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Peta_de_Aztlan Peter S Lopez

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Secret US Embassy Cables

Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities.

The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret.

The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice.

The cables show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states"; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them.

This document release reveals the contradictions between the US's public persona and what it says behind closed doors – and shows that if citizens in a democracy want their governments to reflect their wishes, they should ask to see what's going on behind the scenes.

Every American schoolchild is taught that George Washington – the country's first President – could not tell a lie. If the administrations of his successors lived up to the same principle, today's document flood would be a mere embarrassment. Instead, the US Government has been warning governments -- even the most corrupt -- around the world about the coming leaks and is bracing itself for the exposures.

The full set consists of 251,287 documents, comprising 261,276,536 words (seven times the size of "The Iraq War Logs", the world's previously largest classified information release).

The cables cover from 28th December 1966 to 28th February 2010 and originate from 274 embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions.

How to explore the data

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Key figures:

• 15, 652 secret
• 101,748 confidential
• 133,887 unclassified
  
  
• Iraq most discussed country – 15,365 (Cables coming from Iraq – 6,677)
• Ankara, Turkey had most cables coming from it – 7,918
• From Secretary of State office - 8,017

According to the US State Departments labeling system, the most frequent subjects discussed are:

• External political relations – 145,451
• Internal government affairs – 122,896
• Human rights – 55,211
• Economic Conditions – 49,044
• Terrorists and terrorism – 28,801
• UN security council – 6,532
  

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Cables by origin and classification

Cables by Subject

Cables by Country

Cables by Organization

Cables by Program

Cables by Topic

 

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[Third-World-News Blog] Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Unite Against Mining

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Subject: [Third-World-News Blog] Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Unite Against Mining

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LIMA, Peru, November 26, 2010 (ENS) - Indigenous Peoples from across Latin America have issued a unified declaration demanding an end to large-scale surface mining by transnational companies on indigenous peoples' lands. "We state emphatically: no to mining, yes to life," they declared.

The Lima Declaration calls for governments to revoke mining titles and concessions granted without proper consultation of Indigenous Peoples.

"This is a significant step forward in the process of building proposals from Indigenous Peoples and social movements against mining impacts, extraction by transnational companies, and the climate crisis," said indigenous leader Miguel Palacin Quispe, general coordinator of the Andean Coordinating Committee of Indigenous Organizations.

Indigenous Peoples' representatives at the Lima Forum on Mining, Climate Change and Well-being (Photo by Earthworks Action)

Indigenous representatives from the Andes, the Amazon, and Central America drafted the Lima Declaration at the three-day Forum on Mining, Climate Change and Well-being at the Museum of the Nation from November 18 through 20. It was attended by 376 indigenous and allied participants from 17 countries.

"Our territories full of life and harmony have been converted into territories of contamination and toxicity, territories of militarization and criminalization of struggles, territories of plunder and poverty because of pro-extractive policies guided by governments," the declaration states.

The declaration demands the approval of laws to determine zones prohibited for mining in indigenous territories, as the peoples of Costa Rica have achieved.

But in countries such as Peru, governments have criminalized and repressed protests against mining.

As the indigenous representatives issued the Lima Declaration, tensions intensified in Peru's southern province of Islay, where community members sought to block roads in protest of the Southern Copper Corporation's Tia Maria mine project, which they fear will impact water quality and agriculture.

About 10 protesters were injured by police using batons and tear gas at those protests earlier in the week.But Thursday, talks between government officials and community members achieved a 10-day truce.

Work at Tia Maria has been suspended since April when, following earlier protests, the government set up a technical roundtable to discuss the project. But discussions have been boycotted by community leaders.

On Thursday, the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines once again invited representatives of indigenous organizations to discuss the Draft Regulations for Consultation with Indigenous Peoples for the mining and energy activities, published October 25 in compliance with a Constitutional Court order.

This process seeks dialogue between the state and Indigenous Peoples, through their representative institutions, the ministry said in a statement, "with the aim of arriving at agreements on the scope of draft regulation in question, in order to build consensus among the sector Energy and Mines and indigenous peoples and improve their relationship for the sake of sustainable development projects, mining and energy investment in our country, respecting the rights of these peoples."

But today the Peruvian indigenous association AIDESEP, representing elders from 10 indigenous groups, objected that the consultation process "is not compatible with our right to cultural identity enshrined in Article 2, paragraph 19 of our Constitution." The elders say the process "is not harmonious with our distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional in the way of how agreements are made in our people, so that set only 10 days to agree or consent to the consultation process is inadequate and contrary to our cultural identity."

Indigenous men signal their unity at the Lima Forum. (Photo by Earthworks Action)

The Lima Declaration makes clear the extent of Indigenous Peoples' suffering as industrialization overtakes their formerly harmonious way of life.

