The Evening Blues - 4-12-16

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This evening's music features Detroit harmonica player Aaron "Little Sonny" Willis. Enjoy!

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"The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid."

-- Glenn Greenwald

News and Opinion

Obama’s ‘classified’ comments strike nerve

President Obama’s latest defense of Hillary Clinton has struck a nerve with both the GOP and government leakers such as Edward Snowden.

The president’s comments — “there’s classified and then there’s classified” — suggested some classified information is more sensitive than other classified information, uniting in scorn critics across the political spectrum.

To advocates for government transparency, the remarks stunk of duplicity by suggesting that federal classification rules are arbitrary and don't apply to the Democratic presidential front-runner.

On @HillaryClinton handling of e-mail, "there's classified and there's classified," says Pres Obama.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) April 10, 2016

If only I had known. https://t.co/yrPg8uxiQO

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 10, 2016

“For a lower rank-and-file person, that’s not a defense you can ever use,” said Bradley Moss, a lawyer who handles matters related to classified information. ...

The government does have different levels for the sensitivity of classified material, ranging from “confidential” to “top-secret.” But criminal charges for mishandling classified information are largely blind to the distinction.

Anyone have the number for the Attorney General? Asking for a friend. https://t.co/yrPg8uxiQO

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 10, 2016

From the department of lame-assed promises. The Rethugs have a point. DOJ does not prosecute people just because they have committed crimes - just look at how studiously they ignored the crimes of banksters.

Obama: I 'guarantee' Justice Dept. won’t protect Hillary

President Barack Obama insisted in an interview with Fox News aired Sunday that the FBI and Justice Department will not protect Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton while investigating her private emails and server.

“I can guarantee that,” Obama said repeatedly in an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, who interviewed the president in his first appearance on “Fox News Sunday” during his seven-year tenure. ...

The FBI has an “active, ongoing investigation” into the private email account and server Clinton used as secretary of state. But many Republicans have contended that the Justice Department would not prosecute Clinton even if it found she broke the law.

[See also: Obama Claims Outcome Of Investigation Into Clinton Emails Won’t Be Political - js]

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Portuguese court rejects ex-CIA agent's extradition appeal

An official at Portugal's Supreme Court says judges have rejected a former CIA operative's appeal against extradition to Italy to serve a six-year sentence for her part in an extraordinary renditions program.

The official told The Associated Press that Sabrina De Sousa's only remaining recourse is to appeal to Portugal's Constitutional Court, arguing her extradition order is unconstitutional.

US Defense Secretary: Iraq Politics Won’t Stall War Escalation

Speaking today during a visit to the naval command ship USS Blue Ridge, Defense Secretary Ash Carter insisted that the ongoing political battles within the Iraqi government will in no way impact the ongoing efforts to escalate America’s war against ISIS on Iraqi soil.

“We’re going to accelerate the military campaign as fast as we can,” Carter declared. It is believed that the escalating US involvement is going to include significantly more ground troops, along with the introduction of Apache attack helicopters. ...

Carter’s talk of escalation severely undercuts comments by Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in Iraq on Friday, and was insisting that there was no discussion at all of adding troops because Abadi hadn’t requested them. Clearly, the US designs on escalating are ongoing irrespective of Abadi’s requests, but Carter’s publicizing of that fact only damages the credibility of both Abadi and Kerry.

Afghanistan Braces for Tough Fighting Season as Taliban Announces Spring Offensive

The Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive on Tuesday, pledging to launch large-scale offensives against government strongholds backed by suicide and guerrilla attacks to drive Afghanistan's Western-backed government from power.

The announcement of the start of "Operation Omari," named after the late Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, came just days after US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Kabul and reaffirmed American support for a national unity government led by President Ashraf Ghani.

"Jihad against the aggressive and usurping infidel army is a holy obligation upon our necks and our only recourse for re-establishing an Islamic system and regaining our independence," the Taliban said in a statement.

The insurgency has gained strength since the withdrawal of international troops from combat at the end of 2014 and the Taliban are stronger than at any point since they were driven from power by US-backed forces in 2001.

