Archive for October, 2011

Obama Goes Rogue On Student Loans
<b>#OccupyWallStreet Tied To ACORN Officials</b>

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Fox News: The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities, sources tell FoxNews.com. The former [...]

Daily Mail: These are the damning images that prove the anti-capitalist protest that has closed St Paul’s Cathedral is all but deserted at night. Footage from a thermal imaging camera taken late at night reveals just a fraction of the makeshift camp was occupied. An independent thermal imaging company, commissioned by the Daily Mail, captured [...]

U.S. Military Bracing For Drastic Cuts

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Canada Free Press: LAS VEGAS – A group of several dozen “Occupy Las Vegas” protesters camping on Clark County land located under the final approach to Runway 19 at McCarran International Airport today narrowly missed being injured when a 50 lb. slab of “blue ice” reportedly landed within feet of their tents. According to witnesses, [...]

CNS News: Federal employees at several financial regulatory agencies – including the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – are earning six-figure salaries and taking home bonuses up to $5,000, according to federal records obtained by Judicial Watch. At least 228 such regulators make $225,000 a year. In comparison, members of Congress make $174,000 a [...]

Yet More Video Of #OccupyOakland Battle With Police

Pretty sure this constitutes as a form of money laundering… Washington Times: The State Department has bought more than $70,000 worth of books authored by President Obama, sending out copies as Christmas gratuities and stocking “key libraries” around the world with “Dreams From My Father” more than a decade after its release. The U.S. Embassy [...]

New Perry Ad Aims At Job Creation

NBC: Cars that were contaminated by radiation during the March nuclear meltdown in Japan are finding their way into the reeling nation’s used car market. Vehicles from the area around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which suffered a series of meltdowns after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, were supposed to be destroyed. But [...]

CNN: Bits of information – not just bullets and bombs – are in the thick of the fighting in Afghanistan. U.S. forces feared they were losing the information war to the Taliban and now are fighting back with Twitter – using those brisk 140-character messages to get out the other side of the story. “The [...]

Bloomberg: Argentina ordered oil, gas and mining exporters to repatriate all export revenue as the government struggles to stem accelerating capital flight from South America’s second-biggest economy. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, in her first move since winning re-election on Oct. 23, changed a 2002 decree requiring companies such as Repsol YPF SA and Pan [...]

Big Government: Former Weather Underground terrorist leader, and long time colleague of president Barack Obama, Bill Ayers is actively supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement, in his home town of Chicago – while his education activist brother Rick Ayers wants to see the movement extended to the nation’s schools. In an October 16 interview with [...]

(Reuters) – “Occupy Wall Street” is occupying less space in TV broadcasts, newspapers and social media as the story settles into a familiar pattern and protesters dig in for what could be a protracted fight. While the movement’s reliance on Twitter and Facebook to spread its message is well established, it has also benefited from [...]

Background: SF Chronicle video prompts White House threat San Francisco Chronicle: It was unlike any San Francisco demonstration outside President Obama’s $7,500-a-plate fundraiser Tuesday at the W Hotel. And we say “outside” because the White House banned, ahem, local reporters from being there. We weren’t alone outside. Out there we found a lot of big-time [...]

DailyMailUK: A teacher accused of having sex with five high school students has claimed she has no memory of the events. Stacy Schuler has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to holding drink and drug fuelled orgies at her home. The 33-year-old is accused of having threesomes and indulging in sex with one student [...]

<b> Halloween House Goes Viral On Youtube</b>

SanFranciscoChronicle: With Halloween almost here, America’s front yards are filling up with inflatable ghosts, spray-on cobwebs, plastic graveyards and, of course, the traditional carved pumpkins. But it’s a good bet that few have the curb appeal of the Riverside, Calif., address of YouTube user KJ92508, who has turned his humble abode into a music-blaring, strobe-blasting, [...]

<b>Police Launch Tear Gas Grenades At Angry #OccupyOakland Mob</b>
<b>Growing Violent, #OccupyOakland Protesters Surround, Throw Paint On Police</b>

San Francisco Chronicle: A crowd of about 400 people marched from the public library at 14th and Madison streets toward Frank Ogawa Plaza at about 5 p.m., promising a confrontation with police, who had the plaza barricaded. The conflict quickly grew violent. When officers in riot gear went to arrest one protester, about 50 more [...]