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    2 dozen Wall Street protesters arrested in Denver
    By STEVEN K. PAULSON and THOMAS PEIPERT - Associated Press | AP – 2 mins 5 secs ago


    DENVER (AP) — Police in riot gear had just cleared Wall Street protesters out of their camp near the Colorado state Capitol Friday when one of the demonstrators grabbed a bullhorn and exhorted the crowd to come back Saturday.

    In Denver and other Colorado cities, protesters said they plan to keep up their show of support of the Occupy Wall Street movement, even if some were in disarray after the early morning raid outside the Capitol. "We don't plan on going anywhere" said Michelle Lessans, one of the organizers for Occupy Denver. "We have a march and rally every Saturday. We're going to have a general assembly to decide what to do next."

    Marches or meetings are planned over the next few days in Boulder and Pueblo, organizers said. The Denver protesters had been camped for as long as three weeks in Lincoln Park, a grassy, state-owned city block just west of the Capitol.

    Authorities took no significant action until Thursday afternoon, when Gov. John Hickenlooper toured their camp and then ordered the protesters to leave by 11 p.m. He and other officials noted it was illegal to camp at the site. They also cited concerns about public safety and health.

    Many of the protesters defied the orders and stayed. At 3:30 a.m. Friday, an hour after Colorado State Patrol troopers ordered them to leave, troopers and Denver police officers began taking down dozens of tents.

    At about 6:30 a.m., officers advanced on some of the remaining protesters who had locked arms around a few tents still standing. Officers held their batons horizontally and nudged or pushed the protesters to break up the human chain.

    Most of the demonstrators retreated without resisting, chanting "Peaceful!" or "Shameful!"

    One person was arrested on a charge of simple assault, Colorado State Patrol Capt. Jeff Goodwin said. He did not elaborate, and no other violence was reported.

    Goodwin said 21 people were arrested on charges of unlawful conduct on public land, and one on a charge of impeding traffic for jaywalking.

    The Denver demonstrators said they were protesting Wall Street excesses and the economic clout of the wealthy. "My main complaint is there is no more middle class in America. The rich control most of the money," said David Humphrey, 24, of Pine, who carried a sign with a picture of President Barack Obama and the words "Change God bless."

    Dave Kelley of Arvada held up a sign supporting John Hickenlooper's order for the protesters to vacate the park. "Right choice Gov. No one is above the law," it read.

    Kelley, a flooring contractor, said he isn't angry at Wall Street and thinks most of the protesters don't understand capitalism. "If it wasn't for Wall Street, where would we be? They will pull this around, even though it has had its troubles," he said.

    After police cleared the protesters out of the camp, the tents, signs and debris from the camp were loaded into dump trucks and hauled it away. Authorities posted a sign, warning that the park has been closed until further notice and access would be allowed by permit only.

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    Costs of the Occupiers; Plus: Friday showdown in NYC, Boston backlash, Austin arrests, Denver arrests
    By Michelle Malkin • October 13, 2011 11:14 PM



    My column today tallies up some of the taxpayer costs imposed by the Kamp Alinsky Kids across the country so far. There have been other nasty consequences, too — like the cancellation of a food drive and festival in Boston due to Occupier overload. http://www.mediaite.com/online/occup...eavy-festival/
    Latest word from NYC is that protesters are gearing up for a sunrise showdown to fight clean-up evacuation by Zuccotti Park’s private owners. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...tive-strategy/ (Update: The rabble-rousers got into a scuffle with police, as they wanted. The rabble is still piling up. Several arrests: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/...n-wall-street/ See NYPost : http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...IABwkMxaEW1sYP ) In Austin, TX, four squatters were arrested after refusing to leave while city workers power-washed the filthy plaza that served as Occupation Central. http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...g-1912832.html We’ve only just begun to see the dark side of the movement. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/occup...ry?id=14706311 They’ve been spoiling for a fight long before Day One of the Month of Rage.

