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“The protests that are trying to destroy the jobs of working people in this city aren’t productive. What they’re trying to do is take away the jobs of people working in the city, take away the tax base that we have. We’re not going to have money to pay our municipal employees or anything else.” – Mayor Michael Bloomberg, telling …

“The next step, I am sure, by the way, for the Occupy Wall Street crowd is for Anderson Cooper, Bill Maher, and Jon Stewart, the trifecta of conventional wisdom’s failed liberalism, to come down to Wall Street and join the masses in demanding more of our tax money so they can all be supported as novelists and movie directors. You …

Speaking at this weekend’s hate convention in DC, GOP Rep. Eric Cantor characterized the Wall Street protesters as a “mob” that wants to “divide America.” Last year Cantor had nothing to say about Tea Party activists who were literally calling for civil war.

On their “rapid response” YouTube channel, the Democratic National Committee bashes the GOP for the economic disaster that has propelled Occupy Wall Street.

Last night the NYPD waded into the Wall Street protesters with flailing batons and pepper spray. Hundreds of the estimated 15,000 protesters were reportedly arrested, but police have not released figures. IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Contrary to initial reports from the scene, where, admittedly, confusion reigned, only a few dozen protesters were arrested. An NYPD official this afternoon put the number at …

“Don’t blame Wall Street. Don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself.”

So sez GOP Rep. Allen West. And if you read Gay Patriot’s Twitter feed, the protesters are also unwashed smelly hippies.

Today’s planned 4:30pm march from City Hall to Wall Street is expected to be the largest show of numbers in the three week old Occupy Wall Street protest. Unions, community groups, college students and the unemployed – calling themselves “the 99%” who are getting the shaft from the richest 1%, which controls 40% of America’s wealth – are joining in. …

Click over to Global Revolution for a live video stream from lower Manhattan. Meanwhile the White House has acknowledged the growing protest, which is now in its third week: “To the extent that people are frustrated with the economic situation, we understand. And that’s why we’re so urgently trying to focus Congress’s attention on the need to take action on …

PC Magazine: The threat to “erase” the NYSE from the Internet was not explained, though in comments on the YouTube video, some speculated that Anonymous was planning a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on the public-facing NYSE.com website, similar to DDoS attacks the group has used to take down websites in the past. Others felt that would only be a minor …

If only we knew what, specifically, the people want.

The #OccupyWallStreet protests continued to grow in size yesterday as the NYPD arrested 700 in a massive blockade attempt at the Brooklyn Bridge. The police said it was the marchers’ choice that led to the enforcement action. “Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested,” Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the New York Police Department, said. …

Civil rights advocates and progressives will march in protest of NYPD brutality this Friday in Manhattan. In response to more than 80 arrests during a demonstration Saturday near Union Square, protesters plan to rally Friday afternoon against what they say was “brutal” behavior by cops, and will march from Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street, to the NYPD’s headquarters at 1 …

“Unprovoked police brutality.” Watch this.

Shit starts to get real at about 3:00. The NYPD seems be singling out some protesters with professional camera equipment. Which is rather pointless when also facing a sea of iPhones.RELATED: My Twitter followers know I’ve been pretty snarky about this unfocused protest, but the NYPD’s behavior has been unsnarking the fuck out of me.

Yesterday the NYPD crashed a protest march from Union Square to Wall Street, pepper-straying some young women and arresting over 100. The #OccupyWallStreet action has been going since last week. Scores of protesters were arrested in Manhattan Saturday as a march against social inequality turned violent. Hundreds of people carrying banners and chanting “shame, shame” walked between Zuccotti Park, near …