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D.O.J. and F.B.I. Admit No-Fly Lists Use "Predictive Assessments" – Not Hard Evidence

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<h2>D.O.J. and F.B.I. Admit No-Fly Lists Use "Predictive Assessments" – Not Hard Evidence</h2>
<span>D.O.J. and F.B.I. Admit No-Fly Lists Use "Predictive Assessments" – Not Hard Evidence</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span><a href="http://www.guardiannews.com/" rel="nofollow">The Guardian</a></span></div>
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<p>The Obama administration’s no-fly lists and broader watchlisting system is based on predicting crimes rather than relying on records of demonstrated offenses, the government has been forced to admit in court.</p>
<p>In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge, the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI conceded that stopping U.S. and other citizens from traveling on airplanes is a matter of “predictive assessments about potential threats,” the government asserted in May.</p>
<p>“By its very nature, identifying individuals who ‘may be a threat to civil aviation or national security’ is a predictive judgment intended to prevent future acts of terrorism in an uncertain context,” Justice Department officials Benjamin C. Mizer and Anthony J. Coppolino told the court on May 28. “Judgments concerning such potential threats to aviation and national security call upon the unique prerogatives of the Executive in assessing such threats.”</p>
<p>It is believed to be the government’s most direct acknowledgement to date that people are not allowed to fly because of what the government believes they might do and not what they have already done. The Justice Department said it must meet a standard of “reasonable suspicion” that a blacklisted individual poses a threat, a step below probable cause.</p>
<p>The declaration comes in a longstanding case, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), arguing that the government does not provide significant steps for someone caught in the “predictive assessments” to get off the blacklists.</p>
<p>On Friday, the ACLU asked Judge Anna Brown to conduct her own review of the error rate in the government’s predictions modeling – a process the ACLU likens to the “pre-crime” of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction.</p>
<p>“I believe this is the first case in which a court is being asked to review the basis for the government’s predictive model for blacklisting people who have never even been charged, let alone convicted, of a violent crime,” said ACLU attorney Hina Shamsi.</p>
<p>In March, as a result of the lawsuit, the Department of Homeland Security began informing people of their inclusion on a flight blacklist and permitting them to file a “redress inquiry.” The resulting non-adversarial process has the government perform “careful consideration” of its reasons for blacklisting, with the Transportation Security Agency director as final arbiter. The ACLU considers the new process insufficient.</p>
<p>But the Obama administration is seeking to block the release of further information about how the predictions are made, for the same reason it opposes providing greater information for challenging watchlist inclusion: damage to national security.</p>
<p>“If the Government were required to provide full notice of its reasons for placing an individual on the No Fly List and to turn over all evidence (both incriminating and exculpatory) supporting the No Fly determination, the No Fly redress process would place highly sensitive national security information directly in the hands of terrorist organizations and other adversaries,” the assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, Michael Steinbach, wrote in a declaration to Brown.</p>
<p>Terrorist organizations would have “every incentive” to manipulate the Department of Homeland Security’s procedures for challenging no-fly list inclusion, Steinbach argued, “in order to discover whether they or their members are subject to investigation or intelligence operations, what sources and methods the Government employs to obtain information or what type of intelligence information is sufficient to trigger an investigation in the first place.”</p>
<p>Joined by Clayton Grigg of the FBI’s terrorist screening center, Steinbech asserted that “mere guesses or ‘hunches’, or the reporting of suspicious activity alone, are not sufficient to establish reasonable suspicion.”</p>
<p>On Friday, the ACLU told Brown that the administration’s predictive assessments pose an “extremely high risk of error.”</p>
<p>Marc Sageman, a former CIA counterterrorism analyst and current academic researcher of terrorism, submitted a brief for the ACLU arguing that the government’s predictive model underpinning the blacklist inclusion was not responsibly rigorous.</p>
<p>“[T]here is no indication that the government has assessed the scientific validity and reliability of its predictive judgments or the information that leads to those judgments, nor has it used a scientifically valid model for predicting, and accounting for, the rate of error that might arise from those predictive judgments. Due to these failures alone, the government’s predictive judgments cannot be considered reliable,” Sageman told the court on Friday.</p>
