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Over 10,000 Facebook Users Worldwide Falsely Check in at Standing Rock To Confuse Police (time.com)
More than 100,000 people from around the world have checked in on Facebook at the site of Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota, in an effort they hope will help protesters avoid detection by police. From a report on Vice:A call went out for Facebook users over the weekend to falsely check in at Standing Rock to confuse the police regarding protester identities and numbers. But it isn't clear whether the directive came from organizers on the ground at the Camp of the Sacred Stone, who call themselves Water Protectors because of the purported threat that the planned pipeline poses to Standing Rock's water supply, or whether it's a hoax. Protesters have been camped out at Standing Rock since April in response to the planned Energy Transfers Pipeline, but tensions reached a boiling point last week when protesters clashed with police and several vehicles were set on fire. Scenes of standoffs between riot police and protesters linked arm-in-arm were broadcast online via Facebook Live. Law enforcement used a sound cannon in an attempt to disperse protesters. Protest leaders in North Dakota say they were surprised by the Facebook check-in effort, but they appreciate it.
To no effect:
http://www.snopes.com/facebook...
I unrelated news, the Department of Homeland Security has added over 10,000 facebook users to the US No-Fly list, as suspected supporters of terrorism
Everyone protesting the pipeline drove their car to the protest. Classic.
from idiots clueless idiots calling the protestors hippies and ecowarriors.
That how poor the reporting on these protests are right now.
These arent tree huggers, these are Native Americans trying to protect land sacred to them.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
Exactly! A pipeline is far less risky than the current transport system utilizing rail. While accidents do happen, events are not common.
After doing some reading from many sources including various documents on initial planning, there is more than meets the eye. There is lots of gray rather than the general big bad companies and government vs oppressed Native Americans.
- Pipeline planned to capitalize of Bakken oil boom
- Pipeline operator offer $56 million for pipeline to traverse Standing Rock territory
- Offer is turned down
- Pipeline operator purchases land and secures rights to route pipeline around Standing Rock territory
- Standing Rock does not attend public hearings regarding rerouted pipeline
- Pipeline construction starts
- Standing Rock nation raises objections to new pipeline route
... decrease the amount of energy and risk of transporting it via conventional methods..
Only problem is that doesn't seem to be true:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The risk to fresh water supplies is very real. The pipeline has already been rerouted once due to concerns of water supply contamination in the event of a spill for Bismark:
http://bismarcktribune.com/new...
The current route would take it right past the water supply for the reservation. Contrary to information that's circulating, the tribe has been very active in it's opposition to the pipeline being near their water supply since it was proposed to reroute through their land. They most certainly didn't "wait around" just so they could protest. The the objection has nothing to do with "burial grounds" but access to clean drinking water. This is complete and total misinformation.
Pipelines aren't safer, just more profitable. Maybe they _could_ be made safer than truck and train tankers, but my guess is that then they wouldn't be any more profitable.
Wikipedia has a good article with lots of specific details:
The treaty produced a brief period of peace, but it was broken by the failure of the United States to prevent the mass emigration of miners and settlers into Colorado during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. They took over Indian lands in order to mine them, "against the protests of the Indians,"[12] and founded towns, started farms, and improved roads. Before 1861 the Cheyenne and Arapahoe "had been driven from the mountain regions down upon the waters of the Arkansas."[12] Such emigrants competed with the tribal nations for game and water, straining limited resources and resulting in conflicts with the emigrants. The U.S. government did not enforce the treaty to keep out the emigrants.[12] In 1864 came the Sand Creek massacre on a camp of mostly Cheyennes by Colonel John M. Chivingtons army of one hundred days volunteers. The consequence was years of war between the Cheyennes and the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Yes Hillary laughed, she was a nervous 27 year old lawyer fresh out of school that had just defended probably one of the worst people in humanity and because the state fucked up she got the guy a significantly reduced sentence. So she laughed about how the lie detector was worthless as a way to cope with the horrible thing that the state and justice system allowed. There is NOTHING unusual about this. Cops and all kinds of people that deal with the worst of all human acts tell awful jokes about it as a way to cope with the horrible shit they are dealing with. Because if you can't try to deal with it you end up insane.
Nothing she did during the trial was abnormal for trials of these kinds at the time. When you judge history by today's standards it makes you a fucking idiot. We used to treat rape suspects like whores in court, that doesn't make it Clinton's responsibility that the courts allowed and even expected that kind of behavior. It was wrong, no one disputes that and the laws have changed to disallow these kinds of defenses but if she'd failed to make motions that were routine at the time she could have been professionally punished for failing to do everything she could for the client she was forced to defend.
Stop judging history through today's lens.
Though drinking water is the primary concern the Tribe has also expressed concerns that the pipeline route crosses unidentified native burial and archeological sites that were not identified in the environmental documents but readily visible. Within 24 hours of filing with the court a list of over 120 of these sites the contractor building the pipeline had demolished every site listed in the document, even starting construction in areas where it was planned to begin for months.
This alone paints a very bad picture of the company and the state groups charged with protecting native remains and sites. The fact that every listed site was demolished within 24 hours should be grounds for significant damages and an immediate halt to all construction activity. See the power of the state of ND has been brought to bear on this pipeline, government and police power is being used to enforce construction because the state has an interest in seeing this pipeline built.
Given what I've heard about the environmental process and document that was prepared for this work I don't believe the state and commercial interest have acted in good faith. The tribe's concerns are valid and were ignored or not addressed. These are all violations of NEPA rules.
Snopes, please tell us, why is the rape of a 12-year-old funny at all?
It's not. But then, she wasn't laughing about the act itself, she was laughing (somewhat hollowly, by the sound of it) about a couple of specific aspects of the proceedings.
Should we just ignore that Hillary has a rather morbid sense of humor [youtube.com]?
You probably have to to preserve your sanity, if you're going to be a criminal defence lawyer.
It's true that she may be legally correct here. But how can you defend that kind of thing morally?
That's precisely why lawyers have a professional obligation to defend their clients.
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