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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events Commission due to Apple charging customers in the UK up to 10% Peter de Villiers is appointed as more than in other EU countries. the first ever black coach of the According to The Register, Apple South African rugby union team. will be demanding that the record •Fatmir Sejdiu is reelected labels lower their prices in the UK President of Kosovo after a third in respect to this forced price cut. round of the Kosovar presidential elections, 2008 The European Commission welcomed Apple's announcement •The price of gold in the London and in a reaction to the news Gold Fixing rises above €600 per European Commissioner for troy ounce for the first time. Competition Neelie Kroes said "the (€603.528, a.m. Fixing.) Shimon Peres discusses the Commission is very much in favour future of Israel with Wikinews of solutions which allow consumers Apple to lower UK iTunes to benefit from a truly Single prices Canupa Gluha Mani speaks Market for music downloads." The European Commission has about Lakota Oyate, Lakota forced Apple Inc. to lower its freedom Global premiere of Lordi horror prices for media in its United Wikinews interviewed movie Dark Floors next month Kingdom iTunes store, Apple's Canupa Gluha Mani, a in Oulu, Finland online media shop. The change in longtime activist and It has been announced that the policy will occur within the next six the central figure of global premiere of the Lordi horror months, Apple announced this the Lakota movie Dark Floors will be on morning. movement, about the February 8 in Oulu, Finland. Lordi, movement and Lakota Oyate. a Finnish theatrical hard rock Apple is the producer of the band, will also perform at the world's most-sold MP3 Player, the premiere. Featured story iPod and launched the iTunes Music Store, a online music store, John McCain and Hillary The event will take place at the on April 28, 2003. The store was Clinton win New Hampshire Oulun Energia Areena, home of the renamed to iTunes Store in 2006, primaries Oulun Kärpät, a team in the SM- as Apple began selling other media According to liiga, the Finnish National Hockey apart from music, such as feature- media League. The premiere will be the length movies. Since its launch the reports, John nation's largest, and is a co- store has sold more than 3 billion McCain has operative measure by Northern songs. At the moment songs are won the New Film, Media Foundation POEM and sold for £0.79 per song and £7.99 Hampshire Oulun Kärpät. per album which after the price cut primary for the Republicans in will on average be reduced to the 2008 Presidential race. "I The film is based on an original £0.74 and £7.48 to match the EU hate to use to the word kid, but I concept by director Pete Riski, who prices of €0.99 and €9.99, think we showed the people of directed all Lordi music videos, and according to Times Online. this country what a real the band's frontman and lead comeback looks like." New York vocalist. Made in English with a The price decrease follows an Senator Hillary Clinton has won United Kingdom cast except for the investigation by the European the New Hampshire Primary. band, Lordi appear in their famous
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit en .wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 2 monster costumes playing a group Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, of monsters terrorising a group of George Bush said he would provide Thursday, President Bush will people trapped in a hospital. pressure if necessary. He made travel from Jerusalem on to Blabbermouth reports that the film this clear by saying "If there needs Ramallah, the West Bank is expected to become an to be a little pressure then you headquarters of the Palestinian international success. know I will provide it," after the Authority, to meet separately with talks. Palestinian President Mahmoud The end credits of the movie will Abbas. feature the Lordi song Beast Loose He spoke of the strong ties in Paradise, which was released as between the United States and At a meeting in Jerusalem, a single late last month. Israel. He says the source of that Tuesday, Prime Minister Olmert strength is a shared belief in the and President Abbas agreed to Riski directed the film, which was power of human freedom. begin negotiations on the thorniest produced by Markus Selin and issues blocking a peace written by Pekka Lehtosaari. The "We will do more than defend agreement. Among them: the project started after an interview ourselves. We will seek lasting borders of a future Palestinian with Lordi's vocalist in which he peace. We see a new opportunity state, competing claims to suggested Selin contact him over for peace here in the Holy Land Jerusalem, and the status of an idea he had had for a film. and for freedom across the Palestinian refugees. Solar Films produced the film in region," said Mr. Bush. co-operation with Northern Film, Concerns about rocket attacks into Media Foundation POEM and the Like President Bush, Israeli Prime Israel from Gaza and Israeli North Finland Film Commission. Minister Ehud Olmert kept his settlement activity have created comments at the arrival ceremony tensions since the American-led Oulu is considered a good choice broad in nature, avoiding any Annapolis Mideast conference in for the premiere, as it has a direct reference to issues related November. President Bush is reputation amongst Finns as the to the peace process. expected to use his trip to "film-friendly town up north" and encourage both sides to look at because Dark Floors was filmed "From the very beginning, your the big picture and keep focused there over the course of summer policies have reflected a basic on the need for peace. 2007. 5,000 people are expected understanding of the challenges to attend the premiere and facing Israel in this troubled region During the flight to Israel, White accompanying show. Tickets and a solid commitment to our House National Security Advisor became available today at national security," he said. Stephen Hadley told reporters www.Lippupalvelu.fi. traveling with the president that It fell to Israeli President Shimon Mr. Bush is not coming to the George Bush arrives in Middle Peres, who is considered by some Middle East to interject himself East to be largely ceremonial, to offer into the negotiations. He said, US President George W. Bush has some tougher talk. He said instead, the president wants both arrived in Israel - the first stop on President Bush is right to urge the sides to stay focused, and look a Middle East journey designed to world to pay attention to the beyond what he called "a lot of bolster the Israeli-Palestinian threat posed by Iran. distractions." peace process and foster unity on Iran. "We take your advice not to Hadley also talked about the underestimate the Iranian threat. recent incident involving Iranian They formed a long welcoming line Iran should not underestimate our vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the as George W. Bush set foot on resolve for self-defense," said Persian Gulf. He said Iran must be Israeli soil for the first time in his President Bush. careful and realize there will be presidency consequences to bear if they again President Bush, Prime Minister menace American boats in “If there needs to be a little Olmert and President Peres wasted international waters. pressure then you know I will no time getting down to business - provide it.” —George W. Bush launching talks shortly after the China bans free plastic bags Following a discussion with Ehud arrival ceremony. The People's Republic of China has
