The Weekly Watch

What are the big stories of the week? We all might answer differently. The story that has captured me is the Dakota protests. And the other protests...in our prisons, in Brazil, a world record protest in India, even at football games. Are the people waking up? We can hope. Meanwhile the US election creeps ever closer (feeling creepy too). The planet is still finite in a world economy based on unlimited growth.

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PROTESTS

On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they protested against the $3.8 billion pipeline's construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield to Illinois.
Dakota protesters drive back bulldozers with Amy Goodman (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuZcx2zEo4k

Moving interview with Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard about another attack against her tribe more than 150 years ago. On September 3, 1863, the U.S. Army massacred more than 300 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in what became known as the Whitestone massacre. (18 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVbQMtvT2WI

The Governor is calling in the National Guard against the Native American protest. Deja vu all over again. (12 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJXdlfcJ9JI

The Powerful Interests are Backing the Dakota Access Pipeline (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4a-1rlueV0
More at http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/07/whos-banking-dakota-access-...

Federal judge denies tribe's request for injunction, but federal agencies issue statement pausing pipeline construction http://commondreams.org/news/2016/09/09/us-government-steps-after-judge-...

Lee Camp breaks down how the treatment of these protesters reflects a legal system dictated by corporate and political interests (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYDA5FQppVI

Seems the US media of mass distraction focus is on this story rather than the next one.
More NFL players are joining Colin Kaepernick’s cause. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Rr-EsJda8

Why don't people know about this?
150 Million Indian Workers Take Part In Largest Strike in Centuries with Vijay Prashad. (12 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjHER9L5Cic

Indians Staged One of the Largest Strikes in History, But No One on U.S. Cable News Covered It
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/indians-staged-one-of-the-largest-st...

Protests in the prisons too!

Prison work stoppage planned for Friday protesting prison slavery - Eddie Conway interviews Asatar Bair Assistant Professor of Economics about prisons and the ownership of a person’s labor power vs. the ownership of a person (27 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SJbQF2rS3c

Friday prisoners in at least 24 states are set to participate in a nationally coordinated strike that comes on the 45th anniversary of the prison uprising at Attica. (15 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OClZInNXVnU

Chris Hedges is joined by journalist and author Adam Hochschild to remember the rebels in history whose moral conviction drove them to battle. Hochschild chronicles rebels who joined the fight against fascism in his latest book ‘Spain in Our Hearts: Americans and the Spanish Civil War’. (27 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDpaw_dK-_Y

Lee Camp catches up with “American Autumn” filmmaker and Jill Stein’s past press secretary Dennis Trainor Jr about just how close Occupy Wall Street came to rupturing our corrupt economic system. (the first 10 min or so)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud_04OMemt8

Education

Who Gains Most From School Choice? Not Low-Income Students Of Color
http://educationopportunitynetwork.org/who-gains-from-school-choice-not-...

Media

YouTube enraged many of its top channels after it de-monetized numerous videos for violating their absurdly vague community guidelines-- videos that were deemed 'not advertiser-friendly.' Is YouTube over? Jimmy Dore (9 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSPOz80PyvA

Is youtube censoring creators? (16.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1tJzTgJAE

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Election?

No one was arrested for releasing dogs on protesters, but Jill Stein has a warrant issued for her protests. (1.5 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4LMGVp5KlI
8 min more from RT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-_xdRr6iqs

This week a Presidental Town Hall was held featuring T-rump and the $hill. Many suggest the forum was a lesson in how not to inform voters or put a check on those seeking high office.
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/07/nbcs-military-forum-was-a-master-cla... and
http://commondreams.org/news/2016/09/08/commander-chief-forum-panned-col...

Matt Lauer moderated the NBC Commander-In-Chief Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. His performance with Donald Trump drew harsh criticisms, but not from Chris Mathews, who defended him and revealed how terrible the corporate media is. (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJ4gfZQk6Q

In a recent CNN poll, Hillary Clinton found herself losing to the maniac, bankrupt, lying, cheating, racist, xenophobic billionaire Donald Trump. Another survey about her trustworthiness showed a majority of Americans have serious concerns about her honesty. (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msiBZwqLhzA

Hillary Clinton has a lot of friends on the left wing media. Chris Cillizza and Joan Walsh dismissed those wanting to know more about Hillary Clinton's recent coughing attacks as right wing smears and as inappropriate. Both wrote articles questioning John McCain's health. (8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL4ZhrcJYK4

The FBI has now released the findings of its investigation into the Hillary Clinton email scandal. However the timing of the report has sparked criticism. It was made public on Friday, just before the Labor Day Weekend, with some commentators noting it's a convenient time to bury bad news. (7 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q6nLFY59nk

