November 2011
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Multimillionaires and billionaires who are not running businesses could pay more...
– Sen. Susan Collins
I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.
– Mike Bloomberg
By the end of this week, the US government very likely will have the power to...
submission from coltivator: Voting Record for...
occupywallstreet:
Check the list to see which senators voted against the amendment to PREVENT indefinite detention and who voted for it.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00211
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The cowardly, nocturnal destruction of more than 5,000 volumes of ‘the...
– PETER LINEBAUGH
The People's Library #ows
ME: Did you hear this shit? The city of New York destroyed the @OWSLibrary—5,000 books, gone.
THEM: Oh, stop it! They didn’t destroy ALL of them! A lot of them were just badly damaged. And really, the campers should have done a better job of securing their belongings, and I heard the NYPD gave them ample warning. Why didn’t they move the books before the police came in?...
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I decided I want to meet George W. Bush: a random...
I decided I want to meet George W. Bush, just so I can refuse to shake his hand… you know, war criminal, and all. I mean, ick! Yes! I want to say ick! at the idea of shaking George W. Bush’s hand, when I refuse to shake George W. Bush’s hand
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I feel it’s my civic duty to explain to the public that this is not what...
– Kamran Loghman, pepper spray inventor
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Governing elites have grasped the radical nature of this noisy intrusion into...
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Out in the streets, meanwhile, the contrast with brain-dead politics is...
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human...
– George Orwell (1984)
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Hundreds of students protested Monday as the CUNY’s Board of Trustees...
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A Harvard study published in 2005 found that about half of those who filed for...
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A provision of S. 1867, or the National Defense Authorization Act bill, written...
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