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Occupy Wall Street *************** Showdown at Occupy Portland *************** Occupy Wall Street Starts to Crumble Inevitable divisions arise in Zuccotti Park *************** Arrests come amid pressure to leave Occupy camps By TERRY COLLINS OAKLAND, Calif. — Police arrested nearly two dozen anti-Wall Street protesters in two different cities Saturday and tensions mounted elsewhere as local officials stepped up pressure for demonstrators to abandon their encampments. *************** Police clear out Occupy Denver *************** Lessons From the Battle of BlogCon 2011: The Occupiers Deserve Derision *************** Outnumbered 4 to 1, The “99%” of #OccupyDenver Gets Mic-Checked… ...and a Lesson on Republican Democracy *************** #OccupyPortland: If You Witness A Sexual Assault ‘Nobody Should Contact The Police’ *************** Occupier Devolution If you have ever wondered what would happen in a society consisting entirely of liberals, the Occupier movement is providing the answer: devolution. *************** Occupy campers shout down Oakland council members Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer Tension escalated between Occupy Oakland and city leaders Wednesday when protesters swarmed a news conference held by five council members who were calling for the immediate dismantling of the encampment outside City Hall. *************** Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung" Park conditions put demonstrators at risk for variety of sicknesses, officials say. *************** Tuberculosis Breaks Out At Occupy Atlanta’s Base ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis. *************** Man dies of a gunshot wound at Occupy Burlington *************** Occupy San Diego Crew Attacks Visitor to Public Park Imagine for a moment that something like this had happened even one time at a Tea Party event *************** New OWS Theme Song: Who Pooped And Peed on the Banks? Like most great art, this works on at least two levels. It could be taken as mocking the Occupiers juvenile behavior or it could be mocking the media’s interest in their juvenile behavior. *************** Occupy protester arrested in Molotov cocktail incident, his second arrest in four days Reported by: Faris Tanyos A man living at the Occupy Portland encampment has been arrested for the second time in less than a week, this time on arson charges in connection with a Molotov cocktail thrown at Portland’s World Trade Center late Tuesday night. *************** Suspicious Fire at Bank of America Near Occupy Seattle *************** #OccupyOakland Protests Wells Fargo, then Opens an Account *************** Occupy Victoria Protester Dumps Urine on City Worker *************** Oakland merchants say sales slump by half amid Occupy protests By George Avalos Oakland business leaders called on the city Tuesday to move forcefully against Occupy Oakland -- and disband the encampment -- citing huge drops in sales for some retailers and fears about the city's reputation. *************** Molotov cocktail set off at World Trade Center building in downtown Portland, police suspect Occupy Portland protesters involved *************** More Anti-Semitic Lunacy From Zuccotti Park, Now With Bonus Reagan Hatred! *************** #OccupyWallStreet: The Rap Sheet, So Far *************** On Violence, Death Threats & Feces, Unions Pass Their Trade Secrets On To #OWS Throwing Tantrums, Death Threats & Bodily Fluids Is Part Of The Playbook *************** Manhattan Business Owner Terrorized By Occupiers: "It’s Unbelievable What Goes On In Here Every Day" *************** #OccupyWallStreet Is Obama's America by AWR Hawkins When Barack Obama was seeking the Democrat nomination in early 2008, warnings of his inexperience coupled with the fact that he was an ideologue were ubiquitous. Again and again, the facts were placed before us that Obama’s only claim to significant leadership was as a community organizer in Chicago. Mark Levin, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and others repeatedly said that Obama would be a reckless President who lacked governing knowledge and who was ruled only by his desire to put America in its place. *************** A Stroll Through Zuccotti Park Filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney took a walk through Zuccotti Park and played a quiz game with a number of Occupiers. *************** TheDC’s Jamie Weinstein: Occupy Wall Street’s greedy celebrity hypocrites By Jamie Weinstein Amid the public defecators, the American haters, the exhibitionist masturbators, the serial sexual predators, the outspoken anti-Semites, the socialists and the misguided do-gooders of Occupy Wall Street are the Hollywood hypocrites. *************** Occupy crime wave update *************** Occupy until ‘2025’! Protests planned into next decade *************** The Damage From Occupy Oakland: ‘People Are Afraid to Come Downtown’ Posted by Jammie Take a bow, brave occupiers. In a short period of time you’ve managed to destroy an already frail Oakland economy. *************** #OWS: “If You’re a White Man, Then Shut the F–k Up About Race” Morgen If you’re a white man, then shut the f–k up about race. Because you don’t know shit other than how to rape and kill. *************** Occupy Denver elects a new leader: Shelby, a Border Collie mix By Kelsey Whipple At three and a half years old, Shelby is too young to vote but not to be voted for. Last night, she almost ruined her greatest accomplishment to date when, during announcements at Occupy Denver's 7 p.m. general assembly, she ran into the center of the circle for attention. It would be a short wait until, with a landslide vote, she would earn it. In about five minutes flat, the young Border Collie/cattle-dog mix was elected the occupation's official leader. *************** SoCal Street Cart Vendors Hurting After ‘Occupy’ Group Splatters Blood, Urine A pair of Southland street cart vendors who were forced to shut down their businesses after “Occupy” protesters vandalized their carts are hoping to get some help from local residents. Obamacare *************** U.K.: The National Hell Service Elderly patients were left hungry, thirsty and in pain Mum, 74, died in ‘do not resuscitate’ note blunder "Hide the Decline" *************** Another DOE Loan Scandal: Are We Bailing Out Spain’s Solar Collapse? Following the collapse of Spain's solar sector, a Spanish company with ties to Democrats received $2.7 billion in US Energy Department loans. *************** Carbon Dioxide Emissions Up Sharply, Yet Temperatures Are Flat? The U.S. Department of Energy has just published its estimates of global carbon dioxide emissions for the year 2010, concluding emissions rose by 6% from 2009 to 2010. *************** NCDC data shows that the contiguous USA has not warmed in the past decade, summers are cooler, winters are getting colder Anthony Watts There’s been a lot of buzz and conflicting reports