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This suxxx, but are any of us really surprised.? I know I am not. I don't think the Lakota and all the others will give up that easy. Maybe it's time to forget about peaceful assemblies to have our voices heard. Maybe it's time for another approach. :speechless:and a US court just ordered thw camp to be dismatled and gone by dec something. The government doesn't give a rats ass about the people.
All of this sucks. Let the guys in Oregon at the BLM office just eat snacks and hangout, but any people in the way of the mighty oil gets assaulted by our own government's oil army. Disgusting.
I've heard of a bus hauling supplies up there from my hometown every week or so. I need to figure out when the next bus comes through so I can give them all my old winter gear and camping stuff I don't use anymore.
And this seems all for a dying cause. Sure we all depend on oil right now, big time. But the truth is this resource will eventually be gone, and pretty soon relatively speaking. Who rules the world? The ones who are ahead of the other, the industrial revolution, the digital revolution, and next the energy revolution. Who controls the energy revolution will be the leader of the hopefully free world and oil won't be the driver. We aren't keeping up. Why can't the oil lovers see this? The economics have nothing to do with being green, just being smart, so why isn't everyone on board? It's beyond me.
Dont worry everything will be ok. When the pipe breaks we will be sure to truck in bottled water to 14 million downstream!!!! The power elite always use that weak line about think about all the jobs it will create. Sorta like all the other boomtown bullshit things they do. They dont tell folks the cancer clusters will rise and when the boom is over there wont be any jobs and the land around you will be toxic. God Bless America....... And yes that is said sarcastically."Don't worry everyone, metal pipes don't leak. Stop crying wolf. This is for the good of the res, for the first people. Sacred burial sites shouldn't be excluded from industrial waste and preventable tragedies. If those honkies can spill oil and fuck up their water then Native Americans shouldn't be excluded. That's just wrong."-said no one ever
I might be over reacting.
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Nope. Still angry. I'm no nuclear scientologist but that muddy stream looks a bit off. I'm not sure what it is though. Maybe it's the angle of the sun.
A bit frustrating to see, but confirmation of potential environmental 'impact' lends credence to the plight of the original natives and validates concerns, but it does so at a cost.
I hate to like this post but I so appreciate you sharing truth! Are the veterans still showing up for peacefull protest? These protest are spreading to major cities and more protest are happening at many pipeline projects...Here is an article from a Lakota's perspective. I do believe I am in agreement. I have felt since day 1 after hearing of the UACOE putting a stay on the easement is just a stall tactic to get all the water protectors to leave. So when Trump gets sworn in he can finish what was started.
Make no mistake: Donald Trump’s Administration is coming for Indian Country—we’re suddenly big targets on his radar. We haven’t had quite this big of a place on the national and international stage in a long time. It makes sense—Native communities have about 25% of the nation’s on-shore oil and gas reserves and developable resources and this upcoming administration is oil-thirsty.
And they’re coming for what Tribes have; Dakota Access was the warm-up. Trump’s line-up of cabinet nominees tells us that his Administration is coming squarely for Native land and Native natural resources. Rick Perry, who sits on the Board of Directors for the Energy Transfer Partners (the company that owns the Dakota Access Pipeline), was nominated as the Energy Secretary. Trump also nominated Scott Pruitt to be the new head of the EPA; Pruitt said that “hydraulic fracking, a technological innovation that has done more to reduce carbon emissions in this country than any other technological advancement of our time.” No really—that’s what he said. He also wrote a letter to Obama In 2012, Pruitt and Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal wrote a letter to President Obama asking to eliminate a Bureau of Land Management proposal that requires oil companies to disclose the chemicals used in fracking operations on Native American land.
These cats want to separate Native people from our lands and mineral resources. It’s westward expansion, manifest destiny! Again.
Even Trump’s Indian Advisor, Markwayne Mullin (Cherokee Nation), tells us that’s the goal. “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.”
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. (Trump’s Indian Advisor) speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Yeah, that couldn’t be a bad idea, could it? Last time that happened (Dawes Allotment Act of 1887), over 60 million acres of Native lands were designated as “surplus” and stolen from Native hands.
Fortunately, it’s a Native who has this idea this time—maybe that makes it better.
Additionally, the newest nominee for Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, also is a believer in extracting our mineral resources in any way possible. “Fracking is safe and not a threat to clean and safe water. The only question that remains is why did it take so long?” No, he really said that. In regards to a rule that limited emissions and flares in gas and oil development, Zinke said, “This rule is a stark reminder that we need to invest in infrastructure projects like the Keystone pipeline, so we don’t need to flare excess gas.” Importantly, Zinke also is not quite a climate change denier—he’s a climate change agnostic. “It’s not a hoax, but it’s not proven science either. But you don’t dismantle America’s power and energy on a maybe. We need to be energy independent first. We need to do it better, which we can, but it is not a settled science.”
AP Photo/Matthew Brown
In this photo taken Oct. 20, 2016, Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke speaks with a supporter in Billings, Montana.
Folks like Zinke only see tribal lands as a place to extract natural resources. Nothing more.
Obviously Rex Tillerson is the high priest of extracting fossil fuels, but Trump’s entire cabinet should be taken as a declaration of war on the earth, the environment and, very importantly, Indian Country.
Here’s what’s going to happen: Trump prides himself on being a “dealmaker.” He’s going to get his Cabinet to call their oil company friends to cut deals with economically struggling Native Nations that are energy rich. One of his energy hungry cronies will go, for example, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe or the Northern Cheyenne Tribe or the Navajo Tribe, and say, “You have 70 or 75 or 80% unemployment. We’re going to cut a deal with you so that we bring in developers to exploit this oil or coal or natural gas that you have. In exchange, you will get a higher percentage than tribes used to get.” Or alternatively, those companies buy enough individual parcels of land that they can force the sale because it’s private now. But now, because the land is private, they do not have to deal with demonstrations like in Standing Rock. They own the land outright.
As my brilliant sister Winona LaDuke says, “Predatory Economics.”
If those Tribes enter into those agreements, those tribes have willingly entered into agreements that preclude any legal claim to stopping development.
These folks are going to come to us, to make deals with us, but make no mistake: they are not our friends. Of course I’m not comparing Trump to Hitler, but we can either wait—as Prime Minister Chamberlain unfortunately did with the Fuhrer—and find out later.
Or we can realize right now that they are coming for our land, our resources, and the effect on our sovereignty and our communities’ health are an afterthought. If we plan to keep fighting for those things, there will be no peace for our time.
Gyasi Ross, Editor at Large
Blackfeet Nation/Suquamish Territories
Most of the vets went home after the USACOE announced the permit stay. It is a ploy. Think about it. It took months to mobilize and setup this protest and now with a large portion gone and as the brutal winter rolls in they hope they will all leave so they dont face the same resistance as before.I hate to like this post but I so appreciate you sharing truth! Are the veterans still showing up for peacefull protest? These protest are spreading to major cities and more protest are happening at many pipeline projects...
@nightwatch is the kinda pilgrim sent west as a buffer in between the conquered natives and conquers of western civilisation, this kind of ignorance is what fed savage injun propagonda, equivalent to feeder madness propaganda, THOSE type of people should not have platform to spew their verbal diarrhea....reminds me of the type a person that constantly starts out messages with the words "trust me...I promise...and I'm not here to stir shit but let me shit on your thoughts don't mind me"Holy fucking shit!!! Did you really say that?And are these really your beliefs? If so you and I have nothing further to talk about.
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