Peter Dreier: Activists Visit Geithner's Home to Ask "Which Side Are You On?"
May 20, 2012, 11:17 pm EST - The protesters consider Geithner the key architect of Obama's economic recovery plan and the loudest voice within the president's inner circle for taking a "hands off" approach to tougher government rules to tame Wall Street's risky practices. ...
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Riot gear cops rain down blows on protesters
May 20, 2012, 11:16 pm EST - A sea of blue-helmeted police officers began violently battling with the protesters just before 5 p.m. The fights stopped and started and stopped for about an hour. A strong flare-up of violence erupted around 5:30 p.m. — just as lightning began flashing to the east as a stormfront moved in. After an hour of pushing, yelling and aggressive crowd control tactics, police pushed the block of protesters back about 50 yards. Although most of the pushing and shoving had subsided by 6 p.m., a protest ...
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Raw Video Of Chicago Police Beating NATO Protesters with Batons
May 20, 2012, 7:03 pm EST - Raw Video Footage aired by CNN described by CNN as 'Chicago Police Pummel NATO protestors with Batons ...
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Spaniards back ‘indignant’ protests: Poll
May 20, 2012, 6:37 pm EST - A new poll shows that almost 70 percent of the people in Spain support the 'indignant' anti-austerity movement. ...
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Chicago Officials: City Websites Hacked
May 20, 2012, 6:36 pm EST - Chicago Tribune | Police officials said today they have confirmed the city of Chicago website has been hacked. According to some reports the group Anonymous took credit. ...
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Twitter, Facebook wars unleashed by lack of press freedom'
May 20, 2012, 6:36 pm EST - RT talks to Sharif Nashashibi -- chairman and co-founder of Arab Media Watch, an independent, non-profit watchdog set up in 2000 to strive for objective coverage of Arab issues in the British media. Nashashibi told RT that banning media from reporting on the Arab Spring threw the governments into a battle with social media hijacked by an uncontrollable opposition propaganda genie. ...
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Facebook set to lift ban on under-13s joining social network site
May 20, 2012, 6:36 pm EST - $100bn social networking site considering allowing children to sign up anyway given huge number of 'under-age' users. ...
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Cameron 'backs plans to slash red tape so bad workers can be sacked more easily'
May 20, 2012, 6:36 pm EST - David Cameron will throw his weight behind plans to axe employment regulations which a report by venture capitalist Adrian Beecroft will say are stifling job creation. ...
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Police attack NATO protesters in Chicago
May 20, 2012, 6:35 pm EST - Police in the US city of Chicago have attacked anti-NATO protesters. ...
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City of Chicago under attack… by hackers
May 20, 2012, 6:35 pm EST - A group linked to the hacktivist collective Anonymous claims to have taken down the Chicago police department website as authorities are looking into whether the City of Chicago website was also hit in the cyber strike. ...
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Life in Occupied Chicago
May 20, 2012, 6:35 pm EST - Through Monday, downtown residents live in occupied Chicago. Secret Service agents, NORTHCOM and National Guard forces, as well as thousands of state and local police seem everywhere. Getting around feels hazardous. Anyone may be stopped, searched, interrogated, even arrested. Residents were advised to hunker down and stay out of harm's way as best as possible. For many, it's not easy. More on a city under siege below. NATO is the world's first global war-making alliance. L ...
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'We want NATO ended': Thousands march in Chicago
May 20, 2012, 6:35 pm EST - 'We want NATO ended': Thousands march in Chicago NATO's summit in Chicago has been greeted by crowds of activists pouring into the city streets to protest against the bloc's costly and deadly wars. Saturday saw clashes with police and further arrests, with the protesters pledging their numbers will swell over the next two days. RT's Anastasia Churkina is in Chicago. Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Watch RT LIVE on our w ...
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Thousands of anti-NATO activists march in Chicago (PHOTOS)
May 20, 2012, 6:35 pm EST - Crowds of activists have started an anti-NATO demonstration in downtown Chicago as the military bloc’s summit kicked off in the city. Organizers say up to 10,000 people are expected to take part in the rally. Read Full Article at RT.com ...
