Thanks for putting this update together Lookout.

The scene there just gets uglier and uglier at the hands of the state thugs under pressure presumably from the governor, who of course is under pressure from the oli companies, who pay his campaign donations and can end his political career, among various other insinuated threats. Democracy at work, with unbridled capitalism pulling all of its strings. Heh.

Good to see Jordan of TYT at least having the courage to go there, and most importantly, talk to the people on the ground, who are experiencing this firsthand. Too much "news" is he said/she said BS, reading corporate public relations statements and getting "reports" from the police. A surefire recipe for not ever getting the real story.

I noticed this comment last week by HoosierDeb and thought it really captured how the #NoDAPL Uprising has effected us:

I think a lot of us are finding out we are nearing

a tipping point. I thought I had reached my peak of anger over the Dem primaries. Watching what's unfolding at Standing Rock is making me aware that I have a whole 'nother level of fury... and it scares me shitless that I'm not sure how or if I want to control it.

I'm a frumpy, almost sixty year old white lady who had a stroke 4 months ago. Yet, I'm about a half a heartbeat away from jumping in my car and heading west. Hubby would kill me, but even that's growing less of an obstacle. In the meantime, I'm waiting on a call back from the local cop who sent 'troops' to 'help' in ND. Am betting he either dodges the call or has a flunky armed with the corporate talking points.

It's made me pine for being there in the thick of there too, because it is at the confluence of so much of what we're fighting against, which this brave and uplifting protest has drawn out in sharp relief:

Love your fire, HoosierDeb. Made my day...

The more I think about the events at Standing Rock the more I realize this is the true and real antidote to the super-depressing zombie reality tv 2016 election fraud. It's the truest, most burning and alive reality of all our grievances coalescing at once, contrasted with the stultifying Disneyfied Stepford candidacy of HRC.

The relentless, merciless grinder of Neoliberal corporate capitalism is on full display in Standing Rock, literally bulldozing over people's land, beating and arresting peaceful protesters, with the full fury of armed soldiers of the state, whose puppet strings are naturally, as they always have been and are now, being pulled by the corporations and oligarchs who continue to call the shots in all of these instances - over the most basic of all human rights, of access to clean water, which without no one can live. It's put the brazen greed of capitalism on trial for the whole world to see. The cops and National Guard are part of the exhibit, dutifully doing their jobs with their narrow-minds, because they are the pawns of the oligarchy, unwittingly there to protect rich people and their "property."

I feel the same way as you. I felt this way when Ferguson was going down too. I was able to get out in the streets often with Occupy Wall St, and then with #BlackLivesMatter. It changed my life.

Thanks for making those calls to your local police. They need to hear from folks outside of their bubble. The revolution will come, I believe, when those "enforcers" being to see how they're being used, have their consciences tell them they can not beat these people who are fighting for what is principally right and decide to lay down their arms, or best case, protect the protesters and their cause.

Please take care of yourself. We need your fire. It's inspiring!

and damn the censors. Too bad the protectors can't get hold of an armed drone and blow that bitch sky high. And I'm not talking about droning people, but that drill pad and all those pieces of pipe.

of a groundswell for a more equitable relationship between the US and American Indians, along with some measure of restitution.

This is a taste of what happens in countries where the people and environment are not protected against corporate depredations.

This month, right after the Coronation, Obama plans to sign the first of a series of (thereafter Fast-Tracked) traitorous corporate coups given a spurious aura of 'legality' by being termed 'trade deals', which illegally and unconstitutionally offshore domestic law of all betrayed countries to a corporate/billionaire-only court where the public interest interest has no standing and the only concern is the maximization of the future anticipated profits of involved corporations and billionaires, down to the last drop of blood squeezed from the publics of these countries and the last resources of a to-be-murdered-for-profit world.

This makes government into corporate management and citizens into resources to be used and abused even to death, using a mechanism of 'legalized' extortion traitorously promised them by public servants having no right to do so in any case.

Certain corporations are acting as though they own the country because this is what these 'trade deals' purport to give them.

This is Obama's legacy - tossing the world of life to mindless parasites eager to kill their hosts in order to pick over the corpse, failing even to realize that there is nowhere else to go even for them.

3 of the 4 Presidential candidates will support these hostile corporate take-overs beginning with our economically cptured countries, to be used in the miltary take-over of the other countries of the world, although life on the planet - and oxygen production - will not survive global corporate rule. Jill Stein is the only Presidential candidate now running who won't accept this.

Never vote for evil.

Before the Flood (available on National Geographic website) comes to mind when I read this. The last word on our situation was, if we stop using fossil fuels right now, the earth will keep on warming for a while then it will cool down. If not...

These protestors are fighting for the life of the planet. Of course it is more important than the forth-coming puppet show election. It is backed on both sides by the fossil fuel industries. Democrats and Republicans will take us down the roadway to ruin.