The Shoeshone people – theirs the most nuclear bombed territory on Earth
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A message from the most bombed nation on earth More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone territory in the US. Residents still live with the consequences https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/message-bombed-nation-earth-200809112854257.html by Ian Zabart 30 Aug 20, You never know what is killing you when it is done in secret. I watched my uncle suffer from horrible cancer that ate away at his throat and my grandfather die of an auto-immune disease that is known to be caused by exposure to radiation. They say he had a heart attack, but when your skin falls off, that puts stress on your heart. Many of my cousins have died. Last year, my cousin, who is about 50, had a defibrillator put in his chest. Now his daughter, who is a toddler, has heart problems as well. At around the same time, one of my cousins told me his mom has cancer. And then a week later, he found out he has it, too. A few months ago, an elder here died from a rare form of brain cancer. Every family is affected. We have seen mental and physical retardation, leukaemia, childhood leukaemia, all sorts of cancers. The US military industrial complexI am the Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians – the most bombed nation on earth. Our country is approximately 40,000 square miles (25.6 million acres), from just west of Las Vegas, Nevada all the way to the Snake River in Idaho, including a 350-mile (563km) wide strip in the Great Basin. There are approximately 25,000 to 30,000 Shoshone lineal descendants but the United States places the number much lower based on blood quantum (a percentage of ancestry). We have been on this land for at least 10,000 years. Our relationship to the US is based upon the Treaty of Ruby Valley signed in 1863. In the treaty, the Shoshone continued to own the land but we agreed that in exchange for $5,000 a year for 20 years, paid in cattle and other goods, the US could establish military posts on the land, that US mail and telegraph companies could continue to operate telegraph and stage lines on it, that a railway could pass through it, that the US could mine for minerals on it. But shortly before the end of World War II, we started to be overrun by the US military industrial complex, in ways we are only now beginning to understand. Nuclear falloutIn 1951, in violation of the treaty, the US established the Nevada Proving Grounds (what would later become known as the Nevada Test Site and is now known as the Nevada National Security Site) on Shoshone territory and began testing nuclear weapons – without our consent or knowledge. We suspect that Nazi scientists brought to the US as part of Operation Paperclip – to help the US develop nuclear weapons – were involved. On January 27, 1951, the first nuclear test took place on our land, when a one-kilotonne bomb was dropped from a plane flying over the site. Over the next 40 years, it became the premier testing location for American nuclear weapons. Approximately 928 nuclear tests took place on the Shoshone territory – 100 in the atmosphere and more than 800 underground. When the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, 13 kilotonnes of nuclear fallout rained down on the Japanese city. According to a 2009 study in the Nevada Law Journal, between 1951 and 1992, the tests conducted on our land caused 620 kilotonnes of nuclear fallout. I was born in 1964, a year after above-ground testing of nuclear weapons was banned. But the US continued to test weapons of mass destruction under our land almost every three weeks until 1992. The downwindersThe fallout from these tests covered a wide area, but it was Native American communities living downwind from the site who were most exposed – because we consumed contaminated wildlife, drank contaminated milk, lived off contaminated land. For Native American adults, the risk of exposure has been shown to be 15 times greater than for other Americans, for young people that increases to 30 times and for babies in utero to two years of age it can be as much as 50 times greater. When the fallout came down, it killed the delicate flora and fauna, creating these huge vulnerabilities across thousands of square miles of Shoshone territory. The pine trees we use for food and heating were exposed, the plants we use for food and medicine were exposed, the animals we use for food were exposed. We were exposed. As a result, we have watched our people die. Some of the strongest defenders of our land, of our people, just gone. But we have to protect our land and our people. Our identity is the land. Our identity is the pure pristine water coming out of the ground, flowing for millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of