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We want to end this week's discussion of NATIVE AMERICAN public policy by returning the LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL as NATIVE AMERICANS. We think we did a good job showing this is not true---we think we did a good job showing what the MOTIVES of GLOBAL BANKING 1% would be in trying to promote this FAKE NEWS.

Global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS were getting tired of pretending they believed in these Western religions and in mid-1800s an organized effort by OLD WORLD KINGS not religious to END RELIGION was growing. Here in US we had UNITARIAN CHURCH with religious leaders being one set of people promoting this idea of LOST TRIBES ---this being ANGLO-SAXON ISRAELITES.

People wanting to END RELIGION would create the conditions for END TIMES...REVELATIONS which is tied to return of LOST TRIBES to ISRAEL.

PLEASE THINK ABOUT HOW ALL THIS ACADEMIC DISCUSSION ON LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL SEEMS TO HAVE SOARED ---ONCE VERY MARGINAL----DURING CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.

We bring into this discussion of NATIVE AMERICANS not being LOST TRIBES----how global banking 1% brings our EUROPEAN religions into this as well.




'Anglo Saxon Celts Were Israelites - Revealing The Truth
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Did You Know the Anglo Saxon Celts Were Israelites?

"The Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to emerge into recorded history. But the first references to them appear in the sixth and fifth centuries BC when they began to encounter the peoples of the Mediterranean cultures….” (The Celtic Empire, Peter B Ellis, 1990, Pg 9) '



'If Israel is hid from Christians, it is because they have read some human theories concerning the lost Ten Tribes instead of diligently searching the Word of God. Years ago in Mexico when I was examining the ruins of the Aztecs, near the two great pyramids, I was told that the Aztecs were the lost tribes of Israel. According to traditions, the following “peoples” have been called, the lost tribes of Israel”; the Afghans, the Japanese, the North American Indians, the Nestorians and the Irish, and many others'.



One of the families tied to early American ideas of ANGLO-SAXON ISRAELITES happen to be tied to ELIZABETH WARREN who without coincidence has been labelled POCAHONTAS------NATIVE AMERICAN ties----while obviously being ANGLO-SAXON.

Looks like the global banking BILLIONAIRE native American family ------HAALAND-----is endorsing yet another LOST TRIBE OF ISRAEL ----WARREN.



'globintel.com
Deb Haaland Biography, Wiki, Age, Husband, Net Worth, Daughter, Family, New Mexico’s 1st congressional district…'


This discussion necessarily is GENERALIZATION-----but, the point is-----all this discussion on LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL today is backed by global 1% MOVING FORWARD KILLING OUR WESTERN RELIGIONS.

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August 1, 2019



Natives Are Split Over Rep. Deb Haaland’s Endorsement of Elizabeth Warren


The Native American congresswoman endorsed Warren despite her “Cherokee” controversy.Delilah Friedler

On Tuesday, Rep. Deb Haaland, one of two Native American women in Congress, announced that she was endorsing Sen. Elizabeth Warren for President. Calling the candidate “a great friend to me and a great partner for Indian Country,” Haaland highlighted Sen. Warren’s advocacy for working families and attention to the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. It was one of several endorsements the Warren campaign picked up ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic presidential debate. But Haaland’s endorsement was especially notable given Warren’s controversial history with Native Americans and the fact that the senator has yet to sign on to a Native-focused presidential forum happening later this month.

THOSE HILLARY NASTY GLOBAL BANKING CORPORATE WOMEN ARE REALLY ---NOT---PROTECTING OUR 99% OF WE THE WOMEN BLACK, WHITE, OR BROWN WOMEN.





“What the hell,” says one of the most liked comments on Haaland’s Instagram post announcing the endorsement. “[Warren has] made her career by trivializing who we are for her own gain.” The commenter, a Native whose sentiment is echoed by many other replies, is referring to Warren’s contentious claims of possessing indigenous heritage.


For decades, the senator touted a “family story” about having Cherokee ancestors, even going so far as to identify herself as American Indian when she registered with the State Bar of Texas in 1986. After President Trump repeatedly mocked her as “Pocahontas,” Warren tried to legitimize her claims by taking a DNA test last October. But in the eyes of many Natives, she was missing the point.



“Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong,” said Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr. in a statement at the time. Regardless of the small fraction of Native ancestry that her test results suggested, Warren is not an enrolled member of any tribe, and no indigenous community claims her as one of their own.



