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Fears Grow as Study Shows Genetically Modified Crops 'Can
Cause Liver and Kidney Damage' Mail Online News - Originally Published 21
JAN 2010
Fresh fears were raised over GM crops yesterday after a study
showed they can cause liver and kidney damage.
According to the research, animals fed on three strains of
genetically modified maize created by the U.S. biotech firm
Monsanto suffered signs of organ damage after just three months.
The findings only came to light after Monsanto was forced to
publish its raw data on safety tests by anti-GM campaigners.
They add to the evidence that GM crops may damage health as well as
be harmful to the environment.
The figures released by Monsanto were examined by French researcher
Dr Gilles-Eric Seralini, from the University of Caen.
Yesterday he called for more studies to check for long-term organ
damage....
How to Know If
Your Fruits and Veggies are GMO, Organic, or "Conventionally"
Grown and How to Significantly Reduce the
Risk of Salmonella
and e. coli Infection by Al Swilling, SENAA International - 27 DEC
2011
There are tons of articles "out
there" on the Internet on the topic of determining which fresh
produce items are genetically modified (GM), but they all seem
to insist on over-complicating the issue. Some also provide
false information to those who, in good faith, read their
articles and rely on the author's information being thoroughly
researched, accurate, unbiased, and honest. One Web site has
gone so far as to make a chart of various first digits of the
PLU codes (Product Look-Up codes) and what
they mean. That chart is inaccurate, and misleading.
Hopefully this article will simplify the task of determining,
as far as is currently possible, the conditions under which the
fresh fruits and vegetables at the local grocery store are
grown....
How do You Know if Your Food is Genetically Modified? Mercola.com - 24 JAN 2004 - Published at senaa.org
with Permission 26 DEC 2011
When polled only about one-quarter
of Americans report having eaten genetically modified food.
However, if you randomly pick an item off your grocery store’s
shelves, you have a 70 percent chance of picking a food with
genetically modified (GM) ingredients. This is because at least
seven out of every 10 items have been genetically modified.
If more
Americans were aware of this fact, the polls would certainly
turn out differently, but Americans are kept largely in the dark
about GM products, and most are not aware they are eating these
foods because there are no labeling requirements for GM foods....
American Indian Occupation Gets Permanent Exhibit At Alcatraz sfist.com - 21 NOV 2011
Some forty years after a group of protesters—which swelled at one
point to 800 people—occupied the island of Alcatraz for 19
months to protest the unfair seizing of Native American lands, a
room in the prison's basement is getting a permanent exhibit
including video and sound recordings about the occupation. The
occupation ended in 1971, after protesters had hoped for almost
two years to turn the island into an American Indian university
or cultural center....
Snowbowl Presses on Amid Suits AZ Daily Sun - 22 NOV 2011
Those opposed to snowmaking with reclaimed wastewater at Arizona
Snowbowl are headed to court again soon -- locally and federally
-- but a Snowbowl owner said the ski area will keep building to
prepare for snowmaking next winter, under the presumption the
business will prevail legally.
Nobody's worried about it. We're moving forward," said Eric
Borowsky, a Snowbowl owner.
He said crews plan to start assembling pipeline at the ski area
perhaps in March, over the snow, to complete the $15 million
snowmaking infrastructure for use next winter....
House Approves Arizona Land Swap Bill after Fight over Iran The Hill - 26 OCT 2011
The House on Wednesday approved legislation that would allow a land
swap between a foreign-owned mining company and the U.S.
government, which would allow the company to set up mining
operations and extract copper discovered in Arizona.
Just before the final vote, Democrats argued that the bill should
be altered because the company in question, Resolution Copper
Mining LLC, is part-owned by Rio Tinto, which owns a stake in
the Rossing uranium mine in Namibia with the Iran Foreign
Investment Company (IFIC). Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) proposed
changing the bill to prevent any land exchange with a company or
affiliate connected with the IFIC....
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS
RELEASE
18 November 2011
Masked Gunmen Attack Brazilian Indian Leader in
Shock Execution Survival International - 18
NOV 2011
Survival International has developing news from
Brazil, where masked gunmen have today executed an Indian religious leader in front of his community.
Gunmen surrounded Nisio Gomes, ordering his
community to lie on the ground. Witnesses say he was
shot in the head, chest, arms and legs. The
59-year-old’s body was then driven away....
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Pages - SEMPER FI, Mr. Nez, From a Very Grateful SENAA Family Last
Remaining Navajo Code Talker Reflects from His NM Home
on Days of Service The Republic - 13 NOV 2011
Albuquerque, N.M. — With gnarled fingers, Chester Nez
reverently opened the small box his son Mike had fetched
for him at their West Mesa home. Even at 90 years old,
Nez's face still beams as he proudly opens it.
