Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested

[August]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

The silent majority is dying off every day, taking with it the fear and hatred and ignorance that it revels in.

Fear, hatred and ignorance? It sounds like you're describing your average OWS protestor to me...

[Gerald]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...ht/9619110.stm

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Its very very long, but I think everyone should watch this (Especially Americans)

They make movies about this activity. Good video though. This activity happens at all levels of business. Just not on the same scale. So, this type of problem does not happen in other countries?

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

They make movies about this activity. Good video though. This activity happens at all levels of business. Just not on the same scale. So, this type of problem does not happen in other countries?

Im sure it does, we are talking about multi-nationals after all, but thats not what this is focusing on in the video.

I almost find it frustrating seeing people continue to push the same tired old aguments, blame it on the Demos / Reps.
Its like watching a cat chase its own tail.
What happens when we have situations that don't fit inside this redundant partisan mindset?

Different puppet - same hand, even a child can see that they have both sold out, so which ever one youre gunning for - its pretty much academic really.
Private funding for political parties doesnt work, lobbyiest can virtually buy the policies they want.

[August]

So much for the "peaceful movement". Hey at least they didn't threaten to use guns eh Mookie?

[Tchocky]

It's always possible to pick out the most outrageous signs from a protest, we saw it happen plenty with the Tea Party protests earlier. I'll point out that I've seen more violent/unsettling things from Tea Party-associated rallies and such, but I'm pretty biased here.

The Tea Party object to being compared to OWS on grounds of incoherence and no settled message. They have mounted a fairly strong PR offensive to disavow any comparison. The TP aren't incoherent or unsettled now, but they certainly were once at the stage OWS are now, hence the grumpiness and anger about the comparison. I think the TP feel like they're not getting credit for growing as a political force.

[mookiemookie]

To quote tater from long ago:

Yeah, a couple hateful signs means that the the basic sentiment of the movement.

What % of all the signs were hateful. Be precise.

What does that % tell you about the other people there? That's right, nothing since there was zero control over who came.

But I'm sure it's completely different this time.

[soopaman2]

At least they aren't openly armed like the early Tea party raliies.

Screaming hate about Obama with guns on their hips.. Yeah much more moral than the OWS scumbuckets.

Take note of the shirt the first guy was wearing, call that bull.

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by August

So much for the "peaceful movement". Hey at least they didn't threaten to use guns eh Mookie?

ahh stop clutching at straws, you dont really percieve that as threaterning in the slightest. they look like they couldnt intimidate a child, much less a riot cop.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Im sure it does, we are talking about multi-nationals after all, but thats not what this is focusing on in the video.

I almost find it frustrating seeing people continue to push the same tired old aguments, blame it on the Demos / Reps.
Its like watching a cat chase its own tail.
What happens when we have situations that don't fit inside this redundant partisan mindset?

Different puppet - same hand, even a child can see that they have both sold out, so which ever one youre gunning for - its pretty much academic really.
Private funding for political parties doesnt work, lobbyiest can virtually buy the policies they want.

I agree, it is the same old arguments. Same old good old boy network. I don't think it will change any time soon though.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I agree, it is the same old arguments. Same old good old boy network. I don't think it will change any time soon though.

A little anecdote from my business: It's well known that if you want to make partner at Goldman Sachs, you have to leave to work for the government for a couple of years, and then come back to GS.

[flatsixes]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

A little anecdote from my business: It's well known that if you want to make partner at Goldman Sachs, you have to leave to work for the government for a couple of years, and then come back to GS.

You don't know the half of it mook. Doing your two year stint in government service is a goddamned bonanza for these guys.

That's why we say "Goldman Sachs has more stops in D.C. than the Metro."

[mookiemookie]

From a couple years ago...made me laugh

Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire Treasury Department
Sister Entities to Share Employees, Money

In what some on Wall Street are calling the biggest blockbuster deal in the history of the financial sector, Goldman Sachs confirmed today that it was in talks to acquire the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

According to Goldman spokesperson Jonathan Hestron, the merger between Goldman and the Treasury Department is "a good fit" because "they're in the business of printing money and so are we."

The Goldman spokesman said that the merger would create efficiencies for both entities: "We already have so many employees and so much money flowing back and forth, this would just streamline things."

Mr. Hestron said the only challenge facing Goldman in completing the merger "is trying to figure out which parts of the Treasury Dept. we don't already own."

Goldman recently celebrated record earnings by roasting a suckling pig over a bonfire of hundred-dollar bills.

http://www.borowitzreport.com/2009/0...s-in-talks-to/

[JU_88]

Well Lockheed Martin are now contracted to run the census here in the UK.
lol our governents are going for a complete Cooperate take over, Ill proabably be voting for the Mcdonalds Party come next election
Seriously though... what a bunch of sell outs.

ahh stop clutching at straws, you dont really percieve that as threaterning in the slightest. they look like they couldnt intimidate a child, much less a riot cop.

The top one isn't threatening at all, he is reminiscing about the job he used to have in the stationary office.