#colonial pipeline

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that a traditional Wet’suwet’en trespass law cannot “coexist” with the injunction order issued to Coastal GasLink in response to pipeline protests from the nation’s hereditary leadership. As a result, Chief Dsta’hyl, a Wing Chief of the Likhts’amisyu Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation who also goes by Adam Gagnon, was found guilty of criminal contempt in a Smithers courtroom on Tuesday morning. To be found guilty of contempt of court, the prosecution needs to establish that a person is aware of a court order and violated it intentionally. To meet the threshold for criminal contempt, the violations must be public in nature. In making the decision, Justice Michael Tammen rejected a defence argument that could have set precedent in cases involving conflicts between Canadian court orders and Indigenous legal orders. [...] The defence argued that “subjugating Indigenous law to colonial law, when they both form part of the law of the land in Canada, brings the administration of justice into scorn, precisely the consequence that criminal contempt proceedings are meant to punish.”

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #wet’suwet’en #coastal gaslink #pipelines #indigenous sovereignty #settler colonialism #injustice

[krypteiagroup]

Cyber Insurance Costs are on the Rise Due to Increase in Cyberattacks

Cyber Insurance Costs are on the Rise Due to Increase in Cyberattacks

Having written policies and procedures for your IT protocols is the best practice for running a business. However, now more than ever, if a company is looking for cyber insurance, it’s going to be essential to have those policies in place. The cost of cyber insurance has risen over the past year due to the increase in ransomware and cyberattacks. Large-scale attacks—such as the Colonial Pipeline…

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#COLONIAL PIPELINE #GAO #KRYPTEIA #SOPHOS #WOODRUFF SAWYER

[creature-wizard]

Yes, it's true that many concepts and ideas found within New Age beliefs aren't "new." Many of them can be traced back hundreds, sometimes even thousands of years. The thing that makes New Age so insidious is what it does with them. Also? It just has a lot of shitty beliefs and attitudes packed into it, in general. New Age rips numerous people's spiritual beliefs out of context and tries to shoehorn them into a culturally Christian apocalyptic framework. New Age acts like it knows other people's own spiritual traditions better than they do. New Age promotes cultural colonialism and genocide by positing that people cannot advance and grow spiritually, or at the very least cannot "ascend to 5D," without adopting its beliefs and practices. New Age promotes anti-environmentalism by telling people that climate change is just part of the Earth's "shift to 5D." This no different from fundamentalist Christians saying that climate change is just God's punishment/a sign of the End Times. New Age discourages genuine scholarship and promotes conspiracy theories because genuine archaeological evidence, real ancient texts, etc. etc. constantly contradict their beliefs. This is because New Age is extremely literalist - Atlantis can't just be a metaphor to them; it must have really existed. New Age moralizes poverty, illness, and disability by blaming these things on having "a low vibrational frequency." This is no different from fundamentalist Christians telling people that bad things happen to them because they've made God angry. This post is not an exhaustive list of each and every issue with New Age. This is just a teeny tiny sampling of everything wrong with this movement. The tippy tippy top of the iceberg. If you want to learn more about what's wrong with it, I suggest you start researching the New Age to Alt Right pipeline. And if you think far right ideology is anything new in New Age? You haven't dug deep enough.

#new age #new agers #spirituality #conspirituality #conspiracism #witchblr #mysticism #occult #occultism #esoteric #esotericism #new age to alt right pipeline #colonialism #genocide

[curioussubjects]

Adama: "Dr. Baltar...an interesting choice." Roslin: "I figured, the devil you know."

Adama: "Politics, as exciting as war. Definitely as dangerous." Roslin: "Though in war, you only get killed once. In politics, it can happen over and over."