Kim Tall Bear, a Sisseton-Wahpeton academic who wrote a book on DNA and tribal belonging, voiced a concern felt by many Natives that Warren was furthering a tradition of white settlers who “donned and absorbed Indigenous images and histories even while massacring and starving actual Indigenous people.” Warren apologized to the Cherokee Nation for the DNA test earlier this year. 




Some Natives may be ready to forgive her, concurring with Haaland’s claims about Warren’s positive track record on matters related to Indian Country. “It doesn’t have to be in your blood to understand Native issues and try to make a better life for Natives,” OJ Seamans Sr., an executive director of Native voting rights group Four Directions, tells Mother Jones. “I think she as a US Senator has done everything that she could to make improvements on Indian reservations and better the lives of Natives throughout the United States.”

Warren cosponsored Savanna’s Act, which aimed to create a federal response to violence against indigenous women, and recently introduced bills concerning suicide prevention and child abuse in Native communities. A spokesperson for the Warren campaign says that the senator is currently working with Rep. Halaand on a bill that will “protect tribal sovereignty and make investments in Indian Country.” On the other hand, some Natives have criticized Warren for waiting several months to speak out in favor of Dakota Access Pipeline protestors, who faced a militarized police response on the Standing Rock Reservation in 2016. 




Seamans and Four Directions are hosting the first ever presidential candidate forum on Native American issues, which will take place August 19-20 in Sioux City, Iowa. Several Democratic presidential hopefuls have already committed to attending the forum, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, author Marianne Williamson, Rep. John Delaney, and former Housing Secretary Julián Castro. Seamans, who is Sicangu Lakota, says he is “hopeful” that Sen. Warren will also sign on to participate. A spokesperson for Warren’s campaign tells Mother Jones that they “are exploring whether it will be possible for her to attend the forum.”

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Here is why someone like WARREN would pretend to be NATIVE AMERICAN----as too African American groups whether MOORS or BLACK HEBREW ISRAELITES---

To attain property inside NATIVE LAND TRUSTS------one would need to show some ties to being a US NATIVE AMERICAN.  So, we have black, white, and brown 5% freemason/Greek players all wanting to PRETEND they are NATIVE AMERICANS------qualified for US NATIVE LANDS.

Whether these players are WHITE ANGLO-SAXON ISRAELITES ---or BLACK/LATINO ISRAELITES----pushing LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL as NATIVE AMERICANS-----is just this.

THE GOAL IS GLOBAL BANKING 1% ENDING ALL WESTERN RELIGIONS BY PRETENDING IT IS 'END TIMES'.


Meanwhile, our US 99% of WE THE REAL NATIVE AMERICAN citizens are being marginalized and prepared to become GLOBAL LABOR POOL ----EX PATS.

REMEMBER, if your population group is PRETENDING to be a LOST TRIBE OF ISRAEL----then the next step is getting those LOST TRIBE overseas to NEAR/MIDDLE-EAST ----where FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES are awaiting new global labor pool-----as SLAVE LABOR.

Global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS TRIBE OF JUDAH KNIGHTS OF MALTA all sending in their representatives as FAKE NATIVE AMERICANS to get that NATIVE LAND TRUST.



TRUMP is simply MOVING FORWARD privatization of native land put in place by CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.

As we say ECO-WATCH is far-right wing global banking 1% FAKE GREEN MEDIA group

'Eco-Watch was established in 1998 by Suresh Heblikar, a wellknown filmmaker and environmentalist with its key objective of spreading a message of environmental conservation through relevant, focused yet diverse programmes and activities'.




Trump Advisors Plan to Privatize Native Lands to Tap Into Oil Rich Reservations

Lorraine Chow
Dec. 05, 2016 12:47PM EST  ECO-WATCH MEDIA


The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is only one battle in a larger war. Following news of the Army Corps' decision to halt the pipeline's construction, Reuters reported that President-elect Donald Trump's advisors are seeking to privatize Native American reservations, which sit on an estimated 20 percent of the nation's oil and gas, along with large amounts of coal reserves. These resources are worth nearly $1.5 trillion.


"We should take tribal land away from public treatment. As long as we can do it without unintended consequences, I think we will have broad support around Indian country," said Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), a Cherokee tribe member and chair of Trump's 27-member Native American Affairs Coalition.



The formation of the coalition was announced in October with the aim of electing Trump for president.
"As a local elected official, I am outraged that Indian Country is prevented from harnessing our own energy resources by ever-increasing regulations," state Rep. Sharon Clahchischilliage (R-NM 4th District), a Navajo tribe member and coalition co-chair, said in October. "The Trump Administration will ease restrictions on American energy reserves worth trillions of dollars. Together we will block the bureaucrats holding Native American businesses back and bring new jobs into our communities."

