the highest order of environmental review on both sides of the border,” says Tom Clements, a South Carolina campaign co-ordinator for Friends of the Earth and former executive-director of the Nuclear Control Institute in Washington.
Small amounts of HEU in solid form have long been exported, without incident, by the U.S. to Canada for the production of medical isotopes at Chalk River’s NRU reactor.
What’s different this time is the HEU to be transported for reprocessing at the U.S. government’s Savannah River Site is in liquid form and believed to from Chalk River’s controversial Fissile Solution Storage Tank, or FISST.
The 24,000-litre waste tank is largely unknown outside the nuclear establishment, but within the industry in Canada and internationally, it is a source of persistent unease.
The double-walled, stainless-steel vessel contains 17 years’ worth of an intensely radioactive acidic solution from the production of molybdenum-99, a vital medical isotope produced by irradiating HEU “targets.”
The liquid must be carefully monitored, mixed and warmed to prevent it from solidifying and — in a worst-case scenario — potentially achieving a self-sustaining chain reaction of fissioning atoms called criticality.
The energy and heat from such a chain reaction could potentially rupture the tank, release the solution into the environment and endanger anyone nearby. There would be no danger of a nuclear explosion.
Not surprisingly, FISST is under constant surveillance by the International Atomic Energy Commission for any hint of an accidental atomic chain reaction.
Taken out of service around 2003, FISST is believed to be near-full and sitting inside a thick, in-ground concrete vault in a building two hours northwest of Ottawa. In the years since, HEU-bearing liquid waste produced during isotope production has been solidified and placed in secure storage.
The FISST’s chief ingredient is an estimated 175 kilograms of HEU containing 93 per cent uranium-235, the isotope that sustains a fission chain reaction. Also present are plutonium, tritium, other fission products and mercury. About 20 kilograms to 45 kilograms of HEU is considered sufficient to construct a small nuclear weapon or a Hiroshima-sized bomb.
NRC documents note that the radioactive payload to be removed from Canada, “is highly enriched target material,” containing 7.2 grams of HEU per litre, which precisely matches the description and composition of the FISST’s contents.
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. had planned to take until 2020 to resolve the FISST issue, but CNSC staff have said they want it dealt with during Chalk River Laboratories’ current five-year-operating licence, which expires Oct. 31, 2016.
Earlier this month, Clements made a formal request to the U.S. Department of Energy for an extensive and public environmental hearing before the radioactive shipments are approved. He said a 1996 U.S. environmental review of HEU shipments to Savannah River did not consider the implications surrounding liquid HEU.
The Canadian group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Responsibility is urging Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver to do the same here.
But NRC documents on the issue call for an “expedited” certification review of a plan to transport the HEU liquid waste in stainless-steel casks originally designed to carry dry nuclear waste, such as spent fuel rods from reactors.
NAC International Inc., a U.S. company specializing in nuclear packaging and transport, is seeking NRC and CNSC approvals to use its NAC-LWT (legal weight truck) cask system to haul the radioactive liquid from Canada, something that the CNSC and other experts say has never been done before.
In documents, NRC officials characterize the request as, “a high priority for review to support the (U.S.) Department of Energy’s Global Threat Reduction Program,” to reduce civilian use of weapons-grade uranium. The company filed the request, with supporting technical data, on Dec. 28.
In a Jan. 31 reply to the company, the NRC said it wants the company to produce more technical information about the viability and safety of using the casks to transport liquid HEU. It gave the company two weeks to comply, adding if all goes well, approval could be expected by May 10.
The company did not respond to requests for comments late last week.
The CNSC has a separate review underway of the proposed change to the cask payload, one of several approvals required on both sides of the border before the radioactive waste can be moved along continental roads and highways.
“No HEU transport is authorized without CNSC approval in order to ensure safety to the public, workers and the environment,” it said in a statement Friday. “Safety requirements must be met in accordance with CNSC and Canada’s Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations.
NRC documents note that the radioactive payload to be removed from Canada, “is highly enriched target material,” containing 7.2 grams of HEU per litre, which precisely matches the description and composition of the FISST’s contents.
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. had planned to take until 2020 to resolve the FISST issue, but CNSC staff have said they want it dealt with during Chalk River Laboratories’ current five-year-operating licence, which expires Oct. 31, 2016.
Earlier this month, Clements made a formal request to the U.S. Department of Energy for an extensive and public environmental hearing before the radioactive shipments are approved. He said a 1996 U.S. environmental review of HEU shipments to Savannah River did not consider the implications surrounding liquid HEU.
The Canadian group Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Responsibility is urging Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver to do the same here.
But NRC documents on the issue call for an “expedited” certification review of a plan to transport the HEU liquid waste in stainless-steel casks originally designed to carry dry nuclear waste, such as spent fuel rods from reactors.
NAC International Inc., a U.S. company specializing in nuclear packaging and transport, is seeking NRC and CNSC approvals to use its NAC-LWT (legal weight truck) cask system to haul the radioactive liquid from Canada, something that the CNSC and other experts say has never been done before.
In documents, NRC officials characterize the request as, “a high priority for review to support the (U.S.) Department of Energy’s Global Threat Reduction Program,” to reduce civilian use of weapons-grade uranium. The company filed the request, with supporting technical data, on Dec. 28.
In a Jan. 31 reply to the company, the NRC said it wants the company to produce more technical information about the viability and safety of using the casks to transport liquid HEU. It gave the company two weeks to comply, adding if all goes well, approval could be expected by May 10.
The company did not respond to requests for comments late last week.
The CNSC has a separate review underway of the proposed change to the cask payload, one of several approvals required on both sides of the border before the radioactive waste can be moved along continental roads and highways.
“No HEU transport is authorized without CNSC approval in order to ensure safety to the public, workers and the environment,” it said in a statement Friday. “Safety requirements must be met in accordance with CNSC and Canada’s Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations.
“These containers must undergo stringent testing, which simulate both normal and hypothetical conditions of transport, including free-drop testing, puncture testing and thermal testing.”
Carriers must be specially trained and a transportation security plan must also be approved, it said.
“The primary purpose of this plan is to assure that the nuclear material to be transported will receive adequate physical protection against any threats that may arise during its transport.”
AECL is generally tight-lipped about FISST. A spokesman Friday would only say that “AECL is participating in HEU repatriation activities.”
NAC International, in filings with the NRC, proposes to that each cask carry a total of up to 257 litres of HEU solution. Each cask would hold four smaller containers, with each of those holding up to 64 litres. The estimated HEU content in each would be about 1.8 grams.
At Savannah River, the liquid is to be taken to a complex known as H-Canyon and down-blended in to low-enriched uranium fuel for U.S. power and research reactors.
Carriers must be specially trained and a transportation security plan must also be approved, it said.
“The primary purpose of this plan is to assure that the nuclear material to be transported will receive adequate physical protection against any threats that may arise during its transport.”
AECL is generally tight-lipped about FISST. A spokesman Friday would only say that “AECL is participating in HEU repatriation activities.”
NAC International, in filings with the NRC, proposes to that each cask carry a total of up to 257 litres of HEU solution. Each cask would hold four smaller containers, with each of those holding up to 64 litres. The estimated HEU content in each would be about 1.8 grams.
