Where is the humanity?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 19th, 2011
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
This is not a good morning when you read an article such as this:
China: Toddler Run Over Twice, Over A Dozen Passersby Ignore Her (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
Horrifying footage of a 2-year-old girl in China being run over by two separate vehicles and left to die by passersby has stirred outrage throughout the country, with CNN reporting that security footage of the incident has led the nation of 1.3 billion people to do some collective soul-searching.
According to Shanghaiist, the two-year-old, who has been identified as Yueyue, was run over on Thursday outside of a hardware market in Foshan in southern China’s Guangdong province.
Security camera footage shows a driver in a white van hit the young girl, apparently crushing her under the weight of the front wheel. The driver pauses briefly, but then continues to drive forward, running over her with the back wheel.
The following video shows more than a dozen passersby walk, ride motorbikes or drive past the young, bleeding girl without stopping to help. They clearly notice the badly injured child, as some motorists swerve to avoid her body. After three people walk past, a different truck runs over the young girl again.
WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO BELOW
Shanghaiist reports that seven grueling minutes passed before a trash collector picked up Yeuyue’s body and alerted her mother so that she could take the child to the hospital.
According to The Telegraph, Yeuyue suffered injuries to her head and has to use a ventilator to breathe. She is reportedly in critical condition in intensive care at a hospital in Guangzhou.According to AFP, the toddler is in a coma and doctors do not expect her to survive.
Yeuyue’s tragic story was Monday’s most popular story on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service, Shanghaiist reports. CNN’s Enuice Yoon explains in the video below why the footage has gripped the nation’s attention:
“Many people are discussing what they perceive as a loss of morality in Chinese society,” she said to Erroll Barnett. “…some observers have been pointing out that China education system really has failed here, that it’s failed to emphasize and reinforce the need to respect human life at a time when 1.3 billion people all clamoring and rushing to climb up the economic and social ladder.”
The Telegraph‘s Peter Foster offers another explanation of what could have led so many people to walk past the young girl without stopping to help:
Others blamed China’s compensation culture for the apparent show of callousness, recalling a famous 2006 judgment when a Good Samaritan who helped a woman get to hospital was wrongly ordered to pay her compensation.“They didn’t ignore the girl, they just didn’t dare help her,” said one comment among many that said that Chinese law had helped create a fear of intervening.
The Washington Post references an editorial in China Daily from January that calls for a law to protect Good Samaritans from liability.
Earlier this year, a 22-year-old woman riding her bicycle in China’s Zhejiang Province was killed after being hit by a three-wheeled vehicle. Four subsequent vehicles ran over her, and while several of the vehicles’ drivers stopped, none waited for help to arrive, ChinaSmack reports.
WARNING: The following footage contains graphic content:
Readers: Where is the love and compassion? Where is the humanity? Since when has suffering a personal loss meant more than the loss of a human being? That is the problem with our society. We’re so concerned about our loss that we have become numb to the feelings of and care for others. But this video shows what happens when we care less about each other. It doesn’t take much thought to know that if we all cared more about each other we would all be looked after…we would all be cared for.
What happened to “Love thy neighbor”? Obama is trying to do this with his health care…with his jobs act. But people are only focused on their needs and could care less about the needs of everyone collectively. Throw in racism, and you can see why we are where we are.
As sickening and as shocking as this video is, it is very representative, and symbolic of how the world is today. It says it all. I am just disgusted by it. No words can describe what I feel. If you have words, blog me.
Peace & Love…
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October 19th, 2011 at 9:06 am
Howie:
I really enjoy reading your comments when asked a question concerning aliens. That’s why I touch in every now and then, to see if you have made a comment about aliens. It is always fascinating.
My colleagues used to make fun of me but since I point out when you accurately describe what will happen or give the best plausible reason for an event. Now they are fans too!
Randy
October 19th, 2011 at 9:10 am
The Best Movies You’ve Never Seen
Ben Cooper
Blockbuster Online
With tens of thousands of movies now available on DVD, it is impossible to watch them all. But which are the best films most people haven’t seen?
Personal asked Ben Cooper, former director of acquisitions, marketing and business development at Blockbuster, to put together a list of films that receive high feedback ratings from those who have seen them, yet are rented relatively infrequently. Among the films at the top of the list…
COMEDY
The most highly rated, underwatched comedies tend to be dark or quirky…
Harvey (1950). James Stewart plays a drinker befriended by an imaginary rabbit.
