Koch problem.......Neo-con/liberal elite have three activist arrested

Neo-con elite have three activist arrested. The patriots are told that they will be skinned and eaten and then their skin will be used to make shoes. Then they are each given a final request. The first man asks to be killed as quickly and painlessly as possible. His request is granted, and they poison him. The second woman asks for paper and a pen so that she can write a farewell letter to her family. This request is granted, and after she writes her letter, they kill her saving her skin for their shoes. Now it is the third man's turn. He asks for a razer. The cannibals are confused, but it is his final request, so they give him a razer. As soon as he has the razer blade he begins cutting himself all over and shouts, "To hell with your shoes!" 
  
Hey Mittens.........Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes, so that when you criticize them you will be a mile away and you'll have their shoes.

signed the 47%ers 

BIG BRASS BALLS    LEE CAMP

"Many a man stumbles across the truth, then picks himself up and hurries on as though nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."-

Steve Biko

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."-Mark Twain

  

"We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained."  - Derrick Bell, Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth

On the Killing of Eight Afghan Women

By John Dear S.J.

Who cares about the death of eight Afghan women from our bombs?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32676.htm

Of Bombs and Comics

By Uri Avnery

Does Israel control US policy? Does the tail wag the dog?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32663.htm

Why I Dislike Israel

By Philip Giraldi

The existence of good upstanding Israelis doesn't alter the fact that the governments that they have elected are essentially part of a long-running criminal enterprise.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32668.htm

In Pictures - : The Destruction of Aleppo, Syria's Oldest City

By The Atlantic

36 photos depicting the savage destruction of a people and their city.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32656.htm

Protest To Your Own War Criminals?
Call For Their Arrest Prosecution Punishment!

By Jay Janson

Two towns in Vermont have shown us the way by passing city ordinances for the arrest of the President and Vice President.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32661.htm

In case you missed it
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

By Vincent Bugliosi

Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American soldiers and over 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women, and children; cost the United States over one trillion dollars thus far with no end in sight; and alienated many American allies in the Western world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32662.htm

Issues That Obama and Romney Avoid

By Noam Chomsky

There are two issues of overwhelming significance, because the fate of the species is at stake: environmental disaster, and nuclear war.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32667.htm

Vote WikiLeaks

By Julian Assange

WikiLeaks has decided to intervene in the U.S. election campaign.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32664.htm

To Vote Or Not To Vote?
These Guys

2 Minute Video

You want these guys back? Whaddaya, crazy?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32669.htm

Another Phony Employment Report

By Paul Craig Roberts

A truer picture of the dire employment situation is provided by the 600,000 rise over the previous month in involuntary part-time workers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32665.htm

Top 10 Astonishing Police Brutality Videos Caught on Surveillance Cameras

By Clint Henderson

This top 10 list is controversial, and not for the faint of heart.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32666.htm

Don’t Be A Police Unarmed Shooting Victim

The following are some of the police explanations extracted from news reports why police shot unarmed Citizens. It would appear under the broad guidelines of many cities and states, police can claim—almost any imagined or actual physical act or non-act by an individual—posed imminent threat to the life of an officer to warrant deadly force. For example this can happen to anyone: Police within two or three seconds give contradicting orders confusing a suspect—police then shoot suspect stating suspect did not respond. If your pulled-over by police, reaching toward the glove compartment for your registration after the officer asked for it, may justify police shooting you. Police can claim you reached too fast or without the officer’s permission—that the officer feared for his life. Recently it was reported, after police pulled over an unarmed driver, police shot the driver dead because they allegedly feared the vehicle could assault them although the vehicle’s engine was off. Another similar report stated after two police cars pulled over an unarmed driver after (wedging the driver’s car) so it could not go anywhere, police shot the driver because they allegedly feared being assaulted by his vehicle. So if you are pulled over by police, be sure to park your vehicle at an angle police can’t easily claim posed an assault threat to an officer’s life.

Federal Government has been militarizing, training local police to act like aggressive soldiers, not community police. The U.S. Government intends to establish a National Police Force that will include (armed forces personnel) with state and local police. That is against the Constitution. Expect more shootings of unarmed Civilians—consistent with increased military involvement in local and state police.

