The Indisputable Truth

I’ve been very busy, so I’m on break from writing until the second week of January. Thanks for all you guys that have made my blog as succesful as it’s been.

WASHINGTON — The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States.

“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us,” long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means said.

A delegation of Lakota leaders has delivered a message to the State Department, and said they were unilaterally withdrawing from treaties they signed with the federal government of the U.S., some of them more than 150 years old.

The group also visited the Bolivian, Chilean, South African and Venezuelan embassies, and would continue on their diplomatic mission and take it overseas in the coming weeks and months.

Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free - provided residents renounce their U.S. citizenship, Mr Means said.

The treaties signed with the U.S. were merely “worthless words on worthless paper,” the Lakota freedom activists said.

Withdrawing from the treaties was entirely legal, Means said.

“This is according to the laws of the United States, specifically article six of the constitution,” which states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, he said.

“It is also within the laws on treaties passed at the Vienna Convention and put into effect by the US and the rest of the international community in 1980. We are legally within our rights to be free and independent,” said Means.

The Lakota relaunched their journey to freedom in 1974, when they drafted a declaration of continuing independence — an overt play on the title of the United States’ Declaration of Independence from England.

Thirty-three years have elapsed since then because “it takes critical mass to combat colonialism and we wanted to make sure that all our ducks were in a row,” Means said.

One duck moved into place in September, when the United Nations adopted a non-binding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples — despite opposition from the United States, which said it clashed with its own laws.

“We have 33 treaties with the United States that they have not lived by. They continue to take our land, our water, our children,” Phyllis Young, who helped organize the first international conference on indigenous rights in Geneva in 1977, told the news conference.

The U.S. “annexation” of native American land has resulted in once proud tribes such as the Lakota becoming mere “facsimiles of white people,” said Means.

Oppression at the hands of the U.S. government has taken its toll on the Lakota, whose men have one of the shortest life expectancies - less than 44 years - in the world.

Lakota teen suicides are 150 per cent above the norm for the U.S.; infant mortality is five times higher than the U.S. average; and unemployment is rife, according to the Lakota freedom movement’s website.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Rep. Tom Tancredo abandoned his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday and endorsed Mitt Romney’s candidacy, saying the Massachusetts Republican “can go the distance.”

Rep. Tom Tancredo announces he is ending his presidential campaign Thursday.

Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, is a fierce proponent of stricter illegal immigration laws, but his campaign struggled to gain traction with Republican primary voters, despite many naming illegal immigration as a top concern.

Noting the “incredibly long odds” when he launched his White House bid, Tancredo said his campaign achieved what it meant to do: put illegal immigration on the national agenda.

“I am ecstatic about the fact that we can say we have made remarkable progress along those lines,” Tancredo said during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. “According to Newsweek, the Tancredo campaign has already won.

After announcing he was dropping out of the race, Tancredo endorsed Romney’s presidential bid, saying that Romney supported his stance on illegal immigration and national security and that the former Massachusetts governor could win the presidency.
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An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday night showed the congressman registered less than 1 percent support nationally, and a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll of likely Iowa caucus-goers released Thursday put Tancredo at only 3 percent.

Of the likely Republican Iowa caucus-goers interviewed for the poll, 20 percent said immigration was the most important issue in deciding who they will support. Only caucus-goers who cited economic issues as their biggest concern was a larger group at 25 percent.

Earlier this week, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a friend of Tancredo’s who shares his tough approach on immigration, announced he was backing former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee instead.

While he has not risen in the polls, Tancredo did affect the GOP by keeping the immigration issue front and center in the GOP debates he participated in.

During the CNN/YouTube debate in November, Tancredo said the candidates were “trying to out-Tancredo Tancredo” by arguing for strengthened border security, stepped-up enforcement on immigration laws and punishment of employers who hire illegal immigrants.

“That is exactly right: The other Republican candidates adopted Tancredo’s tough line on illegal immigration,” CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said. “What happens when you out-Tancredo Tancredo? You don’t need Tancredo any more.”

