While progressives and academics calculate the exact amount of generational grief the Moose Jaw Warriors name creates for First Nations, a town in Spain undertakes similar discussions.
The 60 residents of Castrillo Matajudios – which translates as ‘Castrillo Kill Jews’ – will vote on the name change after Mayor Lorenzo Rodriguez submitted the proposal recently.
Addendum: This was posted before I heard about the shootings in Kansas. It feels a little trite, now.
If questions like this are raised on American ‘conservative’ sites, imagine the ideas floating about in the progressive half.
Given that no American political leader favored fighting for Ukraine, the only argument for fighting for a NATO member that is even less strategically important would be a sheet of paper.
Because the worth of man is defined by the value of his word. Because NATO followed you into Afghanistan, rightly interpreting 9/11 as an attack on America. Because you elected a fool we followed again into the mess that Libya turned into. Because without honour, you have no soul.
Is there any doubt that the US is the big stick in NATO’s arsenal? No. Want to talk about the dissolution of NATO, fine, but that isn’t brought up,
Canada, France, and the UK invested heavy political capital in your Syrian red-line, the UK PM to the point where he’s all but a lame-duck. And you let them drift.
And you wonder why Israel is giving your leaders the finger? Why the PA is ignoring Kerry? Why the Euro’s are telling you to shut-up about Russia? Why Iran, Syria, Russia and AQ are running rough-shod over your “smart” foreign policy?
You, America, YOU, have lost your soul, not Obama, Holder, Kerry, Clinton or Bush. You. No one in the world trusts you anymore, we all just hope you wake the hell up, because you built this world we live in and we aren’t strong enough to keep it.
Clayton Kennedy, former Attawapiskat co-manager, charged with fraud.
In his private life, Kennedy is also the partner of Attawapiskat Chief Teresa Spence.
That’s the sound of politicians scurrying for cover.
Light the Peace Radial. MT @ElizabethMay Greens celebrate victory of Kitasoo/Xaixais First Nation in defending traditional territory
— Katewerk (@katewerk) April 5, 2014
Reports coming in about mass layoffs at the FSIN
— 650 CKOM (@CKOMNews) January 29, 2014
More.
This sounds about right:
Publicity stunt. Their financials for 2012 show about $20 mil in revenue and the same in expenses. They’ve got a $500k GIC maturing in 30 days and a $1mil line of credit (seemed to be undrawn at last year end) But they take a $2 mil funding cut and they have to lay everyone off? BS. They could cut back on their travel and consulting costs that added up to close to $4 mil and fix this in 5 minutes. But instead they’ve done the fake layoffs to get the CBC and globe and torstar all wound up and start some Idle No More hoo ha. I took the numbers off the annual report which is on their website.
Domestic Army Update: Regina Version
“Vehicles were bought, quads, horses and travel trailers, these were the things the chief David Sandfly bought and still spending on and we have no money for payroll or social assistance.”
h/t Kevin B
And one more Ontario family has learned the great lesson of Caledonia: You are your own police force.
h/t Kevin B
Friday night funnies. Well, maybe terribly little–sort of reminds one of Being and Nothingness, as it were:
1) Low-Information Leadership
2) Those Who Can’t, Govern
3) Obama’s self conception vs. Obama’s reality
All rather existential, eh? Or, hopey changey, what? I’m a Camus man myself. More on Jean-Paul:
The word is getting out: Driver reportedly runs First Nations protest blockade in Montreal
…as a white American, I think that African Americans and Indians should pay us royalties for the use of our civilization. I do not propose a great exaction, but only a reasonable fee for enjoyment of contributions that whites have made and that others use. I mean things such as telephones, air conditioning, flush toilets, democracy, civil rights, antibiotics, running shoes, and the machines that read EBT cards. Also paved roads. Cars. Computers. Electricity. Clean water. Those sorts of things.
Indeed.
h/t EBD
Fredericton Police ordered a Sun News Network reporter to move his camera after his attempt to videotape a Native protest was blocked.
Crowds gathered in a Fredericton park Saturday to erect the traditional Native longhouse to protest exploratory shale fracking in Rexton, N.B.
“You know, we don’t have 10 laws in this country,” he said. “We have one law. And people have to obey the law.”
Wrong on both counts. We have two laws.
How not to win friends and influence enemies.
So. I'm the only one that got out with a car. Native protesters forced CTV & Global News out of their trucks in Rexton NB. Threatened all.
— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) October 19, 2013
My car has been seized by "warriors", along with the CTV sat truck. We're now with a Sun News reporter going to #RCMP @Global_NB
— Laura Brown (@01LBrown) October 19, 2013
Or does anyone else see the hypocrisy in firebombing at an anti-fracking protest?
Larry F, via email: “To be logically consistent, they should consider white people to be sacred, too.”
Some people definitely think so:
“I think about the campaign every single day, and what a shame it is who we have in the White House,” said Spencer Zwick, who worked as Romney’s finance director and is a close friend to his family. “I look at things happening and I say, you know what? Mitt was actually right when he talked about Russia, and he was actually right when he talked about how hard it was going to be to implement Obamacare, and he was actually right when he talked about the economy. I think there are a lot of everyday Americans who are now feeling the effects of what [Romney] said was going to happen, unfortunately.”
The current band council and Chief Theresa Spence, who gained national attention for fasting on Victoria Island during the height of the Idle No More protests, are requiring ballots to be cast in person on the reserve Tuesday, making it difficult for band members who live outside the remote northern Cree community to have a say in Attawapiskat’s leadership.
The reasons why we have Land (not in an in ownership sense but in a Sovereign Nation sense), Treaties, and that we are even alive is because our ancestors refused to “get with the times”. What does “get with the times” really mean, anyway? Does it mean to ignore the Consciousness of our bloodlines that is connected to our land and to identify ourselves with modern day colonial borders? Does it mean to participate with the abuse of the land by the extraction of resources and adopt same values as the colonist? Does it simply mean ignoring our indigenous values all together? Quite honestly, “getting with the times” never made sense to me when it’s used in a counter argument against those who are defending the land and following through in the inherit qualities and values of indigenous consciousness.
The reality is it is time to become the best we can possibly be and follow through with the certainty that we are Nations within a Nation. Part of that is denouncing the imposed identity that we are Canadian. My friend Jodi Kechego articulated it well when he stated “My bloodline is inherently separate from Canada in that my ancestors have been here for literally thousands and thousands of years- as apposed three or four generations”.
Dude, ten thousand years ago our ancestors were stone age peoples, too. We decided we didn’t like it. But if that’s what you want, that’s cool. You can drop by on the weekend to return our wheel, metallurgy, electricity, antibiotics, and the internal combustion engine.
You can keep the horse.
h/t Shere Khan
