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"They" have already told you! The Police are completely innocent and it was the fault of those American citizens to think they could have any rights! The Bankers are job providers, allowing for unemployment to skyrocket while taking bail-out loans. Thousands upon thousands have lost their home to foreclosure, and a lot are living on the streets. But, the Bankers needed that money to go on spa trips and finance their military contractors in the Middle East. Don't you care ANYTHING about Corporations? Jeez...  Signed, The G-Three (G-Man, Wonder Boy, & Rex)
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Damn. Either this is going to be really fucking long or Wondy just had a serious G-Man dementia moment... I hope I didn't give him a heart attack or anything. I'd hate to take away Rex's only "win" in life...
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Damn. Either this is going to be really fucking long or Wondy just had a serious G-Man dementia moment... I hope I didn't give him a heart attack or anything. I'd hate to take away Rex's only "win" in life... I had to go back to work, and then spent some time with my girlfriend. Life or RKMB's. I chose life.
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I had to go back to work, and then spent some time with my girlfriend.
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I had to go back to work, and then spent some time with my girlfriend.
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I chose life. You chose wisely. My wife's gone to Italy for a work conference. Didn't joe mention he was going to Italy for a few days... 
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Sorry, my approval for these protests has generally be voided unless the real protesters stand up. Too much of the supposed "leftists" regime has given it too much praise/approval (see, Michael Moore, George "Murdoch of the Left" Soros, and the Obama administration). This movement has been co-opted. Perhaps, that's what the bridge arrests was all about. Regardless, I am now in support of real liberals and conservatives descending on the area like ants to spilled honey. Reclaim the united message and take not just Wall Street but, also, the Federal Reserve of New York.
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This movement has been co-opted. Perhaps, that's what the bridge arrests was all about. Regardless, I am now in support of real liberals and conservatives descending on the area like ants to spilled honey. Reclaim the united message and take not just Wall Street but, also, the Federal Reserve of New York. Agreed! They are talking about that on Twitter, as well as some other group starting an "Invade Wall Street" organization....which Occupy does NOT endorse or affiliate with. Occupy is about non-violent protests, as American citizens. Some believe the members of InvadeWallStreet are government and banker sock-puppets, sent in to destabilize the movement. I certainly wouldn't put it past the crooks in power. They will try everything they can to stop this affront to their power-hold over America, and the minds of its people. FAUXNews has already started attacking them, ignoring that Tea Party and Republican members are just as much a part of it. Menawhile, The Left is trying to co-opt it for their own agenda. The Powers That Be need to paint this as a Left/Right, Either/Or thing. That way, people can take sides, be assured by their preferred media they are correct, and then turned on each other to fight for the distraction of humanity, and the amusements of our capitalistic overlords...
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This movement has been co-opted. Perhaps, that's what the bridge arrests was all about. Regardless, I am now in support of real liberals and conservatives descending on the area like ants to spilled honey. Reclaim the united message and take not just Wall Street but, also, the Federal Reserve of New York. Agreed! They are talking about that on Twitter, as well as some other group starting an "Invade Wall Street" organization....which Occupy does NOT endorse or affiliate with. Occupy is about non-violent protests, as American citizens. Some believe the members of InvadeWallStreet are government and banker sock-puppets, sent in to destabilize the movement. I certainly wouldn't put it past the crooks in power. They will try everything they can to stop this affront to their power-hold over America, and the minds of its people. FAUXNews has already started attacking them, ignoring that Tea Party and Republican members are just as much a part of it. Menawhile, The Left is trying to co-opt it for their own agenda. The Powers That Be need to paint this as a Left/Right, Either/Or thing. That way, people can take sides, be assured by their preferred media they are correct, and then turned on each other to fight for the distraction of humanity, and the amusements of our capitalistic overlords... That about sums it all up...
