‘Black Friday’ Champs Walk Over Dying Man To Buy Target Crap
By WONKETTE JR.
11:33 PM NOVEMBER 26, 2011
‘God I hate this goddamned job, and this country, and the elves.’Pepper spray was a-spraying, knives were a-stabbing, guns were a-shooting, muggers were a-mugging, punchers were a-punching — it was a “Black Friday” celebration that truly proved if you’re not a part of worldwide anti-capitalism protests, then you’re actually a very serious part of the problem. But the Gold Medal in Applied Assjerk Consumerism goes to the shoppers at the Target crap box store in South Charleston, West Virginia: These bargain-crazed mouth-breathing waterheads literally walked over a dying 61-year-old man who collapsed in the aisles. Can we please do an “alternate history swap” and have the Native Americans defeat the Europeans? Please?
Recall Walker Drive Surpassed Halfway Petition Signature Total of 250,000 To Oust Wisconsin Governor
United Wisconsin and the Recall Walker Committee effort to oust Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker projecting that more than 270,000 signatures have been collected, passing the halfway mark.
By H. Nelson Goodson
November 26, 2011
Milwaukee – On Saturday, Recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) projections to collect petition signatures have surpassed all expectations to get more than the minimum required signatures per day needed by organizers to meet the amount of 540,000 mark by January 17. After the Black Friday signature petition drive throughout the state, recall organizers projected that most likely they have surpassed the halfway mark of the 270,000 signatures needed or will reach the halfway target total within days to force an election recall against Governor Walker.
Within the first week of the Walker recall, organizers and volunteers collected at least 105,000 to 107,000 petition signatures within four days of the initial start date (Nov. 15), exceeding all expectations.
US Senate To Vote On Bill That Will Allow The Military To Arrest Americans On American Soil And Hold Them Indefinitely
November 26, 2011
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.
Since Occupy Wall Street began, American police officers have arrested thousands of people for exercising their constitutionally protected right to protest. On Monday or Tuesday, the US Senate will vote on a bill that would give the President the ability to order the military to arrest and imprison American citizens anywhere in the world for an indefinite period of time.
A provision of S. 1867, or the National Defense Authorization Act bill, written by Senators John McCain and Carl Levin, declares American soil a battlefield and allows the President and all future Chief Executives to order the military to arrest and detain American citizens, innocent or not, without charge or trial. In other words, if this bill passes and the President signs it, OWS protesters or any American could end up arrested and indefinitely locked up by the military without the guaranteed right to due process or a speedy trial.
This bill was written in secret and approved by committee without a single hearing. Senate Republicans support the bill and enough Democrats support it to give it a great chance of passing. This provision does have opponents. President Obama has threatened to veto the bill and even Ron Paul is concerned enough to bring it up during one of the GOP debates. An amendment called the Udall Amendment has been offered by Democratic Senator Mark Udall that would delete the dangerous provision.
UAE: Investigate Threats against ‘UAE 5’
Authorities Ignore Intimidation Campaign against Jailed Activists
NOVEMBER 25, 2011
(Abu Dhabi) – Authorities have failed to investigate a campaign of death threats, slander and intimidation against five jailed Emirati activists, says an independent report released today. The report, written on behalf of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) with research assistance from Human Rights Watch, documents the threats, including death threats, by government sympathizers and the atmosphere of impunity in which they have been made.
The activists, known among their supporters as the “UAE 5,” were arrested in early April 2011, and are on trial in Abu Dhabi, accused of “publicly insulting” top United Arab Emirates officials. The Federal Supreme Court, which is trying the case, has said it will issue a verdict on November 27. Charlotte Peevers, a British legal expert who is the author of the report, researched it in the UAE during late October and early November with a representative from Human Rights Watch.
“Since their arrests, these peaceful activists have been subjected to an alarming series of threats and intimidation, with the apparent acquiescence of the Emirati authorities,” Peevers said. “By not investigating those who are interfering with justice and threatening people’s lives, UAE authorities are drawing even more attention to the political motivation for this trial.”
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality
Naomi Wolf guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 November 2011 12.25 EST
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.
But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? – the picture darkened. The National Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act request to investigate possible federal involvement with law enforcement practices that appeared to target journalists. The New York Times reported that “New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers” covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being – falsely – informed by police that “It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk.”
In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley, California, one of our greatest national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with batons. The picture darkened still further when Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests.
This despite the noisy optimism of progressives—not just in Wisconsin but all over—since Election Day, which showed, they think, that they can kick the right’s ass anywhere they want, and from now on.
Now, maybe Walker’s just pretending. Or maybe he knows something they don’t know (or want to know): that vote suppression and election fraud—via the electronic voting system—can always “win” the day, as long as the election can be made to seem even remotely “close.”
Remember how progressives tried to recall the Waukesha Strangler—and failed? And do you remember how they tried to recall enough Republican state senators (three)—to break the GOP’s majority, and failed? (They recalled two—and saw that as a victory.)
If you remember those two failures, which weren’t very long ago, perhaps you can explain why they (progressives) don’t.
In any case, let’s hope that (a) they do succeed in getting enough signatures to make the recall happen, and then (b) the people of Wisconsin vote for it in such large numbers that the Walker apparat can’t steal enough of those votes to “win” it credibly.
But let’s hope too that (c), if Walker does “prevail” (by using the same measures that most likely “elected” him to start with), progressives don’t just slink away assuming that his “victory” was real, but that they question it aggressively, taking note of all the numbers that just don’t add up, and all the glitches and irregularities and crimes reported on Election Day (by would-be voters and the press), and don’t give up, even if they’re called “sore losers,” until they get some truth, and we all know it.
If they do that, despite their “loss” they will, in fact, have scored a major victory, by finally snapping out their bizarre denial of the election fraud in the United States, so that We the People can at last discuss the necessary radical reform of the preposterous corporate voting system that the far right has been using, for the last ten years, to “win” that way time after time.
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There are actually 10 reasons, since Wired also reports on the dangers of computerized voting—not as much as they should, but a whole lot more than nearly everybody else.
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9 Reasons Wired Readers Should Wear Tinfoil Hats
By David Kravets Email Author
November 24, 2011
There’s plenty of reason to be concerned Big Brother is watching.
We’re paranoid not because we have grandiose notions of our self-importance, but because the factsspeak for themselves.
Here’s our short list of nine reasons that Wired readers ought to wear tinfoil hats, or at least, fight for their rights and consider ways to protect themselves with encryption and defensive digital technologies.
We know the list is incomplete, so if you have better reasons that we list here, put them in the comments and we’ll make a list based off them.
Until then, remember: Don’t suspect a friend; report him.
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Walker recall petition destroyed at WI college, which does not notify police—but perp tells Walker!
Governor, not police, informed of recall petition destruction
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 1:57 PM EST
By Tony Galli – bio
MADISON (WKOW) — Edgewood College officials notified the campus community of the destruction of a recall petition against Governor Walker, but a campus official said the police were not notified.
But on the twitter account of the student believed responsible for the potentially criminal act, a confessional message was sent to the governor’s account: “Today I ripped up a petition form to recall you.”
In an email to students and staff, Edgewood College Dean of Students Maggie Balistreri-Clarke wrote campus security was notified someone had destroyed a recall petition with signatures. The email notes such action is a felony crime.
Recall Walker petitioner removed from Hedberg library entrance
By NEIL JOHNSON ( Contact ) Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011
JANESVILLE — Officials at Hedberg Public Library on Tuesday had a Recall Walker petitioner removed from where he had set up shop in a covered parking area at the library.
City officials say the library was within its rights in asking the petitioner to leave, and a library official claims recall petitioners had been harassing library patrons in recent days.
Still, the petitioner says he doesn’t understand why he was asked to leave.
Lars Prip of Afton on Tuesday set up a desk with petitions to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker under the covered parking area on the north side of the library.
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