Has everyone in Washington lost their mind, I wonder? I would not approve 106 Million for war efforts let alone making that billions. Who are they trying to kid? It is time to seriously get these guys under control and give them a serious dose of reality!
We all read of the mismangement of the other war money and they expect us to trust them with more? I do not think so!
Obama, please stand up and say no to this insanity! Until they can account for every penny of where the other money went they should not be allowed to get any more. If I am reading the news right it will take 80 billion to last June-Sept of this year. Where on earth does the money go?
Forget the war profiteers/arms dealers and remember Americans!
Maria
If we could somehow get these people concerned in this article here called STIMULUS WATCH: $25 check may cost you food stamps and somehow get them to see that stories like one called Promises Promises are caught in a much worse situation then we can begin to change things in a real way.
In this article it mentions how the Indian Health Service Clinic diagnosed a little 5 year old girl with depression when she quit eating, walking, and complaining of pains in her stomach you can begin to see where the anger and the feeling of being Invisible comes from.
Compassion begins when you can see another person or race as real people too with real feelings and real lives. So many in America need to develop this truer understanding and realize the anger stems from there being no reason it started in the first place except as a group you made a choice, a bad choice whose consequences are very real to those forced to live with this lack of true vision where the horror they are experiencing for the first time is daily life for others.
You can help make them visible again by contacting your Congressmen, your local papers, your friends and family, your coworkers, etc. and exclaim loudly that you support Indigenous rights and demand they do too. It is the start needed to change things for the better.
Thanks for reading about something that I feel needs to be spoken of every day until real change occurs...
I say this since I am an Indigenous person and know what can happen when conditions are stated before talks will happen as with the creation of the BIA. It is where control will always be a part of it and no real equality will happen and it is wrong. Just as it is wrong for us in the USA, it is wrong of Netanyahu to demand it too.
He is 100% in the wrong about this. While he, himself, may not have ordered the mass killing of innocents, it happened and it was wrong. When you are in the wrong you do not get to set the conditions for setting things right since your judgment is not as sound as those who had to defend themselves against your tyranny and greed. No abuser wants to hear the truth about themselves but it must happen for real change to occur.
No one denies the Holocaust was a horrible thing to have happened but it happened to many races and peoples and many around the world are living in occupied countries. For real Justice to occur we must begin with being Just ourselves. It may not be easy to take a good look at yourself but it must be done. The world is changing and we must do all we can to make sure it is to a more enlightened world instead of a falsely good one.
Here is a page showing the Anchorage Declaration from when the Indigenous Global Summit met in Anchorage, Alaska. It may not seem like much but it is a good start. I am printing the opening and it can be read in full at:
http://www.indigenoussummit.com/servlet/content/declaration.html
The Anchorage Declaration 24 April 2009
From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia met in Anchorage, Alaska for the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. We thank the Ahtna and the Dena’ina Athabascan Peoples in whose lands we gathered.
We express our solidarity as Indigenous Peoples living in areas that are the most vulnerable to the impacts and root causes of climate change. We reaffirm the unbreakable and sacred connection between land, air, water, oceans, forests, sea ice, plants, animals and our human communities as the material and spiritual basis for our existence.
I dont think I have ever been prouder to be an American then when I heard that Obama actually used the word 'Palestine' in a speech to the Middle East.
While I can feel for how hard it is for Israel and how they feel everyone is against them, I am glad that the world has changed enough that we can point out that what we are against is how they are treating the Palestinians and is not about their personal religion or beliefs. You can not actively seek to destroy a people while at the same time calling yourself a victum of violence. I know that pain was real and the people deserve a place to call home but that does not give them the right to try to steal other people's lands.
So, I am proud to be American where we now truly seek an honest solution to problems. It can be hard when we believe we know best for everybody and want to help them, but we need to take a step back and let them decide for themselves. In daring to say the truth about that situation, Obama has shown that Ameria as a country is listening and trying to understand how to help in a true and real way.
It makes me a bit worried when seeing how violent the ones who lost the elections are. While I agree that things all over the world need to change, I want it to be a more enlightened world and not a more violent one.
It makes me kind of glad they lost because imagine if they had won. I could see a wave of genocide spreading and all under the banner of Freedom.
We should support change and the people's right to choose for themselves. If they felt that this change was not the right one for them and that this is not the direction they want to head in then we should honor that and not encourage violence against them.
It is a very exciting time in America and I am proud to be a part of helping to create the change. I am an Alaskan Native, an Aleut and was born and raised in Anchorage but my mother was from Attu Island. I hope to help raise awareness about Alaska and help show the beauty of our native cultures to the rest of America.
I believe we can bring about real change but it takes becoming involved and staying involved. There is so much that needs to happen to help create the changes and I look forward to being a part of it. Working as an indigenous American side by side with other Americans I look forward to the challenges we will face and overcome together.
