Planet Tokyo - Domestic Bliss

Planet Tokyo Domestic Bliss Flipped my body clock again, because I'm a moron. Dreadful sleep.  Kept waking up (and had got up) to monitor the 'time-bomb' I anticipated I would have to monitor, even as I was about to crash out. It had already begun 'ticking' at some insane hour, which must have been either mid-late morning or early afternoon, just before I finally crashed out. It doesn't matter what I have to say.  I'll ask nicely, "Please don't" or I'll remind of consequences etc.  But  I'm still ignored. I didn't think to monitor supply, so I don't know what's been consumed.  Hopefully, not much. But problem develops if I have something to say about what has happened:  then I get a sort of loud, aggressive-whiny protest, that I find frustrating and infuriating, as I am not being heard and this is a method of drowning out my voice of protest. "Whatever, I don't listen to you," he says to me when I insist he needs to see about things. According his mental construct of what I may and may not reasonably assert, demand etc, I'm not entitled to seek to influence the conditions in which I live. This attitude and this same point of contention has been ongoing for years. That's a major issue.  But I'm not permitted to talk about this, because he refuses to even hear me out.  I'm dismissed angrily out of hand, or I'm otherwise dismissed because he's 'busy' or whatever.  It is never properly discussed and nothing is ever resolved. On the receiving end of frustrated, alienated and trapped feeling, combined with a slow-burn sort of underling anger and a sense of being completely at a loss about what to do, because being in circumstances where your voice and stated limits etc are not remotely respected is cause for concern. At this moment, there's not a high degree of unpleasantness and there's no major drama.  Just unpleasant feelings:  frustration, degree of alienation, and anxiety, combined with concern about the direction of this overall. How many years can you keep repeating the same involuntary experience, experiencing the same corrosive feelings, while feeling trapped in a kind of recurring at-war dynamic, when arguments develop? That this is against my will and has been for years does my head in when I stop to dwell on that. From where I stand, it's an oppressive recurrence, involving years of impotence, toxic dispute and drama, along with refusals to heed entirely reasonable and rational requests. Frustrated, mid argument, yelled at him that it's a basic human right to wake up in a sober environment.  LOL ... I don't buy the universal aspect of that, as I am entirely opposed to the 'human rights'  reassignment of what is particularly to the universal/international.  I'm inclined to think it's simply a natural right that belongs to those that have the personal means to assert the right by force, if required.  I can't:  I'm not strong enough for a physical confrontation. But the 'human right' thing popped out, and it's a handy argument.  Conviction is not required.  His line of attack is that I haven't 'done' anything.  So his position would be:  as I'm an apathetic, depressed freak that has finally crashed to sleep, having done nothing of value or importance (or simply the fact that I am still breathing ... LOL),  he is entitled to impose what is against my will, knowing this is without my consent, and surely knowing that what is imposed is a form of Russian roulette. This has played itself out for years despite my protests, no matter my condition or level of activity.  Having a go at me is just a convenient way of justifying and protecting an action he would sooner protect from challenge by me, than preserve what remains of my f*cking sanity or anything else here. The degree of powerlessness that accompanies being on the receiving end of what you plainly object to (and have objected to for years) is sickening at the time of disagreement, because it is being forced to endure, against your will, something you cannot control, prevent or refuse. Therefore, until such time as you take drastic and monumentally disruptive action, you are forced to experience complete impotence and what feels like a form of mental torture. Getting that across is impossible to get across when you are also dealing with someone who will not listen, no matter what. At present, there's been a degree of tension and unpleasantness because I object to what is cause for concern and a source of anxiety to me.  