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In Bloomberg’s New York: anyone who supports Occupy Wall Street in any fashion is being made an example of.
Were you one of these people extra-legally arrested or assaulted, or have you witnessed someone who was?
Post your videos, photos, and stories on the Occupy Bloomberg’s Army Facebook page.
We will not be stymied by the over 180 arrests on our anniversary, nor intimidated by the unprovoked and random nature of so many of them.
We will fight for our right to protest Wall Street while we protest Wall Street itself.
All Roads Lead To Wall Street -- from the ‘Your Inbox: Occupied’ team (click here to subscribe)
ONE man is dead and fourteen others have been hospitalised with suspected drug overdoses at a music festival in Penrith, Sydney yesterday.
The 23-year-old deceased reveller travelled to the Defqon.1 festival by car with several friends.
Just before midday he was taken in to the festival's medical tent, where his condition quickly deteriorated and he suffered several seizures, police say.
An ambulance was then called and took the man to Nepean Hospital where he was resuscitated numerous times after multiple cardiac arrests.
He died at 10.30pm last night.
A police spokesman told The Daily Telegraph they were unsure what substance the man had consumed.
"That information is being prepared for the coroner," he said.
"It is certainly a warning to others out there if it was an overdose, which is what it is looking like."
Over 18,000 people descended on the Sydney International Regatta Centre yesterday to listen to a range of hardstyle dance music.
A police operation with drug dogs nabbed 87 partygoers, three for public order offences and the remainder for drug offences.
An attendee took to Twitter saying the death may have been associated with a bad batch of ecstasy pills.
Police have not confirmed this allegation.
Defqon.
1 Festival is an annual music festival held in the Netherlands and Australia.
It was founded in 2003 by festival organiser Q-dance and plays mostly hardstyle and related genres such as hardcore techno, jumpstyle and hard trance.
Many prominent hardstyle and dubstyle artists perform there annually.
Police have announced a media conference regarding the man's death and the large number of arrests made at the event for this afternoon.
They also warned users of illegal drugs to be aware that while they may believe they are purchasing one drug they may get something completely different.
"People who attend dance parties and music festivals need to act with caution when considering taking an illicit drug.
The effects of some of the more popular drugs at these venues such as MDMA (ecstasy) can cause overheating and dehydration with sometimes fatal consequences," Penrith Local Area Command Crime Manager Detective Inspector Grant Healey warned.
It was the fifth year for the event described as being for "hard dance enthusiasts" with tickets for the Sydney International Regatta Centre event costing as much as $235.
On its website organisers stress "This festival is produced to give everyone a positive and safe experience.
Q-dance maintains a zero tolerance drug policy.
There will be a strong police presence at the event."
Headline acts include Coone, Gunz for Hire, Frontliner and Brennan Heart.
There aren’t many places in Seattle that haven’t changed at all in my lifetime.
But walking into Tai Tung restaurant in the Chinatown-International District is like stepping out of a time machine.
There’s the wood paneling, mauve upholstery and thick laminate menu I remember from special dinners out with my family as a child.
But the restaurant’s history runs much deeper than that.
“The door that you just walked through, that swinging door?
That door is 80 some years old,” says Siang Hui Tay, who adds that the restaurant opened in 1935 and is the oldest remaining Chinese restaurant in neighborhood .
Tay would know.
Inspired by the history of Tai Tung, she and her partner Val Tan have co-produced “A Taste Of Home,” a documentary showcasing local Chinese-American culinary history, which will play opening night of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival next week.
But it wasn’t the restaurant’s door, historic lunch counter or Bruce Lee’s favorite table (he was a regular) that first attracted the filmmaking duo, who work under the brand “Tay & Val.” It was the food — specifically Chinese comfort food from their home country of Singapore.
“We were looking for a taste of home,” says Tan, who was hoping for a taste of her grandmother’s egg foo young and “Yelped” her way to Tai Tung, which is famous for the dish.
What she found there wasn’t the recipe she grew up with.
She says the Singaporean version she knows is more of a shrimp scramble than a gravy-topped omelet.
