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SpasticGramps

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Definitely not my favorite economist lol. :)

I like and miss Glass Stegal (7 pages). I think D-F (2300 pages) is a corrupt piece of legislation that pays lip service to "fixing" problems while consolidating multinational banking corporate power even further. Smaller banks and especially credit unions will drown in regulatory costs. Leaving only TBTF standing. The more complicated the legislation the more corrupt it is IMO. Same thing with the tax code. Big boys pay nothing. We pay for everything.

Oligarchs write laws to benefit themselves. I mean seriously 2300 pages? What is the bureaucracy to implement this thing going to look like? Wow. Going to massive. Led by the SEC who destroyed evidence of big bank illegal activity during the 2008 heist. The regulators are owned by the banks. It's a joke.

SEC Destroys Evidence Against Banks And Hedge Funds, Whistleblower Alleges Forbes

It's all so corrupt that I really can't take it seriously anymore. And that's the underlying issue that all this global upheaval is coming from. It's just starting IMO. Cause when the truth comes out about how rotten this whole thing is then it might just blow up.
 
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Iron_Lion

Well it looks like the biggest fuck wits are gathering at Occupy DC.

Youtube key word "Obama Supporters "Occupy" DC" EDIT: My comments below are for this specific video

After watching this Occupy DC vid I cant really say who disgusts me more, these so called protesters or the gov. Occupy DC is a pathetic face book party of whinny ass college kids wah wah wah....we love obama but we have student loans and we want a bail out too. When the fuck did it become the governments job to provide free college educations.

I didn't go to college because I couldn't afford it and instead of student loans I have a mortgage, maybe I should be crying in the streets asking for a bail out too. Fuck all these hipster stool pushing pussies.

I think these "protests" are going to bring more division to the population in the long run.

This should be a call to over turn the crooks that worked over a once great nation, not all american's in the streets asking for their own individual hand outs.
 
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In any truly democratic process, some truly douchey, self-serving ideas will be proposed by self-serving douches. The only way to stop it is to educate the next generation not to be self serving douches.
 

MadBuddhaAbuser

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Well it looks like the biggest fuck wits are gathering at Occupy DC.

Youtube key word "Obama Supporters "Occupy" DC" EDIT: My comments below are for this specific video

After watching this Occupy DC vid I cant really say who disgusts me more, these so called protesters or the gov. Occupy DC is a pathetic face book party of whinny ass college kids wah wah wah....we love obama but we have student loans and we want a bail out too. When the fuck did it become the governments job to provide free college educations.

I didn't go to college because I couldn't afford it and instead of student loans I have a mortgage, maybe I should be crying in the streets asking for a bail out too. Fuck all these hipster stool pushing pussies.

I think these "protests" are going to bring more division to the population in the long run.

......i really hope you arent letting a few hipsters in a park decide your view of this movement.


"[This should be a call to over turn the crooks that worked over a once great nation, not all american's in the streets asking for their own individual hand outs."

That is EXACTLY what the wall street occupation is about and contrary to dividing people is actualy bringing together these "hippys" that started it and local labor unions in NYC

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street_n_999048.html
Occupy Wall Street Members Say They Welcome Solidarity But Don't Want To Be Co-Opted

As labor unions and some Democratic Party politicians express support for the Occupy Wall Street movement, the core group of occupiers themselves are increasingly facing the question of whether too much mainstream support could dampen their radical message.

Protestors seem generally appreciative of the increasing union support for the movement -- but more wary of Democrats and establishment figures getting involved.

"We're very excited to have our union brothers and sisters march on the heart of greed," spokesman Patrick Bruner told HuffPost before a 10,000-strong Wednesday march organized in coordination with labor.

“We don’t necessarily think that the way they’re structured is the best,” Bruner said, referring to the unions' top-down organizational style. "But we believe the 99% needs a voice, and they're one of the few remaining."

Other movement members are skeptical of whether people like Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke can claim to understand the protesters.

Bernanke discussed the movement on Tuesday, saying the protesters "blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington. And at some level, I can’t blame them."

"Nice to know he feels he has to say that," replied David Graeber, an anarchist anthropologist who has been involved with the protests from the beginning. "Otherwise meaningless."

