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A New Way to Support Fellow C99er's - The Caucus 99 Catalogue (Coming Soon)

No good deed goes unpunished, as the saying goes, but sometimes a wrongful act can lead to something good. A few days ago, I made fun of the Kos Katalogue, thinking it was just another way for Markos to make a buck. Turns out I was dead wrong, as Elena in the comments let me know (in the most polite way possible):

Standing Rock: Razor Wire Barrier Constructed Around Burial Ground

In another depraved act of inhumanity, the militarized forces in North Dakota have deployed razor wire all around the base of Turtle Island, the scene of one of the water protesters' actions yesterday (November 24). Please remember that when the Sioux and other indigenous people speak of "sacred sites," they often mean places where their ancestors are buried. Here's a 4-minute video from the Young Turks showing the razor wire being installed today (November 25).

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The Perpetrator Pretends to Be a Victim

It’s a funny thing about fraud. It’s a bit like poisoning a well. Once you’ve done it, there’s not really any going back, either for the water or for you. I guess people wanting to use the well could conceivably purify the water after the fact, but that would take both an honest assessment of the poisoning, and expert knowledge of how to get poison out of water. Lacking either of those elements, the water is poisoned—that’s that.

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