Amy Goodman, host of the New York City-based leftist news programme Democracy Now! was charged with criminal trespass by the North Dakota state's attorney (prosecutor). The charge was changed to riot, then was dismissed due to lack of evidence when Goodman appeared in court on Monday. The charges stemmed from her presence at a protest in September against construction of the Dakota Access (Bakken) oil pipeline, after the protest was reported on her show.
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(Score: 1) by purple_cobra on Thursday October 20 2016, @03:32PM
Amen.
I got so tired of reading similar stories about nonsensical numbers of created jobs for various projects, usually with little risk to the company concerned as they'd get a huge subsidy from central government, that I just don't read that crap any more. You'd see a headline trumpeting 600 new jobs, then you read the small print and this is while they build whatever it is, with the actual number of permanent, ongoing jobs being an order of magnitude fewer.
Ultimately what it's all about is, to quote Frankie Boyle, more money for bastards.