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. …
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FRIDAY: Protest March Against NYPD
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 …
Read More »O’Donnell Denounces NYPD Brutality
“Unprovoked police brutality.” Watch this.
Read More »NEW YORK CITY: More Video Of NYPD Brutality At Wall Street Protest
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.
Read More »NEW YORK CITY: Cops Pepper-Spray Wall Street Protesters, Over 100 Arrested
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 …
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Tweet Of The Day – NYC Southpaw
The above amusing message popped up as I was following the Day Of Rage protest on Twitter (#OccupyWallStreet), where the usual anarchists and other weirdos have landed their flying saucers to hijack the legitimate protests about “corporate personhood” and government-funded bank fraud. “What do we want?”UNDEFINED CHANGE!“When do we want it?”EVENTUALLY! There appears to be a smallish crowd for the …
Read More »September 17th: Day Of Rage
From their website: On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people to flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months. Once there, we shall incessantly repeat one simple demand in a plurality of voices and we will not leave until that demand has been met. Like our …
Read More »Dow Jones Nosedives
World Markets “Plunging”
Afternoon View – Wall Street Baths
It’s an actual bathhouse, but not in that gay way.
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World Markets Sagging As Financial Crisis In Greece Worsens
Chaos In Greece Over Financial Crisis
Greece is seeing its worst civil unrest in decades as the government imposed new austerity measures to combat the spiraling financial situation. Greece’s crisis is threatening markets around the world. Stock futures fell Wednesday, a day after major indexes posted their biggest losses in months on worries that Europe would not be able to contain Greece’s debt problems. Strict austerity …
Read More »Sen. Carl Levin Calls Out Goldman Sachs Partner For “Shitty Deal”
And you probably haven’t heard “shitty” used ten times in three minutes on C-SPAN.
Read More »I Find Your Lack Of Faith In Ben Bernanke Disturbing (Chokes Investors)
Barney Frank On Wall Street Pay Limits
Oh Brother
Listen, I love hyperbole as much as the next commie/homo/socialist on the internet, but this Huff Po headline is a million times worse than Hitler. Yes, banks have failed and more will fail. But “the end of a consumer economy”? As in the end of capitalism? Or something? Huh?
Read More »Photo Of The Day
An unidentified man was found passed out in his underwear atop the Wall Street bull in the pre-dawn hours. Economic symbolism? Cruel party prank? Dejected trader?
Read More »Have Things Bottomed Out?
According to this graphic, the current recession is only slightly worse than the ’73-’74 event, at least in terms of the value of the stock market. And the Wall Street Journal -owned site MarketWatch says the recession has already bottomed out and recovery is now being seen in 21 leading economic indicator categories. (Graphic via – Andew Sullivan)
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