But the experience sparked an interest in the history of Chinese-American food of our region and introduced her to Harry Chan.
Chan is a third generation owner of Tai Tung.
He’s worked at the restaurant since 1968.
In addition to being the devoted boss (he boasts that he keeps a sleeping bag at the ready so he can be sure to open even on snow days), he’s also an expert on the evolution of food in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.
“They ate pig feet and pig tails, ox tails, salmon head, peashoot vegetables steamed with pork, preserved pimento,” says Chan listing off some of the popular dishes once served by his grandfather.
You won’t find all of those items on the menu today, but there are a few dishes that have remained unchanged since the restaurant’s opening day.
“It’s all going to, at some point, disappear.” I ordered “Combination #1” as featured in “A Taste Of Home.” The spareribs were sweet and tender, the pork chow mien fresh and savory and the egg foo young pillowing light and deeply satisfying.
What’s more, every bite felt like it brought me closer to the increasingly elusive history of my city.
For more of that edible history, Val & Tay’s film — which is funded in part by 4Culture and City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture — showcases five of the oldest Chinese-American establishments in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District including: Tai Tung, the Tsue Chong Noodle Factory (you’ve eaten their fortune cookies), Fortuna Café and the now-closed Mon Hei Bakery and Yick Fung Grocery Store .
“We just started it as a passion project,” says Tay who feels an urgency to document this history before it’s gone.
“It’s all going to, at some point, disappear.” But Harry Chan and Tai Tung have no plans of disappearing, at least not anytime soon.
When I asked him if he thinks the restaurant will make it to 100 he just smiles and answers, “We’ll see.” I’d bet they do.
“A Taste Of Home” is playing Thursday, February 23rd at 7:30PM at The SIFF Cinema Egyptian on Capitol Hill as part of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival.
You can find tickets at: seattleaaff.org/2017/films/taste-of-home/ 0 email
EU politics: renewing the wedding vows 19/01/2015 Follow @eureferendum Jean-Claude Juncker says he is prepared to examine the UK's demands on how the EU should change – or so we are told by caveat: he will not allow certain "red lines", including on immigration issues, to be crossed.
But what grabs the headline is the Commission President comparing EU-UK relations to a love affair.
"It's easy to fall in love and more difficult to stay together", Juncker says, also observing that, "people shouldn't stay together if the conditions aren't the same as when things started".
That, of course, is horse manure: conditions always change, so the test is whether people can adapt to them.
In the case of the EU though, which – at best – was a loveless, arranged marriage, there never was a situation when we should have stayed together.
Nevertheless, while Juncker still feels that, "it's in the interest of both the UK and the EU to stay together", he reaffirms that he won't weaken the EU's fundamental principles.
"When one mentions the end of the free circulation of workers, there can be no debate, dialogue or compromise", he says.
"We can fight against abuses - and national lawmakers can do that - but the EU lawmakers won't change the treaties to satisfy the will of certain politicians".
So, it seems, Juncker is still playing the "bad cop" against Merkel's "good cop", although he's not saying anything very new.
Interestingly, though, Mr Cameron could be acquiring another ally, in This is Viktor Orban, who says he believes the EU's laws on asylum should be tightened, just a week after he said in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris that immigration into Europe should stop – with not an EU flag in sight (pictured).
"This is a Christian country", he said on a Sunday radio talk show.
"We can help those who are indeed chased out of their countries, but we have to make it clear we don’t want to be the destination for immigrants seeking to make a living here".
The number seeking asylum last year in Hungary was 43,000 last year, double the figure in 2013, Mr. Orban says, a large number in relation to Hungary's total population of a little below ten million.
"If Europe continues to bury its head in the sand, these trends won't change.
It now seems like Brussels won't shield us from this issue; we have to protect ourselves", Orban adds, then saying that the Dublin Regulation should be upheld, so that those immigrants who manage to escape farther westward within the EU can be transported back to the country where they entered the EU.
Hungary is perhaps not the best of allies though.
It gets asylum seekers routed through its territory from Greece and Bulgaria, most often via Serbia, where there were 19,951 illegal crossings in 2013, up 212 percent on the previous year.
