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Radiohead To Play At #OccupyWallStreet Event At 4 pm

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Update: Sorry folks, looks like another disappointment. Per the WSJ's Tamer El-Ghobashy, "#Radiohead spokesperson: “we can officially say its not happening” re: #occupywallstreet performance."

The scrappy #OccupyWallStreet movement, which is now into its second week, will get some high caliber reinforcements today at 4 pm, when as the official web site indicates, will see Radiohead play a surprise (or not so surprise anymore) for the event. Assuming this actually does transpire, will Radiohead become a harbinger of the interest that other musical bands (and other media organization) will express in the activist venue as a promotion for their own interests, and thus bring much more popular focus to the events in lower Manhattan?

 

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Fri, 09/30/2011 - 23:15 | 1728168 Cathartes Aura
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everyone wants the sheeples to do the marching, while they sit back rolling the market dice, banking at the TBTFs. . .

(not aimed at you, but jaded is my colour tonight)

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:09 | 1726396 Smithovsky
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Their set list might be:

 

1)  Creep(s)

2)  House of cards

3)  Pyramid song

4)  2 + 2 = 5

5)  Coke babies

6)  Idioteque

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:49 | 1726427 hambone
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7) Million (Trillionz) dollar question...

EDIT...this question will not be answered...or apparently sung at all.

0) Wish you (they) were here???

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:06 | 1726404 reader2010
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Here's the ambient date feed for the thingy.

http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

 

fucking unbelievable if the narratives are real.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:23 | 1726498 centerline
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Can't see any reason why they would not be. Those stories are similar to those I hear now and again. But, I am definately one of the lucky ones.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 19:37 | 1727827 Prometheus418
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Good to see you here- and sorry to hear about the site hack.

Since you're obviously too polite, I'm going to pump your site for the newbies for you.

Lots of excellent and thought provoking content, folks-

http://sonsoflibertyacademy.com/

 

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:06 | 1726408 Charlie the Chump
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Radiohead plays at 4pm. Entire audience asleep by 4:05pm. Yawn

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:07 | 1726411 stevegee58
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Maybe Thom Yorke will play Black Swan cuz this is fucked up.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:07 | 1726412 SteveNYC
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Awesome band, nice job Radiohead. Good luck protestors, keep it up.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:07 | 1726414 monopoly
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Oil, ags, ferts, copper, coals, all lower. Any questions where we are going.

And a good tell on tech AAPL.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:15 | 1726458 Popo
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(It doesn't begin with in 'i')

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:47 | 1726601 Bastiat
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That's funny as hell!  Thanks for the laugh.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 23:18 | 1728173 Cathartes Aura
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genius! thx.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:10 | 1726429 aerial view
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Go Radiohead-it's time for the "Karma Police" to arrest those responsible for using WFDs (weapons of financial destruction) against the world.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:11 | 1726435 disabledvet
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So i was riding in the limo with Ms Pillsbury when she blurted out "who are these people in front of my bank Charles!" (Charles is her full time driver.) He responded "protesters madam" whereupon he drove past the motley hoard and parked the 40 foot long Hummer stretch convertible in The Bank President's spot. "Well how can safely deposit this 240 million in bearer bonds I have that I got for selling that shithole casino I sold in Reno?" she blurted. I told her "no problem...I'll take that from you" whereupon she proclaimed "you see Charles...there ARE still good people in this world!" the rest as they say "is history."

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:11 | 1726436 SeekingNuNormal
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I wonder why U2 isn't playing as well?  Sarc ON Risk OFF Bitchez

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:23 | 1726495 Confused
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Because the event isn't sponsored by blackberry.

 

;-P

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:30 | 1726532 SeekingNuNormal
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Nope, Bono is doing a new Louis Vuitton photo shoot in sub-saharan Africa

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:11 | 1726440 zilverreiger
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Where's SUPER BONO?

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:23 | 1726493 Whalley World
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As well as crappy music (my opinion) Bono's hedge fund was one of if not the worst performer last year.  The guy is an egomaniac and economic disaster.

