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Wall Street Protest Starting to Look Like Egypt
Alexander Higgins reports:
NYPD police scanners are estimating a crowd up to 5,000
are occupying liberty square in a scene that is now starting to look
more like Egypt’s Tahrir square.
The protests have become so large that Fox News has set up a live stream covering the protests. Here are some screen shots from their camera.
Thousands Turn Out To Occupy Wall Street Protests Sept 30
Thousands Turn Out To Occupy Wall Street Protests Sept 30 -2
Thousands Turn Out To Occupy Wall Street Protests Sept 30 -3
Here are some additional photographs from a helicopter.
Who Are the Protesters?
Wall Street is trying to write all of these people off as being
“hippies” who “need to get a job” (to which the protesters would
respond: That’s the point – There are no jobs, because Wall Street has destroyed the economy.)
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The poor and the desperate, formerly-middle class people participating in the protests are not taking well to Wall Street’s “Let them eat cake” response.
But all types are marching, including grannies and pilots:
Marines and other military men and women.
Wealthy folks such as Russel Simmons and Alec Baldwin.
On the other side of the protest line, Mayor Bloomberg is whining that the protesters are targeting bankers who “are struggling to make ends meet”.
He has a point: if Wall Street is reined in so that the rest of the
country has a chance, the bankers might have to cut back on their mistresses, prostitutes and solid gold toilets.
Class Warfare?
Yes, this is class warfare. But it is class warfare by the 1% against the other 99% (and see this). Specifically, it is the looting of the country by the top .1% through fraud.
As Warren Buffet – one of America’s most successful capitalists and defenders of capitalism – points out:
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war ….
Leading economists note that rampant inequality was one of the main causes of the Great Depression and of the current economic crisis.
Indeed, given that inequality in America is worse than Egypt (or Tunisia, or Yemen or most Latin American banana republics), and that social mobility is lower in America than in most European countries (and see this), we have been predicting these types of protests for years.
If Wall Street is starting to look like Tahir Square, it is because
America is starting to look more and more like Egypt – with a handful of
super-rich, and crumbs for everyone else.
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In some ways, the lack of cohesion is currently a good thing, IMHO. There are probably 5000 different viewpoints among those 5000 protesters but they all share two core beliefs; What is in place / action now isn't working for the common guy and the greedy bastards at the top are the ones profiting by it, to the point where they are controlling the system overtly and covertly in order to keep it the way it is. For their own benefit and in the full knowledge that helping themselves necessarily hurts everybody else.
The 5000 are obviously talking amongst themselves and, having that stable base of two shared opinions already, may just reach some consensus on what would be a better system.
great piece nicely written. i wish for more cohesion amongst the protesters but i guess that could wait... let's have a million people swarm wall street first
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They are cohesive. The vast majority (so far all by one) sport dark hair.
Cops are probably also cohesive: they sport blond hair.
You're bald. Aren't you? C'mon...tell the truth now. Why else would you be so concerned with hair?
American Spring, NOW! Guillotine for bankers and financiers!
Before posting this, please be advised that I am simply looking for a list of 52-56 people who are the most directly responsible for the events of 2006-present in the US. Obviously, I would never condone any violence against these people, I would just like to add them to my christmas card list. Thanks for any help ZH'ers can give in this ongoing project- I wouldn't want to forget any fine public servants when reminding protestors who they are are supposed to be angry at.
Angelo Mozilo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Mozilo
Henry "Hank" Paulson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson
Jimmy Cayne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cayne'
Richard "Dick" Fuld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Fuld,_Jr.
James "Jamie" Dimon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Dimon
Lloyd Blankfein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Blankfein
John Thain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thain
John J. Mack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Mack
Jospeh Cassano: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cassano
Ben Bernanke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke
Alan Greenspan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Greenspan
Blythe Masters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blythe_Masters
Ken Lewis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Lewis_(executive)
Brian Mynihan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Moynihan
Robert Rubin
Kingpin MASTERMIND, progenitor and puppetmaster of all those above.
Bob Rubin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin
Donald Regan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Regan
The Koch family - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family
Add Rupert Murdoch (crucial lynchpin in keeping the electorate asleep)
The men responsible should be held accountable to the rule of law by a commission with subpoena powers, and the authority, will and means to indict and prosecute financial criminals. The rule of law needs to punish those that have violated those laws established to protect the vulnerable and productive in our society.
