UNBELIEVABLE!: LGBT Group USES Small Child To Its Own Means!!!

Capitalizing on the story of children?  Or is the right path down a road that is already SO deep in a capitalist—IMPERIALIST world?!?!?  Someone posed this question unto me by the HRC (Human Rights Campaign), of which i am a paid member:

Malcolm is only seven years old, but he's already decided to do something about the injustice in his world. After his grandmother gave him money to give to charity, Malcolm made a donation of $70 to HRC, and sent the note to the right.It's gifts like this that make possible everything we do – from ourWelcoming Schools program to our efforts to counteract the bigotry of hateful pastors, and our fight for equality in America's laws.But Malcolm can't do this alone – and we can't do it without you. Match Malcolm's commitment – and show you're ready to fight.

I find it hard to believe that a 7-y.o. can comprehend the plight of the modern LGBT community. If he CAN, should we not just TRY EVERY child as an ADULT for EVERY crime? IT'S THE SAME ARGUMENT. Y E S I T I T I S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should mentally disabled be given the death penalty? It's all the same—if you're SANE! If not, then you very well may be an AMERICAN, if not specifically a TEXAN!
Yeah, i said it, BITCHES, fvck you all!! Can we have it both ways? NO! Double standards are sh!t. Leave the kids out and lets fight discrimination amongst adults who can stand to reason [eventually (hopefully)]. I don't like it (discrimination). Yes, i want equality, but let's discuss amongst ADULTS and not use children as PAWNS.
Disgusting!!!
Sensationalism! We are NOT the Tea Party, we are not the GOP, we are not the [Un]Right, we are Sensible, we are Reasonable, we are Sane, we know right from Left and Right from Wrong. We know that this a battle amongst ADULTS not minors. We know better than to EXPLOIT CHILDREN!!! Use LOGIC, use COMMON SENSE, use RATIONALITY, but for gosh sakes do NOT use CHILDREN!!!

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I have several aliases/email accounts, none of which other that the public one do i wish to, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX,  i feel safe to reveal here.
-RJN

Register for the National Conference for Media Reform

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UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Another UN move that is meaningless because no one will enforce it when it is being violated. No surprise that the USA, Canada, Austalia and New Zealand initially refused to sign it. Now, it is accepted by the UN that they have their own interpretation?!! The USA is EVIL and the UN is GUTLESS and [politically] USELESS.

Indigenous rights declaration universally endorsed

The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has received universal backing from the international community, with the United States being the last UN Member State to endorse it.

By adopting the Declaration, States have committed to recognizing indigenous peoples rights under international law, with the right to be respected as distinct peoples and the right to determine their own development according to their culture, priorities, and customary laws.

The Declaration further affirms that Governments shall consult indigenous peoples with a view to obtaining their free, prior and informed consent prior to approval of any project affecting their lands, any potential displacement and relocation of populations, and adoption or implementation of administrative or legislative measures which may affect them.

The United States was one of the only four countries which had voted against the Declaration when it was submitted for adoption at the General Assembly in 2007 - Australia, Canada and New Zealand were the other three opponents. Since then, these three countries have endorsed the Declaration and expressed their own understanding on certain aspects of the text.

While endorsing the Declaration, the United States has expressed its own understanding of the right to self determination, and on free, prior and informed consent.

The endorsement has sparked many reactions among indigenous rights circles globally. Tonya Gonnella Frichner, North American Regional Representative to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), expressed her satisfaction at the United States’ official support of the Declaration.

“It is now coming on board with the community of nations that adopted it at the General Assembly in 2007”, she said. “We are counting on the good will of the United States which would mean that the U.S. would move forward, without restrictions, in a positive way implementing the Declaration as it was adopted, by the United Nations.”

Myrna Cunningham, from the Miskitu people of Waspam in Nicaragua, and a newly appointed UNPFII member is hopeful the endorsement would strengthen respect for indigenous peoples. “The Declaration not only constitutes an international standard with regards to indigenous peoples’ issues, but it also sets an agenda. Thus, if duly taken into consideration, US endorsement of the Declaration would result in a stronger respect for indigenous peoples and in the implementation of specific measures to ensure their full participation in projects that may affect them.”