 

Bono, you want to help the African's?  Help promote the gold suppression scheme and mayber Africa can benefit from higher gold prices.  Even better put some gold and silver in your fund and maybe it won't suck as bad.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:12 | 1726444 firstdivision
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Great...a self-loathing band to play at a rally full of self-loathing idiot consumers. 

I laughed at the interview the other day on CNN where a girl was talking about how bad coporations are, then the reporter pointed out this woman has an Apple Macbook, which Apple is the second largest coporation in the world.  The protester had no retort. 

This group needs to get their priorities straight in their own lives before they go off and protest to the world for what they stand for.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:19 | 1726467 fonestar
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They need to realize corportations are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.  They need to realize a debt-based monetary system is what they are really protesting.  But you need to understand that they are financially illiterate by no fault of their own (lacking interest aside).  It is no accident they teach "home economics" in high schools in the western world and not "global economics" instead.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:42 | 1726576 TruthInSunshine
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Corporations ARE part of the solution WHEN FREE MARKETS, and not some rigged, kleptocratic, tortured farce of a system allows literally a hundred people to decide on and plan a set of global designs, in a foolish (and ultimately futile and highly destructive) attempt at 'controlling humanity's future.'

 

Scamming (subsidized) corporations and financial teet suckers like General Electric and JP Morgan would not exist in a world of free markets and no central banking fraudsters. Free markets would suffocate them with their efficiency.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:53 | 1726626 firstdivision
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At least GE manufactures tangible products.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:03 | 1726687 TruthInSunshine
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Yes, they do.

But some of those 'tangible products' are heavily subsidized Greenscam products, which really got a big boost from Jeff Immelt's close ties to the Obama Administration (because taxpayers can and should be fleeced to support Greenscam politics and bogus environmental claims and the industrial theft they allow /sarc/).

Also, it's not like GE doesn't have a massive finance division, or that said finance division isn't part and parcel of the credit/debt based fractional reserve-dependent fraud that propels the global economic "expansion" (/sarcX2/).

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:06 | 1726696 jayman21
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Don't forget Jeff was on the Fed with his buddy Jamie.  They might still be there.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:01 | 1726666 Louie the Dog
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Yeah, well that's all well and good but this fascist trash out protesting on Wall St. want nothing to do with free markets.  They want government control, or better for them, government ownership, of all business enterprises, excepting of course, their locally owned coffee and lo-calorie muffin shop (at least as long as they provide free wifi and refills).

 

 

 

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 22:28 | 1728106 samsara
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"They want..."

BS

Let me see,  that's rules number 5,7 and a few more of '25 rules of Disinformation'

Your leading the assumption that they all resolve to a single profile.  And YOU know exactly what they are like.   What they eat, what they think. Right.

The Standard Deviation I bet is enormous.

They are all around us.  and EVERYONE has a different story and they know something ain't right.  They don't have all the reasons yet, nor the answers, but they know something ain't right and it can't go on any longer.

Take a GOOD look at your homogeneous mixture

http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 22:35 | 1728113 samsara
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Is THIS the guy you were thinking of???

http://tinyurl.com/69d2c4p

Ya, YOU know who they are alright.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:55 | 1726942 MachoMan
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Actually, I disagree that the corporate form, i.e. a state chartered separate entity, is part of any viable solution.  Even though I set up many of these entities, I think they pervert an incredible amount of things including, but not limited to, incentives and, ultimately, justice.  They simply have no place in our future.  

We can return to the basic three forms of business: sole proprietorship, general partnership, and limited partnership.  If you want limited liability, then be a limited partner AND have no material participation in the management of the business.  (even this rudimentary notion of limited participation has been perverted by statute).  All of these forms are more than sufficient to create and conduct businesses...  and, if the corporate form were extinguished, I think it would significantly remove regulatory and administrative burdens from budding entrepreneurs...  granted, all their spoils are at risk, but you can't eat your cake and have it too.

 

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 22:14 | 1728086 samsara
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To argue how much we have to use the products of the corps while coming to the mass-self-realization of how integrated the Matrix is a waste of time. . 