That then means I am immediately on the receiving end of what is a 'counter-offensive' in defence of what I object to, where there can be no defence whatsoever, because my 'no' means 'no' ... or it would, if I took drastic action that would render us homeless.  LOL. After all these years, particulars of disagreement over the point of contention probably don't matter:  it's the fact that this battle even exists (almost a decade down the track), and that it 'has' to be replayed, that is the fundamental problem. TV's on and I can hear a replay of a documentary we had a fight to what seems like only days ago.  I'm not kidding.  It's the same documentary by the sound of things, or it's part II of the same series.  And it's pretty much the same dynamic being played out here (save that we're not having a major argument this time around ... as it's just low-level anxiety inducing), and I'm experiencing a lowish distress level, unable to (a) influence/control (b) refuse/decline (c) discuss/remedy etc.  Very unpleasant, even though we've stopped bickering and he's watching some TV. Sometimes, when I feel really overwhelmed by the sense of impotence during arguments that ensue if I complain or try to address what is going on, I feel as if I could completely lose my sanity being on the end of what often feels like an intolerable degree of emotional distress, which also has a physiological component.  I really do feel sick at the time.  If we've had a particularly bad or intense argument, I'll feel dreadful the next day. I'm hoping he'll soon crash out, even though he's not majorly impaired:  I just don't like the anxiety I experience or the sense of helplessness/impotence, as I cannot control or influence if he will maybe drink more, or if this will result in unexpected argument. It is completely impossible to convey this to him and he is oblivious.  Not only oblivious because he does not want to listen, but oblivious because he chooses not to care. He's completely oblivious.  All is well with his world.  He's just come off the phone to someone when he went out for a cigarette.  He seems quite happy. I, on the other hand, feel like I've had my face shoved in sh*t ... again.  LOL The worst part is not knowing what to do, because there's nothing that can be done.  What do you do with an adult who will not desist subjecting you to what you expressly refuse to experience? I'm angry that I even have to consider this and have to experience the same feeling of impotence, when I could have been spared this if he were at all receptive and motivated to get along with me.  Rather bizarre, like he is, instead, more motivated or driven to have himself a 'party' while I'm miserable and that this does not in any way disturb his conscience.   From his point of view, I'm guessing he would probably see no wrong:  after initial arguments, he's quiet; we're not arguing at present; he's watching TV; he's experienced whatever he wishes to experience and feels entitled to experience ... and he doesn't care what I think or feel. But, from my point of view, I am unwillingly experiencing levels of aversion, anxiety, frustration, impotence, distress, alienation, concern, emotional disruption, and a downer I didn't ask for, that is this 'gift' received entirely beyond my control. I think I need therapy to either somehow adjust to accepting my lot without complaint or distress ... or he needs to behave; or we need to break up.  I'm not equipped to handle this. *He's served himself a huge serve of the crappy chocolate cake I made and he says "I think I'm going to have a heart attack after this", as he heads for the sofa in front of the TV, after being a creep and denying me chocolate cake, when I asked if I could have some.  LOL ... it's like kindergarten here.   I should piss in the bowl containing the rest of the ganache covered chocolate cake, as the cake was a little on the dry side ...   LOL Football's on.  OMG.  Dead boring. NEXT DAY Lovely again. Peace prevails. Does nice things. But will it last? LOL Interception attempt has already occurred. Body language says: not receptive (turned side on). LOL Says I'm just as bad ... when I've been on the computer for 20 hours at a time, ranting about things he doesn't care about, while my eyes are spinning. What? ... LOL On my agenda: Chicken Vindaloo ... followed by maybe a short video project, I'm hanging to play with.

