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US: Steve Jobs dies

Jon Swartz and William M. Welch
USA Today
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:24 UTC
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© Jeff Chiu, APCEO Steve Jobs holds up the new MacBook Air after giving the keynote address at the Apple MacWorld Conference in San Francisco. Apple on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 said Jobs has died.

San Francisco - Steve Jobs, the innovative co-founder of Apple who transformed personal use of technology as well as entire industries with products such as the iPod, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh computer and the iTunes music store, has died.

The Apple chairman was 56.

The iconic American CEO, whose impact many have compared to auto magnate Henry Ford and Walt Disney - whom Jobs openly admired - abruptly stepped down from his position as CEO of Apple in August because of health concerns. He had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, a former Apple board member, called Jobs the best CEO of the past 50 years - perhaps 100 years.
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Che Guevara

Think #OccupyWallStreet is just a phase? Then you don't get it

Douglas Rushkoff
CNN
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:37 UTC
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This is only the beginning
Like the spokesmen for Arab dictators feigning bewilderment over protesters' demands, mainstream television news reporters finally training their attention on the growing Occupy Wall Street protest movement seem determined to cast it as the random, silly blather of an ungrateful and lazy generation of weirdos. They couldn't be more wrong and, as time will tell, may eventually be forced to accept the inevitability of their own obsolescence.

Consider how CNN anchor Erin Burnett, covered the goings on at Zuccotti Park downtown, where the protesters are encamped, in a segment called "Seriously?!" "What are they protesting?" she asked, "nobody seems to know." Like Jay Leno testing random mall patrons on American History, the main objective seemed to be to prove that the protesters didn't, for example, know that the U.S. government has been reimbursed for the bank bailouts. It was condescending and reductionist.

More predictably perhaps, a Fox News reporter appears flummoxed in this outtake from "On the Record," in which the respondent refuses to explain how he wants the protests to "end." Transcending the shallow partisan politics of the moment, the protester explains "As far as seeing it end, I wouldn't like to see it end. I would like to see the conversation continue."

To be fair, the reason why some mainstream news journalists and many of the audiences they serve see the Occupy Wall Street protests as incoherent is because the press and the public are themselves. It is difficult to comprehend a 21st century movement from the perspective of the 20th century politics, media, and economics in which we are still steeped.
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Che Guevara

#OccupyWallStreet Protester: "End the Fed!"

fitzgerald1971
YouTube
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:52 UTC
OccupyWallStreet protester 'Chris' with a spot-on and passionate speech regarding ending the Federal Reserve, minimizing the Federal Government, ending the Fractional Reserve Banking System, ending the Monetary Fiasco that is the government-controlled FIAT money system & ending the Wars that were engineered to make the richest 1% even richer. We also need to have an independent audit and inventory of all the gold reserves in the USA. We need to hold the Bankers and Elite responsible for their crimes against humanity... End the Fed, End the Wars & End the Corruption!!

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US - Police State? Affirmative. Wake Up before you Wake Up in a Cell

Owen Myles
ActivistPost.com
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:16 UTC
Dear patsy hunters,

I am not a "lone operator", nor am I a radical. I am neither a wolf, extremist, thug, or hippopotamus. Violence is your profession, not mine. Please reserve your analysis until you've either been partially educated, or have at least discovered a multi-page dictionary. You have the mind of a lion, and the heart of a heavily contested egg. Consult a mirror for the perfect patsy.

Apparently the police can dictate what you display in your own window -- by cutting the glass and removing whatever it may be. And if that fails to discourage you from expressing yourself, then a SWAT team will help you.(1)

These people were protesting the murder of yet another unarmed civilian by police-thugs (Barry Deloatch). Despite the legitimate cause for the protest, the police -- with their well-expressed appetite for violence -- attended the event for the sake of beating the moribund horse of free-speech further toward a final breath.

While some occupy Wall Street, other locations are occupied by similar protesters, and such locations and protesters are multiplying. For the sake of not stirring a hornet's nest, I'll not directly quote Malcolm X regarding self-defense, but those who know, know. For those who don't, listen -- to the whole speech.

