[Roll Call] Last week's release of FBI documents finally put in writing what nobody had ever said on the record: The FBI suspected that former Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and lobbyists close to him were running a scheme to funnel earmarks to sham companies and nonprofits to benefit the politician's friends and former staffers.
Bits and pieces of this story were kicked around for years before Murtha died in February 2010. The Los Angeles Times, Roll Call, the Washington Post and others had documented the odd appearance of earmarks for tiny defense contractors that just happened to open an office in western Pennsylvania and just happened to hire one of the lobbying firms close to Murtha and just happened to begin making campaign donations to Murtha and other Members of Congress close to him.
Reporters could do little but assemble the coincidences and couldn't prove there was anything wrong with the bigger picture.
But it turns out the FBI was reading the stories and was very interested -- interested enough that the Justice Department had opened a criminal investigation into Murtha and some of the lobbyists in his orbit, a fact that never leaked while Murtha was alive.
In part, the probe never leaked precisely because he was alive.
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a Freedom of Information Act request for Justice Department files on Murtha and other Members of Congress. Its requests have been denied for the living Members on the grounds that they have a right to privacy, CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan said last week. Murtha's death eliminated the privacy exemption, and the Justice Department handed over a heavily redacted bunch of files to CREW on Oct. 14.
The files spell out for the first time a theory of the case that explains what Murtha's cronies may have been up to.
In a memo dated June 19, 2009, FBI field agents requested the bureau "open a full public corruption investigation" regarding KSA Consulting, the lobbying firm that employed at various times the Congressman's longtime defense aide Carmen Scialabba and the Congressman's brother, Robert Murtha, widely known as Kit.
The FBI field agents concluded that "the relationships between Congressman John Murtha ... and employees and partners of KSA Consulting provide for a potential Honest Services Fraud ... if Congressman Murtha influenced the awarding of contracts to KSA-controlled entities or clients, in exchange for some personal benefit to the Congressman. KSA principals may also have committed Honest Services Fraud by lobbying Murtha to direct earmarks to KSA clients who 'passed-thru' the funds to subcontractor firms that did little actual work and were owned by KSA principles."
Neither Murtha nor anybody from KSA was ever charged with a crime, and it is unclear what happened to the investigation. Sure it is. Wondered just exactly who called off the FBI and DoJ...
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**** cough **** MORE THAN JUST KSA *** cough **** cough **** ....
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Who ever saw a "Light side" to John Murtha? ROT his soul
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So much could be said. When you leave people in power or a party too long things like this happen.
I call it political inbreeding. In my lifetime I have seen many sacred cows allowed to walk about freely. They say and do what they want even today.
They just linger and fade away. Like a pharaoh his name is on many things in Pennsylvania. Then in time new names will replace his. My biggest surprise was they were able to record him without saying curse words.
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Freedom of Information Act for Senator Murtha...never heard of him. Airport named after him you say...nope, doesn't ring a bell. He's full of shi...oh, ship named after him...can't place it.
Zim-bob-wean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... has been forced to cancel a trip to Geneva for a United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... meeting this week after his wife and some of his aides were denied visas, state media said on Wednesday.
Western countries, including the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , imposed travel and financial sanctions on Mugabe and bigwigs of his ZANU-PF party almost a decade ago over charges of rights abuses and vote rigging.
But the sanctions, which Mugabe argues are punishment for his seizure and redistribution of white-owned commercial farms to black Zim-bob-weans, have traditionally not been applied for U.N. meetings.
On Wednesday, the official Herald newspaper said Mugabe, 87, had scrapped a trip to Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... for an International Telecommunications Union summit after his wife Grace, Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, chief front man George Charamba and three other bigwigs were refused travel permits.
Private media in Zim-bob-we reported that Mugabe had planned to travel with a 62-member delegation.
Harare had lodged a protest with both the Swiss government and the United Nations, the Herald said.
[The Hill] Wall Street is growing nervous about the congressional supercommittee amid warnings from major banks that failure to reach a deal could lead to another downgrade of U.S. debt.
