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Occupy Wall Street Gets A Drone To Keep Tabs On...
New York police have been notorious in their attempt to keep out cameras and journalists from covering their crackdown on Occupy Wall Street protesters. Now, The Guardian reports that protesters have their own surveillance drone. Tim Pool, an Occupy Wall Street protester, has acquired a Parrot AR drone he amusingly calls the “occucopter”. It is a lightweight four-rotor helicopter...
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AT&T deciding to back down on merging with T-Mobile is a win for consumers.
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Turns out what Michael Scott tried to do with... →
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University Of California Administrators Grilled By...
On HuffPost liveblog: University Of California Administrators Grilled By State Legislature, Fallout Over Police Tactics Continue Administrators from the University of California faced four hours of questioning Wednesday in a hearing called by the California state legislature over the police violence at recent student protests. In two separate incidents in November, UC campus police beat student...
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Occupy Wall Street Protests Unite A Father And Son...
How Occupy Wall Street Brought A Father & Son Together For The First Time DES MOINES, Iowa — In the last three years, Dutch Ruisch has lost his mortgage business, filed for bankruptcy, and lost his home to foreclosure. Now, living in a house he doesn’t own, he spends most of his time being a part of the local Occupy movement in Des Moines, Iowa, while his son protests on...
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In case you didn't know, Wall Street was where...
Occupy Wall Street protesters haven’t forgotten… Near the corner of Wall and Pearl streets, where businessmen and tourists plod below the towering office buildings and banks that loom over the East River, are the buried bones of one of the nation’s most loathsome trades. The American economy, a vast pool of unevenly distributed wealth, was built on the backs of enslaved...
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My opinion of the Atlantic column on Iowa life
I read the piece in the Atlantic last week in my newsroom in Washington, D.C. I didn’t really think too much about it, other than the fact that it did miss some points. I actually kind of appreciated it because it did have good points it mentioned (Demise of Maytag, the history of the Mississippi River, the schizophrentic politics of Iowa that would allow Chuck “Get off my lawn”...
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Photos from my day covering Occupy DC taking over K Street and literally occupying four blocks of it, shutting it down for a few hours.
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UC Davis Pepper Spray Investigation Lead By Group...
UC Davis Pepper Spray Investigation Lead By Group That Works For Wall Street Firms           “The University is literally hiring the same security company that is protecting the financial service industry,” Meister told HuffPost. Read my story here. WASHINGTON — Faculty in the University of California system said this week that the group appointed to lead an...
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