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• 1 Smile // Oct 23, 2009 at 7:26 pm   

  Your words will stand to remind others that they were warned.

  The country was warned about Obama as well:

• 2 Smile // Oct 23, 2009 at 7:27 pm   

  Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered

• 3 John Sandusky // Oct 23, 2009 at 9:54 pm   

  As an American taxpayer, I’m all for honoring the Indian Treaties.

  Let us shine the light of truth on just one compelling Article of the Seminole Indian’s Treaty with the people of the United States of America.

  Article III.In compliance with the desire of the United States to locate other Indians and freedmen thereon, the Seminoles cede and convey to the United States their entire domain, being the tract of land ceded to the Seminole Indians by the Creek Nation under the provisions of article first, (1st,) treaty of the United States with the Creeks and Seminoles, made and concluded at Washington, D. C., August 7, 1856. In consideration of said grant and cession of their lands, estimated at two million one hundred and sixty-nine thousand and eighty (2,169,080) acres, the United States agree to pay said Seminole Nation the sum of three hundred and twenty-five thousand three hundred and sixty-two ($325,362) dollars, said purchase being at the rate of fifteen cents per acre.

  There are approximately 3,500 Seminoles in the tribe. Their annual casino revenues are over a billion dollars a year. The tribe owns Hard-rock Cafe and Casinos International. Gambling enterprises are just a few of the numerous profitable enterprises they own

  The tribal leaders fly around in a jet they purchased from a Saudi Sheik. They ride around on numerous Harley Davidson Hogs. All and all they live high off the hog, and based on the very first treaty the Seminoles signed, the American taxpayer is under no obligation to provide the tribe with anymore hogs to sustain themselves.

  Why then does the American taxpayer provide the Seminole Tribe with the equivalent of around eighty million dollars worth of hogs in the name of grants?

  Someone needs to shine the light of truth on the Indian Treaties.

  Indian Treaties, Acts and Agreements

  Of course Doctor Yeagley and Reynolds are going to claim they have the real treaties in a lock box located in one of the vaults under one of the Indian Casinos that brings in more revenues than Atlantic City and Las Vegas combined — so pay no attention to the link and the information I provided.

  By all means American taxpayers … “honor the Indian Treaties.” And start by reading what is contained in them. Don’t believe a word the Indians and the Democrats that they mostly support say.

• 4 John Sandusky // Oct 23, 2009 at 10:25 pm   

  Let’s take a look at the meat of the latest Comanche Treaty (look it up on the link I provided) signed by:

  Parry-wah-say-men, or Ten Bears, his x mark
  Tep-pe-navon, or Painted Lips, his x mark
  To-she-wi, or Silver Brooch, his x mark
  Cear-chi-neka, or Standing Feather, his x mark
  Ho-we-ar, or Gap in the Woods, his x mark
  Tir-ha-yah-gua-hip, or Horse’s Back, his x mark
  Es-a-man-a-ca, or Wolf’s Name, his x mark
  Ah-te-es-ta, or Little Horn, his x mark
  Pooh-yah-to-yeh-be, or Iron Mountain, his x mark
  Sad-dy-yo, or Dog Fat, his x mark

  The Comanche are only to get thirty thousand dollars a year and this is to be shared with the Apache and the Kiowa.

  Also, something very interesting is also stated in the treaty:

  Article 2. The Kiowa and Comanche tribes, on their part, agree that all the benefits and advantages arising from the employment of physicians, teachers, carpenters, millers, engineers, farmers, and blacksmiths, agreed to be furnished under the provisions of their said treaty, together with all the advantages to be derived from the construction of agency buildings, warehouses, mills, and other structures, and also from the establishment of schools upon their said reservation, shall be jointly and equally shared and enjoyed by the said Apache Indians, as though they had been originally a part of said tribes; and they further agree that all other benefits arising from said treaty shall be jointly and equally shared as aforesaid.

  So there is a legal possibility that all the Comanche Casino revenues must be shared “equally” with the Apache and the Kiowa.

  Is that the case Doctor?

