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wow ... protests of the 99% ... now in 78 nations!
its just been in the news ... more and more ppl stand up to to protest against "money to save banks" and company greed - its OUR money they swallow they say ...
more : http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/15/wo...y-goes-global/ ... wowser :thumbsup |
Morons in 78 countries united in a common cause that none of them understand... isn't that just wonderful.
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doing something is 99% better than doing nothing at all.
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I kinda thought this would fizzle out when it first started but it is growing pretty fast lol
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I see some of them are turning violent
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They did a protest down here in New Orleans, but as usual, it turned into a drinking parade. :1orglaugh
there's an anarchist group down here that has picnics in the park too. LOL so awesome. |
People are pissed. I get that.
But if I didn't have a job, I wouldn't be slumming it in some park in San Francisco protesting a movement that doesn't seem to have a purpose. I'd be looking for a job. |
i just like to see people setting shit on fire.
BURN BABY BURN when soldiers do it to innocent civilians during war its fine, so why shouldnt protestors do it? MOLOTOV MOTHERFUCKERS |
Never underestimate the angry mob -- I'll bet the phones are ringing now :2 cents:
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live vid its going down cops vs ppl in rome http://videochat.corriere.it/index_H2401.shtml
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totally different. |
and nothing changes...
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I went today and it is totally different from what you think. Everyone split down into various sections according to your skill set to discuss ideas on what we can do to create real change. This is happening world wide so the numbers of people involved now trying to change the future is in the millions.
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This protest will not work in this country because too many of us have way too much to lose if you get arrested. You don't even have to resist arrest, they will and are tacking on extra charges if you get arrested. It is usually your word against theirs and you will need a good lawyer to get off. So just to get out of jail could cost you a lot of $$$ and your career if you have one. People I work with have been stopping by the wall street protest and the police just keep everyone crowded into that park area. The media will start treating them like villains once they get more traction. The current administration will make you the bad guy if you act out away from the norm. Similar how they treated the tea party movement. They will make up some name to call the wall street protesters that sounds crazy. Remember your supposed to not question the government and be herded like sheep. Immigrants in this country don't question the government and are just happy to stay here...so they will allow them to stay here legal/or not and keep open boarders. My wife is Japanese/an immigrant here under 10 years and totally clueless about whats going on and really could care less. But she is damn happy to be here and pay a lot of taxes.
These protests worked in nations that are 3rd world nations where people are peasants with no money and zero to lose. |
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Are you happy to pay for 3 generations debts that some criminal banks had made and your government signd on to? |
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Look at the banks they just added all these fees, did our government step in to stop this...or course not. |
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Remember cia asset Barak Obama who lied to the whole world and said he would put NO ONE from wall street in his government? Has more wallstreet in his government as any previous government. The connection between the 4 largest banks in the world and USA government makes it a fascistic system not a democratic system. |
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Admittedly this message is befuddled by a lot of hipster douchebags at the protests, but that's the basic issue. When has a democratically elected government done anything it has promised the people in recent times? Not much, so therefore no representation of the 99%. |
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I have yet to see where anyone is saying they feel entitled to anything, not sure why people keep repeating that like some fucking Limbaugh parrot. |
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It's not like 9.1% of the American people are unemployed by choice... |
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How many of these 99%ers actually make a good living? I know the union leaders involved in the Toronto protest are doing just fine and dandy.
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Here in Portland it is starting to become a big deal/problem. When it first started the police chief wanted to shut them down because they had no permit. The mayor told them to hold off that this would blow over in a few days. Well, it hasn't. It has gotten bigger and bigger over the last week and is now spilling out into the streets. So they are rerouting buses and traffic and some people are pissed. The mayor is now in a can't win situation. Chances are if he tries to break it up it will turn out ugly and make national news which will only fuel the fire. If he doesn't break it up he sets a precedence that could come back and bite him in the ass.
