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#Occupy the Future: Protests Planned Through 2025

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.

#OccupyMcDonalds: Protester Turns Violent When Denied Free Food

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

Sunday Open Thread: #OccupyShark Edition

As violence and crime escalates, it is clear that the #Occupy movement has ‘jumped the shark’. The media will quickly pretend it never existed.

Saturday Open Thread: Fawkes Edition

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

G20 to EU: Sorry, You're on Your Own

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

Faith in Big Government Doomed Corzine, MF Global

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

The Cheat Sheet, November 4: #Occupy Jail Cells

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

#OccupyWallStreet: We Could See 'Mace Day' Coming

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

House Panel Votes to Subpoena White House for Solyndra Records

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

Senate Rejects Obama's $60 Billion Infrastructure, Tax Hike Plan

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

ACORN Scrambling after #Occupy Organizing Exposed

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

The Cheat Sheet, November 3: Obama to Bomb Iran?

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

The Cheat Sheet, November 2: MF Global's 'Obama Clause'

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

Oakland Police Respond to #OccupyOakland, City Officials

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

Quebec Wal-Mart Workers Leave Union

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

Smoking-Gun Document Ties Federal Policy To Subprime Mortgage Crisis

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

Death of Street Poet at #OccupyOKC Treated as Homicide

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

Tuesday Open Thread: EU Edition

Today, in 1993, the Maastricht Treaty took effect, formally establishing the European Union. It hasn’t quite worked out the way they hoped.

#OccupyOttawa Covering Up Sexual Assault, Violence

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

Black Farmers' Advocacy Group to Appeal 'Pigford II' Ruling

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

Second Energy Department-Backed Company Goes Bankrupt

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

The Cheat Sheet, October 31: Politico Confirms Cain Is a Contender

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