Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

December 29, 2014

New York Times' Copycat Journalism: Tex Hall and Blood Oil

The top article above by The New York Times, published today, has a very similar title, 
and similar facts, to the Censored News article in February.
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

The New York Times has finally covered Chairman Tex Hall and the corruption in the oil and gas industry on the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota.

The New York Times article today has almost the same title as Censored News original article published in February, as you can see above. Copy cat journalism is never flattering, especially when those who did the original work are not given credit, including those of us who are unpaid and do this as a labor of love.

Meanwhile, the Censored News original article on the resolution to suspend Tex Hall was the most read article at Censored News in 2014. Thank you to everyone who provided documents and photos.

Here's the original Censored News series published in February and March of this year.

Censored News: Tex Hall: Blood OIl and the Murder Probe (Feb 2014)
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/tex-hall-blood-oil-and-murder-probe.html

Censored News: Resolution prepared to suspend Tex Hall
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/by-brenda-norrell-censored-news-new.html

Censored News: Independent investigator of Tex Hall is actually oil and gas lobbyist
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/03/independent-investigator-of-tex-hall-is.html

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Thanks to Alice Holemans at NAIS for the Dutch translation!



Home » Nieuws » * NEW YORK TIMES ‘COPYCAT’ JOURNALISTIEK : TEX HALL EN OLIE CORRUPTIE
* NEW YORK TIMES ‘COPYCAT’ JOURNALISTIEK : TEX HALL EN OLIE CORRUPTIE
 Door Brenda Norrell: www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Vertaald door NAIS: www.denaisgazet.be

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Het artikel in The New York Times heeft dezelfde titel, en geeft gelijkaardige feiten zoals gepubliceerd in Censored News in februari
De New York Times heeft eindelijk de verslaggeving over Tex Hall en de corruptie in de olie en gas industrie in de Mandan, Hidatsa en Arikara Nation in Noord Dakota, gepubliceerd.
Het artikel in de New York Times article draagt bijna dezelfde titel als het oorspronkelijke bericht dat Censored News in februari gepubliceerd heeft.
Copycat journalistiek is nooit flatterend , vooral niet wanneer diegenen die het oorspronkelijke werk gedaan hebben geen erkenning kregen, waaronder ook zij die er niet voor worden betaald en dit doen met liefde en toewijding.
Ondertussen was het oorspronkelijke artikel in Censored News over de resolutie om Tex Hall te schorsen het meest gelezen artikel in Censored News in 2014.
Dank aan iedereen die de documenten en foto’s bezorgden.
Hieronder is de oorspronkelijk serie gepubliceerd in Censored News in Februari en maart van dit jaar.
Censored News: Tex Hall: Blood OIl and the Murder Probe (Feb 2014)

Censored News: Resolution prepared to suspend Tex Hall

Censored News: Independent investigator of Tex Hall is actually oil and gas lobbyist

Mohawk Nation News 'ONGWE’HON:WEH ORATION'



ONGWE’HON:WEH ORATION


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Please post & distribute. Nia:wen.
MNN. Dec. 23, 2014. Britain and its colonies, US, Israel, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, are partners in waging continual war against world peace. Colonization will end:
lineup revolution

1.WHEN public officials make oaths to local natural inhabitants of the land and not to a foreign autocrat.
2.WHEN genocide is punished to the fullest extent so that it never occurs again.
3.WHEN Canada, a military corporation with no constitution and no democracy, is ended. There will be no need for police, prisons or the Admiralty law apparatus. The natural law of the land, Kaianere’ko:wa, will be implemented when every Council of women stands up in every community.
4.WHEN the Corporation of Canada is disbanded, its Ongwe’hon:weh creditors will be reimbursed for everything taken since the invasion, including the return of all lands and funds such as the Indian Trust Funds.
5.WHEN all programs of terror to further the colonial imperial agenda end. Then only truth will prevail. Ongwe’hon:weh will not be threatened with annihilation, kept under occupation or denied fundamental human rights. We will not be criminalize for defending ourselves, our lives, welfare and future.
6.WHEN the CROWN’s propaganda program against the Ongwe’hon:we ends. All Ongwe’hon:weh issues will be fully and truthfully exposed in all forms of education.
7.WHEN Corporate INDIANS and illegal power will be disbanded. Corporate INDIANS who are part of the genocide agenda will be dealt with by their own people in their own communities. Should the INDIANS withdraw from their corporate identity and refuse to help the criminals of CANADA with the genocide program, they will become Ongwe’hon:we and help with the Great Peace transition.
8.WHEN we are not victimized, threatened or starved into submission for defending ourselves as the sovereigns of Ono’ware:geh.
Six Nations Chiefs explain Great Peace, 1871.
Six Nations Chiefs explain Great Peace, 1871. “Do you hear us yet?”
9.WHEN rogue states decolonize military occupation will end. The Great Peace will prevail.
10.WHEN the Ongwe’hon:we are not threatened with termination, assimilation, privatization, de-communalization, paying taxes to the invaders and all illegal CROWN trusteeship to our land and resources is ended. Each person shall come to the truth in our own minds. The colonizers shall have a choice to follow the laws of the land or remain subjects of the Corporation of Canada and leave Ono’ware:geh.  Each shall have freedom, equality and a voice.
“Hangman, Hangman, wait for a little while. I think I see my brother coming from many a mile. Brother, did you bring some silver? Brother, did you bring some gold? Brother, what did you bring to keep me from the gallows pole.” Robert Plant sings for all Canadians when he asks, “Brother, what do you have to keep me from the gallows pole? Ongwehonweh have the Great Peace that will keep you from the Hangman.
MNN Mohawk Nation News kahentinetha2@yahoo.com or more news, books, workshops, to donate and sign up for MNN newsletters, go towww.mohawknationnews.com  More stories at MNN Archives.  Address:  Box 991, Kahnawake [Quebec, Canada] J0L thahoketoteh@hotmail.com for original Mohawk music visit thahoketoteh.ws
In The General idea of the Revolution 1851 Proudhon urged a “society without authority.” In “What is Government?” he wrote:
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
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Censored News thanks Alice Holemans at NAIS for the Dutch translation