<p>Without a “scientifically validated process,” Sageman asserted, the government’s judgements about who does and does not pose a terrorist threat to aviation “amount to little more than the ‘guesses’ or ‘hunches’ that Mr Grigg says are not sufficient to meet the criteria.”</p>
<p>Previous court filings, in this case and a related one, suggest that placement on the no-fly and other watchlists results not merely from threat assessments.</p>
<p>In April 2014, five people, all of whom are Muslim, claimed that they were suddenly forbidden from flying after declining FBI pressure to become informants or in order to place pressure upon them to do so. Informants, along with social media postings, have become a driving factor in the FBI’s uptick in arrests of people suspected of ties to al-Qaida and the Islamic State.</p>
<p>In July 2014, the Intercept published an internal watchlisting guidance indicating that nominations to government watchlists were growing, with few rejections. Social media posts were among acceptable criteria, and acquittals in court did not necessarily lead to removals from the list, the Intercept’s document showed.</p>
<p>“The government is depriving innocent people like our clients of their constitutionally protected liberties without providing a fair process for them to challenge the blacklisting and clear their names,” the ACLU’s Shamsi said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/10/us-no-fly-list-predictive-assessments" rel="nofollow">Originally published by The Guardian</a></p>
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<p>The filing before an Oregon federal judge represents the most direct acknowledgement to date that people aren't allowed to fly because of what the government believes they might do, and not what they've already done.</p>
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<p>"It is important that we send a message that if you want to do business with local and state governments, you need to play by the rules."</p>
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<p>"The public is really hungry for a politics of integrity – and that’s what we’ve got and they don't."</p>
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armageddon news revolution D.O.J. and F.B.I. Admit No-Fly Lists Use "Predictive Assessments" – Not Hard Evidence

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Our Town Dumped the Big Banks, And Yours Should Too

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<h2>Our Town Dumped the Big Banks, And Yours Should Too</h2>
<span>Our Town Dumped the Big Banks, And Yours Should Too</span>
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<div>This article originally appeared on <span>Al Jazeera America</span></div>
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<p>On May 20, after years of paying fine after fine to settle civil actions, the big banks’ bad behavior reached a new legal and moral low: The Department of Justice announced that four major banks — Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland — <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/five-big-banks-agree-to-pay-more-than-5-billion-to-settle-regulatory-charges/2015/05/20/bdedb770-fefb-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html" rel="nofollow">agreed to plead guilty</a> to felony criminal charges and pay $5.5 billion in fines for conspiring to manipulate the price of U.S. dollars and euros exchanged in the foreign currency exchange spot market. Attorney General Loretta Lynch observed that the banks engaged in a “brazen display of collusion.”</p>
<p>In addition, a fifth bank, UBS, agreed to plead guilty to manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmark interest rates after breaching its December 2012 non-prosecution agreement resolving the LIBOR investigation. The LIBOR affects consumer credit cards, student loans, home mortgages and much more. According to the Department of Justice, the conspiracy fixed the U.S. dollar-euro exchange rate, affecting currencies that are central to international commerce. This conspiracy undermined the integrity and the competitiveness of foreign currency exchange markets which account for hundreds of billions of dollars worth of transactions every day.</p>
<p>The behavior of these banks is grossly offensive. Even years after the financial crisis and all the criticism, investigations and increased regulation, Wall Street still suffers from a culture of criminality. One trader was <a href="http://qz.com/408825/traders-are-caught-being-horrible-in-online-chat-rooms-yet-again/" rel="nofollow">quoted as saying</a>, “the less competition the better.” A Barclay’s vice president <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/if-you-aint-cheatin-you-aint-trying-four-global-banks-plead-guilty-to-felony-charges-of-fixing-the-price-of-dollar-and-euros-10264395.html" rel="nofollow">was caught saying</a>, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.”</p>
