Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street protester scales 70ft art sculpture demanding Mayor Bloomberg's resignation… and a pack of cigarettes

By John Stevens
Last updated at 4:05 AM on 23rd October 2011


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Occupy Wall Street protesters have been accused of not having a clear set of aims and objectives.
But one protester knew exactly what he wanted as he made a list of strange demands after scaling a 70-foot art sculpture in Zuccotti Park.
Dylan Spoelstra, 24, from Toronto, Canada, said that he would not come down from the structure until the NYPD and FDNY agreed to introduce a quota of 15 per cent of all officers being bisexual and Mayor Michael Bloomberg resigned.

Demands: Dylan Spoelstra said that he would not come down from the 'Joie de Vivre' sculpture until Mayor Michael Bloomberg resigned

The protester also told negotiators that he wanted 15 police officers to leave the park and to be given a coat and cigarettes.
He eventually agreed to come down just after 9am on Saturday, three hours after he had started his bizarre sit-down protest.

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The demonstrator was taken to hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. He had earlier been ticketed at 3:14am for public urination.
Fellow protesters said that Spoelstra had climbed the red artwork, known as 'Joie de Vivre', on Broadway after attempts earlier in the week.
Shortly before 6am he reportedly ran to the bottom of the sculpture and clambered up one of the large vertical beams, sitting on a platform 30 feet up.

Occupied: Fellow protesters said that he had been planning the bizarre stunt for the last few days

'He went up like a ring-tailed lemur,' his friend Patrick Griese, who had met him at the proetests, told the New York Post.
Police officers put airbags at the bottom of the sculpture and gave him a phone so he could speak to an NYPD negotiator.
Spoelstra laughed and high-fived a police officer who went up on a cherry picker as he agreed to be brought down.
Fellow protester Justin Lecea, 26, of Michigan, said: 'He was telling people he was going to do it and no one thought he was.'
'He tried climbing up the thing a day or two ago and no one noticed,' he told the Post.

Removed: Spoelstra was voluntarily brought down after three hours on the sculpture

The sculpture by Mark di Suvero was donated to the city by Agnes Gund, president of the Museum of Modern Art, and moved to its location as part of an $8 million renovation of the park in 2006.
It originally stood at the exit of the Holland Tunnel and has been displayed in Paris and upstate New York.
Occupy Wall Street protesters marched through lower Manhattan on Saturday to rally against police brutality, but the crowd was a fraction of the 5,000 who turned out a week ago when protests sprouted around the globe.
The rally, a joint demonstration pairing the anti-Wall Street movement against economic inequality with union and civil rights groups, did appear to draw an activist core though, including some from beyond lower Manhattan.
About 300 people occupied the south side of Union Square, surrounded by dozens of police officers and police vans along the park's perimeter on 14th Street.

Demonstration: Protesters marched on Saturday opposed to police brutality

Socialist and Marxist newspaper hawkers mingled with high school students and senior citizens and self-described hippies.( they forgot to add there were Nazi Muslims in the crowd spewing hate for Jews)
'I think there's a lot of people who have not experienced police brutality before, and they're experiencing it for the first time,' rally organiser Kathie Cheng, 39, of Queens said. 'That's helpful for exposing the role of police.'
Support from unions across the United States has helped boost the ranks of the Occupy Wall Street movement against economic inequality, which began five weeks ago and sparked protests nationwide and globally.
Occupy Wall Street organisers have acknowledged the challenges that the coming cold weather could pose to the enthusiasm of the movement.
Saturday's 'teach-in', aimed at helping educate protesters, included 'know your rights' workshops by lawyers with the anti-police brutality groups

 Time for Stacy to grow up. I want a gold Toilet Seat but I dont see it in the cards. How does it feel to want Stacy.

The Florida hippy who left her banker husband and four children behind to join the Occupy protesters in New York 

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:35 PM on 22nd October 2011


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A Florida woman has left her banker husband and four children at home to join the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.
Stacey Hessler, 38, swapped the comfort of sunny DeLand for the squalor of Zuccotti Park after following the protests on the internet.
Her friends say she has the full backing of her family, even though one of the corporations she's protesting over is the bank her husband works for.