    More updates: The occupiers have met the enemy and it is…SANITATION! http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/14/us...y-wall-street/

    Update: Denver clears occupiers’ camp at the Capitol, arrests 23. http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19112322

    Costs of the Occupiers
    by Michelle Malkin

    The trash generated by the “Occupy Wall Street” protests keeps piling up. So do the bills. Liberal media outlets claim the anarchic, anti-capitalist movement is more popular than the Tea Party. But wait until Americans across the country get a full picture of the costs of the aimless occupiers.

    In New York City, government officials estimate the month-long siege of Zuccotti Park has now imposed $3.2 million in overtime police costs on the public. On Thursday, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office pressured left-wing activists to vacate the park for cleaning, Occupy Wall Street urged sympathizers to flood the city’s customer services lines: “Call 311 and tell Bloomberg not to evict us!”

    In Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter told the press that demonstrators outside city hall have incurred $164,000 in overtime public employee costs and $237,000 in regular time. “At the current rate, if Occupy Philly continues to the end of the month, the city would spend another nearly $690,000 on police overtime alone,” the local NBC affiliate reported. “Besides the extra police presence being dedicated to the Occupy Philly protests, other city departments have also incurred costs.”

    In Seattle, police have so far billed $30,000 in overtime and the parks department racked up nearly $4,000 in additional costs related to the protests there. Occupiers have blocked traffic, assaulted an officer, and pitched illegal tents. Merchants in the area have been hurt as the riff-raff deter customers. One business owner in Westlake Park, where hundreds of protesters remain camped out, told Seattle TV station KIRO: “There’s definitely fewer people you can identify as people out, just walking through the area.”

    Seattle’s pushover mayor, Democrat Mike McGinn, now faces even greater demands from the insatiable mob – which wants a “guaranteed parking
    space near City Hall Plaza that allows for around-the-clock parking,” “24-hour access to the first floor of City Hall for restroom access, and a written statement from the mayor approving the protesters’ long-term occupancy of City Hall Plaza.”

    In Boston, City Council President Steve Murphy anticipates a $2 million hit to taxpayers if the protests refuse to disband by the end of October. The local Fox affiliate notes the tab represents 8% of the yearly budget for police overtime. “While we’re all sympathetic with
    our protesters down there,” Murphy said, “Wall Street isn’t picking up the tab on this thing. It’s the Boston taxpayers.”

    When fiscally conservative Tea Party activists held protests over the past two years, they filed for all the required permits and paid for their own power. Occupy Boston, by contrast, neither sought nor obtained any proper permits at any level, according to the Boston Globe. Instead, city and park officials have been cowed into providing them gratis electricity and camp space lest there be “conflict.”

    Many of these occupiers are primarily occupied as paid rent-a-mobsters for unions, left-wing think tanks, and the radical Working Families Party. While one collective hand soaks the taxpayers, the other hand is busy soliciting free stuff. Occupy Los Angeles activists took to
    Skype on their laptops to solicit donations of iPhones and iPads.

    Occupy Wall Street members on Twitter organized an ongoing “#needsoftheoccupiers” drive for everything from batteries and tarps to “gently used” coats and sweaters, wool socks, sleeping bags, and energy bars. Occupy Austin organizers publicized their wish list, including a free barbecue grill, port-o-potties, extension cords, a Bobcat forestry cutter for clearing brush, and network cameras for a livestream.

    These are not principled advocates of fiscal responsibility. They are professional freeloaders.

    Unlike Tea Party activists who focused like a laser beam on politicians in both parties responsible for redistributing wealth to Big Business cronies by force, the Occupy Wall Street movement is everywhere and nowhere. The entitled Kamp Alinsky Kids are poaching WiFi and trespassing on private property under the guise of “social justice,” but in plain service of themselves.

    Their t-shirts and speeches glorify Marxist radicals Che Guevara, Emiliano Zapata, and Chairman Mao. They lionize convicted Death Row cop killer Troy Davis and WikiLeaks collaborator Bradley Manning. They condemn “Nazi Bankers,” Jews, Fox News, the American Legislative
    Exchange Council, Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker, the Koch family, and the New York Police Department (“pigs!”). They promote the illegal alien DREAM Act and 9/11 Trutherism.

    They spout bumper-sticker profanities and inanities: “F**k banks.” “Unf**k the world.” “Fuuuuu*k.” “Free education.” “Smash nationalism.”
    “People not profits.”

