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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/14-8

'We Have Crossed the Limit of What Is Acceptable Inequality'
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/14-1

Police Clear Out Downtown Occupy Oakland Camp
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/14

Livestream from Occupy Wall Street NYC
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/15

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US cities step up suppression of Occupy movement

Fox News

11/14/11

Riot-clad law enforcement officers cleared out a weeks-old anti-Wall Street encampment in Oakland just before dawn Monday .... The action came a day after police drove hundreds of anti-Wall Street demonstrators from weeks-old encampments in Portland .... In Salt Lake City, police arrested 19 .... In Albany, N.Y., police arrested 24 ... In Denver, authorities arrested four .... In San Francisco, police said two demonstrators attacked two police officers ...

http://fxn.ws/tWjJ9c



Why income inequality suddenly matters

In These Times
by David Sirota

11/11/11

A few weeks ago, as the Occupy Wall Street protests were first spreading, something amazing happened: For 10 whole seconds, the local reporter on my TV screen actually talked about the realities of the recession. He even uttered the phrase 'economic inequality.' ... When even the most local of television journalists are compelled to acknowledge this crushing emergency in a country whose media aggressively promotes American Dream agitprop, it means the Occupy protestors have scored a monumental victory...

http://tinyurl.com/6odo2fc



Egypt-style attacks on several Occupy camps

Our Future
by Dave Johnson

11/14/11

Occupy Movement camps around the country follow strict practices of nonviolence and democracy. As with any diverse community of people, there are troublemakers who take advantage of loose organization and predators who prey on others. This is why we have police departments in every city and town. But plutocratic government response is to discourage the Occupy Movement, so government services are denied these citizens. Instead of helpfully serving communities, the frown of disapproving authority is cast upon their activities...

http://tinyurl.com/6vv64lt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Armageddon network

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

11/14/11

The War Party is bound and determined to drag us, kicking and screaming, into a military conflict with Iran - and they have constructed a vast network of agents inside both parties, and inside the government, to accomplish exactly that. The nexus of this network is the government of Israel and its intelligence services, which is coordinating an increasingly frantic campaign to bring the Iran issue to a head...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/11/13/the-armageddon-network/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Republican presidential hopefuls Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann both say they would reinstate waterboarding during interrogations of suspected terrorists, while rivals Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman both say they see the procedure as torture.

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111113/ap_on_el_pr/us_gop_debate_torture



Bachmann Endorser Grant Says 'It Is Dominion We Are After. World Conquest'

World conquest. That s what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish. We must win the world with the power of the Gospel. And we must never settle for anything less.

http://bit.ly/sAr9dJ


From Information Clearing House

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Don t leave Michele Bachmann clueless
https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageServer?s_subsrc=111114_five_clues&emsrc=Nat_Appeal_AutologinEnabled&pagename=111114_five_clues&emissue=national_security&emtype=petition

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Cain accuser s former boyfriend backs her account

CNN

11/14/11

A former boyfriend of Herman Cain accuser Sharon Bialek said Monday that she told him in 1997 that Cain touched her inappropriately after the pair had dinner together in Washington. ... Bialek was the first accuser of sexual misconduct by Cain to reveal her identity, giving details of what she described as Cain touching her inappropriately when she sought his help in finding a job...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/14/politics/cain-allegations/index.html



Woman alleges 13-year affair with GOP candidate Cain

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

11/28/11

In an explosive allegation, a Georgia woman said Monday she and Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain had a 13-year extramarital affair that lasted nearly until the former businessman announced his candidacy for the White House several months ago. ... In a written statement released immediately after the story aired, Cains campaign said detractors were trying to 'derail the Cain Train with more accusations of past events that never happened'...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Herman Cain s Problem Is Herman Cain

Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: 'As GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain battles charges of sexual harassment from four different women, he has used a number of ploys to defend himself. At the end of the day, whether the issue is sexual harassment, who developed his 9-9-9 plan or his limited understanding of foreign policy, the source of Herman Cain s problems is his inability to command the facts. His problems don t stem from the Perry campaign, 'unstable women' or the liberal media; Herman Cain's problem is Herman Cain ... Cain has been placed in a position, whether wittingly or unwittingly, to serve a purpose for the Republican Party. Like Alan Keyes and Michael Steele before him, he is another 'straw man.' He is being used to promote a misperception of political inclusion within the Republican Party, and should be dismissed as the political minstrel show that he has become.'

