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Why White Progressives Must Address Racial Injustice In 2016

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<h2>Why White Progressives Must Address Racial Injustice In 2016</h2>
<span>Why White Progressives Must Address Racial Injustice In 2016</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>Al Jazeera America</span></div>
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<p>On July 18, two candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination — former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/7/18/black-lives-matter-disrupts-martin-omalley-bernie-sanders-event.html" rel="nofollow">faced protests</a> during a town hall discussion at the liberal Netroots Nation conference in Phoenix. The Black Lives Matter campaign, which is effectively merging online and offline activism against racial injustice, staged a demonstration in the conference hall, asking the candidates, Which side are you on?</p>
<p>Initially, O’Malley handled the protest well, even tapping his hands to the rhythm of a song the group sang and starting his remarks by answering questions about criminal justice and police reform. But he fumbled, inviting boos from the majority white progressive crowd when he said, “Black lives matter, and white lives matter, and all lives matter.” He should have known that the phrase “black lives matter” is part of an attempt to eradicate the racist and structural inequalities in the criminal justice system, which so often manifests as police brutality and other state-sanctioned violence. Hence, the emphasis upon black lives.</p>
<p>Sanders, whose appearance followed O’Malley’s, was given a rehearsal and a series of talking points by two Black Lives Matter activists who took the stage during the protest — Tia Oso and Patrisse Cullors. But clearly unmoved, he stepped off on the wrong foot by gesturing to the protesters and the audience to settle down so that he could get to “some serious things” he wanted to address, as if their questions were a mere frivolous disruption from the major issues facing the United States. He then proceeded to give his prepared campaign speech and threatened to leave if the audience “did not want him” to be there.</p>
<p>The incident, which followed a well-received keynote address by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren a day earlier, laid bare a major political divide among white progressives and may now serve as the foundation for challenging other 2016 presidential contenders.</p>
<p>Unlike the two candidates, Warren did not simply recite the phrase “black lives matter”; she effortlessly connected the fight for racial justice with the struggle for economic justice in this country. “It shouldn’t take a revolution on YouTube to drive a revolution in law enforcement,” she said. “It shouldn’t take a hurricane in New Orleans or a massacre in Charleston for Americans to wake up to what is happening — what is still happening — to people of color in this country.”</p>
<p>Sanders maintains that the rise of “the billionaire class” is the key problem facing the United States today. And he believes that racial injustice is an outcome of economic injustices and will be solved only through an economic revolution. Racism is not simply a byproduct of class oppression and economic exploitation. Race and class are inextricably linked to the institution of slavery and, thus, the rise of capitalism in the United States, which dehumanized and objectified black lives by separating families and creating race-based, structural inequalities with clear economic outcomes.</p>
<p>In this regard, the Black Lives Matter protest was a teachable moment for everyone, particularly for white progressives. White progressives need to address racial injustice by picking a side. Will they be Warren progressives, who incorporate racial justice and economic justice? Will they be Sanders progressives, who prioritize economic justice as the cause of racial injustice? Or will progressives create an even better platform than what either of these politicians has articulated? Their answers are critical to shaping the conversation and electoral agenda in 2016.</p>
<p>Ultimately, progressive or not, no presidential candidate in the United States can win without a proper structural and political response to the Black Lives Matter movement. Sanders bombed his Netroots appearance, but there are two precedents that progressives who support him can emulate: First, the Radical Republicans, who from the 1850s to 1870s championed the needs of white and black progressives. Backed by members of the Republican Party, the group rejected gradualism and demanded immediate citizenship for the enslaved, equal protection under the law and economic reparations for them, in the form of 40 acres and a mule.</p>
<p>Second, the populist movement of 1890s effectively represents how most progressives feel about government today. Black and white farmers in the South and Midwest fought corporate greed, white supremacy and both the Democratic and Republican parties’ lack of attention to their concerns by forming the Populist Party. As Warren articulated at Netroots conference, the Populist Party too wanted the government to regulate banks, prevent corporate monopolies and otherwise assuage economic strife.</p>
