We are the 99 Percent

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by Atwater 27

Says Count Spamula.....

This is your best rebuttal?

No wonder people like you are such tricks for con men like GeeDubya.

[alkemical]

http://occupywallstreet.tumblr.com/post/16064168809

lemonsandkiwi: A few snapshots of Occupy Congress

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by alkemical

http://ldsgeek.tumblr.com/post/14479...ony-capitalism

It's all Democrats too!! All the DC connections to big business/special interests/media are all democratic!!!

sad.

[alkemical]

I wonder if the connections vary due to whom has "control of power"?

[Smiling Assassin27]

What was once a misguided, sad, and embarrassingly pathetic (bowel) movement has now become--well, more so.

Three months on, this is what the Occupy movement looks like: a network of mutual support for the lost and destitute, with anti-capitalist overtones. The Bank of Ideas, an abandoned building owned by the Swiss banking giant UBS and transformed into a space for art sessions, lectures and late-night discussion on the future of the free market, is one of four sites squatted by London's branch of the movement. The occupations began with the encampment on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral, which has just lost its battle against eviction at the Royal Courts of Justice, and branched out to Finsbury Square, and an empty magistrate's court on Old Street. As other world cities have seen similar protests violently evicted by local police, the occupiers of London have clung on through a winter that has seen the nature of the camps change profoundly.

As the winter drags on, many of those who have stayed are those, like Spiral and his cat, who can't or won't go home. They are the waifs and strays and nuts and eccentrics, the wide-eyed young men with theories about how computers can calculate the perfect democracy, the straggle-haired women with bags full of paintbrushes and dirt in the creases of their cheeks. For the more media-savvy organisers of Occupy London, this has created something of a public relations dilemma.

The people who live full or part-time in the camps can now be divided into roughly three categories: those who were homeless before the occupations, those who will shortly be homeless, and those who merely look homeless. Three months of sleeping in tents, washing in the bathrooms of nearby cafes and working around-the-clock to run a kitchen feeding thousands with no running water and little electricity will transform even the most fresh-faced student into a jittering bundle of aching limbs and paranoia.

On the roof, the talk turns to meditation, and to the spiritual toxicity of the banking sector. A young Romanian man called Valentin will not stop grabbing my hand and demanding my phone number. Subtle and then decidedly unsubtle hints about personal space do not put him off, and eventually Muriel invites me to sleep beside her; I observe, not for the first time, that there are far fewer young women here than there were in November. When I wake in the morning, someone has put a borrowed sleeping bag around my shoulders. There is a dawn chorus of hippies and homeless teenagers coughing up last night's tar, and the kettle is on.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/la...ovement-london

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by alkemical

I wonder if the connections vary due to whom has "control of power"?

It shows some republicans, but very few. I don't think it has anything to do with who is currently in the white house.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Turning America into Pottersville

by Robert Parry

For many years, it appeared that the Right wanted to take the United States back to the 1950s - when blacks "knew their place," women were "in the kitchen" and gays stayed "in the closet" - but it turns out that the intended back-in-time-travel was to the 1920s, to an era of a few haves and many have-nots, not only before the Civil Rights Movement but before the Great American Middle-Class.

The Right's goal has been less to recreate the world of "Father Knows Best" than to establish a national "Pottersville," like in the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life," where the existence of the average man and woman was brutish and unfulfilling, while the 1 percent of that age lived in gilded comfort and held sweeping power.

That is the message ironically coming from the expensive ad wars of the Republican presidential battle, where Romney has emerged as the personification of the 1 percent and has been attacked by rivals who - while supporting similar policies favoring the ultra-rich - have savaged his career as a venture capitalist, or as Texas Gov. Rick Perry puts it, a "vulture capitalist."

Romney's response has been telling. The former Bain chief went beyond the Right's usual lament about "class warfare," terming the criticism of high-flying financiers who use layoffs to fatten their bottom lines "the bitter politics of envy."

Full article: http://lists.readersupportednews.org...20eed28&L=2549

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

It shows some republicans, but very few. I don't think it has anything to do with who is currently in the white house.

I think it would. Just because you'd have to be investing in whom has power. I mean, Rumsfeld has ties to Monsanto also...

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by alkemical

I think it would. Just because you'd have to be investing in whom has power. I mean, Rumsfeld has ties to Monsanto also...

