The OccupyUSA Blog for Wednesday (Feb. 8), With Frequent Updates

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/166130/occupyusa-blog-wednesday-feb-8-frequent-updates

9:35 $6 billion for a nuke-building shed?

8:50 Thought I was hearing and seeing things last night when big money man standing behind Santorum on victory stage was IDed as one Foster Friess. For those who don't know (meaning, nearly all of you): the drive-in eatery Foster's Freeze in California was the Wilson kids (of Beach Boys fame) home away from home in California and helped inspire their songs. Foster Friess, a stock picked, has put millions into Tucker Carlson's site Daily Caller.

8:45 Stat of the day from NYT: Of 14,000 murders in USA last year not a single one was atrributable to "Islamic extremism."

8:15 The Susan Komen brand ruins, by Jon Friedman.... More from the "whistleblowing" military officer on Afghanistan....Jon Alter on MSNBC: massive funding by Koch brothers and other multi-millionaires for GOP represents threat of true "oligarchy" taking over America.

8:00 Santorum got his sweep. As I predicted last night, wide use of RICK ROLLING or RICK ROLLS as headline today, including at Drudge.... Another brilliant night for Newt, the political pundits--and the 1%. Romney gets glitter bombed.

7:55 For years, I've never done much of anything at Facebook, but started a bigger effort there yesterday, if you want to look for me there.

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10:35 Allison Kilkenny: As the "left" bickers, Occupy evictions continue. "The discontentment with Occupy on the left appears to be growing. In an interview I did yesterday with The Young Turks yesterday, host Cenk Uygur expressed similar frustration with the movement that stubbornly refuses to engage within the political system. Let me be clear: this aggrevation on the left is not new, but it seems prominent liberal players feel a renewed sense of confidence that they will not be booed mercilessly by their audiences if they take Occupy to task." Question that needs to be asked: What happened to the tens of thouisands who once joined in marches in Oakland and New York? And why?

10:30 Gabe Sherman's cover story at New York mag cites OWS influence: "The Emasculation of Wall Street." One wonders if that shift is true and long-lasting, though.

10:00 The hypocrisy, it burns: GOP candidates slam Democrats' alleged "class war," but Santorum now hits Obama for thinking he's "smarter" or "better" than you, Gingrich hits the "elite" White House media, Romney claims poor folks need little help.

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2. Letter From Langdon: The Less Than 1%

http://www.dailyyonder.com/letter-langdon-less-1/2012/02/07/3747



I set out to Occupy Langdon. After all, I'm part of the less-than-1%, an American farmer. Nobody seemed to notice, not even a passing train filled with grain.

The Occupy Wall Street Movement has been called (10) "a potent political and cultural conversation". On the other hand Occupy movements in cities like Washington DC have been called over reported and under attended.

That is definitely not the case here because Occupy Langdon has been completely off the radar screen, totally undiscussed, and one hundred percent unreported. Until now.

I'm breaking this thing wide open.

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12:00 Big action set for tomorrow at 10 am at the new Apple store inside Grand Central in NY -- as activists deliver there petitions signed by 250,000 protesting working conditions at the China plants. Change.org had a lot to do with the campaign. Here's their link and tally. Plus: "More than 55,000 SumOfUs members have signed that organization’s petition already, making it the most viral petition since SumOfUs, a new global grassroots community of consumers fighting for corporate accountability, launched just over two months ago. More than 35,000 of the petition signers say they buy Apple products, including over 20,000 iPhone users."

11:30 Alternet says it is expanding coverage of labor and workers' rights.