    They flash peace signs while celebrity supporter Roseanne Barr calls for beheading financial industry workers and fellow marchers call explicitly for “violent revolution” or for Obama to “Send Seal Team 6” to Wall Street.

    Then they huff and puff (preferably in a creepy, uniform chant they call the “human microphone”) that we just haven’t taken the time to understand what they’re all about — as they hawk $20 “Eat the Rich” polo shirts and license their protest photos to Getty Images. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...alism_at_w.php



    CafePress.com, a website that, in their own words, is "where the world turns for unique products that express what people love most," has a large section of Occupy Wall Street goods for sale. For example, they offer 371 Occupy Wall Street T-shirt designs, 238 tank top designs, and 155 hat designs. If you're feeling preppy, you can even purchase an "Eat the Rich" polo for $20. There is no mention of any affiliation with the movement on CafePress' website, and considering the Occupy Wall Street site says they are "currently low on food," we doubt they're seeing any of the profits from $16 "We are the 99%" baby bodysuits.

    CafePress specializes in pumping out relevant designs--they estimate they make 160,000 new ones every week. Now that the Occupy Wall Street movement is so hot, naturally they added hoodies and boxer shorts bemoaning corporate greed next to their "duh...Winning!" T-Shirts.

    We've contacted both CafePress and Occupy Wall Street for comment. Until they respond, we'll just wait for our Occupy Wall Street iPad case to ship.
    Viva la revolucion! Up with people! Stop the greed! (Cha-ching. Cha-ching.)

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    Related (h/t Hot Air): All I can say is: Mother Fudge Biscuits, these people are ridiculous….
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    These people are so living in world so devoid of reality, so insulated from anyone different than them, that they post this video with no clue how ridiculous they are to everyone else.

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    Down Twinkles ! Down Twinkles !

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    The strange thing is that this incoherent nonsense is a video from Occpypdx's own website. Occupypdx thinks this is a good representation of the Occupy movement. It's not. Twinkles and Down Twinkles? It's so ridiculous that it's almost like a piece from the Onion.

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    These people come up with Twinkles, Down Twinkles, and then wonder why people do not take them seriously. Where is Eric Cartman when you need him?
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    Explained: How to properly communicate with the Occupy Wallnuts
    Oh this is a gem. Here we have one of the Occupying Portland protesters showing us how they communicate in their special hand signal language:

    If this is indicative of how they are going to fight in their revolution, America has nothing to worry about.



    Full video:

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    iWeep for the future.
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    I wonder if junior would understand a middle finger :-)
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    Rshill, that is called the "one finger twinkle"
    We have to get it right if we are to communicate with them
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    What are the signs for rainbows, lollipops, and "I want my unicorn now"?
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    I am now thinking of the Volcan sign and mind meld. We need Spock to go around and put our thoughts in thier heads. It is positive that they are empty and ready for some true information.
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    We should not underestimate this. The Administration wants this to happen and to get ugly. This is long term and is being tightly coordinated across universities, unions, socialist/marxist, and islamic groups.

    Take a look at this video from last Thursday:
    Frances Fox Piven Indoctrinating College Students Be Ready for Violent Street Battles
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    If that is the case, that is insane. These idiots, if they don't shut up and crawl back into the woodwork, are going to deliver the election to some candidate they profess to hate, thereby throwing millions of low-wage workers under the bus.
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    well, now that we know how to communicate w/them, I'll practice my 'down twinkles' signal and save my breath. you can't argue w/fools.
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    Can I use my 'wrap it up' signal the second he starts talking????

    And by the way,,,,,I will be using the that same sign when Obama speaks from now on!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    The 8th one is called "dingle berries" which is what these people are and apparently, how they smell.
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    I am a fan of the Up YOURS Twinkie!

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    Frances Fox Piven Indoctrinating College Students To Be Ready For Violent Street Battles. How Piven and lunatics are being convinced to protest.

    The #overthrow America movement, aka Occupy Wall Street, is looking to take it to the next level.