#starpollo #kara thrace #lee adama #battlestar galactica #bsgedit #AND THEN PILOTS DID GET KILLED OVER AND OVER I HATE IT HERE LET ME OUT #HAVING A NORMAL ONE TODAY #do you stare at the wall thinking about the colonial day klg pipeline or are you normal #my edits

[biblicalhorror]

The most frustrating part of engaging in any of this discourse with pro-Israel people is that they claim there's just something ineffable about "seeing and understanding" how supporting Palestinian liberation is directly calling for the eradication of Jewish people (as if that type of rhetoric isn't exactly how actual antisemitism often manifests in online spaces but that's a topic for another day)

They get through people debunking the "the land belongs to the people of Israel anyway" argument and the "LGBTQ Palestinians are safe in Israel" argument and the "Genocide isn't what's happening here so you should educate yourself" argument and when all of those points are meticulously disproven over and over they still stand with "Well, myself and your Jewish friends see the hate you have in your heart for us" and it truly doesn't matter what you say at that point because even if you yourself are Jewish they will claim that refusing to support the state, government and military of Israel is inherently hateful and bigoted, as if a religious ethnostate is some inherent human right that is being taken away from them. I know many of them are blinded by the relentless propaganda that's been around their whole lives and how hard it is to break free from a belief system that is so tied to your core identity as a human being but it is so frustrating watching people being led straight to the point over and over again and just turning around and refusing to see it.

It's also so frustrating to see people using the momentum of this movement to casually tack on actual antisemitism to these discussions, as if having Jewish people in positions of power is why the US bends over backwards to excuse the actions of Israel and not, yknow, the fact that our government directly benefits from having a military stronghold in the middle east. I've talked to some well-meaning pro-Palestine friends irl who casually use antisemetic talking points because they've ALSO bought into the narrative that Israeli = Jewish and so they blame the actions of Israel and the IDF on Jewish people's "religious values" and ignore the fact that this conflict really has almost nothing to do with religion itself and everything to do with capitalism, imperialism and maintaining the US's status as a so-called "global power".

#dont get me wrong there are lots of people on the pro palestine side who are very much aware of and vigilant against antisemitic rhetoric #but i genuinely worry about some of my non-jewish leftist friends and allies falling down some super shady pipelines because of all of this #i spend a lot of my time on my public facing social media sharing articles and graphics and whatnot about antisemitism #and how careful we need to be when calling out these atrocities and our government's complicity in them #but when one side is genuinely claiming with no evidence or argument that being against colonial occupation is just antisemitism #it makes it so hard to call out actual antisemitism within these spaces bc it delegitimizes antisemitism as a concern #i just want to scream #like. im not even jewish and i vividly remember when we had a special lesson in girl scouts about how wonderful Israel is #and they had us make little mini versions of the israel flag and they told us that israel stood for the safety of the jewish people #and i came home and i told my mom about how cool israel was #and she promptly pulled me out of girl scouts #which at the time felt unfair because she didnt explain why #but also how do you explain the horrors of colonialism and imperialism to your newly zionist 10 year old #anyway the point is that if i as a non-jewish girl scout was exposed to that kind of propaganda #i can only imagine how inescapable it must be for many american jews in the US #and i truly empathize with the amount of unlearning that needs to be done #and how hard it must be to let go of some of these ideas #but that doesnt make it any less frustrating to watch these dynamics play out on such a massive scale #and i hold so much respect for people in white jewish communities re-educating themselves and standing on the right side of history #as well as for all of the people of color and especially American Palestinians standing up and using their voices as much as they do #personal

[decolonize-the-left]

lyrics :

I'm tired of all these John Smith looking motherf*ckers, with their "that's in the past"

and their "Cherokee grandmothers."

And I can't go another goddamn day

where all of them just look at me like I'm the one who's crazy

(chorus)

But I know, I know "just sit down and shut up"

Be the complacent trained "model minority."

The one america knows that you can be.

But there's a fire in my heart

And it burns down to my feet.

I will get up, get up and walk

until we're free.

And I've often dreamed of a life

Where I take your hand and we both go outside

And with my entire being I breathe in the fresh autumn air,

Only one thought comes to mind,

"We've finally gotten there."

[chorus]

Until my feet bleed.

Until my feet bleed.