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MOHAWK NATION NEWS 'ONGWE’HON:WEH ORATION'
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Bron: Censored News: www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Vertaald door NAIS: www.denaisgazet.be
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Six Nations Chiefs verduidelijken de Grote Vrede, 1871 " Hoort u ons nu?"
Groot Brittanniƫ en zijn kolonies ,VS, Israel, Canada, Australia en Nieuw Zeeland, zijn partners die constant oorlog voeren tegen de wereldvrede.

De kolonisatie zal eindigen:

  1. Wanneer ambtenaren hun trouw zullen zweren aan de plaatselijke natuurlijke bewoners van het land in plaats van aan een buitenlandse autocraat.

  1. Wanneer genocide zo erg bestraft zal worden dat het nooit meer zal plaatshebben.

  1. Wanneer Canada, een militaire corporatie zonder grondwet en democratie zal ophouden te bestaan. Dan zal er geen behoefte zijn aan politie, gevangenissen of de ‘Admiralty law’ apparatus. De natuurlijke wet van het land, Kaianere’ko:wa, zal toegepast worden wanneer in iedere gemeenschap de Raad van Vrouwen zal opstaan.

  1. Wanneer de corporatie van Canada ontbonden wordt, zijn Ongwe’hon:weh- schuldeisers vergoed zullen worden voor alles wat hen werd afgenomen sinds de invasie, en alle land en fondsen, zoals het Indian Trust Funds zal teruggegeven worden.

  1. Wanneer alle terreurprogramma’s ter bevordering van de koloniale imperialistische agenda zullen stoppen, dan zal enkel de waarheid overheersen. Ongwe’hon:weh zal niet verder bedreigd worden met vernietiging, bezet blijven , noch hun fundamentele mensenrechten ontzegd worden. Wij willen niet langer gecriminaliseerd worden omdat wij onszelf, onze levens, welvaart en toekomst verdedigen.

  1. Wanneer het propaganda programma van de Kroon tegen de Ongwe’hon:weh zal eindigen, zullen alle Ongwe’hon:weh kwesties volledig en waarheidsgetrouw kenbaar gemaakt worden in iedere onderwijsvorm.

  1. Wanneer corporate indianen en illegale macht ontbonden zullen worden. Met de Corporate indianen die meegewerkt hebben aan het genocide agenda zal afgerekend worden door hun eigen volk in hun eigen gemeenschappen. Indien de indianen hun corporate identiteit zullen intrekken en weigeren om de misdadigers van Canada te helpen met hun genocide programma, dan zullen zij terug Ongwe’hon:wehworden en helpen met de transitie naar de Grote Vrede .

  1. Wanneer wij niet gedupeerd, bedreigd of uitgehongerd tot overgave zullen worden omdat we onszelf verdedigen als de soevereine Ongwe’hon:weh

  1. Wanneer boevenstaten zullen dekoloniseren dan zullen de militaire bezettingen stoppen. De Grote Vrede zal dan zegevieren.

  1. Wanneer de Ongwe’hon:weh niet bedreigd worden met uitroeiing, assimilatie, privatisering, ontbinding van de gemeenschappen, belastingen moeten betalen aan de indringers en de hele illegale Trustschap raad van de Kroon, dan zal iedereen terug kunnen denken naar eigen verstand. De kolonisten zullen voor de keuze gesteld worden, ofwel zullen ze volgens de wetten van het land leven ,ofwel blijven ze onderdanen van de Canadese Corporatie en dan zullen ze Ongwe’hon:wehverlaten. Iedereen zal vrij, gelijk zijn en een stem hebben.