Russia is once again being accused of trying to influence the US presidential election. This time, American intelligence officials are apparently looking into what they see as a possible covert operation - with the goal of creating public distrust of the voting system (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeIsvHdnfFo

Greg Palast has a new book and movie out about election fraud– The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Check out his website for details http://www.gregpalast.com/

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TPP

As the Obama administration begins a new push to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership more than 200 of the country’s leading economists and legal scholars have written a letter urging Congress to reject the 12-nation trade pact, citing its controversial investor-state dispute settlement. (12 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPSW3-qT7BU

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Endless war

As Syrian opposition groups retreat from the demand that President Assad step down, a ceasefire agreement becomes more feasible, says Vijay Prashad (15 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgfkvXKowj8

Check this out
The NSA base in the UK has been used to aid “a significant number of capture-kill operations” across the Middle East and North Africa, fueled by powerful eavesdropping technology that can harvest data from more than 300 million emails and phone calls a day.
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/nsa-menwith-hill-targeted-killing-su...

BOLIVIA
Transgender Bolivians have been celebrating getting identity cards that reflect their new identities. It means they can change their name and gender on official documents.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37299798

ARGENTINA
Argentina’s unions brought tens of thousands of people into the capital’s streets Friday to protest against government job cuts, the elimination of subsidies and other policies of President Mauricio Macri.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/02/argentina-unions-protests-...

BRAZIL
Less than a week after the impeachment of the country’s first woman president, Dilma Rousseff, thousands of protesters are back on the streets throughout Brazil, to demand the ousting of President Michel Temer, Rousseff’s vice-president who took over the office. - See more at: http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/protests-against-braz...

JAPAN
Japanese firm succeeds in bluefin tuna farming with formulated feed.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/07/national/japanese-oita-firm-...

CAMBODIA
A Cambodian opposition leader was sentenced to five months in jail Friday in the latest faceoff between the government and opposition as political tensions over challenges to Prime Minister Hun Sen's longstanding autocratic rule show no signs of easing.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/other/2016/09/10/478032/Cambodian-oppos...

AFRICA
Sub-Saharan Africa is seeing a surge of interest in irrigation among small-scale farmers as climate change brings more erratic weather and as rising populations in countries from Nigeria to Kenya mean demand for a reliable harvest is growing, agriculture and water experts say...better women's land rights, access to clean energy, loans and training are needed.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201609100098.html

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The Planet

Geographer Richard Heede has complied a massive database quantifying who has been responsible for putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...percentage of world emissions is lead by Saudi Aramco(3.39%), followed by Chevron(3.39%), ExxonMobil (3.11%), BP (2.41%), Gazprom (2.12%), Royal Dutch Shell (2.07%), National Iranian Oil Co. (2.07%) and Petroleos Mexicanos (1.41%). http://www.latinamericanpost.com/article/most-climate-change-is-caused-b...

We are very small in the scheme of things. Enjoy 9 minutes of the Earth in space from the Hubble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un5SEJ8MyPc

This is an open thread. Please add any stories from the week that spoke to you...or anything else on your mind.

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Lookout's picture

I forgot to include the Teacher's strike in Mexico
Oaxaca, MEX - A strike by teachers in four states that began Aug. 22 has closed more than half the schools in Oaxaca and Chiapas, according to the National Coordination of Education Workers.
http://laborpress.org/sectors/education/8351-mexican-teachers-strike-gov...

The Student Strike in Honduras
Honduran students took over university campus administration building to demand that charges be dropped against 6 students, who are expected in court next week. (30 sec)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl7-1IWMVw8

Nor the protests in Venezuela where we are doing our best to instigate a coup. (1.5 min)
International media ignored the huge pro-government rally in Venezuela that happened simultaneously along the opposition's. One of the rallies also turned violent and media didn't talk about it, can you guess which one it was?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os8ayB_UE2k

Workers of the World Unite!
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didn't see it mentioned elsewhere. It should have been international headline news in my view.

India has a neolib government now, very unpopular, and this government is disrupting traditional agriculture, for one, in favor of the "Monsanto" model of growing for-export crops and putting farmer/owners of small acreage off their land through several methods, one of which is pricing them out of the market.

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"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"

Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you;
ye are many - they are few

P. Shelley

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We are many and they are few.
Take from the rich and give to the poor.
Take from the rich and give to the poor.

The Mekons, "Robin Hood"

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Lookout's picture

Thanks for the poem. Let our voices unite and bring harmony to our imploding planet!

Speaking of which I forgot to include the story of the comet crashing in to the sun this week, nor our encounter with Jupiter.

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each week and it's all important stuff even if the for-profit press doesn't think so.

Yes, we can try and create some harmony in what may be the last few decades of human civilization.