But in Hungary, though – as the German broadcaster The few existing facilities are overflowing, so that many refugees are housed in former military barracks or community buildings converted into prisons for migrants.
In April 2014, more than 40 percent of all male asylum seekers were being housed in a prison.
The reasons for arrest were arbitrary and unclear.
As a rule, migrants were held for a month without having committed a crime.
The UNHCR Detainees remained behind bars typically for four to five months, while some for the entire length of their asylum procedure.
They were locked in their cells much of the day, suffered verbal and physical abuse by the security guards, and were escorted in handcuffs and on leashes to the court hearings or even to doctors, treated like a criminal.
Hungarian authorities often automatically started the aliens police procedure and ordered detention of asylum-seekers.
Courts tended to review detention orders in group hearings, dealing with the case of 5-10 people in 30 minutes that was not enough time properly to consider the facts of each individual case.
According to UNHCR, asylum-seekers were also routinely deported to Serbia, considered by Hungary as a safe third country.
In Serbia, however, asylum-seekers faced chain deportations to Macedonia and Greece, countries with no adequate asylum systems in place, and where asylum-seekers faced the risk of refoulement to countries where they may have fled danger or persecution.
However, resistance to the flow of asylum seekers is also manifest in the Czech Republic where, on Friday, hundreds showed up for a rally in which protesters objected to allowing Muslims to settle in Central Europe (even after this Monday's The centre-left Czech government has so far been reluctant to offer asylum to refugees from the Middle East because of concerns that potential terrorists might be among them.
It eventually agreed to take in 70 Syrian refugees under EU pressure, against thousands presenting themselves to the rest of the EU.
But that also makes the Czech government a potential ally for Mr Cameron, who is not looking quite so isolated on this issue as some might aver.
Softly, softly, "Europe" is going his way.
He may well confound Juncker, and bring home his treaty, sufficient for him to call upon the British to renew their wedding vows.
Jean-Claude Juncker says he is prepared to examine the UK's demands on how the EU should change – or so we are told by Bloomberg .
but there is a: he will not allow certain "red lines", including on immigration issues, to be crossed.But what grabs the headline is the Commission President comparing EU-UK relations to a love affair.
"It's easy to fall in love and more difficult to stay together", Juncker says, also observing that, "people shouldn't stay together if the conditions aren't the same as when things started".That, of course, is horse manure: conditions always change, so the test is whether people can adapt to them.
In the case of the EU though, which – at best – was a loveless, arranged marriage, there never was a situation when we should have stayed together.Nevertheless, while Juncker still feels that, "it's in the interest of both the UK and the EU to stay together", he reaffirms that he won't weaken the EU's fundamental principles.
"When one mentions the end of the free circulation of workers, there can be no debate, dialogue or compromise", he says.
"We can fight against abuses - and national lawmakers can do that - but the EU lawmakers won't change the treaties to satisfy the will of certain politicians".So, it seems, Juncker is still playing the "bad cop" against Merkel's "good cop", although he's not saying anything very new.Interestingly, though, Mr Cameron could be acquiring another ally, in Hungary's prime minister .
Yesterday, he was urging the EU to limit immigration, saying that some people were abusing the asylum rules, when they were actually seeking employment.This is Viktor Orban, who says he believes the EU's laws on asylum should be tightened, just a week after he said in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris that immigration into Europe should stop – with not an EU flag in sight (pictured).
"This is a Christian country", he said on a Sunday radio talk show.
"We can help those who are indeed chased out of their countries, but we have to make it clear we don’t want to be the destination for immigrants seeking to make a living here".The number seeking asylum last year in Hungary was 43,000 last year, double the figure in 2013, Mr. Orban says, a large number in relation to Hungary's total population of a little below ten million.
"If Europe continues to bury its head in the sand, these trends won't change.
It now seems like Brussels won't shield us from this issue; we have to protect ourselves", Orban adds, then saying that the Dublin Regulation should be upheld, so that those immigrants who manage to escape farther westward within the EU can be transported back to the country where they entered the EU.Hungary is perhaps not the best of allies though.