Zucotti Park now also center of attention
Yves Smith provides an overnight look at OWS Zucotti Park ‘cleaning’ by NYPD. The post has frequent updates and is very long, so a visit is in order if interested.
Relevant and even prescient commentary on news, politics and the economy.
Finally taking out the trash!
Hopefully this will be the end of the OWS in Zucotti and an end to the rapes, assaults, drugs, public defecation, and masterbation. Maybe even let the local business who are trying to make a living get back on their feet and repair the damage to their businesses and bottom lines.
So will the $500K plus collected go to help partially repay for the damage done by the OWS movements? Oakland alones had $1M in extra police costs and $4 million worth of damage during the port assault. Heck could the OWS movement at least pay the fee’s for staging their protest like the Tea Party did?
I bet not…
Islam will change
Events on the ground aren’t the only data on how OWS is fairing. An interesting new posting suggests that OWS is “winning” because the issue of inequality has become a major topic of discussion in the media. A nice graphic of data on news stories here: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1111/Occupy_Wall_Street_is_winning.html
A related new data point may be a report by GOP Rep. Tom Coburn (!) that ruthlessly attacks government policies that are enriching wealthy millionaires. One summary sentence would indicate that the “supercommittee” can find $300 billion toward its goal by stopping this: “On average, each year, this report found that millionaires enjoy benefits from tax giveaways and federal grant programs totaling $30 billion.” The full summary and report are here: http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=bb1c90bc-660c-477e-91e6-91c970fbee1f
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits Cities Coordinated Crackdown on Occupy Movement
Embattled Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, speaking in an interview with the BBC (excerpted on The Takeaway radio program–audio of Quan starts at the 5:30 mark), casually mentioned that she was on a conference call with leaders of 18 US cities shortly before a wave of raids broke up Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country. “I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation. .
here’s a pic of NY’s finest: http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iE3XAfWuPRW4.jpg
Thanks for reminding my why I prefer reading NC to this site.