Is Your CIty Occupied??? {USA} (268)
venusenvy: Why Bo-Ho Jack!! You handsome devil...What are you up too?
Passing a few minutes with you my dear.
"Stuck between channels my thoughts all quit I Thought about them too much allowed them to touch the feelings of rain down on the planes all dried and cracked waiting for things that never came." ~Jack Johnson - Buddha
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bohemianjack: Passing a few minutes with you my dear.
"Stuck between channels my thoughts all quit I Thought about them too much allowed them to touch the feelings of rain down on the planes all dried and cracked waiting for things that never came." ~Jack Johnson - Buddha
"Stuck between channels my thoughts all quit I Thought about them too much allowed them to touch the feelings of rain down on the planes all dried and cracked waiting for things that never came." ~Jack Johnson - Buddha
Well arent I just the luckiest lady ..Thanks for the music and quotes poetry man
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Nikogas: B-Jack,,lol,,,,read the quote again that's probably not the best one for us with hair,,,lol.
Aw hope you find a match soon. good luck.
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Aw hope you find a match soon. good luck.
;-}
Just tryin' to have some fun..
As you've seen, sometimes can go either way...
Good luck to you..
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." ~OSCAR WILDE, The Critic as Artist
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venusenvy: Well arent I just the luckiest lady ..Thanks for the music and quotes poetry man
I'm starting to feel tired.
If we can't set up a tent we can sleep in my truck...
Unless you have a better idea..
"To get the full value of joy,You must have someone to divide it with" ~Mark Twain
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bohemianjack: I'm starting to feel tired.
If we can't set up a tent we can sleep in my truck...
Unless you have a better idea..
"To get the full value of joy,You must have someone to divide it with" ~Mark Twain
If we can't set up a tent we can sleep in my truck...
Unless you have a better idea..
"To get the full value of joy,You must have someone to divide it with" ~Mark Twain
Sweet dreams Handsome Im off to get a piece of fresh apple pie
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venusenvy: Sweet dreams Handsome Im off to get a piece of fresh apple pie
With some sharp cheddar (its a Canadian thang)
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"There's many a man has more hair than wit." ~William Shakespeare
meaning many men with more hair than wit. {than smarts}
ok,,back to business now
From Tahrir Square to Times Square: Protests Erupt in Over 1,500 Cities Worldwide
Posted Oct. 16, 2011, 1:08 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Tens of Thousands in Streets of Times Square, NY
Tens of Thousands Flood the Streets of Global Financial Centers, Capitol Cities and Small Towns to "Occupy Together" Against Wall Street Mid-Town Manhattan Jammed as Marches Converge in Times Square
New York, NY -- After triumphing in a standoff with the city over the continued protest of Wall Street at Liberty Square in Manhattan's financial district, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread world wide today with demonstrations in over 1,500 cities globally and over 100 US cities from coast to coast. In New York, thousands marched in various protests by trade unions, students, environmentalists, and community groups. As occupiers flocked to Washington Square Park, two dozen participants were arrested at a nearby Citibank while attempting to withdraw their accounts from the global banking giant.
for more,,,,continued
Nikogas
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meaning many men with more hair than wit. {than smarts}
ok,,back to business now
From Tahrir Square to Times Square: Protests Erupt in Over 1,500 Cities Worldwide
Posted Oct. 16, 2011, 1:08 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Tens of Thousands in Streets of Times Square, NY
Tens of Thousands Flood the Streets of Global Financial Centers, Capitol Cities and Small Towns to "Occupy Together" Against Wall Street Mid-Town Manhattan Jammed as Marches Converge in Times Square
New York, NY -- After triumphing in a standoff with the city over the continued protest of Wall Street at Liberty Square in Manhattan's financial district, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread world wide today with demonstrations in over 1,500 cities globally and over 100 US cities from coast to coast. In New York, thousands marched in various protests by trade unions, students, environmentalists, and community groups. As occupiers flocked to Washington Square Park, two dozen participants were arrested at a nearby Citibank while attempting to withdraw their accounts from the global banking giant.
for more,,,,continued
Nikogas
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In Australia, about 800 people gathered in Sydney's central business district, carrying cardboard banners and chanting "Human need, not corporate greed." Protesters will camp indefinitely "to organize, discuss and build a movement for a different world, not run by the super-rich 1%," according to a statement on the Occupy Sydney website.
The movement's success is due in part to the use of online technologies and international social networking. The rapid spread of the protests is a grassroots response to the overwhelming inequalities perpetuated by the global financial system and transnational banks. More actions are expected in the coming weeks, and the Occupation of Liberty Square in Manhattan will continue indefinitely.