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Protesters struck as NATO summit opens
May 20, 2012, 6:34 pm EST - Chicago police have attacked anti-war protesters as NATO’s two-day summit kicks off. ...
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Congress Has Millions In JP Morgan As Blackout Over $5 Billion + In Losses Continues
May 20, 2012, 5:31 pm EST - As the media blackout for the reasons behind a now estimated $5 billion loss at JP Morgan Chase continues, Open Secrets learns Congress has millions invested in the firm ...
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Is Insider Trading Part of the Fabric?
May 20, 2012, 4:33 pm EST - The Securities and Exchange Commission has been getting tougher on insider trading on Wall Street, but its potential target may be too wide, The New York Times reports. ...
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Spain Says US, UK Media Sabotaging Their Economy For Wall Street Banks
May 20, 2012, 4:12 pm EST - Spanish Intelligence Services are investigating the US and UK media for deliberately sabotaging their economy on behalf to protect Wall Street banks. ...
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Journalists Raided By Police At Gunpoint Last Night Back On Air
May 20, 2012, 2:10 pm EST - Journalists streaming the NATO protests live from Chicago are back on the air after being held at Gunpoint last night by the police under suspicious circumstances. ...
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Journalists Targeted After Police Run Over NATO Protestors With Van
May 20, 2012, 5:39 am EST - The Police state is in full effect at the NATO protests as cops run over protest with a van an arrest journalists live streaming the event. ...
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ABC News Side Note – Ron Paul Wins 32 of Minnesota’s 40 Delegates
May 20, 2012, 1:02 am EST - Ron Paul has won 32 of Minnesota's 40 Delegates at the state GOP convention but because he is not an establishment sock puppet it is just a side note. ...
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Did The FBI Foil Their Own Chicago NATO Summit Terror Plot?
May 19, 2012, 7:06 pm EST - Evidence points to FBI once again foiling their own terror plot, this nabbing 3 Black Bloc activists planning to protest at the NATO summit in Chicago. ...
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Media Still Clueless As JP Morgan Losses Grow To $5 Billion
May 19, 2012, 2:44 pm EST - The Wall Street Journal reports the JP Morgan's losses on their illegal 'synthetic' securities speculation was approved directly by CEO Dimon and have now grown to $5 billion. ...
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USDA Admits Exterminating Birds, Crops, and Bees
May 19, 2012, 12:29 am EST - (WORLD TRUTH) The USDA has been under fire recently for its admitted assault against nature, after multiple investigations have uncovered its deliberate tampering with both plants and animals alike. One such investigation has put an end to the mystery surrounding the death of millions of birds, with USDA documents revealing the organization’s role in the [...] ...
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Mortal combat: real life fight clubs in American prisons
May 19, 2012, 12:29 am EST - Mortal combat: real life fight clubs in American prisons The prison industrial complex is a multi-billion dollar business, but according to a new poll one-in-ten inmates have fallen victim to rape. The Obama administration has created new regulations to reduce the sexual assaults, but at New York City's Rikers Island, inmates have created a fight club that has led to people dying. Graham Rayman, writer for the Village Voice, exposed the scandal and now joins us with more. Like us and/ ...
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Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson ‘arrested in Germany’
May 19, 2012, 12:28 am EST - (BBC) The founder of US-based anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, Paul Watson, has been arrested in Germany, the group says. In a statement, it said Mr Watson was detained in Frankfurt and now faces extradition to Costa Rica. It quotes German police as saying the arrest relates to a confrontation over shark finning in 2002. Sea [...] ...
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Government worker fired for finding loaded gun on the job
May 19, 2012, 12:28 am EST - In the city of Detroit, doing the right thing might not always be the best idea — especially if you want to keep your job: just ask a former groundskeeper for the Wayne County Department of Public Services. ...