<p>The two movements could have significantly changed the trajectory of American history. But they were thwarted by white racial violence in the form of domestic terrorism. White supremacist groups, ranging from Confederacy lovers to the Ku Klux Klan, routinely destroyed crops, houses and livestock and killed black people. As anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnet noted in her 1895 pamphlet “A Red Record,” white assaults targeted black individuals and communities that provided opportunities for economic competition for white communities during and after slavery such as in Wilmington, North Carolina; Chicago; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.</p>
<p>White progressives, including Sanders, must understand and address the destructive nature of slavery and white supremacy and the intersectionality of race, class, gender and sexuality in order to chart a new era of inequality and end the exploitation of black bodies and lives. Otherwise, a claim to being progressive or liberal will serve simply as an academic or intellectual exercise.</p>
<p>Sanders has since expressed his support for the Black Lives Matter campaign in a series of comments posted on Twitter after the hashtag #BernieSoBlack, which criticized his stances, trended nationally and made headlines. Other candidates have taken notice. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, who skipped the Netroots conference, has since put out a statement and a video explaining her support for the campaign and a policy proposal on police body cameras. That will not be enough, but it is a start.</p>
<p>During this presidential election cycle, we need a clear-eyed formulation of a progressive policy agenda for the 21st century. Among other things, this includes raising the minimum wage, debt-free college, paid sick leave for families, reining in corporate influence in politics and strengthening Social Security, criminal justice and Wall Street reforms.</p>
<p>Addressing the needs and demands of the Black Lives Matter movement and knowing that black people’s voices and participation in our politics matter would be the first step in correcting these long-held gaps in the practice of American democracy.</p>
<p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/7/white-progressives-must-address-racial-injustice.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Al Jazeera America</a></p>
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<p>The recent Black Lives Matter protest at the Netroots Nation conference was a teachable moment for everyone – forcing progressives to pick a side as they shape next year's electoral agenda.</p>
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<p>While government officials and the food industry claim GMOs are safe, consumer advocates seeking transparency on labels argue that no one really knows the long-term impacts of genetically modified crops.</p>
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<p>The reports confirm social media surveillance of the movement and related events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York – including watching over vigils, parades and other benign gatherings.</p>
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House of Reps Says States Can't Require GMO Labels On Food

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<h2>House of Reps Says States Can't Require GMO Labels On Food</h2>
<span>House of Reps Says States Can't Require GMO Labels On Food</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>True Activist</span></div>
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<p>Do consumers deserve to know what’s in their food? The House of Representatives just voted to make that harder, when on Thursday they passed a bill banning states from passing their own laws requiring GMO labels.</p>
<p>The “<a href="http://agriculture.house.gov/sites/republicans.agriculture.house.gov/files/pdf/GMO_02_xml%207-12-15.pdf" rel="nofollow">Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015</a>,” which passed 275-150, will create a federal standard for the voluntary labeling of foods containing GMO ingredients.</p>
<p>Representative Mike Pompeo of Monsanto, who authored the bill, called mandatory labeling laws – which have already been passed in Vermont, Connecticut, and Maine – “unnecessarily costly given that GMos have been deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).”</p>
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<p>“Precisely zero pieces of credible evidence have been presented that foods produced with biotechnology pose any risk to our health and safety,” Pompeo said. “We should not raise prices on consumers based on the wishes of a handful of activists.”</p>
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<p>Opponents are pushing back against the legislation, however, saying it will keep consumers from knowing what is in their food, and stop FDA from crafting a national GMO-labeling solution.</p>
<p>If you are not yet aware, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are seeds of certain crops engineered to resist herbicides. Common in America’s corn and soybean crops, most GMO yields are used to feed animals for slaughter or are turned into processed foods such as high-fructose corn syrup.</p>
<p>While government officials and the food industry claim GMOs are safe, consumer advocates seeking transparency on labels argue that no one really knows the long-term impacts of genetically modified crops.</p>
<p>In fact, there are many conflicting studies – <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/new-study-gmo-corn-makes-rats-infertile/" rel="nofollow">some determining GMOs</a> to be a health hazard, and others (many which are <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/049203_GMOs_biotech_industry_propaganda_studies.html" rel="nofollow">funded by biotech companies</a> with an agenda) deeming them to be "perfectly safe."</p>