Then how do you explain the overwhelming majority of democrats? It's not a small majority of demcorats, it's a vast majority of dems.

How do you explain that??

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

Then how do you explain the overwhelming majority of democrats? It's not a small majority of demcorats, it's a vast majority of dems.

How do you explain that??

Uhm, they are the ones in POWER at the moment...am i right?

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by alkemical

Uhm, they are the ones in POWER at the moment...am i right?

Going all the way back to the Ford administration?

[Odysseus]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

If we could just get the Democrats to list the facts...

Our political system is more polarized, more choked with its own bile, than any time since the Civil War. - Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2011

[Smiling Assassin27]

PROVIDENCE, RI, January 30, 2012 – Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls, refused to allow a Catholic priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a pro-life speaker at a Rhode Island right to life rally on Thursday, according to its organizer. The event marked the third time protesters associated with the movement have disrupted a pro-life meeting in a week.

The pro-life organization’s executive director, Barth E. Bracy, told LifeSiteNews.com that, near the end of the rally, the Occupiers “strategically fanned out with military precision.”

That’s when they “started showering condoms down on some of the girls from a Catholic high school.”

They gathered around speakers at the podium, shouting them down or otherwise jostling them and members of the audience.

We are the 99%.

[Smiling Assassin27]

Attend a TEA Party, kill your parents? I think not:

Friends and relatives said Susan Poff and Robert Kamin of Oakland were the perfect pair to adopt a foster child.

They had dedicated their careers to helping others escape poverty, she as a physician assistant in a city-run clinic in the Tenderloin and he as a clinical psychologist for inmates in the San Francisco County Jail system.

But now, less than a decade after they adopted, their 15-year-old son stands accused of strangling both Poff, 50, and Kamin, 55, then hiding their bodies in the back of the family's PT Cruiser.

Co-workers said Poff and Kamin were having some arguments with their son, some of it having to do with him spending too much time in the Occupy Oakland encampment, but nothing that sounded beyond the scope of typical teenage rebelliousness.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BA9P1N089K.DTL

Let's face it, when your approval/disapproval rating is -22 in San Francisco, you've lose the battle of ideas horribly. The only thing left is to see what you can get away with.

[Odysseus]

One of the best protests ever devised.

Read a book.

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by Smiling Assassin27

We are the 99%.

This type of behavior is unacceptable. OWS should not allow this type of militant intimidation to happen to others who are expressing the right to free speech. This is why OWS fails.

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by Odysseus

One of the best protests ever devised.

Read a book.

Start a garden!

[Odysseus]

Originally Posted by alkemical

Start a garden!

Read a book in a garden.

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by Odysseus

Read a book in a garden.

I'm telling ya man - reading & gardening are two of the most subversive things you can do.

Planting seeds...

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

[Play2win]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Right, or it would be termed something else, by definition.

[Odysseus]

Originally Posted by alkemical

I'm telling ya man - reading & gardening are two of the most subversive things you can do.

Planting seeds...

Reading used to be a forum where we could share information, conversation and teach other about the world. I ask about Ron Paul, Austrian, and all manner of information and yet posing and posturing seems to matter more than honest inquiry.

It is too bad I cannot attach .pdf files to this forum. There is an amazing amount of information that can be shared through that.

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by Odysseus

Reading used to be a forum where we could share information, conversation and teach other about the world. I ask about Ron Paul, Austrian, and all manner of information and yet posing and posturing seems to matter more than honest inquiry.

It is too bad I cannot attach .pdf files to this forum. There is an amazing amount of information that can be shared through that.

It could be shared - you'd just need to have it accessible for the public like on skydrive or dropbox or something like that.

I know what you mean about people wanting to talk more than conversing.

You still on vacation?

[mhgaffney]

Brandeis was the servant of the rich -- not the masses.

BTW, I was at the Occupy Oakland protest last Saturday. I saw the confrontation with the cops, and even got gassed (slightly).

The tear gas was nasty stuff.

99% of the protesters were peaceful. I saw really cool signs like "Power to the Peaceful" and " "Resistance is Fertile."

There were old hippies and young street kids. Quite a mix.

Get used to it.As the economy tanks the occupy Wall Street movement will grow geometrically.