It's Not America Anymore

By Brandon Smith

The American value of representation by and for the people is lost.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32670.htm

This Columbus Day... Time to Break the Silence

By Bill Bigelow

The deeper problem was the subtext of the Columbus story: it's OK for big nations to bully small nations, for white people to dominate people of color, to celebrate the colonialists with no attention paid to the perspectives of the colonized.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32673.htm

Presidential Debate Aftermath:
Mitt Romney Wins All-Important BS Contest

By Matt Taibbi

Reporters should have instantly pelted Romney with bags of dogshit for insulting the American people with this ridiculous non-answer, but he was instead praised for the canny "strategy" hidden in the response.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32675.htm

The Illegitimate 2012 Debates

By Carl Gibson

Until the two corporate parties relinquish control of the CPD and allow other candidates to have more of a say, every 4 years will always include the same charade this time of year.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32674.htm

A Plan to Topple Hugo? 

By Mike Whitney

This is why Washington hates Chavez.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32671.htm

Venezuelan Elections: a Choice and Not an Echo

By James Petras

A defeat will provide Obama or Romney with a trampoline to re-launch the reactionary neo-liberal and militarist policies of the pre-Chavez era - the infamous Clinton decade(of the 1990's) of pillage, plunder, privatization and poverty.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32672.htm 

 
US drone Strike Mass Protest with Imran Khan

 
Pauperization of America with Max Keiser

 
Cool New Recycled Flip-Flops Tap Age-Old Technique

Elements in Iran and US that Want War
Larry Wilkerson: After recent meetings with Iranian leaders, it’s clear the US has lost the ability to understand how other states see their interests
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Black Financial and Fraud Report
Bill Black: Obama susceptible to attack by Romney because he failed to deal with systemic risk to financial system - even though Romney would be worse
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The Debate: A Masterful Liar Defeats a Man Without Conviction
Leo Panitch: Romney's defense of small banks, small businesses and the middle class is disingenuous, but Obama share's too many of the same assumptions to counterattack
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The Debate: What They Didn't Talk About
Bruce Dixon, Managing Editor of Black Agenda Report, on first Presidential debate
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Little Debate About Afghan War in Election Campaign
Gareth Porter: Afghan war a failure, yet there is little debate about why and what to do next
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Shadow Banking and Conventional Banking Depend on Government Support
Jennifer Taub - Part 2: I think we need to look at the banking system and say: if our government is providing support, either through the FDIC or through the Fed, which when it engages in printing money obviously affects the economy and the value of goods and services, if a bank has that, they obviously are—this is a government banking system.
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.....................fighting the good fight,  with an independent mind as as the ultimate weapon..

.............kosmicdebris..........................

Vote and learn to produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths and educated Eichmanns

“I am a survivor of a concentration camp.  My eyes saw what no person should witness. Gas chambers build by learned engineers. Children poisoned by educated physicians. Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot and killed by high school and college graduates. So I’m suspicious of education.  My request is: help your students to be human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, or educated Eichmanns.  Reading and writing and spelling and history and arithmetic are only important of they serve to make our students human.”














The reliable, honest fair and unbalanced news sources from the corporate mainstream pool of.......wtf?

EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin interviews Bruce Dixon, of the Black Agenda Report about the state of American politics and the false illusion of choice between presidents. Only days away from the 11th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, Abby takes a look back at consequences of the longest military involvement in US history. BTS wraps up the show with a conversation with Iraq War Veteran, and Co-Founder of March Forward, Michael Prysner, about how soldiers can resist going to war as conscientious objectors, and his personal mission to revolutionize the anti-war movement.

EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks about Obama's kill list which one official has called a macabre "baseball card" set of "terrorists." Abby talks to Andy Roth of Project Censored for a look back at the year anniversary of the drone assassination that killed Anwar al-Aulaqi and his teenage son, both of which were American citizens, and a discusses the dangers of Obama's drone wars. Abby then interviews former CNN Investigative Reporter, Amber Lyon, about CNN's corrupt media empire, calling into question a media establishment where censorship can be bought. BTS wraps up with a look at the upcoming elections in Venezuela, highlighting the successes and controversies that have led to this critical election.

Freedom is a state of mind, not a mind full of state!

goldman sachs is going to beat goldman sachs for president.....The illusion of choice.