<p>Either way, don’t consumers deserve to know what’s in their food?</p>
<p>Consumer groups, backed by Democrats including Reps. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) and Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), are calling the bill the Denying Americans the Right to Know (or DARK) Act.</p>
<p>“American families deserve to know what they are eating and feeding to their children,” DeLauro told reporters Wednesday. “The FDA already requires clear labeling of over 3,000 ingredients, additives and food processes. GMOs should be no different.”</p>
<p>Supporters of the legislation claim a patchwork of labeling laws at the state level would drive up food costs.</p>
<p>Citing a study conducted by a Cornell University professor, the Grocery Manufacturers Association said state-level GMO labeling mandates would increase grocery prices for a family of four by as much as $500 per year. The study also states that mandatory state-level labeling would cost food and beverage manufacturers millions of dollars to change food labels and supply chain systems.</p>
<p>It’s been repeatedly shown that 90%+ of Americans desire GMO labeling; the reason biotech companies are pushing for suppression is because they know a minimum of 56% of consumers would refrain from purchasing and consuming GMO-containing foods, which would equate to a loss of profit.</p>
<p>Democrats represent many Americans, then, by maintaining that labeling would ensure transparency. “What’s the problem with letting consumers know what they are buying?” asked Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.).</p>
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<p><strong>MEANWHILE, Stefanie Spear <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/07/24/house-passes-dark-act/" rel="nofollow">reports for EcoWatch</a>:</strong></p>
<p>A number of farm state Democrats joined House Republicans in passing the bill. Twelve Republicans voted against the bill citing infringement of states’ rights and local control.</p>
<p>“It’s outrageous that some House lawmakers voted to ignore the wishes of nine out of 10 Americans,” said Scott Faber, senior vice president of government affairs for Environmental Working Group (EWG). “Today’s vote to deny Americans the right to know what’s in their food and how it’s grown was a foregone conclusion. This House was bought and paid for by corporate interests, so it’s no surprise that it passed a bill to block states and the FDA from giving consumers basic information about their food.”</p>
<p>More than 300 organizations, companies and food industry and social justice leaders oppose the DARK Act in the face of massive spending and lobbying by big chemical and food companies, according to EWG. Polls show a large majority of people in key states and across the country support mandatory GMO labeling.</p>
<p>“We’re confident the Senate will defeat the DARK Act,” added Faber. “We continue to hope that thoughtful food companies that listen to their customers will work with consumer groups to craft a non-judgmental GMO disclosure to put on the back of food packaging. Americans should have the same right as citizens of 64 other countries to know what’s in their food and how it’s grown.”</p>
<p>“We are disappointed but not surprised that the majority of House members have sided with large chemical and food companies to protect corporate interests over the 90 percent of American citizens who simply want the right to know more about their food,” said Gary Hirshberg, chairman of Stonyfield Farm and chairman of Just Label It.</p>
<p>“As a long-time food executive, I find it hard to believe that smart companies like PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kellogg’s and Campbell’s are willing to risk their reputations to avoid putting a couple of additional words in their ingredient panels” said Hirshberg.</p>
<p>“Instead, they continue to fund efforts that are exactly the opposite of what their consumers clearly want. It is clear that the tide of consumer support favors more transparency. Americans will now know how their representatives voted and that their favorite brands are keeping them in the dark.”</p>
<p>“Passage of this bill is an attempt by Monsanto and its agribusiness cronies to crush the democratic decision-making of tens of millions of Americans. Corporate influence has won and the voice of the people has been ignored,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of Center for Food Safety. “We remain confident that the Senate will preserve the rights of Americans and stand up for local democracy.”</p>
<p>Center for Food Safety supports bipartisan legislation introduced by Sen. Boxer and Rep. DeFazio called the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, which would require that food manufacturers label foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. This bill would guarantee Americans the right to know what is in their foods while respecting the need by companies for a uniform, federal standard.</p>
<p>According to Center for Food Safety, a number of messaging amendments were offered by champions of labeling and states’ rights intended to underscore the bill’s flaws, however all four failed to pass:</p>
<p>Leading opponent of the bill, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) offered an amendment that if passed would have required that any U.S. company who produces a product in the U.S. be bound by the same labeling requirement held in another country.</p>