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This movement has been co-opted. Perhaps, that's what the bridge arrests was all about. Regardless, I am now in support of real liberals and conservatives descending on the area like ants to spilled honey. Reclaim the united message and take not just Wall Street but, also, the Federal Reserve of New York. Agreed! They are talking about that on Twitter, as well as some other group starting an "Invade Wall Street" organization....which Occupy does NOT endorse or affiliate with. Occupy is about non-violent protests, as American citizens. Some believe the members of InvadeWallStreet are government and banker sock-puppets, sent in to destabilize the movement. I certainly wouldn't put it past the crooks in power. They will try everything they can to stop this affront to their power-hold over America, and the minds of its people. FAUXNews has already started attacking them, ignoring that Tea Party and Republican members are just as much a part of it. Menawhile, The Left is trying to co-opt it for their own agenda. The Powers That Be need to paint this as a Left/Right, Either/Or thing. That way, people can take sides, be assured by their preferred media they are correct, and then turned on each other to fight for the distraction of humanity, and the amusements of our capitalistic overlords... That about sums it all up... It's not accurate to say the Tea Party is a part of it. There are small representative elements from across the political spectrum, none of whom collectively give a cohesive message, and basically all reinterpret the Wall Street protest to represent whatever they want it to mean, in contradiction to what other groups at the protest say it means. But the dominant strain of opinion there is the hippie/leftist/class warfare socialist crowd, who say they hate capitalism and want to destroy America as we know it. And however you want to spin it, that's the message of the Communist Party USA crowd, the William Ayers crowd, the Ward Churchill crowd, and the ACORN, SEIU and other hard-Left crowd. These people don't want to fix America, they want to destroy it. And you're cheering for them?!? The Tea Party are the ones who want to restore a Constitutional government that is fiscally responsible, and responds to the will of the people. Not these protestors, who if they have a lucid thought among them, want to destroy free market capitalism and replace it with an authoritarian state, central planning and income redistribution. (i.e., "in order to save America, we have to destroy it.")
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Yes, Pro. Your emoticons are such a valid rebuttal to the facts I refer to. As are your videos from blatantly socialist/marxist websites I referred to earlier.  And contrary to what you said earlier, Fox news has been covering this on virtually every program I've viewed on their channel since Friday. They have given extensive coverage to it, and commentary --both conservative and Liberal. The most interesting commentary I saw was from Donald Trump, on Greta Van Susteren Monday night. Where Trump --a prominent billionaire of the OWS oh-so-hated capitalist entrepreneur class-- said that while he doesn't agree with the protestors' socialist viewpoint, there clearly is a serious economic problem in the United States, particularly our trade deficit with other countries and the way virtually everything is produced overseas, and we should be producing our own oil, food, etc, and not sending hundreds of billions in trade deficit overseas each year, and collapsing our dollar with government spending. So Trump feels that while the protestors are wrong, news coverage brings media focus to the true causes of our economic problems: offshoring jobs and manufacturing, bad trade deals with other nations that hurt the U.S., tax policies that drive jobs overseas, strangling business regulation, the constant threat of new taxes and entitlements that stifle business growth, and a president whose stated policy is inherently hostile to business and to America itself.
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Taxes have and had been the lowest in decades. The threat of new taxes keeping companies from hiring is bs. They won't hire till there is more demand for their product.
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The most interesting commentary I saw was from Donald Trump, on Greta Van Susteren And that's where you lost me.
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Taxes have and had been the lowest in decades. The threat of new taxes keeping companies from hiring is bs. They won't hire till there is more demand for their product. Shhh! Facts have no part in Dave's discussion, MEM!
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Wall Street protests grow after unions' endorsement- New York (CNN) -- Wall Street protests swelled Wednesday to their largest numbers yet, after local unions pledged support to a third week of demonstrations against income inequality, corporate greed, corruption and a list of other social ills.
Thousands meandered from lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park -- considered a rallying point for the largely leaderless group -- to Foley Square near City Hall.
The crowd then looped back to the park, punctuating a 19-day protest that promotes a wide, if not ambiguous, range of messages.
Causes range from social awareness to radical change in America's financial and political systems, while other participants appeared content to simply get caught up in the spirit of demonstration.
Still, while the fledgling movement has struggled in its definition, demonstrators appear steadfast in their general criticism of the country's wealthiest 1% and its purported influence.
Some carried placards and shouted slogans denouncing corporate excess, while others said they were "fed up" with high unemployment and a lack of economic opportunity. Still others said they had simply been waiting for a moment to express their voice and kick-start a conversation about inequality.
The crowd stretched along a dozen city blocks, chanting "All day, all week, occupy Wall Street."
The protestors also have begun printing a newspaper called The Occupied Wall Street Journal in an effort to garner an additional media attention.
And following a string of arrests, they say they are pursuing a class action lawsuit against the New York Police Department and Mayor Michael Bloomberg for their "unconstitutional effort to disrupt and suppress" demonstrations.
The group seemed to gain momentum after a September 24 pepper spray incident involving protestors and New York police officers.
