Deadstream Media Shows Bias In Reporting On Violence At Dakota Access Pipeline ProtestBy Derrick Broze After a relatively quiet week at the site of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, violence erupted between protesters and a team of security officers hired by the company behind the project. Local media reports unquestioningly repeated statements from the Morton County Sheriffs Office which claimed that the violence was initiated by the protesters. TheDAPL, alternatively known as the Bakken Pipeline,is owned by Dallas, Texas-based corporation Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., which created the subsidiary Dakota Access LLC. The pipelinewill stretch 1,172 miles upon completion and transport crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois.The projectis set to cross the Missouri River not far from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The Sacred Stone and Red Warrior Camps were formed in opposition to the DAPL. Around 2:30 on Saturday afternoon, an estimated two to three hundred supporters from the Red Warrior Camp marched to the construction site. The marchers climbed over a fence to get closer to the site. As they neared the site the scene became violent. Onceprotestersarrived at the construction area, they broke down a wire fence by stepping and jumping on it,the sheriffs office said. According to numerous witnesses within five minutes the crowd ofprotesters, estimated to be a few hundred people became violent. They stampeded into the constructionarea with horses, dogs and vehicles.Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said it was more like a riot than a protest. The Morton County Sheriffs office saidfour private security guards and two guard dogs were injured in the melee.While reports of horses and a few hundred people were true, the originof the violence is unclear. Videos of the incident clearly show protesters using flag poles to defend against theattack dogs being wielded by security officers. There are currently no known videos showing knives being used by protesters. However, there are videos showing protesters with wounds from the dogs and pepper spray being used indiscriminately against the crowd. For a powerful look at the violence see the report below from Democracy Now! The Standing Rock Sioux Tribereportedthat six people had been bitten by security dogsand atleast 30 people were pepper-sprayed.Vicki Granado, a spokeswoman for Energy Transfer Partners, told CBS the protesters attacked the workers. The protesters were eventually successful in driving off the security officers and halting construction. However, Tribal Chairman David Archambault II said that workers returned during the early morning hours on Sunday and dug up more ground. In response to the violence and the continued construction,the Standing Rock Sioux filed an emergency motion in court on Sunday seeking a temporary restraining order seeking to prevent destruction sacred sites which are threatened by theDakota Access Pipeline. On Saturday, Dakota Access Pipeline and Energy Transfer Partners brazenly used bulldozers to destroy our burial sites, prayer sites and culturally significant artifacts, Archambault said in a statement. They did this on a holiday weekend, one day after we filed court papers identifying these sacred sites. The desecration of these ancient places has already caused the Standing Rock Sioux irreparable harm. Were asking the court to halt this path of destruction. TheStanding Rock Sioux believes they were not properly consulted before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approvedthe pipeline project. A U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. is expected to rule by September 9 on whether the Army Corps of Engineers violated the law. Destroying the Tribes sacred places over a holiday weekend, while the judge is considering whether to block the pipeline, shows a flagrant disregard for the legal process, said Jan Hasselman, attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux. The Tribe has been seeking to vindicate its rights peacefully through the courts. But Dakota Access Pipeline used evidence submitted to the Court as their roadmap for what to bulldoze. Thats just wrong. One of the most disturbing aspects of this weekendis the outright lies and bias from the deadstream (formerly known as the mainstream) media. While social media pages were filled with videos showing the protesters, or protectors as they prefer, being pepper sprayed and attacked, it would be hours and days before the local media corrected the reports to admit that the security officers were violent. Following the incident, KXNews in North Dakotareported: Once inside, pipeline security officers were hit and jabbed with fence posts and flag poles. Knives were also reportedly pulled out. By the end of the weekend, the story had been updated to reflect the violence used by the security officers. Authorities and protesters have both reported tactics including assault, tear-gas release, and use of attack dogs. Its not confirmed if Dakota Access used tear-gas or attack dogs on protesters, but many people their say thats what they saw. I wasnt expecting them to mace, it came out of now where. They let the dogs loose on a horse, and they maced a woman in the face, this close range, thats what started it all, say protesters. This event should serve as an importantreminder of how criticaldefeating the media is in order to create a more free and ethical world.When you sit back and analyze the problems of our world you begin to recognize that the culprit behind the turmoil is not simply a corrupt president, or judges, or even corruption in local police departments. The infection runs deep in this system. One of the most crucial aspects of this fight is the control and influence exerted by the corporate media. Without the corporately controlled, State-friendly narrative being pushed on billions of television and computer screens the masses would recognize the truth of our situation. Without the deadstream media pundits, who would teach us to be divided and ignorant? Take solace in the fact that every time the deadstream media attempts to selllies and keep us divided, the independent, people-driven media is there to tell the truth and to expose the lies. Take heart in the fact that the people of all nations are rising