<p>Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) offered an amendment that would have removed everything from the underlying bill with the exception of provisions establishing a non-GMO certification program at USDA.</p>
<p>Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) offered an amendment to specify that as FDA defines the term “natural,” that it does so to exclude GE foods and ingredients.</p>
<p>An amendment offered by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) would have ensured that the preemption provisions in the underlying bill do not abdicate the sovereign right of Native American tribes to prohibit or restrict the cultivation of GE crops on tribal lands.</p>
<p>An amendment to change the name to the Denying Americans the Right to Know or DARK Act was introduced by Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) after the final vote.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/update-house-passes-bill-blocking-states-from-requiring-gmo-labels-on-food/" rel="nofollow">Originally published by True Activist</a></p>
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<p>The recent Black Lives Matter protest at the Netroots Nation conference was a teachable moment for everyone – forcing progressives to pick a side as they shape next year's electoral agenda.</p>
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<p>While government officials and the food industry claim GMOs are safe, consumer advocates seeking transparency on labels argue that no one really knows the long-term impacts of genetically modified crops.</p>
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<p>The reports confirm social media surveillance of the movement and related events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York – including watching over vigils, parades and other benign gatherings.</p>
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<p>The call for a ban follows controversial legislation allowing E.U. member states to opt-out of GM cultivation, even though it has been approved at the European Union level.</p>
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Documents Show Feds Regularly Monitor Black Lives Matter Protesters Nationwide

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<h2>Documents Show Feds Regularly Monitor Black Lives Matter Protesters Nationwide</h2>
<span>Documents Show Feds Regularly Monitor Black Lives Matter Protesters Nationwide</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>The Intercept</span></div>
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<p>The Department of Homeland Security has been monitoring the Black Lives Matter movement since anti-police protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri last summer, according to hundreds of documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request.</p>
<p>The documents, released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Operations Coordination, indicate that the department frequently collects information, including location data, on #BlackLivesMatter activities from public social media accounts, including on Facebook, Twitter, and Vine, even for events expected to be peaceful.</p>
<p>The reports confirm social media surveillance of the protest movement and ostensibly related events in the cities of Ferguson, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and New York.</p>
<p>They also show the department watching over gatherings that seem benign and even mundane. For example, DHS circulated information on a nationwide series of silent vigils and a DHS-funded agency planned to monitor a funk music parade and a walk to end breast cancer in the nation’s capital.</p>
<p>The tracking of domestic protest groups and peaceful gatherings raises questions over whether DHS is chilling the exercise of First Amendment rights, and over whether the department, <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/creation-department-homeland-security" rel="nofollow">created in large part</a> to combat terrorism, has allowed its mission to creep beyond the bounds of useful security activities as its annual budget has grown beyond $60 billion.</p>
<p>The surveillance cataloged in the DHS documents goes back to August of last year, when protests and riots broke out in Ferguson the day after the shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. According to two August 11, 2014 reports, a DHS FEMA “WatchOps officer” used information from Twitter and Vine <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2178935-2-2014-8-11-ferguson-from-social-media-twitter.html" rel="nofollow">to monitor the riots</a> and <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2178936-3-2014-8-10-ferguson-map-from-social-media.html" rel="nofollow">reproduced a map</a>, originally <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/2e196o/interactivelive_map_of_ferguson_protests/" rel="nofollow">created by</a> a Reddit user, of conflict zones.</p>
<p>This sort of information gathering was not confined to Ferguson. A few days after rioting and protests there, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2178934-1-2014-8-14-silent-vigil-alert-nmos14.html" rel="nofollow">a DHS email</a> forwarded another message reporting on the “National Moment of Silence,” nationwide silent vigils planned in response to the shooting. The original email listed the cities with planned vigils and noted that they were being spread on social media with the hashtag #NMOS14.</p>