  Be careful what you wish for…

• 5 Awen // Oct 24, 2009 at 9:35 am   

  John Sandusky,

  Excuse me, but are you under the misapprehension that any tribal member is so much as allowed entrance to the closed-door meetings between Congress and tribal governments? I can tell you from personal experience with just this little problem that they are not! An enrolled tribal member is at the complete mercy of the tribal government, has no recourse whilst on tribal land to the protections of the Constitution or Bill of Rights, is legally under the status of ‘ward of the government’ and not an American citizen. Do you see any of this bunch, the Congress critters or tribal councils with power of dictatorship being particularly motivated to change it themselves?

  “The United States Code states, “the Congress finds – (1) that clause 3, section 8, article I of the United States Constitution provides that ‘The Congress shall have Power * * * To regulate Commerce * * * with Indian tribes and, through this and other constitutional authority, Congress has plenary power over Indian affairs.”3 [emphasis added] The word “plenary” is defined as full, unqualified, entire, complete or absolute. Thus the United States Code is saying that Congress has full, unqualified, entire, complete or absolute power over Indian affairs.

  The Supreme Court has recognized this plenary power of Congress on numerous occasions. One recognition is in the Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez (1978) decision which states, “Congress has plenary authority to limit, modify or eliminate the powers of local self-government which the tribes otherwise possess.”

  Come here, read the rest of it and be appalled:
  http://www.citizensalliance.org/

  That’s why, contrary to all historical precedent and even legal intent, tribal governments are always in such a rush to automatically ‘enroll’ every Indian baby, whilst they’re too young to make a conscious choice over what rights they give up, as if the only way they’re allowed to call themselves children of their own mothers is by virtue of a tribal government stamp. Tribal members, when they’re allowed to vote, can only choose which despot will rule them; they cannot change the system itself. Only Congress, holding plenary powers over all tribal governments and tribal land, can do this.

  Any federal funds go, not to the tribal members, but to the tribal councils, who go out and buy jets for themselves whilst closing schools all over tribal land ostensibly because of the lack of funds, underpay and under-staff their police and emergency services, deny seniors out on remote homesteads energy assistance in firewood or coal, also with excuse of lack of money – and a good number of them die from the cold every year!

  Tribal councils blather on about ‘providing jobs’ and they are the ones who drive them out. A case in point: In the early 1990’s Tooh Dineh Industries, an electrical assembly plant at Leupp, AZ had over 1500 employees. This was a necessary business in that locale. People were driving at least 60 miles to find employment outside of the tribe and tribal jobs were not only few but also tied up with nepotism (like any small town) and political crony-ism. In the good old days of that company, there were big contracts for them, Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, Texas Instruments and many others. So here’s how the tribal mafia messed that up:

  They were taking a cut of all the profits from the out-of-state owners of Tooh-Dineh and from those big contractors. Every year, those demands got bigger until, one by one; first Hewlett Packard and then most of the rest, backed out. The tribal council insisted on the right to appoint their own managers and supervisors, often a relative of someone on the tribal council, with no thought of whether the chosen could or would make an effort to keep the business running, and through those chosen, more outright theft of company funds. By 2000 there were fewer than 100 employees at Tooh Dineh Industries.

  The employees themselves, had no choice in any of this. At the time, I asked a lot of them, why not do as Y Tŵr/The Tower Coal Company did in Wales. When the UK government was going to ‘privatize’ that company, as in: sell it to the highest, usually foreign, bidder, all the employees took up a collection, minimum 2000 pounds apiece, and bought that company outright! Not only did Y Tŵr survive, it thrived and is the most profitable and best-run coal company in Wales.

  Tribal members were ‘not allowed’ to do likewise. They had no say, no input on any negotiations between the Tribe and those investors and contractors. Those jobs at Leupp could have been saved only if the Tribal mafia, I mean Council, had stayed the hell out!