"The exponentially growing Western consumption, the looting of our natural goods and the industrialization of the developed countries have generated a global climate crisis to which is joined a food crisis. The effects of global warming have increased the risks of vulnerability of our rights and are modifying our way of life that for millennia has depended on Mother Earth," the document states.

"Indigenous Peoples are those who contribute the least to global warming," the declaration states, "we are those who suffer its worst consequences and are excluded from the international negotiation processes and processes for defining national policies."

Palacin Quispe said this inequality shows itself in international negotiations, in which the rich countries, responsible for 75 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, impose their conditions on poor countries in the international climate change negotiations.

The Lima Declaration calls for establishment of a "continental platform of struggle in the face of extractive policies" and calls for another forum in the near future within the setting of the Fifth Summit of the Indigenous Peoples and Nations of the Abya Ayala, in Bolivia in 2011.

The signatory groups say they will carry out a Continental Mobilization on June 21, 2011 "in defense of life, for the reconstitution of Well-being (Buen Vivir), and for the full exercise of our rights in the face of mining impacts, the climate crisis and transnational corporations."

"We declare that Indigenous Peoples are the legitimate owners from ancestral times of the ground, subsoil and natural resources that our territories harbor. We demand of the institutions of the United Nations that natural goods be declared heritage of the Indigenous Peoples who harbor them," the Lima Declaration states. "We position ourselves to change the extractivist model in favor of the Well-being of the peoples of the world."

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FYI: ~Humane-Liberation-Party~ HELP 5-Point Survival Platform

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To: PETER S LOPEZ <peter.lopez51@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sat, November 27, 2010 12:22:10 PM
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HELP-Portal http://help-matrix.ning.com/ A message to all members of HELP-Portal ~Humane-Liberation-Party~ HELP 5-Point Survival Platform First Posted Online: January 1, 2001 Sacramento, California, Aztlan #1. We demand our basic humane needs for the survival of our species: nutritional food, proper clothing, decent shelter, health care and quality education for our present welfare and future success in the New Millennium. #2. We demand complete employment for our natural energies, relevant job training or a guaranteed income for our continued life existence as humane beings in order to work in decent positions as functional mature adults. #3. We demand worldwide socialist democracy with proportional representation: wherein the majority rules, protects minorities and cares for all based upon 'one human being, one legitimate vote' in fair, free and open monitored elections. #4. We demand equal respect for all humane rights: no matter the economic class, blood race, gender sex, national identity, native tribe. cultural origin or personal orientation and the conscientious resolution of violations against the humane rights of all indigenous native tribes. #5. We demand true Peace on Earth and an immediate end to all evil unjust wars, regional conflicts and territorial disputes in conjunction with the total elimination of all Weapons of Mass-Destruction by any and all means mandatory. c/s Visit HELP-Portal at: http://help-matrix.ning.com/

Still Being Thankful After Thanksgiving Day of Mourning ~ November 26, 2010 via Peta_de_Aztlan

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Greetings Sister Linda~ Here are a couple of LINKS about the Feast of Tabernacle below~
http://www.christcenteredmall.com/teachings/feasts/tabernacles.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot
Sukkot (Hebrew: סוכות or סֻכּוֹת, sukkōt, Feast of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles) is a Biblical holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei (late September to late October).

I most appreciated that Letter from Brother Leonard Peltier I posted online yesterday for my Thankful Thanksgiving Day.
Leonard Peltier on The Day of Mourning ~Thursday, November 25, 2010
http://bit.ly/eI29iG

Thanksgiving Day is so much a part of Americana that it will remain as a National Holiday. At the same time those of us who are actually natives of Aztlan, indigenous to these troubled lands known as America, will also keep reminding Turkey Fans about the truth of history. It is just appalling that we Americans celebrate a day that originated from a massacre of 700 men, women and children. So we will keep reminding people.

What is worse is the whole Holocaust denial of the cultural genocide of what is termed Native American peoples. It was not systematic in the Nazi sense as what we know happened to the Jewish people, but even deeper it has deep cultural spiritual repercussions and impacted on the whole way of being of indigenous peoples here. The descendants of that cultural genocide are still suffering greatly.

My purpose in that my blogpost yesterday was two-fold:
to remind people of the true dark history of Thanksgiving and the genocide suffered by natives peoples; plus, the importance of being thankful for whatever blessings we may have as a way of being.

I do not what to whine to you but you may recall I was laid off from my Case Manager/Counselor job at Salvation Army on September 1st. Hope to get help from 'Sally's' to pay my rent in December. I hope to get on payroll as a Careworker for the son of a friend of mine in January. So I just want to make it through the rest of the year without having to go through the whole homeless nightmare on an existential level.