<p>It also mentioned that NYPD’s counterterrorism intelligence organization would be “monitoring the situation.” The DHS email forwarding that information said the data was provided “for your situational awareness.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2178937-4-2015-4-30-5-3-fema-protest-report-includes.html" rel="nofollow">An April 2015 FEMA memo</a> also shows that the DHS appears to have gathered information on anti-police-brutality protests in Philadelphia “organized by members of the Philly Coalition for Real Justice” and in New York on May Day at “Foley Square, start time 1700… Independent factions are being solicited to join in on a full day of demonstration through various open source social media sites, fliers, posters.”</p>
<p>In an email to The Intercept, DHS spokesman S.Y. Lee wrote: “The Department of Homeland Security fully supports the right of individuals to exercise their First Amendment rights and does not provide resources to monitor any specific planned or spontaneous protest, rally or public gathering.</p>
<p>The DHS National Operations Center statutory authority (Section 515 of the Homeland Security Act) is limited to providing situational awareness and establishing a common operating picture for the federal government, and for state, local, tribal governments as appropriate, in the event of a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster, and ensures that critical terrorism and disaster-related information reaches government decision-makers.”</p>
<p>Baher Azmy, a legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, however, argues that this “providing situational awareness” is just another word for surveillance and that creating this body of knowledge about perfectly legal events is a problem in and of itself. “What they call situational awareness is Orwellian speak for watching and intimidation,” said Azmy.</p>
<p>“Over time there’s a serious harm to the associational rights of the protesters and it’s an effective way to chill protest movements. The average person would be less likely to go to a Black Lives Matter protest if the government is monitoring social media, Facebook, and their movements.”</p>
<p>Although Lee says in his email that the department “does not provide resources to monitor any specific planned or spontaneous protest, rally or public gathering,” some of the documents show that the DHS has produced minute-by-minute reports on protesters’ movements in demonstrations.</p>
<p>In response to The Intercept’s FOIA request, for example, last month the DHS’s Office of Operations Coordination released over 40 pages of documents (<a href="https://firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/07/DC-protest-surveillance-1.zip" rel="nofollow">archive 1</a>, <a href="https://firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/07/DC-protest-surveillance-2.zip" rel="nofollow">archive 2</a>) detailing live updates and Google Maps images of Black Lives Matter protestors’ movements during an April 29 protest in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>The “Watch Desk” of the DHS’s National Capital Region, FEMA branch compiled this real-time information despite the fact that an FBI joint intelligence bulletin shared among several DHS officials the day before noted that there was “no information suggesting violent behavior is planned for Washington, D.C.,” and that previous anti-police brutality protests in the wake of Ferguson “have been peaceful in nature.”</p>
<p>The bulletin also said that for unspecified reasons “we remain concerned that unaffiliated individuals could potentially use this event to commit acts of violence in the Chinatown area.”</p>
<p>This surveillance of the April 29 protest, which the bulletin explicitly refers to as a “First Amendment-protected event,” raises questions about the potentially compromised state of protesters’ civil liberties — a worry that also surfaced after it <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/8012-dhs-turns-over-occupy-wall-street-documents-to-truthout%23files" rel="nofollow">was revealed</a> in 2012 that the DHS was monitoring Occupy Wall Street.</p>
<p>“It is concerning that the government would be diverting resources towards surveilling citizens who are assembling and expressing their First Amendment rights,” says Maurice Mitchell, an organizer with Blackbird, a group that helps support activism against police violence in communities across the country.</p>
<p>“The fact that our government is doing this — I can only assume to disrupt us — is pretty alarming… Directly after 9/11, people said, ‘if you’re not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about.’ Well, now we’re fighting back against police brutality and extrajudicial killings, yet they are using this supposedly anti-terrorist infrastructure against us.”</p>
<p>An April 29 email from the DHS National Operations Center also mentions planned surveillance of three seemingly innocuous events, two of which were associated with historically black neighborhoods. According to the email, the DHS-funded D.C. Homeland Security & Emergency Management Agency decided to conduct “a limited stand-up… to monitor a larger than expected Funk Parade and two other mass gathering events” in case “any Baltimore-related civil unrest occurs.”</p>
<p>It appears that the only Funk Parade in D.C. occurs in the historically black neighborhood of U Street. The other two events, according to another report, produced by the DHS National Capital Region‘s Information Collection and Coordination Center, were a community parade in Congress Heights, a predominantly black neighborhood, and the Avon 39-Walk to End Breast Cancer.</p>
