Bloomberg's blackshirts are attacking Union Square in New York...

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9. At this point, it doesn't look like anything is going to happen

Tim Pool is just sitting around talking with some other livestreamers about how much they need to catch up on their sleep. A lot of cops have left, a lot of occupiers have left ...

I don't know quite what that whole show of strength was about -- unless the cops have decided that if they can just stop the occupiers from occupying, they win.

Meanwhile, they're not noticing that the real strength of the occupiers at the moment is in taking the streets. The march after the rally was so large that the police couldn't stop it, control it, or even keep up with it. It was guided by the hivemind, meaning that even the marchers didn't know where they were going until they found a direction.

At one point, they happened upon the Wall Street bull at an unguarded moment, pulled down the barricades, and were polishing its testicles and posing on top of it until a dozen cops showed up to guard it with their bodies. (Tim Pool got video and will post the clip of that tomorrow.) And then the crowd just moved on.

Last fall's occupations were great for getting people together and forming relationships and strategies. But mobility has its own advantages.