Following her beliefs: Hippy housewife Stacey Hessler has swapped family life for sleeping under the stars

Mrs Hessler has been sleeping under the same tarp as Brooklyn waiter Rami Shamir.
But friend Lauren Napoli, 28, said the hippy mother and the waiter are not 'bunking up in a little tent.'
Miss Napoli told the New York Post: 'It’s not like that - everyone who’s there, we’re trying to support each other, and when it rains you need to be under a structure.
'She had been following this movement on her own through Facebook and YouTube and whatever, and she decided she wanted to come up to New York.
'Her family said, "Go, mom, go. This is what you want to do".'

Meet the family: Stacey, far left, in a Christmas-time photo with husband Curtiss, son Peyton, at the back, and daughters, from left, Sullivan, Kennedy and Veda

Miss Napoli, a waitress and home health aide, added: 'This is what she believes in, and she feels she needs to be here. She’s not being irresponsible.'
Mrs Hessler had apparently said she wanted to stay 'indefinitely,' but Miss Napoli believes she'll return home.
She added that the self-labelled 'vegan freak' and the support of her family and friends in Florida.
'I’ve been right next to her when she’s been on the phone with her kids.
'It was her youngest daughter’s birthday recently and she called and said "happy birthday".'

'Dreadlock princess': Stacey rollerblading and, right, showing off the hair

Another protester friend in New York told the Post that Mrs Hessler and her family are 'one of the most amazing and beautiful and loving families that I’ve ever encountered.'
On her Facebook page, Mrs Hessler describes herself as 'radical unschooling mom of four, midwives assistant, roller-derby queen, rock-star musician, activist, dreadlock princess, African-bee keeper, organic vegan freak and a surrogate for the second time.'
Some of her neighbours in Florida, however, seem less than impressed with her switch to New York.
One neighbour said she 'acts like a self-obsessed college sophomore who never grew up.'
Another said: 'I’m not disgusted she took off to protest - because I’m not surprised.
'She believes everything should be free.'


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9/11 First Responders Excluded from September Memorial Ceremony…No Ground Zero Mosque

9/11 First Responders Excluded from September Memorial Ceremony…

Disgraceful.

New York (CNN) — When debris rained from the sky in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, the first responders to the terrorist attack did not turn away. They rushed to the World Trade Center buildings while the world around them crumbled.
Yet now, after all the wreckage has been cleared and the rebuilding has begun, their path is again blocked — not by flying chunks of smoldering rubble, but by space constraints.
The first responders are not invited to this year’s September 11 memorial ceremony at ground zero, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office confirmed Monday.
It’s a painful insult for many of the approximately 3,000 men and women who risked their lives, limbs and lungs on that monumental day, puncturing another hole in a still searing wound.
In a statement, Bloomberg spokesman Andrew Brent said the commemoration ceremony is for the victims’ families.
“While we are again focused on accommodating victims’ family members, given the space constraints, we’re working to find ways to recognize and honor first responders, and other groups, at different places and times,” Brent said.

Posted by FreeThinkerNY on Wednesday, August 17, 2011, at 4:07 pm

Does Obama have a Pacifier and a Baba????Or is his diaper wet???

Does Obama have a Pacifier and a Baba????Or is his diaper wet???
Obama has proven he isn't a leader. He is not able to control his temper and his latest example was yesterday, July 13, 2011, as he stormed out of a meeting with US Senators and Congressman who are trying to come with a workable solution to fix the debt. However, Obama, who wants it his or no way  at all, yelled and screamed stompt his feet like a child having a temper tantrum and stormed out. Obama, 50 years old, still throwing his toys out of the playpen. 

This display of childlike behavior is dangerous because he can't control his temper he could have a total meltdown in front of a foreign government official and cause nuclear war where it could not matter who wins because we would all be dead as Obama heads for the underground tunnels that are designed to save the government who would be the government of the dead people of the USA.

Is this the type of President you want, a loose cannon? A lethal weapon? He can't make compromises. He can't make up his mind but his comment on if you don't do it my way I am going tell mommy who are the American People.  

However he reminds me of a character from the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where Veruca Salt the spoiled little rich girl who demand "I want and do my way or I'll scream" because she wanted a squirrel who was picking bad nuts and throwing them away, only she ends up being a bad nut and tossed down to the garbage.