The whole nation is a mixture of sections of the population in the 7 stages of grief.    The people marching is not some homogeneous mixture of understanding of how truly Phuked we are.    There are people who just know they have a mortgage underwater, no health coverage, and a huge student loan and absolutely no future.

This whole thing is NOT gonna go where any of us think it will.   The number of variables is incredible.  You can start a forest fire but you may not be able to control it.

A few ideas on what would help level the playing field.

1. Recind 'Corporation = Human Being' in the eyes of the court.

2. Recind 'Corporations are able to BUY political a candidate'  ruling 

3 A goverment official only gets a salary for the years he serves.

4 Has to buy his own health care..  

5 Treat "Going to work for GS after serving in the SEC"  etc.  a crime with the same punishment as being caught with a pound of Heroin.

 

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:22 | 1726492 Confused
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Please tell me you forgot the </sarc>

 

 

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:00 | 1726664 firstdivision
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Nope.  I realize these protesters are just hypocrites.  If Apple dropped the price of their shit by 2%, these people would be so eccstatic that they would go out, get another credit card and buy as much Apple shit they can til the limit.  Go down there and look at what products they have (cellphone, mp3 player, etc). 

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:17 | 1726747 alien-IQ
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why are you so concerned about what brand of computer they use?

"he can't be a man cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me"

Mick Jagger
Satisfaction

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:22 | 1726765 firstdivision
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You are obviously a fucking moron if you cannot figure out the point.  Please go kill yourself.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:26 | 1726512 alien-IQ
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That girl at least has the courage to show up and stand up. Yet you sit here like some holier than thou sycophant and criticize her?

She's out there. She ain't talking about it, she's an active participant. She's got more balls than most men here.

When was the last time you put yourself in potential danger for standing up for something you believe to be wrong?

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:53 | 1726628 firstdivision
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So you're saying being a hypocrite is better than being truthful.  Good job.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:08 | 1726708 alien-IQ
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No, I'm saying you're a sycophantic coward.

The girl appears to be a college student judging by her age, yet all you can come up with is that the computer she is carrying is made by a corporation? Would you prefer she wait for computers manufactured by the fucking Amish? Or would you be happier if she was toting around a stone tablet and chisel?

A computer is a tool for learning and communication. Not just for trading stocks and watching porn you fucking dolt.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:18 | 1726753 firstdivision
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Sure...cause we did not learn anything prior to the existence of computers.  All that Calculus I learned in school must not have been invented until the 1940's at the earliest then.  Shit, astronomy wasn't invented until Google Sky. 

A PC has become nothing but a mind numbing way to pass time, same as TV.  Considering a majority of the internet traffic is due to Netflix, Social Media, and Bittorrents/P2P sharing; I'd wager a bet that she doesn't use it beyond knowing what her best friend had for lunch. 

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 23:27 | 1728187 Cathartes Aura
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she's there, you're at your computer, end of.

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 00:09 | 1728241 firstdivision
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Oh, gee I'm sorry. I'm too busy with a job to be whiney. I work and save my money. You're telling me I should quit my job, collect welfare and buy Apple products. That'll really stick it to those Wall St companies. Why are most of you here? None of you seem to grasp reality and think by sitting on some shitty deserted road makes a point, while I continue to consume shit I don't need. I consume what I use, and nothing more. I do more to stand up than those idiots in nyc right now. Many other cheaper brands do the same thing as these Apple products do, yet they feel the need to buy exclusive brands to impress friends/family/etc yet complain about the corportions that you spent all your welfare check on. My god the public is too stupid to see past their nose. "The things you own, end up owning you"

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:41 | 1726578 aerojet
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If you live in a glass house, you ought not be throwing stones.  We are all beholden to corporations, one way or another.  It is the reality we live in.  And young people are beholden to fashion, too.  Give her time, her views on many issues will become more consistent over time.  It's not like you can create a homemade laptop, not one completely homemade, anyways.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:11 | 1726650 firstdivision
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But there is no need to overpay for a laptop to tweet or FB.  My laptop cost me $300 from Ebay.  I can surf the net while running Traktor Scratch Pro.  I am sick of people complaining about banks, coporations, etc., etc., and yet they consume shit they don't need.  Like many idiots that whine about how much it costs to fill up their SUV.  I drive a Focus for a reason. 

