What you don't know can't hurt them.
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Yup. Very few people realize this here. We all think we can "consume" our way to whatever we want. The brainwashing, it works pretty good.AlicetheKurious wrote: Power can only be countered with power, never with only good intentions or even reason.
Laodicean wrote:
Word.The only word corporations understand is more.
That is Tweed Courthouse and City Hall on Broadway at City Hall Park. I can't remember the cross streets.psynapz wrote:^^ Where exactly is that, Luther?
Thanks! And sorry, my edit passed your reply going the other direction on the RIway... When was that taken?Luther Blissett wrote:That is Tweed Courthouse and City Hall on Broadway at City Hall Park. I can't remember the cross streets.psynapz wrote:^^ Where exactly is that, Luther?
Ah, that info I was not given. My intuition says Saturday.psynapz wrote:Thanks! And sorry, my edit passed your reply going the other direction on the RIway... When was that taken?Luther Blissett wrote:That is Tweed Courthouse and City Hall on Broadway at City Hall Park. I can't remember the cross streets.psynapz wrote:^^ Where exactly is that, Luther?
jam.fuse wrote:
Some talking points offered by the blog of warmowski, link from the above mentioned thread:
http://warmowski.wordpress.com/2011/09/ ... messaging/
WHY ARE WE HERE?
The bloated and reckless financial sector harms the real economy. 40 years ago, the financial sector commanded 2% of all the economy's profits. Today, it commands over 40%. We, in the real economy, demand a 1% tax on all securities transactions. We call for the nationalization and breakup of all "too big to fail" financial institutions. We call for the nationalization and de-privatization of the Federal Reserve Bank.
WE WANT OUR ECONOMY BACK.
WE WANT OUR DEMOCRACY BACK
We will no longer pretend we are well-represented by a government corrupted by runaway financial and commercial interests. We demand public service. We demand an end to the normalized corruption of our democracy by 1) instituting public financing of elections, 2) ending all lobbying for changes to the tax code, 3) the end of audit-less electronic balloting systems.
WE WANT OUR DEMOCRACY BACK.
WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK
Wall Street's political power has far exceeded Washington's. The economy's biggest players have the biggest say in its outcomes. Now, we want our say. Corporate profits and cash reserves are near all-time highs. Yet, unemployment is effectively well over 15% while "job creators" create only excuses.
WE WANT OUR JOBS BACK.
WE WANT OUR HOMES BACK
We signed on the dotted line. But Wall Street banks didn't. We didn't want a housing bubble. Wall Street's banks and derivatives traders created one. We are not in default, we are victims of massive financial fraud. We demand an immediate cessation of foreclosures.
WE WANT OUR HOMES BACK.
WE WANT ARRESTS AND PROSECUTION OF FINANCIAL TERRORISTS
Too big to fail is too big to jail. We demand immediate indictments on charges of securities fraud for Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman Sachs), Vikram Pandit (Citi), John Stumpf (Wells Fargo). Jamie Dimon (JPM/Chase), Ken Lewis (BoA), Martin J. Sullivan (AIG).
WE WANT ARRESTS AND PROSECUTION OF FINANCIAL TERRORISTS
WE WILL NOT LEAVE UNTIL WE REGAIN OUR ECONOMIC CIVIL RIGHTS.
What's behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests?
By Glenn Greenwald
It's unsurprising that establishment media outlets have been condescending, dismissive and scornful of the ongoing protests on Wall Street. Any entity that declares itself an adversary of prevailing institutional power is going to be viewed with hostility by establishment-serving institutions and their loyalists. That's just the nature of protests that take place outside approved channels, an inevitable by-product of disruptive dissent: those who are most vested in safeguarding and legitimizing establishment prerogatives (which, by definition, includes establishment media outlets) are going to be hostile to those challenges. As the virtually universal disdain in these same circles for WikiLeaks (and, before that, for the Iraq War protests) demonstrated: the more effectively adversarial it is, the more establishment hostility it's going to provoke.
Nor is it surprising that much of the most vocal criticisms of the Wall Street protests has come from some self-identified progressives, who one might think would be instinctively sympathetic to the substantive message of the protesters. In an excellent analysis entitled "Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street," Kevin Gosztola chronicles how many of the most scornful criticisms have come from Democratic partisans who -- like the politicians to whom they devote their fealty -- feign populist opposition to Wall Street for political gain.