  This problem does not affect only the out-of-state investor but the tribal one as well. In Leupp, if a Navajo wants a business, he has to get permission and a lease agreement from the local Chapter House and also from Window Rock, usually from Economic Development. He might wait years to get so much as a reply. If he is finally allowed to open this business, he will pay a cut to the Tribe and his lease rights are granted completely at the whim of those local government appointees. If a new Administration comes in at Window Rock, he has to start all over. If there is a new Chapter House President, he might keep his right to stay in business there or he might not. I have personally seen at least five small business try and fail in Leupp, not for lack of custom but because of personal spats in the Chapter House or waffling from Window Rock.

  I have no doubt that every tribe in the country has similar stories to find, if you want to find them – it is a little more work than resting comfortably in the idea that “Indians” as a group are to blame for all this.

• 6 Awen // Oct 24, 2009 at 11:44 am   

  Let’s play Connect the Dots!
  Nobody else seems to want to do this, so I will. I’m so miserable right now, there’s nothing anybody could do to me for this that is worse. The usual problem…….unreturned affections, sighs and groans….. OK, to work:

  How often do any of you see Indians in the mainstream media? I don’t mean just movies but everything else. Do we see Navajos promoting a wood-chipper? Comanches hyping ‘male-enhancement’ drugs? Hopis telling us all about the latest (and most toxic) deodorant? Apaches rhapsodizing over a new dust-grabbing mop? Zuni guys promising all the beautiful girls that’ll run to date you if you buy this new masculine after-shave? Hell no!

  There’s plenty of interracial flirting around for the rest of them too. We see plenty of white girls chatting up ‘zhinni’ guys, don’t we? And the reverse too.There is a big black presence in all aspects of commercial advertising, Hispanic, Asian, a mix of all of them or ‘new racers’ because we don’t even know what they might be, but no Indians. You only see Indians usually in Westerns or in a role that specifically requires an Indian in the script. That’s Dot#1.

  There must be at least a hundred well-documented political speeches in which some politician mentions “a new world order.” Go to youtube right now and search for that and you’ll find a long list of TV clips talking about just that. But if WE talk about it, we’re “conspiracy theory nuts!” Now friends, if you want to pull off something like global tyranny, it is in your interest to make sure that the two toughest and most resourceful races in the entire world never get together. Because what they’d produce together would be unbeatable and that must not be allowed. That’s Dot#2.

  From the outside, it looks like Indian tribes are getting their cake and eat it too. The only people besides illegals who get free medical care are Indian tribes. So they don’t get a lot of sympathy when they have a problem for which they require outside help from people who just lost their house because of medical bills. But what kind of medical care, hmmmm? Do you all remember that Heparin scandal? The blood-thinning drugs used for dialysis patients that turned out to have come from China and it was deliberately poisoned? Read all about it:

  Toxic Pipeline

  Now the interesting thing here is, there was NO mention of how many of these drugs were sent to the Indian Health Services – and you can be certain that ‘federal cost-cutting’ guaranteed the purchase of cheap Chinese products. Bet there wasn’t a recall either. I personally checked with the IHS in AZ. They hadn’t even read the bloody article and didn’t know a thing about this problem – it wasn’t on the TV news, was it? Dot #3.

  If a non-Indian marries an Indian and lives on tribal land, the minute that Indian dies, that widowed spouse can be tossed off the reservation and has no legal recourse. There was a lady doctor married to a guy from a Pueblo I won’t mention who returned from her husband’s funeral to find her house locked and couldn’t even get her clothes out. 80 year old widows and widowers have been tossed out onto the streets, stories right out of a Dickens novel. Let me make this very clear: in almost all cases, this is at the Tribal Councils’ bidding, not the families. Every time a case like this hits the local gossip line (the PC MSM ‘ain’t talking’) there’s one more group of infuriated non-Indians who from that moment on wouldn’t even pull an Indian out of a burning building! That’s Dot #4.

  I’ll come back with more because I’m too busy crying. I was one of those widows.

• 7 John Sandusky // Oct 24, 2009 at 3:12 pm   

  Awen, please forgive me for purposely posting comments that were provocative and designed to stimulate a healthy debate. I certainly would not have done it if I knew it would lead someone to tears.