The bipartisan, 12-member panel has only until Nov. 23 to find at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts. Failure to strike a deal could rattle confidence in Washington and depress stock prices well into 2012, analysts say.
Fitch Ratings, one of the three major credit raters, said in August that failure by the supercommittee to agree to a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction package "would likely result in negative rating action."
There have been no signs of progress from the secretive talks thus far. Sources close to the panel say members are deadlocked on basic questions about what policy issues to address and what budget scenarios to use.
In its outlook for this week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said it "expects" a downgrade by one of the three credit agencies "when the supercommittee crashes."
Those analysts said the "not-so-super" committee is "very unlikely to come up with a credible deficit-reduction plan" because it is "hard to imagine" Democrats cutting entitlements or Republicans agreeing to tax increases.
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BIPARTISAN PANEL ....
versus
* WAFF > PAKISTANI UNIVERSITY VICE CHANCELLOR MUJAHID KAMRAN SAYS WW1, WW2, + 9-11 WERE PLANNED BY THE US: THE 9-11 EVENT WAS STAGED TO CARRY OUT DRIVE FOR NWO INSTALLED BY THEIR CABAL OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS.
* SAME > IRELAND: GREECE WILL BE OUT OF [International debt] MARKETS UNTIL 2020.
Time = National Situation for Greece will be very severe + austere in next 10 years.
IMO methinks its safe to say ditto for the US-World also - I also think for far longer period than 10 years, espec as complemented by PEAK OIL/RESOURCES.
* CHINA DAILY FORUM/TOPIX [old] > MARIE LE PEN: IFF ELECTED PM, FRANCE WILL SECEDE FROM NATO + EU.
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Well, pardon me Mr? SR? Financial? Wizard? but could "failure to reach a deal could lead to another downgrade" mean that deals and not balance sheets court action?
Seems to me, I can make no "deals". Seems you need to downgrade this client right damnit now.
They do not listen to anything anyway. Nail them shut.
If they refuse to control spending, like the dictator "president",than double down on their spending and cut them off.
Everyone knows this is a joke, and the piece of shit GOP is not helping anything.
Be the example of what not to do until you do know what to do.
[Boston.com] In a new interview, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren claims much of the credit for the Occupy Wall Street protests sweeping the nation. So she admits she's a Marxist. About time...
"I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do," the Harvard Law School professor and former B.O. regime consumer advocate told Samuel P. Jacobs of The Daily Beast. "I support what they do." We'll agree to use 'intellectual foundation' loosely...
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, charged with helped Senator Scott Downtown Scotty Brown win reelection, jumped on the comment.
"Warren's decision to not only embrace, but take credit for this movement is notable considering the Boston Police Department was recently forced to arrest at least 141 of her Occupy acolytes in Boston the other day after they threatened to tie up traffic downtown and refused to abide by their protest permit limits," NRSC front man Brian Walsh wrote. A whole series of campaign ads waiting to be made...
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Well girl, if that is "intellectual", than you are a hot mess of FUBAR. Refrain from your acting career.
Oh, I also assume you shall pay for all the damage they wrought on their cities and towns and the lack of LAW in other parts of the city that cost lives and the lawsuits from every vendor and business holder in any of those locations.
While we are at it, you pay fine for every non-paid permit, and all sanitation costs. Also, I expect you to fork over the legal fees for every one of those too stupid to know anything. The kids that got arrested for your Elizabeth Warren intellectual foundation. Also, you should form it as a political party. If you claim responsibility, that is just what you should get.
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So, she provided the intellectual foundation for anti-Semitism, violence, and bad citizenship. She should be so proud.
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Follow the money. Big drive for upcoming elections.
Democratic party time. They will use anything or anyone to bring the money in. That's what is behind this Occupy business. This is the left's Tea Party.
Like a new car that is a lemon. It may look good to some but its still a lemon. Just another con job.
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She's gonna get a copyright on it and call it intellectual property. Then if anybody else tries to do it she'll sue them for copyright infringement. Hey, maybe she can get Wronghaven to help her. But they better make sure it's not already in Mao's Little Red Book.