Shameless, Hypocrite US Capitalist Oligarchy Refuse Entry to Former British Ambassador

Shameless, Hypocrite US Capitalist Oligarchy Refuse Entry to Former British Ambassador https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y200nnocMY Craig Murray https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/09/thought-dangerous-usa/ Thought is Dangerous to the USA 5 Sep, 2016 I have been refused entry clearance to the USA to chair the presentation of the Sam Adams Award to CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou and to speak at the World Beyond War conference in Washington DC. Like millions of British passport holders I have frequently visited the USA before and never been refused entry clearance under the visa waiver programme. I shall apply for a visa via the State Department as suggested but I must be on a list to be refused under the ESTA system, and in any event it is most unlikely to be completed before the conference. It is worth noting that despite the highly critical things I have published about Putin, about civil liberties in Russia and the annexation of the Crimea, I have never been refused entry to Russia. The only two countries that have ever refused me entry clearance are Uzbekistan and the USA. What does that tell you? I have no criminal record, no connection to drugs or terrorism, have a return ticket, hotel booking and sufficient funds. I have a passport from a visa waiver country and have visited the USA frequently before during 38 years and never overstayed. The only possible grounds for this refusal of entry clearance are things I have written against neo-liberalism, attacks on civil liberties and neo-conservative foreign policy. People at the conference in Washington will now not be able to hear me speak. Plainly ideas can be dangerous. So much for the land of the free! https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/09/thought-dangerous-usa/ PETITION To: U.S. State Department Tell U.S. to Let Craig Murray into the Country LINK | PETITION TO US STATE DEPT TRANSCRIPT SOURCE VIDEO Why Did US Just Bar Former British Diplomat https://youtu.be/4y200nnocMY  The Real News [For quotation purposes, confirm audio] PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT Narrator Over the weekend, the United Stated denied entry to an unsuspecting individual, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murry, who ten years ago made the critical mistake of exposing the Uzbek torture system that we now know the Americans supported and the British condoned. He was scheduled to participate in an awards ceremony next week ... John Kiriakou CIA Whistleblower We're talking about a British diplomat, a highly respected — an internationally respected British diplomat, a whistleblower in his own right; an exposer of torture, who has travelled to this country, dozens and dozens of times. And then, for reasons that have not been explained to him, finds himself banned by the United States. Narrator The Sam Adams [Associates] award for Integrity and Intelligence is given out annually to someone who shows moral courage in the midst of wrong-doing on the part of the state. Ray McGovern Founder, Sam Adams Associates In 2006, the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity and Intelligence decided to award Ambassador Murray our annual award for integrity ... he came and talked at several of our Sam Adams awards ceremonies here in the States and also at Oxford — we did two there.  We did more or less one in Berlin.  We go where the people are. Narrator Ten years after having won the award himself, Murray is still at home wondering how his name received what the State Department and Homeland Security call a 'hit'. Peter Van Buren Whistleblower, former Foreign Service Officer It means that the Department of Homeland Security believes that Ambassador Murray may be ineligible to enter the United States, under one of the categories of ineligibility. Peter Van Buren is a former United States foreign service employee turned whistleblower, after he heavily criticised the United States reconstruction effort in Iraq. Van Buren also just wrote a piece for Consortium News, that someone like Murray may have received a 'hit'. Peter Van Buren Whistleblower, former Foreign Service Officer More often than not, particularly in cases like Ambassador Murray's where there are political components, what we'e got is a likely potential 3(b) violation, or potential violation, which means terrorism. You don't have to be a terrorist to fall under this category ... you can just be placed on one of these watch lists, by any one of the dozens American intelligence agencies and organisations that are allowed to 'nominate names' — and they do love their Orwellian vocabulary — nominate names to the list. Narrator In his relatively short tenure as Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray uncovered a torture infrastructure within the country that once silenced Uzbeki dissidents and fed the Americans shaky intelligence they were so desperate for, as the 'war on terror' in Iraq and Afghanistan began to unravel. In 2009, five years after Murray had left the British Foreign Office, but still seven years away from being denied entry into the United States, Murray spoke at that year's Sam Adams awards ceremony, which took place in Washington DC at American University. Craig Murray Former British Ambassador You know, there are over 10,000 political prisoners in Uzbekistan. Anybody who is a religious Muslim of any kind, no connection to terrorism; anyone who prays five times a day, as prescribed, will be arrested as a terrorist. Any young man with a beard will be arrested. Narrator He subsequently sat down with Real News editor, Paul Jay, to expand on the disturbing revelations that ended his career as ambassador. Craig Murray Former British Ambassador Many of them are killed at their [?] terrible, literally Stalinist Gulags:  they are in the old Stalinist Gulags which are still there, like Jaslik(?) in the middle of the Kyzylkum Desert, and people are tortured dreadfully.  The most appalling tortures that you can think of, on a routine basis.  If you are arrested, you're going to be tortured; and that means you're going to have a broken bottle inserted in your anus; you're going to have your neck broken; you're going to have your feet held over a fire; you're going to be suffocated by having a blocked gas mask put on your head.  Even, I came across instances of children tortured in front of their parents. You shouldn't forget the purpose of the torture was to get false intelligence which vastly exaggerated the threat from al-Qaeda. It vastly exaggerated the strength of al-Qaeda in Central Asia, and people knew that. Narrator Murray saw the Western powers like the UK and the US were far more interested in profiting from Uzbekistan's oil reserves and vital geopolitical position than they were with human rights. Craig Murray Former British Ambassador Uzbekistan sits at the heart of Central Asia.  It has half the population of Central Asia.  It really dominates the region. And Central Asia has the world's largest untapped reserves of oil and gas. So anyone who is interested in acquiring influence over hydrocarbon reserves needs to be in Uzbekistan. The Uzbek government plays this to its own advantage. The Uzbek government has no interest in [???] its own advantage, and is quite happy to switch between different world powers as it's able to get something out of them. Narrator Murray says that when he went over to Uzbekistan in 2002, the US viewed Uzbekistan, and especially its late President Islam Karimov (who coincidentally just died last week), not only as a long-term interest in the region, but also as maybe the most important ally of Central Asia when it came to the 'war on terror'. Beyond firing off a steady stream of intelligence memos and reports to the CIA, which were then being forwarded to the British intelligence service MI6; and beyond allowing the United States to set up its crucial Karshi-Khanabad airbase, the Uzbeks were engaged in a program of extraordinary rendition with the United States, of so-called 'suspected terrorists', and it happened to be a part of a network of black sites that spanned across many countries. Craig Murray Former British Ambassador The CIA were flying people in to be tortured, and I reported that officially to London is as many words; and this is in, you know in 2003, before anyone had even heard of the words 'extraordinary rendition'. I didn't realise that the people being flown in were not Uzbek. The idea that, you know, strangers would be flown in to be tortured— Interviewer Subsequently how do you know that that's the case, because essentially you're saying that CIA was flying people in to be tortured in Uzbekistan. Craig Murray Former British Ambassador I knew the CIA people who did it. There weren't many expats in Uzbekistan.  You're talking, quite seriously, of (not including military personnel) three or four hundred British and American expatriates in the whole of the country. So, not surprisingly, we used to drink in the same bars and meet. And I actually knew of the CIA people who flew people in.  Subsequently, we've learnt a great deal more.  