Navajo Fair: Shirley's poison pen in backroom deal

On the same day that Navajo President Joe Shirley, Jr., mourned the loss of the traditional way of life with his words, he entered into a dark alliance with one of the world's most evil and treacherous corporate agendas, the Skull and Bones family of parasites preying on Indigenous Peoples


Secret Contract Signing Behind Rodeo Bleachers at Navajo Nation Fair – And That’s No Bull!

President Shirley continues to negotiate with corporations despite community opposition: Desert Rock Energy Co., LLC signs agreement with Fluor Corporation in secret meeting to solidify construction plans of the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant

By Elouise Brown
Dooda Desert Rock
http://www.desert-rock-blog.com/


WINDOW ROCK, AZ -- On Friday, September 7 at 1:30pm, Dooda’ Desert Rock attended a private VIP event lead by Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley. In his address to the exclusive crowd of corporate staff, organized labor, and elected officials, President Shirley spoke of bringing the proposed Desert Rock Plant to “fruition” and “solidifying” the project in an attempt to condition the public as if it was a done deal. In attendance were Sithe Global, LLC, Desert Rock Energy Company, LLC, Dine’ Power Authority, and AFL-CIO, the majority of whom are non-Navajo people.
“Joe Shirley paints the illusion that Desert Rock is going to be great for us. He stated ‘I don’t want my people to be dependant on others. I want them to be independent,’ yet Shirley is fostering a relationship with Sithe Global that creates dependence on corporations that will devour natural resources and cause irreparable damage to our Land Water, and Air,” said Elouise Brown, President of the Dooda’ Desert Rock committee. “Independence means sustainability. There is no such thing as “clean coal.”
Brown and Dooda’ Desert Rock supporters attended to observe the non-public event. “We were told this was a VIP event and we needed badges to get in, but when we did finally get in no one was wearing badges,” said Marty Aranaydo, Dooda’ Desert Rock supporter. Government and corporate interests were well-represented at the event, but the voice of the Navajo people was not included nor heard. There was no time allowed for comments or questions in the short program.
“It upsets me to hear my President talking about solidifying the Desert Rock project in closed-quarters without proper consent of the Navajo Nation citizens,” said Cy Wagoner, Dooda’ Desert Rock supporter.
Brown further states, “This was a private event - a ‘back room’ deal. The President and the Dine’ Power Authority are acting without a public process, signing a contract without the active participation of Navajo citizens. Where was the public invitation to the Nation? It is unacceptable that our president ushers in a contract with a non-native company in a private VIP setting. The private setting shows an acknowledgement of the lack of communities’ support of the Desert Rock project. If the communities were behind the project, this would have been a public event held in the stands of the rodeo with the people present, not in the shadows of the bleachers in an unmarked tent.”

Photo 1: Utah Navajo Photo 2: Navajo protester outside Navajo Nation Council chambers censored by Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr.'s staff

Canada's 'Rawhide' tactics: 'Divide 'em up, 'Round 'em up, Move 'em out'

THE “SPLIT EM UP” STRATEGY AT SHARBOT LAKE –
Why we’re wary of outside “help”. We’ve been burnt before.

Mohawk Nation News
Sept. 7, 2007

The Akwesasne tragedy of 1990 when two Mohawk men were killed was a sad learning experience. It showed us how the colonial authorities can destroy people’s good intentions. To mess us up, the outsiders sent in a group and told them to take any side. Then another group was sent in to work with the other side. They did this to get us fighting. In the end two men were killed. Does it surprise you that they were ours?

Frontenac Ventures’ idea of what is good for Sharbot and Ardoc Lake Algonquins conflicts with the desires of both the Indigenous people and the settlers in the area. All want to live a healthy lifestyle without uranium contamination.

Just because a group calls itself “Christian” does not mean that their motives are altruistic.
Read more:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/split-em-up-strategy-at-sharbot-lake.html

Borderlands Theater award winning 'Dust Eaters' coming

BORDERLANDS THEATER TO PRESENT THE PLAY DUST EATERS BY JULIE JENSEN, OCTOBER 4-21, 2007 AT BEOWULF ALLEY THEATRE, 11 SOUTH 6 TH AVENUE

Borderlands Theatre initiates its 2007-08 with the play "Dust Eaters" by Julie Jensen. The play takes an intimate look at two families one white, one Native American, living side by side in the Utah western desert. "Dust Eaters" covers 140 years of struggle between the Goshute tribe, original inhabitants of what is now Utah, and the Mormon pioneers who arrived to claim their promised land.
Read more:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/borderlands-theater-award-winning-dust.html

DUST EATERS
October 4-21, 2007
Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S 6th Ave
Tickets Prices: $10.75- $ 19.75 with various discounts. Season Flex Pass: 5 shows for$70.
Ticket Outlets: Borderlands Theater office (enter thru Jackson St.) and at the door.
RESERVATIONS: (520)882-7406

Border regime resistance Calexico/Mexicali

“Mommy, What Was a Border?”

