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Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global
Hugh Pickens writes "Tens of thousands of people around the world took to the streets Saturday to reiterate their anger at the global financial system, corporate greed and government cutbacks, with rallies held in more than 900 cities in Europe, Africa and Asia. 'United in one voice, we will let politicians, and the financial elites they serve, know it is up to us, the people, to decide our future,' said organizers of the global demonstration. The demonstrations by the disaffected coincided with the Group of 20 meeting in Paris, where finance ministers and central bankers from major economies were holding talks on the debt and deficit crises afflicting many Western countries. Crowds around the world were largely peaceful, but the demonstration in Rome turned violent as clashes in the Italian capital left dozens injured, including several police officers. In London, WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange made a dramatic appearance, bursting through the police lines just after 2:30pm, accompanied by scores of supporters. He climbed the cathedral steps near St. Paul's to condemn 'greed' and 'corruption,' and attacked the City of London, accusing its financiers of money laundering and tax avoidance."
I agree. This is Corporatism at work.
Lets quit using the Marketspeak buzz words and call it what it is. Fascism Go ahead look up the definition and yes that is what we have in this country now Fascism. You don't get it the media and the men behind the curtain wants you to use words like Corporatism because the world still remembers the horror fascism can bring. History does repeat its self if we let it and here in the US it is 1930 Germany. Remember a lot of these corporations were up to the same dirty tricks in WW2 and the same families are involved. Do a little reading on Bush's Grandpa for one. Even the same banks are involved.
So lets pull the monster with 10,000 heads out into the light and call it want it really is Fascism if we call it what it really is more people see what is really going on and will rise up to defeat it.
Welcome the Nazi Amerika.
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I drove by Occupy Austin last night. Freaks and weirdos doesn't begin to to describe them. Just check YouTube and you'll see dozens of interviews with these "protestors" that
A) Don't really have a clue what they are protesting,
B) If they do have some idea of why they are there, their proposed remedy is "free" stuff.
C) A great many are "students" blowing Mommy and Daddy's money by skipping class to be there.
D) Whining about EEEvil Corporations while sporting iPods and iPhones from what is off and on the most highly valued corporation in the world.
M.L.K. is turning over in his grave at suggestions that this is something like the Civil Rights protests.
It's actually nothing more than spoiled brats jumping on the latest thing or people that got a degree in Advanced Pottery Making and are pissed they can't get a $60k a year job to pay off their $200,000 education loan. Or, people who decided to play in the housing market and got burned, but only after having flipped several other houses, thereby contributing to the bubble.Or, people who used sub-prime loans to buy homes they KNEW they couldn't afford.
In the end his will be seen as a self indulgent tantrum put on by those who refuse to accept responsibility for the own actions.
And before anyone gets their panties in a twist, if any of the "bankers" broke the law, throw the book at them. But don't look to your buddy Obama to do that. Most of those evil Wall Street firms gave most of their money to him last time around.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
What's really fun is that the Left Wing faction of Slashdot is sitting at the protest (in their own urine, no doubt) modding down comments using their internet enabled iPhone or Droid while protesting the very same corporations that created these devices and provide internet services.
Irony.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I keep seeing the "Mortgage crisis was cause because Banks were forced to lend to poor people" meme too, but they never provide any numbers to support this. The Government didn't force banks to give people mortgages for amounts that were far greater than the value of the homes they were buying while simultaneously selling investors these mortgages as bundled securities while they were secretly betting everything they had on the failure of these same investments.
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I work for one of those large corporations that have their boot on your neck.
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Stupid fuck.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Actually, the Tea Party started out protesting non-existent tax increases. Hence the name. Telling them that nobody had proposed, suggested or even hinted any new taxes at the time did no good, as none of them really had any sort of actual political awareness or cohesion until the HMO's got them organized against the healthcare build and started busing them around the country.