[Charleston, S.C. Herald] U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... ...'Debbie Downer' is the best gift the Republican National Committee could have, even better than Slow Joe Biden or [wait for it] Cynthia McKinney...
the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, interrupted an interview with a reporter Saturday in Charleston to speak with two elementary-school age children that she quickly labeled "little Democrats." Because it's hard for anybody older than 12 to take her message seriously?
"We are leaving no stone unturned," she said once she returned to the interview. ... which would indicate they're looking for things that live under rocks...
Wasserman Schultz and the rest of the Democratic Party will have to turn over quite a few stones to make headway in South Carolina, which has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter ... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet... in 1976 - 35 years ago. And we saw how that worked out.
Things are not any better at the state level. Last year, Democrats lost their only statewide office, superintendent of education, and one of their two congressional seats, when 28-year incumbent John Spratt lost to Republican state representative Mick Mulvaney in his first run for federal office. That couldn't be taken as an indication they're doing something wrong, naturally.
"I know it's been an uphill battle," Wasserman Schultz said, "but the longest distance starts with the first step." I think the original quote was "A journey of 10,000 li begins with a single step." Maybe a better approach would be "If you find yourself in a hole it's time to stop digging."
Wasserman Schultz was in Charleston on Saturday night hoping to help state Democrats take that first step, speaking to a gathering of several hundred party supporters at the second annual Blue Jamboree at the Charleston Maritime Center.
State Democrats are trying to rebrand themselves under the leadership of their fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... new chairman, Dick I don't want to buy the black vote. I just want to rent it for a day Harpootlian ...once and present chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. Harpootlian is the man who, when he lost to a Publican in 1994, said The people have spoken. The bastards... . He has spent the first five months of his chairmanship trying to fire up the state's Democratic base, taking shots at Republican Gov. Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... and, increasingly, Lt. Gov. Ken Ard because of the State Grand Jury investigation into his campaign spending.
Part of that strategy includes bringing national party figures to South Carolina, a tall task given the state's relative unimportance in national elections and the fact that South Carolina is not holding a Democratic presidential primary this year.
But Valerie Jarrett ...Chicago political hack, now senior advisor to President B.O.... , a senior adviser to President Barack The Cambridge police acted stupidly Obama, headlined a fundraiser in Columbia earlier this year. And last month, Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... flew to Charleston for a private dinner, where 10 people paid $35,800 apiece to meet with him. Wasserman Schultz, who Obama personally selected to lead the Democratic National Committee, fits that bill.
Still, Obama's campaign operatives know what they are up against.
"It's not going to be as fun as it was in 2008," Lee Goodall, director of Organizing for America South Carolina, told a group of college students and prospective volunteers Saturday.
Hunter Adams, a 19-year-old sophomore at the College of Charleston, who was one of the students listening to Goodall, acknowledged that it will be more difficult to get people, especially folks in South Carolina, excited for this election.
"I think just with the economy staying stagnant, and with jobs, particularly unemployment still being high, people are starting to get worried and angry with the status quo," he said. "And so I think Democrats need to keep strong with the president and the Democrat Party's agenda." "...because it's been working so well..."
But U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn ...Democratic Representative-for-Life from South Carolina. He has been warming his safe seat since 1993... did not have any trouble firing up the crowd Saturday. Speaking to several hundred people, Clyburn heard his loudest ovation when he declared that he supports the Occupy Wall Street movement "with every ounce" because they are "challenging things that need to be changed."
In her speech, Wasserman Schultz credited South Carolina with that famous chant, started by Greenwood City Councilwoman Edith Childs: "Over the next 13 months, there will be ups, and there will be downs," she said. "But no one is going to outwork us. No one."
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Bubba: Are there still Democrats in South Carolina?
Jeb: Maybe they have a season to keep their numbers down.
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Democrats (aka of the communist/liberal/progressive/statist/socialist party wanting to take over America) facing a tough election? There's hope and change I can get behind.
[L.A. Times] President Barack My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it Obama opened an aggressive Western fundraising swing Monday, closing out the day in Los Angeles with an appeal to supporters to prepare for a grueling reelection effort.