Occupy Wall Street is a people powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #OWS is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations.The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Italy and the UK, and aims to expose how the richest 1% of people who are writing the rules of the global economy are imposing an agenda of neoliberalism and economic inequality that is foreclosing our future.
The movement's success is due in part to the use of online technologies and international social networking. The rapid spread of the protests is a grassroots response to the overwhelming inequalities perpetuated by the global financial system and transnational banks. More actions are expected in the coming weeks, and the Occupation of Liberty Square in Manhattan will continue indefinitely.
Occupy Wall Street is a people powered movement that began on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square in Manhattan’s Financial District, and has spread to over 100 cities in the United States and actions in over 1,500 cities globally. #OWS is fighting back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession in generations.The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Italy and the UK, and aims to expose how the richest 1% of people who are writing the rules of the global economy are imposing an agenda of neoliberalism and economic inequality that is foreclosing our future.
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Occupy Vancouver: there was about 4000 mid day yesterady. met at the art gallery and then marched through downtown. there were evening activities as well, but only a few hundred remained for the evening. crowd included well know public figures including Jim Sinclair, president of BC Federation of Labour.
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jono7: Occupy Vancouver: there was about 4000 mid day yesterady. met at the art gallery and then marched through downtown. there were evening activities as well, but only a few hundred remained for the evening. crowd included well know public figures including Jim Sinclair, president of BC Federation of Labour.
Thanks for the post Jono,
I know some people have said this will just go away but it seems to be quite the opposite. Do you think it will get even bigger??
Nikogas
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Nikogas: Thanks for the post Jono,
I know some people have said this will just go away but it seems to be quite the opposite. Do you think it will get even bigger??
Nikogas
;-}
I know some people have said this will just go away but it seems to be quite the opposite. Do you think it will get even bigger??
Nikogas
;-}
Yep.
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anonymous1: Yep.
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yep...
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This past weekend, in 900 cities across the world, tens of thousands demonstrated against unregulated capitalism. Something fascinating is growing, and by the time it ends, I suspect, politics will be different in the United States and a lot of other places as well.
In a great many countries, especially in the West, the political grass is dry. Huge numbers of young people are unemployed, governments are launching harsh and unpopular austerity programs, and the financial elites responsible for the global economic meltdown have almost entirely escaped justice. Millions of articulate, educated, tech-savvy people are enraged and desperate. And they have time on their hands....
What we are witnessing in Zuccotti Park actually represents an improvement over the Obama campaign. That campaign was largely about faith in one man. The Occupy Wall Street movement, by contrast, represents a direct reckoning with the most powerful forces in American life, forces that are not voted in and out of office every two or four years. And it represents a belief that young Americans must force that reckoning by themselves. No politician will do it for them. Those instincts are exactly right, and we’ve never needed them more.
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Knock wood Skybow 
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How many years have we been without a voice now? ... 10+ too many and 30 yrs of media brainwashing to get to this point!
We the 'others' who first looked on in dismay, then shock and finally revulsion at the turn of events that has led to the sorry state of affairs we call our government... for the mega rich conglomerates and multinationals and bought by these rich to the complete and total disregard of the needs of the other 99% of the American people.
And Bernie Sanders is one of the few that has stood up and called a spade a spade, clearly, simply and out loud... and I thank NIkogas for bringing the common sense on board. Having a conscious is not being a Communist for chrisakes!
"Others have adequately documented the litany of ways in which Bush and the Republicans systematically rigged the game to favor those of us who don't need more money and to screw those who do, all the while turning 50,000,000 of our neighbors into medical beggars who face each day without health insurance. The particulars of that shameful process are no longer in doubt and continue unabated with our Republican Congress. But what I'm still trying to get at is this question: "Why would ostensibly sane people countenance and even vote for leaders who act so blatantly against their best interests?"
Beyond the aforementioned options of abject denial and/or delusional aspirations to evolve into one of the super-rich, there are other possible explanations. One that has to be considered is what I might call "The Animal Farm effect". Readers will recall that in George Orwell's painfully prescient novel, the Seven Commandments by which the community ostensibly managed itself were subtly re-written late each night by the pigs to enhance the pigs' power and privilege, while the barnyard citizens blissfully slept unawares. Few noticed the changes upon awakening, and any potential protests were swiftly smothered. Eventually, the pigs not only dominated the day-to-day wellbeing of the other animals but also re-wrote the community's history to provide a fictional foundation for their hegemony. The continual tweaking of the Seven Commandments finally morphed them all into just one undeniable declaration:" "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
We've been dazzle with BS, numbed by a useless lying 'by omission' media or worse the outright support of inflammatory rhetoric.. we've been divided and conquered as a people.
And on and on it has gone... in so many ways:
Our voices are overdue, I just hope the protesters can keep it mature and civil and above the tactics of the supposed 'conservatives'... who seem to love vitriol and violence as solutions.