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Chicago police gear up for clashes with NATO protestors
May 19, 2012, 12:28 am EST - Chicago police gear up for clashes with NATO protestors Over the weekend NATO protests in Chicago, Illinois are expected to bring the city to a standstill. The Chicago Police Department has spent over $1 million dollars to battle the protesters from across the world expected to descend on the Windy City. Anastasia Churkina brings us the latest from Chicago. Like us and/or follow us: http://twitter.com/RT_America http://www.facebook.com/RTAmerica From: RTAmerica Views: 76 ...
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Chicago cops start preemptive arrests before NATO Summit?
May 19, 2012, 12:28 am EST - Chicago cops start preemptive arrests before NATO Summit? Over the weekend, thousands of NATO protesters are expected to hit the streets of Chicago. In preparation for the event, the Chicago PD has spent over $1 million on riot gear and sound cannons to blow the protesters away. Reports have surfaced of police raiding the homes of protest organizers, but will their arrests damage the massive protest? Kevin Gosztola, blogger for Dissenter.FireDogLake.com, joins us with a preview of what to ...
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South Dakota for Liberty PAC is up and running! (Urgent Request Part 3)
May 19, 2012, 12:27 am EST - Peace. Gold. Liberty. ...
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Solidarity and the Student Movements in Chile and Quebec
May 19, 2012, 12:27 am EST - Andrew Gavin Marshall | The protests of May 16, 2012 turned violent with clashes between students and riot police, leading to the arrest of 70 students in Santiago. This was the second major student demonstration of this year, following roughly 40 demonstrations across the country in 2011 ...
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Sinister Sites – The Denver International Airport
May 19, 2012, 12:27 am EST - (VC) An apocalyptic horse with glowing red eyes welcoming visitors? Check. Nightmarish murals? Check. Strange words and symbols embedded in the floor? Check. Gargoyles sitting in suitcases? Check. Runways shaped like a Nazi swastika? Check. OK, this place is evil. But seriously, there are so many irregularities surrounding the DIA, that a voluminous [...] ...
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NATO 2012: Police Armed and Ready for Protesters
May 19, 2012, 12:26 am EST - NATO 2012: Police Armed and Ready for Protesters Chicago is hosting this year's NATO summit and this Saturday and Sunday world leaders will come together at Chicago's McCormick Place to talk major policy changes, and everyone says that Afghanistan is going to be the main agenda. But while those talks are happening inside, without cameras or microphones, protesters are planning rallies outside of the summit, and they're taking on tough issues like income inequality, and US wars ...
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Head of VA Dems Lobbying for For-Profit Schools
May 19, 2012, 12:26 am EST - Tool Time: Head of VA Dems Lobbying for For-Profit Schools The head of the Democratic Party in Virginia, Brian Moran is tonight's tool time winner. Moren also has a second job as, Executive Vice President for Government Relations and General Counsel of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities. Meaning he lobbies for those "For-Profit Colleges." These for-profit colleges are under attack for their costs, the students they target and the quality of education ...
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Illegal Music Downloads Help Music Sales
May 19, 2012, 12:26 am EST - Happy Hour: Illegal Music Downloads Help Music Sales RT Producer Adriana Usero and RT Web Producer Andrew Blake join happy hour to talk about Trayvon Martin's autopsy that showed THC in his system, a new academic paper that shows there's no evidence that unauthorized downloads negatively impact sales, a middle school that asked a student to log into her Facebook so they can see what was on her page, and a new census study that says white babies are no longer the majority in the U.S ...
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The Occupy Movement Descends On Chicago For NATO Summit
May 19, 2012, 12:26 am EST - Busloads of Occupy activists have been arriving in Chicago to protest the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "We're trying to bring a critical mass of people back to the Occupy movement," said Nicole Powers, an activist and managing editor of Suicide Girls, a website that has extensively chronicled the Occupy movement since it began on Wall Street. ...