One of the few honest republicans in the race, I did not exactly
believe in his ideologies, but he was uncorrupt, and he was going to bring change.
 He endorses Romney because he thinks Romney has the best chance of winning not 
only the nomination, but the White House. I have to admit, Romney has presidential
 looks, and is going to be the hardest candidate for Democrats to beat, simply because
 he is so charismatic. The race is getting more competitive, hopefully 
this i just the beginning. Let’s all be honest, the media will not let some candidates
win. Biden, Kucinich, Gravel, Richardson, Keyes (who many found out was running just last week)
 and a couple more on the Republican side honestly have a
slim to none chance.
Finally heading down the home stretch, this feels like the longest election ever.

Here is a story that I think anyone who is interested in politics shoud know about.

from Wikipedia:

Newspaper boys, also called newsboys or newsies, were the main distributors of newspapers to the general public from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s in the United States of America. Standing on street corners, walking through neighborhoods and hawking their papers throughout every city, they first appeared with the rise of mass circulation newspapers. Newsboys tended to be among the poorest classes of society, often seen sleeping on the streets. They typically earned around 30 cents a day and often worked until very late at night.[3] Cries of “Extra, extra!” were often heard into the morning hours as newsboys were forced to hawk every last, or extra, paper.[4]

Throughout their history, newsboys were not often well received. In 1875 a popular writer of the period wrote, “There are 10,000 children living on the streets of New York….The newsboys constitute an important division of this army of homeless children. You see them everywhere…. They rend the air and deafen you with their shrill cries. They surround you on the sidewalk and almost force you to buy their papers. They are ragged and dirty. Some have no coats, no shoes and no hat.” Therefore the common ill-treatment of the newsboys by their employers was not regarded by much of society.[5] The impact of a ten-cent cost hike on the newsboys’ families and living situations were rarely, if ever, reported.

In 1899, a large number of New York City newsboys refused to distribute the papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, after the cost of distributing papers was raised a 1/10 cent. The strikers demonstrated across the Brooklyn Bridge for days, effectively bringing traffic to a standstill[6], along with the news distribution for most New England cities. Several rallies drew more than 5,000 newsboys, complete with charismatic speeches by strike leader Kid Blink.[7]

So named because he was reportedly blind in one eye, Kid Blink was popular with competing newspapers such as the New York Tribune, who often patronizingly quoted Blink with his dialect intact, attributing to him such sayings as “Me men is nobul” and “Dis is de time when we’se got to stick together like glue.” Blink and his strikers were the subject of violence, as well. Hearst and Pulitzer hired men to break up rallies and protect the newspaper deliveries still underway.[8] During one rally Blink told strikers, “Friens and feller workers. Dis is a time which tries de hearts of men. Dis is de time when we’se got to stick together like glue…. We know wot we wants and we’ll git it even if we is blind.”[9]

The strike ended upon the newspapers’ agreement to buy back all the papers the boys had refused to sell, and the union disbanded. Some decades later, the introduction of urban child-welfare practices led to improvements in the newsboys’ quality of life.

I understand that this is not new, but this is still very important, and is not talked about enough
Joel A. Rogers and Dr. Auset Bakhufu have both written books documenting that at least five former presidents of the United States had Black people among their ancestors. If one considers the fact that European men far outnumbered European women during the founding of this country, and that the rape and impregnation of an African female slave was not considered a crime, it is even more surprising that these two authors could not document Black ancestors among an ever larger number of former presidents. The president’s names include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge.

The best case for Black ancestry is against Warren G. Harding, our 29th president from 1921 until 1923. Harding himself never denied his ancestry. When Republican leaders called on Harding to deny the “Negro” history, he said, “How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence.” William Chancellor, a White professor of economics and politics at Wooster College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family genealogy and identified Black ancestors among both parents of President Harding. Justice Department agents allegedly bought and destroyed all copies of this book. Chancellor also said that Harding’s only academic credentials included education at Iberia College, which was founded in order to educate fugitive slaves.

Andrew Jackson was our 7th president from 1829 to 1837. The Virginia Magazine of History Volume 29 says that Jackson was the son of a White woman from Ireland who had intermarried with a Negro. The magazine also said that his eldest brother had been sold as a slave in Carolina. Joel Rogers says that Andrew Jackson Sr. died long before President Andrew Jackson Jr. was born. He says the president’s mother then went to live on the Crawford farm where there were Negro slaves and that one of these men was Andrew Jr’s father. Another account of the “brother sold into slavery” story can be found in David Coyle’s book entitled “Ordeal of the Presidency” (1960).

