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Chrystia Freeland | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:12:35 +0000

The Democrats are challenging that win-win story of American capitalism. Their contention is that the U.S. economy is failing the middle class. They argue that those at the top need to contribute “a little more” to help rebuild the American middle. Even more threateningly, they point out, as in their critique of Bain Capital, that some of the business strategies that have enriched the elite have actually hollowed out the middle.

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Chrystia Freeland | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:12:35 +0000

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Show me what a police state looks like! (Graphic! Dial-up warning!) - Democratic Underground

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:40:37 +0000

Dear MSM: OWS does not "clash with the police" we are unarmed, peaceful protesters who are savagely attacked by the police. #MSM #noNATO

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Mystery over Bridgeport arrests: Molotov cocktails or brewing equipment? - chicagotribune.com

Sun, 20 May 2012 01:55:39 +0000

According to law enforcement sources and police reports obtained by the Tribune, the arrests were the result of a monthlong investigation into a group suspected of making Molotov cocktails — crude bombs usually created by filling glass bottles with gasoline. But the National Lawyers Guild criticized the police raid, saying the nine NATO protesters only had beer-making equipment in their possession.

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The Infamous Brad - Sometimes, When "All the Facts are In," It's Worse: The UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Report

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:32:15 +0000

This is not better than the initial media reports. This is worse. This is an epic textbook in official-violence failure.

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Philip Glass speaks at Occupy Wall Street

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 07:05:51 +0000

Occupy Wall Street went up to protest at Lincoln Center last night during a performance of Philip Glass' opera Satyagraha. New Yorker music critic Alex Ross was there and captured the protest on video, which included Glass himself reading the closing lines from the opera, amplified to the crowd by the people's mic. It is an amazing scene.

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Why Occupy? - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:15:21 +0000

Let me float that the encampments are fundamentally about using government power against itself. By staking out a little ground and saying, "No, the government does not rule this space," it gets the mayors and police chiefs worked up. They deploy their increasingly militarized police officers to say, "Yes, the government does rule that space." Then, the protesters link arms and chant, and the riot cops come in with pepper spray and batons.

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How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:28:13 +0000

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a better job of talking about Occupy Wall Street?

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Occupy George

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:20:17 +0000

Money talks, but not loud enough for the 99%. By circulating dollar bills stamped with fact-based infographics, Occupy George informs the public of America's daunting economic disparity one bill at a time. Because money knowledge is power.

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Mayor, er, King Bloomberg announces that NYPD is his Army - Boing Boing

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:26:31 +0000

"I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world."—New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Mayor Bloomberg: ‘I Have My Own Army’ | PolitickerNY

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:38:43 +0000

“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have,” Mayor Bloomberg said.

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Did Mayors, DHS Coordinate Occupy Attacks? - Uprising

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:49:57 +0000

When a series of crackdowns on the Occupy camps suddenly occurred in, more or less, the same week, many observers wondered if perhaps the attacks had been coordinated at a national level. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan confirmed that suspicion during an appearance on the BBC - excerpted on The Takeaway radio program - when she casually mentioned taking part in a conference call with the leaders of 18 US cities right before the raids.

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Raids on OWS coordinated with Obama’s FBI, Homeland Security & others :: News From Underground

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:49:32 +0000

Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict “Occupy” protesters from city parks and other public spaces. As was the case in last night’s move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies.

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The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:47:46 +0000

So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now, only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent, organised suppression against the people they are supposed to represent. Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform are not.

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OccupyYourBrain - Bloomberg the Book Burner - Bloomberg the Book Burner

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:13:06 +0000

It was a sorry sight. Only 1,273 books - a third of the stock - were returned to them, they said, and around a third of those were damaged beyond repair. Only about 800 are still usable. About 2,900 books are still unaccounted for.”

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