At Savannah River, the liquid is to be taken to a complex known as H-Canyon and down-blended in to low-enriched uranium fuel for U.S. power and research reactors.
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From: Gordon Edwards web.ca
Date: February 5, 2013 12:44:28 AM EST (CA)
Action Alert February 4, 2013
Please write to U.S. and Canadian Authorities
Proposed Import and Transport of Liquid Radioactive Wastes
Bearing Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) to the U.S. from Canada
The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) is planning to import and transport liquid radioactive waste containing weapons-grade highly-enriched uranium (HEU) from Canada's Chalk River Laboratories (CRNL) to the DOE's Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina.
The proposed movement of liquid HEU-bearing radioactive waste was confirmed at the recent SRS (Savannah River Site) Citizens Advisory Board meeting in Augusta, Georgia on January 28-29. This proposal is (so far as we are aware) the first of it's kind.
We are asking citizens and elected officials to send an urgent request to the U.S. Dept. of Energy's SRS NEPA officer, Drew Grainger, who can be emailed at: <drew.grainger@srs.gov> (NEPA is the U.S. National Environmental Protection Act.)
Tell DOE that a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) must be done on the proposed import to the U.S.A. of HEU-bearing liquid radioactive waste from Canada's Chalk River. (See Tom Clements' letter, below, as a sample of concerns to be raised.)
No SEIS has yet been done. Such an SEIS is absolutely necessary so that an informed public policy discussion can occur.
Also, please write to the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Joe Oliver, asking him to ensure that a full Environmental Assessment is conducted under Canadian Law, with an independent panel and public hearings. E-mail him atjoe.oliver@parl.gc.ca
Please cc to ccnr@web.ca so we can keep monitoring this situation.
SRS is where 35 MT of weapons-grade plutonium was made. SRS still processes tritium for all US nuclear weapons and is where a $7- billion plutonium-based nuclear fuel (MOX, or "mixed oxide" nuclear fuel) plant is being built.
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From: tomclements329@cs.com
Date: January 31, 2013 10:32:25 PM EST
Subject: Request for SEIS on Import of Canadian Liquid HEU Waste from Chalk River, Canada
Hello Mr. Grainger,
I hereby request that DOE prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) on the proposed import of HEU-bearing liquid radioactive waste from Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories to the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS). SRS confirmed at the SRS Citizens Advisory Board meeting in Augusta, Georgia on January 28-29 that planning for such shipment is underway.
The SEIS would be a supplement to the DOE’s “Environmental Impact Statement on a Proposed Nuclear Weapons Nonproliferation Policy Concerning Foreign Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel (FRR SNF EIS) (DOE/EIS–0218, February 1996).”
I have reviewed the “Supplement Analysis For the Disposition of Gap Material - Spent Nuclear Fuel,” (DOE/EIS-0218-SA-4, January 2009, http://energy.gov/sites/
I assume that DOE may have already made a determination that an SEIS needs to be prepared but want to go on record with my request for preparation of the SEIS.
Given the unique and seemingly unprecedented shipment of liquid HEU-bearing radioactive waste and the precedent it presents, a new EIS analysis is required which would look at such things as:
- origin of the HEU-bearing waste at Chalk River
(waste stream from HEU target processing to recover medical isotopes);
- applicable regulations for transporting and importing liquid radioactive waste;
- proliferation implications of transport, storage and processing of HEU-bearing liquid waste;
- packaging of liquid radioactive waste for transport;
- impact of accidents along transport routes, including total loss of contents of a shipping container;
- risk of terrorist acts and their impact;
- storage at the Savannah River Site, including possibility of long-term storage of the liquid waste;
- accident involving storage containers or in handling at the Savannah River Site,
including loss of the total volume of a container;
- processing of the waste in the H-Canyon and possible accidents;
- status of the H-Canyon, its condition and upgrades that may be needed;
- remediation of possible accidents;
- criticality risk during processing;
- security requirements at SRS;
- radiation exposure along transport routes and at SRS to workers and the public;
- length of processing campaign at SRS;
- processing of recovered HEU, blending down, fabrication into fuel and shipment
to nuclear reactors operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (or other reactors);
-impact of new waste streams into the SRS tank waste system and other disposal systems;
- return of any portion of the waste to Canada, and
- cost of the program, including payment from Canada and economic benefits to DOE.
As this shipment could be the first of a kind and not analyzed before, it is of national significance and demands a thorough SEIS.
Thank you for your consideration of and response to this request. I request that I be notified about the status of any shipments and plans for preparation of any NEPA documents related to the shipment and processing of the HEU-bearing waste.
Tom Clements
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Columbia, SC
tel. 803-834-3084
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The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council meets tonight in Tahlequah at 6:00pm. If you can't make the meeting in person, you may see it here: http://www.cherokee.org/
On the next few weekends, Cherokee Nation is bringing community meetings and the new photo IDs to our neighbors in Arkansas! Here's the schedule:
Fort Smith, Saturday, Feb. 16, 11am-5 pm, U of Fort Smith, 5210 Grand Ave., Pendergraft Health Sciences Bldg, Weidman Center
Fayetteville, Saturday, March 2, 2012, 11am-5 pm, U of Arkansas Law School, 1045 W. Maple St., Rm 328
Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma Health Care Authority and representatives from Oklahoma’s tribal nations will host listening sessions to identify tribal health needs in the state. Topics for discussion are access to preventive health care, reducing chronic diseases and childhood obesity and improving disparities in health and health care among Oklahoma’s American Indians. The next meeting is Feb. 15, 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Armory, 100 N. Water Street, Tahlequah; Host Tribe: Cherokee Nation. More info 405-271-5170.
Cherokee Nation
P.O. Box 948
Tahlequah, OK 74465
918 453-5000
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Sequoyah names new head football coach
Sequoyah Schools has officially named Shane Richardson head football coach. Richardson had been serving on an interim basis.
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Osiyo sharonkitchen@earthlink.net,
The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council meets tonight in Tahlequah at 6:00pm. If you can't make the meeting in person, you may see it here: http://www.cherokee.org/
On the next few weekends, Cherokee Nation is bringing community meetings and the new photo IDs to our neighbors in Arkansas! Here's the schedule:
Fort Smith, Saturday, Feb. 16, 11am-5 pm, U of Fort Smith, 5210 Grand Ave., Pendergraft Health Sciences Bldg, Weidman Center
Fayetteville, Saturday, March 2, 2012, 11am-5 pm, U of Arkansas Law School, 1045 W. Maple St., Rm 328
Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma Health Care Authority and representatives from Oklahoma’s tribal nations will host listening sessions to identify tribal health needs in the state. Topics for discussion are access to preventive health care, reducing chronic diseases and childhood obesity and improving disparities in health and health care among Oklahoma’s American Indians. The next meeting is Feb. 15, 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Armory, 100 N. Water Street, Tahlequah; Host Tribe: Cherokee Nation. More info 405-271-5170.
Cherokee Nation
P.O. Box 948
Tahlequah, OK 74465
918 453-5000
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Sequoyah names new head football coach
Sequoyah Schools has officially named Shane Richardson head football coach. Richardson had been serving on an interim basis.
