Newsdome: Knock-knock. Who’s there? Occupy Wall Street at your door
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- Kanye West at Occupy Wall Street
>> Occupy Wall Street protesters are going uptown in today’s “Millionaires March” to the Upper East Side homes of five of New York’s wealthiest people: Rupert Murdoch, Jamie Dimon, David Koch, Howard Milstein, and John Paulson. Demonstrators are calling for an extension of NY’s millionaire’s tax, which expires this year and is opposed by NY Governor Cuomo. Protesters don’t need to bother going to the home of gold chain-blingin’ Kanye West, though. (NY Daily News)
>> Ukraine’s former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a popular member of the Orange Revolution, was found guilty today of exceeding her powers when she signed a gas deal with Russia in January 2009 that cost the government $200 million in damages. She’s too pretty for seven years in prison! (LA Times)
>> Egyptian deputy prime minister Hazem El-Beblawi resigned today following the violent clash between the military and Coptic Christians that left 26 dead. More of a power vacuum created by another empty seat should definitely fix the problem. (Voice of America)
>> Burma, also known as Myanmar, announced amnesty for 6,359 prisoners in a dramatic political shift after nearly 50 years of autocratic rule. The release of inmates will begin tomorrow, a Buddhist religious holiday, and is expected to apply to many pro-democracy activists. See, Occupy Wall Street is working! (the Washington Post)
>> And finally: One in 10 children in Haiti are severely malnourished, and one in 14 Haitian children will die before the age of five. But new ready-to-use therapeutic foods, like nutrient-packed peanut butter, are proving a powerful treatment for malnutrition. We don’t need a natural disaster to care about Haiti. (CNN)