WE ARE SURE YOU CANNOT HARVEST YOUR OWN ENERGY RESOURCES BECAUSE NATIVE LANDS WERE PRIVATIZED IN 1990S TO FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE STATUS.




As it happens, three of the four chair-level coalition members have ties to Big Energy. According to campaign finance disclosures cited by Reuters, Mullin has received about eight percent of his campaign funds from energy companies while Clahchischilliage has received about 15 percent of her campaign funds from energy companies.



Fellow co-chair and Cherokee nation ex-chief Ross Swimmer said it is possible to privatize reservations while limiting land sales to non-Indian buyers.


"It has to be done with an eye toward protecting sovereignty," said Swimmer, who is a partner at an Native American-focused investment fund that has invested in Energy Transfer Partners, the owner of the heavily contested DAPL.



However, prominent Native American leaders have spoken against privatization.



"Our spiritual leaders are opposed to the privatization of our lands, which means the commoditization of the nature, water, air we hold sacred," said Tom Goldtooth, who runs the Indigenous Environmental Network and is a member of both the Navajo and the Dakota tribes.

"Privatization has been the goal since colonization—to strip Native Nations of their sovereignty," Goldtooth added.



Thousands of Dakota Access Pipeline protestors are celebrating after the Army Corps' rejection of the DAPL project but many water protectors also recognize the fight is not yet over. As Goldtooth said, this is "check, not checkmate."



Despite the Army Corps' decision, Energy Transfer Partners said that it is still committed to seeing this "vital" pipeline "brought to completion."

Trump has holdings in Energy Transfer Partners and officially voiced support for the pipeline, even though his team said his support "had nothing to do with his personal investments and everything to do with promoting policies that benefit all Americans." The incoming president has also picked climate change deniers and pro-fossil fuel bigwigs for cabinet positions.

Not only that, many pro-drilling politicians currently sit in a GOP-controlled House of Representatives and Senate. Following the Army Corps' Sunday announcement, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) tweeted: "This is big-government decision-making at its worst. I look forward to putting this anti-energy presidency behind us."

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We don't get into too much conspiracy theory but we remind people that today MYDNA genetic testing global corporations are largely owned by global banking 1% TRIBE OF JUDAH.

We are sure that those REAL LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL captured and taken away around 1000BC did indeed end up all over the globe. These MEDIA/ACADEMIC STORIES are promoting ONE WORLD ONE RELIGION ----which will not be JEWISH/CATHOLIC/MUSLIM/NATIVE NATURE RELIGIONS----

It will be TRANSHUMANISM----3000BC HINDI-BRAHMIN for only the global 1%.

THIS IS A SCAM.



'However, a new genetic study has justified their claims, opening up new possibilities that one of the Lost Tribes of Israel has been found. The history of the Bnei Israel is shrouded in mystery. There are among the diverse population of India, several distinct groups of Jews'.


'The Baghdadi Jews of India | My Jewish Learningwww.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-jews-of-india The Persian Gulf port of Basra began to serve as a trading center of the British East India Company in 1760, and it was from Basra–and Baghdad–that many Jews who played an important role in English commerce in the region gradually moved on to India. At first they settled in the west coast port of Surat'.



We KNOW that JEWS migrated to INDIA among other times after the collapse of MOORISH GRANADA in Spain for example.




Hebrew Anglo-Saxons? - Medieval Conversion Tactics
•Published on Mar 12, 2018


Anglo-Saxons and Jewish people were very different!

One was a polytheistic group of Germanic warrior tribes in Northern Europe and the other was a monotheistic Semitic tribe in the Middle East. Yet, for the Anglo-Saxons to convert to Christianity, they had to accept the Hebrews of the Old Testament as the chosen people of the "one true God" and this would not have seemed like an attractive prospect to them. Therefore, clever techniques were used in Old English translations of Biblical and other Christian stories (Judith, Andreas, and Exodus) in order to make the Israelites seem more like Germanic warriors, and to make the pagans of Egypt and Assyria seem like Viking pagans.

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The NATIVE LAND TRUSTS of MINNESOTA and DAKOTAS were part of that PRIVATIZATION back during CLINTON era when its 'leaders' chose to allow NATIVE LANDS be made FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES. Since 1990s global banking 1% have moved in all kinds of OIL, GAS, TIMBER corporations because of this designation. Those few native 'leaders' are those made BILLIONAIRES because of this.

Flash forward to OBAMA-era AND XL PIPELINE protest which we shouted back then was global banking 1% ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT FAKE left activism----these national leaders and FAKE GREEN groups KNEW this CLINTON ERA designation.

