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Once upon a time not so very long ago and a place right close by, there was a land conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equal. Now, reality is, this land was never really the shining city upon a hill as some folks liked to claim but even with all of its problems, it still managed to make the phrases “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free” enough substance to be a bit more than a slogan on a statue.

Now? Eh, not so much.

You might have seen the post from Jane Hamsher inviting folks to the Tent Party on Saturday at Occupy Delaware. Here’s a slideshow from the event, plus updates and pictures from Occupy Buffalo, Newark, Monterey, Littleton, Tampa and more.

So for the last few days, I’m sure most folks here have seen all the various Beltway Village Idiots pundits and politicians going on about how President Obama’s Birth Control Rule “infringes” on Catholic religious freedom. Today, we had the spectacle of the House Oversight Committee holding a hearing based on this claim, with of course, a member of the USCCB US Pedophile Enablers leading the way.

We’ve received a few diaries in the last week but we’ve also gotten some great pictures and a couple of nice videos from folks.

With all of the news today about the latest Bankster Bailout (aka 50 State Settlement – just read David Dayen’s articles from today at FDL News as well as this and this from Cynthia Kouril and this from Scarecrow), I don’t need to say too much more on the topic.

But what the hell, I might as well offer up a few examples of the Banksters and 1%ers working the refs (the TradMed and low info voters), even as they get their own way.

With all the hoopla surrounding Tuesday’s State of the Union speech and the on-going Republican Clown Car primaries and caucuses, you may have missed that the annual World Economic Forum meeting is going on right now in Davos, Switzerland.

An Occupy Roundup, including reports from New Haven, Newark, Nashville, Syracuse and Boise, Idaho.

Today’s banksters are direct spiritual descendants of the mentality that gave us the Great Depression.

But then I see articles across the Toobz like this from Tuesday from US News (via Yahoo) with the headline “Are We Entering a Jobless Recovery?” and I just want to weep at the incredible combination of stoopid and duplicity to that gives us such a headline.

Well, there have only been four new diaries since the last Occupy the Blog on Wednesday. Fortunately for us, all four of these are excellent reports from all over.