"No army can stop an idea
whose time has come"
~Victor Hugo

"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expedience asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a
position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular,
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right!"
~ Martin Luther King

Published on Oct 2, 2012 by TheRealNews

Chris Hedges: The system has not been able to respond in a rational way, the way the Roosevelt administration responded rationally through the New Deal. And because of that, we're in deep, deep trouble. So I think all of our hope now has to be invested in acts of civil disobedience

goldman sachs is going to beat goldman sachs for president!

New York investment bank Lehman Brothers declaring bankruptcy triggered the US financial collapse in 2008. The economic meltdown wiped out more than $11bn of personal wealth in the US. Four years on, why has Wall Street not been held accountable?



Other 3rd party candidates,  Gary Johnson....libertarian party
                                              Jill Stein.....green party
                                              Virgil H. Goode jr.....constitutional party

If you do not live in a battle ground state, voting for the two corporate lackeys makes no since...help a third party candidate gain some traction for later elections, 2016 perhaps. We Americans deserve better than this...........the most qualified nor the most competent are being offered; only the best money can buy choosing democrats or republicans, these current two offered insults the collective intelligence of us all!!  kosmicdebris

.............................Keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons........................
.......................kosmicdebris.........................

A nation can survive its fools

 Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

 Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

 Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and 3 billion can't buy enough to eat.

  When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking for it.

 The Democrats ran on 'Honesty' and I told 'em at the time they would never get anywhere. It was too radical for politics. The Republicans ran on 'Common Sense' and the returns showed that there were 8 million more people in the United States who had 'Common Sense' enough not to believe that there was 'Honesty' in politics.

 We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

 I don't belong to an organized political party, I'm a Democrat.

 So when all the yielding and objections is over, the other Senator said, "I object to the remarks of a professional joker being put into the Congressional Record." Taking a dig at me, see? They didn't want any outside fellow contributing. Well, he had me wrong. Compared to them I'm an amateur, and the thing about my jokes is that they don't hurt anybody. You can say they're not funny or they're terrible or they're good or whatever it is, but they don't do no harm. But with Congress — every time they make a joke it's a law. And every time they make a law it's a joke….
 .…Will Rogers

  Little Debate About Afghan War in Election Campaign
Gareth Porter: Afghan war a failure, yet there is little debate about why and what to do next
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Shadow Banking and Conventional Banking Depend on Government Support
Jennifer Taub: I think we need to look at the banking system and say: if our government is providing support, either through the FDIC or through the Fed, which when it engages in printing money obviously affects the economy and the value of goods and services, if a bank has that, they obviously are—this is a government banking system.

....................................................................................

Everything has changed. America has lost its way. Casting a ballot for one silver-spoon CFR plutocrat over another accomplishes nothing. That's not democracy. It's a fraud….

These are the issues the pseudo-news and infotainment industry will not frame, are not going to frame, obviously because they really don’t care about you, they only care about controlling your behavior, there job is to no longer report the facts, but to increase shareholders wealth. You are not a shareholder, you are their ultimate financers.

Since we no longer control the electoral vote we can control the electors with our dollars, buy nothing, boycotts change oppressive regimes. Historically, boycotts have proven to be the only tool the greedy understand, hit them where it hurts the most….their bank-account. 

Support and encourage local merchants to support local and regionally produced necessities.

Resist shock doctrine by culture jamming. Recognize consumerism.

Listen to an honest assessment from a creditable news source. 

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.".... Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)

...................Keep fighting the good fight, with your minds a weapons!!.........
…………………kosmicdebris…………………..


 

 

Shift hits the fan

When all the trees have been cut down,
when all the animals have been hunted,
when all the waters are polluted,
when all the air is unsafe to breathe,
only then will you discover you cannot eat money.Cree Prophecy

Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men,
we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents.

We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth.

We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians,
therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another.

We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.
John (Fire) Lame Deer
Sioux Lakota - 1903-1976

Lakota Sioux Nation Leaves America

By Stephen Lendman

October 01, 2012 "Information Clearing House" - America betrayed them and all Native Peoples. Throughout US history and earlier, genocide was policy. 

Historian Ward Churchill explained four centuries of systematic slaughter. It went on from 1492 - 1892. It continues today against Native culture.