  But I have to be honest, the information you provided is spectacular and it certainly sheds light on a major problem the Indian Nations have that most people have not a clue — I had a clue but never imagined the problem was this bad.

  Thank you!

  Obviously, the meeting in Washington should not be between tribal leaders and Obama; but between honest tribal rights activists and perhaps the FBI or another law enforcement agency that can make a difference in the grassroots Indians lives. More of the Indian revenues and assets from all sources need to get to the average Indian.

  Corrupt, greedy politicians and so-called leaders plague us all.

• 8 Awen // Oct 24, 2009 at 5:03 pm   

  John Sandusky

  Were it not for your post, I’d probably never have said anymore. I owe you some thanks also. I’d have been back sooner but one of my cats tripped across the keyboard and deleted a big lot of text so I have to carefully do this next ‘Dot’ in parts of separate posts. First I offer a link you’ll wonder that I could have found it so riveting, an online transcript of an ‘Oversight Hearing on Bureau of Reclamations Funding Options’ before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on resources, House of Representatives, 105th Congress, 1st session, 1997

  First interesting thing is how difficult it proves to find anything online that is more current! Second thing was one question repeated over and over in this discussion and evaded, over and over. Really fascinating. Here’s that question and the link:
  “Mrs. CHENOWETH. In your draft strategic plan you talk about acquisition or leasing of water rights and ways to improve environmental conditions and I found that beginning on page—you also discuss it on page 2 of your testimony. How do you intend to finance this kind of acquisition and when and where did the Congress give the authority or confer the authorization to the Bureau for this kind of acquisition whether it be leasing of water rights or selling of storage rights?

  And then the second part of my question—the first part, where is the money going to come from, secondly, did Congress defer that on your Department? And, thirdly, isn’t a storage right a contract obligation rather than a right that was somehow acquired by the Bureau to be able to sell or rent?”

  OVERSIGHT HEARING ON BUREAU OF RECLAMATION FUNDING OPTIONS FOR WATER PROJECT CONSTRUCTION, ENHANCEMENT, REHABILITATION AND MITIGATION

  Now let me tell you some inside gossip from an unnamed relative who works the State Legislature every year: She says people ‘are going to go home and get their guns’ over this one. The B of R intends to seize all water rights in all Western states, meter the water and dole it out ‘according to need,’ a line right out of the Communist Manifesto. That includes tribal rights, private property and state property. Now remember what I said about Congress and ‘plenary powers.’ I’ll post this part first and then tell you a story about some funny goings on this past year or two on the reservation I have recently left.

• 9 Awen // Oct 24, 2009 at 5:28 pm   

  First , more interesting newslinks. Remember this one?

  U.N. Rejects water as Basic Human Right

  World Water Forum Ends, Water Not Human Right

  In the words of Henry Kissinger: “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”
  And who owns most of the pipes carrying water from one place to another in the country? The oil companies!
  ok. These should get in here now. Things have a way of disappearing when they get too many hits, I’ve noticed.

• 10 Awen // Oct 24, 2009 at 5:48 pm   

  Where I lived on Dineh Bikeyah was on top of a big fat water table, one shared by the reservation and small surrounding communities. Not Flagstaff. They pulled the first one: the City of Flag tried to buy Red Gap ranch, which was right on the reservation line, and for the oldest trick in the book, so they could put their straw into that water table. Too many people outside of the rez found out about that and their purchase fell through.

  Next antic: Enter Peabody Coal, begging for our water. We almost lost that one because even the local Chapter House President was on the other side – paid off no doubt. My in-laws, I am proud to say, had everything to do with swaying that vote towards ‘NO.’ My sister-in-law even ran bake sales to pay for our nephew’s gas, since he was such a good speaker and a lot of guts, so he could go around the rez and tell people what was going on and get them to the Chapter House in time, since a lot of older people couldn’t even get there without help.

  Next antic was two strange guys who showed up, apparently Indian, but they didn’t know how to act so they weren’t fooling us. Something most of you know is that a government goon looks like a government goon, regardless of ethnic background. They were snapping pictures all over the place around where we lived so we challenged them, WTF are you up to, etc.