On October 1, police arrested hundreds of protestors as they marched across a roadway leading to the Brooklyn Bridge, blocking city traffic for hours.
Meanwhile, social media sites such as Twitter seem to be spurring similar protests in other cities, though in vastly smaller numbers.
Dozens gathered in Boston; Hartford, Connecticut; and Seattle, while demonstrations were also scheduled later Wednesday in Savannah, Georgia, among other cities.
Demonstrations were also expected to take place in Washington, D.C., and Tampa, Florida, on Thursday.
A Twitter account called Occupy Boston mentions a citywide college walkout there later Wednesday.
Elsewhere, the Massachusetts Nurses Association said hundreds of the city's nurses would rally with the Occupy Boston protesters later Wednesday. The association said the protest would be part of the opening day activities for a national nursing convention in Boston.
In New York, several unions endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement and planned to join the protesters' street theater Wednesday, labor leaders said.
The voices of #OccupyWallStreet
"It's really simple. These young people on Wall Street are giving voice to many of the problems that working people in America have been confronting over the last several years," said Larry Hanley, international president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which has 20,000 members in the New York area.
"These young people are speaking for the vast majority of Americans who are frustrated by the bankers and brokers who have profited on the backs of hard-working people," Hanley added in a statement. "While we battle it out day after day, month after month, the millionaires and billionaires on Wall Street sit by -- untouched -- and lecture us on the level of our sacrifice."
Transport Workers Union Local 100 spokesman Jim Gannon said the Occupy Wall Street movement, which denounces social inequities in the financial system and draws inspiration from the Arab Spring revolutions in Africa and the Middle East, has advanced issues that unions typically support.
"Their goals are our goals," Gannon said. "They brought a spotlight on issues that we've believed in for quite some time now. ... Wall Street caused the implosion in the first place and is getting away scot-free while workers, transit workers, everybody, is forced to pay for their excesses.
"These young folks have brought a pretty bright spotlight," Gannon added. "It's kind of a natural alliance."
Time magazine: 'Indignados' occupy Wall Street
President Michael Mulgrew of the United Federation of Teachers, the sole bargaining agent for most nonsupervisory New York City public teachers, with 200,000 members, said he was proud to support the demonstrators.
"The way our society is now headed, it does not work for 99% of people, so when Occupy Wall Street started ... they kept to it and they've been able to create a national conversation that we think should have been going on for years," Mulgrew said.
The labor officials couldn't provide a projection of how many of their members will take the day off from work Wednesday and join the protests.
View a high-resolution gallery of the protests
In New York, the demonstrators have camped out in Zuccotti Park, calling for 20,000 people to flood the area for a "few months."
The protest campaign -- which uses the hashtag #occupywallstreet on the microblogging site Twitter -- began in July with the launch of a campaign website calling for a march and sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange.
And for more than two weeks, demonstrations have addressed issues such as police brutality, union busting and the economy, the group said.
Open Story: Occupy Wall Street protests
Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless movement made up largely of twenty-somethings upset about the economy, the Afghanistan war, the environment, and the state of America and the world in general.
In less than three weeks, the movement has become a magnet for countless disaffected Americans at a time when an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults say the country is on the wrong track.
Wall Street protesters inspired by Arab Spring movement
Besides the other cities, protests have also been held in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots have clear strains of liberal economic populism -- a powerful force in U.S. history during times characterized by economic stress. That said, it would be a mistake to label or tie the movement to a specific agenda, said Susan Olzak, a Stanford University sociology professor.
"It's difficult to classify a social protest movement early on in its history," she said. "Clearer goals could eventually emerge, but there's no guarantee."
She added, "Many movements fizzle out. Others become more organized. (But) I think we run a risk (by) taking a snapshot at any one point in time and trying to categorize the movement in any one way based on that snapshot. The only way to study these protest movements is to follow them over time."
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"Many movements fizzle out. Others become more organized. (But) I think we run a risk (by) taking a snapshot at any one point in time and trying to categorize the movement in any one way based on that snapshot. The only way to study these protest movements is to follow them over time." This woman is a pinko commie and, probably, a dyke.
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On an aside, have you ever been to this website, Pro: http://www.firedoglake.comYou might like it.
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Wall Street protests grow after unions' endorsement- She added, "Many movements fizzle out. Others become more organized. (But) I think we run a risk (by) taking a snapshot at any one point in time and trying to categorize the movement in any one way based on that snapshot. The only way to study these protest movements is to follow them over time."
