Double Take 'Toons: Unoccupied Wall Street Acting on allegations of illegal activities at OWS sites (which has been decried as a pretext), cities across the country evicted protesters. Nate Beeler thinks the occupiers have worn out their welcome, while Jimmy Margulies is concerned that the removal went too far. Nate Beeler/The Washington Examiner
Top 10 Ways to Make Yourself Look (and Be) Smarter How terribly obnoxious of you. Thanks for sharing. Well, it is probably not the smartest move ever to call monolingual people dumb. But here in Europe (or at least in most countries) learning a second language is compulsory in secondary school. Therefore not speaking a second language often goes along with a lack of general education, probably leading roelroelroel to this bovine conclusion. People in Europe need only travel a few hours to encounter another language, and bi- and tri-linguality is essential to business and communication there.
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Who Will Occupy Wall Street on September 17? Common Dreams When the culture-jamming activist group Adbusters put out a call on July 13 for “20,000 people” to “flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months,” it never said who those people would be. Now, the question on the minds of everyone from the Department of Homeland Security to the Lower East Side anarchist set is just who and how many will actually show up. The simplest cop-out of an answer is to say that nobody exactly knows. To an extent, it’s true. The large, established, membership groups—unions, lobbies, etc.
Wall Street Protesters Lose Bid to Return to New York City Park With Tents “Occupy Wall Street” protesters lost a bid to overturn their eviction and the removal of tents and structures from a lower Manhattan park where they had been demonstrating 24 hours a day for eight weeks. New York City police pushed into the park early this morning, forcibly removing demonstrators who had been camping there to protest inequality of wealth, unemployment and the financial industry. “The movants have not demonstrated that they have a First Amendment right to remain in Zuccotti Park along with their tents, structures, generators and other installations to the exclusion of the owners' reasonable rights and duties to maintain Zuccotti Park,” New York State Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman wrote in a ruling issued today. The court’s decision may signal a turning point as municipal officials seek to curtail sister protests that have sprung up in cities across the country including Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon and Salt Lake City.
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Class Action Lawsuit Against The Federal Reserve "Hello American People, This is a message from Anonymous to you. We cordially invite any and all, Anonymous and non-anons, to join OpESR in demanding Federal Reserve accountability. We are crafting a class action lawsuit against the Fed. Can you provide legal and research support? Please respond by submitting a pad to one of our *connectors in Anonymous. As Occupy Camps Close, What's Next For Movement? hide caption Occupy Wall Street protesters regroup in Foley Square after New York City police in riot gear removed the protesters from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday. The evacuation followed similar moves in Oakland, Calif., and Portland, Ore. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Occupy Wall Street protesters regroup in Foley Square after New York City police in riot gear removed the protesters from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday.
The Mystery Woman Behind the Murdoch Mess Rebekah Wade was 20 years old in 1988 when she showed up at the Warrington office of The Post, a now defunct national tabloid. As Graham Ball, then the features editor, recalled to the BBC, she approached him and said, “I am going to come and work with you on the features desk as the features secretary or administrator.” He told her that would be impossible, as he was moving the next week to work in the paper’s London office. operation lighthouse apologies I apologize for the delay in getting the operational plans up for study and so on now that the operation is over; it is out of my control as I am waiting to retrieve the notes and such from a location that I just have to wait on. That’s life. ‘Democracy Now!’: Inside the Zuccotti Park Raid ‘Democracy Now!’: Inside the Zuccotti Park Raid Posted on Nov 15, 2011 Around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, New York City police forces rolled up to Occupy Wall Street’s Zuccotti Park encampment and started pushing protesters out and removing their belongings via dump trucks. “Democracy Now!” sent a camera crew to the scene and caught the confrontation on film as eyewitnesses gave their accounts of riot gear, pepper spray and arrests.