For example, the Council of Europe inquiry into extraordinary rendition showed that 90% of the flights which took prisoners to the secret base in Poland at Szymany flew on to Tashkent as their next destination. There's a great deal of other evidence that this was a part of a global transportation of prisoners. ------- Other ------- Poland feels sting of betrayal over CIA 'black site' http://archive.is/1N4DX Poland admits role in CIA rendition programme http://archive.is/VnRi4#selection-763.1-763.47 Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence AWARDED TO: JULIAN ASSANGE Aussie Journalist WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Page 1 Page 2  23 October 2010, London COMMENT American capitalist oligarchy can't help themselves:  proving they really are running a corrupt, totalitarian state. Even Russia, the US-Anglo capitalist target and official 'enemy', hasn't refused a critical Craig Murray entry.  LOL Bet the CAPITALIST-OWNED CORPORATE MEDIA won't be highlighting this totalitarian state of affairs. P.S.   Just read some of Murray's blog.  Comes across as a super softie.  Way soft from my perspective (I've no problem with challenging threats of the religious kind etc ... but I'm not really big on the senseless torture that Uzbekistan and CIA seem to like).  Anyway, I can't believe they banned Murray's entry.   P.P.S.  Screw the 'Fourth Estate' Sam Adams awards nonsense:  there is NO Fourth Estate. There NEVER HAS BEEN.  The Fourth Estate is a LIE. WikiLeaks is the only exception in how long?  How many hundreds of years of press/media lies and capitalist information control and exploitation of the people the capitalists have now moved onto robbing of even their nations?  That would be 566 years of capitalist lies before WikiLeaks was established ten years ago, making it a total of 576 years of nothing but capitalist press lies and censorship: The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 ... [wikipedia] And the filthy capitalist partnership that is the US-Anglo Capitalist Empire destroyed the last vestige of the Holy Roman Empire when it twice unleashed capitalist war on Germany, and in the process the US-Anglo capitalist partnership has destroyed all of Europe and all European societies since WWII. All there is is rule by CAPITALIST OLIGARCHY, fortified by their propaganda organs:  the press / media and so-called 'social media', exploited, controlled and censored by despicable self-serving capitalist turds like Mark Zuckerberg. Once the criminal US-Anglo capitalist oligarchy imprison or murder Assange, that's the end of that road.  Back to nothing but propaganda, indoctrination and lies from capitalist owned and controlled, government and CIA colluding, Western corporate media.

Planet Tokyo

Planet Tokyo Semi Domestic Goddess ...  Felt like a cheat's potato 'hotpot'. Sliced potato 15 mins in microwave (small amount water bottom dish, lid / mostly steamed). Fried smoky bacon, browned sliced onion & sliced garlic; flour roux; 1/2 cup white wine, reduced by about 1/2; hot water (no stock, as I can't tell how much salt in bacon); 2 cups fresh cream; water from steaming, while draining potatoes over top of sauce; sliced potato & final salt & pepper; cooked off. Frozen DIY Beef Burgundy from the other day to go with this, plus crusty bread. Bit of overkill with the rich ingredients, but I like heart attack food.  It's my go to food.  Don't think I've ever craved anything healthy.  Experimental chocolate cake in slow cooker:  contains puréed raw carrots (in lieu of puréed beetroot, which I might try next time), coffee, cocoa, eggs, loads of butter, milk, vanilla essence.  To be served with chocolate ganache.  Overkill with the fresh cream in the ganache, so it may be runnier than I intended (but might thicken as it cools). I'm done.  LOL Can't believe I'm eating this, when it's going to go straight to my thighs.  Yuck.  No arguments ... yet. Can hear a doco that sounds interesting, but it's on commercial TV, so I'll give the propaganda a miss. Might do some reading. I'm in heaven, burning incense and listening to oldies:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh8nD6oqPBM Luckily the cake was terrible.  LOL I cook by throwing things together (like stews, curries etc), but cakes require specific, fiddly sets of techniques, that I could not be bothered messing with ... which affects the results. Who would have thought there's such a thing as 'bad cake'?  LOL

Filthy American Capitalists Holding Journalist Stitched Up by FBI Prisoner

