Such is the life of those that live on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Our family has made several trips there, each time my anger increases at our government. Each time my phone calls, letters and emails go unanswered or a "form" letter or email is returned.

My purpose of this thread is to educate. While we argue about health care and the national deficit, people in our own country are dying at an alarming rate, some from not having heat in the winter, some from alcoholism, some from diabetes or heart disease. And yeah, that happens all across this country. But how many people across the country are poisoned by uranium?
They are at Pine Ridge.

(South Dakota) — Radiation warning signs were posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 in the small town of Red Shirt, South Dakota which lies on the northwest corner of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Several of these signs
were placed warning people of the high nuclear radiation levels found in the Cheyenne River.
Several weeks ago Everitt Poor Thunder, a spiritual and community leader in Red Shirt, asked Defenders of the Black Hills, an environmental organization, whether the Cheyenne River water could be used to irrigate a community garden. A local well could not be used as it was found to be radioactive and warning signs surround that structure. The water well taps into the Inyan Kara aquifer that also contains the Lakota and Fall River formations, making up an extremely large aquifer of water supplies for many regions.
Residents of Red Shirt occupy a village site that is thousands of years old to the Oglala Tetuwan (Sioux) people. Many have lived here all of their lives, growing gardens with water taken from the Cheyenne River and fishing for catfish, bass, and turtles. In the summer months, the river is used for swimming and other recreational pursuits.
Previous efforts remove the radiation in the water at Red Shirt have been unsuccessful. Drinking water is piped in, or residents must drive 25 miles to the little town of Hermosa to buy water. The Cheyenne River has dried up approximately one mile from Red Shirt and tests of the river bottom soil by Defenders of the Black Hills are pending. Initial tests using a Geiger counter revealed more than double the amount of normal background elevations for radiation.
South Dakota news reports recently referred to a DENR report and stated that uranium is naturally occurring in that area which is said to account for the radiation levels in the water.
"If that was the case, there would not have been villages there for thousands of years. There would have been no fish or any aquatic life previously in this river. We sampled the river with nets for aquatic life and found only 2 crayfish and about 10 minnows in more than 100 yards of the river. In essence, it’s a dead river. There are two endangered species that use this River: the Sturgeon chubb, a small fish, and the Bald Eagle," explained Charmaine White Face, founder and Coordinator of Defenders of the Black Hills.
http://www.manataka.org/page1661.html

In 1868 the US government signed a treaty with the great Sioux Nation that gave them a reservation that encompassed over 60 million acres. That reservation included the Black Hills, which was considered sacred to the native population. However, shortly after signing the treaty, gold was discovered in the Black Hills and the government opened 7.7 million acres to homesteaders and private interests. We all know how greed can change things. Thus was lost the sacred lands, the natural resources and the ability to fend for themselves.
The land that was left is called the Badlands – for a reason. Then another mineral was found that the government laid claim to – one that has poisoned the people and the water supply, caused serious health problems – uranium.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.ac…81474977800306

A water sample taken from the Cheyenne River was sent to a laboratory and the results revealed levels of alpha radiation above the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Maximum Contaminant Level. Alpha radiation causes harm when ingested hence the warning signs were placed to warn people of the dangers in the Cheyenne River.
A local environmental group called Defenders of the Black Hills has been working for years to get the State of South Dakota to clean up the old uranium mines in the area without much success. It was Defenders Coordinator Charmaine White Face who was approached by Red Shirt Village regarding the river, because the town was interested in using the river water to irrigate a community garden. A local well that had been used in the past for this purpose was found to be radioactive.
Since we are now living in the Age of Hope and Change, I sincerely hope that the people of South Dakota start taking some action on the radioactive nature of the land and waterways in their state. It may seem oh, so unimportant, because the people most directly affected live on an Indian Reservation, but guess what, the river doesnÂ’t sit still, it flows. And the radiation in the old mines doesnÂ’t sit still, it spreads through the earth. And the radiation doesnÂ’t know the difference between an Indian Reservation and a white manÂ’s village. Hope that scares a few people.
http://helpmejoseph.typepad.com/puma…servation.html

You can read the report on the Cheyenne River here: http://www.defendblackhills.org/docu…yenneriver.pdf

A discussion on how the various official animal protection agencies of societies are designed to promote and faucilitate the torture an genocide of animals.

