after all, they were not slowing down corporate profits, just terrorizing the residents of a small community. That's quite acceptable under the new normal.

Actually, on second thought it does surprise me that the OreGoons got off lightly for terrorizing the community, that's the feds job lately it seems and we all know how they hate competition...

You think shit is bad under Obama? Wait until Hillary...

We couldn't call Obama out for his shit for 8 years because that would make us racist and we wont be able to criticize Clinton without being called misogynists.

We need a white man back in office just so we can safely go back to calling them out without being attacked by "Our own side".

How screwed we are....

Why more of us in that neck of the woods aren't "occupying" Dakota is a good question. And, I know none of us wishes to be shot at, killed, or simply jailed for a week or two, but that's where we are. That's where we are. That's what it's going to take to end this horse$h!t.

They only went after White FEMALE journalists: Deia Schlosberg and Amy Goodman, with an honorary nod to Shailene Woodley.

Chicken-shit militarized police afraid to take on the men?

Yet another clear sign confirming her slithery, transparent conscience.

Forced to respond, which makes her angry because it's another opportunity for the public to see through to her rotten core, she spits up the most insulting, equivocating nothingspeak, so typical and the domain of corporate lawyers everywhere and the reason most people hate and distrust both politicians and lawyers. She is despicable. A vindictive dictator-in-waiting for sure, as economist Michael Hudson said in a brilliant interview on what her presidency would mean for the 99%, Wall St and the world.

Common Dreams: "'What a Crock': Clinton Breaks DAPL Silence With Statement That Says 'Literally Nothing'"

"What a crock," said Ruth Hopkins, a Dakota-Lakota Sioux writer for Indian Country Today Media Network.

"Hillary Clinton managed to make a statement about the Dakota Pipeline that literally says nothing. Literally," 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben tweeted in response.

"Kind of a BS statement by the Clinton camp on #NoDAPL, frankly," wrote MSNBC host Joy Reid. "The outrage taking place out there cries out for outrage."

Others noted that the statement "is the most Clinton thing of all times," as Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting journalist Adam Johnson put it.

In a lengthy Twitter thread, anonymous commentator @ActualFlatticus breaks down what they say is the campaign's "triangulation" of the protest.

simply swept the Natives aside, as if they were of no account. There's no need for her to say anything meaningful about that. It's just business as usual. As long as big money keeps getting pumped into the right bank accounts, Hillary will remain unconcerned.

Attention must be shifted away from this little dust-up, to more important matters such as the Russians and Trump. Hillary is a progressive, and these demonstrators are just getting in the way of progress. If they don't want to help make America even more exceptional than it already is, fuck em.

in something like that. I was thinking about trying to draft an open letter, something to work from to prepare a message. I might give it a shot.

Ya, it sucks having to do this kind of thing but I suppose we can't expect the revolution to be comfortable. We are at the point of grasping for straws.

violent turn I know what my role will likely be that of a counter-sniper.

My back is gimped, and I can't run or hump gear anymore like I used to, but I am a pretty damn good shot with Model 700 Win Mag.

The thought that it may come to that, at my age and condition is incredibly distressing, I only ever had to fire on someone once, and it wasn't a good experience at all, but if it comes down to a fight I know it won't be in me to sit idle and let others do the dying for my benefit.

I doubt many of these cops will be showing up though if it does take that turn. Bullies never like to fight someone that fights back.

USA ,USA.
If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

I don't think this is exactly what God had in mind.

illuminates this quite clearly.

And yes, lots of the reporting during the 1930's about the state of mind of working folks makes your point, that the country indeed was on the verge of serious Revolution (i.e. farmer revolts in the Midwest, lining the highways with shotguns to prevent trucks from passing during a boycott, judges being taken out of courthouses in small town America to be tarred and feathered for foreclosing on their properties to big East Coast bankers) because of the Greet Depression.

Police forces, National Guard and the Justice system have always been and are all still pawns of the oligarchy. We've seen it over and over again, from the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado when the NG was brought at at the behest of the Governor who was given his orders from the mine owner Rockefeller, to the heinous scenes on our city and town streets from Zuccotti Park to Ferguson with the militarization of cops beating, arresting and threatening with all manner of second hand toys they collect from the Military Industrial Complex when the Army are through playing in the desert sands with them.

Sheldon Woolin's theory of Inverted Totalitarianism I think sums up this new fascism perfectly, as it not being obvious demagogic Fascism but the equally pernicious, if not more, because comparitively seems so innocuous on the surface. Chris Hedges interviewed him and wrote the piece:

Inverted totalitarianism is different from classical forms of totalitarianism. It does not find its expression in a demagogue or charismatic leader but in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state. Our inverted totalitarianism pays outward fealty to the facade of electoral politics, the Constitution, civil liberties, freedom of the press, the independence of the judiciary, and the iconography, traditions and language of American patriotism, but it has effectively seized all of the mechanisms of power to render the citizen impotent.

“Unlike the Nazis, who made life uncertain for the wealthy and privileged while providing social programs for the working class and poor, inverted totalitarianism exploits the poor, reducing or weakening health programs and social services, regimenting mass education for an insecure workforce threatened by the importation of low-wage workers,” Wolin writes. “Employment in a high-tech, volatile, and globalized economy is normally as precarious as during an old-fashioned depression. The result is that citizenship, or what remains of it, is practiced amidst a continuing state of worry. Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement.” (snip)

He writes, “Downsizing, reorganization, bubbles bursting, unions busted, quickly outdated skills, and transfer of jobs abroad create not just fear but an economy of fear, a system of control whose power feeds on uncertainty, yet a system that, according to its analysts, is eminently rational.”

Inverted totalitarianism also “perpetuates politics all the time,” Wolin said when we spoke, “but a politics that is not political.” The endless and extravagant election cycles, he said, are an example of politics without politics.

“Instead of participating in power,” he writes, “the virtual citizen is invited to have ‘opinions’: measurable responses to questions predesigned to elicit them.”

Political campaigns rarely discuss substantive issues. They center on manufactured political personalities, empty rhetoric, sophisticated public relations, slick advertising, propaganda and the constant use of focus groups and opinion polls to loop back to voters what they want to hear. Money has effectively replaced the vote. Every current presidential candidate—including Bernie Sanders—understands, to use Wolin’s words, that “the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates.” The citizen is irrelevant. He or she is nothing more than a spectator, allowed to vote and then forgotten once the carnival of elections ends and corporations and their lobbyists get back to the business of ruling.

“If the main purpose of elections is to serve up pliant legislators for lobbyists to shape, such a system deserves to be called ‘misrepresentative or clientry government,’ ” Wolin writes. “It is, at one and the same time, a powerful contributing factor to the depoliticization of the citizenry, as well as reason for characterizing the system as one of antidemocracy.”

The result, he writes, is that the public is “denied the use of state power.” Wolin deplores the trivialization of political discourse, a tactic used to leave the public fragmented, antagonistic and emotionally charged while leaving corporate power and empire unchallenged.

“Cultural wars might seem an indication of strong political involvements,” he writes. “Actually they are a substitute. The notoriety they receive from the media and from politicians eager to take firm stands on nonsubstantive issues serves to distract attention and contribute to a cant politics of the inconsequential.”

"Which way do you think the mega-corporation executives are going to select?"

of each other, lol!

"Great Minds" and all that...

Never, ever forget that he could have put a stop to the Trail of Tears - and he did nothing. The worst of it went down under Van Buren, not Jackson.

Not one story about it on the CNN.com home page. So suppression by the MSM is successful. Thanks Obama.