When Obama can;t get his way he acts like a child having a temper-tantrum only he's not 3 years old but supposed to be an adult of 50 years old who has been proven to We the People of the many mental disorders described by the DSM and ICD. He cannot control his temper. Maybe he does need a vacation, a permanent vacation in a nice padded room with a nice straight jacket and the men in white to feed him. Then Michelle can call all the attendants "Whitey". But then again we all know Michelle is a Racist who hates Whites,

Obama is a dangerous man-child who is just as immature as the Late Micheal Jackson if not more. Remove him from office on the 25th Amendment and relieve him of the pressures of this job before he has a total melt down in front a head of another country. 

Obama Storms Out of Debt Ceiling Meeting

Written by Raven Clabough

Thursday, 14 July 2011 12:18

According to House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, “Nobody can out debate” President Obama in the debt ceiling debate. Why then has President Obama reportedly scolded congressional leaders during a debt meeting and then stormed out, contending, “Enough is enough?”

The meeting began to become contentious when House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told President Obama that “Congress should instead consider a series of debt ceiling votes based on spending cuts that already have been identified. Talks could then continue to identify additional cuts for subsequent voters.”

Cantor told reporters at the meeting, “I suggested we were so far apart I didn’t see in the time before us how we get to where he wants us to be.”

The President’s reaction was a bit defensive. The Blaze reports: Obama, in his typical affable and diplomatic manner, warned Cantor not to set such an ultimatum and threatened to veto legislation that would extend the debt ceiling only for a short period.

“The president told me, ‘Eric, don’t call my bluff. I’m going to take this to the American people,’ ” Cantor said.

President Obama went on to criticize both sides.

“This process is confirming what the American people think is the worst about Washington: that everyone is more interested in posturing, political position and protecting their base than solving real problems,” Obama said.

The Blaze notes the irony of the President’s assertions, however:

Of course, this is coming from the man who warned Tuesday that failure to raise the debt ceiling could mean that Social Security checks, veterans benefits and other government obligations would not be paid as scheduled in August. If anyone knows anything about posturing, surely it is Obama.

After the verbal tongue-lashing issued by the President, a top Republican accused the White House of playing political games to provoke a “yes” vote on extending the ceiling. President Obama then allegedly stormed out of the meeting.

According to Cantor, “He became very agitated. He said ‘Ronald Reagan wouldn’t sit here. You either have to compromise on the dollar figure or the grand bargain.’ ” Cantor said Obama then shoved back and said, “We’ll see you tomorrow.”

Democrats have tried to deny that the President actually “walked out” of the meeting. One official explained, “Left abruptly is perfectly fair. But the meeting was over — in no sense did he walk out on it.”

One Democratic aide said, ““Obama was concluding the meeting, giving the closing remarks and talking about meeting tomorrow. Cantor interrupted him and raised for the third time doing a short-term (so after it had already been addressed twice), and Obama shut him down. Cantor was playing the role he’s played throughout this whole thing — being not productive.”

But according to another congressional aide, Obama “dressed down” Eric Cantor.

“The President spoke for several minutes uninterrupted about how he would not be deterred in doing what is best for the country,” the aide said. “The meeting ended with Cantor being dressed down while sitting in silence.”

Still others defended the President’s reaction. “[Obama] was most insistent that he wanted the debt limit extended into 2013, because he believes a repeat of what we’re going through now, when things will be politically more tense, would be very destabilizing,” claimed another aide.

According to other aides present at the meeting, who wished to remain anonymous, the meeting was the most heated that they’ve experienced during the past few months of discussions on the debt ceiling.

Cantor made a similar assertion, saying it was “the most intense meeting of the week.”

Some sources claim the president walked out on the meeting simply because Republicans have refused Democrats’ calls for taxes.

The Los Angeles Times explains:

Republicans have refused to vote for the debt ceiling increase unless it is accompanied by steep spending cuts equaling about $2.4 trillion over the next decade, though their own spending plan requires that the limit be raised. Obama is seeking a larger deficit reduction plan, totaling about $4 trillion over the decade, but would include both spending cuts and tax revenue. The GOP has rejected that idea.