Churchill estimated around 100 million Native People throughout the Americas "hacked apart with axes and swords, burned alive and trampled under horses, hunted as game and fed to dogs, shot, beaten, stabbed, scalped for bounty, hanged on meathooks and thrown over the sides of ships at sea, worked to death as slave laborers, intentionally starved and frozen to death during a multitude of forced marches and internments, and, in an unknown number of instances, deliberately infected with epidemic diseases."

Destruction of their culture continues in new forms. "The American holocaust was and remains unparalleled, in terms of its scope, ferocity, and continuance over time."

Silence and denial suppress what happened and goes on today. Try finding coverage anywhere by America's major media. Virtually nothing is said, let alone explained. 

Survivors represent a tiny fraction of original numbers. They also symbolize a longstanding US tradition of butchery and viciousness.

After centuries of systematic slaughter, Census Bureau data estimated around a quarter-million US survivors. Those living struggle to get by.

Raphael Lemkin defined genocide as:

"the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" that corresponds to other terms like "tyrannicide, homicide, infanticide, etc." (It) does not necessarily mean the destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings....It is intended....to signify a coordinated plan (to destroy) the essential foundations of the life of national groups" with the intent to eradicate or substantially weaken or harm them." 

"Genocidal plans involve the disintegration....of political and social institutions, culture, language, national feelings, religion, economic existence, personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and" human lives.

The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Convention defines it legally as:

"any (acts like those above) committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the national, ethnical, racial or religious group (by) killing (its) members; causing (them) serious bodily or mental harm; (or) deliberately inflicting (on them) conditions" that may destroy them in whole or in part. 

Destroying peoples' cultures, preventing them from practicing their religion, speaking their language, and/or passing on their traditions to new generations are genocidal acts.

Constitutional provisions don't let government abuse people or deny them their rights. They don't authorize genocide, either within or outside the country. They don't permit theft and occupation of their lands or any others. 

Nonetheless, binding principles are spurned. America, Israel, and rogue NATO partners violate them with impunity. Crimes of war, against humanity, and genocide are official policy. Millions of corpses bear testimony.

On December 17, 2007, a delegation of Lakota people went to Washington. They declared independence. They called it "the latest step in the longest running legal battle" in history.

It's not a cessation, they said. It's a lawful "unilateral withdrawal" from treaty obligations permitted under the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. 

At the time, American Indian Movement (AIM) leader Russell Means said:

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us."

"We offer citizenship to anyone provided they renounce their US citizenship."

"United States colonial rule is at an end."

Signed documents were delivered to the State Department. Sovereignty was declared. The Republic of Lakota was established. It's based on the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie. It created the Great Lakota (Sioux) Nation. It states in part:

"The territory of the Sioux or Dahcotah Nation, commencing the mouth of the White Earth River, on the Missouri River; thence in a southwesterly direction to the forks of the Platte River; thence up the north fork of the Platte River to a point known as the Red Buts, or where the road leaves the river; thence along the range of mountains known as the Black Hills, to the head-waters of Heart River; thence down Heart River to its mouth; and thence down the Missouri River to the place of beginning."

It gave Lakota people portions of northern Nebraska, half of South Dakota, one-fourth of North Dakota, one-fifth of Montana, and another 20% of Wyoming.  

Unilateral withdrawal from all treaties and agreements became policy. America never honored its own. More on that below.

Earlier events led to the 2007 declaration. In 1974, 5,000 International Indian Treaty Council delegates, representing 97 North and South American Indigenous People, signed a Declaration of Continuing Independence.

It was a "Manifesto representing the wisdom of thousands of people, the Ancestors, and the Great Mystery supports the rights of Indigenous Nations to live free and to take whatever actions are necessary for sovereignty."

Numerous elders approved it. They represented ancestors born to live free. They gave delegates two mandates:

(1) Gain international recognition. In September 2007, the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights affirmed it.

(2) "We must always remember that we were once a free People. If we don't, we shall cease to be Lakota."

The right to return to their original free and independent status was asserted. On December 17, 2007, they declared it formally.

In United States v. Sioux Nation (1980), the Supreme Court upheld a $105 million award to eight Sioux tribes. It was compensation for lost land. It was lawlessly taken.

