Who are the protesters behind Occupy Wall Street–and what do they want?

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nathan_oc said:
It’s nice to know that they are getting help form MSNBC and the Rolling Stone on how to focus their message. So much for grass roots

Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement. Someone has made the emails from the Occupy Wall Street email distro public and searchable. The names in the list are a veritable who’s who in media.
Journolist 2.0 includes well known names such as MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi who both are actively participating; involvement from other listers such as Bill Moyers and Glenn Greenwald plus well-known radicals.

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The poor guy on the Michael Medved show today certainly could have used a lot more help from some media advisers. Poor Buster didn’t know if he was coming or going, or whether he was laughing or to crying.
Almost felt sorry for the poor guy.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Agreed. The Republican Party hates it just as well when they’re shown to be hypocrites. Nothing like shining a light on both the parties.
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I think he was referring to the Democrat party always playing the race card. That is what they do as a last resort. The GOP and the Tea party is racist - that is why Herman Cain is at the top of the polls.

Ishii
 
St_Francis said:
Wow, it took you this long to find out the Cain had headed up one of the Federal Reserves? That’s not something he tried to keep secret, you know.

And I didn’t realize that the Occupiers were against the Fed?
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The occupiers are poor at math, they put 2+2=me, or something to that effect. The useful idiots do not know, care to know, or strangely don’t care that the Federal Reserve has multiple centers and is DEEEEEPLY involved in the high finance of those evil greedy banks and corporations.
federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/section1.htm
federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/board/default.htm

OWS should be protesting the White House and the Federal Reserve Bank. But, since Obama has thrown his hat into the ring with the OWS protesters they won’t do that…🤷
 
Darryl1958 said:
Through gradually taking over what is taught in our schools, for the most part. It was not even that covert, just gradual, like a frog in water that gets hotter and hotter without him even noticing until he is boiled.

And through the desire of people who want security more than freedom. It was the fly in the denicratuc ointment that I believe it was Toqueville who talked about. Demagogues can promise the world to be elected and provide people with security from cradle to grave, and only a fool would pass up free money, right?

And free tuition, and guaranteed income, and all the goodies that “educated” people have come to expect as their American birthright.
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Is this happening in Canada? What are you doing about it?
 
nathan_oc said:
It’s nice to know that they are getting help form MSNBC and the Rolling Stone on how to focus their message. So much for grass roots

Big Journalism has learned that the Occupy Washington DC movement is working with well-known media members to craft its demands and messaging while these media members report on the movement. Someone has made the emails from the Occupy Wall Street email distro public and searchable. The names in the list are a veritable who’s who in media.
Journolist 2.0 includes well known names such as MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi who both are actively participating; involvement from other listers such as Bill Moyers and Glenn Greenwald plus well-known radicals.

bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/10/16/journolist-2-0-occupydc-emails-show-msm-dylan-ratigan-working-with-protesters-to-craft-message/
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Bigjournalism is the Breitbart operation. He has proven to be an unreliable source of info since he makes things up. Is that the best argument you have?
 
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all.
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Cancel all debt and there is no need for legal tender. That means no money. Someone’s not doing much thinking out there or maybe we should all work on some kind of bartering system.
 
ProVobis said:
They could support both parties.
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GE has benefited greatly from Democrat largess on the Green front. Building windmills is a very lucrative proposition when the federal government pays such a big share of it to motivate companies like GE to go green.
 
“Obama will likely use his stump speeches to tap into the populism of the Occupy Wall Street protests, expressing solidarity with Americans’ economic frustrations while emphasizing his efforts to enact financial regulations that Republicans have opposed.
“Republicans ‘want to let Wall Street do whatever it wants,’ Obama told a friendly crowd in Asheville, N.C., the first stop of his trip, drawing boos in support of his point…
“Virginia GOP chairman Pat Mullins, who recently visited the protest site in lower Manhattan, said the protesters are ‘disgusting’ and ‘despicable,’ and could potentially tarnish the image of the president.
“‘You’ve got to wonder why any leader of the free world would condone this kind of thing or even encourage it,’ he said, citing several incidents during which members of the movement clashed with law enforcement.”
 
gilliam said:
“Obama will likely use his stump speeches to tap into the populism of the Occupy Wall Street protests, expressing solidarity with Americans’ economic frustrations while emphasizing his efforts to enact financial regulations that Republicans have opposed.
“Republicans ‘want to let Wall Street do whatever it wants,’ Obama told a friendly crowd in Asheville, N.C., the first stop of his trip, drawing boos in support of his point…
“Virginia GOP chairman Pat Mullins, who recently visited the protest site in lower Manhattan, said the protesters are ‘disgusting’ and ‘despicable,’ and could potentially tarnish the image of the president.
“‘You’ve got to wonder why any leader of the free world would condone this kind of thing or even encourage it,’ he said, citing several incidents during which members of the movement clashed with law enforcement.”
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I hope he at least has the decency to dispose of his used condoms properly, and won’t get so stoned that he can’t tell the difference between a toilet and a cop car.
 
Occupy Sydney demo fizzles out as protesters go back to day jobs
They arrived with fire in their bellies, revolution in their hearts and bags of instant noodles.
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But it seems a couple of nights sleeping rough in Sydney’s Martin Place has been enough for most of the Occupy Sydney protesters, whose campaign is fizzling out after less than 48 hours.
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Hundreds massed outside the Reserve Bank of Australia on Saturday, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement opposing corporate excess in the United States, and vowing to occupy the city’s banking district “indefinitely”.
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But by Sunday afternoon numbers had declined and Mr Goudkamp admitted many simply had to go back to their day jobs on Monday.
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