Re-Occupied! Thousands of activists clash with police in New York as May Day protests spread across dozens of U.S. cities

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2137582/Thousands-Occupy-activists-descend-U-S-cities-biggest-May-Day-protests-nations-history.html At least 30 Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested after clashes with NYPD In anticipation of protests, NYPD stormed activists’ homes on Monday Tear gas launched in Oakland, California – 4 arrests made 12 arrested in Portland, Oregon and 10 in LA Black-clad protesters in Seattle used sticks to smash small downtown shop windows and […]

New documents reveal how the NYPD infiltrated and monitored liberal political organizations across the country

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119265/New-documents-reveal-NYPD-infiltrated-monitored-liberal-political-organizations-country.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:16 EST, 23 March 2012 | UPDATED: 12:17 EST, 23 March 2012 Following recent news of the New York Police Department’s counter-terrorism surveillance of Muslim communities new information reveals their monitoring stretching back to 2004 on liberal political activists and organizations around the country. Undercover NYPD officers attended meetings […]

Kony 2012 video director arrested after he was ‘found drunk and performing sex act in public’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116184/Kony-2012-video-director-arrested-drunk-performing-sex-act-public.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:22 EST, 16 March 2012 | UPDATED: 18:22 EST, 16 March 2012 The director of the ‘Kony 2012′ viral video has been arrested for allegedly being drunk and masturbating in public. Jason Russell, co-founder of the charity Invisible Children, was hospitalised after being found behaving strangely on the streets […]

Op-Ed Cost Goldman Sachs $2.15 Billion Yesterday

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2012/03/op-ed-cost-goldman-sachs-215-billion-yesterday/49925/ Reuters Alexander Abad-Santos 1,747 Views 8:54 AM ET Greg Smith’s unflattering glimpse into Goldman Sachs’ corrupt culture triggered a financial blow to the firm Wednesday, as the company lost $2.15 billion of its market value, making Smith’s 1,283-word op-ed worth a whopping $1.675 million per word. Goldman Sachs, as Bloomberg reports, saw it shares drop 3.4 […]

Four large US banks fail stress tests

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/citi-ally-suntrust-metlife-fail-stress-tests-205649742.html Citigroup was one of four large US banks that flunked stress tests aimed at seeing how they would hold up in a new economic crisis, Federal Reserve data showed Tuesday. Three others — Ally, Suntrust and MetLife — also failed the tests, while 15 other large bank holding companies passed the exercise, the Fed […]

‘It makes me ill how people talk about ripping clients off’: Goldman Sachs executive quits over firm’s ‘toxic’ culture in extraordinary resignation letter

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114829/Greg-Smith-resignation-letter-Goldman-Sachs-exec-quits-firms-toxic-culture.html Executive director Greg Smith quits in open letter in the New York Times Firm ‘more interested in making money than the clients’ interests’ Claims colleagues called clients ‘muppets’ and talked of ‘ripping eyeballs out’ By Lydia Warren PUBLISHED: 07:06 EST, 14 March 2012 | UPDATED: 09:55 EST, 14 March 2012 A Goldman Sachs executive […]

The Criminalization of Protest: Say Goodbye To Free Speech in America

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29673 by Devon DB Global Research, March 9, 2012   A new bill, HR 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011, also known as the “Trespassing Bill,” is soon to be signed into law by President Obama. This bill effectively criminalizes protest and will hurt protest groups and movements such as […]

Americans make up half of the world’s richest 1%

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm?iid=HP_LN By Annalyn Censky @CNNMoney January 4, 2012: 11:41 AM ET It only takes $34,000 per person to be amid the richest 1% of people in the world. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The United States holds a disproportionate amount of the world’s rich people. It only takes $34,000 a year, after taxes, to be among […]