So I can prove that I do not live in a glasshouse as I am someone that actually does practice what he will preach.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:12 | 1726445 greenbear
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Radiohead's Lotus Flower backmasked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4WLfb0Aa1o&feature=related

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:13 | 1726449 fonestar
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I would say Max Keiser is right that these people need to #occupythefed to get to the root of the problem.  But at least their hearts are in the right place.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:18 | 1726470 alien-IQ
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this is the perfect venue for Rage Against the Machine to play.

they could set that place on fire.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:25 | 1726505 The Deleuzian
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I was just thinkin' the same thing alien...The trifecta...Rage/NIN/_____...You fill in the blank!

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:30 | 1726528 alien-IQ
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If only The Clash were still around. That would be perfection.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:40 | 1726571 The Deleuzian
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I know...Bad Religion...

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:40 | 1726575 redpill
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All too polite, we need the bloody Sex Pistols!

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 07:28 | 1728478 Peter K
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Naaa.............. These are the guys that would be ideal..............................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_KeeKs1SnE

The anger

the rage

the authenticity.

It don't come any better :)

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:26 | 1726795 CvlDobd
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RATM, Clash, and Bad Religion

Three of my eight favorite bands.

BTW listen to Fake Empire by The National. Not punk related sound wise but perhaps message wise.It is one of the best songs I have heard in years.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 17:31 | 1727584 Freddie
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Clash were f**king posers and children of diplomats.  They were busking in London when they saw The Pistols and Strummer said he wanted to jump on the bad wagon. Lydon is the real deal and a libertarian.

Trent Reznor (NIN) is a corporate capitalist.

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 01:29 | 1728329 GoinFawr
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Jello Biafra is not to be overlooked either.

NoMeansNo is worth a listen too, if one was so inclined. I love a band where the lead guitar is a bass played like a boss.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:19 | 1726472 Central Wanker
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Great band just got greater.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:19 | 1726474 Bastiat
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Citing common cause, the Transport Workers Union - one of the country's largest unions with over 200,000 members - has announced its support for the Occupy Wall Street protests. They will join a Friday rally. Other unions are following suit, with a slew of big NYC unions planning an Oct. 5 rally.

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/09/29-0

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:26 | 1726479 Bastiat
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Let's see how many of those assholes are posing on the balcony with champagne flutes in another week or so . . . and let's see how many of his union brethren Tony Baloney wants to pepper spray in the face -- might get a little more pushback that he got from 2 fenced-in women.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:20 | 1726475 Confused
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Love it.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:20 | 1726477 Ramboy
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Nobody's downtown today.  it's a Jewish holiday.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:21 | 1726484 Critical Path
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Good shit! love it!  Huge Radiohead fan

 

"Hail to the thief our commander in chief"!!!!

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:22 | 1726491 mfoste1
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So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:24 | 1726500 Mae Kadoodie
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Stop being a bunch of financial snobs.  By next week this thing is going to far outgrow Liberty Park.  Bloomberg is going to shit his trousers.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:25 | 1726509 TruthInSunshine
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

-- George Orwell


Radiohead - 2+2=5

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:26 | 1726516 Mister Minsk
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Radiohead is nice, but KMFDM would be better.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:54 | 1726622 The Deleuzian
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I can't believe you said that...Here's another trifecta Ministry/KMFDM/Nitzer Ebb WOOOW BABY

Ministry=best thing out of Chicago Ever!!!

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:07 | 1726702 I Got Worms
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If Nitzer Ebb broke out "Blood Money" and followed up with "Join in the Chant", we might have another Building 7 event downtown.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:41 | 1726858 The Deleuzian
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I might finally have an 'avatar' to describe myself, I don't know

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 19:01 | 1727767 konputa
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Join in the chant. That could be intense.

