OWS Zucotti Park

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

It's been pretty well, 2 arrests in Zuccotti, and the multiple arrests at one corner this morning with the Wall Street NYSE march.

Open another window, and click on that stream .... the police have the protesters stopped at a street, the protesters are being good, but they've stopped the protesters??? The police are trying to barricade the march. Idiots. Where do they expect thousands of people to go? Good lord.

Home perhaps?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Home perhaps?

Do you have the livestream on?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Do you have the livestream on?

TVG

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

TVG

Don't you have a laptop?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Don't you have a laptop?

TVG is bad enough

[Riot]

They used sound weapons on the protesters this morning:

7:29 AM PT: A blogger I trust is tweeting that LRAD is on site, and may be deployed against protesters.

7:32 AM PT: CNBC reports that journalists are being kicked out. At least one journalist arrested. NYPD Kettling occupiers on pine between broadway and nassau.

7:35 AM PT: Kettled protesters at Nassau and Pine are singing the national anthem.

7:36 AM PT: Protesters sing the national anthem at Nassau and Pine. The police respond with LRAD.

7:38 AM PT: Handheld LRAD used on protesters: http://twitpic.com/...

7:54 AM PT: Russia Today is confirming that LRAD was used.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

They used sound weapons on the protesters this morning:

Did they play Bieber extra loud?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

They used sound weapons on the protesters this morning:

Russia Today?

The Economist magazine which classified RussiaToday's reporting as "weirdly constructed propaganda" has suggested that the channel has provided a platform to conspiracy theorists. Julia Ioffe claims that Russia Today is a Kremlin propaganda outlet featuring "fringe-dwelling experts" and "was just a way to stick it to the U.S. from behind the façade of legitimate newsgathering."

An article published in The New Republic by James Kirchick characterized the news reportage of Russia Today as, "virulent anti-Americanism, worshipful portrayal of Russian leaders, and comical production values," that "can't help but revive the pettiness that was a distinctive feature of Soviet-era propaganda."[25]

An article by Accuracy in Media criticized RT as a "propaganda network funded by the Moscow regime of Vladimir Putin" and charged that it "regularly features Marxist and radical commentators. The article also cites the description of the network by former KGB officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky as “a part of the Russian industry of misinformation and manipulation” designed to mislead foreign audiences about Russian intentions."Furthermore, Preobrazhensky argues that Russia Today utilizes methods of propaganda that are "managed by Directorate 'A' of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service...with the specialty of Directorate ‘A’ is deceiving world public opinion and manipulating it. It has got a lot of experience over decades of the Cold War."