Thomas Jefferson was our 3rd president from 1801 to 1809. The chief attack on Jefferson was in a book written by Thomas Hazard in 1867 called “The Johnny Cake Papers.” Hazard interviewed Paris Gardiner, who said he was present during the •••• presidential campaign, when one speaker states that Thomas Jefferson was “a mean-spirited son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father.” In his book entitled “The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson,” Samuel Sloan wrote that Jefferson destroyed all of the papers, portraits, and personal effects of his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, when she died on March 31, 1776. He even wrote letters to every person who had ever received a letter from his mother, asking them to return that letter. Sloan says, “There is something strange and even psychopathic about the lengths to which Thomas Jefferson went to destroy all remembrances of his mother, while saving over 18,000 copies of his own letters and other documents for posterity.” One must ask, “What is it he was trying to hide?”

Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president from 1861 to 1865. J. A. Rogers quotes Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, as saying that Abraham Lincoln was the illegitimate son of an African man. William Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner, said that Lincoln had very dark skin and coarse hair and that his mother was from an Ethiopian tribe. In Herndon’s book entitled “The Hidden Lincoln” he says that Thomas Lincoln could not have been Abraham Lincoln’s father because he was sterile from childhood mumps and was later castrated. Lincoln’s presidential opponents made cartoon drawings depicting him as a Negro and nicknamed him “Abraham Africanus the First.”

Calvin Coolidge was our 30th president, and he succeeded Warren Harding. He proudly admitted that his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry. However, Dr. Bakhufu says that by 1800 the New England Indian was hardly any longer pure Indian, because they had mixed so often with Blacks. Calvin Coolidge’s mother’s maiden name was “Moor.” In Europe the name “Moor” was given to all Black people just as the name Negro was used in America.

All of the presidents mentioned were able to pass for White and never acknowledged their Black ancestry. Millions of other children who were descendants of former slaves have also been able to pass for White. American society has had so much interracial mixing that books such as “The Bell Curve”, discussing IQ evaluations based solely on race, are totally unrealistic.

Remeber george washington wasn’t the first president, just the first for the constitution we use today.

This is the verry first president of america….too bad they took him out of the picture.

http://www.dickgregory.com/index_hanson.html

What is on the Back of the Two Dollar Bill?

The back of the $2 bill has an engraving of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In the image is a man who has dark skin and wearing a powdered wig while sitting at the table just to the left of the men standing in the center of the engraving. This dark skinned man is John Hanson in his position as president of the continental congress.

In the original painting hanging in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, the dark skinned man does not appear!!!

Sources

http://www.bigissueground.com/history/blair-blackuspresidents.shtml

http://www.diversityinc.com/public/1474.cfm

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democrat Hillary Clinton got visibly emotional at an Iowa campaign event Monday morning designed to showcase a softer side of the New York senator.Flanked by childhood friends and constituents who each offered testimonials on the Democratic presidential candidate, a glassy-eyed Clinton spoke noticeably softer than most past appearances on the stump.

“It is very exciting for me to have so many of my friends from my entire life who have come out here, to talk with Iowans, to answer questions, to give you some insight and information about our relationships, about what I’ve been trying to do my entire life, and particularly as an adult,” Clinton said at a campaign event in Johnston, Iowa Monday.

“What I try to do every day is figure out how to help somebody,” she said later in the event. “You can try to help somebody every single day, and I’ve tried to do that as a public servant, as an activist, and now as a senator.”

The event coincides with a new campaign Web site — www.TheHillaryIKnow.com — that includes videos for several friends, colleagues, and constituents of Clinton’s speaking on her behalf.

The event and Web site are all part of an effort to convey a softer image of Clinton, as polls continue to indicate Democratic primary voters view her as less likeable and more like a “typical politician” than her chief rival, Barack Obama.

Now you can call me a Clinton hater, but it is obvious what she is doing here. She is discarding her former strategy of being a ”Strong, experienced candidate,” and trying to build on her likeability. I think it’s obvious, that she has her heart on beating Obama rather then trying to showcase her qualifications as the next President of the United States of America. If we as the population let this work, then we will be letting dirty political tricks get to us. Remember, Knowledge is Power.