The Court, however, denied what Sioux people most wanted - their land back. As a result, they refused the money. They reasserted their sovereign rights. 

Thirty-two years of compound interest makes the 1980 award worth $400 million today. It's a tiny fraction of what Sioux people lost. They demand and deserve what's rightfully theirs. America's highest court has no sovereignty over their rights. Neither does political Washington.

Lakota people say US law supports them. America systematically broke treaties and stole their land. It's theirs and they want it back. The Republic of Lakota claims it.

On September 29, 2012 Means reiterated what he and others declared in December 2007, saying:

"We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five state area that encompasses our country are free to join us."

He cited longstanding problems and grievances. They include land theft, resource plunder, poverty, unemployment, repression, and overall human depravation. All of it remains out of sight and mind.

The Republic of Lakota described ongoing genocide as follows:

(1) Mortality

Life expectancy for Lakota men is less than 44 years. It's the lowest of all sovereign countries. It's the highest in America. Infant mortality is threefold higher than the US average. Diseases are a major problem. "Cancer is now at epidemic proportions."

Teenage suicide is150% higher than America's average. One-fourth of Lakota children are fostered or adopted by non-Native people. Doing so destroys their identity and culture. Ward Churchill calls it killing the Indian, saving the man.

(2) Disease

Tuberculosis is 800% higher than America's average. Cervical cancer is fivefold higher. Diabetes is eight times the national average. The Federal Commodity Food Program provides high-sugar foods. They contribute to poor health.

(3) Poverty

Annual median income is $2,600 - $3,500. Poverty affects 97% of Lakotans. Many families can't afford essentials most people take for granted. In winter, many use ovens for heat. Simple luxuries are unheard of. Life is hard, merciless, punishing, and unrelenting.

(4) Unemployment 

It's 80% or higher. Government corruption, cronyism, and indifference destroy normal living opportunities.

(5) Housing

In winter, elderly people die from hypothermia. They freeze to death for lack of heat. One-third of homes lack clean water and sewage. About 40% have no electricity. About 60% of families have no telephone.

Another 60% of homes are infected with potentially fatal black molds. On average, 17 people reside in each household. Many have two to three rooms. Some homes built for six to eight people have up to 30 in them.

(6) Drugs and Alcohol

Over half of adults battle addiction and disease. Alcoholism affects 90% of families. Two known methamphetamine labs operate. Authorities haven't closed them.

(7) Incarceration

Indian children imprisonment exceed whites by 40%. Native People comprise 2% of South Dakota's population. They account for 21% of those imprisoned. 

Indians have the second highest state prison incarceration rate in America. Most live on federal reservations. Less than 2% are where states have jurisdiction.

(8) Culture

It's threatened with extinction. It's federal policy to destroy it. Only 14% of Lakotans speak their language. It's not shared inter-generationally. 

The average fluent Lakotan speaker is 65 years old. In another generation or less, perhaps few or none will remain. Lakotan language skills aren't allowed or taught in US government schools. Nor is much of anything about native history and culture. America wants it destroyed and forgotten.

Lakotan struggle began with the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. They call it "fantasy" US history. France sold America 530 million Native land acres for $15 million. Lakotans owned part of it. They and other Native people weren't consulted.

They've been systematically ignored and violated. From 1778 - 1871, Washington negotiated 372 treaties. Their provisions were systematically spurned. 

America's winning the West involved invading, encroaching, stealing, and occupying their lands. That's how imperialism works. It's the same everywhere.

Throughout the 19th century (and earlier), Washington engaged in military, legal, and political battles against Native Peoples. Their rights were contemptuously denied. They were displaced and exterminated. That's how today's America was created.

The 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie was systematically violated. So were provisions of all other treaties. From 1866 - 1868, Washington let the Bozeman trail go through the "Heart of the Lakota Nation."

It was a short cut to Montana's gold fields. Military forts were built on stolen land along its route. Doing so violated 1851 treaty provisions. Battles ensued. Washington negotiated peace. The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty followed. Native People thought they won. Victory was pyrrhic and illusory. 

The Supreme Court's 1883 ex parte Crow Dog decision made no difference. The Court recognized Lakotah freedom and independence. It ruled that tribes held exclusive jurisdiction over their internal affairs. It didn't matter. 

