Reprise: one of the most interesting people I interviewed during the campaign was Lakota Nation leader Russell Means. From last October.
by Denis Campbell
Hispanic? Congratulations, you’ve only a 500% chance your vote will not be counted. Black, 900%. Native American, 2,000%! While you may have been purged from voter roles in the first two classes, you [...]
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McCain Gaming Pals Set 2,000% Odds Against Native American Vote
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000+, 1/3 of the homes lack basic clean water and sewage, 100 per year, 15th amendment voting rights subject of much debate, 2, 2000% Odds Against Native American Vote, 21% of state prisoners are Native, 40% lack electricity, 500% chance your vote will not be counted, 53 for women and 47 for men, 60% have no telephone. average of 17-people live in eac, 900%, 97% of Lakotah people live below the poverty line, alcoholism affects 8 in 10 families, BIA, BIA “found no wrongdoing in the Pine Ridge election”, Black, blatant buying of votes, both higher than the U.S national average, Bureau of Indian Affairs, cannot afford heating oil, cannot even get paper ballots counted correctly, cast a provisional ballot, cervical cancer 500% higher, Denis Campbell, diabetes 800% higher, elderly die from hypothermia, emptying out the land’s entire productive capacity usin, Gandhi First they ignore you Then they laugh at you The, half the Reservation's adults battle addiction and dise, Hispanic, if you thought the revelations of orgies and parties at, If you want to be sovereign you have to act sovereign, Indian children are incarcerated 40% more than whites, infant mortality is 300%, Jack Abramoff, John McCain) controls this bureau, Lakota Nation leader, live and die by the generosity of those in charge of In, lose them, many residents use ovens to heat their homes, McCain Gaming Pals, median income $3, Native American, Native Americans on reservations, no 14th Amendment legal recourse, no one seems to care, not counted on election night, propane, purged from voter roles, rubber stamped the election result, running again for Pine Ridge Sioux Tribal President, Russell Means, senior BIA official speaking on condition of anonymity, Sioux Pine Ridge Nation elections are just blatantly st, South Dakota, stuff ballot boxes, system of colonial apartheid, teen suicide 150%, The Federal Courts won’t touch this, The gaming lobby (Rick Davis, the Lakotah life expectancy rate is the lowest in the U, this is even bigger, tribal council and tribal police don’t care if they’re, tribal councils are just figureheads, tribal police are directly involved, tuberculosis 800% higher than the national average, we face blatant vote rigging, withdrew from all US treaties 11-months ago, withdrew from the treaties to save our tribal culture., wood, yet they make up 9% of the population, you’re out of luck
Happy Birthday to Us!
Posted on 27 April 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1st birthday, Andy Grainger, Capitol Tweets, Craig Whitney, Denis Campbell, Divazzy Ltd, Grainger and Whitney, Ian Shaw, mashups, new logo, Number 10, recovery.gov, Reflections on..., RSS/XML feeds, Tweetminster, Twitter, UK and Welsh Politics, UK Progressive, UK Progressive.co.uk, US politics, Wales/UK politics mash-up, whitehouse.gov
By Denis Campbell
Welcome to the All-New UK Progressive! We begin our second year of operation in a very big way. As you navigate around the website a number of changes both cosmetic (our new logo with an American flag waving on the background of the Welsh dragon) and technical (all the live feeds) will become [...]
‘Man Up’ Mr. President
Posted on 17 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: AIG bonuses, Bankruptcy laws, Bush Administration make excuses, caved to his Wall Street buddies, China made rumblings, Denis Campbell, European minsters at the G20 Finance meeting, FDIC/Comptroller of the Currency buyout, Man-up Mr. President!, MSNBC reporter Craig Crawford, Secretary Paulson, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, US style stimulus
If you try to stop the AIG bonuses, I’ll put a gun to my head and pull the trigger. Relax, no intervention needed here in Wales. It is though a metaphor for the fiasco. The US Government (i.e. we, the taxpayers) own 80% of AIG. The early morning headlines yesterday crowed about the excessive bonuses.