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Wall Street protests grow after unions' endorsement- She added, "Many movements fizzle out. Others become more organized. (But) I think we run a risk (by) taking a snapshot at any one point in time and trying to categorize the movement in any one way based on that snapshot. The only way to study these protest movements is to follow them over time."
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Occupy Wall Street Arrests; Fox 5 Crew and Protesters Hit by Mace, Batons Updated: Wednesday, 05 Oct 2011, 11:28 PM EDT Published : Wednesday, 05 Oct 2011, 7:11 PM EDT MYFOX NEW YORK STAFF REPORT MYFOXNY.COM - While covering the Occupy Wall Street protests on Wednesday night, Fox 5 photographer Roy Isen was hit in the eyes by mace from a police officer and Fox 5 reporter Dick Brennan was hit by an officer's baton. The protests on Wall Street continued to grow all day. The rallies and their participants are showing no signs of slowing down. In the evening, crowds surged past barriers and NYPD officers moved in to contain the protesters. By many accounts, mayhem broke out. Officers, many wearing white shorts indicating supervisor rank, swatted protesters with batons and sprayed them with mace, video from the scene showed. Fox 5's Isen and Brennan were there and witnessed the chaos. At one point, Brennan was hit in the abdomen by a police baton and Isen got irritant in his eyes. Both journalists were all right and continued to cover the protests and arrests. Cops appeared to arrest dozens if not hundreds of protesters, but the final tally was not known. During the day, unions and students joined the demonstrators. What was once a protest of powerful Wall Street financial firms and banks is growing into a larger movement about the working class, employment, poverty, education, and more. Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com//dpp/news/occupy-wall-street-protest-broadens-scope-20111005#ixzz1ZyDDSrsZ
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I deny your distorted marxist spin, where you insanely cheerlead and proselytize revolution in the streets. One of us is insane, little man, and it's not me.
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The most interesting commentary I saw was from Donald Trump, on Greta Van Susteren And that's where you lost me. And yet you post video clips and propaganda manifestos from communist extreme-left websites. You don't look for any objective reporting, you just suck the nipple and drink the communist milk.
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Liberals who bemoan discrimination, intolerance, restraint of Constitutional freedoms, and promotion of hatred toward various abberant minorities, have absolutely no problem with discriminating against, being intolerant of, restricting Constitutional freedoms of, and directing hate-filled scapegoat rhetoric against conservatives.
EXACTLY what they accuse Republicans/conservatives of doing, is EXACTLY what liberals/Democrats do themselves, to those who oppose their beliefs.
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The most interesting commentary I saw was from Donald Trump, on Greta Van Susteren And that's where you lost me. And yet you post video clips and propaganda manifestos from communist extreme-left websites. You don't look for any objective reporting, you just suck the nipple and drink the communist milk. ....Reuters? The BBC? FOX??
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Wall Street protests grow after unions' endorsement- New York (CNN) -- Wall Street protests swelled Wednesday to their largest numbers yet, after local unions pledged support to a third week of demonstrations against income inequality, corporate greed, corruption and a list of other social ills.
Thousands meandered from lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park -- considered a rallying point for the largely leaderless group -- to Foley Square near City Hall.
The crowd then looped back to the park, punctuating a 19-day protest that promotes a wide, if not ambiguous, range of messages.
Causes range from social awareness to radical change in America's financial and political systems, while other participants appeared content to simply get caught up in the spirit of demonstration.
Still, while the fledgling movement has struggled in its definition, demonstrators appear steadfast in their general criticism of the country's wealthiest 1% and its purported influence.
Some carried placards and shouted slogans denouncing corporate excess, while others said they were "fed up" with high unemployment and a lack of economic opportunity. Still others said they had simply been waiting for a moment to express their voice and kick-start a conversation about inequality.
The crowd stretched along a dozen city blocks, chanting "All day, all week, occupy Wall Street."
The protestors also have begun printing a newspaper called The Occupied Wall Street Journal in an effort to garner an additional media attention.
And following a string of arrests, they say they are pursuing a class action lawsuit against the New York Police Department and Mayor Michael Bloomberg for their "unconstitutional effort to disrupt and suppress" demonstrations.
The group seemed to gain momentum after a September 24 pepper spray incident involving protestors and New York police officers.
On October 1, police arrested hundreds of protestors as they marched across a roadway leading to the Brooklyn Bridge, blocking city traffic for hours.
