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Haven't these poor Indians been through enough? Bad enough we stole their land and gave them a single rock and told them "here, have a reservation." But corporate greed does not care. They'll contaminate our drinking water so that they can afford their mansions and their collection of sports cars. They'll rape the planet we live in and they don't care, and the far right doesn't care, because the far right cares more about "jawbs" than the planet they live on and our water and our soil.
They care more about some a-hole being employed in a corrupt, corner-cutting, careless company than the rest of us having a nice place to live.
Some of that 'undiscovered' oil, is sitting on reservation land ... Fort Berthold Reservation.
By doing a crime......you have a strange way of supporting Presidential candidate. The only publicity she is getting is being charged for vandalizing, the strange thing she doesn't even know why!
I've long supported civil disobedience. There is no reason why I would not support it for a candidate. It beats starting useless wars that kill hundreds of thousands.
Defacing a bulldozer or starting an unjustified war? To me that one is easy.
North Dakota — Previously peaceful protests at the construction site of the Dakota Access pipeline have officially been militarized. North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has called on the state’s National Guard to reinforce law enforcement at the construction site where Native American protesters are currently blocking further development.
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If true this isn't going to end well.
North Dakota — Previously peaceful protests at the construction site of the Dakota Access pipeline have officially been militarized. North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple has called on the state’s National Guard to reinforce law enforcement at the construction site where Native American protesters are currently blocking further development.
Previously peaceful my ass... Tonight a group of 10 of your so called peaceful protestors beat the crap out of one of the pipeline workers. And you won't see that on the news because it doesn't fit the narrative. The truth of your so called peaceful "victim's" of the pipeline are starting to come to light. And victim status is denied. It may get ugly, but their going to have no one to blame but themselves.
On Monday night, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) declared a state of emergency for two counties on the Yellowstone River, after a pipeline over the river burst on Saturday morning, contaminating the drinking water. Bridger Pipeline LLC, which operates the 12-inch Poplar pipeline, estimates that 300 to 1,200 barrels (2,600 to 50,400 gallons) of light Bakken crude dumped into the Yellowstone before the pipeline was shut off.
Haven't these poor Indians been through enough? Bad enough we stole their land and gave them a single rock and told them "here, have a reservation." But corporate greed does not care. They'll contaminate our drinking water so that they can afford their mansions and their collection of sports cars. They'll rape the planet we live in and they don't care, and the far right doesn't care, because the far right cares more about "jawbs" than the planet they live on and our water and our soil.
They care more about some a-hole being employed in a corrupt, corner-cutting, careless company than the rest of us having a nice place to live.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate passed a measure authorizing the nation’s defense programs Friday, and along with it managed to give lands sacred to Native Americans to a foreign company that owns a uranium mine with Iran.
The $585 billion National Defense Authorization Act of 2015 is one of the must-pass pieces of legislation that Congress moves every year. But like they did in attaching extraneous riders to the must-pass government funding bill, lawmakers used the defense bill as a vehicle to pass a massive public lands package.
The bill sailed through on a vote of 89 to 11.
Many of the land measures were popular. But one, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act, had twice failed to win support in the House of Representatives, blocked both by conservationists and conservatives.
The deal gives a subsidiary of the Australian-English mining firm Rio Tinto 2,400 acres of the Tonto National Forest in exchange for several other parcels so it can mine a massive copper deposit.
The Iran connection comes from a uranium mine in Namibia, in which Tehran has owned a 15 percent stake since the days of the shah.
“We are aware of the mine in question and have discussed relevant compliance issues with the company,” the spokesperson said.
Thousands of people have joined the Standing Rock Sioux Nation's fight against construction of a contentious oil pipeline, a showdown Indigenous leaders in North Dakota warn won't end anytime soon.
They're opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a multimillion-dollar project that's supposed to transport light sweet crude oil from the Bakken oilfield near the Canadian border to Illinois.
The Black Hills of South Dakota may contain some of the purest water on Earth, scientists say, but it's buried hundreds of feet beneath the ground.
A team of scientists and researchers have been exploring the subterranean waterways of Wind Cave National Park, which were discovered in the 1960s, for years.
The team, led by microbiologist Hazel Barton, travels sporadically to the lowest reaches of the cavern system to study a series of underground lakes, which appear to be devoid of animal life or even easily detectable microscopic organisms.
But Barton, from the University of Akron, has discovered there is bacteria — albeit scant — in the lakes. She's beginning to analyze about six years of data and hopes to decipher how the bacteria survives, answer questions about how it interacted before multicellular organisms came along and perhaps find new sources of antibiotics.
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Please educate me, I haven't been paying much attention to this issue - since the other 50 disastorous issues destroying the country have been keeping me busy.
BUT - if there is no pipeline, who do they propose to move the oil from point A to point B? Isn't a pipe safer than trucks or trains, and cheaper?
Good to see the Natl Guard, there hasn't been an indian massacre for decades. It's about time the govt shows them who's in charge. Do you think they will just shoot the squaws and papooses?
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Fort Berthold Reservation.
The only publicity she is getting is being charged for vandalizing, the strange thing she doesn't even know why!