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Che Guevara

Anti-US Protest Held in West Bank


Press TV
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:52 UTC
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© unknownPalestinians yell at a US diplomatic vehicle during protest against US in the West Bank, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011.
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have staged protest rallies against Washington's unilateral support for the Israeli regime while an official US delegation is on a tour of the area.

US diplomats were on their way to an event for graduates and other beneficiaries of US programs in Ramallah on Tuesday, Ma'an news agency reported.

Demonstrators also criticized the US for trying to block their attempt to receive full membership at the UN. They chanted anti-US slogans, saying "USAID go home" and "Shame on you."

The protest effort was in response to the latest effort by pro-Israel members of the US Congress to withhold USD 200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) over Ramallah's bid for UN statehood.
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Citibank Raises Checking Account Fees


OzarkFirst.com
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:34 UTC
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Citibank is following the lead from some of it's competitors and raising some of it's fees.

Starting in December, the minimum balance for mid-level accounts will go up from $6,000 to $15,000
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Anyone who doesn't maintain that balance will have to pay $20 a month.

Customers with EZ checking accounts will be charged $15 a month if they don't keep a balance of $6,000.

The bank is also hiking fees on basic banking accounts from $8-$10 a month.

These moves follow similar announcements from Bank of America, Wells Fargo, J.P Morgan Chase, and others.
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US: Florida county nixes fluoride in water after heated debate

Douglas Stanglin
USA Today
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:26 UTC
A Florida county has voted to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water after a polarizing debate that included warnings of reduced intelligence, cancer, Soviet-style tactics and forced medicating by government.


The Pinellas County Commission voted 4-3 to halt fluoridation to about 700,000 residents of the county, the St. Petersburg Times reports.

The city of St. Petersburg will not be affected, WTSP reports.
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Occupy Wall Street: A Globalist Op?

Kurt Nimmo
Global Research
Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:04 UTC
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How can a movement originated and funded by globalists end the globalist scheme to enslave the world?
"There is one major inaccuracy in all the coverage that has been bothering me, and that is the focus on Anonymous as the architects and organizers of the event," an email received September 23 states. "The initial call for the protest was put out by the magazine Adbusters."
The person, who shall remain nameless at this point - since I have not gained his permission to quote the private email he sent to me - is not merely a bystander or an outsider making an observation. He claims to be intimately connected to the movement through the General Assembly of New York [1], described as the central planning and organizing committee for the protest. His Facebook page reveals he is indeed connected to Occupy Wall Street.

The Adbusters Media Foundation describes itself [2] as a non-profit "anti-consumerist" organization that functions as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."
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Secular group: 27 secret atheists in Congress

David Edwards
RawStory
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:36 UTC
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© Flickr/Andrew HechtCongressman Pete Stark
The president of a secular group says that there are 28 members of Congress who do not believe in God, but only one of them feels comfortable revealing his lack of faith.

Secular Coalition of America (SCA) president Herb Silverman told The Guardian that his group was aware of many members of Congress who weren't ready to make their non-beliefs known.

"Privately, we know that there are 27 other members of Congress that have no belief in God," Silverman claimed. "But we don't 'out' people."

That number is up from 2006, when SCA determined that there were there were 22 atheists in Congress.

"At the time, twenty-two of them told me they didn't believe in a god," SCA Advisory Board Chairman Woody Kaplan told the Humanist in 2008. "Twenty-one of them said, 'You can't tell anybody.' One of them said you could: Congressman Pete Stark."
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US: Woman assaults two Seattle, Washington cops at accident scene

John de Leon
The Seattle Times
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:40 UTC
A woman who was apparently angry that Seattle police had blocked a street to investigate a traffic accident assaulted two officers early Sunday morning.

Police had blocked traffic to investigate a hit-and-run accident in the 1600 block of 15th Avenue West when two women drove up in a cab around 3 a.m.. When the cab was blocked from continuing on, the two women got out and walked down the middle of 15th Avenue West, police said.

Police said one of the women repeatedly screamed obscenities at the officers. The two women started to walk toward the crash scene when they were told by a detective that they needed to get on the sidewalk.

One of the women complied, but the other woman continued to scream obscenities while ignoring the detective's order. Another officer stopped the woman and tried to explain that a criminal investigation was underway. The officer pointed out another route she could take to get around the crime scene, according to police.
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