Careful
not to touch the gold medal, Nez shares a secret.
"On the
other side it says, 'We used our language to defeat the
enemy,' and that's what we did," he said.
Nez
carefully puts the lid back on the box and hands it to
his son for safekeeping. Inside is a Congressional Gold
Medal — one of only 29 in existence — given to Nez by
then-President George W. Bush during a White House
ceremony July 26, 2001.
Five of
the "original 29? Navajo Code Talkers, the men who
developed and implemented the code that confounded the
Japanese during World War II and was never broken,
received the medals that day.
In a
moment that speaks to the reverence Nez holds for his
country, instead of shaking the president's hand after
being handed the medal, he saluted Bush as his
commander-in-chief.
When the
ceremony took place, five of the "original 29? were
living. Today, only Nez remains....
Water Contamination Threatens Hopi Partitioned Land Navajo-Hopi Observer - 12 OCT 2011
In response to the recent discovery of water contamination on
Hopi Partitioned Lands (HPL), the Hopi Tribe's
Office of Range Management has
capped several water wells and
fenced off windmills as a public safety measure, including
some used by trespassing Navajo tribal members who
have not signed Accommodations Agreements (AA) to reside on HPL.
Water contamination was among the issues discussed earlier this
month during a Navajo AA Permittees meeting held on HPL on
behalf of the Navajos who have signed a 75-year AA. These AA
Navajo families legally reside on HPL with grazing permits
recognized by the Hopi Tribe....
Ruling: Peabody Coal May Continue Discharge of Pollutants Into
Navajo-Hopi Washes Tucson Citizen - 10 OCT 2011
The sacred land in northeastern Arizona belonging to the Navajo and
Hopi has long been exploited and polluted by Peabody Coal.
It looks as if it will continue to be that way.
If you use water in Tucson, or use electricity in Tucson then you
are using energy from those coal mines to pump water here via
the CAP canal connecting Tucson to the Colorado River, and of
course in the huge Tucson Electric Power coal-powered plant near
Alvernon and I-10.
We are part of the reason Peabody is exploiting coal from the
Native American reservations which is leading to the polluting
of their water, and now the problem is about to worsen....
Coal Remains King On Navajo Nation–For Now Fronteras - 10 OCT 2011
FLAGSTAFF — The
last of the world’s largest coal-slurry plants will literally
implode next month.
The Mohave
Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada closed in 2005 after a
series of conflicts with environmentalists and the Navajo Nation
over pollution and water use. Explosives will be strategically
placed around the steel-framed boiler towers so it will collapse
and crumble into dust. And other coal-fired power plants in the
region may soon face a similar fate. That puts hundreds of jobs
for the Navajo and Hopi tribes in jeopardy....
Board Upholds Discharge Permit for NE Arizona Mine Business Week - 07 OCT 2011
FLAGSTAFF,
Ariz.—A coal mining company can continue sending treated storm
water from its northeastern Arizona operation into nearby washes
and tributaries after an appeals board denied a review of the
discharge permit.
Environmentalists and members of the Navajo and Hopi tribes had
appealed the permit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
issued for Peabody Energy Corp.'s mining complex. They argued to
an administrative appeals board that the discharge of heavy
metals and pollutants threatens water resources that Navajo and
Hopi communities depend on for drinking, farming and ranching,
and that the EPA failed to impose limits.
In a ruling
announced this week, the EPA's Environmental Appeals Board said
the groups did not show a review was warranted on any of the
grounds they presented. The board finalized the permit that has
been administratively extended since it expired in 2006, so it
now expires in October 2015....
'Another Insult' U.S. EPA to
Begin Cleanup Church Rock Uranium Site Navajo Times - 06 OCT 2011
CHURCH ROCK, N.M.—The
announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on
Sept. 29 that it will begin removing radioactive soil from the
largest abandoned uranium mine on the Navajo Nation came as no
surprise for local residents.
Radioactive soil from the
Northeast Church Rock Mine will be removed and placed in on top
of a disposal cell at the nearby United Nuclear Corporation mill
site.
The removal was one of 14
disposal site plans the U.S. EPA considered and preferred when
it announced cleanup plans for the site in May 2009.
It took the U.S. EPA six years
of planning and over 10 public meetings to keep area residents
informed of the cleanup efforts....
Cleanup Plan for Abandoned
US Mine World Nuclear News - 03 OCT 2011
The US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a plan
to clean up the Northeast Church Rock Mine–the largest and
highest priority abandoned uranium mine on Navajo land.