.How many years have we been without a voice now? ... 10+ too many and 30 yrs of media brainwashing to get to this point!
We the 'others' who first looked on in dismay, then shock and finally revulsion at the turn of events that has led to the sorry state of affairs we call our government... for the mega rich conglomerates and multinationals and bought by these rich to the complete and total disregard of the needs of the other 99% of the American people.
And Bernie Sanders is one of the few that has stood up and called a spade a spade, clearly, simply and out loud... and I thank NIkogas for bringing the common sense on board. Having a conscious is not being a Communist for chrisakes!
"Others have adequately documented the litany of ways in which Bush and the Republicans systematically rigged the game to favor those of us who don't need more money and to screw those who do, all the while turning 50,000,000 of our neighbors into medical beggars who face each day without health insurance. The particulars of that shameful process are no longer in doubt and continue unabated with our Republican Congress. But what I'm still trying to get at is this question: "Why would ostensibly sane people countenance and even vote for leaders who act so blatantly against their best interests?"
Beyond the aforementioned options of abject denial and/or delusional aspirations to evolve into one of the super-rich, there are other possible explanations. One that has to be considered is what I might call "The Animal Farm effect". Readers will recall that in George Orwell's painfully prescient novel, the Seven Commandments by which the community ostensibly managed itself were subtly re-written late each night by the pigs to enhance the pigs' power and privilege, while the barnyard citizens blissfully slept unawares. Few noticed the changes upon awakening, and any potential protests were swiftly smothered. Eventually, the pigs not only dominated the day-to-day wellbeing of the other animals but also re-wrote the community's history to provide a fictional foundation for their hegemony. The continual tweaking of the Seven Commandments finally morphed them all into just one undeniable declaration:" "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
We've been dazzle with BS, numbed by a useless lying 'by omission' media or worse the outright support of inflammatory rhetoric.. we've been divided and conquered as a people.
And on and on it has gone... in so many ways:
Our voices are overdue, I just hope the protesters can keep it mature and civil and above the tactics of the supposed 'conservatives'... who seem to love vitriol and violence as solutions.
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Thank You Gininitaly
It was very nice of you to mention me there, you are very kind.
Skybow, thank you for posting as well,,,and of course everyone.
I think that there are just so many people that are up in arms that like many have said,,,we are intelligent and have way too much time on our hands and we are not going away. So, each day, one more step..reminds me of the song by "The Who" "We Don't Get Fooled Again" and it is true about the constant conditioning of the mind. The things that once mattered have fallen by the wayside and I think that "common sense" is breaking up through the surface waters saying HEY look at me,,lol..you get the idea.
so,,,each day I look, listen,, try to thank those of you that hang out or post about this protest. Thanks again
;-}
Nikogas
It was very nice of you to mention me there, you are very kind.
Skybow, thank you for posting as well,,,and of course everyone.
I think that there are just so many people that are up in arms that like many have said,,,we are intelligent and have way too much time on our hands and we are not going away. So, each day, one more step..reminds me of the song by "The Who" "We Don't Get Fooled Again" and it is true about the constant conditioning of the mind. The things that once mattered have fallen by the wayside and I think that "common sense" is breaking up through the surface waters saying HEY look at me,,lol..you get the idea.
so,,,each day I look, listen,, try to thank those of you that hang out or post about this protest. Thanks again
;-}
Nikogas
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Not desirable for sure but is this the paper you depend on for your news?
Seems very local and anti-protesters when I clicked on opinions tab, it compared the protesters to the homeless who want a permanent camp by Portland's Chinatown.
Occupy Wall Street Protesters have gone global, if the Pamplin media group doesn't agree that there is an inherent right to protest in America, then perhaps they are living in a much more privileged part of America than those protesting corporate greed and paid off politicians.
Seems very local and anti-protesters when I clicked on opinions tab, it compared the protesters to the homeless who want a permanent camp by Portland's Chinatown.
Occupy Wall Street Protesters have gone global, if the Pamplin media group doesn't agree that there is an inherent right to protest in America, then perhaps they are living in a much more privileged part of America than those protesting corporate greed and paid off politicians.
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NAKEDMUDPEOPLE: Americans want their Constitutional rights!
We can live with little but do not take our rights away!
The only way to achieve the rights of and for the people of this great nation
is to do it in peace.
Demonstrations and protesting are a few actions that will cause this country
more damage.
Do it in silence, those around you will know what it takes to
overcome the government.
We can live with little but do not take our rights away!
The only way to achieve the rights of and for the people of this great nation
is to do it in peace.
Demonstrations and protesting are a few actions that will cause this country
more damage.
Do it in silence, those around you will know what it takes to
overcome the government.