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Community Calendar - http://calendars.cherokee.org/
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From the Eagle Watch #313
February 10, 2013
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FYI Fwd - Important information regarding wind turbines in 6Nations territory and other related facts.
Kittoh
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By Miriam Raftery
Jay Tibbetts, M.D., with Brown County Dept. of Health said the board recommends a minimum half to three-quarters of a mile setback, with no audible noise or shadow flicker. “There is some consensus of a setback of 2 kilometers, 1.24 miles,” he said.”A huge problem is that none of these setbacks take infrasound (inaudible sound) into consideration. Infrasound can travel much greater distances than audible sound,” he said, adding, “Infrasound may be more of a threat to human health than other factors.”
February 10, 2013
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FYI Fwd - Important information regarding wind turbines in 6Nations territory and other related facts.
Kittoh
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The Eagle Watch Newsletter is sent to interested individuals, both Indigenous and nonNative, politicians especially the Canadian ones and an assortment of English language media.
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| Subject: | turbine effects article you need |
|---|---|
| Date: | Sat, 9 Feb 2013 12:16:30 -0500 |
| From: | John |
| To: | Mrs. Stanley |
| CC: | Grant Church |
This is information from Grant Church, our local Haldimand County expert on energy, that you might find interesting. In addition, I have included the technical data that you may wish to pass along to other people.
In South Cayuga, provincial crown land will have over a hundred monster turbines that will stretch about 48 stories into the skies. The South Cayuga crown lands should have been turned over to Six Nations of the Grand River as a partial payment for flooded Six Nations property a hundred years ago.
In the end, Samsung and the provincial money grabbers at Queen’s Park, have succeeded in putting the Six Nations issues on the backburner. The Crown lands of South Cayuga will not likely be used for agricultural purposes now –at least not be anyone wishing to remain healthy and free of cancer.
I am told these giant turbines pay landowners up to $30,000 a year in royalties. The solar panels pay locals about $1300 a month. In the case of the South Cayuga crown lands who gets the royalties from Samsung??? I guess the Province of Ontario will be stuck with having to take $20,000 or $30,000 a year royalties for each turbine –and maybe 100 turbines would bring in $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 each and every year.
That would probably help pay for stuff like Queen’s Park limos and perk pensions and retirement gratuities every time a politician gets booted out of office by voters.
Then there are the 100 or so giant turbines going up near Beamsville and Smithville –who gets all that money.
I’m told each turbine here in Haldimand require a special cement costing up to $200 a yard ----about 20 cement truck loads to build one cement base 10 feet deep –lots of money for the cement people. There there will be all the trucking contracts hauling gravel and sand to the Dunnville area so cement can be made. Lots more money for a large cement and building contractor working nationally to cash in on. Then there is the erection contract that requires massive cranes –big corporations get that naturally –do they all know each other? How come some large national cement builder knows what’s going on down here in the boondoggies of Haldimand and how would a large national corporation get wind of the contracts and know precisely how much to bid to get the contract. Figure all that out for 200 giant turbines going in around the Niagara and Haldimand area ---and once established, the turbine blight will then progress as people sell off their farms to the turbine industry.
Nothing here for politicians to worry about –no votes in Haldimand or Niagara –to heck with those Haldimand and Niagara yokels, the politicians seem to have declared.
This is not about energy savings; this is all about creating a false environmental scenario to shut down Nanticoke generating station, firing 600 people holding jobs there, and pretending that wind turbines are the second coming of some Bay Street messiah ---and lots of cash for the people who buy into that scenario by kissing the rings of the bandits holding public office.
As I say, the South Cayuga lands were promised to the Six Nations of the Grand River as PARTIAL PAYMENT of flooded lands years ago --flooding done in order to build the dam at Dunnville..
As I have mentioned before, all these “First Nations” issues being thrown across the tv and press are merely distractions –the real First Nation issue in Haldimand is the billions owed to the Six Nations of the Grand River –no one in Ottawa wants to mention that fact and no one will ever talk about that issue ---politicians just keep the focus on other issues rather than deal with the theft of Six Nations Trust funds that should by now, contain billions of dollars –but those funds were raided and removed over the years by Crown personnel –an investigation has been done countless numbers of times and all investigations conclude the same result –Six Nations ha vehad land stolen from them, Six Nations have had their Trust Funds stolen from them –and no accountability thus far from any level of Government.
Now, those South Cayuga lands will make money for greedy people in Government and a few greedy people in commerce will make it all happen and governments can say it is for the good of the people. The cost of this? Instead of householders throughout the Province paying 6 cents per kilowatt, the Province will pay Samsung up to 64 cents per kilowatt –and who will make up that difference in charges??? All of us will ---and we will be told it is good for us –well, at least good for the people cashing in on the $8 billion Samsung claims it will spend –and then Samsung will earn it all back of course by forcing us to buy the electricity at sky high prices.
I wonder how many women and children and elders have been blown up today in the Near East and Far East –but we all hear about and listen to the worry about the Super Bowl commercials or about airlines cancelling flights to Florida and Arizona and South America –it must be a tough life for some people in North America having to deal with wet snow.
I wonder how many politicians and business experts would survive the ravages of winter by having to walk outside the house on a reserve during a snowstorm and having to piss in pail.
Take care,
be well,
John
From: Grant Church
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 9:53 AM
To: John
Subject: Re: turbine effects article you need
Hi John,
Thanks for this report. It says it all. Why are wind turbines being deployed in Haldimand. I heard the provincial Liberals received $500,000 from the wind turbine industry in the last election, the PCs got 96,000. A past president of the OPA told me that wind companies were the largest contributors to political parties.
Did you see the Wind Rush documentary on CBC Doc Zone and the extra video posted on line about stray voltage and dirty electricity. I bought a copy of Dr. Milham’s book Dirty Electricity and hope to get to it soon.
Grant
From: John
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 12:31 PM
To: Grant Church
Cc: John Lupson
Subject: turbine effects article you need
Grant:
Quite a few paragraphs of technical data you need to be informed of. At the risk of being redundant, I have copied some of the very important points you will need in our fight against the turbine companies. Note that infrasound is a deadly weapon used by military forces. Also note that underground electrical currents do cause leukemia and cancers. When you have massive turbines erected over a large area you can expect massive radiation to affect people and animals living in that area.
These massive turbines were once placed on shorelines in Scandinavia –that was considered the place to have them placed.
Somewhere along the line, greedy corporations and greedy, gullible politicians looking for campaign donations, have colluded and managed to have turbines become a backyard necessity.
But that’s just my personal opinion, and what would I ever know about anything?
Rev. John Frederick Lupson, B.A., B.Ed., M.R.E., M.Ed., (Prin. 1 and Prin 11) retired.
1) Indeed, infrasound has been used by the U.S. military as a weapon capable of deterring enemy forces with potential for serious and permanent harm to health at high or prolonged levels.
