Soft Regime Change in America
The #OCCUPY movement is entering an ominous new phase.
Police attacked #OCCUPYOAKLAND on Tuesday with tear gas, rubber bullets and flash grenades. Scott Olsen, a two time Iraq war veteran, was critically wounded in the assault. Graphic pictures of an unconscious Olsen, his skull fractured, being carried by fellow protestors to safety have reverberated from Zuccotti to Cairo and escalated the movement. On Wednesday, three thousand protestors reclaimed the square, reestablished their encampment and held a general assembly that called for a General Strike.
"We as fellow occupiers of Oscar Grant Plaza propose that on Wednesday November 2, 2011, we liberate Oakland and shut down the 1%... All banks and corporations should close down for the day or we will march on them."
There are signs of occupations in other cities taking up Oakland's call. A tantalizing possibility hangs in the air: Could a wildcat general strike spread across the nation? Are we witnessing the first clues of how a soft regime change might begin in America?
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Anonymous
^ Moron on the streets.
Anonymous
^ Moron on the streets.
Anonymous
St Paul's Cathedral under pressure as 'Occupy London' protest continues
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207537.html
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St Paul's Cathedral under pressure as 'Occupy London' protest continues
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207537.html
Silly Game Plan
WTF...
Spelling errors, common sense errors, lack of understanding of how hydrogen fuel cells work and a basic misunderstanding of capitalism.
Who's going to pay for these "fenders" and is this compulsory usage? You're advocating 100% confiscation of water sales profits to be redistributed to the people? Guess there won't be any future water sales in the U.S. Why would someone produce an item and not be permitted to keep the profits?
You idiots (99%er's) really need to grow up, read and learn how capitalism works, or just GTFO of the U.S. I think Cuba or some other 3rd world socialistic country is more to your liking. Let me know how that works out for you!
Silly Game Plan
WTF...
Spelling errors, common sense errors, lack of understanding of how hydrogen fuel cells work and a basic misunderstanding of capitalism.
Who's going to pay for these "fenders" and is this compulsory usage? You're advocating 100% confiscation of water sales profits to be redistributed to the people? Guess there won't be any future water sales in the U.S. Why would someone produce an item and not be permitted to keep the profits?
You idiots (99%er's) really need to grow up, read and learn how capitalism works, or just GTFO of the U.S. I think Cuba or some other 3rd world socialistic country is more to your liking. Let me know how that works out for you!
Anonymous
Please keep a civil tongue. If you do not understand, do not call others idiots.
Capitalism works through debt and usury. Now the moneylenders are so powerful that they are dictating national social policies, and belief systems. They now control university curricula, government policy, all media and information systems, and own just about all the Earth's resources. They have highjacked democracy itself. There is big task ahead. The professors will have to be re-educated, the church will have to be reminded of its responsibilities, the media barons will have to be removed, and on and on. The present debts can not be paid. they will have to be refused.
The movement still lacks focus, but it will keep on getting more focussed.
The 99%
Anonymous
Please keep a civil tongue. If you do not understand, do not call others idiots.
Capitalism works through debt and usury. Now the moneylenders are so powerful that they are dictating national social policies, and belief systems. They now control university curricula, government policy, all media and information systems, and own just about all the Earth's resources. They have highjacked democracy itself. There is big task ahead. The professors will have to be re-educated, the church will have to be reminded of its responsibilities, the media barons will have to be removed, and on and on. The present debts can not be paid. they will have to be refused.
The movement still lacks focus, but it will keep on getting more focussed.
The 99%
Anonymous
The 99 percenters seem to me to be anything but idiots. They don't seem complacent or penned in from making any action or decision; they don't seem afraid to experiment and learn from their mistakes. They don't seem to be in a stupor the way many people, including yourself appear to be to me based on your reaction to the sentiment of the 99 percent movement in so many ways, so many troll's responses. There is a problem with being in a stupor when there is work to be done, and the attitude I have toward that problem is embedded in the phrase "don't be stupid." Water is being sold in bottles to people in third world countries because they never got the clean water in pipes from utilities that we had. Of course, that's called infrastructure and our government is falling down on water infrastructure like it is with bridges-- perhaps because the one percent don't care about clean water for the masses any more than they do good schools or levies or whatever else the taxes on their capital gains could pay for. Basically, our government has never been completely capitalist to the point that some government of public utilities was impossible to enact, not even under the articles of confederation. I believe you are guilty of a lack of imagination and are accusing others of trying new methods of statesmanship while hamstrung with the same misfortunate burden with which you yourself suffer. Perhaps there are more solutions within the solutions to our problems than the devils advocates are willing to admit in their stupid defense of the mindset of the one percent..
In your defense, considering what Bush' and Rove's neo-cons did to the economy they came in on, if you do consider their leadership "good" or "best" I can understand your skittishness toward all proposals that require real statesmanship to pull off-- one hundred percent. Homework. Watch MSNBC for a commercial with Rachel Maddows and answer the question-- Why do people build bridges? Follow up with a new approach to the question-- Why might people sell water? Bonus question-- What is a non-profit? Food for thought-- our government of the people is to be by the people and for the people, a radical statement intended to produce radical results. And I'd just like to say I'm glad the 99 percent is forcing us to remember the difference between the public square and the king's forest.
Anonymous
The 99 percenters seem to me to be anything but idiots. They don't seem complacent or penned in from making any action or decision; they don't seem afraid to experiment and learn from their mistakes. They don't seem to be in a stupor the way many people, including yourself appear to be to me based on your reaction to the sentiment of the 99 percent movement in so many ways, so many troll's responses. There is a problem with being in a stupor when there is work to be done, and the attitude I have toward that problem is embedded in the phrase "don't be stupid." Water is being sold in bottles to people in third world countries because they never got the clean water in pipes from utilities that we had. Of course, that's called infrastructure and our government is falling down on water infrastructure like it is with bridges-- perhaps because the one percent don't care about clean water for the masses any more than they do good schools or levies or whatever else the taxes on their capital gains could pay for. Basically, our government has never been completely capitalist to the point that some government of public utilities was impossible to enact, not even under the articles of confederation. I believe you are guilty of a lack of imagination and are accusing others of trying new methods of statesmanship while hamstrung with the same misfortunate burden with which you yourself suffer. Perhaps there are more solutions within the solutions to our problems than the devils advocates are willing to admit in their stupid defense of the mindset of the one percent..
In your defense, considering what Bush' and Rove's neo-cons did to the economy they came in on, if you do consider their leadership "good" or "best" I can understand your skittishness toward all proposals that require real statesmanship to pull off-- one hundred percent. Homework. Watch MSNBC for a commercial with Rachel Maddows and answer the question-- Why do people build bridges? Follow up with a new approach to the question-- Why might people sell water? Bonus question-- What is a non-profit? Food for thought-- our government of the people is to be by the people and for the people, a radical statement intended to produce radical results. And I'd just like to say I'm glad the 99 percent is forcing us to remember the difference between the public square and the king's forest.
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