 

How about "destroy 2000 years of culture" by Atari Teenage Riot? That's a fitting song to add to this soundtrack.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 15:48 | 1727166 fuu
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Like a fiendish tropic virus
Spitting bile at all you whores
Razor-sharp tongue-in-cheek
Poking in your open sores

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvZqWq0ZNjk

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:28 | 1726525 johnnymustardseed
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This might be the start of a real movement towards change! Hope it grows

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:28 | 1726526 johnnymustardseed
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This might be the start of a real movement towards change! Hope it grows

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:30 | 1726529 Simple Simon
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I love the reference to the mighty Gil Scott-Heron here - The revolution will not be televised

http://www.traderscommunity.com/news.php?item.34977.9

 

 

 

 

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:32 | 1726538 Long-John-Silver
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Please remember that revolutions can produce worse results that what caused the revolution in the first place. Take Egypt as a recent example. Today Egypt is ruled by a Military Junta that is much worse than Mubarak on his worse day.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:51 | 1726617 jayman21
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Like Hilter setting fire to the Reichstag(German Gov't Building) and blaming the communists and then killing them.  Still wondering about WTC 7.  What would be the Reichstag in a post 911 world?

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 07:20 | 1728470 Peter K
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@jayman21
But what if the arsonist of the Reichstag was a member of the communist party and of Jewish ancestry. Would that change the analogy? Just askin.....................

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:36 | 1726556 bill1102inf
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Please bring Bear Spray OC Spray in case the police get out of hand.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:36 | 1726558 mrdenis
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Occupy WS should take a page  from MLK's autobiography:

"On one dramatic occasion even Bull Connor's men were shaken. It was a Sunday afternoon, when several hundred Birmingham Negroes had determined to hold a prayer meeting near the city jail. They gathered at the New Pilgrim Baptist Church and began an orderly march. Bull Connor ordered out the police dogs and fire hoses. When the marchers approached the border between the white and Negro areas, Connor ordered them to turn back. The Reverend Charles Billups, who was leading the march, politely refused. Enraged Bull Connor whirled on his men and shouted: "Dammit. Turn on the hoses."

"What happened in the next thirty seconds was one of the most fantastic events of the Birmingham story. Bull Connor's men stood facing the marchers. The marchers, many of them on their knees, ready to pit nothing but the power of their bodies and souls against Connor's police dogs, clubs, and fire hoses, stared back, unafraid and unmoving. Slowly the Negroes stood up and began to advance. Connor's men, as though hypnotized, fell back, their hoses sagging uselessly in their hands while several hundred Negroes marched past them, without further interference, and held their prayer meeting as planned. I felt there, for the first time, the pride and the power of nonviolence."

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:36 | 1726561 lsbumblebee
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No Bologna?

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:37 | 1726563 Carmagnole
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You missed THE song

Radiohead: You and whose army ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdPtlIeJYQ

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:43 | 1726586 belogical
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I was just informed this morning that my daughter and friends will be protesting in downtown Charlotte, NC tommorrow. shocked the heck out of me, I did not  know she had even heard of occupy wall street, never mind doing it.

I'm planning on taking credit for her following my side of the family, unless she get arrested. Then I am gonna blame it on her mothers genes  

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:45 | 1726589 HurricaneMoney
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Well, that was a nice little distraction for the sheeple, for about 1 hour- Now back to the hit show- called fraud market.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:48 | 1726604 marcusfenix
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radiohead might not be showing up, but it looks like big unions are ready to step in and co- opt the whole thing, at least according to this wsj post...

No Radiohead Serenade at Wall Street Protest

I just hope the protesters tell the unions to piss off...

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:03 | 1726682 Shermanium
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...right on cue, TPTB usurp another movement!

 

if you can't beat them, marginilize them!

if you can't marginailize them, usurp them!