A call to resistance against the border regime

An invitation to the 2007 No Borders Camp in Calexico/Mexicali

There is a regime of terror spreading across the land. Racist laws, arbitrary detention, unwarranted prosecution and the deportation of thousands are dividing families and driving a wedge through our communities. An emboldened Department of Homeland Security is attacking people in their homes, workplaces, on the highways, at grocery stores. Police agencies nationwide are collaborating in the attack on immigrants, one of the most visible targets in America’s war against the “other." In southern Arizona, we are on the front lines of this war.
Every morning more than 2,000 Border Patrol agents report for duty through Tucson out into the Altar Valley and Tohono O’odham nation to the west. Remote camera towers monitor every activity of the civilian population. Walls, roads and other enforcement infrastructure have ravaged the fragile landscape. Racist vigilantes have operated for years with virtual impunity. And every year hundreds upon hundreds of migrants die attempting to cross the desert.
READ MORE:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/09/no-borders-camp-in-calexicomexicali.html

Bush Klansmen close in on Navajos

Big Republican donor Fluor picked to manage development of Desert Rock Power Plant

By Brenda Norrell
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

It comes as little surprise that even after New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Attorney General Gary King spoke out against the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant, a company was announced today to manage the development of it.
It does not seem to matter to Navajo President Joe Shirley, Jr., or the Navajo Nation Council, that the people that live on the land, and get sick from the pollution, the grassroots Navajo people, do not want another power plant there to suffocate them.
Of course, knowing that the Desert Rock parent company is the Skull and Bones corporation of Sithe Global, puts it all in perspective. The Bush family, the Skull and Bones Klansmen, get what they want.
The chosen corporation was the disaster profiteer Fluor, a big donor to the Republican Party. They expect to begin in 2008.
Skull and Bones
George Bush belonged to the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University, whose members are the world's power mongers.
In the 1980s, the Skull and Bones society asked to meet with San Carlos Apache leaders to return Geronimo's skull, which according to the society's log records had been dug up by Grandfather Prescott Bush at Fort Sill, Okla., and other army officers in 1918.
The Skull and Bones attorney and Jonathan Bush (brother of George Bush Sr.) met with the Apache delegation in New York. Former San Carlos Apache Chairman Ned Anderson and Apache Tribal Councilman Raleigh Thompson were in the Apache delegation. The society produced a skull, but Thompson said it was the skull of a child and was not accepted.
Thompson said Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache, had asked to be buried in the Triplet Mountains that he loved on San Carlos.
Currently, the Skull and Bones members are involved with the proposed Desert Rock Power Plant on the Navajo Nation. Sithe Global is primarily owned by the Blackstone Group, whose founder Stephen Schwarzman is a member of Skull and Bones.
The Yale secret society of Skull and Bones includes Bush family members and former presidential candidate John Kerry, which meant that two Bonesmen had vied to be president of the United States.
The Skull and Bonesmen seek global domination and control.
Schwarzman was previously affiliated with Lehman Brothers which was a former parent company of Peabody Coal. Earlier, Navajo, Hopi and Lakota protested during a stockholders meeting of Lehman Brothers in New York, concerning Peabody Coal's destruction on Black Mesa. It was among the most censored articles by the media. Arlene Hamilton died in a car crash after buying a small amount of stock in Lehman Brothers so the Native delegation could address Lehman Brothers stockholders.
The following website shows the Skull and Bones members and the company affiliations:
http://www.nndb.com/org/723/000041600/

At the Navajo Fair, President Shirley's poison pen in backroom deal
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2007/09/navajo-fair-shirleys-poison-pen-in.html

Fluor In Pact To Design, Build Desert Rock Power Plant
CNN Money.com
September 07, 2007: 05:18 PM EST
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Fluor Corp. (FLR) received a pact from Desert Rock Energy Co. to provide initial comprehensive program management services in the development of a power plant.
Financial terms of the agreement weren't disclosed, but Irving, Texas-based Fluor expects to book the value of the preliminary services during the third quarter. Fluor expects to receive the full value in mid-to-late 2008.
The company will provide services for the $3 billion design and construction of a 1,500 facility in New Mexico. The project is a joint effort between Desert Rock, the Navajo Nation and Sithe Global Power LLC.

Katrina cleanup and relief contract to Fluor, high Republican donor, questioned:
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2359

Fluor, disaster profiteers
http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2005/09/meet-disaster-profiteers-fluor-corp.asp

AP: Fluor contract expected to start in 2008
IRVING, Texas - Engineering services provider Fluor Corp. said Friday it won a contract from Desert Rock Energy Co. LLC to provide management services for building a coal-fired power plant in New Mexico.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
The project is a joint development effort of the Navajo Nation's Dine Power Authority and Sithe Global Power LLC in Houston.
The award for preliminary services will be recorded in the fiscal third quarter and the full contract is expected in mid- to late-2008, once the air permit and financing have been secured.