The Trouble with Harry (1955). Alfred Hitchcock’s comedy about a troublesome corpse.
Rushmore (1998). Oddball high school student pursues a romantic relationship with a first-grade teacher.
Being John Malkovich (1999). A failed puppeteer discovers a portal into actor John Malkovich’s brain.
DRAMA
The Last Laugh (1924). A silent film about a proud man robbed of his dignity.
Lilies of the Field (1963). Sidney Poitier stars as an ex-GI who discovers his purpose in life helping East German nuns.
Interiors (1978). Grown daughters reflect on their parents’ failing marriage in Woody Allen’s first dramatic film.
Remains of the Day (1993). Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson are servants on an English estate in the 1930s.
THRILLERS
Out of the Past (1947). Robert Mitchum is a private investigator in this film noir.
Marnie (1964). Hitchcock classic about a mysterious woman who robs her employers and then changes her identity.
Tightrope (1984). Clint Eastwood stars as a detective on the trail of a serial killer.
MUSICAL
Only one musical made the underwatched films list…
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Judy Garland stars in a charming tale of a St. Louis family during the 1903 World’s Fair.
DOCUMENTARIES
Shoah (1985). Nine-and-a-half-hour Holocaust documentary made up of interviews with survivors.
When We Were Kings (1996). The story of the politically charged 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman title fight in Zaire.
My Best Fiend (1999). A look at the tumultuous relationship of actor Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog.
FOREIGN
All have English subtitles…
Yojimbo (1961). Japanese tale of a samurai in a divided town.
Jules and Jim (1962). Two friends fall for the same woman in World War I–era Paris.
Shame (1968). Director Ingmar Bergman’s story of a retired couple whose lives are turned upside down by war.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). A biting French satire of the upper class.
Fitzcarraldo (1982). An eccentric music lover tries to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. One of the famed collaborations between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski (see My Best Fiend above).
The Vanishing (1988). Dutch thriller about a man’s search for his missing girlfriend.
Personal interviewed Ben Cooper, former director of acquisitions, marketing and business development for Blockbuster Online, now a part of DISH Network Corporation.
October 19th, 2011 at 9:17 am
For once I agree with Huff Post. This was a contributor to the HP, Howard Fineman’s take on the republican debate last night.
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WASHINGTON — The winners of Tuesday night’s GOP debate: Herman Cain and President Obama.
With the devastating accuracy of a CIA drone, the Republican candidates zeroed in on their own party’s chances with exchanges that played right into Democrats’ hands on a series of issues, from immigration to taxes.
And while Mitt Romney and Rick Perry behaved like petulant, name-calling schoolboys, Herman Cain weathered a half-hour assault on his 999 plan, with which CNN began the debate.
Attempting to out-do each other in their antagonism to undocumented immigrants, the GOP candidates honed in on the toughest possible sanctions and military measures for 15 minutes before someone thought to mention that the party had respect for legal immigration — and for the Hispanic community.
They missed chance after chance to discuss anything specific about how they would help create jobs — the country’s number one concern.
They mentioned cutting aid to Israel, which was exactly what Obama needed to help him shore up support among Jewish voters.
And they sparred for half an hour about Cain’s tax plan, which would add a national sales tax and, according to Republicans themselves, be a regressive tax that would hit the poor hardest.
All of that is good news to a beleaguered Obama, whose reelection strategy relies on harnessing support from his base, attracting Hispanic voters and winning back independents who tend to eschew candidates with extreme positions.
Meanwhile, Cain outshone the two nominal frontrunners — Perry and Romney — by acting the role of statesman and never losing his cool. Now safely ensconced at or near the top of the polls, Cain is growing in confidence and command on the stage, even if the numbers of his tax plan don’t add up.
Perry and Romney sniped at each other in a way that did neither of them any good. Newt Gingrich was his usual hectoring, lecturing self, vowing to win the presidency by challenging Obama to 21 hours of debates. Michele Bachmann, desperate to regain some momentum, practically shouted throughout the debate. Ron Paul was Ron Paul.
In this environment, Rick Santorum sounded almost mild and reasonable, which gives you an idea of what kind of a night it was — for Barack Obama and Herman Cain.
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I’m not for Obama, yet. But if this keeps up I will have no choice but to stay home or to vote for Obama.
