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Here's The Real Reason Why Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aren't Getting Kicked Out Of Zuccotti Park
Business Insider ^ | 10/11/2011 | Robert Johnson

Posted on 10/14/2011 12:04:42 PM PDT by fungoking

Here's The Real Reason Why Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aren't Getting Kicked Out Of Zuccotti ParkRobert Johnson | Oct. 11, 2011, 12:00 PM | 13,897 | 23 Coming on the heels of the Solyndra debacle, the Obama administration has just approved a $168.9 million loan guarantee for the Granite Reliable wind farm project owned by Brookfield Asset Management (BAM). Among its many holdings BAM owns Brookfield Renewable Power, which owns the Granite Reliable and it also owns Brookfield Office Properties, whose holdings include the now famous Zuccotti Park. The Department of Energy finalized the loan guarantee less than a week after Occupy Wall Street protesters took to Zuccotti Park, and with the Obama administration's Tuesday endorsement of the protests, rumors are starting to circulate that this could be the reason Brookfield is allowing protesters to remain on its property. The Granite Reliable Power Project under construction in Coos Bay, New Hampshire is the state's largest wind farm and the New Hampshire Union Leader questions why Brookfield would need federal subsidies at all, particularly following the bankruptcy of Solyndra. Mayor Bloomberg's announcement Monday that protesters could remain as long as they liked, also raised a few eyebrows and it turns out he has a personal connection to Brookfield as well. The mayor's longtime domestic partner Diana Taylor is on the Board of Directors at Brookfield Properties along with John E. Zuccotti himself.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brookfieldproperties; cronycapitalism; moneylaundering; newyork; newyorkcity; obama; occupywallst; occupywallstreet; ows; solyndra; zuccottipark
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Hey, its just the Chicago way.
1 posted on 10/14/2011 12:04:46 PM PDT by fungoking
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To: fungoking

The Plot thickens ...


2 posted on 10/14/2011 12:07:56 PM PDT by OldNavyVet (One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years)
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To: fungoking
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BUSH'S FAULT

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3 posted on 10/14/2011 12:08:07 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I never win at Scrable.)
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To: fungoking

Yes. As I said on that thread yesterday, saying that they’ll kick them out is one thing; doing it is another.

This didn’t surprise me one bit. Bloomberg was just trying to play both sides and avoid any loss of votes among his leftist or his Wall Street bases.

And I presume that his very lucrative business also requires him to stay on good terms with Wall Street. But he obviously didn’t really mean it. And he has blamed the failure to clean up on a couple of other politicians who don’t mind being known as friends of the hippie left.


4 posted on 10/14/2011 12:09:19 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: OldNavyVet

well, well, well


5 posted on 10/14/2011 12:20:03 PM PDT by technically right
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To: fungoking

Well, how about that!


6 posted on 10/14/2011 12:20:48 PM PDT by livius
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To: Cicero

I wonder how long it will take to recover - if we ever recover - from the disasterous Bloomberg.


7 posted on 10/14/2011 12:24:13 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Let's have a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: fungoking

Think anyone will notice?


8 posted on 10/14/2011 12:24:21 PM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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To: miss marmelstein

Bloomberg’s longtime shack-up girlfriend, Diana L. Taylor, is on the Board of Directors of Brookfield Properties


9 posted on 10/14/2011 12:29:03 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Robe
Bloomberg’s longtime shack-up girlfriend ..

Huh? I never would have guessed, I thought he was, oh nevermind.
10 posted on 10/14/2011 12:32:51 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: Scythian

I knew what you were thinkin’!


11 posted on 10/14/2011 12:35:18 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Let's have a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: miss marmelstein

What’s that rule?
Follow the money


12 posted on 10/14/2011 12:43:31 PM PDT by tbird-james
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To: fungoking
As Gomer Pyle would say:
SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!
13 posted on 10/14/2011 12:55:51 PM PDT by DeaconRed (Cold War Veteran. . . . US Army Security Agency 1964-1968)
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To: tbird-james

Just heard a heart-rending interview on Sean Hannity’s show with a small business owner near the park. Business down 40%, vendors refusing to service her, bathrooms trashed, employees pushed, shoved and cursed at.

It’s as if the Brooklyn pogram is back again.


14 posted on 10/14/2011 1:17:17 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Let's have a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: miss marmelstein; Joe Brower; seekthetruth; flaglady47; shield

BUMP......FOLLOW THE MONEY.....PING


15 posted on 10/14/2011 2:46:16 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (*OMG ........means Obama Must Go in 2012!)
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To: LucyT; neverdem; The Mayor; Fred Nerks; BIGLOOK; SunkenCiv; jazusamo; Grampa Dave; tubebender

OK everyone, all together now, ACT surprised.

If you simply go back to the beginning, to the group that first called for these protests, you will find the Canadian group (go figure) Adbusters Media Foundation.

Who are they? Recipients of over $300,000 from George Soros’s Tides Foundation. Say it ain’t so! They got another $176,500 from another of his orgs—the Democracy Alliance. The US Day Of Rage group, also part of this protest got money from the Tides Foundation also.

That was just some of the organizers. When Moveon.org moved in last week with the Union thugs and a host of other partisan groups the full body of Soros crews were now encamped.

ht comments


16 posted on 10/23/2011 1:57:43 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76; Berlin_Freeper; Hotlanta Mike; Silentgypsy; repubmom; HANG THE EXPENSE; Nepeta; ...
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Here's The Real Reason Why Occupy Wall Street Protesters Aren't Getting Kicked Out Of Zuccotti Park

. . . . From # 16:

If you simply go back to the beginning, to the group that first called for these protests, you will find the Canadian group (go figure) Adbusters Media Foundation.

Who are they? Recipients of over $300,000 from George Soros’s Tides Foundation. Say it ain’t so! They got another $176,500 from another of his orgs—the Democracy Alliance. The US Day Of Rage group, also part of this protest got money from the Tides Foundation also.

That was just some of the organizers. When Moveon.org moved in last week with the Union thugs and a host of other partisan groups the full body of Soros crews were now encamped.

17 posted on 10/23/2011 10:44:37 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: fungoking

Very interesting.


18 posted on 10/23/2011 10:51:11 PM PDT by little jeremiah (We will have to go through hell to get out of hell.)
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To: vanilla swirl

EL-RUSHBO was on top of this last week.


19 posted on 10/24/2011 9:32:34 PM PDT by bitt ( Obama is so unpopular now that the Kenyans say he was definitely born in Hawaii)
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To: fungoking

It’s an evil web. I suspect nobama will go down as the worst President ever. I also suspect he will go down as the most corrupt President ever.

This is disgusting.


20 posted on 10/30/2011 4:16:59 AM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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