  They produced glossy business cards and said they’d been sent by the Tribe to assess viability of plans to create ‘infrastructure’ for people out on remote homesteads. Ha ha! Tell me another one! They’ll go through miles of solid rock and caliche to put in running water and electric power. They were waving the possibility of jobs for us locals. So I took that card – not from them directly because they kept turning the other way to keep me, peeking from the porch, from seeing their faces! I phoned the nephew, who worked for USDA, wool Dept. and we both went online to check them out. They were a water surveying outfit! And……guess who’s paying them? I called my relative for that and got it back in minutes: the good old B of R. That’s Dot #5.

• 11 David Yeagley // Oct 24, 2009 at 7:49 pm   

  John, I don’t think you’re going to get any accurate idea of how the Indian treaty ‘business’ works by looking at isolated records in the AccessGeneology collection. In fact, a lot of family ancestry is confused and obfuscated sometimes, simply by the collected date–without circumstance, family knowledge of facts, and the overall picture.

  In any case, the history of Indian law is probably the most complex of all. I would first recommend:

  The American Indian in Western Legal Thought (1990), by Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Then perhaps, as a foundational text,

  American Indian Law (1988), by Willaim C. Canby, jr.

  Without these, I don’t know how anyone can form a reasonable concept of what has happened, and thus a reasonable understanding of what is happening now. I’m certainly no expert, or even a novice, really.

  I know that I predicted casinos would ruin us. Many Indian laughed. I said it is only a matter of time when the government will look at the boasted casino “revenue” (out of which Indians get only a tiny fraction–and some leaders scoop up that, we’re told), and conclude: Why do Indians need any money from the government?

  Nevertheless, casino revenue is voluntary white money. The profits are given to Indians by willing whites. You can’t blame Indians for that. The treaty provisions are based on law, not on business.

  Obviously, the treaties need to be reconsidered, renegotiated, and maybe re-written.

  The the intent of all of them was clear: Indians must stop fighting and killing white people, stay in one place, away from white people, and the good ol’ US government would take care of them, forever.

  That is what Indian blood was spilled for. If you think Indians are going to ignore that, or give that up, willfully and knowingly, you are mistaken.

  However, they are being swindled out of it, instead!

• 12 Awen // Oct 24, 2009 at 8:08 pm   

  We two, Indian and European Americans are going to be swindled out of our very lives if we don’t get a handle on how many enemies we’ve got fast.

  Yeagley: that’s another Dot. #6

• 13 Awen // Oct 24, 2009 at 9:26 pm   

  Nááhwíílbiihí,, is usually translated as the one who always wins, the Great Gambler but it really means the one who always wins….you. In three referenda, the Navajos voted ‘no’ to casinos in a clear majority. It’s the Tribal Council that’s not listening and knowing who they’re dealing with: Congress, there seems to be something about this that is not showing on the surface. I always get the feeling I’m watching a puppet show with these businesses. A money-laundering scheme, maybe? The obvious result of allowing in one section of a state what you won’t allow in another is one more way to create enmity between people on and off the reservations. We are definitely NOT supposed to be getting together comparing notes.

• 14 John Sandusky // Oct 24, 2009 at 10:54 pm   

  Doctor Yeagley are you even aware of the fact that each Seminole, children and adults alike, receives a monthly dividend check of $7,000, or $84,000 annually, as his or her share of money made from the casinos.

  Also, I know for a fact that Seminole children get their entire college education paid for “free,” but only about 1% take advantage of it.

  Giving the Seminole tribe even one dollar of welfare should be vehemently opposed by any self respecting Indian while other Indians cannot put enough bread on the table or heat in their homes.

  Someone needs to do an in depth study on exactly which Indians are receiving substantial gambling dividends, and accordingly cut off their tribes Uncle Sammy “guilt payment.” Not one of the treaties justifies the “feathering of such undeserving nests” any longer.

