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Post by B on Oct 8, 2011 19:11:06 GMT -5
Ughh, those "hippies" are at it again!Photo courtesy Despo Kaniklis Apostolou on Facebook
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Post by B on Oct 8, 2011 19:40:00 GMT -5
A slight diversion, but this is terribly important. Whether you are sympathetic to fracking or not, the reality here is that a vote for approval would completely drive the bus over the cliff with this. Fracking is simply not compatable with the needs of 15 million people for clean water. The industry is in denial about the damage it causes, but that doesn't alter the reality of its actions. SAVE THE DELAWARE RIVER www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0JM2dnQHfw
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Post by B on Oct 8, 2011 23:32:38 GMT -5
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Post by B on Oct 9, 2011 20:55:19 GMT -5
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Post by B on Oct 10, 2011 0:12:27 GMT -5
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Post by B on Oct 11, 2011 1:50:02 GMT -5
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Post by B on Oct 11, 2011 2:02:07 GMT -5
Panic of the PlutocratsBy PAUL KRUGMANNew York Times 10/10/11 www.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/opinion/panic-of-the-plutocrats.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaperIt remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent. And this reaction tells you something important — namely, that the extremists threatening American values are what F.D.R. called “economic royalists,” not the people camping in Zuccotti Park. Consider first how Republican politicians have portrayed the modest-sized if growing demonstrations, which have involved some confrontations with the police — confrontations that seem to have involved a lot of police overreaction — but nothing one could call a riot. And there has in fact been nothing so far to match the behavior of Tea Party crowds in the summer of 2009. Nonetheless, Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, has denounced “mobs” and “the pitting of Americans against Americans.” The G.O.P. presidential candidates have weighed in, with Mitt Romney accusing the protesters of waging “class warfare,” while Herman Cain calls them “anti-American.” My favorite, however, is Senator Rand Paul, who for some reason worries that the protesters will start seizing iPads, because they believe rich people don’t deserve to have them. Michael Bloomberg, New York’s mayor and a financial-industry titan in his own right, was a bit more moderate, but still accused the protesters of trying to “take the jobs away from people working in this city,” a statement that bears no resemblance to the movement’s actual goals. And if you were listening to talking heads on CNBC, you learned that the protesters “let their freak flags fly,” and are “aligned with Lenin.” The way to understand all of this is to realize that it’s part of a broader syndrome, in which wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is. Last year, you may recall, a number of financial-industry barons went wild over very mild criticism from President Obama. They denounced Mr. Obama as being almost a socialist for endorsing the so-called Volcker rule, which would simply prohibit banks backed by federal guarantees from engaging in risky speculation. And as for their reaction to proposals to close a loophole that lets some of them pay remarkably low taxes — well, Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of the Blackstone Group, compared it to Hitler’s invasion of Poland. And then there’s the campaign of character assassination against Elizabeth Warren, the financial reformer now running for the Senate in Massachusetts. Not long ago a YouTube video of Ms. Warren making an eloquent, down-to-earth case for taxes on the rich went viral. Nothing about what she said was radical — it was no more than a modern riff on Oliver Wendell Holmes’s famous dictum that “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” But listening to the reliable defenders of the wealthy, you’d think that Ms. Warren was the second coming of Leon Trotsky. George Will declared that she has a “collectivist agenda,” that she believes that “individualism is a chimera.” And Rush Limbaugh called her “a parasite who hates her host. Willing to destroy the host while she sucks the life out of it.” What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is. They’re not John Galt; they’re not even Steve Jobs. They’re people who got rich by peddling complex financial schemes that, far from delivering clear benefits to the American people, helped push us into a crisis whose aftereffects continue to blight the lives of tens of millions of their fellow citizens. Yet they have paid no price. Their institutions were bailed out by taxpayers, with few strings attached. They continue to benefit from explicit and implicit federal guarantees — basically, they’re still in a game of heads they win, tails taxpayers lose. And they benefit from tax loopholes that in many cases have people with multimillion-dollar incomes paying lower rates than middle-class families. This special treatment can’t bear close scrutiny — and therefore, as they see it, there must be no close scrutiny. Anyone who points out the obvious, no matter how calmly and moderately, must be demonized and driven from the stage. In fact, the more reasonable and moderate a critic sounds, the more urgently he or she must be demonized, hence the frantic sliming of Elizabeth Warren. So who’s really being un-American here? Not the protesters, who are simply trying to get their voices heard. No, the real extremists here are America’s oligarchs, who want to suppress any criticism of the sources of their wealth.
