PoliticsUSA: Occupy & We're the 99%: Beginning of the end for protests:

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ABC News (Nov 13,2k11)
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Occupy Crackdown: 

Beginning of the End for Protests?

PoliticsUSA: Occupy & We're the 99%:

Christian Science Monitor newsletter (Oct27,2k11)
CSM materials reposted here by Owlb

Politics: Economics: Death in the Occupy camp, Vancouver with rW backgrounder

CBC News via Sun News
— refWrite editorial forematter and CBC textual patter posted by EconoMix

Occupy Vancouver death 

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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada —  The Occupation rampant in the USA and Canada, and around the world, scored its first death, apparently by an overdose heroin injection, apparently by suicide (but I woudn't rule out homicide).  The Occupation Movement is an ideological grab-bag that in its first manifestations claimed it was aimed at the large banks that received the first USA Stimulus monies so that the foreclosures on mortgaged houses by semi-govt corporations like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 

(institutions that had been unleashed on woud-be home-owners ready to sign up for what they coud not sustain payments-for, then the speculative hi-loan packagers at the over-sized banks and brokerage firms.  The stock market was very negatively affected, with investors large and small, loosing large portions of their assets.  But, compared to that, the worst devastation occured in the failure of corporations — again, small businesses, partnerships and single owners — now whacked by an economically-unsound monster healthcare law produced by a House and Senate stacked by Democrats to destroy the existing healthcare arrangements in the country (replacing them with the health-omnibus law now called Obamacare).  

The new legislation was so over-reaching and so over-taxing that it killed the dream of absorbing 30 million uninsured people into a national healthcare scheme, which to succeed at all woud require a strict prioritization that woud rule-out every new monster law and expenditure in other areas — a super-expensive law contrived and sponsored by the Pelosi Democrat-led House of Representatives (which must originate finanicial legislation) and the Reid Democrat-led Senate (which constitutionally was expected to confirm or defeat the House proposals by not confirming, on financial matters).

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