<p>The response to the latest massive crimes: not much. The stock price of these companies continues to rise, and once again, unlike the millions of people who get caught stealing a fraction of what these banks stole, no one appears to be going to jail.</p>
<p>When banks plead guilty to a crime, we must do more than shrug and move on. The actions of these banks pose risks to investors and the public. Until they prove otherwise, I do not believe that these banks should be trusted with public funds. In my role as Santa Cruz County, California, supervisor, I am entrusted to set an investment policy that protects the public’s tax dollars. I feel strongly that no county should be involved with those who rigged the world’s biggest financial markets. It is important that we send a message that if you want to do business with local and state governments, you need to play by the rules.</p>
<p>At my urging, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted to modify the county’s investment policy to reflect that our county will not do new business — such as using investment services, or buying commercial paper or bonds — with these financial institutions for five years. We also ordered the county to unwind existing relationships with these five banks to the greatest extent feasible. The county’s investment pool has a portfolio with a value of approximately $650 million.</p>
<p>These policy decisions are consistent with governmental practices in other arenas. We require those who bid for contracts to be “responsible and responsive.” Under this standard, we would not hire a firm to build a community center, repair a water main or even chlorinate our public pool if it had just pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges. Our financial partners should at least meet the same standard for responsibility — which, let’s be honest, is a very low bar.</p>
<p>While the loss of Santa Cruz County’s investment pool alone may not have a major impact on Wall Street, I am actively reaching out to other local progressive jurisdictions across the country to urge other institutions and local governments to consider taking similar action. We’ve already heard back from half a dozen elected officials and hundreds of citizens who are urging their local governments to implement a similar policy. Perhaps the loss of public sector business will finally curb the illegal and immoral behavior by Wall Street that regulation and shame have thus far sadly failed to stop.</p>
<p><em>Ryan Coonerty is a County Supervisor in Santa Cruz County.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/8/santa-cruz-dumped-the-big-banks--your-town-should-too.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Al Jazeera America</a></p>
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<p>The filing before an Oregon federal judge represents the most direct acknowledgement to date that people aren't allowed to fly because of what the government believes they might do, and not what they've already done.</p>
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<p>"It is important that we send a message that if you want to do business with local and state governments, you need to play by the rules."</p>
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<p>"The public is really hungry for a politics of integrity – and that’s what we’ve got and they don't."</p>
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The Green Alternative: Prez Candidate Jill Stein On What It Will Take To Win In 2016

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<h2>The Green Alternative: Prez Candidate Jill Stein On What It Will Take To Win In 2016</h2>
<span>The Green Alternative: Prez Candidate Jill Stein On What It Will Take To Win In 2016</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/jillsteinhjm.jpg?itok=UB7XCyQO" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/medialibrary/jillsteinhjm.jpg?itok=UB7XCyQO" /></a>
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<p>In late June, Dr. Jill Stein of Lexington, Mass., announced she would be seeking the Green Party nomination for President of the United States in 2016. This follows up Stein's 2012 run on the same ticket, which received endorsements from progressive luminaries like Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges.</p>
<p>That year, Stein and her VP running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested twice for their activism during the campaign: first, during a sit-in at a Philadelphia bank where they were protesting foreclosures, and second, when they <a href="https://youtu.be/yGc9LzOySJs" rel="nofollow">attempted to enter</a>the presidential debate at Hofstra University and bring attention to the exclusion of alternative political parties in the election process. Winning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein" rel="nofollow">close to half a million votes</a> in 2012 made Stein the most successful female presidential candidate in U.S. history.</p>
<p>Occupy.com recently caught up with Stein to discuss her 2016 campaign, the policies she's labeling her Green New Deal, her take on the Black Lives Matter movement, and what's changed for the Green Party since 2012.</p>
