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BBC-TV: "Set up to steal it again." Is 2008 already fixed?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:39:46 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: It's quite possible, ya know--the neocons are very, very sneaky and corrupt and our voting systems are outrageously flawed.

Clip Source: www.stealbackyourvote.com

"A lot of Europeans wonder: Why are Americans so crazy, they keep reelecting this guy?” Well the answer is, we don’t! They keep stealing these elections! And they stole it in 2000, they stole it in 2004, and they’re all set up to steal it again!" - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on BBC Television Newsnight.

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On Friday at 6pm and 10pm Eastern Time, BBC America will bust open the story of the systematic attack on US voters that could easily cost Barack Obama the White House. (Watch the promo below)

Or watch it, beginning Friday night, at www.Gregpalast.com.

Newsnight investigative reporter Greg Palast travels from the Native pueblos of New Mexico to the war-zone of the 8 Mile neighborhood of Detroit to meet some of the three million voters (Show me more...)

StealBackYourVote.org will be back up and running soon - for now you can download the comic and order bulk print copies of the Investigative Comic Book below.

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al-quaida

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:25:15 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

"The enemies of Islam are facing a crushing defeat, which is beginning to manifest itself in the expanding crisis their economy is experiencing," said Gadahn, in a clip of the message distributed by the SITE Intelligence Group, a Washington-based monitor of militant Web sites.

In a half hour video message, California-native Adam Gadahn urged Pakistanis to unite against their government and U.S. forces, and taunted Americans over their economic crisis, relating it to their military interventions.

al-Qaida pointed to economic troubles in the United States as proof that "the enemies of Islam" face defeat, in an English-language video released Saturday.

Kiowa Pochoir Prints

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:13:53 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Amazing Kiowa art from BibliOdyssey.

Clip Source: bibliodyssey.blogspot.com

"The Kiowa Five were a group of painters who earned national and international acclaim during the early twentieth century. The group actually consisted of six individuals, Spencer Asah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke, Lois Smoky, and James Auchiah.

Pochoir Prints of Ledger Drawings by the Kiowa Five, 1929 from the National Anthropological Archives, hosted by the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS). [click on 'Pochoir prints of ledger drawings by the Kiowa Five, 1929.'] The above sampling (spot cleaned) represents about half of the prints available.

Tags: native americans, native art, kiowas, kiowa five, arts, america

Deeper Understanding Through questions

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:13:55 GMT

clipped by: jamminsoul
clipper's remarks: from site of MI sources

Clip Source: www.csub.edu

DEEPER UNDERSTANDING THROUGH QUESTIONS

By Ellen Weber Houghton College

Biological research tells us that our brains "like" challenges. They are hard-wired to complex complex puzzles and address questions. So it makes sense to raise challenging questions to help students engage with and apply facts. Jared Diamond won a Pulitzer Prize when he asked: "Why were Europeans, rather than Africans, or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?" Answers to most questions will not win national prizes, but students understand deeply what they question most. So inquiring teachers can help students learn more through posing key questions. Questions motivate learners to ask, wonder and discover in order to know.

Slow Income Growth For Middle America

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:47:50 GMT

clipped by: jklugman
clipper's remarks: Essentially, family incomes are not keeping pace with the productivity of the United States.

Via Mark Thoma

Clip Source: lanekenworthy.net

The following chart tells the story. It shows inflation-adjusted GDP per capita and median family income from 1947 (the earliest year for which the income data are available) to 2007. To facilitate comparison of the over-time trends, each is indexed to its 1973 level. Since the mid-to-late 1970s, growth of income at the median has been slow — very slow — relative to growth of the economy. The current decade, with no improvement at all in median income, is especially striking.

Various excuses and rationalizations have been offered: It’s okay because Americans now get more in employer benefits instead of in their paycheck. Family size has shrunk, so slow income growth isn’t a big deal. A lot of those in the bottom half are immigrants, and even with slow income growth they’re better off than they would have been in their native country. None of these is compelling (see here or here).

Tags: lane kenworthy, income, inequality, gdp

Lee Sultzman's Native Histories - Miami

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:49:47 GMT

clipped by: lablondee

Clip Source: www.dickshovel.com

MIAMI
HISTORY©
(revised 12.29.99)

Using the Internet, this can be more inclusive. Feel free to comment or suggest corrections via e-mail. Working together we can end some of the historical misinformation about Native Americans. You will find the ego at this end to be of standard size. Thanks for stopping by. I look forward to your comments...Lee Sultzman.

U.S. Military Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers’ ‘Suicides’?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:40:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: as well as probably hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women and girls.

Clip Source: www.truthdig.com

U.S. Military Keeping Secrets About Female Soldiers’ ‘Suicides’?

Posted on Aug 26, 2008

By Col. Ann Wright

Since April 2008, five more U.S. military women have died in Iraq—three in noncombat-related incidents. Ninety-nine U.S., six British and one Ukrainian military women and 13 U.S. female civilians have been killed in Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain, as well as probably hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women and girls. Of the 99 U.S. military women, 64 were in the Army active component, nine in the Army National Guard, seven in the Army Reserve, seven in the Marine Corps, nine in the Navy and three in the Air Force. According to the Department of Defense, 41 of the 99 U.S. military women who have been killed in Iraq died in “noncombat-related incidents.” Of the 99 U.S. military women killed in the Iraq theater, 41 were women of color (21 African-Americans, 16 Latinas, three of Asian-Pacific descent and one Native American—data compiled from the Web site www.nooniefortin.com).

Cellular for the deaf

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:35:31 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: Cell phones are an extension of our body, thus it is not a surprise...

Clip Source: uwnews.org

Signing by cell: Can you see me now?

A group at the UW has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone.

