President Obama: They Shoot Horses and Teenage Boys on the Dakota Access Pipeline
There will be soon large scale demonstrations all over the United States at branches of the Bank of America, HSBC, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions, who have, together, extended a $3.75 billion credit line to Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of Dakota Access.
This is an important fact, because if we can marshal the combined forces of hundreds of millions of Americans writing to Obama and to their Senators to ask them to speak with Obama, maybe Obama could not only reroute the pipeline, but shut the entire thing down in toto, without having to "buyout" these banks' investments like we witnessed a few years ago. Such a plan would cost a lot less money than that bailout, if that is the way it goes down. In other words, this is the banks' line of credit, which is not at all the same as their outright "investment."
I don't have many good or sharp answers, as I am a Native American art dealer, not a politician nor a financier nor a pundit nor any kind of fiscal wizard.
I do know that some answers will come with or without the Senators and Congressmen and the President. I sadly foresee that the violence will get worse, because of the police's order and their attitude, despite the fact that a few North Dakota State Police turning in their badges and resigning.
The real answers will come, despite an almost total black out by the mainstream media, except for a few left mainstream media journalists who have a sense of compassion and conscience. The alternative media and the social media have taken up the slack and wholeheartedly fired up the information channels, especially on Facebook, for which I thank Facebook.
Throughout the Bernie Sanders campaign, I was put in "Facebook Jail"7 times in the form of restrictions on posting to groups, which I believe was the result of trolls from the Clinton campaign attempting to disrupt social media communications. It could also have been the result of offending some Facebook robot (or human?) who was alarmed at any kind of vigorous posting on Facebook.
Almost every single serious Bernie Sanders activist I know got restricted from posting at one time or another on Facebook, and it became a kind of badge of honor, although it was always a terrible disruption. All it would have taken was one person, perhaps a "plant" from the Clinton campaign, to complain or say it was spam, and boom, you were in jail for two weeks. The more potent or powerful the post, the quicker you got thrown in Facebook jail.
This has not yet happened in any of the same political circles to the same degree with the after-the-convention efforts on Facebook, which tells you we must no longer be perceived as a threat. Only occasionally, Facebook restricts posting any powerful personal message, but never gives a notice or any kind of reason for doing so. I have heard some reports, however, of videos being removed in some Native Americans' Facebook posts. This should be looked into and recorded, if this is occurring, which I don't doubt for a moment.
Yet all in all, Facebook has positively transformed American Politics, all for the better, and the explosion of support for the Standing Rock Defenders on Facebook is proof of the fact that it is largely a superb and egalitarian of communication, which runs rings around the sleepy, lazy, and oblivious mainstream media.
One of the worse casualties of this primary season was the loss of credibility of the press, and in particular, that of the New York Times and all of its puff pieces and veiled phony obfuscations, clearly in fear of offending any Big Bank or Wall Street corporate sponsors.
Where the press has failed, Facebook has taken their place in credibility in sincere righteous member-driven communication. To get accurate information faster than through any other venue, these are some of my favorites from the Facebook support groups for Standing Rock:
Standing Rock Protectors - Pipeline Protest (Founded by Jim Graywolf Petruzzi of Drake, Colorado)
Concerned for the people of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST) (created by Dustin Thompson
1 With Standing Rock (Created by Janice Brown of Buckeye, Arizona) Unify No DAPL
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