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<p>In late June, Dr. Jill Stein of Lexington, Mass., announced she would be seeking the Green Party nomination for President of the United States in 2016. This follows up Stein's 2012 run on the same ticket, which received endorsements from progressive luminaries like Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges.</p>
<p>That year, Stein and her VP running mate Cheri Honkala were arrested twice for their activism during the campaign: first, during a sit-in at a Philadelphia bank where they were protesting foreclosures, and second, when they <a href="https://youtu.be/yGc9LzOySJs" rel="nofollow">attempted to enter</a>the presidential debate at Hofstra University and bring attention to the exclusion of alternative political parties in the election process. Winning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein" rel="nofollow">close to half a million votes</a> in 2012 made Stein the most successful female presidential candidate in U.S. history.</p>
<p>Occupy.com recently caught up with Stein to discuss her 2016 campaign, the policies she's labeling her Green New Deal, her take on the Black Lives Matter movement, and what's changed for the Green Party since 2012.</p>
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<p><strong>Derek Royden: Do you think Green Party policy ideas today are starting to resonate more with the U.S. public than they have in the past?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jill Stein:</strong> Hugely, yes, I think the Green Party has been ahead of the curve historically on equal marriage, on the climate crisis, on green energy, on nonviolence, on fighting corporate personhood, on fighting for local self-sufficient economies. We’ve been ahead of the curve but the curve has caught up to us in a big way since the last election. You could kind of feel it in transition then, kind of like people were surprised to hear what we had to say. This time around, people really understand that the system is in crisis and that the Green Party is the only political alternative out there.</p>
<p>Most democracies have multi-partisan systems so you can have a socialist party, an environmental party, you can have different kinds of parties. [But] in this country you have either the parties of oligarchy or you have all the other sorts of alternatives with integrity, and we have come together making for a very powerful, unified force. People are beginning to mobilize around a common agenda for people, planet and peace over profit. There’s this wake-up call – that we can’t move forward without taking on the whole tamale. Somebody at the Green Party national convention reiterated the quote: “We’re at a moment in history where in order to change anything, we have to change everything.”</p>
<p>It created a very empowering moment because we recognized that we have a very big team and it is undoubtedly a majority. When you add in the one in two Americans who are in poverty or low income according to the census bureau, that’s a lot of people. Add to that the one in three African Americans who are held hostage in the prison state, that’s a lot of people. Add to that 40 million millennials with college debt and no way to pay it, given this low wage poverty economy that we have been locked into, that’s a lot of people.</p>
<p>And it’s only getting worse, it's not getting better. There are certain superficial claims to the economy being in recovery but that's purely delusional and cherry picking of the data. We’re not in a recovery, it’s still an emergency. So when you add these forces of crisis together including, of course, the climate crisis, we have no alternative except to go forward together with a broad, empowering, inclusive agenda that’s as big as the crisis we’re facing. The word is out and the resistance is thriving right now.</p>
<p><strong>DR: One of the main problems third party candidates have had in the past is that the mainstream media tends to ignore the issues they bring up, not to mention the candidates themselves. Do you have a strategy to get your message out there to the public?</strong></p>
<p><strong>JS:</strong> We sure do and there are a couple of strategies. One of them is we’ve filed a court case against the Commission on Presidential Debates and there is actually a fighting chance that we can open up the debates because they’re breaking the law. We have a very well-funded lawsuit, it entails a coalition of groups across the political spectrum that are fighting to open them up and we certainly have a fighting chance for a wide variety of reasons.</p>
<p>Back in 2002, when I was first tricked into running for office, we agitated our way into a debate, not because the Green Party had so much support but because people were horrified by the predatory debates where people are forced to listen to corporate puppets. It was televised and, inside the debate hall, our public interest ideas went over like lead balloons, but when the group emerged from the debate, I was mobbed by the press for the first and the last time. They told me I’d won the debate on the instant online viewer poll; you can be sure that was the last time they did an instant online viewer poll, but it made the point that the public is really hungry for a politics of integrity, and that’s what we’ve got and they don’t.</p>