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Post by B on Oct 11, 2011 13:51:40 GMT -5
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Post by B on Oct 12, 2011 4:19:26 GMT -5
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Post by iameye on Oct 12, 2011 8:01:08 GMT -5
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Post by B on Oct 12, 2011 16:56:43 GMT -5
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Post by B on Oct 12, 2011 22:29:30 GMT -5
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Post by B on Oct 13, 2011 21:41:20 GMT -5
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Post by B on Oct 14, 2011 6:56:52 GMT -5
POLICE UNLEASH MONUMENTAL BEAT DOWN ON WALL STREET PROTESTORS www.youtube.com/watch?v=IetDQRs1qPAcomments: THIS VIDEO IS NOT FROM TODAY! THIS IS EXTREMELY DISHONEST. IT WILL BE BAD ENOUGH WHEN THE POLICE REALLY DO ARRIVE EARLY TOMORROW MORNING! PLEASE TAKE IT DOWN OR CORRECT THE DESCRIPTION TO ACCURATELY DESCRIBE THE VIDEO! DevorahZealotSoodak 8 hours ago
I live in Harlem, and there is drug dealing and violent behavior the ENTIRE day and night and not one cop. Never. And here they all are at a peaceful protest beating up people. SHAME ON YOU MR. KELLY. You have FAILED. Why don't you and your police force clean up the parts of the city that need cleaning up? Police Butality throws gasoline on occupy wall street potestwww.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHnJKm7mP8
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Post by B on Oct 14, 2011 20:49:23 GMT -5
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Post by ph0neyprophet on Oct 15, 2011 2:13:57 GMT -5
Much Love, #3
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Post by B on Oct 15, 2011 20:03:16 GMT -5
meanwhile, out in the boonies:Occupy Well St. from GADCLuzerneCounty www.youtube.com/watch?v=z96p4Tc6o3s"In August 2010, Williams Production Appalachia LLC drilled an exploratory natural gas well on Route 487 in Sugarloaf Township, Columbia County, near Benton, PA. The well was drilled and hydraulically fractured for one year, until capped in August 2011 with the conclusion of not enough gas production for the well to be financially worthwhile.... ...Williams continue operations as usual, keeping secrets from locals concerned about their health and safety. Local residents demand... You poisoned Fishing Creek for a year already - fix what you did, leave, and don't come back.... ... Enough is enough! End the secrecy; end the poisoning; end the corruption!" [glow=red,2,300] Fracking doesn't work![/glow]
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Post by ph0neyprophet on Oct 15, 2011 21:03:47 GMT -5
talk about yer rock in a hard place no hard feelings, letter B
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Post by B on Oct 15, 2011 21:14:51 GMT -5
Occupy Assange: 'Corrupt banks, corrupt cash' in Londonwww.youtube.com/watch?v=wDqguz5MmkM"The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, attended the protests in London ... Assange traveled to London from his friend Vaughan Smith's country mansion in Suffolk, eastern England. Assange is living there on bail as he fights extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of rape and sexual assault made by two women."
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Post by ph0neyprophet on Oct 15, 2011 21:40:41 GMT -5
This is ridiculous, it's clearly obvious who is to blame and where the real war should be. Jus' saying. [glow=red,2,300]LastChance[/glow] Called it, ahead of time.
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Post by B on Oct 15, 2011 22:21:42 GMT -5
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Post by ph0neyprophet on Oct 15, 2011 22:27:47 GMT -5
I'm just trying to help the situation. I'm no dumby once I catch onto things lol. Believe me. I do think the Fool on the Hill is well aware of what is going on. And I also think he's going to work in accordance with the law, but don't let him near any buttons for it will do him no good. He appears to be a tad bit gun happy, lol.. Shooting for excersize. With a little LOVE I'm sure he'll calm his jets. remember, he too is under lots of pressure.
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Post by B on Oct 15, 2011 23:31:41 GMT -5
In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters as UnsophisticatedThe New York Times | October 15, 2011 | 11:39 AM EDT m.cnbc.com/us_news/44913689?refresh=true"Publicly, bankers say they understand the anger at Wall Street — but believe they are misunderstood by the protesters camped on their doorstep. But when they speak privately, it is often a different story. “Most people view it as a ragtag group looking for sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll,” said one top hedge fund manager. “It’s not a middle-class uprising,” adds another veteran bank executive. “It’s fringe groups. It’s people who have the time to do this.” As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have grown and spread to other cities, an open question is: Do the bankers get it? Their different worldview speaks volumes about the wide chasms that have opened over who is to blame for the continuing economic malaise and what is best for the country. ... "
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Post by ph0neyprophet on Oct 15, 2011 23:40:30 GMT -5
sex, drugs, rock and roll lol wonder why ;D I'm trolling too much on this stuff, you guys do what you gotta do. Congrats on the third wife too, where ever that real guy is. Lucky number, member that. & remember now, some people were put in situations that they never wanted to be in lol. Sheesh! ;D i think it's safe to say everything will be alright lol..
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Post by B on Oct 17, 2011 8:37:17 GMT -5
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