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Iranian Pastor Faces Execution For Refusing To Recant Christian Faith

An Iranian pastor who has refused to renounce his Christian faith faces execution as... more

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Dr. Cornell West Speaks at Occupy Wall Street

Dr. Cornell West Speaks to the General Assembly at Liberty Park.

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Behind the scenes of #OccupyWallStreet

Back in the 1960s, a gang of Yippies, a politicised arm of the hippies led by the late... more

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Immortal Technique: ‘If you really want to make a change, come to Wall St.’

Independent hip-hop artist Immortal Technique stopped by the “Occupy Wall St.” protest in New York City early Tuesday morning to rally activists and call for more demonstrations, urging the crowd that if they “really want to make a change,” they should “come down here to Wall St.”

“Realize what’s really at stake here. The future of not just this country, but of this world, is all about to go. Not on some 2012 s**t, but realistically speaking. The resources are running out. You’re going to look at this video years from now and say, ‘D**n, yo. He was right, we should have been focused on this.’”

“If you really do want to make a change, you want to have some kind of effect, if you want to build your life around the people, come down here to Wall Street. People are still here. They’re still working. They’re still willing to have a conversation. They’re still willing to debate with people. They’re still willing to have that debate. That’s how you know somebody’s a fraud: they’re not willing to put their ideas up against somebody else’s. They’re not willing to measure the failure of their own system.”

“If we don’t change our minds about how this country works, then we’re not going to have a country anymore.”

He concluded: “We talk about democracy so much, but we have supported so many governments around the world that are the farthest thing from a democracy, as long as they give us access to their natural resources. As long as when we say jump, they say how high. That’s it. We have employed bin Ladens plenty of times, when it serves our purpose. We employed Saddam Hussein when it served our purposes. And I say ‘we’ because we are the people that have a responsibility to change that sort of behavior in this country. And if we don’t, we will suffer the same fate as everything that never evolved. We will become extinct as a species. That’s your ******’ option. Change and get better and accept that this system is flawed and needs to be changed, or become extinct.”

Link to video from Occupy Wall St. protest in New York City, published on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. http://qik.com/video/44583274Independent hip-hop artist Immortal Technique stopped by the “Occupy Wall... more

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How Anonymous emerged to Occupy Wall Street

Mocked at first by some, Occupy Wall Street is showing the potential of online 'hacktivism' allied with street protest

Defying harsh critiques from Stephen Colbert and slews of bloggers who scoffed last week at the "leaderless", "directionless", Frisbee-throwing hipsters camping out on cardboard at a random New York City park in the financial district, Occupy Wall Street appears to be gaining ground. From the modest 200 occupiers last week, numbers of protesters rose to an estimated peak of approximately 3,000 to 5,000 at the weekend's march. Media attention has grown exponentially.

After taking their inspiration from the Egyptian "one demand" model, Occupy Wall Street have now released their list of "one" demands, bringing much-needed clarity to their objectives. The movement has moved to reach out to a broader base, including labor unions. Last week's execution of Troy Davis also contributed to the growth of Occupy Wall Street as crowds of protesters in Zucotti Park, renamed Liberty Plaza, swelled to approximately 1,500 last Thursday night demanding an end to capital punishment.

Violence caught on camera over the weekend of police arresting approximately 80 protesters and, in one now-notorious case, apparently spraying mace into the faces of female protesters has generated an outcry over the NYPD's "cowardly" use of force on peaceful protesters. Thanks to these two incidents, says one protester, Danny Garza, "Occupy Wall Street has gotten bigger than we ever thought it could be."

But the protest's profile cannot be measured purely in numbers of street protesters: on the periphery of Liberty Plaza is a parallel internet-based activism buttressing the movement. Under the banner of the virtual collective Anonymous, these "hacktivists" are now engaged in the physical action of street protest. "Groundfags" in Liberty Park communicate back and forth with online activists. The new dynamics of combined street and online activism have significantly underpinned Occupy Wall Street as a distinctive new movement.

"We can physically be at a protest one day and the next day show up online," according to an Anonymous activist who goes by the name of "MotorMouth". The most concrete example of this symbiotic relationship is the rapid online identification by Anonymous activists of an NYPD officer they claim to have been the perpetrator in the pepper-spray incident.

Naming an individual police officer may be a controversial tactic, but Occupy Wall Street has used social networking media as a positive organisational tool. When it emerged that a handful of activists were prepared to incite rioting and provoke the police days before Occupy Wall Street was to begin, Anonymous developed a Twitter application called URGE, launching an online campaign designed to quell potential violence. Anonymous "culture-jammed" Twitter with messages to keep protests peaceful, using top Twitter trends from around the world.

The involvement of Anonymous activists has also helped the movement make new connections. When activists expressed outrage at Troy Davis's execution on Wednesday night, Anonymous linked the death penalty with the protests. One Anonymous figure, by the name of "Jackal", says:

"This is a new way to protest. Many of us have done our fair share of street protesting. But they drag us into the streets, and they mace us. Now we have brought our protests into the online social media space. We do it all at once – the street protesting along with our distributed denial of service [DDoS] attacks. We are a bit of an online flash mob."

What will become of Occupy Wall Street is uncertain: protesters now face eviction from Zucotti Park; yet the movement has sparked similar activism in Chicago, Boston, Denver and other cities throughout the United States. Much has been written about the "Twitter revolution" dimension of the Arab Spring; now it looks as though, in this emerging alliance between street protest and online activism, the Arab Spring is turning to American Fall.Mocked at first by some, Occupy Wall Street is showing the potential of online... more

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Live from Occupy Wall Street: Talking With a National Lawyer's Guild Legal Observer - YouTube

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UPDATE: Falling Satellite The Size Of A School Bus Seen From Earth (VIDEO)

As of 7 a.m. EDT Sept. 22, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 115 mi by 120 mi (185 km by 195... more

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George Anthony: Casey Anthony Killed My Grand Daughter (VIDEO)

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“What essentially sets a nation state apart, which is the monopoly on violence.” ~ Barack Obama

“What essentially sets a nation state apart, which is the monopoly on... more

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The Daily Blender: Watch LIVE HD New York City Coverage Of Hurricane Irene (VIDEO)

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U.S. Postal Service Wants To Lay Off 120,000 Workers And End Its Pension Plan

Hovering on the brink of insolvency, the U.S. Postal Service wants to break its union... more

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How the Middle Class Got Screwed

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'Less economics, more leadership ' you get neither ...

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VIDEO- BLUNT: Welcome Back, Keith Olbermann

Gottalaff and Friends Welcomes back Keith Olbermann to tv with this cool new BLUNT... more

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U.S. Mint releases medal marking 9/11 attacks

Officials from New York and the United States Mint unveiled the 9/11 National Medal on... more

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Holly Pietrzak of WDBJ7 of Southwest Virginia Drops the F-Bomb On Live TV "More Teens Are Having F****" (VIDEO)

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Seth Meyers At The 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

21 minutes. SNL's Seth Meyers rips into "everybody". While most... more

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President Obamas armoured Limousine, 'The Beast' gets stuck in Ireland

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Violent tornado hits Midwest causing death, injury and destruction

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Crazy Naked White Guy Terrorizes People On New York City Subway (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

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