Sorry, I don’t have the time to make posts during the weekends, so here is an

interesting article from foxnews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316865,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2008

WASHINGTON — First there was question planting. Then the polls started to take a turn. Then came the rumors of a campaign shake-up. Then came the “cocaine” story.

Hillary Clinton was the Democratic frontrunner even before she announced she was running for president. From the start, the Democratic race has been hers to lose. And if the marbles continue to tumble in front of her, it just might happen.

The one-time inevitable titan of this primary contest has seen her lead and her aura of invincibility slip in recent weeks, as Illinois Sen. Barack Obama makes his move, state-by-state, in the final stretch before the first caucuses and primaries.

Obama has measurably gained in Iowa and New Hampshire, and though he still trails by 9 points in a new FOX News poll out of the Granite State, he is statistically tied in other recent surveys.

“We are the frontrunner, everybody’s been going after us. We feel very good about where we are,” Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe told FOX News Wednesday, on the eve of the final debate before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses.

But just one day later, Clinton found herself personally apologizing to Obama for comments made by her adviser and New Hampshire co-chairman, Bill Shaheen, who said in published comments that Democrats should be wary of nominating Obama because Republicans would use his admission of past drug use, including cocaine, against him in the general election.

Shaheen resigned Thursday, after the Obama campaign called his comments an act of desperation.

“As soon as I found out that one of my supporters and co-chairs in New Hampshire made a statement … I made it clear it was not authorized, it was in no way condoned, I didn’t know about it and he stepped down,” Clinton said Friday in Iowa.

Shaheen’s departure follows a pattern. The campaign asked two volunteers to resign earlier this month after they forwarded a hoax e-mail suggesting Obama is a Muslim bent on destroying the United States. The Clinton camp also had to condemn actions by its staffers after it was discovered the campaign planted a question on global warming at an event at Grinnell College in Iowa last month.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that a handful of Clinton campaign workers were even recommending pro-Clinton postings on the New Hampshire progressive blog Blue Hampshire.

The response from the Clinton campaign was the usual: These are the actions of individuals, not the campaign, and they will not be repeated.

Amid the turmoil, Clinton’s numbers have been tumbling in both Iowa and New Hampshire, which holds its primary on Jan. 8.

The trend in New Hampshire is very recent. A new FOX News poll from Dec. 11-13 of 500 likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire showed her with 34 percent, over Obama with 25 percent and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards with 15 percent. The survey, which had a margin of error of 4 points, put Clinton up from a 7-point advantage at the end of November.

But that’s down from what was a 20-point lead in early November. Other recent polls show New Hampshire as a statistical dead heat. A new Concord Monitor poll of 400 likely voters, taken Dec. 10-12, showed Obama with 32 percent, Clinton with 31 percent and Edwards with 18 percent in the Granite State. The margin of error was 5 percent.

Obama had already taken the lead in some polls in Iowa.

And while Clinton retains double-digit leads in national polls, she’s been forced to pull out the stops to keep losses in the early-voting states from infecting her national standing.

The New York senator announced Thursday the launch of the “Every County Counts Tour.” She’ll be traveling in a helicopter — called the Hill-A-Copter — to 16 counties in Iowa over five days starting Sunday.The goal is for her and her staff to hit all 99 counties by the end of the blitz.

She also just rolled out a humanizing ad that features her daughter Chelsea and mother Dorothy. The ad shows her laughing and hugging with the family members who tagged along on the campaign trail over the weekend. Their appearances with the candidate came as Oprah Winfrey toured across three early-voting states with Obama.

But rumors of a campaign shake-up started to mount as former President Bill Clinton began to step up his public appearances for his wife and as top Clinton staffers were sent out to Iowa full-time.

Clinton denied this at a press conference in Iowa Friday morning, and she said there’s no sign the campaign is in desperation.

“Well, there’s no basis to that. You know, I am very grateful to have a family that supports me, that is in my corner, and I had always planned that — you know, I had to get out and make my case to the people of Iowa….