AIG [...]
Killing Your Nation to Make a Point
Posted on 02 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1000 banks in serious danger of failure, 4%, 4th Quarter of 1982, 630000 people applied for unemployment benefits last mo, and that means the economy teetering on the edge of an, Bank of America, borderline treasonous, Citigroup, collectively owe to all sources $13.7 trillion dollars, Cycles come and go, Denis Campbell, Dow just closed down another 300 points, GDP was £13.7 trillion dollars last year, headed to 10 or 11%, intransigence can be proven correct, Killing Your Nation to Make a Point, Limbaugh, Markets rise and fall, no one has yet pulled the plug on their life support sy, opposition party directly and overtly root for the Pres, O’Reilly and Hannity rooting for failure along with “le, Right now there is no middle ground, technically insolvent, That year was 1929, the last Quarter of 2008 it fell by 6.2%, time for us all to head to the mattresses, Unemployment is above 7%, US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell by 6.4 per cent, ‘Godfather’ style, ‘zombie banks’
Should I worry? The Dow just closed moments ago down another 300 points or 4%. If rhetoric from opposition party ‘thought leaders’ in the US this past weekend seems borderline treasonous, well… that’s because it is. When leaders of any opposition party directly and overtly root for the President to fail, and that means the [...]
Obama Finds Pony
Posted on 25 February 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 of budget cuts, 34th day of his Presidency, alternative energy, astonishingly tone deaf, Conservatives (The Tories) toss cement filled flotation, cynicism easy, Denis Campbell, devolved (read secession hopeful) first ministers, drive by Welsh Assembly buildings, education, election cycle where PM Brown and the Labour Party are, energising the American public, Everyone in the Obama White House is putting in 18-hour, fight over £500, first days off over the recent US President’s Day bank, Franklin D. Roosevelt motivational fireside chat moment, here in the UK it is foggy and damp, his dour personality and desperate need of a charisma e, huge percentage of Americans support him, In the UK “courageous” is pejorative, joint session of the US Congress, keep digging in a barn filled to the roof line with man, Labour would get credit and might win, line of the night, Northern Ireland, Obama finds pony, Obama was setting specific goals on healthcare, out of step with the rest of the country, PM Brown on the other hand is invisible, President Barack Obama, President’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, reporters are even easily jaded, Republican response was business as usual, Scotland, snicker as they flail around like frat boys on a drinki, sun is rising on Obama’s Reagan-like “morning in Americ, taking the infamous bully-pulpit and wielding it like a, Talk is cheap, thanks to sitcom “Yes Minister” and Yes Prime Minister”, trying to save the UK economy, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, upbraided Republicans in a fiscal responsibility summit, US Congress, used to describe actions that will send one down in fla, Wales, Westminster, Westminster offices where one could fire a gun across m, world’s economy may be circling down the drain, would rather see the economy crater than lift a finger, “courageous” was used to describe Obama’s speech, “giving up was not just quitting on yourself but quitti, “had not seen them in a month!”
Only President Barack Obama could keep digging in a barn filled to the roof line with manure and find a brand new pony. Yet that is what the country and indeed the world needed in his non-State of the Union budget speech last night to a joint session of the US Congress.
Talk is cheap, cynicism [...]