Norma Jean
October 19th, 2011 at 9:27 am
There is a rumor that Anonz’s has been asked to help the Kurds in the north of Iraq in exchange for military and counter intelligence from the Kurds.
Turkey would view this a direct attack upon its ability to maintain order and peace in its southeast territories.
Arabs form both the northern and southern areas of Africa have asked Turkey to support islam in helping rid Africa of the blacks in certain areas of Africa and to especially aid in the capture or killing of Anonz.
Turkey has refrained.
It now as Anonz to do the same for any request by the Kurds for his assistance.
Abu
October 19th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Norma Jean, I am a republican that has to agree with you. I would like to add that we will never advance a nigger as our candidate for president.
The reason for the Tea Party’s formation and success is the collective gasp that occurred when White America woke up to a nigger in the White House as something other than a servant.
We will NEVER accept that and it will end one way or the other come election time in 2012.
I also would like to point out that that cunt Bachmann should not be allowed on the stage with men. She is an embarrassment.
The bitch doesn’t know Libya is a part of Africa. Her statement criticizing the nigger’s foreign policy during last night’s debate saying, “Now with the president, he put us in Libya. He is now putting us in Africa. We already were stretched too thin, and he put our special operations forces in Africa.”
That statement shows that like the other cunt Sarah Palin, Bachmann doesn’t have a clue about geography. Someone on her staff needs to tell the bitch that Libya is in Africa.
This is a clarion call to white men to get it together and take back our country. With niggers and women occupying equal positions with white men on a stage for an opportunity to be the most power person in the world, the debate took on an eerie surreal atmosphere.
What is happening to the America our forefathers founded? They would be appalled!
Henry
Some
October 19th, 2011 at 9:57 am
That was terrible. I can’t imagine why someone would leave a 2 year old child lying in the street regardless whether they new how she got there.
Linda
October 19th, 2011 at 10:03 am
Once again “General Info” you disappoint me. That is a weak list.
Those are very very outdated movies. No one watches those old movies, because the cinematography and production methods have gotten so much better in the last 30 years.
Show us a list of current low watched good movies.
Gwen
October 19th, 2011 at 10:08 am
A class of ten year olds were asked to write an essay on
WHY I THINK THE SWISS GO DOWN THE MOUNTAIN IN WINTER
This was one of my favorites.
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They go down because the hut will cave in from the snow. The cow will die and you will freeze.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:09 am
Death by Bureaucracy
by Newt Gingrich
Earlier this month, a panel appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services made a recommendation so detached from the good of individual patients it could only have come from government bureaucrats. They recommended eliminating screening for the most common cancer among males nationwide.
The United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) is composed of 16 government-selected experts whose recommendations often influence the reimbursement policies of Medicare and private insurers. The range of members’ backgrounds is narrow considering the group is charged with advising the federal government and other healthcare providers on specific medical procedures: almost all are academics or administrators rather than practicing physicians. The panel includes experts in pediatrics and newborn care, in mental health and geriatrics, but not a single urologist who actually takes care of prostate cancer patients.
Despite lacking any specialist who deals with the issue, the panel issued a recommendation this month to stop using the only available test to screen for prostate cancer. PSA tests, which measure levels in the blood of a marker known to be elevated in men with prostate cancer, are the sole method of screening other than digital examination by a doctor, which cannot detect the most common form and usually identifies those cancers it can much later, when they are less curable.
Without the PSA testing, many men will have no way to know they have the disease until it has developed into a much more dangerous problem. In some cases, it will be a too late by the time they discover it.
What is the basis for the panel’s recommendation to discontinue screening that can save lives?
It has nothing to do with the merits of the test. Instead, these government-appointed experts advised against screening because they disagree with what some doctors and patients choose to do with the information once they have it.
Prostate cancer is a complicated issue, and elevated PSA is not always a sign that a man should enter treatment. In some cases, men can live with benevolent cancers and remain healthy for years. In many other cases, it is simply unclear even from biopsies whether the cancers are benevolent or lethal, as both kinds register on test results.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:11 am
Why would anyone pass up a child lying in traffic? What was going on in the minds of those people?