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Dirty electricity, or electricity escaping power lines, can interfere with electronic equipment as well as harming humans, livestock, pets and wildlife. Symptoms include sleeplessness, higher blood pressure, heart palpitrations, itching, ringing and pain in the ears, watery eyes, chest pressure, difficulty breathing and more – symptoms that disappear when patients leave home and reappear when they return. Impacts on health have been documented at schools in Canada and Wisconsi, as well as among teachers in a California school, as Milham & Morgan reported in 2008.
Locally, Dr. Milham submitted evidence at a San Diego County Planning Commission in April 2012 demonstrating that he took measurements and found skyrocketing levels of ground current inside the Manzanita Indian reservation’s tribal hall and church—measurements he attributes to the nearby Kumeyaay wind farm on the Campo Indian reservation. High ground current levels have also been found in Palm Springs due to a wind farm nearby. Ground current can even enter homes through plumbing.
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture in 2007 warned that ground current, also called stray voltage or tingle voltage, can harm farm animals, pets and people. Symptoms that the Ontario report cites include high rates of spontaneous abortions in cattle, higher piglet mortality rates, horses exhibiting behavior and handling issues, dairy cows shocked through milking machines, an cats producing small, unhealthy litters or dying.
If wind farms can cause miscarriages in animals, can they have similar impacts on pregnant women? Nobody knows, since no studies have been done.
Unexplained mass die-offs of livestock have occurred near some wind farms. In New Zealand, 400 goats dropped dead. In Wisconsin, a farmer lost most of his cattle herd after turbines went in.
Problems are getting worse as turbines become bigger and more powerful.
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WIND SPIN: BLOWING HOLES IN INDUSTRY’S DENIAL OF HEALTH IMPACTS
By Miriam Raftery
April 22, 2012 (San Diego’s East County) – For years, the tobacco industry claimed that cigarettes don’t cause cancer—long after compelling medical evidence proved otherwise. A similar scenario is now happening with the wind industry, which has put forth various “experts” funded by the wind industry to claim that no evidence exists of negative health impacts caused by wind turbines.
Those are dubious claims that ignore mounting medical and anecdotal evidence around the world indicating that living near wind turbines can harm human health. View a video made by residents living near wind turbines in Wisconsin, discussing health problems they are experiencing which are consistent with symptoms found at many other wind sites around the world:http://www.youtube.com/watch?
In numerous countries, neighbors living near turbines have been forced to abandon their homes after developing serious health problems. Low-frequency infrasound, audible noise, dirty energy, and ground currents are among the measurable outputs at some wind energy facilities—despite industry denials--and all have been linked to serious health impacts in people as well as animals.
Besides extensive anecdotal evidence, a growing number of medical journals, including peer-reviewed studies, have documented health issues related to wind energy. A growing number of medical experts and public health departments have called for new wind facilities to have significantly greater setbacks than the industry wants in order to protect public health—if such projects are built at all.
The American Wind Energy Association steadfastly denies that wind turbines cause health problems. According to the AWEA website, “An Expert Panel Review (full report here, executive summary here), was released in December 2009. Following review of current literature, the advisory panel concluded that there is no evidence the audible or sub-audible sounds emitted by wind turbines have any direct adverse physiological effects on humans.”
AWEA further claims that “Wind power is a clean energy source that can provide communities with decreased greenhouse gas emissions, along with air quality improvements and corresponding human health benefits. For more information, please see AWEA's Wind Turbines and Health and Utility Scale Wind Energy and Sound fact sheets.”
On a large scale, replacing coal-burning plants with wind means cleaner air. But clean air is just one measurement of health—and the industry conveniently omits the fact that for people living or working near wind turbines, health concerns appear both real and plentiful.
Let’s start with a real world example. On January 10, 2012, the Brown County Board of Health in Wisconsin adopted a resolutionhttp://www.
Judy Frieerichs, director/health officer at Brown County Health Dept., told ECM that the residents who are ill live at distances ranging from 1,150 feet to 3,200 feet from the turbines.
Jay Tibbetts, M.D., with Brown County Dept. of Health said the board recommends a minimum half to three-quarters of a mile setback, with no audible noise or shadow flicker. “There is some consensus of a setback of 2 kilometers, 1.24 miles,” he said.”A huge problem is that none of these setbacks take infrasound (inaudible sound) into consideration. Infrasound can travel much greater distances than audible sound,” he said, adding, “Infrasound may be more of a threat to human health than other factors.”
Dr. Tibbetts also voiced concern over stray voltage (dirty electricity) linked to wind turbines in his community. “There is an association of pediatric leukemia and lymphoma with prolonged exposure and one family has a very high stray voltage measurement.”
Symptoms experienced by Brown County residents include a “sense of flight or flight, marked uneasiness, headache, nausea, dizziness, ear pressure…A few family members living in the vicinity of wind turbines can sense when the turbines are on and off without seeing them. Two families have abandoned their homes and another four would if they could financially.”
Shadow flicker, which can cause migraines and potentially seizures in epileptics similar to the effect of strobe lights are simply annoying to many people. “One local wind farm supplied a household with a room darkening shade,” said Tibbett, who finds the solution woefully inadequate. “The best way to prevent health issues is safe siting.”
(Editor’s note: In San Diego County, this author took a neighbor to arbitration over a security light shining through a bedroom window. The owner proposed a black out blind for her neighbor, but the mediator ruled that this would not be adequate mediation since a homeowner has a right to have their windows open for fresh air. He found the light to be a private nuisance and ordered the owner to cover half of it and prevent light from disturbing the household next door.)
Brown County officials also called for science-based setback guidelines, noting that wind siting rules “were created without oversight of a medical professional.” Their proposed guidelines also include provisions to hold wind energy companies responsible for resolving problems if health issues occur despite reasonable efforts to establish safe setbacks.
Carmen Krogh, a retired pharmacist from Ontario, Canada, spoke in Boulevard, California recently on the impacts wind turbines could have on people, particularly children. Research has found that intrusive noises adversely affect children’s cardiovascular systems, memory, language development and ability to learn, though studies specifically on impacts of wind turbine noise on youngsters has not been done. She titled her presentation “Children: The Canaries in the Coal Mine.” At the same meeting, appraisal consultant Mike McCann of Chicago said the impact zone of a wind farm is two to five miles, with dramatic negative impacts on property values as well.
Audiology Today, a publication of the American Academy of Audiology, published an article in June/July 2010 titled “Wind Noise: What Audiologists Should Know.” The report cites “evidence that exposure to high levels of low-frequency energy can have adverse health effects” and notes that wind turbines produce low-frequency acoustic energy below the level that humans can here. Turbines also generate vibrations that can be highly disturbing and harmful. These inaudible sounds can vibrate in houses and building spaces, rattling doors and rumbling through the ground, even vibrating in “bodily tissues and cavities”, causing chronic sleep disturbances and other illnesses, the report states.
Sleep disturbances are “common in people who live up to about 1.25 miles away” from turbines. “This is the setback distance at which a group of turbines would need to be in order not to be a nighttime noise disturbance,” the Journal of Audiology concludes, noting that this is the setback required in several countries with substantial experience with wind energy facilities.
The French National Academy of Medicine recommends turbines be placed at least 1.5 km away from residential areas Buffers to disrupt sound waves and filters to prevent stray electricity are among other measures that can also be taken—but the core protection is making sure that homes are not located too close to industrial wind facilities.