    The other day, I described how New York University aided and abetted the anarchy, encouraging students to attend the NYU Student Walk Out in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. But it's not just NYU: look at City College encouraging teacher walk outs, street battles, etc.:
    Shocking Video: Frances Fox Piven and Fellow Professors Indoctrinating College Students at CUNY To Get Involved and Be Ready Violent Streets Battles and Breaking Down Capitalism
    Frances Fox Piven:
    •Co-creator of the so-called Cloward-Piven Strategy
    •Seeks to foment economic crises, which can then be exploited for purposes of transformational social change
    •Has been a guest speaker at numerous Socialist Scholars Conferences
    •Admirer of Karl Marx
    •Views violent rioting as an effective and desirable means of agitating for social change

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    I've heard of this Piven before. He's an academic, Pol Pot would have killed him. Mao would have re-educated and then killed him. Stalin would have given him a medal then send him to the gulag and then killed him. Ahmadinijab(whatever) would have forced him to convert to islam and then killed him.
    Our brave soldiers, from the minutemen on down, have secured our liberty here in the USA.
    Hypocrites like this guy get to enjoy it while condemning it.
    I'm sure he really doesn't want to get his way. It would be the death of him.
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    And this guy thinks he has purpose.
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    This reminds me of Rise of the Planet of the Apes when Caesar is teaching the other apes to do sign language.
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    Holy $hit, Batman!
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    Occupy Wall Street reaches 1-month birthday
    By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press | AP – 5 hrs ago


    NEW YORK (AP) — The month-old Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, with nearly $300,000 in the bank and participants finding satisfaction in the widening impact they hope will counter the influence on society by those who hold the purse strings of the world's economies.

    The expanding occupation of land once limited to a small Manhattan park in the shadow of the rising World Trade Center complex continued through the weekend, with hundreds of thousands of people rallying around the world and numerous encampments springing up in cities large and small.

    For the most part, the protest action remained loosely organized and there were no specific demands, something Legba Carrefour, a participant in the Occupy D.C. protest, found comforting on Sunday.

    "When movements come up with specific demands, they cease to be movements and transform into political campaign rallies," said Carrefour, who works as a coat check attendant despite holding a master's degree in cultural studies. "It's compelling a lot of people to come out for their own reasons rather than the reasons that someone else has given to them."

    The demonstrations worldwide have emboldened those camped out at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the movement that began a month ago Monday. But there is conflict too. Some protesters eventually want the movement to rally around a goal, while others insist that isn't the point.

    "We're moving fast, without a hierarchical structure and lots of gears turning," said Justin Strekal, a college student and political organizer who traveled from Cleveland to New York to help. "... Egos are clashing, but this is participatory democracy in a little park."

    Even if the protesters were barred from camping in Zuccotti Park, as the property owner and the city briefly threatened to do last week, the movement would continue, Strekal said.

    Wall Street protesters are intent on building on momentum gained from Saturday's worldwide demonstrations, which drew hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in the U.S. and Europe.

    Nearly $300,000 in cash has been donated through the movement's website and by visitors to the park, said Bill Dobbs, a press liaison for Occupy Wall Street. The movement has an account at Amalgamated Bank, which bills itself as "the only 100 percent union-owned bank in the United States."

    Donated goods ranging from blankets and sleeping bags to cans of food and medical and hygienic supplies are being stored in a cavernous space donated by the United Federation of Teachers, which has offices in the building a block from Wall Street near the private park protesters occupy.

    Among the items are 20 pairs of swimming goggles (to shield protesters from pepper-spray attacks). Supporters are shipping about 300 boxes a day, many with notes and letters, Strekal said.

    "Some are heartwrenching, beautiful," and come from people who have lost jobs and houses, he said. "So they send what they can, even if it's small."

    Strekal said donated goods, stored for a "long-term occupation," have been used to create "Jail Support" kits consisting of a blanket, a granola bar and sanitary wipes for arrested protesters to receive when they are freed.

    The movement has become an issue in the Republican presidential primary race and beyond, with politicians from both parties under pressure to weigh in.

    President Barack Obama referred to the protests at Sunday's dedication of a monument for Martin Luther King Jr., saying the civil rights leader "would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing those who work there."