To your list I would add Robert Rubin, chief architect of the demise of the Glass-Steagall Act, an action that opened the portal to the destruction and economic devastation we face today.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/goldman_sachs_prospers_at_taxp.html
The Anonymous collective just outed Jamie Dimon's personal info: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503063_162-20113995.html
Add:
Hank Greenberg (AIG)
Chuck Prince (Citybank)
Stan O'Neil (Merrill Lynch)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paulson
Alec Litowitz and Ross Laser (Magnetar Cap)
Fabrice Tourre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Viniar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Cohn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gensler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Pandit
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Kashkari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder
definitely holder for not prosecuting one of these bastards
definitely rubin for being in the game for so long
If you would like to find information on individuals and their connections to others the following link would be invaluable.
http://www.nndb.com/
What is NNDB?NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead. Superficially, it seems much like a "Who's Who" where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available (the usual information such as date of birth, a biography, and other essential facts.)
Science is the enemy of freedom?
We really shouldn't forget the politicians that lead to this fiasco.
William Clinton
George Bush
Maxine Waters
Barney Franks
and many, many others.
Thanks!
I know these threads have a pretty short lifespan, so if anyone thinks of any more, or if any more roaches scuttle out into the light, toss them up with the wiki-link and I'll know what they're for. Otherwise, just put the name up with the line "For the list."
When I'm done with what I'm working on, I'll be sure to release it here and in .torrent form.
Neel "Cash n' Carry" Kashkari
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neel_Kashkari
NYPD: "To protect and to serve the big metal bull on Wall Street and all it represents"
Cossaks with bulletproof vests.
Protect the "bull" is SOP on Wall Street and everywhere else the oligarchs infect
Lends new meaning to worshipping the Golden Calf.
Didn't notice any GOONS. macing 20 yr old females this time did ya?.
Had the NYPD waded into that, it would have been really bad for them.
The time is past for reparations, and people must be held accountable, and the RULE OF LAW upheld.
Time for Jail........................extended sessions.
We are on the verge of what obama has wanted since day one.
His excuse to bring out the Jackboots.
He will find out, he hasn't enough to do the job, if the people just stand firm.
Paging Mr. William Banzai:
Guest Post: Occupy Philadelphia -- Run by the Same Jews Operating the "General Assembly" of Occupy Wallstreet is a Zionist COINTELPRO Operation
Some, look, what's that sound, everybody look what's going down.
On Monday, the Metro, a free corporate daily distributed in the City of Brotherly Love announced on its cover the inaugural meeting of "Occupy Philadelphia".
This newspaper regularly features CNN correspondent columns, the cartoon version of any domestic and international fear campaigns, and 50% sports filler. So has it suddenly betrayed its state corporate propaganda function, in favor of the bongo drummers and vegan pizza munching masses?
I cringed at the fishy contradiction, and decided to avoid the affair. On Thursday, however, a bright-eyed rainbow-clad activist mentioned the meeting time and location to me, and despite my suspicions, I went.
A crowd of about 50 people mulled around Philadelphia's anarchist bookstore, and at 6:00pm the location was announced at a historic church in the city center some 15 blocks away. By the time we reached City Hall, the parade had swelled to more than 100, and chanting had begun.
Our promenade was faciliated by an unmarked beige car, manned by glowering men in suits and sunglasses, who blocked traffic on the busiest streets of the city. We then crouched our heads to enter the religious chambers. When the proceedings were finally inaugurated in front of the altar, we had swelled to more than 200 people, including a professional television crew.
After a few minutes, listening to procedural reports from Occupy Wall Street, a debate broke out over whether to use "stack" or "progressive stack". The progressive flavor, we learned, would place minorities and women ahead of other eager speakers. A white kid disagreed, and told us were all equal.
A compromise was finally reached between the affirmative action proceduralists, and the supporters of an arbitrary order -- and the church erupted into twinkling hands of democratic glee.
I knew then for certain, that the entire operation was a set-up.
While I observed the next two hours of painful, bright-eyed futility, the malicious cynicism of this particular counter intelligence operation grew brighter and brighter.
Every single leader of this operation was a self-deprecating homosexual and/or lesbian and/or Jew. I recognized the clique from the tyrannical pseudo-democracy organized around saving Philadelphia's libraries two years ago.
What a strange coincidence, a whiteish spread of the US population, sitting in church pews on the Jewish Day of Judgment, with a mid-20s Jewish ringleader who contemptuously dismissed the hierarchical "vibe" of Christian symbolism.
He also effeminately play-acts exasperation and whines over his falsely claimed inexperience, "if somebody else wants to do this, please", and then tyrannically persists in dominating the entire gathering with his scrawny cohorts -- despite the impassioned seizure of attention by a long-time Puerto Rican activist and African American youth.
All of the non-Jewish, non-White minorities who spoke insisted we first discuss why we were there, what we were protesting, and who we wanted to reach by our likely illegal activity. The faux-populist leadership would have nothing of that back-talk, and instead condescendingly sympathized, "everyone deserves an opinion".