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:50 | 1726613 ParaZite
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If the dedicate "Creep" to Bernanke, I will LOL. :D

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:50 | 1726614 jmcadg
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They should charge those dicks on the balconies, say a 1oz Silver Eagle each,

Aaargh shit, they can't get in, they only own paper. Wall Street Losers. Go Radiohead.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 13:57 | 1726649 Bastiat
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Can't wait to see which politician jumps on the barricades for his Yeltsin moment.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:00 | 1726659 NO1HOME
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The Artisan Proroganda Class Citizen will have sway in awaking the wetico to the revolution.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlG5u4vb_FA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:08 | 1726707 Mae Kadoodie
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Sounds like the Pigs, not PIIGS,  put the screws on Radiohead.  Be that as it may, this movement will not be stopped!

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:12 | 1726721 The Deleuzian
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For sure!  It would be too much...

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:16 | 1726741 No Mas
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Blah, blah, blah.  Same shit different day.

What ever happened to all the fuss around here about foreclosure fraud?  Remember how it was going to be the BIG one?  Oh, ye of little brain.  Nothing came of it as I TOLD YOU nothing would come of it and now I must educate the ignorant sheeple of the Hedge of Zero once again.

There is no protest.  No one gives a damn.  NO ONE!!

This is another case of a small group wanting something to do other than actaully work to produce something (just like the bankers only without money) and the band (soon to be many bands) see an opportunity to MAKE MONEY!!!  The bands, just as it is with the "protesters" have no idea what is going on and probably believe M2 to be a band that came before U2.

But there is publicity to be had and MONEY TO BE MADE!!! And then, after making this money, all of these bands will proceed to PUT THE MONEY INTO THE VERY SYSTEM THEY CLAIM TO BE PROTESTING!!! 

So, put this stuff in the same jar where the Tyler Durden call for a "$10 loaf of bread" (November of 2010) is held for future ridicule.  Nothing will happen but TD should be able to get his sheep to keep hitting this site until, well you know, and even bigger END OF THE WORLD event takes place to hype, hype and then for good measure, hype some more.

Back to your regular venting sheeple.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 16:22 | 1727325 Seasmoke
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maybe you should research Radiohead before you post and make yourself look foolish

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:34 | 1726805 THE DORK OF CORK
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Theres a damn fine looking bad ass Girl presenting now -  she looks vaguely like a Sarah Connor - I just hope they don't send a robot from the future to come get her.

Maybe she needs a Dork to save & inseminate her before its too late.....................

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:37 | 1726836 zeek
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I've got a suggestion for where they might stick that fist...  let's just say they'd have difficulties sitting down.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:38 | 1726842 adr
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When I see a solidarity fist and red/black imagery, it isn't something I can get behind. Now that the unions are involved any solution this group comes up with will be worse than what we have now. Talk about protesting the right thing for all the wrong reasons.

These people do not want freedom. They want communism on its way to fascism. They want the government to take over the banks and Wall Street granting them a free lunch. Jobs for all, Obama the savior, down with capitalism.

They don't understand government is the problem, unions are not the answer, and our current form of capitalism is as far away from the meaning of that word as you can get. I wonder if they know most of the people they are marching against probably voted for the same people they did. The ignorant can always be easily used as tools of the establishment. These OccupyWallStreet imbeciles don't even know that what they are standing against is actually trying to give them what they want. One world socialism.

A real protest would be staged by people who still have jobs that want the government out of the way. So they could progress and take down big corporations using the tactic of sound business, not government authority.

I am a 1%er living a 50%er life because I want to. I turned down a $100k job in Hoboken for a $45k job in Ohio.  I could have bought a much larger house, bought a fancier car, but I didn't need it. Fuck spending $300 on an iPhone when a Samsung is free. All I want is the freedom to keep working at my small company and live a decent life. I don't need $1 million or a mansion, but I do need the fraud of corporate America to end since my company is in danger of being swallowed every day just so a mega corp can have a little more market cap in order for some board member to grant himself a few more shares.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 14:40 | 1726856 ToNYC
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So show up with your ear buds playing whatever; just show up and exercise your right to visit and witness the weevil doers down there.