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 3 banned free plastic shopping bags attracted a lot of attention in the Record in a move to take effect from June past for having possibly the P.O. Box 98001 (RB) 1, 2008. The decision made by the highest greenhouse emissions in Washington, DC 20090-8001 Chinese Cabinet, the State the world, disproportionate to the United States of America Council, is intended to reduce the size of its economy, according to amount of plastic bags used in The Telegraph. Times Online Nike has disposal locations for China, currently being estimated quoted a Chinese activist as saying shoes in Nike stores around the at three billion per day. The State that plastic bags are not the main US, Canada, the U.K., Council also announced that at the problem and the government Netherlands, Germany, Australia, same time as the ban, the needed to make people care more and Japan. Select athletic clubs, manufacturing, sale and even use about the environment. schools and colleges also of very thin plastic bags, which are participate in "Nike Grind". defined as being under 0.025mm Fourteen days left to send thick, will be banned. Any National Geographic your shoe Dr. Phil's consultation meant to company that does not follow this for world record be private: Spears family ban can be fined. For the past few months, National A spokesperson for the parents of Geographic Kids (NGK) has been Britney Spears went on The Today The ban of free plastic bags and collecting used running shoes from Show to speak out against complete ban on very thin bags across the United States, in hopes television psychologist Dr. Phil will, the government hopes, help of creating the world's longest McGraw, whom they feel exploited reduce the amount of crude oil chain of shoes. the family's trust. used for plastic packaging, which is currently at five million tonnes The record attempt organizers Lou Taylor went on the NBC per year according to Times welcome shoes of any brand, any morning show to say that when Online. The notice issued by the shapes, and any size, so long as they "extended trust" to "Dr. Phil", Chinese government said: “We they have laces and are meant for as he's known, it was as a medical should encourage people to return humans. professional and not as a television to carrying cloth bags, using personality. They say he was to baskets for their vegetables.” The collected shoes will be sorted keep the matters private. afterwards, and Nike Reuse-A- The People's Republic of China is Shoe program will take and recycle McGraw was "not invited to make not the first country to ban or all the athletic shoes. Nike, which this part of the public display, part restrict plastic shopping bags and also donates its unusable material of the media," said Taylor on the notice names Uganda and to the program, creates rubber behalf of father Jamie Spears and South Africa according to CNN. surfaces for basketball and tennis mother Lynne Spears. Many supermarkets in the courts, soccer fields, and running European Union have voluntarily tracks. Taylor was responding to McGraw adopted methods to reduce usage realizing a statement about of plastic bags, which often also Donations of shoes have been Spears, and then appearing for an consist of charging for bags (e.g. received from actress Cameron interview on the Entertainment Germany) or rewarding customer Diaz, and US Women's Soccer Tonight entertainment news loyalty points for returning used team players Shannon Boxx, program. McGraw's statement carrier bags. Still, many of the Angela Hucles, Carli Lloyd, Lindsay read: world's leading polluting countries, Tarpley, and Cat Whitehill. including the United States of “My meeting with Britney and America, have not yet introduced NGK, a magazine by the National some of her family members this any legislation intended to reduce Geographic Society, says that morning in her room at Cedars the usage of plastic bags. The 2000 to 2500 athletic shoes leaves me convinced more than United States Environmental contain enough material to build a ever that she is in dire need of Protection Agency claimed that in basketball surface. both medical and psychological 2000 only 1% of plastic bags in intervention. She was released the United States were recycled. Shoes can be sent before January moments before my arrival and 22, 2008 to: was packing when I entered the The People's Republic of China has NG KIDS / Set a Guinness World room. We visited for about an hour
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 4 before I walked with her to her Vitamin Angels is the only grandchildren. car. I am very concerned for her.” organization in the world solely dedicated to eradicating vitamin A The pensioners spend most of the “Because the Spears situation is definciency among children, with year saving for Christmas gifts. too intense at this time, and out of the goal of warding off youth Their eleven children have brought consideration to the family, I have blindness by 2020. The year 2020 them 56 grandchildren and 43 made the decision not to move is chosen because perfect vision is great-grandchildren. forward with the taping at this described as "20/20". particular time. Britney and her "The kids just kept coming – and family are in our prayers and we First in line at the event was Jose then their kids just kept coming," ask that they be in yours.” Flores, who had camped out in said Josie, 77, to the Sun front of the store since 7:15 the newspaper. Originally it was rumored that the previous evening. Doors didn't family would appear on Dr. Phil for open until 10 am, and Flores didn't Husband Hans was a prisoner of one of the news headline-based get the tattoo until Von D was war in World War II, and went to special episodes. Taylor also told done with her friends and family, work as a farmer for Josie's family. interviewer Meredith Viera that the including internet celebrity Jeffree Now 85, they're about to celebrate family had never discussed such Star. their 50th anniversary. plans. They had only hired McGraw to talk privately to Spears, one of A Guinness World Records official While there is no existing record "many professionals and many was scheduled to attend, but was with Guinness for alive couples resources surrounding the family." caught in a snow storm. with the most grandchildren, Guinness World Records According to Taylor, the Spears Katherine Von Drachenberg told authorities say the couple very parents, along with pregnant the Los Angeles Times that, as a well might hold the record. daughter Jamie Lynn "are people teenager, she "be at the mall and who love their daughter, and know parents would grab their kids and Glasgow resident Margaret what's going on," praying every be like, 'Honey!' It was like that McMillan had 123 grandchildren, day for her well-being. They are scene in Pretty Woman, where the but died last year at 98. It wasn't broken hearted regarding "the women on Rodeo Drive think Julia until her funeral that the number, morbidity of people watching" the Roberts is going to shoplift. Now which included 15 great-great- breakdown. people just come up to me more grandchildren, was established by out of curiosity -- everyone from the family. Von D from "LA Ink" TV series grandmas to soccer moms." sets world record for tattooing Yemeni man creates world's Realising how visual a medium The record setting event was largest crossword puzzle tattooing is, tattoo artist Kat Von filmed for LA Ink, a series that airs Yemen's Abdul-Karim Qasem, who D of TV series LA Ink set a world Tuesday nights on TLC in the creates crosswords for publications record while raising funds to fight United States. The series is a spin- like al-Arabi magazine and the childhood blindness. In 24 hours, off of Miami Ink, a series featuring newspaper al-Moshahad, has Von D tattooed 400 people with an Von D's previous place of employ, created a puzzle more than 3 "LA" logo, in her West Hollywood, before she set off on her own. times larger than the current California tattoo shop. recognized record holder. The series' second season started The December event at High last night, however that particular Qasem's puzzle, currently in the Voltage Tattoo drew 1000 people episode will air March 4. initial stages of review with the in line, although only 400 could Guinness World Records, includes get the image emblazoned on Couple with 99 grandchildren 320,500 "puzzle squares", easily them, for a $20 donation. Most possibly record holders topping the previous high of learned of the event through her Hans and Josie Schaffer of 91,000 squares. The MySpace profile. In all, the funds Bedford, United Kingdom are accompanying book of clues for raised will help 32,000 children's possibly world record holders, now the puzzle is 800,720 words long. eyesight, through Vitamin Angels. that they have a total of 99 grandchildren and great- Qasem learned of the previous
