By Denis Campbell
As we have seen in the blizzards in Washington and New York 100s of crews of snowploughs and front-end loaders work feverishly to open roads, airports and railway tracks. But, what if you lived in the Cheyenne Sioux Indian Reservation of South Dakota and there were only three snowploughs to clear an area [...]
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Massive Sioux Indian Reservation Battles Snow with 3 Ploughs
Posted on 10 February 2010 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: 3 snowplows, blizzards, Cheyenne Sioux Reservation, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Lakota Nation Chairman, Russell Means, snow
Bill Frist Attacks Indian Health Service, Paula Still Screwed
Posted on 19 August 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (3) | Tags: Bill Frist, Black River Project, Boston, CNN, CNN's Larry King Live, Former Republican Majority Leader, GDP, Indian Health Service, Kent Jones, Lakota Nation leader, Larry King, NHS, O Positive, Paula Persechini-Pettiti, Pine Ridge, Pizza theatre, Republican, Russell Means, The Paradise, The Rachel Maddow Show, UK
UPDATED: By Denis Campbell
On ‘Larry King Live’ former Senator Majority Leader Frist (R-TN) said any government run health option will “look like the mismanaged Indian Health Service.” The sorry state of that health service is partly why Paula Persichini-Petitti, director of the Black River Project, a woman who dedicated her life to bringing medicines, services, [...]
An Open Letter to President Obama and Congress – Help Bring Paula Home
Posted on 02 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (11) | Tags: auto accident, Black River Project, Healthcare debate, insurance, Lakota Nation leader, life flight, Mass. General Hospital, neurosurgeon, Paula Persechini-Pettiti, Pearl Means, Pine Ridge, Russell Means, South Dakota
By Denis Campbell
The healthcare debate rages across Capitol Hill with lobbyists fighting against a ‘single payer’ option as if it were the moral equivalent of the anti-Christ. Before you blindly accept any bill, please examine the very real (and ironic) face this debate has taken on for this journalist.
Paula Persichini-Petitti is a woman to whom [...]
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
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 [...]
McCain’s Gambling Past Rolls Craps
Posted on 29 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 7-out, 95+% of all gaming occurred in their casinos, ability to play the man as well as your card hand, angry, brilliant legislative manoeuvre, Chairman of the House Banking Committee, churlish, completely at the mercy, compulsive gambler, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), Daddy needs a new pair of shoes, dark, Denis Campbell, Dice are funny, digging the hole deeper, discipline, Don van Natta Jr, dumb luck, erratic, excellent job of tying John McCain and his lobbying bud, flash that fiery scary temper, fold, Full Tilt Poker, head of the Lakota Indian Nation, his luck runs cold, hot dice run creates a sugar high bigger than any ten y, Indian casino buddies free reign, Jack Abramoff, Jo Becker, line in, make the IRS’ job of tracing funds more difficult, McCain, McCain’s Gambling Past, moody, moody behaviour, New York Times reporters, Obama plays poker, Party Poker, patience, Personal Enrichment Act, petulant, petulantly select an unknown for Vice President, Poker players know when to hold, political contributor to WPT (World Poker Tour) Magazin, predict odds of online gaming again becoming legal in t, prohibited transfer of funds from a US financial instit, pure, push their chips all-in for the highest percentage adva, Republican Congressman defeated for re-election that ye, Republican filibuster threats, requires cool under pressure, return to Washington to save the Bailout gambit, Rick Davis, routine to wager and lose $25000 in a session, Russell Means, SAFE Port Act, Scott Reed, Senator, skill, suspend the campaign, table runs hot, The Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2, The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, they run cold, Title VIII of the Act, try to quickly recoup losses, two clear red silicon composite boxes with painted whit, unable to move a bill deleting Title VIII language, withdrew from all Treaties with the US Government in De, You just lost your money to the house
By Denis Campbell
“Daddy needs a new pair of shoes!” and the dice cubes fly.
John McCain loves craps. It is routine for him to wager and lose $25,000 in a session as to play the “suspend the campaign and return to Washington to save the Bailout” gambit or petulantly select an unknown for Vice President as [...]
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