and taking the truth to the media whether they want to hear it or not. selfnews Post recently reported that the Red Warrior Camp issued a callfor all allies to stand In Houston I had the pleasure of supporting and documenting a Water Is Life March. This morning Houstonians took their fight to the local media by rallying, drumming, and praying outside of the offices of Channel 11 KHOU during the filming of local talk show Great Day with Debra Duncan. Houston is not alone in supporting the Sacred Stone Camp and the Red Warrior Camp. Over 120 tribal nations have now joined together in this fight to protect the water, defend the Earth, and push for a more sustainable future. Its time for all the free hearts and minds of all nations to stand up to the empire. Derrick Broze is an investigative journalist and liberty activist. He is the Lead Investigative Reporter for selfnewsPost.com and the founder of the TheConsciousResistance.com. Follow him on Twitter. Derrick is the author of three books: The Conscious Resistance: Reflections on Anarchy and Spirituality and Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion, Vol. 1 and Finding Freedom in an Age of Confusion, Vol. 2 Derrick is available for interviews. Please contact Derrick@activistpost.com This article may be freely reposted in part or in full with author attribution and source link. Image Credit stand your ground!! im proud that all native people comes together and fight for justice. SINCE EUROPEANS ARRIVED IN N. AMERICA, 55 M INDIGENOUS The Rothschild corporate bankster empire needs that oil gas. Why should native Americans be treated any different than Iraqis by Zio hirelings and mercenaries? That have disappeared because they are an inferior culture. They continue to prove that inconvenient truth. No they arent an inferior culture; it isnt the indigenous people who are murdering our Earth, its the greedy rich white people who are destroying Earth and all her inhabitants. Native Americans are intelligent enough to realize that if we destroy our planet, in search of yet more oil (instead of free energy) we kill our home and Earth will no longer support life. This might seem like a simple thing to understand but too many white people with $ simply dont get it. So whos the one with an inferior culture, again? why the shouting? i know,im part of the indigenous people of Norway and i support the First Nations struggle.. Notice to the red terrorists- Western civilization has declared you obsolete! Speaking of garbage, take a look into yourself and describe what you see. You seem to be a human being without a soul. How would you feel if one day your whole race was wiped out for greed? Oh sorry! I forgot. You have no feelings. It has been blocked YOU ARE THE TERRORIST, spreading ignorant and vile hatred against a people you know absolutely nothing about. Your comment is vile and you need to be banned from this site, you add absolutely NOTHING to the conversation. Hello, sacred site = ancient garbage dump. I like that. My grandmother was a Blackfoot Indian. She married a German fellow, and they had several children. They worked hard and fit into the USA system. Im 1/4 Blackfoot Indian. I am part of the USA system, and I suggest that those rioters stop their foolishness and join the USA system. Their sacred site (AKA ancient garbage dump), is now owned by whoever is putting in a pipeline, and they should be grateful that some economic activity is taking place. Maybe they should be applying for a job helping to put in the pipeline instead of being part of a group of troublemakers. Bill Moore Scenes like this are playing into their hands. The people are duped and dont know it. I like the term Deadstream Media compared to the old passive Mainstream media, and the Dakota Access protest movement as this article states has to insure that some alternative (and honest) media is available to counter the Deadstream media. However, it is even more important in broadening the awareness and truth of the overall conflict that the media should really be understood as being only one sector - the media/propaganda-sector of the overall Disguised Global Capitalist EMPIRE. This Disgusied Global Capitalist EMPIRE has now captured, controlled, and nearly fully Occupies our former country which the EMPIRE uses and abuses as its nominal global HQ, and merely poses as, the country PKA (Previously Known As) America: There is no more country of America, or the United States of America, nor the Republic for which it stands, nor certainly a functioning democracy, nor certainly the essential nation unless the essential nation is defined as a perfect hiding place for the metropole of the Disguised Capitalist Global EMPIRE. And the media/propaganda sector of the EMPIRE is only one of the EMPIREs seven highly-integrated (but well hidden) sectors of; corporate, financial, militarist, media-propaganda, extra-legal, CFR Wall Streets Think Tank, and this dual-party Vichy-political facade of faux-democracy behind BOTH the tougher-talking neocon R Vichy Party and the smoother-lying neoliberal-con D Vichy Party BOTH of which are totally controlled This has been developed, intellectually and in practice, as part of a Council of Foreign Relations-inspired, neoliberal geopolitical empire characterized by the destruction of unions and working-class communities, privatization, speculation, grotesque economic inequality, ecological destruction, and the mass violence of war and conquest. The structures of domination have largely been hidden, the solidarity mechanisms of working-class people have been undermined, and debate about alternatives has been limited, omitting the fact that a different socioeconomic project one worthy of humanitys best thoughts and feelings is possible. The neoliberal geopolitical world is presented as an empire of liberty, but in reality it is an empire of Shoup, Laurence H. (2015-08-22). Wall Streets Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014 (Kindle Locations 4127-4133). Monthly Review Press. Kindle Edition. So, we need to WAKE THE EFF-UP folks! Its (not) the economy, stupid as Liar in chief Bill said 2 decades ago. Its the EMPIRE, Stupid Hello, Call in the National Guard. The people who are installing the pipeline own the right-of-way or they would not be installing the pipeline. The hordes of rabble need to be dispersed or arrested. 