Occupy
Wall
Street Target
JPMorgan Paid
Police
Monitors, Paid
Blair for
Occupied
Palestine
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 2 --
As over 700
Occupy Wall
Street
protesters
were
arrested
Saturday by
the New York
City Police
Department,
in the
scrum at the
entrance to
the Brooklyn
Bridge there
was talk of
mega-bank J.P.
Morgan Chase
having given
money to the
NYPD.
It's
hardly hidden:
the bank's
web site brags
that
"JPMorgan
Chase
recently
donated an
unprecedented
$4.6 million
to the New
York
City Police
Foundation.
The gift was
the largest in
the history of
the foundation
and will
enable the New
York City
Police
Department to
strengthen
security in
the Big Apple.
The money will
pay for 1,000
new patrol car
laptops, as
well as
security
monitoring
software in
the NYPD's
main data
center."
Given
that the
protests are
largely
directed that
bailouts to
and abuse of
the
political
system by
JPMorgan,
Citigroup,
Bank
of America,
Wells
Fargo and
prospectively
Capital
One,
it
is certainly
relevant,
and to many
troubling,
that the
police take
money from the
very
target of the
protest.
The
police will
use the money
for laptops
and "security
monitoring
software"
- would that
target the
anonymizer app
Vibe that's
emerged,
created
by Hazem
"White Hat"
Sayed?
Ray
Kelly, widely
touted as a
candidate to
replace
Michael
Bloomberg as
Mayor, offered
his "profound
gratitude" to
JPM Chase CEO
Jamie Dimon.
Will
this
relationship
and the mass
arrests be
explained?
Chase-funded
police block
bridge, (c)
MRLee 10/1/11
And
what of the
use of MTA
busses to
arrest
protesters, as
photographed
by Inner City
Press in
its story last
night? On
Sunday
morning, Inner
City Press
asked the
Transit
Workers Union
Local 100 for
its comment
and what it
will do. Watch
this site.
MTA bus used
for arrests.
Who's driving?
(c) MRLee
10/1/11
JP
Morgan Chase
stands accused
of improper
involvement
not only in
New York City
policing, but
in corrupting
the Middle
East peace
process
through UN
envoy Tony
Blair, who is
also a JP
Morgan
consultant.
For
some time
Inner
City Press has asked
the UN,
and Blair
himself after
a New York
City
meeting of the
Middle East
Quartet,
about his
involvement in
cell
phone deals in
the Occupied
Palestinian
Territories,
without
answer.
On
Friday,
September 30
Inner City
Press asked
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman
Martin
Nesirky:
Inner
City
Press: I am
sure you’ve
seen these
stories of
late about
Tony
Blair. Often
you’ll say,
speak to Tony
Blair. It’s
not that
easy to do, as
you might
imagine. So I
wanted to ask
the UN side of
it. These
articles are
saying that
increasing
questions have
arisen
about the
double service
of Tony Blair
for J.P.Morgan
as a
consultant
and as the
Middle East
peace envoy.
And they point
to particular
deals around
cell phones...
I don’t expect
the UN to say
anything
anti-Blair,
but what is
the UN’s role
in reviewing
those
conflicts
of interest?
Is there a
kind of review
that’s done
for other UN
officials to
view whether
the outside
activities or
other
activities
of Tony Blair
conflict with
what he does
for the UN
system?
Spokesperson
Martin
Nesirky: Well,
as we have
said before,
Tony Blair is
the
Quartet envoy.
He is the
Representative
of the
Quartet. He is
not
the UN envoy
in the
Quartet. That
is not his
role, okay?
And so, I
think you’re
knocking on
the wrong door
here.
Inner
City
Press: who
does the
review of
whether there
is a conflict
of
interest? Is
it just up to
Tony Blair
himself or is
there some,
does
the Quartet
have some
secretariat or
administrative
body to review
these charges?
Spokesperson:
Well, I think
you’d need to
check with,
first of all,
I think it’s
right, you
could
certainly
check with
Tony Blair’s
office in the
first
instance. But,
also of
course, you
could check
with the other
participants
in the
Quartet, as
well. But,
just to be
clear, it’s
not a UN role.
So
JP Morgan
Chase
with its money
can corrupt
the UN Middle
East process
-- then say
"it's not a UN
role." And the
bank can pay
the New York
police, which
mass arrests
those
protesting its
bailout.
What's next?
Watch this
site.
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