Jannie Lasimbang, from the Sabah community of Malaysia said that for indigenous peoples of Asia, the endorsement by the US would be an added reason for governments to recognise indigenous peoples in their respective countries.

“It will also emphasize the need to put the Declaration into action, in particular, aspects that will assert the rights of indigenous peoples”, she added.  “President Obama in his remarks accords Native Americans the recognition they deserve and the need to learn from history in order to move forward and addressed many aspects related to indigenous peoples' self-determination.”

The Declaration is now among the most widely accepted UN human rights instruments.  It is the most comprehensive statement addressing the human rights of indigenous peoples to date, establishing collective rights and minimum standards on survival, dignity, and wellbeing to a greater extent than any other international text.

While such recognition exists in some national laws, some of the Declaration’s provisions have yet to be respected. This is a particular concern for Mr. Kanyinke Sena, an indigenous Ogiek from Kenya.

“Given the USA global presence and influence, this new policy shift gives indigenous peoples globally a new ally, with the much needed political, social and economic muscle, with whom they will together hold hands in the onward march towards the recognition, respect and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples on the basis of the Declaration.”

23 December 2010

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The American Dream

As posted at UNCENSORED on 5 Jan 2010:

The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film

that shows you how you’ve been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system.

All of us Americans strive for the American Dream,

and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away.

Do you know how your money is created?

Or how banking works?

Why did housing prices skyrocket and then plunge?

Do you really know what the Federal Reserve System is and how it affects you every single day?

THE AMERICAN DREAM takes an entertaining but hard hitting look at how the problems we have today are nothing new,

and why leaders throughout our history have warned us

and fought against the current type of financial system we have in America today.

You will be challenged to investigate some very entrenched and powerful institutions in this nation,

and hopefully encouraged to help get our nation back on track.

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Facebook, Israel and Bullshit

I am posting this on my blog, because Facebook wouldn't let me post the direct link to the article to my wall due to it being a message which "contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy."  I will post this article on Facebook via my blog. 


From the Ma'an News Agency: "Israeli Investigation Doubts Death By Tear Gas" [Tue 4 Jan 2011]

Israeli investigation doubts death by tear gas

Published today 13:00

 

JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israel's military sought to cast doubt Monday on reports that tear gas fired by its troops caused the death of a Palestinian protester, prompting fierce rebuttals from activists.

Jawaher Abu Rahma died overnight Friday after inhaling massive amounts of tear gas at a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier, according to Israeli and Palestinian activists and staff at a Ramallah hospital.

But a high-ranking Israeli military official told AFP that the "army doubts the authenticity of that version, because the initial inquiry has uncovered many contradictions and improbabilities, which raise questions."

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the hospital listed Abu Rahma's cause of death as "tear gas inhalation, according to the family," and questioned why the family's opinion was given on the death certificate.

The official also contended that tear gas disperses rapidly in the air over open ground and does not kill protesters, questioning whether Abu Rahma was even at the December 31 demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil'in.

"Rahma does not appear in any photos taken during the protest in question and it's possible she didn't participate in it," he said.

Activists and Abu Rahma's relatives slammed the Israeli military for seeking to cast doubt on the death through anonymously given quotes, asking why military officials were not willing to address the issue on the record.

"Their claims are based on absolutely no fact. They bring absolutely no evidence to any of these claims," said Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli activist who told AFP he attended the demonstration with Abu Rahma and saw her there.

"We, on the other hand, have the testimony of the doctors at the hospital. There were numerous witnesses who have seen her at the demonstration," he said.

"We will soon have a report from the Red Crescent saying that she was evacuated from the demonstration due to tear gas inhalation."

He ridiculed Israeli military claims that Abu Rahma was suffering a terminal illness, saying her employer could testify she worked the day before the protest, "which is not something someone with a terminal illness would do."

Hospital director Mohamed Eideh told AFP that Abu Rahma arrived at the hospital with her parents, suffering lung failure.

"Her parents, who accompanied her in the ambulance, said she had inhaled a large amount of tear gas and said she had no pre-existing serious medical condition," he said.

