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Wanna occupy? Sorry Colorado Springs but your Wall Street is the military, yes the pointy end of our oppressors’ stick.
Nobody likes to draw the short straw, but isn't that already our lot living in Colorado Springs? Yeah, it's easy to protest Wall Street from the safety of a provincial backwater, our city even backed us with a permit, but is that really grabbing the imperial bull by the horns? The Occupy Movement has spotlighted how the world's 99% are oppressed by the ruling elite. It made more clear how true democracy is undermined by their military-industrial-corporate-banking complex. Now, doesn't a major chunk of that alliance operate right where we live? Think. It ain't banking or industry, and the corporations here orbit around the headliner of that lineup, the military, our city's dominant export. Yes, criticizing the military in a military town is not popular. Do you think the Wall Street protesters were a welcome sight to Manhattan's bankers? You can call to "End the Fed" online, or protest anything in the world from a digital soapbox, but a public demonstration is limited to what's in your local vicinity, especially if you mean to OCCUPY IT. Look on this as a curse or a blessing: The Zuccotti Park activists get to target sharkskin-suited traders, we're up against men with guns. But what are you going to do, cheerlead the OWS front in NY, or hold up your end of the fight?
Death in the Afternoon. On Wall Street. Charging Bull met by clowns, matador.
Full story at yeslab.org/bull. Music: You Will See by Lole Y Manuel.
S. Korean Lawmaker throws tear gas, called Terrorist
U.S. Pigs gas protesters who have so far not fired a single shot against them, and are called Heroes by the Right Wing Extremists who control the News Media in America.
As NYPD destroys Occupy Wall Street, Americans get their own 9-11 moment, a state terrorist attack on their liberty.
UNOCCUPIED WALL STREET- NYPD goons put an end to the Zuccotti Park OWS rebel base tonight. Shall we declare it official, this night of the Occupy Wall Street Smack-down, that images of riot police are now ubiquitous as American Pie? Officer unfriendly closed the airspace, created a no-witnesses buffer zone, drove news crews away under threat of revoking their press passes, and razed the camp, tents, electronics and all, Occupy Denver Thunderdome smash shit up style. Calls are going out for YOU to occupy your streets. And the day after tomorrow, November 17, is a General Strike. Unless principles of nonviolence [to Capitalism] dictate you may not resist consumerism.
Shock and Awe, Oderint Dum Metuant and the term 1%
It finally occurred to me why I had so much difficulty with the term "1%" as applied to Banksters. It's a biker term. Someone in the late 50s, a motorcycle enthusiast magazine, had said "99 percent of all motorcycle riders are decent, honest law abiding citizens" (very true) and it was a response to a growing distrust of motorcyclists by the general public. Probably fed to the public by propaganda because the Wall Street types would make more money selling people cars than bikes. So a lot of the Sonny Barger types (he was president of the Hells Angels) took to tattooing "1%" on their forearms where it would be really prominent. Some undoubtedly were and are Billy. You know Billy, right? Billy the Badass? Some had never met Billy and others had met Billy and got their lunch money taken and sent home crying. Menacing glares and display of anger can be faked and your average citizen wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Me, I ride because I enjoy it, and to get from one place to another in a reasonable amount of time. Never gave a crap about the Leader of the Pack attitude. Although I heard one joke about that, "Any biker who hangs out at candy stores picking up schoolgirls must ride a Honda" which is really unfair to Hondas. But riding a bike is like flying, on the ground. Also gas-saving. I can see where making people afraid of you would be entertaining to a point. The point being that people who are afraid don't enjoy the feeling of fear and take steps to remedy it. Liking shooting your ass right off the top of your legs. That's not fun. Then I thought about the Junior Police Explorer argument we've been having with people who are obviously minions of the 1%. The whole "Shock and Awe" and "Oderint dum Metuant" part are actually slogans or mottos of the people who CLAIM to be against terrorism and are, also, minions of the 1%. Oderint dum Metuant means "Let them hate us, as long as they fear us". Wall Street is perfectly happy with Terrorism as wielded by various Imperial Military groups. They're OK with people capitulating out of fear because it means less money in the short run than actually killing everybody and taking the riches off their dead bodies. Like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. But then, some people get a little tired of living in fear-based subservience and rebel. Like the Saudi group al Qa'eida. That's when things start getting interesting. Somebody using a weapon and threat of death to rob another, the way the U.S. Military does to every-damn-body in the entire damn world.... runs the risk of having to carry out those threats (which obviously doesn't bother them) or... Get shot at themselves, which DOES bother them. The Oderint Dum Metuant is supposed to only work unilaterally. The Police State want to make it unilateral. "keeping" it unilateral isn't possible because it's never actually been one way. Then I
Next Adbusters proposes a Robin Hood Tax, 1% on global banking transactions
Looking for the next big thing? ADBUSTERS hasn't mislead you yet. An October 29 mobilization for OCCUPY WALL STREET to call for a Robin Hood Tax, a 1% tax on all global banking transaction. I know 1% from the 1% sounds meager, but it's a start toward 99% for the 99%.