The transcontinental railroad facilitated development, land and resource theft.

In 1885, Congress passed the Major Crimes Act. It extended US jurisdiction into Lakota territory. The same year, the last of the great buffalo herds were exterminated. At one time, they numbered 60 million. Native People relied on them for food.

In 1887, Congress passed the General Allotment Act (the Dawes Act). It ended communal ownership of reservation lands. It distributed 160-acre "allotments" to individual Indians. Tribes lost millions of acres. Wealthy ranchers exploit them today.

In 1888, Congress began prohibiting Indian Spiritual and Prayer Ceremonies. It was part of destroying Native culture. In 1891, a Commissioner of Indian Affairs was authorized. It was to assure Native People obeyed white man's laws.

Many more abuses followed. In Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903), the Supreme Court extralegally recognized near absolute plenary congressional power over Indian affairs. 

It let US authorities steal tribal lands and resources freely. They did so on the pretext of fulfilling federal responsibilities.

Doing so abrogated fundamental indigenous rights unilaterally. The ruling was used to violate hundreds of treaties. Like other Native Peoples, Lakotans were grievously harmed.

Their sacred Black Hills were stolen. So were valued resources on them. Lakotans want back what's rightfully theirs. Their ancestors thought the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty granted them victory. They were wrong.

Yet in 1904, even after Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, some believed the Treaty was "the only instance in the history of the United States where the government has gone to war and afterwards negotiated a peace conceding everything demanded by the enemy and exacting nothing in return."

Until the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act, Native People got what no one had the right to deny them in the first place. In fact, rights afforded them nominally never existed in fact.

The entire history of Native People in America reflects horrific struggles lost. From 1492 to today, they experienced promises made and broken. Disenfranchized people remain. Most are bereft of hope. 

On reservations or assimilated, they're out of sight and mind. Once they lived peacefully on their own land. White settlers changed things. Western civilization destroyed their way of life. There's nothing civilized about it.

They're either ignored, mocked, or demonized in films and society. They're called drunks, beasts, primitives, and savages. America always was a white supremacist society. 

Rich powerful elites run it. Native People and most others don't matter. They're systematically used and abused. They're not served. It's the American way.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net . His new book is titled "How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War" 

http://www.claritypress.com/Lendman.html

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour

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Nothing More Evil

By David Swanson

If you don't object to presidential murder by Democrat, then you simply arrange not to know about it.  Thus, in your opinion, it doesn't exist.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32606.htm

From The Archives
Orwell Rolls in His Grave

Must Watch - Video Documentary

"Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?..."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13062.htm

U.N. Monologues
The Supreme Provocation

By Thierry Meyssan

"Peace is obtained neither by Law nor Force but by compassion towards others and self-sacrifice"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32604.htm

Is Iran Trying To Tell Us Something We Won't Hear?

By Danny Schechter

Sometimes, major media is the last to recognize, shifts in policy positions. Iran is a case in point.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32611.htm

Hate-Speech Hypocrites

By William Saletan

How can we ban hate speech against Jews while defending mockery of Muslims?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32614.htm

What Is Happening to Muslims Will Happen to the Rest of Us

By Chris Hedges

A disturbing pattern of gross infringements on basic civil liberties, put in place in the name of national security, has poisoned our legal system.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32610.htm

Seven Deadly American Sins

By Paul Buchheit

The list doesn't include our most grievous offenses, those of military and economic warfare against the rest of the world. Sinful enough is our behavior at home.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32605.htm

Look Up!
Drones Are Comming To America

By Cenk Uygur

Money is flowing into campaign war chests and covering many billable hours for lobbyists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32602.htm

Noam Chomsky on How Progressives Should Approach Election 2012

By Matthew Filipowicz

"I think they should spend five or ten minutes on it. Seeing if there's a point in taking part in the carefully orchestrated electoral extravaganza."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32613.htm

Marc Faber "The Monetary Policies of the US will Destroy the World."