“Hangman, Hangman, wait for a little while. I think I see my brother coming from many a mile. Brother, did you bring some silver? Brother, did you bring some gold? Brother, what did you bring to keep me from the gallows pole.”
Robert Plant zingt voor alle Canadezen wanneer hij vraagt :”Brother, what do you have to keep me from the gallows pole?”
Ongwehonweh heeft de Grote Vrede die u zal redden van de beul.
In The General idea of the Revolution 1851 Proudhon urged a “society without authority.” In “What is Government?” he wrote:
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

December 28, 2014

The Ride to Wounded Knee

 








Photos by Ken Marchionno 
Dec 28, 2014



300 Miles, The Oomaka Tokatakiya
Future Generations Ride
by Ken Marchionno and Students of the Future Generations Teen Photojournalism Project


Thank you for sharing with Censored News!

News Rot: The Black OP Media of 2014

The mainstream media in 2014: No more than a black Op

By Brenda Norrell

TUCSON, Arizona -- No one spins wars better than CNN and no one kills with drones better than the White House. The paid media in the US marched to the tune of their handlers in 2014, continuing the rot and decay of US manufactured news. The news became no more than a black OP, a dark operation of the powers that be.

From the cardboard cutout anchors of CNN mimicking their handlers as caged parrots, to the plagiarism and rewrites of stay-at-home reporters for Indian Country Today, the news became, as my grandmother says, ready for the slop bucket.

The good news is that the alternative press blossomed beyond the fetid mess of the mainstream media in the US. Globally, the UK Guardian continued to lead the world in the news that the others tried to bury. 

The New York Times was swimming for its life in the gush of real truth by Wikileaks, Anonymous and Snowden. The Times, out there somewhere, was carried downstream because it trembled, afraid to make a difference. As usual, the media in Washington DC, was dependable -- if you depend on oil, gas, coal, politics, lobbyists and exploitation for your millions. 

With so much spin, the Wall Street Journal spun into orbit and out of the picture, terrified of the truth about banks and suicided bankers. Was the Los Angeles Times still gasping for breath? It was hard to tell. They were all tip-toeing around US torture.

Most of the US media stayed home in 2014, plagiarizing and rewriting articles written by the few hard working reporters and activists who are still actually out there covering the news. 

Plagiarism and deceit, with stolen photos from the Internet, is the new standard for online print journalism by paid reporters in the US. While many readers may be deceived with the new rot, reporters are not.

There was also the fad that BBC and NPR plunged into. Both featured interviews with whites in the US, after Ferguson protests, attempting to assure the world there is no racism in America.

What is really sad, is the sterilized, censored, co-opted and manipulated view of the world belched up by the media in the US.

Well, you see, I ride the bus with the homeless of Tucson, Arizona, every morning. At the bus stop, a woman struggles with eight garbage bags of wet blankets. She says the tent she just got is real warm. But now all of her blankets are soaked from last night's rain. Her two sons, about ten and fifteen, run up from the storage unit down the road. "They said we can sleep there tonight if it is still raining," the older ones says. The boys are looking forward to sleeping on the cold concrete floor of a storage unit and out of the rain tonight. "It's real big," the young one says. Behind us, a young girl, about fifteen, is pregnant and alone. She is hiding in the bushes next to a strip club. 

This is America. This is the America that the media doesn't want you to think about. Since most of the 'reporters' stay home and plagiarize or rewrite these days, they don't know about the homeless children who sleep on storage unit floors.

On the bus, another day, a man describes the half sandwich he was given the day before. "It tasted real good, but it doesn't do much for my family."

Beyond the bus stop is the barrio, where laughter fills a yard. The balloons and streamers are going up for a child's birthday party. The smell of menudo and corn tortillas fill the air. It is the aroma of Mexico, just a long walk away, and the people here have brought their laughter and the aroma of home cooked food with them. The construction workers were up before four this morning, heading out for a long day's work. At the corner, the woman at the little store waves. An old man walking with a cane nods, as if to say, "It will be OK."

I know this because I didn't stay home today.


Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 32 years, beginning as a staff reporter for Navajo Times. During the 18 years that she lived on the Navajo Nation, she was a freelance reporter for AP and USA Today. After serving as a longtime staff reporter for Indian Country Today, she was repeatedly censored, then terminated. She created Censored News to expose what is being censored. Now in its ninth year, Censored News features Indigenous and grassroots writers and has no advertising, sponsors or grants.
www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com