Congress and the White House have been engaged in a stalemate for over a month on whether the debt $14.3 trillion debt ceiling should be raised. The administration claims that without raising the debt ceiling by the time it reaches its limit on August 2, the government will be unable to pay all of its bills.

Meanwhile, Moody’s Investors Services warned that the United States credit rating is about to be downgraded again, which could potentially impact financial markets.

Photo: President Barack Obama meets with Congressional leaders regarding the debt ceiling, July 13, 2011, in the Cabinet Room at the White House. From left are, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, and Obama: AP Images

Canada opposes Palestinian bid for United Nations recognition of statehood

By Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – Sun, 10 Jul, 2011

OTTAWA - Canada is rejecting a Palestinian effort to win recognition at the United Nations as an independent state.
The move is not surprising given that the Harper government has forcefully highlighted its loyalty to Israel and the United States. Both oppose the Palestinian initiative.
The Palestinian Authority, which controls most of the West Bank, launched a campaign last month that will see it pursue a vote on statehood at the United Nations General Assembly in September — an effort borne out of its frustration over a peace process that is stalled.
The top Palestinian diplomat in Canada says her official delegation will still push hard for the support of Ottawa.
"On the conflict, we would like to see the Canadian government taking a neutral stand, supporting the creation of the state of Palestine, supporting the recognition of Palestine as a full member state in the UN in September," Linda Sobeh Ali, head of the Palestinian delegation, told The Canadian Press.
Sobeh Ali also said her delegation is pushing Canada to recognize Israel's pre-1967 borders — something Prime Minister Stephen Harper forcefully opposed, and managed to block from being part of the final communique of G8 leaders at their recent May summit in France.
"Our government's long-standing position has not changed. The only solution to this conflict is one negotiated between and agreed to by the two parties," said Chris Day, the spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird.
"One of the states must be a Jewish state and recognized as such, while the Palestinian state is to be a non-militarized one."
The Palestinians are trying to win the requisite two-thirds support in the assembly — 128 votes among the 192 member countries — before the matter is considered by the Security Council. They have reportedly won the support of more than 100 countries.
Harper's stand at the G8 pitted him against U.S. President Barack Obama, who only a week earlier said in a major speech that the pre-1967 border should be a starting point for the resumption of stalled peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.
But Washington last week reiterated its opposition to the Palestinian push for UN recognition of its statehood.
A State Department spokeswoman said the Palestinian move would not be helpful to getting the parties back to the bargaining table.
Canada echoes that view.
"We will monitor developments at the UN and respond appropriately," said Day. "As G8 leaders declared at Deauville, unilateral action is ultimately unhelpful."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to host a meeting Monday of the UN Secretary General, the European Union and Russian foreign ministers — the so-called "quartet" of Middle East peacemakers.
The Harper government has been widely criticized for siding slavishly with Israel and turning a blind eye to the suffering of Palestinian people.
Rami Khouri, a leading Mideast analyst based in Lebanon, said in a recent interview that Canada has been traditionally viewed in the region as a country that has had a "sense of decency and fairness in its foreign policy."
But that can be compromised, he added, by siding too much with Israel.
"I think the critical point for any Western government — Canadian, American, British — is to differentiate between supporting the security of Israel and opposing the colonization polices of Israel. Israel within its 1967 borders is a phenomenon the world accepts, even the Arabs," Khouri said.
"Any real friend of Israel should tell Israel, `we support you, your security but we don't support what you're doing'."
Leaked Israeli diplomatic cables, obtained by the newspaper Haaretz, give details about its foreign ministry's diplomatic offensive to counter the Palestinian UN campaign.
Israel's marching orders to its embassies are to lobby politicians, and use Jewish groups and the local media to make its case.
"The goal is to get the country in which you serve to vote against recognizing a Palestinian state," said the memo given to Haaretz. "Your plan must include approaching the most senior politicians, mobilizing the relevant force multipliers (such as local Jewish communities, non-governmental organizations) using the media, influencing local public opinion, and public diplomacy aimed at all relevant communities."

Is Obama showing his Hand in Libya? Support of this campaign in Kenya by a US Senator is illegal

Is Obama showing his Hand in Libya?