    Many of the largest of Saturday's protests were in Europe, where those involved in long-running demonstrations against austerity measures declared common cause with the Occupy Wall Street movement. In Rome, hundreds of rioters infiltrated a march by tens of thousands of demonstrators, causing what the mayor estimated was at least €1 million ($1.4 million) in damage to city property.

    U.S. cities large and small were "occupied" over the weekend: Washington, D.C., Fairbanks, Alaska, Burlington, Vt., Rapid City, S.D., and Cheyenne, Wyo. were just a few. In Cincinnati, protesters were even invited to take pictures with a couple getting married; the bride and groom are Occupied Cincinnati supporters.

    More than 70 New York protesters were arrested Saturday, more than 40 of them in Times Square. About 175 people were arrested in Chicago after they refused to leave a park where they were camped late Saturday, and there were about 100 arrests in Arizona — 53 in Tucson and 46 in Phoenix — after protesters refused police orders to disperse. About two dozen people were arrested in Denver, and in Sacramento, Calif., anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was among about 20 people arrested after failing to follow police orders to disperse.

    Activists around the country said Saturday's protests energized their movement.

    "It's an upward trajectory," said John St. Lawrence, a Florida real estate lawyer who took part in Saturday's Occupy Orlando protest, which drew more than 1,500 people. "It's catching people's imagination and also, knock on wood, nothing sort of negative or discrediting has happened."

    St. Lawrence is among those unconcerned that the movement has not rallied around any particular proposal.

    "I don't think the underlying theme is a mystery," he said. "We saw what the banks and financial institutions did to the economy. We bailed them out. And then they went about evicting people from their homes," he said.

    In Richmond, Va., about 75 people gathered Sunday for one of the "general assembly" meetings that are a key part of the movement's consensus-building process. Protester Whitney Whiting, a video editor, said the process has helped "gather voices" about Americans' discontent.

    "In regards to a singular issue or a singular focus, I think that will come eventually. But right now we have to set up a space for that to happen," Whiting said.

    Some U.S. protesters, like those in Europe, have their own causes. Unions that have joined forces with the movement have demands of their own, and on Sunday members of the newly formed Occupy Pittsburgh group demanded that Bank of New York Mellon Corp. pay back money they allege it overcharged public pension funds around the country.

    New York's attorney general and New York City sued BNY Mellon this month, accusing it of defrauding clients in foreign currency exchange transactions that generated nearly $2 billion over 10 years. The company has vowed to fight the lawsuit and had no comment about the protesters' allegation about pensions.

    Lisa Deaton, a tea party leader from southern Indiana, said she sees similarities between how the tea party movement and the Wall Street protests began: "We got up and we wanted to vent."

    But the critical step, she said, was taking that emotion and focusing it toward changing government.

    The first rally she organized drew more than 2,500 people, but afterward, "it was like, 'What do we do?'" she said. "You can't have a concert every weekend."

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    I just heard on the news, the owner of the park in N.Y. was going to close it last week, but democrat leaders in N.Y. and in Washington DC put pressure on him not to do it. They evidently want the protesters to continue for a reason, what could possibly be their motive? It seems they are backing the global revolution to destroy capitalism and to establish a one world socialist government, which is coming soon. Since politics and religion is what divides people, the U.N. including the U.S. have plans, and are now implementing those plans

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    Who is giving these clowns money? And it should be used to clean up their mess.

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    "President Barack Obama referred to the protests at Sunday's dedication of a monument for Martin Luther King Jr., saying the civil rights leader "would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing those who work there."
    What a hypocrite! I saw the other day that Obama is far and away the #1 politician benefitting from Wall Street largesse over the past 2 decades, some $19 million in donations, IIRC the amount.

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    Pssst. Your venue is all wrong. Maybe parking yourselves in front of the White House or going to see your representatives with a coherent message would help? Just shower, obey traffic signs and clean up after yourselves. And don't storm any museums -- that made you look like idiots.

