Part one of Al Jazeera documentary on Occupy Wall Street

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NYPD at it again, roughing people up at #OWS

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Will each day at #OWS bring yet more ridiculous police brutality and intimidation of non-violent protesters?  What is the NYPD so afraid of?

“We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.”

So said NSA whistleblower William Binney, holding his thumb and forefinger close together.

Binney should know what he is talking about. For some 40 years, he worked with the giant NSA and was instrumental in automating its worldwide eavesdropping network.  He told James Bamford why he left the NSA in 2001:

#OWS mic-check calls for solidarity with Muslims against NYPD spying

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In this video, Occupy Wall Street activists call on the movement to support their fellow New Yorkers, Muslims who have come under undue police surveillance simply because of their religion.

The Pirate Bay is going drone

In what might be the coolest news of the day, the torrents website The Pirate Bay -- much despised by the recording and film industries, and harassed by prosecutors and police the world over -- has announced that it plans to store its servers on drones. The group says the Air Force is the only thing that could take down their operation once the system is mobile.

Drone servers!

NYPD: Above the law and beyond its reach?

How is it possible to rein in an out-of-control police force with nearly 40,000 sworn officers, thousands of support staff, an annual budget of $3.9 billion, a enough military weapons to outfit an army, a culture of total impunity and a political establishment that is solidly on its side?

More evidence of NYPD brutality from #M17

Here's a better video of the NYPD's clearing of Liberty Plaza and of activist Cecily McMillian in police custody, apparently having a seizure while in handcuffs:

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Pepper sprayed UC Davis students to sue

The ACLU of Northern California is representing three young people pepper sprayed by a UC Davis police officer in a suit against the university police. The students were protesting tuition hikes that would prevent at least one of them from graduating. Watch.

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Security clearances gone wild — at the Department of Education?

Police brutality at #OWS ends with woman taken to hospital

UPDATE: See this collection of tweets from Saturday night and Sunday morning -- a telling of events from various people on the scene.