From The New York Post: Now they want to Occupy the Future. Determined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have vowed they’re not leaving Zuccotti Park anytime soon, and their online agenda suggests they mean business — with events scheduled through Oct.
Today, in 1944, FDR was elected to his fourth term as President.
From Canada’s SunNews: On the heels of a death at Occupy Vancouver Saturday, the city’s mayor vowed to end the encampment he says has become dangerous. “This is second critical incident in two days – obviously there is a serious
From The New York Post: This isn’t the way to stick it to corporate America. A Zuccotti Park protester threw a violent fit in a McDonald’s yesterday after employees refused to give him free food. Fisika Bezabeh, 27, ripped a
As violence and crime escalates, it is clear that the #Occupy movement has ‘jumped the shark’. The media will quickly pretend it never existed.
From NY Daily News: Spurred by a spate of sex attacks in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protesters built a “safe house” for women on Friday. The 16-square-foot military frame tent is designed to shelter up to 30 women from
Today, in 1605, Guy Fawkes, a Catholic terrorist attempted to blow up the English Parliament in an attempt to assassinate King James I. Strangely, because of a comic book, Fawkes is now the face of the #Occupy movement. Speaks volumes
From the Associated Press: Europe failed to get the leaders of the world’s wealthiest economies to help out with its debt troubles, but everyone left a G-20 summit Friday relieved that at least they forced the Greek prime minister not
BG contributor Charlie Gasparino in The New York Post: Jon Corzine appears to have committed more than a few sins in the runup to the demise of MF Global, including possibly using client money to pay for the risky trades
Tune in today and watch more Occupy protesters being arrested. Our own Occupy rap sheet continues to expand. At least 15 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested Thursday after marching on Goldman Sachs to deliver an “indictment” of the financial
In the latest video from Lee Stranahan and Brandon Darby’s visit to Zuccotti Park, an activist who has been at Occupy Wall Street “since Day One” talks about why he did not participate in the “mace day” protest in which
Today, in 2008, Barack Obama was elected President.
From Fox News: A Republican-led House panel voted Thursday to subpoena the White House for records related to Solyndra, the solar company that collapsed after receiving a $528 million loan. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the resolution 14-9
From The Hill: For the third time in four weeks, Senate Republicans on Thursday voted in unison to block a piece of President Obama’s jobs package. The GOP senators were joined by one Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.), and Independent
From FoxNews: Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York — operating as New York Communities for Change — have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers to blame disgruntled ex-employees for leaking information in an effort
From Western Farm Press: USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack Racism is dead at USDA. Discrimination has gone the way of the dodo. Since 2009, when Secretary Vilsack called for a new era in civil rights, racism and discrimination have been banished
If the Occupy movement and the GOP primary haven’t become hostile enough for you, there is news of other potentially even more significant possible hostilities to report. At the same time, were there a Republican in the White House, this
Think it’s a worker’s paradise at Occupy Wall Street? Guess again –there’s strife, dissent and violence. Two people who have been at Zuccotti Park from day one discuss how the internal order hasn’t worked for them. Sage: I’m leaving today,
Last night, Oakland mayor Jean Quan and city officials told the press that the Occupy Oakland “general strike” had been “peaceful,” despite violence and vandalism. Mayor Quan repeated her support for the “99 percent movement,” and other leaders described the
No telling what’s going on with this story.
A resident of Oakland has sent us his photographs from today’s Occupy Oakland “general strike” march, which turned violent.
Live Feed–complete with shouts of “F*** the police!”: Live video from your Android device on Ustream Occupy Oakland activists vandalized a Whole Foods store on Grand Street this afternoon during their “general strike” march: Occupy activists painted “STRIKE” on the
Lee Stranahan and Brandon Darby have released the latest video clip from their visit to Occupy Wall Street. In the video, an activist named Channing, who has been at the Occupy Wall Street protests from the beginning, volunteers the information
Flashback to August and what was then called the Obama clause at MF Global: Corzine’s Obama Clause in MF Global Offering Stuns Wall Street MF Global Holdings Ltd. (MF) took the cult of the Wall Street chief executive officer to
GOP candidate Herman Cain is facing a full media assault. If he survives this, he may very likely be President.
From the Oakland Police Officers Association: We represent the 645 police officers who work hard every day to protect the citizens of Oakland. We, too, are the 99% fighting for better working conditions, fair treatment and the ability to provide
From CBC News: Workers at a Wal-Mart in Gatineau, Que., are officially decertified from their union after just more than a year with their first collective agreement. Quebec’s Labour Relations Commission removed the more than 150 workers, who are employed
From Investor’s Business Daily: President Obama says the Occupy Wall Street protests show a “broad-based frustration” among Americans with the financial sector, which continues to kick against regulatory reforms three years after the financial crisis. “You’re seeing some of the
From Fox 25 KOKH: Police say a man has been found dead inside his tent at a protest at a park in downtown Oklahoma City. Fellow protest participant Mark Faulk says the man was in his early 30s and was
Today, in 1993, the Maastricht Treaty took effect, formally establishing the European Union. It hasn’t quite worked out the way they hoped.
From Fox 45 WBFF: Melinda Roeder reports from Occupy Baltimore where a young woman says she was raped over the weekend and nobody from the protest movement helped her.
A man and woman arrested at the Occupy Boston protest on October 21, 2011 for dealing heroin had “joined the Occupy Boston movement,” according to a police report obtained exclusively by Big Government: Occupy Boston Heroin Bust – Officers were
Via Ironic Surrealism (original emphasis): [youtube 8h1M4osgdPs#!] At the very beginning of the video, a distraught occupier complains about having been assaulted twice (“once with contaminated vomit“), and of other assaults in the camp occurring; including sexual assault. And the
From The Commercial Appeal: Thomas Burrell WASHINGTON — A federal judge has agreed to a settlement involving a class of at least 40,000 black farmers who claim they were discriminated against by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and who missed
From Zombie at PJMedia: Note: All entries on this list are real and verified. Below each entry you will find a series of source links documenting the support for OWS. We have striven in almost all cases to reference either
From NYT’s Dealbook: The last-ditch rescue effort is a major blow to the reputation of Mr. Corzine, 64, who formerly co-led Goldman Sachs and was also a United States senator. With a sale of MF Global, Mr. Corzine’s role at
From The Hill: A Massachusetts company that received a $43 million Energy Department loan guarantee last year filed for bankruptcy Sunday, a step certain to fuel criticism of federal green energy financing in the wake of the solar company Solyndra’s
Here’s the Herman Cain news everyone is talking about today. Funny how quick the media is to jump on the Cain allegations, yet were remarkably restrained on covering the more serious allegations surrounding John Edwards. Wonder what would account for
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From #OccupyWallStreet: We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%. We propose a city wide general strike and we propose we invite all students to