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 5 record when visiting the Guinness by the US Navy are file pictures World Records website in 2000. He On Monday January 7, a fleet of and the audio has been took the next seven years to the Iranian boats charged and fabricated," Revolutionary Guard research unique information for then threatened to blow up the sources said on Iranian TV. the puzzle, from in various U.S. ships. In the video, which was international books and websites. shot from the USS Hopper, and John McCain and Hillary Clinton "I did not want my information to runs for some four minutes, shows win New Hampshire primaries be repeated," he told the Yemen the speedboats racing at the US According to media reports, John Observer. ships. In the audio, a warning said McCain has won the New to come from the Iranians can be Hampshire Primary for the He told the Observer that, during heard: "I am coming at you; you Republicans in the 2008 the seven years, he ignored his will explode." Near the end of the Presidential race. children's "simple and serious footage, the Americans issue their needs", and bought supplies for own warning to change course or "I hate to use to the word kid, but the project with funds reserved for become "subject to defensive I think we showed the people of basic family needs. measures." this country what a real comeback looks like. I'm grateful to the The man asked the local Tuesday, U.S. President George W. people of New Hampshire. I'm authorities in Ibb for support, but Bush called the actions of the committed to keeping this country was met with indifference. Iranians a "provocative act": safe, and we're going to move on However, when he visited the to Michigan and South Carolina Presidential Office in Sana'a, "My message today to the Iranians and win the nomination," said President Ali Abdullah Saleh is they shouldn't have done what McCain. immediately asked the Ministry of they did. It is a dangerous Culture to "support [him] in any situation. They should not have Also according to media reports, way [he] needed." done it, pure and simple. . . . I New York Senator Hillary Clinton don't know what their thinking has won the New Hampshire Finding ballpoint pen ink wasn't was, but I'm telling you what my Primary in the 2008 United States clear enough on his paper, Qasem thinking was. I think it was a Presidential race. filled his pens with a medicine provocative act," said Bush during meant for curing simple burns. a press conference in the White MSNBC reports that Clinton beat Despite this effort, his once "very House's Rose Garden today. Barack Obama by a "very narrow good" eyesight has weakened, margin." Opinion polls held before forcing him to wear glasses. His The boats disappeared a short the polls closed showed Obama back also hurts from the time later, just as the U.S. ships winning. experience, and any quick were preparing to open fire on the movement hurts him to the extent vessels. Singapore Airlines bid for that he is bedridden for the next China Eastern Airlines two days. Iran claims that their troops may unsuccessful not have recognized the ships as A bid made by Singapore Airlines Multiple steps remain before he being from the U.S. and says that for a 24% stake in China Eastern can travel to London with his the incident is "normal" for both Airlines was turned down by puzzle, for the final confirmation. nations. minority shareholders.
Pentagon releases video of "That is something normal that Talks about a sale started in March incident involving Iranian ships takes place every now and then for 2007 when Singapore Airlines and in Persian Gulf each party," said Mohammed Ali China Eastern started negotiations The Pentagon in the United States Hosseini, a spokesman for the about a possible deal. According to has released a video tape of an Foreign ministry in Tehran. Forbes the deal would have helped incident where Iranian high-speed China Eastern's earnings and boats attempted to surround at Further, Iran claims that the accelerate the consolidation and least three U.S. warships passing footage released by the Pentagon would have improved the market through international waters in the is just a part of a propaganda position of China's third-largest Persian Gulf. campaign. "The footage released airline. Talks went on throughout
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 6 the year and both companies the United Nations. However, the Prize recipient Shimon Peres. For suspended trading of their shares report goes on to state that China over an hour they spoke about on May 21, 2007, according to a would intervene earlier if "the Iranian politics, whether Israel is AFP press release. international community did not in danger of being side-lined in react in a timely manner as the Middle Eastern importance The vote took place at a internal order in North Korea because of Arab oil wealth, and his shareholder meeting in Shanghai, deteriorated rapidly". thoughts against those who say People's Republic of China. Israeli culture is in a state of According to Financial Times Jiang Yu, a spokeswomen for the decay. Online, the blocking of the SA bid Foreign Ministry of the People's by minority shareholders is bad Republic of China said she was Now a largely bygone era in the news for China Eastern Airlines unaware of such plans, but did not development of the Israeli state, managers, who were and still are deny the existence of such a plan. Shimon Peres spent his early days in full support of Singapore on kibbutz Geva, and was one of Airlines, which the Singaporean Richard Spencer of The Daily the founders of kibbutz Alumot. In government owns a 55% stake in Telegraph says the plan indicates a 1953, at the age of 29, Peres via Temasek Holdings. major change in attitude of the became the youngest ever Director Chinese government towards its General of the Ministry of Defense. Financial Times Online says this is neighbor. China is one of the five Forty years later it was Peres who most likely due to the fact that Air nations on the UN Security Council secretly gave the green light for China not having made any formal and a legitimate nuclear power in dialogue with Yassir Arafat, of the bids yet, instead creating many accordance with the Nuclear Non- verboten Palestine Liberation media rumors about a possible Proliferation Treaty of 1968. Organization. It was still official purchase. The bid by Air China, Israeli policy to not speak with the that is likely to be larger than that Shimon Peres discusses the PLO. Peres shares a Nobel Peace of Singapore Airlines, may be future of Israel Prize with Yitzak Rabin and Arafat supported by Cathay Pacific, who Along with technology writers for for orchestrating what eventually are in a cross-shareholding Slate, PC Magazine, USA Today, became the Oslo Accords. The relationship with China National BusinessWeek, Aviation Weekly "roadmap" that came out of Oslo Aviation Corp., the parent and other publications, Wikinews remains the official Israeli (and company of Air China. was invited by the America-Israel American) policy for peace in the Friendship League and the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Although the China has plan to obtain North Foreign Ministry to review Israel’s majority of Israeli people Korea's nuclear weapons technology sector as part of a supported the plans, land for The People's Liberation Army (PLA) campaign to 're-brand the peace was met with a small but of China has a plan to seize North country.' To show that there is fiery resistance in Israel. For Korea's nuclear weapons if it more to Israel than the Palestinian negotiating with Arafat, former becomes necessary, says a report conflict. On this trip, the non- Prime Minister Benjamin by Center for Strategic and conflict item on display was the Netanyahu shouted at Peres, "You International Studies (CSIS), a large Israeli technology sector, are worse than Chamberlain!" a Washington-based think tank. which has given the world the reference to Hitler's British Pentium processor and Instant appeaser. It was during this time CSIS experts have been talking to Messaging. The schedule was of heated exchanges in the 1990s Chinese military researchers, who hectic: 12-14 hours a day were that Yitzhak Rabin was claimed that in the case of spent doing everything from trips assassinated by Yigal Amir, a Jew instability in neighboring North to the Weizmann Institute to who thought it against Halakhic Korea, the Chinese military would dinner with Yossi Vardi. law to give up land given by God be dispatched to obtain the (Hashem) nuclear weapons developed by On Thursday, the fifth day of the North Korea over the past years. junket, David Saranga of the In the fifteen years since Oslo, the The report says that in such a foreign ministry was able to Palestinian Islamist militant case, China would try to arrange an exclusive interview for organization and political party coordinate its efforts with the David Shankbone with the Hamas won the parliamentary international community, primarily President of Israel, Nobel Peace elections of the Palestinian