"Obviously we welcome support from anyone," Graeber continued in an email, "but yes, [being co-opted is] a serious concern because a huge part of our message is our own internal democracy. The moment you even have a funding base it seriously limits what people feel they can say and do. And a top-down organization will always try to co-opt you. So we have to be very careful and insist people come on our terms or not at all."

Occupy Wall Street's terms may seem alien for people who are used to expressing themselves through unions or Democratic party politics. Unions rely on elections, shop stewards, and rigid grievance procedures to correct problems. The General Assemblies in New York's Zuccotti Park operate on a consensus model, with decisions emerging from a "progressive stack" speaking order that seeks to ensure "women and traditionally marginalized groups speak before men, especially white men."

Occupy Wall Street's style of protest, moreover, has much more in common with the 1999 anti-globalization protests in Seattle than it does with most unions' cautious demonstrations. The group spends nights camped out in "Liberty Square" and days on unpermitted marches. Despite their differences, union members and the people behind Occupy Wall Street say they have found common cause in opposing Wall Street's assault on "the 99%."

Jonathan Willson, a 21-year-old student who attends Johnson State College in Vermont, found himself in New York City's Foley Square on Wednesday night for a solidarity rally. No union member himself, he was surrounded by thousands from the labor movement and wore a DC 37 Local 372 trucker hat he'd been given the night before.

Since Monday, Willson had camped out with friends from school, alongside several hundred other occupiers in Zuccotti Park. "It's a little hard to find a place to sleep now," he explained.

Willson believes fighting Wall Street is more important than quibbling with union organization charts. "Hierarchy can't be a priority right now," he said.

Unions, meanwhile, are lining up to back Occupy Wall Street. In just the past few days, major organizations like the Communication Workers of America, the AFL-CIO and AFSCME have voiced support for the protesters' targets, if not all of their methods.

TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen, whose union made headlines after it was forced to bus protesters from the Brooklyn Bridge to prison, said he was happy to lend his union's support.

"Wall Street got bailed out after the recession. American working families didn't get bailed out," Samuelsen said at the Wednesday rally.

Samuelsen has been extremely critical of the NYPD's orders to bus drivers to transport the prisoners. Still, he continued, "these aren't rallies about police brutality. These are peaceful rallies with working families coming out here to say enough's enough, we need jobs, we needs jobs for us and for our kids."

Just hours after Samuelsen spoke to HuffPost, younger protesters broke off from the union rally and forced a confrontation with the NYPD that resulted in a wild melee of pepper-spraying and baton-wielding. Twenty-eight people went to jail.

As The New York Times noted on Wednesday, some in the union movement are "wary of being embarrassed by the far-left activists in the group who have repeatedly denounced the United States government."

Occupy Wall Street members, meanwhile, say they believe both unions and the movement can benefit from cautious collaboration.

"We have no trouble with allies as long as they don't corrupt the process," Graeber said. "There can be a great synergy if we are pressure from their left so they can get their reforms and they intervene to keep us out of jail ... but organizationally it's critical to keep them apart."
 
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Iron_Lion

......i really hope you arent letting a few hipsters in a park decide your view of this movement.

No definitely not, I think I just clicked on the wrong video today when I came up with that piece of crap.... It's like they rounded up the biggest idiots they could for the interviews but later on after checking out a few more vids I realized there is much more credible arguments coming from other occupations in DC.


Youtube key word "Obama Supporters "Occupy" DC" EDIT: My comments below are for this specific video
 

DiscoBiscuit

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Just look at economics, Iron. My higher education was 10x higher than my dad's. My kid's college education was 100x higher than mine. Adjusted for inflation, me and the rest of the 99% haven't made 10x higher salaries to keep up with greed.

I saw the same video and didn't see the same thing you did. We need more higher education, not less. If we keep going in this direction your grand kids will quit school at 16 and work at Walmart all their lives.
 
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MadBuddhaAbuser

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No definitely not, I think I just clicked on the wrong video today when I came up with that piece of crap.... It's like they rounded up the biggest idiots they could for the interviews but later on after checking out a few more vids I realized there is much more credible arguments coming from other occupations in DC.

good deal.

i got two minutes into that vid and

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First of all, I don't believe that the people that are part of this movement are really doing it for the right reasons, nor do I think they're armed with the knowledge they think they are. Regardless, I do think that it is time for Americans as a people to stand up together and abolish the single biggest problem in American society now - The Federal Reserve.

