I don’t think these NYPD cops are used to having someone record every arrest they make. That’s probably why they reportedly targeted the Occupy Wall Street media team at yesterday’s attempted march to Union Square: The police made scores of arrests on Saturday as hundreds of people, many of whom had been encamped in the financial district as part of a lengthy protest, marched north to Union Square. As darkness fell, large numbers of officers were deployed on streets near the encampment in Zuccotti Park, at Broadway and Liberty Street, where hundreds more people had gathered. Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said in a statement, “There were approximately 80 arrests, mainly for disorderly conduct by individuals who blocked vehicular and pedestrian traffic, but also for resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and, in one instance, for assault on a police officer.” Protest organizers estimated that about 85 people had been arrested and that about five were struck with pepper spray. Among those was Chelsea Elliott, 25, who said that she was sprayed after shouting “Why are you doing that?” as an officer arrested a protester at East 12th Street. “I was on the ground sobbing and couldn’t breathe,” she said. The ongoing protests, against a financial system that participants say favors the rich and powerful over ordinary citizens, started last Saturday, and were coordinated by a New York group called the General Assembly. Many of those taking part have slept in Zuccotti Park, a private park, using it as a base. In the early afternoon hundreds of people left the park and moved north toward Union Square. Witnesses said that for much of the route, protesters spilled from sidewalks onto streets and added that the police used long orange nets at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street in an apparent attempt to block the march from proceeding. Many marchers, however, detoured and entered Union Square before eventually turning south again. Videos showed a confusing scene as protesters went south on University Place, where motor vehicles run north. At 12th Street the orange nets again were used, this time to box in protesters between University Place and Fifth Avenue. About 3 p.m., more than two dozen people sat, handcuffed, on the sidewalk. Nearby, two other protesters standing handcuffed on Fifth Avenue told a reporter that they had both been arrested on sidewalks and were not aware of having broken any law. “They put up orange nets and tried to kettle us and we started running and they started tackling random people and handcuffing them,” said Kelly Brannon, 27, of Ridgewood Queens. “They were herding us like cattle.” Next to her, David Smith, from Maine, said that he had been chanting “Let them go” as people were handcuffed, and was then arrested by a senior officer who told him that he was being charged with obstructing governmental administration .
Continue reading …I don’t think these NYPD cops are used to having someone record every arrest they make. That’s probably why they reportedly targeted the Occupy Wall Street media team at yesterday’s attempted march to Union Square: The police made scores of arrests on Saturday as hundreds of people, many of whom had been encamped in the financial district as part of a lengthy protest, marched north to Union Square. As darkness fell, large numbers of officers were deployed on streets near the encampment in Zuccotti Park, at Broadway and Liberty Street, where hundreds more people had gathered. Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said in a statement, “There were approximately 80 arrests, mainly for disorderly conduct by individuals who blocked vehicular and pedestrian traffic, but also for resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and, in one instance, for assault on a police officer.” Protest organizers estimated that about 85 people had been arrested and that about five were struck with pepper spray. Among those was Chelsea Elliott, 25, who said that she was sprayed after shouting “Why are you doing that?” as an officer arrested a protester at East 12th Street. “I was on the ground sobbing and couldn’t breathe,” she said. The ongoing protests, against a financial system that participants say favors the rich and powerful over ordinary citizens, started last Saturday, and were coordinated by a New York group called the General Assembly. Many of those taking part have slept in Zuccotti Park, a private park, using it as a base. In the early afternoon hundreds of people left the park and moved north toward Union Square. Witnesses said that for much of the route, protesters spilled from sidewalks onto streets and added that the police used long orange nets at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street in an apparent attempt to block the march from proceeding. Many marchers, however, detoured and entered Union Square before eventually turning south again. Videos showed a confusing scene as protesters went south on University Place, where motor vehicles run north. At 12th Street the orange nets again were used, this time to box in protesters between University Place and Fifth Avenue. About 3 p.m., more than two dozen people sat, handcuffed, on the sidewalk. Nearby, two other protesters standing handcuffed on Fifth Avenue told a reporter that they had both been arrested on sidewalks and were not aware of having broken any law. “They put up orange nets and tried to kettle us and we started running and they started tackling random people and handcuffing them,” said Kelly Brannon, 27, of Ridgewood Queens. “They were herding us like cattle.” Next to her, David Smith, from Maine, said that he had been chanting “Let them go” as people were handcuffed, and was then arrested by a senior officer who told him that he was being charged with obstructing governmental administration .
Continue reading …Jon Stewart Talks To Rolling Stone About Running ‘The Daily Show’ (VIDEO)
September 25, 2011 No Comment
Right now, two major magazines are running extensive profiles on Jon Stewart. In one corner, Esquire’s examination of what Stewart means as a cultural, and often political, figure. In the other, Rolling Stone’s interview with the “Daily Show” host. Stewart’s Rolling Stone interview has already made waves, with many focusing on Stewart’s iteration that “The Daily Show” and Fox News are very similar in their positioning, if not in their tactics. He also once again emphasized that he is disappointed in President Obama, expressing “surprise” in Obama’s perceived lack of willingness to address the toxicity of government straight on. Rolling Stone took advantage of their access to Stewart by shooting this funny and informative interview conducted by the magazine’s executive editor Eric Bates. Bates meets with Stewart in the conference room of “The Daily Show” — or as Stewart calls it, “the orgy room.” For nearly eight minutes, Stewart candidly discusses what it’s like to run the show, which he has done since he began hosting in 1999. He explains what makes a good show (“the best shows are made of the smallest moments,” such as his legendary rant against Donald Trump’s pizza-eating habits), and what makes a bad show (“where we’re trying to synthesize three days worth of legislative process.”) But Stewart’s job is (understandably) taxing, and like anyone, he sometimes gets bogged down by the daily grind. “Some days you just don’t fucking feel like it. You just don’t feel like sitting in that room and gathering up the energy to make it show worthy when you would rather be at home watching SpongeBob with your children.” Read Stewart’s Rolling Stone interview, which is not online in full, in the latest issue on stands now.
Continue reading …Jon Stewart Talks To Rolling Stone About Running ‘The Daily Show’ (VIDEO)
September 25, 2011 No CommentRight now, two major magazines are running extensive profiles on Jon Stewart. In one corner, Esquire’s examination of what Stewart means as a cultural, and often political, figure. In the other, Rolling Stone’s interview with the “Daily Show” host. Stewart’s Rolling Stone interview has already made waves, with many focusing on Stewart’s iteration that “The Daily Show” and Fox News are very similar in their positioning, if not in their tactics. He also once again emphasized that he is disappointed in President Obama, expressing “surprise” in Obama’s perceived lack of willingness to address the toxicity of government straight on. Rolling Stone took advantage of their access to Stewart by shooting this funny and informative interview conducted by the magazine’s executive editor Eric Bates. Bates meets with Stewart in the conference room of “The Daily Show” — or as Stewart calls it, “the orgy room.” For nearly eight minutes, Stewart candidly discusses what it’s like to run the show, which he has done since he began hosting in 1999. He explains what makes a good show (“the best shows are made of the smallest moments,” such as his legendary rant against Donald Trump’s pizza-eating habits), and what makes a bad show (“where we’re trying to synthesize three days worth of legislative process.”) But Stewart’s job is (understandably) taxing, and like anyone, he sometimes gets bogged down by the daily grind. “Some days you just don’t fucking feel like it. You just don’t feel like sitting in that room and gathering up the energy to make it show worthy when you would rather be at home watching SpongeBob with your children.” Read Stewart’s Rolling Stone interview, which is not online in full, in the latest issue on stands now.
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• Makau breaks Haile Gebrselassie’s record with time of 2:03.38 • England’s Scott Overall finishes fifth in debut marathon Before Sunday’s Berlin marathon, Patrick Makau talked openly about his desire to take the world record back to Kenya. In the event, he delivered spectacularly, not only breaking Haile Gebrselassie’s existing mark by more than 20 seconds, but also breaking Gebrselassie himself with an exhilarating burst away from the leading group around the 15-mile mark. “In the morning my body was not good but after I started the race, it started reacting very well. I started thinking about the record,” Makau said, and from the earliest split times it was clear that something special was in the offing on the same wide, flat, famously fast course on which Gebrselassie set the previous record three years ago. Makau and Gebrselassie were in a leading group of four up to just past halfway, at which point Makau accelerated like a 1,500m runner hitting the home straight, leaving the world-record holder bent double, holding his stomach on the Mitte pavement. Gebrselassie rejoined the race but eventually dropped out at the 27km mark. Makau kept up a two-and-half-minute lead over the field and entered the final stretch beneath the Brandenburg Gate at a grimacing canter, taking the tape in 2hr 3min 38sec, an achievement that will be leavened further by the hefty purse for setting the new record mark. There was also a significant British moment of triumph as Scott Overall of Blackheath & Bromley produced a famous debut-marathon run to finish fifth in 2:10.56. Overall cruised in just behind the Kenyan Felix Limo to the surprise of pretty much everybody present, including himself. “I couldn’t believe it,” he said afterwards. “When I got to 40k I thought I had got the time wrong, so I was cruising on the home straight, and when I saw the clock said 2:10, I was very surprised. I was on my own from halfway and think that if I had had a pacer, possibly may have gone quicker. All in all, not a bad debut.” It was an extraordinary performance by the 28-year-old, by trade a 5,000m runner who only began thinking about running marathons in May after “losing my ability to run on a track”. Overall, who is from Hammersmith and works part-time in a sports shop in Clapham, said it would be “a great honour” to be selected for the London Games, having finished comfortably inside the A-qualifying mark. If Overall is selected – which he surely will be – London 2012 is likely to be only the second marathon of his career. He will at least be in familiar company in Team GB. Overall was an usher at the wedding of Mo Farah, a close friend from their days with Hounslow Athletics Club. Athletics Olympics 2012: Athletics Olympic Games 2012 Mo Farah Barney Ronay guardian.co.uk
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MONEYBALL MOVIE REVIEW – GREAT MOVIE (HD) Moneyball – full movie film part 1 of 13 Review of Moneyball DerickSamonek21 says: Billy beane was the star
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Saudi women will have the right to stand for office and vote in future local elections, says King Abdullah Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has said women will have the right to stand and vote in future local elections and join the advisory Shura council as full members. “Because we refuse to marginalise women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulama [clerics] and others … to involve women in the Shura council as members, starting from the next term,” Abdullah, 87, said in a speech. “Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote,” he added. Liberal activists in the country have long called for greater rights for women, who are barred from travelling, working or having medical operations without the permission of a male relative and are forbidden from driving. The changes will come after elections on Thursday, in which women are barred from voting or standing for office. Saudi Arabia Gender Middle East Electoral reform guardian.co.uk
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Saudi women will have the right to stand for office and vote in future local elections, says King Abdullah Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has said women will have the right to stand and vote in future local elections and join the advisory Shura council as full members. “Because we refuse to marginalise women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulama [clerics] and others … to involve women in the Shura council as members, starting from the next term,” Abdullah, 87, said in a speech. “Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote,” he added. Liberal activists in the country have long called for greater rights for women, who are barred from travelling, working or having medical operations without the permission of a male relative and are forbidden from driving. The changes will come after elections on Thursday, in which women are barred from voting or standing for office. Saudi Arabia Gender Middle East Electoral reform guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Saudi women will have the right to stand for office and vote in future local elections, says King Abdullah Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has said women will have the right to stand and vote in future local elections and join the advisory Shura council as full members. “Because we refuse to marginalise women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulama [clerics] and others … to involve women in the Shura council as members, starting from the next term,” Abdullah, 87, said in a speech. “Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote,” he added. Liberal activists in the country have long called for greater rights for women, who are barred from travelling, working or having medical operations without the permission of a male relative and are forbidden from driving. The changes will come after elections on Thursday, in which women are barred from voting or standing for office. Saudi Arabia Gender Middle East Electoral reform guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Saudi women will have the right to stand for office and vote in future local elections, says King Abdullah Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has said women will have the right to stand and vote in future local elections and join the advisory Shura council as full members. “Because we refuse to marginalise women in society in all roles that comply with sharia, we have decided, after deliberation with our senior ulama [clerics] and others … to involve women in the Shura council as members, starting from the next term,” Abdullah, 87, said in a speech. “Women will be able to run as candidates in the municipal election and will even have a right to vote,” he added. Liberal activists in the country have long called for greater rights for women, who are barred from travelling, working or having medical operations without the permission of a male relative and are forbidden from driving. The changes will come after elections on Thursday, in which women are barred from voting or standing for office. Saudi Arabia Gender Middle East Electoral reform guardian.co.uk
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