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Authority in 2007. After coming to Peres is the elder statesman of up to down. Structure. Now, what power, Hamas announced it was Israeli politics, but he remembers is common to both building a giving up suicide attacks and that he has not always been as structure is the smallest particular, offered a 10-year truce in return popular as he is today. "Popularity the nanometer. The minute you for a complete Israeli withdrawal is like perfume: nice to smell, can manage it, you can begin to from the West Bank, Gaza Strip dangerous to drink," said Peres. make things grow. And that’s a and East Jerusalem. This was not "You don’t drink it." The search for tremendous change; it is also a Oslo. Fatah, the former ruling popularity, he goes on to say, will tremendous dilemma for party and now warring with kill a person who has an idea humanity. Now actually, like on Hamas, took over the West Bank against the status quo. many other occasions, we discover to leave Hamas in control of the the nano from the negative side. Gaza. The two factions now run Perhaps where he was most The bomb. two de facto Palestinian states. measured was in his responses on American politics; Peres laughed DS: The bomb? Having lived and shaped this off the question of whether SP: Yes. The nuclear bomb. The history does not make Peres Evangelical Christians, who are nuclear bomb was to release the nostalgic; indeed, he is dismissive strong supporters of Israel based hidden powers of a combination or of the peers in his generation. upon dispensationalist predictions, dispersion of nanostructures. The Peres reaches out directly to are comparable to Muslims who minute you dismantle an existing young people when he intones fight modernity. He raised the structure, then you create a lot of "Don’t listen to the old candidacy of Mitt Romney as energy and you create new generation." He goes on to say, evidence that "Mormons too are dimensions and new "the older want that we shall obey becoming modern, and the measurements. I mean the size older traditions, and that children evangelists they participate in all has nothing to do with power. You will behave like their parents. But modernity. They are not can, say, take a nuclear bomb the children.... are not terrorists." where the core is six or seven kilos deteriorating! They are stronger, of plutonium and you can destroy they are better informed, they are Below is David Shankbone's a city. Why can’t you build a city full of energy, they have a interview with Shimon Peres, the with the six kilos? Same story. And strategy." Peres challenges President of Israel. the answer is clear. It was easier traditionalists and those who call to destroy because then you don’t for a simpler era in Israel and find Israeli technology have to control the nanostructure. the younger generation beyond David Shankbone: One of your big It’s simple when you want comprehension. People such as initiatives in technology has been explosions; then, fission or fusion Yitzhak Apeloig, the President of nanotechnology. does not matter. The minute you the Technion, who said at lunch he President Shimon Peres: Yes. want to build, you have to control has heard some of the faculty at the nano, and for a very long time his venerable university DS: What made you focus on we couldn’t, we weren’t able to see complaining that they can not nanotechnology as a sector for the nano, it is so small. No understand the Hebrew spoken by Israeli investment? microscope could grasp it. The size young Israeli students. Peres SP: Well, nanotechnology is not a of a nano is like 1/100th of a brushed off this and other vocation but a dimension. It’s a single hair, which is unbelievable. criticism, including about the new dimension and it concerns all Or if you want to, to compare the waning societal antipathy towards walks of life, not limited to one, nanometer with the meter is to those who get out of military from the military to the civilian. compare an orange to the globe. service, once considered one of Everywhere you turn around you Same proportion. That’s nothing. the most important obligations an can see the eventual effect of And the minute they discovered Israeli has to his or her country. nano. It also raises some of the the microscope, the electronic "Go over to sport, fight without most complicated moral issues microscope that can see the killing, what’s wrong?" responded because until now the human race nanostructure, we can begin to Peres, although he conceded, "As knew how to build. It didn’t know build. And to build with materials long as we have dangers, we must how to grow. What we did is and powers and combinations that be prepared to face them." collected wood and stones and we weren’t aware of. And then you steel and glass and we built from can create a lot of things, like I
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 8 said, on the military side. But it importance of it, then I was what a scientist has in his mind, doesn’t make sense to chase it in instrumental in collecting several they can see what he has in his modern warfare. It’s not armies hundred million dollars that was pocket but not what he has in his against armies. It’s strength given to the universities and the mind so it’s uncontrolled; it means against, the strength of a research institutes. As a result, we that borders aren’t important and collective army against the have a very good group of nano distances aren’t important. strength of an individual terrorist. experts, you see, all of the best, It does not make sense to take an and now they are working with me DS: How do you approach the F-16 that costs $40-50 million and voluntarily. I have 30 top difficult challenge of talking to the chase a terrorist. Nano enables scientists in Israel who have Palestinians when, in the end, they you to miniaturize everything. developed different ideas in the don’t want Israel to exist. How do domain. This type of research can you come to an understanding to DS: To miniaturize? be applied to whatever you want: make peace possible? SP: Yes. And from the beginning Alternative energy, because if you SP: Well, what is the problem? I you can create invisible sensors want to have solar energy, you mean, is the problem national, say that will inform you about every need very large equipment. With between Jews and Arabs; or is it a movement in armies all over the nano you can condense it. The matter of generations between an world. Then you can hand over the same is true about desalinization. old age and a new age? You see, soldier, a new uniform made of It can replace the uniform of the terrorists are protesting nano which is immune against humankind. In the future ladies against modernity. They think that cartridges, against biology and will have a dress. You can press a modernity may endanger their chemical warfare. It’s a strong button and it will change the color. tradition. They are simply afraid material because the nano The nano has what has been called and hate modernity. They consider material is 100 times stronger the lotus effect. Lotus is a flower modernity as their enemy, but than steel and it weighs only 1/6 that keeps cleaning itself. And so then they have two problems. First of it. It can warm up the soldier in is a nano so it doesn’t shrink, of all, can they exist on tradition? cold weather; cool him in the doesn’t get dirty. They cannot. Sooner or later they warm weather. It enhances his will have to enter the new age. All strength 3 times; he can lift 120 The future of the peace process in the talks about nationalities, kilos with one hand. And then you Israel etcetera, well, the new age has can go on and say not only to DS: Mr. President, as a Nobel very little patience for