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  3. OWS protesters struggle to rid their well-fed selves of the riffraff:

    The Occupy Wall Street volunteer kitchen staff launched a “counter” revolution yesterday — because they’re angry about working 18-hour days to provide food for “professional homeless” people and ex-cons masquerading as protesters. For three days beginning tomorrow, the cooks will serve only brown rice and other spartan grub instead of the usual menu of organic chicken and vegetables, spaghetti bolognese, and roasted beet and sheep’s-milk-cheese salad.

    Move along, bum:

    They will also provide directions to local soup kitchens for the vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders who have been descending on Zuccotti Park in increasing numbers every day…

  6. Funny how the OWS has very quickly come in to reality, well partial reality; they still need to move out of their beloved Mom’s basement.

  9. Absolutely, Osumashi and Knacker. The notion that the “99 percent” are united, or even that they’re “the 99 percent”, is turning into a slowly unfolding joke.
    The Awl story I linked to at 10:01 paints a picture of the utterly hopeless divisions at the Los Angeles OWS protests between the more criminally-minded, riffraff-y types and other more “noble” and organize-y types:
    “A large group, made up almost entirely of men, stood in a circle denouncing the General Assembly…Anyone who spoke in favor of a code of conduct was aggressively booed. Adding to the morass were four different men looping in and out of the circle, each armed with his own megaphone, shouting their own grievances and rhetoric…”
    Makes you want to grab a beer and pull up a chair:
    “One male protester, in an army helmet and no shirt, cried out as shoving matches erupted between several groups of men. The young man who was leading the informal group yelled: ‘This is the People’s Forum! There are no committees, there are no rules, everyone gets to speak. Get in a circle! GET IN A CIRCLE!’ A majority of the crowd abided, although they were openly chastised when the circle took on non-circle shapes…”
    Ya gotta laugh.

  10. I burst out laughing when I read EBD’s 11:03pm post, especially this phrase: “vagrants, criminals and other freeloaders”.
    Who there doesn’t fall into one of these three categories? Just because politically correct politicians are preventing the police from laying charges, it clearly isn’t LEGAL for anyone to be staying there so long. They’re ALL criminals.

  12. Again to EBD’s comment.
    The motto of official OWS subjects vs the ‘poseurs’ OWS subjects?
    George Orwell couldn’t be more true”. All animals are equal but some are MORE equal than others.

  14. Speaking of zombies …
    Toronto Star, Sunday, Oct. 30.
    http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1077982–mallick-talking-points-for-a-young-angry-occupy-toronto
    Heather Malice thinks the vacant Occupy hippies should be protesting the fact that the federal government is cutting jobs, killing the Wheat Board and chipping away at the CBC.
    In reality, if they had any brains, they’d be doing cartwheels to celebrate the demise of this kind of uneconomic wastefulness that drags the economy down (and real wages and opportunities down with it).

  16. Irony is alive and well.
    …-
    “Record snowfall for “Climate Justice Day” in New York”
    “It just doesn’t get any better than this. The Occupy Wall Street Mob had a “Climate Justice Day” scheduled for today. I don’t think they figured on a “Nightmare on Wall Street” irony like this.
    I notice Bill McKibben isn’t there. Strange how he talks a big game about climate and weather events becoming more extreme, but when the going gets tough… well you know. No mention of this comedic slap in the face by nature on the 350.org website.
    Here’s the record statement from NOAA/NWS:”
    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/30/record-snowfall-for-climate-action-day-in-new-york/
    …-
    “New York City Shatters October Snow Record”
    “An unprecedented (for October) 2.9 inches of snow was measured in New York City’s Central Park on Saturday.
    Since snowfall records began in 1869, Central Park has never received an inch of snow on any given October day.
    The last time that Central Park recorded measurable snow was on Oct. 21, 1952 when 0.5 of an inch fell. Prior to that, 0.8 of an inch fell on Oct. 30, 1925.”
    “Other October Snow Records Smashed”
    “Massachusetts
    –Plainfield: 30.8 inches”
    http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/57059/snow-piling-up-across-the-nort.asp

  17. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    ““It’s too cold for people to hold their beers”.
    ““We just don’t know how to deal with them. We don’t have the tools. There are no social workers here,” he said.”
    …-
    “Occupy Montreal protesters fight for peaceful camp to avoid expulsion”
    “MONTREAL — As a leaderless and barrier-free movement, Occupy Montreal is open to the city’s homeless, some of whom suffer from mental troubles.
    This has challenged volunteers at the encampment, who must often contend with aggressive or anti-social behaviour from passing itinerants.
    “Sometimes they can get out of control,” said Eric Bouthillette, an occupier who volunteers as a “mediator,” who intervenes when things get ugly. First, he tries diplomacy. If that doesn’t work, he calls the cops.
    “We just don’t know how to deal with them. We don’t have the tools. There are no social workers here,” he said.
    For the occupiers, it’s important that the camp remains peaceful so the police don’t have a reason to expel them and news cameras don’t depict it as another violent protest. For this reason, organizers formed a mediation committee to deal with troublemakers swiftly.
    His days working at the psychiatric clinic of the Montreal General Hospital gave Bouthillette a few tips. “You have to come with a respectful approach. Your tone has to be low and peaceful, to show them you’re not there to judge them. But if they don’t co-operate, we have to call the police.”
    Fortunately, that only happened once. Anie Lemieux, a spokeswoman for the Montreal police, said officers were called to resolve a conflict between a man and a woman.
    “We have no major incidents to report. Things are going well, relations between the people there and police are good,” Lemieux said.
    The frequency of conflicts has been decreasing since the occupation began on Oct. 15. Organizers offer two reasons for this. First, public drunkenness is down.
    “It’s too cold for people to hold their beers,” said Felix Saint-Laurent, who has been co-ordinating the movement’s daily minutiae since it began.”
    http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/30/occupy-montreal-protesters-fight-for-peaceful-camp-to-avoid-expulsion/

