"Arizona tribe settles suits challenging use of blood samples; University agrees to pay $700,000" by Amanda Lee Myers, Associated Press | April 22, 2010
PHOENIX — An Arizona Indian tribe has ended a seven-year legal fight over blood samples members gave to scientists for diabetes research that were later used to study schizophrenia, inbreeding, and ancient population migration in what tribal members called a case of genetic piracy.
That's why I do not like giving mine to government or anyone else.
The Havasupai Indians, who live deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon, settled their lawsuits with Arizona State University in an agreement announced yesterday. It was approved by the Legislature’s Joint Legislative Budget Committee on Tuesday.
That is where everything ends up in AmeriKa.
The Havasupai contended ASU conducted the additional research without permission, invading tribal members’ privacy, betraying the tribe’s trust, and misrepresenting what researchers had done with blood samples and subsequent research results.
You figure the Native Americans would be used to such things.
The settlement includes a $700,000 payment to the 41 plaintiffs, and the university has agreed to help the tribe seek third-party funding to build a new health clinic and high school in the isolated village....
Carletta Tilousi, the lead plaintiff in the case and a tribal councilwoman, most of her family members, and other tribal members gave their blood to scientists in the 1990s thinking it would be used to help cure diabetes....
Tilousi said she hoped the settlement would make a statement on behalf of all indigenous people that their cultures should be respected, not analyzed by scientists....
Only if they are Zionist in AmeriKa.
Ernest Calderon, president of the Arizona Board of Regents, said the board “has long wanted to remedy the wrong that was done.’’
And we have hundreds of years more to make up for.
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It isn't like we don't remember history around here:
"Ariz. park is called a threatened battlefield; Civil War group cites budget cuts" by Steve Szkotak, Associated Press | May 14, 2010
RICHMOND — A desert peak where cavalry clashed nearly 150 years ago has joined an annual list of the nation’s most endangered Civil War battlefields because state budget cuts are set to close the park that marks the site....
In addition to Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg and the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, the list includes sites of some memorable battles waged in states where the Civil War still resonates on the eve of its 150th anniversary, primarily in the South and Mid-Atlantic.
Still trying to divide us, 'eh, MSM?
Picacho Peak stands apart from the rest. The state park is scheduled to close June 3 because of budget cuts.
On April 12, 1862, Lieutenant James Barrett led Union cavalry to the rocky spire 50 miles northwest of Tucson and skirmished with Confederate Rangers. While Barrett was killed and the Union army retreated, Union forces from California eventually moved on to Tucson and snuffed out a Confederate settlement.
Not something that is emphasized in your state schools, is it, America?
Civil War was North-South. WTF they doing way out West, right?
The battle, while a footnote in history, still attracts annual visits by re-enactors....
Of course, WE KNOW WHO DECIDES WHAT is HISTORY, don't we?
And what is wrong with these guys? Can't find a real war?
With the nation about to mark 150 years since the start of the Civil War, the 2010 installment was released with the support of Jeff Shaara, a member of the trust’s board and author of “Gods and Generals,’’ among other books on the Civil War.
“Nothing creates an emotional connection between present and past like walking in the footsteps of our Civil War soldiers,’’ Shaara said in remarks prepared for the formal release of the list yesterday in Washington....
Beware, America!
See:
"In researching the Bush administration’s manipulation of public perceptions, I came across an interesting summary of the State Department’s Philip Zelikow, who was Executive Director on the 9-11 Commission, that greatest of all charades. According to Wikipedia:
"Prof. Zelikow’s area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance of, in his words, 'public myths’ or 'public presumptions’ which he defines as 'beliefs (1) thought to be true ( although not necessarily known with certainty) and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community.’ In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called 'searing’ or 'molding’ events (that) take on transcendent’ importance and therefore retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene….He has noted that 'a history’s narrative power is typically linked to how readers relate to the actions of individuals in the history; if readers cannot make the connection to their own lives, then a history may fail to engage them at all." ("Thinking about Political History" Miller center Report, winter 1999, p 5-7)
Isn’t that the same as saying there is neither history nor truth; that what is really important is the manipulation of epochal events so they serve the interests of society’s managers? Thus, it follows that if the government can create their own "galvanizing events", then they can write history any way they choose.
If that’s the case, then perhaps the entire war on terror is cut from whole cloth; a garish public relations maneuver devoid of meaning."
Could it be your WHOLE WORLD and EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE REAL is built upon MYTHS?
It couldn't be, could it?
Gettysburg, the battlefield where 160,000 Union and Confederate soldiers fought in the summer of 1863, is on the endangered list because of a second attempt to bring casino gambling within one-half mile of Gettysburg National Military Park.
Yeah, let's POLLUTE OUR PAST, America.
Like Gettysburg, Virginia’s Wilderness Battlefield was making a repeat appearance on the list. In this case,
Why not? It is who we are now.
A far cry from our forefathers, America.
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Also see: OK Corral coroner’s inquest uncovered
Disputed cross in Mojave Desert is stolen
Related: Clear the Court: The Sign of the Southern Cross
Update:
"Jackson’s doctor helps passenger
PHOENIX — The doctor accused of administering a powerful anesthetic that killed pop star Michael Jackson helped stabilize a young woman who fell unconscious on aHe saved her and killed the King of Pop?
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Also see: Jury deadlocks in murder trial
