Occupy Wall Street Fail

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lol about as on track as it ever has been. Wonder how many Icelandic democracies there will be by years end?

From Reuters:


Greece's Left Coalition called on Sunday for an anti-bailout coalition, saying the country's general election showed that austerity policies had been soundly defeated and a peaceful revolution ushered in.

The Communist KKE - which believes Greece should abandon the euro - immediately rejected Tsipras's call for a leftist alliance.

"Mrs Merkel needs to understand that austerity policies have suffered a huge defeat," said Left Coalition leader Alexis Tsipras, referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

"With their vote, Greek people gave a mandate for a new dawn in our country with solidarity and justice instead of barbaric bailout measures."

Tsipras' party has emerged as the surprise star of the election and is on track to finish in second place with 16 percent of the vote, according to early results. The success comes at the expense of the big pro-bailout parties, New Democracy and PASOK, who were punished for backing austerity.

The KKE are projected to take about 8.5 percent of the vote.

"The parties which signed the bailouts without Greek people's consent are now a minority," Tsipras said.

The Banks' Nightmare Is Coming True: Greek Left Calls For Anti-Bailout Coalition | ZeroHedge
 
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From BizzyBlog:


Cleveland Plain Dealer: One of Five Arrested in Bridge Blowup Plot Signed ‘Occupy’ Group’s Warehouse Lease



The last national press reports on the five men arrested Monday for plotting to blow up a Cleveland-area bridge reassured everyone that none involved were in responsible roles in the Occupy movement. On Thursday, the Associated Press’s Thomas J. Sheeran wrote that Occupy Cleveland spokespersons “said the men were associated with the group but didn’t represent Occupy Cleveland or its non-violent philosophy.” An earlier AP report paraphrased a claim that they “had been associated with the anticorporate Occupy Cleveland movement but don’t share its nonviolent views.” Reuters carried this quote: “They were in no way representing or acting on behalf of Occupy Cleveland.” Well, last night, the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Michael Sangiacomo reported that at least one of the five was once in a sufficiently responsible position within the Occupy group to represent it while signing a lease for space the group used. It will be interesting to see what, if anything, the wire services just noted and others will do with what follows


Suspect in bridge bombing plot signed lease on Occupy Cleveland warehouse
One of the five self-described anarchists arrested last week for attempting to blow up a local bridge signed the lease for a West Side warehouse where about a dozen members of the Occupy Cleveland group live.

In a one-hour recording of a Friday evening general assembly meeting of the group posted on its website Live Stream | Occupy Cleveland, occupy leaders expressed concern about Anthony Hayne’s name being on the lease, which strengthens his link to the group.

“We have a person facing terrorism charges on the lease of our warehouse,” said one of the leaders. “If this gets into the media, it would be a disaster.”




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Good luck to them, I believe that they have a very long and arduous road ahead of them
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Can you name many changes that society has experienced that has not started out with a protest by somebody?
In the end the masses got their way. What 'the powers that be' fail to do is adjust with the times. The 'people' are old enough to decide what they want, taking almost all the money the 3% of the of the 1% have 'illegally' taken from the 99%. All you are doing is the right to keep gains gotten during a crime, that is always a short term gain as a Gov/Society built on internal stress is always going to fail.

The sooner change is made the less stress on society, in this case banking reform and an end to back-room deals. The part I find interesting is that some would even support the current system as being the best model it could be. Just what is Wall St going to be trading back and forth when the same owners own shares in all the 'competing companies'? There goes that 'industry' and how much effect are a 'very few voices' (those 7/10 of 1% that mean nothing to the 3/10 that control 70% of the all the money the 1% have) going to have when 99% had to raise their collective one to be heard and listened to. (those 7/10 of 1% that mean nothing to the 3/10 that control 70% of the all the money the 1% have)

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You pay the 1% the royalties due for publishing music and lyrics??? Was lyrics codified back when the war was being protested or was music like Alice's Restaurant popular because it told the.