<p>We also hope to conduct mass actions in the run-up to this [debate] so that we will be campaigning in the court of public opinion as well as in the court of law. So we hope to, for example, initiate an economic boycott of the corporate sponsors of the Commission on Presidential Debates. We have a bunch of fun adventures to look forward to and we encourage people to go to our website and get on the newsletter and be tuned in and participate. You know: be the movement, be the campaign.</p>
<p><strong>DR: What’s the web address for your campaign so people can check it out?</strong></p>
<p><strong>JS:</strong> It‘s <strong><em><a href="http://www.jill2016.com/" rel="nofollow">Jill2016.com</a></em></strong>. Our campaign’s theme is basically to lift up the voices of grassroots struggle so that you don’t have this preposterous kabuki theater called presidential campaigns where all we’re talking about is how racist and bigoted the various Republican candidates can be. What we need on the table is Black Lives Matter, the prison system, ending the war on drugs and making public higher education free. That is our intent, that is why we are running in this race: to lift up the powerful voices around these powerful ideas whose time has come. People don’t need to feel in any way like participating in the campaign means leaving their issues behind – to the contrary, its about lifting their issues and their struggles up.</p>
<p><strong>DR: You mentioned Black LIves Matter, and it feels like in the past year a new civil rights movement has exploded in the U.S. to address structural racism and police violence against minority communities in general, and African Americans in particular. How would you as president address these very important issues?</strong></p>
<p><strong>JS:</strong> I’m glad you asked this because it really distinguishes our campaign. President Obama just granted clemency to what, 46 people? After they spent a decade locked up unjustly for nonviolent use of substances that are safer than alcohol and nicotine for the most part, in particular marijuana. We’re talking about number one, recognizing that we have an emergency here, an emergency of racial justice that demands a solution as comprehensive and deep and structural as the crisis itself.</p>
<p>What we’re calling for is a national action plan for racial justice now, and I want to clarify this is an action plan under development by the Malcolm X Grassroots Initiative – it isn’t something we’re inventing, but is rising up out of the African American community in particular and it calls for a set of solutions that meet the most urgent needs as defined by the people who are impacted themselves. What does that mean? It means employment, because unemployment rates are sky high in communities of color. We have an economic program called the Green New Deal which calls for a job for everybody: a living wage job for everyone. A job is a human right, a necessity. It also pays for itself, it jumpstarts our economy. But the racial justice piece of this is that the Green New Deal prioritizes job creation in the areas of greatest need: communities of color.</p>
<p>So that’s one solution. Another is addressing structural racism in the prison system and the war on drugs. That means declaring an end to the war on drugs and treating substance abuse as a public health problem, not a criminal issue. It means freeing non-violent drug offenders with needed preparation, including job training and providing ongoing rehabilitation. It also means ending systemic discrimination against former convicts and that is discrimination in housing and employment, in education and the ability to get a loan, voting, you name it.</p>
<p>It also means addressing structural racism in the judicial system. For example, communities of color should have a standing investigator who can be brought in every time there is a death at the hands of police or in police custody like in the Sandra Bland case. This should be routine, it shouldn’t be something that has to have the good luck to come to public attention and get public outrage around it in order to have the Attorney General declare that it warrants special investigation.</p>
<p>We need to systemically introduce restorative justice as a supplement to the criminal justice system. Restorative justice looks to restore the community and in the case of non-violent offenses it should be used much more, as its been found to be very effective. It looks to intercept before violence occurs; it's a wonderful and very promising system of justice that should be integrated. We must also address inherent racial bias in education and that means ending high stakes testing: limited doses of testing for diagnostic purposes only. High stakes testing is not a valid assessment tool and it is actually very harmful to those who are most vulnerable to the deficiencies in the education system.</p>
<p>[Finally], we need to stop burdening taxpayers with school privatization and charters, which do not improve education. All they do is cherry pick and basically steal money from public education and leave the kids who are really challenged inside the public schools. We have to call this system of test, punish and privatize to a halt.</p>