• 15 John Sandusky // Oct 24, 2009 at 11:15 pm   

  “So powerful are convictions at Pastor Denny Crowe’s Old Antioch Baptist Church, perched on the mountainside above the casino, that some in the congregation refuse the “per capita,” a $1,000-plus semi-annual gambling dividend paid to each enrolled tribal member. “No man can serve two masters!” roars preacher Crowe during a typically fiery sermon.”

  Now this is commitment to ones core beliefs.

  Eastern Cherokee

• 16 David Yeagley // Oct 25, 2009 at 11:29 am   

  Comanches get a little over $1,000. a year. And shrinking. We have four casinos.

  My plan, which I suggested to Gov. Schwarzenegger during the casino crisis out there in CA, was that all Indian casino money should be put in one Indian National Bank, and that all should be made one “Indian” currency. And there should be tariffs, and excise taxes. Only Indian currency can be used in a casino, and it must be coverted to “dollars” when used outside (after you win).

  The wealth of Indian casinso should be combined, and “distributed” among the tribes. I know it sounds “communist,” but, some of this grand winning “pop-up” casino tribes never fought a battle, and never signed a treaty.

  $30 billion casino revenue, they said, a couple of years ago. Only a third or more of the tribes even have casinos. Most of the tribes that really need them, are located in areas where a casino would not bring in anything.

  Anyway, John, no one takes this Indian National Bank and currency idea seriously, but, I think it is the only solution right now.

• 17 Awen // Oct 25, 2009 at 1:32 pm   

  Huh? How about a logical solution to selling porno too whilst we’re at it? Is it good for any of us to profit off of moral destruction and worse, proliferate it by giving it a place to live? Have any of you seen the kids waiting out the car all day whilst the parents gamble and booze it up in the casinos? All the paychecks that should have been putting food on the table being sucked up so Tribal Council members can go off on junkets to resorts on money that belongs to their people and patronize the brothels? And do you think there’s any doubt that’s exactly what they’re doing? Ayaa, what is the matter with you? There are plenty of other good and necessary industries: solar and wind energy are the latest hot alternatives and they’re actually getting grants to start up now.

• 18 Awen // Oct 25, 2009 at 2:19 pm   

  http://www.pactoregon.org/facts-child.html
  “If anything sealed the fate of video poker in South Carolina, it was the
  sad tale of Joy Baker, a 10-day-old baby who suffocated in a car while her
  mother played the machines at a roadside casino in August of 1997.”

  http://www.troubledwith.com/AbuseandAddiction/A000000707.cfm?topic=abuse%20and%20addiction%3A%20gambling
  “Child abuse and neglect

  The National Gambling Impact Study Commission reported: “Children of compulsive gamblers are often prone to suffer abuse, as well as neglect, as a result of parental problem or pathological gambling.” 6

  In Indiana, a review of the state’s gaming commission records revealed that 72 children were found abandoned on casino premises during a 14-month period. 7

  Children have died as a direct result of adult gambling problems. In Louisiana and South Carolina, children died after being locked in hot cars for hours while their caretakers gambled.8 An Illinois mother was sentenced to prison for suffocating her infant daughter in order to collect insurance money to continue gambling. 9

  Cases of child abandonment at Foxwoods, the nation’s largest casino in Ledyard, Conn., became so commonplace that authorities were forced to post signs in the casino’s parking lots warning parents not to leave children in cars unattended.”

  “Increase in Crime. Dr. Earl Grinols, a Baylor University economist who has extensively studied the implications of gambling on society, found that with the introduction of gambling casinos in an area came an eventual increase of six serious crimes: aggravated assault, rape, robbery, larceny, burglary, and auto theft. Other national studies confirm Grinols’ findings. Gambling in Minnesota reports on one of those studies: “U.S. News and World Report compared the crime rates of communities with casinos to those without casinos. Communities with casinos had an average crime rate that was 84 percent higher than those areas without casinos.”

  • Increase in Suicides. The undisputed gambling capital of the nation, Las Vegas, is also the nation’s undisputed leader in suicides. Las Vegas logs the most suicides in the nation for both residents and visitors. Likewise, as other states have introduced casino gambling, they too have seen an increase in suicide rates.

