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OCCuPY THiS!
ONE YEAR LATER...
As most of you are aware, today marks the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.
Many people call it a "movement" and there are arguments about precisely what kind of movement it is if it is one. I personally spend zero time worrying about this.
For me OWS was an event and that event was about raising the public's awareness of one thing, the intersection of rampant control fraud and political corruption between the TBTF banks and Washington DC; the many ways this phenomena has decimated the lives of so many ordinary Americans.
In this respect they succeeded. Few would argue otherwise.
Unfortunately, the efforts fell on deaf and corrupt ears in our hollow halls of democracy.
Now, instead of making wisecracks about the people who are on the street today attempting, as hard as it is in Blumfukistan, to raise a civil ruckus, I would ask you all to consider the following.
When OWS was conceived and first kicked off last year, there was no MF Global fiasco, Jon Corzine was still CEO, no one knew who the London Whale was, Jamie Dimon was still exhaulted by the MSM as Wall Street's Mr Clean, Bob Diamond was still CEO of Barclays, no one in Washington knew what LIBOR was. There was no sham Fraudclosure settlement, no sham Securitization task force. There were, however, a handful of ongoing criminal investigations of Wall Street Banks...all subsequently terminated.
Last week we learned of the latest Mother of all Keynesian Bailouts. Try as they will to convince us that QE3 is designed to help the little guy, we of Zero Hedge all know otherwise don't we?
What is obvious is that since last September, our corporatist kleptofraudtocracy has only gotten exponentially worse.
The final insult was not the silence on these matters at the GOP convention (after all, we all know that Mitt the Twit is a Wall Street Ponzi pimp).
The final insult was the expectation of the Obamocrats that we would all accept their Big Lie. The biggest lie of all, that they and their Wall Street Bitch in Chief have cracked down on Banksterism.
There is not one shred of evidence that supports this Big Lie. A Big Lie that would make Herr Goebbels very very proud.
So today, instead of making wiseass remarks about unemployed, dirty long hair hippy anarchists armed with iPhones, iCollectivists and liberal arts students stepping off the curbs or chalking up the sidewalks, I would ask all of you to do something else...
Remind as many as you can of the outrageous fucking fraud that continues to be perpetrated by the thieves in pinstripes and hand made brogues and their harem of DC Bitches.
WB7
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These bastards are ready to blow
Survival is all about flow
These suicide twins
Will pull out their pins
Unless Ben keeps printing them dough
The Limerick King
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”--Joseph Goebbels
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Remember to remind everyone today, what the real issue is.
Corruption is everywhere and violence is the only answer?
Or is it that the greatest advancements in the history of the world have occured under capitalism, and the worst have occurred at the hands of dictators of communism and socialism, capitalism is flawed and therefor we should revert to socialism which necessarily becomes communism which necessarily becomes totalitarianism?
Oh, wait, I know, it was a trick question, it's the Jooze. Right? I think I read that on here all time, that it's the Jooze that did it all.
violence is the only answer?
Violence is one of the worst answers, and the right answer is even scarier: Drop out of the system and start building new things.
I know, I kknow. That's what I was trying to say...we don't want violence. We don't want revolution, not a violent one anyway...
Sheesh...
I agree hold heartedly. That's what I'm doing actually...small baker at farmer's markets...it's great, and a great feeling.
Since The System is right and truly fucked now, dropping out is less an "option" and more like a future certainty. Folks will recognize how gone the system is at some point and how little of it remains, and when they do it will be like a huge shared bowel movement; everyone will shit a brick all at the same instant. I've got a kind of bet going with myself, whether the trigger for this brick-shitting moment will be massive food shortages brough on by capital collapse, a massive energy shortage brought on by capital collapse, or a massive capital shortage brought on by capital collpase.
Note to self: Buy a shotgun.
I'm on the same page - there's no getting away from the beast. You can only hope to sidestep the groaning monster as it falls. The shitstorm will be epic. How can it be otherwise? There are so many triggers out there and so many hypothecated liabilities coupled with so few assets. We don't know when or what the first dominoe will be, but we sure will be watching as the second, third, fourth and the rest topple.
I for one and sick and tired of the delay. Let it collapse, let's get on with it. It's inevitable. Let's do it tomorrow...
Socialism for the rich capitalism for the poor as the saying goes.
Decapitate the fascist bankers at the top, and cut off the stolen entitlements for the deadbeats on the bottom and you will have a productive class to build a society on.
And if they are armed to the teeth, more the better.
You have what it takes to be an OWS member. The problem is that would auto-magically make you a dirty hippie to the Teabaggers who can not seem to show up unless it's all about Obama. Watch them disappear like fairy dust if O'romney is elected.
Yep, and certain folk are always above it all.
I'm guessing you're in the deadbeat class?
I had a "movement" this morning also and unfortunately it will have as much effect on WS/DC as the OWS "Movement". These sociopaths at the top only understand one thing and that is violence. I am not espousing it but only expressng the reality of it
"These sociopaths at the top only understand one thing and that is violence."
all the more reason to give them something they don't understand.
I like that their black flag has morphed into more of an AQ flag.
It's al part of the same crowd.
In other news, the Occupy Wallstreet movement Inc. is planning to launch a IPO on Wallstreet due to it's succes.
The movement thinks they can double their revenue stream if they move the production of T-shirts and Ribbons to China.
As all analysts confirm this company should succeed the 120 BILLION MARK AT THE LAUNCH!!
Occupy IPO might do better than Facebook.
The bar is pretty low at this point.
I predict a BATS-style cyber-attack induced flash crash.
Golden turdball
+1000
RIGHT ON!!! BROTHER.
+1 Epic
yeah!
wb7
yeah too!
LA COOCARATCHA BABY! Aptly named. The "Cockroach".
Benny Bucks = Cockroach
Mittens = The Bed Bug (in bed with Wall street)
What about Obammy? He's just plain 'Useless!'
The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. Gordon Gekko, at Teldar Paper Shareholder's meeting.
comparing a Zionist like Mittens to a greedy bastard like Gordon Gekko is an insult to GG. At least Gordo had to take some risk- from what I have read of Mittens it was all an inside job using alot of daddy's $ and connections to get his filthy lucre. Besides-BlueStar was turned into a successful private jet-leasing company-KayBee Toys was simply "disappeared"
Zion means a different thing to Mormons- in fact, the original name for the state of Utah was going to be Zion
I miss KB Toys. =\
Nothing's changed, kleptocrones still on top
Great art as always