The Praying Man #OccupyWallStreet

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FinalOutlawTV on Oct 30, 2011

http://finaloutlaw.com/ – On the morning of Friday, Oct 14th, 2011 among the thousands who showed up to defend the park from Bloomberg’s threats to evict the occupation during a “park cleaning”, one man stood out. Police used motorbikes in an attempt to push people off the street but this man got on his knees and began to pray, blocking the path of all the bikes in the process. Police arrested him, and though many protesters asked for his name, he never spoke. Did anyone get his name?

Hemp Versus the Status Quo by Rand Clifford

by Rand Clifford
Featured Writer
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October 16, 2011

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The US rose to eminence by producing value, and by a fair percentage of citizens sharing the wealth. The further the nation has been corrupted from the stability of fairness, the faster our rate of decline. Runaway greed, lust for power, and raw capitalism have reversed our national trajectory so insidiously that not just we, but even Earth’s biosphere, are in free fall. Is it more than simple coincidence that such comprehensive decline so closely parallels our prohibition of hemp?

U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot Claims by Gareth Porter + Franklin Lamb: US anti-Iran plot doomed to failure

by Gareth Porter
Featured Writer
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crossposted at IPS
Oct. 17, 2011

WASHINGTON, Oct 17, 2011 (IPS) – Officials of the Barack Obama administration have aggressively leaked information supposedly based on classified intelligence in recent days to bolster its allegation that two higher- ranking officials from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were involved in a plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir in Washington, D.C.