I just signed this and thought I would share with the good people of c99!

https://www.change.org/p/north-dakota-state-house-impeach-north-dakota-g...

or Black shirts. I haven't seen any blue.

This is a pretty horrific development: http://fusion.net/story/365922/standing-rock-erin-schrode-shot-police-no...

and figure out which officer fired that shot and arrest him for assault.

They have to account for their ammo, it wouldn't be very difficult to determine who fired the shot if they really wanted to.

But unfortunately, they don't want to.

Omerta in action....

Every time I think I have hit Peak Rage these sonsobitches drill deeper and manage to find another pocket...

All these fuckers should hang.

At least Bush knew enough not to comment while a criminal investigation was underway on someone in his administration. Even Bush caught on fairly quickly that he was supposed to act like he cared about the victims of Katrina.

Obama is going to let this "play out" until after the election. Then he'll green light a crackdown so vicious that it will make your hair stand on end.

Obama seems to be almost embarrassed to be saying the things he is saying. As well he should be. His rhetorical skills seem to have abandoned him, in the face of this horrible corporate behavior and government-sanctioned thuggery. Is it possible that our peacock of a President might actually be ashamed of himself?

Got this in my inbox (bolding/emphasis mine):

... We’ve been hoping to say this for a very long time and here it is: El Salvador’s water is safe!

OceanaGold’s lawsuit against El Salvador has been dismissed -- a lawsuit that threatened the country’s last source of drinkable water.

Here’s what happened: A few years ago OceanaGold, an Australian mining company, bought off Pacific Rim, a Canadian mining company with a contract to build a massive gold mine in the North of El Salvador. The mine didn’t meet environmental guidelines and threatened the last remaining river with drinkable water in the country.

As much as 90% of El Salvador's water is not safe for drinking. Here is a picture of the pollution caused by mining to one of the country's most important rivers:

(Picture of waterway which is dead and full of orange gucky fluid)

Protecting water means protecting life, so the SumOfUs community stood, and fought, with the Salvadorans opposing the mine:

Over 200,000 of us signed petitions targeting the mining company and the World Bank.
We donated funds to grassroots groups in El Salvador.
In Australia, our members made phone calls to AMP, one of Oceana’s top investors to pressure it to drop the lawsuit.
Over 30,000 of us wrote emails to the anonymous World Bank arbitrator making this decision If all this wasn’t enough, we even took your signatures to OceanaGold’s doorstep as well as a clear message: water should be put before profits.

You can make sure the fight against ludicrous corporate lawsuits is as strong as ever -- chip in whatever you can afford here now.

The fact that the World Bank dismissed this case is an amazing breakthrough in fighting for the kind of world economy we want to live in.

Together, we helped stop yet another case of corporate bullying. But the fight against mining giants continues. International trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership will increase the frequency of lawsuits against small and poor countries by massive and rich corporations, as well as enhance the powers of secret courts in ways we have not yet seen before.

By donating a little bit now, you can take on corporate bullies like OceanaGold and keep up the fight to stop deadly corporate trade deals like the TPP.

Will you lead the fight against corporate bullies? Chip in whatever you can afford here now. Every little bit counts.

Thanks for all that you do,

Paul, Ledys and the team at SumOfUs

Wow, due to a massive effort, the anonymous (seems that nobody even knows who's determining the survival chances of people and their local ecologies/economies in each case) World Bank arbitrator actually allowed a country to keep its last source of presumably not-solidly-polluted water un-mining-wasted! For now, at any rate. (And am wondering if this is not to avoid raising awareness of what these 'trade deals' mean and do by destroying the last 10% of an entire country's potable water/ecology for mining profits, as this would raise a fuss, right before the TPP and others are to be passed.)

And the TPP corporate coups and others will be so much worse, with no appeal...

It won't be - and isn't now - just against small and poor countries forced to accept being polluted/poisoned, among other abuses, such as those we're witnessing at Standing Rock, although we who are about (unless the corporate coup and corruption is stopped now, by some miracle) to share in a far worse and to-be-global horror salute you who have had it so much worse until now. We are all to be officially and 'legally' just grist for the owners of the insatiable greed mill until the planetary oxygen runs out due to ecological die-off.

Never vote for evil - vote Green for life!

And I suspect that the 'job loss' Obama's claiming to be concerned about - unless this is a threat to the representatives he's using this one - 'if the corporate coups aren't passed' would be some cushy one offered him for his betrayal - and whatever pay-off he gets in order to become a venture capitalist, as he plans to do after leaving the Presidential Office he's planning to alter to a corporate management office All Ready For Hillary.

The fight made now is for planetary survival - the government must fall due to the weight of its corruption and be re-staffed with public servants having no corporate/billionaire connections in order to qualify, with public funding and media time for each candidate for each political candidate part of the requirement for them retaining their license.

The only legitimate government in any democracy is of, by and for the people - with at most only the same percentage of multi-millionaires as exists in the population permitted to be within their ranks, in order to ensure that they are not over-all so entirely insulated from the realities faced by those they are intended to represent.