The Northeast Church Rock
mine was operated by United Nuclear
Corporation as a uranium ore mine between around 1967 and
1982. It included an 1800-foot (550-metre) deep shaft, waste
piles and several surface ponds. The mine adjoins a uranium
mill site....
Peaks Protesters Cite
Rights Violations Navajo Times - 29 SEP 2011
FLAGSTAFF—Over 130 people
turned out for a hearing held by the Navajo Nation Human Rights
Commission in Flagstaff on Sept. 23, which focused mostly on
human rights violations rather than the sanctity of
Dook'o'oosliid.
The hearing was another chapter
in the ongoing controversy over the use of wastewater to make
snow for the Snowbowl ski resort.
"We would make the respectful
request that we don't go through that discussion again," said
Duane H. Yazzie, chair for the commission. "Very obviously, it
was those testimonies we heard through public hearings, where we
brought the issue to where it is today."
"The main reason why we're
organized is to respond on acts of discrimination of Navajo
people in border towns or whenever," Yazzie said. Rodney Tahe,
the commission's policy analyst, said the purpose of the public
hearing is to gather new information from current issues
surrounding the Peaks....
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NEW UPDATE:
Shack Rat Crew
At Last Laid to Rest on Home Soil
Services Held at Arlington
National Cemetery on 03 & 04 August 2011
for Recovered Pilot and
Crew of WWII B-24 Bomber
42-40918, the "Shack Rat"—
With Photo Gallery SENAA International - 06 AUG 2011
During the week of 01-05 August 2011, families of the pilot
and crew of the B-24 Liberator Bomber
42-40918, "Shack Rat", convened at Arlington, Virginia, to
finally lay to rest their lost loved ones on American soil. All 12 of the airmen
have now been brought home and laid to rest on their home soil
and were given full military honors by the nation that they
served and gave their lives to defend....
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NEW UPDATE: SSgt. Berthold Allen Chastain's Remains Found,
Identified, and Returned SENAA International - 06 FEB 2011
On
26 October 2010, one day before the 67th anniversary
of his disappearance, Berthold Allen Chastain's
daughter, Tulie Mae Chastain-Swilling, received a
phone call from the U.S. Army informing her that the
remains of her father, along with those of the other
eleven crewmen of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
heavy bomber,
42-40918, the
"Shack Rat", had been recovered and positively
identified....
Whenever I'm back in Flagstaff, remind me to
not drink the water!
Cyndy Cole's article in the Arizona Daily
Sun, "Tribes: New Snowmaking Plan No Better", is really an
eye-opener to a heretofore hidden danger of visiting Flagstaff,
Arizona. It's clear, now, that the water served at local
restaurants and coming from the shower heads of the motel rooms
are to be avoided by anyone who values his or her health--and it
certainly isn't suitable for making artificial snow.
Maybe the way things are done in the Southwest are different from
the Southeast. In the Southeast, waste water is purified as much
as possible, then released it into the nearest waterway. Nature
finishes the job of purification. Chlorine kills fish, so it isn't
used in "reclaimed" water that is going into local rivers. "Reclaimed" waste water is
certainly not dumped into our potable water supply.
The very notion that it is possible for "part"
of an aquifer to be mixed with treated waste water, snowmelt, and
rainfall, without affecting the rest of the aquifer, as the
article suggests, is a
ridiculous concept. Anyone who has had grade school science knows...
Some of the tribes that oppose Arizona
Snowbowl's plans to make snow with reclaimed wastewater say the
new proposal to use a slightly different Flagstaff water source is
no better.
Members speaking on behalf of the Hopi,
Havasupai and Navajo tribes say U.S. Department of Agriculture
efforts to pump groundwater downstream of the Rio de Flag
wastewater treatment plant doesn't negate their concerns about
making snow.
How much that is the case varies by tribe.
The city of Flagstaff considers the well water,
pumped from a depth of 1,500 feet, to be drinkable with only
minimal treatment. The water in that part of the aquifer is a
combination of discharged treated wastewater, rainfall and
snowmelt....
Ancient Culture Hidden away
with Park Closure Native American Times - 08 MAR 2010 PHOENIX (AP)—Take the interstate to Flagstaff, head east toward Albuquerque and drive until the snow disappears. A few miles east of Winslow, a road that once led to the
ruins of an ancient Hopi civilization now dead-ends at
a locked gate.
“Due to budget reductions,” a sign
reads, “park closed.”