But sleep isn’t the only problem.
Wind Turbine Syndrome has been documented by Dr. Nina Pierpont of the esteemed Johns Hopkin Medical School in a peer-reviewed report. http://www.
A report in Aviation, Space, Environmental Medicine detailsVibracoustic Disease (VAD), an ailment associated with long-term exposure to infrasound for ten years or more. It can cause permanent tissue and organ damage as well as cardiac arrhythmias, hypertension and more. It can also cause chest pain, severe join pain, stroke, epilepsy, and neurological disturbances in the late stages, the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society reports, citing multiple scientific studies.
Audible sounds from turbines have been described as airplanes or helicopters overhead that never leave, whooshing and thumping sounds.
The World Health Organization concludes that what you can’t hear CAN hurt you, just as x-rays and UV radiation that you can’t see causes harm. According to WHO, populations vulnerable to infrasound include “elderly persons, children, especially those younger than age six; and people with pre-existing medical conditions, especially if sleep is affected.”
To date, the wind industry has fought to keep sound measured only in decibels (dba) using an A-weighted scale. But the Journal of Audiology report concludes that “For wind turbine noise, the A-weighting scale is especially ill-suited because of its devaluation of the effects of low-frequency noise. This is why it is important to make C-weighted measurements, as well as A-weighted measurements, when considering the impact of sound form wind turbines.”
The Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society issued a proof article September 20, 2011 titled Wind Turbines Make Waves: Why Some Residents Near Wind Turbines Become Ill.”Researchers describe how turbines generate pressure waves and electromagnetic waves. High frequencies can also flow along wires (dirty electricity) and along the ground generating ground current.
“These four types of waves—noise, infrasound, dirty electricity, and ground current—and shadow flicker are each likely to contribute to ill health among those who live near wind turbines,” the article states.
Not all individuals experience symptoms. Just as some people are more sensitive to chemicals, allergies, and electromagnetic radiation, so, too, are some people more sensitive to the effects of waves from wind turbines. Some studies suggest that people who experience motion sickness, experience dizziness or nausea on carnival rides, or have migraines, eye or ear problems are more apt to suffer serious effects.
A report by the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies in 1997 indicated that low frequency sound can travel long distances and penetrate buildings with potentially lethal effects. “Transmission of long wave-length sound creates biophysical effects, nausea, loss of bowels, disorientation, vomiting, potential organ damage or death may occur,” the report found.
Indeed, infrasound has been used by the U.S. military as a weapon capable of deterring enemy forces with potential for serious and permanent harm to health at high or prolonged levels.
Dirty electricity, or electricity escaping power lines, can interfere with electronic equipment as well as harming humans, livestock, pets and wildlife. Symptoms include sleeplessness, higher blood pressure, heart palpitrations, itching, ringing and pain in the ears, watery eyes, chest pressure, difficulty breathing and more – symptoms that disappear when patients leave home and reappear when they return. Impacts on health have been documented at schools in Canada and Wisconsi, as well as among teachers in a California school, as Milham & Morgan reported in 2008.
Locally, Dr. Milham submitted evidence at a San Diego County Planning Commission in April 2012 demonstrating that he took measurements and found skyrocketing levels of ground current inside the Manzanita Indian reservation’s tribal hall and church—measurements he attributes to the nearby Kumeyaay wind farm on the Campo Indian reservation. High ground current levels have also been found in Palm Springs due to a wind farm nearby. Ground current can even enter homes through plumbing.
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture in 2007 warned that ground current, also called stray voltage or tingle voltage, can harm farm animals, pets and people. Symptoms that the Ontario report cites include high rates of spontaneous abortions in cattle, higher piglet mortality rates, horses exhibiting behavior and handling issues, dairy cows shocked through milking machines, an cats producing small, unhealthy litters or dying.
If wind farms can cause miscarriages in animals, can they have similar impacts on pregnant women? Nobody knows, since no studies have been done.
Unexplained mass die-offs of livestock have occurred near some wind farms. In New Zealand, 400 goats dropped dead. In Wisconsin, a farmer lost most of his cattle herd after turbines went in.
Problems are getting worse as turbines become bigger and more powerful.
On June 29, 2011, the Waubra Foundation in Australia issued an “explicit cautionary notice” to officials worldwide responsible for wind turbine siting decisions. The Foundation’s field research identified symptoms of people not only living, but working or visiting within 10 kilometers or turbines. In addition to symptoms listed above, the list includes depression and post traumatic stress disorder, suicidal ideation, heart attacks and more at the Toora and Waubra wind projects in Australia, where over 20 familiies have abandoned their homes due to ill health since turbines began operations.
“Some of these people have walked away from their only financial asset, to live in a shed or a caravan on someone else’s land,” Waubra Foundation notes.
The organization urges prohibiting turbines within 10 km of homes, adding, “To ignore existing evidence by continuing the current practice of siting turbines closet o homes is to run the dangerous risk of breaching a fundamental duty of care, thus attracting grave liability.”
Around the world, opposition to wind energy is growing.
The North American Platform Against Windpower (NA-PAW) athttp://www.na-paw.org/ is mobilizing people seeking a moratorium on siting projects near homes until science determines safe distances. Similar groups have formed in many communities around the wolrd, such as the Ontario Wind Resistance Website (http://ontario-wind-
In Wisconsin, residents near the Shirley wind farm have videotaped their stories and put them on Youtube.
One family moved away after the entire family developed ear pain and headaches, but can’t sell their home due to the property devaluation.
A farmer whose land is a mile to a mile and a half away from turbines reports that “cows are dying…going down, pretty much lifeless…19 died or had to be put down, I lost 30 calves so far.” One cow taken to a friend’s recovered after leaving the farm.
Yet another family says they escape into their basement, where symptoms including severe headaches temporarily subside.
Eerily, several residents reported they no longer hear crickets or see birds. “Wildlife in our area has drastically dropped…it’s pretty much lifeless,” one resident said.
An elderly neighbor living near a wind facility said hearing aids pick up turbine noise that can’t be tuned out. “Once they’re up, there’s no way out,” she complained. “You’re stuck for 30 years, which is a long time.”
One problem facing researchers is that the wind industry has often persuaded residents to sign nondisclosure releases regarding medical and noise complaints in exchange for money, such as renting a farmer’s field to site turbines, or giving money to organizations.
Government officials have often failed to give adequate weight to health issues, ignoring voluminous evidence. The final environmental impact statement/final environmental impact review for the Ocotillo Express wind project proposal, for instance, is dismissive of the issues despite the fact that some homes in Ocotillo would be within a half mile of turbines on not one, but up to three sides – clearly well within the impact where significant health problems can be anticipated.
Some agencies ARE taking notice, however.
San Diego County’s Planning Commission recently heard testimony regarding a proposed wind ordinance that industry sources said would impose the toughest infrasound requirements in California—so stringent that some wind energy representatives present testified that if enacted, it could spell the death knell for the wind industry in San Diego County.
Harley McDonald of Iberdrola Renewables, which hopes to build the Tule Wind facility in McCain Valley, said the ordinance would amount to a “de facto ban” on wind facilities in San Diego County, where numerous projects are proposed, most on public lands including Cleveland National Forest sites.