As well as suicide and tactical attacks, the offensive would include assassinations of "enemy" commanders in urban centres, the Taliban said in their statement.

U.S. deploys B-52 bombers to Middle East for the first time in 25 years

The U.S. Air Force has deployed B-52 long-ranger bombers to the Middle East, for the first time since the Gulf War ended, to conduct strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, officials said Saturday.

An unknown number of B-52s will be based at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the U.S. Air Force Central Command said in a statement.

German Comedians Are Making Turkey's President Really, Really Upset

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has filed a complaint against a comedian who recited a satirical and sexually crude poem about him on German television, complicating Berlin's attempts to get Turkey's help in dealing with Europe's migrant crisis. ...

The public prosecutor's office in the western city of Mainz said Erdogan had filed the complaint via lawyers against Jan Boehmermann for insulting him. Boehmermann is the host of the late-night "Neo Magazin Royale" on the public ZDF channel. ...

Prosecutors said Erdogan's complaint would be examined as part of a pending procedure. They had already begun investigating Boehmermann on suspicion of the crime of "offending foreign states' organs and representatives" after more than 20 people filed complaints.

On Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said Berlin was examining a formal request made by Turkey for it to prosecute Boehmermann and a decision would be made in the next days. ...

If the government decides to decline the Turkish request to prosecute Boehmermann, she risks a worsening of diplomatic relations with Turkey, Wolfgang Kubicki, senior member of Germany's business-friendly FDP party, told NDR radio.

"If the government were to support the move, there would be a huge backlash domestically," he said, adding that in his opinion as a trained lawyer the poem was "distasteful" but within the limits of artistic freedom.

Egypt Junta Under Fire for Giving Islands to Saudi Arabia

Egyptian junta leader Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi had been criticized for awhile for being a recipient of Saudi largesse, and is now facing a full-blown crisis with his announcement that a pair of Red Sea islands are being transferred to Saudi Arabian control.

The islands, Tiran and Sanafir, are unpopulated, and have been recognized by treaty as part of Egypt since the 1840 Convention of London. Officially, the Egyptian junta is claiming the islands were “always” Saudi maritime possessions, despite Egypt having historically claimed them for decades, and the Saudis never doing so.

This is giving the Egyptian public the impression that the junta has effectively “sold” the islands to the Saudi government. Indeed, a big part of giving the islands to the Saudis is trying to get the Saudis to build a bridge between their territory and the Sinai Peninsula, which will go across one of those islands.

Keiser Report: Pork Barrel Politics

IMF says Britain leaving the EU is a significant risk

A British vote to leave the EU risks causing severe economic and political damage to Europe that will spill over into an already febrile world economy, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

Cutting its forecasts for global growth and for the UK and other advanced economies, the IMF listed a potential Brexit vote in June’s EU referendum as a key risk in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO).

“In the United Kingdom, the planned June referendum on European Union membership has already created uncertainty for investors; a ‘Brexit’ could do severe regional and global damage by disrupting established trading relationships,” said Maurice Obstfeld, IMF economic counsellor.

First of Three Impeachment Votes Goes Against Brazil’s President Rousseff

Brazil's embattled President Dilma Rousseff is looking ever closer to being impeached after a congressional committee voted 38 to 27 in favor of her ouster on Monday night.

The vote is the first of three needed to place the president on suspended leave. The second, from the full Chamber of Deputies, could come as early as this Sunday. If that goes through, the final vote would be by the full Senate. ...

The opposition appears to be in a hurry to ensure Rousseff's exit in a context in which popular support for the move has waned somewhat from 68 percent in March to 61 percent last week, according to Datafolha.

The leader of the lower house Eduardo Cunha, who has been pushing for the president's impeachment, has said that the plenary vote could take place this Sunday, April 17. There has been widespread speculation in the media that Cunha is pushing for a weekend decision in the hope that large pro-impeachment protests will put deputies under pressure to support the move.

More than half of the committee members voting on impeachment proceedings on Monday face charges in the Lava Jato investigation, as does house speaker Cunha. Though Rousseff herself has not been named in that probe, other high profile members of the governing Workers' Party have.