WALL STREET IS WAR STREET: best slogan spotted at #OccupyWallStreet
Alright, that sign wasn't at today's rally per se, it's the cover photo of the book Black Mask & Up Against the Wall Motherfucker (The Incomplete Works of Ron Hahne, Ben Morea and the Black Mask Group), which a friend of mine was carrying at the protest. Reports are coming in that arrests, mace and kettling are ongoing at NYC march. For clarification, Black Mask was protesting Wall Street's role in the Vietnam War, bankrolling and profiting from war. The local action in Colorado Springs saw protesters explore the median at Nevada and Bijou, to spirited honks from the traffic. Irony of the day: asked by a motorist what one sign holder wanted, the young woman explained she wanted America restored as the great nation which the founding fathers had created for her. We knew what she meant, but of course, today's occupiers are staking claim to a land that's already "under occupation."
The system was never broken, it was built this way. #occupywallstreet
OCCUPIED WALL STREET, NYC-- Protests enter their third workweek in Liberty Plaza where the cold has arrived but demonstrators are still prohibited from having shelter. Organized labor is rallying their members to join the occupation on Wednesday, with over a million union workers expected to march in solidarity. If you're not joining in, are you in the way? Colorado Springs Occupiers in Acacia Park are being joined by Tea Partiers, Ron Paulists, and Zietgeisters. The more the merrier. Remember, target the investment bankers down the block, NOON EVERYDAY. They're getting cranky.
NY #OccupyWallStreet protest is going to be this generation’s Woodstock. Are you going to miss it?
If you can't bum a ride to New York City, you are going to miss out, it's plain as that. But you can make the revolution happen where you are. The Egyptian victory in Tahrir Square wasn't achieved without simultaneous demos in Alexandria and Suez, etc. The earliest heavy casualties actually happened outside Cairo. In the Colorado capitol, a nascent #OccupyDenver is building steam. President Obama is making a campaign stop in Denver on Tuesday at Lincoln High School at Evans and Federal. That will be an excellent chance to force the media to break its blackout against the anti-capitalist uprising. What's there to say to President Obama? Nothing right? He's shown he answers only to Wall Street. But the message to the TV coverage of Obama, and to the people of Denver can be: Why is the bank-owned corporate media not telling you about #OccupyWallStreet? Reclaim our democracy from the bankers. Colorado Springs is gaga for warmongers, bigots, Zionists and conservative educational campuses. The local Intelligence Quotient doesn't rise to the level of critical thinking, which is a heartbreaking trait in its youth. But there is an ongoing effort to aid #OccupyWallStreet's visibility. It's held on the noon hour, at Tejon and Colorado Ave downtown, at the Booz Allen Hamilton Building, where area war profiteers laugh all the way to the investment banks across the hall, passing by the local FBI office, btw. Our protest doesn't have the music, mahem & hijinks of NYC Liberty Plaza, but none of the beatings either. Come a few minutes late and you get to pass reserve cops hiding out of our view in the alleys around the critical intersection, in case the bankers want their critics squashed. Possible messaging: DON'T LET BANKERS FORECLOSE ON DEMOCRACY, OCCUPY WALL STREET NOW! WALL STREET BANKS ARE STEALING YOUR HOME, HEALTH, RETIREMENT, STANDARD OF LIVING, & WORLD RESOURCES. #OCCUPYWALLSTREET --LOOK IT UP.