Journos Discover the Twitter Machine
Posted on 24 February 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: # symbol to group posts together, #journotwits, $1 billion dollars in debt, @Craig Crawford of MSNBC follows 91 to 984, @DavidGregory, @RickSanchezCNN appears to do the best, admittedly unscientific sampling of 4, Ana invited members of the media to join, Ana Marie Cox, answer viewer questions, application TwitPic, become more “Net-hip”, but also to see the famous-for-DC struggle with how to, Daily Kos, David Gregory, Denis Campbell, establish a true dialogue with its audience, Feb. 23, few jumped on Friday, following an impressive 40% or 23341 of his 57697 follo, follows 84 compared to 71706 that follow him, Global ad revenues have cratered in this recession mean, growing mass of Journalists (Journos) on Twitter?, hashtags, how loyal would you be to a brand repeating its commerc, how quaintly 1980s Margaret Thatcher?, Huffington Post, I don't have enough to say to justify a Twitter account, interesting to note that the most famous of all Twitter, irony of name not lost, Is not media in trouble precisely because of its 1-way, it’s all 1-way, Journos Discover the Twitter Machine, make-up stations, memes, momentarily a hot trend topic, MSM reporters from ABC and FOX getting in on the game, news business is in serious serious trouble, NYT ONline, of all people, Op-Ed comment pages, open a window on their cloistered clubby world, overall missed opportunity, past week's eruption of "journotwits" has been amusing, Politico, ratings challenged NBC’s Meet the Press host David Greg, rumoured not to be able to last until June, Seattle could very soon become a no-newspaper town, seems to be trying the hardest to actually have a back, sets, she is building a Twitter brand called Ana Marie Cox, show behind the scene photos, that… are… never… read… by… the… writer and mostly igno, The Balance of Power, The Daily Beast, The Grey Lady, The New York Times, The Washington Post, therein lays the true narcissistic nature of top journo, There’s gold in those folks who take the time, They are your biggest advocates, thousands of people responding with incredibly well tho, tip my hat to Ms. Cox, Tucker Carlson, Twitter, UK’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) blares on its, venerable Philadelphia Inquirer filed for bankruptcy pr, Washington Post, washingtonpost.com: Anchors Oblige Public's Craving for, we can all from a respectful distance peer in, weekly online stream of consciousness moment, weekly Washington Post online column, what are others doing?, what do you do to leverage them?, what good news person looking for story ideas would not, Why is it journos took so long to embrace Twitter and n
“I’m not sure if Twitter is genuinely two-way, and I think that’s why I like it” said Ana Marie Cox of The Daily Beast in her weekly Washington Post online column. With new (and ratings challenged) NBC’s Meet the Press host David Gregory selectively responding to Tweets (he has a pretty quiet week other than [...]
Temporary Targeted Hypocrisy
Posted on 23 February 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 2012 Republican Presidential candidate and current Loui, AIG, Assembly Minister for the Economy Ieuan Wyn Jones, at what point do the American people awaken and see the, better for them if the whole thing goes down in flames?, called out as “wearing rose-coloured spectacles”, Congress, David Gregory, Denis Campbell, Fannie, FDIC take-over of the TARPettes, Freddie, http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/obvious-solution-to-glob, hurricane of elected civil servants somewhere wearing s, hypocrisy not limited to the USA, instead of blue ribbon panels or Economic Summits with, inward investment from the USA, Michelle Norris, NBC’s Meet the Press, No matter which side of the aisle or Atlantic you look, npr Radio, politicians committing mass murder-suicide, President of the Wales North American Chamber, quick to remind the banks also share the blame for maki, reminded they work for us, Republicans make the best used car salesmen, Roy Thomas, sheer madness of one party overtly destroying another’s, since Jindal himself was continually lobbying Washingto, strange the party that was in power for 8-years ran up, Temporary Targeted Hypocrisy, the market just woke up and realised President Obama is, the Party of No (the Tories/Conservatives) are hunkerin, tragic at best and criminal at worst, UK MPs are in full electioneering mode, Wales, Welsh Assembly, Westminster, “We can’t just be the party of No
By Denis Campbell
“When elephants fight, ants get killed.” Well we’re the ants and the elephants in Congress, Westminster and the Welsh Assembly need to be reminded they work for us. No matter which side of the aisle or Atlantic you look, politicians committing mass murder-suicide. The sheer madness of one party continually overtly destroying another’s [...]
