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Rachel pretty much covers every aspect of the Occupy Wall Street movement, as well as the incredible blowback they are currently facing.It is well worth your time to watch the entire segment.
If you enjoyed that and want to watch the Alan Grayson interview that followed just click here.
I see Munger was up late drinking koolaid once again - accusing Obama for the police attacks in some cities
ReplyDeleteBill Maher is on her show tonight (Tuesday.)
ReplyDeleteOn Hardball last night, stunned and stupid Rethug mouthpiece Ron Christie identified OWS protesters of having sex in the park, peeing all over, etc.
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Wow -- where and what were these imbeciles saying of the Baggers protests?? Oh yea I remember now -- they were promoting and praising them - even saying that Dems were involved in the paid for and bused in by Freedom Works Dick Armey and the Koch Bros.
Where were the cops arresting those that showed up 'carrying openly'??
Time to take it to FOX and the rethug imbecile mouthpieces. Put a call into Lorenna Bobbitt!!
Also another good watch....
ReplyDeleteMark Ruffalo explains Occupy WS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbSye1jTwL8&feature=youtu.be
A bit off topic, but there are some pix of Palin in S. Korea, and she seems to have been listening to some of the comments made here and elsewhere: skirt of a modest length, clean & shiny hair, not too much bling. Maybe there's hope that Tinkerbell will go away if we just keep clapping...
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ReplyDeleteMunger believes Obama has nothing better to do than focus on the protests of OWS, the pipeline and the Bradley Manning, to name a few. In their minds, Obama sits in the oval office and orchestrates all the arrests, etc. Of course, these are the subjects of Munger and FDL which can be identified as the Left Baggers. They think their 'shit don't smell' and 'everything' they have to say is of importance that the President should jump hoops to answer to them NOW.
Anytime I see or hear Jane, I turn the station. She's a paid hack and wouldn't be surprised to hear she's being paid by the 'Right'. Then you hear the little followers - the equivalent of the Bots.
@ 5:37
ReplyDeleteor maybe she's got a stand-in....LOL
I watched both Rachel's excellent run down of OWS and Alan's interview this afternoon. They are both so articulate & nail it on the head every time. American heros at their best. It was also good to see AG's remarks on Mahr again. Willing to bet that O'Rourke was wishing he kept his mouth shut on that one. LOL!
ReplyDeleteAs for the police attacks, I won't even get into Phil's delusions here but anyone paying attention to the 2008 campaign would know that many, especially in the upper echelons of police departments across the nation are heavily Republican supporters. Even in my state which is heavily blue, the police union supported the Republican candidates - who didn't win thankfully.
I won't be surprised if many of the rank & file join the protest on their time off. They've joined the protest in WI even though their union had supported Walker and he didn't strip them of their rights because of that support. The white shirted officers seem to be the only ones beating up & macing the protesters while the rank & file didn't look happy about it.
Anon 6:05
ReplyDelete"...They've joined the protest in WI even though their union had supported Walker and he didn't strip them of their rights because of that support."
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There being so much info to file in our brains, I forgot about that. Thanks for the reminder!!
It also brings to mind, the story of O'Reilly and his promise of donating to the police, even though of course O'Reilly is denying it - with regard to the investigation of his ex-wife's 'boyfriend' who too was a cop. How much 'Right' money is funnelled to the police forces?? Hmmmmmm...
Why is it that the Teabaggers can get away with their low information rants, running down the President in war time, and dissing everyone who isn't a christian?
ReplyDeleteBut the Wall street protestors are instantly labeled "dirty hippies"
Classic lines from the 1960's come to mind:
"My country, love it or leave it"
Here's the deal:
ReplyDeleteRepublican/Tea Party - Anything & Everything: OK
Democrat (or perceived liberals) - Anything & Everything: BAD
Bunch of dimwits.
David Plouffe: Obama on side of Occupy Wall Street protesters
ReplyDeleteThe White House wants to make it clear that President Barack Obama is on the same side as the Occupy Wall Street protesters – and that Republicans are not.
“If you’re concerned about Wall Street and our financial system, the president is standing on the side of consumers and the middle class,” Obama’s senior adviser David Plouffe said on “Good Morning America” Tuesday morning when asked about the demonstrations. “And a lot of these Republicans are basically saying, ‘You know what? Let’s go back to the same policies that led to the great recession in the first place’.”
Taking the same message to the “The Early Show,” Plouffe also argued that before the Obama administration’s financial reforms kicked in, ”Wall Street was able to write too many of its own rules.”
“Taxpayers won’t be on the hook for a bailout any more, we’ll be more transparent,” he said. “Consumers will be protected on hidden fees on mortgages and credit cards.”
“The president stands squarely with the middle class in terms of trying to protect consumers and make sure that happened doesn’t happen again,” Plouffe added.
Obama’s senior adviser also offered his two cents on the Republican primary race and Tuesday’s debate at Dartmouth College, saying he believes it’s still only the “first or second inning” and that he expects...
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65614.html#ixzz1aU75prfg
The Brutality Backlash
ReplyDeleteThe NYPD's overreach was a gift to the Occupiers:
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/10/when-police-force-fails.html
To P.J. O'Rourke: "Oh look, P.J., it's your ass. Grayson just handed it to you on a plate."
ReplyDeleteOn the Maher show, O'Rourke in her belief he was funny and overspeaking Greyson, reminds me of Joy Behar in many ways. When there is a topic being bounced around on The View, Joy always has to interject making it about her and her most times lame jokes. Like in the Maher show, Behar does it too on the View, the 'overspeak' of what might be an interesting topic or valid point being made my guests but she turns it into Behar moronics.