“My husband didn’t campaign until the Fourth of July, and then basically, you know, you didn’t see him again until Labor Day, and then now he’s back, because we’re at the end of a campaign.”

Meanwhile, at the debate in Iowa Thursday, Obama had a crowd-pleasing moment over Clinton when he was asked how he expects to provide an administration of change when several of his advisers used to work for Bill Clinton.

Hillary Clinton laughed loudly, but Obama turned to her and said: “Well Hillary, I’m looking forward to you advising me as well.”

The audience applauded that one.

But in a race that pits Obama’s message of change versus Clinton’s message of experience, Clinton on Friday stood by her time-tested credentials and fended off claims she was on a downswing.

“I have no illusions about what this race will entail, and I feel like I am absolutely prepared to take it on,” she said. “And I think you can look at what I’ve done in New York … I won in 2000 against the very same kinds of polling numbers and commentary, and I won overwhelmingly again in New York.

“You know, I will bring millions of new people into this race. I see it now in what we’re doing here in Iowa. People who have never caucused before. People who were never registered to vote before who are now part of the team we’re building in Iowa.

“I can replicate that across the country, and because I — you know, as some of my supporters say — am battle tested, I can withstand what is going to inevitably be the Republican attacks on whoever we nominate.”

FOX News’ Aaron Bruns and Major Garrett contributed to this report.

What’s crazy about this is the no one has owned up to it.

Update: The guy who did it came forward. Here’s his statement. (Posted by Ricky Price)

Hello. This is Keith Emis. I organized the production of the attached video. Below is a statement regarding Mike Huckabee, Lois Davidson and Carol Sue Shields.
I saw Mrs. Davidson on CBS News last week talking about how Wayne Dumond murdered her daughter Carol Sue Shields. Shields was murdered because Mike Huckabee began pushing for Dumond’s freedom when he became governor. Dumond was eventually released.

There is no doubt Mrs. Davidson has a powerful story to tell, but I wasn’t sure she had an outlet to share it. I agreed with her that Mike Huckabee has no business being president.

I have always been a behind the scenes guy in Arkansas politics, working for Fay Boozman in 1998 and Senator Tim Hutchinson in 2002, so being out front on

anything political is highly unusual for me, but this is different.

I contacted Mrs. Davidson and asked her if she would be willing to speak on camera about her daughter, her daughter’s murderer, and the man who helped win his freedom. I got a camera crew to go with me to Missouri to Mrs. Davidson’s home. We filmed a very kind lady who shouldn’t have lost her daughter.

Mrs. Davidson’s story is important. It’s one that anyone voting in the Republican primaries should hear.

Sincerely,

Keith W. Emis

For the full article, click here

This attack should definately work, especially since it has no known source.

Personally, I don’t like it, Huckabee didn’t know DuMond was going to rape someone

again, and could have honestly thought that it was for the better. Blaming him for the

death is a low blow.

International law describes torture as : any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.

So I have a solution for any politician who says waterboarding is not torture. Why don’t we waterboard you? If it doesn’t inflict any severe pain or permanent damage, why not? I’d love to see someone–anyone, answer this question.

So, the news for the day, Hillary Clinton’s campaign attacks Barack Obama, saying,
“The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight … and one of the things they’re certainly going to jump on is his drug use. It’ll be, ‘When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?’”
Oh here we go again, the people-who-must-not-be-named republican scare tactic. Democrats are generally afraid of republicans. What should Obama do Hillary? Should he dance around the question, something you’re an expert at, or should he deny any usage whatsoever? What’s hilarious about this report, is that Hillary could not even own up to her own campaign’s statement. A short time later that, Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said:
“The comments were not authorized or condoned by the campaign in any way.”
The fact of the mater is, that you hired this high-ranking advisor, and you gave him the ability to speak for the campaign. Therefore, anything from his mouth regarding the presidential race is your responsibility. Own up, apologize, say it was a mistake, pull a Huckabee, but do not let your ego get into the way of common courtesy. What I’m thinking right now — We’re gonna have a helluva debate tommorow.

Update: So she apoligized, good job Hillary. But what strikes me is the resignation

of the advisor who made the statement. We all know what really happened to him,

Hillary waterboarded him until he said ”I quit!”.