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    As long as the OWS movement concentrates on New York & not Washington the movement will fail. Could it be the real power behind this group is in Washington & that's why little attention is paid to Washington & the majority of the effort is in New York ? Who in New York will change anything? I'm not sure if the emotion behind this group has blurred there vision or they really think someone, anyone on Wall street will willing change. Has anybody noticed politicians are smiling more since the pressure is off?

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    My job of 18 years was outsourced to India, so where do I go to protest ?
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    Why Nazis and Communists Like Occupy Wall Street
    By Mark Whittington Yahoo! Contributor Network – 17 hrs ago



    COMMENTARY | Gateway Pundit reveals a fact that some people will find astonishing: The American Nazi Party and the American Communist Party have endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement, albeit for different reasons.

    The Nazis equate capitalism, which the demonstrators are opposed to, to their hallucinations of a Jewish conspiracy. This may be reflected in some of the anti-Semitic rhetoric coming out of the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations.

    The communists see the current demonstrations as a beginning of an American Bolshevik Revolution and the establishment of a Soviet-style government in the United States. Occupy Wall Street also appeals to their sense of class warfare.

    While an alliance between the Nazis, the communists and wannabe student radicals may seem bizarre on the surface, no one who has read "Liberal Fascism" by National Review writer Jonah Goldberg would be very much surprised. Goldberg found similar strains of ideological thought between Nazis, fascists, communists and modern American liberals. Goldberg concludes that one does not have to be in favor of death camps or world wars to be a fascist. All one has to believe in is the primacy of the state over individual rights.

    The agenda of Occupy Wall Street such as can be determined, meshes pretty well with what Goldberg considers to be "liberal fascism." Unlike the tea party, the movement is geared toward demanding that the government give people things, such as free education, free health care and guaranteed employment because they have a right to them. That Americans have a right to free stuff, given from the government, was articulated in Franklin Roosevelt's "Second Bill of Rights," championed by Obama adviser Cass Sunstein.

    The propensity of Occupy Wall Street for violence also meshes pretty well with Nazi and communist practices. Unlike the tea party, the current demonstrators are not shy about brawling with the police.

    Finally the fingering of scapegoats is a common threat between the Nazis, the communists and the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators. The Nazis hate Jews, especially Jewish bankers and financiers, the communists hate all wealthy people, including bankers, of all religious persuasions. Occupy Wall Street hates bankers and financiers, occasionally the Jewish ones. All of these rich people are seen as cash cows for all the free stuff the demonstrators are demanding. The Nazis and the Communists would kill the rich folks after taking their wealthy.

    Opinions vary among Occupy Wall Street.

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    OccupyOakland Panic: ‘The Potties Are Full!’
    Kyle Olson Columnist, Townhall.com 17 hours ago


    The Occupy Oakland movement officially kicked off on Monday, October 10 at 4 pm. In a bold act of solidarity, the Oakland Education Association provided the occupiers with four Porta-Potty units, but that wasn’t enough for a movement as large as this one.

    An email obtained by Education Action Group from an Occupy Oakland leader explains the problem:

    “If you didn’t already know, OEA has pulled through and donated some funds to have porta-potties available at Occupy Oakland. … People are really grateful to see how the teachers are supporting this. However, less than a day later, the potties are already full! They cost $35 a unit to service, and there are four units. We need to gather some funds to either add more units, or to make a consistent servicing schedule throughout the occupation. … Please email me if you are able to help with monetary donations!”
    In a short amount of time, the occupiers have issued an impressive amount of communiqué, of which the Porta-Potty SOS email was only a part.

    The mob has issued a manifesto/blog, which contains this message for “the politicians and the 1%”:

    “Since we don’t need permission to claim what is already ours, we do not have a list of demands to give you. There is no specific thing you can do to make us ‘go away.’ And the last thing we want is for you to reinforce your power. … Our goal is to bring power back to where it belongs, with the people so we can fix what the politicians and corporations have screwed up.”
    http://townhall.com/columnists/kyleo...full!%e2%80%99
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    Occupy Wall Street hits 1-month mark, raises $300,000
    By Liz Goodwin National Affairs Reporter | The Lookout – 4 hrs ago


    The Occupy Wall Street movement passes the one-month mark today, and has also reached another milestone--the once fledgling movement has raised $300,000 in donations, according to the Associated Press.