"The lung failure and the liquid that was coming out of her mouth when she arrived at the hospital were signs or symptoms that she was exposed to tear gas."

On Friday, the army said it had used unspecified "means of dispersing demonstrations" against some 250 violent protesters taking part in a weekly rally against the Israeli separation barrier near the West Bank village of Bil'in.

Photos showed clouds of tear gas billowing around stone-throwing protesters.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad also attended the protest but was unhurt.

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Capitalism At Work: The Gulf Coast

Just because you do not hear about it on the news doesn't mean it's not happening.  The effects of the Gulf Coast/BP oil spill disaster will be felt for a lifetime–many peoples' lifetimes.  


So far, we've seen BP lie about the severity of the disaster, the federal government protecting BP and limiting their total financial liablilty, BP and Obama in cahoots to limit payments to individuals, strong-arming them into unfair "take it or leave it" deals, media blockades, local residents' livelihoods seriously disrupted, serious possible cover-up of human deaths and all-around deception, malfeasance and incompetence both before and after the disaster.  These are the workings of capitalism.  


Here's the latest word on the situation in the Gulf and ramifications for humans, their economy and the world in which they take for granted (article from  Uruknet):

BP oil disaster’s effects will ‘go global,’ Gulf Coast activist warns [ 73551 ] -

By Nathan Diebenow

Raw Story , Janaury 3, 2011 The effects of the disaster that poured millions and millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico last spring will have global ramifications, a Gulf Coast activist recently warned. "What's been done in the Gulf is going to eventually affect every single American citizen," Kindra Arnesen told Project Gulf Impact in a recent interview. She continued, "This is still going to go global because as the economy and the United States goes under the sledgehammer... the rest of the world is going to feel it." "This isn't just about the United States. This isn't just about the Gulf Coast. This is about a whole planet because one hand washes the other," she added. Arnesen, a South Louisiana mother who with BP's invitation toured areas devastated by the Macondo Well explosion, described the negative health effects to which she and others, including oil spill clean up crews, were exposed around the Gulf Coast. One such crew she encountered had brown spots on their bodies. Her friend on the same crew currently has bruising across her stomach, she said. "It didn't look like someone punched her in the stomach," Arnesen explained. "It looked like the blood vessels underneath the skin surface were literally breaking and the blood was slowly coming to the surface." "People are getting sick all over the Gulf Coast," she added. "If people who live here can get sick, then people who come here can very well get sick." Arnesen also noted that the chemicals used in the clean up are known to make animals sterile. "We're not that much different than a species in the Gulf," she said, taking into account the area's children. According to the coastal zone director of Plaquemine Parish, the oil spread across the Louisiana shoreline after the well was capped in September from 287 miles in July to 320 miles in late November. "The government does not have a plan," Arnesen said. "BP is about to pull the response efforts out of the gulf. We've got to step up to the plate and say something." This video is from Project Gulf Impact, broadcast Dec. 31, 2010.

See also:

Abracadabra! BP's Disappearing Act

Coersion: Feinburg/Obama to force gulf victims to take minimal compensation from BP, stripping their right to further compensatory redress.

First Amendment Has been Outlawed in Gulf

Gulf Oil Spill

Photographers Say BP Restricts Access to Oil Spill (Newsweek)

"This is a Nightmare" -- Clean-up Efforts Proving Costly for Wildlife and Human Health

Kucinich speech regarding Gulf oil spill

Could Millions Die From Gulf OIL SPILL?

Seize BP

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URGENT: Action needed in support of Mazin Qumsiyeh

From Stanley Heller of "We Support Mazin Qumsiyeh:"


Mazin Qumsiyeh former of the faculty of Duke and Yale and now teaching at Bethlehem University has been arrested for objecting to an exapnding settlement in a Palestinian town. (details below)



The best time to make contact on arrests is immediately, before anything goes too far. Note from Jesse Qumsiyeh that they’ve already thrown water on the prisoners.



CALL CALL CALL





the U.S. office in Jerusalem for the Territories is

011-972-2-622-7221 or 011-972-2-622-7207

from 1 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time





at all other times for emergencies like arrests use this number

011-972-2-622-7250

[ I just called so they do know the facts. What they need to see is that lots of people are behind Mazin ]





ask to speak to a duty officer





also make an email JerusalemACS@state.gov





Explain that you’re worried that American citizen Mazin Qumsiyeh will be mistreated, that the reason for the arrest is false, that Israelis have no right to build or expand a settlement on Palestinian land.



The arrest took place in the West Bank, in Al-Walaja, in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem. If you didn’t get Jesse’s email the main part is below





The other person to contact is Richard Blumenthal, the current Attorney General of the State of CT, Mazin’s last address. (Blumenthal was just elected Senator, but he still is AG) I’ve spoken to him in the past about Mazin.



attorney.general@ct.gov 

Civil Rights/Torts Department 
(860) 808-5160








Let me know what reaction you get. And let your friends know about this.







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from Jesse



Link to the pictures of arrests http://tinyurl.com/3xjky9j



If you are currently in the Bethlehem area, please join us for a demo set for this Friday morning December 24, 2010 at 9 a.m. at Al-Walaja. Contact 0569956478 for information.



This afternoon at around 2:30 Mazin said that we have to go to Al-Walaja immediately. He said he just got a call from the villagers that Israeli bulldozer was clearing an area in a different side of the village (the villagers were still trying to figure out the legal situation) than the familiar site where illegal Israel wall construction has been going on for the past year. We were at his office at Bethlehem University at the time. We dropped everything we were doing and took off. When we arrived at the site, the bulldozer was idle with a dozen solders and private security personnel around. We found out from the 20 some villagers gathered there that they managed to asked the work to be stopped pending further instructions. Thirty minutes later, some military spokesperson came to talk to the villagers in Arabic (which I don't understand.) He came along with more armed forces - there were about 50 to 60 by then, more than the number of the local villagers present. If I understood correctly through Mazin's brief translation, Israeli spokesperson was saying that their work was based on the 2006 order (but that order has expired and currently there is a supreme court case pending.) So as the bulldozer resumed, and the soldiers spreaded out getting villagers away from the work site and started arresting people who simply were hanging around there. While I was taking picture of a Palestinian male being taken away by Israeli soldiers, I suddenly noticed Mazin was surrounded by soldiers in a lower level terrace from where I was standing trying to speak to the solders (probably telling them they don't have any valid work order and should not resume the bulldozing.) Right at that moment, they decided to take him away. That was around 3:20 p.m., less than an hour after we got there. I only remembered to take a picture of him being taken away from a distance. In rapid succession, Israeli soldiers snatched more Palestinian villagers - in all eight of them, including an older gentlemen, two teeagers, three other gentlemen, and Sheerin Al-Araj whom I knew as the vocal activist from the village.



Mazin was not reachable by phone after that for two hours. Then I reached him by phone and took down some notes from him during a short conversation. He said that they are detained outside Bethlehem Checkpoint 300 at the time. An Israeli soldier named Almog Kahalani was very rough with them. He beat the two young Palestinian men, causing one with stomach problem. The soldiers were very rough with Sheerin that I can hear in the background while talking with Mazin on the phone. Three of them had metal handcuffs, he and the rest were tied with plastic handcuffs that was very tight and causing circulation problem. A young men's handcuff was so unbearably tight but Israeli soldiers refused to loosening it. The soldiers had just untied the plastic ones after about two hours (but kept the metal ones on the other three, Sheerin was one of them) and that's why Mazin was able to use his hand to hold his phone and speak with me. They were asked to sign on a piece of paper (don't know what's the content but must be in Hebrew that nobody understand). But everyone of them refused to sign as advised by a Palestinian lawyer who was present there. While detained there, they tried to speak to the soldiers about international law, but the soldiers were saying that they don't give a f--- about international law and you people and they only care about obeying orders. Mazin reasoned to them that German soldiers were also obeying orders during the Nazi regime. The Israeli solders responded by saying that German soldiers would have shot you by now. 



Another hour later, I got another update from Mazin that they have been transferred to Atarot (I don't know where is this, but people familiar with this said it is near Ramallah.) They are waiting to appear in front of a judge. They are cold and hungry. The Israeli personnel there sprayed cold water on them and claiming it is an accident.