years. We see that pure water as a medicine. People need that pure water to heal. But what we find is that we have the US brokering for the nuclear industry, brokering for the mining industry, the destruction of our property for profit. We cannot endure any further risk, whether from nuclear weapons testing or coal ash or oil tracking, any radiation source at all. Hammers and nailsWe are beginning to understand what has happened to us. For more than 50 years, we have been suffering from this silent killer and the US government’s culture of secrecy keeps it silent. But we need relief. In every other part of the world where there have been nuclear catastrophes or nuclear testing – such as Kazakhstan, Japan, even Chernobyl – there are health registries to monitor those who have been exposed, even if the numbers are kept artificially low in some places. We do not have that here in the US. We do not have that for Native American downwinders. We need that kind of testing. We need health registries. We need monitoring. We cannot wait any longer for the health disparities we are experiencing to be identified. We are having to fight the US to get it to understand our basic health needs. We have managed to obtain documents that were declassified in the 1990s. But there are almost two million pages. Trying to understand all of that is daunting. We do not have any funding and we do not have the support of the US to get that work done. So we are having to do this ourselves as we suffer through this continuing health crisis. We have managed to obtain documents that were declassified in the 1990s. But there are almost two million pages. Trying to understand all of that is daunting. We do not have any funding and we do not have the support of the US to get that work done. So we are having to do this ourselves as we suffer through this continuing health crisis. |
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Nuclear bombs are all about power, greed, racism and human depravity. That is all it has ever been about. That is what Trump’s america is now. Scapegoating oppressing and murdering blacks, hispanic, native american, anyone different, disabled, people who opposes trump. It is , so they can build more bombs in the the name of greed, masking as patriotism.
2 police condoned murders of young white people, one a father, in the name of fake idiology by a brainwashed, white racist terrorist-murderer, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Kyle Rittenhouse, the murderer, has been in the front rows of Trump ralleys with his racist mother. The mother who drove him to commit the racist murders, in kenosha wisconsin. She was in army fatigues with an AR-15 assault rifle strapped, around her neck at the time of the murders . Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother drove Kyle to commit the murders.The murderer, Kyle Rittenhouse, had blue surgical glove on as he went about with his ar-15 executing, two young people and wounding another. The police gave kyle rittenhouse a glass of water. They helped him flee, after the murder.
The peaceful protest was over a young black man shot 7 times by the racist, cops of kenosha wisconsin. The young black man, was breaking up an ltercation between two women and by the cops shot him down in front of his children. Jacob Blake.
Aug 26
Those rubber gloves scream premeditated mass murder…
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Kyles mother drove him there in fatigues with an AR-15
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pictre of Kyle rittenhouses mother who gave kyle ride to do the premeditated murders
Kyle rittenhouse has been in front rows at trump ralleys. He and his mother were recruited to do the murders of two young white people one wit a child in kenosha wisconsin. the cops just looked the other way. aided and abetted
like right wing death squads in brazil, pinochets chile, columbia
· Aug 26
UNARMED BLACK MAN: Shot in the back by police.
HEAVILY ARMED WHITE GUY: Given water and THANKED by police.
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· Aug 26
UNARMED BLACK MAN: Shot in the back by police.
KYLE RITTENHOUSE WAS RECRUITED BY ALEX JONES TO DO THE EXECUTIONS IN KENOSHA
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Aug 27
The guy who filmed this ran a recruitment article on Info Wars. He was part of recruiting the shooter. He also interviewed him and filmed him interacting with the police. He appears to be in on it to a certain degree.
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· Aug 27
This is an Info Wars recruitment article, it was written by the streamer on the right whose video description doesn’t mention involvement.
He does mention that they’re Boogaloo boys IN THE ARTICLE.
He recruited Alex Jones gun nuts, #KyleRittenhouse answered the call.
