From PJ Media The Occupy Wall Street movement has received so much media coverage in recent weeks that it’s nearly impossible to keep abreast of all the developments. So many endorsements and criticisms coming from all directions enter the news cycle in such rapid succession that even the most dedicated news junkies may have missed [...]
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O’Reilly: Who’s backing Occupy? (video)
From Breitbart “Occupy Wall Street was set up and orchestrated and executed … to supply Barack Obama with his central campaign theme of income inequality.”
Irony watch: union pays Twitter to trend anti-corporate hashtag
From The Blaze As the Occupy movement springs back to life on “May Day” to bring the plight of the “99 percent” to the attention of, well, the “99 percent,” some labor unions are doing their part, even paying Twitter to trend an anti-corporate hashtag. It’s true! Trending right now (worldwide!) is the hashtag “#CorporateGreed.” [...]
Make $12 per hour being a San Diego occupier
From Doo Doo Economics Proof that the Occupy movement is astroturf. You may never break into the 1% working for the Occupy Movement but it pays more than grassroot volunteering as a tea party member. The left must be tired of all that messy democracy stuff. Is there any mystery as to who is financing [...]
OWS is broke
From Fox Nation As the Occupy movement attempts to make a comeback, the flagship Occupy Wall Street group is broke, An announcement on the New York General Assembly website lays out the stark reality. This week is the week: we dont have enough money to meet our recurring budgets. Accounting does not feel ok about [...]
NY occupiers say they will be broke in three weeks
From The Blaze The Occupy Wall Street group in New York City is running so low on cash, it could be out of money by the end of the month. A finance report posted on the group’s General Assembly website for the week ending March 2 shows it had just under $45,000 left in its [...]
Watch union boss Richard Trumka lie through his teeth (video)
From Daily Caller AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka denied that his union pays protesters to attend their protests, despite video footage captured by The Daily Caller that proves otherwise. TheDC asked Trumka about the video of ”Occupy CPAC” protesters who told theDC that the unions had paid the protesters $60 to attend. The protest was organized [...]
Occupy groups get funding (video)
From the Wall Street Journal A group of business leaders—including Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and former Nirvana manager Danny Goldberg—are planning to pour substantial funds into the Occupy Wall Street movement in hopes of sustaining the protests and fostering political change. Business leaders are planning to give substantial [...]
Occupy Wall Street bank statement shows $99,000 balance, expenses for housing, property damage, bail
From the Daily Caller The Daily Caller has obtained a copy of a December 2011 bank statement mailed to Occupy Wall Street, the anti-capitalist protest group whose leaders’ rallying cry positions them as defenders of America’s less-privileged “99 percent.” But the organization’s bank balance in December may instead re-cast the occupiers as defenders of the [...]
Occupy gets a PAC
From CBS Last week, John Paul Thornton of Decatur, Ala. filed to create a PAC for the Occupy Movement. “PAC” is an acronym for a political action committee, or an organization that campaigns for or against candidates, legislation, and ballot initiatives. Thornton is an active member in the Alabama Occupy movement. He said he came up with the [...]
California occupiers protest Obama fundraiser (video)
From Fox Nation ANCHOR: Drivers in this neighborhood definitely know the president is here. Traffic was at a standstill here on Wilshire for about 20 minutes, as the president’s motorcade pulled on through. And this visit is all about raising cash. President Obama is kicking off his three-day visit to California in the Southland. his [...]
New occupy chant should be ‘Pelosi! Is! The 0.99%!’
From Daily Caller Here’s yet another sign, if you need one, that Occupy has outlived its political usefulness. Via the Washington Free Beacon (welcome, by the way!): Politico Influence reports that House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and minority whip Steny Hoyer raised $400,000 last night at a fundraiser held at the home of Democratic lobbyists [...]