The proposed San Diego ordinance would include C-measurements for infrasound—a proposal the industry representatives vigorously opposed, claiming it would force setbacks from homes that would be impossible to meet.http://eastcountymagazine.org/
Commissioner Bryan Woods drew applause from beleaguered residents when he stated that he will not support “wind energy at the expense of folks who have lived there for generations. It’s not right to displace them.”
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From the Eagle Watch #312
February 9, 2013
Canadian Uranium Shell Games
As the fires of war spread across western Africa, we are looking at Canada's corporate involvements in these resource rich areas. Niger has uranium, Mali has gold, Algeria has oil and gas and it just goes on and on. The elitists, including African nations' war lords and imperial proxies, are making so much money they can't possibly count it all. African people, meanwhile, continue to starve, often living as refugees in their own ancestral territories. Indigenous people of Turtle Island know we are all related. What goes around comes around. We need to know how the resources taken from our territories are used to wage war on other people.
We found a connection between Canada's Cameco, the top dog in the uranium industry and a uranium exploration company in Niger where France has just moved in military Special Operations units to protect its uranium interests there. No wonder they want backup from Canadian Forces.
Corporatists use regular shell games to move about and hide their real activities. Some people don't give a damn. We need to piece this stuff together to find out where a stick in the spokes might fit. Small ax bring down big tree.
From a list of uranium mining companies including exploration "junior venture" companies, we zoomed in on Toronto-based Northwestern Mineral Ventures Inc. which has interests in Niger. Their name was changed to NWT Uranium Corp. in 2007. NWT Uranium, in turn, owns/has major investments in smaller outfits like URU Metals: "A 46.2% stake in URU Metals, a uranium exploration company that holds a total of eight highly prospective properties in Niger, one of the world's leading uranium producers. The eight concessions - named Irhazer, In Gall, Kamas 1 to 4 and Dabala 3 and 4 - cover 1,673,644 (6,773 square kilometers). "
According to their web site, "NWT Uranium also has a 7.31% stake in Azimut Exploration Inc... Azimut's portfolio includes 47 uranium, gold and nickel exploration properties in mining-friendly Quebec, making it the #1 claim-holder in the province. This landholding represents some 27,000 claims (13,100 km2), or about 10% of the active mineral claims in a province known around the world for its exceptional mineral potential and attractiveness as a mining jurisdiction."
Wow!!
Toronto-based URU Metals is "a London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM - of all the acronyms) AIM-quoted exploration and development company focussing on the development of large-scale metal projects in the Republic of Niger, South Africa and South America." (URU Metals Limited changed its name from Niger Uranium Limited in March 2011.)
This is how NWT explain their intricate and possibly incestuous ties to Cameco:
"Gold - Nueltin Lake Gold-Uranium Project
"URU Metals has an exclusive option agreement with Cameco Corporation (“Cameco”), one of the world’s largest uranium companies, to earn a majority interest in Nueltin Lake Gold-Uranium Project (‘the Project”), in the Kivalliq Region of the Territory of Nunavut, Canada.
"Under the terms of the option agreement, signed on the 5th February 2013, URU Metals will fund a total of CDN$2.5 million on exploration expenditures over a three-year period in return for a 51 per cent stake in the Project." Junior Venture/Exploration Companies get their money from investors, often working people with a bit of money to invest. This is high risk investment which is not how the bigshots operate. They love to see working stiffs take all the risk; then they take over with their already big money and make even more money.
URU Metals' head guy, Roger Lemaitre, worked at Cameco for many years before he wanted to be a big fish himself.
Cameco's web site mentions their own involvement in Niger in their investment section:
"Govi High Power Exploration Inc. (GoviEx)
In August 2008, Cameco formed a strategic alliance, focused on uranium exploration in Niger, with GoviEx Uranium Inc. (GoviEx), formerly Govi High Power Exploration Inc. We hold an approximate 11% interest in the company. Cameco obtained certain rights to make additional investments under the terms of the strategic alliance agreement, which rights have now expired. However, as a partner in the alliance, we continue to assess the value and potential of our investment. GoviEx holds about 2,300 square kilometres of exploration property in the region around Arlit, Niger, which has been extensively explored since the 1960s. The company also holds about 2,400 square kilometres near Agadez, Niger in the early stages of exploration. "
Now, GoviEx Uranium Inc. (named for founder, Govind Friedland, son of mining acidhead, Robert Friedland) has a motley crew on board - French, English, Canadian, American - all guys who want to be even bigger so they've formed their own pack and struck out on their own. No dummies, they've got a secretary who used to work for Jim Pattison group, one of canada's richest and a lawyer who knows how to wheel and deal with the Japanese and the Chinese. Reading their little bios gives clues as to where they are going with their product. If you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish.
Political unrest is a major obstacle to investors. They get really nervous when they hear about road/railblockades, protest marches, civil wars, "unstable governments" and other forms of resistance to "development" which is aka plunder and pillage of Mother Earth.
Clearly, African people are just too many to ignore. There is great resistance to the resource theft. That is why bogeymen like Al Qaeda are created to perpetuate the "islamist" scare and all the exploitable fears about "terrorism". Who are the real terrorists when people go In Our Name to rob territories of their wealth while displacing and killing the people, one way or the other, pollution, murder, violence, robbery???
The biggest uranium mines in the world are in Saskatchewan, Cree/Dene territory in Canada where Cree/Dene people struggle to survive. Canada's publicly traded Cameco is the #1 uranium producer, processor, vendor, contributor-to-nuclear-
Just to put it all into perspective, Canada has 25 nuclear reactors with 6 shutdown, leaving 19 operational reactors. Canada has plenty of hydro electicity.
France has 71 reactors, mostly run by EDF. The French are known for their reckless and selfish overuse of electricity, most of which is generated in nuclear reactors. Eleven reactors are shutdown and 1 is under construction. France has nuclear weapons.
The USA has 131 nuclear reactors, 103 are operational, and 27 have been shut down with one under construction in Tennessee.
China has 46 nuclear reactors. Only 15 are currently operational. Construction plans are roaring ahead. The two Taishan reactors are Joint Venture projects between EDF (30%) and Guangdong Nuclear Power Group. China has plans to build at least 100 new reactors by 2050. They've got lots of people, they don't care who dies from radiation poisoning.
Those looking for a piece of the uranium action in Niger include Japan, Spain, South Korea, China (also involved with GoviEx), Malaysia, Russia, India and of course, the USA, France and Canada. None of the multinational corporatists seem to mind the devastation to the land, loss of flora and fauna, air pollution and massive water consumption and contamination. They are not thinking of the future of our children, theirs and ours.
There are scores of Canadian uranium exploration companies on the stock market. They all depend on the big daddy of them all, Cameco for everything from logistics thru processing, production and sales. Think about it!
Kittoh
We welcome your feedback! Forward, post and consider printing for your cyberphobic friends and relatives.
The Eagle Watch Newsletter is sent to interested individuals, both Indigenous and nonNative, politicians especially the Canadian ones and an assortment of English language media.
