As Thousands of Vets Descend on Standing Rock, U.S. Army Backs Down and Halts Pipeline Construction

[@Mr.Unbreakable83]

I'd like to thank democracy now for covering the situation at standing rock and im happy that so meny native american vets come out to support the protectors. Blessed be all who stand with those protecting standing rock.

[@77utoob]

Demetri Black3 And gawd damn the kkkops who tortured the Protectors, Gawd damn you Fascist cowards! FTFP

[@citizennobody5518]

It lifted my heart too mate.

[@joeschmo2693]

Much as I admire these veterans for standing up for their fellow citizens, it's sad that our country is so militarized that it's required, and so callous that abuse of ordinary people carries no weight.

[@Yikum24]

It seems only a threat to the military industrial complex grabs attention of the executive branch at this point. Veterans have demonstrated they have some real power here.

[@joeschmo2693]

Yikum24 It's good to see them on the right, er, correct, side of this. The most active, influential veterans groups - the VFW and the American Legion - have generally been aligned with reactionary and rightist causes.

[@gerimata6611]

For clarification, it was my understanding that Michael Wood, Jr. was also instrumental in mobilizing the U.S. Veterans. I have been watching/hearing reports and his name hasn't been mentioned lately.

[@GreyGeneral]

If you watch his interview on The Jimmy Dore Show, Micheal himself explained that he and Wes started taking a backseat so that they weren't the focus. So it's at least semi-intentional.

[@warriorwaitress7690]

"Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again, and it shall be a blessing for a sick world; a world filled with broken promises, suffering and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations, when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again." ~ From the prophecy of the great Oglala Lakota warrior Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse) m.facebook.com/Veterans4StandingRock/photos/a.1286529984714536.1073741828.1285786958122172/1361558077211726/?type=3&source=54&ref=page_internal

[@rickbishop5987]

Congratulations! Your caution is wise...

[@johnperko937]

Do not stand down. The project has not been discontinued.

[@mellio9077]

God bless our veterans!! Thank you so much for protecting the water protectors.

[@mrmagoo8510]

I've seen nothing about this on the news. If I didn't watch BBC news, The Young Turks and Democracy Now I'd be unaware of these events.

[@grey1205]

MrMagoo Corporate US media must change, it is really shit at the moment.

[@mothersgauri4137]

Thank you for this report, beautiful interview and the veterans for standing up ! Sadly, it does not look like this fight is at all over. The coverage and support are needed more than ever. It seems the townspeople and oil company there are finding other,new ways of harassing the vets and water protectors and the pipeline company has apparently said they will not honor the permit refusal and they will go forward. Please keep supporting!

[@pathacker4963]

Until they move the equipment and pipe out. Stick it our people. They will try to sneak it through.

[@grey1205]

Love that guy who mentioned his oath! Thank you so much.

[@mellio9077]

God bless him!! God bless our veterans who stand with Standing Rock. "I heard about it on the BBC, not American news." So true, our mainstream media has failed us--they fail to inform the public about issues that matter, and they fail to ask the hard questions

[@derrickpeters2803]

IM RETIRED AND TRULY APPRECIATE YOU SUPPORT.

[@derrickpeters2803]

YOUR SUPPORT.

[@digitalgraffiti527]

Standing Rock is now the ninth largest city in North Dakota.

[@digitalgraffiti527]

Hey Matt, ever hear of Sani-Cans?

[@digitalgraffiti527]

Are you really so ignorant that your unaware that thousands of people gather together all the time and they don't end up shitting all over each other? Sounds like your the one who flunked potty training Matt.

[@alohasnackbar5619]

um have you seen what occupy wallstreet or woodstock looked like after.

[@digitalgraffiti527]

Yes Zach, large groups make large messes,but the answer is not spilling oil on top of the mess.Democracy is not always pretty and battlegrounds by nature are chaotic.

[@JohnDoe-zg6fq]

Matt Jones You are a pile of redundant protoplasm. No offense.

[@shelleyofthered9062]

Good piece, thank you.

[@nickkey6028]

Wesley Clark Jr. is an outstanding person. He's probably one of my favorite personalities on TYT.

[@sarahjohns7869]

WHY? are The energy Transfer Partners STILL Drilling AND ILLEGALLY Trespass on Indian LAND?

[@sassulusmagnus]

The decision to deny the permit is an encouraging sign. Let's hope it's not just a tactical retreat, to be followed by a second onslaught after the strength of the resistance is perceived to have weakened. I'm glad to hear the Protectors have decided to stay on until it's clear that the DAPL folks have really been stopped.

[@DANCINGERN]

Amy, this is the very 1st and only time I have ever agreed with you on a controversial subject. I am glad the Sioux Tribe had taken my advice and others as well perhaps, and asked War Veterans for their support to block the pipeline to keep water safe.

[@dawnsmoke2586]

Never forget ! 🦅😡🦅

[@rodgerasai]

Army [DOD] saying one thing and (as non-military citizens will see for themselves in a bit) doing another - is just one more example of their leadership's callous disregard and betrayal of trust - both to active duty members and veterans. It is the underlying factor which makes PTSD so difficult to resolve.