<p>The documents also elaborate on DHS’s response to riots and militant protests in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man who in April died from injuries sustained while in police custody. DHS deployed officers on the ground and at intelligence centers. As VICE reported last month, the DHS’ Federal Protective Service placed more than 400 officers on duty in Baltimore after Gray’s death.</p>
<p>In response to the anti-police backlash in Baltimore, DHS agencies also “integrated” representatives into two local intelligence centers, the Governor of Maryland’s Operations Center and the Mayor’s Emergency Operations Center. The documents state the DHS’s Federal Protective Service and Office of Infrastructure Protection worked in “close coordination with State and Local partners to monitor the situation” in Baltimore and helped “prepare for a large demonstration” that Saturday.</p>
<p>Brendan McQuade, a visiting assistant professor at DePaul University who researches the DHS’s intelligence-gathering fusion centers, believes that the DHS and its affiliated counterterror organizations monitor Black Lives Matter to such a exacting degree because the terrorist threats they were created to stop are exceedingly remote. “Fusion centers were set up for counterterrorism, but it became ‘all crimes, all threats, all hazards’ because terrorism isn’t a real threat. You are <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/youre-68-times-more-likely-to-be-hit-and-killed-by-lightning-than-murdered-by-a-terrorist.html" rel="nofollow">four times more likely</a> to be struck by lighting than killed by a terrorist,” says McQuade. “Even at their moment of emergence it was clear that counterterrorism wasn’t going to be enough.”</p>
<p>Raven Rakia, a journalist who investigates state surveillance and policing, said that the DHS’ decision to monitor Black Lives Matter is hardly surprising, given the federal government’s <a href="https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro/cointel-pro-black-extremists" rel="nofollow">well-documented history</a> of spying on and suppressing black social movements and groups like the Black Panthers. “There’s a long history of the federal agencies, especially the FBI, seeing black resistance organizations as a threat to national security,” says Rakia.</p>
<p>Indeed, the documents provided to The Intercept by DHS may well represent a small fraction of state surveillance against Black Lives Matter. Over the last few years, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/5-examples-our-government-treating-blacklivesmatter-movement-terrorist-group" rel="nofollow">small bits of evidence</a> have trickled out indicating that other counterterror intelligence organizations like the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and state police intelligence groups have been involved in monitoring and apprehending Black Lives Matter activists.</p>
<p>Mitchell, the Blackbird activist, says that this continuing surveillance serves not only to keep tabs on black activists, but also to deter them from pushing forward. “Surveillance is a tool of fear. When the police are videotaping you at a protest or pulling you over because you’re a well known activist — all of these techniques are designed to create a chilling effect on people’s organizing. This is no different. The level of surveillance, however, isn’t going to stop us. After all, we organize because our lives depend on it.”</p>
<p><a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/24/documents-show-department-homeland-security-monitoring-black-lives-matter-since-ferguson/" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Intercept</a></p>
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Exposed: F.D.I.C. Regulator Quit Job to Fight His Own Foreclosure Fraud

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<span>Exposed: F.D.I.C. Regulator Quit Job to Fight His Own Foreclosure Fraud</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/this-former-bank-regulator-quit-his-job-to-fight-for-his-house-514-body-image-1431958664.jpg?itok=NBWwBHrw" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/this-former-bank-regulator-quit-his-job-to-fight-for-his-house-514-body-image-1431958664.jpg?itok=NBWwBHrw" /></a>
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<p>Mainstream media is reporting that the U.S. economy has recovered significantly since the crash of 2008. What no one is telling us about are the human casualties – still accruing across the country – as a result of the criminal actions of the big banks that crashed it. The banks packaged the most expensive lie ever sold on Wall Street – mortgage backed securities, or MBS – with the consequence being millions of homes stolen through fraudulent foreclosure. The foreclosure crisis exposed once again America's two-tiered justice system, which forgets about the victims of fraud while leaving those who committed it unpunished.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, those same banks are continuing with business as usual and recording record-high profits, forcing the rest of us to ask: whatever happened to those individuals and institutions who were supposed to be in charge of regulating the banks and protecting the American people? For answers, Occupy.com caught up with one of those individuals, Eric Mains, a former bank regulator with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) who has seen the tables turned on him as well, as he fights his own case of foreclosure fraud.</p>