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So I ask, is this not just capitalism at work for the people, yet a self inflicted wound for wall street? If GM designs a new car that they think is going to be a huge seller and they hire 5,000 workers and spend millions getting it to market only to have it flop and they have to shut down the line and lay people off and eat the financial loss. It only effects those who worked there or those who invest in GM. The reason is because the banking system hasn't taken GM stock and used it as a foundation to build a house of cards on which the build a huge industry of financial products. They put the stock in funds, but the don't overextend it and use it for 20 times its worth. The same goes for these homes. The time was right. The people had access to cheap, easy credit and they saw the market rising and they took a stab at it. Some made money and many, clearly failed. The difference is that those mortgages were sold by the bank to other banks who then sold them again and that person split them up an used them as the asset base for 20 different investment funds, hedges and products. So when Joe Bob and his wife Jill fail with their flip instead of it just hurting them and potentially the bank that loaned them the money it now sets off a chain reaction that causes 100 people downstream to be hurt. So the people should be blamed to some degree, but the primary culprit here is the banking system, wall street and our leaders who allowed this system to be put into place where so much can be based on one thing. |
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Americans are bombarded with corporate advertising and marketing gimmicks. The mortgage fiasco was a great example. Millions of defective products, mortgages, were hyped and sold unregulated to the American public. This was the marketing plan of a shitty product that made staggering profits before the defects were noticed. It was a scam that devastated the products purchasers and bystanders as well. . |
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Have those protesting indirectly been benefiting from the Financial Sectors activities in the past?
One of the top performing industries in the Western World are the Financial Sectors. For years they made billions a year and that money flowed into the country where they were based. To pay for Schools, Hospitals, public Services, etc. A $million bonus often 1/2 disappears in tax or a high % of it. Into a countries coffers. Without the financial sector most Western Countries would be more fucked than they are. Fuck with the banks and the banks might just say, Fuck You and fuck off to China, Hong Kong, or anywhere they are welcomed. Then those protesting will really feel the pain. Go grab a History book and read up on the Great Depression, when the banks were allowed to fail. And the results of that decision. They took with them many people's money and future. |
Let them eat cake! http://mschan42.files.wordpress.com/...0&h=392&crop=1 Looks like the genie is out of the bottle ... |
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The more regular people see footage of hippies, Marxists, union agitators and various other types of societal parasites and freeloaders sowing chaos and disorder, the more the "silent majority" will turn against the Obama/Soros left.
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hippies still don't get it - its not about saving banks, its about saving $ hippies have in this banks
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I love this development. Those who think this sucks are the ones who don't know what it's about and the ones who turn this into a "workers vs not-workers" think are just dumb. The 1% who have so much money are the ones who never worked. They are only kids born with a golden spoon in their mouth and always had others to work for them. The 1% doesn't consist of people who were born poor and worked hard as porn producers or affiliates and make $100,000 to $1,000,000 per year. This isn't about millonaires. The 1% consists of people so fucking filthy rich that it would be impossible for them to spend all the money the have. These people have 10-times-1-million-dollars or more. They made huge profits on all the bank and corporate scams in the past decennia and now the pyramid is collapsing they want to stay out of the picture.
Again, I love this and I'm going to Paris this week to join this. And fuck a Paris whore in Bois de Boulogne to celebrate this revolution. |
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people will support an unjust system if they feel they have a shot at becoming one of them. seems more and more people don't feel they ever have that shot anymore. cards are increasingly stacked against them through corporate lobbying, etc.
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LOL you are going off for no reason other than to hear yourself talk because what you posted is about as accurate towards me as a stormtroooper shooting in star wars LOL :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh |
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What are you laughing at? . |
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on an actual funny note, I heard these people referred to as the "flea bagers". |
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It's like a sinking ship where grown men will push away women and children to get into the rescue boat first. In the end people will always be selfish. Still I support this movement. Something really needs to change. |
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What do they think? Do they think somebody put something in the drinking water that has all of a sudden made all of these people become incorrigibly lazy? |
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My favorite line is "Portland is where young people go to retire."
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THEY chose all of it, lived beyond their means, and now want a bail out. at the end of the day, NOTHING will come of it. The producer class is not going to give up what they EARNED to help out a bunch of whiners. |
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