Army halts construction at Standing Rock

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YAY YAY YAY !!!!

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Bernie Sanders:

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/04/politics/dakota-access-pipeline/index.html

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Of course Trump owns stock in the company that is building this pipeline, so hopefully he doesn't go the conflict of interest route and try to ramrod this thing through once he gets into office. The Native-American Indians have been backed into the furthest corner that they can possibly be backed into. There is nowhere else for them to go. That is their environment and they deserve to have a safe water supply and deserve to have their sacred lands honored.

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The Native-American Indians have been backed into the furthest corner that they can possibly be backed into. There is nowhere else for them to go.

When people say things like this it makes me wonder if they are using the words metaphorically or if they actually think Native Americans are forced to live on reservations.

Well, I guess they can agree to lose their heritage and identity, and stop believing in the spiritual nature of life and Mother Earth and how to live in harmony with her, and embrace the white man's crude idea of civilization which includes raping the earth of its precious resources and stealing land that belongs to someone else etc.... Yes they have a choice to assimilate, but it's really no choice when their belief system is so completely on a different plane of reality from one that wants to destroy our "home".

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Of course Trump owns stock in the company that is building this pipeline, so hopefully he doesn't go the conflict of interest route and try to ramrod this thing through once he gets into office. The Native-American Indians have been backed into the furthest corner that they can possibly be backed into. There is nowhere else for them to go. That is their environment and they deserve to have a safe water supply and deserve to have their sacred lands honored.

If you don't think Obama wasn't applying pressure here so as to build his "legacy", you obviously aren't thinking. It is odd how, just like with Keystone XL, he waited until after an election day to do this. Anyway go celebrate your symbolic victory. You've delayed the inevitable and you may have even caused the pipeline to be rerouted, but I expect that by the time of the next presidential election both DAPL and Keystone XL will have been completed and transporting oil less expensively and more safely than the alternative of moving it by rail.

Continuing to rape the land is not inevitable. And it is totally NOT sustainable. It is a losing, greedy, small-minded, ignorant mindset to embrace. We need to wean ourselves from destroying our planet and instead develop energy sources that are sustainable and renewable. So after the new administration and the Republican party get through destroying the economy and the environment, saner minds will be voted in for the clean-up.