Obama started personally meddling in African (Kenya) affairs to promote Islam, while he was still a senator, and supported the efforts of his cousin to become the Kenyan president. Is the real goal of the war in Libya to promote the Muslim Brotherhood in their goal of creating a Jihad state in Africa? Are our top politicians being handsomely bribed by Gulf oil producers to do their bidding? Some people will say that he showed his hand a long time ago, but this note just present a few facts and ideas that may help tie things together.
Historically, there are many flavors of Muslim Brotherhoods, that is mystical Secret Societies based on Sufism, an occult version of Islam. Our word for “hashish” and “assassin” comes from a Sufi sect that could probably be termed a Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood that most people refer to today is called the Ikwan, simply “brotherhood.” Saudi Arabia is ruled by such an organization, the Wahhabi, and is allied with the Muslim Brotherhood. The goal of these groups is to set up a greater Islamic theocracy, that is reinstate the Caliphate.
Obama’s Spiritual Guide, Jeremiah Wright, studied an older version of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Tijaniyya sect of Sufism, for six years at the Chicago School of Divinity and wrote a Master’s Theses about it. Black Liberation Theology is also an revolutionary Gnostic occult doctrine. You might call it a “jihadist” version of Christianity, or as some wags have called it “Chrislam.” Obama’s church in Chicago is a black nationalist sect and closely related in doctrine to the Nation of Islam.
The Tijani swept parts North Africa in the 1800′s and set up a Jihadist state called the Toucouleur_Empire in an attempt at creating a new Caliphate. Could this be the ultimate goal in Libya to hand the oil resources of Libya over to the Jihadis to finance more uprisings across Africa?
The Tijani Brotherhood is having a revival in North Africa and it is declared in this clip (at 1:50) that all of the international brotherhoods should join together to “do something good for Islam,” that is, presumably to revive the Caliphate, a universal Islamic Theocracy.



Obama started the war in Libya, he said, to protect innocent civilians, from massacres that had not yet occurred. Lately, he and Hillary Clinton have declared that the real mission now is that Gadhafi has to be removed from power. Others have been proposing a political agreement and a cease-fire. Why does Obama and Hillary Clinton need to continue the war and the slaughter, when the original stated goal was to prevent killing?? Maybe it is because they have had ulterior motives for this war from the beginning?
The Muslim Brotherhood has always declared its goal to be creation of a global Islamic theocracy. Lately, they have been saying they have a new objective of freedom and democracy, because this placates many westerners, who are eager to appease.

Obama reveals his submission
to the Saudi Dictator.

Saudi Arabia does not like Gadhafi, who is difficult to control and may be in the way of the greater Islamic jihad-state that is desired in North Africa. Especially, the great oil wealth of Libya would be of great use in funding the operations of the Muslim Brotherhoods in North Africa and in creating this new jihad-state.
We just signed a treaty with Libya a couple of years ago that normalized relations with Libya in exchange for their giving up their support of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Gadhafi is is a murderer, but that was settled by the treaty and payment of restitution to the victims. To attack them at the first chance, when they become weak and Lindsey Graham even proposed that we murder the leadership and decapitate their government, is truly like something the Nazis would have done in WWII. Adolf Hitler and von Ribbentrop must be smiling at the thought of us using such tactics.



Support of this campaign in Kenya by a US Senator is illegal. Obama has conspicuously not returned to visit to Kenya. This is probably due to a lot of people being angry with him. A bloody pogrom against Christians was incited after the election, in order to intimidate the Kenyan government enough that they would accept a power-sharing arrangement with Obama’s cousin, Raile Odinga, even though Odinga lost by a fairly wide margin

UN Agenda 21- New World Order-- Atlas Shruggs for real! Read the book!

Agenda21

Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.
Agenda 21, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Statement of principles for the Sustainable Management of Forests were adopted by more than 178 Governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 3 to 14 June 1992.
The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was created in December 1992 to ensure effective follow-up of UNCED, to monitor and report on implementation of the agreements at the local, national, regional and international levels. It was agreed that a five year review of Earth Summit progress would be made in 1997 by the United Nations General Assembly meeting in special session.
The full implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Commitments to the Rio principles, were strongly reaffirmed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 26 August to 4 September 2002.