Travels behind the headlines, under the radar and back into toxic history

TIME edits Occupy Wall Street Support from Person of the Year Cover

Old habits die hard and MSM has been selectively editing material for generations so it is no surprise that a photo as visible as their person of the year cover was editorialized to change the facts we see with our own eyes into something vaguer that might be foreign to American …

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Happy Birthday Bradley Manning & Happy Anniversary Occupy Wall Street

It's been a busy week with Congress rushing to add to the secret powers of Government before they jet off to their luxurious 1% holiday breaks.  They passed the National Defense Authorization Act, because apparently we need more than Patriot Act that restricts unquestioned  …

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#OccupyFood brings American Farmers & Food Lovers to #OccupyWallStreet

Sunday December 4 was Occupy Food Day here in the Big Apple and it was one of the most heart warming experiences in this happy journey of #OccupyWallStreet thus far.  While I have watched OWS grow from its first day, there have been soo many years of battling the destructiv …

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Patagonia Nails Millennium Equivalent of Macy's Miracle on 34th Street

    Patagonia has been a leader in redefining the business model so that doing good compliments doing well to help make everyone winners.  This ad below, ran along with the copied text like my own letter to Santa!  

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Retrospective Happy Anniversary #OccupyWallStreet

  It's a chance to get a foto-Friday post up at its proper day and to mark the distance the Occupy Movement has come since September 17.  They are in chronological order and the whole collection are at flicker and anyone is welcome to share.

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Pardon me? Who keeps public space from NYC public use?

The past 24 hours have been  traumatic for the protesters in Liberty Park and for freedom loving supporters worldwide.  Being a liberal, free speech loving NYer, there was a also a horrible feeling of betrayal in the NYPD actions at the behest of Mayor Bloomberg, the fa …

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Anonymous Night Of A Thousand Masks 11.11.11

            The immortal words of Charlie Chaplin's final speech in The Great Dictator are revisited on this 11.11.11.inverted palindrome of a Veterans Day, by the enigma of our age, Anonymous.

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#Occupy & WikiLeaks Put Faces on America's Enemies

When you listen to TV News in the USA, one of the issues that becomes clear very quickly is that we have a lot of enemies to worry about.  Even tin foil hat apocalypse is given air time as well as dramatic events like anthrax and shoe bombs, Osama and Muslims, sometimes mor …

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Sons of Fortune & Armies of Poor Movin' Money & Movin' On

      My starting point can get lost by the end, especially when so many facts and links tempt me down other paths.  My keep in your heart point is that the power shift is well underway and we the people with our voces occupying public space, our money saved  …

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The Empty Honeycomb

It is hard to overestimate the importance of bees in the food chain. Almonds, carrots, melons, apricots, cherries, pears, apples, prunes, plums, cantaloupe, onions, avocados, kiwi, blueberries, cranberries and many more fruits and vegetables depend on honeybee pollination.

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Dedicated to the Dedicated: A Playlist for the Occupy Movement and Injured Protester Scott Olsen

Here are links to some songs, with lyrics for the hearing impaired, dedicated to the Occupy movement and fellow Wisconsinite Scott Olsen, the 24-year-old Iraq War vet police damn near killed at Occupy Oakland.  Please add your own music links and any thoughts you’d li …

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Occupy Wall Street Comes to Times Square

  In the interest of sharing the pictures and with consideration for the snails pace that my article of the October 15 protest is going, I promised myself that I'd take Ben Joseph's ((hugs)) suggestion and feel free to focus on the pictures.  While it's a Herculean effo …

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Of Liberty and Justice and Neon Green Hats and Equality

Anyone who knows me knows I adore New York City, I do.  But like any devoted lover, in my heart of hearts, I hold the picture of my City as as our best selves, which is pretty darned patient and tolerant and generous. 

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Is Occupy Wall Street Cleaning Sweeping Protest Under the Rug?

In less than two hours there will be a "cleaning" in Liberty Park where the Occupy Wall Street protesters have camped out since the 17th of September.  There's no question that the NYSE friendsters want to have their critics silenced and return to the MSM coverage of meanin …

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Forget Right vs Left ~ The Problem is Right vs Wrong & Main Street vs Wall Street divides the 99% from the 1% Corporate Persons

  Tonight on Rachel Maddow's show there was coverage of the GoP Primary.  They played a clip of Mitt Romney commenting on the Occupy Wall Street Protest, but it is quoted here from the Buenos Aires Herald.

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Lessons from Wm Shakespeare 1599 in re: OCCUPY Together Movement, Houston, TX October 6th, 2011

"This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'e …

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If #OccupyWallStreet is Anti-American is Protecting Profits Patriotism?

  As the movement that began on September 17th grows, so do the voices of the critics in politics and corporate media who seem to differentiate this citizen participation as a threat to our Nation, Democracy and Free Market Capitalism.  One example of that rhetoric com …

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Anti-Wall Street protests spread nationwide

Protests against Wall Street spread across the country Monday as demonstrators marched on Federal Reserve banks and camped out in parks from Los Angeles to Portland, Maine, in a show of anger over the wobbly economy and what they see as corporate greed.

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Crisis Management PR for Occupy Wall Street Exposes Liberal MSM as simply Liberal with Facts

Captured in a screenshot, the myth of a liberal media is confirmed but the reference is not their political stance but their measure of voracity. Twenty minutes after reporting the NYPD action to corral & misdirect protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge, The New York Times revis …

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Plunging DOW & Record Losses ~ Soaked Investors & Soggy Protestors ~ Occupy Wall Street Week One

“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” ~ Winston Churchill ~

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