Death by Gentrification: Alex Nieto Killed by Hail of Police Bullets in a Changing San Francisco

Sixth witness disputes police account of homeless man's killing in San Francisco

A key witness to the police shooting of a homeless man in San Francisco on Thursday has come forward to say that the man was “relaxed”, “isolated”, and not “posing a threat to anyone” before two police officers opened fire.

Christine Pepin, a 45-year-old resident of Sunnyvale, is the latest witness to challenge the police narrative that Luis Gongora was armed and dangerous. ...

“He was sitting on the ground, his back against the wall,” Pepin said about Gongora. “He seemed to be holding something in his left hand, but I didn’t see a knife. He didn’t seem aggressive. He seemed kind of lost and confused.

“His head was against the building, sitting down, and his knees were bent, like in a relaxed manner,” she added.

Pepin said that the officers were approximately seven to 10 meters from Gongora, and that no one else was close to him: “He was pretty much isolated. He was alone.”

She said she then saw an officer aim a “big black and orange” gun at Gongora, and heard the officer tell Gongora to stay on the ground.

“I was shocked by this because it seemed to me that the person was harmless,” Pepin said. “The officers started shooting, and I thought, ‘This must not be real ammunition,’ I thought, ‘because why would they do that?’”

Protesting 'Shameful' Greed, 40,000 Verizon Workers Set to Strike Wednesday

In what has the potential to be the largest work stoppage in the country in recent years, up to 40,000 Verizon workers from Massachusetts to Virginia will go on strike at 6 am on Wednesday, unless the company "reconsiders its shameful, and I do mean shameful, demands," Communications Workers of America (CWA) president Chris Shelton has warned.

In a call with reporters on Monday, Shelton said, "nobody wants to go on strike."

According to a statement from CWA, which is calling the strike along with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Verizon is "attempting to make devastating cut backs" even after "significant worker concessions on healthcare." ... The unions say Verizon is making these demands despite having made $39 billion in profits over the last three years—and $1.8 billion a month in profits over the first three months of 2016. ...

CWA notes that last month, 20 U.S. senators sent a letter to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam calling on him to "act as a responsible corporate citizen and negotiate a fair contract with the employees who make your company’s success possible."

Among those senators was presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who just last week called Verizon's behavior "unacceptable."

CWA has endorsed Sanders over his rival Hillary Clinton.

Last fall, Sanders became the first major presidential candidate in decades to join a worker protest, when he walked a picket line with Verizon workers in New York City. Huffington Post reporter Dave Jameison noted at the time that while "[b]oth candidates have placed economic inequality at the core of their campaigns as they seek the nomination...it's much harder to imagine Clinton walking a picket line aimed at a telecom giant."

Up All Night movement in Paris "People feel deprived of their future"

David Graeber: "Every country with an ‘occupy’ movement accomplished an unleashing of imagination and ideas"

Look at who's going to get arrested with me at the Capitol? #DemocracySpring pic.twitter.com/nLeSHioX4c

— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) April 11, 2016

Hundreds Arrested at US Capitol During 'Democracy Spring' Campaign Finance Protests

Lady Liberty was arrested on Monday afternoon.

That is, a protester dressed up as the New York icon was taken into police custody, along with hundreds of other protesters who refused to leave the US Capitol steps on Monday until Congress agrees to pass campaign finance reform.

The protesters were in Washington, DC on Monday as part of Democracy Spring, a loosely organized protest movement that began as a 10-day walk from Philadelphia to the nation's capital, and which is now attracting hundreds of campaign finance advocates to sit-in at the Capitol building over the next week.

The group is demanding that Congress "take immediate action" to create a viable small-dollar public funding system for federal elections, and is calling for a Constitutional amendment to overturn the US Supreme Court's controversial 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commissionin 2009, which lifted restrictions on corporate money in politics.

Few of these protesters participated in the 10-day march from Philadelphia, but many flew and drove into Washington from all over the country to join them on Monday. Given their message, it's unsurprising that many of the attendees sported Bernie Sanders clothing and signs, but the group maintains that it is nonpartisan and not in favor of any candidate.