[@AndiDuck]

This is great news ! Let's hope the white man keeps his word and continues denying this pipeline a permit .

[@FlorencePignol-b2c]

Écouter les indiens et,notre société ira beaucoup mieux

[@escokicks]

Wow

[@kushstarstv2795]

Dude he is stolen valor

[@LisaHouserman]

Can anyone recommend an ACCURATE true history documentary about Standing Rock?

[@selfbowhunter.1952]

You will have lots of research to do. I just started putting the puzzle together. If you are willing to dig for a couple weeks you will sift out the good true story.

[@astrogypsy]

Not specific to Standing Rock, but the best background work on modern Sioux conflict with western authorities is "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" which is a detailed analysis of the Peltier era activity. Also, see the documentary "Incident at Oglala" on the same topic.

[@LisaHouserman]

thank you both for answering my question. I have the I guess pleasure of working from home and I do a lot of research and you sent me in the right direction thank you so much period again talk-to-text no punctuation blah blah

[@selfbowhunter.1952]

Lisa, Your welcome. Just start with the original treaties that were signed and agreed to by both the feds and the natives. You will see what you learned in school is not all true and accurate.

[@LisaHouserman]

self bow I didn't pay attention in school so I think that's a good thing LOL. honestly in the last 10 years I've educated myself thank you so much

[@rovo7249]

ahó!

[@noyou9379]

Did anyone protest the numerous other pipelines or did they just do this one because the media told them to?

[@TheUnpogo]

'Windtalkers', the cinematic roman a clef re the Navajo Code talkers, provides evidence of the original One Language (Gen. 11:1). When the conspiracy to build a tower at Babel, high enough to avoid annihilation via inundation became a construction-project reality, the crowd that gathered (like every subsequent construction-project, attracting curious spectators) was struck, along w/the tower workers, by Divine sabotage: the multiplexing confusion of the One Language, the provenance of the word 'babble'. The proof of that confusion is laid out in the surviving record of the original One Written Language, i.e., Sumerian. Prior to Babel, the Sumerian merchants dominated MedSea trade and that status is scattered around their multitude of ports of call in the clay tablets that were business documents. Post-Babel, modern historians, in violation of Occam's Razor, chose the least likely reason for the sudden change in those records: the Sumerians just disappeared w/o a trace. Change? The biz docs, formerly shown in the distinctive Sumerian writing stylus impressions, suddenly appeared as side-by-side dualities in Sumerian and the brand new Carian writing, both having the same meaning on each such dual record. Modern historian hostility to Scriptures as actual history was the culprit for the strict avoidance of applying the Babel Effect, that is, the Sumerians didn't vanish, they no longer spoke or wrote in Sumerian. However, just as speakers of the One Language were divinely rewired linguistically, they had to reconfigure the previous written exemplars, as was the case of the Sumerian/Carian duality. The Carian speakers, while still confused w/regard to the verbalization of the One Language, could, nevertheless, visually convert Sumerian text to Carian text. That problem persisted for many decades, per the surviving side-by-sides. The unbreakable 'code' of the Navajo Codetalkers was ordinary Navajo w/the slight alteration of using Navajo words as military terms. The Japanese codebreakers were the best; however, due the still-existing Babel confusion re verbalization of the One Language, the Navajo 'code' was never broken, i.e., Navajo is the original One Language. The Navajo migrated away from Shinar BEFORE Babel, as did other Native American tribes, and, thus, were not rewired linguistically.

[@FlorencePignol-b2c]

Que dire unifier une rébellion mondiale car je suis en France et je suis tellement triste et révoltée depuis longtemps que je notre monde soit si hypocrite et hinumain nous avons pris un très mauvais chemin sans écouter les peuples premiers

[@christinejones3198]

Its the money addicted construction workers who will do "Anything for a Job" that's the problem here...

[@keithdurant4570]

No this sits squarely on the corporations which will do anything for profit and the governments that won't tell them genocide is illegal.

[@clearsingularity]

The construction workers and the police are making double/triple time pay for working this project. Money talks.. and these guys are making a killing.

[@keithdurant4570]

Clear Singularity Who cares..the ones you need to stop are those making a million times that who pay them.

[@christinejones3198]

Brainwashed slaves doing what their told for a little money.... what a Joke !

[@FlorencePignol-b2c]

. Écouter les indiens et nos sociétés irons beaucoup mieux (je ne parle que le français)

[@lumpy0100]

Thanks, Democracy Now!.:) Butt-Kicking Journalists Be my Fabled Pallies 'One Gonzo'd', , 'Shamfrey Cluzen' , and All?!..GREAT Work!:D 'Standing (Tall) Rock'...!!!: YES!!!:D YES!!!:D YES!!!:D..So IMPRESSIVE!!!:D

[@ccharlierun]

And they're Trump voters.....

[@niccolea2086]

Hawk eye you are a shining example of we refer to as "simpletons" it's pointless to even talk to ppl like you who don't apply logic to anything.

[@christinejones3198]

Born Yesterday..??

[@bimgraves4551]

Who the vets? Nah, maybe a few.

[@bimgraves4551]

I hope this is satire?

[@77utoob]

I LOVE your screen name, I also piss on confederate graves! They were Traitors in the 19th century and the still are!