I will get up, get up and walk until we're free

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#ndn #native american #n8v #native #mmiw #pipelines #racism #cultural appropriation #genocide #mutual aid #direct action #indigenous #lgbt #capitalism #imperialism #colonialism #biden #us government #oppression #landback #native rights #native musician #navajo #navajo nation #reblog #I'm crying

[noneedtofearorhope]

Over the last several weeks we have spiked large swaths of trees in the so-called “Capitol State Forest” in rural so-called “Thurston County, Washington” (ancestral Nisqually, Squaxin, and Chehalis land), leading up to the November 5th day of action in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en struggle against Coastal Gas Link and the Canadian government’s colonial intrusion into their territory.

This seasonal transition has been sharp and hard on the land. Our forests here experienced an unusually sudden shift from severe heatwaves and drought that lasted late into the fall, to floods and freezes with minimal autumnal gentle rains to steward the earth into the rainy season. These forests which have fed so many for time immemorial show the consequences. As climate change-fueled “natural” disasters become more and more devastating every year, the industrial rate of destruction of everything that sustains the land and the people on it only escalates. Politicians speak out of one side of their mouths about “truth and reconciliation” or “climate action,” while with the other side of their mouths they send the police to clear the way for mining and logging companies. Swaths of land dripping in moss and bubbling with streams, teeming with mushrooms and other life will soon be left as dry mangled fields, mirrors of the hellscapes being created in unceded Wet’suwet’en territory. Lifeless, and robbed of all sustenance and culture, useless to anyone but the corporations and people who sold off a forest they had no connection to.

All of these industries are on the side of Coastal Gas Link and they are all our enemies. We feel the rage, creativity, and determination of the people of Wet’suwet’en and Wedzin Kwa, and must all act against every aspect of colonial industry which threatens the sovereignty and lifeblood of lands and waters. We hope this message serves as a warning to deter all upcoming timber sales in the Capitol Forest. If the trees are cut, we hope for maximum damage to the chainsaws and mills.

Up in Wet’suwet’en territory, CGL just blew up Lamprey Creek, an active salmon and eel spawning ground, and home to two elders’ cabins on the Wedzin Kwah river. These waters and forests are lifeblood being stolen and desecrated. Drilling under the crystal clear Wedzin Kwah is active, while salmon actively spawn nearby. Wet’suwet’en protectors have specifically called on anarchists to step up. This comes with huge risk for the Wet’suwet’en. Let that call be heard and felt by our friends and our enemies.

DECOLONIZE THE PLANET GO LOG IN HELL WORLDWIDE SOLIDARITY WITH WET’SUWET’EN CGL FUCK OFF ALSO STOP COP CITY – DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST SHUTDOWNEVERYTHING

#direct action #ecodefense #solidarity #wet'suwet'en #no pipelines #monkeywrenching #environmentalism #coastal gas link #colonialism #climate change #wedzin kwa #capital forest #anarchy #anarchism #water is life #forest defense #puget sound

[dipodiidae]

im kind of sad i impulse deleted my fl sideblog because theres really good posts i should have archived. but also whatever i can find them in friend blogs and dms and i get to make objectively correct and tasteful takes in my little corner now. and be a little hater as is my right

#the rev/cc/noncurator nonhuman species liker to #increasingly critical of f/bg pipeline #guy standing in corner they dont even know about the sskies colonialism #dont worry jf it was making me feel worse to be a hater i would stop. but it doesnt so this is my burden

[ghoul-haunted]

people who are little too out and proud about being catholic set off red flags, and this doesn’t apply to people who are catholic because they are catholic via imperialism, but people who voluntarily want to align themselves with one of the worst parts of catholicism, openly embracing the church at its worst, who ignore the church’s history of being an imperialistic, militant, genocidal power because they like the aesthetics of it and think that the post vatican 2 reformations are too protestant, ignoring the exclusionary history of the mass and the degradation of those who attended by the clergy, along with the systematic history of abuse perpetuated under the church, specifically under the pre vatican 2 church

those people are the worst

#i have not ONCE met a tradcath who wasn't ALSO some form of colonial/imperialist apologist #they'll deny it when you say it to their face but the ideology is the same #they'll just start spouting manifest destiny at you without calling it manifest destin #like jesus christ you want to jerk it to the mystery of the mass so badly get into medieval mysticism instead #instead of borderline fascism #the pipeline from one to the other is very small