CORRUPT AMERICAN CAPITALIST STATE FRAMES JOURNALIST Filthy American Capitalists Holding Journalist Stitched Up by FBI Prisoner https://wikileaks.org/Assange-statement-on-the.html Assange: "The son of a bitch is me" - statement on the sentencing hearing of US journalist Barrett Brown Wednesday December 17, 15:00 GMT 17 December 2014     “How corrupt can we be? Let us take Barrett Brown campaigning against Fox’s calls to assassinate Julian Assange, and flip that to say he’s campaigning for the assassination of FBI agents and use that to put him away for a decade. And then, if he tries to talk about this abuse in order to re-establish the true context, we’ll gag him!” Nothing so well describes the surreal universe that has enveloped the United States as yesterday’s sentencing hearing of Barrett Brown. Barrett has been jailed without trial for over two years now. He faces eight and a half more years. His next sentencing hearing is due in January 2015. The situation also involves me personally and the work of WikiLeaks. Barrett Brown’s Hunter S Thompson style, his public lampooning of the US security state and his defence of WikiLeaks and Anonymous did not win him friends in the US administration and soon enough the FBI was looking for any excuse to take him down. The case against Barrett Brown can be broken down into two parts. Two charges against him occur as a direct result of his journalistic work on our Stratfor materials (anonymizing his sources and discussing, with others, the material they provided to him). These charges are at odds with national and international protections for the press and freedom of expression. The third charge concerns his speech acts after the FBI threatened to charge his mother unless he handed over his source material. There are no other charges. The FBI showed up at his mother’s home on March 6, 2012. His mother hid Barrett’s journalistic notebooks among her pots and pans; an action any son could be proud of. Barrett didn’t co-operate and so the FBI made good on its threat. His mother was charged, convicted and eventually placed on six months probation—for obstructing the course of justice. “My better judgement was clouded by my maternal instinct” she wryly told the judge. Barrett reacted to this injustice inflicted on his mother like any son would. He became ill-tempered. But, being an American from generation Y, his anger was expressed on social media. Barrett, a journalist as well as a son, said he was going to “ruin” the FBI officer concerned by investigating his connections—including those of his adult children. Not a complete fool, he stated, in the same sentence, that this was not a threat of violence, but rather the equalisation of a double standard: doing what the Bank of America did against WikiLeaks when it asked US intelligence contractor Aaron Barr to map out WikiLeaks’ relationships, including, specifically, with the journalist Glenn Greenwald. Barrett’s angry comments to his friends was at odds with the times. Twitter is a police interview that never ends. Facebook has all your friends wearing a wire. Youtube has you in the dock talking to the judge. Every social media user creates a vast library of statements that may be taken out of context by vengeful or ambitious officials. Users should be displayed their Miranda rights each time they log on. The most serious claim against Barrett Brown is that six months after the March 6, 2012 FBI raid on his mother’s address he tweeted “illegally shoot the son of a bitch”. It sounds bad. It is a clear incitement to murder. The FBI claim that the “son of a bitch” Barrett was referring to was one of their agents. That is false. The “son of a bitch” is me—and the person who called for my assassination was not Barrett Brown. Barrett’s full retweet was “dead men can’t leak stuff… illegally shoot the son of a bitch”. The quote is from Fox news host Bob Beckel, who called for my assassination—an injustice that Barrett was trying to draw attention to. Here is the video proof. The FBI took no action against Bob Beckel or the numerous other senior figures calling for my assassination. A bill was put before Congress to declare WikiLeaks staff “enemy combatants” in order to make our assassination legal. It did not pass, but the FBI still refused to act. Two days after Barrett retweeted the Bob Beckel statement, the FBI arrested not Bob Beckel, but Barrett Brown. He has been in jail ever since. The Barrett Brown case is such an obvious injustice that a public campaign by his lawyers to place the Beckel statement back into its proper context would be an obvious step for his defence team. Indeed, after being publicly monstered by the FBI’s decontextualisation effort, Barrett Brown and his lawyers fought to place the quote back into its proper context. As a result he and his legal team were gagged. “Brown has shown his intent to continue to manipulate the public through press and social media comments,” the government claimed to the court on August 8, 2013. Public commentary “made by or condoned by the defense will ‘undermine a fair trial.’” As a result, the court ruled it was necessary“ to restrain Counsel and Defendant from making prejudicial statements to the press and media.” How fine, how noble, how egalitarian. Fair trial rights for the government as well as the defence! Neither the defence nor the government can state their case to the public while Barrett Brown rots in jail awaiting his sentence—except to repeat the formal charges made by the government. Neither the greatest King nor the most destitute beggar may sleep in a box on the street. Fair’s fair! https://wikileaks.org/Assange-statement-on-the.html COMMENT Read about this before but the ins and outs of it didn't sink in properly ... and I've sort of forgotten Barrett Brown in the meantime.  