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Occupy Wall Street

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Seattle Protester Who Claimed She Miscarried After Being Pepper-Sprayed Also Claims to Have Won 48 Swimming Gold Medals
A lot of lefty blogs and even  the Washington Post ran with this tale earlier in the week. It also garnered international headlines. Yet oddly, they don’t see to have any follow-up.

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The European Media Describes the Occupy Movement as “Anti-Capitalist,” Why Doesn’t the US Media?
Type “Occupy anti-capitalist” into Google News and you’ll see a bunch of European news outlets returning results. You’ll have to search harder for instances of US papers referring to US occupiers as anti-capitalist. It happens, but rarely.

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Red Friday: Occupy Dallas Members Threw Fake-Blood at Neiman Marcus
A few minutes ago, Occupy Dallas posted to its Facebook page a note that two of its former members — which is to say, the group of protesters who split the camp before Dallas Police broke it up last week — were arrested for decorating the downtown Neiman Marcus with a little fake blood.

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Occupy Boston Woman Punches, Kicks Cops to “Fight the corruption”
A protester struck two cops in the face when they responded to a domestic dispute inside the Occupy Boston camp

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Why African Americans aren’t embracing Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street might seem like a movement that would resonate with black Americans. After all, unemployment among African Americans is at 15 percent, vs. almost 8 percent for whites. And between 2005 and 2009, black households lost just over half of their median net worth compared with white families, who lost 16 percent, according to the Pew Research Center.

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Majority of Occupy Chicago Supports 2nd Amendment Remedies: 58% Say Violence Against Government Justifiable
Researchers at Benedictine University surveyed 139 members of Occupy Chicago and found that they are white, male liberals who support higher taxes but feel Barack Obama is too far to the right. They also were more than twice as likely as Tea Partiers to believe violence against the government was justifiable

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Occupy Wall Street latest skin mask for Blackshirt Left

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The Communist Revolution, Unions, #OWS & ‘The Power of the 99% in 2012…
Not that this should be surprising since Marxists have been behind and involved with in the #OccupyWallSt movement since Day One when the September protests began, but the Neo-Coms in the unionized #OWS movement are now getting more formal advice from their philosophical mentors, the Communist Party USA.

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The entire Occupy movement summarized in one sign

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Even More on that Pepper Spray Incident
The officer later used pepper spray on the protesters went to each student and warned them individually that they would be subject to the use of force if they did not mov

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Occupy Albany Goons Plan to Terrorize Kids Visiting Santa
Posted by Jammie
This should go over well. Annoying the hell out of people already stressed out by Black Friday. They clearly want to instigate a beatdown so they can portray themselves as victims.

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Karl Marx Visits Occupy Wall Street

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UC Davis Pepper Spray Massacre ‘Victims’ Smile and Almost Giggle Describing Their Torture
Sometimes the best thing you can do to help the revolution is simply keep your mouth shut.

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OWS Following the Woodstock to Altamont Trajectory
Numerous observers have pointed out how the media and liberals (sorry for the redundancy) lavished sympathy on Occupy Wall Street until it became untenable to continue, after which they began to airbrush their previous encomia.  They seem to forget that what begins as Woodstock somehow always ends up as Altamont. 

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Ode to #OWS

or, as it was originally titled, "Ode To The Welfare State"

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Occupy L.A. receives offer to decamp
Protesters could get downtown office space and farmland if they leave City Hall.

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Desecration, defecation and class A drugs: Children found living in squalor at St Paul's protest camp
'Several' children, one as young as 9, thought to be living on the site
Human waste found in grounds and in the cathedral itself

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The New Yorker Profile of Kalle Lasn in Which He Speaks of “Killing Capitalism”
To all those who say that OWS is not communist movement: You lie. The New Yorker has written a long, fawning profile of the creators of OWS.

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#OccupyAnimalFarm: OWS Protest Leader Stays in Luxury Hotel
Hell no, we won’t go — unless we get goose down pillows.

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Occupiers Who Hate Bailouts Come Up with Their Own Bailout
Is this the higher ed bubble popping? Or are just a bunch of whiny hipster layabouts shirking their duty to pay their debts? Why can’t it be both?

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Union Fat Cat Arrested at #Occupy, Shouting ‘"We are the 99 percent!"

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Occupy Las Vegas protesters target mall crowds
In the food court at the Meadows mall, protesters from Occupy Las Vegas lurked among the holiday shoppers, trying to blend in with the crowd.
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Obamacare

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"Hide the Decline"

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BBC sought advice from global warming scientists on economy, drama, music... and even game shows
Britain’s leading green activist research centre spent £15,000 on seminars for top BBC executives  in an apparent bid to block climate change sceptics from the airwaves, a vast new cache of leaked ‘Climategate’ emails has revealed.

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Uh oh, “…organized and deeply committed environmental activism has long been an important part of the UNFCCC process…”
Maybe this is why the US bailed out of the UNFCCC “Green Climate Fund” this week.The science has been “McKibbenized” for quite some time.

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Climategate scientists DID collude with government officials to hide research that didn't fit their apocalyptic global warming
5,000 leaked emails reveal scientists deleted evidence that cast doubt on claims climate change was man-made
Experts were under orders from US and UK officials to come up with a 'strong message'
Critics claim: 'The stink of intellectual corruption is overpowering'
Scientist asks, 'What if they find that climate change is a natural fluctuation? They'll kill us all'

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Global warming much less serious than thought  - new science

We're looking at just a couple of degrees with double CO

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Climategate 2.0 emails – They’re real and they’re spectacular!