October 19th, 2011 at 10:13 am
I for one am glad for the passing of the old movies. I see it as a past time for whites who dream of the old days when they could abuse the OTWs as a right.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:17 am
October 19, 2011
CONTACT: Nikolina Lazic at (608) 260-9713 or nikolina@prwatch.org
Thank you again for speaking out against the partnership between Hollywood’s Environmental Media Association and sewage sludge promoter, Kellogg Garden Products.
We wanted to let you know that we have alerted Los Angeles schools which EMA sponsored that children’s gardens may have been contaminated with industrial and human sewage sludge as a result of EMA’s partnership with its financial backer, Kellogg.
We alerted key school principals, Parent-Teacher Associations, and the celebrities that serve on EMA’s board of the Kellogg sludge products that were offered to the schools and depicted in photo ops with the stars.
In light of the apparent failure of EMA’s leadership to take any action to remediate gardens contaminated by Kellogg’s deceptively packaged goods, we alerted the potentially affected schools and urged them to remediate the gardens with clean soil and organic gardening supplies.
We also published the article below to help bring greater attention to the fact that so many school kids may be growing vegetables and fruit unknowingly in sewage sludge supplied via EMA.
We are also sending you links to the key documents we provided the schools, as well as related articles in our SourceWatch.org resource.
Thank you for helping us stand up to Hollywood greenwashing and to sewage sludge pusher, Kellogg.
Sincerely,
Lisa Graves, Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy and the Food Rights Network
P.S. To help support our efforts to raise greater awareness of sewage sludge scams, please donate today.
Children Gardening in Sewage Sludge: Los Angeles Schools Alerted
This week, CMD’s new Food Rights Network sent letters to thirteen schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) that have “organic” school gardens adopted by Hollywood’s Environmental Media Association (EMA).
As we reported in May, EMA teamed up with sludge-marketing corporation Kellogg Garden Products, which sells products made from Los Angeles area industrial and human sewage sludge with the label “quality organics” and which used the gardens for photo ops with sludge products.
Gardens in which kids grow vegetables and fruits were contaminated with sewage sludge as a result of EMA’s partnership with Kellogg, which donated hundreds of cubic yards of sewage sludge products.
EMA, which hosts its annual green carpet awards this Saturday, October 15th, has failed to take any steps to help remediate the children’s “organic” gardens that were sludged.
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The Center for Media and Democracy’s websites are PRWatch.org, SourceWatch.org, BanksterUSA.org, and ALECexposed.org.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:19 am
Talk of the Town Starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur & Ronald Coleman is a real sleeper pick. It’s funny & seriou… about a rush to judgement, mob rule and the protections of our constitution.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:19 am
Nobody’s ever seen, come on! Lillies of the Field, Sidney Poitier Oscar winner; Harvey etc.
This is the best film unseen: NAKED PREY, Cornell Wilde. The ultilate tour de force. Almost no dialog. He lost 30lbs doing the film. Great must C it.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:21 am
I never know what movies to try. thank you for the great list.
October 19th, 2011 at 10:24 am
These are the saddest of possible words:
“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Franklin P. Adams, Baseball’s Sad Lexicon
October 19th, 2011 at 10:54 am
Americans please do not think that we here in China are cold hearted people. We need a good samaritan law that protects the people who help the injured from being sued by the injured for helping them.
People here in China want to help. But we don’t want to be sued for doing it.
Ai-Li
October 19th, 2011 at 10:57 am
Michelle:
The world has reached a population of 7 BILLION this week. It appears that life has lost the value it once had.
China, with such a bloated population, just continues on while one little girl is practically stepped on after being run over by a van. She is not expected to live through her horrible ordeal.
Taking care of business seems more important to these people with blinders on so they do not have to think about anything but what is directly in front of them. They walk around in a daze as if they are hypnotized — like the cattle they really are.
Our cruelty to each other makes me wonder. Life was once precious.
HOWIE
October 19th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Michelle, The videos that I just saw are appalling. Seeing the behavior of these bystanders has actually made me feel physically ill. This truly is a mad world, cold and callous.
Al
October 19th, 2011 at 11:02 am
Republican strategists think that Democrats can’t win if they cripple our voter registration activity; if students, minorities, and working Americans aren’t allowed to cast ballots, and if they can disqualify 5 million Americans from voting.
That’s why the Koch brothers and their corporate allies are backing a coordinated effort to manipulate the rules in 2012.
Their plan for taking the Senate and the White House is simple: Force us to fight with one hand tied behind our backs.