Someone should tell Obama that Troy Davis was a white banker. He’ll freak.
On the day after the state murder of Troy Davis, you've got to feel sorry for the Obamapologists who must have a lot more in a knot than their panties. How do you explain why President Obama couldn't intercede to save the life of accused off-duty-cop-killer Troy Davis? Because it would have been unseemly for a black president, the first, to intervene in the sanctioned lynching of another black man, whose number is lost among the countless. It would have been a formidable first, but Obama took the highroad, out of Dodge. Was it a matter of not stepping on states' rights? Because preventing an injustice would not have been worth it? To save a human life?
HA! NYC FiDi is now Occupied Territory
--by NYPD cops unfortunately, Wall the street remains barricaded from anti-banking demonstrators, but the broader NYC class-war zone remains contested as #OccupyWallStreet forces hold their protest beachhead for a fourth day. Violent arrests in Liberty Park have been made for wearing masks, trying to stay dry, holding signs, and defying the police commander's belligerence; hashtags and emails have been censored by Twitter and Yahoo, but physics dictates an opposite reaction, and the physics of activism guarantee it will be greater than equal.
why centipedes are called centipedes and millipedes, millipedes…
Not that they have a hundred or a thousand legs but because it's really common for people to stop counting once they've gotten to 36. Such as a fellow who calls himself an "American Patriot" and links his comment name to a Fox website. Mentioned in the Pizza thread some really stupid number of "50" people in the People's Parade against the Wall Street Thieves. Apparently the fellow is rather upset that anybody would blaspheme against his god Capital and wishes to sneer it away. Much like the assmunch Banksters leaning over their balconies, drinking champagne and sneering, protected by the NYPD. The fact that they were so heavily guarded and the protesters peaceful allowed those sneers. Here's a screenshot of part of a video from the protest. there's more than 50 people in the first column of people not counting the cops. Now, if the THOUSANDS of people had been of a mind to do so, they could have overwhelmed the more than 50 cops and just dragged the smug Wall Street Thieves off their balconies and given them a collective enema with their own champagne and caviar. Which, given the recent history of Europe, bankrupted not by their "socialist giveaways" but by their backing of the Very Expensive War Of Conquest which benefits only the Wealthiest, and that only temporarily.... The bloody parts of the riots against the Wealthy, after stealing the entire treasury of each his own particular country, like Greece, England... actually the entire treasury of the European Union has gone down the tubes for the benefit of Wall Street banksters. Same as our treasury. And with all that, they sit on balconies drinking champagne and mocking the peaceful protests against their demands that the Working Class, and not themselves, should be forcibly placed on Austerity. Franklin Roosevelt bought off a revolution that would have made Red October look like a High School promenade. Bought it off with higher taxes on the Rich which so far hasn't happened during this current privileged-class created market crash. He was considered a traitor to "his class" but as much as they bitterly resented having to pay their fair share in life, they at least weren't dragged from their mansions, hanged by their own intestines in their own immaculately trimmed trees and then lit on fire while still alive. Their subsequent machinations of the past eight decades to strip the Workers of their hard earned cash, benefits and other pay, have succeeded to the point they believe they'll be able to survive without us. They are of course wrong, they didn't gain their wealth by the sweat of their own brow, (as prescribed in the Book of Genesis) but by the sweat of OUR brow. The police on whom they depend for protection, also working class and, in NYC, union. They've already told the police they'll be cutting their benefits and pay as well. Rather foolish, that. What will they be able to pay the guardians of their castles, once their wealth is reduced to exactly
Make Wall Street pay for bankrupting, debasing & corrupting American dream
Yeah I know, it was SEPT 17, SEPT 17 and detractors laughed because the denizens of New York's financial district are not there to see a weekend protest, but Saturday was to get a running start on the morning bell Monday. Wall Street is not a street, a square or even a market, it's a den of thieves, privately owned, publicly subsidized, licensed grand larceny. Demonstrators are asked, why protest Wall Street when the decision-makers are in DC? Uh, candidate Obama's biggest backers were investment banks. We thought it was because they were opting for sanity over Dumber Bush. Turns out it was for the bailout, ongoing, and to ensure he'd laissez faire their free market, globalist usury.