The "Federal" Reserve is and has been screwing the United States and other countries for years now. If you to ask,I bet 90% of US Citizens would tell you they thought the Federal Reserve was part of the government. In fact, it is owned by The Rothschilds, Lazard Brothers, Israel Moses Seif, Kuhn, Loeb and Warburg, the Lehman Brothers, Goldman, Sachs, and the Rockefeller family.

Woodrow Wilson was in part elected President because he got funding from the creators of the Federal Reserve,led by J.P.Morgan. - in exchange he would sign into law the Federal Reserve Act. He was worried about his chances at President and saw this as a way to better his campaign at no/little cost. He later was quoted saying "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

Another thing to consider is the only president to date who tried to eliminate the Federal Reserve, John F. Kennedy, through Executive Order 11110, was assassinated after trying to put silver-backed UNITED STATES currency into the system - immediately after his death the US notes he had issued were taken out of circulation.

The Federal Reserve has cost us along the lines of (I believe) $12 Trillion and counting.

Now, the "Good" news. The US can BUY BACK the Federal Reserve AT ANY TIME for $500,000,000 - about the amount we pay them EVERY DAY. Also, the Federal Reserve supposedly expires December 31, 2012 (99 Years).

The Mayans on to something?

A quote from Thomas Jefferson: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currencies, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

FUN FACT: Estimated Net Worth of the Rothschilds is purported to be somewhere between $300-$600 Trillion, yes that's Trillion with a capital T - and you thought Bill Gates was rich.
I say "estimated" for good reason,they are able to hide that wealth through British Family Trusts which can't be taxed and consequently it is impossible to determine actual wealth.



"Let me issue and control a Nation's money and I care not who makes its laws".

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Complete and total upheaval suits their cause, they're banking(literally) on the fact that most people are easily distracted and are so caught up to actually see what's going on.

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RudolfTheRed

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anyone thought about calling rage against the machine?

probably one of the best music videos ever when they played in front of the stock exchange
 

SpasticGramps

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I imagine he noticed when it first started up.

He and his party will "turn" this movement into an establishment (D) movement.

Same thing that happened to the TP.

Each movement had Libertarian underpinnings. Libertarian's, progressive and right-wing, have taken part in both movements. They are the minority in both movements and understand the intellectual failures of the system. Mainly the power of money and who issues it.

In both cases they are marginalized and eventually their message is "turned" into the establishment message.

I like seeing people protest the system, but neither group can seem to keep from being hijacked by establishment narratives and propaganda.

Maybe when the economy gets a lot worse something productive will happen.
 

Islandbud

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We need the middle class protesters to keep showing up so this will stay mainstream news, the more organized and experienced protesters need to keep things cool and the money grubbing bastards on Wall Street and around the world can collectively pucker their assholes and take what's coming to them.


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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/cutline/reporter-incites-occupy-d-c-riot-write-180750896.html


A reporter for the American Spectator--who says he "infiltrated" a Washington, D.C., faction of the Occupy Wall Street protesters, "in order to mock and undermine" the demonstrators' "cause" in his magazine--claims he helped incite a riot at the National Air and Space Museum on Saturday afternoon and was pepper-sprayed in the process.
Patrick Howley, listed on Spectator's online masthead as an assistant editor, described the incident in a post ("Standoff in D.C.") on the publication's website. Howley claims that as the 100 or so protesters approached the museum, "all of a sudden liberal shoes started marching less forcefully"--but not him:
 

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It's not a desire to limit the top. The top limits everybody else.

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If you're not in the top 1%, you're averaged amongst the bottom lines.

Shouldn't your line trend more similar to the top? Not up in the nose-bleed section but trending upward nonetheless. Otherwise we risk faulting economies. We might trend upward during bubbles but our individual and collective worth sinks with each bust. Before Gramm Leach Bliley, we averaged one bust a decade. We're in the 4th bust since 2000.

We don't want their money. We want Citizens United repealed so unlimited campaign contributions are cured. At a minimum, require disclosure so voters know who's interests they're considering.

Saying we want what belongs to somebody else is intellectually dishonest. Supporting top-down economic policies work for the top. For everybody else it's like playing the lottery.
 
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