Security is changing the way countries do business

Life in a terror filled environment - whether it is real or not we are told that terrorists are waiting to pounce, Make sure you are not a traitor to your country and you have nothing to worry about. Talk is cheap. Who would want to listen to my whining about life and everything on surveillance cameras or whatever - these mindless chatter are not what governments are interested in. http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/21/4643656/new-zealand-legalizes-domestic-surveillance-with-warrant

Oprah's doing it again.

Oprah discusses the making of the highly anticipated film Lee Daniels' The Butler with fellow cast members Forest Whitaker and David Oyelowo as well as director Lee Daniels. Plus, get an exclusive look at behind-the-scenes footage. Lee Daniels' The Butler opens in theaters everywhere on Friday, August 16, 2013.

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/own-oprahs-next-chapter/First-Look-Lee-Daniels-The-Butler-Cast-on-Oprahs-Next-Chapter#ixzz2bVPIlB5i

Historic Protocol

August 7, 2013




FISHER RIVER CREE NATION AND MANITOBA GOVERNMENT SIGN HISTORIC CONSULTATION PROTOCOL TO GUIDE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

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Signatories Working Together will Create Opportunity, Prosperity: Robinson





FISHER RIVER CREE NATION—Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Minister Eric Robinson and Fisher River Cree Nation Chief David Crate signed an historic agreement here today between the Manitoba government and the Fisher River Cree Nation that will guide future development by ensuring meaningful consultation on any proposed use of Crown land or resources within Fisher River’s traditional territory.



“We recognize and thank Chief David Crate and the Fisher River Cree Nation leadership for their thorough and thoughtful approach to working with us to develop mutually beneficial consultation processes,” said Robinson. “This agreement improves on the existing process and could serve as a model for agreements with other First Nations in Manitoba.”



“I am honoured to formalize the important relationship we have shared with the Government of Manitoba for many years,” said Crate. “This protocol will further the process of reconciliation and understanding between the Crown, as represented by Manitoba and our community.”



The agreement is reflective of current case law and sets out a clear process whereby any proposed provincial law, regulation, decision or action within Fisher River Cree Nation’s traditional territory is reviewed by its chief and council. Consistent with Manitoba’s approach to Crown‑Aboriginal consultations, the agreement also includes provisions for establishing a formal consultation plan in cases where the proposed decision or action may infringe upon or adversely affect the exercise of a treaty or Aboriginal right of the Fisher River Cree Nation membership.



The agreement also refines and expands the current single-project consultation approach. The new protocol will bring clarity and consistency to Crown-Aboriginal consultation processes for Fisher River Cree Nation in its participation in multiple-project consultation processes. The value of traditional land use is also recognized in the agreement along with a commitment to work together by entering into discussions to provide assistance with respect of Fisher River conducting a traditional land use and occupancy study, and mapping initiative.



“Working together we can create more economic opportunity and prosperity for First Nations families,” said Robinson.



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The Province of Manitoba is distributing this release on behalf of the Manitoba Government and Fisher River Cree Nation.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/in-rare-snub-obama-cancels-meetings-with-putin-amid-tensions-over-nsa-leaker-snowden/article13629379/?service=print Snowden wants to play a big man's game but he is a frightened child. Why doesn't he return home and face the music like a man. He has also chosen to seek refuge in a country that has one of the worst human rights records on the books, a country who is up to their ears in espionage on its people and the world. What is Snowden about? Sometimes I think he is the instrument of the Tea Party hoping to embarass President Obama and the Democrats. Snowden is full of contradictions. A person who is really concerned about the rights of the citizen would stand behind his treachery, not duck under the bed of espionage host. What the heck. I have no respect for Snowden and as for Russia although the king has put on new clothes you can still see his nakedness. All farce.

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Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life. ALAN KEYES, speech, Apr. 21, 2002

White male Terrorism happening in America?

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-worst-terror-attacks-extreme-christians-and-far-right-white-men?akid=10755.35630.iibxhn&rd=1&src=newsletter877252&t=5&paging=off