<p><strong>Senka Huskic: How long were you working for the FDIC and, during that period, did you notice any irregularities on the part of the banks?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Eric Mains:</strong> I worked for the FDIC from August 2010 through March 2015. The banks I worked with were all "irregular" in terms of their being in the process of FDIC receivership because they were failing. I cannot discuss specific work I was involved with due to my FDIC confidentiality agreement, but in terms of true “large banks” there was only one instance where I was involved and aware of transactions that were questionable. How that situation was ultimately dealt with I do not know. I just heard rumors.</p>
<p><strong>SH: One of the tabs on the FDIC's site, Consumer Assistance and Information, is described as: "Useful information to help you make informed decisions about your money and to protect yourself against financial scams and fraud." Why isn't such a big institution doing anything to shed light on the enormous fraud and do what it says – protect the American people?</strong></p>
<p><strong>EM:</strong> We all know the answer, even though no one wants to say it too loud. The system is largely gamed, broken, and corrupted by money, influence peddling and a revolving door that rewards those who "play ball." A perfect example is Lanny Breuer and Eric Holder, now sitting comfortably back at their pro-bank law firm Covington & Burling. I have said before and will say again: change can only be affected from the top down, and if those at the top are not held accountable, you will have no change. The lobbyists have DC wrapped up – the politicians hamstring the regulatory agencies [where] the top post chairs come from Wall Street firms, and appointees can still receive payments from Wall Street firms even after they "retire," as an incentive bonus to take government positions.</p>
<p><strong>SH: You quit your job at FDIC to focus on your own foreclosure battle. How did you uncover fraud on your mortgage and what made you believe that you can win this?</strong></p>
<p><strong>EM</strong>: I discovered the fraud that was going on due to articles and books covering the subject, and with a large hat tip to bloggers such as Neil Garfield, who have been outspoken and courageous in pointing out the fraud. David Dayen, Matt Taibbi, Adam Levitin, Yves Smith and others have all been very vocal about the fraud that has gone on.</p>
<p>First, almost all the securitized loans that were part of the Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) Trusts involve fraud that has tainted them – from failing to properly fund the Trusts and have them purchase the notes, to failing to legally transfer the notes into them. Nobody wants to admit, recognize or legally try to fix the issues that exist because they see it as an inescapable pit of moral hazard and economic doom.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, a majority of courts in our country fail to enforce the laws as written because they either think the homeowner is trying to get out of his loan, presuming the loan must be valid and without fraud or defects, or they simply don’t care to spend the time and effort to dig further into the transaction. Lawsuits are expensive and cost time and money, with homeowners outgunned by the banks. Some courts have stepped up, but not enough. All court systems should all be applying 500+ years of property and contract law, hearsay rules and the statute of frauds equally. They are not.</p>
<p>What makes me think I can win? At some point the law of averages tells me I will run into a court that cares about due process rights. Until then I still hold my house, get to expose those committing fraud, and occasionally poke them in the media – if that's not winning, nothing is! In all seriousness, let’s define winning, too. First, you have to understand the game you are playing. The heads of large banks know the proceeding about the REMICs; the heads of regulatory agencies are aware to one degree or another, too. Everyone knows the ball trying to be hidden, and at some point it will be found – it’s just a matter of how long that takes. In this game, the longer you hide the ball and get away with it, the more the other side loses.</p>
<p>The tobacco industry played this game beautifully for years: deny cigarettes can cause cancer, deny the facts. Everyone knows the game and the issues, but can they prove it in a court of law? It was all part of the equation. Big banks are playing the exact same game – no difference, just bigger stakes. What brought the game to a close for Big Tobacco was media attention. Whistleblowers and landmark lawsuits drew that attention. Make no mistake about it, the banks are afraid of one thing: that a major media outlet blasts the story, forcing the government to do something about the issue. Major court battle “wins” help too, and people like Elizabeth Warren help. But the question is how fast can we get the media and public on board? Ever ask yourself why not one major media outlet has recently run a story about the REMICs? Why not one has said, “Hey, the forgery and robosigning is still going on!” The advertising revenue from banks, threats of lawsuits, influence peddling, etc., have wrapped up the media too, it seems, as I'm sure the banks wanted it.</p>