At an intimate fundraising dinner in Hancock Park, Obama spoke softly to a few dozen supporters who had paid $35,800 each to greet him.
"I've said this before -- this election will not be as sexy as the first one," the president said. "Back then it was still fresh and new. I didn't have any gray hair. Everybody loved the 'Hope' posters and all that. This time it's -- we've got to grind it out a little bit. We've got to grind it out. But the cause is the same. And my passion is the same. And my commitment is the same."
The gathering, at the home of movie producer James Lassiter and his wife, Mai, was one of six events Obama had planned in three days of stops in Nevada, California and Colorado, as he kept up a torrid fundraising pace that is far surpassing that of the GOP presidential field.
Two Los Angeles gatherings Monday were celebrity-flecked, with the first including actor Will Smith and former Laker Magic Johnson. The second and larger event was at the home of actors Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas, with per-seat tickets starting at $5,000.
In Hancock Park, Obama repeated details of his new mortgage refinance program, unveiled earlier Monday in Las Vegas. The plan would assist homeowners whose homes are worth less than their mortgages, in hopes of easing their financial strain.
The program would allow those who refinance to have more money to "shop, go to Will's movies" and patronize Johnson's many businesses, Obama joked. But his pitch for a second term was serious.
"We've made great progress but we've got so much more work to do," he said. "Obviously in Washington, the politics that I think people are hoping for is not what they're getting. It's still dysfunctional. It's still perversely partisan."
Earlier, Obama's day was one of contrasts, as he pitched the mortgage plan in Nevada, with its soberingly high unemployment rate, then traveled to California, where his first unannounced stop drew adoring looks and requisite cellphone picture-taking at a Roscoe's chicken and waffles restaurant in West Los Angeles.
After Obama shook hands and chatted with a young boy, the child turned and declared, "I'm never going to wash my hand again." He held his hand up as he watched Obama walk around the room.
A girl later jumped up to request Obama's autograph, prompting a man near her to say, as he took their picture, "If you work hard, you can be just like him."
Earlier, at the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Obama focused on his $447-billion jobs package, now stalled in Congress, as an example of a plan that should receive broad bipartisan approval.
"The question is why, despite all the support, despite all the experts who say the jobs bill couldn't come at a more important time, when so many are hurting, why Republicans in Washington have said no," Obama said. "They keep voting against it.
"Now, maybe it's just because I am the one sponsoring it."
He cited a provision in the jobs bill designed to keep public employees on the job, and noted that every Senate Republican voted against it.
"Their leader, Mitch McConnell, said that -- and I'm going to make sure I quote this properly -- saving jobs of teachers and firefighters was just, and I quote, a bailout.
"A bailout!" Obama repeated.
The president criticized Republicans for resting their vision on two dubious principles -- tax cuts for the wealthy and minimal regulation -- that have been tried with disastrous results, he said.
"Does anybody remember?" Obama asked.
Republicans derided Obama's visit to Nevada, noting the state's double-digit unemployment rate and persistent housing crisis.
"I've seen things just continue to get worse since President Obama took office," said one voter in a Web video released by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
California, which gave Obama a landslide victory in 2008 and where he remains politically strong despite his national slump, has been a key cog in the president's fundraising operation. His efforts raised $70 million in the third quarter for his campaign and the Democratic Party, easily eclipsing the efforts of the Republicans who wish to replace him.
Some Obama supporters have said that raising money for the president is tougher this time around than it was in 2008. But Ken Solomon, co-chairman of the Obama campaign's finance committee for Southern California, said the president's fundraising capacity remained strong.
"Without question, the continuum here has been all-out support in California," Solomon said.
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[Daily Caller] President Barack B.O. Obama's new senior campaign adviser is a longtime Wall Street lobbyist, and has the potential to damage the president's aspirations to appeal to the protesters currently "occupying" New York City's Zuccotti Park.