<p><strong>DR: In terms of foreign policy, many commentators have argued convincingly that the Arab Spring was as much a result of drought and rising food prices as it was about overthrowing repressive governments. Would a Green foreign policy try to take these issues into account and, if so, how could the United States help to alleviate this kind of suffering?</strong></p>
<p><strong>JS:</strong> One way we can help to alleviate it is by ceasing to cause it and there are many ways we’re contributing to it. We have the highest per capita production of greenhouse gases and consumption of energy, so that’s one issue right there. We need to get our own house in order. Climate is global and what we’re doing has global impacts, obviously.</p>
<p>We are calling for 100% renewable energy by 2030. That’s 100%. It’s not only powering our homes but also our transportation. Another big part of the problem is our military industrial complex and the fact that we have the biggest war machine, equivalent to basically all others added up. The single biggest polluter on the planet is the U.S. Department of Defense. This not only creates global suffering through climate change but also through war. It’s very important that we transition from a foreign policy based on total economic and military domination to a foreign policy based on international law, human rights and diplomacy.</p>
<p>What just occurred with Iran is a very small indicator of what is possible. We should be rendering the whole Middle East nuclear free. If we really want to have a stable Middle East, and, for that matter, a future for Israel, which is a subject of concern for so many people who are protesting the Iran deal saying that it’s a threat to Israel, well, actually Israel’s nuclear weapons are a huge threat to everyone in the region, including Israel itself, as is the belligerent Netanyahu government. The U.S. government needs to stop not only our own war mongering but we need to stop supporting other militaristic governments like the Netanyahu government and like the Saudis, who are committing war crimes right now in Yemen. We need to stop being in the business of funding war criminal governments, and that too will help alleviate suffering in the region and instability and the climate crisis.</p>
<p>All of these crises fold together and so do their solutions. As complex as these problems are, they are actually not so complex when you stand back and look at the big picture, because they have common causes and common and convergent solutions. That's why we call for a Green New Deal – not only for the U.S., but also globally, because all of these problems have a global dimension and can only be solved globally. In a nutshell, the Green New Deal in the U.S. creates 20 million jobs. Good living wage jobs that could put everybody back to work as part of the solution, and that means an emergency transition to a green economy which means green energy, green food and green transportation as well as meeting human needs, because communities are not sustainable unless they are meeting the needs of people.</p>
<p>As it turns out, what’s healthy for the planet is also healthy for the people. We spend $1 trillion a year on the military industrial security complex, but we spend $3 trillion a year on the sick care complex. We don’t have a healthcare system so much as a sick care system, and in moving to a Green New Deal, by creating a healthy local organic food system, by ending pollution and by creating an efficient public transportation system that also allows people to walk and bike safely in their communities to transit hubs – in doing so, we actually address the major drivers of chronic disease in the U.S. As a medical doctor, I have great familiarity with these issues and it turns out that 75% of our $3 trillion a year is spent on chronic diseases which are preventable. How? Through a healthy diet and exercise. You get exercise not by joining a health club. Exercise needs to be integrated into how we lead our lives, into our transportation systems. That’s how societies become healthy – by having activities integrated, not by buying a health club pass.</p>
<p>This isn’t just theoretical, by the way, this actually happened in Cuba when the country lost its oil pipeline in the early 1990s as the old Soviet Union went down. At the time, their economy is crashing, everybody is totally stressed out, but guess what? They don’t have any fossil fuels to burn so their pollution goes away. They have to start walking and biking and they have to undertake an organic food system very quickly, and what happens? Rates of obesity went down 50%. Death rates from diabetes went down 50%. Death rates from heart attacks and strokes went down between 25% and 35%. So they had a health revolution that cost them zero dollars, and we spend $3 trillion a year.</p>
<p><strong>DR: You never really hear about that in the mainstream media.</strong></p>