history. protect the protector but as well to Peace Prize recipient and as one of History is becoming more and create robots as in planes without the fathers of the modern peace more irrelevant. pilots and military units without process in Israel, do you still think soldiers. You don’t need a soldier; that there is a future to the peace DS: How do you feel about that? you can run it by proxy. Small process? SP: Well, I distinguish between weapons, small robots that can SP: The future is only peace. The two histories, the spiritual and the penetrate or perform in conditions problem is how long will it take material. Or the history of events that a human being cannot. He is and how many victims will it call and the history of values. The too large, too inflexible. for. Why do I say peace? Because history of values is okay because when you look historically, at the wisdom is ageless; it doesn’t grow DS: That’s amazing. development of humanity, most of old, like material. SP: Then take the nano in our lives we are living on the land. But events are totally unimportant medicine. You can produce the The history is written with red ink. for 2 reasons. First, the event is smallest instruments that you The reason for it is because people unimportant. Tell me, what events don’t have to invade the body. You were fighting for our land, either is today important such as how can do it from the outside control, defending it or extending it, many elephants Hannibal had on with such tiny little instruments. because that was the main source. the Alps, when you can have The land, the natural resources, helicopters? Why should I bother DS: Are you satisfied with the the markets, all these go together. my children with all this nonsense? progress in the nanotechnology The minute the land was replaced What sort of a nose did Cleopatra sector here in Israel? by science, what is there to fight have? God, I don’t know! You can SP: Look, I started it 5 or 6 years about? Armies cannot conquer invite people to war over noses, ago to explain to the people the science. Customs cannot check but nobody will go to fight for
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 9 noses any more. On the other question. The problem is how to Middle East? Right now it’s very hand, there are already machines enable the whole world to enter Iraq War focused or Iran-focused that can replace our memory. Why the new future, including the or the Emirates around the Gulf should I bother my child with Arabs. And there are already Arabs with their money. memory when he can buy a who did it. Look at Turkey, who is SP: Look, if you’ll ask me “What is computer that will remember knocking on the doors of the the real wealth, money or brains?” everything you asked him to united Europe. Why? It’s not a I say brains is the greater remember? geographic endeavor, it is an producer of wealth, not oil. It’s intellectual endeavor. They say limitless, and you’ll see that the The waning importance of history you can be Muslim and modern. GNP of Israel is very close to the DS: Isn’t the answer to that Saudis’. So they are 3 times larger question that wise decisions are DS: Like Dubai? than us and they have all the oil in made with a basis from memory? SP: Dubai…you must be very the world. We have brains. We Although a computer can have… careful because Dubai is a small have to develop it. And for that SP: No, no. Forget memory. Look, people with a large service sector. reason I say that whoever dwells the new age is unprecedented. The citizens of Dubai are almost in the past is ignoring the future. When something is unnoticed. The rest are hired Modern society is not based on the unprecedented, it means it doesn’t people. Turkey is different. Take experience of the past but on risk- have a past, doesn’t have a Dubai or Qatar; in Qatar you have taking for the future. history. It’s totally oriented on the 180,000 citizens with 700,000 future. And whoever dwells in the foreign workers. That also belongs Is Israel a united society? past, doesn’t understand the to the past, because you see DS: As you know, I’m part of a future because the past is full of what’s happening: they live on oil. group from a technology mission prejudices, of commitments. It Oil is not produced by human over here of journalists. We went arrests us. And then you say you beings, the producer of oil is the to Meytav, your largest technology won’t commit a mistake, so you’ll land. It takes a million years to incubator, and spoke with their commit new mistakes. It doesn’t produce oil without any human Vice President Norman Sandberg. matter. interferences. The need for oil is One of the things that he raised as growing, so the cost of oil goes up an issue is that Israeli society is DS: What about the adage, “Those which is forcing people to go to becoming dichotomized between who forget history are doomed to alternative energies to balance it. Tel Aviv and the rest of the repeat it”? Just because oil is discovered country. How do you develop the SP: So they will make new doesn’t mean every year more and brainpower without Israel mistakes. Mistake is inevitable as more and more people will pay for becoming a city-state with Tel long as there are human beings. the same discovery. To hell with Aviv? Mr. Sandberg told us nobody But you cannot repeat mistakes you, I shall look for an alternative! wants to go to the North. They because the world is not built on Even for Israel. If you have to want to stay in Tel Aviv. They repetition; it’s built on mutation. make a choice between Saudi don’t want to actually spread out Arabia and the sun, it should go to and work on developing the rest of DS: Don’t you think Darfur is the sun. the country and invest outside of repetition? there. Is that a problem that you SP: I think Darfur is, again, the DS: A criticism of the Arab states foresee that this bubble is forming last, or among the last battles is that back in the 1990s they had around Tel Aviv in terms of between old and new. What are squandered the wealth that they brainpower? they fighting for? What are they were making on the high oil price SP: The whole world is moving killing killing killing over? They because they had not invested it from rural to urban life. Now don’t carry futures. It’s not a wisely. It seems that that has everybody is made up of city- mistake. It belongs to a past. It changed, that the Arabs are states; they are not a state of doesn’t have a moment. I am sure creating these new wealth funds cities but cities that are states on that the reasons for war are over, and that much of the money that their own. First of all, Tel Aviv is even though still there are wars is generated in the Middle East is becoming noisy like all cities. It which are an inertia from the past, now coming from Arab states. Are has all the flaws of a city, the a continuation that doesn’t make you worried that Israel will become crime and drugs, and the pollution. sense. I’m answering your increasingly marginalized in the Like in America, you see people
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 10 and companies are leaving the we shall still dance a hora. And the work is to think. Let them think; cities. It will happen here, too. boys and the girls want to have all don’t send them to drugs. Let Secondly, it’s a matter of the jumping stuff: They want to them have their own challenges, transportation. If we shall speed jump, let them jump, my God! their own curiosities up transportation, it’s a small They still want that they should country, then people will move. In sing Slavic melodies and they DS: What informs the question I the United States, if you go half an complain the dresses are aksed about Hebrew is that it hour, an hour, to work, it’s becoming shorter. What do you seems to build such a cohesive normal. Here, an hour is the other care? Let them have their own society here in Israel. It’s one of side of the moon. It’s nonsense. taste. And by the way: they can the binding forces… They’ll get used to it. And then, have it! Why are the girls wearing SP: You said culture as justifying more and more people today are such short skirts? Because they history, because I don’t suggest to not working in the same building, are not afraid to show their legs; forget the language. No. I am also but using the same computers. So they take care of themselves. In for having