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New York Police Currently Raiding Occupy Wall Street

'Arrest teams' are reportedly moving in to arrest protestors.

(NEW YORK CITY) - Police are on a roll of sorts all over the country trying to shut down the Occupy movements from coast to coast, and now they are trying to tear down Occupy Wall Street itself.

Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park), home of Occupy Wall Street for the past two months and birthplace of the 99% movement that has spread across the country and around the world, is presently being evicted by a large police force.

PTSD: it has Destroyed the Armed Forces

One atrocity after another. Even battle chaplains get PTSD.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Don't question me yet, but take a read about it. The TV says that 9.2 percent of returning veterans can't find work. (Atrocity #1)

Entertainer Seriously Injured at Occupy Portland Blames Riot Police

"I said, 'I have a broken back, I need medical attention.' The cops grabbed me by my legs and drug me through the mud..."

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Justin James Bridges, a local musician and American Sign Language translator for Occupy Portland, was assaulted in a police raid Sunday afternoon.

See How Police Treat the Poor and Disenfranchised in England

Brutality just barely begins to describe what happened at Dale Farm, it is the military industrial complex at work crushing the poor, casting families into homelessness, only working for the powerful controlling interests.

(CRAYS HILL, Essex UK) - As relayed in previous reports, the residents of Dale Farm are Irish Travelers, many identify them as Gypsies.

Regardless of what one calls them, they are a people who do not fit neatly into the brainwashed consumer culture. To the contrary, they are a sort of people that are impossible to tame.

Introduction to the Israel Lobby

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad” Aldous Huxley Report from The Council for The National Interest

(MELBOURNE) - The Israel Lobby is one of the most powerful and pervasive special interest groups in the United States. It began its activities many decades ago and played a major role in the creation of Israel.

It consists of a multitude of institutions, many of them extremely well-funded, that work to influence Congress, the Presidency, academia, the media, religious institutions, and the American public on behalf of Israel. It also includes influential individuals.

Occupy Birthright, Unoccupy Palestine

A vision of collective identity, purpose and values written by and for young Jews committed to justice in Israel and Palestine...

(NEW YORK) - We call for young Jews and allies nationwide to join in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and with our Palestinian siblings living under their own form of occupation.

Let us stand up to the 1% in our own community -- the powerful institutions that support Israel 's corporate-backed military control of the Palestinian people and act as the gatekeepers for our community."

War is a Racket: Libya, The Real Story

Featuring The Truth is Viral with Bob Powell.

(ELLSWORTH, Maine) - This 22 minute video is well done. I would like to fill-in a few of the blanks, and elaborate on the message. If one looks at the countries that General Wesley Clark mentions are to be invaded in the next five years (which are now up), included Iraq, Libya, Iran, etc.

The key thread that LINKS these countries together? ...their attempt to break the dollar monopoly.

Berlusconi Bounces from Office, Entering Unprotected Sea of Scandals

"An unflappable and defiant politician who has accumulated a collection of criminal charges for which he hasn't been held accountable so far" - Salem-News.com writer Kourosh Ziabari

(SALEM) - After nearly two-decades in office, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned from the post of Italy's prime minister reluctantly Saturday.

His political career; marked by opposition and occasionally even defeat, finally grinds to a screeching halt. The entertainment industry mogul may be known for making big comebacks, but no one expects one this time.

Two Protestors Injured Near `Occupy` Eureka

A noon rally will be held at the courthouse Monday in solidarity with Verbena Lea, a local community activist arrested while lawfully taping police.

(EUREKA, Calif.) - One woman was injured near Occupy Eureka this evening when allegedly her head was smashed through the window of a local business by two outside agitators.

During this incident Officer Sanchez continued to demand protest signs be removed as he sat in his cruiser.

Israeli Soldiers Arrest Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh for Recording Video

This is not the first time Mazin has been arrested for participating in peace protests in occupied Palestine, or in this case, for documenting what is taking place.

(AL WALAJA, Occupied Palestine) - Salem-News.com writer Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh was arrested in Al-Walaja this morning around local time 11:30 a.m., Sunday, while filming Israeli soldiers arresting an Al-Walaja villager gathered at the site of apartheid wall construction to prevent the use of explosives near their community.