Percy Shelley said poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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Gerrit's picture

spoke to me. I received (from Germany) a song book by Tom Glazer called Songs of Peace, Freedom, & Protest, 1970. He was two songs from the Spanish fight against fascism in the 1930s.
Here is one, En Espana Las Flores by Ilaria Savini:

Tom Glazer has an English translation. A powerful song.

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Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.

who supported the freedom fighters against Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

Pete Seeger recorded songs with Tom Glazier and others on this war and the collection is still in print.

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good to see you and your resilience threads again. Do you ever hear from Martha?

I think Chris Hedges new show on RT is great and I enjoyed the his conversation about the Spanish civil war (and rebels in general).

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because it sounds like a good way to meet our future food requirements. Using the feed means they can raise tuna without having to introduce other fish, such as mackerel. Feeding them other fish would increase their size faster, but at the cost of dirtier water, according to the article.

[If it also reduces the mercury in tuna, that would be an additional benefit, IMO.]

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"All Life is Problem Solving" - Karl Popper

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and polluting the oceans, we better find some alternatives. Thanks as always for your contribution to the weekly watch!

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The way you put together the weekly events is great story telling, has many details I would have missed and puts the details together into a well organized weekly review. Much better than any other weekly "magazine" I have found.

I even saw a Bolivian piece I missed Smile -- I will have to ask my family what people think of integrated public bathrooms. Actually public bathrooms are mostly private and bathrooms in older schools could definately use some work.

Thanks for the vidlink on the India General Strike... this was perfect to post along with my Hillaryland 2 essay on FB as the only possible solution to corporate world domination. (I can't believe that I have come to a conclusion about corporate domination that I have always left to tinfoilhattery).

One of the most heartbreaking scenes in a documentary was the kids in the lottery for the few spots in a good school in Waiting for 'Superman'. That was so far off the charts of fairness, justice and good management... it was profoundly pathetic.

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From the Light House.

Lookout's picture

from someone whose posts are so enlightening to me! Let me thank you for the insights you offer too.

I value those of you on c99 who have an international view. Here in the states we are blinded by our own involvement in the empire... and as you suggest, it is a global corporate empire growing ever stronger.

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An arrest warrant for criminal trespassing has also been issued for Amy Goodman for covering the Dakota Access pipeline protests.

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Don't let the people know private companies sicced their dogs on peaceful protesters. Quick have the injustice system side with the corporations. Placate the people saying it will stop (until they quit paying attention). The issue is far from over.

Get those whistle-blowers. Like after police shootings...they arrest the people who filmed and publicized the brutality. It is past time for a revolution!

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But when they were finally released on July 15 of this year, the news media gave their content little to no coverage.

The Great 9/11 coverup

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Some things seem plain but are never discussed. One of those is the brutality and oppression of the the Saudis and Bahrain - they are our allies...but Assad has to go although he has a much more open and reasonable society.

Under Gaddafi, women walked the streets freely and could attend college, but not since we liberated them. Our empire is a disaster and a shame, and yet it prospers because of a corrupt and complicit media!

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This is a invaluable news watch. As I leave the horseshit of electoral politics behind I'm finding out how hard it is to find real news stories even online ( no mainstream cable or tv for 5 years). I too this week followed the Dakota Access pipe line story. My local community radio KBOO carries Democracy Now at 4:30 followed by city, state, news and an hour of Native American news on Thursdays . Ironically it's right next to NPR on the radio dial. It's pretty amazing that the global internet social media has managed to cover a lot of the stories that the official news won't touch or when they do cover they bias the story with 'Putin did it' or glo0bal economic cliffs were all going to go over, and other propaganda fear/war mongering. Newspeak or as Shah calls it your 10 minutes of hate.

http://kboo.fm/

This week the show featured DAPL news, NA music and poems.

'Love you some Indians' poem

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I love me some indians. I sure loved the poem! Thanks. And the rap - I hope the protests don't turn all RED.

We have a digital antenna, but mainly watch our news from the internet. Cut the cable (well DISH) years ago. Have mediocre DSL service here on Lookout - but it is our line to the outside world. It still amazes me - I can come back here to the computer and find out things so quickly. All those library skills have taken a whole new direction - knowing what info was in which book or journal is a kind of scholarship of the past.

Now we have to adapt to new information - and the weekly watch is a stab at that. Glad you find it useful.

All the best to you and the Shah! (play a tune for me - I'll do the same for you!)

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I watched a rerun of the Commander in Chief interviews with Hillary and was struck by how angry her tone was through all her answers. Maybe I was tired, but I felt that she was attacking me as a citizen rather than trying to win my vote. She didn't smile once. She seemed very defensive.

Now Trump was the one being goaded, but came across as much more pleasant.

Anyone else pick up that vibe or was it just me?

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I didn't watch it - just recaps. She always seems shrill to me. I can handle tone it's her substance of war and money that gets to me.

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