  18. Our CBC missed this: O’s Crisis. Please forward.
    “@Peston: MF Global collapse first serious US victim of eurozone debt crisis. London employee tells me he & colleagues have been sent home.”
    …-
    “European debt crisis live: Markets fall as optimism fades
    • Italian bond yields hit 6.13%
    • Markets fall as bailout deal euphoria peters out
    • Euro crisis drags MF Global to the brink”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2011/oct/31/european-debt-crisis-markets-ftse

  21. Looks like Obamassiah is now fearing Herman Cain . . . his press buddies, the same ones who didn’t print a story last campaign about Obama’s wayward youth, cocaine use etc is now harshing Herman with unnamed source based allegations about sexual harassment.
    The 2012 election campaign is on

  23. Socialist Brothers: Joe and Adolf.
    Their Brotherly Competition/Feud Has Never Ended.
    …-
    “Couple Arrested in Germany”
    “Alleged Russian Spies Focused on Politics, Military”
    “‘Germany Does Not Want to Rule Europe'”
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/
    …-
    “How Stalin wanted to imprison and torture Nazis in secret after the end of WWII in revenge for Germany’s betrayal of Russia”
    “A new book has been released in Germany that details how Soviet secret agents kidnapped Nazi diplomats after the war so that they could imprison, torture and secretly try them in Moscow.
    ‘The Diplomatic Secrets of the Third Reich’ draws on hitherto sealed Russian archives concerning the dreaded Lubianka jail in Moscow where the former top servants of Hitler were brought.
    Alexei Matweyewitsch Sidnyew was the general in Soviet intelligence tasked in the early summer of 1945 to exact vengeance on Stalin’s behalf against the diplomats he believed plotted the war against Russia.”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055582/How-Stalin-wanted-imprison-torture-Nazis-secret-end-WWII-revenge-Germanys-betrayal-Russia.html

  24. Can someone tell me when my Conservative Party turned into a punchline for an Orwell joke?
    Bills 51, 52 and 53 are disgraceful.
    The Supreme Court allows anytime paper please roadblocks and not a peep anywhere from a Conservative.
    A copyright bill that mirrors nicely the American way of using government as strongarm for business.
    A crime omnibus bill that is hilarious to any sensible person.
    What peeves me more than anything is that all those idiot Liberal/Left kooks and their hidden agenda appear to have been right all along.
    Who ever would of thought that Harper was the poster child for big government?
    Read it and mourn the absence of any sensible governing political party in Canada to support!
    http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Privacy%2Binvasion%2Bshouldn%2Blawful/5631287/story.html

  26. Dirk (12:10): While I tend to agree with you about roadblocks — I’ve long felt vaguely uneasy about the idea that officers of the state can stop everyone driving on a particular road, without probable cause, to ask them if they’ve committed a crime — I’ve noticed over the last few years that objections to proposed internet provisions tend to be over-inflamed, and the significance of any proposed changes wildly exaggerated.
    The sheer significance of the real-world requirement of obtaining a warrant before intercepting e-communications under Bills C-50 and C-51 shouldn’t be underestimated. When you consider the number of links clicked, and emails sent, on a given day in this country – hundreds of millions? billions? – the notion that Joe Schmo would be “under surveillance” under the provisions of the bill is a bit paranoid. As for Bill C-52’s proposed requirement that telecommunications service providers have intercept capability, this simply puts electronic communications on an even footing with telephone lines, which can currently be tapped by police, BUT, as would be the case under C-52, *only if they have a warrant*.
    Ann Cavoukian’s description of C-52’s “warrantless power to access subscriber information” is akin to describing the police as having “warrantless” access to a phone book. Just as having a phone book at one’s disposal doesn’t give one the capability of tapping any of the listed numbers, having a list of e-subscribers doesn’t grant the right to conduct surveillance without a warrant.

  27. There’s never a Sociology graduate in the Occupy crowd when you need one!
    —————–
    “Sometimes [the homeless] can get out of control,” said Eric Bouthillette, an occupier who volunteers as a “mediator,” who intervenes when things get ugly. First, he tries diplomacy. If that doesn’t work, he calls the cops.
    “We just don’t know how to deal with them. We don’t have the tools. There are no social workers here,” he said.

  30. AGW Fraud is robin’the’hood in Nottingham.
    “The likelihood of widespread redundancies being made across the industry in the run-up to Christmas is extremely high and many companies may struggle to keep redundancies below half their workforce.
    – ALEX LOCKTON, FREESOURCE ENERGY”
    “Lightning quick: A huge swathe of homes in Nottingham have had solar panel installed, just ahead of cuts to Government subsidies”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055520/Feed-tariffs-Entire-area-Nottingham-gets-solar-panels-fitted-roofs.html

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