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By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English with Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS Gazette
There was a surprise waiting in the statistics at Censored News today. Yesterday, Censored News broke all viewer records, with 42,971 pageviews. The views and comments reveal that Indian Country has had enough of Arizona Sen. John McCain, and the scorched earth campaign of the US government, with its river poisoning US EPA and its genocidal coal and uranium mining.
Here's our top stories this week:
Our top story was written by Vincent Yazzie in 2011: “Navajo: Remove John McCain from Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.” It is hard to believe that John McCain is still on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, after his long history of the theft of Indian land and water rights.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/02/navajo-remove-john-mccain-from-senate.html
Next on the most viewed list, is our article “Dine' protesters chase John McCain off Navajo Nation.” In a statement to Phoenix New Times, McCain denied he was chased off the Navajo Nation. But the videos of Navajos chasing his car to the airport shows he was indeed chased off the Navajo Nation. McCain has continued attempts to steal water rights to the Colorado River for southern Arizona and the dirty coal fired power plant that provides electricity to southern Arizona, the Navajo Generating Station. Navajos also gave McCain real in-his-face support for Apaches defending Oak Flat. This comes after McCain sneaked through the theft of sacred Oak Flat for copper mining in the defense bill.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/dine-protesters-chase-john-mccain-off.html
Our next most viewed article is, “EPA send poisoned water to Navajos after massive gold mine spill.” The EPA sent water in contaminated tanks by way of an oil and fracking trucking company to desperate Navajo farmers in the Shiprock area.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/epa-sent-navajos-poisoned-water-after.html
Also in the top viewed category: “Lakotas rally to protect sacred water Aug. 24, 2015.” The fight continues to protect Lakota territory from uranium mining. Uranium mining in Lakota territory reveals the scorched earth campaign of the US government which has included poisoning the water and land of Lakotas, Navajos, Pueblos and more in Indian country with uranium mining, coal mining, gold mine river spills and toxic dumping.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/lakotas-rally-to-protect-sacred-water.html
Navajos in Sanders, Arizona, are now the victims of the Church Rock uranium spill of 1979. When the US government relocated Navajos to this area from Black Mesa to make way for Peabody Coal's mining on Black Mesa, the US knew that the radioactive water was traveling down the Rio Puerco wash and would poison the water supplies in this community west of Gallup, N.M.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/navajos-in-sanders-victims-of-uranium.html
With heavy hearts, Navajos in Shiprock voted not to irrigate their crops with the water from the Animas and San Juan rivers, now contaminated with heavy metals. The US EPA admits it was responsible for the Gold King mine spill which will contaminate the riverbeds for decades.
“Navajos at Shiprock make heart-wrenching decision not to irrigate with contaminated river water.”
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/navajos-at-shiprock-heart-wrenching.html
The smug indifference of the BLM moderator of this listening session was obvious during this so-called listening session. Indigenous said they were disrespected by BLM officials during their prayer. Navajos and Pueblos took the message in regards to coal and uranium: “Leave it in the Ground.”
“Four Corners residents to BLM: Stop Sacrificing us for dirty coal”
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/today-in-farmington-keep-it-in-ground.html
“Zapatistas on Truth and Justice:” The article reveals how US government forces and the media have carried out a war on Indigenous Peoples and truth. http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/zapatistas-truth-and-justice-will-never.html
“Dine' Water Teach-Ins expose threats and solutions”
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/dine-water-teach-ins-expose-threats-and.html
“Grassroots Indigenous prepare for UN Climate Summit in Paris”
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/grassroots-indigenous-prepare-for-un.html
EPA's dirty tricks campaign
After poisoning the Animas and San Juan rivers with the Gold King mine spill, the US EPA began at dirty tricks campaign and attempted to get Navajos to sign waivers of liability for the US government:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2015/08/us-epa-tells-navajo-people-to-waive.html
Former Chairman Tex Hall's oil and gas business partner in the news again
In the news, Tex Hall's former oil and gas business partner, waiting trial in a murder for hire scheme, attempted to escape from jail by way of sheets tied together. According to another inmate, the escape plans included big money and weapons. This is the latest story in the dark truth of oil, gas, murder and a separate disappearance of Tex Hall's business partners on the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, where oil and gas drilling, devastating pollution and criminal workers, in North Dakota have devastated the communities. http://www.krem.com/story/news/local/spokane-county/2015/08/20/fbi-investigates-jail-escape-attempt-by-james-henrikson/32047937/
Censored News coverage from 2014, which includes a photo of Tex Hall and the accused.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/by-brenda-norrell-censored-news-new.html
Reporters tortured and murdered around the world, while plagiarism dominates in US
While reporters are being tortured and assassinated around the world, in the United States, plagiarism by stay at home re-writers has increasingly become the standard.
In Indian country, the major Indian news websites rely on stay-at-home plagiarizers who rarely leave their homes. They let others take the risks, do the work, and pay the costs. These websites deceive their readers into believing they are actually out covering the news by plagiarizing and rewriting, and adding stolen copyrighted photos as if they were present and covering the news.
Indian country media does not have any reporters present in Washington DC. It is not because of a lack of funds either. The owners of Indian Country Today are extremely wealthy.
What this means for Indian country is that John McCain and the others in Congress are left free to continue their pattern of the theft of American Indian land and water rights theft.
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Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 29 years, serving as a writer for Navajo Times and a stringer for AP and USA Today during the 18 years she lived on the Navajo Nation. After being a longtime staff reporter for Indian Country Today, she was censored and terminated. She then created Censored News, focused on Indigenous Peoples and human rights, now in its fifth year.