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Alex Responds to Obama's Text Editor's So Called 'Mistake'
May 19, 2012, 12:26 am EST - Alex Responds to Obama's Text Editor's So Called 'Mistake' An apology for the "mistake" in Barack Obama's official biography that said he was 'Born in Kenya' has conveniently been rushed out onto the world scene in rapid-response to the bombshell published today at Breitbart.com and made truly viral at the Drudge Report, along with a new media fiction theorizing that the "mistake" may well have given birth to 'birther rumors' in the f ...
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Pro-Liberty Super PAC
May 19, 2012, 12:25 am EST - Pro-Liberty Super PAC The phrase 'political action committee' has become a four letter word to many Americans and thanks to Citizen's United, PACs can throw as much money as they wish into political campaigns. Critics of PACs say money shouldn't control politics and it leaves the average citizen voiceless, but what if you could start your own super PAC? John Ramsey, founder of Liberty for All Super PAC, and Preston Bates, executive director for the same organization, joins ...
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Impromptu Protest March Slows Traffic In Loop, 2 Arrested
May 19, 2012, 12:25 am EST - NATO protesters, including Occupy Chicago members, briefly shut down the Michigan Avenue bridge and slowed traffic around the Loop in an impromptu march following a peaceful rally held by a nurse’s union at Daley Plaza this afternoon. ...
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Nurses March To Daley Plaza To Rally For ‘The 99 Percent’
May 19, 2012, 12:25 am EST - The NATO Summit does not begin until Sunday, but nurses from Chicago across the country and world are protesting Friday for a change in the nation’s economic policy. ...
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CFTC opens probe into JPMorgan trading loss: NYT
May 19, 2012, 12:24 am EST - (Reuters) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has opened an investigation into possible wrongdoing at JPMorgan Chase & Co in connection with the bank's multi-billion-dollar trading loss, ...
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Beware false flag attack on Chicago NATO Summit by US War Criminals
May 19, 2012, 12:24 am EST - Imagine that you are an evil advisor to the criminal 1%, and faced with this problem: the 99% are developing geometrically-increasing recognition of the 1%’s “e ...
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Protesters rally in Loop, police presence enormous
May 19, 2012, 12:24 am EST - After a downtown rally that peacefully crossed the Loop , NATO protesters joined forces with organized labor Friday night, lending their voices to striking workers at the Congress Plaza Hotel. ...
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Protester Tears Down NATO Banner
May 19, 2012, 12:24 am EST - A melee ensues after a protester pulls down a NATO banner. ...
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Fox News Reality Check: Ron Paul’s Liberty Movement Taking Over GOP
May 19, 2012, 12:09 am EST - Fox News reporter Ben Swann reports on the corporate media's eerie silence over Ron Paul's liberty movement take over of the establishment Republican Party. ...
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Just In: Watch full 6-minute version of deleted video featuring Fukushima pediatrician’s call for help
May 19, 2012, 12:06 am EST - ...
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Fox News Reality Check: Ron Paul's Liberty Movement Taking Over GOP
May 18, 2012, 11:48 pm EST - Ben Swann takes a look at the hidden story that the Grand Old Party is becoming a whole new party. Why Rep. Ron Paul may only be a messenger of a movement that has already scored major victories this primary season. ...
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Shipwrecked fishermen lived on clams, seaweed for 10 days
May 18, 2012, 11:09 pm EST - Three shipwrecked fishermen lived on clams and seaweed for 10 days while stranded on a remote island off Canada's Pacific coast until a sailboat rescued them. ...
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Obama to G8: Welcome ... to troubles
May 18, 2012, 11:09 pm EST - U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting G8 and NATO summits this weekend. ...
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Local Governments Have the Power to Restrict Drone Surveillance in the US
May 18, 2012, 10:31 pm EST - image source Trevor Timm EFF A series of events in the last two weeks have set the stage for how surveillance drones will be operated by local law enforcement in the United States and how citizens can demand privacy protections as domestic use escalates. As EFF has previously reported, Congress passed a bill in February mandating the FAA must open national airspace to drones, despite the extensive and unprecedented civil liberties dangers they pose to every American. ...
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