[ace-daddy-lecter]

To my followers (23 porn bots), something that isn't getting enough media

#yintah #canada #gas pipeline #wet'suwet'en #colonialism #ethnic cleansing #coatal gaslink #KKR

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Trans Mountain says it is in the process of wrapping up work to install its pipeline through a sacred Secwépemc site, bringing its expansion project one step closer to completion. The pipe installation, which involved digging a 1.3-kilometre trench through an area with a known burial site, was allowed to proceed after years of back and forth between the company, the Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc Nation and federal regulators. The Canadian government bought the pipeline nearly six years ago and vowed to move ahead with its expansion, saying it was in the public interest. It is managed through a Crown corporation. “It’s devastating to many people that this happened,” said Mike McKenzie, a Secwépemc knowledge keeper. “Canada had a serious obligation to the Stk’emlúpsemc te Secwépemc and all Canadians to uphold Secwépemc law in a good way, to embody reconciliation in their work.”

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[immaculatasknight]

Canada's civil war

#Canada #indigenous #aboriginal #land defenders #pipelines #RCMP #military #violence #brutality #colonialism #unaccountability #oppression

[senruthmartinsbob]

I wouldnt trust a us government with public transit infrastructure

#like yeah cus they did so well with deciding where to put pipelines :/// #remember? how its a colony? like.

[butchysterics]

americans imagining Land Back as a reverse colonization where your family is violently displaced from their home—just no, and there’s so much projection and anti-indigenous sentiment in that reaction that we need to unpack. in the same way abolishing private property does not equate to taking the personal property/housing from regular human beings, land back deserves your full attention in the actual demands and futurities that native people are calling for. this knee jerk resistance against land back needs to stop inventing hypotheticals instead of engaging with the reality of this which is A. a broader political call to rematriate land to indigenous communities, who currently have limited resources because this is a settler colonial state B. specific calls to return specific lands—often ‘public lands’ i.e. national parks, blm land etc—which often carry cultural significance and also very direct legacies of violence tied to the original displacement. C. a return to indigenous land management strategies, which are place-based and culture-based and offer paths to restoring/reclaiming/reconfiguring the ecologies and human communities most damaged by colonialism/capitalism/the world we currently live in D. land back is deeply tied to the movements protesting oil and gas pipelines, catastrophic mining, etc ongoing destruction of the environment that place indigenous communities on the frontlines yet threatens /everyone/ downstream who drinks water and has a body

#this is such a complex issue that starts to unravel american society when you unpack it #in a good way that asks—okay what do we do next? how are we going to live here and do right by our neighbors and their+our descendants? #regardless of who is in Power/who heads the State #we live on the ground we stand on we’re responsible to our local ecologies and our neighbors #this is where i’m at politically as a white settler

[left-reminders]

It's wild and completely unsurprising that capitalism apologists will say stuff like "there's no such thing as a free lunch, somebody is paying for that social service at some point!" and then entirely ignore the core tendency within capitalism to externalize costs and ecological destruction onto oppressed people. They're right -- there's always a cost to these things, but they only selectively consider costs when it stands to benefit their economic system and its ruling class (i.e., "we can't implement that social service because it would cost moneyyyy!!", and never "we can't continue using coal or pipelines because they incur massive human and environmental tolls that our descendants will inevitably have to manage for generations to come"). And this is to say nothing of the gargantuan amount of free domestic labor/care that capitalism constantly relies on throughout the world, and the endless subsidies and tax cuts that the rich receive, and the centuries of colonial plunder that both western nations and rich individuals continue to profit from to this day.

Capitalism is Free Lunch City for the rich. Average people on the ground, however, are the ones actually bearing the costs and suffering their effects. The free lunch line is only trotted out when working-class people question their lot in life and start demanding better things, and the use of this line is a clear case of ideological obfuscation in service to the rich.

#free lunch #anti capitalism #socialism