  • Increase in Family Problems. A plethora of national studies confirms that gambling intensifies such family problems as divorce, domestic violence, and child abuse and neglect. Gambling in Minnesota cites the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, which noted that there is “abundant testimony and evidence that compulsive gambling introduces a greatly heightened level of stress and tension into marriages and families, often culminating in divorce and other manifestations of familial disharmony.”

  Legislators who tout the expansion of state-sponsored gambling as a quick fix for Minnesota’s budget woes are turning a blind eye to the negative economic impact that gambling brings along with the social and political baggage. Economist Grinols conservatively estimates that on a national scale, for every $46 of benefit gambling brings, it dumps $219 in social costs on society (it may be as high as $289).”
  http://www.mfc.org/contents/article.cfm?id=1478

  ” In every case reported, the costs to the county outweigh any reimbursement received from the casino. See the full report for details.

  * Amador County – law enforcement, courts, roads – $7,332,572
  * Butte County – transportation, law enforcement, fire – $376,500
  * Imperial County – roads, solid waste – $20,100,000
  * Kings County – roads, fire – $4,440,700
  * San Bernardino County (existing casino)- transportation, fire, law enforcement, courts, infrastructure, social services – $2,366,884
  * San Bernardino County (proposed casino #1) – fire, law enforcement – $731,000
  * San Bernardino County (proposed casino #2) – law enforcement – $130,000
  * Santa Barbara County – transportation, transit, roads, law enforcement, fire, housing, air quality, outdoor recreational – $7,876,275
  * Yolo County – law enforcement, courts, land and recreation, roads, general government, health and human services, other – $5,270,733″
  http://www.uspact.org/research.htm#CasinosCrimeCommunityCosts
  “Gambling addiction is a significant problem in the United States impacting adults of all ages and their families. Until recently legal casino and sports betting were limited to two states. The traditional game of chance for seniors is bingo, a pastime that serves as a recreational event in many communities. The growth of riverboat and Indian casinos, state and national lotteries, and Internet access to off-shore sports and parlor betting, has dramatically increased access for all adults including seniors. Older adults are, perhaps, more vulnerable than other age groups given their greater dependence on fixed incomes and more limited ability to recover to secure debt or recover from gambling losses. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging.”

• 19 Awen // Oct 25, 2009 at 2:29 pm   

  “Gambling addiction is a significant problem in the United States impacting adults of all ages and their families. Until recently legal casino and sports betting were limited to two states. The traditional game of chance for seniors is bingo, a pastime that serves as a recreational event in many communities. The growth of riverboat and Indian casinos, state and national lotteries, and Internet access to off-shore sports and parlor betting, has dramatically increased access for all adults including seniors. Older adults are, perhaps, more vulnerable than other age groups given their greater dependence on fixed incomes and more limited ability to recover to secure debt or recover from gambling losses. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging.”

  Casinos Crime Community Costs

  “CA Attorney General Report – Gambling in the Golden State, May 2006 – Excerpts from news article: The report by the attorney general’s office concludes “the annual cost of adult pathological gamblers in California is an estimated $489 million and the annual cost of adult problem gamblers is an estimated $509 million.” … “These costs derive from a number of social and personal problems that correlate with problem gambling, including crime, unpaid debts and bankruptcy, mental illness, substance abuse, unemployment and public assistance,” it says. … In addition, crime rates are higher near gambling establishments, and problem gamblers are more likely to commit violent crimes. An alarming number of problem gamblers, nearly half, are youths. … “I am surprised that given all of the efforts to radically expand gambling pending in the Legislature right now, the release of this bombshell report has not received the attention it deserves,” said Fred Jones, an attorney for the California Coalition Against Gambling Expansion.”

  And maybe we shouldn’t give the feds an excuse to snatch anything else:
  “Five U.S. senators, including Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein of California, are calling for more scrutiny of granting Indian tribes non-reservation land that could be turned into gaming sites.