Is it really worth all the effort to protect financial crimes when those crimes affect many people. If the people running the financial sector were doing a good job of it there would not be protests. It isn't even hidden anymore so the protection is pretty easy to spot. If you can't you won't need to be listed for 're-education'.
Geithner arrested 116 major bank resignations PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHATS SAID HERE !!!


http://revolutionarypolitics.tv/video/viewVideo.php?video_id=18729
 
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What is this permit thingy?


Tens of thousands of protesters had marched against Putin that afternoon, the day before his inauguration. They were met by row after row of police, thousands of them, who were there to make sure they stayed within the bounds of their rally permit.


U.S. 'Disturbed' by Crackdown on Protesters in Russia
Anybody know what the part regulations are?
 
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Union with Obama ties rents offices for Occupy DC



A labor union with strong ties to President Obama is helping make the Occupy Wall Street movement a more permanent fixture in the nation's capital, moving Occupy DC into office space the group can use to organize and grow through the presidential election.

The Service Employees International Union, one of Obama's most vocal supporters among labor groups, is paying $4,000 a month for three offices the Occupy protesters will use for at least the next six months to plan future demonstrations, organize and host workshops.

The offices are at the Institute for Policy Studies, a nonprofit progressive group headquartered at 16th and L streets NW, amid the major law firms, trade groups and lobbying shops that Occupiers have spent the past seven months denouncing. The offices are just a short distance from the tent city Occupy DC established in McPherson Square in October.

Occupiers moved into their new digs Monday. The SEIU will pay the rent for six months, said John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies.

SEIU representatives did not return calls seeking comment, but Cavanagh and Occupiers confirmed the union's role in helping Occupy establish a headquarters of sorts in Washington.

Like its counterparts at the AFL-CIO and other major labor unions, the SEIU has long been supportive of the Occupy protests, though relations between the protesters and labor haven't always been smooth. Occupiers distanced themselves from the SEIU in the past, saying they were uncomfortable with the union's vocal support for Obama.

Occupiers said they don't want to be associated with either major political party and chafed at the unions' adoption of Occupy slogans and rhetoric like "We are the 99 percent."

The SEIU contributed millions of dollars and thousands of volunteers to help elect Obama in 2008 and was among the first to endorse his reelection this year. Former SEIU President Andy Stern was once the Obama White House's most frequent guest, logging nearly two dozen visits, and served on Obama's deficit reduction commission.

The Occupiers' lease will run right up to Election Day this fall, though Occupiers insist they're aren't organizing on behalf of Obama.

Protester Sam Jewler said Occupiers still don't agree with the SEIU's support of Obama, who embraced the Occupy movement early on but has said little about it since Occupiers and police clashed in New York, Oakland, Calif., San Francisco and elsewhere.

Still, Jewler said Occupiers recognize they have common interests with labor unions, like fighting income inequality, on which they can work together. Occupiers said they view the union's backing as a donation with no strings attached.

"We've got full control of how we allocate space, time, resources, access," said protester John Zangas. "Nobody's telling us what to do. We still have our own brand name. We continue with unbridled decision making."

Cavanagh said the union offered months ago to rent space for Occupy, which chose a suite of offices at the institute in part because the peace group was a long-established presence at Occupy. The institute has been hosting discussions in McPherson Square for months and has been allowing Occupiers to use its empty offices on Sundays and in rainy weather.

"We've known these people for five months," Cavanagh said. "It's great to have them."


Union with Obama ties rents offices for Occupy DC | Washington Examiner
 
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The difference between the Tea Party and the Occupiers



The Tea Party got Richard Mourdock elected tonight all without raping anybody or pooping on any cop cars.


Tea Party favorite Richard Mourdock has crushed incumbent Senator Dick Lugar for the Republican nomination in Indiana. Just a month ago, Lugar was considered the favorite in this race. A Howey/DePauw poll showed Lugar up by 7 points, 42 to 35. It appears that undecided voters broke overwhelmingly for Mourdock.


Blowout: Mourdock headed for 20-point victory over Lugar | Twitchy
 
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The major noteable difference between the tea party and occupy is that one is a grassroots movement and one pretends to be a grassroots movement.
 
