The "Occupy" Rallies

#201
#201
VOLatile said:
This movement is only gaining steam. Once they become actually organized and define their mission, they may become a force to be reckoned with.
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They have money. But that money is coming from the usual sources like Soros and the unions. This will likely fade just like everything else that the usual suspects fund.
 
#202
#202
bamawriter said:
They have money. But that money is coming from the usual sources like Soros and the unions. This will likely fade just like everything else that the usual suspects fund.
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The TP has its own benefactors. Don't ignore that, too.
 
#205
#205
bamawriter said:
Never said they didn't. I was simply responding to the suggestion that the "occupiers" have yet to get financial backing.
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Too early to say whether they will get their own backing, too. It will be interesting to see whether they can maintain some cohesiveness like the TP did, and not get taken over regionally by single issue groups.
 
#206
#206
5 years ago, these same people were conducting anti-war rallies, now, with Obama in the White House, the anti-war left is too scared to protest similarly, so now they've concocted a new villain, Wall Street.

The sad part is that these doofuses are still blaming Bush.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Too early to say whether they will get their own backing, too. It will be interesting to see whether they can maintain some cohesiveness like the TP did, and not get taken over regionally by single issue groups.
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Like I said, they already have. Soros has already pumped some money in, and the unions are chipping in. I know UAW and SEIU are involved.
 
#208
#208
Do they actually need financial backing? It's not like they're a political party running candidates, they're just protestors at the moment.

MG1968 said:
5 years ago, these same people were conducting anti-war rallies, now, with Obama in the White House, the anti-war left is too scared to protest similarly, so now they've concocted a new villain, Wall Street.

The sad part is that these doofuses are still blaming Bush.
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There's anti-war protesting going on in Iowa City tonight, fwiw.
 
#209
#209
VOLatile said:
Do they actually need financial backing? It's not like they're a political party running candidates, they're just protestors at the moment.



There's anti-war protesting going on in Iowa City tonight, fwiw.
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Should I tune in to CNN or will this only get local coverage?
 
#210
#210
VOLatile said:
There's anti-war protesting going on in Iowa City tonight, fwiw.
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please. How many are going to show up there, maybe a thousand if there's going to be free beer?

I'm talking about the type or protests we saw where 10's if not 100's of thousands showed up.
 
#211
#211
BeecherVol said:
Should I tune in to CNN or will this only get local coverage?
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Herp. It's part of "Occupy Iowa" so...

Besides, even CNN is misconstruing the coverage of Occupy Wall Street. The message from the protestors isn't in favor of the media companies, either.
 
#214
#214
Again, the right dismissing the entirety of the protests because they don't like one component, a couple of sponsors, etc.

Bad strategy, IMO, but whatever.
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#215
#215
lawgator1 said:
Again, the right dismissing the entirety of the protests because they don't like one component, a couple of sponsors, etc.

Bad strategy, IMO, but whatever.
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there aren't enough far left voters in this country to make a difference.

if the Occupy This crowd gains traction with independents and begins to pull them away from the TP, then notice will have to be taken, until then, these people are just a bunch of smelly, lazy, jackwagons looking for an excuse to protest.

remember the Coffee Party and the union-associated counter-protests to Beck? They went nowhere, the vast majority of Americans don't give a damn about a bunch of whining college students.
 
#216
#216
btw, another difference between the TP and the Occupy This whiners:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg: 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests Trying To 'Get Rid' Of Jobs, Hurting Tourism CBS New York

The cramped and noisy protesters in Zuccotti Park does not appear to be going anywhere soon. To date, the occupation has cost the city an extra $2 million in police overtime alone.

The owners of the private park, Brookfield Office Properties, cannot simply eject the demonstrators because the charter for the park allows 24-hour public access. But the owners never counted on this and appear to be getting fed up.

In a statement they said “because the protestors refuse to cooperate…the park has not been cleaned since Friday, September 16th and as a result, sanitary conditions have reached unacceptable levels.”
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the Tea Party always cleans up after itself, because that's what responsible adults do
 
#217
#217
bamawriter said:
They have money. But that money is coming from the usual sources like Soros and the unions. This will likely fade just like everything else that the usual suspects fund.
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Talk about something weird.

For one, one of the organizers admitted to paying some of the prostestors to show up.

Bt now this is where it gets really weird.

Zuccotti Park aka Freedom Park is supposedly privately
owned by a big multi faceted and multi asset
international corporation!

It is owned by “Brookfield Office properties”...they are part of Brookfield Asset Management Inc...bigass company worth around 150 billion or more...