Oops, sorry, Barrett Brown.   Maybe I'm going senile, but I thought I'd read he was coming out soon.  Nope, it doesn't look like it (and, yep, I'm losing my mind): In January 2015, Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison. He was also ordered to pay $890,250 in fines and restitution.  [wikipedia] This is unbelievable.  A journalist has been stitched up by the FBI and slung in prison, and he is not permitted to defend himself.  The capitalist state political police have charged his mother, who was convicted ... AND they demand an obscene amount of money from Barrett Brown - which is extortion.    The capitalist government is criminal. The rule by American capitalist oligarchy is truly f*cked. Uh-oh, I might be f*cked as well.  I keep asking Putin to nuke the capitalists, on Blogger. The request appears fully justified, Comrade Putin.  Please nuke the corrupt filthy capitalists.    Support Barrett Brown https://freebarrettbrown.org/ PS ... I did see a release mentioned somewhere, which means I'm not losing the plot (but maybe I can't count) .... LOL Release date confirmed: 29th November 2016. Barrett Brown ought to move to Russia when he's out of the clutches of the American oligarchy's political detention. https://justice4assange.com/

Red Cloud

Planet Tokyo Audio | Oyate Miye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7xe2JE-Qk Red Cloud Red Cloud (Lakota:  Mahpíya Lúta) War Chief of Oglala Lakota Oglala Lakota migrated from woodlands of Minnesota to North Plains in 1500s and 1600s Oglala Lakota { Lakota meaning:  'to scatter one's own' } one of seven (7) tribes of Lakota Great Sioux Nation: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux) Nakota Dakota majority Oglala Lakota live:  Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota 8th largest reservation in US official title:  official title is 'the Oglala Sioux Tribe' Oglala Lakota reject term 'Sioux' =  name give to them by the Chippewa Nation = Chippewa Nation historically enemies of the Lakota = term 'Sioux' means 'snake' and is seen as slur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oglala_Lakota Language:  Lakota most influential of indigenous American leaders of the Great Plains in late 1800s Born Blue Water Creek, now Garden County Nebraska b. 1822 - . 1909, age of 88, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota fought to save his people's lands war vs. US Army for control over Powder River Country described as:  first and last indigenous American in the west to win a war against the US one of the most ruthless tribal chiefs reportedly known for his cruelty & for bravery highly talented:  fighting and hunting described as:  shrewd, cunning mother's tribe:  Oglala Sioux mother:  Walks As She Thinks father's tribe:  Brule Sioux, one of 7 Lakota tribes (western Sioux), father:   Lone Man, died:  alcoholism, result of: result of the early commerce with white traders and trappers raisd by:  mother's uncle, an Oglala Sioux chief named Smoke wife:  Pretty Owl, several children / took only one wife in lifetime, unlike other tribal leaders with multiple wives demonstrated great bravery in Oglala battles with other tribes refused to sign several treaties with US capitalist government stormed out of negotiations, Fort Laramie, Wyoming in 1866 Influence in Lakota affairs reportedly diminished result of:  Ghost Dance ceremony of an Indian religious movement (Red Cloud eventually opposed to Ghost Dance movement) { ritual dance summoning ancestors / seeking to restore indigenous, ancestral lands } /  led to the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890 http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.036 http://www.biography.com/people/red-cloud-9453402#final-years http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/red-cloud-5085.php Audio | Flag Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-0vfrxkrxg   Son:  Jack Red Cloud Grandson: Hunkpapa Jim Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota - 1904 Listening to: "Sitting Bull's Memorial Song" by Lakota Thunder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Z0KIhzydk Nice drumming and chanting.  