I still do my CASA 12-Steps Meetings on Sundays at 7 PM at Sally's. It helps to keep me mindful that though I may be a relatively recovered drunk and dope fiend I must remain aware of any potential relapse.
With my temperament and deepening radicalism it could be really devastating for my life and its spiritual evolution. So I still live life one day at a time. Actually it is not so much my deepening radicalism as much as my deepening naturalism. To comprehend the relevancy of a deep fundamental transformation of property relations inside the United States via Peaceful Revolution is natural. It only seems radical in the context of a reactionary social matrix spearheads by an Evil Empire.

I now advocate a Peaceful Revolution, though I am not a liberal pacifist. It may still all come to a trial by armed combat ~a war to the knife via a slit throat by creeping up on the opponent's blind side when he's taking a piss~ but I for one will do what I can to exhaust all legal peaceful methods of protest and resistance against the evilness of the Amerikan Empire!

I am certain that the human family as a whole desperately needs to rid itself of its own core character defects for there to ever be real peace on poor old battered, bruised and raped Mother Earth. That is why my own on-going progressive recovery and the progressive recovery of others in my real life is so important to me on an individual existential level.

We do not want to slaughter one big pig-pen of fascist pigs just to see a pack of fanatical wolves in control of the state machinery. I am not your old traditional Marxist-Leninist left-winger, there is no communism in terms of there being a classless state. Left-wingers are off -balance from the truth.

HOWEVER, I can see the validity of minds at least examining the merits of democratic socialism on a global level to replace the present corporate state that now rules the world with the most violent killing machine in human history. The people will win this collective struggle of humanity for its own liberation in the world or there will simply be no world to win or worth winnng. We are already an endangered species of life.

POTUS Obama has betrayed the progressives who elected him and I will not ever vote for him again. He now reminds me of an arrogant smooth-talking Chicago gangster. I suspect many people are fools and fail to see that Amerikan Fascism is not merely threatening, but Amerikan Fascism is here now ~in power and securely so!

Unidos Venceremos! United We Will Win!
PETER S. LOPEZ AKA: Peta-de-Aztlan
Sacramento, California
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P.S. I did not have any turkey yesterday and did not bother to do up a ham I had. I just did the Chicano thing and had a couple of burritos with chorizo con webos, papas and some stuff I had in bowl about 10:30 last night. I just want to make it through the so-called Holidays with a minimum of drama trauma. Fuck Black Friday!

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." ~ Victor Hugo c/s

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From: Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com>
To: PETER S LOPEZ <peter.lopez51@yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 12:09:32 AM
Subject: Re: Being Thankful on a Thanksgiving Day of Mourning ~ November 25, 2010 via Peta_de_Aztlan

Maybe it's time for everyone to switch to the Feast of Tablernacles instead....it's supposed to be a feast for all nations.    Every year, people from all over the world come to Jerusalem to celebrate it, and one year I feasted with about 100 Native Americans, everything from Algonquin to Navaho in the group.  They went together in traditional costume to pray at the Western Wall, and I took a bunch of them to an Arab restaurant, where needless to say, the staff were flabbergasted.   That was fun.   Linda [It would of been great to see a Video. so much we go through only stays in our memories for awhile, then evaporates from our minds.] --- On Fri, 11/26/10, PETER S LOPEZ <peter.lopez51@yahoo.com> wrote: From: PETER S LOPEZ <peter.lopez51@yahoo.com> Subject: Being Thankful on a Thanksgiving Day of Mourning ~ November 25, 2010 via Peta_de_Aztlan To: "H-R-A Group" <Humane-Rights-Agenda@yahoogroups.com>, "Talking-Circle Group" <Talking-Circle@yahoogroups.com>, "Third-World-News Group" <THIRD-WORLD-NEWS@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "Net-Aztlan-News Group" <NetworkAztlan_News@yahoogroups.com>, "Activist-List Group" <Activist_List@yahoogroups.com>, "Issues-Online Yahoo Group" <issuesonline_worldwide@yahoogroups.com> Date: Friday, November 26, 2010, 3:27 AM Being Thankful on a Thanksgiving Day of Mourning ~ November 25, 2010 via Peta_de_Aztlan Posted by Peta_de_Aztlan on November 25, 2010 at 12:00pm Short Blog Link~ http://bit.ly/hUVijO ~THE SUPPRESSED SPEECH OF WAMSUTTA (FRANK B.) JAMES, WAMPANOAG ~ To have been delivered at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1970 > http://www.uaine.org/wmsuta.htm c/s Tags: Amerikan, Holocaust Share Twitter Facebook Flag   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Unidos Venceremos! United We Will Win! PETER S. LOPEZ AKA: Peta-de-Aztlan Sacramento, California Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com http://twitter.com/Peta_de_Aztlan http://www.facebook.com/Peta51 http://help-matrix.ning.com/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/THIRD-WORLD-NEWS/ "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." ~ Victor Hugo c/s