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Written By: Deborah MacKay Republished By: ~X~ of TFD This is an update from a Standing Rock volunteer. It's not pleasant. - Friends, I have returned from Standing Rock with my mind blown, my heart broken and my spirit troubled with foreboding of a deepening tragedy. Volunteering as a legal observer with the Water Protector Legal Collective I witnessed several confrontations between Water Protectors (WP) and law enforcement: national guard, sheriffs and private security (LE). On 1/18/17 - 1/19/17 I observed WP with their hands in the air chanting “hands up don’t shoot” being fired upon at a range of 10 to 15 feet. Tear gas canisters and rubber bullets ( rubber bullets are regular bullets covered in rubber) were used against unarmed WP who had been singing and praying. I observed national guard chasing WP off the Backwater bridge, firing at people running away. I heard people choking and gagging from tear gas. I saw access to the WP medic vehicles being bloc...

Photo courtesy of World Vision Written By: ~X~ of TFD Ponder This: The War on Water 2nd Edition  Water, the very start of the foundation of life and survival. It is a basic need that has been tampered with and manipulated for so many years, for so many different reasons. This is not a " bubble " or " crash " this is something that can wipe out life as we have known it. I want to express to our readers, that this is a true crisis and war on humanity...our very core of our way of living.  In a prior article, we hit some major points on the real war which t me and many seems to be the "War on Humanity" The water supply edition.  People apparently rubbed some people the wrong way with how I worded the original article. Let me again make this clear, I am not saying that we don't stand with Standing rock because we do and have a proven track record of exposing the truth on that and will continue to till it is resolved. BUT (and this...

Members of the Anishinabek Nation sing as they enter the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s protest encampment. Photograph by Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times / Redux Written By: Dallas Goldtooth & Steven Jeffrey Chrisjohn: #NoDAPL From The Front Lines 2nd Edition " They cant move 500,000 will be a real war. Love how Obama and Hillary and even Bernie Sanders. All just lotta of talk. Bernie the biggest sellout in history. Talking but wont come visit. Barking like a little kiss ass to Hillary. This is what you get Bernie for not having faith in yourself. Fucking shame. I don't care what you did for any of your life. When it comes to our people. You just talk. But now we are done talking. We will unite and show the world the strength of the people."

Photo Credit: Indigenous Environmental Network Written By: ~X~ of TFD #NoDAPL: From The Front Lines 1st Edition   U nless you have been living under a rock, I am almost sure our readers have heard of what is going on with the Dakota Access Pipeline . I personally do not want to go through the hoops of the propaganda and circus. We are solely here to report the raw facts of what is going on from my contacts on the ground thanks to Honey Bee of The Real World Order Movement.   W e purposely have not put anything out yet on this really because we want to sift through the BS and get to the facts. Bottom line... THIS IS WRONG!   T he treatment and blatant LIES the mainstream media and the local Law Enforcement has spewed out in the last few months.  FB Message From The Morton County Sheriffs Dept T here has been stories and reports from the police according to the Washington Post states the water cannons was used to put out " fires ...

Illustration by Chameleon Horse Art & Design Author: Steven Jeffrey Chrisjohn Message of Thanksgiving from Standing Rock #NoDAPL  Sometimes the pressure is crushing when it is most difficult. When your mind tells you your alone in a group of ten thousand people. These are the days when you must release a tear. Admit how weak you are. And talk strength from experience. The mind is weak. The heart is open free. As the tears run i think of today. My daughters birthday and thanksgiving. Thanksgiving for me is only important because i like the fact families usually congregate on this day. In todays society you get these times when you can. The close family ties we once had are becoming less and less.  Government gives us a couple days a year set aside for family. For me, my favorite thanksgiving is when my lil sister came up. We shared a laugh that would make the world laugh with us. But now its gone. Its lonely without laughter. It is taking s...