<p><strong>JS:</strong> Of course not, exactly. That’s why we have good news and when people say, ”Yes, you have good news, but how are you going to get the word out?”, well, there are many ways to get the word out and let me just say this: when I had a chance to participate in a debate, and generally when Greens have a chance to participate in a debate, we’re generally declared winners of these things, not because we’re so brilliant but because we have a license to actually tell the truth, because we’re not owned by corporate America. We can tell the truth and speak to what everyday people are thinking because that’s what our party is: it's a party of everyday people. We don’t take corporate money so it's built into our DNA; it's built into how the Green Party works that we do not take bribes, legal or otherwise, and that’s sort of the lifeblood of both the Democratic and Republican parties. It's legalized bribery: that's how they live. We have the unique ability to tell the truth and people are chomping at the bit not only to hear the truth but to mobilize around it. In fact, many people are already leading the way and we are simply lifting up these voices.</p>
<p>We have the power. It's good news, it's in our hands. We have the power to actually win this election if we so choose, but we can win, even short of winning, by showing that we are now a mobilized organized political force and we ain’t going away.</p>
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Message From Blockadia: "Coal, Oil and Gas – None Shall Pass"

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<h2>Message From Blockadia: "Coal, Oil and Gas – None Shall Pass"</h2>
<span>Message From Blockadia: "Coal, Oil and Gas – None Shall Pass"</span>
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<p>Retired professional photographer Rick Rappaport was standing in 6 inches of water on the overcrowded floating dock, watching the drama unfold before him.</p>
<p>The Fennica, a massive Shell icebreaker ship, was inching down Oregon’s Willamette River en route to Alaska. It threaded between Greenpeace climbers who’d suspended themselves on ropes from the St. John’s Bridge like 13 human-sized chrysalises, their yellow and red wing-like banners fluttering in the hot breeze.</p>
<p>Beneath them, kayakers were paddling madly, attempting to impede the ship from departing for drilling in the Arctic.</p>
<p>Rappaport asked a young tattooed man next to him if he could use his shoulder to support a telephoto lens. The man obliged. But, as he started to shoot, Rappaport noticed his lens start to move wildly up and down: The young man was sobbing.</p>
<p>“I found myself welling up too,” Rick said later on in a group email. For observers who understood the stakes, it was hard not to cry.</p>
<p>The ship’s departure meant that the “kayaktivists,” together with the Greenpeace activists who’d put their bodies on the line for 40 straight hours, had failed. The icebreaker had broken free of its Lilliputian constraints and now barreled out to sea to commence an oil drilling project in the waters north of Alaska.</p>
<p>According to the Department of Interior, there’s a 75 percent chance of a spill once Arctic drilling commences. Though Shell claims otherwise, a spill there could be impossible to contain.</p>
<p>Moreover, drilling in the virgin Arctic means tapping into oil reserves that scientists say we must leave in the ground to avoid irreversible climate change.</p>
<p>Rappaport did pull it together. His spectacular photos ended up on the Rachel Maddow Show and elsewhere. But he was a changed man.</p>
<p>The Fennica fight was only the latest in a growing movement across the Northwest. With little to no activist experience, people like Rappaport are stepping forward to block new gas pipelines, along with coal, oil, and gas export terminals. They’re even attempting to stop the accident-prone trains hauling thousands of barrels of fracked crude oil across vast distances in their tracks.</p>
<p>We call this emerging people-powered resistance movement “Blockadia.” A well-known banner hung from another Portland bridge sums it up: “Coal, Oil, Gas: None shall pass.”</p>
<p>The reason for this blockade is clear. The Sightline Institute has identified 28 new fossil fuel export projects slated for the Pacific Northwest whose collective carbon load would be five times greater than the infamous Keystone XL pipeline — the ill-fated piece of oil infrastructure that former NASA climate scientist James Hansen said would be “game over” for the planet all on its own.</p>
<p>Though we lost this round with the Fennica fight, we Blockadians have discovered that together, we’re quite powerful.</p>
<p>For example, after months of campaigning beginning last fall, the Climate Action Coalition persuaded Portland Mayor Charlie Hales to pull his support from the single largest business investment in our city’s history: a propane export facility that would have brought mile-long propane trains to town every day from Alberta.</p>
<p>And more recently, we helped persuade the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon to endorse a resolution calling for an end to all new fossil fuel infrastructure in Oregon.</p>
<p>So the faith community, tattooed young folk, retirees, and other people from all walks of life agree: Business as usual is inconsistent with survival. We’re prepared to give it our all to stop it.</p>
<p>Our elected officials should heed this urgent call before it’s too late.</p>
<p>Daphne Wysham directs the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for Sustainable Economy in Portland, Oregon, and is an Institute for Policy Studies associate fellow.</p>
<p><a href="http://otherwords.org/coal-oil-gas-none-shall-pass/" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Other Words</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/4331.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Fennica, Shell Arctic drilling, carbon emissions, kayaktivists, Sightline Institute, Keystone XL pipeline, Climate Action Coalition" src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/medialibrary/4331.jpg" title="Fennica, Shell Arctic drilling, carbon emissions, kayaktivists, Sightline Institute, Keystone XL pipeline, Climate Action Coalition" /></a></p>
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“THANK YOU, JERRY BROWN, Governor of California, for giving Donald Trump another boost in the polls”

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<p>By BI: Gov. Jerry Brown is very proud that California has now banned use of the word “alien” (as in ‘illegal alien’) from Labor Laws because it discriminates against illegal aliens looking for jobs and gives preference to American citizens.</p>
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<p>In a bill passed unanimously in the State Senate Monday, the state has moved to wipe out any reference to the “derogatory” word “alien” from the state’s labor force laws. They’ve also <span style="color: #ff0000;">ended the state’s preference for hiring U.S. citizens in high unemployment periods. </span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">The new law,<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> <a style="color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;" title="SB 432" href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB432" target="_blank">SB 432</a></span>, was the brainchild of State Sen. Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia), who was elated after his bill was passed Monday. When he first introduced the bill, he denounced the term “alien” as having “no place in our laws.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">“The word ‘alien,’ and any law prescribing an order for the issuance of employment to ‘aliens,’ have no place in the laws of our state and more importantly, should never be the basis for any employment hiring. (The law) deletes this outdated, discriminatory and unnecessary reference in state law,” he<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> <a class="external" style="color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Gov-Brown-axes-Alien-from-labor-lexicon-6436400.php" rel="nofollow">said</a></span>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">“Alien is now commonly considered a derogatory term for a foreign-born person and has very negative connotations,” <a class="external" style="color: #000000;" href="http://sd32.senate.ca.gov/news/792015-bill-remove-term-%E2%80%9Calien%E2%80%9D-california-labor-code-approved-state-assembly" rel="nofollow">said</a> Mendoza last month in his defense of the bill.</span></p>
<p>The executive director of the San Francisco Labor Council agreed, <span style="color: #ff0000;">adding that not only is it time to eliminate the term “alien” but also “illegal.”</span></p>
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<p>“There are two words we are opposed to: illegal and alien. There is no such thing as an illegal person, and there is no such thing as an illegal alien. All workers in this country, whether documented or undocumented, pay their taxes and do their fair share,” Paulson <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a class="external" href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Gov-Brown-axes-Alien-from-labor-lexicon-6436400.php" rel="nofollow">said</a></span>.</p>
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<p>The bill passed the State Senate unanimously and will go into effect at the start of 2016. As Breitbart <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a class="external" href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/10/jerry-brown-bans-illegal-alien/" rel="nofollow">notes</a></span>, the lone vote against the “alien” bill came from a Republican in the State Assembly:</p>
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<p>The only vote against the bill came in the State Assembly, from Assemblyman Matthew Harper, R-Huntington Beach (Orange County), who<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> <a title="opposition" href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Gov-Brown-axes-Alien-from-labor-lexicon-6436400.php" target="_blank">told</a></span> the San Francisco Chronicle that the bill was “just a way for legislators to get their names in the paper….[t]he negative connotations come from the fact that people are breaking the law. Changing the word won’t change the fact that folks are here illegally.”</p>
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