The Wall Street protest needs PIZZA!
The #OCCUPYWALLSTREET protesters are pulling their second overnight, anticipating a showdown when traders and bankster return to the financial district on Monday, and especially as international delegates arrive for the UN General Assembly. So you're not there, what can you do? Remember in the thick of the Madison confab, when pizzas arrived courtesy of Egyptians in Tahrir Square? Do that! USDOR Tweets are favoring Liberato's Pizza, who've restocked for fresh orders, but the more eateries who receive calls, the broader will be the demonstration's support. Here's a list of nearby pizzerias, but chose whatever food YOU would like, and don't look for solidarity from corporate chains. Liberato's Pizza (via Seamless) 17 Cedar Street, New York - 212.344.3464 Adrienne's Pizzabar 54 Stone Street New York - 212.248.3838 Underground Pizzeria 3 Hanover Square, New York - 212.425.4442 Caruso's Pizza & Pasta 140 Fulton Street, New York - 212.267.2927 Masterpiece Pizzeria 2 Rector Street, New York - 212.349.4500 Harry's Italian Pizza Bar 2 Gold Street, New York - 212.747.0797 Cucina Bene Pizza 41 Exchange Place, New York - 212.635.0345 Cordato's New York 94 1/2 Greenwich St, New York - 212.233.1573 Majestic Pizza 8 Cortlandt Street, New York - 212.349.4046 Rosella Pizzeria 164 William Street, New York - 212.619.826 Zeytuna 59 Maiden Lane, New York - 212.742.2436 Big Al's Chicago Style Pizza 9 Thames Street, New York - 212.964.3269 Grotto Pizzeria & Restaurant 69 New Street, New York - 212.809.6990
NYPD directive: protect bull market
On eve of threatened activist occupation of Wall Street, NYPD has erected barricades around the stock market's Golden Calf. Yes it's bronze, yes it has horns, and to the banksters it's no false idol.
Where to stay on your next visit to NYC Sept 17 onward: Occupy Wall Street
From Syntagma Square to Wall Street, the people want their money back!
If the Wall Street bankers are going to be made to give the world's wealth back to the people, they'll ask to "you and whose army?" Your dumb lazy ass on the line would be helpful, but no one's waiting on you to press the banks for economic justice. Around the world, youth activists are converging September 17 on the international centers of grand larceny. In New York City, that's Wall Street. From antibanks.net Occupy financial districts on September 17: #OCCUPYWALLSTREET in New York, USA – Read the plan of action. #TOMALABOLSA in Madrid, Spain – Read the plan of action. Fb event. #TOMALABOLSA in Valencia, Spain – Fb event #TOMALABOLSA in Bilbao, Spain – Fb event #TOMALABOLSA in Santander, in Spain – Camping 2 days in front of Bank Santander. Read the plan of action. #TOMALABOLSA in Las Palmas, in Spain – Read the plan of action. #OCCUPAZIONEPIAZZAAFFARI in Milan, Italy – Fb event. #OCCUPYBANKOFENGLAND, #UKUncut in London, England – Fb event. other fb event. #USDORSF San Francisco, USA – Read the plan of action. #USDORLosA Los Angeles, USA – Read the plan of action. #OCCUPYWALLSTREET in Austin, USA – Read the plan of action. #OCCUPYWALLSTREET in Seattle, USA – Read the plan of action. #TAKETHESQUARE return to the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin – USA Webpage #OCCUPYBAYSTREET in Toronto, Canada – Fb event. in Athens, Greece – Hellenic Stock Exchange Fb event. Also gathering in Syntagma square at 12:00 and then march to the Bank of Greece on Panepistimioy Avenue. Fb event. Web flyer here. in Berlin, Germany – Occupy Börse Berlin Fb Event. in Frankfurt, Germany – Occupy Frankfurter Börse Fb Event. in Stuttgart, Germany – Occupy börsenstrasse Fb event. in Lisboa, Portugal – Demonstration in front of Stock-Market headquarters. Fb event. in Porto, Portugal – Demonstration in front of Stock-Market headquarters. Portugal – Fb event. in Vienna, Austria – Read the plan of action. #BEURSPLEINBEZETTING in Amsterdam, Netherlands – Camping in the Exchange Market Square. Fb event. Preparation meeting (13.09.2011) link. in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Demonstration in front of Stock Exchange Headquarters. FB event.
