Pay to play? Oh boy! Are we there yet?
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What did Obama do about the Dakota pipeline? He sat by and did nothing while military style police tried to end the protest.
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Actually he did a lot more. His administration ILLEGALLY rescinded a permit without any due process just to cause trouble for the incoming administration and cozy up to wackos. His FDA did similar things (and was successfully sued over it).
The pipeline BTW DECREASES the likelihood of a spill - and also doesn’t cross any Indian lands. Many if not most of the neighboring Sioux support it.
Proponents of oil pipelines argue that it is a safer method of transporting fuel than trains. More than 7m gallons of oil were spilled in more than 1,000 pipeline leaks between 2010 and 2015, according to an analysis by High Country News.
You are welcome to bring media reports about those tribes supporting the pipeline. The reports I read they aren’t.
Being loud does not mean being right.
Being noisy could mean annoying, not having a cause.
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But what about trucks? They are the most hazardous.
Thousands of miles of pipe lines…hundreds of thousands of gallons spilled at the 130,000 gas stations alone. About 400 gallons per year each…oil comes from the ground in the first place…Don’t like pipelines? Drive an electric car…
The pipeline BTW DECREASES the likelihood of a spill - and also doesn’t cross any Indian lands. Many if not most of the neighboring Sioux support it.
So, what is it then? Many, most, not all, or some?
If you are going to bring something in your defense, same as those nosey people talking crap when they don’t know what’s going on, let’s hear what the only person not supporting the other tribes, yes, one, or two, or three people not minding, nor giving crap about it, against many tribes, are portrayed in your report.
Are you kidding me? Do you read what you post, or you just see the title, think you got a winner? Let’s read what they say, or the validation of your so called anti-supporters:
"Even though Fool Bear is against the protests, that doesn’t mean he’s not preparing to help people out, too. He anticipates opening the community gymnasium for people without beds come winter, and a growing pile of sleeping bags and blankets sits in his office.
Those protesters from Arizona, Georgia and California won’t know what hit them when the cold rushes in, he says.
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A shrug of indifference
Ten miles west of the protests, a man who doesn’t want to be named, for fear of retribution, admits he looks forward to the pipeline. It’ll mean fewer trucks barreling down these rural highways and fewer trains flying down the tracks.
Back at Cannon Ball, however, Carl Bruce, 52, isn’t afraid to say his piece. For this Standing Rock Sioux who has lived his life here, the pipeline doesn’t matter. If it breaks, he says he’d just work around it.
Carl Bruce
“Oh hell,” he says. “I can move north of the break and get my water over there.”
The pipeline is coming, like it or not, he says. The world may watch this ongoing battle and believe it’s a unifying force for his people, but Bruce just shrugs his shoulders and walks away.
NSA May Be Withholding Intel from President Trump
KEVIN DRUMFEB. 13, 2017 3:24 PM
John Schindler got a lot of attention over the weekend for his Observer article, “The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins.” Here’s the bit that raised the most eyebrows:
A new report by CNN indicates that important parts of the infamous spy dossier that professed to shed light on President Trump’s shady Moscow ties have been corroborated by communications intercepts…SIGINT confirms that some of the non-salacious parts of what Steele reported, in particular how senior Russian officials conspired to assist Trump in last year’s election, are substantially based in fact.
…Our spies have had enough of these shady Russian connections—and they are starting to push back…In light of this, and out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move.
…What’s going on was explained lucidly by a senior Pentagon intelligence official, who stated that “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM,” meaning the White House Situation Room, the 5,500 square-foot conference room in the West Wing where the president and his top staffers get intelligence briefings. “There’s not much the Russians don’t know at this point,” the official added in wry frustration.
“Inside” reporting about the intelligence community is notoriously unreliable, so take this with a grain of salt. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. But just the fact that stuff like this is getting a respectful public hearing is damning all by itself. For any other recent president, a report like this would be dismissed as nonsense without a second thought. But for Trump, it seems plausible enough to take seriously. Stay tuned.
Map of pipelines in the US
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If YOU read the whole thing it is clear that the protest is being driven by OUTSIDERS and not local Sioux.