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Alex Jones Recruiting murderers
In the last 10 years:
Antifa – 0 kills
BLM – 0 kills
Kyle Rittenhouse – 2 kills
White Nationalists – 117 kills (as of May 2020)
American Police – over 6000 kills (since 2015)
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TWO YOUNG PEOPLE IN TWENTIES SENSELESSLY MURDERED IN A SMALL TOWN WHERE COPS SHOT A BLCK MAN 7 TIMES FOR BREAKING UP A FIGHT BETWEEN TWO WOMEN
the young white peacefully protesting 24 yo man murdered by kyle rittenhouse had a young child both holding peaceful vigil. NO RIOTS
WHITE SUPREMACISTS, PROUD BOYS, BOOGALOO BOYS. THEY DID ALL THE RIOTING ASSUALTING VIOLENCE IN SEATTLE. ARE DOING THE SAME IN THE REST OF THE COUNTTY. IN PORTLAND. THE COLD BLOODED KILLER AIRFORCE GUT BOOGALOO BOY THAT KILLED COPS IN THE BAY AREA
THE COLD BLOODED MURDERER IN KENOSHA. THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, DYLAN ROOFE THE BLACK CHURCH MASS MURDERER
The rioters rioters looters, assaulters wing property destruction the media and right wing media and trumpers go on about in america are not peacful demonstrator and teachers. They are white political and extremist provocateurs carried in to provoke lies mayhem and violence.
Riot data: Court documents describe assaults to SPD officers, listing suspects by race, hometown
VIDEO:Looting leads to dozens of arrests over the weekend
By: Gary Horcher, KIRO 7 News
Updated: June 3, 2020 – 10:29 AM
SEATTLE — More than 70% of the suspects arrested for crimes ranging from assaulting officers to looting to vandalism in Saturday’s downtown riot came to Seattle from outlying areas, according to arrest records obtained by KIRO-7 from the King County prosecutor’s office.
Documents indicate that 24 of the 81 suspects arrested for felony or gross misdemeanor are from Seattle. The rest are from areas dotting every part of the state and beyond, including Yakima, Spokane, Richland, Portland, Oregon, and Anaheim, California.
And on Sunday, when Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan defined the accused looters by race, data proves she was correct.
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“They are young white males,” Durkan said. “These were not the acts of allies. These were acts of people who came with their own intention to destroy, to injure and to cause chaos.”
Court data shows 21 of those arrested are listed as white males, and 11 are white females. While many of those jailed are listed to be of unknown race, only eight of 81 arrested are described as African American.
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According to prosecutor documents, 22 were arrested for assaults against officers.
Documents indicate that a 20-year-old suspect “(assaulted) officers during the riot while armed with a shotgun, threatening to kill officers.” Another suspect “(punched) an officer in the head, and also hit an officer with a bottle. He was armed with bolt cutters and a knife.”
Documents detail the arrest of another suspect who “ran up behind (an) officer and punched him several times in the head and upper body.”
Seattle police may have only arrested a small fraction of those seen smashing windows and looting, but among those arrested for looting, prosecutors say, “One suspect was outside a looted (store) in possession of $40,000 in stolen merchandise.”
Prosecutors are expected to formally charge many of the suspects Wednesday.
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August 30, 2020 at 5:09 AM
Oregon law enforcement agency openly facilitating violent armed fascists in their plan to invade Portland.
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Video of Clakamus cops abetting fascist rally and racist rioters to Portland
Clackamas Sheriff’s have created a traffic jam to allow the white supremacist rioters to leave as they please into portland
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Bob Dylan performs “Only A Pawn In Their Game” at March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963
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A bullet from the back of a bush
Took Medgar Evers’ blood
A finger fired the trigger to his name
A handle hid out in the dark
A hand set the spark
Two eyes took the aim
Behind a man’s brain
But he can’t be blamed
He’s only a pawn in their game
A South politician preaches to the poor white man
“You got more than the blacks, don’t complain
You’re better than them, you been born with white skin,” they explain
And the Negro’s name
Is used, it is plain
For the politician’s gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white man’s used in the hands of them all like a tool
He’s taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
‘Bout the shape that he’s in
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game
From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks
And the hoofbeats pound in his brain
And he’s taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide ‘neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain’t got no name
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game
Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught
They lowered him down as a king
But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
That fired the gun
He’ll see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain