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<h1 id="reader-title">Video Shows Morton County Re-Dumping Trash
Inside Standing Rock Camp - The Daily Haze</h1>
<div id="reader-credits" class="credits">by Claire Bernish -
February 8, 2017<br>
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<h4>Mainstream media jumped to believe misinformation
over fact.</h4>
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<h4>Morton County was captured on video moving trash,
rather than transporting it to the dump.</h4>
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<h4>The operation appears to be staged to make water
protectors look careless.</h4>
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<p>Much talk has circulated over the last two weeks about
appalling quantities of trash left behind by water
protectors in the Dakota Access Pipeline opposition
camps at Standing Rock — but those rumors were created
through mainstream media’s hyperbole and sensationalism
— without much basis in reality.</p>
<p><span>Now, there is proof corporate media failed by </span><a
href="http://ijr.com/2017/02/795349-pipeline-protesters-at-standing-rock-left-behind-enough-trash-to-cause-their-own-environmental-disaster/"><span>reporting</span></a><span>
on a nonexistent problem — going so far as to say
cleanup crews were </span><a
href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/08/authorities-search-for-dead-bodies-in-massive-garbage-chunks-left-at-protest-site.html"><span>on
the lookout for ‘dead bodies’</span></a><span> —
with the release of a video showing city crews dumping
heaps of garbage in one area for no apparent reason.</span></p>
<p><span>An extra-capacity garbage truck and other city
vehicles can be seen dumping full loads of trash in a
pile among scattered contractors’ dumpsters, in </span><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/jesse.puente.90/posts/1537970169549932"><span>video
posted to Facebook</span></a><span> by <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/jesse.puente.90/posts/1537970169549932">Jesse
Puente</a> from inside one of the Standing Rock
Camps.</span></p>
<p><span>Puente narrates that a man — whom he describes as
employed by Morton County — can be seen standing near
the quickly amassing pile of waste, taking pictures of
the progress and attempting to persuade a few of the
crew to pose in lawn chairs in front of it.</span></p>
<p><span>And as Puente notes, there would be no logical
reason for crews to fully load a vehicle with trash in
one location and dump it en masse in another — if
clearing garbage were the goal, the loaded truck would
take it to the dump.</span></p>
<p><span>Also, he explains, the massive heap of garbage
only recently began — and it isn’t entirely certain
the untold volume of trash came from inside the camps.</span></p>
<p>Despite media rumors scores of water protectors
evacuated camps, abandoning refuse and supplies without
regard for the environment, several inside the camps
told <em>The Daily Haze</em> a massive, group-organized
cleanup effort has been underway in Standing Rock for
some time.</p>
<p><i><span>“I’m kind of amazed at what I’m seeing,”</span></i><span>
he tells viewers. </span></p>
<p><span>Headlines blaming water protectors for leaving an
ecological disaster worse than the pipeline they’re
opposing could putatively cause, have largely been
driven by the ever-perturbed Morton County Sheriff’s
Department — which is hell bent on shining the
murkiest possible light on Standing Rock camps.</span></p>
<p><span>As Puente explains, the sheriff’s department
recently launched a self-aggrandizing PR campaign
showing personnel taking charge of camp cleanup. </span></p>
<p><span>Yet, instead of taking mounds of garbage to the
nearby dump, officials busy themselves playing musical
Hefty bags.</span></p>
<p><span>What the media reports on Morton County makes it
appear as though law enforcement are the ‘good guys,’
but, Puente notes, </span><i><span>“They’re lyin’ to
you.”</span></i></p>
<p><span>He adds, authorities are only trying to make
water protectors appear “trashy” and unable to clean
up after themselves. Puente even filmed camp-organized
work crews hurrying to clean the area, </span><i><span>“everybody’s
trying to clean but, these guys,”</span></i><span>
he says, motioning to the suspicious garbage
operation, </span><i><span>“these guys are bringing
their dump and dumping it right here.”</span></i></p>
<p><span>Puente suggests the only possible explanation for
such an operation is to stage the scene to make water
protectors and environmentalists look terrible to the
public — thus subtly undermining some of the earned
legitimacy of the movement against fossil fuels.</span></p>
<p><span>Of course, mainstream and pseudo-mainstream media
pounced on the chance to fall in line with the
comfortable government narrative — let the facts be
damned.</span></p>
<p><span>While Puente’s video doesn’t evince die-hard
proof the Morton County Sheriff’s Department had
malintent in its creative refuse collection exercise,
the lack of evidence showing otherwise — backed up by
accounts from camp cleaning crews and independent
media on the ground — certainly raise a number of
questions.</span></p>
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