    Saturday was perhaps the biggest day yet for the protests over income inequality and corporate influence on politics. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world rallied on Saturday, from Pittsburgh to Rome. In New York City alone, more than 70 protesters were arrested when a faction set out from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan toward Times Square. Meanwhile, nearly 200 protesters were arrested in Chicago after refusing to leave a tent city in Congress Plaza.

    The supporters of the movement are sending about 300 boxes of day of donated food, clothes and other goods to Zuccotti Park, the AP reports. (Monetary donations are pouring in on the Occupy website, as well as at demonstrations.) The protesters have even received goggles to protect them from pepper-spraying policemen.

    Despite questions over whether the protesters have concrete demands or proposed solutions to their grievances, the movement appears to be growing more and more influential. President Obama mentioned the protests Sunday during his speech at the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial dedication.

    Occupy Wall Street traces its beginnings to February, when the Canadian magazine Adbusters called for a "popular uprising" in the West modeled on the pro-democracy demonstrations in the Middle East. (Slate has a great illustrated timeline of Occupy Wall Street's rise.) The first rally didn't happen until Sept 17, when a ragtag group of about 1,000 people gathered next to the statue of a bull near Wall Street. Some of them began camping out at Zuccotti Park, which quickly became the movement's epicenter.

    The protesters began to attract widespread attention when a video edited by the hacktivist group Anonymous showed female protesters being pepper-sprayed on Sept. 24 by a police officer who appears to walk away after the incident. Anonymous says the pepper spray was unprovoked, but the NYPD defended the policeman's actions.

    Protesters again called foul on the police on Oct. 1. The protesters said they were lured onto Brooklyn Bridge and then arrested. More than 700 protesters were arrested after police said they were not allowed to use the main roadway and block traffic. Protesters contended that police encouraged them to use the roadway.

    Mayor Michael Bloomberg--who is unsympathetic to the protesters' cause--threatened to clear out Zuccotti Park on Oct. 12 so that it could be cleaned. The group that manages the park backed down from that threat on Oct. 14, after protesters staged a clean-up of their own.

    Also on Oct. 14, a legal observer from the left-leaning National Lawyers Guild, Ari Douglas, was struck by a police scooter. In the video below, you can see him screaming in pain. Douglas was arrested for disorderly conduct. New York Daily News photographer Dan Marino, who witnessed the accident, says that Douglas was struck by the scooter but then stuck his leg under the wheel to make it appear as if he were trapped under it, but other witnesses said Douglas' foot was genuinely trapped under the scooter.


    On Saturday, 22 protesters were arrested when they visited a Citibank in Lower Manhattan to close their accounts. Citibank says the protesters were being disruptive, so they called the police. Policemen locked the demonstrators inside the branch and then arrested them. In the video below, a young woman who says she is a Citibank customer is grabbed by a plainsclothes cop and pushed back into the bank and arrested.

    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...173706481.html
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    The Occupy Wall Street Dining Guide
    By Adam Martin | The Atlantic Wire – 3 hrs ago


    No matter which side of Occupy Wall Street they're on -- protesters, cops, the media covering them, and the office workers, or gawker -- everyone's gotta eat. The influx of people to Lower Manhattan's around Zuccotti Park has created a new urban food chain of sorts as each group has gravitated to its own favorites. Sure, there are some business owners who complain that protesters just come in and use the bathroom and don't buy anything and Occupy Wall Street has its own food supply, providing free eats to hungry protesters. There were also some early complaints from street vendors who regularly park along Zuccotti Park's southern edge who said they're losing money because their normal lunch customers can't get to them. But foot traffic is the lifeblood of small business.


    Protesters: Pret A Manger, 179 Broadway
    Why they like it: Lots of working groups – the committees that make sure various aspects of the protest encampment get done – have their daily meetings at Pret A Manger simply because it’s close, cheap, and has space and a bathroom. "Media always meets at Pret A Manger," said committee member Kira Moyer-Sims. They use other local cafes too, but this one is closest, so it's the most popular. How’s business? The café’s sales have increased by about $1,000 per day during the week, says manager Shamirah Dillard. The crowding and bathroom lines has been worth the boost in sales. "I would say it’s more from working people. When they come in and it’s so crowded, they buy breakfast and lunch at the same time," picking up pre-made sandwiches for the afternoon so they don’t have to fight the crowds later.