individuality for nations. you computerize from home, previous generations, the women That can be cultural. But which is again a difference. Today, were not as up to develop the otherwise, I mean, let science run, a young boy is attending three lady, so she couldn’t show her let values stay permanent. I’ll give schools: the formal school in the legs. Today, on the contrary. you just one example. Take away morning,; the informal school— the land, okay. Take away a television—in the afternoon; and DS: You used to not want to see dunam of land. But in our culture, the new language, which is the legs. [Laughs] the yield per dunam is 25 times Internet. We talk all the time that SP: They didn’t show because you higher than it used to be. So education is in the school; the didn’t want to see! [Laughs] So maybe you lost one dunam but school is just a third of the every generation handles it, they you won 25 yields. On the other education of the children. What have new advantages, they have hand, take away the Ten keeps them up-to-date is more the new problems, and the older want Commandments and the world television and now more the that we shall obey older traditions, becomes all of a sudden poor. You internet. They look upon their and that children will behave like don’t have anything to replace teachers as old-age and a little bit their parents. But the children these 169 words. So that’s what I boring, because they already know have their own culture so they say mean, the permanence of the more than the teachers do. They they are deteriorating. They are values and the mobility of the have a new language, they have a not deteriorating! They are assets. new mind, they have a new stronger, they are better informed, sensitivity. In my judgment, the they are full of energy, they have DS: One value used to be military greatest thing is to bring over a strategy. They are ready-made service. 20 years ago it was people from the old past that was persons at an early age—14, 15, anathema to not serve in the slow--the cultivation of land--to a 16—physically and mentally and military and that was another new future, which is as quick as an we don’t give them a role in our binding cohesive force in Israeli Internet. society. So they go off on drugs. society and now it’s quite It’s crazy! Let them play a role. Let common.... DS: When you speak of language, them introduce themselves in the SP: Go over to sport, fight without Hebrew is very unique. At a time new hierarchies of our life. I killing, what’s wrong? Go over to when languages are disappearing, believe that an inventor, a chess, go over to competition or a Hebrew is the only example that I researcher can be the age of 15, creativeness to sing, to create. I know of a language revived 16, 17. We spoke about would like to see the democracy successfully. Although I don’t languages. What is the best time not just a matter of real speak Hebrew, I understand that to learn a language? At the age of expression but a matter of self- the quality of Hebrew spoken by 2, 3, then you are becoming tired. expression. the younger generations has Maybe at the age of 15 or 16 you decreased. have talents which are DS: Do you think Israel’s security SP: Don’t listen to the old disappearing. Let them work. In is at a point where it can move generation. They think everything the past generations they would from being concerned with military is being ruined and is decaying. not let the children work because service to being unconcerned and It’s different! They would like that it was a physical effort. Today, to moving more towards competition
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 11 in sports or the creative elements? are still producing material. not to describe Iran as an Israeli SP: The minute we shall be free of SP: First of all about intelligence. problem. It’s a world problem and danger, yes. Right now, no. as One must understand the nature Israel must be sanguine about it. long as we have dangers, we must of intelligence. Intelligence is an Keep cool. be prepared to face them. You organization to report and not to cannot become all of a sudden a prophesize. They are not prophets DS: As part of a coalition? philosopher instead of a soldier. It and they don’t claim to be. They SP: If they want us, yes. But we doesn’t make sense. But you see are experts on what has shall not insist. We are naturally in there are two things which are happened; you can’t ask them to the coalition; I don’t know if we really fascinating. What makes be expert on what may happen shall be formally. Israel greater than our size? And because the best intelligence that is the size of our enemies. We person in America will never have DS: And you feel it would be a are forced to organize our defense, a Persian mind. So how can you mistake for Israel to act which means our agenda, not with know how the mind acts? Don’t unilaterally, or not? the size of the land but with the expect them. What will finally SP: Yes. I don’t think Israel should size of the enemies of the land. So bring down the danger of Iran is say it; I don’t think Israel should all the time we have to be more the Iranians themselves; they are talk about it. The minute we shall tense, more alert, more sick and tired. Ahmadinejad talk about it we shall be left alone. developed. The minute this will almost replaced Allah with Israel is the only country that has disappear, we will have to compete enriched Uranium. It becomes a never had a foreign army to with the world to find our way. I holy profession. “We are enriching defend it. All the European think there is something in uranium!” What are you enriching countries had foreign armies, most Judaism, by the way, which makes uranium, what for? If you try to of the Asian countries. We don’t. us inclined to do so. The greatest use it, you will be hit. And… thing about Judaism--you can take it as a joke, you can take it DS: Are you saying the Iranian DS: You don’t feel America plays seriously--is that introduced to life people will be the agents of that role with Israel? is dissatisfaction. A Jewish person change? SP: America helps us a great deal. cannot be satisfied, cannot be SP: Yes. We are grateful. But we have satisfied. The minute he is never asked for American soldiers satisfied he begins to be non- DS: But there was so much hope to defend Israel. And one of the Jewish. Dissatisfaction is the for Mohammad Khatami and yet popularities of Israel in the United source of creation. All the time, his administration ended up a States is that American mothers because we were oppressed, we disappointment-- know that their children don’t face were small, we couldn’t sit down SP: Yes. There are hopes that danger here. and have a glass of wine. All become disappointments. It through time we have had to try doesn’t mean you don’t have to try DS: Although they face it quite and struggle and invest and again. often in Iraq and Afghanistan. renew. That is the reason why the SP: But here we defend it Jewish people, in a way, are the DS: But the Iranian people seem ourselves. Even in the early times permanent revolutionaries of to be rallying around their nuclear when the United States recognized history. program. us, they didn’t give us rifles to SP: You’re only as great as your defend our lives. It’s only later Iran: will Israel strike first? word, don’t forget. But the Iranian that they gave us arms and we are DS: With Iran, do you think that economy cannot hold it and they very grateful. But with Iran, we Israel would ever need to act are mobilizing the world against shall do what we have to do in our unilaterally again, to make a them. Gradually. Every time more own way. We don’t want to bother strike, in response to their nuclear and more. The world is sick and anybody because it’s a world capabilities? The U.S. National tired. Finally, the world will have problem. Until now, the problem Intelligence Estimate, which is to decide if we live in a world with was will the world stand on the quite controversial, said that nuclear devices that can fall in the side of Israel. Today, the question they’ve stopped their nuclear hands of terrorists or we are going is will the world stand on the side weapons program, yet there are to organize ourselves against this of the world? Iran is a world many centrifuges in Natanz that danger. So I will be very careful danger.