What is the RSPCA?
According to society, it is a "Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals".

Is this an accurate and Truth-based definition? No.

Why?

[1] All societies are based on the lie that humans are superior to animals and have more right than any animal does.
[2] All societies promote animal abuse and genocide.
[3] Human societies cannot currently exist (as they are now) without committing genocide against superior races such as chickens.
[4] The RSPCA is directly responsible for murdering Superior life-forms every day.
Here are two examples to support [4].

[4] (1) The unjustifiable murder of "homeless" animals, using the insane and lie-based terminology of "putting to sleep" or "putting down".

Why is it unjustifiable? Because the animal is doing nothing to warrant being murdered. The idea that it is "homeless", and therefore deserves to die, is insane. All animals are natrually homeless. Therefore, there can be no obligation on ay animal from human society to have a home.

The cell that the animal is kept in is not defined by RSPCA as a home, when it clearly is its current home.

The RSPCA will try and say that it "has to" kill the animal, because it has nowhere to go.
Who says it has nowhere to go? Who says it has to go anywhere from where it is now? It makes no sense.
Another argument is that the animal would not survive if it was "released", and must therefore die.
This argument is insane. The animal has zero chance of survival if it is murdered. ANY chance is better than zero chance.

This is another way that re-incarnation and the god myth, being malevolent and immoral, manifests itself. They will say "Oh, but it will come back and have a better life" We are doing it a favour".
There is no evidence to support or even suggest that this insane theory is True. It is not Truth, it is a lie, and all lies are malevolent.

The animals could be driven elsewhere and let go, in a nature reserve or a special island, kept at society’s expense etc. Because it could do otherwise, it cannot claim that it "has to" murder the animal. BUT society refuses to do this!!!

It wants to give the legal permission for these employees to murder animals, because it knows unless they take thier murderous intent out on animals, they might take it out on humans. This is also wrong, because humans are toxic and Truth-hating and are inferior in brain function to animals.

[4] (2) The support of humane treatment of animals, such as the exploitation and genocide of chickens.

The RSPCA promotes and supports the caging and genocide of chickens for unnatural food support levels for human society. By setting an acceptable and humane standard of same, it actually is saying "It’s OK to do so. Please continue, you meet the huamne standards."
Indeed, they do meet the humane standards. The key word being humane. Only humans commit genocide, eat animals that are not part of thier natural diet, unnecesarily torture and kill other life forms….breed millions of other life forms in cages for thier whole lives based on race etc. etc. etc.

**So, to be humane towards animals means to be cruel, commit murder and genocide against them, force them to live a life against nature, mutilate thier genitals etc. etc.**

For space reasons, points [1], [2] and [3] will be argued at a later post.

So a Truth-based definition would be :
Facist Societal Organisation of Animal Genocide and Brutalisation Support.
Or the FSOAHBS.

the researchers claim that has all changed in the later half of the 20th century with 4 of the 5 warmest decades coming between 1950 and 2000…co-author Nicholas McKay of the University of Arizona said-"the amount of energywe’re getting from the sun in the 20th century continued to go down, but the temperature went up higher than anything we’ve seen in the last 2000 years."

"Something perturbed the system in the 20th century, and by far the most likely culprit is greenhouse gasses." says Scott Lemoureux of Queens’ University who collaborated on the on the study.

the researchers claim that has all changed in the later half of the 20th century with 4 of the 5 warmest decades coming between 1950 and 2000…co-author Nicholas McKay of the University of Arizona said-"the amount of energywe’re getting from the sun in the 20th century continued to go down, but the temperature went up higher than anything we’ve seen in the last 2000 years."

"Something perturbed the system in the 20th century, and by far the most likely culprit is greenhouse gasses." says Scott Lemoureux of Queens’ University who collaborated on the on the study.

According to society, these are experiments that school students carry out for educational purposes.

What is the Forbidden Truth?

Society imprisons tortured victim-creations whom are children in a school prison. Although society has an obligation to educate, that in no way changes the Truth that the school functions as a prison-camp.
It then uses peer pressure, threats, psychological pressure, and directly fascistly orders the imprisoned child-slaves to literally torture a worm to death.