More Info in These Notes
You can view more nuclear statistics at the World Nuclear Association web site:
http://world-nuclear.org/
February 9, 2013
Canadian Uranium Shell Games
As the fires of war spread across western Africa, we are looking at Canada's corporate involvements in these resource rich areas. Niger has uranium, Mali has gold, Algeria has oil and gas and it just goes on and on. The elitists, including African nations' war lords and imperial proxies, are making so much money they can't possibly count it all. African people, meanwhile, continue to starve, often living as refugees in their own ancestral territories. Indigenous people of Turtle Island know we are all related. What goes around comes around. We need to know how the resources taken from our territories are used to wage war on other people.
We found a connection between Canada's Cameco, the top dog in the uranium industry and a uranium exploration company in Niger where France has just moved in military Special Operations units to protect its uranium interests there. No wonder they want backup from Canadian Forces.
Corporatists use regular shell games to move about and hide their real activities. Some people don't give a damn. We need to piece this stuff together to find out where a stick in the spokes might fit. Small ax bring down big tree.
From a list of uranium mining companies including exploration "junior venture" companies, we zoomed in on Toronto-based Northwestern Mineral Ventures Inc. which has interests in Niger. Their name was changed to NWT Uranium Corp. in 2007. NWT Uranium, in turn, owns/has major investments in smaller outfits like URU Metals: "A 46.2% stake in URU Metals, a uranium exploration company that holds a total of eight highly prospective properties in Niger, one of the world's leading uranium producers. The eight concessions - named Irhazer, In Gall, Kamas 1 to 4 and Dabala 3 and 4 - cover 1,673,644 (6,773 square kilometers). "
According to their web site, "NWT Uranium also has a 7.31% stake in Azimut Exploration Inc... Azimut's portfolio includes 47 uranium, gold and nickel exploration properties in mining-friendly Quebec, making it the #1 claim-holder in the province. This landholding represents some 27,000 claims (13,100 km2), or about 10% of the active mineral claims in a province known around the world for its exceptional mineral potential and attractiveness as a mining jurisdiction."
Wow!!
Toronto-based URU Metals is "a London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM - of all the acronyms) AIM-quoted exploration and development company focussing on the development of large-scale metal projects in the Republic of Niger, South Africa and South America." (URU Metals Limited changed its name from Niger Uranium Limited in March 2011.)
This is how NWT explain their intricate and possibly incestuous ties to Cameco:
"Gold - Nueltin Lake Gold-Uranium Project
"URU Metals has an exclusive option agreement with Cameco Corporation (“Cameco”), one of the world’s largest uranium companies, to earn a majority interest in Nueltin Lake Gold-Uranium Project (‘the Project”), in the Kivalliq Region of the Territory of Nunavut, Canada.
"Under the terms of the option agreement, signed on the 5th February 2013, URU Metals will fund a total of CDN$2.5 million on exploration expenditures over a three-year period in return for a 51 per cent stake in the Project." Junior Venture/Exploration Companies get their money from investors, often working people with a bit of money to invest. This is high risk investment which is not how the bigshots operate. They love to see working stiffs take all the risk; then they take over with their already big money and make even more money.
URU Metals' head guy, Roger Lemaitre, worked at Cameco for many years before he wanted to be a big fish himself.
Cameco's web site mentions their own involvement in Niger in their investment section:
"Govi High Power Exploration Inc. (GoviEx)
In August 2008, Cameco formed a strategic alliance, focused on uranium exploration in Niger, with GoviEx Uranium Inc. (GoviEx), formerly Govi High Power Exploration Inc. We hold an approximate 11% interest in the company. Cameco obtained certain rights to make additional investments under the terms of the strategic alliance agreement, which rights have now expired. However, as a partner in the alliance, we continue to assess the value and potential of our investment. GoviEx holds about 2,300 square kilometres of exploration property in the region around Arlit, Niger, which has been extensively explored since the 1960s. The company also holds about 2,400 square kilometres near Agadez, Niger in the early stages of exploration. "
Now, GoviEx Uranium Inc. (named for founder, Govind Friedland, son of mining acidhead, Robert Friedland) has a motley crew on board - French, English, Canadian, American - all guys who want to be even bigger so they've formed their own pack and struck out on their own. No dummies, they've got a secretary who used to work for Jim Pattison group, one of canada's richest and a lawyer who knows how to wheel and deal with the Japanese and the Chinese. Reading their little bios gives clues as to where they are going with their product. If you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish.
Political unrest is a major obstacle to investors. They get really nervous when they hear about road/railblockades, protest marches, civil wars, "unstable governments" and other forms of resistance to "development" which is aka plunder and pillage of Mother Earth.
Clearly, African people are just too many to ignore. There is great resistance to the resource theft. That is why bogeymen like Al Qaeda are created to perpetuate the "islamist" scare and all the exploitable fears about "terrorism". Who are the real terrorists when people go In Our Name to rob territories of their wealth while displacing and killing the people, one way or the other, pollution, murder, violence, robbery???
The biggest uranium mines in the world are in Saskatchewan, Cree/Dene territory in Canada where Cree/Dene people struggle to survive. Canada's publicly traded Cameco is the #1 uranium producer, processor, vendor, contributor-to-nuclear-
Just to put it all into perspective, Canada has 25 nuclear reactors with 6 shutdown, leaving 19 operational reactors. Canada has plenty of hydro electicity.
France has 71 reactors, mostly run by EDF. The French are known for their reckless and selfish overuse of electricity, most of which is generated in nuclear reactors. Eleven reactors are shutdown and 1 is under construction. France has nuclear weapons.
The USA has 131 nuclear reactors, 103 are operational, and 27 have been shut down with one under construction in Tennessee.
China has 46 nuclear reactors. Only 15 are currently operational. Construction plans are roaring ahead. The two Taishan reactors are Joint Venture projects between EDF (30%) and Guangdong Nuclear Power Group. China has plans to build at least 100 new reactors by 2050. They've got lots of people, they don't care who dies from radiation poisoning.
Those looking for a piece of the uranium action in Niger include Japan, Spain, South Korea, China (also involved with GoviEx), Malaysia, Russia, India and of course, the USA, France and Canada. None of the multinational corporatists seem to mind the devastation to the land, loss of flora and fauna, air pollution and massive water consumption and contamination. They are not thinking of the future of our children, theirs and ours.
There are scores of Canadian uranium exploration companies on the stock market. They all depend on the big daddy of them all, Cameco for everything from logistics thru processing, production and sales. Think about it!
Kittoh
We welcome your feedback! Forward, post and consider printing for your cyberphobic friends and relatives.
The Eagle Watch Newsletter is sent to interested individuals, both Indigenous and nonNative, politicians especially the Canadian ones and an assortment of English language media.
More Info in These Notes
You can view more nuclear statistics at the World Nuclear Association web site:
http://world-nuclear.org/
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From the Eagle Watch
February 7, 2013
Fire All the Thieves and Creeps on Parliament Hill
The whole lot of them should be fired!!! All the corrupt Agents & Minions of the Crown. We don't like Brazeau but why pick on one Indian when there are so many more thieves and creeps on Parliament Hill???
We know why. They want to discredit Indigenous as much as possible.