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Climategate 2.0: Fresh trove of embarrassing emails
"All our models are wrong"

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Global warming rate less than feared: study
High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have less of an impact on the rate of global warming than feared, a study said Thursday.

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14,000 abandoned wind turbines
As Jimi Hendrix may have put it: “And the wind cries bankrupt…”
Minnesotans for Global Warming report that in the last 30 years, the United States has had 14,000 wind turbines abandoned. Apparently, once the subsidies and the wind run out, these 20-story high Cuisinarts are de-bladed and retired. This means more bats and migratory birds will live.

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War & Terror

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Pakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills up to 28
NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis.

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National

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12 charged with voter fraud in Georgia election
Law enforcement officials have charged 12 people with using absentee ballots to skew an election in Georgia.

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America’s first socialist republic
We provided the platform launching Professor Paul Rahe into the blogosphere. He is one of the country’s most distinguished scholars, but he has also proved to be a natural blogger as well. He now posts regularly at Big Government and at Ricochet.

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“International Day of Tolerance” Turns Intolerant
Posted by Jammie
The road paved with good intentions usually turns rocky when the “tolerant”  don’t tolerate dissent. Enforced tolerance never quite works out as planned.

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11-Year-Old Boy Fights Off Mom’s Attacker With BB Gun
In Bellingham, Washington, a 45-year-old man was renting a room in the home of a single mother. Yesterday, he came home drunk and decided his room “had been messed with,” so he attacked the woman, kicking open her bedroom door and choking her in bed.

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Economy & Taxes

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Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns
British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain.

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Death Spiral in Euroland
If you indulge in Black Friday shopping, have fun. I hate shopping with crowds. I always trade the day after Thanksgiving. It’s a light trading day, but sometimes you can get some good opportunities.

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How Brussels Stifles Democracy in Europe
How could so many clever people get it so wrong? The flaws in the euro project are not just clear with hindsight; they were visible at the outset and were widely pointed out. It was never going to be possible to jam widely divergent economies into a single monetary policy.

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Pictures From A Latvian Bank Run As MF Global Commingling Comes To Town

If anyone is wondering why the collapse of MF Global after the discovery of its commingling and theft of client funds was the single worst thing that could happen to market confidence, then look no further than the small Baltic country of Latvia where precisely what Jon Corzine's firm did to its clients, has happened at the bank level.

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Fitch Downgrades Portugal To Junk On General Strike Day

Just a step behind the Chinese as usual, and just in time to kill a modest EURUSD rally. Also on the same day as the first mass strike in Portugal which reminds us that everyone will want a piece of the debt reduction pie.

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Of German Bonds and American Prosperity
The question I am asked most often is: What will it take to get the government to stop running up the debt? A Republican president? A Republican president with a Republican House and a Republican Senate? A Republican president named Ron Paul?

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EU demands right to dictate national budgets
The European Union demanded Wednesday sweeping powers to override national budgets and proposed issuing joint eurozone bonds to help resolve and prevent a repeat of the debt crisis.

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Are the poor getting poorer?

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The Real '99 Percent'—A Silent, Fed-Up Majority

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BELGIUM: Things Are Getting Worse By The Minute

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MF Global Trustee Says Shortfall Could Exceed $1.2 Billion
The amount of customer money missing from the collapsed trading firm MF Global may be more than $1.2 billion — double previous estimates — the trustee dismantling the firm’s brokerage unit said on Monday

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Dividend stocks get new respect


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Perfect Storm the Most Likely Scenario; Is Europe Set to Declare a Chapter 11 in Early 2012?
Panic is spreading says Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank. Steen eyes the perfect storm including a potential "Chapter 11" call for European banks.

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International

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Children of the Revolution
China's 'princelings,' the offspring of the communist party elite, are embracing the trappings of wealth and privilege—raising uncomfortable questions for their elders.

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Copts: Behind You Is the Junta, Before you the Islamists
Copts, who comprise 10 percent or more of Egypt’s population, have been subjected to systemic discrimination for years, often accompanied by sectarian attacks.

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You can't buy that lime... it could be classed as a weapon: Shock for chef shopping at Asda
'They vetted me and let me buy them. I clearly don't look like I'm going to carry out a drive-by fruiting any time soon'
Store to offer 'complimentary limes' as an apology

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Israeli Women Nude = Feminist Solidarity
Forty Israeli women have taken a (SFW) nude group photo to express solidarity with Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, a feminist Egyptian blogger who angered religious authorities by posting a (NSFW) photo.

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Four Things You Need to Know about Venezuela
The Chávez regime is increasingly sustained by China, Cuba, drug-trafficking generals, and a paramilitary militia.

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Opinion

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Nixon: Half Way to Mount Rushmore
His full term was amazingly successful.

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The Top Five Reasons To Be a Commie Pinko


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America Before The Entitlement State
Reacting to calls for cuts in entitlement programs, House Democrat Henry Waxman fumed: “The Republicans want us to repeal the twentieth century.” Sound bites don’t get much better than that. After all, the world before the twentieth century–before the New Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society–was a dark, dangerous, heartless place where hordes of Americans starved in the streets.

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