Remember those enhanced interrogation techniques the US military used against suspected terrorists? Sleep deprivation, enforced standing for hours? Well, New York Mayor Bloomberg is bringing those techniques to the Occupy Wall Street encampment.
Evicted! Mayor Bloomberg brings enhanced interrogation techniques to Occupy Wall Street
October 13, 2011 By 3 Comments
Why are they lying about Occupy Wall Street – and why are they getting away with it?
October 13, 2011 By 6 Comments
The opponents of the Occupy Wall Street Movement criticize it with lies. Paper-thin arguments that defy logic. Easily provable, direct, baldfaced lies. This tactic is nothing new to the Right, and it’s important to understand how they are getting away with it — why they are being believed, at least by some, and what you can do to combat them.
I recently came across an essay called “The Crisis of Public Reason”, by Phil Agre (PhD), a Professor of Information Studies at UCLA. It offers a rather frightening explanation for the Right’s tactics.
Occupy Wall Street: Mayors play good cop / bad cop; Seattle shutdown?
October 12, 2011 By 3 Comments
Mayors of occupied cities across the US are now playing a game of good cop/bad cop with the demonstrators. Follow our rules and you can stay… step out of line and you WILL be arrested. That appears to be happening in Seattle, where occupiers aren’t following the Mayor’s instructions to move from Westlake Park to City Hall.
It’s not jobs vs environment – it’s clean jobs vs dirty jobs
October 12, 2011 By 1 Comment
The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness released a report yesterday that presents a compelling case why the clean energy sector is critical to the United States’ economic recovery and future job growth. TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not only inconsistent with our country’s energy goals, it would strengthen ongoing efforts to derail the growth of clean energy in the United States.
Report: California’s oceans, rivers more toxic than ever
October 12, 2011 By 2 Comments
Police continue harassment of Occupy Wall Street across the nation
October 11, 2011 By 1 Comment
Last night, police violently shut down one Occupy Boston encampment and harassed occupations in Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas, and St Louis.
Today, the harassment continue
James Howard Kunstler: Occupy Everything
October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I dropped in on the Occupy Wall Street crowd down in Zuccotti Park last Thursday. It was like 1968 all over again, except there was no weed wafting on the breeze (another WTF?). The Boomer-owned-and-operated media was complaining about them all week. They were “coddled trust-funders” (an odd accusation made by people whose college enrollment status got them a draft deferment, back when college cost $500 a year). Then there was the persistent nagging over the “lack of an agenda,” as if the US Department of Energy, or the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs was doing a whole lot better
This is the funniest part to me: that leaders of a nation incapable of constructing a coherent consensus about reality can accuse its youth of not having a clear program. If the OWS movement stands for anything, it’s a dire protest against the country’s leaders’ lack of a clear program.
Cops in at least 5 cities threaten crackdown on Occupy Wall Street; Boston camp #2 broken up
October 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Police forces in five major cities all just happened to decide to make a major alpha-male display on the same night? And all backed down, except for Boston – where the cops took out the smaller, overflow camp (with the justification that the occupiers were “endangering the plantings in the park!).
This is weird. And creepy. And stinks of some kind of national coordination.Up next: Seattle police have issued a similar warning to Occupy Seattle, and are threatening mass arrests if they don’t leave Westlake Plaza.
OWS: Veterans beaten, arrested at Occupy Boston
October 10, 2011 By 10 Comments
Now with video. Veterans For Peace were arrested and beaten, flags trampled under foot, and all the demonstrators possessions – tents, gear, everything – were loaded into garbage trucks and crushed.Meanwhile, Atlanta police came out in force, but as of now (12:30 Eastern) they appear to have stood down.
No Keystone XL occupies the State Department
October 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In a crossover protest with members of Occupy Wall Street/Occupy DC – one which also had a very practical goal – climate activists demonstrating against the tar-sands oil pipeline camped out overnight for 14 hours in front of the State Department building.