Obama's new adviser, Broderick Johnson, has an extensive history of lobbying for big banks and corporations, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. In 2007, he lobbied for JP Morgan Chase and in 2008 Johnson lobbied for Bank of America and Fannie Mae. From 2008 through 2010, he lobbied for Comcast and in 2011 he lobbied for Microsoft. ...producers of Windows, Office, Internet Explorer and the late Microsoft Bob, contributed $852,167 to the 2008 Obama campaign... Johnson is currently a partner at D.C.-based communications firm Collins Johnson Group, which boasts that it excels at "providing superior strategic planning and political consulting services to multinational corporations, government entities, political campaigns and parties, elected leaders, nonprofit organizations, issue groups, investors and entrepreneurs."
Including open houses and social events, Johnson has visited the White House 17 times since 2009, according to White House visitor logs. One of those meetings was with Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. ...Chicago political hack, now senior advisor to President B.O.... In early 2009, Johnson was named partner at lobbying firm Bryan Cave LLP's Washington, D.C. office. In that role, his responsibility was to "establish and lead the firm's new Public Policy & Governmental Affairs Client Service Group."
That means that during those White House visits, Johnson was a registered lobbyist.
Johnson also donated more than $150,000 of his own money to Democratic candidates and causes since 2008. Public political donation records show Johnson has, since 2006, never donated to a conservative or a Republican.
Perhaps most troubling to those who normally would consider themselves Obama's 2012 base, though, is how Johnson has lobbied on behalf of the Keystone XL pipeline. The Huffington Post previously reported that Johnson is a "former Bryan Cave LLP lobbyist registered on the Keystone XL account" and that Bryan Cave LLP earned approximately $1.08 million lobbying for TransCanada between 2009 and 2011.
Environmentalists are upset about the near-finalized pipeline proposal that would allow TransCanada to build a $7 billion, 1700-mile pipeline through the heart of the United States. If the State Department approves the proposals and the pipeline is built, it would transport crude oil from tar sands in Alberta, Canada to U.S. refineries along the Gulf of Mexico.
Liberal group Friends of the Earth, which adamantly opposes the Keystone XL pipeline, is furious with Obama's decision to hire a former pro-pipeline lobbyist. The group is disgusted with what it considers Obama's blatant support for crony capitalism.
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And no one will care because they let the media lie to them and they believe it and the president really believes he is a cartoon character in a movie show but does not like the scenery so he plays golf anytime possible.
It is all about power, which he is scared of and wants to shy away from every time unless it is something he can remove power from others for.
Sports Illustrated just cannot teach him enough about the world to be Messiah, so he will just beg the unions. They shall not have the cash he needs and really do not like him - afterall, he is a bad Joseph Stalin. He did not kill everyone on the first term.
But.... he did install a Checa. His own KGB.
BUT... they are all stupid as hell.
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BO; a Wall Street flip-flopper. I was for Wall Street before I was against them before I was for them before I was against them. BO is so screwed up he is going to meet himself both coming and going.
There's nothing quite like a politician scorned. You've obviously never scorned a woman.
When voters in Ohio's 1st Congressional District threw Democrat Steve Driehaus out of office after only one term, he did not bow out gracefully. No, he decided to get even. So he did what anyone does in today's culture: he sued somebody. It's not fair! I didn't get a trophy. They told me everybody wins when I was in Grammer School!
Charging that its activities contributed to his defeat and thus to his "loss of livelihood," Driehaus is suing the Susan B. Anthony List, a group that supports pro-life candidates for Congress and which has been one of the leading and most effective organizations involved in the fight to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood. It was a bunch of girls spreading rumors! First un-manly act today. I bet he drinks a generic lite beer, too...
During the 2010 elections the Susan B. Anthony List engaged in a campaign to identify and call out a group of allegedly anti-abortion-rights members of Congress who provided the margin that allowed President Barack Obama's reform of the nation's healthcare system to get through the U.S. House of Representatives. The Susan B. Anthony List said their vote in favor of the law, which did not include any pro-life protections, amounted to a betrayal of their pro-life principles. See! Scorn a woman, betrayal is damnation!