But the people closing down Homolovi Ruins State Park are expecting visitors and, by cell phone, say the gate is not yet locked and to
come on in. Two miles down a bumpy road to the
visitors
center, a man wearing thin gloves is packing
pottery and petroglyphs into white-cardboard boxes....
Science Fiction Horror Story No Greater Joy - March-April 2010
Which word in the title is erroneous:
Science—Fiction—Horror—Story?
It’s the word fiction. The food you eat is no
longer the food God made for the human body. Evolutionary
scientists have irreversibly changed the DNA of plant, animal, and
human cells. They are uncreating God’s creation, rendering staple
foods unfit for human or animal consumption....
This is
artist Jana Mashonee's first music video, filmed amid
the beautiful landscape of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal
Park
on the Arizona-Utah border.
Through a superb
combination of dazzling visual effects and a blend of contemporary and traditional music that speaks to the soul, she portrays a young Native woman on her journey of discovery of her people's tradition, of their spirituality, of self, and of the power that
they hold. More importantly, she discovers that only by embracing her
Native
heritage–and herself–is she truly liberated.
—Al Swilling,
Founder, SENAA International
Jana's music video, "The Enlightened Time," won Best Music Video award at Queens International, Buffalo
Niagara, and Accolades Film Festivals in 2007 and 2008.
—www.janamashonee.com>Info>Hot Sheet
CONGRATULATIONS,
BLACKFIRE, ON YOUR NAMA AWARD! SENAA International sends a big
"Congratulations" to Blackfire for their win at
the Native American Music Awards' 10th annual celebration
on Saturday night, 04 October.
Congratulations on your NAMA award. You
certainly earned it.
Thank you for all you have done and continue
to do to raise public awareness of the racist forced
relocations, and the human rights and Civil Rights
violations against Indigenous Americans in this
"enlightened" 21st century.
For
details about Blackfire and the other NAMA award winners,
visit Brenda Norrell's Censored
News. Also visit Blackfire's Web site at
http://www.blackfire.net/
Why Google Buzz Confirmed Our Two Worst Fears about Google
by Jason Hiner, TechRepublic - 22 FEB 2010
Google is not accustomed to being mistrusted by users and flogged by the tech press, but that’s exactly what’s happened to the search engine giant in recent weeks since the release of its new Google Buzz social media product.
Companies like Microsoft, and to a lesser extent Apple, are used to releasing new products and seeing them publicly attacked and belittled. Those two companies are typically patient enough to take feedback, integrate it into the product cycle, and then wait for users to get on board.
Google, on the other hand, has been something of a golden child in the tech world in the past decade. Its search engine has become the default home page of the Internet, and the company’s focus on engineering over profits has endeared it to users around the world.
However, as I suggested in my article How Google became the George Washington of the Internet, Google’s joy ride with users could be coming to end. In fact, it may have officially happened with the introduction of Google Buzz. We could look back at this product launch as the turning point of Google losing its innocence....
TUTORIAL LSO MANAGEMENT: What
They Are and What to Do About Them SENAA International - 16 FEB 2010
Introduction
The computing public is becoming increasingly aware of the
existence of Local Shared Objects (LSOs), also called "Flash
cookies" or "Persistent Identification Elements" (PIEs), the dangers they pose, and the unethical ways
that they are placed on our machines. LSOs are the busybodies of the Internet, sticking their noses in your personal business at every
opportunity without your knowledge or consent; and like most
busybodies, they're being found out.
With growing public awareness of LSOs comes a
growing demand for effective, real time control of them. Most LSO
management solutions offer management or deletion of LSOs after
potentially malicious ones have had time to do their damage.
Stand-alone LSO management utilities do not offer real time
protection, either. This tutorial provides real-time management of
LSOs....
Challenge
Our Leaders Regarding "Clean Coal Technology"
SENAA
International - 25 JAN 2009
We need to send a message to our leaders, to the media, and to corporate America that, as it now stands, there is no such thing as "clean coal technology," and that before the use of coal can even be considered as a clean source of energy, much more research, development, and work must be done.
Simply "talking the talk" doesn't change the facts of the matter. Before anyone can herald the existence of "clean coal technology," it must first be developed; and a small-scale, working model must be built to demonstrate its efficiency and cleanliness.
Measurements of the amount of energy yielded per ton of coal
by "clean" methods, and realistic rather than speculative comparisons to
the energy yield of present-day "dirty" methods of burning coal must be made. The comparisons must be demonstrated and recorded. The amount and nature of pollutants and potentially harmful, cumulative emissions must be measured and recorded over a realistic test period. Effects of such emissions on the environment, on human health, and on the health of wildlife must be assessed and addressed before any entity can go forward with any coal technology that claims to be "clean."...
