The Times is jonesin’ for news. This is ridiculous. See: ” Occupy Wall Street protesters driven by varying goals .” Actually, they have no goals. I’m reminded of Discharge , in any case, “Protest and Survive.” These dudes are still protesting and surviving after almost thirty years. We’re still on course for the savage mutilation, I guess: The savage mutilation of the human race is set on course Protest and survive, protest and survive. It’s up to us to change that course Protest and survive, protest and survive … BONUS : Well, perhaps they’re actually serious about this protest and survive stuff. See Occupy Wall Street’s, ” Declaration of the Occupation of New York City ” (at Democratic Underground and Memeorandum ): As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known… And at Firedoglake, ” The Goal and Message of Occupy Wall Street .”
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Occupy Wall Street, ‘Leaderless Resistance Movement’, Gets Front-Page Treatment at Los Angeles Times
San Francisco police shot and killed a 19-year-old man after he fired upon them during a foot chase Saturday. The deceased, a Washington state parolee wanted for questioning in the slaying of a pregnant woman in Seattle last week, was shot while fleeing from police trying to cite him for evading bus fare: The suspect was shot by police after resisting two uniformed SFPD officers attempting to detain him at around 4:45 p.m. Saturday. The man, whose name has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at 7:01 p.m. after being taken to an area hospital. San Francisco’s police chief announced Sunday afternoon that investigators had recovered the gun of the man killed in the city’s Bayview neighborhood, hours after the shooting . KTVU reports : “As documented in a cell phone video of the shooting incident posted on YouTube, a witness to the shooting had retrieved the gun and ran off with it. Investigators tracked down the weapon several hours later. ‘Due to the cooperation of the community, independent witnesses, and the incredible teamwork of the Bayview officers and the gang task force, we recovered the weapon at 10:30 last night,’ Suhr said. ‘God bless the Bayview community members who had the courage to come forward and pretty much tell us the entire story.”’ Suhr later said that SFPD’s relationship with the Bayview community has contributed to a 50 percent reduction in homicides in recent years. At the scene of the shooting Sunday, protesters surrounded a memorial for the teenager and claimed the shooting was racially motivated.” A YouTube video helped investigators find the firearm, reports ABC San Francisco: Police first attempted to cite the man for “Muni” fare evasion. The aunt of the Seattle pregnant teen killed the day after she turned 19 spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday night: “It was a freak accident – she was in a wrong place at the wrong time,” Bankston said. The shooter, she said, “had a dispute with someone on the street and he opened fire. She was an innocent girl caught in the cross fire. It’s a sad case, just a sad case.”
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Graphic Images: SF Police Gun Down Man Skipping Bus Fare — But is There More to the Story?
The bipartisan Gang of Six senators are converging on a deficit-cut proposal requiring both sides of the aisle to take a hit—but their cooperation on the surface has been matched by tensions below.
AFP – US President Barack Obama failed to seal a sweeping trade pact with South Korea because he felt it was not in the best interests of the United States, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday.
AFP – President Barack Obama Saturday lauded Australia as a key player in the Asian economy as he held his first talks with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and invited her to Washington next year.
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New great mates? Obama and Gillard meet in Japan
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AFP – President Barack Obama mounted a firm defence of the US economy and his policy efforts to speed up a sluggish recovery, ahead of the APEC leaders’ summit in Japan.
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Obama mounts strong defence of US economic policy
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In the run up to the 2008 presidential election, political pundits were forecasting a decades-long decline of the Republican Party, a party they predicted had been irreparably tarnished by the unpopularity of President George W. Bush. Now, just two short years later, Democrats are not only running for cover from mounting unpopularity of Obama administration reforms, some campaigns are actually beckoning back to the days of Bush, highlighting their cooperation with the Republican administration. Case in point, North Dakota Democrat Rep. Earl Pomeroy:
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