    Cops: Dunkin' Donuts, 2 Cortland Street
    Why they like it: Most cops working the protest come from precincts all over the city, said one so-called white shirt (an officer in command) who gave his name only as Tom. "They come from the Bronx, Brooklyn , they don’t know the area," he said of his fellow cops, so they go to chain restaurants for the most part. "I like Dunkin Donuts, so that’s where I get my coffee." How's business? Saboor Sahib, one of the two guys working the tiny Dunkin Donuts walk-up window a block north of the park, said sales were up about 20 percent since the occupation's start, largely from police customers. "Before, cops came in maybe two times a day. Now it’s more like 20," he said.

    Tourists: Ruchi Indian Cuisine, 120 Cedar Street
    Why they like it: Situated equidistant between the recently opened 9/11 Memorial and the Zuccotti Park encampment, Ruchi gets tourist traffic from both sides, often from tourists walking between the two. "We were at the protest and we came down here," said Victoria Bernal, a college professor from Irvine , California who was in town taking her daughter, Eve Woldemikael, to visit colleges. "They have a great big vegetarian menu, which was good for us." That vegetarian friendliness has made Ruchi a hit for granola-types visiting the occupation as well as activists staying at Zuccotti park, organizer Ambrose Desmond said. How's business? "We get maybe two or three people a day" who are obviously protesters, but the rest of the crowd seemed to be tourists, cashier Raaj Patrek said. The 9/11 Memorial opened one week before the encampment started at Zuccotti Park, and workers at the cafe said they couldn't tell which event had made more of an impact, but "business is doing better every day."

    Journalists: Charly’s Burgers / Steve's Pizza, 110 Trinity Place
    Why they like it: The American fast food and pizza joint on the southwest corner of Zuccotti Park has two distinct advantages for journalists: Second-floor seating and a bathroom. "A lot of us are eating where we can use the facilities," freelance cameraman Bob Briscoe said. "It’s only just about convenience," said NBC cameraman Ivan Reyes.The upstairs dining room overlooking the park means reporters can keep an eye on the action as they eat so that they don’t miss anything. "And the shot from that second floor would be amazing," he said, "but they won't let us bring the video gear up there." How's business? The first two weeks of the encampment brought a rush of business, cashier Ricky Martinez said. "Sales were up maybe 25 percent for that time," but they've tapered off. That could be because Charly's has decided to do away with one of its key assets: its bathroom. A sign on Sunday said the facilities were out of order. "People came in and they flooded it, so we decided to close it," Martinez said. Now, business is about the same as it was before the occupation started.

    Out-of-towners: Liberatos Pizza, 80 Maiden Lane

    Why they like it: Early in the life of the protest, ordering pizza for the occupiers from out of town became the thing to do, and partly because of its name (which sounds a bit like "liberty" but is in fact its owner's name) and partly because of its proximity, Liberatos quickly became the pizzeria of choice for out-of-towners to call in orders for the protesters. Thanks to some early media coverage such as Gawker's day-three feature, it's now a known thing among those following the protest from afar that Liberatos is the "official caterer of the revolution." How's business? Liberatos knows this is its moment. Its Twitter stream is full of specials, statements of solidarity and announcements of donated pizzas. In noting its early popularity, Adrian Chen wrote, "Organizers have been passing around Liberatos' phone number over Twitter and in Google documents and the pizzas, $2,800-worth according to one estimate, started flowing." Telly Liberatos, the owner, quickly invented a special $15 pie for the protesters, called the OccuPie, which has a ring of toppings around the edge with a line through the center, "like a no sign." But the protesters themselves are getting tired of pizza. "For some reason, people from California call in orders of like 50 or more," Matt Shaw, one of the organizers of the occupation’s food committee, said on Sunday.

    http://news.yahoo.com/occupy-wall-st...154740566.html
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