Republicans are hitting us where it hurts, trying to cut the legs out from under the grassroots organizing that has helped Democrats win close, tough races for years.
With 23 seats to defend — and Republicans needing only four to take the majority — this is a serious threat.
October 19th, 2011 at 11:05 am
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No. 292 of 365
Quote millionaire rabble-rouser Michael Moore:
“The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not ‘insurgents’ or ‘terrorists’ or ‘The Enemy.’ They are the revolution, the Minute men, and their numbers will grow—and they will win.”
Wonder whether maybe it’s not too late for Moore to go and share his insights and empathy over a friendly decapitation or two somewhere like Fallujah or Al Amara.
October 19th, 2011 at 11:06 am
I am a Dustin Hoffman fan…what about Little Big Man and Midnight Cowboy! one is entertainment and one defines our society!
October 19th, 2011 at 11:07 am
How about “Cinema Paradiso” —one of my favorite Italian films.
October 19th, 2011 at 11:36 am
We are in 1889:
OBITUARY
Myra Belle Starr, Nee Shirley (1848 – 1889)
Born in Missouri, Bell Shirley’s association with the James Younger gang began when her brother Ed rode with them. In her teens, Belle bore Cole Younger an illegitimate daughter.
There after she shacked up with highway-robber Ed Reed and went to California with him where the couple had a son. In the early 1870′s Ed and Belle moved to Texas, where he rustled cattle and she ran the ranch.
In 1874 Reed was killed by a lawman. Belle’s subsequent lovers included her old flame, Cole Younger, until he was imprisoned in 1876.
Later she married Cherokee Sam Starr, son a of famous horse thief. And it was under her final married name that she attained fame in the dime novels and Wild West Shows as supposed “Queen of the Bandits.”
AH
October 19th, 2011 at 11:41 am
Hafa adai:
This is a good samaritan story from Guam.
VIDEO: 4 Good Samaritans Rescue Unconscious Driver from His Burning Truck
http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18023:video-good-samaritans-come-to-the-rescue-of-unconscious-truck-driver&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156
October 19th, 2011 at 11:43 am
Thanks General Info for the list, and to everyone else for the suggestions. I’m always on the lookout for great movies for my free days!
October 19th, 2011 at 11:46 am
Thanks AH for the continue Western info. It is so interesting learning about the truth about the legends.
General Info I can not believe that you did not include in Westerns in your list. Did you forget: The Cowboy And The Lady with Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon.. Or the Original “Mr. And Mrs. Smith with Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard. Awesome stuff!
Boyd
October 19th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
The DIAPER Act really needs no introduction, it would do just that, provide diapers. To babies. For free.
Sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D.-Conn.), the Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act (DIAPER Act) directs the federal government to distribute free diapers for moms who put their kids in day care centers to “relieve some of the stress on families facing hardship in this economy.”
Without diapers, children are not allowed to attend day care, said DeLauro, who described those in need as a “lost generation of Americans.”
“In fact, over one in five mothers have had to skip an obligation and stay home with their child because of lack of diapers,” DeLauro said. “And losing out on day care makes it even harder for parents to put in a full day’s work.”
Critics of the bill say it exemplifies the type of cradle-to-grave, nanny-state legislation supported by Democrat lawmakers that the government can’t afford.
“This is a literal push for the nanny state,” said Robert Gordon, senior adviser for strategic outreach at The Heritage Foundation. “With no regard for the Constitution and regardless of our deficit and debt, there’s no issue too local or too small for liberals to find a role for the federal government.”
Penny Young Nance, president and chief executive officer for Concerned Women for America, said the legislation would help a small group of people, while placing a greater tax burden on a larger group of parents.
“Stay-at-home moms where the dad is making the single income make great sacrifices,” Nance said. “It doesn’t work to take more from her husband’s paycheck to give away diapers. And what about families where the grandmother, sister or dad stays home while the spouse works? We believe this is shortsighted.”
To read more about this Democrat’s search for life, liberty and the pursuit of Pampers, check out HumanEvents.com.
— Audrey Hudson
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The republicans are quick to refer to a violation of the Constitution when any money is being allocated to the poor or middle class. But when subsidies are being allocated to Oil, big farm combines, and corporate tax breaks are given that’s free enterprise as in free from the taxpayers so the enterprise they can engage in is of no financial risk for them.
