Following a natural disaster, the state could deliberately prevent human aid, resulting in atrocity, crime against humanity, or genocide.
Home to the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, where US soldiers massacred 150 to 300 Native Americans in 1890, including women and children, the reservation is wracked by rampant poverty, lack of resources and poor infrastructure. Pine Ridge encompasses some of the poorest counties in the United States, with unemployment around 75% and the lowest life expectancy in the country.
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Donald Trump approved a national disaster declaration for Nebraska and Iowa in March after the cyclone hit the region, providing federal funding to impacted individuals and communities in those states. But in South Dakota, Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Reservation hit by the same storm have been forced to try to recover on their own.
If and only if the intent to commit genocide could be shown in terms of the state deliberately disallowing outside aid, or the state not giving direct necessary aid for the sustaining of life, then it should be concluded that state willfully used a natural disaster as the extermination stage of genocide and then denied that extermination. The state uses a disaster to kill, if the intent to commit genocide is shown by deliberately disallowing human aid, or by exhibiting willful negligence prior to a disaster — in my opinion.
The problem with unintended consequences and intended ones is consequences are the same.
How much Arctic sea ice are you melting? Scientists have an answer
For every metric ton of carbon dioxide released into the air, three square meters of Arctic sea ice disappear. If you do the math, this means the average American is melting roughly 50 square meters of those frozen reserves every year.
Global warming is human rights issue: Nobel nominee How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through melting ice when they hunt.
As long as there are those who idealize Stalin and private contractors exist,
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Michelle Goldberg, "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" p.160. ...Constitutional lawyer Edwin Vieira discussed Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion...which struck down that state's antisodomy law...Vieira accused Kennedy of relying on "Marxist, Leninist, Satanic principles drawn from foreign law... "What to do about Communist judges in thrall to the Devil? Vieira said, "Here again I draw on the wisdom of Stalin. We're talking about the greatest political figure of the twentieth century...He had a slogan, and it worked well for him whenever he ran into difficulty. No man, no problem.'"
using a disaster to kill will be a possibility.
Tr*mp, who idealizes Andrew Jackson, deliberately refused aid. Perhaps it’s “No Indian, no problem” lurking in his evil brain. Whichever the case, Stalin would approve - all that the Lakota and all other American Indians of any and all tribes are to Tr*mp - is a statistic.
A Man-Made Famine/Genocide raged through Ukraine, the ethnic-Ukrainian region of northern Caucasus (i.e. Kuban), and the lower Volga River region in 1932-33. This resulted in the death of between 7 to 10 million people, mainly Ukrainians. This was instigated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his henchman Lazar Kaganovich. The main goal of this artificial famine/genocide was to break the spirit of the Ukrainian farmer/peasant and to force them into collectivization and was used as an effective tool to break the renaissance of Ukrainian culture that was occuring under approval of the communist government in Ukraine. Moscow perceived this as a threat to a Russo-Centric Soviet rule and therefore acted to crush this cultural renaissance in a most brutal sadistic manner. The resulting goal of this artificial famine/genocide was to "ethnically cleanse" Ukrainians from vast territories.
Saturday, May 11, 2019 · 1:21:44 AM +00:00 · Winter Rabbit
Thanks cawfeemug!
Once I lived in Montana and once I lived in Wyoming. I used to drive the highway past Wounded Knee, a lot.
A few days ago I got an email from Lakota Law and in reply I said I would donate today of I could, if the Doctors didn’t make my wallet skinny but they did. I am now $150.00 lighter. Maybe there are those of you that can help? Here is the link.
Saturday, May 11, 2019 · 1:56:02 PM +00:00 · Winter Rabbit
Mark Trahant: Indigenous peoples of the Arctic stand up to Trump spin
“This is the first time the Arctic Council has failed to issue a declaration at the end of a two-year chairmanship, and it’s a serious blow to the future of what is supposed to be a consensus based body,” Sambo Dorough said in a news release. “Inuit are feeling the effects of climate change everyday. While the US government concerns itself with semantics, playing games with words, our people are witnessing the adverse impacts of climate change. What about us and our reality?”
Edward Alexander, co-chair of Gwich’in Council International and the head of delegation, told Indian Country Today that the way the United States reached this outcome was particularly troubling. He said the language had been “already largely agreed upon, and the substance of which was worked through dozens of Arctic Council Working Group projects. There was ample time for the United States to express its sentiments, and to work towards consensus over the last two years of the Finnish Chairmanship. Instead the US chose to vacate its leadership role and it’s not entirely clear why.”
“Consensus was achieved in approving the Senior Arctic Officials’ Report which details the projects of the working groups, many of the projects are based in the terms found objectionable by the US, like black carbon, climate change, etc.,” Alexander said. “So, the US withheld consensus on the declaration which would have recognized projects it had already approved, recognized that they occurred, and instead, inexplicably alienated nations around the circumpolar north for essentially no reason by refusing to sign a declaration on these important issues.”