Wall Street Bankers: Y U NO IN JAIL?
Anonops #OccupyWallStreet Sept 17
Adbusters says: let US Days Of Rage begin Sept 17, Occupy Wall Street!
IT'S ON. Street kitchens are set to roll into place September 17, one week after New York City observes its remembrance of the still suspiciously inexplicable, commercially branded, "9/11" foundational myth to launch the Global War On Terror, dose of public trauma to ease final steps of Capitalist Shock Doctrine. Yes, #OccupyWallStreet is being called on a Saturday, when the stock market is closed, the better to be encamped when the bell rings on Monday morning. Is it too late to protest the New World Disorder? We'll know #Sept17.
Will occupying the streets Sept 17, Oct 6 and 15 precipitate an American Fall?
"American Fall" would be a pun, yes. A pan-Arabian-like Spring causing the US anti-democracy to tumble, being the objective. The English riots have put a dark spin on what might be Middle America's reception to popular uprising, but mark the dates, because the brass ring nears whether you have the courage or not, and you won't have the stomach for the alternative. You've probably already sensed the buzz about #SEPT17, campus groups across the country have been bypassing the conventional chaperones to coordinate OCCUPY WALL STREET. Can they do it? Not without your help, and that doesn't mean switching your phone service or knocking on doors to Get Out The Vote. Donate, organize or help with the logistics. If you've the temerity, attend in person. At the very least, you'll have your expenses reimbursed when the city settles your civil suit against them for false arrest. New York City already budgeted for the insurance policy that will pay the legal settlements for the probably now textbook law enforcement practice of kettling inconvenient protests. Or, thinking positively, you may just witness history. To make history you have to make it. Don't leave it up to the Little Red Hen if you want a piece. Next up is #OCT6, although the day varies regionally. The date marks the 10th anniversary of the Afghan invasion, but social justice groups of all stripes are throwing their sundry complaints unto one banner and have organized marches nationwide. Of course the nationals aims to SEIZE DC, where activists will converge on Freedom Square, English for "Tahrir Square", with plans to camp there until the people's voice is heard. DC has passed ordinances against overnight protests, but Freedom Square may be cut some slack for being off the National Mall. It's a smaller public space which lies on the diagonal between the White House and the Capitol Building, abreast of General Tecumseh Sherman's horse actually. The determination to reclaim American Democracy with an action in DC hopes to recreate Madison Wisconsin on the Potomac, with the same grassroots support for a broad set of issues to which both parties have shown themselves unresponsive. A successful DC foothold will get real traction being closely followed by an international call for a worldwide uprising. #OCT15 is being spearheaded by Spain's movement for GLOBAL DEMOCRACY. Will it dilute regional efforts to have actions running concurrently, or will synchronized demonstrations overwhelm our transnational overseers? We can wait and see, or we can give it our best shot. Here are more graphics in support of the kickoff September 17. Borrowing from Tunisia and Egypt, and before that Chicago 1968, it's US Days of Rage. In the course of a single spring we've seen massive demonstrations which provoked governments to interrupt cellphone service, shut down internet access, and answer protestors with direct gunfire. To what extreme will the USG be driven? What rights remain inviolate in the US? Not communication. Activist cellphones were blocked on the BART in San Francisco to thwart protests against police brutality.