Democracy Spring: Over 400 Arrested at U.S. Capitol Protesting Corruption & Money in Politics

An excellent piece worth reading in full:

Sanders Annoys Democratic Establishment

When Republicans are in the White House, columnist Paul Krugman and The New York Times sometimes sound pretty good. But when someone starts seriously and effectively challenging core assumptions and values of our political economic system, the progressive veneer quickly vanishes. This is demonstrated in Paul Krugman’s attack on the Bernie Sanders campaign in his “Sanders Over the Edge” editorial.

Krugman does not hold back. Bernie supporters and Bernie himself are described by Krugman as intolerant, cultish, shallow, vague, without substance, lacking character and values, dishonest, short on ethics, really bad, petulant and self-righteous. Wow.

Krugman’s diatribe deserves scrutiny and lampooning. The purpose seems to be to ridicule, threaten and warn Sanders to get back in line. Instead, progressives may intensify their support for Sanders and tell Krugman to get his facts straight. ...

Krugman gets really worked up because Sanders issued a “rant” suggesting Mrs. Clinton may not be “qualified” to be President after taking so much funding from Wall Street and supporting recent and past U.S. foreign aggression and intervention which has backfired badly.

Krugman says Sanders is “really bad on two levels” — “imposing a standard of purity “ and raising the specter that Sanders supporters may not happily support Clinton as the “strong favorite for the Democratic nomination.” This is the core message from Krugman, a warning to Sanders to get back on the establishment bus.

One Forgotten Document Casts Embarrassing Light on Krugman’s “Sanders Over the Edge” Column

Last Friday, Krugman was back at his propaganda desk again, this time attacking Presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders in the process. In his column perniciously titled “Sanders Over the Edge,” which the New York Times has generously decided not to put behind its pay wall, Krugman attempts to undercut Sanders’ pledge to break up the big banks by regurgitating the same set of false facts. Krugman writes:

“The easy slogan here is ‘Break up the big banks.’ It’s obvious why this slogan is appealing from a political point of view: Wall Street supplies an excellent cast of villains. But were big banks really at the heart of the financial crisis, and would breaking them up protect us from future crises?

“Many analysts concluded years ago that the answers to both questions were no. Predatory lending was largely carried out by smaller, non-Wall Street institutions like Countrywide Financial; the crisis itself was centered not on big banks but on ‘shadow banks’ like Lehman Brothers that weren’t necessarily that big.”

When Krugman says “the crisis itself was centered not on big banks,” he has placed himself on factually unsupportable ground. The two largest taxpayer bailouts in the crisis were Citigroup, the largest U.S. commercial bank by assets in 2008, and AIG, the big insurance company, which was in fact a bailout of the biggest banks. ...

It was eventually revealed that major Wall Street banks, foreign banks and hedge funds received more than half of AIG’s bailout money ($93.2 billion). Public pressure eventually forced AIG to release a chart of these payments, but the chart showed just a narrow window of disbursements from September to December 2008. How vast the full total of payments were to the big banks is yet to see the light of day.

The chart shows that Goldman Sachs received $12.9 billion of the funds; Societe Generale received $11.9 billion; Merrill Lynch and its U.S. banking parent, Bank of America, received a combined $11.5 billion; the British bank, Barclays, received $8.5 billion; Citigroup got another backdoor bailout of $2.3 billion from AIG, to name just a few of the big banks.

#CPtime Really? pic.twitter.com/n8UwFAnUdz

— Troy Rudd (@troyrudd) April 12, 2016

Clinton's joke with New York mayor criticized as insulting black people

A comic gag turned into a gaffe for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, triggering a social media storm over what some said was their insensitivity to African-Americans.

Clinton, who has the key New York primary coming up next Tuesday, took the stage with de Blasio on Saturday at the Inner Circle, an annual media roast of city and state politicians that traditionally ends with New York's mayor delivering a snarky rebuttal in the form of a rehearsed skit, often with the help of Broadway cast members.