Meanwhile, social media sites such as Twitter seem to be spurring similar protests in other cities, though in vastly smaller numbers.
Dozens gathered in Boston; Hartford, Connecticut; and Seattle, while demonstrations were also scheduled later Wednesday in Savannah, Georgia, among other cities.
Demonstrations were also expected to take place in Washington, D.C., and Tampa, Florida, on Thursday.
A Twitter account called Occupy Boston mentions a citywide college walkout there later Wednesday.
Elsewhere, the Massachusetts Nurses Association said hundreds of the city's nurses would rally with the Occupy Boston protesters later Wednesday. The association said the protest would be part of the opening day activities for a national nursing convention in Boston.
In New York, several unions endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement and planned to join the protesters' street theater Wednesday, labor leaders said.
The voices of #OccupyWallStreet
"It's really simple. These young people on Wall Street are giving voice to many of the problems that working people in America have been confronting over the last several years," said Larry Hanley, international president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which has 20,000 members in the New York area.
"These young people are speaking for the vast majority of Americans who are frustrated by the bankers and brokers who have profited on the backs of hard-working people," Hanley added in a statement. "While we battle it out day after day, month after month, the millionaires and billionaires on Wall Street sit by -- untouched -- and lecture us on the level of our sacrifice."
Transport Workers Union Local 100 spokesman Jim Gannon said the Occupy Wall Street movement, which denounces social inequities in the financial system and draws inspiration from the Arab Spring revolutions in Africa and the Middle East, has advanced issues that unions typically support.
"Their goals are our goals," Gannon said. "They brought a spotlight on issues that we've believed in for quite some time now. ... Wall Street caused the implosion in the first place and is getting away scot-free while workers, transit workers, everybody, is forced to pay for their excesses.
"These young folks have brought a pretty bright spotlight," Gannon added. "It's kind of a natural alliance."
Time magazine: 'Indignados' occupy Wall Street
President Michael Mulgrew of the United Federation of Teachers, the sole bargaining agent for most nonsupervisory New York City public teachers, with 200,000 members, said he was proud to support the demonstrators.
"The way our society is now headed, it does not work for 99% of people, so when Occupy Wall Street started ... they kept to it and they've been able to create a national conversation that we think should have been going on for years," Mulgrew said.
The labor officials couldn't provide a projection of how many of their members will take the day off from work Wednesday and join the protests.
View a high-resolution gallery of the protests
In New York, the demonstrators have camped out in Zuccotti Park, calling for 20,000 people to flood the area for a "few months."
The protest campaign -- which uses the hashtag #occupywallstreet on the microblogging site Twitter -- began in July with the launch of a campaign website calling for a march and sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange.
And for more than two weeks, demonstrations have addressed issues such as police brutality, union busting and the economy, the group said.
Open Story: Occupy Wall Street protests
Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless movement made up largely of twenty-somethings upset about the economy, the Afghanistan war, the environment, and the state of America and the world in general.
In less than three weeks, the movement has become a magnet for countless disaffected Americans at a time when an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults say the country is on the wrong track.
Wall Street protesters inspired by Arab Spring movement
Besides the other cities, protests have also been held in Chicago and Los Angeles.
Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots have clear strains of liberal economic populism -- a powerful force in U.S. history during times characterized by economic stress. That said, it would be a mistake to label or tie the movement to a specific agenda, said Susan Olzak, a Stanford University sociology professor.
"It's difficult to classify a social protest movement early on in its history," she said. "Clearer goals could eventually emerge, but there's no guarantee."
She added, "Many movements fizzle out. Others become more organized. (But) I think we run a risk (by) taking a snapshot at any one point in time and trying to categorize the movement in any one way based on that snapshot. The only way to study these protest movements is to follow them over time."
Gee, what a surprise. The liberal media, Teacher Unions, SEIU, MoveOn, and the rest of the Left falls into marching formation and supports the movement. Meanwhile, the Tea Party movement was ridiculed and dismissively downplayed, despite that they had a much more focused protest (for (1)fiscal responsibility and lowering deficts and (2) a government responsive to the will of the people ), but were scoffed at and ignored, despite that they opened their movement with protests in over 80 cities, and quickly spread in the next few months to over 450 cities. Which is obviously much more widespread than the current protests, and yet was treated dismissively by the media. Also interesting that all these groups aligning themselves with the unwashed hippies on Wall Street are supporters of Obama. But of course we shouldn't suspect any kind of ulterior motive for this media and union support...
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