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The 2006 Lebanon War strong peace movement in Israel? United States commits mistakes in DS: How did the Lebanese War SP: I think the situation is a peace her foreign policy, a foreign policy help Israel’s security? movement because the more that without America would be the SP: Look, Israel is almost 60 years the Arabs are learning, the more greatest mistake of our old next year. In the 60 years we they are becoming peaceful. Look, generation. went through seven wars, two we have in Israel 50,000 Arab intifadas, all of them outgunned, citizens who are academicians. Ask DS: You earlier spoke about outmanned, outnumbered. We where are they. Some of them are modernity and the importance of didn’t lose a single one. So there teachers who will remain in the science and how a lot of the were wars that were more vicinity of their university. Most of terrorists are very scared of successful, less successful, never a them are doctors. You won’t find in modernity and how it will affect failure. Now about Lebanon, it Israel today a hospital without their traditions yet one of Israel’s became a question of did we do Arab doctors and Arab nurses. greatest supporters are the rightly or wrongly. But clearly it Now an Israeli that goes to the evangelicals in America, who are not wind up better for Hamas, not hospital, maybe he would be often seen in America as fighters better for Hezbollah winning. They reluctant to employ an Arab at his of science and modernity. don’t know to answer, “Why did factory but he doesn’t hesitate to SP: Look, I am not going here to they go to the war?” Today, come to the hospital, lie on the make a license office. [Chuckles] I everybody recognizes that bed and here comes an Arab can judge on the general trend but Hezbollah is a danger to Lebanon doctor with a knife in his hand and I am not going to make any one more than to Israel. Today when operates on him. And he says remark. You know, one of the you speak to a Frenchman or to thank you. So if you have healthy candidates is now Romney, who is the United States, they are worried relations in hospitals, maybe it’s a a Mormon-- more about Lebanon and cure for the others. The more Hezbollah than about Hezbollah people who become professional DS: Mitt Romney and Israel. So, we have learned and modern from both sides, this SP: Yes, the Mormons too are our lessons too, and but I think by is the peace movement! The peace becoming modern, and the and large, some people say we movement is not an attempt to evangelists they participate in all could have saved the lives of 30 write more songs about peace. We modernity. They are not terrorists. soldiers. Maybe. have enough songs. What we need I mean, if you have an idea, you is the development and we have to have an idea. The problem begins DS: Do you think it’s hurt the be passionate. when you want to shoot when you peace process, the Lebanese War? have a different idea, to kill the SP: I don’t think so. You know On American politics future. You cannot kill it. Nobody what is promoting the peace DS: How have you seen America’s can kill the future. Nobody can prospect more than losing it? That role in the peace process change stop it. The terrorists will discover no one in the Middle East wants to between Clinton to Bush? that they cannot live on their fall under the spell of Iran. Iran SP: Look at America after the traditions. They will lose because today is a country with an elections. In my journal, the two they are not sustainable. Take a appetite. An imperial appetite. parties will come together and try simple, single item: the attitude They want an Iranian hegemony in to work up a bipartisan policy. You towards women. If they will not the Middle East in the name of god know somebody said that the give equal rights to women, they and enriched uranium. And nobody difference between the will always be inferior because a wants it. So they attended Republicans and Democrats is the nation that doesn’t give equality to Annapolis for the same reason. So Democrats are reformers and the women is half a nation. So by everything, you know, it’s not a Republicans are maintainers. So definition they are half of modern one-sided situation. It’s very they put in a little bit the nations. You lose a lot. It’s not dialectical, including Iran. So they Democrats to reform, then they that you lose the women; you lose think they won. What did they put in the Republican to maintain. also the children because if the win? They are less accused; they Then they change, but they keep woman is uneducated, she cannot are not less watched, not less basic on foreign affairs; America is help the children to be educated. disliked and not less suspected. revolutionary in technology, in She doesn’t have to make a economy, but very balanced in balance between the number of DS: Do you think there is still a foreign policy and even when the the children and the state of
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 13 income of the family. This and I’m not particular. You know, they are doing. Why should I bore contradiction will grow and grow once I was free of administration, I them? They know more about the and grow and grow. It will take discovered the great advantage of computers and the internet and time, I don’t know, it will take 5 being free. And I feel free. Most of all; I am taking advantage. years or ten years or fifteen my life, I was quite controversial. years… But it is so clear that they [Laughs] Now I know I am DS: They probably know cannot make a living by killing tremendously popular. I don’t Wikipedia. others or by hanging on tradition. know what is better, to be SP: My children are my parents controversial and fight or to be because they teach me the future. Peres on his Presidency and popular and becoming a little bit… Traditionally, I should have taught learning from the future, not the them, but I think it’s a waste of past DS: It is unique that when you time. Why should I? Why should I DS: What do you hope to achieve look at your standing 20 years ago load their minds with what I may with your presidency? versus now, it’s so different-- think are heroic stories? They have SP: In the long term I would like SP: When was better? [Laughs] their own heroism which is now to help our people to live on two giving birth to new possibilities, to foundations: on the heritage of our DS: [Laughs] Well… a new age. So my time? They spirit and our talent at modernity. SP: I think 20 years ago when I don’t ask and I don’t bother them. That we should be as old spiritually was fighting. What do you need I imagine they know because [the as the Ten Commandments, and popularity? Popularity is like press writes] about me negatively as new economically as the latest perfume: nice to smell, dangerous so much, that they can not model of the Internet. It’s an to drink. You don’t drink it. Why escape. [Laughs] But they know educational process. Here the are people against you? Because one thing: I don’t complain. I proportion between authority and you are against the status quo. generally never complain. They freedom is in favor of freedom. Why was I unpopular? I didn’t know we have an honest life. So Being free is the greatest, the best commit any crime in my life. The whatever people are writing they administration in life. only crime I committed was to be do not care, because they know Administrations are still becoming a little bit ahead of time. And if the truth. old, they are becoming this is the reason for being bureaucracies. They represent a controversial, maybe the reason is DS: You’re very unique in your world that is disappearing. The better than the result. generation but also in Israel as modern economy is based on someone who’s saying “Listen to global companies that don’t have DS: What do you look at as your the younger people.” Wikipedia is armies, don’t have police; that greatest legacy in your career? something that was basically built don’t have laws. They are based SP: I am bored by it. My greatest by people under 30 and it’s on good will, on inventions. So I legacy… become perhaps the most don’t see any contradictions. Since influential media in the— we shall always remain a small DS: What pops into your head SP: Tell that to all those elder land and a small people, we have right away when I asked that? statesmen already. Go earlier and all time to see how to reach the [Laughs] approach them. You know what is size that is necessary to exist, to SP: [Laughs] It is what I’m going dying the fastest way? The daily defend ourselves, to offer a future to do tomorrow. What I did newspaper. Tomorrow, it’s dead. to our children. yesterday, for me it’s boring and Who remembers the newspaper of I’m very careful not to talk to my yesterday? Israel is not only quite DS: Do you hope to have another children about it because they will technologically developed, but the term as president? be bored. So why should I? My revolutionary mind is also SP: Oh, maybe next time I shall go mind is set to see what will happen expressed in all forms of life. No and be a shepherd or a poet. Why tomorrow. country in the last a hundred years go back to government? [Laughs] stayed at a kibbutz or a moshav. DS: You don’t speak to your So it’s not only new forms of DS: [Laughs] I think you are children about the things you’ve technology but new forms of life. already seen as both of those done in you life or your Now let me tell you, the kibbutzim things. grandchildren? and the moshavim are, all told, SP: Yes, I’m not orthodox about it SP: No I learn from them what today one-and-a-half percent of