This year Leslie Odom Jr., who is black and plays Aaron Burr in the hit Broadway show "Hamilton," participated in the skit in which Clinton kidded de Blasio about his delay in endorsing her bid for the White House.

"Sorry, Hillary, I was running on C.P. Time," de Blasio said, referring to the phrase "colored people time" used to indicate chronic lateness.

"I don't like jokes like that," Odom said.

Clinton then added: "'Cautious politician time.' I've been there."

#HillarySoDown she jokes about #CPTime.pic.twitter.com/mnTXkjRZHM

— Jeanette Sandernista (@JeanetteJing) April 11, 2016

Is Hillary's Personal Story About Student Loans a Fabrication?

"I know [student loan forgiveness] works because Bill and I did that. We both borrowed money when we went to law school and we paid it back as a percentage of our income, so I could go to work at the Children's Defense Fund, not some big law firm that would pay me more. I wanted to do the work I loved...I want everyone to have that chance."

Hillary Clinton tells this story to struggling students. She told it to minority students in Mississippi in November 2015, and she recently told it again to minority students in Brooklyn.

Her story makes several important points to attract young people who are flocking to Sanders. ...

But there's a bigger problem with Hillary's story: The loan forgiveness program she refers to didn't even exist in the early 1970s. Yale Law School literature is quite clear on this:

"Some students dream of jobs in smaller firms, nonprofit organizations, public interest, government service or academia. These are jobs that typically pay less than those at large firms. Yale Law School has pioneered a loan repayment assistance program to allow these students to take their dream jobs without worrying about their student loans.

Established in 1989, the Career Options Assistance Program (COAP) was one of the first loan forgiveness programs of its kind."

1989 is not 1973. Yet doesn't this description sounds similar to the story Hillary tells?

Lee Fang: Dark Money & Lobbyists Serving as Superdelegates Could Decide the 2016 Race

Sanders Did Even Better in Colorado Than Reported, But No One Told Him

Democratic Party officials let Hillary Clinton's campaign know five weeks ago, but kept Sanders in the dark

Bernie Sanders supporters cheered when their candidate won the Colorado caucuses by a sizeable margin—59 to 40 percentage points—on Super Tuesday last month, reportedly picking up 38 pledged delegates to rival Hillary Clinton's 28.

Now, they have more to celebrate. An apparent "error" on the part of that state's Democratic Party could widen that lead even further, the Denver Post has revealed, which would hand Sanders the Colorado delegation.

The Post reported Tuesday that the Colorado Democratic Party admitted this week to "misreporting" the March 1 caucus results from 10 precinct locations.

Adding to the controversy, the newspaper notes that the mistake "was shared with rival Hillary Clinton's campaign by party officials but kept from Sanders until the Post told his staff Monday night."

Trump’s delay in building a delegate operation may cost him the nomination

For months, all Donald Trump was doing was winning. But it turns out those wins didn’t mean all that much.

The Republican frontrunner has won 21 states so far in the Republican primary but it has slowly dawned on Trump’s campaign in recent weeks that nearly all of those races were just glorified beauty contests, and that winning the most votes in a state primary may be an accomplishment as valueless as a framed degree from Trump University.

Delegates at the Republican National Convention elect the GOP nominee for the presidential ticket and often those delegates aren’t chosen by popular vote. Smart political campaigns, though, have long built delegate operations to prepare for contested conventions. In contrast, Donald Trump has only just started building one in recent weeks and his failure could cost him the Republican nomination. ...

The clearest sign of Trump’s failure has been his meltdown on Twitter after Ted Cruz swept the state of Colorado on Saturday, and picked up delegates in party conventions in Iowa, South Carolina and Virginia. Trump began by complaining, “I win a state in votes and then get non-representative delegates because they are offered all sorts of goodies by Cruz campaign. Bad system!” ...