http://www.truth-out.org/herman-cains-problem-herman-cain/1322514736



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J.A. Myerson, Truthout: 'If the last decade was the era of occupations that everyone called liberations, then the 99 percent movement is seeking to make this the era of liberations everyone calls occupations.'

http://www.truth-out.org/war-force-pays-1-percent-occupying-american-foreign-policy/1321286925



One Day After Attending Private Economic Crisis Briefing, GOP Financial Services Chairman Bet On Stocks Tanking

Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: 'CBS News' 60 Minutes aired a report last night alleging that several members of Congress have traded stock using information they received during private briefings or meetings, enabling them to profit from inside information. By far the most damning story was about House Financial Services Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL), who in 2008, the day after receiving a private briefing from the nation s chief economic officials on the extent of the financial crisis, proceeded to bet that the stock market would tank....'

http://www.truth-out.org/one-day-after-attending-private-economic-crisis-briefing-gop-financial-services-chairman-bet-stock-0



Harvard Students Join the Occupy Movement

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: 'The professor who prompted the student walkout, N. Gregory Mankiw, is a well-known, mainstream celebrant of private capitalism.'

http://www.truth-out.org/harvard-students-join-movement/1321282632

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Big Change Whether We Like It or Not Only Washington Is Clueless

By Andrew Bacevich

The Big Change happening before our very eyes is political, economic, and military. At least four converging vectors are involved.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29710.htm



Scapegoating others no answer to U.S. economic woes

By Liu Tian

In face of - serious domestic problems which probably could trigger a new global economic tsunami, many U.S. politicians seemed only to care about how many votes they could get, without having a single thought about what kind of the global responsibilities the country should take.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29709.htm



Chinese Ratings Agency Threatens US With New Debt Downgrade

By Peter Beaumont

Guan agrees that it is almost inevitable that his agency will cut Americas debt rating once again, arguing that the only solution open to the US economy is further quantitative easing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29700.htm



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Our Future
by Greg Colvin

11/11/11

We have seen the signs and heard the chants: 'Abolish Corporate Personhood!' I am very sympathetic to the cause of reducing the power of big business corporations to control our government, our economy, our consumer culture, our society, and our lives. We can t have democracy without a major shift of power into the hands of the people. But would an amendment to remove all rights of corporations from the US Constitution accomplish that?

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Government by Force: Financially and Conceptually Bankrupt
http://lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff368.html

Which Candidate Was Right About Iraq?
http://lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo217.html

The Prophet vs. the GOP
http://lewrockwell.com/franke/franke21.1.html



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Tana Ganeva, AlterNet: 'Last week the Bloomberg administration announced new eligibility rules that would make it harder for homeless people to get into city shelters, a cost-cutting measure astutely timed to coincide with the approach of winter.... Under the policy, originally set to go into effect next week, the city could refuse someone a bed at a shelter unless they proved they had no other housing options, such as staying with relatives or friends.'

http://www.truth-out.org/mayor-1-bloomberg-tries-make-it-harder-homeless-get-shelters/1321201264



Corporate Media Stumped on How to Cover the Occupy Movement

Russ Baker, Who What Why.com: 'Conventional journalism is increasingly irrelevant in a time of crisis. We find abundant proof in a recent column from the New York Times? so-called 'Public Editor,' who is supposed to somehow magically represent the public interest and rarefied ethical values to the rest of the paper. In this column, he says the media is having difficulty figuring out how to cover Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots.'

http://www.truth-out.org/corporate-media-stumped-how-cover-occupy-movement/1321208032



The Originality of Occupy Wall Street

Richard D. Wolff, RDWollf.com: 'In the short history of OWS and its spread to date, I am struck by its impressive insistence on remaining a movement around a very general and inclusive critique of an unjust economy (99% against 1%) that has corrupted much of US politics and culture. The net result is a built-in systemic critique, sometimes explicit (remarkably often named as capitalism) and almost always implicit. The hesitation to choose among and focus on specific demands reflects the wisdom of maintaining the broad, systemic critique. The taboo against systemic critique - a legacy of post-war anti-communism - seems to be broken.'