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 15:55 | 1727169 Hannibal
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OccupyWallst.org 

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WTF

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 17:23 | 1727555 Bastiat
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Alexander Higgins – reporting live from the protests – notes that United Airlines pilots marched in the protest wearing their full pilot uniforms:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/09/wall-street-protest-growing.html

Over 700 hundred Continental and United pilots, joined by additional pilots from other Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, demonstrate in front of Wall Street on September 27, 2011 in New York City  http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/09/29/union-airline-pilots-occupy-wall-street/

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 18:36 | 1727722 Mauibrad
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Did you fall for it Tyler?

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 19:55 | 1727860 darkstar7646
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Anyone else think they were threatened with the end of their careers if they did?

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 20:07 | 1727885 BlackholeDivestment
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Thom, After The Gold Rush ...Bitchez. Lol. This ones for you Krugman. Lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fAz54YWw6I

Fri, 09/30/2011 - 20:44 | 1727953 mick_richfield
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Thom, After The Gold Rush ...Bitchez. Lol.

This sentence no verb.  -1.

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 00:23 | 1728275 Rinpocheinp
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Guest Post: Occupy Philadelphia is a Jewish Zionist COINTELPRO Operation

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...

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 01:16 | 1728320 Peter K
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The Bamster's ground troops are protesting the Bamsters donor base:)

And serious people (quasi serious granted) are supposedly taking this seriously.

Yesterday I was waiting for the headline "Buffet and Obama to make an appearance at the WS protest"

You can't make this stuff up........

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 05:36 | 1728417 real
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I AM SHOCKED here is, finally, people starting a movement and some on zero hedge putting it down. To those who are criticizing this beginning, what the hell is wrong with you ? maybe you are pro wall street and big banks. Maybe you are on zero hedge to support the thievery that has taken place on the grandest scale ever imagined. The 200 people who are sleeping outside every night and the thousands that stand their in the day time are standing there for justice, they are standing there for you. Maybe when talked to individually they say things you would say differently. WELL THEN GO DONW THERE AND SAY THEM IN YOUR WORDS. the current occupy group is doing more then anyone else has done to this point and they are my hero's. Yes i would like to hear some words coming out of them like the words i have read on zero hedge for the past 2 plus years which makes me say, WHY ARENT YOU THERE, ALL OF YOU. get out of your computer chair and take up a 2 x 2 space and when someone for the media puts a microphone to your lips, start putting into words what has been expressed here on zero hedge. Stop your f****** complain and picking apart the only real active movement we have and go support. Get up now and do something. stop talking about your guns and jews and all the other shit that goes absolutely no where. Here's our chance. Be part of it and make this grow and the only way it will grow is if you see it for what it truly is and what it is, is the start. I am taking my 2 kids there today and at the minimum we we occupy our space for 8 hrs. This is going to cost me more $ then i should spend to get there but aren't those $ worthless anyway. After following zero hedge and reading some amazingly insightful real articles, now we have a chance to make it real. Please do your part, please help and lets not let this fade. Everyone on here join and support.

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 07:15 | 1728465 Peter K
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Dude, give it up. Van Jones says that the revolution starts in October.

Oh wait, it is October.

Never mind.................:)

Sat, 10/01/2011 - 11:50 | 1728954 goldfish1
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what the hell is wrong with you ? maybe you are pro wall street and big banks

 

Plenty of spooks here no doubt.  

Make it happen...more power to y.

Sun, 10/02/2011 - 15:26 | 1731192 Big Fat Cumshot
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Fuck Radiohead

Mon, 10/03/2011 - 11:23 | 1733158 ricocyb13
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JP Morgan financing New York Police

 

http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Home/article/ny-13.htm

 

New York City Police Foundation — New York

JPMorgan Chase recently donated an unprecedented $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation. The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple. The money will pay for 1,000 new patrol car laptops, as well as security monitoring software in the NYPD's main data center.

New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon a note expressing "profound gratitude" for the company's donation.

"These officers put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe," Dimon said. "We're incredibly proud to help them build this program and let them know how much we value their hard work."

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