Kittoh
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
updated Senator Patrick Brazeau kicked out of Conservative caucus
Senator Patrick Brazeau has been removed from the Conservative Party's caucus. Sources tell CBC News that Brazeau is in a police jail in Gatineau, Que. following an alleged domestic dispute. 12:55 PM ET Read 47 comments47
Senator Patrick Brazeau has been removed from the Conservative Party caucus.
He will continue to sit in the Senate as an independent.
Sources told CBC News Thursday that Brazeau is in a police jail in Gatineau, Que., after what was described as a domestic dispute.
Government house leader Senator Marjory LeBreton sent a letter to Brazeau's office and caucus members this morning informing them of the removal.
Brazeau was one of several senators who have come under scrutiny for claiming to live outside of Ottawa and collecting a generous housing allowance.
More to come
February 7, 2013
Fire All the Thieves and Creeps on Parliament Hill
The whole lot of them should be fired!!! All the corrupt Agents & Minions of the Crown. We don't like Brazeau but why pick on one Indian when there are so many more thieves and creeps on Parliament Hill???
We know why. They want to discredit Indigenous as much as possible.
Kittoh
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
updated Senator Patrick Brazeau kicked out of Conservative caucus
Senator Patrick Brazeau has been removed from the Conservative Party's caucus. Sources tell CBC News that Brazeau is in a police jail in Gatineau, Que. following an alleged domestic dispute. 12:55 PM ET Read 47 comments47
Senator Patrick Brazeau has been removed from the Conservative Party caucus.
He will continue to sit in the Senate as an independent.
Sources told CBC News Thursday that Brazeau is in a police jail in Gatineau, Que., after what was described as a domestic dispute.
Government house leader Senator Marjory LeBreton sent a letter to Brazeau's office and caucus members this morning informing them of the removal.
Brazeau was one of several senators who have come under scrutiny for claiming to live outside of Ottawa and collecting a generous housing allowance.
More to come
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From the Eagle Watch
February 8, 2013
FYI - Nuclear Spying Verdict Overturned
An interesting tidbit in nuclear news. We are preparing some new compilations that will raise your hackles some more. If you haven't already, take a listen to our 2 hour interview on zero point radio:
> http://www.bbsradio.com/
Kittoh
Nuclear spying verdict overturned
07 February 2013
EDF has been acquitted on appeal from a charge of illegally hacking Greenpeace computers. The utility claimed it was also a victim of methods used by a company involved in monitoring the anti-nuclear group.
As the operator of 58 nuclear reactors in France, EDF is periodically the subject of Greenpeace campaigns of many kinds, including repeated attempts to breach plant security. The utility had contracted specialists including Kargus Consultants to monitor Greenpeace activities, but certain Kargus workers went beyond EDF's brief and gained illegal access to the computer of Greenpeace campaigns director Yannick Jadot.
Greenpeace action at Bugey (Greenpeace) 460x321
The most remarkable Greenpeace event in recent years has been this parafoil delivery of smoke bombs to the Bugey power plant. The protester crash-landed on site and was immediately arrested (Image: Greenpeace)
The crimes by Kargus came to light in 2009, prompting EDF to suspend two of its security executives, Pierre-Paul Francois and Pascal Durieux. A trial in late 2011 handed down three-year jail terms for the two men, a fine of €1.5 million ($2.0 million) for the company as well as €500,000 ($670,000) compensation to Greenpeace. The utility had been found guilty of complicity in computer piracy by the court in Parisian suburb of Nanterre.
That decision was overturned yesterday by the verdict of an appeal heard in Versailles. EDF and Pascal Durieux were both acquitted. Only the conviction of Pierre-Paul Francois was upheld; he was ordered to pay €5000 ($6700) in compensation to Greenpeace - half the amount previously specified.
Greenpeace reacted to the acquittal by complaining that 'In France the nuclear industry can do what it wants, the law does not apply'. It said it would urge the Attorney General to look at the case. EDF has not yet commented, but a 2009 letter from its UK subsidiary EDF Energy to Greenpeace UK said that it had "instigated a civil action for damages as a victim of [Kargus]" as soon as it learned of the company's lawbreaking.
The Kargus employees involved, Alan Quiros and Thierry Lorho, both received jail terms and fines after pleading guilty at the first trial.
Researched and written
by World Nuclear News
http://www.world-nuclear-news.
February 8, 2013
FYI - Nuclear Spying Verdict Overturned
An interesting tidbit in nuclear news. We are preparing some new compilations that will raise your hackles some more. If you haven't already, take a listen to our 2 hour interview on zero point radio:
> http://www.bbsradio.com/
Kittoh
Nuclear spying verdict overturned
07 February 2013
EDF has been acquitted on appeal from a charge of illegally hacking Greenpeace computers. The utility claimed it was also a victim of methods used by a company involved in monitoring the anti-nuclear group.
As the operator of 58 nuclear reactors in France, EDF is periodically the subject of Greenpeace campaigns of many kinds, including repeated attempts to breach plant security. The utility had contracted specialists including Kargus Consultants to monitor Greenpeace activities, but certain Kargus workers went beyond EDF's brief and gained illegal access to the computer of Greenpeace campaigns director Yannick Jadot.
Greenpeace action at Bugey (Greenpeace) 460x321
The most remarkable Greenpeace event in recent years has been this parafoil delivery of smoke bombs to the Bugey power plant. The protester crash-landed on site and was immediately arrested (Image: Greenpeace)
The crimes by Kargus came to light in 2009, prompting EDF to suspend two of its security executives, Pierre-Paul Francois and Pascal Durieux. A trial in late 2011 handed down three-year jail terms for the two men, a fine of €1.5 million ($2.0 million) for the company as well as €500,000 ($670,000) compensation to Greenpeace. The utility had been found guilty of complicity in computer piracy by the court in Parisian suburb of Nanterre.
That decision was overturned yesterday by the verdict of an appeal heard in Versailles. EDF and Pascal Durieux were both acquitted. Only the conviction of Pierre-Paul Francois was upheld; he was ordered to pay €5000 ($6700) in compensation to Greenpeace - half the amount previously specified.
Greenpeace reacted to the acquittal by complaining that 'In France the nuclear industry can do what it wants, the law does not apply'. It said it would urge the Attorney General to look at the case. EDF has not yet commented, but a 2009 letter from its UK subsidiary EDF Energy to Greenpeace UK said that it had "instigated a civil action for damages as a victim of [Kargus]" as soon as it learned of the company's lawbreaking.
The Kargus employees involved, Alan Quiros and Thierry Lorho, both received jail terms and fines after pleading guilty at the first trial.
Researched and written
by World Nuclear News
http://www.world-nuclear-news.
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Aboriginal child zapped!
Posted by Sharon Lewis (cause founder of STOP CHILD WELFARE FROM STEALING OUR CHILDREN)
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Marcia Lane has invited you to sign a petition
"I've committed to getting 5 friends to sign this petition. Your voice will make a difference. Sign the petition."
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When evil people call you evil, you know that you are a good person.
When lairs call you a liar, you know that you are truthful.
Know who you are and don't let others tell you who you are." - Dave Kitchen
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