ReplyDeleteI like Joy in some ways as she will expand on topics on her own show - but as a comedian - she most times stinks the place up. Her comedy is truly limited. Her claim to fame is being a 'comedian' -- I don't think so. She and her enablers believes she is but I sure wouldn't spend a dime to see her.
Gasman, you never disappoint :-) Having a crappy day until I read your prose. LMAO
ReplyDelete4:40, yeah, what is it with Munger and President Obama? It's so personal and so hateful. I can't hear the point of it, if there is one, for the meanness getting in the way.
ReplyDeleteI'm having a hard time with "Occupy Wall Street" in general, which surprises myself. Usually I'd be all about it.
Here's my problem - we put those people in office. WE DID. They didn't just appear there by self-appointment, waving magic hands and making rules favorable to the corporate elite. WE are responsible for that.
And we can take them out. Instead of demonstrating on Wall Street, the electorate should be demonstrating at the Senate. There should be meaningful fear of recall, for each and every politician.
What a crazy juxtaposition. Our "representatives" don't represent us. And it doesn't matter to them, one iota. Even in an election year.
No more abdicating the selection of political representatives, folks. And no abdication of their management, once in their in office. That's where the power is.
How ridiculous is it to yammer on about Lisa Murkowski? One million dollars poured into an account, some glossy advertising, and a week's time, created Senator Murkowski. We KNEW what her actions would be. We KNEW what she believes in. We KNEW how it would go down.
And now we complain?
Protesting Wall Street is like spanking a 1st-grader for taking candy, when you plonk them down in a room with a giant bin of gum and candy and toys and leave them alone there for the entire day, with a warning not to eat candy or play games.
Why would you do that in the first place? And then why would you scold them for your own management in setting that up?
My thoughts~
What could go wrong with this? As described on the JPMorgan Chase website.
ReplyDeleteJPMorgan 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.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon a note expressing “profound gratitude” for the company’s donation.
“These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,” Dimon said. “We’re incredibly proud to help them build this program and let them know how much we value their hard work.”
Or this type of thing?
The police foundation is the private fundraising arm of the NYPD. It allows donors to make tax-exempt gifts to the department and in turn the foundation funds a wide-range of specialized NYPD units, international counterterrorism work, and high-tech gadgetry.
Note some of the other donors to the NYPD found and reported by SALON:
As it turns out, JPMorgan is not the only financial institution that has been generous to the police foundation. In the 2009-10 year, Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, investment bank Jeffries and Co., investor Carl Icahn, and investment firm The Renco Group each gave over $100,000 to the foundation, putting them in the top-tier of donors, according to the foundation’s website. Bank of America also gave over $75,000 that year. (Another $100,000+ donor was Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.)
Keep in mind that’s just a single year’s worth of donations. As a private non-profit, the New York City Police Foundation does not have to release detailed donor information, so we don’t know of the the full scope of Wall Street money flowing into the NYPD.
Read more:
http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/07/the_nypd_now_sponsored_by_wall_street/singleton/
Yikes! This is not going to end well if the media attempts to define it and the politicians try to steer it. This is not a political movement, it is a financial one. Listen closely to Alan Grayson. He never mentions anything about right vs. left, but now we have Rachel spinning the propaganda. Do you think our CIC will hesitate to call in the National Guard WHEN this turns ugly? Throw in some provocateurs with Molotov cocktails, next thing you know here come the LRAD cannons. They have been preparing for civil unrest. Nope, not going to end well. Remember Kent State? How about the French Revolution, took Napoleon and Martial Law to get that mess under control.
ReplyDeleteWhy Occupy Wall Street Is Here To Stay
ReplyDeletehttp://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/10/why-occupy-wall-street-is-here.html
Police Clashes Spur Coverage of Wall Street Protests
ReplyDeleteThe Occupy Wall Street protests, by design, began with little in the way of concrete goals or strategy.
But the protests in Manhattan, now in their third week, and in other parts of the country, have found two ways to draw attention to their cause. First, keep at it. And second, wait for confrontations with the police.
In the early days of the protests, which began on Sept. 17, coverage was all but nonexistent in the mainstream news media. It has increased significantly in recent days, however, and is now beginning to rival that given to Tea Party protests in April and May 2009.
We can estimate the amount of media coverage given to the protests through the database NewsLibrary.com, a compendium of about 4,000 news outlets in the United States — mostly “traditional” sources like newspapers and television stations.
I searched the database, looking for instances in which the term “Wall Street” was used alongside one of the terms “occupy,” “protest” or “demonstration”.
I then adjusted the results in two ways: first, for the overall volume of news articles in the NewsLibrary.com database for a particular day (there are significantly more news articles published during the week than on the weekend, for instance). And second, for the potential for “false positive” hits. The sentence “Wall Street rallied today in a demonstration of resolve by investors” would refer to stock price movements rather than the protests, for instance.
(False positives were estimated from the number of hits the search would have returned over the period from 2006 to 2010 and were subtracted from the total, with the constraint that the overall number of hits could not be lower than the number of articles that used the exact three-word phrase “Occupy Wall Street” on that day. All figures herein are given on an adjusted basis unless otherwise noted.)
By this definition, there were only 10 traditional news accounts of the protests on Sept. 17. And coverage remained slow thereafter, averaging just 16 hits per day on an adjusted basis through the first eight days of the protests.
Coverage spiked after an incident on Sept. 24, however, when three protesters were hit with pepper spray by the police despite, apparently, posing no imminent threat. The next day, the volume of news coverage increased to 96 hits, about six times its previous rate.
more...
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/police-clashes-spur-coverage-of-wall-street-protests/
Occupy Wall Street
ReplyDelete"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered...I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson.
Occupy Wall Street (FULL) Interview with Chris Hedges Part 1
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SKw2j3XOY0