What is a poison container?
You need to understand what a poison container is to read this lecture.
That is located at www.Truthmedia.8k.com and scroll don the first page.

1. The torturing of a worm to death in no way teaches anyone anything of any use, nor anything that cannot be taught in text-books.

2. A larger, dead animals could easily be used.

3. The primary goal is to teach the children that :-
a. Animals and insects are lesser life forms, when in fact they
are Superior to humans because they do not suffer from Truth
rejection and mental dysfunction.
b. That it is societally acceptable to torture and kill so-called
lesser life and to target these lives for poison-container usage.

4. The lesson is structured in such a way that the worm must be pinned down, observed, controlled and allowed to die slowly in agony.

5. To have all the child-slaves conform and do as the group does (ie to attack independance and individuality)

6. To learn to obey orders even if they personally may feel they do not
want to.

This is one proof of how immoral and malevolent society is, and how it attempts to reflect their graven mental image on the next generation.

This is the Truth.

From correspondents in Ny-Alesund, Norway
Agence France-Presse
September 02, 2009 08:27am

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he was "alarmed" by the rate at which the Arctic’s glaciers were retreating as he visited the region ahead of key climate talks in December.
Mr Ban said world leaders had a "moral political responsibility" to safeguard the future of the planet.

"I am very much alarmed and surprised to have seen these glaciers all worn," he said as he visited the Ny-Alesund climate change research station in the Svalbard archipelago, located 1200km from the North Pole.

"Unless we take urgent action to stem this trend, we maybe virtually ice-free by 2037, even by 2030," he said.

Mr Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, is on a two-day trip to the Arctic to see first-hand the effects of climate change ahead of international climate talks in Copenhagen in December.

He is the first UN chief to visit the Ny-Alesund research station.

World leaders will gather at a UN climate summit in December to try to seal a new international accord on fighting climate change after the Kyoto Protocol requirements expire in 2012.

Mr Ban, who visited the Polar Ice Rim aboard a Norwegian coastguard vessel, said politicians must act now.

The Australian, 15 Feb 2009 "We have a moral political responsibility for our future and for the whole of humanity, for even the future of our planet," he said.

"This Arctic is the place where this global warming is happening much faster than any other region in the world.

"It looks like it’s seemingly moving in slow motion but it’s moving faster and faster. Much faster than expected."

The UN chief visited the Zeppelin atmospheric measuring station on Ny-Alesund which records the level of carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases and pollutants in the air.

"Over the past two years, we’ve suddenly seen a very big increase in methane gas," Kim Holmen, research director at the Norwegian Polar Institute, told Mr Ban.

Methane is one of the greenhouse gases that contributes to global warming.

Mr Holmen warned that glaciers were melting at an increasing rate, releasing massive amounts of fresh water in the oceans and disrupting the Gulf stream – a flow of water in the Atlantic that has a major impact on the planet’s weather system.

Mr Ban hopes to use his experience in Svalbard to convince the international community about the dangers of climate change at the Copenhagen summit, a meeting he has described as "crucial".

Mr Ban is also due to travel to Longyearbyen, the main town in the archipelago, to tour a vault carved into the Arctic permafrost and filled with samples of the world’s most important seeds.

Dubbed the "Noah’s Ark" of food, the vault can hold up to 4.5 million samples that can provide food crops in the event of a global catastrophe.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574…-23109,00.html

Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — AustraliaÂ’s Senate rejected the governmentÂ’s climate-change legislation, forcing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to amend the bill or call an early election.

Senators voted 42 to 30 against the law, which included plans for a carbon trading system similar to one used in Europe. Australia, the worldÂ’s biggest coal exporter, was proposing to reduce greenhouse gases by between 5 percent and 15 percent of 2000 levels in the next decade.

Rudd, who needs support from seven senators outside the government to pass laws through the upper house, can resubmit the bill after making amendments. A second rejection after a three-month span would give him a trigger to call an election.

“We may lose this fight, but this issue will not go away,” Climate Change Minister Penny Wong told the Senate in Canberra. “Australia cannot afford for climate change to be unfinished business.”

