Tuesday, October 11, 2011

OWS PLAN CHAOS AT CAPITOL--How Ironic LOL!


Published: 8:23 PM 10/10/2011 | Updated: 1:23 AM 10/11/2011
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During an evening meeting at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., protesters discussed plans to storm Capitol Hill Tuesday and create chaos inside and outside House and Senate office buildings.
“We will have people going in over time into all the different doors of all the different buildings,” said one of the organizers of the “Stop the Machine” movement to roughly 100 assembled protesters.
“Stop the Machine” was organized in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Afghanistan and is distinct from the Occupy D.C. movement currently occupying McPherson Square.
At an appointed time and in a particular office building — both of which will be named at a meeting in Freedom Plaza Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. — the protesters plan to create a ruckus which they hope will shut down work on Capitol Hill.
“We will have all variety of creative actions including packing the elevators and pushing all the buttons and not getting out and stopping the hallways that connect the building to the other buildings and the banner drops and the song singing and don’t let them in the bathrooms and all the rest of it,” the aforementioned organizer said.
“And we will have an outside component which will involve gathering at a location near the buildings that we will named tomorrow morning and making our ways to the outside of the doors of that particular building.” (RELATED: ‘Occupy DC’ to join with AFL-CIO for Capitol protest on Tuesday)
He went on to say that if Capitol Police figure out their plan and shut down the yet to be named building, that would also be a victory.
“And you know what, if they find out what we are up to and they shut down that building, hooray! That’s what we wanted. And we move on to the building next to it and shut that one down,” he said.
He went on to tell the assembled protesters that their message Tuesday will be anti-war and in favor of higher taxes for the rich.
“The message, of course, is tax the rich and end the wars,” he said. “Stop funding the wars and fund this, fund what you want funded.”
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Economic Confidence Stabilizes at Low Levels


October 11, 2011

Economic Confidence Stabilizes at Low Levels

Three-quarters of Americans continue to say U.S. economy is getting worse

by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's Economic Confidence Index is at -49 for the week of Oct. 3-9. This is one percentage point better than the -50 for the previous week, but substantially lower than it was earlier in 2011, and 20 points lower than it was a year ago.
Gallup Economic Confidence Index by Week -- June to October 2010 and 2011
Gallup's economic trends are based on nightly interviews with approximately 500 national adults, totaling approximately 3,500 interviews each week. Gallup's Economic Confidence Index combines two measures: one assessing Americans' views about whether the U.S. economy is "getting better" or "getting worse," and the second involving Americans' ratings of current economic conditions as "excellent," "good," "only fair," or "poor." Gallup began tracking the Economic Confidence Index in January 2008.
Percentage "Getting Worse" Up, "Poor" Little Changed
Seventy-five percent of Americans said the U.S. economy is getting worse in the week ending Oct. 9, while 21% said it is getting better. These numbers are roughly the same as they have been in recent weeks.
Fifty-three percent of Americans rated current economic conditions as "poor" last week, while 9% rated conditions as excellent or good -- again, little changed from previous weeks.
September Monthly Average Not as Negative as in 2008
The long-term trend in the Index approximates an inverted-U shaped pattern. Confidence plunged to its lowest point in 2008, only to recover in 2009, 2010, and the first part of this year before plunging again this summer -- albeit to levels not quite as negative as those measured in 2008. The July drop in economic confidence was coincident with the highly rancorous negotiations in Washington over the issue of raising the debt ceiling. If there is any good news in this trend, it is that the Index has leveled off, at least for the time being, and the September monthly average of -50 is slightly lower than the August low point of -52.
Gallup Economic Confidence Index -- January 2008-October 2011
Gallup's Economic Confidence Index hit its recession-era monthly low of -60 in October 2008. The highest point it has reached since 2008 is -21, measured in January of this year. The 29-point drop in economic confidence over the last eight months underscores just how negative the average American's mindset has turned in a short time.
Implications
The president, other presidential candidates, pundits, journalists, and almost anybody else who comments on the current mood of America come back again and again to the economy as by far the public's greatest concern and worry. This latest update on Americans' views of the U.S. economy confirms the reality of these worries. Although the substantial drop in economic confidence that began in July has stabilized in recent weeks, a situation in which three out of four Americans continue to say the economy is getting worse rather than better signifies deep-seated economic concerns that if sustained will have serious economic, social, and political consequences.
Gallup.com reports results from these indexes in daily, weekly, and monthly averages and in Gallup.com stories. Complete trend data are always available to view and export in the following charts:
Read more about Gallup's economic measures.

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Monday, October 10, 2011

OBAMA'S OWS ARMY OF ?????


Occupy Wall Street – A Photo Montage

Useful Idiots
^^^ Click here to see the montage

Imagine the media coverage if these scenes were from a Tea Party?
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Al-Qaeda joins those questioning legality of U.S. killing of citizen Anwar al-Awlaki


Posted at 03:14 PM ET, 10/10/2011

Al-Qaeda joins those questioning legality of U.S. killing of citizen Anwar al-Awlaki

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(Associated Press via SITE Intelligence Group)Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen has confirmed the deaths of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, the young American propagandist killed alongside him in a U.S. drone strike late last month.
Al-Qaeda has also criticized the Obama administration for killing U.S. citizens, saying doing so “contradicts” American law.
“Where are what they keep talking about regarding freedom, justice, human rights and respect of freedoms?!” the statement says, according to a translation by SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist Web sites.
The Obama administration has spoken in broad terms about its authority to use military and paramilitary force against al-Qaeda and associated forces, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula would find itself hard-pressed to claim the moral high ground in the debate over the killing of Awlaki and Khan.
But the killing of two U.S. citizens has prompted outrage among civil liberties groups, as well as a debate in legal circles about the basis for the administration's position.
The Washington Post’s Peter Finn reported after the strike that Awlaki’s killing had been authorized in a secret Justice Department memo, a revelation that later prompted senior Democratic senators and scholarsto call for its release. Over the weekend, The New York Times quoted people who have read the document as saying that the memo found it would be lawful to kill the cleric only if it were not possible to take him alive. The memo, the Times said, was narrowly drawn to the specifics of Awlaki’s case.
Among those who have raised legal objections to the strike: Samir Khan’s family in Charlotte, N.C.
In a statement, the family said that, Khan was a “law-abiding citizen of the United States” and “was never implicated of any crime.”
“Was this style of execution the only solution?” the family said. “Why couldn’t there have been a capture and trial?”
Khan’s relatives also described themselves as “appalled by the indifference shown to us by our government,” saying they had not been contacted by a U.S. official.
After the release of the statement, the Charlotte Observer reported, an official from the State Department called the family last week to offer the government’s condolences.
“They were very apologetic [for not calling the family sooner] and offered condolences,” Jibril Hough, a family spokesman, told the Observer.
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