FOX broadcasting at it again, Gullible Travails and A Modest Proposal
CW57, one of the local DumFox stations, aired an "infomercial" for a seminar, books and training videos on how to take advantage of the housing market crash, telling the Gullible that if they buy the properties ON CREDIT (even though they're targeting people who are already in bankruptcy and facing foreclosure) then sell them to rich real estate developers for tens of times what the houses are currently priced, financed on both transactions with an Adjustable Rate Mortgage by the same investment banks which wrote a blank rubber check for the last time this scam was perpetrated. Now, the paper they hung on us last time, it wasn't the primary cause of the Recession Massive Economic Collapse it was just (normally, as everybody knows, I avoid cliché like the plague, but I'm going out on a limb and doing it anyway) the straw that broke the camel's back. 30 straight years of unfunded Reaganomics, the collapse of the infrastructure, such as levies, bridges, roads, other privately owned public utilities, unfunded war-for-profit where those who made the profit from other people dying paid no taxes on the blood money, destruction of the unions, done at public expense and again for private profiteers, and the legalization of Predatory Capitalism and relaxing every rule set in place to correct These Same Causes during the Great Depression of the 1930s... provided both the rest of the burden that poor camel was carrying AND starved and beat the living Hell out of him so he was incapable of carrying the burden. Fox uses the standard disclaimer that "The views expressed in this broadcast do not reflect those of NewsCorp" what a bunch of lying pukes. Fox News has spent BILLIONS of dollars ranting that this type of unfunded speculative investment could not possibly have harmed the economy. Nor that the Corporations getting welfare subsidies AND huge tax breaks, would increase the budget and double-trouble it by their obscene tax breaks. Instead, they blame the 51% of the people who make less than $22,360 a year for a family of four and thus are at poverty level. Or below. Couldn't possibly be the multi-Trillion Dollar giveaways to the Rich. The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has recently been estimated at 1.5 Terabucks, or, for those who no speak geek, trillion dollars. That would have to ignore the at least 5 Trillion paid out to private corporations to "rebuild" Iraq and completely dismiss all the money spent on Afghanistan. And the fact that before 1991 Iraq had the strongest economy and best infrastructure on the Arabian Peninsula, even more than the Subsidized (by us) Sovereign State of Israel. That they had more female graduates from universities per capita than anybody else on the Peninsula, that their literacy rate even now surpasses that of the United States, More female Doctors. And that they weren't allowed to use what money they had (which was considerable) to rebuild their country for more than a decade, based on the "They're Developing WMDs"
Wasn’t the Recession simply terrible?!
From the infamous 1931 sign above a bread-and-soup line showing a happy smiling family smartly dressed riding in their new car... Dow Jones doesn't "slide" below 10k... it "plunges." OOPS. The accompanying picture on AP shows a bunch of floor traders looking up like baby turkeys drowning in the rain, with their mouths wide open watching their each individual Apocalypse coming down, drop by drop. Same expression on their faces too. Eat the rich.
Goldman Sachs hires ethics advisers, forms committee to study legal aspects of their investments.
You know, a company as large and old as that would have done something like that Centuries ago. If they'd any intent of actually following any kinds of ethical or legal standard guidelines. "Well, Gosh dang it, fellers, we just didn't have any Idea that stealing from large numbers of people is immoral, dishonest and illegal." They could have called me, paid me a thousand dollars to study it, I would have given them their answer before they hung up, "No, Stealing is NOT Legal" and I would e ahead a cool grand, and they would, if they took such profound and sage advice, wouldn't be out hundreds of millions in fees to law firms (Like Boyd, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe) who charge a million dollars a day to figure ways to LIE and say that it IS legal. Lawyers are expensive, a conscience is free.