over what the BEST data actually says, especially about the last decade where we have dueling opinions on a “slowing down”, “leveling off”, “standstill”, or “slight rise” (depending on whose pronouncements you read) of global warming. War & Terror *************** Israel refuses to tell US its Iran intentions Israel has refused to reassure President Barack Obama that it would warn him in advance of any pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear capabilities, raising fears that it may be planning a go-it-alone attack as early as next summer. *************** Pentagon Regrowing Soldiers’ Muscles From Pig Cells By Katie Drummond A few pig cells, a single surgery and a rigorous daily workout: They’re the three ingredients that patients will need to re-grow fresh, functional slabs of their own muscle, courtesy of Pentagon-backed science that’s already being used to rebuild parts of people. National *************** Liberal Assaults Gay Conservative Everyone who pays attention knows that liberalism is an ideology of intolerance. Probably no one bears the brunt of that intolerance as much as gay conservatives. *************** Obama: America’s ‘Been A Little Bit Lazy’ *************** Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist. *************** SEIU siphons 'dues' from Mich. Medicaid payments byJoel Gehrke If you're a parent who accepts Medicaid payments from the State of Michigan to help support your mentally-disabled adult children, you qualify as a state employee for the purposes of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). They can now claim and receive a portion of your Medicaid in the form of union dues. *************** David Gregory: No "Grand Wizard" In GOP To Force Cain Out *************** Doctor Offers Laser Treatment to Permanently Make Brown Eyes Blue *************** Ron Paul's pin-up pals: Less government and less clothing too Economy
& Taxes *************** Chinese ‘Ruling Elite’ Believe they are ‘Approaching an Inevitable Breaking Point’ *************** The chart that closes the case on the inequality myth By James Pethokoukis U.S. income inequality has exploded to levels not seen since the 1920s or perhaps even the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. At least that’s the oft-repeated claim from the Obama White House, Occupy Wall Street, and a horde of liberal policy makers and pundits—not to mention their fellow travelers in the media *************** 70% of Those Subject to Millionaire Surtax = Small Business Owners *************** Thoughts from Athens The situation today is worse than ever. Business has stopped It’s way to late for this type of orderly transition. It will end badly for Greece. *************** China: The Most Important Story of the Day Hold on to your seats; according to The Conference Board, perhaps the most important business oriented forecasting group in the world, revolution is coming to China. *************** With Italy Crumbling, Euro Crisis Approaches an End Game *************** 'We are looking straight into the face of a Great Depression' Who said it? Some blow dried, CNBC Cassandra? Perhaps a Fox Business jokester? Nope. MIT Sloan School of Management professor Simon Johnson speaking at the opening of the CFA conference in Paris *************** The Market is Focused On Europe. What About China? The Chinese banks are in serious trouble. They have papered over losses. The bank books in China aren’t giving an accurate picture of their true financial position. In the US this is fraud. In China, it’s supported by the government. *************** Coming At You: "An Endless Series Of Hobgoblins, Most Of Them Imaginary" As early as tomorrow, and certainly in the next fortnight, the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate is delivering an announcement of their virtuous intention to hit us with a whopping tax increase coupled with patently inauthentic promises of some spending “cuts” someday. The fact that Republicans appear to be planning to connive at class “millionaire tax” warfare makes it worse, not better. It’s not a zero sum game. You don’t raise those at the bottom of society by fleecing those who have earned a place at the top. Jack Kennedy understood. A rising tide lifts all boats. *************** Berlusconi will resign after approval of new budget law is passed, he told Italian TV, after the Prime Minister won a budget vote but lost his majority in parliament, sending bonds yields to record highs. *************** Jin Liqun: Europe induces 'sloth, indolence' The chairman of China's sovereign wealth fund remains sceptical about supporting a European bailout. *************** Italy Wobbles, and a Demon Appears in the Clouds by Michael Ledeen As usual, whenever the situation permits, the British press — led by the screaming meemies at the Financial Times — calls for the defenestration of Silvio Berlusconi. “In the name of God and Italy, go!” the FT intones at the beleaguered PM. A bit pretentious, yes, but then they’re the smartest newspaper in the world and so they consider themselves fully authorized to speak on behalf of the Almighty, and of their favorite vacation spot. *************** NLRB lawyer: "We screwed up the U.S. economy" New documents obtained by Judicial Watch show acting National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Lafe Solomon joking that the NLRB's suit against Boeing would kill jobs in South Carolina. *************** Obama Couldn’t Wait: His New Christmas Tree Tax David S. Addington President Obama’s Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees. *************** Property Prices Collapse in China. Is This a Crash? Residential property prices are in freefall in China as developers race to meet revenue targets for the year in a quickly deteriorating market. *************** International *************** Nuke agency reports unusual radiation in Europe VIENNA (AP) — Very low levels of radiation, which are higher than normal but don't seem to pose a health hazard, are being registered in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in Europe, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday. *************** Chávez cancer progressing faster than expected A former official in the Bush administration said in a column that President Hugo Chávez is in worse health than he has let on. *************** Somebody is lying: Chávez's Medical Condition *************** Nicaragua loses by a landslide Hugo Chavez’s money pays off: Nicaragua pres Ortega poised to win third term *************** Opinion *************** ANARCHY By Frank Miller Everybody’s been too damn polite about this nonsense: The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. *************** Is This What You Wanted, America? Do you remember, back in 2008, when President Obama said we have to "fundamentally change" the United States of America? For those 53% of America who voted, are you happy now? *************** |
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