Onto my second listen. Plenty Horses (Tasunka) | 1891    [RIGHT-CLICK IMAGE, 'NEW TAB'] Tried at Fort Meade [ Looking at enlarged photo is spooky, because it feels modern ... Not very different to today.  Like you could almost be standing there.  ] Plenty Horses shot and killed Army Lieutenant Edward W. Casey, while Casey was spying on the Indian encampment on the Stronghold Table.  Plenty Horses had this to say: "Five years I attended Carlisle and was educated in the ways of the white man. When I returned to my people, I was an outcast among them. I was no longer an Indian. I was not a white man. I was lonely. I shot the lieutenant so I might make a place for myself among my people. I am now one of them. I shall be hung, and the Indians will bury me as a warrior." Plenty Horses (Tasunka),  Brulé Lakota, Rosebud Indian Reservation 1891 [wikipedia] Case against Plenty Horses (Tasunka) Investigation re events of:  Wounded Knee Massacre had bearing on Plenty Horses case / Determination whether Spotted Elk band were prisoners of war or not was relevant to trail of Plenty Horses Plenty Horse's lawyers argued:  state of war existed between US & Lakota Nation /  thus belligerents may kill without criminal penalty& Plenty Horses should not be tried for murder Defence lawyers argued if prosecution argument upheld that state of war did not exist, THEN:  soldiers involved in massacre of indigenous Americans at Wounded Knee should also be charged with murder. It was in US government interest that the victims of Wounded Knee be considered as 'combatants' who were prisoners of war that rose up in armed resistance 1891 - George Shiras, Jr - presiding judge HALTED PROCEEDINGS & INSTRUCTED JURY TO FIND A STATE OF WAR DID EXIST around time of killings between Lakota and US and that the skirmishes between Lakota warriors & US Army were battles "If they were not it would be hard to justify the killings of the Indians at Wounded Knee and other places" - Judge George Shiras, Jr Judge's direction that a state of war did exist meant Plenty Horses escaped conviction for murder and was released. It also meant that the soldiers of the US Seventh Cavalry, the perpetrators of the Wounded Knee Massacre (none of whom were ever charged), were also exonerated ... and 20 were awarded medals. If the prosecution was arguing at any point that the state of war DID NOT EXIST, what's the bet it did not exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenty_Horses Black Elk (1863–1950); medicine man, Oglala Lakota: "I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes young." Hugh McGinnis; First Battalion, Co. K, 7th Cavalry: "General Nelson A. Miles who visited the scene of carnage, following a three-day blizzard, estimated that around 300 snow shrouded forms were strewn over the countryside. He also discovered to his horror that helpless children and women with babies in their arms had been chased as far as two miles from the original scene of encounter and cut down without mercy by the troopers. ..." Some of the citations on the medals awarded to the troopers at Wounded Knee state that they went in pursuit of Lakota who were trying to escape or hide. [wikipedia] Redbone US rock band Redbone, formed by Native Americans Patrick and Lolly Vasquez song:  'We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee' (1973) reached the number-one chart position across Europe In USA song: a)  initially withheld from release. b)  was banned by several radio stations. 'We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee' (1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZpJbBja4oM We were all wounded at Wounded Knee You and me We were all wounded at Wounded Knee You and me In the Name of Manifest Destiny You and me You and me You and me They made us many promises But always broke their word They penned us in like buffalo Drove us like a herd And finally on the Reservation We were going for our preservation We were all wiped out by the Seventh Calvary CONTINUED http://www.redbone.be/WoundedKnee.html Chief Black Bird War Shirt  Oglala Lakota beaded and fringed hide war shirt belonged to Lakota Chief Black Bird Chief Black Bird fought in Great Lakota War of 1876-77 likely present at the Battle of Little Bighorn [ bought by:  anonymous buyer for $2,658,500 US at Sotheby’s on May 18, 2011 / source:  Pinterest] Chief Black Bird Chief Bone Necklace an Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (1899) looks beautiful: Chief Bone Necklace Chief Bone Necklace The Oglala Lakota were very handsome.  Chief Red Shirt  Chief Red Shirt  Chief Red Shirt  Chief Red Shirt [comment:  it looks like the photographer has somehow straightened Chief Red Shirt's nose in the London photo. ] Redbone | Wovoka (1974) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj8ScYGokec