So to convince their rank and file they bring out the Socialism talking point. The federal government is okay to use for subsidies and tax breaks to corporate interests and the wealthy, but it is not to be used to help the poor and middle class.
Robert
October 19th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Less Sleep, More Chance of Catching a Cold
Sheldon Cohen, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
People who get fewer than seven hours of sleep a night are almost three times as likely to develop cold symptoms as people who sleep for eight hours or more. The percentage of time in bed spent asleep — called sleep efficiency — matters, too. People with a sleep efficiency of 85% or less are five times as likely to develop cold symptoms as those with higher efficiency.
Personal interviewed Sheldon Cohen, PhD, Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and leader of a study of 153 people, published in Archives of Internal Medicine.
October 19th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
You left some good ones out: Honeysuckle Rose with Willie Nelson and Amy Irving…. One Two Three with Jimmy Cagney… Sergeant York with Gary Cooper….. House of Games with Joe Montegna… Shane with Alan Ladd
October 19th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Hi Misch, I couldn’t with past #3, it was making me ill. It was hard to watch after he ran over her…twice…unbelievable…I have no words.
When I was in the restaurant biz, many moons ago, we used to call ‘single’ men at tables ‘Harvey – party of two’ hahaha…
Luv, Zen Lill
October 19th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Zen Lill:
We live in Malmo. It is a city in the province of Skane in Sweden. We checked several times to see if you were going to post. Now that you have, we don’t get it.
What does “Harvey – party of two” mean?
Kolina
October 19th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Hafa adai:
Looks like the bluff is on. If the USA is going to continue to force Taxation without Representation on Guam, we can do what the Palestinians are doing. We can petition the U.N. for the right to self determination.
Senator Judith T. Won Pat is doing just that.
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Won Pat to U.N.: Help us decolonize
2:00 PM, Oct. 20, 2011 | 4 Comments
Won Pat
Written by
Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno
Pacific Daily News
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Local News
Guam’s legislative speaker has asked the United Nations to “dispatch” a U.N. special mission to Guam to help the Chamorros achieve a self-determined political status.
The legislative speaker, calling herself “Dr. Judith T. Won Pat, a descendent of the CHamoru people,” read her speech on Oct. 3 to the U.N. Fourth Committee.
She also called on the political self-determination process to be without influence by the U.S. government.
She made indirect references to the United States — the giver of hundreds of millions of dollars to Guam’s local government every year in the form of food stamps, public housing, road projects and public education — in the same light as perpetrators of “the tyranny of colonization,” or the “abuser” to an abused people.
“For the past 50 years the CHamoru people, and other inhabitants of Guam, continue to bear witness to economic exploitation and political oppression by the incumbent administering power,” she said.
Many members of Guam’s culturally diverse community voluntarily sign up to defend the nation as members of the U.S. military.
Won Pat also said for about 500 years, “the CHamoru people endured ethnic and cultural genocide, forced labor, religious, and political oppression by three different sovereign nations.
“May this committee rise and cast light upon those nation states that willfully violate the foundational principles of this great assembly for it is no longer proper to recognize the abused and not the abuser,” Won Pat stated in her speech to the U.N., which was released to the media yesterday.
“Let us fashion an unorthodox approach in order that those subjected to the tyranny of colonization may have their redress,” she added.
Local laws are in place for indigenous Guam residents to take a vote to decide if they want to continue to be under the United States political family, seek independence, or seek a status somewhere in between.
However, years of attempts to create a voter registry for “Chamorro self-determination” have failed to gain traction.
As of July, there were about 3,800 names on the registry, according to Pacific Daily News files.
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It never hurts to check your options. White America insures that it stays majority white by allowing huge immigrations from the Baltic nations and Europe. They do this so that the one person one vote rule keeps whites in power.
Yet they want to come to Guam with numbers that will out number the Chamorros at out polls. They seek to force us to accept non citizen military as voters while on the mainland denying that same right to soldiers stationed in those states.
The whites in the republican party are actively passing laws in their states to deprive OTWs of the right to vote because they usually vote the Democratic ticket.
Why are we Chamorros allowing these hypocrites to water down our vote. Their aim is to do what they have done in Hawaii, give the power of the once proud people of Hawaii to whites or those who would do their bidding.
We need to act now. If we wish to continue our relationship with America, let’s do it on our terms.
