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.