http://www.truth-out.org/originality-occupy-wall-street/1321203807



Protesters Interrupt Bachmann s Speech in South Carolina

Amanda Peterson Beadle, ThinkProgress: 'About 40 protesters from Occupy Charleston interupted Rep. Michele Bachmann s (R-MN) foreign policy speech during a campaign stop in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. As she was beginning her speech, the protesters stood up and recited a prepared message in unison. 'We have a message for Miss Bachmann,' they yelled. Bachmann s supporters yelled at the protesters to sit down and tried to drown them out. The protesters chanted, 'We are the 99 Percent,' as police escorted them out.'

http://www.truth-out.org/protesters-interrupt-bachmanns-speech-south-carolina/1321208812



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Ellen Brown, Truthout: 'Henry Ford said, 'It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.' We are beginning to understand, and Occupy Wall Street looks like the beginning of the revolution ... We need an Economic Bill of Rights, and we need to end the privatization of the national currency. Only when the privilege of creating the national money supply is returned to the people can we have a government that is truly of the people, by the people and for the people.'

http://www.truth-out.org/time-economic-bill-rights/1320938466



Occupy Homes: New Coalition Links Homeowners, Activists in Direct Action to Halt Foreclosures

Video

Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: 'A loose-knit coalition of activists known as 'Occupy Homes' is working to stave off pending evictions by occupying homes at risk of foreclosure when tenants enlist its support. The movement has recently enjoyed a number of successes.'

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-homes-new-coalition-links-homeowners-activists-direct-action-halt-foreclosures/1321036948



Ten Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything

Sarah van Gelder, David Korten and Steve Piersanti, YES! Magazine: 'Before the Occupy Wall Street movement, there was little discussion of the outsized power of Wall Street and the diminishing fortunes of the middle class... Occupy Wall Street changed that. In fact, it may represent the best hope in years that 'we the people' will step up to take on the critical challenges of our time. Here?s how the Occupy movement is already changing everything.'

http://www.truth-out.org/ten-ways-occupy-movement-changes-everything/1321111931



Denver Police Evict 'Occupy' Protesters

The New York Times, The New York Times News Service: 'The Denver police cleared a protest encampment allied with the Occupy Wall Street movement in a downtown square Saturday evening. Sixteen people were arrested, according to the police.... Saturday night also saw protesters swept out of an Occupy encampment in Salt Lake City.'

http://www.truth-out.org/police-denver-move-protesters/1321198951

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What s Next for Occupy Wall Street?
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/11-0

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/11-7



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David Swanson, War Is A Crime: 'Believe it or not, November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, support troops, or cheer the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan. This day was made a holiday in order to celebrate an armistice that ended what was up until that point, in 1918, one of the worst things our species had thus far done to itself, namely World War I. World War I, then known simply as the world war or the great war, had been marketed as a war to end war. Celebrating its end was also understood as celebrating the end of all wars. A ten-year campaign was launched in 1918 that in 1928 created the Kellogg-Briand Pact, legally banning all wars. That treaty is still on the books, which is why war making is a criminal act and how Nazis came to be prosecuted for it.'

http://www.truth-out.org/fahrenheit-111111/1321022729

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Review: To end all wars

CounterPunch
by Harvey Wasserman

11/13/11

As the numerologists note our arrival at 11/11/11, our attention is better focused on this day as the anniversary of the end of the useless, worthless, horrifying war that turned so much of 20th Century into a twisted, violent mess. And on how we must prevent the same from happening to our shiny new millennium. A superb route to that understanding comes through a modern masterpiece, TO END ALL WARS: A STORY OF LOYALTY AND REBELLION, 1914-8, by Adam Hochschild...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/11/to-end-all-wars/



The shame of Veterans Day

Zero Gov
by Bill Buppert

11/11/11

'Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service' or 'thanks for protecting our freedom.' What! I hear this familiar refrain again and again every November. I am appalled whenever this unthinking salutation is proffered. I am a retired career Army officer and like USMC General Smedley Butler before me, I find these sentiments to be hogwash...

http://zerogov.com/?p=2428


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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