You're correct on one thing... American's want our rights...
We are guaranteed the right to demonstrate, and protest by the First Amendment to The Constitution.
The American Revolution was not won in silence; the French Revoultion was not won in silence: the Magna Carta was not signed by silent men.
The people who are protesting... are, the ones you're really referring to, "Those around you will know what it takes to overcome the government."
They are claiming their Constitutional rights.
We began with the right to Free Speech, if we continue on the path we're on silently... we will only have the right to remain silent.
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gininitaly: Knock wood Skybow .
How many years have we been without a voice now? ... 10+ too many and 30 yrs of media brainwashing to get to this point!
We the 'others' who first looked on in dismay, then shock and finally revulsion at the turn of events that has led to the sorry state of affairs we call our government... for the mega rich conglomerates and multinationals and bought by these rich to the complete and total disregard of the needs of the other 99% of the American people.
And Bernie Sanders is one of the few that has stood up and called a spade a spade, clearly, simply and out loud... and I thank NIkogas for bringing the common sense on board. Having a conscious is not being a Communist for chrisakes!
"Others have adequately documented the litany of ways in which Bush and the Republicans systematically rigged the game to favor those of us who don't need more money and to screw those who do, all the while turning 50,000,000 of our neighbors into medical beggars who face each day without health insurance. The particulars of that shameful process are no longer in doubt and continue unabated with our Republican Congress. But what I'm still trying to get at is this question: "Why would ostensibly sane people countenance and even vote for leaders who act so blatantly against their best interests?"
Beyond the aforementioned options of abject denial and/or delusional aspirations to evolve into one of the super-rich, there are other possible explanations. One that has to be considered is what I might call "The Animal Farm effect". Readers will recall that in George Orwell's painfully prescient novel, the Seven Commandments by which the community ostensibly managed itself were subtly re-written late each night by the pigs to enhance the pigs' power and privilege, while the barnyard citizens blissfully slept unawares. Few noticed the changes upon awakening, and any potential protests were swiftly smothered. Eventually, the pigs not only dominated the day-to-day wellbeing of the other animals but also re-wrote the community's history to provide a fictional foundation for their hegemony. The continual tweaking of the Seven Commandments finally morphed them all into just one undeniable declaration:" "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
We've been dazzle with BS, numbed by a useless lying 'by omission' media or worse the outright support of inflammatory rhetoric.. we've been divided and conquered as a people.
And on and on it has gone... in so many ways:
Our voices are overdue, I just hope the protesters can keep it mature and civil and above the tactics of the supposed 'conservatives'... who seem to love vitriol and violence as solutions.
How many years have we been without a voice now? ... 10+ too many and 30 yrs of media brainwashing to get to this point!
We the 'others' who first looked on in dismay, then shock and finally revulsion at the turn of events that has led to the sorry state of affairs we call our government... for the mega rich conglomerates and multinationals and bought by these rich to the complete and total disregard of the needs of the other 99% of the American people.
And Bernie Sanders is one of the few that has stood up and called a spade a spade, clearly, simply and out loud... and I thank NIkogas for bringing the common sense on board. Having a conscious is not being a Communist for chrisakes!
"Others have adequately documented the litany of ways in which Bush and the Republicans systematically rigged the game to favor those of us who don't need more money and to screw those who do, all the while turning 50,000,000 of our neighbors into medical beggars who face each day without health insurance. The particulars of that shameful process are no longer in doubt and continue unabated with our Republican Congress. But what I'm still trying to get at is this question: "Why would ostensibly sane people countenance and even vote for leaders who act so blatantly against their best interests?"
Beyond the aforementioned options of abject denial and/or delusional aspirations to evolve into one of the super-rich, there are other possible explanations. One that has to be considered is what I might call "The Animal Farm effect". Readers will recall that in George Orwell's painfully prescient novel, the Seven Commandments by which the community ostensibly managed itself were subtly re-written late each night by the pigs to enhance the pigs' power and privilege, while the barnyard citizens blissfully slept unawares. Few noticed the changes upon awakening, and any potential protests were swiftly smothered. Eventually, the pigs not only dominated the day-to-day wellbeing of the other animals but also re-wrote the community's history to provide a fictional foundation for their hegemony. The continual tweaking of the Seven Commandments finally morphed them all into just one undeniable declaration:" "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
We've been dazzle with BS, numbed by a useless lying 'by omission' media or worse the outright support of inflammatory rhetoric.. we've been divided and conquered as a people.
And on and on it has gone... in so many ways:
Our voices are overdue, I just hope the protesters can keep it mature and civil and above the tactics of the supposed 'conservatives'... who seem to love vitriol and violence as solutions.
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B-Jack,,lol,,,,read the quote again
Aw hope you find a match soon. good luck.
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