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"The European Union has adopted a proposal to regulate airport body scanners at Member State airports. No Member State or airport is obligated to use scanners, but if they do, the scanners must conform to new European Union standards. Here's a partial list: Scanners must not store, retain, copy, print, or retrieve passenger images; the image viewer must be in a remote location; passengers must be informed how the scanners are being controlled; and can opt out if they choose. Perhaps most importantly: X-ray scanners are banned 'in order not to risk jeopardizing citizens' health and safety.'"
 As of around 06:30 UTC, the NYPD appears to have begun removing the encampment of Occupy Wall Street. At 06:34 UTC the Mayor's office issued a tweet declaring: "Occupants of Zuccotti should temporarily leave and remove tents and tarps. Protesters can return after the park is cleared.". Around 07:15 UTC the first of several large dumpsters were deposited and the police began throwing tents and other debris into it. Reports also indicate that a Long Range Acoustic Device is on the premises. The police are using helicopters and physical barriers to prevent news coverage, but the Occupiers arestreaming the events (alternative stream; #occupywallstreet on irc.indymedia.org is also rather active for those who don't fancy flash or twitter.) As of 09:15 or so, the situation according to those near NYC is that the park has more or less been cleared.

According to occupywallst.org the park is being evicted by the police and they are asking for anyone who can get there to reinforce the occupation.

edit: live feed here http://www.livestream.com/occupynyc

edit2: OccupyWallSt.org is giving updates on the ongoing eviction. I'd also like to add there is a call to action for Thursday, November 17th and any redditor who can should attend, especially now that there is a nationwide crackdown on the occupy movement.

edit3: "Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights." - Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?

I'm adding this in here as something of a prewarning for why the media will attempt to distort this crackdown into something that is not a brutal and flagrant violation of free expression. We all need to understand that corporate media doesn't serve our interests, it serves the 1%, it's owners. So I figured a little of Einstein's wisdom wouldn't hurt.

edit4: This livestream is working, in case the first one goes down (as it is now):http://www.ustream.tv/TheOther99

edit5: also subscribe to the occupywallstreet subreddit!

edit6:

Call the First Precinct NYPD and tell them to leave Zuccoti Park alone: 212-334-0611 Call NYC Mayor 212-639-9675 email http://t.co/OGedYJm3 Also: NYPD: 646-610-5000 / Respectfully Demand 1st Amendment Rights Call the white house 202-456-1414

 http://storify.com/bendoernberg/press-suppression-at-occupy-wall-street-raid


http://www.lossofprivacy.com/index.php/2011/09/lrad-designed-for-the-military-being-used-on-americans-for-crowd-dispersal/