Peter
October 19th, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Occupy Wall Street
(Hearts) Wall Street
by Ann Coulter
The worst thing about Occupy Wall Street is that it’s ruining a good cause: hating Wall Street. Just when opposing Wall Street was gaining momentum, these brain-dead zombies are forcing us to choose between thieving bankers and them.
If the Flea Party were really concerned about the greedy “Wall Street 1 Percent,” shifting money around to make themselves richer and everyone else poorer, their No. 1 target should be George Soros.
Of course, we don’t know exactly how much money Soros has, since he keeps all his money in offshore bank accounts.
We do know that Soros has been convicted of insider trading. And we know that his general modus operandi is to run around the world panicking sovereign nations, so he can pocket the difference when their currencies collapse…
Click here to continue reading Ann Coulter’s column
October 19th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
This is a shout out to all my peeps. I’m here to talk shit.
Seer
October 19th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Man that is a shame what happend to that little girl !
October 19th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Kolina, sorry for that reference without clarification…
This movie ‘Harvey’ (1950). features James Stewart plays a drinker befriended by an imaginary rabbit…so when single men would come in and get a table and proceed to drink alone, we would call them ‘Harvey, party of two’ you know, the man and his imaginary rabbit friend : ) sometimes we’d even ask ‘and what’s your friend having?’ just for laughs…if they were handsome, well – we had a code for that as well, ‘Harvey and his rabbit need a party’ (at table #2 or wherever so we could all do a walk by and agree or not whether we thought he was worth looking at/talking to), we made up all kinds of fun codes just to pass the time bc people are a trip to watch, and that’s where my fascination with psychology and the brain/mind and what makes people tick all started : ) …that’s enough reminiscing though, isn’t it? Again, sorry, should’ve explained.
- ZL
October 19th, 2011 at 9:15 pm
Zen Lill:
I”m from Luleå, Sweden. No need to apologize. I’ve probably been a “Harvey” a time or two when I visited LA, land of the stars. The next time I will be more observant of the help traffic passing my table. :-)
Mats
October 19th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Mats, the help traffic check out of Harvey is always done so discreetly you’d never know, if you’re going to use code there’s a reason, you don’t want to be detected : ) Lulea is a cool innovative area, cityish yet not too cityish. I grew up next door to Swedes, they were from south of Uppsala, I know my map of S. I haven’t been to Sweden, only Norge though, have friends who grew up here and live there now.
- ZL
October 20th, 2011 at 8:24 am
Bébé, tu es ma vie.
October 20th, 2011 at 8:56 am
Tu me manques aussi ma douce. Espérons que les événements nous permettent d’être ensemble dans environ trois semaines.
October 20th, 2011 at 9:06 am
Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, one of the most wanted men in the world, has been killed according to Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril.
The flamboyant tyrant who terrorized his country and much of the world during his 42 years of tyrannical rule was reportedly cornered by insurgents in the town of Sirte, where Gadhafi had been born and a stronghold of his supporters.
The National Transition Council earlier today said that its fighters found and shot Gadhafi in Sirte, which finally fell to the rebels today after weeks of tough fighting. Rebels now control the entire country.
Word of Gadhafi’s death triggered celebrations in the streets of Tripoli with insurgent fighters waving their weapons and dancing jubilantly.
Gadhafi had been on the run for weeks after being chased out of the capital Tripoli by NATO bombers and rebel troops.
He had been believed to be hiding in the vast Libyan desert while calling on his supporters to rise up and sweep the rebel “dogs” away, but his once fearsome power was scoffed at by Libyans who had ransacked his palace compound and hounded him into hiding.
Gadhafi, 69, ruled Libya with an iron fist for almost 42 years. He seized control of Libya in Sept., 1969 in a bloodless coup when he was just 27 years old. The then young Army Captain and his small band of military officers overthrew the monarch King Idris, setting up a new Libyan Arab Republic that over the years became increasingly isolated from the rest of the world.
Gadhafi took over the top spot as the world’s most wanted man after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. troops in Pakistan.
At the height of his ability to threaten terrorism, President Ronald Reagan dubbed Gadhafi the “mad dog of the Middle East.”
The eccentric leader, who amassed power and wealth by controlling the nation’s oil industry, held the title of being the longest-serving leader in Africa and the Arab world.
Another unwanted Dictator bites the dust.
HOWIE
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