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<font size=4><b>Wikileaks : US targets Indigenous Peoples in 2011<br>
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http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/12/wikileaks-revealed-us-espionage-of.html</a>
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By Brenda Norrell<br>
Censored News<br>
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In the Censored News pick for the Best of the Best in 2011, Wikileaks
claims first prize. Wikileaks exposed the US corporate schemes,
espionage, promotion of mining and efforts globally to halt passage of
the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.<br><br>
Wikileaks revealed extensive espionage of Indigenous Peoples, including
the Mapuche and Mohawks, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and
Bolivian President Evo Morales, who ushered in a new Indigenous global
rights campaign.<br>
The release of the US diplomatic cables of the US State Department
confirmed that the US feared the power of Indigenous Peoples,
specifically their claims to their traditional territories, a right
stated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Further, the Declaration states the right of free, prior and informed
consent before development proceeds and protects intellectual and
cultural property rights.<br><br>
<b>Here are the top six ways </b>that the United States and Canada, as
revealed by Wikileaks, worked against the rights of Indigenous Peoples,
by engaging in espionage and the promotion of mining, while violating
Indigenous autonomy, self determination and dignity.<br><br>
1. The United States worked behind the scenes to fight the adoption of
the <b>Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</b>. In Ecuador,
the US established a program to dissuade Ecuador from supporting the
Declaration. In Iceland, the US Embassy said Iceland's support was an
"impediment" to US/Iceland relations at the UN. In Canada, the
US said the US and Canada agreed the Declaration was headed for a
"train wreck."<br><br>
2. The United States targeted and <b>tracked Indigenous Peoples</b>,
community activists and leaders, especially in Chile, Peru and Ecuador. A
cable reveals the US Embassy in Lima, Peru, identified Indigenous
activists and tracked the involvement of Bolivian President Evo Morales,
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Bolivia Ambassador Pablo Solon,
prominent Mapuche and Quechua activists and community leaders. President
Chavez and President Morales were consistently watched, and their actions
analyzed. Indigenous activists opposing the dirty Tar Sands were spied
on, and other Indigenous activists in Vancouver, prior to the
Olympics.<br><br>
3. The United States was part of a <b>five country coalition to promote
mining</b> and fight against Indigenous activists in Peru. A core group
of diplomats from U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and South
Africa formed an alliance with mining companies to promote and protect
mining interests globally. In other illegal corporate profiteering,
Peru’s government secretly admitted that 70-90 percent of its mahogany
exports were illegally felled, according to a US embassy cable revealed
by Wikileaks. Lowe's and Home Depot sell the lumber.<br><br>
4. <b>Canada spied on Mohawks using illegal wiretaps</b>. Before
Wikileaks hit the headlines, it exposed in 2010 that Canada used
unauthorized wiretaps on Mohawks. <br>
Wikileaks: "During the preliminary inquiry to Shawn Brant's trial,
it came out that the Ontario Provincial Police, headed by Commissioner
Julian Fantino, had been using wiretaps on more than a dozen different
Mohawks without a judge's authorization, an action almost unheard of
recent history in Canada."<br><br>
4. The <b>United States and Canada tracked Mohawks</b>. In one of the
largest collections of cables released so far that targeted Native people
and named names, the US Embassies in Montreal and Toronto detailed Mohawk
activities at the border and in their communities.<br><br>
5. The <b>arrogant and insulting tone</b> of the US Embassies and
disrespect for Indigenous leaders is pervasive in US diplomatic cables.
The US Embassy in Guatemala stated that President of Guatemala, Álvaro
Colom, called Rigoberta Menchu a "fabrication" of an
anthropologist and made other accusations. Menchu responded on a local
radio station that Colom was a "liar."<br><br>
6. <b>The collection of DNA and other data</b>, makes it clear that US
Ambassadors are spies abroad. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
states that the Intelligence Community relies on biographical information
from US diplomats. In cables to Africa and Paraguay, Clinton asked US
Embassy personnel to collect address books, e-mail passwords,
fingerprints, iris scans and DNA.<br><br>
“The intelligence community relies on State reporting officers for much
of the biographical information collected worldwide," Clinton said
in a cable on April 16, 2009. Clinton said the biographical data should
be sent to the INR (Bureau of Intelligence and Research) for
dissemination to the Intelligence Community.<br>
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Meanwhile, the US was part of a five country team that supported mining
as Indigenous Peoples were dying to protect their homeland.<br><br>
The arrogance of the US and its cheerleading for corporate copper mining
in Peru is obvious in two cables just released from Wikileaks. The
diplomatic cables reveal the US promoting multi-national corporations,
while targeting Indigenous activists and their supporters.<br><br>
The cables reveal that a core group of diplomats formed an alliance with
mining companies to promote and protect mining interests globally. The
diplomats were from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Switzerland and
South Africa.<br>
Read more at
<a href="http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/02/wikileaks-peru-us-ambassador-targeted.html">
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/02/wikileaks-peru-us-ambassador-targeted.html</a>
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The US spied on the Mohawks in Canada, as revealed in these diplomatic
cables released by Wikileaks. Canadian border guards admitted that they
feared the Mohawks:<br>
<a href="http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-cables-on-mohawks.html">
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-cables-on-mohawks.html</a>
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Wikileaks exposed the fact that not only were Indigenous Peoples spied on
globally by the US State Department, but those who supported them were
also spied on. Actor and activist Danny Glover was the focus of at least
five US diplomatic cables.<br><br>
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