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Girl Racing With Pet Camel, Film at 11

• November 17, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Animals, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Love, Public Television, Television, Women
Tags: Alex, Animals, Arizona, Big Cats, Bond, California, Camel, CamelsandFriends.com, Critters, Domesticated Animals, Dromedary, Dromedary Camel, Exotic Animals, Friends, Friendship, Giraffes, Koalas, Natural Habitat, Pony Express, Skunks

James Arthur Ray, Leader of Deadly Sweat Lodge Retreat, Found Guilty of Three Counts of Negligent Homicide

• June 23, 2011 • 2 Comments

Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, Education, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Native Americans/First Nations, People of Color, Religion, Spirituality, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Spiritual Warrior", Altered States, Arizona, Death, Food, Hawaii, Huna, Indigenous People, James Arthur Ray, James Shore, Kirby Brown, Larry King, Law of Attraction, Liz Neuman, Manslaughter, Mind Control, Negligent Homicide, New Age, Oprah Winfrey, Peru, Psychology, Q'eros, Ray, Rituals, Samurai Game, Sedona, Sedona Arizona, Sedona AZ, Self-Help Gurus, Stanislav Grof, Success, Sweat Box, Sweat Lodge, The Samurai Game, Thinking, United Indians of All Tribes, United States, Verdict, Water, Yavapai County Arizona

Acid Attack Victim Derri Dias Velarde Appears on CBS’ “Early Show”

• January 31, 2011 • 6 Comments

Posted in Chemical/Acid/Fire Burns, Class, Crime, Derri Dias Velarde, Domestic Violence, Hate Crimes, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "The Early Show", Acid Attack, Acid Throwing, Apartment, Arizona, Bethany Storro, Burns, California, CBS, Convalescence, Derri Dias Velarde, Derri Velarde, Early Show, Erica Hill, Facebook, Five Children, HLN, Jane Velez Mitchell, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Mesa AZ, Mother, People of Color, Police, Recovery, Second Acid Attack, Second Degree Burns, Sulfuric Acid, Sulphuric Acid

“Machete” Looks Like THE Labor Day Weekend Movie Winner

• September 3, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Acting, American History, American Politics, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Drama, Film, Immigration, Mental Health/Psychology, Mexico, National Issues, People of Color, Teabagging Party, The Tea Party Movement
Tags: "Desperado", "Desperate Housewives", "La Bamba", "Runaway Train", "Spy Kids", Andrei Konchalovsky, Arizona, Champion, Character Actor, Cheech Marin, Cousin, Danny Trejo, Don Johnson, East San Jose, Entrepreneur, Fantasy, Good Fortune, Good Guy, Immigration, Inmigration, ITN Clothing, Jeff Fahey, Jessica Alba, King and Story Roads, Latinos, Lindsay Lohan, Low Lifes, Michelle Rodriguez, Pacoima CA, Quentin Tarantino, Ritchie Valens, Robert DeNiro, Robert Rodriguez, San Quentin, Steven Seagal, Superhero, Tattoo Artist, Testosterone, Thugs, Twelve Step Program, Uncle Machete, Voice Actor

GMAFB: Guru Connected with Sedona AZ Sweat Lodge Deaths Says He’s Being “Tested”

• October 15, 2009 • 4 Comments

Posted in Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Education, History, Memoir, People of Color, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: "Spiritual Warrior", Arizona, AZ, Blonde-White-Girl-in-Distress Meme, Citizen Potawatomi, Creation, Fasting, Grandfather, Grandmother, Investigation, James Arthur Ray, James Shore, Johnny Flynn, Kirby Brown, Marina del Ray CA, Marvin Coops, Milgram Experiment, Milwaukee WI, Mishomsinanek ewi Nokmisek, Money, Mother Earth, Native American Traditionalists, Native Americans, Northern Cheyenne, Oklahoma, Payment, Pima, Plastic Tarps, Prayer, Rachel Carroll-Pthers, Sandalwood Incense, Sedona, Stones, Sweat Lodge, The Creator, The Feminine, The Principle of the Feminine, Tom McFeeley, Womb

The Sedona, AZ Sweat Lodge Tragedy: Why It Shouldn’t Have Happened

• October 12, 2009 • 9 Comments

Posted in Black People, Class, Education, Health, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, New Orleans, People of Color, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Spiritual Warrior", Abenaki, Africa, Africans, Ancestors, Angel Valley, Anger, Arizona, Asia, Asian American, Baron Samedi, Cow Hollow, Culture, Curios, Erzulie, Eucalyptus, Fasting, François Duvalier, French Quarter, George Harrison, Haiti, Haitians, Idols, Incense, James Arthur Ray, Joseph Bruchac, La Vieux Carre, Latino American, Legba, Loko Atison, Marie Laveau, Masks, Melanesia, Micronesia, Native American, Neighborhoods, New Age, New Orleans, Nichiren Buddhism, Noe Valley, Oshun, Pine Tar, Religion, Rituals, San Francisco, Sauna, Scandinavia, Sedona, Sioux, Sweat Lodge, The French Quarter, The Voodoo Museum, Turtle Island, Union Street, United States, Voudou, Voudou Flags, Yavapai County

