Los Angeles police used nearly a dozen undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA encampment before this week’s raid to gather information on the anti-Wall Street protesters’ intentions, according to media reports. None of the officers slept at the camp, but they tried to blend in during the weeks leading up to the raid to [...]
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December 3, 2011
December 3, 2011
December 1, 2011
Clinton Urges Burma to End ‘Illicit’ Ties to North Korea
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on Burma to end any “illicit” military ties to North Korea, and says more work must be done before the United States can consider lifting sanctions. Clinton said Thursday during a landmark visit to Burma that its government must respect international consensus against the spread of nuclear [...]
November 30, 2011
The IMF must heed G20 decisions | Kevin Gallagher
The G20 meeting in Cannes earlier this month was derailed by the pressing eurozone crisis. Actors were disappointed if they were looking for concrete action on global imbalances and the food crisis, let alone the new global monetary system that French President Nicolas Sarkozy boasted would be the goal of the summit when he first [...]
November 29, 2011
Bradley Manning lawyer: White House review found ‘leak’ did no real damage
The US army intelligence analyst suspected of giving classified material to WikiLeaks says a White House review has concluded that the alleged leaks did no real damage to national security. Bradley Manning‘s defence attorney made the claim in a court filing he released publicly on Monday. The filing also claims a defence department review found [...]
November 26, 2011
November 24, 2011
Paul Motian obituary
The American percussionist, composer and bandleader Paul Motian, who has died aged 80, was perhaps most famous for enhancing the work of a brilliant jazz pianist. This he did not just once, but three times: in Bill Evans’s pioneering trio from 1959 to 1962, over the next two years with Paul Bley, and then with [...]
November 23, 2011
Anne McCaffrey obituary
Anne McCaffrey’s worldwide reputation as a writer depended largely on an extended series of science-fiction novels (several of them co-written with her son Todd), set on the world of Pern. This was a distant planet settled by humans but threatened regularly by life-destroying “Threads”, which fell from a neighbouring planet. To combat these, the humans genetically modified [...]
November 22, 2011
Newt Gingrich’s child labor plan cleans up | Ana Marie Cox
Who doesn’t love Newt Gingrich‘s idea to fire school janitors and replace them with actual school children? I mean, besides janitors and school children. If the world had listened to Newt Gingrich 30 years ago, there would be no Freddy Krueger! Countless Scooby Doo villains would be forced pull off their masks in in private, [...]
November 20, 2011
Bangkok Residents Clean Up after Flood
Residents of Bangkok, Thailand were hard at work cleaning up their city Sunday, during a “Big Cleaning Day” campaign launched by the city. Sunday saw blue skies, dry weather and hundreds of people with brooms sweeping mud and debris from homes, while teams of volunteers removed rotting piles of garbage from the streets, as flood [...]
November 17, 2011
Michael Bloomberg’s brave new world | Amy Goodman
Democracy Now! coverage of the OWS eviction from Zuccotti Park and its aftermath, 15 November 2011. Video: DemocracyNow! We got word just after 1am Tuesday that New York City Police were raiding the Occupy Wall Street encampment. I raced down with the “Democracy Now!” news team to Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square. Hundreds of riot [...]
November 17, 2011
November 16, 2011
Lee Serle: following in the footsteps of Trisha Brown
On Sunday night the young Australian choreographer Lee Serle premiered his new dance work, POV, in the Astor Hall of the New York Public Library. The work had been made specially for the space: the grid-like patterns of the choreography referenced the marble patterned floor, also bringing a party atmosphere to the Beaux-Arts grandeur of [...]
November 16, 2011
Chelsea Clinton is hired by NBC News
November 15, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Chelsea Clinton is hired by NBC News 14 Nov 2011 Chelsea Clinton began work at NBC News on Monday, the second daughter of a former president at the network. NBC said it had hired the 31-year-old Clinton to work on projects for “NBC Nightly News” and Brian Williams’ newsmagazine, [...]