Mayor Bloomberg's long time live in girlfriend, Diana L.
Taylor, sits on the board of directors.

John E. Zuccotti he’s on the board of directors of WELL
POINT HEALTH NETWORK... THE most Evil healt
insurance company that could only be saved by Obamacare!

Zucotti hired a lobbying firm called Oldaker, Biden &
Belair and was their highest paying client.

Of course THE big name in the lobbying corp was Rosary
Joe's son Robert Hunter Biden...

One of the big divisions of Brookfield Asset Management inc is... Brookfield renewable power...and guess who’s
govt has an ASSLOAD of Green energy money...stimulus
money...federal loan guarantees and all that money
moving right to the very same property owning multinational conglomerate that owns that dinky little park....OUR ******* GOVT...

This company traces its history back to a Brazilian
electric utility incorporated in 1899; today, it’s
headquartered in West Virginia and manages renewable
energy projects in the U.S., Brazil and Canada, including
167 hydroelectric stations and two wind farms.

A publicly traded company, Brookfield maintains stable
revenues thanks to long-term power contracts, and
uses this advantage to help pioneer next-generation
projects in wind and thermal energy.

Besides specializing in renewable energy, the company
has also donated nearly $4 million to local sustainability
projects. Brookfield also voluntarily meets the low-
impact standards put forward by the Ecologo Program
and the Low Impact Hydropower Institute.

Brookfield is currently working on a wind energy project
in Coos County, New Hampshire, financed in part with
the Department of Energy’s partial guarantee of $135.8
million in loans. The Department of Energy says the
project will result in 198 construction jobs and and save
some 12,000 tons of carbon pollution once it is up and
running.

Wow 198 temporary jobs?...that’s less than a million a
pop, pretty good by Obama's govt standards!..

In the name of “green energy,” the Obama
administration is using taxpayer money to subsidize a
New Hampshire wind farm that is a subsidiary of a
hugely profitable company.

New Hampshire’s largest wind farm, the Granite Reliable
Power project under construction in Coos County, is
jointly owned by BAIF Granite Holdings, LLC and
Freshnet Wind Energy, LLC. BAIF owns 75 percent of
Granite Reliable. BAIF Granite Holdings was created
earlier this year by Brookfield Renewable Power, which
is a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management of New
York.

That company, which runs clean energy operations
around the world, has deep pockets. It reported net
income of $454 million in 2009 and $3.2 billion in 2010.

Brookfield Renewable Power financed the creation of
BAIF Granite Holdings from its Brookfield Americas
Infrastructure fund, which was reported in February to
have $2.7 billion in assets. With that kind of backing, it
is curious that the U.S. Department of Energy
announced it would guarantee up to 80 percent of a
$168.9 million loan for the Granite Reliable wind farm
project last week.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu
announced today the Department of Energy finalized a
partial guarantee for $168.9 million loan to Granite
Reliable Power, LLC. The loan guarantee will support a
99 megawatt (MW) wind generation project that will
be New Hampshire’s largest wind farm.

Now.....why would a huge and very rich company that
had 3.2 Billion dollars in profits in 2010 need or be able
to get a Loan guarantee for 168 million...which the Dept
Of Energy announced finalizing on....Sept 23rd
2011....not long after the OWS protests started really
getting going...a 168 million dollar loan guarantee with
no visible reason why behind it....to the very same
corporation that owns the very same Zuccotti park
the protesters are camped out in....

Maybe they ought to form a circular protesting squad....

AKA a circle jerk, and ACLG says most people support it,
and sadly he may be right, that is if you believe what
the dinasaur newspapers are printing and that people
actually believe such crap.
 
#219
#219
gs, that's Glenn beck-worthy conspiracy talk right there, my friend.

You got the strap on the tin foil hat on a little too tight? Maybe cutting off circulation?
 
#221
#221
MG1968 said:
Occupy Wall Street: Shocking photos show protester defecating on POLICE CAR | Mail Online
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I don't even want to click on that. There is a really distinct difference between being labeled a "nutcase" (which some of the TP'ers were labeled as) and the actions taken by these Occupiers. This has nothing to do with the protesters sanity. It has everything to do with their morality and scruples. If this had been a TP'er doing this, the media would have been questioning the credibility of the entire movement.
 
#222
#222
Is YouTube supporting these rallies?

As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its fourth week, the anti-capitalist rallies are gaining ground in other parts of the U.S. and around the world. View citizen footage here.

Presented by: citizentube
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#223
#223
Get a load of this protest in Atlanta. This is just bizarre.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI[/youtube]
 
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