Sign of Spring
Posted on 07 February 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1, 36-photos of the event appeared on Boston.com, 467 miles from base, after ending a depressing 86-year drought, annual “Truck Day” at Fenway Park, Atlas Van Lines 18-wheeler. packed to the rafters, balls, bats, complaining bitterly en masse about an unflattering boo, crown will again on a pre-winter night in October rest, Denis Campbell, every local media outlet, every possible item one could need to run an entire bas, Florida Marlins fans take note, gets one focused and ready for 24 April, given a royal send-off with bands and mascots from outs, Globe’s website, gloves, home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, less than 50-days remaining until the home opener on Ap, media went ga-ga last week over… a truck, most in New England await the 1st robin of spring, non-existent Sports Desk here at UK Progressive, pitchers and catchers must report on Monday, pundits predict the Tampa Bay Rays were a one-season wo, Sarasota Florida, sent film crews, Sign of Spring, The Boston Globe, the day they come into town for the first weekend serie, uniforms, Yankees never fail to liven things up
The surest sign spring is almost here is annual “Truck Day” at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox baseball team. Periodically the non-existent Sports Desk here at UK Progressive get a Lead. OK, once a year. Whilst most in New England await the 1st robin of spring hopping about their garden, the media [...]
Win, Crush, Maim, Kill
Posted on 27 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 100-0 drubbing of winless Dallas Academy, 35-years later I remember with stunning accuracy a drub, a school for learning disabled kids, apologising to the losing team, Arnhem Go-Ahead Eagles youth team, asking that their win be forfeited, Back up there a moment chief, Denis Campbell, disagreeing with school Administrators and saying he wo, Do you not know the affect of such a beating?, Double set of kudos awarded this day to the headmaster, game against a similar group of boys in Doetinchem The, headmaster for Covenant School, honour and integrity in so totally demoralising a winle, honour in using a full court trap press and pressure de, I know you and your kind too well Coach Grimes, I was second referee that game and pointedly warned the, I would fight the forfeiture of the game with every oun, I wrote a stinging final game report and hoped for the, in my broken Dutch said “I would stop the game unless h, including the 4th quarter?, instituted a perfectly legal and honourable zone trap f, integrity having your team continuing to take long rang, It stays with you and in the case of those not strong e, Kyle Queale, My lead referee did not have the guts to stop it altoge, six years ago, the lead was 50-points, then firing head girl’s basketball coach Micah Grimes, urged the opposing coach that day to pull his young dem, Were you never a teenager?, Where is the honour and integrity in a taking a 59-0 ha, Win Crush Maim Kill, wounded 15-17 year old self esteem and ego manifests it, Your kids may have “integrity and honour” You sir do no
By Denis Campbell
Double set of kudos awarded this day to the headmaster of Covenant School in Dallas Texas. The first for apologising to the losing team and asking that their win be forfeited and for then firing head girl’s basketball coach Micah Grimes for a 100-0 drubbing of winless Dallas Academy, a school for learning [...]
Repugs Embrace Herbert (Boehner) Hoover
Posted on 27 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: against all appropriation matters except the war in Ira, against the economic stimulus plan and for more tax cut, almost always voted with his President and FOR Big Busi, bankers contributing about 12% of the $5 million dollar, demanded union busting measures in an auto bailout then, Denis Campbell, easier to say “no” than to do any of the heavy lifting, he stands on the White House lawn and Capitol Steps com, his hands are anything but clean, in control of Congress from 1994-2006, indicted Representative Rep. Tom Delay was forced to re, insurance companies, Lawyers and their firms along with pharmaceutical compa, majority/minority leader since 2006, National City Group and American Financial Group, Now that a Democrat has controlled the White House for, overall fund raising success was 4x that of the average, Repugs Embrace Herbert (Boehner) Hoover, security firms, senior member of the Republican Party, the House Minority Leader from Ohio has found fiscal ‘r, Two of his five largest contributors were financial ser, unless specifically anti-abortion, voted against the TARP and did nothing to control how t, voting record has been “convenient” as the word “No” ha, Where was John Boehner when we got into this mess?
By Denis Campbell
Where was John Boehner when we got into this mess? Now that a Democrat has controlled the White House for four working days, the House Minority Leader from Ohio has found fiscal ‘religion’ having just released a right wing screed of “fast facts” (his office’s release is at bottom) against the economic stimulus [...]
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