By the time the painful confusion over how we had spent 2 hours together with hundreds of angry and activated Americans, and yet had managed to accomplish not a single decision or even open discussion -- we were scolded to "trust the process" by the enlightened, and now, all of a sudden, coordinated and expert Jewish managers at the Christian altar.
Everyone had become so exhausted from frustration, that they scurried like rats behind the grinning Jewish fag into the street for the opportunity to join the centrally controlled creation of the planning committee, to determine the agenda for the next meeting.
There's the reason why we have no protest in the United States -- the foolish white Christians, and the naive African Americans and Latinos who were present have been enslaved by the Jewish Zionist political correctness managers -- and then the rest of the world can laugh with the Wall Street Journal, who ridicules the very COINTELPRO operation their financier buddies concocted in the first place.
http://www.metro.us/philadelphia/local/article/980233--occupy-philadelph...
What's stopping you from organizing your own protest?
Yes, far better to shave one's head and jerk-off until the paranoid delusions take over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8lJ0bl4N44
I have to shave my head, too?
Rinpocheinp. you hate-filled sack of shit, go soak your head in the john.
You're just mad becasue he's judging you. You cia fucknut.
Well said , when you can't rant like an insane madman on ZH then it will b a sad day.
I thought the entire story was hilarious but I liked 'naked lunch'
Rinpoche, indeed. You are one sorry soul, so far from any truth and blinded by your own anger. An astounding rant. Really quite frightening in its characterizations.
Rinpoche, indeed. You are one sorry soul, so far from any truth and blinded by your own anger. An astounding rant. Really quite frightening in its characterizations.
Your tinfoil is getting a bit tight, isn't it?
yes, "we the people" are right to blame fraudstreet, washington etc, however, "we the people" are to blame also. passing the buck is too popular. btw, what happened to the chrome bull? it disappeared! we want it back! why the cops and the bg bull? people need to pet the bull for good luck. expose the police abuse. not all cops are bad, evil etc, just the majority in nyc.
http://covert3.wordpress.com
http://expose2.wordpress.com
Osama Bin Bernanke ...Classic
hasn't Banzai covered this very accurate characterure many times before? It couldn't be more appropriate as the biggest crook, thief, criminal, thug and vessel of insane violence in society has always been the State itself ..'the enemy within'
Govt : the Biggest Social & Economic Mistake in History
Banzai7 is probably not sleeping. It would be pretty awesome to see his art occupying wall street, a testimony to the power of ZH.
I am thinking about building projections.
Hell yes! do it!
Think on Brother. The mind is a terrible thing to waste. I think a VP said that magnifcent QUOTE.
It's open season on this mother...
Mayor Antoinette?
Congrads on the Bernank one!
The billionaire asshole who says the average wage on Wall Street is $40,000 and accuses the protestors of targeting the wrong people.
Bloomberg meant “per month”, and “after all Federal, State and local taxes”, which is pretty close to being correct for the average Goldman Sachs employee in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Top earners at GS, however, earn $40K in 2 hours, assuming they take weekends off.
If you take that literally, the USD 40,000 is probably what a decent car thief or pan-handler makes on Wall Street ... in The Street, NOT next to the street working inside a bank :)
I am happy to report that WSJ Deal Journal took him to task on his ridiculous assertion.
What do you need?
I need to find someone who has a portable outdoor Wall Projection system they want to make available.
just watch your back WB, it looks like the arrests are mounting. Possible due to $4.6m in 'donations' from JPM...
http://theelitist.net/nypd-receives-jp-morgan-donation-mass-arrest-of-pr...
I looked into it a few years ago. There were very simple DIY plans online for using two ordinary, office presentation type PC projectors with big time results on the sides of buildings--entire 20 story buildings, only at night of course. It's a guerilla protest tool, though--the cities I looked into had made laws against doing it (just like sidewalk chalk writing.)
I thought it had great potential for flash mob type limited show-and-run (before the po-lice get there) engagements. The folks I was working with didn't like thinking that big, though.
Portable stuff only works at night, it's tough to compete against the sun. That said, night time projections are doable. One problem is that they are easily defeatable. One good size spotlight or vehicle headlight will white out the image. But that is life in street theatre, you can't control the venue - that makes it fun and challenging. If the system is truly portable, you pack up and move on.
A good size portable projector would need a portable generator to power it. Obviously, the more powerful the projector, the bigger and brighter the projected image. A portable generator powerful enough to power a projector would be heavier and bulkier than the projector itself. At least two people, probably three, with medium high risk of arrest and seizure of the equipment, depending what mood the cops and crowds are in. There is probably a NYC ordinance against projecting images on private buildings somewhere on the books.
Any ideas out there?
How about an old fashioned shadow play/projection?,
powered by car/truck headlights with an old battery.
(old submarine batteries are quit good.)