According to Driehaus, who was one of that group, what the Susan B. Anthony List said in its public communications amounted to a malicious lie that contributed to his defeat. Amazingly, rather than laugh the suit out of court U.S. District Court judge Timothy S. Black, an Obama appointee, is allowing it to go forward. Any surprise there? Bueler? Anybody? There is lots more including the fact that Judge Black is the former President and Director of the Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati
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"loss of livelihood,"
The basic concept of an 'election' [that is in the classical western concept] implies explicitly that there is no guarantee of 'livelihood'/employment. It is an obvious symptom on display here that Mr. Driehaus (D-OH), believes in the non-western 'representative for life' concept of government. Not that the concept "for life" seems alien to so many he associates with.
Driehaus's suit is breaking new legal ground and may already be having a very chilling effect on political speech. It goes directly at the heart of our First Amendment protections and criminalizes what is at least a difference of opinion. And it's curious that the case has not received more attention from the national press.
What is equally curious, however, is why Judge Black has allowed the case to move forward and why he did not recuse himself from it since, as Barbara Hollingsworth reported Friday in The Washington Examiner, he apparently is the former president and director of the Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati. As seeming conflicts of interest go this one is a real humdinger.
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So we will go through this horsesh*t legal procceding, using up court time, money, etc. I would imagine that Driehaus will go for a judge only lawsuit. He will win, then it will go to appeal, with the defendant posting bond for some ungodly amount while the appeal process drags on.
Nice gaming of the system you got there, Traitorous Dems.
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A narcissist who lost the spotlight. Delicious!
Occupy Atlanta, which in recent days has seen its relationship with Mayor Kasim Reed turn sour, says it's turning its attention this afternoon to David and Charles Koch, the two brothers who lead Koch Industries, a multi-national company with interests in everything from paper towels to oil pipelines -- and are considered major patrons of conservative causes.
Georgia-Pacific is owned by Koch Industries and headquartered along Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta. From an Occupy Atlanta press release detailing the Koch brothers' contributions to conservative groups and politicians, including Gov. Nathan Deal:
We demand that the Koch brothers withdraw all of their money from politics by 5:30pm on Tuesday October 25th. If they do not capitulate we will levitate the Georgia Pacific building where they do their business. Capitulation or levitation? The choice is theirs.
Please, please, please go for levitation -- I'm sure that even OWS supporters would enjoy seeing that!
On the leaderless group's recent dispute with the mayor over this weekend's hip-hop festival in Woodruff Park, which the mayor says did not have proper security or permits:
Every town has its villains and Atlanta is certainly no exception. Over the last few news cycles it would appear that Occupy Atlanta's archenemy is Mayor Kasim Reed. We never anticipated having such strong beef with Mayor Reed, as many of the Occupiers actually campaigned for the man.
The Koch brothers, the protest organizers say, are "two of [Atlanta's] real villains." I have to go downtown on Wednesday I'll see if she's still standing.
If it's floating, photos would be useful. Also if it isn't.
Lots of ways to raise a building into the air. Sufficient amounts of explosives properly placed will do so in a dramatic fashion. Is that what is being threatened?
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Lots of ways to raise a building into the air. Sufficient amounts of explosives properly placed will do so in a dramatic fashion. Is that what is being threatened?
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WTF??? Wasn't there some protest at the Pentagon during Vietnam when a bunch of hippies joined hands in a ring around it and tried to 'levitate' it?
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The power of the dork side is strong among the Occupiers.
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Free Radical - their elders are all old hippies from the 70's - what did you expect? The rest of them haven't had an original idea since seventh grade - they just parrot their talking points like good little useful idiots.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Last week's release of FBI documents finally put in writing what nobody had ever said on the record: The FBI suspected that former Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and lobbyists close to him were running a scheme to funnel earmarks to sham companies and nonprofits to benefit the 
Wall Street is growing nervous about the congressional supercommittee amid warnings from major banks that failure to reach a deal could lead to another downgrade of U.S. debt.
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"I've said this before -- this election will not be as sexy as the first one," the president said. "Back then it was still fresh and new. I didn't have any gray hair. Everybody loved the 'Hope' posters and all that. This time it's -- we've got to grind it out a little bit. We've got to grind it out. But the cause is the same. And my passion is the same. And my commitment is the same."
[Daily Caller] President 