What became of that protest for XL PIPELINE------was the LEGAL PRECEDENCE of US sovereign citizens being called 'TERRORISTS' when they protested.




'Treating protest as terrorism is highly problematic



Mike German, former FBI agent'

This US court decision occurred NOW rather then uphold past US court precedence of RIGHT TO PROTEST ----because these NATIVE LAND TRUSTS-------are FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES-----as those dastardly BILLIONAIRE NATIVE leaders KNOW.

ELIZABETH WARREN----BERNIE SANDERS------GILLIBRAND-----TURNER ----ALL FAKE 'OUR REVOLUTION' FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% WERE THERE.




'Treating protest as terrorism': US plans crackdown on Keystone XL activists


Documents suggest an aggressive response to possible protests against the oil pipeline amid fears of another Standing Rock


Will Parrish and Sam Levin
Thu 20 Sep 2018 04.00 EDT


Angeline Cheek is preparing for disaster. The indigenous organizer from the Fort Peck reservation in Montana fears that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline could break and spill, destroy her tribe’s water, and desecrate sacred Native American sites.



But environmental catastrophe is not the most immediate threat.


The government has characterized pipeline opponents like her as “extremists” and violent criminals and warned of potential “terrorism”, according to recently released records.




The documents suggested that police were organizing to launch an aggressive response to possible Keystone protests, echoing the actions against the Standing Rock movement in North Dakota. There, officers engaged in intense surveillance and faced widespread accusations of excessive force and brutality.



“We have to stay one step ahead at all times,” said Cheek, a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota activist and teacher. “History is repeating itself.”



The proposed TransCanada project would carry a daily load of 830,000 barrels of oil over 1,204 miles – from Alberta, Canada to Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska, linking to the existing Keystone pipeline and Texas refineries. The path of the project, which was revived by Donald Trump last year, would cross dozens of rivers and streams and run near a number of Native American reservations, sparking legal challenges and a judge’s recent order for a full environmental review.




If the pipeline gets final approvals and construction advances in the coming months, some are anticipating massive demonstrations similar to the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline (Dapl). That conflict galvanized a global movement, but also led to FBI monitoring and the prolonged prosecution of hundreds of activists.



Documents obtained by the ACLU of Montana and reviewed by the Guardian have renewed concerns from civil rights advocates about the government’s treatment of indigenous activists known as water protectors.


Treating protest as terrorism is highly problematic


Mike German, former FBI agent


Notably, one record revealed that authorities hosted a recent “anti-terrorism” training session in Montana. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency also organized a “field force operations” training to teach “mass-arrest procedures”, “riot-control formations” and other “crowd-control methods”.



A US justice department intelligence specialist told the Guardian the terrorism training was an annual presentation not specific to Keystone. But the ACLU noted that its records request was specifically about the pipeline protests, suggesting that authorities considered the session relevant to Keystone preparation.



The repeated mass arrests at Standing Rock led to a litany of charges, but hundreds were eventually dismissed due to lack of evidence. Police deployed water cannons, teargas grenades, bean bag rounds and a wide array of weapons in North Dakota.



“Many of our residents were in Standing Rock, and they saw the level of violence that could be visited on us,” said Remi Bald Eagle, the intergovernmental affairs coordinator of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, which is located along the Keystone route. “There’s a level of anxiety and fear because we don’t know what’s going to happen.”




The ACLU of Montana, which filed a lawsuit this month against the government seeking Keystone records, earlier obtained a DHS report that said pipeline protesters were engaged in “criminal disruptions and violent incidents”. The report included two past cases of alleged “environmental rights extremists” committing violence.



But the events in question – a 2012 bombing and a 2015 shootout with police – had no clear links to any environmental protests, said Mike German, a former FBI agent and fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice.



“Treating protest as terrorism is highly problematic,” said German, noting that the US government has long labeled activism as “terrorism”, once claiming that filing public records requests was an “extremist” tactic. “It’s an effective way of suppressing protest activity and creating an enormous burden for people who want to go out and express their concerns.”



The “terrorist” and “extremist” labels can be used to justify brutality and a militarized operation, said Andrea Carter, an attorney with the Water Protector Legal Collective, a group that has represented Standing Rock defendants.


They are instant experts on quashing the indigenous insurgency. It’s very, very concerning
Rachel Lederman, civil rights lawyer



“It’s a really egregious tactic,” she said, noting that the labels also lay the groundwork for prosecutors to turn low-level misdemeanor cases into federal felony trials. “A lot of it has to do with public relations.”

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