Dakota Access, is the left at it again??

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An actual CNN piece (no pink font, really) that looks at another angle.

By Jessica Ravitz, CNN

Updated 5:21 PM ET, Thu November 3, 2016
What's up with the Dakota Access Pipeline?

The Dakota Access Pipeline will move 470,000 barrels of domestic crude oil a day through four states
It will run near a reservation in North Dakota, the site of months-long protests

Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota (CNN)Ask around and you'll hear stories of pipeline protesters who've traveled great distances.
They've come from Japan, Russia and Germany. Australia, Israel and Serbia. And, of course, there are the allies, not exclusively Native American or indigenous, who've flocked here from all corners of the US.

Together they stand in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.7 billion investment to move 470,000 barrels of domestic crude oil a day through four states. They're fighting against what they see as corporate greed, an environmental threat and an assault on sacred land.

Demonstrating is their proud daily work.

The Standing Rock Sioux call this reservation home, and many are not on the frontlines of this months-long, and at times violent, protest. With no end in sight, what does it mean to them? And are they even united in their support?
The answer to that last question: Not even close.

Wishing they'd go home
No one makes this clearer than Robert Fool Bear Sr., 54, district chairman of Cannon Ball. The town he runs, estimated population of 840, is just a few miles from the action. It's so close that, given the faceoffs with law enforcement, you have to pass through a police checkpoint to reach it.
It's about time people heard from folks like him, he says.

Fool Bear has had it with the protesters. He says that more than two years ago, when members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe could have attended hearings to make their concerns known, they didn't care. Now, suddenly, the crowds are out of control, and he fears it's just a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt.

Go down to the camps, he says, and you won't see many Standing Rock Sioux.
"It irks me. People are here from all over the world," he says. "If they could come from other planets, I think they would."

The presence of all these people has become a downright nuisance to his community, he says. Given the roadblocks, residents of Cannon Ball are often forced to go more than 40 miles out of their way.

Not long ago, he found three teenage girls from Ontario, Canada, camped out inside his storage shed. A white woman from Spokane, Washington, came to see him for help, saying she'd come here with nothing and her car had broken down. When he was at the casino recently, someone approached him about two young kids who were on their own because their parents had been arrested.

The situation has dissolved to madness, he says, and he wishes Dave Archambault II, the Standing Rock Sioux chairman, would speak up.

"If he had any balls, he'd tell [the protesters] to go home," Fool Bear says.
And he's not alone in feeling this way. Two women who listen in as he talks keep nodding in agreement, but they don't want to speak.

Just look at a recent vote in the community for further proof that Fool Bear's not the only naysayer. When protest organizers presented a request to build a new winter camp in Cannon Ball earlier this month, his community shot it down.

Balance of the piece (with some pics) at the link above.

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Here in Montana (and I'm not in the mountains) it's 9 degrees F at 2000 hrs at my location. With the weather forecast (ND to get very cold too) to be in the singles for the next few days I expect some poor fool was quite worried about frozen bodies and whined to the administration. And, since Trump had hinted in favor of it, it would and I think did make another barb against the incoming admin.
It didn't cross any reservation land but the yahoo on the news tonight (some Sioux spokesman) said that it crossed under their water which they had treaty rights for.......whaaaa, whhaaaaa, whhaaaaa......
As stated above, why did they not go to the initial meetings.......because they were too damn lazy and really didn't care until someone put them on the news!
This so called president has set a bad precedent with allowing all of the rioters to rule the roost wherever they spring up.
This next administration really needs to nip that in the butt the next time it happens. So what if the media shows a bunch violent protestors getting the shit beat out of them? Freedom of speech needs to end when you are attacking LEO or destroying property!
Sorry, had to rant. The local news showed all the hippies and Indians doing their celebratory dancing!
(According to the news, the pipeline was 98% complete!)

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I woke up this morning to 9 inches of nice wet snow and a blizzard warning. Most of the state is now under a no travel advisory, and I see that the protest camp got hit pretty hard as well. Looks like Team Sergeant was right about the weather being the beginning of the end of the protest. Even the Standing Rock chairman is urging people to go home. Sounds like Trump will be re-evaluating the permit denial when he takes office, so it's a temporary victory anyway.

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Did The Veterans At The Standing Rock Protest Just Get Played? Because It Sure Seems That Way.
by Scott Faith

What a difference a few days makes.

After responding to a (fundamentally misguided) call to action to support the Standing Rock protest, hundreds and perhaps thousands of US military veterans are now without basic necessities, without leadership, and now (after being asked to leave by the protest organizers), without a mission.

After literally rallying the troops through “Veterans Stand for Standing Rock” and raising over a million dollar through GoFundMe, and apparently having accomplished their real mission of calling attention to themselves, far-left social justice warrior Wes Clark Jr. and his compatriots seem to be… absent.

Well, at least they’re absent from where the danger and discomfort are. they certainly weren’t absent from where the spotlight was.

http://havokjournal.com/politics/nat...re-seems-way/#


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