<p><strong>SH: In your case, you chose the path of rescinding your mortgage. Could you explain why you think this is the way to go and how far along in the process you are with this?</strong></p>
<p><strong>EM:</strong> It is the only way to go right now, and I would highly advocate that those in a foreclosure situation get those rescission notices out the door – before Congress does something to pre-empt your rights [that] the Supreme Court just upheld in Jesinoski v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. The right to rescind under the Truth In Lending Act (TILA) gives consumers the right to rescind a "loan" transaction that likely violated the statute of frauds. TILA is strict in its interpretation, as lawmakers meant it to be. They knew consumers would be outgunned by large banks and simply wanted to level the playing field for consumers.</p>
<p>The banks' lawyers will argue that people have three days to rescind, or three years in some cases, [or that] the loan does not qualify under TILA, etc. TILA clearly says the rescission date is predicated on when the loan was consummated. If the bank has not responded in the 20 days in court as TILA requires, their arguments appear to be annulled. If they really believed an effective transaction was consummated – that all parties to the loan were disclosed, that there was a meeting of the minds and consideration given – why didn't they show up and argue this in 20 days? Maybe they didn't because if they tried to do this, the court would find the transaction violated the statute of frauds. If the transaction itself was ineffective, it [become] unenforceable, TILA rescission or not. The consumer wins either way – which is the exact purpose of TILA.</p>
<p><strong>SH: What are your thoughts on multiple mortgage fraud settlements between banks and our government? How can the government that is supposed to work for people sign these agreements and sweep the banks’ fraud under the rug?</strong></p>
<p><strong>EM:</strong> For the most part they lacked teeth, ignored, or were meant to seem like they accomplished something when they did not do a whole lot – and were a photo op for the agencies while letting the banks off easy. If they were actually enforced as written, like most laws on the books, they would be effective. Without anyone enforcing them, not so effective.</p>
<p><strong>SH: What do you think is the main reason the American people are being sacrificed in order to cover up the enormous mortgage fraud?</strong></p>
<p><strong>EM:</strong> Because they can be. Besides courageous consumers who can afford to fight back, the general public is allowing this to happen. People have to be enraged enough to file lawsuits, file FOIA requests, write newspapers, write A.G's, put people on the spot, and make those in positions to affect change very uncomfortable. Frederick Douglass from 150 years ago put it best: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."</p>
<p><strong>SH: Over the years, I have talked to many people who were fighting their foreclosure. Majority of them experience lack of understanding and support from their family and friends. How are people around you reacting to your foreclosure fight? Are they supportive?</strong></p>
<p><strong>EM:</strong> An occasional "Go team," and avoidance of the subject – get used to that. People have been brought up to think their FICO score is the new goal their life is meant to achieve, and all bank-involved debt comes with a presumption no fraud was involved or that it may be invalid. The public presumption is if you don't pay a "loan," you must be wrong – not the large banks who are so helpful in robosigning documents, manipulating foreign currency markets, laundering drug money for cartels, etc.</p>
<p><strong>SH: Every day we're reading about new fines imposed on the banks for their mortgage fraud, and yet they continue with their old ways and these fines are just part of business as usual. Millions of Americans lost their homes, their life savings, their way of life. What do you think needs to change so that something like this never happens again?</strong></p>
<p><strong>EM</strong>: It will inevitably happen again as long as the current system exists as it exists. It’s greed and human nature at the root of the problem, and those at the top are compromised. There are more than enough laws – they just need to be enforced. There is no magic bullet, but the surest way is to separate our politicians and regulators from the purses of those they regulate.</p>
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The Ancient Pyramids the Greatest Lie on Earth 2015

<p>The Ancient Pyramids the Greatest Lie on Earth 2015. THERE IS NO WAY FOR THE GREAT PYRAMID TO HAVE BEEN BUILT BY ANYONE IN 2400 BC. To make this a little clearer, building a perfect pyramid, in which all sides culminate precisely at the apex, requires that it must be predetermined and exquisitely carried out during construction. If one block is off by the smallest amount, the structure’s accuracy would denigrate with each course of masonry.</p>
<p>To complicate this problem, builders who wanted to express the pi ratio in the final construction would have to predetermine the ratio of the height to the perimeter and therefore the angle of the slope. Hundreds of facts are not mentioned here, but are easily found by searching. Alpha to Omega – Journey to the End of Time goes into great detail to explain many of the fascinating facts about an edifice continually purported to be a tomb for a pharaoh named Cheops.</p>
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