Video

Famed economist Marc Faber appeared on Bloomberg TV with a harsh, direct warning to investors. "U.S. monetary policies will destroy the world," he said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32609.htm

Phoenix Mayor Loses 4 Pounds On A Week's Food Stamp Budget

By Bonnie Kavoussi

As part of Hunger Awareness Month, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton chose to experience what life is like for the 1.1 million food stamp recipients in Arizona.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32608.htm

Activists Warned : Watch What You Say
Social Media Monitoring Becomes 'Next Big Thing in Law Enforcement'

By Kevin Rawlinson

"People involved in public protest should use social media to their strengths, like getting their message across. But they should not use them for things like discussing tactics. They might as well be having a tactical meeting with their opponents sitting in and listening.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32612.htm


..................................keep fighting the good fight,  with your minds as weapons..................
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SNAP!!......... United States of ALEC

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. 

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues

"As part of Hunger Awareness Month, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton chose to experience what life is like for the 1.1 million food stamp recipients in Arizona. Last week, Stanton, a Democrat, took part in a community challenge to live on a food stamp budget -- just $4.16 to buy food per day, or about $29 per week for one person. Stanton said he was barely able to meet nutritional needs and lost four pounds, according to Fox 10 News Phoenix. He skipped meals and relied on ramen noodles, pasta and coffee, according to KTAR...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Bonnie Kavoussi / The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/greg-stanton-phoenix-mayor-food-stam...

Published on Sep 27, 2012 by MoyersandCompany

Moyers & Company presents "United States of ALEC," a report on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of America has never heard of -- ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. A national consortium of state politicians and powerful corporations, ALEC presents itself as a "nonpartisan public-private partnership". But behind that mantra lies a vast network of corporate lobbying and political action aimed to increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge.

Using interviews, documents, and field reporting, the episode explores ALEC's self-serving machine at work, acting in a way one Wisconsin politician describes as "a corporate dating service for lonely legislators and corporate special interests."

In state houses around the country, hundreds of pieces of boilerplate ALEC legislation are proposed or enacted that would, among other things, dilute collective bargaining rights, make it harder for some Americans to vote, and limit corporate liability for harm caused to consumers -- each accomplished without the public ever knowing who's behind it.

"All of us here are very familiar with ALEC and the influence that ALEC has with many of the [legislative] members," says Arizona State Senator Steve Farley. "Corporations have the right to present their arguments, but they don't have the right to do it secretly."

"United States of ALEC" is a collaboration between Okapi Productions LLC and the Schumann Media Center, headed by Bill Moyers, which supports independent journalism and public watchdogs including the Center for Media and Democracy, whose investigators are featured in the report.

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 Melton’s paradise lost might as well have been written with Egyptian hieroglyphs. I learned way more about what Milton thought by reading what was written about him, than actually reading his gibberish prose. For me Milton only served to muddy the waters of truth. His disillusionment with the church, the institution, was on target, I guess his aim was the educated hypocrites in charge on their own enlightened turf of the day. The faithful peasantry couldn’t read and only allowed to memorize the scriptures given them by the priest who were the gatekeepers of education, the word, the truth. He was right about this being a breading ground for the perversion of the word to promote hidden agendas, extortion to pay penitence for sin to build all the great cathedrals of 15 and 16th century. I do not believe shame and guilt should  be used a tool to exploit ignorance to promote religion by fear.  That is counter to the things Jesus taught.

But with Jesus, not so, his word sands alone and needs no interpretation to understand. It is the application of his teachings is where we have the problems. Explaining the abstraction of eternity came so natural by His use of allegory in parables hence, the good shepherd e.g., he himself never wrote anything down physically, truth stays. Metaphors like, reap what you sow and separating the wheat from the chaff.  

 Solutions are a cooperative effort and must benefit the whole without harming either the whole or the individual. Above all, solutions must be doable and fair. Denial is the enemy of social change. 

Apathy is the fuel that feeds the fire of social decay.  Ignoring  the problem hoping it will go away and fix itself only works on fires that are aloud to burnout. Futility is one person pissing on the fire, hope is two people pissing on it, charity is three more joining in and faith is the rain from heaven that heard the pleas for help in the name of love. I fight the windmills of evil that fan the fires, keeps them burning, the source.

I my criticize many of our out worn social institutions, the main ones being, religion, government, education. Those three areas are where most of our social ills of today begun, are reinforced and continue to be perpetuated.....kosmicdebris

.......................keep fighting the good fight, with your minds as weapons......................

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