  That would include the proposal to build a mega-casino on Point Molate in Richmond, where a former Navy site would be granted to the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians.

  The senators, a group that also includes John Kyl of Arizona and Harry Reid and John Ensign of Nevada, sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that called transferring lands for gaming “an abuse of the land into trust process” that “violates the spirit of the (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act).”

  The letter says casinos are springing up on land that could be used for schools or housing without taking into consideration the needs and concerns of local communities.

  In the case of the Point Molate proposal, the tribe, which is part of the Guidiville Rancheria Tribe, does not have a reservation and can request to have land deeded as such by the federal government.

  To make the casino happen, the land will be transferred from the city of Richmond to the developers to the federal government, which will put it in trust for the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians. That means the tribe has control of the land, but the federal government would own it.”
  Feinstein/Boxer Oppose Land Transfers for Indian Casinos

• 20 Awen // Oct 25, 2009 at 4:41 pm   

  Looks like the Obamacare depopulation agenda is getting off to a good start with the Tribes. First on the list, before any private practice gets it, Public Health and Indian Health Services are getting served with their yummy mercury and squalene-laden concoctions:

  Swine Flu Vaccine Headed to Oklahoma

  “Vaccine now is available only through county health departments and the Indian Health Service. Once larger quantities arrive later this month, private providers will begin to receive vaccine.”

  http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7653&Itemid=114

  Isn’t that special? They want to tend to all the freebie cases first.
  And now a little about the company that makes the flu jab for us, Baxter, with a little tidbit that never saw the light of day in the American MSM but sure did a lot of other places:
  http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html
  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health–Science/Science/Virus-mix-up-by-lab-could-have-resulted-in-pandemic/articleshow/4230882.cms
  Oops! We just lost track of a level 3 bioweapon by accident.
  http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2331526/
  http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14899

• 21 Awen // Oct 25, 2009 at 4:55 pm   

  “Your right to Self-Quarantine and Self-Shield in the event of an actual pandemic is threatened by the WHO’s recent declaration that the “Swine Flu” was now a “Level 6″ pandemic [this required a change in the definition of a "Level 6" pandemic]. Such a declaration triggers all sorts of bureaucratic prerogatives and potentially dangerous “Medical Emergency Powers Act” and other controls over our lives, including mandatory, uninsurable vaccinations without protection for religious and other objections.

  Therefore, we have drafted a model bill to further the Right to Self-Shield (of which Self-Quarantine is a subset — you self-shield to avoid exposure to a pandemic pathogen; self-quarantine if exposed). We detailed the legal basis for this Right in our White Paper: “Stay Home – Stay Alive” at
  http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2752

• 22 Smile // Oct 25, 2009 at 6:21 pm   

  Awen,

  You are an absolute blessing for taking the time to provide all that information.

• 23 David Yeagley // Oct 25, 2009 at 7:51 pm   

  But, Awen, please try to keep focused on the blog topic. This is about an objection to Obama’s “Tribal Conference” in DC.

  We have a number of forums on BadEagle.com, which cover quite a wide rage of topics, from health, gender, conspiracy, science, art, etc. I think we all to well to keep our thoughts categorized. Otherwise, when someone wants to find a reference, they will hardly be able, because the information was put under a diverse topic.

• 24 Awen // Oct 25, 2009 at 8:41 pm   

  You’re right, and yet, whilst we’re doing it all one by one, we’re not seeing that all these little tricks from a series of corrupt Administrations are part of a much bigger picture, or plot, if you will. and we’d better hurry up and get wise to it. If I didn’t tell what I know now, I might NEVER do it. It was the only chance and the only excuse I had to come in and tell people – and tell you, because you won’t let me talk to you anywhere else.

  Hágoónee’, everybody. Keep your eyes open and stay the hell out the doctor’s office.

• 25 Awen // Oct 25, 2009 at 8:59 pm   

  ôl ysgrif (P.S.)
  I already told you I wasn’t going back to that forum because it’s too full of creeps, who are not fit company for me OR you.

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