native news-March 16
Native News-March 16
Drilling in refuge expected
Senate to vote today on ending moratorium in section of wildlife area
By DAVID IVANOVICH
WASHINGTON - The Senate is poised to vote today to sweep aside a 25-year-old moratorium and allow oil companies to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
RESOURCES
Graphic: Proposed ANWR Drilling
In what could prove the pivotal vote in a debate that has spanned a generation, the Republican-led Senate is expected to narrowly defeat an effort to yank language that would authorize drilling in a portion of this wildlife refuge in northeast Alaska.
"We believe we have the votes," said Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who has been trying for decades to open the refuge to oil and gas exploration full article
Dana speaks on social and environmental justice
by Mark Pesavento
Daily Editorial Board
Barry Dana, community activist and former chief of the Penobscot Nation, treated attendees of the fifth annual Native American Speaker Series to a lecture regarding social and environmental justice in light of Native American concerns last night in Pearson Hall.
Dana, who came to the event from the his tribe's reservation in Maine, addressed the crisis regarding local paper mill industries spilling hazardous chemicals into the Penobscot River, a valuable natural resource for members of the Penobscot Nation.
According to Dana, high levels of Dioxin, a chemical oftentimes used by paper mills in order to bind paper, are present in the river because the State of Maine refuses to adequately regulate the waste management of factories along the river full article
Dakota to lead protest against tax discussions
By GARRETT NEESE, Gazette Writer
BARAGA - A tribal council member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community is organizing a protest against a potential tax agreement with the state.
Fred Dakota will lead a demonstration outside the KBIC tribal center in Baraga at noon Thursday. In a press release Monday, Dakota denounced recent mediation efforts between the state and the KBIC executive board.
The release cited a meeting held last week in Marquette between state officials and board members Susan Lafernier, Gary Loonsfoot, Sr. and Jennifer Misegan. full article
Man goes free after FBI loses evidence
Whittington originally charged with murder
By Jace Radke
LAS VEGAS SUN
Lila Carter watched in shock Monday as the man who two years ago shot and killed her grandson walked out of the George Federal Building a free man.
"I know I can't bring my grandson back, but I believe this man does not belong on the streets," Carter said of John Wesley Whittington, who was sentenced Monday on a charge of felon with possession of a firearm after federal prosecutors dropped murder charges against him.
Whittington was originally charged with the July 26, 2002, slaying of David J. Flores on the downtown reservation of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe. full article
5 Comments:
from The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Sumerian and Acadian religion are much older than the religion of the Babylonians (most of the religion of the Babylonians was taken over from the Sumerians and Acadians). the Babylonian religion later on was taken over by the Jews and afterwards also by Christianity and the Moslems.
The root of all Semitic nations and their languages are also from Sumerian origin.
Ancients knew the existence of all planets
Around 10,000 B.C., many hunter-gatherers living along the coastal plains of modern Syria and Israel and in the valleys and hills near the Zagros Mountains between Iran and Iraq began to develop special strategies that led to a transformation in the human community.
Sumerian myth: human beings were created to do the manual labour the gods were unwilling to do for themselves.
The principle of retaliation ("an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth") was fundamental.
please email our humble commander-in-chief The principle of retaliation ("an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth") was fundamental.(gwbush@whitehouse.gov)
Millions of accounts and tens of thousands of shell companies are used to launder and recycle dollars from the hidden face of the world economy. They take advantage of the existence of 250 free zones and tax havens, 95% of which are former British, French, Spanish, Dutch or US colonies or concessions that remain dependent on the former colonial powers.
See article by Christian de Brie, “Thick as thieves”, April 2000.
Sources : Jean de Maillard, Un monde sans loi; International Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIBV)
Millions of accounts and tens of thousands of shell companies are used to launder and recycle dollars from the hidden face of the world economy. They take advantage of the existence of 250 free zones and tax havens, 95% of which are former British, French, Spanish, Dutch or US colonies or concessions that remain dependent on the former colonial powers.
See article by Christian de Brie, “Thick as thieves”, April 2000.
Sources : Jean de Maillard, Un monde sans loi; International Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIBV)
Millions of accounts and tens of thousands of shell companies are used to launder and recycle dollars from the hidden face of the world economy. They take advantage of the existence of 250 free zones and tax havens, 95% of which are former British, French, Spanish, Dutch or US colonies or concessions that remain dependent on the former colonial powers.
See article by Christian de Brie, “Thick as thieves”, April 2000.
Sources : Jean de Maillard, Un monde sans loi; International Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIBV)
Millions of accounts and tens of thousands of shell companies are used to launder and recycle dollars from the hidden face of the world economy. They take advantage of the existence of 250 free zones and tax havens, 95% of which are former British, French, Spanish, Dutch or US colonies or concessions that remain dependent on the former colonial powers.
See article by Christian de Brie, “Thick as thieves”, April 2000.
Sources : Jean de Maillard, Un monde sans loi; International Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIBV)
Post a Comment
<< Home