Five members from the Australian Greens party sought bigger cuts to emissions while the opposition coalition and independent Senator Nick Xenophon wanted to wait for further studies on the planÂ’s impact on the economy.

AustraliaÂ’s rainfall is the lowest of the worldÂ’s continents, excluding Antarctica, according to the Web site of Melbourne Water, a water management authority owned by the Victorian state government. Years of drought have cut farm output and water supplies in the Murray Darling Basin, the nationÂ’s biggest river system and home to almost half its farms.

Sydney Opera House

Lower rainfall, higher sea and land temperatures, severe storms, increased acidity in the ocean or rising sea levels could all threaten World Heritage sites such as the Sydney Opera House and the Great Barrier Reef, a report from the Australian National University said last week.

Rudd planned to pursue a steeper 25 percent emissions cut pending an international accord stabilizing carbon levels. His administration wants the legislation in place before a December meeting of 200 countries in Copenhagen to replace the Kyoto Protocol. China and the U.S., the worldÂ’s largest polluters, have yet to commit to targets for cutting greenhouse gases.

“This defeat doesn’t make any difference to our position in global negotiations and it doesn’t add to momentum for those discussions,” said Andrew Macintosh, an analyst from Australian National University’s Center of Law and Climate Policy. “Copenhagen will provide some impetus for further negotiations on Australian laws.”

Corporate Opposition

The Australian legislation faced opposition from some companies that said the planned cuts were too deep and would have damped economic growth without making much difference to global warming. Advocates of tougher measures to combat climate change said the plan didnÂ’t go far enough.

Royal Dutch Shell PlcÂ’s Australian unit urged the government in May to revise the plan to avoid reducing the ability of local companies to compete internationally.

The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation in June to limit heat-trapping pollution and create a trading system for pollution permits. The U.S. cap-and-trade bill must still pass the Senate.

The architects of AustraliaÂ’s plan, approved by the lower house of parliament on June 4, sought to create an economic incentive to cut emissions by forcing heavy polluters to buy carbon credits. Emissions from Australia will grow to 120 percent of the 2000 level without a pollution reduction plan, Wong said earlier this month.

“Australia going it alone before Copenhagen will not make a jot of difference,” Liberal Senator Eric Abetz said. “It is a dog of a plan and we will not support it in its current form.”

Bill Amendments

The government can resubmit legislation after negotiating with industry, Senators and conservationists. Parliament will hold three more two-week sessions this year starting on Sept. 7, Oct. 19 and Nov. 16. It then adjourns until 2010.

“The government will consider any serious amendment,” Wong said. “We will press on for as long as we have to, we will bring this bill back before the end of the year.”

The Copenhagen accord aims to reach an agreement to slow greenhouse-gas emissions and shift the world to low-carbon energy sources.

China and other developing nations reject calls for binding targets, arguing that rich nations fueled their growth while polluting for decades. Getting China, the worldÂ’s fastest- growing major economy, to commit to lowering emissions is a key goal for Copenhagen.

The global credit crisis, which has plunged most developed economies into recession, has blunted the fight to tackle climate change. AustraliaÂ’s government has spent A$90 billion ($75 billion) on economic stimulus.

“Climate has slipped down the list of priorities for Australians and they won’t like going to an early poll on it,” Macintosh said. “Climate has gone on the backburner because of the economic climate we have found ourselves in.”

Most people who haven’t researched the data themselves would pass this article as truth. Its not. The "summer heat" the article describes is not heat. The Arctic had its latest above 0C temperature in 50 years this summer.

For the public: Arctic sea ice melts every summer and it always has. This is lost in the article somewhere, as they talk about how much is being lost, rather than anomalies.

The biggest issue I have with the article is this:

That is not true. The Northwest passage is NOT open this year, and the summer melt minimums since 2007 have been increasing in coverage. Of course, you won’t hear about this in the media (the "new scientists")- with them two years of decreasing ice is a trend while 2 years of increasing ice is a fluke. Its not science anymore, hasn’t been for years. Its all political now, which is such a shame.

This is 2007 compared to 2008:

And 2009: (Color scale is slightly different. Dark blue is equal to red on the 07/08 maps)

Decreasing arctic ice, my ***. :rolleyes: