"We got the tools, we got the talent" ~ the black guy in Ghostbusters

George Herbert Walker Bush's CIA led the NYPD in their treasonous coup at their 2004 Republican National KKKonvention.

"A Concept of Operations was developed by senior Agency officers in April 2002 for a temporary duty assignment (TDY) of a seasoned Directorate of Intelligence (DI) analyst to New York City for a six to nine month period under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) authorities.' The officer's task was to improve analytic information-handling capabilities of law enforcement entities in the States of New York and New Jersey. on or about 4 June 2002, DI careerist REDACTED was selected and began what would REDACTED a duty assignment REDACTED DCI Representative until operated under then--DCI authorities, and 'met with federal, state, and local law enforcement officials and assessed their needs for analytic counterterrorism (CT) assistance. His assigned goal was to help various local authorities develop strategies for improving their CT analysis. L;REDACTED March to the Agency held no official position with NYPD. assignment to New York City ended in REDACTED contacted REDACTED and offered REDACTED with NYPD. REDACTED was interested and he requested Leave Without Pay REDACTED team the Agency so-he could accept the NYPD offer. In addition, an Outside Activity Request explaining his intent.to work for NYPD was submitted electronically on his behalf. In August 2004, the REDACTED was initially approved/for just a year, Agency records show he received annual approval for continued LWOP through his resignation from CIA in May 2009." https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/717864-cia-nypd-ig.html

Trees are a better investment than shopping malls by every metric except corporate ledgers.

"Four days ago a group of people who did not belong to any specific organization or ideology got together in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. Among them there were many of my friends and students.  Their reason was simple: To prevent and protest the upcoming demolishing of the park for the sake of building yet another shopping mall at very center of the city. There are numerous shopping malls in Istanbul, at least one in every neighborhood! The tearing down of the trees was supposed to begin early Thursday morning. People went to the park with their blankets, books and children. They put their tents down and spent the night under the trees.  Early in the morning when the bulldozers started to pull the hundred-year-old trees out of the ground, they stood up against them to stop the operation.
They did nothing other than standing in front of the machines.
No newspaper, no television channel was there to report the protest. It was a complete media black out.
But the police arrived with water cannon vehicles and pepper spray.  They chased the crowds out of the park." http://defnesumanblogs.com/2013/06/01/what-is-happenning-in-istanbul/