Trump amplified this argument in a rally in Albany on Monday night where he insisted “the system, folks, is rigged. It’s a rigged, disgusting, dirty system” and said “we found out in Colorado this is not a democracy like we’re supposed to have”.

the evening greens

Canada's Progressive Party to Consider Radical 'Leap' to Green Economy

In wake of massive job losses from oil price crash, NDP launches nationwide debates about Naomi Klein's call to swiftly transition Canada to a green economy

Canada's leftist New Democratic Party on Sunday passed a resolution to "recognize and support" the Leap Manifesto, a campaign launched in 2015 by Naomi Klein and over 200 interested parties, included Indigenous rights, labor, and social justice groups, calling on Canada's leaders to transition the country to 100% renewable energy.

"The manifesto calls for dramatic change, urging a swift transition away from fossil fuels, a rejection of new pipelines, and an upending of the capitalist system on which the economy is based," as the Globe and Mail writes.

"Climate scientists have told us this is the decade to take decisive action to prevent catastrophic global warming. That means small steps will no longer suffice," the manifesto reads. "So we need to leap." ...

Such arguments appeared to fall on deaf ears among members of the NDP party in Alberta, who were not pleased with the passage of the resolution and feared it would damage them politically in the largely conservative, pro-oil heart of Canada's tar sands industry.

"I'm spitting angry," said Alberta labor leader Gil McGowan to the CBC. "These downtown Toronto political dilettantes come to Alberta and track their garbage across our front lawn." ...

Outside of Alberta, however, over two dozen local NDP chapters drafted their own resolutions calling on the national party to adopt the manifesto, the Globe and Mail reported.

And despite the fervent opposition from the party's Albertan contingent, the resolution narrowly passed.

Global Fisheries Are Collapsing

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 85 percent of global fish stocks are "overexploited, depleted, or recovering from depletion." ...

Fisheries for the most sought-after species of fish have already collapsed. ...

Many scientists, like Daniel Pauly of the University of British Columbia, have estimated that the total fish catch for the planet peaked back in the mid-1980s, and has been declining ever since.

Most scientists studying the issue agree that the three primary causes of the crisis are overfishing, plastic pollution and anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD).

But several, like Dr. Simon Boxall, an associate professor of oceanography with the University of Southampton, singled out overfishing as the largest culprit.

"The big problem is that we are overfishing," Boxall told Truthout. "The [fisheries] management isn't working, and is in fact causing just as much destruction [as] if there was no management in the first place."

Disaster Capitalism's Coming Use of The Lead Water Pipe Crisis

According to USA Today, about 2,000 city and county water systems are infected with lead. And the problem is most acute in the older cities, and in older housing, even in cities that aren't that old, because that's where the pipes are more likely to be made out of lead. And that of course is where, disproportionately, black people live. ...

So clearly the United States is facing a horrific public health crisis. And this health crisis must be addressed. But it also means that the perfect conditions have been created for disaster capitalists, and these disaster capitalists not only want to privatize the water systems all over the country, they only got 12 percent ownership of water systems in the U.S., so that means there's 88 percent to go. That's a huge growth market, as far as they're concerned. They not only want to do this big privatization cash-in, but they want to move black people and poor people out of potentially profitable urban real estate. And this presents them with a perfect opportunity. They want to use this lead poisoning crisis to privatize the water and also to remove black people from the cities.

Dam Threatens to Displace 60 Communities in Mexico, Guatemala

More than 60 communities spanning across the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and Guatemala have voiced outrage over a hydroelectric project that threatens to displace them, the Mexican daily La Jornada reported Saturday.

The Boca del Cerro dam is one of five hydroelectric projects planned for the waterway that straddles the border between Mexico and Guatemala. Leaders from community organizations, including groups in Chiapas aligned with the Zapatista army, have spoken out against the dam that is already under construction on the Usumacinta River.

At a forum for resistance and community alternatives in Chiapas on Saturday, community leaders warned that the dam threatens to “immediately disappear the community of San Carlos Boca del Cerro,” La Jornada reported.

“The government will not compensate us for our land, it will increase the cost of living, and it will disappear us as Chol and Tzeltal Indigenous people of the region,” movement representatives added in a statement about their concerns over the impending but unwanted development.

Without the approval of local affected communities, the Boca del Cerro project violates the International Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, known as ILO 169, which enshrined the right of Indigenous peoples to free prior and informed consent for all development on their traditional territories.