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I didn't know you two were tea-party fans.

One of the big issues with banking corruption is what this one politician is agreeing with the OWS platform on. What would you label him and his supporters as?

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THE FED: DISHONEST, IMMORAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL


There is no greater threat to the security and prosperity of the United States today than the out-of-control, secretive Federal Reserve.
Imagine that parents, overwhelmed by debt and months behind on their bills, sent their spendthrift teenagers out each weekend for a night on the town with credit cards and blank checks. Would anyone be surprised if this family never got their finances under control?
Yet that is how a government which is almost 15 trillion dollars in the red behaves by entrusting taxpayers’ financial futures to the Federal Reserve, which pumps money into the economy whenever it chooses and makes secret deals with Wall Street executives, foreign central banks, and other politically-connected insiders without any significant oversight from Congress.
Snuck through Congress on Christmas Eve in 1913, the Federal Reserve Act established the Fed as America’s central bank. The Fed essentially creates money out of thin air, manipulates interest rates, and interferes with the free market. By doing so, the Fed fuels our economy’s boom-bust cycle and has helped devalue our dollar by over 95%.
According to the Minneapolis Federal Reserve branch’s own website, what you could buy with $1.00 in 1913 would now cost you $22.55.
End the Fed*|*Ron Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign CommitteeRon Paul 2012 Presidential Campaign Committee
 
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Here is the delusional test, pick the model that is sustainable.

Another Awesome Fact From Iceland's Banking Recovery

Iceland's journey from teetering on the edge of disaster in 2008 to a relative stability — and above average growth — has a lot of lessons, which we've covered before.
However, a recent report by Icelandic Financial Services Association (via Bloomberg) has given us a new statistic on one tactic the country used: debt relief.
Since 2008 the country's banks have forgiven 13 percent of the country's debts, which in turn has eased the burdon for more than 25 percent of the country's population.
“You could safely say that Iceland holds the world record in household debt relief,” Lars Christensen, chief emerging markets economist at Danske Bank A/S in Copenhagen, told Bloomberg. “Iceland followed the textbook example of what is required in a crisis. Any economist would agree with that.”
Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com..._debt-relief-bloomberg-textbook#ixzz1uOm2Xo00


http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-21/europe/31081762_1_debt-relief-bloomberg-textbook
Riots over Greek austerity - Chicago Sun-Times

ATHENS, Greece — Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after riots in Athens and other cities left stores looted and burned and more than 120 people hurt.
The historic vote paves the way for Greece’s European partners and the International Monetary Fund to release $170 billion in new rescue loans, without which Greece would default on its mountain of debt next month and likely leave the eurozone — a scenario that would further roil global markets.
Lawmakers voted 199-74 in favor of the cutbacks, despite strong dissent among the two main coalition members.
In response, the Socialists and conservatives expelled 22 and 21 lawmakers, respectively, reducing their majority in the 300-seat parliament from 236 to 193.
Violence was also reported in six other cities, the worst in central Volos where the town hall and a tax office were damaged by fire, police said.
http://www.suntimes.com/business/10605948-420/riots-over-greek-austerity.html
 
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MHz said:
So we must stop OWS here so we can follow the same spiral Greece is on???

Fears austerity cuts needed to get the next EU banker bailout will not be passed as Greece’s government splinters into warring factions and violence hits the streets.

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/10/chaos-greece-final-nail-euro-coffin-132291/
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You've got it ass backwards; Greece is spiraling down because of the unreasonable OWS-style demands... No one in Greece wants to pay taxes but are demanding that the gvt take care of them from cradle to grave.

Greece is the perfect example of why OWS won't work or go anywhere. They are demanding that their 'wealthy' neighbours (that aren't so wealthy anymore) keep providing them with loans that they will never be able to pay-off in order to maintain teh same system that got them into bankruptcy to begin with.

This whole mess is no different than a person that gets a new credit card in order to pay off the minimum payments from the other cards that are maxed-out
 
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