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NY TIMES: "Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made $27 million in 2010. They held millions of dollars in a Swiss bank account and millions more in partnerships in the Cayman Islands. His family’s trusts sold thousands of shares in Goldman Sachs that were offered to favored clients when the storied investment house first went public. The couple’s effective federal tax rate for the year worked out to 13.9 percent, a rate typical of households earning about $80,000 a year. Yet the hundreds of pages of tax documents released by Mr. Romney’s campaign on Tuesday morning did not readily reveal any elaborate financial legerdemain or exotic tax shelters. What Mr. Romney’s returns illustrated, instead, was the array of perfectly ordinary ways in which the United States tax code confers advantages on the rich, allowing Mr. Romney to amass wealth under rules very different from those faced by most Americans who take home a paycheck."
(Source: inothernews)
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Dec 9thI hope the producers at least got some footage of this going on. I imagine that kid in Super 8 who, upon seeing that a train was about to barrel through his scene, yells “PRODUCTION VALUE!!!” at his cast and crew and orders them into positions to get the train into the shot.
Also: it’s kind of insulting that the City of New York would grant a film permit to the Law & Order folks allowing them to construct an OWS-style “camp” so close to the actual Zuccotti Park site. Of course, I understand that L&O aims for NYC authenticity. But seriously, they should’ve thought this through a little more.
(via pwnator)
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It’s proved impossible for me to get this shot of former Philadelphia Police Cpt. Ray Lewis being arrested, published anywhere. I was adamantly rebuffed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, NYT, local NY papers, and Newsweek, before even looking at the photograph. One of the only published photos of this paradoxical and intense event is located here at the NYC Observer:
http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former-philadelphia-police-captain-ray-lewis-arrested-ows/
Glad this photo saw the light of day.
Adamantly rebuffed?! OK. Looks like we’re going to have to respond here.
Here’s John’s initial email to us (well, my gmail address, specifically):
As I’m sure you’ve heard, a former Philadelphia Police Cpt. Ray Lewis was arrested this morning, in his uniform, making for a unique, emotional, intense, and paradoxical moment. I’m a freelance photojournalist and was able to get a few frames of this, and after arduous hours of attempting to get this photo published, The Philadelphia Inquirer wouldn’t even consider looking at it, neither would the New York Times or a number of publications as I was told they already had photographers there, but obviously not had caught such an emotional scene. Attached is a low res sequence of the actual arrest. Would the prospect of this being published be of any interest to you?
Of course this would be of interest to us. We’ve been covering OWS all along. I thought these might be a good fit for the magazine, or the site, instead of just plopping on the Tumblr. So my response:
Great shots. I’ve sent to our photo editor, will let you know in the AM.
Earlier this morning, he writes back:
I hope this finds you well sorry for the use of a different email. Thanks for the compliments and was wondering whether your photo editor had checked in with you yet about the photos I sent over late last night. All the best!
And then what? The Observer picked one of them up, great! But somehow Newsweek, big bad Newsweek, became one of those who “adamantly rebuffed” the photos “before even looking at the photograph.” Come on man. It’s a cool photo. No need to sully folks like us in the media to get the word out. Let the images you captured speak for themselves.
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Hahahahahaha, I wonder who this whiteshirt is and if he knows he’s going down in internet history?
Meme the shit out of this guy.
(Source: cake-and-revolution, via pwnator)
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"They pulled me out by the stethoscope, white coat and all as I was telling them I have a patient in there. One girl has a heart condition and wasn’t feeling well. They manhandled her and threw her on the ground."
–Occupy Wall Street medic PAUL KOSTORA, on being forced to leave Zuccotti Park by the NYPD.
The police don’t care about you and your God-damned healthcare.
(Source: inothernews, via pwnator)
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Oct 28th -
Newsweek: "Dear Occupy Wall Street Protesters"
Stay leaderless and anonymous. It appeared at first that not having a leader, a single face people could relate to, would be your fatal flaw. Now it seems to be the mark of your collective genius. The media would pounce on a leader, or leaders, and reduce your entire movement to a life story, a…
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Oct 14thFORCE A New York City police officer on a motor scooter runs over a Legal Aid Society observer as Occupy Wall Street demonstrators march through the streets near Wall Street, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. (Photo: Mary Altaffer / AP via WCBS 880 AM)
Today in “Photos The NYPD Would Rather You Didn’t See.”
Apparently this protester was arrested for kicking the scooter over to free his foot.
If that’s true, that’s pretty terrible. Fact that he’s not just a protester but a Legal Aid Society observer means this isn’t the last time we’ll hear of this incident.
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