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Governor’s Wife Has High-Profile Role After Florida Hurricane October 6, 2022
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Why We Are Surveying the MENA Community in the U.S. October 5, 2022
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The announcement by the Saudi-led OPEC Plus energy cartel that it would slash oil production was widely seen in Washington as a stab in the back of President Biden.
Justice Dept. Is Said to Believe Trump Has More Documents October 7, 2022
Conversations between department officials and the former president’s representatives have underscored investigators’ skepticism about his cooperation and exposed a rift among his lawyers.
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The Guardian, UK

Russian mercenaries ‘exploiting Africa to fund war in Ukraine’ October 6, 2022
US ambassador to the UN said Wagner Group are trafficking natural resources from African nationsThe United States has accused Russian mercenaries of exploiting natural resources in Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and elsewhere to help fund Moscow’s war in Ukraine, a charge Russia rejected as “anti-Russian rage”.The US ambassador to the United Nations, […]
African countries urge rich nations to honour $100bn climate finance pledge October 6, 2022
Ministers rebuke ‘shameful’ failure to meet funding promises for poorer countries to cope with climate crisis ahead of Cop27 summit Ministers and high-ranking officials of African nations have urged rich countries to do more to combat the climate crisis, and called the failure to meet a funding promise from 2009 “shameful”.At a conference in Giza, Egypt, on […]
‘I have a voice’: African activists struggle to attend UN climate talks in Egypt October 6, 2022
Young campaigners from the continent most affected by the climate crisis face financial and accreditation difficulties for Cop27African climate activists from some of the countries most affected by global heating say they are struggling to get access to the UN climate talks in Egypt in November.Cop27, which has been termed “the African Cop”, threatens to tak […]
Warning over cough syrups after 66 children die in the Gambia October 6, 2022
WHO says the contaminated medications may have been distributed outside of the West African country, with global exposure ‘possible’ The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an alert over four cough and cold syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals in India, warning they could be linked to the deaths of 66 children in the Gambia.The UN health agency also […]
Drone footage shows orcas chasing and killing great white shark October 5, 2022
Scientists say behaviour, filmed in South Africa, has never been seen in detail before – and never from the airScientists have published findings confirming that orcas hunt great white sharks, after the marine mammal was captured on camera killing one of the world’s largest sea predators.A pod of killer whales is seen chasing sharks during an hour-long pursu […]
‘Shocking blow to Indigenous land rights’ as court dismisses Maasai herder claim October 5, 2022
Herders lodge appeal against ruling in their case against the Tanzanian government, which they say is violently evicting them from ancestral landLawyers for Maasai herders who say the Tanzanian government is trying to violently evict them from their ancestral land to make way for a luxury game reserve have lodged an appeal against a court ruling that dismiss […]
Easter Island fire causes ‘irreparable’ damage to famous moai statues October 7, 2022
Forest fire that swept through more than 100 hectares of national park, with some moai ‘totally charred’A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, authorities have said.The blaze reportedly swept through the Rapa Nui national park, 3,500km (2,175 miles) off the west coast of C […]
Canada mass stabbing suspect’s brother was victim not accomplice, police say October 6, 2022
Myles Sanderson, who died in RCMP custody, was responsible for deaths of all 11 victims, including that of his brother DamienCanadian police have concluded that Myles Sanderson, who led officers on a multi-day manhunt after a mass stabbing last month, was responsible for all 11 deaths – including that of his brother.Officers initially named Sanderson’s broth […]

The BBC

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Easter Island: Sacred statues damaged by wild fire October 7, 2022
Many of the enigmatic stone-carved statues are "totally charred" according to local authorities.
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Biden to pardon federal marijuana convictions October 7, 2022
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The exiled Russian journalists challenging Kremlin censorship October 6, 2022
A punitive law has led to the mass exodus of journalists from Russia.
Two Russians sail to Alaska seeking asylum in US October 6, 2022
Hundreds of thousands of men have fled Russia so they will not be conscripted to fight in Ukraine.
Kevin Spacey on trial over New York sex abuse claim October 6, 2022
The actor denies inappropriately touching a 14-year-old boy at a Manhattan apartment party in 1986.