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 14 the Israeli population. Not much. from entering his dry reservation understand treaties", i.e. the But they are 8.5% of the Israeli where it is banned. Wikinews treaty council, from among the production. Unbelievable. They are talked to Canupa Gluha Mani about Seven Sister Bands of the Lakota. 20% of our pilots. They are a third the movement and Lakota Oyate This traditional government is of the soldiers that were in an exclusive interview. based on the idea of "staying quiet decorated. What do I mean with and listening to the people who this? They are not billionaires. Also called Duane Martin Sr, have answers", the "itacans" or Their capital is pioneering and not Canupa Gluha Mani prefers to be expert headmen. collecting. If I have to advise referred to as just that, "Canupa young people that enter politics Gluha Mani"; it means "He walks Canupa Gluha Mani also endorsed these days I say don’t try for as he protects the pipe", though Naomi Archer, who has acted as popularity; it will kill you. Because much of the meaning is lost in Lakota Oyate's liaison; indeed, as at the beginning you have an idea translation between English and the Lakota Freedom Delegation you want to make popular. But the delicately-nuanced Lakota prepared its trip to Washington DC then you become so addicted to language. Canupa Gluha Mani he called in Naomi Archer, who popularity that you forgot the idea prefers to speak in this, his native though of non-native extraction is that you wanted to sell. Better tongue -- he "hates" that the his adopted sister and a fellow stick to your idea than to your English language has become the Cante Tenza member, to handle popularity. everyday language of the Lakota, media support. "I support the and decries the extinction of many understandings of what she's DS: Mr. President, I think that that indigenous American languages -- saying", he said, referring to a is advice that many of our but uses English fluently and previous interview with Archer presidential candidates could heed earthily. which revealed an apparent split as much as any young person. between Russell Means and other Thank you for your time. Canupa Gluha Mani talked about members of the Lakota Freedom the Cante Tenza, the Strong Heart Delegation. "She as an individual Canupa Gluha Mani speaks Warrior Society, which he heads has integrity." However, the about Lakota Oyate, Lakota and which forms the paramilitary previous interview missed nuances freedom force of Lakotah. The society, an and the perceived gap between It's now been three weeks since okolakiciye or warrior society, Lakota Oyate and Russell Means' the four-person Lakota Freedom originated in the Black Hills. He Republic of Lakota is not so great. Delegation declared that the told the following story: Four "There's no division here....it's Lakota people were withdrawing warriors in the hills ran across a communication, that's all. We can from their treaties with the United coyote and gave it chase. And as always get past this." States and, though small, the the coyote ran he turned into a movement still proves Lakota man, and in his changing With regard to Russell Means, who controversial: two U.S.-recognized the man left four objects: a rattle, has declared himself Chief Lakota tribal governments have a drum, a lance, and a tomahawk Facilitator of the Republic of rejected the Delegation's authority with which the Lakota people could Lakotah, he said, "I've worked outright with at least one tribe be defended. Canupa Gluha Mani with my uncle Russell Means in stating it will consider the is a warrior leader, and his position positive venues. And I'm still Delegation's, now Lakota Oyate's, with relation to the treaty council behind him, I have love for him;" proposal. The rest of the tribes which traditionally governs the He emphasized the familial bond have remained silent. Lakota is "whip-man", loosely between himelf and Means, noting "sergeant at arms" -- that is, he that Means had adopted him as a The central figure the movement enforces order and decorum when nephew. However, "the Lakota has been Canupa Gluha Mani, a passions grow heated during tribal have to be recognized." It was longtime activist whose tactics discussions. "genocide", he said, that of all the have led repeatedly to his arrest races of humanity, American and imprisonment — most recently The authority of the Lakota Indians are not represented at the in June 2007, when Canupa Gluha Freedom Delegation, he says, United Nations. Mani was one of six arrested who comes not from the BIA- participated in blockading a road in recognized governments but On the subject of Lakota activist Nebraska to keep outside alcohol rather from the "people who Alfred Bone Shirt, who organized
If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Thursday, January 10, 2008 Wikinews Page 15 the Lakota Oyate's first freedom instutions like the Tribal Police are the Great and his Moldavian forces celebration and information just "the second coming of the successfully repelled an Ottoman meeting on Saturday, 5 January white man's cavalry". attack led by Hadân Suleiman but has since made comments Pasha, the Beylerbeyi of Rumelia. attacking the legitimacy of Canupa Canupa Gluha Mani is on record as 1776 – English pamphleteer and Gluha Mani, Naomi Archer and saying in a previous interview that revolutionary Thomas Paine Lakota Oyate, Canupa Gluha Mani "we'll probably get killed for" published the pamphlet Common had this to say. "I have nothing to withdrawing from the United Sense, a document denouncing do with Mr Bone Shirt, nothing States. Now, he is tight-lipped on British rule which contributed to against him". He also noted that the future, and when asked about stimulating the American Lakota Oyate had respected Bone the possibility of a confrontation Revolution among the populace of Shirt's call to take down invitations with the US will only say that the Thirteen Colonies. for donations, but expressed a "anything's plausible." 1863 – The London Underground, wish that Mr Bone Shirt would the world's oldest underground make the same call to any other And if the United States railway, opened on the website inviting donations to government leaves the Lakota Metropolitan Railway between Lakotah. alone? "Then we can take our Paddington and Farringdon Street. practices forward in good will." 1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, a The traditional decision making Canupa Gluha Mani, who is series of comic books created by process within the Lakota, he said, married to a woman of European Belgian artist Hergé that has been was informal discussions among descent, says that the traditional sold in over 50 languages and the women of the Lakota rather American Indian lifestyle can more than 200 million copies to than pronouncements and coexist with the western lifestyle, date, first appeared in a children's declarations. Ideas like western but "every wound has to heal". supplement to the Belgian forms of government -- "We can be self-sufficient. We can newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle. referencing the "Republic" -- and govern ourselves." Having 1946 – The first session of the the use of the English language withdrawn from the outstanding United Nations General Assembly were part of the reason for both treaties with the United States, will convened at the Westminster the misunderstanding of the Lakota Oyate make a new Central Hall in London with dispute between Russell Means arrangement with Washington? representatives from fifty-one and Canupa Gluha Mani and the "That has yet to be exonerated." member states. Lakota's problems: "It's hard for Lakotah continues to seek January 10 is The Remembrance Indian people to adapt to this international recognition; although of Muharram in Shi'a Islam begins modern lifestyle....It's white no country has declared (2008, A.H. 1429). teaching that cause Indian recognition for Lakotah, he is problem....leave us alone....This "confident with the Bolivians" and Quote of the Day country has not learned a thing also noted a positive response I believe that the Universe is one about its own First Nations from the "Bulgarian freedom being, all its parts are different people." fighters" pressuring the US to expressions of the same energy, recognize Lakota independence. and they are all in communication US governing of Lakota has led with each other, therefore parts of directly to the economic and social Canupa Gluha Mani then one organic whole. This whole is in decline of the Lakotah people, he addressed the Lakota people all its parts so beautiful, and is felt argues. Canupa Gluha Mani noted directly. "What needs to get out by me to be so intensely in that the life expectancy for Lakota there is, I love my people....This is earnest, that I am compelled to men is only 44, and that alcohol your dream come true. That's love it and to think of it as divine. and drug use are epidemic, as are what the symbolic meaning of ~ Robinson Jeffers infectious diseases such as Lakotah is. It's called freedom. tuberculosis. But revival of the Hoka hay." Word of the Day Lakota has to be not just economic great unwashed n to improve the circumstances of Today in History 1. (idiomatic) A contemptuous the people, but cultural too: "Our 1475 – Moldavian-Ottoman Wars: term for the populace, language is at stake right now" but At the Battle of Vaslui near Vaslui particularly the working the US government-backed in present-day Romania, Stephen class.
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