Computer science doctoral student Anna Cavender, who learned sign language after joining the MobileASL group, demonstrates the device. Users can hold the phone in front of them and sign with one hand, but most people prefer to set the phone on a table and sign with both hands.

This is the first time two-way real-time video communication has been demonstrated over cell phones in the United States

The video is posted at http://youtube.com/watch?v=FaE1PvJwI8E.

For mobile communication, deaf people now communicate by cell phone using text messages. "But the point is you want to be able to communicate in your native language," Riskin said. "For deaf people that's American Sign Language."

They discovered that the most important part of the image to transmit in high resolution is around the face

Tags: technology, cell phone, deaf

Native American

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:47:58 GMT

clipped by: Silmarwen

Clip Source: dj1000.stumbleupon.com

Freedom For All

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Native American

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:40:13 GMT

clipped by: Silmarwen

Clip Source: dj1000.stumbleupon.com

Two Wolves

An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren
about life. He said to them...

“A fight is going on inside me... it is a terrible fight and it is between
two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret,
greed, arrogance, self pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false

pride, superiority and ego.

The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity,
humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity,

truth, compassion and faith.

This same fight is going on inside you and every other person, too.”

They thought about this for a minute, and then one child asked

his grandfather...

“Which wolf will win?”

The old Cherokee simply replied... “The one you feed.”

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Wolves

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:35:36 GMT

clipped by: Silmarwen

Clip Source: dj1000.stumbleupon.com

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McCain has big lead in South

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:04:55 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Not surprising, considering the level of education and general intelligence of Southerners...Yeah I called 'em dumb. But I am so sick of hearing even Obama supporters that keep saying that McCain is "honest" or "honorable" or a "hero" who served his country well...when he bombed people in an illegal and immoral war of aggression and lies all the time! And it's not just Southies who are stupid. Pitiful country, this. "the electorate are to stupid to govern" My new favorite quote...forget who, but true.

Clip Source: www.mcclatchydc.com

Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain enjoys a 16-point lead — 51 percent to 35 percent — among Southern voters over rival Democratic U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, a new poll by Winthrop University and ETV shows.

And, the further into the South you go, the larger McCain's lead grows, the poll of likely voters in 11 Southern states shows.

McCain's strongest support comes from white working-class Southerners — who favor him by a 34-point margin — and white evangelicals — who favor the Arizonan by 54 percentage points.

Individual state-by-state polls have shown Obama within striking distance of McCain in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and Georgia.

That's no short order in the South, either, said Obama supporter John Hines Jr. of Effingham, S.C. "For older Americans, I think color is still an issue," said the 53-year-old paper maker.

"I hate to knock on the color thing, I really do," said Hines, a native South Carolinian. "But I think it’s a factor."

Unequal corporal punishment in schools

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:30:19 GMT

clipped by: ukeness217
clipper's remarks: Should schools and teachers have the right to use corporal punishment? If they do, how can they make sure it's even? Do certain populations misbehave more often causing the inequity, or does it highlight possible prejudice in the classroom?

Clip Source: www.citizensugar.com

corporal punishment is legal in schools in 21 US states. It is, however, illegal in 106 other countries

according to this

new survey

almost a quarter of a million kids

have been physically disciplined in schools. Opponents of the paddling practice call it abuse, while supporters say it works wonders.

Whether it works or not is mitigated by the study finding that the punishment isn't doled out equally.

African-American girls were more than twice as likely as white girls to be hit, as were kids with disabilities and Native-Americans.

African-American students were 17.1 percent of the student body, and 35.6 percent of those paddled. Students with disabilities

were 10.7 percent of students and received 18.4 percent of the punishment

Though little research has been done on corporal punishment's efficacy in classrooms, research shows it doesn't work in the home.

It makes them more aggressive, more delinquent, and makes them have more mental health problems.

Tags: children, corporal punishment, education, discipline, prejudice, minority, schools, u.s.

Indian Truat Fund Scandal-

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:56:05 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: 1887 the US government took control of the properties and never paid a nickel for the oil, timber etc etc. 121 years of rip-off. Now a judge agreed to pay some. My question: Where are the billions, not millions?

Clip Source: www.fcnl.org

Honor the Promises to Native Americans

Native American Trust Fund Scandal

When the U.S. government took control of Native Americans’ property rights in 1887, Indians were assured they would receive all the income from their land. They never did. According to accounts from whistle-blowers, money belonging to individual Indians was pilfered, skimmed, redirected, or thrown in with general government funds by the U.S. Department of the Interior or its appointed representatives.

In 1996, a class action lawsuit filed by Eloise Cobell of the Blackfeet tribe on behalf of 500,000 Indians demanded an accounting and restitution of the missing funds. The court found gross mismanagement, with the government unable to account for billions of dollars from logging and oil drilling on Native lands. The suit initially asked for $30 billion in restitution. Proposals have varied upward and downward from that figure, with the U.S. government suggesting at one point that it owed no money.

Finally! Court rules US owes Native Americans $455M

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:58:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Suit seeks to force US govt to account for all royalties due individual Native Americans since 1887 on seized lands; they've been forced to accept far less than market value of drilling rights on their lands for 120 years. Government protecting business interests by paying low royalties, robbing poor people. I hope they appeal - this isn't near enough.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Court Rules US Owes Native Americans $455M for Land Drilling

A federal judge has ruled the US government owes a group of Native Americans more than $400 million for unpaid royalties on drilling for oil and gas. The $455 million judgment is a fraction of the $47 billion the Natives are seeking. The case marks largest-ever class-action lawsuit against the US government. The suit seeks to force the government to account for all royalties due individual Native Americans since 1887 on seized lands. Plaintiffs say they are considering an appeal.

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